| Hundreds In Israel And Beyond Protest Killings Of Palestinians On Gaza Border Posted: 15 May 2018 06:27 PM PDT  Hundreds took to the streets in Tel Aviv, Israel, and other cities worldwide
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| Man accused of torturing his 10 children fires back from jail Posted: 15 May 2018 08:45 AM PDT  "I'm not perfect. No one is perfect. But I am not an animal. I am not a torturer. And I'm not a monster," Jonathan Allen says. He and his wife Ina Rogers are being accused of abusing and neglecting their ten children.
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| Sally Yates warns of Trump 'tearing down the legitimacy' of the Justice Department Posted: 15 May 2018 08:41 AM PDT  Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said she had something to get off her chest about President Trump at the 2018 Ideas Conference hosted by the Center for American Progress on Tuesday: Don't ignore his attacks on the rule of law.
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| Windsor amping up security for Royal Wedding Posted: 15 May 2018 08:50 AM PDT  New technology will be in place to spot terrorist drones and take them down, but Prince Harry and Meghan's open-air carriage during the procession could lead to additional complications.
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| I Was Denied Entry To A County Courthouse Because I Am A Muslim Woman Posted: 15 May 2018 11:03 AM PDT  What should have been a great day became one of the worst days of my life.
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| Insane Photos Show Massive Ash Plume Looming Over Hawaii's Big Island Posted: 16 May 2018 08:14 AM PDT  People living near the Halemaumau Crater got quite the apocalyptic sight
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| Report finds cases of STDs reach all-time high in California Posted: 14 May 2018 06:54 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases in California reached a record high last year and officials are particularly concerned by a spike in stillbirths due to congenital syphilis, state health authorities said Monday.
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| Idaho Inches Closer To Electing The Nation's First Native American Governor Posted: 15 May 2018 10:29 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Progressive Democrat Paulette Jordan won Tuesday night's primary
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| Florida Cop Who Failed to Confront Parkland Shooter Is Getting $8,000 Monthly Pension Posted: 16 May 2018 04:57 AM PDT  He resigned and retired after the shooting
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| Navy Aircraft Carriers Might Just Be Unsinkable. Here's Why. Posted: 15 May 2018 08:10 AM PDT  The bottom line on aircraft carrier survivability is that only a handful of countries can credibly pose a threat to America's most valuable warships, and short of using nuclear weapons none of those is likely to sink one. Although the Navy has changed it tactics to deal with the proliferation of fast anti-ship missiles and the growing military power of China in the Western Pacific, large-deck aircraft carriers remain among the most secure and useful combat systems in America's arsenal. With the unlimited range and flexibility afforded by nuclear propulsion, there are few places they can't go to enforce U.S. interests. And at the rate the Navy is investing in new warfighting technologies, that is likely to remain true for many decades to come. Large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the signature expression of American military power. No other combat system available to U.S. warfighters comes close to delivering so much offensive punch for months at a time without requiring land bases near the action. As a result, the ten carriers in the current fleet are in continuous demand from regional commanders -- so much so that extended overseas combat tours are becoming the norm.
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| Republican gubernatorial candidate drives 'deportation bus’ around Georgia Posted: 15 May 2018 10:14 AM PDT  A Republican candidate for governor of Georgia is driving a "deportation bus" around the state, promising to fill it with undocumented immigrants and "send them back to where they came from". Michael Williams –a Georgia state senator and, according to his website, the first elected official in the state to endorse Donald Trump – announced this week that he would drive a bus around the state to raise awareness of the "overwhelming problem of illegal immigration". "Throughout his bus tour of sanctuary cities, Williams will expose how dangerous illegal aliens ruin local economies, cost American jobs, increase healthcare costs, and lower education standards," a statement on his Facebook page reads.
