| How to help Florence victims Posted: 17 Sep 2018 09:00 AM PDT  Five ways you can contribute to storm relief efforts right now.
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| Rains from Florence cause collapse at NC coal ash landfill Posted: 16 Sep 2018 02:48 PM PDT  Duke Energy said Saturday night that heavy rains from Florence caused a slope to collapse at a coal-ash landfill at a closed power station near the North Carolina coast.
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| Erdogan says luxury jumbo is 'gift' from Qatar emir Posted: 16 Sep 2018 05:55 PM PDT  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the emir of Qatar gave a luxury jumbo jet as a "gift" to Turkey, rejecting opposition claims the plane had been bought in a costly purchase for the presidency. In comments published Monday, Erdogan said Turkey had shown interest in buying the on-sale Boeing 747-8 plane -- reportedly worth around $400 million -- but Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani insisted on offering the plane as a gift. When the Qatar emir was informed of this he gave it as a gift, saying 'I won't take money from Turkey.
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| Time Magazine To Be Sold To Billionaire Couple For $190 Million Posted: 16 Sep 2018 09:20 PM PDT  Billionaire Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, are buying Time magazine from
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| A U.S. Border Patrol Agent Accused of Killing Four Women Is Being Held on $2.5 Million Bond Posted: 16 Sep 2018 11:58 PM PDT  The dead are believed to have been sex workers
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| Around 1,000 Hungarians protest against Orban at pro-EU rally Posted: 16 Sep 2018 09:03 AM PDT  The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to sanction Hungary for flouting EU rules on democracy, civil rights and corruption in an unprecedented step that left Orban isolated from some powerful allies in the European Parliament. Hungary said it would seek legal ways to challenge the ruling which it described as "petty revenge".
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| Rare triple whale breach close to boat stuns onlookers Posted: 17 Sep 2018 03:14 AM PDT  Whale watchers squeal with delight as three surfacing humpbacks leap out of the water almost simultaneously in rare triple breach right next to their boat.
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| Kings Plaza fire: At least 21 injured as firefighters tackle blaze at Brooklyn shopping centre parking lot Posted: 17 Sep 2018 11:54 AM PDT  Firefighters are tackling a massive fire that spread through a parking garage in Brooklyn, New York. The fire began before 9:00 a.m. local time near the Kings Plaza shopping centre in Brooklyn, erupting from a two-alarm to a seven-alarm emergency within an hour. Police and fire department officials did not respond to enquiries, and it was not immediately clear whether police suspected criminal intent or wrongdoing.
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| Lula’s guy: Brazilian Left’s new candidate Haddad rallies voters who barely recognise him Posted: 16 Sep 2018 09:35 AM PDT  As the new favourite to face far-Right candidate Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian election race, there is only one question on the lips of Fernando Haddad's supporter base: who is he? Last week, jailed former president Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva - the firm frontrunner - officially stepped down as the candidate for the centre-left Workers' Party, calling in running mate Mr Haddad as his replacement. Now, the Workers' Party's strategy is to transfer as much of these votes as possible to Lula's understudy Mr Haddad, the former education minister and São Paulo mayor. Besides Mr Haddad's professorial, technocratic demeanour – a far cry from Mr da Silva's passionate fist-shaking and rabble-rousing – the stand-in candidate is virtually unknown outside of the large urban centres of Brazil's southeast. Nevertheless, early indications show that Mr Haddad, who has seen his voting intentions triple in the last three weeks, is hotly tipped to challenge Mr Bolsonaro in a second-round runoff. Supporters of Brazilian former president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva holds a mask of his face Credit: NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP This week, Mr Haddad beings his campaign in the northeast of Brazil, the least developed region of the country and a traditional Workers' Party stronghold. During his last visit, Mr Haddad was a stranger to the local electorate, referred to mostly as "Lula's guy", or mistakenly as Fernando "Andrade". This time, he will need to make a much greater impact. Brazil goes to the polls on October 7, leaving Mr Haddad little time to win over Mr da Silva's impressive support base. Polls released last week gave Mr Haddad 13 per cent of the vote, up from 4 per cent three weeks ago and tied in second place alongside fellow centre-Left candidate Ciro Gomes. Supporter of Brazil's Workers Party gather for a rally Credit: DANIEL RAMALHO/AFP/Getty Images In contrast, before bowing out of the race, Mr da Silva was polling at 39 per cent. Had he not been barred from running, there is a considerable chance he would have been elected with an overall majority, despite the fact he is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption and money laundering. "Haddad is trying his best to present himself as Lula's candidate, and this is why he has been growing in opinion polls", said José Alvaro Moisés, political scientist and one of the founders of the Workers' Party. "After two days' campaigning, we're already in second place", joked Mr Haddad at a press conference with foreign correspondents last week. "There are still 20 more days to go."
