| Meet the 22-year-old fighting Trump’s terror talk about Sweden from the country’s official Twitter feed Posted: 21 Feb 2017 11:40 AM PST  Before President Trump's reference on Saturday to a terror attack in Sweden, the biggest story in Stockholm was this one: a report about the so-called "fake news" industry published by Dagens Nyheter, a Swedish newspaper. "You look at what's happening last night in Sweden," the president said to his supporters at a campaign-style rally in Melbourne, Fla., on Saturday. "Sweden, who would believe this?" Trump later explained he was watching a Fox News segment that featured a documentary filmmaker accusing the Swedish government of covering up an immigration-related crime wave there.
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| Immigration advocates denounce DHS plan to implement Trump executive orders Posted: 21 Feb 2017 06:48 PM PST  Immigration policy experts lashed out Tuesday at the Department of Homeland Security's plan to implement President Trump's executive orders on immigration. "In my many years of practicing immigration law, I have not seen a mass deportation blueprint like this one," Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that advocates for the rights of low-income immigrant families, said in a conference call with reporters. In two memos issued Tuesday, DHS Secretary John Kelly laid out sweeping new guidance for officers tasked with carrying out the president's immigration policies.
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| Malaysia names North Korean diplomat wanted for questioning in murder case Posted: 22 Feb 2017 01:44 AM PST ![Malaysia names North Korean diplomat wanted for questioning in murder case]( "Malaysia names North Korean diplomat wanted for questioning in murder case") By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police on Wednesday named a North Korean diplomat along with a state airline official who are wanted for questioning over the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader. Kim Jong Nam, 46, was killed at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb. 13, while preparing to board a flight to Macau, where he lived in exile with his family under the protection of Beijing. South Korean and U.S. officials believe the killing of the elder half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was an assassination carried out by agents of the North.
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| Massachusetts police end visits to schools to greet kids Posted: 21 Feb 2017 08:05 AM PST ![Massachusetts police end visits to schools to greet kids]( "Massachusetts police end visits to schools to greet kids") NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police department's program that sent officers into elementary schools one day a week to greet and high-five students has been ended because some people complained.
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| Did Murdered Indiana Teens Capture the Voice of Their Killer? Posted: 22 Feb 2017 01:13 PM PST  A voice can be heard saying "down the hill" on a recording on Liberty German's cell phone.
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| EPA chief Pruitt appeals to ‘civility’ but fails to quell environmentalists’ concerns Posted: 21 Feb 2017 12:09 PM PST  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's first speech to employees of the EPA at midday on Tuesday did little to assuage the concerns of environmentalists over his ties to the fossil fuel industry. At the EPA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., Pruitt called for civility and listening in his highly anticipated, tense inaugural address to the staff of an agency that he sued more than a dozen times as Oklahoma attorney general. President Trump's decision to nominate Pruitt, who has made it clear he has no confidence in mainstream climate science, to lead the EPA immediately incited a backlash from liberals and environmentalists.
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| The Latest: 2 lanes of US 101 open after flooding Posted: 22 Feb 2017 09:26 AM PST  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on storms in California (all times local):
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| United Airlines enters basic economy fare wars in the US Posted: 22 Feb 2017 03:36 AM PST  Airfare wars are heating up in the US, with United Airlines the latest carrier to launch a basic economy fare in response to the low-cost competition.
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| White House: Mass deportation not the goal of immigration actions Posted: 21 Feb 2017 11:40 AM PST  Press secretary Sean Spicer said unauthorized immigrants who "pose a threat to our public safety or have committed a crime will be the first to go."
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| College Board tightens SAT exam security, but key risk remains Posted: 22 Feb 2017 02:05 PM PST ![College Board tightens SAT exam security, but key risk remains]( "College Board tightens SAT exam security, but key risk remains") The New York-based College Board said the steps include reducing the number of times the test is given outside the United States and increasing the auditing of test centers. As Reuters reported last year, the College Board has failed to stop a widespread and known security problem. Asian test-preparation companies are gathering questions and reading passages from past SAT exams, and then giving their clients that material to practice upon.
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| Trump’s Sweden gaffe gets ridiculed on late night TV Posted: 21 Feb 2017 06:50 AM PST  When President Trump picks up his copy of the New York Times on Tuesday morning, he'll see something he likes for a change: a photo of himself smiling and shaking hands with his new national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, a pick that has been widely praised. Below the image, though, Trump will see a story that has continued to dog him for the last three days: the fallout over the president's suggestion during his campaign-style rally in Florida on Saturday that a terror attack had occurred in Sweden the night before. "You look at what's happening last night in Sweden," Trump told his supporters on Saturday night.
