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• Photos of the week: 12/29 - 1/5

  05-01-2018 23:59 via yahoo.com
  A powerful blizzard and blistering cold wreaked havoc on the East Coast and captivated headlines this week.
  
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• In the Biodiversity Arms-Race Paradox, Everyone Gets a Turn to Be the Loser

  05-01-2018 23:54 via yahoo.com
  It's like Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner on a microscopic scale.
  
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• Five heads found on car in Mexico Gulf state of Veracruz

  05-01-2018 23:46 via yahoo.com
  The heads of five men displayed atop a car were found on Friday in the Gulf state of Veracruz in southeastern Mexico, local authorities said, in the midst of a spike in violence in the country.The heads had been placed on the hood of an official car for the municipality of Tlacotalpan, along with a message containingthe initials of a Mexican drug cartel.Brutal displays of gang violence are not uncommon in Mexico.
  
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• Divided UN Security Council meets on Iran unrest

  05-01-2018 23:46 via yahoo.com
  The United States and Russia clashed over Iran at the UN Security Council on Friday as a third straight day of pro-regime rallies were held following a wave of deadly protests.US Ambassador Nikki Haley pushed for the meeting of the top UN body, arguing the unrest could escalate into full-blown conflict and drawing a comparison with Syria."The Iranian regime is now on notice: the world will be watching what you do," Haley warned.
  
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• CES 2018: A Festival of Self-Driving-Car Gadgets and Pampered Drivers

  05-01-2018 23:37 via yahoo.com
  The 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas promises to unveil a future of smarter, safer, and more efficient cars, and Consumer Reports will be there to help separate the truly feasible from...
  
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• Twitter makes it clear: Donald Trump will not be banned

  05-01-2018 23:31 via yahoo.com
  Twitter has been urged to remove Donald Trump’s account following his taunts targeting Kim Jong-un.Just days after Donald Trump’s Twitter taunting of Kim Jong-Un over nuclear war reignited calls for the company to ban the president from its platform, the social media company obliquely addressed the controversy in a statement defending its decision not to to censor “world leaders”.
  
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• Nikki Haley’s Diplomacy of Revenge Targets U.N. Relief Agency

  05-01-2018 23:28 via yahoo.com
  The United States threatens to pull the plug on hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the Palestinians.
  
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• 'Fire and Fury' review: The most fascinating thing about Michael Wolff's instant bestseller? It's not about Trump

  05-01-2018 23:26 via yahoo.com
  What does Trump think? Does Trump think? Does it matter? They’re questions you might hope a book about his presidency so far will answer – but it’s one more occupied with the looming black hole that appears to be enveloping the Oval Office.
  
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• Plane grounded 5,000 miles from destination after passenger smears feces all over both toilet cubicles

  05-01-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  A passenger plane was forced to land in Anchorage on its way to Hong Kong after a man smeared his feces on the walls of the in-flight bathroom, airports officials said.United Flight 895, which originated out of Chicago was diverted to Anchorage and grounded Thursday night due to a “passenger smearing feces everywhere,” Ted Stevens, of the International Airport Police, told a local CBS station.Airport Police say that the alleged excrement-smearer hit at least two of the bathrooms on t
  
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• Iran protests latest: Nikki Haley says the world is watching regime's response to unrest

  05-01-2018 23:24 via yahoo.com
  The United States called an emergency UN Security Council meeting to show the Iranian government that “the world will be watching” their response to this week’s protests, Ambassador Nikki Haley has said.Tehran responded by shutting off access to some social media and messaging apps, and broadcasting footage of other, pro-government rallies."The Iranian regime is finally on notice: The world will be watching what you do," she said on Friday.
  
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• Four Venezuelan generals placed on US sanctions blacklist

  05-01-2018 23:23 via yahoo.com
  The US Treasury placed four serving or retired Venezuelan generals on its sanctions blacklist Friday, raising pressure on the embattled government of President Nicolas Maduro.The Treasury Department alleged that the four were either involved in repressing protesters or tied up in major corruption schemes.Washington has already targeted Maduro himself for sanctions, and is a long-standing opponent of what it sees as his increasingly authoritarian regime.
  
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• University of Illinois expert helps Puerto Rico libraries

  05-01-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A University of Illinois expert is helping libraries in Puerto Rico assess and repair collections that were damaged by Hurricane Maria.
  
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• Global markets extend 2018 rally with fresh records

  05-01-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  The 2018 global equity rally continued apace Friday, with Asian and European markets posting healthy gains and Wall Street powering to fresh records once again.
  
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• Agency proposes rare fish be taken off endangered list

  05-01-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A tiny fish found only in remote waters in southern Oregon has been recommended to be removed from the federal endangered species list.
  
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• The Latest: Iran: UN meeting on protests is 'US bullying'

  05-01-2018 23:04 via yahoo.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on a U.N. Security Council meeting on the protests in Iran (all times local):
  
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• White supremacist faces terror charge after train stopped

  05-01-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An armed man believed to have ties to white supremacist groups has been charged with terrorism after he stopped an Amtrak train in Nebraska.
  
