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• 'The New York Times' profiled the most selfish person in America

  10-03-2018 23:53 via yahoo.com
  Everybody who has dealt with any minor amount of stress has had the fantasy of packing up and running away from all of their problems, disappearing from the modern world almost entirely. Erik Hagerman, dubbed "The man who knew too little" byThe New York Times, did just that. On Saturday, Hagerman was the focus of a newly published profile describing how, after the election of Donald Trump, he left his busy life behind and started up his own pig farm. SEE ALSO: I went to a self-esteem workshop fo
  
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• The Latest: Suspect accused of shooting 2 officers arrested

  10-03-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  POMONA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on two police officers who were shot in Los Angeles County (all times local):
  
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• UK police identify over 200 witnesses in nerve agent attack: minister

  10-03-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  By Peter NichollsSALISBURY, England (Reuters) - British police have identified more than 200 witnesses and are looking at more than 240 pieces of evidence in their investigation into a nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy and his daughter, interior minister Amber Rudd said on Saturday.Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital in a critical condition since Sunday, when they were found unconscious on a bench in the southern English cathedral city o
  
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• Steel standoff: EU, Japan press ally US for tariff exemption

  10-03-2018 23:31 via yahoo.com
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and Japan pressed U.S. President Donald Trump's trade envoy Saturday to exempt them, as longtime U.S. allies, from upcoming steel tariffs that have sparked fears of a new trade war.
  
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• An EPA scientific committee hasn’t met in 6 months because of a paperwork error

  10-03-2018 23:10 via yahoo.com
  The board of scientists advising the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not met in six months, in part due to a paperwork error.The 45 members of the group - who last met in August 2017 - evaluate the science the EPA uses to craft policy, per the US Congress - but they have not even had conference calls or any votes on matters since the last meeting since there were not enough of them to reach a quorum.Michael Honeycutt, who heads the board for the EPA, blamed the delay on human resources
  
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• Bannon to French far-right party: 'Let them call you racist'

  10-03-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — Former White House strategist Steve Bannon re-energized France's struggling far-right National Front party Saturday by speaking at a party congress and telling Marine Le Pen's nationalist supporters: "History is on our side."
  
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• Bannon tells French far-right: 'history is on our side'

  10-03-2018 22:51 via yahoo.com
  Former top Trump aide Steve Bannon told the French far right on Saturday that "history is on our side" as he addressed the party conference of a National Front that is seeking to bounce back from crushing electoral setbacks."The tide of history is with us and it will compel us to victory after victory, after victory," Bannon, once a powerful figure in the Trump administration and former head of Breitbart News, told the FN conference in its northern stronghold of Lille.Because every day we get st
  
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• Teen Mom Arrested After Her Baby Was Found Crawling on a Busy Road

  10-03-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  The nine-month-old baby was found crawling in a busy roadway
  
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• Overwatch League Announces Sanctions Against Three Players, One Coach

  10-03-2018 22:09
  The Overwatch League slapped a number of sanctions on different players and a coach yesterday.
  Dallas Fuel's Felix "xQc" Lengyel will be suspended for four matches and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine for using an emote "in a racially disparaging manner on the league's stream and on social media, anddisparaging language against Overwatch League casters and fellow players on social media and on his personal stream."
  This is not xQc's first ban—during the first stage of the Overwatch League, xQc
  
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• With little suspense, Xi to secure lifetime presidency

  10-03-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  China's rubber-stamp parliament is set Sunday to hand President Xi Jinping free rein to rule the rising Asian superpower indefinitely, with potential abstentions offering the only suspense in the historic vote.The National People's Congress is all but certain to approve a constitutional amendment that has stunned many in China, sparking an unusual bout of criticism that censors have scrambled to extinguish.The move reverses the era of "collective" leadership and orderly succession that was promo
  
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• Sea of Thieves Global Digital Treasure Hunt Announced

  10-03-2018 22:00
  In anticipation for the launch of Sea of Thieves, Microsoft is holding a global digital treasure hunt called The Quest, where participants have a chance to win one of four real UK Hallmarked 18-carat golden bananas.
  As revealed during the debut episode of Microsoft's new monthly streaming show Inside Xbox, London goldsmith Smith & Harris has crafted four golden bananas, each valued at £20,000 and modeled after the health item in Sea of Thieves.
  The Quest will begin on Mo
  
