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• Waffle House shooting suspect arrested by Nashville police

  23-04-2018 22:16 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  By Tim GhianniNASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Nashville police on Monday arrested the suspect in the weekend killing of four people at a Waffle House restaurant, ending a manhunt that began when the gunman ran naked from the scene into nearby woods, authorities said.Photos posted online by police showed Travis Reinking, a 29-year-old construction worker suspected of opening fire at the restaurant early Sunday, in the back of a police car.Metropolitan Nashville police Lieutenant Carlos Lara said tha
  
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• Man who stole $1.2 million in fajitas sentenced to 50 years in prison

  23-04-2018 22:02 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  Gilberto Escamilla, a former juvenile center employee in Cameron County, Texas, confessed to stealing the fajitas over the course of years.        
  
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• Waffle House shooting suspect Travis Reinking captured in woods after 34-hour manhunt

  23-04-2018 22:00 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  A tip from a construction worker led police to Travis Reinking, 29, of Morton, Ill.        
  
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• Driver hits pedestrians in Toronto

  23-04-2018 21:51 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  A van apparently jumped a curb Monday in a busy intersection in Toronto, striking several people. Canadian police said the driver was later taken into custody. Canada's Prime Minister said "our hearts go out to everyone affected." (April 23)        
  
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• U.S. military veteran receives world's first total penis and scrotum transplant

  23-04-2018 21:50 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  The recipient is recovering well and likely to regain both urinary and sexual function after the most extensive penile transplant to date.        
  
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• Macron in Washington DC to walk the line between criticism and adulation with Trump

  23-04-2018 21:47 via RT US News
  
  As Emmanuel Macron arrives in Washington, the French President is expected to face pressure to tackle Trump on Iran, trade, and climate change, all while continuing to strengthen his cosy relationship with the US president.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Southwest cancels more U.S. flights as it inspects engines

  23-04-2018 21:36 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Southwest Airlines Cocanceled more flights on Monday as it worked to complete inspections of engines like the one that failed last week in a deadly accident over Pennsylvania.Flightaware.com, a website that tracks aviation cancellations, said Southwest canceled 129 flights on Monday, or 3 percent of its total flights, and delayed 468 other flights, or 11 percent.Southwest said the cancellations were the result of the company’s announcement last Tuesday that it would begin voluntarily stepp
  
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• White House: Need to see 'concrete actions' from North Korea

  23-04-2018 21:21 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says North Korea must show some 'concrete actions' before any sanctions will be lifted.        
  
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• Russiagate’s next target: John Bolton?

  23-04-2018 21:01 via RT US News
  
  Is President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser John Bolton a secret Russian stooge? NBC news thinks he might be.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Gov’t Fines Delta Passenger $500 for Snack She Took From Plane

  23-04-2018 20:58 via The Western Journal
  
  A Delta Air Lines customer was hit with a $500 fine from customs for saving an apple she’d received on her flight from Paris back to the United States. Crystal Tadlock of Arvada, Colorado, said a flight attendant gave her the apple in a plastic bag. She wasn’t hungry, but decided to save it in her…
  
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• Macron Arrives in US for Trump Meetings

  23-04-2018 20:50 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte arrived at Joint Base Andrews Monday afternoon for their three-day state visit to the U.S. (April 23)        
  
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• Duchess of Cambridge gives birth

  23-04-2018 20:45 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  The U.K.'s Duchess of Cambridge gave birth Monday to a healthy baby boy - a third child for Kate and Prince William and fifth in line to the British throne. (April 23)        
  
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• Presenting the royal baby

  23-04-2018 20:31 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge leave the hospital with their new baby son. He was born earlier Monday. (April 23)        
  
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• Report: EPA Insiders Reveal Pruitt’s Been Set Up

  23-04-2018 20:28 via The Western Journal
  
  A former Environmental Protection Agency official likely behind negative media stories about EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt doesn’t have all his facts straight, according sources familiar with the agency’s inner-workings. Former Trump campaign official Kevin Chmielewski, who’s also former EPA deputy chief of staff operations, gave congressional Democrats a list of accusations against Pruitt, detailing the administrator’s alleged…
  
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• The official state visit of French President Emmanuel Macron

  23-04-2018 20:07 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
          
  
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• Yeti cuts ties with NRA Foundation, lobbyist says, sparking boycott cries for cooler company

  23-04-2018 19:52 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  In a letter, NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer said the group cut declined to do business with the NRA Foundation.        
  
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• Newest royal baby heads home hours after birth

  23-04-2018 19:35 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William have left a London hospital and headed home with their newborn son. (April 23)        
  
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• Huckabee Sanders: Dems Have to Decide if They Love US More Than They Hate Trump

  23-04-2018 19:31 via The Western Journal
  
  "The Dems will not approve hundreds of good people."
  
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• Sea ice near Alaska was at lowest level since at least 1850

  23-04-2018 19:18 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  The amount of sea ice in the Bering Sea west of Alaska was less this winter than any year since written records of commercial whalers started in 1850, before the Civil War.        
  
