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• Republicans Who Thought North Korea Summit Would Save Election Now Rebooting

  28-05-2018 23:55 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― While President Donald Trump may have seen a successful summit
  
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• Tracking Alberto: Storm makes landfall on Florida Panhandle

  28-05-2018 23:50 via yahoo.com
  Subtropical Storm Alberto lumbered ashore Monday on the U.S. Gulf Coast, pelting white sand beaches with blustery winds and stinging rain that kept the usual Memorial Day crowds away.
  
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• 5 New Westworld Season 2 Theories From Episode 6, "Phase Space"

  28-05-2018 23:50 via gamespot.com
  
  After one of the strongest episodes in the series' history, Westworld goes back to its old tricks for "Phase Space," the sixth episode of Season 2. We're back to fractured timelines--there's another one added to the pile this week--and more speculation about who's a host and who's not.It may be that Westworld is better binged than watched on a weekly basis; the dense narrative places strict demands upon a viewer's recall and long-term memory. The weekly format allows Westworld's online theorist
  
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• Student seen walking to catch bus to graduation in viral photo given car by radio host

  28-05-2018 22:57 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of messages praising the determination of Corey Patrick came in from across the US after a local bus driver DeJuanna Beasely posted photos of the teenager to Facebook.Patrick, a graduate of Tarrant High School, had been making the same 90-minute journey all the way through his final year after his family - who do not own a car - moved out of the area.
  
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• Ebola vaccinations begin in Congo's northwest town of Bikoro

  28-05-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Officials began vaccinating health workers and others on Monday in Bikoro, where Congo's current Ebola outbreak was first declared at the beginning of May.
  
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• Conservative Christian attorneys gain influence under Trump

  28-05-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lawyers who espouse a conservative Christian agenda have found plenty of opportunities in Texas, suing on behalf of Bible-quoting cheerleaders and defending a third-grader who wanted to hand out Christmas cards that read in part "Jesus is the Christ!"
  
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• Elections Since Trump Suggest Democratic Base Energized for 2018

  28-05-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  Maddow talks with Kornacki about Democratic special election victories since the 2016 election, as well as significant shifts toward Democrats where Republicans managed to hold onto office, suggesting Democrats are energized for the midterm elections
  
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• Top New Games Releasing This Week On Switch, PS4, Xbox One, And PC -- May 27 - June 2

  28-05-2018 21:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection drops this week, while Nintendo Switch gets a few cult classic ports.
  
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• Migrant 'Spiderman' who saved child praised by France's Macron

  28-05-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  A Malian migrant who scaled a Paris apartment block to save a four-year-old child was hailed Monday as an "example" by President Emmanuel Macron, who welcomed him to the presidential palace and offered him citizenship.Two days after his daring rescue -- viewed millions of times online -- Mamoudou Gassama, nicknamed "Spiderman" by French media for his astonishing climbing ability, met Macron in the splendour of the Elysee Palace.It is only right that the nation be grateful," Macron told the 22-ye
  
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• Dark Souls: Remastered Reviews Roundup

  28-05-2018 21:30 via gamespot.com
  
  The 2011 From Software and Bandai Namco legend Dark Souls is back to terrorize you once again on Xbox One, PS4, and PCwith a brand-spanking new coat of paint. Dark Souls Remastered is out now, as are its reviews.While we are waiting for the Switch version of the remastered title to release this summer before our review, you can check out what we said about the original game in our Dark Souls review. Back in 2011, Kevin VanOrd gave the game a 9.5 stating "Any game can deliver a few cheap scares.
  
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• Woman escapes armed boyfriend after passing note to dog's vet 

  28-05-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  A woman escaped from an allegedly abusive and armed boyfriend by passing a note to staff at a veterinary hospital, US police said. Carolyn Reichle, 28, claimed she spent two days being held in a house in Florida and beaten by Jeremy Floyd, 39. She eventually persuaded him there was something wrong with her dog, according to a police report. The couple, and the dog, went to the DeLand Animal Hospital. In a scribbled a message given to a worker Miss Reichle wrote: "Call the cops. My boyfriend is t
  
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• Here's How Michelle Wolf Addressed Those Sarah Huckabee Sanders Remarks in Her Netflix Premiere

  28-05-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  "If anyone's an expert on hypocrites, it's Sarah Huckabee Sanders"
  
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• Teacher Who Stopped Indiana School Shooter: There Was No Other Choice

  28-05-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  Presented with the most dangerous decision of his life, Jason Seaman didn't
  
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• Memorial Day: Trump claims fallen veterans would be 'very happy and proud' at how country is doing