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• Gunman in deadly California siege was decorated veteran treated for PTSD

  10-03-2018 21:57 via yahoo.com
  By Scott BransfordYOUNTVILLE, Calif. (Reuters) - Details emerged on Saturday about a decorated former U.S. serviceman who took three women hostage at a California veterans home where he had undergone treatment for PTSD, in a standoff that ended when police found him and his captives dead.The Veterans Home of California in Yountville, the largest such facility in the United States, was the scene on Friday of the latest mass shooting to rock a country still shocked by the slaughter last month of 1
  
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• Couple Hilariously Shoots Engagement Photos at Target Because They Love it so Much

  10-03-2018 21:51 via yahoo.com
  Going to the store had become a tradition for them.
  
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• US narrows travel alert for Mexico's Playa del Carmen

  10-03-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has narrowed its travel warning for the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen amid what it calls an unspecified "ongoing security threat" just as the spring holiday season is kicking into high gear.
  
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• What Do You Want to Know About Valve’s Artifact?

  10-03-2018 21:30
  Though there's already a good amount of information out about Artifact, we’d like to give you the opportunity to ask us any questions you may have about Artifact or Valve’s game release strategy on a Q&A live stream. We’re hard at work on our Artifact preview, but there’s much more to the game than what we can explain in one article.
  This stream will feature me and Tom Marks. We were both at Valve’s Artifact press event and each got to play two matches of the ga
  
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• Russia foreign ministry spokeswoman accuses MP of sexual harassment

  10-03-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  Russia foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova became the latest woman to accuse senior lawmaker Leonid Slutsky of sexual harassment on Saturday.Four journalists have accused Slutsky, the head of the Duma's foreign affairs committee, of inappropriate sexual conduct over the past few weeks."Leonid started saying things in a restaurant that I found very unpleasant," Zakharova told Russia's NTV television when asked about the claims.
  
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• One police officer killed, another wounded in standoff with gunman

  10-03-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  A California police officer responding to a call of a barricaded suspect has been struck by gunfire and died.
  
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• Missing Teen Girl Told School Older Man Was Her Stepdad, Police Say

  10-03-2018 20:38 via yahoo.com
  A man who repeatedly signed a girl out of school before the two went missing was listed as her stepfather on documents.
  
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• Xbox One Cross-Platform Support Announced for Fortnite

  10-03-2018 20:21
  Fortnite will feature cross-platform play on Xbox One.
  Epic Games shared the news in a post on its official site, announcing "Fortnite will feature cross-play, cross-progression, and cross-purchase, between Xbox One, PC, Mac, iOS and (in the next few months) Android."
  Earlier this week, the studio announced its free Fortnite Battle Royale mode is coming to both iOS and Android, and will feature full cross-play support with PS4 and PC.
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• Palestinian killed during clash with Israelis in West Bank: officials

  10-03-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  A Palestinian was shot and killed on Saturday in what began as a clash between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said.Both sides blamed the other for instigating the violence that erupted between residents of a Jewish settlement and a nearby Palestinian village.Palestinian officials said a 19-year-old was killed and a second person was wounded, but it was unclear whether they were shot by Israeli soldiers or settlers.
  
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• Vladimir Putin praises Donald Trump's 'strong leadership,' claims he doesn't read US president's tweets

  10-03-2018 20:16 via yahoo.com
  Vladimir Putin has praised Donald Trump for his "strong leadership qualities" and said he "couldn't care less" about allegations of interference in the US presidential election. Mr Putin repeatedly responded "So what?" to questions about election meddling. The Russian president also said he does not read Mr Trump's tweets, adding: "Donald is a more modern person." His comments came during two extended interviews with Megyn Kelly for NBC News. Asked why he thought Mr Trump had been nice about him
  
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• Jeff Sessions: U.S. Prosecutors Won't Take On Small-Time Pot Cases

  10-03-2018 19:55 via yahoo.com
  Federal prosecutors won't take on small-time marijuana cases, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Saturday.
  
