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• Indianapolis man sentenced to 3 life terms for killing rampage

  11-05-2017 23:59
  
  An Indianapolis man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing three people over four days in attacks last year that authorities say he justified by citing the horror movie "The Purge."
  
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• Trump: I was going to fire the 'showboat,' anyway

  11-05-2017 23:57 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Thursday that he had already decided to fire ousted FBI Director James Comey before Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote up a formal recommendation to do so.
  
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• Trump blasts Comey: I was going to fire the 'showboat,' anyway

  11-05-2017 23:57 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Thursday that he had already decided to fire ousted FBI Director James Comey before Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote up a formal recommendation to do so.
  
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• US intelligence chiefs have doubts about cybersecurity firm over its Russian roots

  11-05-2017 23:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Top intelligence officials told a Senate hearing of their concerns over Kaspersky Labs’ broad presence, without specifying a particular threatTop US intelligence chiefs have publicly expressed doubts about the global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs because of its roots in Russia.Six leading intelligence officials told a Senate hearing on external threats to the United States of their concerns over the firm’s broad presence, without specifying the particular threat they see. Continu
  
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• Flying to Europe? You Might Want to Encrypt Your Laptop First

  11-05-2017 23:48 via yahoo.com
  
  Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. With the start of the summer travel season looming, the Department of Homeland Security is considering extending a ban o...
  
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• Timeline: Trump's words contradict White House answers on Comey firing

  11-05-2017 23:40 via cnn.com
  
  The White House can't get its story straight on why President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
  
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• 8-year-old was assaulted by classmate before killing himself

  11-05-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  School officials never told the mother of an 8-year-old Ohio boy who killed himself that another student had thrown him against the wall two days earlier and knocked him unconscious in an attack recorded by a surveillance video, attorneys for the boy's mother said Thursday.
  
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• WATCH: Massive python spotted on South African golf course

  11-05-2017 23:29
  
  Enormous python slithers onto a golf course in in Zimbali, South Africa.
  
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• Wayne Swan urges Labor to avoid being 'trickle down-lite' on tax

  11-05-2017 23:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Former treasurer says party must pursue a robustly progressive approach – and keep a ‘Buffett rule’ on the table• Podcast: ‘We simply have to get rid of neoliberal economics’ – Wayne Swan
  The former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan says the ALP has to avoid being “trickle down-lite”, or offering voters “a sickening Davos third way approach” at the next election – and needs to countenance all measures to strengthen progressive taxat
  
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• Trump digs up old Rosie O’Donnell tweet to back Comey firing

  11-05-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  
  On Thursday, President Trump cited a Rosie O’Donnell tweet that was from December 2016 to back up his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. Twitter lit up with comments from users questioning what the President is doing with his free time.
  
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• 20 AGs call for independent probe into Russia

  11-05-2017 23:04
  
  A group of 20 attorneys general is calling for the appointment of an independent special counsel to continue the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election
  
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• WATCH: Baby kangaroo opens eyes for first time

  11-05-2017 22:59
  
  Three-and-a-half-month-old orphaned kangaroo Lisa opens her eyes and sees the world.
  
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• Many Trump backers are 'totally OK' with Comey firing

  11-05-2017 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is under fire again, this time for his firing of former FBI Director James Comey. But many of his supporters aren't joining the outcry.
  
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• The White House's evolving story on Comey's firing

  11-05-2017 22:57
  
  Trump decided to fire Comey on Monday, a spokesperson said.
  
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• Reaction to Comey firing within the FBI

  11-05-2017 22:34 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News security contributors Steve Gomez and John Cohen give the internal reaction to the FBI director's firing.
  
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• Amtrak to hire private company to manage New York Penn Station concourse

  11-05-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Amtrak said on Thursday that it plans to hire a private company to manage the concourse-level areas it controls in New York's outdated and overcrowded Pennsylvania Station.Amtrak will create a new development entity tasked with selecting a management firm for its concourse areas, President Wick Moorman said at a New York State Assembly committee hearing in Manhattan.
  
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• Steer Clear of Steve? Alleged Leaked Memo From Steve Harvey Warns Staff, 'Do Not Approach Me'

  11-05-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  The memo calls the directive "the new way of doing business."
  
