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• Sea level rise is accelerating, with Greenland in leading role

  26-06-2017 23:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Global sea level rise is accelerating as the Greenland Ice Sheet sheds more of its ice, scientists have found.  Given this quickening pace, it's possible that by the end of this century, sea level rise could threaten coastal communities around the world, from Miami to Mumbai.  A new study, published Monday in the journalNature Climate Change, is one of a few recent works to confirm an acceleration in sea level rise during the past few decades. There had been greater uncertainty about t
  
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• Why This Mom Posted Her 3-Year-Old Son's Hospital Bill on Twitter

  26-06-2017 23:38 via rocketnews.com
  
  Ali Chandra is making her opinion known after posting her son’s hospital bill on social media to share her thoughts about the current political debate over health care.
  “I guess I hoped someone would look at it and realize that the whole debate is a lot more multi-faceted than people on the internet would like you to believe,” Chandra, a registered nurse, told InsideEdition.com.
  Read: ‘Planned Parenthood Saved My Life’: The Realities of Women’s Heal
  
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• House ethics panel launches inquiry of 2 Dems, plus aide

  26-06-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics committee said Monday it is investigating complaints against two veteran Democratic lawmakers and the top aide to a third Democrat.
  
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• Do We Have To Worry About An Asteroid Strike?

  26-06-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Just because an asteroid passes by Earth from a safe distance one year doesn’t mean it will always happen that way.
  
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• The Latest: Attorney forced to testify against Joe Arpaio

  26-06-2017 23:28 via yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on the trial of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio (all times local):
  
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• Apple CEO touts India impact in push for deeper market access

  26-06-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Apple CEO Tim Cook on Sunday highlighted the economic impact the company is having on India in a meeting with its prime minister as the iPhone maker seeks deeper access to the world's third-largest smartphone market behind the United States and China.Cook met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a business summit in Washington at a time when Apple Incis targeting the nascent Indian market as a revenue source after its sales in China slipped.Apple has asked Indian government officials for
  
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• Arizona woman convicted in 2011 death of young cousin

  26-06-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman was convicted of first-degree murder Monday in the death of her 10-year-old cousin who was locked in a small plastic storage box in triple-digit heat.
  
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• Philando Castile's family reaches $3M settlement in death

  26-06-2017 23:13 via rocketnews.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mother of Philando Castile, a black motorist killed by a Minnesota police officer last July, has reached a nearly $3 million settlement with the city that employed the officer, avoiding a federal wrongful death lawsuit that attorneys said could have taken years to resolve.
  The settlement to be paid to Valerie Castile, who is the family’s trustee, was announced Monday and comes less than two weeks after officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted of manslaughter and o
  
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• Philando Castile's family reaches $3M settlement in death

  26-06-2017 23:13 via yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mother of Philando Castile, a black motorist killed by a Minnesota police officer last July, has reached a nearly $3 million settlement with the city that employed the officer, avoiding a federal wrongful death lawsuit that attorneys said could have taken years to resolve.
  
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• Pilot Tells Passengers to 'Pray' During Shaky Flight That Was 'Like Being in a Washing Machine'

  26-06-2017 23:12 via yahoo.com
  
  The pilot sounded calm, but was heard telling passengers he was scared too.
  
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• Rabbi, several others arrested in public benefits fraud case

  26-06-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey rabbi and his wife and three other couples defrauded state and federal public assistance programs out of more than $1 million by underreporting their incomes, according to criminal complaints released Monday.
  
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• Ethereum Prices Drop After Fake Death Reports

  26-06-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Ether prices have appeared unpredictable in the past few weeks, but co-founder Mihai Alisie said the correction ultimately will benefit for the platform.
  
