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• N. Korea: 'Ready to react to any mode of war by US'

  11-04-2017 23:53 via cnn.com
  
  North Korea warned Monday it would respond to "reckless acts of aggression" by the United States, with "whatever methods the US wants to take," as a US aircraft carrier strike group headed toward the Korean Peninsula.
  
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• Report: Homeland Security fields 1,000 sex abuse complaints

  11-04-2017 23:50 via yahoo.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — An advocacy group said Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog fielded more than 1,000 complaints of sexual assault or sexual abuse from people in custody in a little more than two years.
  
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• Cop Suspended After Video Appears to Show Him Attacking Jaywalker: Authorities

  11-04-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  
  The cop has been removed from duty after the video seems to show him beating a suspect, authorities said.
  
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• The Latest: Attorney: United passenger treated in Chicago

  11-04-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the passenger who was dragged off a full United Express flight at Chicago's O'Hare Airport (all times local):
  
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• Chief: Quick review of officer accused of kicking cuffed man

  11-04-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Columbus police chief said Tuesday she's fast-tracking an investigation into the case of an officer captured on video apparently kicking a handcuffed suspect in the head.
  
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• Wal-Mart eliminating hundreds of corporate jobs: source

  11-04-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Wal-Mart Stores is eliminating hundreds of corporate jobs in a cost-cutting move, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday.The cuts will affect employees in Wal-Mart's international division, its technology services division and in its Sam's Club business.The layoffs are centered in administrative functions, said the person, confirming a story in the Wall Street Journal.
  
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• 'Game of Thrones' creator George R.R. Martin is 'seeing red' over United

  11-04-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin gave us the Red Wedding, beheadings, and hordes of killer ice zombies. But even he can’t stomach United Airlines. SEE ALSO: People are trolling United Airlines with these brutal new slogans "I don't often comment on current events, but the story about the passenger that United Airlines beat bloody and dragged off a flight — for no reason but to accomodate some of their own deadheading employees, and despite the fact that he had a ticket that
  
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• Wildfires scorch parts of Florida; gov. declares emergency

  11-04-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Firefighters are battling wildfires from the top of Florida near the Georgia line to Miami-Dade County in the south as the governor declared a state of emergency Tuesday.
  
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• Police probe motives behind fatal San Bernardino classroom shooting

  11-04-2017 23:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Relatives of a school teacher shot dead by her husband in a San Bernardino, California, classroom have told investigators the slaying capped a brief, turbulent marriage and breakup marked by accusations of infidelity and threats, police said on Tuesday.Police also revealed that surveillance video showed the shooter initially had tried to get into the school through a locked door, forcing him to gain entry instead by way of the front office, where he signed in and was allowed free access to the c
  
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• Mexican mom with 4 American kids faces imminent deportation

  11-04-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — A Mexican mother of four U.S.-born children faced imminent deportation Tuesday after a federal appeals court refused to block her removal.
  
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• Plane makes emergency landing on highway, ends up nose-down

  11-04-2017 23:05 via yahoo.com
  
  BOWDOINHAM, Maine (AP) — A small plane made an emergency landing against traffic on an interstate Tuesday, struck a guardrail and came to rest nose-down, police said. One vehicle had to serve to avoid the plane, but no motorists were injured, and the two people aboard the plane suffered only minor injuries.
  
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• Woman sues ex-prosecutor accused of trading sex for leniency

  11-04-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A former Louisiana district attorney accused of extorting sex from at least 22 women in exchange for favorable treatment from his office is being sued by the mother of one of his alleged victims.
  
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• Woman Speaks Out Against Brother Who Raped Her as a Child

  11-04-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  
  Kathryn Bailey, 23, tearfully opened up about the impact of years of abuse at the hands of her brother.
  
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• Syrians protest U.S. airstrikes and more: April 11 in photos

  11-04-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Among today’s photos: Syrian students protest U.S. airstrikes; Mount Etna disgorges lava; the Queen of England visits a new elephant care center.
  