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• ISIS surrenders control of key Syrian city of Tabqah, US Central Command says

  11-05-2017 22:30 via feeds.foxnews.com
  U.S. Central Command announced Thursday that the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish and Arab force, recaptured the key Syrian city of Tabqah, the Tabqah Dam and a nearby airfield from the Islamic State, continuing to weaken ISIS’s control of territory and people.
  
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• Frightened Mom Records Golf Ball-Sized Hail Falling From the Sky: 'I Am Gonna Throw Up'

  11-05-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  The aftermath is unbelievable as her minivan is covered in dents and the back window is shattered.
  
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• For 1st time, US intelligence officials publicly express concern over Russian cyber firm

  11-05-2017 22:28
  
  Several U.S. officials testified today before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
  
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• Former U.S. Representative Brown of Florida found guilty of fraud

  11-05-2017 22:25 via yahoo.com
  
  Brown, 70, was convicted on 18 counts of participating in a conspiracy involving a fraudulent education charity, concealing material facts required on financial disclosure forms and filing false tax returns, the Justice Department said in a statement.“Former Congresswoman Brown chose greed and personal gain over the sacred trust given to her by the community that she served for many years,” acting U.S. Attorney Stephen Muldrow said after a jury reached a verdict in Jacksonville.
  
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• Pentagon tries to ease Turkey's concerns with arming Kurds

  11-05-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis made clear Thursday that America is committed to protecting Turkey after angering its NATO ally with a deal to arm anti-Islamic State fighters in Syria that Turkey considers terrorists.
  
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• ‘We finally agree’: Trump digs up old Rosie O’Donnell tweet to back Comey firing

  11-05-2017 22:15 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump seems to think he’s found an unlikely ally to defend his firing of FBI Director James Comey — Rosie O’Donnell.
  
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• Mormons pull older teens from Boy Scouts

  11-05-2017 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  The Mormon church says older teens in the US and Canada will no longer take part in Boy Scouts programs, starting next year.
  
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• California revised budget up slightly, reinstates some cuts

  11-05-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  
  California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday revised his proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, raising total spending by 2.2 percent and increasing funding for schools and transportation, even as he warned that the state's economy likely cannot sustain the growth of recent years.The revised budget for the 2018 fiscal year, which starts July 1, provides a $6 billion loan to the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the nation's largest public pension fund, in an effort to reduce
  
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• US to let al Qaeda recruit out of prison

  11-05-2017 22:03 via cnn.com
  
  The American al Qaeda recruit who once pitched terrorist leaders on plans to bomb the Long Island Railroad and a WalMart store was sentenced Thursday to time served plus 90 days in prison during a New York federal court appearance.
  
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• 'Avocado Hand' Is Prompting Doctors to Warn People About Slicing the Fruit

  11-05-2017 22:01 via yahoo.com
  
  There's a hidden danger lurking in your produce section -- though it doesn't become dangerous until you take it home."Avocado hand," as doctors call it, has prompted the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons to warn people about the practice."People do not anticipate that the avocados they buy can be very ripe and there is minimal understanding of how to handle them," Simon Eccles, a former Royal Society of Medicine president of plastic surgery told The Times of Lo
  
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• Ex-congresswoman guilty of taking money from sham charity

  11-05-2017 21:51 via yahoo.com
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — After a historic, nearly 25-year career representing Florida in Congress, former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was found guilty on Thursday of taking money from a charity that was purported to be giving scholarships to poor students.
  
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• Mexican activist who searched for disappeared is slain

  11-05-2017 21:49 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A mother who spent years searching for her missing daughter in northern Mexico and organized others to look for their disappeared relatives has been slain.
  
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• LGBT activists arrested after demanding investigation of alleged torture of gay men in Chechnya

  11-05-2017 21:45
  
  A petition calls on Russia to investigate alleged detention of over 100 gay men.
  
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• Russian probe: Firing will help end it, White House says

  11-05-2017 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  The White House said Thursday that removing FBI Director James Comey from his post may hasten the agency's investigation into Russian meddling.
  
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• Pope/Trump mural kiss, pelicans, Depp & more — it happened today: May 11 in pictures

  11-05-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Trump and Pope Francis kiss on a mural in Rome, Johnny Depp and more of today's news from around the world in pictures.
  
