| 'We're supposed to stand up to bullies': Obama delivers stinging rebuke of Trump presidency Posted: 07 Sep 2018 10:46 AM PDT  Former President Barack Obama on Friday delivered his sharpest rebuke of President Trump since leaving office.
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| GoFundMe Vows To Give Homeless Vet $400,000 He's Owed From Campaign Posted: 06 Sep 2018 09:34 PM PDT  Johnny Bobbitt, the homeless veteran who used his last $20 to help a stranded
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| Japan toll rises to 35 after powerful quake Posted: 08 Sep 2018 02:38 AM PDT  The death toll from a powerful quake that triggered landslides in northern Japan rose to 35 Saturday, as tens of thousands of rescue workers raked through the mud for survivors. The majority of the dead are from the small rural town of Atsuma, where a cluster of dwellings were wrecked when a hillside collapsed from the force of the 6.6-magnitude quake, causing deep brown scars in the landscape. "We never had landslides here," said Akira Matsushita who lost his brother in Atsuma.
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| Passengers fall ill on two flights from Europe to Philadelphia Posted: 06 Sep 2018 06:12 PM PDT  All 250 people on separate American Airlines flights from Munich and Paris were "held for a medical review" as a precaution, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was notified, Philadelphia International Airport spokeswoman Diane Gerace said. Flight 717 from Munich and Flight 755 from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris both arrived in Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon, she said.
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| Surveillance video shows moment missing teen returns home: Part 6 Posted: 07 Sep 2018 05:29 PM PDT  Abby Hernandez wants everyone to know that her painful past will not define her: "Just don't lose hope."
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| Chevrolet's Colorado ZR2 Bison Is Ready to Take on the Ford Ranger Raptor Posted: 07 Sep 2018 07:25 AM PDT  Rock-resistant upgrades for Chevy's butch midsize pickup.
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| The House Frank Lloyd Wright Designed for His Son Is For Sale Posted: 07 Sep 2018 11:10 AM PDT |
| Photos of the week: 8/31 - 9/7 Posted: 07 Sep 2018 01:00 PM PDT  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings began this week.
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| Trump Calls On Jeff Sessions To Investigate New York Times Op-Ed Posted: 07 Sep 2018 11:04 AM PDT  President Donald Trump called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate
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| Tucker Carlson Has No Idea How Diversity Strengthens America Posted: 07 Sep 2018 10:00 PM PDT  Fox News host Tucker Carlson sees absolutely no benefit to diversity.
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| Officer Who Killed Neighbor After Allegedly Mistaking His Apartment for Her Own Will Be Charged Posted: 08 Sep 2018 07:18 AM PDT  Police said it's not clear what prompted the shooting.
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| Serbia's Vucic says long road ahead in talks with Kosovo Posted: 08 Sep 2018 10:00 AM PDT  Expectations of an agreement that would involve a land swap, a proposal floated by both Belgrade and Pristina, dimmed after a face-to-face meeting between Vucic and his Kosovo counterpart, Hashim Thaci, was abruptly canceled on Friday. "I will do my best (to reach the agreement), but it is a long road full of thorns and problems ahead," Vucic told reporters during a visit to the Gazivoda Lake dam, control of which is a hot topic between Belgrade and Pristina. Part of the artificial Gazivoda Lake -- key for supplying water to some Kosovo municipalities including parts of Pristina -- is located in Serbia, where the source of its water lies.
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| Japan resilient, but climate change making disasters worse: experts Posted: 07 Sep 2018 02:40 AM PDT  Record typhoons, biblical floods, heatwaves, landslides and earthquakes: this summer, Japan really has seen it all and images of the destruction caused have been beamed around the world. More than 220 died in floods in July mainly because "less than one percent of people affected by local evacuation recommendations actually went to the shelters, thinking that there would not be a problem," notes Jean-Francois Heimburger, an expert on natural disasters in the country. Unlike in other countries, even the highest levels of evacuation orders in Japan are not compulsory and the vast majority of people ignore them.
