| Senate Intel Cmte: Russia wanted to help Trump Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:07 PM PDT  The Senate Intelligence Committee today released a bipartisan report that said Russia meddled in the 2016 election at the direction of Vladimir Putin, to help Trump and hurt Clinton.
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| Indiana church locks Holy Family in 'ICE detention' to protest separations at border Posted: 03 Jul 2018 09:49 AM PDT  An Indianapolis, Ind., church made a bold statement about Trump's "zero
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| Trump Orders Flags To Half-Staff In Honor Of Capital Gazette Shooting Victims Posted: 03 Jul 2018 06:53 AM PDT  President Donald Trump ordered flags flown at half-staff at federal buildings
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| Thai soccer team found in cave, but rescue could take months Posted: 03 Jul 2018 08:47 AM PDT  After finding the Thai soccer team and its coach on Monday, rescuers are trying to get them out, but a heavy rain forecast is working against them.
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| Trump brashly declares: 'If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!' Posted: 03 Jul 2018 06:23 AM PDT  President Trump on Tuesday brushed aside questions over whether his assertion that he "solved" the crisis with North Korea was premature amid reports leader Kim Jong Un is trying to conceal parts of his country's nuclear weapons program.
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| Rochester School Won’t Let Its First Black Valedictorian Speak, So Mayor Does Posted: 04 Jul 2018 03:14 PM PDT  Jaisaan Lovett of Rochester, New York, became the first black valedictorian in
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| Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Denies Claim He Groped a Reporter 18 Years Ago Posted: 02 Jul 2018 05:44 PM PDT  Multiple people confirmed the young woman told them what allegedly happened at the time
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| DoJ loses senior leader who handled 'all the hottest potatoes' Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:56 PM PDT  Leon Neyfakh, reporter for Slate.com, talks with Rachel Maddow about the surprise resignation of Scott Schools, an associate deputy attorney general and the senior career official at the Department of Justice.
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| UK healthcare worker arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies Posted: 03 Jul 2018 03:13 AM PDT  A British female healthcare worker has been arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies and trying to murder six others after an investigation into deaths at a neonatal unit in northern England, police said on Tuesday. The arrest came after an inquiry into the deaths of 17 babies and 15 "non-fatal collapses" between March 2015 and July 2016 at The Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit. "This is a highly complex and very sensitive investigation and, as you can appreciate, we need to ensure we do everything we possibly can to try to establish in detail what has led to these baby deaths and collapses," said Detective Inspector Paul Hughes in a statement.
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| The Latest: Thai authorities weigh cave extraction options Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:42 PM PDT  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The Latest on the search for 12 boys and their soccer coach in a cave in northern Thailand (all times local):
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| Survivors of Bahamas Boat Explosion Speak Out Posted: 02 Jul 2018 09:00 PM PDT  Passengers who survived the fatal Bahamas boat explosion on Saturday talk about their experience for the first time.
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| Trump Administration Undoes Efforts To Boost College Racial Diversity Posted: 03 Jul 2018 08:37 AM PDT  President Donald Trump's administration announced on Tuesday that it is
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| Trump narrows his possible Supreme Court nominees Posted: 03 Jul 2018 03:27 AM PDT  Trump expected to meet with more possible nominees today to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, as he plans to announce his choice next week, ABC News' Kenneth Moton reports.
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| GOP Rep. Jim Jordan accused of ignoring sexual abuse of wrestlers Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:33 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow shares NBC News reporting that conservative congressman Jim Jordan is accused of knowing about sexual abuse of wrestlers at Ohio State when he was a coach and doing nothing about it, a charge he denies as the number of accusers increases.
