| Trump's Wall Could Run Up Billions In Unforeseen Costs, Watchdog Report Warns Posted: 06 Aug 2018 03:05 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border could cost
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| Report: Dead fetus discovered on American Airlines flight at New York's LaGuardia Airport Posted: 07 Aug 2018 07:28 AM PDT  A dead fetus was reportedly discovered by cleaning crews inside a toilet
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| Major explosion on motorway near Bologna leaves two dead and more than 60 injured Posted: 06 Aug 2018 07:30 AM PDT  A tanker truck exploded on a motorway just outside the northern Italian city of Bologna on Monday, engulfing the area with flames and black smoke, the fire service said, with local media reporting one person killed. The explosion occurred near Borgo Paginale to west of the city, very close to Bologna airport, at around 2.00 pm (12pm GMT), the Italian fire service said on Twitter. The cause of the blast is not yet known. Italian news agency Ansa has reported that two people died and more than 60 others were injured following the blast. A video published on Twitter by the Italian fire service shows a huge column of black smoke billowing from the wreckage of the truck on the city's ring road. The cause of the blast is not yet known Credit: @giornaleprociv / Twitter Images released earlier by the fire service showed burning cars in an adjacent carpark. Firefighters work on the motorway Credit: REUTERS One video filmed by a motorist circulating on Twitter shows the moment the tanker exploded, when a black plume of smoke was suddenly swept away by a powerful ball of flame that takes over the entire horizon.
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| Saudi Arabia Kicks Out Canadian Ambassador For Human Rights Criticism Posted: 06 Aug 2018 04:51 AM PDT  Saudi Arabia has issued a sharp rebuke to Canada for criticizing recent
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| Woman helps man short on cash at gas station, finds out he's Keith Urban Posted: 07 Aug 2018 03:14 AM PDT  A New Jersey woman who thought she was helping a down-and-out man pay for his gas station food ended up footing the bill for country music star Keith Urban.
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| FCA Seeks to Stop Jeep-Like Mahindra Roxor 4x4 in the U.S. Posted: 06 Aug 2018 08:37 AM PDT  The Indian manufacturer's vehicle copies Jeep's design, Chrysler claims.
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| Deadly wildfires in Northern California Posted: 07 Aug 2018 04:45 AM PDT ![Deadly wildfires in Northern California]( "Deadly wildfires in Northern California") On Monday, twin fires being treated as one incident north of San Francisco became the largest wildfire in state history, destroying 443 square miles (1,148 square kilometers) — nearly the size of the city of Los Angeles.
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| Best Bites: Chicken Caesar pasta salad Posted: 07 Aug 2018 02:47 AM PDT  Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
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| New York race could spark new Trump investigation Posted: 06 Aug 2018 06:16 AM PDT  All of the leading candidates for attorney general in New York are eager to continue Robert Mueller's work or mount an entirely new investigation into the president.
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| Dozens shot in Chicago in burst of weekend gun violence Posted: 06 Aug 2018 12:07 PM PDT  A burst of shootings over the weekend left 12 people dead and dozens more wounded in Chicago, the latest evidence of runaway gun violence in the third largest US city. At one point, 40 people were shot in the span of seven hours, according to a tally compiled by the Chicago Tribune, with bystanders as well as alleged gang members among the casualties. Authorities emphasized that the weekend shootings stood in contrast to a general decline in gun violence, where city figures show shootings down 30 percent and murders down 25 percent, compared to the same time last year.
