| Donald Trump Jr. proposes conspiracy theorist for Pulitzer for breaking Susan Rice story Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:29 AM PDT  Trump administration officials and allies were out in force this week promoting the story that Susan Rice, national security adviser in the Obama administration, requested the names of Americans who were caught up in surveillance of Russian officials during last year's presidential campaign and transition. The most recent, and enthusiastic, endorsement came from Donald Trump, Jr., who proposes the writer who broke the story for a Pulitzer Prize.
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| Women’s groups embrace O’Reilly boycott as more and more advertisers bail Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:49 AM PDT  The National Organization for Women and organizers of the Women's March have joined in the boycott against Bill O'Reilly as at least 18 companies have pulled their advertising from "The O'Reilly Factor" following a report the Fox News host and his network reached settlements with five women who had accused him of harassment.
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| Russian Spies Tried to Recruit Carter Page As an Intel Source Posted: 03 Apr 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page says he only provided "immaterial" information to officials later revealed to be Russian spies.
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| The Latest: Military: Pilot of crashed F-16 out of hospital Posted: 05 Apr 2017 01:24 PM PDT  CLINTON, Md. (AP) — The Latest on an F-16 crash in the Washington suburbs (all times local):
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| White House faces questions about Syria policy after suspected chemical attack Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:06 AM PDT  The White House released a statement on Tuesday blaming the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad for a suspected chemical attack that reportedly left dozens dead in that country — and blaming former President Barack Obama for not doing more to get rid of Assad. White House press secretary Sean Spicer read the statement in his daily press briefing on Tuesday, where he also faced questions about the Trump administration's position on Syria.
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| Elizabeth Smart's Father Says Teen Who Vanished With Teacher May Be Brainwashed Posted: 04 Apr 2017 01:23 PM PDT  Ed Smart says a man like Tad Cummins will manipulate a victim "in any way possible."
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| Theresa May arrives in Saudi Arabia without a headscarf to advocate for women Posted: 04 Apr 2017 08:45 AM PDT  In an effort to reject Saudi Arabia's dress code for women, British Prime Minister Theresa May refused to wear a headscarf during her visit to the kingdom today to meet with the crown prince and other dignitaries. By doing so, she hopes to prove that women can hold "significant positions."
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| New Jersey teen pleads guilty in plot to assassinate the Pope Posted: 04 Apr 2017 05:46 AM PDT  Santos Colon, 17, admitted on Monday in a federal court in Camden, New Jersey, that he attempted to conspire with a sniper to shoot the Pope during his visit in Philadelphia and set off explosive devices in the surrounding areas.
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| Governors from pro-pot states ask Trump administration to ‘engage’ before cracking down Posted: 04 Apr 2017 07:57 AM PDT  Four governors hope to avoid a pot crackdown by the federal government, which a recent poll shows most Americans would oppose.
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| Fox News Faces Lawsuits from 3 Women Claiming Racial Discrimination Posted: 03 Apr 2017 09:00 PM PDT  As a growing number of advertisers pull ads from Bill O'Reilly's show due to allegations of sexual harassment, a group of women who worked in the payroll department say they suffered racial discrimination and higher-ups did nothing to address it.
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| McConnell says he has the votes to scrap Supreme Court filibuster in Gorsuch standoff Posted: 04 Apr 2017 01:46 PM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday afternoon that he was confident he had the votes to change the body's rules if Democrats go through with their threat to filibuster President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. McConnell downplayed the significance of that change, even as other members of his caucus have said it would damage the Senate and lead to a more ideological, partisan Supreme Court. "The practical effect of all of this would be to take us back to where we were before Sen. Schumer convinced Democrats to routinely filibuster judges," McConnell said, referring to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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| Stem Cell Therapy Gets Angels Pitcher Back on the Field Posted: 05 Apr 2017 02:11 AM PDT  Dr. Steven Yoon is a team physician for the Los Angeles Angels who performed stem cell therapy on pitcher Garrett Richard's torn UCL. Today, Richards is making his season debut just 11 months after being injured.
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| Trump talks to Putin, offers ‘full support’ in response to St. Petersburg attack Posted: 04 Apr 2017 06:05 AM PDT  President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to condemn the deadly attack on a St. Petersburg subway train, the White House said in a statement.
