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• US ex-cop who shot dead Australian woman to claim self-defense

  25-04-2018 23:58 via yahoo.com
  A former Minnesota police officer who shot dead an unarmed Australian woman will plead not guilty and claim self-defense, according to court documents filed Wednesday.Mohamed Noor shot Justine Damond last July in the Midwestern city of Minneapolis after she called police to report a possible rape.In a court filing Wednesday, Noor's attorneys disclosed that he would plead not guilty and claim self-defense and the use of reasonable force.
  
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• Warrant: Suspect's suspicious behavior drew police attention

  25-04-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — The gunman accused of opening fire at a Dallas home improvement store — killing one police officer and critically injuring two others — was initially detained because he was acting suspiciously and may have tried to steal from the store, an arrest warrant revealed Wednesday.
  
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• Chevron evacuates Venezuela executives following staff arrests

  25-04-2018 23:36 via yahoo.com
  U.S. oil major Chevron Corp has evacuated executives from Venezuela after two of its workers were imprisoned over a contract dispute with state-owned oil company PDVSA, according to four sources familiar with the matter.Chevron asked other employees to avoid the facilities of its joint venture with the OPEC nation's oil firm, the sources said.The arrests, in a raid by national intelligence officers, were the first at a foreign oil firm since Venezuela's government launched a purge last fall that
  
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• George H.W. Bush recovering in hospital: office

  25-04-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  Former US President George H.W. Bush, admitted to the hospital shortly after the funeral of his beloved wife, has been moved out of intensive care, his office said on Wednesday.Bush, 93, is feeling "good" and focused on the Houston Rockets' Wednesday night National Basketball Association playoff game, a statement from his office said.The 41st president was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital on Sunday morning, the day after the memorial service for Barbara Bush, his wife of 73 years.
  
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• Would Israel Attack S-300 Air Defenses in Syria?

  25-04-2018 23:29 via yahoo.com
  There is no shortage of reasons to be concerned about the entangled drama unfolding in Syria, as Russia maneuvers on a shifting landscape that could see Israel and Iran collide in a direct confrontation.Commentary in The Wall Street Journal on Monday urged caution on the part of Moscow, arguing that Russia has already nudged the regional arch-enemies closer to war.A recent Israeli strike on a base in Syria which killed seven Iranians, including four Quds Force officers, might have been swept und
  
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• DNA linked former police officer to serial killings in California

  25-04-2018 23:27 via yahoo.com
  A DNA match in the past six days tied a former police officer to some of the crimes committed by a California serial killer behind at least 12 homicides and 45 rapes throughout the state in the 1970s and '80s, police officials announced Wednesday.
  
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• Ford Will Stop Selling Fiesta, Focus In US by 2022

  25-04-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  Ford's North American car lineup will soon be just the Mustang and the upcoming Focus Active crossover.
  
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• Trump failure to consult Senate intensifies Ronny Jackson drama

  25-04-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  Leo Shane, deputy editor of Military Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about the botched nomination of Ronny Jackson as V.A. secretary, and how Trump's failure to work with relevant members of Congress before presenting a nominee has made matters worse.
  
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• A look at well-known serial killers in the US since 1971

  25-04-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former police officer who authorities suspect was an elusive serial killer who committed at least 12 homicides, 45 rapes and dozens of burglaries across California in the 1970s and 1980s has been arrested, authorities said Wednesday. Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, a former police officer, was arrested overnight and charged with first-degree murder in the 1980 killings of a Ventura County couple and was also arrested on suspicion of murder in the slayings of married
  
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• 17 Children's Books That Promote Understanding Of Autism

  25-04-2018 23:07 via yahoo.com
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 1 in 68
  
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• At the Supreme Court, Trump's tweets under scrutiny in travel ban hearing

  25-04-2018 22:51 via yahoo.com
  In ruling on the administration’s travel ban, a key issue for the Supreme Court is whether the statements and tweets by Donald Trump as a candidate are relevant to his actions as president.
  