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| 'Dead' woman wakes up in a morgue. Why does this keep happening? Posted: 02 Jul 2018 09:04 PM PDT  A woman was taken to the morgue and pronounced dead after a car crash near Johannesburg in South Africa. The only problem? She wasn't dead. SEE ALSO: Shane, somehow, is reportedly coming back to 'The Walking Dead' According to the BBC, the unnamed woman woke up in a mortuary fridge after a car pile-up on June 24 which reportedly left two others dead. The woman was discovered by a morgue worker, according to the news service, and she is now recovering in a hospital east of Johannesburg. The woman's family declined to comment on the incident to the BBC, but said, "We need answers." So, how did this happen? An investigation is reportedly underway. Ambulance company Distress Alert, who mispronounced the woman dead, told news publisher Times Live, "Equipment used to determine life showed no form of life on the woman." "This did not happen because our paramedics are not properly trained," the company's statement added. "There is no proof of any negligence by our crew." How does this keep happening? It's not the first time this has happened. In fact, it's not as uncommon as you'd think. In Poland, a 91-year-old woman woke up in a morgue fridge after having been declared legally dead. A similar thing also happened to a 24-year-old Kenyan man, a 61-year-old woman in Delaware, and a 30-year-old man in Australia. A 78-year-old man in Mississippi made it all the way to a funeral home in a body bag before workers discovered he was alive. One of the most horrifying cases involved a prison inmate in Spain's Asturias region, certified dead by no less than three doctors, who just happened to regain consciousness just before he was about to undergo an autopsy. There are a few theories on why this happens, and it's always dependent on the "dead" person's situation — how they supposedly "died" — and the country where they're legally declared dead. The Guardian points out one of the most common theories. Some people experience a condition called catalepsy, an immobilising nervous disorder that replicates rigor mortis (the stiffening of muscles after death), decreases the body's response to stimuli, and slows breathing. You can see how they'd look pretty dead to a first responder. The inmate in Spain was thought to have suffered from catalepsy. Whether the woman in South Africa suffers from this condition remains to be seen, but the first responders did say their equipment "showed no form of life on the woman." We're not sure which equipment they used yet. There's also what's called the Lazarus phenomenon, described as delayed return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) — basically, when a person who's suffered a cardiac arrest "comes back to life" after you've stopped performing CPR. It's coined from the Bible story of Lazarus, who was said to have been resurrected by Jesus days after his death, and is apparently very rarely reported. Or it could be biofeedback. That's when an individual learns to directly control activation of localised regions within the brain — meaning you can supposedly learn to lower your heart rate to make it look like you're dead. Why you would want to do this? James Bond does something like it in Die Another Day, so spying, I guess? So, how does a person make it all the way into the morgue fridge and survive in there? According to The Conversation, in very cold circumstances (let's say, an avalanche, or a mortuary fridge), a body's cells need less oxygen in the lower temperature, so they lapse into a state of hibernation. Until they're revived, the body will remain in a preserved state of unconsciousness — until it's really, really not. Another thought? Medical professionals could have just made a bad call. In the Australian case, an investigation found that after just 12 minutes examining car crash "victim" Daniel Huf, paramedics declared him dead after noting he was taking only four breaths a minute. Yup, still breathing. But declared dead by first responders. Figure that one out. How can you legally determine death? Legally confirming death used to be straightforward, back in the old days before technology made things more complex. Now, it's possible to keep the heart beating after the brain stem has stopped functioning, but that's another kettle of fish. In the U.S., each state has laws for determining death, whether as cardiopulmonary death (heartbeat and breathing has stopped) or brain death (brain functions have stopped). These two categories have been identified by the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), approved by both the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Bar Association (ABA), which stipulates that either type of death must be "irreversible" to declare someone dead. And while another conversation for another time, there are legal and ethical considerations to make if a person suffers from brain damage, not necessarily death, but their heart is still beating. Who gets to legally declare it? "There is variation between the states and even with counties as to who is permitted to pronounce an individual dead," writes forensic experts Jason Payne-James and Roger Byard in the Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine. "In some locations, civilians are allowed by law to pronounce an individual dead. In many locations emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and even first-responders are permitted to declare death." "Most law enforcement officers and firefighters can make a pronouncement, however; they typically contact the medical examiner or coroner's office to certify the death." In the case of the not-so-dead woman in South Africa, it appears the first-responders working for Distress Alert were the ones doing the legal pronouncing, and as detailed above, they're blaming their equipment. So, I'm going to have a cup of tea now and never go outside again. WATCH: This 'smart' prosthetic ankle makes it easier to use stairs
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| Liberty Island Evacuated After Woman Climbs Statue Of Liberty; 6 Others Arrested Posted: 04 Jul 2018 01:36 PM PDT  Two displays of resistance at the Statue of Liberty forced National Park
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| First lady on secret trip to visit injured service members Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:12 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump made another secret trip Tuesday, though she stayed a little closer to home.
