| Study on hurricane casualties fuels talk of statehood for Puerto Rico Posted: 30 May 2018 02:10 PM PDT  Critics of the federal response to Maria, comparing it to the relief efforts in Texas after Hurricane Harvey, believe it would have been more effective if the U.S. territory were a state with representation in Washington.
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| What It Was Like To Work On 'Roseanne,' According To A Writers' Assistant Posted: 30 May 2018 11:44 AM PDT  The "Roseanne" writers room ― defunct as of Tuesday, when ABC swiftly canceled
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| Trump Asked Jeff Sessions To Reverse Recusal From Russia Probe: Report Posted: 29 May 2018 05:59 PM PDT  President Donald Trump reportedly asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to
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| Public's help sought in finding suspect in deputy's killing Posted: 31 May 2018 03:10 PM PDT  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities appealed for the public's help Thursday in finding a man suspected in the fatal shooting of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy. The man they said they're looking for has a lengthy arrest record and was charged just the day before with hitting a woman and stealing her car.
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| Delta just made two major company changes -- and it speaks volumes to how the airline listens to employee feedback Posted: 31 May 2018 12:41 PM PDT  With a seemingly never-ending slew of bad airplane news — from disorderly
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| Journalist Arkady Babchenko's 'Murder' Faked By Ukraine To Uncover Russian Plot Posted: 30 May 2018 09:11 AM PDT  Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist and critic of President Vladimir Putin,
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| Young reporter catches Sarah Sanders off-guard with question on mass shootings Posted: 30 May 2018 01:14 PM PDT  A question about active shooter drills from a young reporter brings the White House press secretary to tears.
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| Pompeii's Unluckiest Man Excavated, Internet Gives Him Second Life Posted: 30 May 2018 08:30 AM PDT  The remains of a man trying to escape the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius
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| Trump: I wish I didn't pick Jeff Sessions Posted: 30 May 2018 06:52 AM PDT  President Trump on Wednesday expressed fresh regret for appointing Jeff Sessions his attorney general.
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| Correction: Ukraine-Journalist Killed story Posted: 30 May 2018 09:20 AM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In a story May 29 about a Russian journalist killed in Ukraine, The Associated Press and other media organizations reported, based on fabricated information from Ukrainian authorities, that Arkady Babchenko was shot and killed. Babchenko showed up at a news conference on Wednesday, saying that Ukraine's security services faked his death to thwart a plot on his life.
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| Trump's Press Secretary Says Samantha Bee's Comment About Ivanka Trump Was 'Disgusting' Posted: 31 May 2018 09:44 AM PDT  Bee described Ivanka Trump with a crude euphemism for a female body part
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| Family of saved boy thank Malian 'Spider-Man' Mamoudou Gassama, as 'true hero' receives French residency Posted: 30 May 2018 02:02 AM PDT  The family of a small boy found hanging from a balcony in Paris have expressed heartfelt thanks to the Malian migrant who saved him. "He's truly a hero," the boy's grandmother said of Mamoudou Gassama, who climbed four floors before a crowd of well-wishers to pluck the child from danger. The four-year-old's father, who had allegedly left him in their flat to go shopping, and then stayed out longer than planned to play Pokemon Go, faces charges of child neglect. The daring rescue, which has earned him the nickname of Spider-Man, saw Mr Gassama become an overnight national hero and he was offered French citizenship. President Emmanuel Macron awarded him a medal for bravery after inviting him to the Elysée Palace on Monday and offered him a job in the fire brigade. "Thank you France. That's all I can say," said Mr Gassama after coming out of the state prefecture in of Bobigny, north or Paris, where he was handed a residency permit while awaiting full citizenship. It transpires that the boy had left Réunion, the French Indian Ocean island, where his mother and grandmother live, only three weeks ago for Paris to join his father, who works in the capital. His mother and the couple's second child were due to join them in June. The boy had already fallen one or two floors before somehow managing to grab hold of the fourth-floor balcony, as he is said to have pointed upwards when a resident in the neighbouring fourth-floor flat asked where he came from. His mother told Antenne Réunion that the boy's father had little experience looking after him on his own and that this was not the first time he had left him alone. "I can't justify what my husband did. People will say it could have happened to anyone and it has happened to other people. My son was just lucky," she said. Speaking of Mr Gassama's act, she said: "If I were to meet him, I think I would say what everyone is saying: thank you, thank you!" "At any rate, I wouldn't have been able to go one better than the president. He has been recompensed for his act." There have been questions over why a man on the balcony of the neighbouring fourth-floor flat couldn't simply pull him to safety. Mamoudou Gassam rescues young child from building in Paris Credit: Telegraph But the neighbour told Le Parisien that he could only hold the boy's hand but not pull him up because there was a divider separating the two balconies and he feared dropping him. "I didn't want to