| 'Boofing' and 'ralphing' and other doubts about Kavanaugh's testimony Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:58 AM PDT  Kavanaugh veered from the truth, offering explanations that conflicted with evidence or definitions that were unverifiable.
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| Iran's Rouhani: US headed into isolation after UN meeting Posted: 27 Sep 2018 05:17 AM PDT  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's president said on Thursday that the U.N. Security Council meeting chaired by President Donald Trump the previous day reflected America's increasing isolation among the international community.
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| Indonesia rocked by powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake Posted: 28 Sep 2018 04:10 AM PDT  Indonesia was struck by a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake Friday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries. The country's national disaster agency briefly issued a tsunami warning before cancelling it. The strong quake hit central Sulawesi island at a shallow depth of some 10 kilometres (six miles), just hours after a smaller quake killed at least one person in the same part of the country. The latest quake was a higher magnitude than those that killed hundreds on the island of Lombok earlier this year. Friday's tremor was centred 78 kilometres north of the city of Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi province, but was felt some 900 kilometres south in the island's largest city Makassar. Lisa Soba Palloan, a resident of Toraja, around 175 kilometres south of Palu, said locals felt several quakes Friday. Damage from the 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Donggala, central Sulawesi Credit: AFP "The last one was quite big," she said. "Everyone was getting out their homes, shouting in fear." Indonesia is one of the most disaster-prone nations on earth. The archipelago nation lies on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", where tectonic plates collide and many of the world's volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur. A series of quakes that struck Lombok this summer killed about 500 people and forced hundreds of thousands into evacuation shelters or tents. In 2004, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.3 undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in western Indonesia killed 220,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 Indonesians.
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| Plane ditches into Pacific lagoon Posted: 28 Sep 2018 01:18 AM PDT  The Air Niugini Boeing 737-800 was attempting to land at Weno airport in Micronesia but ended up half submerged in Chuuk lagoon after the accident on Friday morning. The airline said the plane, which was involved in a collision with another aircraft earlier this year, had "landed short of the runway". Remarkably, it reported no serious injuries among those on the plane, which was making a scheduled stop on its way from the Micronesian capital Pohnpei to Port Moresby.
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| Pope defrocks priest at center of Chilean sexual abuse scandal Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:56 AM PDT  Father Fernando Karadima was defrocked by the pope on Thursday, a move the Vatican called "exceptional" and done "for the good of the Church."
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| China, Russia take up globalism mantle as US sheds it at UN Posted: 28 Sep 2018 01:42 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Days after U.S. President Donald Trump denounced globalism before world leaders at the United Nations, China and Russia positioned themselves Friday as defenders of internationalism that are keeping promises when Washington is backing away from them.
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| Raptor Reborn: Is a Super F-22 Fighter Heading to Japan? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:37 AM PDT  Lockheed Marting is pitching the idea to Tokyo.
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| Lawyers For Brett Kavanaugh's Alleged Victims Were Uncooperative, Claims Grassley Posted: 27 Sep 2018 09:08 AM PDT  During his opening statement for testimony related to Judge Brett Kavanaugh's
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| Teacher Acquitted of Having Sex With Student Finds Work as a Waitress Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:11 AM PDT  She says she is grateful they hired her.
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| Search team finds body of skydiving instructor lost in jump Posted: 28 Sep 2018 04:46 PM PDT ![Search team finds body of skydiving instructor lost in jump]( "Search team finds body of skydiving instructor lost in jump") LEBANON, Maine (AP) — Authorities in Maine on Friday found the body of a skydiving instructor who became separated from his student during a tandem jump.
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| Abused Hong Kong maid Erwiana 'rises again' Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:25 AM PDT  She was once the face of abused maids in Hong Kong -- imprisoned, starved and beaten so badly she lost control of her bodily functions. Erwiana completed a degree in economics this month -- the culmination of a dream that brought her to Hong Kong in 2013 before her life was turned upside down. "Before I went to Hong Kong, I had been dreaming I could make enough money to study," the 27-year-old told AFP from her home in Indonesia's cultural capital Yogyakarta.
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| Deadly South Carolina plane crash Posted: 28 Sep 2018 03:16 AM PDT  A plane overshoots a runway and crashes into a fence, killing two. ABC News' Kendis Gibson reports.
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| Netanyahu, in U.N. speech, claims secret Iranian nuclear site Posted: 27 Sep 2018 04:54 PM PDT  Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Netanyahu showed an aerial photograph of the Iranian capital marked with a red arrow and pointed to what he said was a previously secret warehouse holding nuclear-related material. Netanyahu spoke 4-1/2 months after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord, arguing it did too little to rein in Tehran's nuclear ambitions and triggering the resumption of U.S. economic sanctions on Iran. Netanyahu said the site contained some 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of radioactive material that has since been moved and called on the U.N. atomic agency to inspect the location immediately with Geiger counters.