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| Thousands of North Carolina public school teachers march in Raleigh Posted: 16 May 2018 02:50 PM PDT ![Thousands of North Carolina public school teachers march in Raleigh]( "Thousands of North Carolina public school teachers march in Raleigh") Thousands of North Carolina teachers swarmed the state legislature on Wednesday to call for pay raises and more spending on schools, making the state the country's sixth to be roiled by educators demanding better funding. Hundreds of teachers in red T-shirts filled a spectators gallery and chanted "remember, remember, we vote in November" as the Republican-controlled General Assembly started its session. The protest prompted at least 38 districts, representing more than half the state's 1.5 million public school students, to cancel classes.
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| Ecuador spied on Assange at London embassy: report Posted: 16 May 2018 02:13 AM PDT  Ecuador spied on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its London embassy where he has been living since 2012, initially to support him but things changed after he hacked the mission's computers, the Guardian reported Wednesday. The newspaper said Ecuador employed an international security company and undercover agents to monitor his visitors, embassy staff and even the British police at the embassy in London's luxury Knightsbridge area. The snooping was initially intended to protect Assange from the risk of being taken away by British police but later became a full-blown spying operation.
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| Signs of bomb found at site of deadly California explosion Posted: 16 May 2018 05:29 PM PDT  ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — An explosion that ripped through a Southern California day spa killed the owner, and investigators Wednesday were looking into whether she was targeted in the crime.
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| Tomi Lahren Hits Back At Genealogist Who Researched Her Family, Misses The Point Posted: 15 May 2018 09:57 AM PDT  Tomi Lahren responded to the genealogist who researched her family history
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| Malaysia police seize handbags, other personal items from ex-PM's home Posted: 16 May 2018 04:14 PM PDT  By Fathin Ungku KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police seized handbags and few other personal items from the home of former prime minister Najib Razak in connection with a money laundering probe, a lawyer of the ex-leader said on Thursday. At least a dozen armed policemen entered Najib's home late on Wednesday after he returned from prayers at a mosque, Reuters witnesses said. "The search is supposed to be under money laundering act ... they found nothing incriminating," Najib's lawyer Harpal Singh Grewal told reporters who were camped outside the house.
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| Trump says there has been ‘no folding’ in China trade negotiations after ZTE reversal Posted: 16 May 2018 08:13 AM PDT  President Donald Trump says that there has been "no folding" in his trade negotiations with China after recently indicating his administration had reversed course on punitive measures it took against Chinese company ZTE just last month. Mr Trump said that his ZTE comments were only a part of "the larger trade deal", and reasserted his frequent claim that China is taking advantage of the US economically. "Nothing has happened with ZTE except as it pertains to the larger trade deal.
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| CDC Map Shows Every State Affected by the Salmonella Egg Outbreak Posted: 15 May 2018 08:42 AM PDT  Fortunately, the outbreak has slowed way down.
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| Pink Had A Badass Response To A Troll Who Said She Looked Old Posted: 16 May 2018 09:42 AM PDT  Pink saw red after someone left a rude comment about her appearance on Twitter
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| Five questions on the Gaza border protests Posted: 15 May 2018 04:12 AM PDT  More protests are planned along the Gaza Strip's border with Israel on Tuesday, a day after Israeli forces killed 60 Palestinians during demonstrations and clashes. What are the protests about? Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been protesting since March 30 for what they call the right of return.
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| The Latest: Hotel housekeeper says shooter stared at her Posted: 16 May 2018 05:18 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the release by Las Vegas police of witness statements and officer reports in the investigation of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history (all times local):
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| Twitter Users Roast Experts Who Say ‘You Should Have Twice Your Salary Saved’ By 35 Posted: 15 May 2018 03:25 PM PDT  A bit of financial advice almost broke Twitter on Tuesday.
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| Search ends for grenade launcher ammo lost in North Dakota Posted: 15 May 2018 02:39 PM PDT ![Search ends for grenade launcher ammo lost in North Dakota]( "Search ends for grenade launcher ammo lost in North Dakota") PARSHALL, N.D. (AP) — Airmen have called off the search for military explosives that recently fell off a vehicle on a Native American reservation in North Dakota.
