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Nov 14, 2018
A National Guard contingent of 100 military police trained to seek and identify human remains will reinforce coroner-led recovery teams, cadaver dogs and forensic anthropologists already scouring the ghostly landscape, left by a fire that has killed at least 48 people. The grim search is concentrated in the little that is left of Paradise, a Sierra foothills town in Butte County, California, about 175 miles (280 km) north of San Francisco, that was overrun by flames and largely incinerated last Thursday. The killer "Camp Fire," fed by drought-desiccated scrub and fanned by strong winds, has capped a catastrophic California wildfire season that experts largely attribute to prolonged dry spells that are symptomatic of global climate change.
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Nov 14, 2018
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian woman whose fiance died on a Lion Air flight that plunged into the sea was photographed in her wedding dress and professed her love for him on the day they were to have been married.
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Nov 14, 2018
Israel's hawkish defence minister has resigned in protest at Tuesday's ceasefire agreement with Hamas, accusing Benjamin Netanyahu of "surrendering to terror". The resignation of Avigdor Lieberman, one of Mr Netanyahu's coalition partners, rocks the Israeli government and could trigger fresh elections in the Jewish state. Mr Netanyahu looks likely to take over the defence ministry himself, meaning he would simultaneously serve as Israel's prime minister, defence minister, foreign minister and health minister. Mr Lieberman said he was quitting over Israel's decision to accept a ceasefire with Hamas rather than more forcefully confront the Islamist militant group in Gaza. "What happened yesterday - the truce combined with the process with Hamas - is surrendering to terror. It has no other meaning," he said. "What we're doing now as a state is buying short-term quiet, with the price being severe long-term damage to national security." He called for fresh elections "as early as possible". The resignation of Avigdor Lieberman, one of Mr Netanyahu's coalition partners, has rocked the Israeli government and could trigger fresh elections in the Jewish state Credit: REUTERS/Ammar Awad Mr Lieberman is withdrawing his five Yisrael Beiteinu MPs from Mr Netanyahu's coalition, meaning the government now has only 61 seats in the 120 member parliament. Mr Netanyahu is likely to try to keep going with his reduced majority, rather
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Nov 14, 2018
US Vice President Mike Pence expressed the Trump administration's strongest condemnation yet of Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims on Wednesday, telling leader Aung San Suu Kyi that "persecution" by her country's army was "without excuse". Pence also pressed Suu Kyi to pardon two Reuters journalists who were arrested nearly a year ago and sentenced in September to seven years in prison for breaching the Official Secrets Act. "The violence and persecution by military and vigilantes that resulted in driving 700,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh is without excuse," Pence told Suu Kyi in remarks open to the media before they went into private talks on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Singapore. "I am anxious to hear the progress that you are making of holding those accountable who are responsible for the violence that displaced so many hundreds of thousands and created such suffering, including the loss of life," he added. Suu Kyi, seated next to Pence, was stony-faced as he spoke Credit: ATHIT PERAWONGMETHA/ REUTERS Leaders of Southeast Asian nations, who will meet Pence on Thursday, are also expected to call for those responsible for atrocities in Rakhine state to be held "fully accountable", according to a statement the Asian countries prepared for a summit, reflecting a stronger line being taken within the group. Suu Kyi, seated next to Pence, was stony-faced as he spoke. Rohingya Muslim refugees wait for food aid at Thankhali refugee camp in
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Nov 14, 2018
Former President Barack Obama gave Michelle Obama's new memoir "Becoming" a
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Nov 14, 2018
Several hundred members of the migrant caravan moving through Central America
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Nov 14, 2018
Donald Trump berated Theresa May over perceived failings on Iran, unfair trade deals and Brexit during a foul-tempered phone call, it has been reported. The US president is said to have lashed out at Ms May after she phoned him on Friday to congratulate him on the Republican Party's showing in the midterm elections. Mr Trump's party lost control of the House of Representatives and made only small gains in the Senate.
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Nov 14, 2018
Fox News host Sean Hannity continued his attack on Jim Acosta Tuesday evening,
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Nov 14, 2018
For months, the struggle to work out a temporary fix for the Irish border stood in the way of a Brexit deal. Now, it turns out the solution looks neither temporary nor solely for the Irish border. As the agreement gets picked over by Theresa May's Cabinet, it will become clear that in signing up to the so-called backstop to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, the U.K. may be committing itself to something more permanent.
