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• Trump vows to 'win' against opioid epidemic, offers no new steps

  08-08-2017 23:57 via yahoo.com
  By James OliphantBRIDGEWATER, N.J. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump promised to win the fight against a U.S. epidemic of opioid drug use, but offered no new steps to do so and did not act on a recommendation made by a presidential commission that he declare a national emergency.Trump spoke at an event he had billed as a "major briefing" on the opioid crisis during a two-week "working vacation" at his private golf club in New Jersey.The Republican president said the United States has no alterna
  
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• Disney to pull its content from Netflix

  08-08-2017 23:53 via money.cnn.com
  Disney said Tuesday that it will end its partnership with Netflix in 2019.
  
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• Hikers Stunned as They Suddenly Come Face-to-Face With Mountain Lion: 'What Are We Supposed to Do?'

  08-08-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  The animal looked like it was ready to pounce.
  
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• Scientists Say Black Holes Are Everywhere

  08-08-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  There are millions of black holes all over the Milky Way galaxy, so be sure to look where you’re going.
  
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• Hear Trump's comments

  08-08-2017 23:38 via cnn.com
  During a roundtable in Bedminster, New Jersey, President Trump said if North Korea continues to threaten the US, "they will be met with fire and fury."
  
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• Malware Hits North Korea After Missile Tests

  08-08-2017 23:33 via yahoo.com
  Two major malware campaigns targeting North Korea were launched following the country's test of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
  
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• Trump apparently gets a folder of positive news twice daily

  08-08-2017 23:28 via yahoo.com
  Before former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer got booted/resigned, they wanted to be known by their boss as the bringer of good news. According toVice, who spoke to several unnamed officials, the two used to battle for the right to deliver a packet of good news clips and cable chyrons to the president at 9:30 a.m. and at 4:30 p.m. ET.  SEE ALSO: Brilliant New York Post cover perfectly sums up Trump's White House This practice is l
  
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• Why Trump Is Wholly Unsuited to the North Korea Crisis

  08-08-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  For months, worried observers of the Trump administration have wondered what would happen when the president first faced a bona fide, urgent international crisis out of his own control.
  
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• Trump says U.S. will 'win' fight against opioid epidemic

  08-08-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  Trump held a “major briefing” at his private golf club to discuss how to properly combat the crisis and “keep youth from going down this deadly path.”
  
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• Canadian officials back in North Korea to discuss imprisoned pastor

  08-08-2017 23:05 via yahoo.com
  Canadian officials have traveled to North Korea to discuss the case of a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence there, a spokesman for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday.Hyeon Soo Lim, who served at one of the largest churches in Canada, was sentenced to hard labor for life in December 2015 for what North Korea says was an attempt to overthrow the regime.The delegation is headed by Daniel Jean, Trudeau's national security advisor.
  
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• 'Clean' debt ceiling bill unlikely to pass House of Representatives : lawmaker

  08-08-2017 23:02 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. House of Representatives is unlikely to raise the country's debt ceiling without conditions to rein in spending, a Republican lawmaker said on Tuesday, raising the specter of another potential clash even as Republicans control both Congress and the White House.The Trump administration has asked Congress to extend the federal borrowing capacity to meet U.S. payment obligations with a "clean" bill that does not include any other provisions.Asked if the House would act to pass such a bill
  
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• Fears for Sinead O'Connor After She Records Motel Room Meltdown: 'I'm All by Myself'

  08-08-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  The singer says she has been abandoned by her family and friends.
  
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• Look at these adorable cats

  08-08-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  For International Cat Day and every day, some fantastically cute kitties that we just loooove.
  
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• Trump warns N. Korea it will face 'fire and fury'

  08-08-2017 22:16 via yahoo.com
  Trump warns North Korea on nuclear threats, as his administration grapples with unsettling news of a possible nuclear breakthrough by the Stalinist regime.
  
