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• Thousands of North Carolina public school teachers march in Raleigh

  16-05-2018 23:50 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of North Carolina teachers swarmed the state legislature on Wednesday to call for pay raises and more spending on schools, making the state the country’s sixth to be roiled by educators demanding better funding.Hundreds of teachers in red T-shirts filled a spectators gallery and chanted “remember, remember, we vote in November” as the Republican-controlled General Assembly started its session.The protest prompted at least 38 districts, representing more than half the
  
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• Parkland shooting officer labelled a 'coward' receives $8,700 a month pension

  16-05-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  The sheriff’s deputy condemned by President Donald Trump for failing to confront the shooter who killed 17 people at a high school in Florida is receiving an almost $9,000 monthly pension, even though he resigned following the massacre.Scot Peterson, who was a school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland at the time of the shooting in February, was the first person to respond to the incident.Mr Peterson is receiving $8,702.35 a month from his pension, with th
  
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• Trump calls some illegal immigrants 'animals'

  16-05-2018 23:35 via yahoo.com
  While hosting the California Sanctuary State roundtable, President Trump called certain illegal immigrants 'animals.'
  
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• The Latest: Daughter says mother kept her, sisters hostage

  16-05-2018 23:28 via yahoo.com
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on an Oklahoma woman accused of stabbing one child and fleeing another (all times local):
  
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• Scott Pruitt, EPA chief, bobs and weaves, but Democrats still land blows in Senate hearing

  16-05-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  In his first appearance before a Senate subcommittee, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faced withering questions from Democrats about his ethical lapses, even as Republicans sought to shield him.
  
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• Vegas Strip shooting witnesses described chaos, compassion

  16-05-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Witness accounts of gunfire, chaos, bloody bodies and desperate bids to survive last year's mass shooting in Las Vegas emerged Wednesday in police reports made public seven months after the deadliest event of its kind in modern U.S. history.
  
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• Man pleads guilty to killing 4; cousin rejects plea deal

  16-05-2018 23:10 via yahoo.com
  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Two cousins accused of killing together could find themselves pitted against one another in court after one took a plea deal Wednesday and the other rejected one in the gruesome deaths of four young men found buried last summer on a suburban Philadelphia farm.
  
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• Rex Tillerson Seemed to Be Taking a Swipe at President Trump in His Commencement Speech

  16-05-2018 23:04 via yahoo.com
  "Look for employers who set high standards for personal conduct"
  
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• The Latest: Woman describes terror, chaos during shooting

  16-05-2018 23:03 via yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the release by Las Vegas police of witness statements and officer reports in the investigation of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history (all times local):
  
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• Rex Tillerson Warns Grads Of Living In ‘Alternative Realities’

  16-05-2018 23:03 via yahoo.com
  Rex Tillerson came precipitously close to criticizing his former boss
  
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• Trump will seek full funding soon for his border wall

  16-05-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would soon push for full funding of his promised wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, which could spark budget battles in a Congress fractured over his immigration policy."Now we’re going for the full funding for the wall, and we’re going to try and get that as soon as possible," Trump said at a roundtable with California municipal leaders who favor his goal of making the U.S. border impervious to illegal immigration.Last month Trump thr
  
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• Email challenges Pruitt account on motorcade lights, siren

  16-05-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers at a Senate hearing Wednesday hammered Scott Pruitt with his toughest questioning to date amid federal investigations on his spending, bodyguards and ties with lobbyists, in exchanges that included dramatic production of a newly released internal email that appeared to contradict the embattled Environmental Protection Agency administrator. 
  
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• Sean Kratz rejects plea deal in Bucks Co. murders after Cosmo DiNardo pleads guilty

  16-05-2018 22:46 via yahoo.com
  21-year-old Sean Kratz rejected a deal that would have had him serve 59-118 years in jail for the deaths of three of the four victims, who ranged in age from 19 to 22.
  