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Nov 13, 2018
The death toll in Northern California's Camp fire climbed higher on Tuesday as
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Nov 13, 2018
Beauty gift sets are a great last-minute stocking stuffer gift for just about
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Nov 13, 2018
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on a California man accused of making a hoax call that led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man (all times local):
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Nov 13, 2018
Deadly wildfires are continuing to burn in Northern and Southern California. The Camp Fire in Northern California is now the deadliest fire in the state's history, having killed at least 42 people. The Woolsey Fire and Hill Fire continue to burn in Southern California. All three fires began on Thursday.
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Nov 13, 2018
Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
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Nov 13, 2018
A 10-year-old Arizona girl says she was able to ward off a potential kidnapper
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Nov 13, 2018
Brenda Snipes has been found at fault in a number of disputes over her handling of elections over the past few years, exasperating both Republicans and Democrats in the state.
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Nov 13, 2018
The vast majority of elected officials in New York City signed a letter to
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Nov 13, 2018
The White House on Tuesday issued a carefully worded defense of its decision
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Nov 13, 2018
He's a very good dog, no matter his politics
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Nov 13, 2018
A leaked image from a Ford dealer presentation shows the smaller SUV.
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Nov 13, 2018
At least 50 people have died from the raging wildfires consuming parts of California, making them the deadliest fire disaster in the state's history. State officials say a prolonged drought created a "recipe for destruction," especially for the town of Paradise, north of Sacramento. Fires have already burned over 110,000 acres and destroyed thousands of homes, including those owned by celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Gerard Butler.
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Nov 13, 2018
BERLIN (AP) — A 94-year-old former SS concentration guard on trial on hundreds of counts of accessory to murder painted himself Tuesday as an unwilling participant in the Nazi machinery of death.
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Nov 13, 2018
CNN sued Donald Trump's administration Tuesday, alleging the White House violated journalist Jim Acosta's rights under the constitution by revoking his press credentials following a heated exchange with the US president. "The wrongful revocation of these credentials violates CNN and Acosta's First Amendment rights of freedom of the press, and their Fifth Amendment rights to due process," the news network said in a statement announcing the lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington. The White House had suspended Acosta's hard pass after he sparred at a news conference with the president, who demanded that the reporter yield the microphone and called him a "rude, terrible person" when he did not immediately comply.
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Nov 13, 2018
Even as online platforms tightened rules for political ads, digital spending set new records in the 2018 US midterm elections and appears poised for further growth in 2020. Digital media campaign spending rose 2,400 percent from the 2014 midterms to $1.8 billion, roughly 20 percent of the total $8.9 billion in ad spending, according to preliminary estimates from the research firm Borrell Associates. Online spending, much of it on social networks like Facebook, has been a significant factor in campaigns for a decade, but tighter rules imposed by digital giants in the wake of the 2016 election could have curbed some of that growth.
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Nov 13, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the democratic socialist who unseated Rep. Joe Crowley in a shocking upset earlier this year, expressed "outrage" on behalf of her constituents over the opening of a new Amazon headquarters in Long Island City, Queens. Amazon is a billion-dollar company. The tweets were sent just hours after the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon plans to open two new east coast locations, one in in Crystal City, Va. and another Long Island City, creating a total 25,000 jobs in the process.
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Nov 13, 2018
It may have contributed to a disaster that killed 189 people
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Nov 13, 2018
Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
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Nov 13, 2018
Approximately 100 of an estimated 11,000 migrants, less than 1 percent those U.S. officials are tracking across four groups, may reach the U.S. border south of San Diego on Sunday.
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Nov 13, 2018
The United States will step up enforcement of sanctions on Iran, national security adviser John Bolton said on Tuesday, as Tehran tries to find ways to evade the restrictions in oil trade and in banking. "The objective has been from the beginning to get oil exports from Iran down to zero," Bolton said. As the British say: 'Squeeze them until the pips squeak'." The United States announced reinstatement of sanctions earlier this month as the Trump administration tries to force Iran to curb its nuclear and missile programs as well as its support for proxy forces in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and others in the Middle East.