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| These cities are totally slaying the solar power game Posted: 04 Apr 2017 02:20 PM PDT  With the Trump administration targeting various government clean energy programs, we can think of no better time to celebrate the U.S. cities with the most installed solar energy. A new report found the country has made some serious solar strides in 2016, particularly in 20 cities across the country. SEE ALSO: Coal-fired electricity is at its lowest since officials started keeping track America's "shining cities" helped the country attain 42,000 megawatts of solar energy capacity by the end of 2016 — enough energy to power 8.3 million average homes and slash annual carbon emissions by 52.3 million metric tons, the Frontier Group and the Environment America Research and Policy Center reported. U.S. Cities by Cumulative Installed Solar PV Capacity, End of 2016.Image: Environment America Research and Policy CenterLast year, the 20 top U.S. cities collectively accounted for nearly as much solar power as the entire country had installed at the end of 2010. Solar power is rising across the U.S. and around the world as technology prices and installation costs plummet. In many major economies, solar power (sans subsidies) is starting to outcompete coal and natural gas, and new solar projects are costing less to build than wind farms, Bloomberg New Energy Finance found. Top 20 Solar Cities in 2016 (Total Installed Solar PV Capacity) San Diego, CA Los Angeles, CA Honolulu, HI San Jose, CA Phoenix, AZ Indianapolis, IN New York, NY San Antonio, TX Albuquerque, NM Las Vegas, NV San Fransisco, CA Denver, CO Sacramento, CA New Orleans, LA Riverside, CA Austin, TX Portland, OR Washington, D.C. Jacksonville, FL Newark, NJ Despite the serious increase in solar capacity, the majority of U.S. cities have only just started to tap into their true solar energy potential, the two environmental groups said in their report. Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and San Antonio have the technical potential to generate "tens to hundreds of times more solar energy" than they do now, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)'s rooftop solar analysis for small buildings. The map below depicts each state's level of solar installation, so you can get a better sense of how beginners in the Midwest compare to "Solar Stars" on the West Coast — though even the top solar cities have room for improvement. Image: ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTERAccording to the report, San Diego — the nation's current solar energy installation leader — has developed "less than 14 percent of its technical potential for solar power on small buildings." With the Trump administration promising to double down on coal-fired power plants and unravel federal policies for clean energy, U.S. cities and states now have an even bigger role to play in tackling climate change. WATCH: This solar-powered machine transforms desert sand into glass sculptures
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| Wails of grief as Colombia town lays mudslide victims to rest Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:53 AM PDT  Parents wailed over the coffins of their children while others searched Tuesday for the missing or tended relatives wounded when a mudslide swept them from their beds in southern Colombia. Broad brown swathes of debris scar the town of Mocoa where the mud surged through on Friday night, sweeping homes away and drowning whole families together. Mercy Perenguez had ordered three graves to be dug, for her daughters aged six, 11 and 13.
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| Former Mexican cartel head gets life for drug smuggling Posted: 05 Apr 2017 04:08 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A once-powerful Mexican drug cartel leader and associate of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been sentenced to life in a U.S. prison.
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| Hundreds rally in Belgrade to protest over election win for Vucic Posted: 04 Apr 2017 12:12 PM PDT  Hundreds of people rallied peacefully for a second night in Belgrade on Tuesday to protest against the overwhelming victory of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in a presidential election. "What we want is Vucic to step down, he is an autocrat and we do not want him," said Nemanja Tomic, 22, a student. Some demonstrators alleged Sunday's presidential vote was rigged.
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| Zika causes birth defects in one in 10 pregnancies: U.S. study Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:29 AM PDT  By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - About one in 10 pregnant women with confirmed Zika infections had a fetus or baby with birth defects, offering the clearest picture yet of the risk of Zika infection during pregnancy, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the first to analyze a group of U.S. women with clear, confirmed test results of Zika infection during pregnancy. Once considered a mild disease, a large outbreak of the virus that began in Brazil in 2015 and quickly spread through the Americas revealed that the mosquito-borne virus can cause severe brain damage and microcephaly, or small head size, when women are exposed during pregnancy.
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| Former national security adviser Rice denies leaking names of ‘unmasked’ Trump officials Posted: 04 Apr 2017 12:23 PM PDT  Former White House national security adviser Susan Rice said Tuesday that allegations that she was responsible for intelligence leaks were false. In her first public comments since reports surfaced that she had requested the "unmasking" of the names of Trump associates in surveillance reports, Rice told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell she hadn't leaked any of that information to the press. Bloomberg reported Monday evening that Rice sought the names of Trump transition officials whose communications were swept up incidentally during routine monitoring of foreign officials. As national security adviser, she was entitled to see the information.
