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• Hero dog finds family cat under wreckage 2 months after fire

  17-05-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  
  People say cats have nine lives, but we'll always be shocked by what some cats manage to live through. Like Ringer, a cat who somehow survived for two months under the floor of a house that had burned down. SEE ALSO: Omar the long cat is really, really, really longChristine Marr, Ringer's owner, posted about the miraculous rescue on Facebook. Two months ago, a fire destroyed Marr's home. While Marr and her dog Chloe were rescued from the flames, Ringer could not be found. That is, until Marr mad
  
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• Even the White House doesn't know what Ivanka Trump does

  17-05-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  
  Another day, another opportunity for the internet to troll the Trump family. President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka has been intensely involved in her father's presidency, while First Lady Melania has been pretty absent while living in New York. It's unclear exactly what Ivanka's role is, and apparently, the White House is as confused as the rest of the nation.  Ivanka shared a photo of herself sitting at a table in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Wednesday. The meeting was about
  
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• 'Wolf of Wall Street' Living the High Life Again Despite Owing $100 Million to Scam Victims

  17-05-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Jordan Belfort's huge debt to victims of his crimes hasn't stopped him from living like a king.
  
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• Man Photographed Comforting Mother Cow After She Lost Her Calf During Labor

  17-05-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  
  "She was crushed. Just devastated, and she was tired fro the labor," the man's wife told InsideEdition.com.
  
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• 2017 Nissan Titan V-8 4x4 Single Cab

  17-05-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Nissan's best play against the domestics.
  
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• New Questions On Trump-Russia Special Counsel

  17-05-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Sari Horwitz, Justice Department reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new questions raised by the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to the Trump-Russia investigation.
  
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• How AS Monaco toppled big spenders PSG to win Ligue 1

  17-05-2017 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  Paris Saint Germain's era of dominance is over and the Ligue 1 trophy is once again in the hands of AS Monaco.
  
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• Lawmaker behind misogynistic forum quits, cites safety fears

  17-05-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker who was criticized for creating a misogynistic online forum resigned Wednesday, citing concerns for the safety of his loved ones and himself.
  
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• New Orleans: Next Confederate statue falls to cheers, jeers

  17-05-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Workers took down a Confederate monument to Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard in New Orleans early Wednesday as onlookers watched from lawn chairs, defiant statue supporters waved Confederate battle flags and opponents celebrated.
  
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• Donald Trump to announce $350bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia – one of the largest in history

  17-05-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump will use his upcoming Saudi Arabia trip to announce one of the largest arms sales deals in US history - somewhere in the neighbouhood of $98bn to $128bn worth of arms.The White House said the president will propose it as a template for an alliance that will fight terrorism and keep Iran in check.Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began negotiations on this deal shortly after the 2016 US election when he sent a delegation to Trump Tower to meet with the president’s son-in-l
  
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• Nat Geo marks Endangered Species Day displaying stunning Photo Ark images

  17-05-2017 22:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Stunning images from the National Geographic Photo Ark, #SaveTogether campaign, sounding the alarm for the conservation of wildlife and their habitats.
  
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• Rep. Maxine Waters: Paul Ryan has ‘not done his job’

  17-05-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., slammed House Speaker Paul Ryan Wednesday, saying he “has not provided any real leadership.”
  
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• US stocks fall sharply on Trump woes; Dow -1.8%

  17-05-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Wall Street stocks fell sharply Wednesday on deepening worries about President Donald Trump's economic agenda following a series of scandals and stumbles.The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 373 points to 20,606.93 for a drop of 1.8 percent -- its biggest one-day decline since Trump was elected.The broad-based S&P 500 fell 1.8 percent to 2,357.03, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled 2.6 percent to 6,011.24, retreating from a record.
  
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• US official: ISIS creating chemical weapons cell

  17-05-2017 22:20 via cnn.com
  
  US intelligence believes ISIS is bringing together all of its experts on chemical weapons from Iraq and Syria into a new "chemical weapons cell," according to a US official.
  
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• Controversial Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke says he is joining Trump administration

  17-05-2017 22:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Clarke met with President Trump back in November and was considered a potential candidate to run the department, but the post went to Gen. John Kelly.
  
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• Got a News Tip? We Want to Know About It

  17-05-2017 22:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  Do you have a story to share with us? Did you witness something you think should be reported? Reach out to our journalists by sending in your news tip.
  
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• Head in the clouds: Dutch king was guest pilot for 21 years

  17-05-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch passengers on KLM flights might have recognized the co-pilot's voice when he introduced himself on the airline's Cityhopper services.
  
