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• Stunning new view of Jupiter flips Great Red Spot on its side

  17-08-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  A new view of Jupiter takes the usual shot of the planet's Great Red Spot and flips it on its side. The captivating new perspective comes from an image created by two citizen scientists who used data from the JunoCam on NASA's Juno spacecraft that's been in orbit for more than a year studying the planet, according to NASA. The north end of the planet is shown on the left side of the new photo (above) and that's where the Great Red Spot rages. SEE ALSO: Perhaps staring at this photo of a storm on
  
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• 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli Juror Transcript Full Of Brutal Insults

  17-08-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  It wasn’t easy finding jurors who didn’t automatically hate “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli’s guts.
  
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• Barcelona terror attack: van crashes into crowd at Las Ramblas, killing 'at least 13'

  17-08-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  You can continue to follow the latest from the Barcelona terror attack here.   Terror in Barcelona as van hits crowd in Las Ramblas Driver arrested after escaping scene on foot Spanish media reports 13 people killed Trump: 'we'll do whatever is necessary to help'  Barcelona attack: Everything we know  A white van plowed into a packed summer crowd this evening in Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas district. Barcelona police called it a terror attack and local media reported 13&n
  
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• The Oldest Ice Core Ever Discovered Reveals CO2 Levels Of Millions Of Years Ago

  17-08-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  Oldest ice core ever reveals CO2 levels were far lower 2.7 million years ago than they are today.
  
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• AP Explains: Why is Trump tweeting about a WWI general?

  17-08-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is being criticized once again for lauding the alleged tactics of Gen. John Pershing in dealing with Islamic extremists in the Philippines at the turn of the last century.
  
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• Southern anger: Nazis, KKK 'hijacking' Confederate debate

  17-08-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  CHULAFINNEE, Ala. (AP) — White Southerners who equate Old South symbols with regional pride rather than hate are even more on the defensive since neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen and other extremists became the face of the fight over Confederate monuments.
  
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• Trump refers to general wrongly believed to have shot Muslims with pigs' blood-dipped bullets after Barcelona attack

  17-08-2017 23:37 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump posted a tweet in the immediate aftermath of the Barcelona attack that suggested people should study a famed US general who was said - incorrectly - to have suppressed Muslim militants by shooting them with bullets dipped in pigs' blood.Then he said people should look at the history of an early 20th Century general, John Pershing.Another part of the legend is that he killed them with bullets dipped in pigs' blood.
  
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• Trump refers to general who mythically shot Muslims with pigs' blood-dipped bullets after Barcelona attack

  17-08-2017 23:37 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump posted a tweet in the immediate aftermath of the Barcelona attack that suggested people should study a famed US general who was said - incorrectly - to have suppressed Muslim militants by shooting them with bullets dipped in pigs' blood.Then he said people should look at the history of an early 20th Century general, John Pershing.Another part of the legend is that he killed them with bullets dipped in pigs' blood.
  
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• 'Fatbergs' Are the Scourge of City Sewers

  17-08-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  Please stop pouring grease down the drain.
  
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• Lost Art: Babbitt Bearings

  17-08-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  The lost art of babbitt bearings.
  
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• Endangered 2-Headed Turtle Spotted on Beach

  17-08-2017 23:27 via yahoo.com
  The team of biologists spotted another two-headed loggerhead turtle hatching last year.
  
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• Facing elections in Venezuela’s new normal, opposition asks: Do we want in?

  17-08-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  Since April, Venezuela’s opposition coalition seemed to be gaining the kind of support and momentum it was long criticized for lacking.Its calls for peaceful protests and boycotts were met by a broad, consistent turnout, and an unofficial referendum it organized in July led more than 7 million Venezuelans at home and abroad to condemn the increasingly authoritarian moves of President Nicolás Maduro’s government.The coalition was making powerful promises, like plans to set up a
  
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• The Latest: White nationalist contacted about Boston rally

  17-08-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on what organizers are calling a Free Speech Rally in Boston that some people fear actually will be a white nationalist event similar to the one in Virginia last wekeend (all times local):
  
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• Natalee Holloway's Dad Leads Investigators In New Special as Authorities Dispute Discovery of Remains

  17-08-2017 23:12 via yahoo.com
  Dave Holloway said he originally did not want her to go on the trip.
  
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• KKK leader threatens to 'burn' black Latina journalist and calls her a 'n*****' during interview

  17-08-2017 23:10 via yahoo.com
  An Afro-Latina journalist conducting an interview with a member of the Ku Klux Klan has said he threatened her so violently that she was concerned for her safety.Ilia Calderón, a Univision journalist with both African and Colombian heritage, agreed to visit KKK leader Chris Barker on his wooded North Carolina property.Almost immediately, Mr Barker asked her why she didn’t “go back” to her country of origin.
  
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• Barack Obama responds to Barcelona terror attack: 'Un abrazo'

  17-08-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  Barack Obama and the former First Lady Michelle have sent a message of support - and a hug - to the people of Barcelona and Spain after a terror attack that killed at least 13 people and injured scores more.“Michelle and I are thinking of the victims and their families in Barcelona.Americans will always stand with our Spanish friends,” he wrote.
  