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| Drowning horse saved by father and son, after collapsing in their doorway Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:43 PM PDT  A horse narrowly escaped drowning in floods, thanks to the efforts of a family from the Australian town of Murwillumbah. Now a man, his wife and their son are being praised all over social media, having spent over five hours keeping the horse, who collapsed in their doorway, alive. SEE ALSO: Add this cheeky fella to your 'suburb-wandering seals of Australia' file Last Thursday night, Leigh Shepherd's wife noticed a noise coming from their neighbour's horse, Tilly, who was struggling in the deep water as a result from the floods. Shepherd decided to help retrieve the horse, after his wife said she was going to get it, according to ABC News. "I couldn't stand all my friends saying 'you let your wife swim out into flood waters, what were you doing?' So obviously I had to go out and get the bloody thing," he told the news outlet. Aided by their son Rob, the pair used a cord to help lead the horse to their house. It made it up the stairs, but collapsed in the middle of the doorway. The pair used a bodyboard to help keep Tilly's head above water, sitting by its side for the five hours it took for floods to subside. "She was just buggered, she couldn't move, she just lay there and was dependent on us," Rob told the news outlet. "We thought if she wasn't going to drown maybe hyperthermia or something like that would have got her." Despite fears it would not make it through, Tilly escaped relatively unscathed. It had a deep laceration on one of its front legs, as well as being very tired and sore from the ordeal. Tilly is now recovering back at home with its friend, a pig named Snooky. Nawww. WATCH: This electric skateboard is designed to glide like a snowboard
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| Man accused in fatal midtown Atlanta shooting hospitalized Posted: 05 Apr 2017 02:45 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting a woman on a midtown Atlanta street in broad daylight was hospitalized after jail guards found him biting his left arm and spitting blood, authorities said Wednesday.
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| Russian metro bombing puts Putin's Syria policy to the test Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:04 AM PDT  By Denis Dyomkin and Christian Lowe MOSCOW (Reuters) - Islamist militants have targeted Russia many times before but Monday's bombing of a metro train in St Petersburg was, for President Vladimir Putin, personal: it happened in his native city on a day he was making a visit back home. The attack, which killed 14 people and wounded 50, is also a test for one of Putin's most contentious policies - his decision to launch a military intervention in Syria on the side of President Bashar al-Assad. Kremlin-watchers say the risk is that Russian voters could decide, after seeing the destruction in St Petersburg, that the Syrian operation is making them more vulnerable to such attacks - not safer as Putin promised.
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| Sen. McConnell the Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination strategy Posted: 04 Apr 2017 12:11 PM PDT  On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) holds a press conference to talk about the confirmation strategy for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
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| May to raise 'hard issues' with Saudi Arabia, stand up for UK interests Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:44 AM PDT  By Katie Paul RIYADH (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she would raise "hard issues" with Saudi Arabia's leaders on a visit to the country, as critics urged her to pressure Riyadh over its air war in Yemen and human rights record. May also said she was appalled by reports of a chemical weapons attack in northern Syria that killed dozens of people, including 11 children, and called for a prompt investigation.
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| House GOP mad that favorite whipping boy still on job at IRS Posted: 05 Apr 2017 03:39 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Unhappy that their favorite whipping boy is still in charge of the IRS, House Republicans asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to fire Commissioner John Koskinen.
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| Cop Opens Up About Desperate Attempts to Save College Student Who Died After Pancake-Eating Contest Posted: 04 Apr 2017 02:17 PM PDT  Sgt. Mike Paris was one of the first officers who rushed to save Caitlin Nelson, who died over the weekend.
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| Graphene Oxide Sieve Can Make Seawater Drinkable Posted: 03 Apr 2017 11:17 PM PDT  The breakthrough has the potential to revolutionize water filtration — especially in countries that sorely lack access to clean drinking water.
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| 2018 Buick Regal TourX: An American Wagon with a European Soul Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:31 PM PDT  The Outback/Allroad bandwagon? It's got a hop on.
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| Alleged kidnap victim cried out "Help me" after car crash Posted: 03 Apr 2017 06:31 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — An 11-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped from North Carolina cried out "Help me" when police officers in the U.S. capital found her wedged between the driver's and front passenger's seat after the car she was in crashed, court documents showed.