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• Poll: Most in US doubt Trump's ability to handle the situation

  08-08-2017 22:15 via cnn.com
  Most Americans say they feel "uneasy" about the possibility of conflict with North Korea, with only a third of those surveyed having confidence in President Donald Trump's ability to handle the situation, a CBS News poll released Tuesday shows.
  
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• Plan to let students grade themselves fails

  08-08-2017 22:15 via cnn.com
  A proposal to allow University of Georgia students to choose their own grades has failed after the school axed the idea.
  
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• Plan to let students grade themselves (amazingly) fails

  08-08-2017 22:15 via cnn.com
  A proposal to allow University of Georgia students to choose their own grades has failed after the school axed the idea.
  
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• 'El Chapo' Guzman hires mob scion John Gotti Jr.'s attorney

  08-08-2017 21:48 via cnn.com
  Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has hired a defense lawyer who successfully represented the son of convicted mobster John Gotti.
  
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• Trump says North Korea will be met with 'fire and fury like the world has never seen' if it escalates nuclear threat

  08-08-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has claimed the threat from North Korea will be met with "fire and fury like the world has never seen" if they continue to expand their nuclear and missile programmes.The comments come after reports that North Korea had produced a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).In a press conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey property, Mr Trump warned that North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un "best not make any more threats to the US".
  
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• Man Behind Password Requirements Admits He Was Wrong

  08-08-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  Those annoying password requirements like 'must have at least one special character?' They do more harm than good.
  
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• Fired Google memo writer draws jeers, cheers and a job offer

  08-08-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  By David Ingram and Jonathan AllenSAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The male Google engineer fired for circulating a memo decrying the company's diversity hiring program became the center of a heated debate on sexism, drawing scorn, cheers and even a job offer on Tuesday from WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.James Damore, 28, confirmed his dismissal from Alphabet Inc's Google on Monday, after he wrote a 10-page memo that said the company was hostile to conservative viewpoints and shaped by a
  
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• A Woman Is Suing Costco For A Chicken Salad That Ruined Her Life

  08-08-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  She's still recovering two years later.
  
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• Google employee fired over diversity memo considers legal action - but experts say case appears weak

  08-08-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  A Google engineer who was fired for a memo assailing the company's diversity policies is considering legal action, but seemingly faces long odds of a successful case.James Damore caused an uproar and ultimately lost his job after authoring a 10-page essay that said women are not biologically fit for certain technology roles.After he was terminated, Mr Damore - whose sacking has not been officially confirmed by the company - told Reuters that he was exploring his options and said he had filed a c
  
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• Trump tweets story containing classified info

  08-08-2017 21:09 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump's retweet of a Fox News story claiming US satellites detected North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to a patrol boat is raising eyebrows on Tuesday after US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley indicated that the information in the report is classified and was leaked.
  
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• Trump administration switches sides, backs Ohio over voter purges

  08-08-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration has reversed an Obama administration stance and will support Ohio in its bid at the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a state policy of purging people from voter-registration lists if they do not regularly cast ballots.The Justice Department filed legal papers with the high court on Monday staking out the new position in the voting rights case, backing the Republican-led state's policy to purge inactive voters.Former President Barack Obama's Justice Department had argued in a
  
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• North Korea 'examining plan to strike Guam' as Donald Trump warns threats will be met with 'fire and fury'

  08-08-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said North Korea will be met with "fire and fury like the world has never seen" after US intelligence concluded the rogue state has produced a miniaturised nuclear warhead that can fit inside an intercontinental ballistic missile. Kim Jong-un reached the watershed moment much quicker than expected and he now also now has up to 60 nuclear warheads, significantly more than previously thought. Mr Trump said: "He has been very threatening, beyond a normal statement. North Kore
  
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• Trump Camp Turns Over Thousands of Documents

  08-08-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports breaking news from Bloomberg News that among thousands of documents turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating Trump-Russia, roughly 20,000 of them are from the Trump campaign.
  