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• Bashir attendance at summit with Trump opposed by US

  17-05-2017 22:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Sudan said Wednesday that President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted for genocide, will appear at the same summit in Saudi Arabia as Donald Trump, but the United States indicated it opposes his attendance."I can confirm President Bashir will go ... to Saudi Arabia," Sudan's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour told reporters in Geneva.
  
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• The Future Of Robots And Artificial Intelligence Is Being Led By These 8 Companies

  17-05-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  
  These are some of the big players leading the way in AI research.
  
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• Fiery crash kills South Carolina family of 4, truck driver

  17-05-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A family of four died when they were hit by a tractor-trailer in a fiery crash that also killed the truck driver and closed a major North Carolina interstate for hours, authorities said Wednesday.
  
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• Trump, LGBT, Lavrov and more — it happened today: May 17 in pictures

  17-05-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump pumps his fist; LGBT activist attends a rally against Homophobia and more of today’s news from around the world in pictures.
  
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• Ivanka Trump leads meeting at White House in father's absence

  17-05-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  
  Ivanka Trump led a roundtable about human trafficking with members of Congress at the White House, while her father Donald Trump delivered a commencement address to cadets graduating from the US Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.The meeting, attended by several Democrats and Republicans – including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy – seems to be another sign of Ms Trump’s quickly growing role in the administration.According to the White House pool report, Mr Trump’s e
  
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• Questions from the 2017 National Geographic Bee

  17-05-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Here are the questions from the championship rounds of Wednesday's National Geographic Bee. The winner, 14-year-old Pranay Varada of Irving, Texas, answered all of them correctly.
  
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• Democracy’s darkest moment: the Watergate scandal

  17-05-2017 21:34 via yahoo.com
  
  The Watergate scandal was famously described by the White House press secretary as a “third-rate burglary,” but it eventually brought down a presidency.
  
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• Gisele Bunchen: Brady has had concussion

  17-05-2017 21:32 via cnn.com
  
  Gisele Bunchen said in an interview on CBS that her husband, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, had a concussion last year and has had others.
  
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• Trump presented sword: Adviser says 'use that on the press'

  17-05-2017 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  In his commencement speech at the Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday, President Trump proclaimed that "no politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly" by the media.
  
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• Texas girl chokes on fidget spinner part

  17-05-2017 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  Fidget spinners are driving many adults crazy, but one Texas woman is warning about her daughter's dangerous experience.
  
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• Trump's Russia meeting: What we still don't know 

  17-05-2017 21:00 via cnn.com
  
  Fact: US President Donald Trump hosted Russia's Foreign Minister and the Kremlin's ambassador to Washington in the Oval Office last week.
  
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• MS-13 gang targeted in pre-dawn sweep across Los Angeles

  17-05-2017 20:49 via yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hundreds of federal and local law enforcement fanned out across Los Angeles in pre-dawn sweeps, serving arrest and search warrants as part of a three-year investigation into the ultra-violent street gang MS-13.
  
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• Why the Future Air Force One Will Be a Boeing 747-8

  17-05-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Popular Mechanics sat down to talk with Air Mobility Command about the new jets that will become the primary presidential aircraft of the future.
  
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• Scientists Find Remote Beach Covered With 19 Tons of Trash

  17-05-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  
  This South Pacific island is an ecological disaster, even though it's thousands of miles from the nearest city.
  
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• Turkish security 'involved in Washington protester assault'

  17-05-2017 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  Turkish security officials were involved in Tuesday's assault of protesters against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, two law enforcement sources tell CNN.
  
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• Venezuela: So few supplies, so much pain

  17-05-2017 20:31 via cnn.com
  
  A lack of food, of medicine, even water is hurting the most vulnerable in Venezuela. CNN went undercover to report the impact on some of the country's children.
  
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• ICE arrests of undocumented immigrants without criminal records up more than 150 percent, U.S. officials say

  17-05-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  
  While the Trump administration initially said that it would focus its deportation efforts on undocumented immigrants with criminal records, figures released Wednesday show that the arrests of those without criminal records have more than doubled this year.
  
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• Everything new coming to Android O

  17-05-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Google I/O 2017 has been absolutely packed with announcements, but the company isn't done yet. More than an hour into the event, Google has revealed some of the exciting new features coming in Android 8.0 (aka Android O). And don't forget -- you can sign up for the Android O beta right now.The Android O segment of Google I/O was broken up into two sections: Fluid Experiences and Vitals.
  Fluid Experiences encapsulate the new features and functionality coming to Android with the upcoming update. T
  
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• Mom, 2 Young Sons Feared Dead After Plane Vanishes in Bermuda Triangle

  17-05-2017 20:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Jennifer Blumin of New York, her two sons, ages 3 and 4, and 52-year-old Nathan Ulrich were aboard the small aircraft.
  