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| Outrage as Syria 'chemical attack' kills dozens in rebel-held town Posted: 04 Apr 2017 07:37 PM PDT  A suspected chemical attack in rebel-held northwestern Syria killed dozens of civilians including children and left many more sick and gasping, causing international outrage Wednesday. The attack on the town of Khan Sheikhun killed at least 58 civilians and saw dozens suffer respiratory problems and symptoms including vomiting, fainting and foaming at the mouth, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Syria's opposition blamed President Bashar al-Assad's forces, saying the attack cast doubt on the future of peace talks.
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| I Did the One Thing That I Hated the Most and It Changed My Life Posted: 05 Apr 2017 09:41 AM PDT  I didn't exactly fit in with the rest of the glowy, blissful, and extremely limber group.
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| Pennsylvania man who eluded manhunt goes on trial in trooper ambush Posted: 04 Apr 2017 12:13 PM PDT  Pennsylvania prosecutors showed jurors graphic images of a police officer moments after he was fatally shot in a 2014 sniper attack, during opening statements on Tuesday in the murder trial of survivalist Eric Frein. Frein, 33, of Canadensis, Pennsylvania, could receive the death penalty if he is convicted of the top charge against him, the murder of a law-enforcement officer, Corporal Bryan Dickson II. He is also charged with terrorism and the attempted murder of trooper Alex Douglass, who was wounded in the attack.
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| Islamic State says U.S. 'being run by an idiot' Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:57 AM PDT  Islamic State said on Tuesday the United States was drowning and "being run by an idiot". In the first official remarks by the group referring to President Donald Trump since he took office, spokesman Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer said: "America you have drowned and there is no savior, and you have become prey for the soldiers of the caliphate in every part of the earth, you are bankrupt and the signs of your demise are evident to every eye." "... There is no more evidence than the fact that you are being run by an idiot who does not know what Syria or Iraq or Islam is," he said in a recording released on Tuesday on messaging network Telegram. Trump has made defeating Islamic State a priority of his presidency.
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| 3-Legged Dog Given a Cartoon Arm Thanks to His Owner's Creativity with Photoshop Posted: 05 Apr 2017 06:45 AM PDT  The half-pug half-beagle mix has his own Instagram account, documenting his unlikely adventures with his new cartoon paw.
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| Tesla overtakes giant Ford in market value Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:34 AM PDT  Tesla has become the second-largest US car maker in terms of market capitalization, displacing Ford, whose sales lagged amid concerns about the ability of the US market to keep growing. Many major auto makers reported US sales declines in March compared to a year ago, but Tesla over the weekend said it saw a huge jump in vehicles delivered to consumers in the first three months of the year. Tesla said it delivered 25,000 of its high-tech vehicles in the January-March period -- a 69 percent surge compared to the first three months of 2016 -- indicating it was on its way to meeting its goal of 50,000 vehicle deliveries by mid-2017.
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| President Trump speaks at the North America's Building Trades Unions legislative conference Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:14 AM PDT  On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, President Trump delivers remarks at the North America's Building Trades Unions legislative conference.
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| Suspected Syria gas attack kills dozens, including children Posted: 04 Apr 2017 07:03 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — A suspected chemical attack in a town in Syria's rebel-held northern Idlib province killed dozens of people on Tuesday, opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the country's six-year civil war.
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| Your iPhone Can Be Hacked Via Wi-Fi If You Don't Update Now Posted: 04 Apr 2017 12:22 PM PDT  Apple has issued an emergency patch to fix a vulnerability that left iOS devices at risk of being attacked via WiFi.
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| Window closing for Republican stealth assault on U.S. regulations Posted: 04 Apr 2017 01:04 PM PDT  By Lisa Lambert and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The clock began running out this week on a strategy that has provided U.S. Republicans in Congress with their only notable legislative successes this year: aggressive use of an obscure U.S. law known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA). On his 75th day in power, President Donald Trump has yet to offer any major legislation or win passage of a bill he favors, but House of Representatives Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has notched numerous small-scale victories with his strategy. Vice President Mike Pence told business leaders at the White House on Tuesday that Trump would sign more CRA resolutions soon and roll back an "avalanche of red tape" from the administration of President Barack Obama, a Democrat.
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