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• U.S. lawmakers set $717 billion defense bill with eye on China, Russia, Turkey

  04-05-2018 23:53 via yahoo.com
  By Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers released details on Friday of a $717 billion annual defense policy bill, including efforts to compete with Russia and China and a measure to temporarily halt weapons sales to Turkey.The House Armed Services Committee is due to debate next week the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which authorizes the level of defense spending and sets policies controlling how the funding is used.
  
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• US ends immigration protections for thousands of Hondurans

  04-05-2018 23:53 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday that it is ending special immigration protections for about 57,000 Hondurans, adding them to hundreds of thousands of immigrants from other countries battered by violence and natural disasters who are losing permission to be in the United States.
  
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• The Latest: Some residents frustrated with lava evacuation

  04-05-2018 23:53 via yahoo.com
  PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — The Latest on the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano that sent molten lava through forest land and bubbling up on paved streets (all times local):
  
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• Connecticut state court vacates Kennedy relative murder conviction

  04-05-2018 23:50 via yahoo.com
  The top court in the state of Connecticut on Friday vacated the murder conviction of a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy over the violent death of a 15-year-old girl and recommended a new trial, the latest twist in a decades-long legal battle.The written opinion reverses the court's own decision in December 2016 which had reinstated the conviction of Michael Skakel, a nephew to the slain former attorney general through his widow Ethel.Martha Moxley was killed in 1975, her body found under a tree after
  
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• Kansas man gets life in prison for killing of immigrant

  04-05-2018 23:49 via yahoo.com
  OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who opened fire last year in a suburban Kansas City bar, killing an immigrant from India in what federal prosecutors have called a hate crime, was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
  
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• Trump administration moves to expel some 57,000 Hondurans

  04-05-2018 23:45 via yahoo.com
  By Mica Rosenberg and Gustavo PalenciaNEW YORK/TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Friday it will end temporary protections for immigrants in the United States from Honduras on Jan. 5, 2020, leaving potentially 57,000 people vulnerable to deportation.It is the latest in a series of decisions by President Donald Trump to shut down temporary protected status (TPS) granted to immigrants after natural disasters or violent conflicts that would prevent them from safely returning t
  
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• Serial killer pleads guilty, gets life sentences for Indiana murders

  04-05-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  A confessed serial killer pleaded guilty in an Indiana court on Friday to the strangulation deaths of seven women as part of a plea agreement that allows him to avoid the death penalty.Darren Vann, 47, will be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for each of seven counts of murder, after agreeing to plead guilty.Prosecutors had previously pursued death sentences but withdrew them after the victims' families decided that they preferred that Vann spend the rest of his life in jail r
  
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• Predictably, Trump appoints Dr. Oz to be a government health adviser

  04-05-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  Who better to put in charge of our children's health than a man who believes apple juice is loaded with arsenic? Well, everyone's weirdest dreams have come true. On Friday, President Trump announced he had appointed television doctor Mehmet Oz to serve on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. While celebrities have served on the committee in the past, they tended to be of the 'in touch with reality' type (think: Arnold Schwarzenegger).  The Council will advise Heath and
  
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• Kennedy cousin, Michael Skakel, wins retrial of 2002 murder conviction 

  04-05-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  A court in Connecticut has ordered a retrial of the 2002 murder conviction of Michael Skakel, a cousin of Bobby Kennedy. The ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court is the latest chapter in the long-running legal battle centred on the murder of Martha Moxley in 1975 in Greenwich, a prosperous town just north of New York City. Miss Moxley was allegedly bludgeoned to death with a golf club by Skakel when she spurned his advances. At the time both were 15 years old. It took more than a quarter of a
  
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• Trump and Mueller Are Headed for a Major Showdown

  04-05-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  The hiring of Emmet Flood, a lawyer who skillfully represented Bill Clinton during impeachment, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, signals a willingness to deploy more firepower against Mueller.Former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo emerged from his interview with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team with a warning for the president.
  