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• The Latest: Bannon endorses goals of French far-right party

  10-03-2018 19:46 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the party congress of France's National Front: (all times local):
  
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• Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks

  10-03-2018 19:29 via yahoo.com
  Khalid Alhammadi photographs Abu Dhabi's tallest landmarks rising high above the mist.
  
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• France signs deals worth $16 billion in India; to deepen defence, security ties

  10-03-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  PARIS/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - French and Indian companies signed contracts worth 13 billion euros ($16 billion) on the first day of President Emmanuel Macron's visit to India on Saturday, the French presidency said in a statement.The deals include a contract for France's Safran to supply airline Spice Jet with engines, water systemmodernisation by Suez in the southern city of Davangere and a contract between industrial gas company Air Liquide and Sterlite.Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra
  
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• Donald Trump Heads to Pennsylvania Steel Country

  10-03-2018 19:17 via yahoo.com
  Trump will appear at an evening rally for Rick Saccone, a state representative who faces Democrat Conor Lamb in a special election
  
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• Impax to pay $35 million to settle part of Solodyn antitrust litigation

  10-03-2018 19:11 via yahoo.com
  Impax Laboratories Inc has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve part of litigation over claims it entered into an anticompetitive deal in a patent case to delay releasing a generic version of the acne medication Solodyn.The settlement was disclosed in papers filed in federal court in Boston on Saturday.It resolved part of the antitrust litigation Impax faces over Solodyn related to sales of the drug to direct purchasers such as retailers and wholesalers.
  
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• Viral Photo of 18-Year-Old Waffle House Waitress Helping Elderly Man Lands Her $16,000 Scholarship

  10-03-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  She is working at the restaurant to save for college.
  
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• US to re-open consulate at Mexican resort after threat

  10-03-2018 18:49 via yahoo.com
  The US consulate at the Mexican Caribbean resort of Playa del Carmen will re-open Monday after it was closed for several days due to an unspecified security threat, the US embassy said.US government personnel are banned from several area neighborhoods until further notice, but "are authorized to travel to resort areas in Riviera Maya including those near Playa del Carmen," the statement read.The beachside tourist magnets of Cancun and Playa del Carmen are located in the Riviera Maya, on Mexico's
  
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• Vladimir Putin suggests Jews and other minorities in Russia could be behind US election meddling

  10-03-2018 18:42 via yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested Jews and other minorities in Russia, including Tatars and Ukranians, could be to blame for meddling in the US presidential election.“Maybe they’re not even Russians,” he told NBC News.Last month, the FBI charged 13 Russians and three companies for running what it claims was a cyber warfare movement based in the Russian city of St Petersburg.
  
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• Did Trump already give up too much ahead of North Korea summit?

  10-03-2018 18:35 via yahoo.com
  President Trump surprised many by announcing high-level talks between the U.S. and North Korea. The Trump administration is facing criticism for thin diplomatic ranks in the region and for agreeing to a summit too early in the process.
  
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• One police officer shot, another wounded in standoff with gunman

  10-03-2018 18:28 via yahoo.com
  A California police officer responding to a call of a barricaded suspect has been struck by gunfire and died.
  
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• Pennsylvania Republican Defends 'Right-To-Work' Laws Before Vote In Union-Heavy District

  10-03-2018 18:19 via yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH ― Republican Rick Saccone defended so-called “right-to-work” laws three days before a special election in a Western Pennsylvania district with a high rate of union membership.Saccone, the GOP nominee in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District, took reporters’ questions at a small campaign event in the offices of the Republican Committee of Allegheny County on Friday evening.Asked whether he would support a national right-to-work law, Saccone would not
  
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• Sessions: US prosecutors won't take on small-time pot cases

  10-03-2018 18:18 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors won't take on small-time marijuana cases, despite the Justice Department's decision to lift an Obama-era policy that discouraged U.S. authorities from cracking down on the pot trade in states where the drug is legal, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Saturday.
  
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• Missionaries Who Gave Adopted Children Religion-Inspired Beatings Head to Prison

  10-03-2018 18:17 via yahoo.com
  A Kansas missionary couple has been sentenced for giving brutal, religion-inspired beatings to two children they adopted from Peru
  
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• 3 children home alone die in Detroit-area fire

  10-03-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  EASTPOINTE, Mich. (AP) — Three children who were home alone died early Saturday in a fire that destroyed the inside of a suburban Detroit house, authorities said.
  
