| Trump Administration Deported 19 Parents Whose Young Kids Are Still In Custody Posted: 06 Jul 2018 09:25 AM PDT  The Trump administration revealed on Friday that it has deported 19 migrant
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| Outrage after white man calls police on black woman at North Carolina pool Posted: 06 Jul 2018 09:24 AM PDT  Adam Bloom asked to see Jazmine Abhulimen's ID at their neighborhood pool, then called the police. Abhulimen, who recorded the incident, said she felt unfairly targeted and Bloom has since lost his job.
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| Mike Pence: 'We will never abolish ICE' Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:26 PM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence visited the headquarters of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Washington, D.C., on Friday, where he delivered a speech that attacked the push to abolish the agency.
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| Here's What School Is Really Like For Some Migrant Children Separated From Their Parents Posted: 06 Jul 2018 05:36 AM PDT  Serious challenges, including a lack of experienced teachers, may be
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| American workers feel the impact of U.S.-China trade war Posted: 06 Jul 2018 09:04 AM PDT  With tariffs on products like lobster or soybeans, some economists suggest two million American jobs could be at risk in a prolonged trade war and consumers could face rising costs.
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| A Former Thai Navy SEAL Has Died During a Rescue Mission for Soccer Team Trapped in a Cave Posted: 05 Jul 2018 08:39 PM PDT  Petty Officer Samarn Kunan died from lack of oxygen
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| Trump Administration May Be Preparing A New Obamacare Sabotage Effort Posted: 07 Jul 2018 02:41 PM PDT  Another piece of the Affordable Care Act's machinery is grinding to a halt, at
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| Fires menace US West, tornado touches Colorado wildfire site Posted: 05 Jul 2018 10:23 PM PDT  DENVER (AP) — An erratic wildfire charging through extremely dry land in the heart of Colorado ski country destroyed three homes and forced people to flee, authorities said Thursday.
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| Deadly torrential rains and flooding batter southwestern Japan Posted: 07 Jul 2018 12:48 PM PDT ![Deadly torrential rains and flooding batter southwestern Japan]( "Deadly torrential rains and flooding batter southwestern Japan") Torrents of rainfall and flooding battered a widespread area in southwestern Japan on Saturday, with local media casualty reports climbing quickly. Public broadcaster NHK said 38 people were dead, four were injured seriously and 47 were missing. Television footage showed a residential area in Okayama prefecture seeped in brown water spreading like a huge lake.
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| Insider attack kills US soldier in Afghanistan Posted: 07 Jul 2018 12:41 PM PDT  A US soldier was killed and two others wounded in an "apparent insider attack" in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, NATO said, the first such killing in nearly a year. "The wounded service members, who are in stable condition, are currently being treated," NATO's Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan said in a statement. NATO did not release the identity of the American soldier killed or provide further details about where the incident took place.
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| Trump Lashes Out at Sen. Elizabeth Warren, George H.W. Bush Posted: 05 Jul 2018 09:00 PM PDT  He made fun of the former president's slogan promoting volunteerism and mocked the MeToo movement.
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| Trump Defends Jim Jordan Over Ohio State Abuse Allegations Posted: 06 Jul 2018 08:28 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Thursday defended Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who at
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| Man punches restaurant worker, video shows Posted: 06 Jul 2018 05:23 PM PDT  Surveillance video shows the attack which happened at a George Webb restaurant in Milwaukee.
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| Mother of girl declared dead twice slams doctors at funeral Posted: 06 Jul 2018 02:54 PM PDT  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — After battling for more than four years to keep a comatose daughter declared brain dead from being issued a California death certificate, Nailah Winkfield forcefully told mourners at her daughter's funeral service Friday to stop letting doctors "pull the plug on your people."