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| Yale Law School Dean Calls For Kavanaugh Investigation Before Confirmation Vote Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:56 AM PDT  The dean of the Yale Law School on Friday joined the American Bar Association
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| Accuser blasts pope silence, 'slander' over cover-up claims Posted: 28 Sep 2018 06:27 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The former Vatican ambassador who accused three popes and their advisers of covering up for a disgraced American ex-cardinal has challenged the Vatican to say what it knows about the scandal and accused Pope Francis of mounting a campaign of "subtle slander" against him.
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| US midterm elections 2018 poll tracker: Who will win the Congress? Posted: 27 Sep 2018 01:38 AM PDT  On November 6, America will go to the polls to elect members for each of the 435 House seats and 35 of the 100 Senate seats in Congress. Donald Trump and the Republicans will hope to maintain their majority in both houses during the midterm elections, but with the Democrats having a healthy lead in the polls, it is believed that they have a decent chance of taking the House of Representatives. A Democrat victory in either chamber would grant powers to open investigations into President Trump, so the stakes are high. The latest polling and forecasts indicate that Donald Trump and the Republicans could hold onto both houses, although the House of Representatives looks the more likely to fall to the Democrats. But the Republican president, who has faced tough weeks after his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty of eight charges in his fraud trial, is reportedly planning 40 days of campaigning for the elections, and so the polls are likely to move further before election day. US mid term elections header General ballot between Republicans and Democrats The latest polls show that the Democrats are around eight percentage points ahead of the Republicans, standing at an average of 48.2 per cent compared to the Republicans' 40.6 per cent. This is an average of the last eight polls, and has indicated a consistent lead for the Democrats on a national level. While the Democrats are ahead in the general ballot, both the House of Representatives and the Senate are decided by a series of local elections, which means that the Republicans may still hold both houses. The Democrats need 24 seats to flip the House of Representatives, and two to flip the Senate. But to make matters harder, the Democrats are defending 26 of the 35 seats up for election in the Senate this time. US mid term elections poll tracker House of Representatives forecast: Democrats knocking on the door Of the 435 seats up for re-election in the House of Representatives, the Democrats need to flip 24 seats - something that should be within reach for the party. The latest forecast, from the Cook Report, has the Democrats on a likely 204 seats and the Republicans on 201. This means that the remaining 30 "toss-up" seats, which are too close to call, will be incredibly important for the outcome of the election. House of Representatives forecast Senate forecast: A tough Republican nut to crack Only needing two seats to take the Senate, it would at first seem that the Democrats should be able to take control. But there is an issue with this: Of the 35 seats up for election, 26 are currently defended by the Democrats. That means that the Democrats need to claim two seats from the remaining eight Republican-defended seats. According to the Cook Report forecast, this seems unlikely, as there are only 44 seats that are marked as "leaning" Democrat or stronger. To claim a majority, the party would have to pick up a further seven seats that are either toss-ups or leaning towards the Republicans Senate forecast Key seats to watch In the 2016 presidential election, Trump won big in rural and working class communities. This helped him flip - albeit with small margins - traditionally Democrat states in the rust belt, including Wisconsin and Michigan. If the Democrats are to have hope of taking the House of Representatives from the Republicans, they need to ensure that they retain seats in these areas, before moving onto Republican territory in others. US cartogram map - House seat forecasts A series of both Republican and Democrat seats are currently classed as a "toss-up" by the Cook Report, indicating that there could be turnovers for both parts in the mid terms. The Republicans will hope to hold onto their under siege seats in places like Tennessee and West Virginia, while making inroads in Democrat areas that Trump claimed with huge majorites in the 2016 presidential election. Seats in Indiana and North Dakota are among those places where the Republicans will hope that Trump's base will help them flip seats. Key seats to watch in the Senate Does President Trump's approval rating matter? Donald Trump's approval ratings are at relatively healthy and stable levels as the mid-terms according to The Telegraph's poll tracker. The tracker, which takes an average of the last eight polls, puts Trump's approval rating on 41 per cent in mid-September. While this level is quite high for Trump, it is relatively low for sitting presidents - and this is important, as presidential approval ratings are a good indicator of net losses at mid term elections. Only two presidents - Truman (1946 and 1950), and Bush (2006) - had a lower approval rating than Trump when going into their respective mid term elections. All three of these ended up losing over 28 seats in the House of Representatives and over five in the Senate. Presidential approval matters, and Trump's is lower than most The Telegraph's poll tracker takes an average of the last eight polls in order to take a full picture of the broad movements in the polling environment and not put too much weight on individual polls. Polls used are nationally representative with adequate sample sizes.