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• Police: Girl's actions caused her to fall from NY park ride

  26-06-2017 23:08 via rocketnews.com
  QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (AP) — A teenage girl’s actions, not mechanical malfunctions, caused her to slip under a restraining bar on an amusement park gondola ride before falling into the arms of bystanders below, police said Monday.
  Warren County sheriff’s Lt. Steven Stockdale told The Post-Star of Glens Falls (http://bit.ly/2s9pG46 ) that “human error” on the part of the 14-year-old Delaware girl caused her to slip out of the two-person gondola while riding with her youn
  
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• Police: Girl's actions caused her to fall from NY park ride

  26-06-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  
  QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (AP) — A teenage girl's actions, not mechanical malfunctions, caused her to slip under a restraining bar on an amusement park gondola ride before falling into the arms of bystanders below, police said Monday.
  
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• Mystery of missing Chinese scholar shakes up Illinois school

  26-06-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Yingying Zhang, the daughter of a working-class factory driver from China, took the same career path as many other young Chinese academics before her: She travelled to a university in the U.S. with dreams of one day landing a professorship and being able to help her parents financially.
  
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• Arkansas inmate on lam for 32 years visiting mom when caught

  26-06-2017 23:06 via rocketnews.com
  
  This photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows Steven Dishman. The Arkansas prison escapee who had been on the run for more than three decades has been recaptured. The state Department of Corrections says Dishman was arrested Sunday, June 25, 2017, at a home in Springdale in northwest Arkansas by local law enforcement and state troopers (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP)MoreLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The mother of an Arkansas prison escapee who had been on the run
  
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• Russia FM Lavrov urges US to prevent 'provocations' in Syria

  26-06-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday urged US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to prevent "provocations" against Syrian government forces, the foreign ministry said.In a phone call initiated by Tillerson, Lavrov "called on Washington to take steps to prevent provocations against Syrian government forces carrying out operations against terrorists," it said in a statement.
  
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• Man convicted of 2nd-degree murder in killing of Baby Doe

  26-06-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A man was convicted Monday of murder in the death of a 2-year-old girl who became known as Baby Doe after her remains washed up on the shore of a Boston Harbor island.
  
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• Republican senator to block arms sales over Qatar crisis

  26-06-2017 22:39 via rocketnews.com
  
  FILE PHOTO: Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/Files
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  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Monday he would block arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council pending progress in resolving a simmering dispute with Qatar.
  “All countries in the region need to do
  
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• The Latest: Baby Doe's mother to be sentenced this week

  26-06-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on the murder conviction of a Massachusetts man in the killing of his ex-girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter, who came to be known as Baby Doe (all times local):
  
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• Hacking Group 'Anonymous' Claims NASA Will Announce Alien Life Soon

  26-06-2017 22:32 via rocketnews.com
  
  The worldwide hacking group Anonymous claimed NASA will soon reveal the existence of life on other planets, according to a June 20 video released on a YouTube channel affiliated with the group. 
  A hooded figure wearing the group’s signature Guy Fawkes mask read their statements on camera.
  Read: School Of Hacking: Inside The Dark Web Virtual Classroom Where Anonymous Wants To Become Great Again
  “According to experts, it is no longer a question of if there is life on other pl
  
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• Sean Spicer angrily confronted by CNN reporter during tense off-camera press briefing

  26-06-2017 22:29 via yahoo.com
  
  A CNN reporter has argued with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer over the West Wing’s decision to bar cameras from broadcasting the daily press briefings.Jim Acosta, the White House correspondent for the cable news network, challenged Mr Spicer after the White House representative admonished the reporter while he was trying to ask a question on healthcare.“There’s no camera on, Jim”, Mr Spicer said .
  
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• Sheriff: Man killed missing son, 5, after Disneyland trip

  26-06-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators suspect the father of a 5-year-old California boy who has been missing for two months killed the child after a family outing at Disneyland in a plot to get back at his estranged wife during a bitter separation, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said Monday.
  
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• Brave Dad Describes Moment He Caught Girl Who Fell Out of Ride: 'God Dropped an Angel'

  26-06-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Matthew Howard was clearly at the right place in the right time.
  