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Nov 13, 2018
President Donald Trump plans to fire Department of Homeland Security Secretary
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Nov 12, 2018
The wildfire raging in Northern California is now the deadliest in state
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Nov 12, 2018
The two new weapons, which have been under testing and development for several years now, are advanced variants of existing weapons - the AIM-9X air-to-air missile and the AIM 120-D. Upgraded variants of each are slated to be operational by as soon as next year.
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Nov 12, 2018
After a delay in ballot counting following last week's midterm election,
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Nov 12, 2018
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has agreed to allow some wounded Huthi rebels to be evacuated, following a visit to the region by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, his office said Tuesday. The issue has proved a sticking point in previous peace talks and the move could now pave the way for fresh negotiations, Britain's foreign ministry said in a statement. "The Saudi-led coalition (has) agreed to the evacuation of wounded Huthis from Yemen, one of the key stumbling blocks to the UN Geneva talks in September," it added.
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Nov 12, 2018
A judge on Monday denied Florida Republican Senate nominee Rick Scott's request that voting equipment in Broward County be impounded for security when not in use, proposing instead that three armed deputies be assigned to increase security at Broward election headquarters. During an emergency hearing in the lawsuit brought Sunday by Scott's campaign, his lawyers asked Judge Jack Tuter to impound ballots and machines in Broward County, citing concerns about Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes's handling of the count, given her past convictions for violating elections law and her office's failures to report vote counts since last Tuesday's election. Take away the concerns of the citizens, take away the concerns of the public that this election process will be protected," said Scott attorney Jason Zimmerman.
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Nov 12, 2018
A quick-thinking man says he survived the raging wildfire tearing through
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Nov 12, 2018
Former First Lady Michelle Obama has revealed she did not initially believe that her husband, Barack Obama, could have won the presidency in 2008. Although she already gave him his blessing, Ms Obama writes in her new memoir Becoming she was also "harbouring a painful thought: Barack was a black man in America, after all. The former first lady could not stomach the idea of Mr Obama becoming the nation's elected leader.
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Nov 12, 2018
California residents Menissa and Ken Porter described how they escaped the wildfire that ravaged their town.
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Nov 12, 2018
A third-generation Mexican-American artist hopes to show fellow Americans a
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Nov 12, 2018
In a move to give competitors a run for their money, eBay has launched the
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Nov 12, 2018
President Trump warned Democrats that it would be a "warlike posture" if they used their newfound House power to investigate him. But what can Democrats actually do?
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Nov 12, 2018
A black security guard was shot dead by a police officer as he held down a
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Nov 12, 2018
A photo of Wisconsin high school students appearing to give a Nazi salute went
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Nov 12, 2018
Ancient Egyptians seem to have been "cat people," or at least cat mummy people. Researchers have dug up several mummified cats alongside about 100 wooden cat statues in a tomb complex near a pyramid built for the pharaoh Userkaf, who reigned from 2291 B.C. to 2289 B.C., the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced Nov. 10. The burials are located near the site of Saqqara in Egypt.
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Nov 12, 2018
Forget about Tide Pods
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Nov 12, 2018
Extreme fire behavior will continue to challenge firefighters in Southern California early this week as they look to gain ground on two large wildfires.
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Nov 12, 2018
Viewers of Fox News were given the gift of learning about Trumpy Bear on
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Apr 24, 2018
The first of 10 victims was identified as Anne Marie D'Amico, who worked at an investment management firm.
