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• This Woman’s Flooded Store Looks Brand New After She Refused To Give Up Hope

  02-09-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  Just a few days ago, Hanh Nguyen was waist-deep in water.The water started rising at her store, Marie’s Seafood in Port Arthur, Texas, on Tuesday — the day that tropical storm Harvey dumped 26 inches of rain on the city, triggering flash flooding and causing thousands to evacuate.HuffPost visited Nguyen’s store on Thursday, when the water was still up to her calves.
  
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• Activists Face Rain And Security Threats As 10-Day March Against White Supremacy Continues

  02-09-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  Braving the rain, threats of violence and uncertainty over police permits, dozens of civil rights activists set out on the sixth day of their 118-mile trek from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., on Saturday to protest the white supremacist ideas that inspired deadly violence in Charlottesville a few weeks ago.
  
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• US agents close Russian trade mission, Moscow protests

  02-09-2017 23:32 via yahoo.com
  US federal agents inspected a Russian trade mission in Washington to confirm its closure on Saturday, despite a furious diplomatic protest from Moscow.The United States and Russia are in the grip of a diplomatic dispute, and the trade representative's office is part of a group of properties Washington has ordered closed."Today, Russian Embassy personnel, together with State Department officials, walked through three properties in San Francisco, New York and Washington, DC that the Russian govern
  
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• 'I survived': How 1 woman lived Harvey on social media

  02-09-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Katlyn Perkins' first announcement that something was very wrong at her home in northeast Houston came at 8:19 p.m. on Aug. 24, when she updated her Facebook status.
  
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• Los Angeles hit by largest wildfire in its history, prompting hundreds of evacuations

  02-09-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  A wildfire on the northern edge of Los Angeles rapidly grew on Saturday into what the mayor called the largest blaze in the city's history, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people and the closure of a major highway.The 5,000-acre (2,023-hectare) La Tuna Fire, named after the canyon area where it erupted on Friday, has led authorities to evacuate more than 700 homes in a north Los Angeles neighbourhood and in nearby Burbank and Glendale, officials said."Other than that, no loss of any prop
  
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• Mother Told Hairdresser 'No Rush' While 1-Year-Old Died in Hot Car

  02-09-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  She told told the hairdresser, "No rush."
  
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• Trump and first lady return to Texas after Hurricane Harvey

  02-09-2017 22:57 via yahoo.com
  President Trump and first lady Melania Trump returned to Texas Saturday following the devastation left by Hurricane Harvey. They met with displaced survivors and handed out meals and supplies. Trump said he’s “very happy” with the storm response.
  
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• Rohingya Muslims flee as more than 2,600 houses burned in Myanmar's Rakhine

  02-09-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades.About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighbouring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, as aid workers there struggle to cope.Myanmar officials blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) for the burning
  
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• Largest wildfire in Los Angeles history forces hundreds to evacuate

  02-09-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  By Alex DobuzinskisLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A wildfire on the northern edge of Los Angeles rapidly grew on Saturday into what the mayor called the largest blaze in the city's history, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people and the closure of a major highway.The 5,000-acre (2,023-hectare) La Tuna Fire, named after the canyon area where it erupted on Friday, has led authorities to evacuate more than 700 homes in a north Los Angeles neighborhood and in nearby Burbank and Glendale, officials
  
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• 'Ink Master' Star Chris Blinston Arrested For Allegedly Strangling Daughter

  02-09-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  The "Ink Master" star's daughter claimed her father strangled her twice during a custody visit.
  
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• 10-Year-Old Girl Escapes Tormentors After Being Beaten and Dragged by Car

  02-09-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  A 10-year-old girl who was beaten repeatedly, forced to run with heavy packs and dragged behind a car escaped her tormentors as they slept to ask a neighbor for help, police in central New York said Friday
  
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• 16-Year-Old Arrested For Allegedly Murdering 14-Year-Old With Hammer During Drug Deal

  02-09-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  Her body was later found in a landfill.
  
