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• Correction: Military Plane Crash story

  03-05-2018 23:58 via yahoo.com
  PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (AP) — In a story May 2 about the crash of a military cargo plane, The Associated Press erroneously reported the age of the plane based on information from Puerto Rico's National Guard. The plane was about 40 years old, not more than 60 years old.
  
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• Report: Pilots struggled to control crippled Southwest jet

  03-05-2018 23:42 via yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — The pilots of a Southwest Airlines jet struggled to handle the plane after an engine blew apart at 32,000 feet over Pennsylvania last month.
  
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• Gigi Hadid Apologizes For Vogue Italia 'Blackface' Controversy

  03-05-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  Gigi Hadid and Conde Nast have both issued apologies for the model's May cover
  
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• School shooter suspect's brother released again on probation

  03-05-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The younger brother of Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz is getting out of jail again after violating probation for previously trespassing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, site of the Feb. 14 massacre that killed 17 people.
  
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• Did Giuliani admit Trump obstructed justice in firing Comey?

  03-05-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  When Donald Trump's new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said on Fox News that Donald Trump fired James Comey over the Russia investigation, did he essentially admit that Trump obstructed justice?
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro defies foreign censure, offers 'prize' to voters

  03-05-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  By Vivian Sequera and Andrew CawthorneCARACAS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Maduro scoffed at international criticism of Venezuela's upcoming May 20 vote in which he is seeking re-election and offered a prize for those who vote with a state-issued card.Venezuela's mainstream opposition is boycotting the election on the grounds it is rigged in favor of the 55-year-old socialist incumbent."So they're not going to recognize Maduro around the world.
  
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• U.S. says will be consequences for China's South China Sea militarization

  03-05-2018 22:36 via yahoo.com
  By David Brunnstrom and Idrees AliWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has raised concerns with China about its latest militarization of the South China Sea and there will be near-term and long-term consequences, the White House said on Thursday.U.S. news network CNBC reported on Wednesday that China had installed anti-ship cruise missiles and surface-to-air missile systems on three outposts in the South China Sea.Asked about the report, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told a regular n
  
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• Paul Ryan Reverses Course, Accepts House Chaplain Rescinding Resignation

  03-05-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday that he accepts House Chaplain
  
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• Would you spend $1,000 on a mint julep at the Kentucky Derby?

  03-05-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  For the past 13 years, Woodford Reserve has sold $1,000 mint juleps at the Kentucky Derby.Ever since Woodford Reserve started the $1,000 Mint Julep Cup program, they have raised over $450,000 for charity.This year, the effort raises money for the Jennifer Lawrence Arts Fund, which the Kentucky-born actress founded in 2016 to help provide access to the arts for children in the Greater Louisville area.
  
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• Giuliani ends any question of why Donald Trump fired James Comey

  03-05-2018 22:15 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow points out that Donald Trump's new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said on Fox News that Donald Trump fired James Comey over the Russia investigation, and wonders what happens now that there is such an overt admission on the matter.
  
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• Investigators search for cause of deadly cargo plane crash

  03-05-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (AP) — Military investigators began the arduous task Thursday of answering why a C-130 Hercules cargo plane being flown into retirement by an experienced crew plunged onto a Georgia highway. Families and friends of the nine airmen, meanwhile, grieved and took note of the fact that Puerto Rico's planes are the oldest in the National Guard inventory.
  
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• Budweiser brewer orders 800 Nikola hydrogen-powered semi trucks

  03-05-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  Nikola Motor Company, the startup maker of hydrogen-electric-powered semi-trucks, has received quite an order.On Thursday, Anheuser-Busch announced it plans to purchase up to 800 of the company's semis.The order will effectively replace Anheuser-Busch's entire semi fleet with trucks powered by renewable energy.
  