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• Woman says she put baby in bag to steal her from hospital

  04-05-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A woman convicted of stealing a newborn from a Florida hospital decades ago described how she did it Friday during her sentencing hearing, testifying that she put the infant in a bag and worried with every step that she would be discovered.
  
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• Man Who Admitted to Killing 7 Impoverished Women Called His Victims "Mistakes"

  04-05-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  Darren Vann received an "other than honorable" discharge from the Marines in 1993
  
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• 'This Island Is So Crazy.' Why Living on the World's Most Active Volcano Doesn't Scare These Hawaiians

  04-05-2018 23:19 via yahoo.com
  People who live near Kilauea, Hawaii's most active volcano, knew they were at risk. But they're holding out hope after the latest eruption
  
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• Trump's TPS cancellations could lead more than 300,000 to become undocumented

  04-05-2018 23:16 via yahoo.com
  The Trump Administration is ending Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans who’ve been living in the U.S. for two decades
  
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• US Rep Rob Bishop says he supports statehood for Puerto Rico

  04-05-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Another Republican official has declared his support for granting Puerto Rico statehood.
  
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• Miami officer suspended after video surfaces of him kicking suspect in head

  04-05-2018 23:08 via yahoo.com
  Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina announced Thursday that officer Mario Figueroa has been relieved of duty as the video "depicts a clear violation of policy."
  
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• U.S. judge says Mueller should not have 'unfettered power' in Russia probe

  04-05-2018 23:06 via yahoo.com
  By Sarah N. LynchALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - A federal judge said Special Counsel Robert Mueller should not have "unfettered power" in probing ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, and accused Mueller of using criminal cases to pressure Trump's allies to turn against him.At a tense hearing in a federal court in Virginia on Friday, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III sharply questioned whether Mueller exceeded his authority in filing tax and bank fraud charges against Trump's
  
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• Priyanka Chopra Hints Meghan Markle Cried When She Found Her Wedding Dress

  04-05-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  Sometimes actions speak louder than words.
  
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• New Murder Trial Ordered for Kennedy Cousin Michael Skakel

  04-05-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  Skakel was convicted of murder in 2002 in the bludgeoning death of Martha Moxley
  
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• With dueling DACA cases, Supreme Court showdown seems inevitable

  04-05-2018 22:57 via yahoo.com
  The fact that Texas and a half-dozen other Republican-controlled states sued this week to end an Obama-era immigration executive order feels very 2014.The stakes are highest for the almost 700,000 US residents brought here illegally as children who have been deemed low priorities for deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program former President Barack Obama created by executive order in 2012.The end result is likely to be yet another showdown in the US Supreme
  
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• The Latest: Honduras says it regrets end to US protections

  04-05-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the Trump administration ending special immigration status for Hondurans (all times local):
  
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• Iowa governor signs 'fetal heartbeat' abortion ban into law

  04-05-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law on Friday a bill outlawing abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which often occurs at six weeks and before a woman even realizes she is pregnant, and Reynolds acknowledged the likelihood of a court challenge.The measure, which Iowa's Republican-controlled state legislature passed on Wednesday, is the most restrictive abortion ban in the United States.“I understand and I anticipate that this will likely be challenged in court,
  
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• Last big group of caravan asylum seekers cross into U.S.

  04-05-2018 22:50 via yahoo.com
  By Delphine SchrankMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Seventy men, women and children poured through a U.S. port of entry early Friday to seek asylum, the largest single group yet accepted by U.S. officials from the caravan of Central American migrants that enraged President Donald Trump.Fleeing Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, the migrants were among the last who had planned to ask for asylum, bringing the total to 228 who have crossed the border since last weekend.The nearly 400 migrants who reached
  
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• SHOCKING VIDEO: Handcuffed defendant runs from court, dives off 2nd-story railing

  04-05-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  Video shows a defendant running from a courtroom and diving off a second-floor railing and falling to the ground below. (Warning: Graphic content)
  
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• Donald Trump brags of achievements and promises NRA: I'll defend gun rights

  04-05-2018 22:44 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump attempted to issue a rallying cry to Republicans with a wide-ranging political stump speech at the annual NRA meeting in Dallas on Friday, making clear he would fight November’s midterm elections with a staunch defense of gun rights.“We cannot get complacent,” Trump said.
  