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• Sessions Announces ‘New Era’ in Treatment of Undocumented Immigrants

  11-04-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  
  The United States will go after undocumented immigrants for identify theft and document fraud and will prosecute immigrants with felonies if they re-enter the country illegally.
  
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• Coming soon: New discoveries about ocean worlds

  11-04-2017 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  NASA will present new discoveries about the ocean worlds in our solar system on Thursday, the agency announced. Learning more about ocean worlds could help in the agency's quest for life beyond Earth.
  
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• United CEO apologizes in full: ‘No one should ever be mistreated this way’

  11-04-2017 22:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Facing a public relations crisis and tumbling share price, the airline‘s chief executive issued another apology on Tuesday amid a firestorm of criticism sparked by the forcible removal of a passenger from an overbooked flight.
  
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• Hamish de Bretton-Gordon: Assad's attack, Russia's problem

  11-04-2017 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  It is now clear that the deadly nerve agent sarin, the same agent which the Assad regime used to kill up to 1,500 people in East Ghouta near Damascus in August 2013, was used in the chemical attack on Idlib last week. As the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) adviser during the incident last week, I can confirm that samples smuggled out to Turkey have proved positive for sarin, and I'm confident that samples that find their way to
  
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• Hamish de Bretton-Gordon: Assad did it, Russians have a problem

  11-04-2017 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  It is now clear that the deadly nerve agent sarin, the same agent which the Assad regime used to kill up to 1,500 people in East Ghouta near Damascus in August 2013, was used in the chemical attack on Idlib last week. As the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) adviser during the incident last week, I can confirm that samples smuggled out to Turkey have proved positive for sarin, and I'm confident that samples that find their way to
  
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• Hamish de Bretton-Gordon: Assad did it, and Russians have a problem

  11-04-2017 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  It is now clear that the deadly nerve agent sarin, the same agent which the Assad regime used to kill up to 1,500 people in East Ghouta near Damascus in August 2013, was used in the chemical attack on Idlib last week. As the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) adviser during the incident last week, I can confirm that samples smuggled out to Turkey have proved positive for sarin, and I'm confident that samples that find their way to
  
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• Spicer: 'Hitler didn't gas his own people'

  11-04-2017 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  White House press secretary Sean Spicer forgot the first rule of politics during a press briefing on Tuesday: Never, ever compare anyone or anything to Adolf Hitler.
  
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• Sean Spicer's comments on Hitler shredded by single MSNBC chyron

  11-04-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  
  White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had a particularly Sean Spicer-y press conference on Tuesday afternoon, mistakenly telling reporters that Hitler never used chemical weapons. He's since clarified — twice — but as the controversial flub unfolded, MSNBC was ready with a spot-on retort in the form of a succinct breaking news chyron.  SEE ALSO: Sean Spicer was once a terrifying White House Easter Bunny "You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to usi
  
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• North Korea issues warning

  11-04-2017 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  North Korea warned Monday it would respond to "reckless acts of aggression" by the United States, with "whatever methods the US wants to take," as a US aircraft carrier strike group headed toward the Korean Peninsula.
  
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• Did Bill O'Reilly Just Speak His Last Words On Fox News?

  11-04-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Bill O'Reilly is off the air for Easter "vacation," but Gabe Sherman reports the Murdochs are fighting over O'Reilly's future. Attorney Lisa Bloom, who is calling on New York state to investigate sexual harassment claims at Fox News.
  
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• Blasts hits Dortmund team bus, 1 player injured

  11-04-2017 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  An explosion occurred near a Borussia Dortmund team bus as Dortmund was preparing to host AS Monaco in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals Tuesday, local police said in a tweet. The blast broke windows on the bus and injured at least one person. The match has been delayed, local media reported.
  