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• Democratic Lawmaker Gives Scott Pruitt Brutal Reality Check During Senate Hearing

  16-05-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  > Sen. Leahy to EPA Admin. Pruitt on claims of flying first class for security
  
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• The Latest: DA says kids shot with crossbows, waterboarded

  16-05-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on charges filed against California father accused of torturing children (all times local):
  
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• Rex Tillerson warns of 'integrity and ethics crisis' – but doesn't name Trump

  16-05-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Rex Tillerson, the former secretary of state, warned on Wednesday that America had plunged into a “crisis of ethics and integrity in our society and among our leaders” that could set the country down “a pathway to relinquishing our freedom”.Tillerson, who was dismissed in March by Donald Trump, did not name the president.
  
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• Kim Kardashian And The Toxic Trend Of Bad Celebrity Health Advice

  16-05-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  We're living in a time when wellness is a booming industry fueled in part by
  
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• Democrats Force Vote To Keep Net Neutrality Rules

  16-05-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Senate Democrats forced a vote Wednesday to repeal changes to
  
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• Belated Trump Stormy Daniels Disclosure Prompts Criminal Referral

  16-05-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  Adav Noti, senior director at The Campaign Legal Center, talks with Rachel Maddow about the Office of Government Ethics' criminal referral to the DoJ of Donald Trump's belated disclosure of payments to Stormy Daniels through Michael Cohen.
  
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• Glover's wife blames attack on mother-in-law in 911 call

  16-05-2018 22:08 via yahoo.com
  The wife of former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover made the first call to 911 and claimed she was attacked by her mother-in-law, according to a tape of the call released Wednesday that provided another bizarre twist in the wife's arrest on a domestic violence charge.
  
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• Hamas says most slain Gaza protesters were its members

  16-05-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Most of the protesters killed this week by Israeli fire along the border with the Gaza Strip were members of Hamas, the militant group said Wednesday, an assertion that deepens the starkly different narratives on both sides over the deaths.
  
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• The Latest: California office blast victim ran day spa

  16-05-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a deadly explosion at a Southern California office building (all times local):
  
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• Syria Used Chlorine Gas in February Attack, Chemical Weapons Inspectors Confirm

  16-05-2018 21:51 via yahoo.com
  The probe into chlorine comes amid investigation into a larger attack in Douma
  
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• High School Seniors Shocked to Learn They Don't Have Enough Credits to Graduate

  16-05-2018 21:44 via yahoo.com
  Some students at McLoud High School in Oklahoma are in a last minute scramble to finish all the credits they need to graduate, and they say they found out they didn`t have the credits later than they should have, in some cases, in the past of couple weeks.
  
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• Erdogan slams world's 'silence' on 'Israel's tyranny'

  16-05-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday lashed out at the international "silence" over the killing by Israeli fire of dozens of Palestinians on the Gaza border."If the silence on Israel's tyranny continues, the world will rapidly be dragged into a chaos where banditry prevails," Erdogan said at a dinner in Ankara.The fresh violence in Gaza on Monday, when Israel's army killed 60 Palestinians during protests, came as the United States formally moved its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel A
  
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• Scientists uncover likely cheating on ozone treaty

  16-05-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
  The decline in the atmosphere of an ozone-depleting chemical banned by the Montreal Protocol has recently slowed by half, suggesting a serious violation of the 196-nation treaty, researchers revealed Wednesday.Measurements at remote sites -- including the government-run Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii -- of the chemical, known as CFC-11, point to East Asia as the source or renewed production."We show that the rate of decline of atmospheric CFC-11 was constant from 2002 to 2012, and then slowed b
  
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• The Latest: Man accused of helping kill 4 rejects plea deal

  16-05-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on a court hearing for two cousins accused of killing and burying four men outside suburban Philadelphia (all times local):
  
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• Hawaii's Kilauea volcano could keep erupting for months. Here's why.