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| Sweet Pup Can't Stop Licking Rescuers After Being Saved From Florence Flooding Posted: 16 Sep 2018 05:34 PM PDT  Thanks to a couple of brave animal lovers, one lucky North Carolina dog was
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| Shattered buildings, swamped fields: the aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut Posted: 16 Sep 2018 09:00 AM PDT  The skeleton of a shattered school, bare walls of homes stripped of their roofs and vast cornfields drowned in muddy floodwaters: this is the aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut as seen from the air. A day after the world's worst storm of the year carved a path of deadly destruction across the northern Philippines' agricultural heartland, AFP was able to fly over some of the damage in Cagayan province. "I saw widespread damage to planted crops, mostly corn.
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| Roads shut after 2 fall ill in UK city where ex-spy poisoned Posted: 16 Sep 2018 05:51 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Police closed roads and called a hazardous response team Sunday night after two people became ill at a restaurant in the English city where a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were poisoned with a chemical nerve agent.
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| Diver Who Helped With Thai Cave Rescue Sues Elon Musk for Calling Him a 'Pedo' Posted: 17 Sep 2018 11:15 AM PDT  "Mr. Unsworth is not a pedophile. Mr. Unsworth has never engaged in an act of pedophilia"
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| Turkey's Erdogan defends gift of luxury plane from Emir of Qatar Posted: 17 Sep 2018 02:55 AM PDT  President Tayyip Erdogan has defended his decision to accept a luxury plane from Qatar at a time of economic hardship, saying it was a gift, not a purchase, and that it had been donated to the Turkish state, not to him personally. State broadcaster TRT Haber said last week the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani had given Erdogan the aircraft, which Turkish media said was a Boeing 747, sparking criticism from Turkey's opposition. A lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Sezgin Tanrikulu, had expressed concern that the aircraft had been bought rather than donated, noting that Turkey was in an economic crisis, the Hurriyet newspaper reported.
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| GOP push to release House interviews in Russia investigation Posted: 16 Sep 2018 03:17 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House intelligence committee chairman said Sunday he plans to release the transcripts of dozens of private interviews conducted during its investigation into Russian election-meddling and would push the director of national intelligence to declassify others.
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| Boeing 787 plant in South Carolina to reopen Sunday after storm-related closure Posted: 16 Sep 2018 03:29 PM PDT ![Boeing 787 plant in South Carolina to reopen Sunday after storm-related closure]( "Boeing 787 plant in South Carolina to reopen Sunday after storm-related closure") Boeing Co's South Carolina plant, where it assembles 787 wide-body jetliners, was set to reopen operations on Sunday night following a lifting of evacuation orders for coastal areas threatened by deadly storm Florence, a Boeing spokesperson said on Sunday. Boeing had suspended operations at the North Charleston plant on Tuesday and flown several 787 Dreamliners from the South Carolina factory across the country to an airport near Boeing's wide-body plant in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle.
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| Michael Moore Thinks Donald Trump Or 'One Of His Minions' Wrote Anonymous NYT Op-Ed Posted: 16 Sep 2018 01:56 PM PDT ![Michael Moore Thinks Donald Trump Or 'One Of His Minions' Wrote Anonymous NYT Op-Ed]( "Michael Moore Thinks Donald Trump Or 'One Of His Minions' Wrote Anonymous NYT Op-Ed") Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said he believes President Donald Trump
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| Five baby squirrels rescued after being found tied together by their tails Posted: 17 Sep 2018 05:16 AM PDT  Five infant squirrels have been rescued after being found tied together by their tails. The entanglement is thought to have happened by chance with the giant knot forming as the young greys moved about their nest and each other. Grass, twigs and bits of plastic had also become interwoven into the entanglement.