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| Mexico's president-elect shuns guards, asks 'people' for protection Posted: 03 Jul 2018 06:24 PM PDT  By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador left the country's national palace on Tuesday in the front passenger seat of a white Volkswagen Jetta, swarmed by hundreds of jubilant supporters including one waving a live rooster. Since claiming victory on Sunday, the leftist politician has promised transformative change for Mexico. Lopez Obrador's approach to security is one of the first signs of how he is breaking from the mold of the typical Mexican presidency.
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| Almost Half The Country Thinks Donald Trump Is A Racist Posted: 04 Jul 2018 09:18 AM PDT  Nearly half of voters think President Donald Trump is a racist, according to a
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| Iran's Rouhani in Vienna to shore up nuclear deal, dogged by diplomat's arrest Posted: 04 Jul 2018 08:13 AM PDT  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday was on the second leg of his European tour seeking assurances over the 2015 nuclear deal, a trip clouded by the arrest of a Tehran diplomat over an alleged bomb plot against opposition exiles in Paris. Hoping to boost economic cooperation to help offset the return of US sanctions following Washington's pullout from the historic deal, Rouhani arrived late Tuesday in Vienna -- the city where it was signed. "Insofar as it is possible for Iran, we shall remain party to the accord, we shall not quit the JCPOA (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) on condition that we can also benefit from it," Rouhani said.
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| Suspect Who Attacked a 3-Year-Old's Birthday Party in Idaho Charged with First-Degree Murder Posted: 02 Jul 2018 10:34 PM PDT  Timmy Kinner is being held without bond, and could face the death penalty
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| The True Danger to America's Democracy Posted: 03 Jul 2018 07:39 PM PDT  The founders worried that political disunity at home would allow hostile foreign governments to exacerbate domestic cleavages, sow strife, and undermine America's sovereignty.
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| Boys, coach in stable health after 10 days lost in Thai cave Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:33 PM PDT  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The 12 boys and soccer coach found in a partially flooded cave in northern Thailand after 10 days are mostly in stable medical condition and have received high-protein liquid food, officials said Tuesday, though it is not known when they will be able to go home.
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| AT&T Raises Prices After Saying Merger Would Make Things Cheaper For Consumers Posted: 04 Jul 2018 01:58 AM PDT  AT&T, which recently acquired Time Warner in a landmark merger, is hiking up
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| India asks WhatsApp to curb spread of false messages Posted: 03 Jul 2018 11:30 PM PDT  India has asked Facebook Inc -owned WhatsApp messenger to take steps to prevent the circulation of false texts and provocative content that have led to a series of lynchings and mob beatings across the country in the past few months. With more than 200 million users in India, WhatsApp's biggest market in the world, false news and videos circulating on the messaging app have become a new headache for social media giant Facebook, already grappling with a privacy scandal. In addition, five people were beaten to death by a mob on Sunday in a fresh incident of lynching in India's western state of Maharashtra on suspicions that they were child abductors.
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| MAPS: A look at the 'County Fire' burning in Yolo County Posted: 03 Jul 2018 08:51 AM PDT  The County Fire burning in Yolo County has consumed at least 70,000 acres, roughly the size of Fremont. It's just 5 percent contained, according to Cal Fire.
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| Stunning photos show dive beneath giant iceberg Posted: 03 Jul 2018 07:39 AM PDT ![Stunning photos show dive beneath giant iceberg]( "Stunning photos show dive beneath giant iceberg") These absolutely incredible shots show the stunning formations of an iceberg beneath the surface of the ocean. Taken in Tasiilaq, Greenland, by Franco Banfi, the underwater photography captures the beauty of these ice mountains beneath the ocean's surface.
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| Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte Tells Off Trump Right To His Face Posted: 02 Jul 2018 08:49 PM PDT  A routine White House photo-op took an unusual turn on Monday when Dutch Prime
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| Mexico president-elect meets predecessor to ready 'transformation' Posted: 03 Jul 2018 02:06 PM PDT  Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lost no time Tuesday in preparing the transition to "profound change" in the country, promising to invite Pope Francis in an effort to restore peace and announcing a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The anti-establishment leftist known as "AMLO" won a resounding victory in Mexico's elections Sunday, claiming 52.96 percent of the vote, according to a near-complete count -- more than 30 points ahead of his nearest rival in the four-way race. "We are going to invite Pope Francis," as well as "religious leaders, UN and human rights officials to bring everyone together with the goal of achieving peace in our nation," Lopez Obrador said after talks with outgoing leader Enrique Pena Nieto.
