| Trump Speculates About His Impeachment During Rally: 'If It Does Happen, It's Your Fault' Posted: 06 Sep 2018 07:54 PM PDT  President Donald Trump went on a bizarre tangent during a rally Thursday night
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| At Kavanaugh hearing, Cory Booker tells Republicans threatening his expulsion to 'bring it' Posted: 06 Sep 2018 09:07 AM PDT  Brett Kavanaugh's hearing turned into a fight over Senate rules, with arguments about documents and threats of expulsion.
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| Crews battle for 3rd day to outflank Northern California wildfire Posted: 07 Sep 2018 02:16 PM PDT  A fierce wildfire that has forced the closure of an interstate highway in Northern California raged for a third day on Friday through explosively dry mountain timber in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, as crews battled to outflank the flames. The Delta Fire has scorched nearly 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) in the Cascade range since erupting on Wednesday in a forest canyon along the Sacramento River, about 250 miles (402 km) north of San Francisco, fire officials said. The underbrush is being removed with a combination of bulldozers and hand tools, as well as controlled burning operations, said Captain Brandon Vaccaro, a spokesman for the Delta fire incident command.
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| Off-Duty Texas Cop Enters Wrong Apartment, Kills Man Inside: Police Posted: 07 Sep 2018 01:52 PM PDT  A Dallas police officer who entered the wrong apartment, having allegedly
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| Former Trump administration staffer talks anonymous op-ed Posted: 06 Sep 2018 01:32 PM PDT  Fmr. Trump administration homeland security adviser Tom Bossert says the executive branch staffer who wrote an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times should "quit or identify themselves, or both."
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| Deadly shooting in the heart of Cincinnati Posted: 06 Sep 2018 10:48 AM PDT ![Deadly shooting in the heart of Cincinnati]( "Deadly shooting in the heart of Cincinnati") A gunman opened fire Thursday morning in a building in the heart of Cincinnati in an attack that left him and three other people dead, police said.
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| Firefighter Adopts German Shepherd He Rescued From California Wildfires Posted: 06 Sep 2018 01:01 PM PDT  He later named the pup Mendo, after Mendocino County, where he was found.
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| Court scraps multi-billion-dollar Ecuador damages against Chevron Posted: 07 Sep 2018 10:25 AM PDT  An appeals court in The Hague cancelled $9.5 billion in damages handed down by an Ecuadoran court against American energy giant Chevron for causing oil pollution in the Amazon jungle, Ecuador's public prosecutor said Friday. The original ruling dates back to 2011 and was twice upheld on appeal in Ecuador, but Chevron took its protest to The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration, claiming it had already been exonerated of any wrongdoing.
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| John Kelly’s vigilante White House Posted: 06 Sep 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Trump's aides say it's their duty to protect the president from himself, even if that means stealing papers off his desk.
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| Progressive Groups To Dems: Go Around Chuck Grassley And Release Kavanaugh Records Posted: 05 Sep 2018 08:03 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Progressive groups are urging Democratic senators to take a new
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| Abandoned Trucks Litter California Highway as Wildfire Rages Posted: 06 Sep 2018 02:42 AM PDT  The Delta Fire erupted Wednesday afternoon and within hours had devoured nearly 8 square miles
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| Who Wrote The Anonymous Op-Ed? We Polled Anonymous New York Times Employees. Posted: 06 Sep 2018 02:21 PM PDT  If you've been awake at all over the past 24 hours, you've likely heard that
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| High-stakes diplomacy as battle for Syria's Idlib looms Posted: 07 Sep 2018 03:42 PM PDT  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran and Russia on Friday backed a military campaign to retake the last rebel-held stronghold in Syria as Turkey pleaded for a cease-fire, narrowing the chances of a diplomatic solution to avoid what many say would be a bloody humanitarian disaster.
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| US cop walks into apartment she thought was hers, kills man Posted: 07 Sep 2018 03:07 PM PDT  While still in uniform, she told authorities she mistakenly walked into the apartment belonging to Botham Shem Jean in an upscale complex near downtown Dallas. "I need answers for my baby brother," Allisa Charles-Findley said.
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| Who wrote the Times op-ed? 'Not me,' top White House officials say Posted: 06 Sep 2018 09:07 AM PDT  Senior Trump administration officials scramble to take themselves off the list of suspects.
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| Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Hearings Have Been Shrouded In Secrecy Posted: 06 Sep 2018 08:50 PM PDT  From the outset of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings,
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| Couple who cared for murdered toddler says foster system failed him Posted: 07 Sep 2018 06:14 AM PDT  "He wasn't just the boy on the Amber Alert. He learned to roll over in our house." The couple that fostered Jordan before he died says the system failed him.