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| Japan executes sarin gas attack cult leader and six Aum Shinrikyo members Posted: 05 Jul 2018 10:37 PM PDT  Japan on Friday executed the former leader of a doomsday cult and six other members of the group that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, killing 13 people and shattering the country's myth of public safety. The Aum Shinrikyo, or Aum Supreme Truth cult, which mixed Buddhist and Hindu meditation with apocalyptic teachings, staged a series of crimes including simultaneous sarin gas attacks on subway trains during rush hour in March 1995. Sarin, a nerve gas, was originally developed by the Nazis. The images of bodies, many in business suits, sprawled across platforms stunned Japan, and triggered public safety steps such as the removal of non-transparent rubbish bins that remain in force to this day. As well as killing the 13, the attack injured at least 5,800 people, some permanently. Chizuo Matsumoto, the cult's leader who went by the name Shoko Asahara, was the first to be hanged, media said as it broke into regular programming to report the news. Relatives spoke of their feelings of relief after the perpetrators spent years on death row. Subway passengers affected by sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway are taken to hospital March 20, 1995 Credit: Chiaki Tsukumo/AP Announcements of the other hangings followed through the morning. The justice ministry confirmed the execution of the seven. "I think it's right that he was executed," said Shizue Takahashi, whose husband was a subway worker who removed a package of sarin from a train and died as a result. "My husband's parents and my parents are already dead," the silver-haired Takahashi added. "I think they would find it regrettable that they could not have heard the news of this execution." Executions are rare in Japan but surveys show a vast majority of people supports the death sentence. Rights group Amnesty International said justice demanded accountability but also respect for civil rights. FAQ | Sarin "The death penalty can never deliver this as it is the ultimate denial of human rights," Hiroka Shoji, the group's East Asia Researcher, said in a statement. BIZARRE RITUALS AND WEAPONS Cult leader Asahara, 63, a pudgy, partially blind yoga instructor, was sentenced to hang in 2004 on 13 charges, including the subway gas attacks and a series of other crimes that killed at least a dozen people. He pleaded not guilty and never testified, but muttered and made incoherent remarks in court during the eight years of his trial. The sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2006. In all, 13 cult members were sentenced to death during more than 20 years of trials, which came to an end in January 2018. Asahara, who founded Aum in 1987, said that the United States would attack Japan and turn it into a nuclear wasteland. He also said he had travelled forward in time to 2006 and talked to people then about what World War Three had been like. At its peak, the cult had at least 10,000 members in Japan and overseas, including graduates of some of Japan's top universities. Some members lived in a commune-like complex Asahara established at the foot of Mount Fuji, where the group studied his teachings, practised bizarre rituals and gathered an arsenal of weapons - including sarin. The cult also used sarin in 1994, releasing the gas in the central city of Matsumoto on a summer night in an attempt to kill three judges set to rule on it. That attack, which involved a refrigerator truck releasing the gas to be dispersed by the wind through a neighbourhood, failed to kill the judges but killed eight other people and injured hundreds.
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| 21 people treated for rabies exposure after woman rescues abandoned baby raccoon Posted: 06 Jul 2018 11:57 AM PDT  A woman who lives in the southern part of Weld County, Colorado found a baby racoon on her property and took the animal into her home after she believed the animal had been abandoned by its mother, a Weld County Department of Health and Environment press release stated. According to Colorado's Greeley Tribune, the woman then apparently had 20 visitors to her home, all who reportedly expressed interest in seeing the baby raccoon. "This was a baby wild animal, so I think there was some heightened interest to seeing a baby animal in the home," Rachel Freeman, the health department's supervisor, told the newspaper.
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| Multiple Wildfires Rip Through California Amid Record-Breaking Heat Posted: 07 Jul 2018 07:27 AM PDT  Wildfires burned through Southern and Central California on Friday, prompting
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| Trump Admin Fails to Make Deadline to Reunite Separated Families Posted: 06 Jul 2018 02:05 PM PDT  Lee Gelernt, ACLU attorney suing the Trump administration on behalf of separated families, talks about the sloppy job the Trump administration has done tracking the families it has broken up.
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| Three contract workers injured at Shell Convent, La. refinery: company Posted: 05 Jul 2018 08:09 PM PDT ![Three contract workers injured at Shell Convent, La. refinery: company]( "Three contract workers injured at Shell Convent, La. refinery: company") Three contract workers were injured on Wednesday while working on a hydrogen line on a sulfur unit at Royal Dutch Shell Plc's Convent, Louisiana, refinery, a company spokesman said on Thursday. The sulfur unit is shut as part of a planned overhaul of units at the 209,787 barrel-per-day (bpd) Convent refinery that includes the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit, the sources said. "Shell initiated its emergency response plan, which included immediately deploying personnel to respond to the incident," Shell spokesman Ray Fisher said on Thursday.