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| Saving pets after Hurricane Florence Posted: 17 Sep 2018 06:38 AM PDT ![Saving pets after Hurricane Florence]( "Saving pets after Hurricane Florence") Hurricane Florence's deadly winds and waters forced widespread evacuations in North Carolina, and for many residents, that included their pets. Rescuers and evacuees sought to bring their dogs, cats and even horses to higher ground. Click through this slideshow to see some of the — sometimes quite wet — animals being saved. (Yahoo News)
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| Dozens buried in Philippines landslide triggered by Typhoon Mangkhut Posted: 17 Sep 2018 06:46 AM PDT  Hundreds of rescuers in the Philippines dug frantically with shovels and their bare hands on Monday in an attempt to save the lives of dozens of people buried by a landslide triggered at the weekend by Typhoon Mangkhut, the world's strongest storm of the year. But despite their best efforts, weary aid workers were only able to pull dead bodies from the mud and debris that had engulfed a church and miners' bunkhouse where people had been sheltering from the fierce rain and winds topping 150 miles per hour in the early hours of Saturday morning. Grief-stricken relatives, many of them quietly praying, waited anxiously near the disaster site. Victorio Palangdan, Itogon's mayor, warned that the chances of finding any survivors were slim, raising the prospect that the previously confirmed Philippine death toll of 65 from the typhoon could significantly rise. Mr Palangdan told a news conference that of the 40 to 50 people thought buried, there's a "99 per cent (chance) that they are really dead." Itogon, #Philippines. With no chance of getting heavy equipment into the valley, rescue workers are using shovels and their hands to move rock and debris from the landslides. But there is so much of it. One official figures it will take a week. @NBCNewspic.twitter.com/4tX1LjXNKx— Janis Mackey Frayer (@janisfrayer) September 17, 2018 He revealed that dozens of residents had refused to heed police warnings to leave the area. "They laughed at our policemen. They insisted," he said, according to the AP. "They were resisting when our police tried to pull them away. What can we do?" Most of the buried are believed to be poor miners and their families, who were working illegally at the mine site. Foreign aid has begun to pour into the Philippines, which will face months of recovery after farms across the island of Luzon, which produces much of the nation's rice and corn, were submerged in muddy floodwater just a month before harvest. Francis Tolentino, a senior adviser to President Rodrigo Duterte, estimated that nationwide 5.7 million people had been affected by the storm. Many high rise buildings in Hong Kong had their windows blown out Credit: Anthony Wallace/AFP Hong Kong on Monday also began to clear up "severe and extensive" damage from Mangkhut after it struck the high-rise city on Sunday, leaving 300 injured. Roads remained blocked by felled trees and debris and some areas remained severely flooded. Windows in swaying tower blocks had been smashed by gusts of more than 142mph. After tearing through Luzon and pummelling Hong Kong and Macau, the storm hit China's Guangdong province, killing four people, three of whom were struck by trees. More than 3 million people were evacuated. But by Monday afternoon, the terrifying storm had been downgraded to a tropical depression at it moved into Guangxi province on a path to the mountainous Yunnan province, where it was expected to weaken further as it approached Vietnam, Laos and Burma. No further deaths or damage were reported.
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| Sen. McConnell urges Senate to keep Kavanaugh vote on schedule Posted: 17 Sep 2018 01:45 PM PDT  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces an allegation of sexual assault from high school.
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| Fearing attacks from above, Syrians in Idlib head underground Posted: 16 Sep 2018 07:08 PM PDT  The grotto in northwestern Syria has already saved his children's lives once. Fearing more air attacks, Abdulmonem is expanding the makeshift bomb shelter in case they need to take refuge there again. Residents of Idlib province and surrounding areas have been bracing themselves for a Russian-backed government offensive on the country's largest remaining rebel-held zone.
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| A Palestinian Has Fatally Stabbed an American-Israeli Activist in the West Bank Posted: 16 Sep 2018 08:20 PM PDT  The victim was identified as Ari Fuld, an outspoken Israel advocate on social media platforms
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| US to slash refugee admissions to historic low of 30,000, Pompeo confirms Posted: 17 Sep 2018 03:02 PM PDT  The US will allow no more than 30,000 refugees into the country in the coming year, down by a third from last year's cap, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has announced. The latest cut reflects a victory by White House hardliners on immigration over both the state department and the Pentagon. When Donald Trump took office the ceiling on refugees the US was prepared to welcome each year was 110,000.