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| Vintage Photos Show Lucille Ball's Unmatched Style Through The Years Posted: 06 Aug 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Lucille Ball was a star in more ways than one. She was a television pioneer, a
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| State Department On Saudi Arabia-Canada Spat: We're Staying Out Posted: 06 Aug 2018 02:53 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The State Department made its first comments on the dispute
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| Device to clean-up Great Pacific Garbage Patch could harm wildlife, warn conservationists Posted: 07 Aug 2018 02:00 PM PDT  A controversial scheme to clean up plastic in the Pacific Ocean could harm wildlife and release unnecessary greenhouse gases into the air, conservationists have warned. On September 9th, The Ocean Cleanup foundation will launch a device to sweep up plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and remove it from the water. The system uses a 2000ft long u-shaped floating cylinder with a 10ft skirt beneath which moves along with the current capturing plastic as it goes. The refuse is corralled into a small area and then picked up by boat every few months and taken to land for processing and recycling. A section of the floating system which will move with the water currents collecting plastic Credit: The Ocean Cleanup The Ocean Cleanup claims that full-scale deployment of their system could clean up 50 per cent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in just 5 years. However marine experts claim the project could do more harm than good. Dr Sue Kinsey, Senior Pollution Policy Officer at the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said: "We have serious concerns about the Ocean Cleanup and its effectiveness. "It seems likely that wildlife will be affected, especially the smaller floating plankton that many creatures depend on and those organisms that passively float in the oceans who won't be able to avoid these arrays. "Also much of this litter is distributed throughout the water column and this may only pick up the surface material." Some of the plastic picked up from The Great Pacific garbage patch during monitoring Credit: The Ocean Cleanup The MCS also warned that the time and energy it takes to collect and return the waste could result in large amounts of greenhouse gases and carbon, and called for organisations to do more to stop litter entering oceans in the first place. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is located between California and Hawaii is the area where plastic rubbish accumulates because of ocean currents, known as gyres which act like a vortex pulling waste into a central channel. It is around three times the size of Spain. Research by the foundation found that, at its peak, the patch contains around 330lbs of plastic per square mile, reducing to 33lbs at the outer edges. The project to clean up the patch is the brainchild of Boyan Slat, a 24 year old Dutch inventor and entrepreneur, who founded the foundation in 2013. Last month the company published its Environmental Impact Assessment and found there was a 'medium' risk to sea turtles who found themselves trapped within the floating tube system. The cleanup system works by using a floating cylinder with a trailing skirt which picks up debris Credit: The Ocean Cleanup A survey of 15 experts by the ecologist and shark researcher David Shiffman of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver also found that it is unlikely that the floating device will clean up a significant amount of plastic without harming wildlife. One in four believed that the entire concept is "a bad idea with little or no redeeming value." Writing on the website Southern Fried Science Dr Shiffman said: "This device is designed to aggregate objects of a certain size to remove them from the water but cannot distinguish between plastic and living things. The captured plastic will be collected by boats and taken to the mainland for processesing Credit: The Ocean Cleanup Commenting in the survey Eben Schwartz, Marine Debris Program Manager, California Coastal Commission, said: "To make the claim, as the Ocean Cleanup Project is, that they will "clean the oceans" by 2040 or whenever, is disingenuous and misleading, when it will, at best, clean a very small percentage of what's found on the surface." However The Ocean Cleanup said that the device moved slowly enough through the water that any animals would easily have time to escape. "Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean," said a spokesman. "The Ocean Cleanup is developing a passive system, that moves with the currents - just like the plastic - to catch it. ""The Ocean Cleanup's passive system is comprised of a floater with an impermeable screen underneath, concentrating the debris before it is extracted by support vessel, while also moving slow enough for sea life to follow the slight downward current as not to be entangled in the system."
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| 5 killed after plane nosedived into California parking lot Posted: 06 Aug 2018 03:40 PM PDT  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — On a breezy morning, Floria Hakimi smiled as her photo was snapped on the steps leading up to a small plane that was supposed to usher her to a workshop for real estate agents in Southern California.
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| Brazil: judge shuts border to Venezuelan migrants fleeing hunger and hardship Posted: 06 Aug 2018 01:59 PM PDT  A judge in Brazil has blocked Venezuelans from entering the border state of Roraima as local authorities harden their stance against the flood of migrants fleeing hunger and hardship in their home country. Judge Helder Barreto said he had suspended the entry of Venezuelan immigrants until the conditions for a "humanitarian reception" are created but activists working with migrants attacked it as "absurd". Sister Telma Lage from the non-profit Migration and Human Rights Institute, which helps vulnerable migrants in Roraima's capital Boa Vista, said the judge had overstepped his authority.