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Apr 24, 2018
The Toronto van attack suspect is a socially awkward student who graduated from college last week, his former classmates say. Alek Minassian, a 25-year-old student, was arrested after 10 people were killed by a van in northern Toronto on Monday evening. He was taken into custody after the rented vehicle ploughed into a crowd, leaving a further 15 people hospitalised. Video footage showed a suspect being handcuffed after a tense stand-off with armed police. Authorities are still attempting to establish a motive for the attack. The Globe and Mail spoke to three of Minassian's former classmates who described him as being socially awkward, believing he may have suffered from a social or mental disability. Police now inside home of Toronto van suspect. Alek Minassian lives in Richmond Hill, north of Toronto. (Picture by CBC's Natalie Nanowski). pic.twitter.com/DGPAB8VfZa— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) April 23, 2018 Minassian lives in nearby Richmond Hill and has been a student at Seneca College, according to his LinkedIn page. One classmate said he graduated from the college only last week. Another student, who worked with Minassian on a school project in 2015, expressed his surprise that the suspect was even capable of hiring and driving a vehicle, adding he didn't know how a steering wheel worked when he knew him. Other classmates suggested he had never exhibited any indication of possessing extremist views or violent tendencies and was described by one couple as being "fr
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Apr 24, 2018
President Donald Trump has reportedly increased his use of a private cell
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Apr 24, 2018
A monkey can't sue over copyright infringement of his selfies because he's not
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Apr 23, 2018
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has expressed his "bitter sorrow" after dozens of Chinese tourists were killed when a bus they were travelling in plunged off a bridge. Thirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans perished in the accident south of Pyongyang Sunday night, Chinese officials and state media said. In a rare admission of negative news from North Korea's tightly controlled propaganda network, the KCNA news agency on Tuesday said Kim met personally with the Chinese ambassador in Pyongyang and later visited survivors in hospital.
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Apr 23, 2018
Police in Saraland, Alabama, said a disturbance at a Waffle House there very
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Apr 23, 2018
Police have named they suspect in a deadly van attack in Toronto as 25-year-old Alek Minassian. Authorities say Mr Minassain drove his car through a busy street in Toronto on Monday at 1:30pm local time, killing at least 10 people and wounding at least 15 others. The suspect came from the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, police said.
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Apr 23, 2018
George HW Bush has been admitted to a Houston hospital after contracting an infection that spread to his blood, a family spokesman said on Monday. Mr Bush, 93, was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital on Sunday, a day after a funeral was held for the former president's wife, Barbara Bush, spokesman Jim McGrath said. "President Bush was admitted to the Houston Methodist Hospital yesterday morning after contracting an infection that spread to his blood," said Mr McGrath. "He is responding to treatments and appears to be recovering." His wife of 73 years died last week, after she decided to seek comfort care instead of medical treatment. Former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush walk their dog in 2008 Credit: Evan Vucci/AP Her death marked the end of the longest presidential marriage in American history, followed only by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, who have been married for 71 years. John and Abigail Adams — married for 54 years — held the record for much of American history; Abigail Adams, like Mrs Bush, was wife to one president and mother to another. And Mr Bush remains America's longest-living president, having surpassed Gerald Ford, who died at 93 years and 165 days, last November. He will celebrate his 94th birthday in June. George HW Bush, Laura Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump in a group photo at the funeral service for first lady Barbara Bush on Saturday Credit: Paul Morse/AP The former president has been in a wheelchair for t
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Apr 23, 2018
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have added another royal tot to their
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Apr 23, 2018
The driver suspected of killing 10 people and injuring 15 others when he ploughed a rental van into pedestrians in Toronto will make his first court appearance on Tuesday when details of a motive for the attack were expected to emerge.
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Apr 23, 2018
Fox News host Sean Hannity is speaking out following a report that he
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Apr 23, 2018
Suspect who allegedly shot and killed four people at a Nashville area Waffle House has been captured after a massive manhunt.
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Apr 23, 2018
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday strongly condemned airstrikes on a wedding in Yemen that killed dozens of people, including children, and called for an investigation. Yemen's Huthi rebels have blamed the Saudi-led coalition for the attack on the wedding in northern Hajjah province late Sunday. Guterres "strongly condemns the airstrikes on a wedding party in Hajjah and on civilian vehicles in Taez, where at least 50 civilians, including children, were reportedly killed and scores of others injured," said a UN statement.
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Apr 23, 2018
Armenia's opposition lawmaker Nikol Pashinyan has been leading mass anti-government protests that culminated with the resignation of newly appointed Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian on Monday. A fortnight ago, few in Armenia would have believed that the 42-year-old could bring tens of thousands of people out onto the streets of Yerevan and other cities, eventually forcing the veteran leader to resign. Before these protests, Pashinyan was mostly associated with the tragic events following the 2008 presidential vote that first brought Sarkisian to power, when 10 people died in clashes between police and supporters of the defeated opposition candidate.