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• Gunman had been treated at California veterans home where he killed three people, investigators say

  10-03-2018 17:52 via yahoo.com
  A gunman who took hostages and killed three workers at a veteran’s facility had been treated there as a patient.Albert Wong, a 36-year-old former Army infantryman, killed three workers and himself at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville just a week after he had been dismissed from a programme there, state Senator Bill Dodd said.
  
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• Ageing Japanese towns overrun by wild boars

  10-03-2018 17:36 via yahoo.com
  Less than 20 years ago, the only challenges for the 100 residents of the tiny island of Kakara, off southwest Japan, were the elements and ensuring the fishermen’s catch could get to market on time.  Today, the islanders are outnumbered three to one by wild boar who feast on their gardens and are becoming increasingly aggressive and territorial. The problems facing the residents of Kakara are being repeated across Japan, with boar numbers exploding as rural populations decline. 
  
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• Regeneron/Sanofi heart drug succeeds in major trial; Will insurers pay?

  10-03-2018 17:31 via yahoo.com
  A potent, expensive cholesterol drug sold by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi significantly reduced major adverse heart events in a huge study presented on Saturday but it remains to be seen whether the new data willprompt insurers to pay for increased use of the medicine.The drug, Praluent, also led to fewer deaths among high-risk patients, which could be the strongest argument for insurers to finally remove barriers that have severely constrained sales and frustrated physicians trying to g
  
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• Suspect in Fatal Shooting of Pomona Police Officer Is Arrested

  10-03-2018 17:22 via yahoo.com
  The suspect remains barricaded inside an apartment
  
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• Suspect Barricades Himself After Pomona Police Officer Killed in Shootout

  10-03-2018 17:22 via yahoo.com
  The suspect remains barricaded inside an apartment
  
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• Texas school district has anonymously armed employees since 2007

  10-03-2018 17:02 via yahoo.com
  David Thweatt, superintendent of a small school district in Harrold, Texas, began anonymously arming school employees after the Virginia Tech shooting and sees his program as a deterrent.
  
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• USS Carl Vinson in Vietnam sends a message to China

  10-03-2018 17:01 via yahoo.com
  The American aircraft carrier arrived this week in Vietnam, serving as a reminder to China that the U.S. will not stand for its claim to the South China Sea and the islands it has built there.
  
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• All eyes on Pennsylvania ahead of special Congressional election

  10-03-2018 16:57 via yahoo.com
  President Trump won western Pennsylvania’s 18th district by 20 points, but the race between Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone to replace a Congressman who resigned is neck and neck.
  
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• Trump signals trust in North Korea after agreeing to meeting

  10-03-2018 16:52 via yahoo.com
  The president told reporters that he believed the meeting would be “very successful” and that North Korea would keep a promise to put their nuclear tests on hold ahead of historic talks between the two nations.
  
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• NRA sues Florida over newly approved gun bill

  10-03-2018 16:49 via yahoo.com
  One day after Florida enacted a new gun law, the National Rifle Association is suing the state, citing the decision to raise the legal age to purchase a rifle from 18 to 21.
  
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• Officer killed in California after pursuit and standoff

  10-03-2018 16:47 via yahoo.com
  A reckless driving suspect barricaded himself inside an apartment complex and shot at two officers through the door, leaving one dead. The suspect is now custody.
  
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• Suspected shooter and three women dead after standoff at veterans home

  10-03-2018 16:46 via yahoo.com
  The community in Yountville, California are remembering the victims of the standoff: three staff members at the nation’s largest veterans home, one of whom was seven months pregnant.
  
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• Man Who Killed 3 at Veterans Home Before Killing Himself Was Decorated Veteran

  10-03-2018 16:45 via yahoo.com
  He was previously kicked out of the program at the home.
  
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• This Cholesterol Drug Combination Might Lower Your Risk of Death, Study Finds

  10-03-2018 16:40 via yahoo.com
  Praluent modestly cuts the risk of death or heart problems
  
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