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• The Toronto Van Attack Suspect Was Obsessed With Rejection From Women. He Is Not Alone Among Violent Men

  25-04-2018 22:50 via yahoo.com
  He is not alone among other violent men
  
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• Eurofighter doubts U.S. will use nuclear certification to tilt German jets bid

  25-04-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  By Andrea ShalalBERLIN (Reuters) - The head of Eurofighter on Wednesday said he did not expect the United States to slow certification of the European fighter's ability to carry nuclear weapons as a way to influence a competition to replace Germany's aging 90 Tornado jets.The Eurofighter is a joint project between British defense group BAE, European airplane maker Airbus and Italy's Leonardo.Airbus and Eurofighter on Tuesday submitted six binders of information to the German defense ministry, wh
  
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• Attorney Arguing For Trump Travel Ban Calls Islam 'A Great Country'

  25-04-2018 22:45 via yahoo.com
  Supporters of President Donald Trump's travel ban are probably hoping
  
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• Former President Bush out of intensive care, making progress

  25-04-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush was moved out of intensive care and into a regular patient room at a Houston hospital on Wednesday as he recovers from an infection that required his hospitalization a day after his wife's funeral, a family spokesman said.
  
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• Gang member Erick Davila set to be executed in hours over killing of young girl and grandmother at birthday party

  25-04-2018 22:22 via yahoo.com
  A former gang member sentenced to death for killing a five-year-old girl and her grandmother when he opened fire at a child’s birthday party is to be executed in Texas.Erick Davila has spent nine years on death row after used a laser-sighted semi-automatic rifle to spray bullets at about 20 people — more than a dozen of them children — in apparent retaliation for an attack by one of the people attending the party.Annette Stevenson, 48, and her granddaughter, Queshawn Stevenson,
  
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• Details of Ronny Jackson colleagues' accusations deepen scandal

  25-04-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on a two page summary of allegations against Donald Trump V.A. secretary nominee Ronny Jackson by 23 of his current and former colleagues who paint a harsh picture of his behavior and allege some shocking behavior.
  
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• Giuliani looks to restart Trump Mueller talks, Cohen takes 5th

  25-04-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on the myriad legal developments happening in Donald Trump's orbit, from his new lawyer Rudy Giuliani trying again on a Trump interview with Mueller, to his old lawyer asserting his Fifth Amendment rights in the Stormy Daniels case.
  
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• 40 years on, US man arrested for 'Golden State' murders, rapes

  25-04-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  A 72-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of being the "Golden State Killer," a notorious rapist and murderer who terrorized California in the 1970s and 1980s.Joseph James DeAngelo, of Citrus Heights, California, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with two counts of murder, officials said at a press conference in the state capital Sacramento."The magnitude of this case demanded that it be solved," Sacramento County district attorney Anne Marie Schubert said at a press conference.
  
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• Golden State Killer suspect caught and identified as former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo

  25-04-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  A former police officer has been arrested in connection a long-unsolved string of rapes and murders which are believed to have been carried out by the "Golden State Killer".Joseph James DeAngelo was picked up by authorities in California authorities, who allege he was behind 12 homicides and at least 50 rapes in the 1970s and 1980s, along with a number of burglaries.Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones said the 72-year-old was identified with a DNA test.
  
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• Astonishingly detailed map of the Milky Way will blow your mind

  25-04-2018 22:06 via yahoo.com
  We now have the most detailed catalogue of stars in our Milky Way galaxy yet.  The new map — created using data collected by the Gaia satellite — shows about 1.7 billion stars, including many objects never seen before, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), which runs Gaia.  SEE ALSO: Thousands of previously unseen black holes lurk near the center of our galaxy The catalogue represents almost two years of sky charting. “The observations collected by Gaia are re
  
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• The Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak Is Sending an Unusually High Number of People to the Hospital

  25-04-2018 22:01 via yahoo.com
  More than half of patients were hospitalized
  
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• White House Preps Spending Cuts Bill That Could Set Up Another Shutdown Standoff

  25-04-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Despite grumblings from corners of both parties, the White House
  
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• Video: Former Port Authority ethics chair swore at officers

  25-04-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  TENAFLY, N.J. (AP) — A Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioner caught on camera delivering an expletive-laced tirade to police officers during a traffic stop has resigned.
  