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• Man believed to have killed wife, 7-year-old, dog, then self

  17-08-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A man is believed to have killed his wife, their 7-year-old son and the family dog in their New Jersey home before killing himself, authorities said Thursday.
  
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• GOP Rep. Peter King Says Trump Should Fire Steve Bannon

  17-08-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) on Thursday became the first elected Republican lawmaker to call for the firing of White House strategist Steve Bannon.
  
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• New York to axe Confederate busts from 'hall of fame'

  17-08-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  New York authorities are taking steps to remove two busts of Confederate commanders from a "Hall of Fame" as America's most populous city joins others in erasing symbols of the pro-slavery Civil War South.Bronx Community College said the bust of General Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, and another of one of his top generals, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, would be removed in two to three days."We want to make it sure we get it done quickly, but without caus
  
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• Far-Right Views Have Consequences On Campus

  17-08-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  A student of Mexican heritage can't find an audience for his views at Boston Universtiy.
  
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• 12-Year-Old Girl Was 'Brutally Murdered' After Texting Mom About Unknown Visitor

  17-08-2017 23:02 via yahoo.com
  A team of detectives is searching for a suspect in the savage killing of a Tennessee school girl.
  
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• Columbus officer who shot 13-year-old boy feared gunfight

  17-08-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The white Ohio police officer who fatally shot a black 13-year-old boy after a suspected robbery last year feared a "gun fight" with the teen, who the officer said pulled a gun from his pants, records show.
  
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• NY courts spokesman fired after saying he 'barely' worked

  17-08-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York state court system's longtime communications chief was fired Thursday after inadvertently telling a reporter that he "barely" went to work at his $166,000-a-year job.
  
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• Leading Republican senator joins criticism of Trump

  17-08-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Tennessee Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is the latest member of Trump's Republican Party to slam the president over his response to weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia."I do think there need to be some radical changes," Corker told reporters in Chattanooga, Tennessee.Corker said Trump "has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great and what it is today.
  
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• Over 129,000 Kids Attend Schools That Honor Confederate Leaders

  17-08-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  When over 129,000 kids go back to school this year, they will learn American history in a building that glorifies a Confederate leader.
  
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• The Latest: North Korea warns US on nuclear weapons talks

  17-08-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the North Korea crisis (all times local):
  
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• 911 Call Reveals Harrowing Escape of Woman Cops Call 'James Bond' After She Jumped Out of Car

  17-08-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  Jordan Dinsmore's suspected attackers have been arrested.
  
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• Messi, Ronaldo lead sports stars in condemning Barcelona attack

  17-08-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  Football icons and longtime rivals Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo joined Spanish sports stars around the world in expressing their grief after Thursday's terror attack in Barcelona left 13 people dead.Barcelona's most famous street Las Ramblas was packed with tourists when a van drove into the crowds, leaving scenes of carnage."I want to send my condolences and all my support to the families and friends of the victims of the terrible attack in our beloved Barcelona, ​​in addition
  
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• South Korea vows no war despite North's missile threat

  17-08-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  South Korea pledged Thursday that there would be no war on the Korean peninsula, as prospects of a pre-emptive US strike to destroy Pyongyang's nuclear missile program receded.South Korea's President Moon Jae-In moved to reassure his citizens that Seoul has an effective veto on US military action, after weeks of sabre-rattling from both US President Donald Trump and the North's Kim Jong-Un.
  
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• Hundreds Line Up, Dozens Ask To Be Arrested For Destroying Confederate Statue

  17-08-2017 22:24 via yahoo.com
  Four people turned themselves in to authorities in Durham, North Carolina, on Thursday to face charges for their role in toppling a Confederate monument during a protest on Monday.
  
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• Striking magazine covers criticize Trump's Charlottesville response

  17-08-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  Magazine covers slam Trump for "unsteady" response to last weekend's violent clashes in Charlottesville.
  
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• Barcelona attack: What we know

  17-08-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  A driver deliberately rammed a van into pedestrians on one of Barcelona's most popular boulevards on Thursday, killing at least 13 people in what Spanish police called a "terrorist attack".Tom Gueller, who lives on a road next to Las Ramblas said he saw the van speeding along the boulevard.It was just going straight through the middle of the crowds in the middle of the Ramblas," he told BBC radio, referring to the pedestrianised area.
  
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• Historians: Robert E. Lee and George Washington Are Not Equivalent

  17-08-2017 22:17 via yahoo.com
  The differences and similarities between Robert E. Lee and George Washington after Trump's lawyer sent an email arguing they're the same.
  
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• Trump's attacks could leave him friendless if impeachment comes

  17-08-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  By Richard CowanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has stepped up his attacks on Republican senators, an approach he may regret if he is someday impeached and the Senate has to weigh charges against him stemming from an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.More than half of the 11 Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would be central to any proceeding to remove Trump from office, have tangled with the Republican president, including on Thursday
  
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• Why Do Nazis Hate Jews?

  17-08-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  Other polls indicate a persistent suspicion and distaste for Jews as “pushy, clannish, unethical.”
  