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| Mother Teresa charity shocked after India babies 'sold' Posted: 06 Jul 2018 07:46 AM PDT  An Indian charity founded by Mother Teresa expressed outrage and regret Friday after a nun and an employee were arrested for allegedly selling infants for adoption for potentially thousands of dollars. It should have never happened," said the Missionaries of Charity organisation, set up by the Catholic missionary nun in 1950. After the arrests, 13 girls living in the home were shifted to another shelter, the Press Trust of India reported, adding that 22 children from a nearby shelter that was run by the same charity were also moved to a new accommodation on Friday.
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| Donald Trump Rips NFL's New National Anthem Policy After Praising It Posted: 06 Jul 2018 06:56 AM PDT  If the NFL thought its new national anthem policy was going to permanently
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| Scott Pruitt's Resignation Is Just The Start Posted: 06 Jul 2018 08:49 AM PDT  It started way back on Sept. 27, 2017, with a Washington Post report exposing
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| Buddhist meditation may calm team trapped in Thai cave Posted: 05 Jul 2018 07:28 PM PDT  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — At a gilded temple in Thailand's mountainous north, Ekapol Chanthawong honed a skill that will serve him well as he sits trapped underground in a dark cave: meditation.
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| Three Canadian YouTube travel bloggers killed after falling over a waterfall in British Columbia Posted: 06 Jul 2018 11:02 AM PDT  Three Canadian YouTube travel bloggers have been killed after falling over a waterfall in British Columbia. Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Megan Scraper were part of High On Life, a video blog group which posts videos of their travel adventures on social media. The trio were swimming at the top of Shannon Falls in Squamish, British Columbia on Tuesday when they slipped and fell into a pool 98ft below, local police siad. The High On Life group, which has more than one million Instagram followers and more than 500,000 YouTube subscribers, named the trio in a post online. In a video tribute the group praised them as "three of the warmest, kindest and most driven and outgoing people you could ever meet". Their Facebook page says: "High On Life is the attitude to embrace all of life's opportunities with a positive outlook and energy." "There are truly no words that can be said to ease the pain and the devastation we are all going through right now," they said. The video bloggers, who were all in their late 20s and early 30s, had hiked up Shannon Falls on Tuesday and were swimming in a pool system at the top of the falls. The adventurers were "then walking along the ledge shortly thereafter" before falling nearly 100ft, said Corporal Sascha Banks, from Canada's Federal Police. Megan Scraper and Alexey Lyakh had recently celebrated five years together The tragedy occurred when Ms Scraper slipped and fell, with Mr Gamble and Mr Lyakh also getting swept away as they tried to save her , according to the Vancouver Sun. The difficult terrain meant it took the Squamish Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) force two days to find and recover the adventurers. "I can't say enough about the incredible skilled work done by the RCMP teams along with Squamish Search and Rescue," Cpl Banks said in a statement. Ms Banks added that heavy water flow and a a steep mountainside area posed a significant challenge for the crew involved in the efforts. Their Facebook page says: "High On Life is the attitude to embrace all of life's opportunities with a positive outlook and energy." Mr Gamble and Mr Lyakh founded the High On Life group, which is based in Vancouver, with another high school friend after they travelled the world in 2012. The adventurers turned their passion for travel into full-time jobs, posting pictures and videos of their experiences online in partnership with various brands. The group made headlines in 2016 after Mr Gamble, Mr Lykah and another member were handed five-year bans from US federal lands after an out-of-bounds excursion on a sensitive hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. In one of his most recent Instagram posts, 30-year-old Mr Gamble wrote: "Life isn't about responsibilities, tough decisions and hard work, it's about feeling bliss and living in the moment." High On Life has created a GoFundMe memorial fund in support of the three travellers families.