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• Father Charged With Murdering 5-Year-Old Son He Had Reported Missing

  26-06-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Aramazd Andressian Sr. has been partying in Las Vegas in the weeks since his 5-year-old son disappeared, authorities said.
  
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• Can Modi Turn India From a ‘True Friend’ to the U.S. to a Friend Forever?

  26-06-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  The two men know deal making. Whether they understand how to forge lasting U.S-Indian relations is another matter.
  
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• Why Progressives Lose — Even In California

  26-06-2017 22:06 via yahoo.com
  
  “Single payer” seemed politically possible — until California Democrats helped insurers and drug companies halt a measure designed to create a Medicare-for-all system.
  
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• Asylum Seekers in Canada Trapped in Legal Limbo

  26-06-2017 22:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of people who fled to Canada to escape President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal migrants have become trapped in legal limbo because of an overburdened refugee system, struggling to find work, permanent housing or enroll their children in schools, reports Reuters.
  
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• Kentucky lawyer in $600 million fraud scheme flees U.S.: report

  26-06-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  
  A Kentucky lawyer who pleaded guilty to participating in a $600 million disability fraud scheme has fled to a country that does not have an extradition treaty with the United States, local media reported.Eric Christopher Conn, 56, used a fake passport to flee to a country he did not identify, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader, which said it exchanged emails with a person it identified as Conn. The paper said on Sunday that person answered correctly questions only Conn would know.Scott Whi
  
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• Vandals obliterate info on Emmett Till marker in Mississippi

  26-06-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A civil rights historical marker in Mississippi has been vandalized, obliterating information about black teenager Emmett Till, who was kidnapped and lynched in 1955.
  
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• Trump and the 'honest' Question

  26-06-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  
  Kurt Andersen and Lawrence O'Donnell discuss Donald Trump's many lies in office and a new poll that shows only 36% now view the American president as "honest" – which comes as the Trump White House has decided to pick a fight with the press corps.
  
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• All the President's Lies

  26-06-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  
  The New York Times Sunday published an extraordinary definitive list of the more than 100 lies Donald Trump has told as president. Lawrence O'Donnell talks to Stuart Thompson, who worked on the piece.
  
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• The Latest: Rabbi charged with benefits fraud released

  26-06-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on a New Jersey public welfare benefits fraud case (all times local):
  
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• Boyfriend of Mom Found Guilty in 'Baby Doe' Killing: 'Finally, Justice for Bella'

  26-06-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  Michael McCarthy was found guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of 'Baby Doe.'
  
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• Saudi demands from Qatar 'very provocative': Germany

  26-06-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  
  By Andrea ShalalBERLIN (Reuters) - A list of 13 demands submitted by four Arab states to Qatar as a condition to lift their boycott on the Gulf country is "very provocative" because some items challenge Doha's sovereignty, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Monday.Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a boycott on Qatar three weeks ago, accusing it of backing militants - then issued an ultimatum, including demands that it shut down a Turkish military base
  
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• Kushner Meeting With Russian Bank Is Weird

  26-06-2017 20:24 via yahoo.com
  
  Rachel Maddow relays a description of Russia's state-run VEB bank as not being a bank in the traditional way, making Jared Kushner's meeting with the chairman of that bank during the Trump transition all the weirder.
  
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• Britain and EU clash as May outlines Brexit proposals for Europeans

  26-06-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  
  London and Brussels clashed Monday over future residency rights for millions of Europeans as Britain outlined post-Brexit proposals that included a special new status for EU immigrants.Prime Minister Theresa May fleshed out what she called a "fair and serious" offer to guarantee the rights of EU migrants in Britain once it has left the European Union."I want to completely reassure people that under these plans no EU citizen currently in the UK lawfully will be asked to leave at the point the UK
  
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• Kushner Hires Lawyer With Scandal Experience

  26-06-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Rachel Maddow reports that Donald Trump son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has hired a famed defense lawyer Abbe Lowell, who has represented a litany of clients through high profile political scandals and prosecutions.
  