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• Sessions visits U.S.-Mexico border to push migrant crackdown

  11-04-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday to make his case for increased prosecutions of illegal immigrants, pressuring U.S. attorneys to prioritize cases against criminal migrants.Sessions, a long-time proponent of tougher immigration enforcement, told U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Port of Nogales, Arizona, that more illegal migrants should be prosecuted as criminals.It is normally the role of the Secretary of Homeland Security to meet
  
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• Sean Spicer on Assad regime: ‘Even Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons’ – video

  11-04-2017 21:43 via theguardian.com
  
  The White House press secretary told reporters that ‘someone as despicable as Hitler didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons’ and said Russia must consider if Syria is a ‘country and a regime you want to align yourself with’ during the press briefing on Tuesday. When asked to clarify his remarks, Spicer explained by adding, ‘He was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing’ and referred to concentration camps as ‘Holoc
  
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• Video from the scene

  11-04-2017 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  A bystander films the police reaction to the Dortmund football team bus explosion
  
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• United incident exposes limited rights of US air passengers

  11-04-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  
  The online video footage of a United Airlines passenger dragged off a flight, which damaged the company's reputation, highlighted the limited options US passengers have on overbooked flights.United's problems began after security officers on Sunday dragged a 69-year-old man off a flight from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, because he refused to be "bumped" -- an airline practice that has gotten increased scrutiny in light of the incident.Some passengers recorded the incident and posted videos o
  
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• Hero Doctor Shares How He Risked His Life to Save Woman Attacked in New Orleans

  11-04-2017 21:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Peter Gold, then a medical student, was on the phone with his mother at the time.
  
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• Sean Spicer on United video: It’s disturbing to watch a human being ‘get dragged down an aisle’

  11-04-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Sean Spicer said a video of a United Airlines passenger being dragged off a flight is troubling, but the Trump administration won’t seek an investigation.
  
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• Sean Spicer tries to clarify claim that Hitler ‘didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons’

  11-04-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Spicer first said, “Someone as despicable as Hitler … didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” Subsequent clarifications only exacerbated the controversy.
  
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• WH accuses Russia of cover-up in Syria

  11-04-2017 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  The White House said Tuesday the Syrian regime and Russia are trying to "confuse the world community about who is responsible for using chemical weapons against the Syrian people in this and earlier attacks."
  
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• George Soros university under attack

  11-04-2017 20:51 via cnn.com
  
  "We've been taken hostage by a government that's got an ideological agenda," says Michael Ignatieff, president of Central European University.
  
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• Airlines Can Pay A Hefty Sum For Bumping Passengers

  11-04-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Passengers who give up their seats can receive thousands of dollars from an airline.
  
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• Spicer on United Airlines incident: ‘I don’t think anyone looks at that video and isn’t a little disturbed’

  11-04-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  
  On April 11, White House press secretary Sean Spicer discussed the video of a United Airlines passenger being forcibly removed from a flight on Sunday evening. Spicer said, “I don’t think anyone looks at that video and isn’t a little disturbed that another human being is treated that way.”
  
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• San Bernardino school shooter was teacher's husband, officials say – video report

  11-04-2017 20:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Officials say the special education teacher fatally shot in San Bernardino, California, on Monday was killed by her estranged husband, whom she had only recently married. Karen Elaine Smith was shot by her husband, Cedric Anderson, who also shot an eight-year-old boy and injured another student at North Park elementary school, according to authorities. The gunman, who police say had a criminal history that included weapons charges and domestic violence, then shot himself Continue reading...
  
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• Hundreds of refugees missing after Dunkirk camp fire

  11-04-2017 20:21 via theguardian.com
  
  About 900 people in temporary accommodation but 600 still unaccounted for, including unaccompanied children
  Hundreds of refugees and migrants are missing and facing a night in the open after a large fire ripped through the Dunkirk camp where they were living, destroying the wooden huts and leaving the site uninhabitable.Officials spent Tuesday trying to find new shelter for the estimated 1,500 people who had been displaced. It is feared that the destruction of the country’s only official m
  
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• Ohio Ford Dealer Will Sell You a 550-HP Mustang EcoBoost For $33,000

  11-04-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  
  That's more power than a Shelby GT350 for the price of a basic V8 Mustang.
  