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• Republican Ohio treasurer drops out of US Senate race

  05-01-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Republican Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel announced Friday he is dropping his second bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, citing his wife's health.
  
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• US official: $2B at risk in suspension of aid to Pakistan

  05-01-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to $2 billion in U.S. aid could be affected by President Donald Trump's suspension of security assistance to Pakistan, which is accused of failing to crack down on Taliban militants targeting U.S. personnel in neighboring Afghanistan, a senior U.S. administration official said Friday.
  
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• Safety probe warns California's dam crisis a "wake-up call"

  05-01-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — "Long-term and systemic failures" by California dam managers and regulators to recognize inherent construction and design flaws at the tallest U.S. dam caused last year's near-disaster there, an independent panel of dam safety experts said Friday, calling it a wake-up call for dam operators around the country.
  
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• Race car driver Tucker gets more than 16 years for lending scheme

  05-01-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  A Kansas businessman and race car driver was sentenced to 16 years and 8 months in prison on Friday for crimes related to his online payday lending business, which prosecutors said made more than $3.5 billion as it exploited millions of cash-strapped consumers.Scott Tucker, 55, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan.Tucker did not make a statement at his sentencing, referring instead to a letter he submitted to the court in December.
  
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• The Wildest Moments From ‘Fire And Fury,’ The Trump Book Everyone Is Talking About

  05-01-2018 22:44 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Journalist Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury drew outsize attention this week, when excerpts were released that featured members of President Donald Trump’s administration openly questioning his mental stability, as well as explosive comments from his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
  
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• Trump administration considers eliminating immigration policy seen as a lifeline for thousands

  05-01-2018 22:35 via yahoo.com
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reviewing an judicial policy that could potentially reshape the way immigration courts work and thrust thousands of people’s legal status into question.Mr Sessions is questioning whether he should revoke judge’s ability to conduct “administrative closures” of immigration proceedings, which allow judges to close the cases without a decision.The announced review comes after Mr Sessions intervened Friday in the case of immigrant Reynaldo Cas
  
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• The Latest: Immigrant acquitted of killing faces US case

  05-01-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of an immigrant acquitted of San Francisco pier shooting (all times local):
  
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• 3 More Women Accuse Director Paul Haggis Of Sexual Harassment And Rape

  05-01-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  A total of four women have accused screenwriter and director Paul Haggis of some form of sexual misconduct ranging from harassment to assault and rape.
  
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• Third Republican calls for Sessions to resign

  05-01-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports that Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah is now the third Republican member of Congress calling for the resignation of Jeff Sessions, news that comes as Sessions was left out of a significant Trump meeting at Camp David.
  
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• The Latest: Sheriff: Slain deputy tried to help gunman

  05-01-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) — The Latest on a sheriff's deputy shot in and killed in suburban Denver (all times local):
  
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• California family found dead in apparent murder-suicide

  05-01-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities believe a man shot and killed his wife and two children before turning the gun on himself in their Southern California home, where their bodies were found Friday.
  
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• List of Trump administration departures grows

  05-01-2018 22:22 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow adds a new set of names to the already unprecedentedly long list of high-level Trump administration staffers who have left their positions, from the vice president's office to the NSA.
  
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• 5 Stories You Might've Missed While Following That Bombshell Book On Trump's White House

  05-01-2018 22:20 via yahoo.com
  A lot of news happened this week, and if you’ve spent the past few days following the drama around journalist Michael Wolff’s new book on the Trump White House, you might have missed some of it.
  
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• Philly cheesesteak-loving dad measured his child with them for a year

  05-01-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  Why record the growth of your newborn child the normal way when you could do it with your favorite food? Twitter user Brad Williams is getting a lot of notoriety for measuring his son in Philly cheesesteaks every month for the first year of his life.  It's not only cute, but also ensured that he got a Philly cheesesteak once a month for a year. Sounds like a win-win.Image: strangework.comThe pictures turned out adorably.Image: strangework.comI wouldn't advise doing the same with your favori
  
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• History offers Trump lesson in investigations

  05-01-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  Leon Neyfakh, host of the "Slow Burn" Watergate podcast, talks about how Nixon's effort to push back on the Watergate investigation compares to the Trump Republican effort to discredit the FBI and Robert Mueller's Trump Russia investigation.
  
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• What to Know About and How to Buy Tron, the Latest Surging Cryptocurrency

  05-01-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  Given its connections, this one is especially intriguing.
  
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• Court upholds $4M jury award in Cleveland police shooting

  05-01-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  CLEVELAND (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a $4 million jury award to the family of a man fatally shot by an off-duty Cleveland police officer in 2012.
  