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• US military pilots injured by Chinese lasers in Djibouti: Pentagon

  03-05-2018 21:51 via yahoo.com
  Chinese nationals have on multiple occasions shone military-grade laser pointers at US pilots operating out of the American base in Djibouti, the Pentagon said Thursday.Officials have issued a formal diplomatic complaint and demanded Beijing investigate a series of incidents dating back several weeks, spokeswoman Dana White said.In one case, two pilots on a C-130 cargo plane suffered minor eye injuries as they came in to land at the base in the Horn of Africa nation, another spokeswoman, Major S
  
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• Grab your grass skirt: Southwest will soon fly to Hawaii from Sac

  03-05-2018 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Southwest announced Thursday that Sacramento International Airport is intended to be among the first four airports it will use for flights to Hawaii.“We are honored to have been selected by Southwest to be among the initial mainland gateway airports to Hawaii,” said Mark Haneke, manager of air service development and marketing for the Sacramento County Department of Airports.In addition to Sacramento, Southwest hopes to add flights to Hawaii from Oakland Metropolitan Airport, San Die
  
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• Nine dead in crash of U.S. military plane on retirement flight

  03-05-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  Officials said the plane, a Hercules WC-130, was believed to be around 50 years old but was in good mechanical condition, and was making what had been scheduled to be its last flight.The WC-130 is a transport workhorse of the U.S. military.All nine crew members died, Brigadier General Isabelo Rivera, assistant general of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, said in a statement.
  
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• The Latest: Military crash victims leave behind wives, kids

  03-05-2018 21:31 via yahoo.com
  PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (AP) — The Latest on a military cargo plane crash in Georgia (all times local):
  
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• Drivers cash-in after armored truck makes it rain on highway

  03-05-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  Indiana State Troopers are threatening to arrest anyone who grabbed any of the $600,000 seen flying along an interstate.
  
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• Search for missing MH370 solves 19th-century British shipping mystery

  03-05-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  Two Victorian shipping mysteries may have been solved thanks to the £50 million search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. While sonar devices have failed to pinpoint the wreckage of the Boeing 777 which disappeared with 239 people on board in March 2014, they have located a pair of shipwrecks on the Indian Ocean seabed. One is believed to be West Ridge, a 220-foot iron barque, built in Scotland, which was lost while carrying British coal to India in 1883, claiming the lives of
  
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• There's Virtually No Way Trump Could Win The Nobel Prize This Year For North Korea

  03-05-2018 21:13 via yahoo.com
  Three months ago, President Donald Trump used his first State of the Union
  
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• Jeep Wrangler Pickup Caught in Spy Photos

  03-05-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  Tailgate Could Include Innovative Drop Function
  
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• Kentucky Derby: Showers may dampen Saturday's 'Run for the Roses'

  03-05-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  Over 100,000 people will descend on Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, for the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday evening.
  
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• Brinks Truck Mishap Spews About $600,000 in Cash on Highway

  03-05-2018 20:14 via yahoo.com
  Many motorists returned the money they collected. Others, however, were not as honest.
  
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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders Responds To Michelle Wolf: I Hope She Can Find Happiness

  03-05-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has responded publicly to
  
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• This Week Was A Great Reminder That Trump Is A Huge Liar

  03-05-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  It's been another cataclysm of a news cycle in which President Donald Trump
  
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• Advocates for transgender prisoners applaud recent rulings

  03-05-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  A Colorado inmate's lawsuit is among a string of court cases in the U.S. involving the treatment of transgender inmates in state and federal prisons. Advocates count a number of landmark policy changes and rulings in recent years. Here's a look at some of them:
  
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• Transgender inmate says she was raped despite raising fears

  03-05-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  DENVER (AP) — A transgender inmate who is suing Colorado's corrections agency says she was raped at a men's prison hours after a federal judge denied her request to block the prison from keeping her in a disciplinary unit, according to court records and the woman's attorney.
  
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• Victim tied up during Lincoln home-invasion robbery

  03-05-2018 19:32 via yahoo.com
  Three men and a teenager were arrested after a home-invasion robbery in Lincoln in which they held a man at gunpoint and tied up his hands, the Placer County Sheriff's Office said.All are believed to be from the Sacramento area.
  