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Apr 23, 2018
Travis Reinking, the 29-year-old suspected of killing four people Sunday in a
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Apr 23, 2018
The man was accused of groping a female passenger before the plane took off.
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Apr 23, 2018
Inspecting its 737 engines round-the-clock on Monday, Southwest canceled 3 percent of its total flights, inconveniencing several thousand passengers.
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Apr 23, 2018
The baby weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces, and his name has not yet been announced.
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Apr 23, 2018
BENTON, Ky. (AP) — Jeff Dysinger's daughter survived two bullets from a classmate at her Kentucky high school this year, but he hasn't joined in the national outcry over guns that escalated after 17 people died in a Florida school shooting three weeks later.
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Apr 23, 2018
Esther Roberts stands in her friend's field in Somers, Wis., which sits directly across the road from the massive Foxconn development site in Pleasant Prarie, WIs. At the moment when Esther Roberts decided to run for elected office, she was standing far from her home in Somers, Wisc., amid a sea of pink hats at the March for Women in Washington, D.C., in January 2017. Roberts is typical of the thousands of women who have entered the political arena in the past 18 months in the wake of Donald Trump's election.
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Apr 23, 2018
A soon-to-be celebrity bachelor and a much-despised reality TV bachelor revved
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Apr 23, 2018
Did you have a happy Tax Day? Are you feeling grateful for the Republican tax
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Apr 23, 2018
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — In a story April 22 about protests in Armenia, The Associated Press misspelled the protest leader's name. It's Nikol, not Nikola.
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Apr 23, 2018
Aleksandr Kogan, the University of Cambridge psychology professor who
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Apr 23, 2018
These stunning images reveal the remains of a more than century-old sunken ship that has been preserved beneath freezing Lake Superior. The ship looks almost exactly the same as it did the day it sunk beneath waves all those years ago.
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Apr 23, 2018
Combines visuals, sounds, and scents to make your travel as relaxing as possible.
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Apr 23, 2018
China on Monday reassured Pakistan that relations between the two countries were as firm as ever and would "never rust", ahead of a meeting this week between President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that could unnerve Islamabad. China and Pakistan like to call each other "all weather friends" and their traditional close ties have long been viewed with suspicion by Pakistan's neighbor and traditional enemy, India.
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Apr 23, 2018
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Korean Air Lines said Monday that two daughters of its chairman will resign from their executive positions amid mounting public criticism over the women's behavior and allegations that the family engaged in smuggling.
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Apr 23, 2018
The hot hatch is expected to eschew the automatic transmission to go manual-only.
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Apr 23, 2018
James Shaw Jr, who snatched an AR-15 rifle from a gunman at a busy Tennessee restaurant, says his was a "selfish" act of self-preservation
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Apr 23, 2018
Siblings Prince George and Princess Charlotte were seen walking into the hospital for a visit.
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Apr 22, 2018
LIMA, Peru (AP) — A 41-year-old Canadian who traveled to Peru to study hallucinogenic medicine was killed by a mob in a remote corner of the Amazon rain forest after people blamed him for the slaying of an elderly shaman, authorities said Sunday.
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Apr 22, 2018
Linus Phillip, 30, had been killed by police
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Apr 22, 2018
Jung Pak, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says there is little to fall back on if talks between President Trump and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un fail.
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Apr 22, 2018
Retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) could muster up only lukewarm praise for
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Apr 22, 2018
The "This Week" Powerhouse Roundtable debate the week in politics, including the legal issues facing President Trump.
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Apr 22, 2018
The case against President Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, is one of many legal battles the White House is facing. The panel talks with MSNBC Anchor Ayman Mohyeldin about the strategies being utilized for Cohen's problems.
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Apr 22, 2018
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet in central China this week, Beijing announced Sunday, as the Asian powers work to improve strained ties. The two leaders will hold an "informal summit" in the city of Wuhan on Friday and Saturday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after talks with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj. Xi and Modi "will set a general direction, identify new goals and create a new dynamic for the growth of China-India relations.
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Apr 22, 2018
Newly released body camera footage shows police officers looking for 16-year-old Kyle Plush, who called 911 twice before his death, but does not show them getting out of their patrol car.