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| Brazil's far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro stabbed during campaign event Posted: 06 Sep 2018 09:05 PM PDT  Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's front-running far-right presidential candidate, underwent emergency surgery on Thursday after he was stabbed during a campaign event. The 63-year-old lawmaker has "a wound in the abdomen that has been caused by a sharp instrument," said the Santa Casa hospital in the southeastern city of Juiz de Fora, describing his condition as "stable." In a press conference after the surgery, doctors said the lawmaker had "three serious bowel perforations" that caused internal bleeding, adding that they had performed a colostomy and he was now stable. Earlier, one of the candidate's sons, Flavio Bolsonaro, had announced on Twitter that his father's wounds were "superficial", but he later wrote: "Unfortunately, it's more serious than we thought." "The perforation reached part of his liver, lung and intestine," Flavio Bolsonaro wrote. "He lost a lot of blood, arrived at the hospital ... almost dead. He appears to have stabilised now. Please pray!" Jair Bolsonaro gestures after being stabbed in the stomach during a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora Credit: RAYSA LEITE/AFP Later, he said outside the hospital where his father was treated that he was conscious and the attack was a political boost. "I just want to send a message to the thugs who tried to ruin the life of a family man, a guy who is the hope for millions of Brazilians: You just elected him president. He will win in the first round," said Flavio Bolsonaro. Images shared on social media and Brazilian television showed Mr Bolsonaro being carried on the shoulders of a throng of supporters, before a man lunges at his stomach. A military police spokesman told AFP a 40-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the assault. The suspect was carrying a knife wrapped in fabric, the spokesman said. The suspect was a former activist of a far-left political party. Social media footage showed the apparent attacker being grabbed by several Bolsonaro supporters before the video cuts out. In this video still provided by Fernando Goncalves, National Social Liberal Party presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is carried away after being stabbed Credit: AP Sometimes described as Brazil's Donald Trump, Mr Bolsonaro has a huge social media following of 8.5 million people. The attack pushes an already chaotic campaign into further disarray. Dr. Luiz Henrique Borsato, who operated on the candidate, said it could take two months for him to fully recover and he will spend at least a week in the hospital. "His internal wounds were grave and put the patient's life at risk," Dr Borsato said, adding that a serious challenge now would be preventing an infection that could be caused by the perforation of Bolsonaro's intestines. Bolsonaro, who has spent nearly three decades in Congress, is a law-and-order candidate who routinely says that Brazilian police should kill suspected drug traffickers and other criminals at will. His trademark pose at rallies is a "guns up" gesture with both hands to make them resemble pistols. Jair Bolsonaro: Hard-Right frontrunner dubbed 'Trump of the Tropics' He has openly praised Brazil's military dictatorship and in the past said it should have killed more people. Mr Bolsonaro faces trial before the Supreme Court for speech that prosecutors said incited hate and rape. He has called the charges politically motivated. President Michel Temer quickly condemned the attack and instructed his Minister of Security Raul Jungmann to reinforce security for candidates and conduct "a rigorous investigation," a spokesman for the presidency told AFP. "It is intolerable to see that in a democratic state it is not possible to have a normal campaign," Mr Temer said. Jair Bolsonaro is taken on the shoulders of a supporter moments before being stabbed Credit: Antonio Scorza Fernando Haddad, who will likely be the leftist Workers Party presidential candidate, said the stabbing was a "shame" and a "horror." Presidential rival Ciro Gomes also expressed outrage at the political violence. A few people gathered outside the hospital where Mr Bolsonaro was treated Thursday night where the scene was calm. Bruno Engler, 21, who is running for a Minas Gerais state congressional seat for Mr Bolsonaro's Social Liberal Party, was pacing outside the hospital with a few other Bolsonaro supporters. He said if he could, he would lynch the suspect police have in custody. "They call us on the right the intolerant, the violent ones, but those who are intolerant and violent are them," Engler said, referring to leftist voters. Brazilian President Michel Temer Credit: EVARISTO SA/AFP Next month's election is the most unpredictable since Brazil's return to democracy three decades ago. Political corruption investigations have jailed scores of powerful businessmen, politicians and alienated voters who are infuriated with their representatives. With jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ruled out of the October 7 election, the latest polls from the Ibope Institute put Mr Bolsonaro in a clear lead with 22 percent compared with 12 percent each for environmentalist Marina Silva and center-left runner Ciro Gomes. Under Brazilian campaign laws, Mr Bolsonaro's tiny coalition has almost no campaign time on government-regulated candidate ad blocs on TV and radio. That means he relies deeply on social media and raucous rallies around the country to drum up support. If Mr Bolsonaro is not able to go out in the streets, it could jeopardise his campaign.