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| Daily Digit: You won’t believe how much money Americans spend with credit cards just for the rewards Posted: 27 Sep 2018 05:45 AM PDT  Daily Digit is the story behind the numbers that make our world work. Today we're looking at credit card spending and rewards. A new study shows the average American spends $2,453 using credit cards to chase reward points. That adds up to an estimated $175.8 billion! The study shows the money is mostly spent on clothes. But food and drinks, and household items are also popular purchases.The same study shows that men are likely to spend more than women. And while millennials are more likely to chase points, it's Gen X that spends the most. What do you use your credit cards for?
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| 'Radical vegans' strike fear into French butchers Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:04 AM PDT  When the stone slabs crashed into her butcher's shop window last week, Elisabeth Cure became the latest victim of "radical vegans" who are trying to force a change in eating habits in traditionally meat-loving France. The attack in a quiet town of Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, 50 kilometres (30 miles) southwest of Paris, took place at 3:00 am, startling Cure as she slept above the store. As in other similar incidents around France over the last year, her tormentors left a tell-tale tag scrawled on the shopfront: "End the Repression".
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| China demands U.S. 'dispel obstacles' to military ties and stop slander Posted: 27 Sep 2018 02:56 AM PDT  Trump on Wednesday accused China of seeking to interfere in the Nov. 6 U.S. congressional elections, saying that Beijing did not want him or his Republican Party to do well because of his pugnacious stance on trade. The two countries are already embroiled in an acrimonious trade war and have continued to butt heads over a list of sensitive issues including the disputed South China Sea and self-ruled Taiwan, armed by Washington but claimed by Beijing. On Saturday, China summoned the U.S. ambassador in Beijing and postponed joint military talks to protest Washington's decision to sanction a Chinese military agency and its director for buying Russian fighter jets and a surface-to-air missile system.
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| Kavanaugh hearing opens with Ford’s account of alleged assault Posted: 27 Sep 2018 08:20 AM PDT  Fighting back tears, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.
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| A 76-Year-Old Woman Called C-SPAN During Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony to Talk About Her Assault Posted: 27 Sep 2018 11:13 AM PDT  She said Ford's testimony made her think about her own experience when she was a child
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| Dutch raids neutralized extremists' threat, authorities say Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:27 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police who arrested seven men suspected of plotting a major extremist attack somewhere in the Netherlands found large quantities of raw materials for explosives at their homes, prosecutors said Friday.
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| Iran denies Israeli accusation of 'secret atomic warehouse' Posted: 27 Sep 2018 08:39 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Thursday of keeping a "secret atomic warehouse" just outside its capital, despite the 2015 deal with world powers that was meant to keep it from obtaining nuclear weapons. Hours later, Iran dismissed the allegation.
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| Florida Man Who Killed 3 in Crash Will Only Serve 10 Days in Jail: 'I Feel Disrespected,' Says Victim's Mom Posted: 28 Sep 2018 05:21 AM PDT  He was sentenced to serve a night in jail every year on the anniversary of the crash for a decade.
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| 8 Dividend Stocks That Can Also Beat the Market Posted: 28 Sep 2018 10:47 AM PDT ![8 Dividend Stocks That Can Also Beat the Market]( "8 Dividend Stocks That Can Also Beat the Market") Dividends are a relatively safe way for investors to get reliable returns, but dividend stocks often struggle to keep pace with the returns of the overall market. Fortunately for dividend investors, a decent dividend yield doesn't necessarily mean investors should give up on share price gains as well. Bank of America's yield advantage model screens for dividend stocks that are also undervalued based on factors such as free cash flow, enterprise value and return on capital.
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| U.S. regulator sues Musk for fraud, seeks to remove him from Tesla Posted: 27 Sep 2018 10:36 PM PDT  NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday of fraud and sought to remove him from his role in charge of the electric car company, saying he made a series of "false and misleading" tweets about potentially taking Tesla private last month. In a lawsuit, the regulator described Musk surprising members of his own team and investors with a series of tweets, starting with the Aug. 7 announcement that he was thinking of taking Tesla private. Twelve minutes after the first tweet, Tesla's head of investor relations texted Musk's chief of staff to ask whether Musk's announcement was "legit", the SEC said.
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| Yankees Pitcher CC Sabathia Gets Ejected, Loses $500,000 Bonus Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:39 AM PDT  New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia was just two innings away from earning a
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| Trump postpones his meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Posted: 27 Sep 2018 10:28 AM PDT  The White House said the meeting was postponed due to the hearing on sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.
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| No cutoff date for Canada to join NAFTA 2.0: Mexico president-elect Posted: 28 Sep 2018 02:28 PM PDT  There is no cutoff date for Canada to join the US-Mexican deal meant to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico's president-elect said Friday as the text was submitted to legislators. "There is no fatal date, there is still time to reach a deal... to keep (NAFTA) trilateral," said President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who takes office on December 1. Lopez Obrador spoke as the US and Mexican Congresses were due to receive the final text of the two-way deal, moving it a big step closer to becoming reality.