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• GOP Senators Recommend Criminal Investigation Of Trump Dossier Author

  05-01-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  The Senate Judiciary Committee, which is supposed to be probing whether the Russian government actively colluded with President Donald Trump’s campaign team to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, made its first public criminal referral Friday, targeting a former British intelligence agent who sought to reveal that alleged collusion.
  
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• Indian man kidnapped and forced to marry woman, even as he cried through the ceremony

  05-01-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  A man was reportedly kidnapped and forced to marry a woman at gunpoint in India.
  
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• Immigrant Acquitted of Murder in Kate Steinle Case Sentenced to Time Served

  05-01-2018 21:21 via yahoo.com
  Jose Ines Garcia Zarate will be taken into federal custody
  
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• North Korea agrees to talks after U.S., South Korea postpone military drills

  05-01-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  By Christine KimSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea agreed on Friday to hold official talks with South Korea next week, the first in more than two years, hours after Washington and Seoul delayed a military exercise amid a standoff over the North's nuclear and missile programs.South Korea said the North had sent its consent for the talks to be held on Tuesday.The meeting will take place at the border truce village of Panmunjom where officials from both sides are expected to discuss the Winter Olympics,
  
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• Trump retreats to the woods of Camp David with Wolff on his tail

  05-01-2018 21:09 via yahoo.com
  Keen to seize on the momentum he and Republicans secured at the end of last year with the passage of a major tax overhaul, Mr Trump and senior party figures including Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, travelled to the presidential retreat in Maryland for a two-day session to draw up priorities for 2018.Reports said Mr Trump was said to be furious about its contents and the apparent betrayal contained therein.The Mercer Family recently dumped the leaker known as Sloppy
  
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• Who Is Michael Wolff? What to Know About the Author of the Explosive New Trump Book

  05-01-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  'Fire and Fury' is causing a huge stir in Washington and beyond
  
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• History Lessons: First jobs of famous historians

  05-01-2018 20:46
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - (This January 4 story has been refiled to remove reference to the Model Cities Program in the fifth paragraph, because this was not the program Drew Gilpin Faust worked for at...
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's Resolution Is a Huge Deal for Facebook — and the World

  05-01-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's resolution is an admission of the breadth of the problems facing Facebook.
  
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• California has ample weapons to fight Trump on drilling

  05-01-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the decades since a 1969 oil spill near Santa Barbara tarred sea-life and gave rise to the U.S. environmental movement, politicians and environmental activists have built up ample ways to make it difficult but not impossible for the Trump administration to renew drilling off California's coast.
  
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• ESPN Thinks This Could Be The End For Bill Belichick And The Patriots

  05-01-2018 20:38 via yahoo.com
  In an ironic twist, Tom Brady’s zealous longevity regimen ― and the acolyte who sells it ― could be what ultimately does him in.
  
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• Texas Man Who Used Grindr To Assault And Rob Gay Men Gets 15 Years

  05-01-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  A 21-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for using Grindr to rob and assault gay men.
  
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• Man alleges bobcat attack; condo owner says it was housecat

  05-01-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida contractor says he was attacked by a bobcat inside a woman's condo, but the animal's owner says her feline is no predator, just a 10-pound domestic longhair kitty named Calli.
  
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• Book revelations put new focus on Donald Trump's mental health

  05-01-2018 20:06 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump ‘is not psychologically unfit, he has not lost it’, said one longtime friend.The revelations in Michael Wolff’s explosive book about Donald Trump’s first year in office have renewed scrutiny of the president’s mental health.Although the White House has denounced Wolff’s Fire and Fury as “complete fantasy”, the book sheds light on concerns among top White House aides over Trump’s psychological fitness for America’s highest o
  
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• Little Boy's First Time Experiencing Snow Captured in Touching Video: 'Wow!'

  05-01-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  While many were dreading the snowstorm that slammed the East Coast this week, Clayton Watkins was not among them.
  
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• Safety report calls California dam crisis a wake-up call

  05-01-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — "Long-term and systemic failures" by California dam managers and regulators to recognize inherent construction and design flaws at the tallest U.S. dam caused last year's near-disaster there, an independent panel of dam safety experts said Friday, calling it a wake-up call for dam operators around the country.
  
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• New Bombshell From White House Tell-All Claims President Trump and Melania Are Leading Separate Lives

  05-01-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  The couple has separate bedrooms in both the White House and Trump Tower, Michael Wolff writes in "Fire and Fury."
  
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• FBI agent describes grisly warehouse in start of body broker's trial

  05-01-2018 19:54 via yahoo.com
  By Steve Friess and John ShiffmanDETROIT (Reuters) - The warehouse of a Michigan man who sold donated body parts to researchers was littered with dead flies, dog bowls and human remains “frozen together in flesh-on-flesh chunks,” a federal agent testified Friday.The grisly description came during the opening day in the federal trial of businessman Arthur Rathburn, who sold or leased donated body parts, including human heads, to medical researchers for two decades.Rathburn, however, i
  
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