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• U.S. complains to China after laser incidents in Djibouti

  03-05-2018 19:29 via yahoo.com
  The United States formally complained to China after Chinese nationals pointed lasers at U.S. military aircraft near Djibouti in a number of incidents in recent weeks, the Pentagon said on Thursday.The U.S. military has been grappling with lasers being pointed at aircraft for decades.
  
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• NBC, ABC Say Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Was Not Wiretapped, Issue Corrections

  03-05-2018 19:19 via yahoo.com
  NBC News and ABC News are walking back earlier reports that claimed federal
  
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• Iran's foreign minister says no renegotiating nuclear deal

  03-05-2018 19:17 via yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's foreign minister took to YouTube on Thursday to criticize President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw from the nuclear deal, saying Iran will not "renegotiate or add onto" the atomic accord.
  
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• Judge OKs taking DNA, photos of Golden State Killer suspect

  03-05-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors can collect DNA, fingerprints and body photographs of the former policeman accused of being California's Golden State Killer.
  
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• Of course slavery wasn't a choice, Kanye West. And neither is poverty

  03-05-2018 18:56 via yahoo.com
  West has embraced a core value of modern conservatism: that our lives are primarily the product of our choices.For much of his career, West presented himself as an unabashed capitalist with black nationalist leanings.Last week, he shared a picture of himself wearing one of President Donald Trump’s signature Make America Great Again hats and hailed the conservative pundit Candace Owens as a thought leader he admires.
  
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• Report: Principal jokes about telling police special needs student has gun

  03-05-2018 18:51 via yahoo.com
  A principal in Texas has apologized for a comment she made regarding an elementary school student in special education.Ponderosa Elementary School Principal Shanna Swearingen was overheard saying the comment regarding the student, who has a history of running from class, on April 17 in front of three staff members, Click2Houston reported.Swearingen's comment found its way to a Spring neighborhood Facebook page.
  
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• Will DNA submitted to genealogy sites also finally catch the Zodiac Killer?

  03-05-2018 18:31 via yahoo.com
  A scant hope of catching the Zodiac Killer perhaps lies on the back of a postage stamp, licked by the murderer 50 years ago.The arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, the man law enforcement believes is the Golden State Killer, has sparked myriad questions about the use of genealogy websites to revive long-cold cases.After DeAngelo’s capture, investigators revealed they submitted the East Area Rapist’s DNA to an open-source genealogy website called GEDmatch, where it found a match with a r
  
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• The Latest: Judge OKs DNA collecting in serial killer case

  03-05-2018 18:21 via yahoo.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a man suspected of being California's Golden State Killer (all times local):
  
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• Group running asylum caravan fears spotlight comes at a cost

  03-05-2018 18:18 via yahoo.com
  TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The group that organized a monthlong caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States wanted to draw attention to the plight of people fleeing violence. If headlines are any measure, it has been a smashing success.
  
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• Russia says 2 dead in fighter jet crash off Syrian coast

  03-05-2018 18:10 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — A Russian fighter jet crashed Thursday off the coast of Syria, killing both pilots, according to Russia's Defense Ministry, which said the plane did not come under fire and that the crash may have been caused by a bird getting sucked into one of the engines.
  
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• Use of genealogy site to trace Golden State Killer raises concerns

  03-05-2018 18:09 via yahoo.com
  The arrest of a suspected serial killer and notorious rapist in California using DNA and a public genealogy website has been hailed as a triumph of ingenuity by law enforcement."What if you become uninsurable because of a genetic test?" said Joseph Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.Could they also be denied health insurance because of a genetic predisposition to some malady?
  
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• US commandos help Saudis against Yemen rebels: report

  03-05-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  A team of elite US Green Beret commandos deployed to the Saudi border of Yemen last year to help find and destroy Huthi rebel missile caches, the New York Times reported Thursday.Since Yemen's brutal conflict erupted three years ago, Huthi rebels have fired multiple ballistic missiles toward Riyadh and other Saudi cities.The unannounced move shows a deepening US involvement in Yemen's war that has seen the country spiral toward famine and claimed almost 10,000 lives.
  