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• Ford Teases 2020 Explorer At Beijing Motor Show

  25-04-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  The new SUV should be here sometime in 2019.
  
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• Kanye West Reveals Photos from Inside the Hidden Hills Home He Designed with Axel Vervoordt

  25-04-2018 21:52 via yahoo.com
  Kanye West released a series of photos of the home he shares with his family and wife Kim Kardashian West on social media
  
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• Pennsylvania Cop Drives 84-Year-Old Man to Hospital So He Can Visit Ailing Wife

  25-04-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  The elderly man had no way of getting to the hospital by himself.
  
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• Madame Tussauds reveals its Melania Trump wax figure

  25-04-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Former White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer shared details about the first lady during the event. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
  
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• Kanye West Calls President Trump 'My Brother' Then Tweets a Selfie in a MAGA Hat

  25-04-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  But he had some clarifications to make after he spoke with his wife
  
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• Alleged Car Thief Flags Down Police After Realizing Child Was in Back Seat

  25-04-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Francisco Esmerado, 23, is accused of stealing a car outside a motel near Salt Lake City airport at 3:42 a.m. Monday.
  
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• Ex-Port Authority Exec. Caught Cursing At Cops

  25-04-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  A Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioner who abruptly resigned last week was caught on camera delivering an expletive-laced tirade to police officers during a traffic stop. (April 25) ++GRAPHIC LANGUAGE WARNING++
  
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• Neutral ground or dramatic backdrop? Where Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un could meet

  25-04-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un caught the world by surprise last month with the sensational announcement that the pair are to hold unprecedented talks. And now attention is shifting to where the most intensely-watched political event for years will be held. Mr Trump this week said there were five locations under consideration, and none of them were in the United States. Neutral venues in Asia and Europe are now considered the most likely options, but given that both Mr Trump and Kim have a reputat
  
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• Judge Nap: How did Trump get authorization to bomb Syria?

  25-04-2018 21:03 via yahoo.com
  Freedom Watch: Judge Andrew Napolitano and Rep. Tom Massie (R-KY) discuss how President Trump gained the authorization to bomb Syria and whether or not it is concerning that he bypassed Congress like President Obama before him.
  
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• China says Canada Senate motion on disputed sea stirs 'troubles'

  25-04-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  By Andrea HopkinsOTTAWA (Reuters) - A nonbinding motion by Canada's Senate calling for an end to Chinese actions in the disputed South China Sea is irresponsible and will "stir up troubles," a Chinese embassy spokesman said on Wednesday.The Senate, whose members are not elected, passed the measure on Tuesday condemning China's "hostile behavior" in the South China Sea, complicating efforts by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to improve relations with China.
  
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• U.S. Treasury yield curve flattening to intensify with U.S. pension plan bond-buying

  25-04-2018 20:40
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Corporate pensions are shifting a chunk of their $1.55 trillion in assets into fixed income, which may be sizeable enough to flatten the yield curve further.
  
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• Trump Signals End Of The World By Chiming In On A Kanye Twitter Thread

  25-04-2018 20:24 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump responded to Kanye West's recent Twitter spree,
  
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• Southwest jet victim's husband: 'Mommy's not coming home'

  25-04-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The husband of an Albuquerque woman killed in a Southwest Airlines jet that blew an engine while flying said he broke the news about her death to their two children at their school, telling them: "Mommy's not coming home, guys."
  