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| Former Trump Campaign Official Rick Gates Admits To Staggering Criminal Activity At Manafort Trial Posted: 07 Aug 2018 02:09 PM PDT  ALEXANDRIA, Va. ― Rick Gates, once a top aide to President Donald Trump's
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| Confessions of an enemy of the people Posted: 06 Aug 2018 06:22 AM PDT  If President Trump's threats against reporters went to the next level -- think Soviet-era show trials -- I imagine it happening something like this.
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| Tesla Gains Nearly $4 Billion After Single Questionable Elon Musk Tweet Posted: 07 Aug 2018 02:40 PM PDT  Tesla stock soared Tuesday afternoon amid rumors that CEO Elon Musk might take
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| Young boy dies 'after mistaking father's meth for cereal' Posted: 06 Aug 2018 02:37 AM PDT  An eight-year-old boy has died in Indiana after reportedly mistaking his father's methamphetamine for breakfast cereal. Curtis Collman III had 180 times the lethal limit of methamphetamine in his blood stream, a toxicology report revealed, according to the Seymore Tribune. The 41-year-old told police his son woke up early on 21 June and said he was hungry, but Collman told him there was no food in the house in Seymour, WDRB reports.
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| Earth risks tipping into 'hothouse' state: study Posted: 06 Aug 2018 12:48 PM PDT  The planet urgently needs to transition to a green economy because fossil fuel pollution risks pushing the Earth into a lasting and dangerous "hothouse" state, researchers warned on Monday. If polar ice continues to melt, forests are slashed and greenhouse gases rise to new highs -- as they currently do each year -- the Earth will pass a tipping point. - What is 'Hothouse Earth'?
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| Eleven children in US rescued from 'extremists' at 'filthy' hideout Posted: 06 Aug 2018 03:05 PM PDT  Five people have been arrested in New Mexico after police raided a remote desert encampment and found 11 children living among potential Muslim extremists in "filthy" conditions. The three women – mothers of the 11 children aged between one and 15 – and two men were all charged with child abuse. One of the men, Siraj Wahhaj, 39, was wanted in his home state of Georgia for questioning over the disappearance of his three-year-old son, Abdul. Both father and son were last seen in December, when Wahhaj told his wife, Hakima Ramzi, that he was taking the boy to the park. The boy's mother told police her child suffered from seizures along with development and cognitive delays. Documents made public in a court filing on Monday said Wahhaj told the boy's mother, before fleeing Georgia, that he wanted to perform an exorcism on the child because he believed he was possessed by the devil. Abdul was unable to walk owing to his disability. Georgia man Siraj Ibn Wahhaj after his arrest Credit: AFP Wahhaj's relatives, including his father, an imam at a mosque in Brooklyn, New York, launched a social media campaign to try and find the missing boy. The toddler was not found in Friday's raid, however, which was months in the making. Police finally went in after the sheriff in Taos, New Mexico, was forwarded a note from someone on the property, given to Georgia police, which read: "we are starving and need food and water." Jerry Hogrefe, sheriff of Taos County, said: "I absolutely knew that we couldn't wait on another agency to step up, and we had to go check this out as soon as possible." The sheriff described planning "a tactical approach for our own safety because we had learned the occupants were most likely heavily armed and considered extremist of the Muslim belief." Relatives' social media accounts show the Wahhaj family to be devout, but with no evidence of extremist beliefs. A view of the compound in Amalia, New Mexico, where police rescued 11 children and arrested two armed "extremists" Credit: AFP Mr Hogrefe and his men were met by Wahhaj and his colleague, Lucas Morten, who were armed with an AR-15 rifle, five loaded 30-round magazines and four loaded pistols, including one in Wahhaj's pocket. The men at first refused to follow verbal direction, police said, during Friday's day-long operation. The women - Jany Leveille, 35, Wahhaj's second wife; Hujrah Wahhaj, 38; and Subhannah Wahhaj, a 35-year-old author of Muslim self-help books – gave themselves up. Subhannah Wahhaj is married to Morten, a relative told The Telegraph. The compound in Amalia, New Mexico Credit: AP When officials finally entered the makeshift compound, in remote northern New Mexico, they found what one officer called "the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen". Mr Hogrefe told ABC News the children were hungry, thirsty and filthy. "I've been a cop for 30 years. I've never seen anything like this. Unbelievable," he said. Police described the compound as a small underground trailer covered by plastic, with no running water or electricity "They were skinny, their ribs showed, they were in very poor hygiene and very scared," he said. Police described the compound as a small underground trailer covered by plastic, with no running water or electricity Credit: AP All five adults were held in detention in Taos, charged on Sunday with child abuse. The children were taken away for medical tests. Mr Hogrefe said authorities have reason to believe the boy was at the compound several weeks ago, and they were continuing their search for him. Morten was additionally charged with harbouring a fugitive and Wahhaj was booked without bond on his Georgia warrant for child abduction. Sherry Jarrell, an occupational therapist who lives on a 70-acre property not far from where the arrests were made on Friday said the area is beautiful, but residents don't always know who their neighbours are. "It's a great place," she told Taos News. "But strange people live out on the mesa. People that are trying to get away from things."
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| Israeli fire kills 2 Hamas militants in Gaza Posted: 07 Aug 2018 08:14 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Tuesday it struck a Hamas military post in the Gaza Strip in response to militant fire at Israeli troops, while Hamas said two of its fighters were killed after taking part in a gunfire parade inside a militant camp.
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| Ai Weiwei Says Chinese Government Has Demolished His Beijing Studio Posted: 06 Aug 2018 01:13 AM PDT  Chinese authorities began demolishing one of Ai Weiwei's Beijing studios
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| Iran eases currency rules, hoping to buoy rial ahead of sanctions Posted: 05 Aug 2018 06:19 PM PDT ![Iran eases currency rules, hoping to buoy rial ahead of sanctions]( "Iran eases currency rules, hoping to buoy rial ahead of sanctions") By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran will ease foreign exchange rules, state TV reported on Sunday, in a bid to halt a collapse of the rial currency that has lost half its value since April due to fears about U.S. sanctions likely to be imposed this week. President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of an agreement to lift sanctions in return for Iran curbing its nuclear program caused a run on the rial as companies and savers bought hard currency to protect themselves from the looming economic sanctions. The central bank has blamed "enemies" for the fall of the currency, and the judiciary said 29 people had been arrested on charges that carry the death penalty.
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| Beachgoers Stunned After Dead Baby Blue Whale Washes Up On Japan Shores Posted: 06 Aug 2018 03:41 PM PDT  A dead baby blue whale washed up on the shores of Japan on Sunday, about 40
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| Infowars Reporter Gets Slammed After Claiming Facebook Isn't Privately Owned Posted: 07 Aug 2018 03:12 PM PDT  Now that Alex Jones and his Infowars accounts have been dropped by YouTube,
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| Twin blazes form California's largest ever wildfire Posted: 07 Aug 2018 01:32 AM PDT  Two fires mercilessly roaring through northern California have grown so rapidly that they are now the largest ever to ravage the state, authorities said. Collectively dubbed the Mendocino Complex, the wildfires have burned through 283,800 acres (114,850 hectares) -- an area nearly the size of the sprawling city of Los Angeles -- and are just 30 percent contained, according to state fire authority CalFire.