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• Thousands of Rohingya flee Myanmar amid tales of ethnic cleansing

  02-09-2017 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Huge influx of refugees expected to arrive in Bangladesh in coming days, with accusations of genocide in Rakhine stateGunfire and explosions crackle in the hills. Plumes of smoke from burning villages streak the monsoon-grey sky. Refugees fleeing for their lives are pouring into Bangladesh over the Myanmar border as the conflict between Myanmar security forces and Rohingya militias escalates and risks spiralling into a humanitarian disaster. Related: 'We die or they die': Rohingya insurgency spa
  
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• Texas Mom Last Seen the Day Before Hurricane Harvey Hit Is Still Missing

  02-09-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  Police do not believe her disappearance is related to the storm
  
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• McCain: Trump is poorly informed, impulsive

  02-09-2017 21:38 via cnn.com
  Sen. John McCain issued a plea for bipartisan cooperation as Congress returns from its extended summer recess, saying pragmatism, compromise and mutual respect are more critical than ever given what he considers the lack of experience emanating from the White House.
  
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• Department Of Justice Says It Has No Evidence Obama Ordered Wiretap Of Trump Tower

  02-09-2017 21:23 via yahoo.com
  The Department of Justice confirmed in a Friday court filing it had no evidence to support President Donald Trump’s claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign.
  
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• Texas rangers subdue 12ft alligator in Houston floods

  02-09-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  Game wardens and state troopers were called in to capture a massive alligator after it was displaced by the flood waters caused by Hurricane Harvey.The Texas game wardens posted a tweet of the incident showing five lawmen sitting on top of the alligator.The flooding has forced many alligators in Texas to seek higher ground, in some cases putting them in close contact with humans.
  
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• 'Hacked to death': Almost 60,000 Rohingya flee violence

  02-09-2017 20:58 via cnn.com
  They have come in their thousands, crossing hills and rivers, marshes and rice paddies for the chance to cross into Bangladesh and escape the mass killings they say are being perpetrated against their people.
  
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• Trump visits with Harvey victims, serves food

  02-09-2017 20:36 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited with Harvey victims at a relief center in Houston.
  
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• Taylor Swift's Close Friend Todrick Hall Defends Her Election Silence

  02-09-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  One of the more pointed complaints leveled against the polarizing pop star concerns her silence during the presidential election.
  
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• Watching Katla: Icelanders plan for next volcanic eruption

  02-09-2017 20:05 via yahoo.com
  VIK, Iceland (AP) — Sneeze next to the Katla volcano, goes the joke in this Icelandic village, and a seismologist in Reykjavik will analyze the disturbance.
  
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• Man Wrapped 7-Year-Old Girl in a Blanket and Threw Her Over a Bridge

  02-09-2017 19:55 via yahoo.com
  The girl survived by swimming to shore and knocking on someone's door
  
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• 2 men arrested in wounding of 2 St. Louis police officers

  02-09-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities have arrested two men suspected of wounding two St. Louis police officers in an attack that also left a 24-year-old woman in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.
  
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• WATCH: Residents return to their homes to survey damage caused by Harvey

  02-09-2017 19:41 via abcnews.go.com
  The monumental task of cleaning and rebuilding begins as homeowners return to their storm-ravaged homes.
  
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• Texas Mother Of Two Went Missing Just Before Hurricane Harvey

  02-09-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  The day before Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, realtor and mother of two Crystal McDowell told her followers on Facebook to “stay safe out there!” Hours later, she would go missing herself
  
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• Iran Says West Won't Attack and Would Lose If It Tried

  02-09-2017 19:14 via yahoo.com
  Military leaders said they did not fear an invasion from the West, touting Tehran's growing military might at home and abroad.
  
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• Bodies in river may be missing Thai students

  02-09-2017 18:48 via cnn.com
  Search-and-rescue teams in California retrieved the bodies of two people missing for weeks after a car swerved off a road in the Sierra Nevada and plunged into a raging river, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said.
  
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• Houston refineries and plants leak thousands of tons of pollutants

  02-09-2017 18:45 via yahoo.com
  Houston’s petrochemical industry has leaked more than 2,700 tons of extra air pollution in connection with Hurricane Harvey.Hurricane Harvey has resulted in Houston’s petrochemical industry leaking thousands of tons of pollutants, with communities living near plants damaged by the storm exposed to soaring levels of toxic fumes and potential water contamination.
  
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• Philly Police Union President Calls Black Lives Matter Activists 'A Pack Of Rabid Animals'

  02-09-2017 18:38 via yahoo.com
  The president of a Pennsylvania police union responded to Black Lives Matter activists demanding accountability for the police killing of a black man by calling the group a “pack of rabid animals.”
  