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| Key U.S. senators: 'no doubt' Russia sought to interfere in U.S. election Posted: 16 May 2018 10:57 AM PDT  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday they agreed with intelligence agencies' assessment that Moscow sought to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election to boost Donald Trump's prospects of becoming president. "There is no doubt that Russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections," the committee's Republican chairman, Senator Richard Burr, said in a joint statement with the committee's top Democrat after a closed hearing on the issue. "After a thorough review, our staff concluded that the (intelligence community) conclusions were accurate and on point," Senator Mark Warner said.
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| Larry Burrows revisited — iconic images of the Vietnam War Posted: 16 May 2018 04:32 AM PDT ![Larry Burrows revisited — iconic images of the Vietnam War]( "Larry Burrows revisited — iconic images of the Vietnam War") In the 1960's, Larry Burrows became the preeminent photographer documenting the Vietnam War. "Larry Burrows Revisited" exhibition will be on view at the Laurence Miller Gallery in New York City through June 29, 2018.
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| Is Thomas Markle's story of whether to attend the royal wedding a 'rollercoaster of speculation' or a cruel soap opera? Posted: 16 May 2018 07:20 AM PDT  Perhaps there really was a time, long ago, when if one wanted to be informed of the activities of the royal family, one consulted the court circular. Now, of course, you go on US celebrity gossip website TMZ. And there in glaring headlines you find a story, not of family joy at a forthcoming wedding, but of pain and suffering – much of it heaped on Meghan Markle's 73-year-old father Thomas. You could, as one newspaper has, call it "a rollercoaster of speculation surrounding whether Mr Markle would attend Saturday's royal wedding at Windsor Castle in Berkshire".
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| Gap 'terribly sorry' over T-shirt China map without Taiwan Posted: 14 May 2018 08:38 PM PDT  US clothing retailer Gap has apologised to China over a T-shirt with a map showing the mainland but omitting Taiwan, becoming the latest foreign firm to run afoul of Beijing's policy on the self-ruling island. China, which considers Taiwan a rebel province awaiting reunification, has taken airlines, hotels and other companies to task in recent months for listing the island as a separate country on their websites. The Gap shirt, which was sold in overseas markets, features a map of China, but Taiwan does not appear to the southeast of the country, according to a photo of the company's online store posted on the Twitter account of the official People's Daily newspaper.
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| Debbie Wasserman Schultz: The NRA Is 'Just Shy Of A Terrorist Organization' Posted: 15 May 2018 12:32 PM PDT  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) had stern words for the National Rifle
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| Christopher Wylie Warns Senators: Cambridge Analytica, Steve Bannon Want 'Culture War' Posted: 16 May 2018 04:47 PM PDT  Cambridge Analytica may technically no longer exist,* but revelations about
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| Coroner: Detained suspect in Louisiana died of asphyxiation Posted: 14 May 2018 07:14 PM PDT  GRETNA, La. (AP) — A black suspect who tussled with white deputies as they detained him in a suburb of New Orleans last week died of asphyxiation and there was evidence of pressure on his neck, a coroner said Monday.
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| Your Complete Guide to Ramadan, Including the Proper Greeting and When It Starts Posted: 15 May 2018 02:55 AM PDT  What you need to know about Islam's holiest month
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| France's Total warns of Iran exit as EU struggles to save economic ties Posted: 16 May 2018 03:29 PM PDT  By Gabriela Baczynska and Sudip Kar-Gupta SOFIA/PARIS (Reuters) - French energy giant Total joined other European companies in signaling on Wednesday they could exit Iran, casting doubt on whether European leaders meeting to try to salvage the Iran nuclear deal can safeguard trade with Tehran. President Donald Trump's withdrawal of the United States from the nuclear accord and his order that sanctions be reimposed on Tehran have left European allies scrambling to keep the deal alive and protect their Iranian trade.