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| Ex-Hong Kong leader jailed in fall from 'such a height' Posted: 22 Feb 2017 02:49 AM PST ![Ex-Hong Kong leader jailed in fall from 'such a height']( "Ex-Hong Kong leader jailed in fall from 'such a height'") By Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang was jailed for 20 months on Wednesday for misconduct in public office, making him the most senior city official to serve time behind bars in a ruling some said reaffirmed the financial hub's vaunted rule of law. The sentence brings an ignominious end to what had been a long and stellar career for Tsang before and after the 1997 handover to Chinese control, service that saw him knighted by the outgoing British colonial rulers. "Never in my judicial career have I seen a man falling from such a height," said High Court justice Andrew Chan in passing sentence.
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| Texas to feral pigs: It's time for the 'hog apocalypse' to begin Posted: 22 Feb 2017 07:33 AM PST  Texas has a new plan for its 2.5 million feral hogs: total annihilation. Sid Miller, the state's agriculture commissioner, just approved a pesticide — called "Kaput Feral Hog Lure" — for statewide use. "The 'hog apocalypse' may finally be on the horizon," Miller said in a statement on Tuesday. SEE ALSO: First human-pig chimeras created, sparking hopes for transplantable organs — and debate "This solution is long overdue," he added. "Wild hogs have caused extensive damage to Texas lands and loss of income for many, many years." Texas's agriculture commission estimates that feral hogs cause $52 million in damage each year to agricultural businesses by tearing up crops and pastures, knocking down fences and ruining equipment. The so-called hog lure is derived from warfarin, a blood-thinning agent that's also used to kill rats and mice in homes and buildings. Animals don't die immediately from eating the odorless, tasteless chemical. That would be too kind. Instead, they keep eating it until the anti-clotting properties cause them to bleed to death internally. This week, Miller approved a rule change in the Texas Administrative Code that allows landowners and agricultural producers to use Kaput — essentially warfarin-laced pellets — to keep feral hogs off their property. Not on my watch, hogs. Image: mark thompson/Getty Images Proponents of the hog toxicant, including the Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service, say it's an effective tool because it's only strong enough to kill the swine, and not other wildlife populations or livestock. In January, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency registered Kaput's hog bait under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, a move that made the product available for general use. Still, environmentalists and hog hunters alike staunchly oppose using warfarin to stamp out Texas's feral pig problem. Pigs poop, after all, and other animals could ingest the warfarin along the way. Some Texans hunt the pigs for sport and food, and they're worried about eating poisoned swine. "For Texas to introduce a poison into the equation is a bad decision in our opinion and could likely contaminate humans who unknowingly process and eat feral hogs," the Texas Hog Hunters Association said in a Change.org petition to block the rule change. MIke and his big ole boar from yesterday. Lamar county Texas https://t.co/jQoS5JbtnQ pic.twitter.com/2SeAKs7zbh — TX Hog Hunters Assn. (@texashoghunters) February 14, 2017 Louisiana might become the next state to use Kaput to quell its feral hog population, which worries state wildlife veterinarian Jim LaCour. He said local black bears and raccoons could easily lift the lid to the cages containing the warfarin-laced pellets. "We do have very serious concerns about non-target species," LaCour told the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. "When the hogs eat, they're going to drop crumbs on the outside, where small rodents can get them and not only intoxicate themselves but also birds of prey that eat them. Since the poison will be on the landscape for weeks on end, the chances of these birds eating multiple affected animals is pretty good," he told the newspaper. The pesticide's manufacturer, Scimetrics Ltd. Corp., assures the pesticide is safe for humans and wildlife — just not for feral pigs.
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| The Latest: Russian UN diplomat's death needs further study Posted: 21 Feb 2017 10:04 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the death of Russia's ambassador to the United Nations (all times local):
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| Deputy Responds To Girl, 19, Who Stole His Bike to Get Home Safely: 'It Had to be Scary For Her' Posted: 22 Feb 2017 11:45 AM PST  A young woman who identified herself as "M" explained she had a 16-mile journey home, and was stranded "because of drunk boys, a dead phone and no money."
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| Is North Korea’s Kim Jong Un A War Criminal? Posted: 21 Feb 2017 12:58 AM PST  A U.N. group of experts has proposed to establish a special international tribunal to deal with human rights violation in the reclusive country.