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• Historic photo: George H.W. Bush, George W. and Laura Bush, the Clintons, the Obamas and Melania Trump huddle for a picture

  23-04-2018 19:11 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  President Jimmy Carter was out of the country and Rosalynn Carter was ill, but four former presidents and four first ladies who gathered at the funeral of Barbara Bush took a few minutes to pose for an iconic photo.        
  
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• Did Waffle House shooting suspect's father violate gun laws by returning his weapons?

  23-04-2018 19:02 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  It is unclear whether Travis Reinking or his father violated any firearms laws in Illinois or Tennessee before the Waffle House shooting that left four dead.        
  
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• Suspect was delusional before Nashville shootings: police reports

  23-04-2018 18:49 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Two years before police say Travis Reinking fatally shot four people in a Waffle House in Nashville, he struggled with delusions that the singer Taylor Swift was hacking his phone and threatened to kill himself, according to police records.The 2016 episode in a drugstore parking lot in Morton, a village in central Illinois, was the first of several known police encounters captured in incident reports, which were obtained by local news media outlets and seen by Reuters after Sunday's shooting in
  
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• Ahead of Peace Talks, South Korea Shuts Down Propaganda Loudspeakers

  23-04-2018 18:44 via The Western Journal
  
  Just days before peace talks are scheduled to take place between the two countries, South Korea has turned off the loudspeakers that broadcast propaganda along its border with North Korea. According to the BBC, the broadcasts, which included everything from K-pop music to reports that criticized the North, stopped playing early Monday morning. The broadcasts…
  
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• ‘Nazi scum get out’: Milo Yiannopoulos chased out of NYC pub by socialists, bloggers (VIDEO)

  23-04-2018 18:33 via RT US News
  
  Conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos was hounded out of a Manhattan pub on Sunday by a group of political activists and reporters. Video of the incident shows the left-leaning mob shouting: “Nazi scum get out” at Yiannopoulos.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• GQ magazine puts Bible on list of classic books not worth reading, incurs the wrath of Christians

  23-04-2018 18:32 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  GQ has sparked a social media storm by calling the Bible “repetitive and contradictory” and placed it on a list of “21 Books You Don’t Have to Read.”        
  
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• GQ Magazine puts Bible on list of classic books not worth reading

  23-04-2018 18:30 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  GQ Magazine placed the bible on a list called “21 Books You Don’t Have to Read.” Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story.        
  
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• California's wild extremes of drought and floods to worsen as climate warms

  23-04-2018 18:16 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  A new study suggests the frequency of rapid, year-to-year swings from extreme dry to wet conditions may become more common in California as a consequence of man-made global warming.        
  
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• Prince William brings kids to meet their baby brother

  23-04-2018 18:15 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  Prince William has brought his children, four-year-old Prince George and Princess Charlotte, who turns three next week, to meet their new baby brother. (April 23)        
  
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• U.S. anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 15 percent in 2017: advocacy group

  23-04-2018 18:01 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Hate crimes targeting U.S. Muslims rose 15 percent in 2017, the second year of increases, according to a study released on Monday by advocacy group the Council on American-Islamic Relations.The group recorded 300 U.S. hate crimes targeting Muslims last year, ranging from the June beating of a Muslim man in the Bronx borough of New York City by attackers who called him a terrorist to a November incident when a Muslim family's Kansas restaurant was burned down.CAIR attributed the increase in part
  
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• Trump urges Mexico to stop illegal migration into US, says it may be condition for new NAFTA treaty

  23-04-2018 18:01 via RT US News
  
  Mexico should make efforts to stop people from illegally entering the US through its territory, President Donald Trump said. He also said the US could place the obligation on Mexico as part of a new NAFTA accord.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Prince William leaves hospital following birth of son

  23-04-2018 17:45 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  Britain's Prince William leaves the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital in London following the birth of his third child, a son. (April 23)        
  
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• Man convicted of hate crime for teaching dog Nazi salute

  23-04-2018 17:44 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  After teaching a dog to give nazi salutes & posting it online, a man has been convicted of a hate crime.        
  
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• Stomach-churning moment tornado rips into Florida bay caught on camera (VIDEOS)

  23-04-2018 17:33 via RT US News
  
  A tunnel tornado was spotted tearing across parts of Florida as high winds whipped up in the city of Fort Walton Beach Sunday. The US National Weather service received multiple reports of whirlwinds affecting the area.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Police used a dead man's finger to try to unlock his cellphone

  23-04-2018 17:24 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  Police in Largo, Florida tried using a dead man’s finger to unlock his phone. Is that legal? Nathan Rousseau Smith investigates.        
  