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• Amazing video: Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts, thousands flee

  04-05-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  Thousands were forced to evacuate after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake sparked Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano to erupt. Lava and plumes of smoke filled the sky as magma flowed through the streets. Check out this jaw-dropping footage.
  
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• U.S. judge questions special counsel's powers in Manafort case

  04-05-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  By Sarah N. LynchALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday sharply criticized Special Counsel Robert Mueller's criminal case in Virginia against President Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and openly questioned whether Mueller exceeded his prosecutorial powers by bringing it."I don't see what relationship this indictment has with anything the special counsel is authorized to investigate," U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III in the Eastern District of Virginia said.At a t
  
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• Timeline in the case of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel

  04-05-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  A timeline of key developments in the Connecticut murder case against Michael Skakel, the nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow, Ethel Kennedy, whose conviction was vacated Friday:
  
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• Trump Describes Paris Terror Attack: 'Boom... Boom... Boom'

  04-05-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump did his best to explain why the U.S. needs lax gun
  
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• Police called because Native Americans brothers were being ‘too quiet’

  04-05-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  A parent called campus police on two Native American teenagers who were on a university tour because she thought they were threatening.Lloyd Skanahwati Gray, 17, and Thomas Kanewakeron Gray, 19, are brothers from Santa Cruz, New Mexico, who had driven to Fort Collins, Colorado, to go on a tour of Colorado State University.Their family are members of the Mohawk tribe.The tour director was not even aware that the police had been called on the young men who told their mother Lorraine Kahneratokwas
  
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• Nuclear deal a challenge for Rouhani as Iran hardliners close in

  04-05-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  By Parisa HafeziANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's hardliners are preparing to bring President Hassan Rouhani to heel if U.S. President Donald Trump scraps Tehran's nuclear deal with major powers, officials and analysts believe.Trump has threatened to abrogate the 2015 agreement by not extending sanctions waivers when they expire on May 12, if Britain, France and Germany do not "fix" its "terrible flaws".This sets the stage for a resurgence of political infighting within Iran's complex power structure, I
  
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• Obama backs California's Feinstein in re-election fight

  04-05-2018 22:05 via yahoo.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama waded into California's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Friday, throwing his support to incumbent Dianne Feinstein.
  
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• Trump says London hospital 'a warzone' for stabbing victims as he defends US gun laws

  04-05-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has said that a London hospital is as “bad as a military war zone” because of knife violence during a speech at the annual National Rifle Association convention praising gun rights.The comment came during a wide ranging speech in which Mr Trump promoted the work he is doing as president and sought to promote American gun ownership by comparing the US to European countries.“I recently read a story that in London — which has unbelievably tough gun laws —
  
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• The Latest: Victim's family weighs next steps in Skakel case

  04-05-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Latest on a court ordering a new trial for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel (all times local):
  
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• Republican Mayor Who Taunted David Hogg To Now Face A Recall Vote

  04-05-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  A Republican mayor in Maine will face a recall vote after he tweeted a post
  
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• Conservative backlash to California sanctuary law spreads north

  04-05-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  A backlash to California’s new “sanctuary” law protecting immigrants from deportation has formally spread to the northern part of the state.Elected officials in Tuolumne County, which encompasses part of Yosemite National Park, passed a resolution repudiating a recently passed law that limits interaction between local law enforcement and immigration authorities.The vote made Tuolumne County the third in California to officially push back on the law, following more-populous Oran
  
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• Trump Thanks Kanye At NRA Convention For Doubling His African-American Polling Numbers

  04-05-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump addressed the National Rifle Association's annual
  
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• Former James Comey aides attacked by Trump resign from the FBI

  04-05-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Matt Miller, former spokesman for the Justice Department, talks with Rachel Maddow about breaking news that former aides to James Comey who came under criticism from Donald Trump, Lisa Page and James Baker, have resigned from the FBI.
  