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• Pope and Trump kissing, pelicans, Depp & more — it happened today: May 11 in pictures

  11-05-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  
  A mural in Rome depicts Pope Francis and President Trump kissing; pelicans view a dramatic sunset over Adelaide beach in Australia; actor Johnny Depp arrives for the global premiere of his film “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” in Shanghai. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters/Zuma)
  
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• Hezbollah says future war would be on Israeli territory

  11-05-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ellen Francis and Laila BassamBEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah said on Thursday that any future conflict between the Shi'ite group and Israel could take place inside Israeli territory, as tensions rise between the arch foes.Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, also said in a speech televised live that the group was dismantling all its military positions along Lebanon's eastern border with Syria, and this area would now be patrolled just by the Lebanese army.Hezbollah, an ally of
  
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• Latest fighting kills 37 people in Central African Republic

  11-05-2017 20:51 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A local Central African Republic branch of the Red Cross says that days of clashes in the central region have left at least 37 people dead and many displaced.
  
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• Acting FBI chief contradicts WH claim that Comey lost agency's confidence

  11-05-2017 20:51
  
  Andrew McCabe also vows to speak up if WH impedes Russia probe.
  
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• Retired Idaho teacher held hostage in Mexican hospital over unpaid bill

  11-05-2017 20:34 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Vikki Moormann’s son, Ryan, received a call from the hospital saying that unless the family immediately paid her bill she would not be released. The family was also sent an itemized bill from the hospital for a total of $35,000.
  
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• Helicopter crew warns paddle-boarders about nearby sharks

  11-05-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  
  DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — A sheriff's helicopter crew warned a group of paddle-boarders to get out of the ocean after spotting more than a dozen great white sharks along the Southern California coast.
  
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• Sen Wyden: Probe Should Follow Trump's Money

  11-05-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  Senator Ron Wyden, member of the Senate Finance and Intelligence Committees, talks with Rachel Maddow about why he thinks the Trump-Russia investigation should focus on Donald Trump's business ties.
  
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• Trump to NBC: ‘I was going to fire Comey’ prior to DOJ recommendation

  11-05-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  
  During an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, President Trump said he had made the decision to fire FBI Director James Comey prior to the the recommendation made by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
  
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• Report paints harrowing picture of Central America migration

  11-05-2017 20:19 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Migrants from Central America's violence-plagued Northern Triangle region endure harrowing abuses while trying to make their way through Mexico toward the United States, a report from an international medical group said Thursday.
  
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• Middle School Teacher Suspected of Sex With Student Kills Herself in Front of Police

  11-05-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Gretchen Krohnfeldt, 47, was a mother of three.
  
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• Associates skeptical Comey cleared Trump in Russia investigation

  11-05-2017 20:08
  
  Trump claimed that Comey said he was not under investigation three times.
  
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• Racially abused player: 2018 World Cup will 'bring peace'

  11-05-2017 20:07 via cnn.com
  
  Footballer Sulley Muntari has said he would be the "No.1" supporter of any organized player boycott in protest against what he believes are increasing incidents of racism in the sport.
  
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• Official: Motorists in crash that killed 5 driving illegally

  11-05-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  
  BRIGHTON, Mich. (AP) — Both drivers in a Michigan crash that killed five people were operating vehicles illegally, according to a state official.
  
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• Contradictory account: Trump says FBI was 'in turmoil'

  11-05-2017 19:56 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Thursday that he had already decided to fire ousted FBI Director James Comey before Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote up a formal recommendation to do so.
  
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• Trump tells NBC he planned to fire Comey

  11-05-2017 19:55 via cnn.com
  
  In a new interview with NBC's Lester Holt, President Trump says he was going to fire FBI Director James Comey regardless of recommendation.
  
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• WATCH: Senator 'offended' by Trump's remarks on Comey

  11-05-2017 19:45
  
  Sen. Mark Warner, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, defended the former FBI director.
  
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• North Korea poses 'existential' threat, US intel chief warns

  11-05-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea's nuclear weapons program poses a potentially "existential" threat to the United States, the national intelligence director said in a bleak appraisal to Congress on Thursday. He wouldn't say how close Pyongyang is to being able to strike the U.S. mainland.
  
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• You Can Preorder Tesla's Solar Shingles Starting Today

  11-05-2017 19:34 via yahoo.com
  
  It's time to embrace the solar revolution.
  
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