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| The Latest: California highway closed by fire for 3rd day Posted: 07 Sep 2018 07:32 AM PDT  SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires in California (all times local):
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| U.S. has seen evidence of Syria preparing chemical weapons in Idlib: envoy Posted: 06 Sep 2018 05:11 PM PDT  "I am very sure that we have very, very good grounds to be making these warnings," said Jim Jeffrey, who was named on Aug. 17 as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's special adviser on Syria overseeing talks on a political transition in that country. "Any offensive is to us objectionable as a reckless escalation," Jeffrey told a few reporters in his first interview on the situation in Syria since his appointment. "There is lots of evidence that chemical weapons are being prepared." The White House has warned that the United States and its allies would respond "swiftly and vigorously" if government forces used chemical weapons in the widely expected offensive.
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| Arizona Cardinals Pick Cindy McCain As Honorary Captain For Season Opener Against Washington Posted: 07 Sep 2018 02:56 PM PDT  Cindy McCain is the latest member of her family to get the tribute treatment
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| Jared Kushner's Awkward Wait Outside A Locked Door Becomes Perfect 'Veep' Spoof Posted: 07 Sep 2018 04:06 AM PDT  Jared Kushner was caught on camera awkwardly waiting for almost two minutes to
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| Couple Who Allegedly Spent Money Raised for Homeless Man Lose New BMW in Police Raid Posted: 06 Sep 2018 09:14 AM PDT  Johnny Bobbitt's lawyer has said that all the money is gone.
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| Putin 'ultimately' responsible for spy poisoning: UK security minister Posted: 06 Sep 2018 01:12 AM PDT  British Security Minister Ben Wallace said Russian President Vladimir Putin had "ultimate" responsibility for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent in England.
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| Donald Trump Criticizes Sean Hannity At Rally Like A Best Bud Would Posted: 07 Sep 2018 04:24 AM PDT  Even President Donald Trump's cozy relationship with Fox News' Sean Hannity
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| North and South Korean leaders to meet for third summit despite stalemate with US Posted: 05 Sep 2018 10:42 PM PDT  Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, will travel to Pyongyang on September 18 for a three-day summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, his top aides confirmed on Thursday. The announcement followed the hand delivery of a letter from Mr Moon to Kim by Chung Eui-yong, South Korea's national security advisor, and spy chief Suh Hoon, who visited the North Korean capital on Wednesday. The summit, the third between the two leaders since April, and the first time a leader from the South has visited the North in more than a decade, comes despite a stalemate between Washington and Pyongyang over the progress of disarmament talks. Pyongyang wants the US to agree to formally end the Korean War, which concluded in 1953 with an armistice, not a peace deal, and reiterated its demand on its foreign ministry website this week. Washington wants Kim to disclose his nuclear and missiles programmes and assets, and cancelled a planned trip to Pyongyang by Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, late last month. With neither side willing to make the first move, Mr Moon has once again been cast in the role of mediator, with hopes pinned on the South Korean leader to reignite the faltering talks. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met earlier this year with Kim Jong-un but his Pyongyang trip last month was cancelled Credit: KCNA/Reuters But with the fragile US-North Korean détente on the verge of cracking, analysts have warned against unguarded optimism over the upcoming Pyongyang summit. "This is a protracted process but the rug can be pulled out from under it at almost any time," Patrick Cronin, senior director at the Washington-based Centre for a New American Security, told The Telegraph. He predicted the meeting would produce little progress towards breaking the deadlock with Washington. "It means that South Korea is putting pressure on the US to take modest steps on denuclearisation to prevent a collapse in the diplomatic process. And it means North Korea can further erode sanctions but not yet win major investment," he said. In a press briefing on Thursday, Mr Chung said the September 18-20 inter-Korean summit would review the deal reached by the two leaders in the border village of Panmunjom in April "to establish lasting peace and joint prosperity on the Korean Peninsula" and to find practical ways to "realise denuclearisation." Mr Chung, who met personally with Kim on Wednesday, said he had reconfirmed his "determination to completely denuclearise the Korean Peninsula and expressed his willingness to closely cooperate with not only South Korea but also the United States to that end." He said Kim's trust in Donald Trump, the US president, remained "unchanged." The North Korean leader has asked the South Koreans to deliver a message to him. Mr Chung's assertions were backed by a statement released by state-run North Korean newswire KCNA that Kim aimed "to completely remove the danger of armed conflict and horror of war from the Korean peninsula and turn it into a cradle of peace without nuclear weapons and free from nuclear threat." The report added that Kim appreciated the "fresh advance in relations between North and South" and was "pleased" with cross-border contacts, including the recent reunions between divided families. The two countries are also expected to open a joint liaison office in the border town of Kaesong ahead of their next round of talks. Experts continue to warn, however, that Kim's language remains consistently vague and non-committal on giving up his nuclear weapons. "Kim is NOT offering to unilaterally disarm, and no language of "complete" let alone "verifiable", despite some headlines getting over their skis.." tweeted Vipin Narang, associate professor of political science at MIT. In an earlier interview with The Telegraph, Mr Narang suggested the US should adjust its expectations over denuclearisation. "We are pushing on the wrong door with unilateral disarmament. It isn't going to happen so long as Kim is in power. We should be pushing on arms control and restraint, encouraging North Korea to be a responsible nuclear power instead," he said.