take the risk of letting go of his hand, I thought it better to do things step by step," he said. The child had been wearing a Spiderman outfit, he said, and was bleeding from his toe and had a torn nail. The boy was briefly taken into care by French authorities while police questioned his father, who was reportedly devastated, but social services concluded that the child risked no further imminent danger so gave him back custody. However, the father faces charges of failing in one's legal duty as a parent, punishable by a maximum two years in prison and a fine of €30,000 (£26,000). His mother is also due to be interviewed by social workers in Réunion. Emmanuel Macron awarded Mamadou Gassama a special medal and diploma for bravery and devotion Credit: POOL As for Mr Gassama, the 22-year-old left his native Mali in West Africa as a teenager in 2013, according to Le Monde. He crossed the Sahara desert through Burkina Faso, Niger and Libya and then traversed the Mediterranean to Italy in 2014 at his second attempt. His first bid failed when he was intercepted at sea by police. He told Mr Macron that he had travelled to France because he did not know anyone in Italy and his brother had been living in France for many years. According to Le Figaro, he has been living in squalid migrant lodgings in Montreuil, east of Paris, with three brothers and several cousins.
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| Donald Trump Says He Wishes He Hadn't Picked Jeff Sessions As Attorney General Posted: 30 May 2018 06:01 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Wednesday threw Attorney General Jeff Sessions under
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| Denmark joins some European nations in banning burqa, niqab Posted: 31 May 2018 05:57 AM PDT  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark joined some other European countries in deciding Thursday to ban garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa.
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| Don't let lava stop you from visiting Hawaii Posted: 29 May 2018 10:34 PM PDT  The images are downright apocalyptic. With plumes of ash and glowing lava, the area around Mount Kilauea looks more like Mordor than a tropical paradise. That hasn't been great for tourism. National Park System economist Lynne Koontz told the New York Times the local economy is losing $455,000 per day. SEE ALSO: Can I roast a marshmallow over lava? Still, if you've got a plane ticket to Hawaii, there's no need to cancel your trip — you'll probably be fine. First of all, the Big Island of Hawaii is, well, big. The volcano is erupting on a tiny corner of an island that measures more than 4,000 square miles, which is more than double the area of the entire state of Delaware. Most of the big resorts are in Kona, on the island's west side. That's about 100 miles from the volcano. Concord University volcanologist Janine Krippner put the danger in perspective in this tweet: The #Kilauea eruption is affecting people. People are losing their homes. This is serious. But this is a big island and this eruption is being exaggerated just a little, don't ya think?Thank you, who ever made this image: pic.twitter.com/O6MJxY4N5q — Dr Janine Krippner (@janinekrippner) May 23, 2018 As a tourist, you'd have to go out of your way to be affected by the lava. Also, the state of Hawaii is made up of eight main islands, which are separated by large swaths of the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is actually pretty spread out.Image: Google Honolulu, on Oahu, is located more than 200 miles from the volcano. That's farther than New York City is from Boston. Kauai — the lush Garden Isle of Hawaii — is even farther. (Most of the island was unscathed by the floods that hit in April, although some communities are still in need of aid.) Now, if you are going to the Big Island, you'll have to cancel your trip to the closed Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The eastern part of the island around Mount Kilauea is indeed dangerous. In Pahoa, a man trying to save his friend's house from fire was hit by a red-hot "lava bomb" that snapped the bones in his leg. The Leilani Estates community has been hit especially hard. Avoid this area.Image: USGSAnother problem: Kilauea is releasing vapor, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide into the air, which can lead to volcanic smog, aka "vog." Vog can irritate eyes and cause respiratory problems, especially in people with pre-existing respiratory conditions and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Krippner said in an email. So far, most of the vog has blown offshore, although it can travel to the western side of the Big Island and even other islands if the conditions are right. The University of Hawaii's Vog Measurement and Prediction Project (VMAP) is a useful tool for monitoring the spread of vog. The threat of vog — and "laze," a toxic haze created when lava hits seawater — is higher the closer you are to active fissures. Obviously, if there's lava flowing nearby, you're going to want to stay away. None of this is to diminish the need for humanitarian and government aid in Hawaii. More than 70 houses and other buildings have been destroyed and more than 2,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes. But overblown fears could damage Hawaii's already hurting tourism industry. "I don't think people should be largely concerned if they are healthy, listening to the authorities ... and if they are prepared ahead of time," said Krippner. (Tourists would be wise to bookmark the sites for the USGS and Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency.) "If I had travel plans to Hawai'i," she said, "I would still be going." WATCH: Exploring volcanoes with robots: a day in the life of Carolyn Parcheta
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| 'Most Good Girl.' Please Be Advised That a Beloved Therapy Dog Made the School Yearbook Posted: 30 May 2018 09:02 AM PDT  Does Miss Peanut get a diploma?