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| These are the world's best beaches 2017: TripAdvisor Posted: 22 Feb 2017 05:46 AM PST  If there's one single beach that leaves visitors enamored, recharged and inspired, it's Baia do Sancho in Brazil, which captured the title of world's best beach by TripAdvisor travelers for a third time.
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| Mexico fumes over Trump immigration rules as U.S. talks loom Posted: 22 Feb 2017 11:04 AM PST ![Mexico fumes over Trump immigration rules as U.S. talks loom]( "Mexico fumes over Trump immigration rules as U.S. talks loom") By Alexandra Alper and Anahi Rama MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Senior envoys of President Donald Trump are likely to receive a chilly reception in Mexico on Wednesday, after the United States issued new immigration guidelines that deeply angered the southern neighbor the day before bilateral talks. Trump's administration on Tuesday unveiled plans to consider almost all illegal immigrants subject to deportation, and will seek to send many of them to Mexico if they entered the United States from there, regardless of their nationality. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly are due to arrive in Mexico on Wednesday afternoon for talks on security and immigration.
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| Shark kills bodyboarder on Reunion island Posted: 21 Feb 2017 03:32 AM PST  Saint-André (France) (AFP) - A 26-year-old man bodyboarding off of Reunion island was killed by a shark on Tuesday, local officials said, in the latest attack in the waters of the Indian Ocean holiday destination. It was the 20th recorded shark attack on the island since 2011, eight of which have been fatal, despite efforts by local authorities to install nets and warn locals and tourists about the dangers. The man, a former shark spotter from the island once employed by the local surfing association, was pronounced dead after the shark bit through a major artery in his leg off the eastern coast near Saint-Andre.
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| Not confirmed that Iraq suicide bomber was British, ex-Guantanamo detainee: PM May Posted: 22 Feb 2017 10:12 AM PST ![Not confirmed that Iraq suicide bomber was British, ex-Guantanamo detainee: PM May]( "Not confirmed that Iraq suicide bomber was British, ex-Guantanamo detainee: PM May") There has been no independent confirmation that an Islamic State suicide bomber who blew himself up in Iraq this week was a British man who had been detained in the Guantanamo Bay prison, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday. "It has been reported as a matter of fact about this individual, but there is no independent confirmation of the identity of this man who is believed to be dead in Mosul," the spokesman told reporters. "Obviously the situation in Syria means we don't have any capacity to verify anything in Syria." Earlier, Islamic State militants said Abu-Zakariya al-Britani, a British citizen who was known as Ronald Fiddler and then cast himself as Jamal Udeen al-Harith, detonated a car bomb at an Iraqi army base southwest of Mosul this week.
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| Watch live as NASA reveals a new exoplanet discovery at 1PM Posted: 22 Feb 2017 09:40 AM PST 
NASA's been finding all kind of cool things out in the depths of space recently, but today the agency is poised to announce something big. NASA will be presenting a new discovery live to the world at 1:00 PM EST, and they'll be live streaming the entire news conference online. You can watch the entire event right here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmHHpAsMVw There's only been small hints at exactly what the discovery is all about, but NASA has noted that it's related to a "discovery beyond our solar system." That means exoplanets — planets outside of our own little celestial neighborhood — are likely the main focus. Researchers have already made many exoplanet discoveries in recent months, finding "Super Earths" and "Hot Jupiters" by the handful, so if NASA thinks its new discovery is worthy of a press conference of its own, it must be pretty important. According to Space.com, the conference will feature a total of five speakers, all of whom have job titles that confirm we'll be hearing a lot of big words that we barely understand. The presser will feature: Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters; Michaël Gillon, astronomer at the University of Liège in Belgium; Sean Carey, manager of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena; Nikole Lewis, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore; and Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The full report on NASA's finding will be made available in the journal Nature at the same time as the press conference, so there will undoubtedly be plenty of juicy details to sink your scientific teeth into even after the news is out.
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| Denmark extends S.Korea 'Rasputin' daughter's detention Posted: 22 Feb 2017 03:29 AM PST  A Danish court extended Wednesday for another month the detention of the daughter of Choi Soon-Sil, the woman at the centre of a corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of South Korea's president. Chung Yoo-Ra, the 20-year-old daughter of the woman dubbed South Korea's "Rasputin", is one of the figures in the influence-peddling scandal that sparked massive street protests demanding the removal of President Park Geun-Hye. Chung was detained in Denmark on January 1 for overstaying her visa, after South Korean authorities issued a warrant for her arrest.
