| Obama Photographer Rips 'Out Of His Element' Donald Trump Over Bin Laden Raid Criticism Posted: 20 Nov 2018 01:08 AM PST  Former White House photographer Pete Souza blasted President Donald Trump on
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| Mississippi Republican apologizes for 'hanging' remark in Senate runoff debate Posted: 20 Nov 2018 07:01 PM PST  Mississippi Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith apologized Tuesday evening during a debate for a recent remark that evoked the South's ugly past of racial terror against African-Americans.
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| White Man Accused Of Pulling Gun On Muslim Teens At Minnesota McDonald's Posted: 20 Nov 2018 06:15 PM PST  Police are investigating an incident at a Minnesota McDonald's in which a man
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| Covering the fire terror in California's lost Paradise Posted: 20 Nov 2018 09:07 AM PST  San Francisco-based photographer Josh Edelson has just returned from covering the massive wildfires in northern California, the deadliest in the state's history. Last year, when huge fires ripped through northern California, people thought it was a one-off.
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| Prosecutors clear Oregon FedEx driver after deadly punch Posted: 21 Nov 2018 06:10 AM PST ![Prosecutors clear Oregon FedEx driver after deadly punch]( "Prosecutors clear Oregon FedEx driver after deadly punch") PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Prosecutors say a FedEx driver was justified in punching a Portland, Oregon, man after he yelled racial slurs and tried to hit the driver first.
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| Facebook sued by Russian firm linked to woman charged by U.S. Posted: 20 Nov 2018 02:49 PM PST  The Federal Agency of News LLC, known as FAN, and its sole shareholder, Evgeniy Zubarev, filed the lawsuit in the federal court in the Northern District of California, seeking damages and an injunction to prevent Facebook from blocking its account. Facebook deleted FAN's account in April as it purged pages linked to the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, which was indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year for flooding social media with false information in a bid to sow discord in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. election.
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| The Attempt to Block Nancy Pelosi From Becoming Speaker of the House Is Hitting Some Speed Bumps Posted: 20 Nov 2018 05:27 PM PST  Simultaneously, Pelosi announced that Fudge would chair the Subcommittee on Elections
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| Washington Post Publisher Blasts Trump’s Response to Khashoggi Murder Posted: 20 Nov 2018 01:28 PM PST  The publisher of the Washington Post blasted President Trump's response to the Saudi-state-sponsored assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday. "President Trump's response to the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is a betrayal of long-established American values of respect for human rights and the expectation of trust and honesty in our strategic relationships," publisher Fred Ryan said in a statement released Tuesday. Ryan's reaction came just hours after Trump released a statement indicating he would not pursue further punitive measures against Saudi Arabia beyond the sanctions imposed earlier this month against 17 individuals believed to have been involved in Khashoggi's assassination at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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| Vintage illustrations as Thanksgiving greetings Posted: 21 Nov 2018 04:30 AM PST ![Vintage illustrations as Thanksgiving greetings]( "Vintage illustrations as Thanksgiving greetings") Here's a look at some vintage Thanksgiving postcards, greeting cards and illustrations from the turn of the century to 1923. They don't make them like that any more!
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| Stacey Abrams Says Georgia Gubernatorial Election Was Neither Fair Nor Free Posted: 20 Nov 2018 02:36 AM PST  Georgia's hotly contested election for governor was neither fair nor free,
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| N. Korea blows up frontline bunkers Posted: 20 Nov 2018 01:23 AM PST  Pyongyang blew up 10 guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone Tuesday as the two Koreas pursue a reconciliation drive, even while denuclearisation talks stall between the US and the North. The move is one of the steps agreed during the Pyongyang summit between the South's President Moon Jae-in and the North's leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang in September. The North told the South that it would blow up the 10 facilities almost simultaneously, Seoul's defence ministry said, adding that Southern soldiers "observed and confirmed the guard posts were completely ruined at the announced time".
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| Aid group: 85,000 children may have died of hunger in Yemen Posted: 21 Nov 2018 06:01 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — A leading international aid group said Wednesday that an estimated 85,000 Yemeni children under the age of 5 may have died of hunger and disease since the outbreak of the country's civil war in 2015.
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| Meet The Dollar Store Resistance Posted: 21 Nov 2018 02:45 AM PST  ROCK HALL, Md. ― When Dollar General said it would open a store here in 2013,
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| Interpol Picks Korean as New President in Snap Election, Crushing Russian Hopes Posted: 21 Nov 2018 07:12 AM PST  Kim was selected Wednesday morning in a snap election organized at Interpol's general assembly in Dubai following the arrest in China of former president Meng Hongwei last month. Interpol didn't disclose on its website the margin of victory for the South Korean in the election, which was organized on a one country-one vote basis. The election had become deeply political in recent days as U.S. and other western countries warned that if elected, Prokopchuk, as a high-ranking police official in Russia, could abuse Interpol protocols to harass political opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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| Deadly fire aftermath Posted: 20 Nov 2018 03:43 PM PST  Aerial view of devastation left by wildfires in Northern California.