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• Kenya president warns judiciary after it nullifies election

  02-09-2017 18:26 via yahoo.com
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's president promised Saturday to "fix" the judicial system a day after the Supreme Court nullified his re-election, and he warned the chief justice and judiciary not to interfere with the electoral commission as the country prepares for a new presidential vote.
  
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• Formal investigation opened in French girl's disappearance

  02-09-2017 18:24 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor opened a formal kidnapping investigation Saturday in the disappearance of a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a wedding celebration last weekend.
  
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• Monster trucks beat flooded streets

  02-09-2017 18:18 via bbc.co.uk
  A fleet of monster trucks have joined rescue efforts in Texan cities hardest hit by Hurricane Harvey.
  
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• Drone footage shows flooding in Houston, Texas – video

  02-09-2017 18:16 via theguardian.com
  Footage captured by a drone shows the scale of flooding in Houston on Friday. The amateur video shows the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey as residents begin to return to undertake the massive cleanup effort. Donald Trump was due to meet survivors in Houston on SaturdayHouston residents begin ‘massive’ cleanup as Harvey death toll hits 45Continue reading...
  
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• Tech billionaire one-ups Trump’s Hurricane Harvey donation in a big way

  02-09-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  After plenty of negative press coverage surrounding his 'first-hand" experience of Hurricane Harvey, President Trump decided to solve the problem in the only way he knows how: a vague commitment of money. He pledged $1 million out of his own pocket to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey, a small but meaningful gesture from a man who values himself at over $1 billion.But even giving out free cash isn't a risk-free exercise for Trump. Michael Dell, a verifiable tech billionaire, has committed to
  
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• Russia says US threatened to break into trade mission

  02-09-2017 17:33 via yahoo.com
  An official at the Russian consulate in San Francisco tells firemen there is no problem after smoke was seen coming from the rooftop.Russia’s trade mission in Washington also had a fire.Russia’s foreign ministry has summoned a senior US diplomat in Moscow to hand him a note of protest over alleged plans to conduct searches in the trade mission complex in Washington, the ministry said in a statement claiming the United States had threatened to “break down the entrance door&rdquo
  
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• People are desperate for air conditioning as San Francisco deals with record heat

  02-09-2017 17:32 via yahoo.com
  It's really hot in San Francisco right now. Like, really,really hot.  Temperatures in the Bay Area reached 106 degrees Farenheit on Friday. That's 106 degrees in foggy, chilly northern California, where late-summer temperatures are usually in the high 60s. The 106-degree day broke a record for all-time hottest temperature in San Francisco in recorded history, or at least 143 years. A second consecutive day of extreme heat forecast for Saturday across the #BayArea and Central Coast. Tak
  
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• George and Amal Clooney Step Out for Venice Dinner Date Ahead of Film Premiere

  02-09-2017 17:13 via yahoo.com
  Amal stepped out with husband Georgefor a dinner date at Ristorante Da Ivo in Venice, Italy Friday night
  
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• We're still fighting, more than 150 years after Appomattox

  02-09-2017 17:08 via yahoo.com
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — When the Civil War was over, when the dead were buried and the union was reunited, it came time to tell tales and write history. In reunion gatherings and living rooms alike, differing versions of the causes of the conflict became as hardened as sunbaked Georgia clay.
  
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• Schoolteachers on edge as Trump mulls changing 'Dreamers' policy

  02-09-2017 17:05 via yahoo.com
  Sometimes, though, one finds out that she lacks legal authorization to live in the country, often a child in similar circumstances.Rocha is one of nearly 800,000 undocumented young people in the United States to receive work authorization through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.After graduating from the University of Texas at San Antonio, she was accepted into Teach for America, which places high-achieving college graduates in low-income schools.
  