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| 8 Things Border Patrol Agents Do Posted: 21 Feb 2017 12:34 PM PST  "It is in the national interest of the United States to prevent criminals and criminal organizations from destabilizing border security," Gen. John Kelly wrote in one of two memos released Tuesday.
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| Spicer says angry town halls are hybrid of upset people and professional protesters Posted: 22 Feb 2017 09:58 AM PST  In the White House press briefing, Sean Spicer downplays increasing protests on health care at GOP town halls across the country.
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| Apple 'spaceship' headquarters readies for boarding Posted: 22 Feb 2017 11:42 AM PST  Apple on Wednesday announced that workers will start boarding its futuristic new "spaceship" campus in Silicon Valley in April, fulfilling a vision set out by late founder Steve Jobs. The process of moving more than 12,000 people to a new campus that Jobs envisioned as a "center for creativity and collaboration" was expected to continue late into the year. A theater on the new Apple Park campus was named in honor of Jobs, who would have turned 62 on February 24.
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| Trump comments put focus on Sweden's embrace of immigrants Posted: 21 Feb 2017 03:05 PM PST  HELSINKI (AP) — When a riot broke out in a predominantly immigrant Stockholm suburb this week, the biggest surprise for many Swedes was that a police officer found it necessary to fire his gun.
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| 8-Year-Old Boy's Parents Charged After He Overdoses on Heroin Posted: 22 Feb 2017 12:39 PM PST  The boy is now with family members.
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| ‘Not My President’s Day’ protests in the U.S. Posted: 21 Feb 2017 06:09 AM PST !['Not My President's Day' protests in the U.S.]( "'Not My President's Day' protests in the U.S.") Thousands of people in cities around the country turned out to demonstrate against the policies of President Trump on Monday in a protest that organizers called "Not My President's Day." Yahoo News dispatched reporters to cover the major demonstrations in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Follow our LIVE BLOG throughout the day for the latest updates. See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Tumblr
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| Firebrand Milo quits Breitbart News after child sex remarks Posted: 21 Feb 2017 02:11 PM PST ![Firebrand Milo quits Breitbart News after child sex remarks]( "Firebrand Milo quits Breitbart News after child sex remarks") By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Provocative far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos resigned on Tuesday as a senior editor of the Breitbart News website after he was vilified and lost a book deal over comments that condoned certain intimate relations between men and young teenage boys. Yiannopoulos thanked Breitbart for letting him transmit conservative and libertarian ideas to an audience that otherwise would never have heard them, but said he did not want his "poor choice of words" to detract from his colleagues' important work. For me, now, that means stepping aside." Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter last year after making remarks on race, religion and sex that incited racial attacks on an African-American actress.
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| Plane carrying 5 people hits Australian shopping mall Posted: 20 Feb 2017 09:59 PM PST  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Five people were believed killed when a light plane crashed in flames into a shopping mall on Tuesday in the Australian city of Melbourne, officials said.
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| Russia successfully launches space freighter after crash Posted: 22 Feb 2017 03:36 AM PST  Russia on Wednesday successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft taking food and equipment to the International Space Station after the previous such ship crashed to Earth shortly after launch in December. A Soyuz rocket carrying the Progress cargo ship lifted off on schedule at 05:58 GMT from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian space agency Roscosmos said. After around nine minutes, the Progress ship "separated normally" from the third stage of the Soyuz rocket and set off on a two-day trip to the ISS, Roscosmos said.
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| 10 fascinating facts about the Washington Monument Posted: 21 Feb 2017 07:45 AM PST  The iconic Washington Monument is celebrating its 132nd birthday today. Learn how it took 40 years to complete the project, and the surprising connections it has to the Pope, Abraham Lincoln, and the Constitution.
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| For over three years, Kim murder suspect lived mystery life in Malaysia Posted: 21 Feb 2017 09:24 AM PST ![For over three years, Kim murder suspect lived mystery life in Malaysia]( "For over three years, Kim murder suspect lived mystery life in Malaysia") Chong Ah Kow said he facilitated Ri's working visa by stating in supporting documents that he was a product development manager in the company's IT department earning 5,500 ringgit ($1,230) per month. "It was just a formality, just documents, I never paid him," Chong, a Malaysian, said in an interview.