  16-05-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  Hawaii's young, lively Kilauea volcano shows no signs of slowing down.  On May 4, the first lava-swollen fissure opened up in the Leilani Estates neighborhood on the eastern flank of Kilauea. Soon after, 16 more fissures opened in the area.  Meanwhile, near the volcano's gently-sloping summit, a lava lake recently brimming with steaming molten rock has since drained, an event government scientists now say could trigger a rare explosive blast from the ominous pit, shooting boulders some
  
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• Missing financial reports drove leak of Cohen information: NYer

  16-05-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  Ronan Farrow, contributing writer at The New Yorker, talks with Rachel Maddow about his reporting on the source of the Michael Cohen financial documents posted on line last week by Michael Avenatti, and two other reports that appear to be missing.
  
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• Samantha Markle says she hopes to give her 'sentimental wedding present' to Meghan and Harry in person

  16-05-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  She has orchestrated a string of critical interviews, refused a palace plea for her discretion, and claimed responsibility for the photoshoot that brought the royal wedding into headlines for all the wrong reasons. But Meghan Markle’s estranged half sister has not given up hope of seeing her in person for her wedding to Prince Harry. Samantha Grant, whose father is yet to confirm whether or not he will be attending Ms Markle’s wedding to Prince Harry, has said she would still like to
  
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• Trump Paid More Than $100,000 To Cohen, Financial Disclosure Confirms

  16-05-2018 20:24 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump reported having paid his personal attorney Michael
  
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• Thomas Markle admits staging photos with paparazzi

  16-05-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  Kensington Palace prepares for the royal wedding this Saturday amid Markle family drama.
  
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• Trump Jr. Left Open Possibility That Dad Knew Of Trump Tower Meeting At The Time

  16-05-2018 20:07 via yahoo.com
  Newly released transcripts of Donald Trump Jr.'s interview with the Senate
  
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• Zachary Cruz Recalls Time His Brother Nikolas Pointed Gun at Him: 'It Was Loaded and Everything'

  16-05-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  "I thought I was going to die," Zachary Cruz said.
  
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• Nikolas Cruz's Brother Says Parkland Gunman 'Wasn't Aware of How Many People He Killed' in Massacre

  16-05-2018 20:01 via yahoo.com
  Zachary Cruz says his brother told him "his demons got to him" following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
  
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• Key U.S. senators: 'no doubt' Russia sought to interfere in U.S. election

  16-05-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  By Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday they agreed with intelligence agencies' assessment that Moscow sought to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election to boost Donald Trump's prospects of becoming president."There is no doubt that Russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections," the committee's Republican chairman, Senator Richard Burr, said in a joint statement with the committee's top Demo
  
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• Police swoop on disgraced Malaysian ex-premier's home

  16-05-2018 19:48 via yahoo.com
  Malaysian police converged on the home of scandal-tainted former premier Najib Razak late Wednesday as local media quoted officials saying they were conducting raids related to a massive graft scandal.At least a dozen police vehicles converged on Najib's family compound in the capital Kuala Lumpur, with a number of officers entering the home, an AFP journalist witnessed.Police officials were not immediately available for comment on the nature of the operation.
  
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• Laurel or Yanny? Linguist Says Yes, it's Possible to Hear Both in Viral Meme

  16-05-2018 19:43 via yahoo.com
  This four-second clip doesn't need to divide the internet.
  
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• Emissions of banned ozone-eating chemical somehow are rising

  16-05-2018 19:38 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Something strange is happening with a now-banned chemical that eats away at Earth's protective ozone layer: Scientists say there's more of it — not less — going into the atmosphere and they don't know where it is coming from.
  