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• Maxine Waters talks impeachment of Trump

  17-05-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., spoke to Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff and Yahoo News Deputy Editor Dan Klaidman about the latest revelation that President Trump asked FBI Director James Comey to end the investigation into Michael Flynn. Waters said, “I’ve been on the road to impeachment ahead of everybody.”
  
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• Tulsa police officer's manslaughter trial goes to jury

  17-05-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  
  An Oklahoma jury began deliberations on Wednesday in the manslaughter trial of a white Tulsa police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in an incident caught on video that stoked the debate over racial bias in U.S. policing.Officer Betty Shelby, 43, faces at least four years to life in prison if convicted of manslaughter in the September 2016 killing of Terence Crutcher, then 40, whose car was blocking a road.In the videos, Crutcher can be seen with his hands in the air and walking awa
  
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• Impeachment: Nasty, complicated and won't happen soon

  17-05-2017 20:17 via cnn.com
  
  "We're in impeachment territory now," declared David Gergen, the presidential counselor who should know a thing or two about the subject; he advised both a Republican (Richard Nixon) and Democrat (Bill Clinton), who dealt with impeachment in their respective second terms.
  
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• Big difference: Trump's silence on Comey memo is deafening

  17-05-2017 20:14 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump loves to talk. To tweet. To be quoted. To sound off. To make news.
  
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• Google Assistant Comes to iPhone, Adds More Powers

  17-05-2017 20:05 via yahoo.com
  
  Google Assistant can now pop up on your iPhone, and it's bringing new powers with it.At its I/O Developer Conference, Google vice president of engineering Scott Huffman announced that Google Assistant would be available as an app for iOS devices starting today (May 17).While Google didn't share many details as to how the app will work — presumably, you'll have to launch the app to use it instead of triggering it with your voice like you would on a Pixel — the move to the iPhone expan
  
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• Special Counsel Named in Trump-Russia Probe

  17-05-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Rachel Maddow reports on the history of the special counsel rule and the appointment today of former FBI Director Robert Mueller to be special counsel for the Trump-Russia investigation.
  
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• Trump-Lavrov talks: We've got a record of Oval Office meeting

  17-05-2017 19:47 via cnn.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is ready to provide US Congress with a transcript of the talks between President Donald Trump and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
  
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• The Princess Bride: Japanese Princess to Marry a Commoner

  17-05-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Japan’s latest royal wedding once again raises questions on the future of imperial succession.
  
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• Rouhani warns Revolutionary Guards not to meddle in Iran election

  17-05-2017 19:39 via yahoo.com
  
  By Babak DehghanpishehBEIRUT (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday urged Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards and the Basij militia under its controlnot to meddle in Friday's presidential election, in a rare warning that underscored rising political tensions.The Guards, who oversee an economic empire worth billions of dollars, are seldom criticized in public, but the pragmatist Rouhani is locked in an unexpectedly tight race against hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi, who is believed to h
  
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• Trump speech: 'No politician in history... has been treated worse'

  17-05-2017 19:33 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump, amid his own swirling controversies, advised United States Coast Guard Academy graduates that while things aren't always fair, "you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight."
  
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• Trump makes first speech since Comey storm erupted: 'No politician in history... has been treated worse'

  17-05-2017 19:33 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump, amid his own swirling controversies, advised United States Coast Guard Academy graduates that while things aren't always fair, "you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight."
  
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• BBC drama to explore public impact of Princess Diana's death

  17-05-2017 19:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Diana and I to tell story of the week in 1997 after her death, focusing on how it affected ordinary peopleThe BBC is to broadcast a one-off drama exploring the impact of the death of Princess Diana on the lives of ordinary people.Diana and I will concentrate on the week in August 1997 after she died in a car crash in Paris. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Find My Device’ is Google’s new app to find your lost phone

  17-05-2017 19:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Moments before the start of the Google I/O developer conference, Google put its new device-finding app up on the Google Play Store. It's named "Find My Device," which is going to draw a few comparisons to Apple's famous "Find My iPhone" feature.
  The new app is more than just a name, though. It has received a serious visual overhaul, with a new 3-D map that looks much more 2017. Devices are listed like tabs across the top of the app, which makes it easier to find your smartwatch in case it just s
  
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• Half of Macron's Cabinet are women

  17-05-2017 19:15 via cnn.com
  
  France's newly inaugurated President Emmanuel Macron unveiled his Cabinet on Wednesday, with women filling half of the 22 positions as promised.
  
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