  28-05-2018 20:47 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has sparked fresh controversy by using his nation’s Memorial Day to suggest those who died fighting for the country would be “very happy and proud” with his his performance as president.Just hours before travelling to Arlington National Cemetery to speak at a Memorial Day remembrance ceremony, the president used Twitter to seek credit for the state of the economy and the low unemployment rate among people of colour.“Happy Memorial Day! Those who died for our
  
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• Croatia blocks extradition of suspect in Hamas murder

  28-05-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  Croatia's top court on Monday blocked the extradition of a Bosnian man to Tunisia over the alleged murder of an aerospace engineer, described by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas as one of its members.Mohamed Zaouari, 49, was killed in a hail of bullets outside his house in the Tunisian city of Sfax in December 2016."The Supreme court accepted the appeal of the suspect... and rejected the request for extradition from the Republic of Tunisia," the court said in a statement.
  
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• On 'sacred soil,' Trump lauds those who've fallen in service

  28-05-2018 20:16 via yahoo.com
  ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump paid a Memorial Day tribute at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, saying he came to "sacred soil" to "honor the lives and deeds of America's greatest heroes."
  
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• Israeli army kills Gaza fighter while thwarting border breach

  28-05-2018 20:06 via yahoo.com
  Israeli tank fire killed a Hamas fighter at a frontier outpost on Monday while soldiers chased down and caught two other Gazan militants who tried to cross into Israel, the military said.During their pursuit of the two Palestinians attempting to infiltrate armed with "knives, wire cutters and combustible material", the Israeli soldiers were shot at from inside the Gaza Strip, the military said in a statement."In response, an IDF (Israel Defense Forces) tank targeted an adjacent military observat
  
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• Russia urges harshest punishment for Ivan the Terrible painting attacker

  28-05-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Russia on Monday called for the harshest possible punishment after a visitor to Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery caused serious damage by attacking a famous 19th-century painting of Ivan the Terrible.Russia's deputy culture minister Vladimir Aristarkhov told a news conference the gallery on Monday that his ministry expects the man to receive "the most severe punishment possible"."We would like to initiate a discussion on toughening up the punishment for the vandalism of art," Tretyakov Gallery directo
  
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• Flight School Instructors Accused of Kidnapping Foreign Student, Trying to Deport Him

  28-05-2018 19:39 via yahoo.com
  A flight school instructor and his assistant were arrested after allegedly kidnapping a student, trying to send him back to China.
  
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• The Expanse Saved From Cancellation By Amazon--Season 4 Is Coming

  28-05-2018 19:37 via gamespot.com
  
  Update: Following reports that Amazon wanted to save the canceled show, The Expanse will ride again. During a conference dinner where he was being honored, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos broke the news that 10 minutes earlier he had gotten the call that his company was officially reviving the show. The Expanse's cast was in the audience for the moment and shared the news via social media.I'll just let him say it...#TheExpanse#RocinanteIsSafe#BreakingNews
  Thank you @JeffBezos pic.twitter.com/wxHN31zgJs&m
  
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• Ellicott City Floods: Army National Guardsman, Eddison Hermond, Missing Amid Maryland Floods

  28-05-2018 19:26 via yahoo.com
  A storm hit the town Sunday.
  
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• A Valedictorian Was Barred From Delivering His High School Graduation Speech. He Spoke by Megaphone Instead

  28-05-2018 19:18 via yahoo.com
  "The young people will win' because we’re finished being complacent"
  
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• Solo's Best Star Wars Cameo Is The Perfect Use Of Its Animated Universe

  28-05-2018 19:14 via gamespot.com
  
  Though Solo: A Star Wars Story tells the origin of the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy, and in doing so fills in a lot of the blanks in Han Solo's past, the movie is also loaded with other connections to the larger Star Wars universe. If you've yet to see Solo, consider this a spoiler warning. You should stop reading now.Whether it's references to other characters and planets, or the cameo by Warwick Davis reprising his role from Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, there's so much for Star Wars
  
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• France offers citizenship to Malian immigrant who scaled building to save child

  28-05-2018 19:10 via yahoo.com
  France on Monday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said.Video shows Mamoudou Gassama, 22, risking his life on Sunday as he climbed up the balconies to rescue the four-year-old who is clinging to a railing and glancing at the ground below, while horrified onlookers watched.The video went viral and Gassama, who has been nicknamed "Spider-Ma
  
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• EU to 'swiftly' hit Venezuela with sanctions over election

  28-05-2018 19:09 via yahoo.com
  EU foreign ministers on Monday agreed to "swiftly" adopt new sanctions against Venezuelan officials involved in Nicolas Maduro's re-election, which they said "lacked any credibility".At a regular meeting in Brussels, ministers from the 28 EU states gave their approval for work to start so that the sanctions can be formally imposed in June.The move comes after the European Union said last week it would consider fresh measures because the election failed to comply with "minimum international stand
  
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• This valedictorian's Catholic school banned his graduation speech. He delivered it outside with a bullhorn instead.