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| Man killed when tire mysteriously crashes into his car on New York highway Posted: 06 Jul 2018 05:32 PM PDT  The vicitm, David Dorazio, was driving a 1998 Saturn sedan on Sunrise Highway in West Babylon Thursday afternoon when the tire struck the car, Suffolk County Police said.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week, June 30 To July 6 Posted: 06 Jul 2018 06:01 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez taunts Republicans for being 'terrified' of her progressive policies Posted: 06 Jul 2018 11:07 AM PDT  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has taunted Republicans, tweeting about how "terrified" their politicians will be once they learn more about her platform. The 28-year-old from the Bronx borough of New York City, recently defeated handily the longtime US House Representative and Democratic Party star Joe Crowley, who had been in Congress for 20 years. Ms Ocasio is challenging the old guard GOP which under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has taken away federal government grants to low-income students and done nothing to mitigate the crushing debt of student loans Americans experience.
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| Widespread riots in Haiti over fuel prices Posted: 07 Jul 2018 03:20 PM PDT ![Widespread riots in Haiti over fuel prices]( "Widespread riots in Haiti over fuel prices") The Haitian government suspended a fuel price hike Saturday after widespread violence broke out across the capital and in the northern city of Cap-Haitien.
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| Candidate AIDS vaccine passes key early test Posted: 06 Jul 2018 03:50 PM PDT  The near 40-year quest for an AIDS vaccine received a hopeful boost Saturday when scientists announced that a trial drug triggered an immune response in humans and shielded monkeys from infection. Shown to be safe in humans, the candidate vaccine has now advanced to the next phase of the pre-approval trial process, and will be tested in 2,600 women in southern Africa to see whether it prevents HIV infection. While the results so far have been encouraging, the research team and outside experts warn there are no guarantees it will actually work in the next trial phase dubbed HVTN705 or "Imbokodo" -- the isiZulu word for "rock".
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| Thais fear 'no chance' of more survivors from tourist boat, nearly 60 may be dead Posted: 06 Jul 2018 10:22 AM PDT  By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai rescuers deployed helicopters on Friday to search for 23 people missing after a boat carrying Chinese tourists sank, with one official saying he feared "no chance" of any more survivors, which would mean nearly 60 dead. The confirmed death toll from the accident off the resort island of Phuket stood at 33, provincial governor Noraphat Plodthong said, but the navy said divers had spotted "quite a few bodies" in the sunken vessel, the Phoenix.
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| Trump 'Apologizes' For Pocahontas Slur, Uses It Again 2 Seconds Later Posted: 05 Jul 2018 07:30 PM PDT  Despite groans from his supporters in the crowd, President Donald Trump
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| Dallas police: Woman shoots man trying to take SUV with kids Posted: 05 Jul 2018 05:58 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — A woman shot a man in the head and injured him after he tried to steal her sport utility vehicle with her two children inside, Dallas police said Thursday.
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| More Democrats Want To Abolish ICE. Decriminalize Migration? Not So Much. Posted: 06 Jul 2018 02:46 AM PDT  DEL RIO, Texas ― The Trump administration's scorched-earth tactics against
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| Lions eat rhino poachers on South African game reserve Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:15 AM PDT ![Lions eat rhino poachers on South African game reserve]( "Lions eat rhino poachers on South African game reserve") At least two rhino poachers were eaten by lions on a South African game reserve, the owner of the lodge said on Thursday. A ranger taking guests at the Sibuya Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape on a safari drive on Tuesday afternoon discovered human remains close to a pride of lions. "We suspect two were killed, possibly three," Sibuya owner Nick Fox said.
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| 8 Great Stocks to Buy for the Third Quarter Posted: 06 Jul 2018 08:44 AM PDT ![8 Great Stocks to Buy for the Third Quarter]( "8 Great Stocks to Buy for the Third Quarter") Bank of America loves these stocks now. Overall, the U.S. stock market has been relatively solid so far this year, with the S&P 500 index up about 2 percent for the year. The Bank of America analyst team recently selected the following eight U.S. stocks as its top "buy" ideas for the third quarter.
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| GOP Strategist Tells Scott Pruitt Apologists: 'Save Some Tiny Iota Of Dignity' Posted: 06 Jul 2018 02:47 PM PDT  Scott Pruitt's resignation as EPA administrator on Thursday marked the
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| Two US destroyers sail into Taiwan Strait: Taiwan gov't Posted: 07 Jul 2018 02:58 PM PDT  Two United States warships entered the Taiwan Strait on Saturday at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing. The destroyers USS Mustin and USS Benfold sailed into the waterway separating Taiwan and China on Saturday morning, Taiwan's defence ministry confirmed. "US Navy ships transit between the South China Sea and East China Sea via the Taiwan Strait and have done so for many years," he told AFP.