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• Taylor Swift groping trial: Jury selected

  08-08-2017 20:27 via cnn.com
  An eight-person jury was seated Tuesday in Taylor Swift's civil trial over a backstage interaction between the pop star and a Denver radio host.
  
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• Tribes want Dakota pipeline shut, but offer fallback plan

  08-08-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — American Indian tribes fighting the Dakota Access oil pipeline are asking a judge to shut down the line while more environmental review is conducted, but they've also presented a fallback plan should the judge disagree.
  
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• Trump Loses Cool in Face of N Korea Threats

  08-08-2017 20:24 via yahoo.com
  Joe Cirincione, president of The Ploughshares Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about why Donald Trump is taking the exact wrong approach to North Korea with his empty threats and bellicosity.
  
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• How to Photograph the 2017 Solar Eclipse

  08-08-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  What you need to know to capture beautiful eclipse images
  
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• Report: North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons

  08-08-2017 20:17 via cnn.com
  North Korea has taken a major step forward in realizing its goal of becoming a nuclear power, according to a Washington Post report on a confidential US intelligence assessment that concludes Pyongyang has developed a nuclear warhead capable of fitting inside its missiles.
  
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• Mama June Is Showing Off Her Incredible 300-Pound Weight Loss

  08-08-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  She's ready to celebrate in a LBD.
  
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• South African President Zuma survives attempt to oust him

  08-08-2017 20:09 via cnn.com
  South Africa's scandal-hit President Jacob Zuma has survived an ouster attempt in the country's National Assembly.
  
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• Water trapped inside Ohio fair ride may have led to accident

  08-08-2017 20:01 via yahoo.com
  A manufacturer's explanation that corrosion caused an amusement ride to fly apart in a deadly accident at the Ohio State Fair doesn't answer why or when it began rusting away or how it went unnoticed.
  
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• Battle to Oust ISIS From Philippine City a Warning for Southeast Asia

  08-08-2017 19:51 via nbcnews.com
  No one believed that a few dozen local Islamists pledging allegiance to ISIS would lead to the capture of a city and send a shudder of fear through the region.
  
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• Earthquake hits China tourism spot, at least 4 dead

  08-08-2017 19:46 via cnn.com
  At least four people were killed and 30 more injured late Tuesday when a powerful earthquake struck a popular tourist area of Jiuzhaigou County in southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to the state-owned media outlet, Xinhua.
  
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• Venezuela court orders arrest of senior opposition leader, as President Nicholas Maduro clings to power

  08-08-2017 19:40 via yahoo.com
  Venezuela’s top court has ordered the arrest and detention of a senior opposition leader behind recent protests, as President Nicholas Maduro seeks to hold onto power amid mounting international condemnation.The Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Ramon Muchacho, one of Caracas’s five mayors, for refusing an order to remove barricades set up by anti-government protesters.Critics of the government said the move was a violation of due process and a blatant attempt to punish opponents.
  
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• British model denies kidnapping story was a hoax: lawyer

  08-08-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  By Sara RossiMILAN (Reuters) - The lawyer for a 20-year-old British model at the center of an alleged kidnapping in Italy has denied suggestions that the case was a hoax, after local media raised doubts about her story.Some residents told state broadcaster Rai that the couple went to a bar and that she also went shoe shopping with Lukasz Pawel Herba, 30, a British resident born in Poland, before he released her to the British consulate in Milan."The implication that she was involved (in the plot
  
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• Iraqi Shiite militia says 40 of its fighters killed in Syria

  08-08-2017 19:21 via yahoo.com
  BAGHDAD (AP) — A powerful Iraqi Shiite militia said Tuesday that at least 40 of its militiamen were killed in an attack the previous day on its positions across the border in Syria. The militia blamed the U.S.-led coalition for the assault but the Islamic State group claimed its fighters had targeted the militiamen.
  