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| Factbox: Tesla executive departures since 2016 Posted: 07 Sep 2018 07:32 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Electric carmaker Tesla Inc has seen a flurry of senior executive exits in recent months.
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| The Latest: Syria says it's committed to 'liberate' Idlib Posted: 07 Sep 2018 12:59 PM PDT  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on Syria talks in Iran (all times local):
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| Susan Collins Receives 3,000 Coat Hangers Ahead Of Kavanaugh Vote Posted: 08 Sep 2018 04:00 PM PDT  As a reminder of what could be at stake if President Donald Trump's latest
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| 3 hospitalized after overdosing at Glendale home; fentanyl discovered at scene Posted: 07 Sep 2018 10:22 AM PDT  Three men were hospitalized after they overdosed at a home in Glendale. Fentanyl was discovered at the scene.
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| Chris Watts Case: Shanann Watts' Brother Details Family Heartache as He Thanks Well-Wishers Posted: 07 Sep 2018 09:18 AM PDT  Frankie Rzucek shared a heartfelt message of thanks for those who have supported his family.
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| The 88 Most Delish S'mores Ideas Posted: 07 Sep 2018 02:39 PM PDT |
| Power restored in most of Japan's quake-hit Hokkaido; Toyota plants to shut Posted: 07 Sep 2018 09:15 PM PDT  Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the confirmed death toll was 21, with six people in cardiopulmonary arrest - a term used in Japan to describe a victim's condition before death is officially confirmed - and 13 people were missing. The earthquake triggered landslides that buried houses and paralyzed Hokkaido with widespread power and transport cuts, the latest natural disaster to hit Japan after typhoons, floods and deadly heat waves in the past two months. Toyota Motor said it would suspend work at the 16 plants on Monday due to the shutdown of its transmission factory in Tomakomai in Hokkaido following the quake.
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| Cincinnati victims didn't have any known links to gunman Posted: 08 Sep 2018 01:18 PM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — The three people shot and killed in the lobby of a Cincinnati office building didn't have any apparent connection to the gunman.
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| Read More Updates From Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Hearing Posted: 07 Sep 2018 06:38 AM PDT  Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing continues Friday,
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| China's J-20 Stealth Fighter Has a Fatal Flaw (That Might Soon Be Fixed) Posted: 08 Sep 2018 04:00 AM PDT  Those pesky engines.
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| Pope urges bishops to fight abuse, clerical culture behind it Posted: 08 Sep 2018 08:08 AM PDT  Pope Francis on Saturday urged newly-ordained bishops to fight abuse and reject what he termed the "clerical" culture which has seen a series of sex abuse scandals rock the Catholic Church. Just say no to abuse, of power, conscience or any type means saying no forcefully to all forms of clericalism," the Argentinian pontiff told 74 new bishops, the bulk hailing from Africa. The group were attending a two-week seminar on how to lead their respective dioceses as the Church attempts to react to paedophilia scandals which have left the Vatican reeling and the pope accused of being party to a high-level cover-up.
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| 18-Year-Old Plunges to His Death While Taking Selfie at Yosemite National Park Posted: 07 Sep 2018 06:25 AM PDT  Officials ruled his death an accident.