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| Le Pen refuses headscarf, nixes talks with Lebanon cleric Posted: 21 Feb 2017 09:48 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — France's far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen refused to don a headscarf for a meeting with Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim cleric on Tuesday and walked away from the scheduled appointment after a brief squabble at the entrance.
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| Woman Arrested After Doing Cartwheels During Field Sobriety Test: Cops Posted: 22 Feb 2017 05:56 AM PST  Bryelle Marshall, 23, was arrested and charged with battery, aggravated DWI, and for an expired license plate.
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| Police Reluctant To Help Trump In Deportations Posted: 22 Feb 2017 08:39 AM PST  "We have not been approached nor would we be interested in participating in this program," one police official said.
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| New free iPhone app lets you instantly unshare photos you’ve sent through iMessage Posted: 21 Feb 2017 09:51 AM PST 
When your relationship with someone is going well, you're often liable to send photos that may be a bit, err, compromising. That's all well and good, until things turn south and your relationship comes to an end. In the moment, it's not always easy to think about that uncomfortable possibility, but the fact of the matter is that no matter how close you might feel to your partner now, romantic relationships begin and end all the time. And if and when your current relationship does end, you're left in the compromising position of having an ex out there who is armed with plenty of photos that you would rather keep private. Well, now there's a free app that helps you plan ahead. It's not foolproof by any means, but it sports a nifty feature that allows you to grant and revoke access to any photos you share easily remotely, in real time. ON/OFF Photo by iOS app developer hong kijong is a free iPhone app available now on the App Store. Using the app, you can quickly and easily share any photo in your camera roll through Apple's standard Messages app. The beauty, however, isn't in the sharing of photos — it's in the fact that at any point in time, you can unshare photos with a single tap. This quick video with a hauntingly eerie computer voice narrating it explains how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq-iWIPCnTg Here's the app's full description, followed by a link to download it for free: You Can Delete Sent Pictures on Chat! It's a must have app in selfie age. ON/OFF Photo allows users to hide, delete, and manage photos already sent to friends, chat about the photos and get notified when somebody views the photo, all in real time. Fast and efficient!
ON/OFF Photo combines control with flexibility, with a simple on/off switch! Auto Picture Hiding Timer!
A feature that automatically hides a photo after a set period of time after it has been exposed to a friend. This is a very convenient function because you can hide the picture sent to your friends automatically without any special operation.
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- Real-time Hiding/Unhiding and Deletion of a Photo
- Instant Notifications when Someone is Looking at Your Photo
- Ability to Chat about Your Photos with your Friends
- Automatic Exposure Prevention
- Fast and Simple
Download ON/OFF Photo
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| Japan zoo culls 57 monkeys carrying 'invasive' genes Posted: 21 Feb 2017 02:05 AM PST  A Japanese zoo has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an "invasive alien species", officials said Tuesday. The Takagoyama Nature Zoo in the city of Futtsu in Chiba prefecture east of Tokyo, housed 164 simians which it believed were all pure Japanese macaques. A city official told AFP on Tuesday that Japanese law bans the possession and transport of invasive species, including the crossbreeds, and that culling of them is allowed under the law.
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| China opposes U.S. naval patrols in South China Sea Posted: 22 Feb 2017 04:05 AM PST ![China opposes U.S. naval patrols in South China Sea]( "China opposes U.S. naval patrols in South China Sea") China said on Tuesday it opposed action by other countries under the pretext of freedom of navigation that undermined its sovereignty, after a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group began patrols in the contested South China Sea. The U.S. navy said the strike group, including the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier the USS Carl Vinson, began "routine operations" in the South China Sea on Saturday amid growing tension with China over control of the disputed waterway. "China always respects the freedom of navigation and overflight all countries enjoy under international law," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a daily news briefing.
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| DC-based for decades, Apollo 11 capsule to go on road trip Posted: 22 Feb 2017 09:41 AM PST  CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) — The Apollo 11 command module, which traveled more than 950,000 miles to take Americans to the moon and back in 1969, is going on a road trip, leaving the Smithsonian for the first time in more than four decades.
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| Administration lifts transgender student bathroom guidance Posted: 22 Feb 2017 05:28 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday ended federal protection for transgender students that allowed them to use public school bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identities.
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| Man Arrested After Woman Captures Video of Him Dragging Dog Behind Motorized Scooter Posted: 21 Feb 2017 10:20 AM PST  He has been charged with animal cruelty.
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