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• Serial Killer's Remains Exhumed Amid Rumors He Escaped Execution

  02-09-2017 17:03 via yahoo.com
  Tests show that the remains in a suburban Philadelphia grave are indeed those of a 19th century serial killer, quelling rumors that he'd conned his way out of execution and escaped from prison
  
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• The great Saudi sell-off: why bankers and lawyers are flocking to the Gulf

  02-09-2017 17:00 via theguardian.com
  The kingdom’s privatisation plans dwarf those of Thatcher or even the post-Soviet ‘Wild East’. And they will change the country out of all recognitionDon’t even think about getting the Sunday morning flight from Dubai to Riyadh. The same applies to the Thursday afternoon slots going back.Both – and many in between – are booked solid by investment bankers, corporate lawyers, accountants, consultants and PR advisers who appreciate the weekend comforts of the UAE
  
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• Hezbollah says buses from IS convoy stuck in the desert

  02-09-2017 16:55 via yahoo.com
  Lebanon's Hezbollah group said in a statement on Saturday that it and the Syrian army had fulfilled their obligations by safely transporting a convoy of Islamic State fighters and their families out of Syrian government territory.Six buses from the convoy were still in Syrian government territory and in the care of Hezbollah and the Syrian government, the statement said.Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shi'ite group allied to the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad, called on the international c
  
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• Mattis, Tillerson and Kelly 'press on' under Trump – but for how long?

  02-09-2017 16:53 via theguardian.com
  Analysis: Rex Tillerson has appeared listless in a job he has said he never wanted, while reports suggest a sense of duty may be what’s keeping James Mattis and John Kelly at workAfter voicing views that appeared directly at odds with those of the president, the defence secretary, James Mattis, was asked this week why he continued to serve. “You know, when a president of the United States asks you to do something - I don’t care if it’s Republican or Democrat - we all have
  
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• 5 Ways to Keep Mosquitoes Away

  02-09-2017 16:49 via yahoo.com
  It just takes a few minutes outdoors, particularly at dusk, to develop a deep-rooted disdain for mosquitos. And as if buzzing incessantly near your ear and feasting on your exposed arms and legs ...
  
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• Convoy of hundreds of Isil fighters still stranded in Syrian desert standoff

  02-09-2017 16:45 via yahoo.com
  A convoy of evacuated Islamic State fighters is in a stand-off in the desert Syria, with the US threatening more air strikes if they continue to their destination near the Iraqi border. Lebanon's Hizbollah movement, which agreed the deal with Isil, today accused US-led forces of stranding the buses carrying hundreds of fighters and civilians headed for jihadist-held territory in eastern Syria. It was reported that some of the ambulances carrying wounded fighters, who had
  
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• Religious tourism: the white gold of Saudi Arabia

  02-09-2017 16:21 via yahoo.com
  With global oil prices flailing, Saudi Arabia is turning to another natural resource: billions of dollars gained from religious tourism as the kingdom hosts the annual hajj pilgrimage.Shops line the packed esplanade of the Great Mosque of Mecca, one of the holiest sites in Islam, lowering their awnings only at prayer time and re-opening their doors minutes after the mosque empties.Saudi authorities have reported 2.35 million Muslims are participating in this year's hajj, the pilgrimage to the we
  
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• Saudi king says kingdom has made progress in tackling terrorism

  02-09-2017 16:19 via yahoo.com
  Saudi King Salman, receiving dignitaries attending the annual Muslim haj pilgrimage, said on Saturday the kingdom had made progress in eradicating terrorism aimed at attacking its holy sites, state news agency SPA reported.Saudi Arabia, which stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam’s holiest sites and organizing the haj, has been hit by bombings in recent years and uncovered plots to carry out attacks in Mecca."The limbs of terrorism have sought to harm the holy cities, paying n
  
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• Hezbollah slams US over IS convoy stranded in Syria

  02-09-2017 16:09 via yahoo.com
  Lebanon's Hezbollah movement on Saturday accused US-led forces of stranding a convoy of Islamic State fighters and civilians headed for Syria's Deir Ezzor province under an evacuation deal.The convoy carrying hundreds of IS fighters as well as civilians was meant to travel from the Lebanon-Syria border to jihadist-held territory in eastern Syria under a deal Hezbollah helped broker.
  
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• 'A Lot of Love.' Donald Trump Visits Harvey Victims at Texas Shelter

  02-09-2017 16:06 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump brought plenty of optimism and swagger to Texas on his first visit to survey Harvey's wreckage
  
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• FCC’s Broken Comments System Could Help Doom Net Neutrality

  02-09-2017 16:00 via yahoo.com
  How spambots, fake names, and 2,000 "John Olivers" wreaked havoc on the net neutrality debate
  
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