  28-05-2018 19:05 via yahoo.com
  Most high school valedictorians deliver their graduation speeches in overcrowded gymnasiums to slightly sleepy crowds, but for one Kentucky senior things played out very differently. Christian Bales, the valedictorian at Holy Cross High School in Covington, Kentucky, was recently banned from delivering his speech at the graduation ceremony. So he instead chose to deliver it from outside the building with a bullhorn — with his entire class watching on. SEE ALSO: Enormous pelicans terrorize
  
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• NATO, Russia to hold first talks since Skripal attack

  28-05-2018 18:51 via yahoo.com
  NATO will on Thursday hold its first formal talks with Russia since the nerve agent attack on a former Kremlin double agent in Britain, as the alliance seeks to counter Moscow's increasing assertiveness.Tensions between the transatlantic alliance and Russia have hit post-Cold War highs in recent years over Moscow's annexation of Crimea and more recently the attempted assassination of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the British city of Salisbury.NATO vehemently criticised Moscow ove
  
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• Ariana Grande Previews New Song With Nicki Minaj

  28-05-2018 18:49 via yahoo.com
  Ariana Grande just sweetened the deal.
  
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• Lava reaches Hawaiian geothermal plant

  28-05-2018 18:37 via yahoo.com
  Lava from Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano has covered a potentially explosive well at a geothermal power station. Zachary Goelman reports.
  
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• Palestinian killed in Israel strike in north Gaza: ministry

  28-05-2018 18:35 via yahoo.com
  A Palestinian was killed by Israeli tank fire into northern Gaza on Monday, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said.It named the dead man as Mohammed al-Rudeia, 30, and said another man was wounded.An army spokeswoman told AFP that two Palestinian men tried to breach the border fence "with the intention of carrying out an attack".
  
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• Without France, Lebanon would probably be at war, Macron says

  28-05-2018 18:25 via yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron has claimed credit for solving a political crisis in Lebanon last year and stated publicly that Saudi Arabia had held Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri for several weeks.Lebanon was plunged into crisis in November when Hariri resigned as prime minister while in Saudi Arabia, saying he feared assassination and criticizing the Saudis' regional rival Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.After international intervention, including by Macron, Hariri was able to leave the
  
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• Netanyahu says Iran can have no military presence in Syria

  28-05-2018 18:09 via yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he will press German and French leaders next week to support his position that Iran should have no military presence in neighbouring Syria.Netanyahu will travel to Germany and France for talks expected to focus on the US decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal -- long sought by Israel -- and the Iranian presence in Syria.Netanyahu said he may also meet British Prime Minister Theresa May.
  
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• Video shows police officer punching woman during New Jersey beach arrest

  28-05-2018 18:01 via yahoo.com
  In the now-viral video, an officer repeatedly punches 20-year-old Emily Weinman in the head. New Jersey police say the video fails to show the events that led to that moment.
  
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• India says it only follows U.N. sanctions, not U.S. sanctions on Iran

  28-05-2018 17:56 via yahoo.com
  By Nidhi VermaNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India said on Monday it abided by sanctions imposed by the United Nations but not those imposed by any other country, such as those announced by the United States against Iran.U.S. President Donald Trump this month withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal and ordered the reimposition of U.S. sanctions suspended under the 2015 accord.Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj said New Delhi's position was independent of any other country.
  
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• Hawaii volcanic eruptions cause more destruction

  28-05-2018 17:55 via yahoo.com
  Three weeks after Kilauea first exploded, the situation appears to be getting worse with new explosions destroying more neighborhoods.
  
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• Air Baltic orders 30 Bombardier C Series jetliners

  28-05-2018 17:54 via yahoo.com
  Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier announced Monday a firm order for 30 C Series jetliners from Latvian carrier Air Baltic, for US$2.9 billion.Air Baltic had been first in 2016 to buy the CS300 single-aisle, 150-seat aircraft, which were designed to compete with the workhorses of the aviation market, the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737.This latest deal brings Air Baltic's total number of CS300 jetliners to 50, making it the largest European customer of the C Series, with an option to buy an ad
  
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• Hero teacher speaks publicly for first time since Friday’s shooting

  28-05-2018 17:52 via yahoo.com
  “I want to make it clear that my actions on that day, in my mind, were the only acceptable actions I could have done given the circumstances, “ Science teacher Jason Seamen said on Monday, three days after being shot three times protecting his students.
  