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| Taliban 'talking and fighting,' says U.S. commander in Afghanistan Posted: 30 May 2018 11:42 AM PDT  By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan played down a spate of recent Taliban attacks on Wednesday, saying violence levels were still lower than average as some insurgents talked peace - a situation he described as "talking and fighting." "You see mid-level, senior-level Taliban leaders engaging with Afghans," said Army General John Nicholson, adding that a lot of the diplomatic activity was taking place "off the stage." Nicholson's remarks came the same day that gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenade launchers attempted to penetrate the heavily fortified headquarters of the Afghan interior ministry, battling security forces for more than two hours in the latest attack on the capital Kabul. The attack was a reminder of the challenges facing U.S.-backed Afghan forces even after 16 years of war, including in the capital Kabul.
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| People Now: Amber Rose Opens Up About Her Breast Reduction — Watch the Full Episode Posted: 30 May 2018 11:08 AM PDT  Your latest celebrity news and top headlines for May 30th on "People Now".
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| The mother of all lizards found in Italian Alps Posted: 30 May 2018 11:41 AM PDT  Scientists said Wednesday they had tracked down the oldest known lizard, a tiny creature that lived about 240 million years ago when Earth had a single continent and dinosaurs were brand new. Scans of the fossilised skeleton of Megachirella revealed the chameleon-sized reptile was an ancestor of today's lizards and snakes, which belong to a group called squamates, an international team wrote in the science journal Nature. This finding dragged the group back in time by 75 million years, and means that "lizards inhabited the planet since at least 240 million years ago," study co-author Tiago Simoes of the University of Alberta in Canada told AFP.
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| Chelsea Clinton Points To Right-Wing Hypocrisy In Samantha Bee Outrage Posted: 31 May 2018 03:07 PM PDT  "Feckless cunt," the fiery insult that comedian Samantha Bee flung at first
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| Texas teen, girlfriend accused in his jeweler father's death Posted: 30 May 2018 11:11 AM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The son of an Austin-area jeweler and the teen's girlfriend are charged with hiring someone to kill his father, who was gunned down in March during a home break-in, authorities said Wednesday.
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| Zero bidders for debt-stricken Air India as deadline closes Posted: 31 May 2018 07:08 AM PDT  India's government announced Thursday that its auction for a majority stake in its debt-stricken airline Air India had received no bids. "No response has been received for the Expression of Interest floated for the strategic disinvestment of Air India," India's aviation ministry posted on Twitter as the deadline closed Thursday. "We are hopeful the government can find a way to sell stakes in Air India and may receive multiple offers if the terms of sale are still revised," Binit Somaia, South Asia Director at the Centre for Aviation (CAPA), told AFP.
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| Despite setback, China encourages contacts with US military Posted: 31 May 2018 03:50 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — China's Defense Ministry on Thursday said it hoped for continued exchanges with the American military despite being disinvited from a major U.S.-sponsored naval exercise this summer.
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| Mary Kay Letourneau Defends Relationship With Vili Fualaau in New Documentary Posted: 30 May 2018 08:52 AM PDT  The former teacher was jailed for her relationship with her then-sixth grade student, Vili Fualaau.
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| Walmart goes upscale with personal shopper service Posted: 31 May 2018 01:55 PM PDT  Walmart on Thursday unveiled a new concierge shopping service enabling customers to get quick deliveries and advice from a personal assistant, going upscale in the retail giant's battle with Amazon. The new $50 per month service called Jetblack is launching in New York, offering "curated shopping recommendations" using both artificial intelligence and professional assistants. The new subscription service ramps up competition with Amazon, which gives customers a variety of benefits and delivery options through its Prime subscription membership.