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| Chile prosecutors question bishop in clerical abuse scandal Posted: 06 Sep 2018 09:08 PM PDT  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Prosecutors questioned Roman Catholic bishop emeritus Juan Barros as part of an investigation into sex abuse allegations against a former Chilean military chaplain.
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| Tweeters Stir Over Donald Trump's Claim He 'Fell Asleep' To Barack Obama's Speech Posted: 08 Sep 2018 01:54 AM PDT  People online mocked President Donald Trump after he joked about falling
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| A Dutch Teenager Had a Dream to Clean Up the World's Oceans. 7 Years On, It's Coming True Posted: 07 Sep 2018 08:40 AM PDT  "We're turning the tide."
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| Nail biting habit allegedly causes skin cancer Posted: 07 Sep 2018 08:32 AM PDT  A 20-year-old Australian woman has to have her thumb amputated after her nail biting habit causes a rare form of skin cancer.
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| NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week Posted: 07 Sep 2018 02:40 PM PDT  A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue headlines of the week. None of these stories is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out. Here are the real facts:
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| Yemen's Houthis want U.N. guarantees for delegation as peace talks in Geneva stall Posted: 07 Sep 2018 12:13 PM PDT  U.N.-brokered talks to end Yemen's three-year war were meant to begin on Sept. 6, but only representatives of the Yemeni government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi turned up as the Houthis insisted their plane to Geneva be allowed to evacuate dozens of injured people to neighboring Oman. "The United Nations is now facing a choice where it should prove that it refuses the violation of the international and humanitarian law .... not allowing the Omani plane to take the delegation and the wounded is a flagrant violation," a Houthi leader, Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, said late on Friday on Twitter. Houthi said his group also wanted guarantees that their plane supplied by Oman would not have to stop in Djibouti for inspection in both directions, after being "sequestrated" there by the Saudi-led military coalition last time for months.
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| Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma announces plans to retire at 54 Posted: 07 Sep 2018 11:51 PM PDT  Alibaba's charismatic co-founder and chairman Jack Ma plans to retire from the Chinese e-commerce giant on Monday to devote his time to philanthropy focused on education, he told the New York Times in an interview. Ma was an English teacher before starting Alibaba in 1999 and built it into a multibillion-dollar internet colossus, becoming one of the world's richest men and a revered figure in his homeland. Ma told The New York Times that he plans to step down from the company on Monday -- his 54th birthday -- referring to his departure as "the beginning of an era" rather than an end.
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| Correction: Shootings-Cincinnati story Posted: 08 Sep 2018 10:35 AM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — In a story Sept. 7 about shootings in Cincinnati, The Associated Press misspelled the name of one of the victims based on previous information released by a coroner. It is Prudhvi Kandepi, not Pruthvi.
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| Britain's Brexit trade deal with Beijing put at risk by South China Sea 'provocation', state media warns Posted: 06 Sep 2018 10:30 PM PDT  China yesterday warned the UK it had jeopardised post-Brexit relations by sailing a British warship close to islands in the South China Sea claimed by Beijing last week. Britain has been working to boost trade with the world's second-largest economy as Brexit looms, talking up a "golden era" in ties. The two nations agreed last month to look at the possibility of a post-Brexit free trade deal that, if struck, would be a key achievement for Prime Minister Theresa May. "What the British side did is wrong," said Chinese Foreign MInistry spokeswoman Hua Chunying in a daily press briefing. "It will have a negative impact on the development of China-UK relations." Chinese state media specifically cautioned that a post-Brexit trade deal was at stake. "China and the UK had agreed to actively explore the possibility of discussing a free trade agreement after Brexit, but any act that harms China's core interests will only put a spanner in the works," said an English-language editorial in state-run newspaper China Daily. "But by trying to revive the 'special relationship' in this way now it is no longer the gateway to continental Europe, the UK risks losing more than it can gain," said the editorial. British Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox, left, meets Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing last month Credit: Reuters Warship HMS Albion, a 