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| Hundreds mourn at vigil for victims of birthday party attack Posted: 02 Jul 2018 10:12 PM PDT  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A 3-year-old Idaho girl who was stabbed at her birthday party died Monday, two days after a man invaded the celebration and attacked nine people with a knife, authorities said.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Driving New Energy And Money To Progressive Candidates Posted: 04 Jul 2018 05:01 AM PDT  At a Democratic gubernatorial candidate forum in Detroit on Monday,
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| Spring Fire claims over 100 homes in Colorado as dozens of fires rage in western US Posted: 03 Jul 2018 06:36 AM PDT  Several large wildfires are threatening hundreds of homes across the western United States as hot and dry weather persists through the Fourth of July.
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| This Woman Brilliantly Documented 2 Strangers (Possibly) Falling In Love On Her Flight Posted: 04 Jul 2018 01:15 PM PDT  Two strangers may have fallen in love on a flight and the hero woman who set
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| China blocks Micron sales amid U.S. trade tensions, chip battle Posted: 04 Jul 2018 01:55 AM PDT  TAIPEI/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese court has temporarily barred Micron Technology Inc from selling its main semiconductor products in the world's biggest memory chip market, citing violation of patents held by Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp (UMC). The ruling, which was disclosed by UMC and its state-backed Chinese partner, slammed shares of Idaho-based chipmaker Micron, which gets half of its revenue from China. The ban comes amid an escalating trade spat between Washington and Beijing that is spurring China to accelerate its goal of developing its own domestic chipmakers to curb the heavy reliance on U.S. firms like Micron and Qualcomm Inc.
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| Wikipedia down in several countries in EU law protest Posted: 04 Jul 2018 11:22 AM PDT  Wikipedia went down in at least three countries Wednesday in a protest at an upcoming European Parliament vote on a highly disputed law that could make online platforms legally liable for copyrighted material put on the web by users. In Spain, Italy and Poland, an explanatory protest statement about the upcoming vote came up when the online encyclopedia was consulted. "The directive would threaten online freedom and would impose new filters, barriers and restrictions to access the web," Wikipedia Spain said in its statement.
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| US and Russian officials hold 'frank' talks before Trump-Putin summit Posted: 03 Jul 2018 09:16 AM PDT  Richard Shelby and his colleagues meet with members of the Russian Federation Council in Moscow on Tuesday. A delegation of US lawmakers has met top Russian officials and lawmakers to discuss ushering in a "new day" in relations ahead of a key summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin later this month. US Senator Richard Shelby spoke first for the eight-person delegation, including seven senators and a congresswoman, during meetings on Tuesday at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia's Federation Council and the Duma.
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| Family of Oakland teen Jahi McMath speaks in San Francisco Posted: 03 Jul 2018 05:00 PM PDT  The mother of Jahi McMath, the Oakland girl at the center of the medical and religious debate over brain death, held a press conference in San Francisco. Nailah Winkfield said Thursday that the teen died after surgery.
