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• Russia throws North Korea lifeline to stymie regime change

  04-10-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  By Andrew OsbornMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is quietly boosting economic support for North Korea to try to stymie any U.S.-led push to oust Kim Jong Un as Moscow fears his fall would sap its regional clout and allow U.S. troops to deploy on Russia's eastern border.Russia is already angry about a build-up of U.S.-led NATO forces on its western borders in Europe and does not want any replication on its Asian flank, the sources added.
  
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• Interior Whistleblower Quits, Lambastes Ryan Zinke's 'Resume Of Failure'

  04-10-2017 23:50 via yahoo.com
  Joel Clement — a federal scientist who blew the whistle on the Trump administration, claiming he was reassigned for warning about the dangers of climate change to Alaska natives — has resigned from his post at the Interior Department.
  
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• Former US presidents to gather for hurricane benefit gig

  04-10-2017 23:50 via yahoo.com
  Washington (AFP) - All five of America's living former presidents will take the stage later this month to raise money for victims of hurricanes that ravaged the southern United States and the Caribbean.
  
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• Man Found With Arsenal of Automatic Weapons Had Recently Lost Custody of His Kids

  04-10-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  He had sent hostile letters to local judges
  
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• Puerto Rico benchmark bond drops to record low after Trump remark

  04-10-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  Puerto Rico's benchmark general obligation bonds fell on Wednesday, hitting a record low, after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested late on Tuesday that the island's massive debt load will have to be wiped out because of devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.Early on Wednesday, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney backed away from Trump's comments.The president was referring to Puerto Rico's need to fix its own debt issues through its oversight board, Mulvaney said in an interview on CNN.
  
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• Trump Calls America 'Nation in Mourning' on Visit to Las Vegas

  04-10-2017 23:43 via nbcnews.com
  President Donald Trump commended the "professionalism" of police and medical staff Wednesday at a Las Vegas hospital.
  
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• An Off-Duty Police Officer's Final Moments in Las Vegas

  04-10-2017 23:42 via nbcnews.com
  Off-duty Las Vegas police officer Charles Hartfield, a youth football coach who was one of 58 killed in Las Vegas, attended the music festival every year.
  
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• Marilou Danley's sister believes killer urged her to leave US so she couldn't interfere with massacre

  04-10-2017 23:35 via cnn.com
  The girlfriend of the Las Vegas shooter has returned to the United States, a law enforcement source told CNN.
  
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• 'Outside reality': Catalan, Spanish leaders ramp up war of words

  04-10-2017 23:33 via cnn.com
  The Catalan President vowed to implement the results of the region's contested independence referendum on Wednesday and criticized the King of Spain for failing to bring the divided factions together.
  
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• Glee actor Mark Salling admits possessing child sex abuse images

  04-10-2017 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Mark Salling faces between four and seven years in prison, according to US media reports.
  
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• New delay in Mississippi law on objection to gay marriage

  04-10-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — New court action has created a slight delay for a Mississippi law that, barring an intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court, will let government workers and business people cite their own religious objections to refuse services to gay couples.
  
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• Michigan Mom Who Won’t Vaccinate Her Son Goes to Jail

  04-10-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  The mother is philosophically opposed to vaccinating her son for transmissible, potentially fatal and otherwise preventable diseases.
  
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• Room Service Receipt of Vegas Gunman From Days Before Shooting Reportedly Surfaces

  04-10-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  The order was placed four days before the shooting.
  
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• Former prison guard admits sexually assaulting inmates

  04-10-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — A former Georgia prison guard has pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually assaulting three female inmates and then coercing them into helping him cover up the assaults.
  
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• 2020 Porsche Mission E Electric Sedan Spied Testing Alongside Teslas

  04-10-2017 23:10 via yahoo.com
  Porsche's EV looks like a four-door supercar.
  
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• Senior Republican: Tillerson a firewall against Trump 'chaos'

  04-10-2017 23:06 via cnn.com
  Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker suggested Wednesday that Gens. John Kelly and James Mattis as well Secretary of State Rex Tillerson are the "people that help separate our country from chaos," a stinging criticism of President Donald Trump from a man once considered an ally in Washington.
  
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• Rory McIlroy: Roy Keane refusing to sign an autograph has stayed with him

  04-10-2017 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Rory McIlroy remembers the day Roy Keane refused to give him an autograph - that's why he always tries to make time for his fans.
  
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• Trump EPA Pick Defends His Views as 'Sound Science'

  04-10-2017 23:01 via nbcnews.com
  Michael Dourson, Trump's controversial nominee to lead the EPA's office for chemical safety, defended himself at his Senate confirmation hearing.
  