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| Trump administration defends asylum crackdown, citing border 'crisis,' after judge rules against ban Posted: 20 Nov 2018 09:14 AM PST  The Trump administration's crackdown on refugees crossing into the U.S. from Mexico was suspended late Monday by a federal judge, prompting a joint response from the Justice Department and the Homeland Security Department.
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| Facebook's Zuckerberg says he is not considering resigning Posted: 20 Nov 2018 10:39 PM PST  Embattled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday he has no plans to resign, sounding defiant after a rough year for the social platform. "That's not the plan," Zuckerberg told CNN Business when asked if he would consider stepping down as chairman. "Sheryl is a really important part of this company and is leading a lot of the efforts for a lot of the biggest issues we have," said Zuckerberg.
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| Check Out the Sig Sauer P226: The Navy SEALs Gun Being Replaced by Glock Posted: 19 Nov 2018 07:09 PM PST  Sig Sauer had a good quarter-century run arming America's naval commandos, and now the torch is passed to Glock.
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| Chicago hospital shooting: Gunman dead after killing three, including police officer Posted: 19 Nov 2018 08:36 PM PST  At least three people, including a police officer, were killed at a Chicago hospital on Monday during a shooting rampage that began with an argument in the car park. The violence only ended when police engaged in a shootout with the gunman inside Mercy Hospital. "We have four deceased individuals: police officer, two female staff employees at the hospital, and the offender," police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told journalists. The gunman killed the first victim - a woman who was in a "domestic relationship" with him - during an argument in the car park, then fired at police when they got to the hospital, and ran inside, Mr Johnson said. Additional police - including SWAT officers - arrived at the scene, and "engaged the offender for several minutes in the hospital, with gunshots being fired by the offender and by the police," he said. During the shootout, the gunman killed a second woman when she emerged from a lift, Mr Johnson said. The shooter was also fatally wounded, but it was unclear if he killed himself or was killed by police. The first victim died during an argument in the car park Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images North America Officer Samuel Jimenez, who joined the Chicago police force last year, died during the gun fight, officials said. The 28-year-old was married with children and the second Chicago officer killed in the line of duty this year. "There's no doubt in my mind that all of those officers who responded were heroes and they saved a lot of lives, because we just don't know how much damage he (the gunman) was prepared to do," Mr Johnson said. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said: "This tears at the soul of our city. It is the face and consequence of evil." Patients described being alarmed by the sound of gunshots outside Mercy Hospital and seeing a man apparently walking with a woman in the car park before shooting her three times in the chest. "Once she fell to the ground, he stood over her and shot her three more times," bystander James Gray told reporters, adding that the attack played out "like a movie scene." TV footage showed terrified patients and staff filing out of the hospital into a car park with their hands in the air after officers flooded the area. Police and firefighters salute an ambulance carrying the body of Officer Samuel Jimenez Credit: Armando L. Sanchez/ Chicago Tribune Patient Hector Avitia told the local CBS television affiliate he was with his wife waiting for test results when he saw a gunman dressed in black fire on someone on the ground several times in the car park. "Then almost immediately, an officer was already coming in an SUV, and (the assailant) exchanged fire at them and then reloaded and shot the person on the ground again," another witness said. "And then he made his way into the hospital and more shots were fired." The shooting followed a series of recent high-profile gun rampages that have fuelled calls for gun control measures in a country plagued by gun violence. Less than two weeks earlier, a gunman killed 12 people in a California music bar packed with college students. That came after the worst anti-Semitic attack in modern US history, when a gunman opened fire on congregants at a synagogue in the US city of Pittsburgh on October 27. Samuel Jimenez died responding to the incident Bypassers alerted to the latest incident spoke of hearing between six and nine gunshots that initially sounded like construction noise. "I am scared as hell. I have never been so scared, I hear of shootings going on every day at people's workplaces, but not where I work at," an employee of the hospital's family clinic told the ABC affiliate. Mercy, founded in 1852, has locations throughout Chicago and provides outpatient treatment and acute inpatient care, boasting doctors who are leaders in their field. Another hospital employee quoted by the Chicago Tribune said she was in her office when a notice came over a public address system telling those in the hospital to lock their doors. "I don't know what happened," the unnamed employee told the Tribune. "They told us to run, so we did." Gun murders per 100,000 residents Chicago has in recent years earned an unwelcome distinction for its violence. From 2015 to 2017 the city registered nearly 1,900 murders - a period during which the next-closest city, Baltimore, registered around 1,000. However, the city is not in the top ten for murders nationwide, per capita. St. Louis in Missouri has had the nation's highest murder rate since 2014, with 66.1 murders per 100,000 people in 2017, according to the FBI's most recent yearly statistics, released in September. It was followed by Baltimore (55.8 per 100,000), Detroit (39.8 per 100,000), New Orleans (39.5 per 100,000) and Baton Rouge, Louisiana (38.3 per 100,000). Chicago ranked 14th among cities with at least 100,000 people in 2017. Its 653 murders, measured against a population of more than 2.7 million, translated to a murder rate of 24.1 homicides per 100,000. That was less than half the rate in St. Louis and Baltimore and below the rates of cities including Cleveland; Memphis, Tennessee; and Newark, New Jersey.