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| Massachusetts man dies in state's first shark attack fatality in over 80 years Posted: 16 Sep 2018 01:01 AM PDT  A man who was bitten by a shark in Cape Cod has died, becoming Massachusetts' first shark attack fatality in over 80 years. The 26-year-old and his friend were boogie-boarding off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet when the attack took place around noon on Saturday, Wellfleet Police Lieutenant Michael Hurley said. Joe Booth, a local fisherman and surfer, said that he saw the victim kick something behind him and the flicker of a tail in the water.
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| Florence death toll at 17, including 3-month-old Posted: 16 Sep 2018 05:15 PM PDT  The death toll attributed to Florence stands at 17, including 11 in North Carolina and six in South Carolina.
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| Coca-Cola looking at cannabis-infused drinks Posted: 17 Sep 2018 11:37 AM PDT  Coca-Cola said Monday it is studying the use of a key ingredient in marijuana in "wellness beverages," as a growing number of mainstream companies develop cannabis-infused drinks. "We have no interest in marijuana or cannabis," Coca-Cola said in a statement. Cannabidiol is a chemical in marijuana that does not have the intoxicating effects of THC, the major active ingredient that causes the "high." It has been used to treat epilepsy and other maladies.
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| Navya already sells fully self-driving cars, including in US Posted: 17 Sep 2018 03:00 AM PDT  Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project, plans to launch its first commercial service for self-driving cars later this year, essentially a fully automated ride-hailing service covering about 100 square miles in Phoenix, Arizona. The company is called Navya, and its two self-driving cars currently on sale include the Autonom Shuttle and the smaller Autonom Cab. Navya says its vehicles have been designed for "last mile" travel, i.e.
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| British caver sues Elon Musk over 'pedo' comments Posted: 17 Sep 2018 01:51 PM PDT  The defamation suit filed in Los Angeles by Vernon Unsworth, a Briton involves in several cave rescues, follows a highly public spat between the two after Musk traveled to Thailand and offered to assist in rescue efforts. The dispute made headlines in July, when Unsworth called Musk's effort to build a mini-submarine for the rescue a "PR stunt" and Musk responded on Twitter by calling Unsworth a "pedo guy," or pedophile.
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| Gunmen wearing mariachi garb kill 5, wound 8 in Mexico City Posted: 15 Sep 2018 05:49 PM PDT  Mexicans heading into the weekend's Independence Day celebrations were jolted by the brazen shooting,
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| Why Idlib matters and the obstacles Assad faces there Posted: 17 Sep 2018 11:34 AM PDT  The Syrian conflict has turned toward the northwestern Idlib region, where government preparations for a Russian-backed offensive have sparked a concerted Turkish diplomatic bid to prevent an attack. A major assault in Idlib, home to some three million people, could be more deadly and destructive than any other in a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people since 2011. The U.N. is warning of a humanitarian catastrophe.
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| Report: President Trump Moving Forward With His Plans to Impose China Tariffs Posted: 16 Sep 2018 07:08 AM PDT  Both sides were preparing to hold new talks on their tariff dispute
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| Cardinal says women should train priests to fight abuse 'crisis' Posted: 15 Sep 2018 10:08 PM PDT  Women should play a greater role in training priests to fight the child abuse "crisis," a Canadian cardinal has said.
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| Organizations around the country flock to the rescue of animals amid Florence Posted: 17 Sep 2018 05:39 AM PDT  Dozens of organizations, teams and families from around the country came to the rescue throughout the weekend, providing temporary homes and transportation to safer shelters.
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| Fayetteville mayor urges residents to seek higher ground Posted: 16 Sep 2018 09:03 PM PDT  Mitch Colvin says emergency officials are going 'door to door' to get citizens to safety as rivers swollen by Hurricane Florence floodwaters continue to rise.