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• Former Pakistan PM risks wrath of the army as he plans to install his wife in his old seat

  08-08-2017 19:08 via yahoo.com
  The ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan has raised fears of instability in the country by planning to install his politically inexperienced wife in the parliamentary seat he was recently disqualified from. Nawaz Sharif is set to nominate Kulsoom Nawaz, his spouse of 47 years, as the ruling party’s candidate to fill the vacant NA-120 seat in Lahore, according to local media reports. The provocative move comes as Mr Sharif plans to take to the streets to protest his ousting by the Supreme Court at
  
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• Woman Sentenced To Death After Letting Cousin, 10, Suffocate in Old Trunk

  08-08-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  Sammantha Allen was found guilty of killing her cousin Ame Deal for stealing a popsicle.
  
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• South Africa's parliament has merely postponed Jacob Zuma's day of reckoning

  08-08-2017 18:49 via theguardian.com
  President may have survived no-confidence vote but faces possible criminal charges and ANC riven with politicking over successionIn voting to defeat a parliamentary motion of no confidence in Jacob Zuma, African National Congress MPs have merely postponed the president’s day of reckoning. The internal party battle to succeed the weakened and unpopular leader is likely to intensify, while South Africa’s chronic economic problems and public disillusionment with the ANC, in power since
  
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• Trump tweets link to Fox News story based on 'classified' intelligence

  08-08-2017 18:46 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told “Fox & Friends” Tuesday that she could not discuss a Fox News report about North Korea because it contains “classified” information. President Trump retweeted the Fox News report about an hour before Haley’s interview.
  
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• Iranian drone buzzes US naval jet in Gulf: US

  08-08-2017 18:45 via yahoo.com
  An Iranian drone flew within 100 feet (30 meters) of a US Naval jet Tuesday as the American plane was trying to land on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf, the Navy said.The encounter unfolded in international air space as the F/A-18E Super Hornet was preparing to land on the USS Nimitz, US Naval Forces Central Command spokesman Commander Bill Urban said."The dangerous maneuver by the QOM-1 in the known vicinity of fixed-wing flight operations and at coincident altitude with operating aircraft crea
  
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• Asia is building its own world order

  08-08-2017 18:45 via cnn.com
  Much has been made recently of how the policies of the Trump administration clash with the global conventional wisdom -- and how these contrast with the new spirit of global leadership emanating from China.
  
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• Iranian drone forces US jet to take evasive action

  08-08-2017 18:41 via cnn.com
  An Iranian drone came within 100 feet of a US Navy F/A-18 attempting to land on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, according to two US defense officials with knowledge of the incident. The officials said the drone forced the US aircraft to take evasive action.
  
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• Philippines president Duterte claims US has 'toned down' criticism of his human rights record

  08-08-2017 18:39 via yahoo.com
  The controversial President of the Philippines claims representatives from the US and Australia “have considerably toned down” their criticism of his human rights record.US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently met with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte at an Asian regional conference – the highest-level interaction between a member of Donald Trump's administration and Mr Duterte to date.Mr Duterte, speaking about his meetings with Mr Tillerson and Australian Foreign Mi
  
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• Chloe Ayling: Who is the British model who was drugged and kidnapped in Italy?

  08-08-2017 18:32 via yahoo.com
  Chloe Ayling, 20,  is the glamour model who was drugged and abducted in Italy after reportedly being duped into attending a bogus photoshoot. Italian police say she was snatched last month by at least two men who claim to be part of dark web group Black Death, who say they sell women as sex slaves online. The kidnapping The place where a man identified as Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen with British residency, held a young British model Credit:  ITALIAN POLICE PRESS OFFICE / HANDO
  
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• 2018 Grand Cherokee Trackhawk Starts at $85,900

  08-08-2017 18:25 via yahoo.com
  That makes it just $1000 cheaper than the Challenger SRT Demon.
  
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