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| Yahoo News Explains: What’s next for space? Posted: 20 Nov 2018 06:38 AM PST  In 2017, tech giant Elon Musk announced that his company SpaceX was sending humans to Mars by 2024. According to the Mars One website, 100 candidates of the 202,000 who applied remain in the application process. From space forces to space flights, where will the next generation soar to? Yahoo News explains.
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| The Ultimate Roundup Of Black Friday And Cyber Monday Deals For 2018 Posted: 20 Nov 2018 09:13 AM PST  Whether you're looking for the best deal on KitchenAid mixer, the lowest
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| The Latest: California wildfire missing list rises to 870 Posted: 20 Nov 2018 08:13 PM PST  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on California's wildfires (all times local):
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| Senate Demands Answers On Khashoggi Murder After Trump Stands By Saudis Posted: 21 Nov 2018 03:37 AM PST  Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on both sides of the aisle
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| Kansas County Official Who Made 'Master Race' Remark Resigns Posted: 20 Nov 2018 09:48 AM PST  A Kansas county official has tendered his resignation amid backlash over
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| Ghosn Arrest Is the Last Thing Macron Needs Posted: 20 Nov 2018 03:19 AM PST  The French government is calling for cool heads before jumping to conclusions on Carlos Ghosn. The Renault chairman's arrest in Tokyo yesterday was a gut-punch in Paris, where the administration had no clue the global face of France Inc. was under suspicion. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is scrambling to mitigate the economic risks – Renault's crucial alliance with Nissan is weakened as a result, and that poses a threat to jobs and investment in France.
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| These Are the Victims of the Chicago Mercy Hospital Shooting Posted: 20 Nov 2018 07:21 AM PST  An ER doctor, a pharmacist and a police officer were killed
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| Meet Heckler & Koch's VP9 Handgun: The Gun the Army Should Have Purchased? Posted: 20 Nov 2018 06:45 AM PST  The VP9 is sleek and modern looking, in part due to a complete lack of a hammer at the rear of the gun.
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| Mylan gets FDA warning letter over infractions at West Virginia plant Posted: 20 Nov 2018 03:26 PM PST ![Mylan gets FDA warning letter over infractions at West Virginia plant]( "Mylan gets FDA warning letter over infractions at West Virginia plant") Mylan NV said on Tuesday it is addressing issues raised in a warning letter it received earlier this month from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which flagged concerns regarding the drugmaker's manufacturing plant in West Virginia. The company said the FDA's letter, dated Nov. 9, followed a regulatory inspection of its Morgantown, West Virginia plant in April. As a result of the company's ongoing restructuring at the facility, Mylan said there is a temporary disruption in supply of certain products and it has discontinued some products and transferred others to different facilities.
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| Rain could hamper search for victims of California wildfire Posted: 19 Nov 2018 11:05 PM PST  CHICO, Calif. (AP) — It's been 12 days since Christina Taft started the frantic search for her mother Victoria, who refused to evacuate their Paradise home as flames neared, and six days since she gave authorities a cheek swab to identify remains that are likely her mother's.
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| 9 of Italy’s Most Beautiful Lake Hotels Posted: 20 Nov 2018 05:00 AM PST  You'll want to sit out on the terrace with an aperitivo in hand
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| Twitter Erupts Over Donald Trump's Low Oil Price 'Thank You' To Saudi Arabia Posted: 21 Nov 2018 05:57 AM PST  President Donald Trump sparked an immediate backlash on Twitter early
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| Thousands evacuated as Guatemala volcano erupts, then stops Posted: 19 Nov 2018 06:28 PM PST  Guatemalan authorities declared a red alert and evacuated around 4,000 people Monday after the Fuego volcano erupted for the fifth time this year, sending bursts of ash and lava down the mountain before its activity decreased and then stopped. Memories are still painfully fresh of the volcano's eruption in June, which swept away villages and left nearly 200 people dead and 235 missing. The Institute of Volcanology's director Pablo Oliva said the volcano's activity level had dropped significantly by late Monday.