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• EPA chief tells U.S. lawmakers he has fund to fight ethics complaints

  16-05-2018 19:35 via yahoo.com
  By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy GardnerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt said on Wednesday that he now has a legal fund in place to help him fight off a growing list of allegations against him related to his spending and reported ethical missteps in office."It has been set up," Pruitt told the Senate Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies about the fund.Pruitt has been under pressure from lawmakers in re
  
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• Workers re-open Kellogg factory closed by company in crisis-hit Venezuela

  16-05-2018 19:33 via yahoo.com
  by Virginia Pietromarchi and Agencies  Venezuelan authorities said they handed a Kellogg Co plant to workers and reactivated production at the factory yesterday, a day after the US cereal producer pulled out of the crisis-hit country. Kellogg joined a host of other multinationals in exiting Venezuela and later confirmed President Nicolas Maduro's leftist government had taken over its manufacturing plant. On Wednesday, Aragua state Governor Marco Torres slammed Kellogg and guarante
  
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• Armed Malaysian police enter former PM Najib's home

  16-05-2018 19:28 via yahoo.com
  By Fathin Ungku and Joseph SipalanKUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - At least a dozen armed policemen entered the home of ousted Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak late on Wednesday after he returned from prayers at a mosque, Reuters witnesses said.State news agency Bernama said several dozen policemen were also seen at a luxury condominium in another district of the capital, Kuala Lumpur, where Najib has an apartment.More than 100 journalists and onlookers were outside Najib's family home past midnight
  
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• Syrian military seizes key swath of land in country's center

  16-05-2018 19:23 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's military said Wednesday it has restored government control over a large area in central Syria, securing a power station, a refinery and a cement factory after uprooting the armed opposition.
  
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• Primary upset will test progressives' appeal to voters

  16-05-2018 19:22 via yahoo.com
  In the wake of the 2016 election, many progressive Democrats looked at the defeats the party had suffered and offered a theory: Democrats were losing, particularly in red areas, because they were offering a watered-down message and not standing for bold proposals voters could get excited about.Kara Eastman, who led a nonprofit and was a board member of a community college, defeated former Rep. Brad Ashford for the Democratic nomination.Ashford, a former Republican with a moderate voting record w
  
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• In Senate Hot Seat, Scott Pruitt Dodges Questions Over Mounting Scandals

  16-05-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- Facing numerous allegations of ethical violations, EPA
  
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• 10 delightful fascinators you should wear while watching the Royal Wedding

  16-05-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  Why do we care so much about royal weddings? Is it the grand-bordering-on-gross display of opulence? Is it the rare chance to watch a hot, famous person marry a royal, slightly-less-hot famous person? Is it the hats? Yes, that's it. It's the hats. SEE ALSO: I sent my Tinder matches royal-themed pickup lines and they actually worked But though the invite for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Saturday wedding specifies that women should wear a "Day dress with hat," we're hoping a few guests will ta
  
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• Businesses warn Russia: Don't make it a crime to comply with U.S. sanctions

  16-05-2018 19:01 via yahoo.com
  By Polina DevittMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian business lobby groups voiced opposition on Wednesday to a draft law that would make it a crime to comply with sanctions imposed by the United States or other countries.The United States last month imposed sanctions on some of Russia's biggest companies and businessmen, striking at allies of President Vladimir Putin to punish Moscow for alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and other "malign activities".In retaliation, Russian lawmakers
  
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• Police to release witness accounts of Vegas Strip shooting

  16-05-2018 18:59 via yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas planned Wednesday to release witness statements and officer reports in the investigation of last year's mass shooting that killed 58 people and injured hundreds in the deadliest event of its kind in modern U.S. history.
  
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• Two Sherpa climbers set new summit records on Everest

  16-05-2018 18:48 via yahoo.com
  By Gopal SharmaKATHMANDU (Reuters) - A Nepali mountaineer climbed Mount Everest on Wednesday for a 22nd time while a female climber made it to the top for the ninth time, each setting a new record on the world's highest mountain, officials said.Ang Kami Sherpa's 22nd ascent to the summit created a new record for the most visits to the peak of Everest.The 48-year-old reached the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit via the Southeast Ridge route, accompanied by 13 other climbers including his clients,
  
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• The Latest: Cypriots protest Israel's actions in Gaza

  16-05-2018 18:43 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the Israel-Palestinian conflict (all times local):
  
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