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• Mosul battle to end in days as troops advance in Old City: Iraqi general

  26-06-2017 19:58 via yahoo.com
  
  By Marius Bosch and Khaled al-RamahiMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The battle to wrest full control of the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State will be over in a few days, the Iraqi military said on Monday, as elite counter-terrorism units fought militants among the narrow alleyways of the historic Old City.An attempted fight-back by militants failed on Sunday night and Islamic State's grip on the city, once its de facto capital in Iraq, was weakened, a senior commander said.
  
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• The Latest: Probable cause to hold teens in child's death

  26-06-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  
  CANTON, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on 3 Mississippi teenagers charged in connection with the shooting death of a 6-year-old boy (all times local):
  
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• First female infantry captain marks change of the guard in London

  26-06-2017 19:48 via yahoo.com
  
  Captain Megan Couto became the first female infantry officer to command the troops protecting Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, as a Canadian battalion took over guard duties on Monday.Based in the central province of Manitoba, The Second Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry has been invited to Britain to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of modern Canada.Queen Elizabeth is the head of state of Britain, Canada and 14 other realms including Australia, Jamaica and
  
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• Looking at the Obama family rafting together in Bali makes it seem easier to breathe

  26-06-2017 19:47 via rocketnews.com
  
  View photosAn Obama sighting is a thing to behold these days—and everyone seems to go nuts when they do appear, even if it’s just Michelle or Barack introducing rappers at award ceremonies. 
  It’s safe to say, the former first family is busy and might not be missing us as much as we miss them. The crew was spotted rafting in Bali, Indonesia, Sunday where they are currently on vacation. And, well, when you’re rafting down a river in Bali, chances are you’re not t
  
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• Greenland now a major driver of rising seas: study

  26-06-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  
  Ocean levels rose 50 percent faster in 2014 than in 1993, with meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet now supplying 25 percent of total sea level increase compared with just five percent 20 years earlier, researchers reported Monday."This result is important because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)" -- the UN science advisory body -- "makes a very conservative projection of total sea level rise by the end of the century," at 60 to 90 centimetres (24 to 35 inches), said Peter
  
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• Nigeria's ill president sends recorded greetings from London

  26-06-2017 19:36 via yahoo.com
  
  Nigeria's ailing President Muhammadu Buhari marked the end of Ramadan with an audio broadcast to the nation, his first public message since heading to London on medical leave nearly two months ago, the president's office said.The recording attributed to the president was played on Nigerian radio channels over the weekend and featured a tired hesitant voice that appeared to be his, speaking in the Hausa language used in the Muslim-majority north, where Buhari is from.Some Nigerians questioned the
  
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• Hypoxia Threatens Navy and Air Force Pilots, and the Threat Is Growing

  26-06-2017 19:25 via yahoo.com
  
  Turns out flying pilots at high altitudes is still biologically tricky.
  
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• 15 Still Missing After Tourist Boat Sinks in Colombia

  26-06-2017 19:25 via yahoo.com
  
  The latest on the tourist boat packed with more than 150 passengers that capsized, leaving at least six people dead.
  
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• These Ice Cream Sundaes Are Going Viral

  26-06-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Because churro + soft serve =
  
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• Subway digging uncovers 'Pompeii-like scene' in Rome

  26-06-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — Digging for Rome's new subway has unearthed the charred ruins of an early 3rd-century building and the 1,800-year-old skeleton of a crouching dog that apparently perished in the same blaze that collapsed the structure.
  
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• This Ingenious Hack Frees Up So Much Space In Your Kitchen

  26-06-2017 19:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Why didn't we think of this sooner?
  
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• The Inside Of This Spinach And Artichoke-Stuffed Burger Will Give You All The Feels

  26-06-2017 19:17 via rocketnews.com
  
  View photosPhoto credit: Chelsea Lupkin
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  For the most part, cheese-stuffed burgers are overhyped. Why go through the hassle of stuffing those patties when you can just melt cheese on top? You shouldn’t … unless you’re making these spinach and artichoke-stuffed burgers.
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