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| Syrian and Russian forces launch large-scale attack on Palestinian refugee camp controlled by Isil Posted: 16 May 2018 04:59 AM PDT  Syrian and Russian forces have launched a large-scale attack on a Palestinian refugee camp under the control of Islamic State, as the regime closed in on the last rebel-held territory in the Syrian capital. Pro-government troops fired a barrage of air strikes and surface-to-surface missiles into Yarmouk camp in southeast Damascus on Wednesday morning, as they looked to rid the areas of holdout jihadists. Rebels with the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) agreed to an evacuation deal after the government launched its offensive on April 19, however Isil militants refused to give up their fight. Air strikes have levelled more than 60 per cent of the camp in the last few weeks, leaving the civilians that remain trapped in uninhabitable conditions. Before the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Yarmouk was home to around 160,000 Palestinian refugees - people who had been displaced from their homes in modern-day Israel during the 1948 war, and their descendants. More than 100,000 Syrians also lived in the area. Residents wait in line to receive food aid distributed in the Yarmouk refugee camp on January 31, 2014 in Damascus, Syria. Credit: UNRWA When the Syrian revolution moved to Yarmouk, many Palestinians were forced to take a side. Some sought protection fromthe government, while others looked to the rebel groups. It is now home to just a few hundred civilians after the rest fled, according to United Nations estimates. The body says most of those are elderly residents who have been unable to leave. Yarmouk has become the scene of the heaviest fighting in the country since nearby Eastern Ghouta fell into government hands in mid-April. Dozens of civilians have been killed as well as some 140 fighters from both sides, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Right has reported. This undated activist photo provided by the group Palestinians of Syria shows mourners praying next to the body of a man who died of hunger-related illness in the Palestinian neighborhood of Yarmouk in Damascus Isil released a graphic video of one of its jihadists tying a captured soldier to a plank, filling his helmet with explosives before throwing him off a roof, effectively turning him into a airborne bomb. A spokesman for the Liwa al-Quds, which fights under the banner of the Syrian army said pro-government forces are "narrowing in on Daesh (Isil), whose remnants are concentrated in the Palestinian camp. The final battle will be there." The area has been used by the militants to shell government areas in the centre of Damascus. On Wednesday, state TV reported that two people were killed and 19 injured after a rocket fired from "rebel territory". A victory in Yarmouk would clear the whole of the capital of forces opposed to the government and further cement President Bashar al-Assad's dominant position over "useful", most populated parts of Syria.
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| You Like Han Solo Because He’s A Scoundrel. 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Forgot That. Posted: 15 May 2018 02:05 PM PDT  What's in a name? For Han Solo, everything and nothing. The skilled pilot and
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| Taiwan ex-leader Ma convicted in political leaks case Posted: 14 May 2018 10:11 PM PDT  A Taiwanese court Tuesday found former president Ma Ying-jeou guilty in a political leaks case, his first conviction in a raft of lawsuits brought against him since he stepped down two years ago. Ma was sentenced to four months in prison for violating the communication security and surveillance act, said the high court, overturning a previous not guilty verdict from a lower court. Ma was also convicted of breaching the personal data protection act and of "using his presidential power not for executing presidential legal duties", the court added.
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| Man pleads guilty to killing 4, but cousin rejects plea deal Posted: 16 May 2018 05:19 PM PDT  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A day of reckoning for two cousins accused of brutally killing four young men on a farm last summer was upended Wednesday when one of them reneged on a plea deal, a stunning turn that had prosecutors seeking the death penalty and considering his cousin as a star witness at his trial.
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| This Massive Cruise Ship Just Became the Biggest Ever to Cross the Panama Canal Posted: 15 May 2018 08:05 AM PDT  It's over 1,000 feet long and has room for about 4,000 passengers
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| Merkel defends nuclear deal, Iran says won't 'surrender' to U.S. Posted: 16 May 2018 04:01 AM PDT  By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed back on Wednesday against Washington's rejection of the Iran nuclear deal, saying the accord helped outside powers worried about Tehran's regional role to pursue their concerns with the Islamic Republic. Iran reiterated it would not surrender to U.S. pressure and would resist U.S. "plots", following President Donald Trump's abandonment of the 2015 agreement last week. Repudiating the result of more than a decade of diplomacy, Trump complained that the deal does not cover Iran's ballistic missiles, its role in regional wars or what happens after the pact begins to expire in 2025.
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| The Latest: UN envoy fears international escalation in Syria Posted: 16 May 2018 12:00 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):
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