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| Xi's Manila Visit Yields Raft of Deals as Duterte Embraces China Posted: 20 Nov 2018 04:53 PM PST  Xi's two-day trip marks the first state visit to the Philippines by a Chinese president in 13 years. The visit reflects warmer ties that began when Duterte took office and pivoted toward China and away from the U.S., a longstanding defense ally. Among the 29 deals signed by the Philippines and China was a framework agreement that sets the stage for their joint oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea -- an issue that roiled ties between Beijing and Duterte's predecessor -- according to televised proceedings of the visit.
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| Officer, please let this patient and rather important cat into 10 Downing Street Posted: 20 Nov 2018 05:15 PM PST  Reporting from the steps of 10 Downing Street, one expects to be upstaged by the sudden appearance of the UK's Prime Minister Theresa May. But one news reporter found his broadcast instead overshadowed by a very patient cat waiting to be let inside the London premises by a police officer. SEE ALSO: A firefighter rescued a cat from the Paradise fire and she won't leave him alone The moment, which the BBC called "the most British thing you'll see today," was caught on Tuesday during a news report from Sky News' political correspondent Tom Rayner, discussing Brexit and May's future outside her famous residence. On such a characteristically rainy London day, this patient feline had every right to be let in. But folks, this is not just any cat. It's Larry, the 12-year-old tabby and official chief mouser to the Cabinet Office, who has been in residence at 10 Downing Street since February 2011. Larry, chief mouser to the Cabinet Office, and patient waiter outside doors.Image: UK GOvernment/wikicommonsLarry gained notoriety for being a general badass when reports of a beef with the Foreign Office's chief mouser, Palmerston, emerged in 2016. According to the UK government's website, Larry's official duties include "greeting guests to the house, inspecting security defences, and testing antique furniture for napping quality. His day-to-day responsibilities also include contemplating a solution to the mouse occupancy of the house." So, let this rather important cat in, officer. The most British thing you'll see today happened in Downing Street this morning, and it involved @Number10Cat and a thoughtful police officer[tap video to expand] pic.twitter.com/patlVNAFQW — BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) November 20, 2018 Sky News' Rayner was fine with being upstaged, acknowledging the importance of the four-pawed attention-seeker. I'm just glad you're being treated with the respect you deserve — Tom Rayner (@RaynerSkyNews) November 20, 2018 The moment was not lost on Twitter, which saw countless posts from people unpacking the complexities of Larry's conundrum. The cat's looking at the camera like 'can you do something about this, mate?' https://t.co/jaG20w6KW7 — Shannon Power (@shannonjpower) November 20, 2018 Everybody keeps finding this cute. What I see is a reminder of all the systems in Britain that don't work because people won't set aside antiquated traditions and adopt simple solutions like installing a cat door. https://t.co/zXHY5uuCj1 — Matt Steinglass (@mattsteinglass) November 20, 2018 Can almost hear the copper's thoughts.. "Will I, won't I, should I?" https://t.co/EDR8haxPlh — Marty Miller�� (@MartyMtweets) November 20, 2018 WATCH: This robot dog has better dance moves than you
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| Meet the 5 Best .45 Caliber Handguns on the Planet Posted: 19 Nov 2018 07:14 PM PST Do you agree?
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| The 2019 Toyota RAV4 Has Personality Again Posted: 20 Nov 2018 04:00 AM PST  One of the first compact crossovers is once again a compelling choice.
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| WaPo Publisher Slams Trump's 'Dangerous' MBS Response: Khashoggi 'Deserves Better' Posted: 20 Nov 2018 02:16 PM PST  Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan denounced President Donald Trump's
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| Cyber Monday Deals On Nintendo Switch Bundles, Games And Accessories Posted: 20 Nov 2018 02:27 PM PST  The hunt is on for some of Black Friday and Cyber Monday's best gaming deals,
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| U.S. setting up 'observation posts' along Turkey-Syria border Posted: 21 Nov 2018 12:20 PM PST  The United States is setting up "observation posts" along parts of the border between Turkey and Syria to help keep the focus on defeating Islamic State militants in Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday. The observation posts would not require additional U.S. troops being sent to Syria, Mattis told reporters. The Pentagon says it has about 2,000 troops in Syria.
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| Suicide bomber targets clerics in Afghan capital, 50 killed Posted: 20 Nov 2018 07:44 PM PST  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted a gathering of hundreds of Islamic scholars in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing at least 50 people as Muslims marked the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.
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