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| Woman finds nearly 50 brown recluse spiders in bedroom Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:00 PM PDT  The woman was rushed to the hospital with hallucinations after she was bitten several times by brown recluse spiders.
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| FBI agent removed from Mueller team set to testify publicly Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:15 PM PDT ![FBI agent removed from Mueller team set to testify publicly]( "FBI agent removed from Mueller team set to testify publicly") WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI agent removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team because of derogatory text messages about President Donald Trump is expected to speak publicly to members of Congress next week, his lawyer said Friday.
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| UK police hunt object that poisoned couple with nerve agent Posted: 06 Jul 2018 06:08 AM PDT  Police on Friday raced to find the object that contaminated a British couple with the Soviet-made Novichok nerve agent in southwestern England where a former Russian spy was poisoned with the same toxin four months ago. Dawn Sturgess, 44, and Charlie Rowley, 45, fell ill on Saturday in Amesbury, a small town near the city of Salisbury where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed on March 4, spreading fear once again among locals.
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| Tyler Honeycutt, Former NBA Player, Found Dead After Standoff With Police: Report Posted: 07 Jul 2018 09:04 AM PDT  Former basketball player for the Sacramento Kings, Tyler Honeycutt, was found
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| South Syrian rebels agree surrender deal, Assad takes crossing Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:11 PM PDT  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Laila Bassam AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - South Syrian rebels agreed to give up arms in a Russian-brokered ceasefire deal on Friday, rebel sources said, surrendering Deraa province to the government in another major victory for President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian allies. The Syrian government recovered the Nassib border crossing with Jordan, held by rebels for three years, state media reported, after an assault in insurgent territory along the frontier backed by Russian air strikes. Rebel sources said Russia would guarantee the safe return of civilians who fled the government offensive in the biggest exodus of the war, with 320,000 people uprooted.
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| Activists block major freeway to protest gun violence in Chicago Posted: 07 Jul 2018 02:14 PM PDT ![Activists block major freeway to protest gun violence in Chicago]( "Activists block major freeway to protest gun violence in Chicago") Hundreds of protesters calling for an end to gun violence in Chicago partially shut down a major freeway in the city on Saturday, restricting traffic as they demanded lawmakers and members of the community do more to stop the bloodshed.
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| With US out, others reaffirm commitment to Iran nuclear deal Posted: 06 Jul 2018 07:03 AM PDT  VIENNA (AP) — Five world powers agreed with Iran on Friday to forge ahead with negotiations with the country and maintain its ability to export gas and oil as they seek to preserve a nuclear deal with Tehran despite the withdrawal of the United States.
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| Body found in California wildfire's path marks season's first fatality Posted: 06 Jul 2018 02:27 PM PDT  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Crews fighting a fast-moving Northern California wildfire on Friday discovered the charred remains of a person apparently caught in the flames, sheriff's officials said, marking the first such fatality in a particularly intense fire season across the state. Investigators were trying to identify the man or woman found in the debris of a home burned to the ground by the Klamathon fire, which broke out Thursday near the Oregon border during a blistering California heat wave and quickly blackened more than 8,000 acres (3,237 hectares). "We don't know who it is, we're trying to do best we can to identify the person," said Lieutenant Jeremiah LaRue if the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office.
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| Pigs, paws and pistachios: US goods face tariffs in China Posted: 06 Jul 2018 04:06 AM PDT  From pig heads to pistachios to whiskey, China's proposed list of targeted US products for higher border taxes could take a bite out of bilateral trade between the world's top two economies. After Washington imposed new tariffs on billions of Chinese imports just past the stroke of midnight Friday, Beijing hit back immediately dollar for dollar. China has not officially updated its list of items targeted but last month gave a detailed run-down that was not expected to change.