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• Donald Trump says Rudy Giuliani is new to his legal team and ‘will get his facts straight’

  04-05-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said his newest lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is a "great guy" but still learning all the facts about the myriad of legal issues the president is facing.The former New York City mayor, Mr Giuliani stirred controversy this past week as he appeared on Fox News and directly contradicted the president on an issue regarding adult film star Stormy Daniels.Mr Giuliani said Mr Trump had reimbursed his personal lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment made just days before the November
  
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• Rosenstein Makes a Stand Against Trump's Interlopers in Congress

  04-05-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein making clear in a new speech that he will not entertain requests for information about the Trump Russian investigation from members of Congress whose motivation is to help Donald Trump undermine the investigation.
  
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• Volvo S60 Leaked Image Leads To Handsome High-Res Render

  04-05-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  Let's hope the new S60 looks this sharp.
  
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• Robbery suspect injured in police-involved shooting in Elkridge, police say

  04-05-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  A robbery suspect was injured in a police-involved shooting in Elkridge early Friday morning before being apprehended, Howard County police said.A second robbery suspect was also arrested, police said.An officer saw one suspect brandish a weapon toward police, and the officer fired his own service weapon, police said.
  
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• Gang Used Drone Swarm To Thwart FBI Hostage Raid

  04-05-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  FBI agents covertly surveilling a criminal gang suspected of holding at least
  
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• The Latest: Police seek help finding man who shot ATF agent

  04-05-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the shooting of a federal agent in Chicago (all times local):
  
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• Months after Parkland shooting, Trump embraces NRA in campaign-like speech

  04-05-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  By Jeff Mason and Daniel TrottaDALLAS (Reuters) - President Donald Trump urged gun-rights advocates on Friday to support Republican candidates in the November congressional elections, warning that Democrats would try to tighten firearms laws in the wake of a string of mass shootings.Speaking at the annual convention of the National Rifle Association in Dallas, Trump said, "The one thing that stands between Americans and the elimination of our Second Amendment rights has been conservatives in Con
  
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• Single mom found dead with 3 kids had financial troubles

  04-05-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A single mother who was found dead of gunshot wounds along with her three children had recently moved into a rental property in North Dakota and had been struggling to pay off medical bills.
  
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• Ex-coal baron takes swipe at "China people" in political ad

  04-05-2018 21:21 via yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An ex-coal executive who's running for U.S. Senate after serving a one-year prison sentence has escalated his barrage on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, taking swipes at "China people" and calling McConnell "Cocaine Mitch" in a new ad.
  
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• White House denies it is reducing US troops in South Korea 

  04-05-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump claimed removing US troops from South Korea was "not on the table" yesterday but conceded he would "like to save the money" in the future.  The comments come ahead of his landmark meeting with Kim Jong-un  - the first between a US president and a North Korean leader. America has maintained a military presence on the peninsula since the Korean War ended in 1953 without a peace treaty.  North Korea has long sought the removal of US troops as one of its condition for den
  
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• This Airport Is Offering Galactic Flights For 'Star Wars' Day

  04-05-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  > Good morning from Heathrow. The force is strong with us today and we've got
  
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• Obama backs California's Feinstein in re-election fight

  04-05-2018 21:03 via yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama endorsed U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Friday, wading into her re-election fight against a fellow Democrat.De Leon's campaign didn't immediately comment on Obama's endorsement, but announced backing from Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion.Obama and Feinstein have worked together for a dozen years, first during his brief time in the U.S. Senate then during his presidency.
  
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