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| Texas inmate executed for killing girlfriend in 2000 Posted: 27 Sep 2018 04:40 PM PDT  A Texas inmate was executed for fatally running over his girlfriend in a jealous rage more than 18 years ago.
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| People line streets of Vietnam's capital to mourn president Posted: 26 Sep 2018 08:43 PM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Thousands of people lined the streets of Hanoi on Thursday to pay their last respects to Vietnam's late President Tran Dai Quang.
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| Ford delivers opening statement at Kavanaugh hearing Posted: 27 Sep 2018 07:56 AM PDT  Christine Blasey Ford appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
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| South Carolina Teen Awakes From Wisdom Teeth Extraction Convinced She's Engaged Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:58 AM PDT  "I mean, for real? It's my dream ring!"
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| Super Mario costumes banned from go-kart rides around Tokyo after Nintendo wins case Posted: 28 Sep 2018 05:25 AM PDT  It's become a regular, if surreal, sight on the streets of Tokyo: convoys of go-karts whizzing through traffic, driven by tourists dressed up as Super Mario and other game characters. But the days of such antics may be numbered, after Nintendo announced it has won a court battle against one popular go-kart operator, blocking it from lending its characters' costumes to customers. MariCar offers what it calls "real life superhero" go-kart experiences for customers, enabling them to drive on the road while dressed in an array of game character costumes, including Super Mario, Yoshi and Princess Peach. The company, whose main customers tend to be tourists, operates the service from around from half a dozen shop locations in Tokyo as well as Kyoto, Osaka and Okinawa in southern Japan. Nintendo launched legal proceedings last year, with one complaint being that the go-kart company was called MariCar, while its own popular racing game "Mario Kart" is also known as MariKar. The Kyoto-based gaming giant also argued that the company had not been given permission to dress up its drivers as Nintendo characters or use photography and video footage from the official game in its publicity materials, according to AFP. Super Mario is one of Nintendo's most popular characters Credit: REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach Nintendo, which initially sought 10 million yen (£67,000) in the lawsuit against MariCar, confirmed it had won damages in the Tokyo District Court ruling, but did not disclose the amount. In a brief statement, Nintendo said: "We will continue to take necessary steps against damage being done to our brand and intellectual properties, which we have spent years to build." The go-kart operator appears to have now changed its official name from MariCar to Mari Mobility and told media that it will review the ruling before deciding its next step. Meanwhile, the company states on its website and in its email correspondence: "MariCar is in no way a reflection of Nintendo, the game Mario Kart." It also warns customers that racing and throwing banana peels, rubbish or red turtle shells – activities associated with the Nintendo Game – are not permitted during the tours. Superhero go-karting has increasingly hit the headlines in Japan in recent years, with a number of accidents among tourists casting a spotlight on safety concerns. Police in Tokyo charged a 23-year-old Taiwanese tourist with hit and run in February this year after he collided with a cyclist while dressed up as a Mario Kart game series character.
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| Republicans can do better than Kavanaugh Posted: 27 Sep 2018 02:00 AM PDT  The fact is that at this elite level of the American judiciary, everybody's smart. But not everybody's good, Matt Bai writes.
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| Nigerian troops fight off Boko Haram attack Posted: 27 Sep 2018 02:41 AM PDT  Nigerian troops have repelled an attack on a military base by Boko Haram jihadists in the country's northeast, the army and security sources said on Thursday. The attack, in the town of Gashigar, in the Mobbar district of Borno state, is believed to have been carried out by a Boko Haram faction backed by the Islamic State group. It was the latest in a series of strikes against military bases that have raised questions about the group's strength, despite repeated official claims they were on the verge of defeat.
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| Iran says it doesn't want war with the US Posted: 26 Sep 2018 06:46 PM PDT  Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said he believes America will "sooner or later" support the Iran nuclear agreement again.
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| Italy's populists challenge EU with plans to boost deficit Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:26 AM PDT  After tussling with Economy Minister Giovanni Tria for weeks, the four-month old government on Thursday proposed a 2019 deficit that is, at 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), three times the previous administration's target. The rub is that Italy has the largest debt among big European Union economies, at 131 percent of GDP, and it is under pressure from the EU to rein in spending amid fears it could sow the seeds of a new debt crisis in the euro zone. In a move certain to raise hackles with the European Commission, which monitors and enforces EU fiscal rules, the government sees the deficit remaining at 2.4 percent for the next three years, rather than progressively declining toward zero as the Commission's recipe prescribes.
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| Jury: Jehovah's Witnesses must pay $35M to abuse survivor Posted: 27 Sep 2018 12:29 PM PDT  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Jehovah's Witnesses must pay $35 million to a woman who says the church's national organization ordered Montana clergy members not to report her sexual abuse as a child at the hands of a congregation member, a jury ruled in a verdict.
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