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| Samantha Bee Puts Roseanne Controversy To Bed With Ambien Commercial Posted: 31 May 2018 08:32 AM PDT  Do you sometimes start sentences with "I'm not racist, but ... " and also have
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| Gaza's Hamas Rulers Say a Cease-Fire Has Been Reached With Israel Posted: 30 May 2018 12:21 AM PDT  Israeli Cabinet minister Arieh Deri told Israel's Army Radio that he expected calm to be restored
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| Prosecutor: 2 bodies in home of man facing kidnapping charge Posted: 31 May 2018 02:02 PM PDT  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Two dead bodies have been found at the home of a man charged with kidnapping, sexually assaulting and torturing a woman, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
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| Andrew Lincoln May Have Spoiled Rick's Final 'Walking Dead' Scene Posted: 31 May 2018 10:24 AM PDT  Over the course of "The Walking Dead," we've watched Andrew Lincoln's
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| Evacuations urged in Hawaii as lava flow advances Posted: 30 May 2018 10:33 PM PDT  Authorities urged people in Hawaii Wednesday to evacuate an area at risk of being cut off by a flood of lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano. "Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports that lava from several fissures continues to advance toward the Kapoho area," a Civil Defense message said, referencing an area that was devastated during a 1960 eruption. "Residents of Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland are advised to evacuate.
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| Explainer: The man sent by North Korean leader to U.S. for high-level talks Posted: 30 May 2018 06:02 AM PDT  By Doina Chiacu and Hyonhee Shin WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - When Kim Yong Chol lands in New York this week, he will become the most senior North Korean envoy to hold talks with American officials on U.S. soil in 18 years. The former spy chief is a trusted adviser to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, playing a pivotal role in preparations for an historic summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump. In a sign of his importance, Trump announced Kim Yong Chol's New York trip on Twitter on Tuesday.
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| 'Slain' Russian journalist turns up alive at news conference Posted: 30 May 2018 01:01 PM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — To the gasps, whoops and applause of stunned colleagues, Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko walked into a news conference Wednesday, less than a day after police in the Ukrainian capital said he had been assassinated.
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| Last Dodge Demon Ever Has Been Built As It Heads To Auction Posted: 30 May 2018 04:16 PM PDT  It'll be sold as a pair with the last 2017 Dodge Viper ever produced.
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| China's Just Gave the World a Preview of Its Naval Future Posted: 30 May 2018 04:32 AM PDT  Chinese papers and military buffs are hailing the historic rendezvous of the two seagoing airbases, relishing the picture-perfect occasion of two huge vessels moored alongside each other. Liaoning is back at her homeport of Dalian in the northeastern Chinese province it is named after for scheduled maintenance as well as R&R for her crew, having spent the majority of the first half of the year at sea. The last time Liaoning was in dry-dock was in May 2014, in the same berth where the Soviet-era vessel was retrofitted.
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| Assad raises prospect of clashes with U.S. forces in Syria Posted: 31 May 2018 01:19 PM PDT  By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad raised the possibility of conflict with U.S. forces in Syria if they do not withdraw from the country soon. In an interview with Russia's RT international broadcaster, Assad said he would negotiate with fighters backed on the ground by Washington, but would reclaim territory they control by force if necessary, whether or not American troops supported them. In Washington, the State Department said it was not looking to fight Syrian or Iranian forces, but would use "necessary and proportionate force" to defend U.S. and partner forces in the fight against Islamic State in Syria.
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| Two Belgian policewomen shot dead: What we know Posted: 29 May 2018 11:49 PM PDT  A gunman killed two female police officers and a man in a parked car in the eastern Belgian city of Liege, before he was shot dead by police. The assailant is suspected of being radicalised in prison by Islamist militants. - At around 10:30 am (0830 GMT), a man followed two female police officers in Liege, stabbed them several times, then grabbed their firearms and shot them both dead.
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| Family of woman found dead believes she didn't commit suicide but was killed Posted: 31 May 2018 09:48 AM PDT  Michelle O'Connell's family learned that the St. Johns County sheriff's department in Florida spent just a few hours at the scene before calling her death a suicide.
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