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• Ellicott City flood: Man missing after '1,000-year' torrents devastate Maryland

  28-05-2018 17:43 via yahoo.com
  Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman said the priorities are finding the missing man - identified as Edison Hermond, 39 - and assessing the condition of buildings that house shops, restaurants and families.Mr Hermond was reported missing somewhere in downtown Ellicott City, Maryland at 12.30am on Monday.“It’s going to be a long road again,” Mr Kittleman told CNN about the second flood to hit the area in 22 months.
  
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• President Trump Pays Tribute at Arlington and Touts 'Best Economy in Decades' on Memorial Day

  28-05-2018 17:42 via yahoo.com
  He's expected to make remarks before an audience in the nearby amphitheater
  
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• Search Underway for Missing National Guardsman After '1,000-Year' Flash Flood Tears Through Ellicott City, Maryland

  28-05-2018 17:39 via yahoo.com
  "My heart is broken, thinking about what the people are going through here"
  
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• 'Spiderman' of Paris: folk hero fresh off migrant trail

  28-05-2018 17:34 via yahoo.com
  Mamoudou Gassama, the young Malian hailed as a hero in France for scaling a multi-storey building to rescue a child hanging from a balcony, is no stranger to danger.The 22-year-old "Spiderman", who was honoured by President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace and offered French citizenship, braved the Sahara desert, Libyan gangs and the Mediterranean Sea during his long odyssey to Europe.In 2013, the shy youth from the southwestern Malian town of Yaguine hit the migrant trail which claims thous
  
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• Republican Congressman On Retiring Early: All I Do Is Answer Questions About Trump

  28-05-2018 17:33 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Ryan Costello (R-Pa.) isn't running for Congress again next year because
  
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• Dog Kisses Maine Firefighter who Rescued Him From Roof

  28-05-2018 17:32 via yahoo.com
  The cute moment was captured on camera.
  
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• Memorial Day: Arlington National Cemetery rapidly running out of room forcing controversial Pentagon rethink

  28-05-2018 17:20 via yahoo.com
  Arlington National Cemetery, America’s most celebrated and hallowed military resting place is rapidly running out of space, forcing a controversial rethink on which veterans should be eligible to be buried there.The Virginia cemetery, founded at the time of the US Civil War, currently contains the remains of 420,000 former servicemen and women, among them assassinated US president John F Kennedy.It is also the location of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the focus of official remembranc
  
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• Olympian Gus Kenworthy Mourns Death Of Dog He Adopted From Meat Farm

  28-05-2018 17:08 via yahoo.com
  U.S. freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy wrote a gut-wrenching goodbye Sunday to a
  
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• Poland seeks permanent US troop presence, offers financing

  28-05-2018 17:02 via yahoo.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's defense minister said Monday that he has held talks with U.S. officials about having thousands of American troops permanently stationed as a deterrent in Poland.
  
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• Malaysia's Mahathir axes Singapore high-speed rail link

  28-05-2018 16:44 via yahoo.com
  Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday he was scrapping a project to build a high-speed railway to Singapore, in an ominous sign for the neighbours' famously fractious relationship.Mahathir, who won a surprise election victory this month against Najib Razak's long-ruling coalition, is seeking to repair the country's finances, which he says deteriorated dramatically after the former government became embroiled in a huge financial scandal.The leader said it was a "final decision" to
  
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• Israel sees an opportunity to drive a wedge between Iran and Russia in Syria

  28-05-2018 16:38 via yahoo.com
  Israel is increasingly optimistic that it may be coming close to its longheld goal of driving a wedge between Russia and Iran in Syria, a senior Israeli official said today.  Chagai Tzuriel, director general of the Israeli intelligence ministry, said he believed Russia was growing frustrated with Iran's presence in Syria and was worried that fighting between Israel and Iran would threaten Moscow's interests.  "My assessment is that the Russians are interested in stabilising their
  
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• Only Syrian army should be on country's southern border: Russia

  28-05-2018 16:36 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday only Syrian army troops should be on the country's southern border with Jordan and Israel, after Washington warned of "firm measures" over truce violations in the region.Rebels control stretches of southwest Syria, bordering the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, while Syrian army troops and allied Iran-backed militias hold nearby territory.The United States has voiced concern about reports of an impending Syrian army offensive in a "de-escalation zon
  
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• Spider-Man' of Paris, 22, Climbs Building to Save Child, 4, Dangling from Balcony

  28-05-2018 16:34 via yahoo.com
  Everyday heroes are just as spectacular as the ones in comic books!
  
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