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• How politicians have made it easier for men like Stephen Paddock to own 42 guns

  04-10-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  After an attack in Las Vegas left 59 dead and 520 injured on Monday, Congressional leadership responded with a resounding chorus of "thoughts and prayers" and pretty much nothing else. Their passivity speaks volumes.  There have been more mass shootings in the United States this year than there have been days in the calendar. Sunday's Las Vegas attack was the largest mass shooting in modern (post 19th century) U.S. history. Perhaps it's time for them to try something a little different: pas
  
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• Catalonia moves to declare independence from Spain on Monday

  04-10-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  By Angus Berwick and Sonya DowsettBARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) - Catalonia will move on Monday to declare independence from Spain after holding a banned referendum, pushing the European Union nation toward a rupture that threatens the foundations of its young democracy.Catalan President Carles Puigdemont said he favored mediation to find a way out of the crisis but that Spain's central government had rejected this.
  
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• Trump administration planning to scrap Obama's 'game changing' climate change regulation

  04-10-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration reportedly plans to repeal the Clean Power Plan, a “game changer” of a piece of Obama era climate change legislation.Reuters said it had seen a document “distributed to members of the agency’s Regulatory Steering Committee” about “issuing a proposal to repeal the rule” and opening up a comment period for replacement legislation.The CPP, called a “game changer” by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2015 after it was
  
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• GM's self-driving cars involved in six accidents in September

  04-10-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co'sself-driving unit, Cruise Automation, told California regulators its vehicles were involved in six crashes in the state in September, but said none of automated vehicles were responsible.The accidents did not result in any injuries or serious damage, according to the GM reports, but did demonstrate the challenges for developers of self-driving cars confronted by crowded urban streets.A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday approved legislatio
  
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• Las Vegas shooting: Trump refuses to talk about gun control laws – video

  04-10-2017 22:46 via theguardian.com
  Donald Trump and Melania Trump visit Las Vegas' University Medical Center shortly after meeting injured victims – but the president refused to engage with a question about gun violence in America. He praised hospital staff, police, and victims – some of whom, he said, were badly wounded only because they returned to the concert venue to help others. He said he had invited all victims to the White House.Trump visits Las Vegas after attack: 'It’s a very, very sad day for me, pers
  
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• From Golfing to His First iPhone, a Look at O.J. Simpson's New Life as a Free Man

  04-10-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  The former NFL superstar is expected to remain in Vegas for a few months, but he intends to eventually move to Florida.
  
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• Veterans, nurse and teachers among the dead in Las Vegas shooting

  04-10-2017 22:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Relatives, partners and friends are grieving as the identities of some of the 58 people killed become clear.
  
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• Canada forgets to mention Jewish people at Holocaust memorial

  04-10-2017 22:34 via bbc.co.uk
  A plaque is removed from the memorial after officials realised it failed to mention Jewish people.
  
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• Puerto Rico mayors play outsized role in hurricane recovery

  04-10-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  Standing in the yard of her home in Guaynabo on Sunday, Rosymar Diaz greeted an unexpected visitor on the other side of her chain-link fence: the city's mayor, Angel Perez.Diaz's neighborhood of modest concrete homes in a San Juan suburb of 100,000 people had been badly damaged in Hurricane Maria.Perez had come to check on residents and ask how he could help.
  
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• Democrats Seek Ban on Devices That Boost Rate of Fire

  04-10-2017 22:25 via nbcnews.com
  Sen. Dianne Feinstein's bill to ban "bump stocks" quickly attracted 26 co-sponsors, but all are Democrats.
  
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• Once an obscure device, 'bump stocks' are in the spotlight

  04-10-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — The Las Vegas gunman possessed a little-known device called a "bump stock" that was not widely sold — until now.
  
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• Raucous DC house party subject of Supreme Court case

  04-10-2017 22:17 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A late-night party that turned a vacant Washington home into a busy strip club was at the center of a Supreme Court argument Wednesday, prompting the justices to discuss strippers, marijuana and a party host named "Peaches."
  
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• 40 Fierce Halloween Ideas If You Hate The 'Girl Costume' Aisle

  04-10-2017 22:16 via yahoo.com
  Halloween costume shopping is typically fun, but sometimes, the options for girls are anything but.
  
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• More Killed by Guns Since 1968 Than in All U.S. Wars

  04-10-2017 22:12 via nbcnews.com
  By comparison, roughly 1.2 million service members have been killed in every war in U.S. history.
  
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• Trump: 'America is truly a nation in mourning'

  04-10-2017 22:10 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump gives remarks at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department after a gunman killed 58 people and injured hundreds more during a massacre in Las Vegas.
  