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• 27 more women have accused Charlie Rose of sexual harassment

  03-05-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  After being accused of sexual harassment by eight women and losing his positions at CBS News and PBS, Charlie Rose may have been staging a comeback.According to Page Six, Tina Brown said she was approached to produce a series from Rose, who wanted to interview other men accused of sexual misconduct.In November, CBS News fired Rose one day after eight women accused the longtime anchor of sexual harassment in an investigation by The Washington Post.
  
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• The price of Musk cutting off analysts? For Tesla, it's $2 billion

  03-05-2018 17:47 via yahoo.com
  Ducking analysts' questions has a price: $2 billion.Tesla Inc investors gave a rare rebuke to iconoclastic Chief Executive Elon Musk on Wednesday after he cut off analysts asking about profit potential, sending shares down 5 percent despite promises that production of the troubled Model 3 electric car was on track.Tesla's future depends on the Model 3 and the company said that it had largely overcome production bottlenecks, with Musk vowing a dramatic turnaround that would reverse losses and gen
  
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• Rudy Giuliani: Trump reimbursed Cohen for $130,000 Stormy Daniels payment

  03-05-2018 17:43 via yahoo.com
  Giuliani insists Trump only found out what his money was used for several days ago and that it was “perfectly legal,” but legals experts say it may have violated the law.
  
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• CBS News Hires Firm to Investigate Sexual Harassment as 27 New Charlie Rose Accusers Come Forward

  03-05-2018 17:40 via yahoo.com
  Managers were reportedly informed of the allegations
  
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• California DMV reveals more hurdles ahead for self-driving cars

  03-05-2018 17:37 via yahoo.com
  The California Department of Motor Vehicles explained on Monday one of the reasons why self-driving cars aren't buzzing around the Golden State's roads: human drivers still have to take over too often. In response to a request from the DMV, eight companies intent on putting driverless cars on California's roads submitted annual "disengagement reports" that detail when humans were forced to take charge, reportedThe Mercury-News.MORE: Nissan's self-driving car tech explained The reports reveal jus
  
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• Scientists warn Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano may erupt as earthquakes rattle area

  03-05-2018 17:24 via yahoo.com
  Due to frequent low magnitude earthquake activity, officials are cautioning the public on the eastern side of Hawaii’s Big Island to take safety preparations in case Kīlauea Volcano erupts.
  
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• 'Golden State Killer' suspect once planned to kill ex-police chief who fired him

  03-05-2018 17:24 via yahoo.com
  The former California police chief who fired suspected "Golden State Killer" Joseph DeAngelo said investigators told him DeAngelo had once planned to kill him.
  
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• Budweiser-maker taps Nikola for up to 800 hydrogen-powered semi trucks

  03-05-2018 17:19 via yahoo.com
  Anheuser-Busch bet big on hydrogen fuel for its semitrailer trucks Thursday.The Budweiser beermaker announced it would buy up to 800 big rigs from Nikola Motor Company by 2025 and nearly replace its entire dedicated corporate fleet with trucks powered by renewable energy.The agreement is largely contingent on Nikola building hydrogen refueling stations across the country, mostly along Anheuser-Busch’s frequently used routes.
  
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• Camille Cosby Says Husband's Guilty Verdict Is 'Mob Justice' In Bizarre Statement

  03-05-2018 17:14 via yahoo.com
  Camille Cosby spoke out for the first time since her husband and comedian Bill
  
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• Arizona Passes Education Budget To End Teacher Walkout

  03-05-2018 17:14 via yahoo.com
  Arizona teachers appeared ready to head back to their classrooms after the
  
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• Horse sues former owner for $100,000 after being left severely underweight and suffering from lice

  03-05-2018 17:13 via yahoo.com
  A horse is suing its former owner for neglect after it suffered “extreme pain, distress and permanent injury”.The equine, named Justice, is taking Gwendolyn Vercher to court to recover $100,000 (£74,000) in damages to pay towards future care costs.The stallion is represented by the Animal Legal Defence Fund in Portland, Oregon.
  
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