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• Trump’s Pompeo rant: President tweets frustration at ‘obstructionist Democrats’

  23-04-2018 17:16 via RT US News
  
  President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to vent his objections to the possibility that Democrats will prevent Mike Pompeo from being approved as secretary of state in the Senate.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• School Under Fire After Anti-Gun Walkout Leaves One Dead

  23-04-2018 17:12 via The Western Journal
  
  Students at a school in El Paso, Texas, were let out of classes Friday to make a statement about deaths caused by guns. But after a tragedy that took place during the school-organized protest, one student will never be coming back. Jonathan Benko, 11, was killed Friday during the event, The Associated Press reported. Although the…
  
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• Artificial sweeteners can still lead to obesity and diabetes, study claims

  23-04-2018 17:12 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  Diet soda, Sweet'n Low, Splenda? Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University study finds that zero-calorie sweeteners change how the body processes fats.        
  
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• California risks severe 'whiplash' from drought to flood: scientists

  23-04-2018 17:04 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  By Alister DoyleOSLO (Reuters) - California will suffer more volatile weather this century with a "whiplash" from drought to rain and mounting risks a repeat of the devastating "Great Flood" of 1862, scientists said on Monday.Climate change, driven by man-made greenhouse gas emissions, would drive more extreme shifts between hot and dry summers and wet winters in the most populous U.S. state, they wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.Global warming is making California and other regions wi
  
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• Celebrations greet royal birth of baby boy in U.K.

  23-04-2018 17:02 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  Kensington Palace says the Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to her third child, a boy, at London's St. Mary's Hospital. The news brought cheers from dedicated royal-watchers outside the hospital. (April 23)        
  
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• Gingrich Turns on Trump: ‘Totally Mishandled’ Rosenstein Memo

  23-04-2018 15:51 via The Western Journal
  
  A few days of patience would have saved President Donald Trump months of grief, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” Gingrich said Trump made a tactical error in May 2017 in the way he went about firing former FBI Director James Comey. The firing of Comey helped spark…
  
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• Miami police use stun gun on man accused of touching female passenger

  23-04-2018 15:50 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Jacob Garcia began screaming insults on Sunday when airline staff tried to move him to another seat after the woman and her boyfriend accused him of touching her inappropriately, according to a Miami-Dade Police Department arrest report.Police ordered everyone off the plane, which was about to depart for Chicago, according to the arrest report and an American Airlines statement.A stun gun had little effect on him, possibly because it did not attach properly through his clothing, the arrest repor
  
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• ‘Facebook has never cared’ about privacy: Cambridge Analytica app developer

  23-04-2018 15:49 via RT US News
  
  Through a simple quiz app, Aleksandr Kogan was able to collect the personal data of some 87 million Facebook users. However, tens of thousands of app developers did the exact same thing.
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• Star athlete, music artist and employee among those killed in shooting

  23-04-2018 15:45 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  Nashville Authorities have released the names the 4 victims who were fatally shot after police say 29-year-old Travis Reinking opened fire with an AR-15 rifle at a local Waffle House. For more on the story here is Zachary Devita.        
  
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• Waffle House suspect still at large a day after Nashville shooting

  23-04-2018 15:41 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  By Tim GhianniNASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - There have been no credible sightings of the 29-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of four people at a Waffle House restaurant over the weekend, police said on Monday, as a manhunt pushed into its second day.With the suspect still on the loose, Metro Nashville Police searched schools in the area near the restaurant in the Tennessee city's Antioch neighborhood.The suspected gunman, Travis Reinking, 29, originally from Tazewell County, Illinois, was l
  
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• Ssshh, don't say 'Macbeth'!

  23-04-2018 15:40 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  "Macbeth" stars Christopher Eccelston and Niamh Cusack explain why saying the play's title is considered bad luck in the theater and whether or not they believe in the superstition themselves. (April 23)        
  
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• AP-NORC Poll: Americans Back Teacher Raises

  23-04-2018 15:30 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  Amid strikes for higher pay, Americans overwhelmingly think that teachers aren't paid enough. Half said they'd even support higher taxes to get teachers raises, according to an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll. (April 23)        
  
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• Obama to deliver Mandela speech in contrast with Trump

  23-04-2018 15:24 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - US
  Former President Barack Obama will deliver a high-profile address in July marking the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth as he continues to shape his post-White House platform.
  
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• Despite overall sustained GDP growth in US, some cities still hit hard by extreme poverty

  23-04-2018 15:21 via GANNETT Syndication Service
  
  The US is in a period of historic economic growth. Major stock market indices have hit record highs and unemployment is at a near two-decade low. Yet, the poverty rate is on the rise, and several U.S. cities are becoming increasingly geographically and socially segregated by income.        
  
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• No need for Trump to pardon personal lawyer at this point, adviser says

  23-04-2018 15:13 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - US
  There is currently "no need" to pardon President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short said Monday.
  
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• ‘Bible is way more hip than GQ’ – Magazine under fire for putting holy book on irrelevant list

  23-04-2018 14:52 via RT US News
  
  GQ magazine has felt the biblical wrath of Twitter after placing the Christian holy book on a list of over-rated literature. The magazine described the Bible as “self-contradictory, foolish, and even at times ill-intentioned.”Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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