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| Iraq sentences German and French Isil members to life in prison Posted: 06 Aug 2018 06:05 AM PDT  An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced a French man and a German woman to life in prison in the latest punishments handed down for belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group. Frenchman Lahcen Gueboudj, 58, and a German woman whose name was given only as Nadia were sentenced separately at the Baghdad central criminal court. Nadia's mother, a German woman of Moroccan origin, was sentenced to death in January for Isil membership but the sentence was later commuted to life, which in Iraq is equivalent to 20 years. The mother and daughter were arrested in July 2017 in Mosul, the jihadists' former de-facto capital in Iraq where the government declared victory over Isil in December last year. Neekor Israel Abdul Karim, 28, from Uzbekistan is convicted of joining Isil in Baghdad Central Criminal Court, on April 25 Credit: Sam Tarling for The Telegraph Wearing a black abaya in court, Nadia said she travelled from Syria to Iraq "to run away from the people of IS". Speaking in German with a few Arabic words, she said she travelled to Syria from Turkey with her mother, her daughter Yamana and her mentally disabled sister who was killed in a bombardment. Nadia's lawyer stressed that she was a minor at the time and that her marriage to an Isil jihadist in Syria was "not a decision taken by an adult in full conscience". The French defendant, meanwhile, refuted statements made during his interrogations. "I signed confessions in Arabic without knowing what was written," said Gueboudj, with short grey hair and stubble, wearing a brown prison uniform. "I would never have left France, if my eldest son Nabil, 25-years-old, hadn't gone to Syria," he said in French. "I wanted to convince him to return with us to France," added Gueboudj. The French citizen had travelled with his wife and children to Turkey before entering Syria, and later being arrested in Iraq.
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| Details of deals between US-backed coalition, Yemen al-Qaida Posted: 05 Aug 2018 11:25 PM PDT  SHABWA, Yemen (AP) — The U.S.-backed coalition's string of secret deals with al-Qaida to withdraw from areas the militants controlled in southern Yemen focused on three main areas — the city of Mukalla and the provinces of Abyan and Shabwa, an Associated Press investigation found.
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| Walmart employee steps in when nail salon turns away woman with cerebral palsy Posted: 06 Aug 2018 11:01 AM PDT  A Walmart cashier stepped in to help pamper a woman with cerebral palsy who was turned away from a nail salon in Michigan.
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| Donald Trump says rest of world must choose between trade with US or Iran Posted: 07 Aug 2018 04:18 AM PDT  European companies should still be able to trade with Iran despite new US sanctions, according to minister of state for the Middle East, Alaistair Burt. Donald Trump tweeted "anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States". The EU has launched a "blocking statute", designed to allow companies within the bloc to sue the Trump administration, if they are adversely affected by US sanctions, and has encouraged member states to continue trading with Tehran.
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| Mendocino Complex becomes largest wildfire in California history - state officials Posted: 06 Aug 2018 08:12 PM PDT  (Reuters) - The Mendocino Complex became the largest wildfire in California state history on Monday as it raged at the southern tip of the Mendocino National Forest, state wildfire officials said. The Mendocino Complex Fire, made up of two separate conflagrations that merged, has burned 283,800 acres (114,800 hectares) and was still growing, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.
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| Germany jails couple for pimping young son online Posted: 07 Aug 2018 03:51 AM PDT  A German court handed down lengthy jail sentences Tuesday to a couple for repeatedly sexually abusing their young son and selling him to paedophiles online, in a shocking case that raised pointed questions about the competence of child protection services. Following a criminal probe that even seasoned investigators said pushed them to the emotional limit, the regional court in Freiburg sentenced the boy's mother, Berrin Taha, to 12 and a half years in prison.
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| Venezuela Detains 6 Suspects Over a Failed Drone Attack Aimed at President Maduro Posted: 05 Aug 2018 07:33 PM PDT  Explosives-laden drones were allegedly used in a failed assassination attempt
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| 11 Impressive Questions To Ask At The End Of Every Job Interview Posted: 06 Aug 2018 04:23 PM PDT  No matter how prepared you are, a job interview is a nerve-wracking
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| Man Who Lost Limbs After He Was Licked by Dog Says He's Happy to Be Alive Posted: 07 Aug 2018 07:36 AM PDT  Greg Manteufel has been left disfigured by the ordeal as well.
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