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| US officials resort to DNA tests to reunite children with migrant parents Posted: 05 Jul 2018 10:00 PM PDT  US officials have resorted to DNA testing on up to 3,000 detained children who remain separated from their migrant parents, a top official said Thursday as President Donald Trump's administration struggles to rapidly reunite families at the center of a border crisis. The controversial procedures are part of government efforts to meet rapidly approaching court-imposed deadlines for reuniting children with their parents, and come as the president himself once again demanded swift action by Congress to fix the country's "insane" immigration laws. The Department of Health and Human Services is "doing DNA testing to confirm parentage quickly and accurately," HHS Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a conference call. His team said the procedures were "harmless" cheek swabs. Normally a last-resort means of identifying of migrants - if birth certificates or other documents are unavailable - DNA testing is being used to speed the process to meet a judge's order to reunite families by July 26, and by next Tuesday for some 100 children under age five. But Azar portrayed the process as orderly and disputed accusations that the Trump administration has failed to account for some minors. Yeni Marciela Gonzalez Garcia (R), of Guatemala, the mother of three children at the Cayuga House in Harlem, gets a hug as she speaks at a news conference, after being reunited with her children, July 3 Credit: DON EMMERT/AFP "HHS knows the identity and location of every minor in the care of our grantees," he said, adding that authorities were working to reunite children with their parents "as expeditiously as possible." Azar did not provide an exact figure for the total number of detained children who have been split from their parents, only saying that number is "under 3,000" minors and that they are in "excellent" care, with three meals plus snacks each day and supervised exercise and entertainment. The administration had previously said that just over 2,000 separated minors remained in its care. US First Lady Melania Trump takes part in a round-table discussion at Health and Human Services Southwest Key Campbell children's shelter in Phoenix, Arizona, June 28 Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP Azar said reunited families would remain in custody of the Department of Homeland Security as their cases are adjudicated. The DNA test results are being solely used to accurately connect parents with children, HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Jonathan White said on the call. "This isn't some vast sprawling data set that we're matching up," he said. But critics warn that very young children cannot give permission for such tests, which they say could ultimately be used for further monitoring, and that the policy shows the government never registered people properly when they were first detained. "It's deplorable they are using the guise of reuniting children to collect even more sensitive data about very young children," said Jennifer Falcon of RAICES, a Texas-based rights group representing migrant families. "This would allow the government to conduct surveillance on these children for the rest of their lives." Meanwhile Trump on Thursday uttered his latest contradictory outburst over the chaotic border crisis. In a series of tweets, Trump demanded lawmakers "pass smart, fast and reasonable Immigration Laws" now, after the House of Representatives last month rejected a broad immigration bill that had his support. "When people, with or without children, enter our Country, they must be told to leave without our... Country being forced to endure a long and costly trial," he wrote. Congress must pass smart, fast and reasonable Immigration Laws now. Law Enforcement at the Border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane. When people, with or without children, enter our Country, they must be told to leave without our........— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2018 Trump has spoken out repeatedly against lengthy judicial processes to determine migrants' eligibility for immigration, asylum or deportation, arguing they are a waste of US resources. "Congress - FIX OUR INSANE IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW!" he tweeted. It was the latest conflicting message by Trump to Congress. Before the June 27 House vote, he said Republicans - who control both chambers - "should stop wasting their time on immigration" until after the November midterm elections. Days later he traveled to Capitol Hill to urge Republicans to back the pending legislation - and after it failed, insisted he had "never pushed the Republicans to vote for the Immigration bill." Protesters march against President Trump's immigration policy on June 30, 2018 in Washington, DC Credit: Alex Wroblewski/Getty Trump has made fighting immigration - both illegal and legal - a central plank of his US-centered policy agenda, resulting in the "zero tolerance" immigration approach under which undocumented border crossers were being systematically prosecuted, and their children separated from them. Faced with a barrage of criticism, Trump signed an executive order to halt the family separations, but made no specific provisions for those already split apart. New figures released by DHS show overall apprehensions at the southwestern border dropped by 18 percent in June from the previous month, to 34,114. But the number of family units apprehended remained steady, at 9,449 for June.
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| Mexico town known for fireworks disasters mourns 24 deaths Posted: 06 Jul 2018 05:31 PM PDT  TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Grieving emergency personnel in the Mexico City suburb of Tultepec carried the caskets of four comrades through the town's streets Friday as authorities investigated whether an attempt to douse burning fireworks with water may have triggered further blasts that killed a total of 24 people.
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