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• How the world reacted to the Barcelona terror attack

  17-08-2017 22:06 via yahoo.com
  World leaders united in their condemnation of the Las Ramblas terror attack on Thursday. Spain The Spanish royal family issued an unusually strongly-worded statement: They are assassins, criminals who won't terrorise us. All of Spain is Barcelona." FC Barcelona said it was "deeply saddened" by the tragedy and the team's talismanic striker Lionel Messi said separately that people must reject "any act of violence". "There are many more of us who want to live in a world in peace, without hate and w
  
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• Stonewall Jackson's Descendants Want His Monuments Taken Down

  17-08-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  While attendees at last Saturday’s violent “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, may want to keep monuments to generals like Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson standing, some relatives of the Confederate leaders do not.On Monday, the Rev. Robert Wright Lee, IV, the former general’s great-great-great-great-nephew, said that he believed it was time to take down the statues of his ancestor.Now, William Jackson Christian and Warren E
  
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• Confederate monuments testify to the Union's unfinished victory

  17-08-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  The violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Va., is emblematic of an old American tradition of progressivism followed by racist reaction.
  
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• US soldier killed in battle with IS in Afghanistan

  17-08-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An American soldier was killed and several others were wounded in a battle with Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
  
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• Bodies strewn on street in Barcelona van rampage

  17-08-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  Barcelona's most famous street was packed with tourists when a van drove into the crowds on a sunny Thursday afternoon, leaving scenes of carnage and panic.People were crying," Xavi Perez, who sells sports magazines just 100 metres away from the attack, told AFP.Among the foreigners caught up on Las Ramblas was Aamar Anwar, a renowned Scottish human rights lawyer in Barcelona for a conference and had been walking down the boulevard when the terror unfolded.
  
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• The Latest: IS group takes responsibility for Spain attack

  17-08-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the van that ran into a crowd in Barcelona's Las Ramblas district (all times local):
  
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• 10-Year-Old Indian Rape Victim Delivers Baby After Denied Abortion

  17-08-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  "The child is too young for a normal delivery. Her pelvic bones are not strong enough to push the baby and she does not have the stamina to bear labor pain."
  
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• Trump reacts to Barcelona terror by touting (debunked) anti-Muslim war crime tale

  17-08-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  President Trump responded to the news of a terrorist attack in Spain by peddling a debunked legend about a general’s harsh tactics more than a century ago.
  
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• Driss Oukabir: who is the Barcelona suspect?

  17-08-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
    One of the vans used to carry out the murderous rampage at the heart of the city was rented by Driss Oukabir, said to have been a convicted criminal. Oukabir rented the white Mercedes van in the town of Santa Perpetua de la Mogada, 16 miles north of Barcelona, according to Spanish police. Scores of scores of innocent victims were mowed down as a van ploughed down the Spanish city’s hugely popular Las Ramblas shortly after 5pm. After careering off the road, the driver sped through cr
  
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• Van plows through crowd in Barcelona, killing 13

  17-08-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  By Pilar Suarez and Jordi RubioBARCELONA (Reuters) - A van plowed into crowds in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Thursday and a regional official said 13 people were killed inwhat police said they were treating as a terrorist attack.La Vanguardia newspaper said one of the suspected perpetrators had been killed in a shootout with police on the outskirts of Barcelona.Witnesses said the van zigzagged down one of Barcelona's busiest tourist avenues, Las Ramblas, mowing down pedestrians and leaving
  
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• BlackRock's largest mutual fund boosts energy holdings: manager

  17-08-2017 21:16
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlackRock Inc'slargest mutual fund hiked its exposure to "select names" in energy as the sector has lagged this year, one of its portfolio managers said on Thursday.
  
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• Everything we know about the Barcelona terror attack

  17-08-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
    At least 13 people were killed on Thursday when a driver deliberately slammed a van into crowds on Barcelona's most popular street in what police confirmed was a terror attack. The attack, the latest in a wave of vehicle rammings across Europe in recent years, caused panic on the streets of Spain's largest city and drew condemnation from world leaders. "We can confirm there are 13 dead and more than 50 injured," regional interior minister Joaquim Forn said in a tweet. Catalan po
  
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• Bikini-Clad Drunk Woman Bites Man's Fishing Line, Gets Arrested: Authorities

  17-08-2017 21:11 via yahoo.com
  A drunk woman bit a fisherman's line and took off with his lure, authorities said.
  
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• Mass burials begin for 300 Sierra Leone flood victims

  17-08-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  Sierra Leone buried at least 300 victims of devastating floods on Thursday, as fears grew of more mudslides and accusations of government "inaction" over deforestation and poor urban planning mounted.With the aim of clearing the overflowing central morgue, burials began around 1800 GMT in Waterloo, a nearby town where many victims of the Ebola crisis that hit the nation in 2014 were also laid to rest, according to a morgue official and an AFP journalist at the scene.President Ernest Bai Koroma w
  
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• 10 Surprising States That Have Confederate Statues

  17-08-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  Even some of the most liberal states have Confederate memorabilia.
  
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