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• Google Clips camera: creepy or fun?

  04-10-2017 22:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The new Google Clips camera decides for itself when to take videos, and can recognise people.
  
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• Chip Gaines's Mom Sheds Light On Why 'Fixer Upper' Is Ending

  04-10-2017 22:01 via yahoo.com
  Chip and Joanna Gaines offered their own reasons why “Fixer Upper” is ending after five seasons, and now Chip’s mom Gayle Gaines has some more intel.
  
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• Brooke Shields: Donald Trump asked me out

  04-10-2017 21:51 via cnn.com
  Model Brooke Shields reveals details about being asked out by President Trump after his 1999 divorce on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen."
  
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• Tillerson denies resignation rumours, but not 'moron' remark

  04-10-2017 21:44 via bbc.co.uk
  The US secretary of state did not deny media reports that he called Mr Trump a "moron".
  
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• Lawsuit by Subway pitchman Fogle's ex-wife thrown out by judge

  04-10-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  Judge Matthew Kincaid of the Boone County Superior Court said in an order dated Tuesday that he lacked jurisdiction to hear Kathleen McLaughlin's claims against Subway and its parent company, Doctor's Associates Inc.Kincaid said this was because Indiana had not been a "focal point" of the alleged misconduct by the defendants, which operated mainly outside the state.Subway is based in Milford, Connecticut.
  
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• The 'Monopoly Man' Showed Up to Equifax's Senate Hearing and It Was 'Magical'

  04-10-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  Rich Uncle Pennybags definitely made his presence known
  
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• Russia says its airstrikes wounded al-Qaida leader in Syria

  04-10-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia said Wednesday it carried out airstrikes in Syria this week that critically wounded the leader of an al-Qaida-linked group and killed 12 other militant commanders, a report that was categorically denied by the militants.
  
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• Puerto Rico Doctor: 'Medical Schools Don't Prepare You for This'

  04-10-2017 21:29 via nbcnews.com
  Two weeks after Hurricane Maria ravaged the U.S. territory, medical professionals are furiously working to keep up with mounting demands.
  
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• Tillerson's Fury at Trump Required an Intervention From Pence

  04-10-2017 21:28 via nbcnews.com
  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson intended to quit this past summer amid clashes with the White House. He didn't, and the feuds have not abated.
  
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• Ohio court overturns death sentence for convicted murderer, orders new trial

  04-10-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  A divided Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the death sentence of a man convicted of murdering a female bartender and ordered a new trial, saying prosecutors erred in showing jurors knives not used in the crime that the man owned.The 4-3 ruling sends the case of defendant Joseph Thomasback to Lake County for a new trial.Thomas, 33, of Perry Township, in northeast Ohio, was convicted in 2012 for the kidnapping, rape and aggravated murder of bartender Anne McSween, 49, which occurred two
  
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• The Supreme Court's Gerrymandering Case Is A Debate About Threats To American Democracy

  04-10-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  Underneath the legalistic debate about standing, standards and statistical analysis during oral arguments in a landmark Wisconsin gerrymandering case at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, there was a deeper debate happening among the justices about guaranteeing confidence in the American democratic system.
  
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• Senate intel leaders won't release Russian-linked Facebook ads

  04-10-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  “We don’t release documents provided to our committee, period," said Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., the chair of the committee.
  
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• The Latest: Al-Qaida-linked group denies leader was wounded

  04-10-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest developments on the war in Syria (all times local):
  
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• Erdogan, Iran close ranks after Iraq Kurd referendum

  04-10-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  Turkey and Iran presented a united front in their opposition to Iraqi Kurdish aspirations of independence, during a visit Wednesday by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that signals a warming of ties."Some leaders of Iraq's Kurdistan region have made erroneous decisions which must be corrected," Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said after talks with Erdogan, visiting Tehran for the first time since 2015."Iran, Turkey and Iraq are obliged to take serious and necessary measures," he said in re
  
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• Trump nominee defends move to void gay worker protections

  04-10-2017 21:14 via abcnews.go.com
  Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, in line to be U.S. ambassador for international religious freedom, declined to unequivocally declare there is no situation that would allow a country to cite religious freedom as the basis for criminally prosecuting LGBT people
  
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• Antikythera Shipwreck Excavation Recovers Bronze Arm

  04-10-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  The team suspects seven statues may be part of the eventual haul, along with several other precious artifacts.
  
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• America's epic trains

  04-10-2017 21:05 via cnn.com
  Against the backdrop of bright blue sky and the red rocks of the Colorado River canyon, a mustard-yellow train steams through the rugged landscape, the words "Union Pacific" emblazoned on its side.
  
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