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| Macron under fire after telling young jobseeker to 'find work by crossing the road' Posted: 16 Sep 2018 10:02 AM PDT ![Macron under fire after telling young jobseeker to 'find work by crossing the road']( "Macron under fire after telling young jobseeker to 'find work by crossing the road'") Emmanuel Macron has provoked ridicule and anger by telling an unemployed man that he could find him work "just by crossing the road". The 25-year-old aspiring gardener complained of being unable to find a job when he spoke to the French president during a public open day at the Elysée Palace on Saturday. Mr Macron advised him to change his line of work, saying jobs were readily available in catering or construction. "Hotels, cafés, restaurants, I can find you [work] by crossing the road. They just want people who are ready to work," he said. There's not a single place I go to where they don't say they're looking for people." Industry officials say about 100,000 vacancies in hotel and restaurants need filling in France. They have urged Mr Macron to allow immigrants to take the jobs. But the off-the-cuff remark by Mr Macron, often derided by critics as the "president of the rich", was immediately mocked on social media. Fort de Brégançon: Emmanuel Macron's 'Riviera Camp David' with view of Mediterranean A video of the exchange went viral, prompting a torrent of posts saying that Mr Macron, 40, a former Rothschild banker married to a chocolate heiress, was out of touch. "Completely disconnected from the reality of French people," one post read. "How can someone show that much contempt, lack of empathy and ignorance in just 30 seconds?" said another. The exchange drew furious criticism from opposition parliamentarians. Laurence Rossignol, a Socialist senator and former minister for families, deplored the president's "unfortunate remarks" three days after he announced a plan to wean the French off welfare. Mr Macron's €8 billion "anti-poverty" proposals aim to end the French practice of lavish benefits payments for the poor. Instead, they are to be offered a way out of penury by finding jobs. Mr Macron, who has so far failed to fulfil election pledges to slash unemployment and revive economic growth, is struggling to restore his image after a summer of political scandals and plunging approval ratings. The president came under fire from Left and Right last month for describing the French last month as "Gauls who are resistant to change". The head of Mr Macron's party rejected accusations that his latest remarks showed contempt for the poor. "Is what the president said false? If you go to the Montparnasse area, you won't find that they need workers?" Christophe Castaner said in a TV interview yesterday. "Would you prefer empty words? I prefer a president who speaks the truth."
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| Are we there yet? No bottom in sight for China stocks Posted: 15 Sep 2018 09:34 PM PDT  Shanghai is the world's worst-performing major stock market this year despite respectable corporate earnings, a disconnect which is feeding growing talk that Chinese equities are now a screaming buy. Not so fast, say brokers and analysts, who warn shares have further to fall due to US-China trade squabbling, slowing Chinese economic growth, and a government crackdown on debt that is drying up liquidity. Despite China's still enviable economic growth of over six percent, the Shanghai Composite Index is down 19 percent this year and flirting with levels not seen since late 2014.
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| Barn-find Porsche 901 makes post-restoration debut Posted: 17 Sep 2018 09:06 AM PDT  An early production run Porsche 901 spent decades rotting away in a barn. After three years of restoration, it's driving again, competing in the Hamburg-Berlin Classic rally
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| Tesla's Musk is sued for calling Thai cave rescuer paedophile Posted: 17 Sep 2018 01:20 PM PDT  Vernon Unsworth, who lives north of London, sued over Musk's July 15 tweet to more than 22 million followers referring to him as a "pedo guy," a comment for which Musk later apologised. Tesla did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Musk and the company. Unsworth is seeking at least $75,000 of compensatory damages plus unspecified punitive damages in his complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
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| Donald Trump has 'insecurity of a teenage girl' says John Kerry in attack on president Posted: 16 Sep 2018 11:19 AM PDT  John Kerry, the former US secretary of state, has torn into Donald Trump in response to the president accusing him of holding "illegal" meetings with Iran. The former Massachusetts senator used decidedly undiplomatic language, saying Mr Trump had "the maturity of an eight-year-old boy with the insecurity of a teenage girl. The attack came after Mr Trump tweeted that talks Mr Kerry held with Iran officials after leaving office were "to the detriment of the American people".
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| Meghan Markle releases cookbook for Grenfell Tower victims Posted: 17 Sep 2018 07:08 AM PDT  The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has spearheaded a charity cookbook for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fires in London.
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| Mattis condemns Russian influence-peddling in Macedonia Posted: 17 Sep 2018 11:27 AM PDT  SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Monday condemned Russia's efforts to use its money and influence to build opposition to an upcoming vote that could pave the way for Macedonia to join NATO, a move Moscow opposes.
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