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Apr 22, 2018
The chemical weapons inspectors reached the city of Douma, now under Russian and Syrian control, two weeks after the suspected attack took place.
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Apr 22, 2018
Iran's top diplomat warned President Donald Trump to not pull out of the 2015
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Feb 27, 2018
A fight broke out in the maximum security section of the Cook County Jail in Illinois. Two inmates were taken to area hospitals for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Sixteen inmates were charged with 'mob action.'
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Feb 27, 2018
The parents of missing doctor Timothy Cunningham shared the last text message they received from their son before his disappearance two weeks ago. Cunningham, a highly regarded epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, went missing after he left work mid-day on Feb. 12, complaining of feeling ill. After Cunningham, 35, failed to report to work or contact his family over the next two days, his parents, Terrell and Tia-Juana Cunningham, drove down to Georgia from their house in Maryland to check on their son.
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Feb 27, 2018
Former White House photographer Pete Souza dug deep into his archives to troll President Donald Trump, once again.
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Feb 27, 2018
By all accounts, the most recent episode of "Walking Dead" was tragic (RIP Carl). In the Season 8 midseason premiere on Sunday, Carl enjoyed a touching moment with his sister Judith (Chloe and Sophia Garcia-Frizzi), saying goodbye before his inevitable death from a zombie bite.
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Feb 26, 2018
Georgia's lieutenant governor said on Monday he would work to derail a multimillion-dollar tax cut that would benefit Delta Air Lines unless the company reinstated its relationship with the National Rifle Association. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who also serves as president of the Georgia state Senate, intimated in a tweet he would "kill any tax legislation" as punishment to Delta, which last week said it would end its discount program for members of the NRA. Delta, headquartered in Atlanta, is one of more than a dozen companies that have distanced themselves from the gun lobby following the massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school on Feb. 14.
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Feb 26, 2018
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) told his state's striking teachers they "need to be back in the classroom" as he spoke at a series of town halls on Monday. Speaking and taking questions in Wheeling, Martinsburg and Morgantown throughout the day, Justice urged the state's educators to end their strike Tuesday and promised he'd establish a task force in the next seven to 10 days to look into some of their concerns. The comments come days after Justice faced criticisms that he's missing in action at the state Capitol. His administration has denied a Freedom of Information Act request to view his calendars and appointment books.
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Feb 26, 2018
A Democratic group is suing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) over his refusal to call special elections for two seats in the state legislature. In December, two Republican lawmakers ? an assemblyman and a state senator ? resigned to take jobs in the Walker administration. The governor has said he won't call a special election for the vacant seats, leaving them to be filled in the regularly scheduled November election, in order to save the state money. Democrats contend that Walker is delaying the vote in hopes of holding on to two GOP seats after Democrats unexpectedly won a January special election in a Wisconsin district that Donald Trump had carried handily in 2016.
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Feb 26, 2018
An American tourist has been arrested in Japan after police found the severed head of a woman in a suitcase in his holiday rental flat. Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, 26, from New York, is currently in custody and being questioned by police following the discovery in Osaka last week. The victim is believed to be a woman, 27, from Sanda in Hyogo prefecture, who was last seen on CCTV cameras alongside Mr Bayraktar, just hours before she went missing on February 16. Security footage reportedly captured the pair meeting at a train station in Osaka around midnight and then entering the apartment building together. The woman had earlier told a friend that she was planning to meet a man she had met via a social networking site, according to local newspapers. Arms, legs, and a torso were also found in a mountainous area nearby Credit: AFP Her relatives raised the alarm with police on February 17 when she failed to return home and her mobile phone stopped working. Mr Bayraktar was captured on security footage entering and leaving the flat several times on February 16 with a suitcase, but there was no further sign of the woman. Six days later, police searched the flat and arrested Mr Bayraktar after receiving a tip that he was confining a woman in the flat before discovering a head in a suitcase. Arms, legs, and a torso were also found in a mountainous area nearby. Mr Bayraktar is thought to have arrived in Japan in January for a sightseeing trip and was booked to stay in the flat for around a week. He has denied t
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Feb 26, 2018
Anne Monoky is still in a neck brace after the incident six months ago.
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