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• Video Shows Virginia Cop Shoot And Wound A Fleeing Teenager

  25-04-2018 20:21 via yahoo.com
  Newly released video footage from October shows a white police officer in
  
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• China’s New Aircraft Carrier Is Already Obsolete

  25-04-2018 20:16 via yahoo.com
  But it's still a powerful signal of Beijing's ambitions in a post-U.S. Asia.
  
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• Chemical weapons team gathers more samples from Syrian town

  25-04-2018 20:04 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Inspectors from the global chemical weapons watchdog made a second visit Wednesday to a Syrian town hit by an alleged chemical attack, collecting samples from a new location that will be sent to designated labs for analysis.
  
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• GOP Candidate Don Blankenship Rips Mitch McConnell's 'Chinaperson' Family

  25-04-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  Don Blankenship, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in West Virginia,
  
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• Kate Middleton’s perfect post-birth look sparks Newsroom reactions

  25-04-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  “She isn’t like a normal new mum.” “It is expected because she is a very public member of the royal family.” Did Kate Middleton go glam too soon? The Duchess of Cambridge sparked a debate on Twitter, but Newsroom commenters have kept it more practical — it’s part of her job!Earlier this week, Prince William and his wife welcomed royal baby No. 3. Less than seven hours after delivering her son, Middleton stepped out in full makeup and hair to greet photog
  
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• Pit Bull Seen Clamping Down on Subway Rider's Foot in Harrowing Video

  25-04-2018 19:45 via yahoo.com
  Authorities are now searching for the dog's owner.
  
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• Officials arrest 'Golden State Killer' in Sacramento's Citrus Heights area

  25-04-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  A source tells our sister station in Los Angeles that the "Golden State Killer," a man who is allegedly responsible for rapes and murders that span from Sacramento down to Southern California is a former police officer.
  
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• Suspected Golden State Killer Unmasked: Former Police Officer, 72, Arrested in Case Linked to 12 Murders and 45 Rapes

  25-04-2018 19:33 via yahoo.com
  He's linked to more than 175 crimes in all between 1976 and 1986
  
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• Millennials turn to parents to navigate money milestones

  25-04-2018 19:11
  April 25 (Reuters) - - Amanda Farris got an ATM card from her father when she was about 13. Her dad told her to treat it like cash and taught her how to tap her allowance and the money she made...
  
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• Correction: Waffle House Shooting-Gunman story

  25-04-2018 19:08 via yahoo.com
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a story April 24 about the Waffle House shooting suspect, The Associated Press, relying on a statement from the suspect's former employer, erroneously reported that the FBI called them. Darlene Sustrich now says her crane company got the call from the Secret Service, not the FBI.
  
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• 'Golden State Killer' suspect on the run for decades 'finally caught'

  25-04-2018 19:07 via yahoo.com
  A man suspected of being the "Golden State Killer" who terrorised California with a string of rapes and murders in 1970s and the 1980s, has been arrested.Thought to have been responsible for dozens of rapes and multiple homicides, as well as a number of burglaries, he earned the additional nicknames of the "Original Night Stalker" and the "East Area Rapist", as his victims mounted and the geographical area in which they were targeted expanded.Footage from the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights
  
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• Correction: Waffle House Shooting-The Latest story

  25-04-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a story April 24 about the Waffle House shooting suspect, The Associated Press, relying on a statement from the suspect's former employer, erroneously reported that the FBI called them. Darlene Sustrich now says her crane company got the call from the Secret Service, not the FBI.
  
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• Thousands of Germans join 'kippa marches' to reject anti-Semitism

  25-04-2018 19:04 via yahoo.com
  By Madeline Chambers and Michael NienaberBERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of Germans wearing Jewish caps took part in nationwide rallies on Wednesday evening in support of the Jewish community amid concerns about growing anti-Semitism.Jewish groups are trying to harness public outrage about an attack last week on an Israeli Arab who wore the Jewish cap, or kippa, in Berlin as an experiment.In Berlin, more than 2,000 people participated in the so-called 'kippa march', a police spokesman said.
  
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