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• Man Discovers $2.4 Million in Gold in Ex-Army Tank

  11-04-2017 20:03 via yahoo.com
  
  The ex-Iraqi Army tank was hiding a surprise in its diesel fuel tanks.
  
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• Here Are Tesla's Sleek New Solar Panels

  11-04-2017 20:03 via yahoo.com
  
  The solar roof could be coming to a neighborhood near you.
  
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• $1 billion in market value flies away

  11-04-2017 19:59 via money.cnn.com
  
  Shares in United Airlines were nearly 6% lower in premarket trading on Tuesday as the company scrambled to address a video showing a passenger being forcibly dragged off an overbooked flight.
  
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• Developing nations' demands for better life must be met, says World Bank head

  11-04-2017 19:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Jim Yong Kim says there is greater risk of war, terrorism and increased migration if aspirations of poorer countries are not metFailure to meet the internet-inspired aspirations of people in poor countries runs the risk of creating the conditions for war, terrorism and increased migration, the president of the World Bank has warned.Speaking in London ahead of the Bank’s spring meeting next week, Jim Yong Kim said an urgent development push was needed in order to meet the demands for a bett
  
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• Snubbing Russia and unpicking Assad | Letters

  11-04-2017 19:52 via theguardian.com
  
  For three years in the late 90s, Sergey Lavrov was my Russian counterpart when we represented our countries on the UN security council in New York. Despite some obvious policy differences, Lavrov never played the UK false; he was a serious and creative negotiator, with a good sense of humour and a passion for the English language and its literature. To decline Lavrov’s invitation for our new foreign secretary to visit Moscow (Report, 10 April), just when new tensions show such contact
  
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• UN security council built for 70 years ago | Letters

  11-04-2017 19:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Mark Seddon is right in suggesting reform of the UN is overdue (Opinion, 11 April), especially the permanent membership of the security council. The colonies of 70 years ago are almost all independent. Germany is no longer the war-ravaged and occupied country it was in the 1940s, but an economic powerhouse and a bastion of democracy. Russia no longer dominates much of central and eastern Europe. The world has changed radically since the late 1940s. We still live with a permanent membership
  
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• Protest photos: the power of one woman against the world

  11-04-2017 19:47 via theguardian.com
  
  The shot of Saffiyah Khan calmly staring down an EDL demonstrator in Birmingham became instantly famous. Why are images like these so transfixing?Shows of strength and defiance aren’t in short supply at your average protest – demonstrating, by its nature, requires a level of commitment that weeds out the bystanders, the unimpressively apathetic. But what is it that makes the money shot? The protest photo that goes viral? Well, for one, women. Or, more accurately, one woman. Often a s
  
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• Iran opens registration for May 19 presidential election

  11-04-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — About 126 prospective candidates submitted their names on the first day of candidate registration for Iran's May 19 presidential elections, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.
  
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• Putin hardens Moscow's support of Syria regime before Tillerson visit

  11-04-2017 19:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Russian president claims Assad’s opponents intend to carry out false-flag chemical attacks to justify more US strikesVladimir Putin has deepened his support of the Syrian regime, claiming its opponents planned false-flag chemical weapon attacks to justify further US missile strikes.
  The Russian president’s predictions on Tuesday of an escalation in the Syrian war involving more use of chemical weapons came as US officials provided further details of what they insist was a sarin attac
  
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• Tiny newspaper in US wins Pulitzer prize for taking on big business

  11-04-2017 19:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Art Cullen of 3,000-circulation Storm Lake Times awarded global prize for editorials challenging powerful interests in IowaA number of important local stories were leading the website of the Storm Lake Times, circulation 3,000, on Tuesday morning. Second-grader Alejandra Gonzales found a four-leaf clover in the field behind her school. A local woman had bought and renovated a building to house 25 elderly cats.And in a modest announcement of just a sentence, another notable local happening: on Mo
  
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• Bill O’Reilly Compares BLM Protesters To Nazis

  11-04-2017 19:41 via yahoo.com
  
  This isn't the first time Fox News’ host Bill O’Reilly has compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the Nazis.
  
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