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| Japan's Kansai airport to reopen partially after typhoon damage Posted: 06 Sep 2018 03:00 AM PDT  "Domestic flights in the Kansai international airport will resume tomorrow, and international flights are set to resume operation as soon as preparation work is done," government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said. The airport, in Japan's western Osaka region, was battered by typhoon Jebi, which made landfall Tuesday as the strongest storm to hit Japan since 1993. Airport CEO Yoshiyuki Yamaya said Thursday that virtually all those stranded had now been evacuated and work was ongoing to resume normal operation.
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| Elon Musk smokes cannabis during interview with Joe Rogan, before imagining what it's like to be a horse Posted: 07 Sep 2018 04:12 AM PDT  Elon Musk has smoked cannabis during a live two-and-a-half hour interview in California with comedian Joe Rogan. Towards the end of the conversation, which covered everything from Musk's infamous flamethrowers to plans for an electric plane, the Tesla founder appeared surprised when Rogan took a joint out of a glass vial. "Is that a joint, or is it a cigar?" Musk asks after Rogan begins smoking.
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| Russia and Turkey Will Collide Over End of Syrian Civil War Posted: 06 Sep 2018 01:40 PM PDT  This is Washington's chance to repair ties with Ankara to counter Moscow and Damascus.
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| Man falls to his death in Yosemite National Park Posted: 06 Sep 2018 11:23 AM PDT  An investigation is underway in Yosemite National Park after a visitor died.
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| Fox News Analyst Goes Off-Script: Trump Lacks 'The Temperament' To Be President Posted: 07 Sep 2018 12:54 AM PDT  Fox News is President Donald Trump's favorite network, thanks to its largely
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| 5 takeaways: Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing Posted: 06 Sep 2018 10:52 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, is finishing two marathon days of questioning from senators. Some referred to it as the "last job interview" the 53-year-old appeals court judge will ever have, if, as expected, he's confirmed for the lifetime post.
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| Can the pope's accusers force him to resign? Posted: 07 Sep 2018 05:22 AM PDT  In 2013, Francis's predecessor, Benedict, became the first pontiff in six centuries to resign. Benedict, then 85, abdicated because he said he no longer had the strength to run the Church. HOW DID THE VATICAN AND THE POPE GET TO THIS POINT?
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| Ford Recalls 1.6 Million F-150 Pickups for Fire Risk Posted: 06 Sep 2018 12:01 PM PDT  Ford is recalling 1,619,112 Ford F-150 Regular Cab and SuperCrew Cab pickup trucks, from model years 2015-2018, because of a fire risk. The company says that seat belt pretensioners can create "e...
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| Russia, Turkey, Iran discussed 'phased stabilisation' in Syria's Idlib: Putin Posted: 07 Sep 2018 07:07 AM PDT  Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran on Friday discussed a step-by-step "stabilisation" in Syria's Idlib, with a possibility of peace with some rebel groups, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after the talks. "We have discussed concrete measures regarding a phased stabilisation in the Idlib de-escalation zone, which stipulate... a possibility of making peace for those ready for dialogue," Putin said after the summit in Tehran to discuss the fate of Syria's last rebel bastion.
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| This Porsche 911 Is Powered by an 8.2-Liter Cadillac V8 Posted: 06 Sep 2018 07:41 AM PDT  And it looks almost completely stock. Until you open the engine cover.
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| The Trump Administration Plans To Detain More Children And For Longer Posted: 06 Sep 2018 09:02 PM PDT  The Trump administration said Thursday that it plans to withdraw from a court
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| Taylor Smith Pleads Not Guilty to Reckless Endangerment After Pushing Friend Off 60-Foot Bridge Posted: 07 Sep 2018 11:56 AM PDT  'All I can do is hope for the best,' the teen has said.
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| That New York Times Op-Ed Is Propaganda Disguised As Resistance Posted: 06 Sep 2018 10:48 AM PDT  Speculation has exploded about the identity of the anonymous senior official
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| Chicago's next mayor will be leading a deeply divided city Posted: 06 Sep 2018 06:25 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — The next mayor of Chicago will take over a city that is deeply divided by race and class, a decadeslong problem that critics say only grew more pronounced during Mayor Rahm Emanuel's two terms in office.
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| Tesla shares reel as executives quit and CEO smokes pot on webcast Posted: 07 Sep 2018 04:36 PM PDT  Shares of the electric carmaker tumbled more than 6 percent on Friday to $263.24, with investors on edge after a tumultuous August during which Musk proposed and then abruptly pulled the plug on a go-private deal. Chief Accounting Officer Dave Morton resigned after just one month in the job because of discomfort with the attention on the company and pace of work during that time, Tesla said in a filing on Friday. Later on Friday, Tesla named a new president of automotive operations, promoting eight-year Tesla employee and former Daimler truck exec Jerome Guillen into the role overseeing all automotive operations and reporting to Musk.
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