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| Macron says migrant centres will only work if African nations take lead as EU immigration crisis deepens Posted: 04 Jul 2018 12:38 PM PDT  Emmanuel Macron acknowledged on Wednesday that EU plans to open migrant processing centres in North Africa can only work if the host countries lead the process. Speaking to the BBC during a visit to Nigeria, the French president said many African countries were concerned that such centres would act as a magnet for greater numbers of migrants. No African country has so far agreed to host the centres, planned as part of a compromise deal on the migration crisis during a tense EU summit earlier this month. Mr Macron said the idea "can fly, just if some African countries decide to organise it." Mr Macron said migration would pose problems for Europe for decades because of unplanned population growth in African countries. It is a view he has previously expressed, leading to criticism that he is voicing colonial rhetoric. He was speaking after France agreed to take about 80 migrants from the Aquarius rescue ship that was at the centre of a bitter European dispute over migration last month. French President Emmanuel Macron performs at the Shrine Africa in Lagos Credit: LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images Spain's government came under growing pressure over its handling of the migration crisis as Barcelona's mayor called for help over the arrival of busloads of migrants and critics claimed "permissive" policies were creating a magnet effect. Ada Colau, the mayor of Barcelona, issued an urgent call for resources after 500 migrants arrived in the city by bus in 15 days and an NGO ship docked with 60 rescued people turned away by Italy. Ms Colau welcomed yesterday's arrival of the Proactiva Open Arms, granted safe harbour in Barcelona after it was denied permission to dock by Italy's new populist government. But she accused Spain's government of turning a blind eye to the growing problem of migration along its own southern shores, where thousands of arrivals in recent weeks have left reception centres overflowing and forced transfers across the country. "Let's be clear, dozens of boats in the form of coaches are arriving with us. And as they arrive by coach, the state does not recognise them and they stay invisible," Ms Colau told Catalunya Radio. A member of SOS-Mediterranee checks life vests aboard the Aquarius rescue vessel Credit: PAU BARRENA/AFP/Getty Images In June, almost 6,800 migrants arrived in Spain by sea, outstripping the total number of arrivals in Greece, Italy and Malta combined. The Andalusia regional government has joined calls for a more coordinated European response, cautioning against a "policy of patches". The Open Arms is the second NGO ship to travel to Spain with migrants rescued in the Central Mediterranean; the first, the Aquarius, was granted safe harbour in Valencia in June after being stranded at sea for days with 629 people on board. While the move by Pedro Sanchez, the new prime minister, has been largely welcomed, he has also been accused of making political gestures while failing to address fundamental issues. Yesterday, his government promised an overhaul of asylum processing and air and sea reinforcements for the Spanish coastguard. Mediterranean migration But NGOs have warned that with the Spanish asylum system effectively collapsed, far greater resources are needed. Conservatives and anti-immigrant groups have meanwhile accused Spain's new Left-wing government of creating a "calling effect" with its offers of safe harbour. Vox, a small but vocal hard-Right party, claimed that just as Germany was "closing its borders to illegal immigration", Mr Sanchez's "permissiveness" was causing thousands of migrants to "direct their gazes towards Spain". The German interior minister is to fly to Vienna Thursday for talks with the Austrian government to defuse a row over his plans to set up transit camps for migrants on the border between the two countries. Horst Seehofer will meet with Sebastian Kurz, the Austrian chancellor, amid fears the plans could set off a domino effect that could threaten the future of the European Union's border-free Schengen Area. Merkel's migration tensions | Read more "The migration question will decide whether Europe can survive," Angela Merkel told German MPs on Wednesday as she defended the planned camps. Mr Seehofer won her backing for the transit centres in a last-minute compromise to avert a German political crisis on Monday after he threatened to resign and pull his Chrisian Social Union party (CSU) out of her coalition government. But the deal has left him with the difficult task of talking Germany's reluctant EU allies into accepting the migrants it turns away — after Mrs Merkel failed to persuade them at last week's EU summit. Austria reacted furiously to the announcement of the planned transit centres on Tuesday, warning it would impose its own controls on its southern borders with Italy and Slovenia. Mr Seehofer is also scheduled to hold talks on migrants with Matteo Salvini, the Italian interior minister, on a deal next week. But he played down hopes for a breakthrough at his talks in Vienna. "It's about initial talks on how to find an agreement," his spokesman said.
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| Anti-Abortion Movie About Roe v. Wade Is Pushed By Nick Loeb Posted: 03 Jul 2018 04:09 PM PDT  Roe v. Wade may be coming to a theater near you, at least if Nick Loeb has
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| Hundreds of homes imperiled as Northern California fire spreads Posted: 03 Jul 2018 03:50 PM PDT  A wildfire in Northern California swelled on Tuesday, as firefighters battled the blaze that threatened hundreds of homes and other structures, sending thick black smoke across the San Francisco Bay Area. The County Fire, which broke out on Saturday afternoon in rural Yolo County, west of Sacramento, blackened more than 70,000 acres (28,800 hectares) of grass, brush and dense scrub oak. The United States is in the midst of an unusually active fire season, with the risk significantly above normal for many western states, according to federal forecasters.
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| China issues U.S. travel warning amid trade tensions Posted: 03 Jul 2018 10:03 AM PDT  China's embassy in Washington has issued a security advisory to Chinese nationals traveling to the United States, the latest such warning as trade tensions escalate between the two countries. The embassy warned Chinese tourists to be aware of issues including expensive medical bills, the threats of public shootings and robberies, searches and seizures by customs agents, telecommunications fraud and natural disasters. "Public security in the United States is not good.
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