22,000 ton amphibious warship carrying a contingent of Royal Marines passed by the Paracel Islands on Aug. 31, where it was confronted by the Chinese military. The Albion was on its way to Ho Chi Minh City where it docked Monday after a deployment in and around Japan. The Paracels have long been disputed and were the site of a major naval battle in the 1970s between China and Vietnam, after which Beijing claimed sovereignty. The group of more than 30 islands in the South China Sea are now occupied entirely by China though Beijing's claims remain contested by Vietnam and Taiwan. China has laid claim to other groups of disputed islands in the South China Sea, where roughly $3 trillion in trade pass through each year. Q&A | South China Sea dispute Britain's decision to send a warship into contested waters was a move to "curry favor with the United States," said the China Daily editorial. The move "obviously runs counter to the consensus and spirit put forth by the leaders of our two countries that we are willing to join hands to build a 'golden era' of China-UK ties," Hua said. Adding to the tension, China's Foreign Ministry also said it was "ridiculous for the UK to pose as a 'supervisor'" and that Britain should stop interfering in Hong Kong, a former British colony. podcast promotion - brexit The comments came after the UK issued issued its latest biannual report on the special administrative region. In it, Jeremy Hunt, Foreign Secretary, noted the "growing concern about the extent of freedom of speech in Hong Kong, particularly in the context of discussion of independence", while also stating that Britain does not think independence is a realistic or desirable option. China said the issue of independence had nothing to do with freedom of speech and was a serious violation of China's constitution and Hong Kong law. "It fundamentally is not within the scope of freedom of expression," the ministry said. "The central government has zero tolerance for 'Hong Kong independence' and will never indulge it." podcast promotion - brexit
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| Ford teases 2020 Mach 1 Posted: 07 Sep 2018 03:25 AM PDT  Ford Team Edison, which is responsible for the Blue Oval's new electric vehicle development, has finally issued a teaser of the Mach 1 performance electric crossover. It doesn't show a great deal of what to expect from the company's first electric SUV, but it's a lot more than we've been getting so far as pretty much all we've had to date is a logo and a prototype wearing a Ford Escape body. It's now around eight months since Ford announced it was working on the 2020 Mach 1 which was to be the company's first all-electric SUV, and not a lot more has been said of it since.
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| Technological Advice for Older Job Seekers Posted: 07 Sep 2018 08:38 AM PDT ![Technological Advice for Older Job Seekers]( "Technological Advice for Older Job Seekers") Since one of the more common justifications for age discrimination in hiring is the assumption that older workers are unskilled at using common technology, experienced job seekers must pay careful attention to their technological footprint and personal brand. With Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Snapchat in the present and older but still active platforms like Tumblr and MySpace still online, it is easy to overlook an older but eternal presence. Job seekers must regularly Google themselves to ensure that inappropriate images or comments cannot be attributed to them.
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| Russia strikes on Syria's Idlib heaviest in a month: monitor Posted: 07 Sep 2018 05:00 PM PDT  Russian air strikes on Syria's last major rebel bastion Saturday were the "most violent" in a month since Damascus and its ally Moscow started threatening it with an imminent attack around a month ago, a monitor said. Nearly 60 Russian air raids hit Idlib province near the Turkish border in less than three hours, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. The Russian strikes and regime barrel bombing on south and southeastern areas of the province killed at least four civilians including two children, the Britain-based monitor said.
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| Alibaba's Jack Ma to unveil succession plan next week, remain chairman Posted: 08 Sep 2018 07:47 AM PDT ![Alibaba's Jack Ma to unveil succession plan next week, remain chairman]( "Alibaba's Jack Ma to unveil succession plan next week, remain chairman") Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's billionaire co-founder Jack Ma will announce a succession plan on Monday to hand the reins of his sprawling empire to a new generation of leaders but will remain executive chairman for the time being. Ma will announce the plan on his 54th birthday and the handover strategy will stretch over a significant period of time, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) newspaper reported citing a company spokesman. Alibaba declined to comment but pointed towards the SCMP story when asked about Ma's plans.
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