| Hillary Clinton: Reading ‘Harry Potter’ builds compassion for immigrants, refugees Posted: 27 Jun 2017 10:12 AM PDT  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cited a study that found reading "Harry Potter" helped to build compassion for marginalized groups in children.
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| California man isn't asked, doesn't say where missing son is Posted: 27 Jun 2017 11:27 AM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A California father told a judge on Tuesday that he wasn't hiding from authorities when he was arrested in Las Vegas, and will not fight his transfer in custody to Los Angeles to face a murder charge in the disappearance of his 5-year-old son.
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| New security measures (and massive lines) announced for all flights to the US Posted: 28 Jun 2017 01:26 PM PDT 
180 airlines flying over 300,000 people a day into the US will have to comply with new "enhanced security measures" for electronic devices, the Department for Homeland Security announced on Wednesday. The new security measures, which have not been described in detail, will need to be implemented at speed by the airlines. Passengers flying on any airline that does not implement the new security measures will not be able to bring anything bigger than a cellphone under the new regulations.
The new measures seem to be the ultimate evolution of a laptop ban that the US announced back in March, which affected passengers on most airlines flying from the Middle East. The new security measures will affect carry-on and checked luggage, the DHS confirmed, but should now allow those airlines affected by the laptop ban to allow passengers to carry laptops on once again, provided the new security measures are implemented. Those security measures have not been specified, but the DHS says that it will be a mixture of visible and behind-the-scenes changes. Among the changes is likely to be deeper scrutiny of individual passengers, as well as more detailed searches of electronic devices. The DHS said that passengers "may want to prepare for a bit more extensive screening process," although an official added that "intensive doesn't always mean slower." Logical additional screening methods could include routine swabs of electronic devices to look for explosive residue -- something that's already done on a case-by-case basis -- as well as requiring passengers in some cases to power up laptops and demonstrate that they're working. According to reporting from multiple news outlets, Israeli intelligence idenitified an ISIS plot to use a laptop bomb to attack an airliner several months ago. That intelligence was behind the laptop ban in March. The source of that intelligence is also reported to have been leaked to Russia by President Trump during a White House meeting.
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| How To Protect Yourself Against Petya Ransomware Posted: 27 Jun 2017 03:45 PM PDT  A ransomware attack known as Petya has hit computer systems around the world. Here's how to protect yourself from the attack.
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| North Korea calls for execution of ex-South Korea leader over 'assassination' plot Posted: 28 Jun 2017 12:42 PM PDT  North Korea calls for execution of ex-South Korea leader over 'assassination' plot.
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| 11 Wicked-Good Halloween Punches Posted: 28 Jun 2017 12:23 PM PDT |
| Community buy Texas man car after finding him walking 3 miles to and from work in 32 degree heat Posted: 28 Jun 2017 09:22 AM PDT  A man who was forced to walk miles to work in sweltering heat, has been bought a car by members of his local community. Justin Korva regularly braved temperatures of 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) to get to his job at Taco Casa in Rockwell, Texas. The 20-year-old was picked up on his three-mile trek one morning by Andy Mitchell, who posted a picture of pair on Facebook next to a message explaining his journey.
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| Reporter unloads on deputy press secretary at White House briefing: ‘What you just did is inflammatory!’ Posted: 27 Jun 2017 01:53 PM PDT  President Trump's ongoing battle with the media boiled over during the White House press briefing on Tuesday when a reporter tore into Sarah Huckabee Sanders for complaining about the "constant barrage of fake news."
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| Pence to join Senate Republican leaders in healthcare push Posted: 27 Jun 2017 07:30 AM PDT  By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate pushed on Tuesday to gather enough support to pass a healthcare bill, but got little help from a report saying the measure would cause 22 million Americans to lose medical insurance over the next decade. Vice President Mike Pence was expected to join Senate Republicans for a policy lunch on Capitol Hill before hosting conservative senators for dinner.
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| Chicago charges show challenge of police code of silence Posted: 28 Jun 2017 02:02 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Since late 2015, the public has known that police who witnessed the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald described a scene starkly different than the one that later emerged on video of a white officer pumping 16 bullets into the black teenager.
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| Obama on temple sojourn during Indonesia holiday Posted: 28 Jun 2017 09:00 AM PDT  Barack Obama took his wife and daughters to the ancient Borobudur temple on Java on Wednesday on a family vacation to Indonesia, where the former US president spent part of his childhood. The Obamas arrived in the city of Yogyakarta in central Java and headed straight to explore the Borobudur, an ancient Buddhist temple built in the 8th and 9th centuries. "Obama is fascinated by Borobudur, and he remembers that he has seen this temple when he was a child," said Edy Setijono, head of the temple management complex, who accompanied the family at the site.
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| Colorado Mother Says Infant Son Overheated Aboard Delayed United Flight Posted: 28 Jun 2017 01:03 AM PDT  The alleged incident happened on Texas-bound plane from Denver International Airport on June 22.
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| Owner of Giant 20-Pound Lobster 'Beyond Ticked Off' Over TSA's Handling of Crustacean Posted: 28 Jun 2017 01:19 PM PDT  Chris Stracuzza was unnerved as he saw images of the huge lobster on social media.
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| EU extends Russia economic sanctions Posted: 28 Jun 2017 04:11 AM PDT  The European Union on Wednesday formally rolled over damaging economic sanctions against Russia for another six months, saying Moscow had failed to live up to its Ukraine ceasefire commitments. EU leaders endorsed the move last week, charging that Russia had not halted its support for pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine nor put pressure on them to respect a ceasefire brokered by France and Germany which was meant to help end a deadly conflict dating back to early 2014. The European Council, which groups the EU's 28 member states, said the decision followed a summit briefing on the situation by French and German leaders Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel.
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| The Queen is getting a massive pay rise and Twitter isn't impressed Posted: 27 Jun 2017 02:39 AM PDT  At 91, the Queen might be well beyond her pension age, but that hasn't stopped her from getting a massive pay rise. SEE ALSO: Baby survives Grenfell, or not: Facebook's fake news problem continues apace A record-breaking performance by the Crown Estate, which owns residential properties, commercial offices, businesses, and land across Britain, means the Queen will get an 8% increase in income from public funds. The Sovereign Grant, which funds the monarch's household, official travel, and upkeep of palaces, will increase from £76 million ($97 million) in 2017-18 to £82.2 million ($104.9 million) next April. Not bad, huh? It's a £6 million pay rise. Now, before the French revolutionary in you starts ranting about royal privilege and taxpayers' money, it has to be reiterated that the Queen's funding is based on the profits of the Crown Estate, whose profits rose by £24 million to reach a new high of £328.8 million. Sir Alan Reid, whose title is "Keeper of the Privy Purse," defended the Queen, claiming she represents "excellent value for money." "When you look at these accounts, the bottom line is the Sovereign Grant last year equated to 65p per person, per annum, in the United Kingdom. That's the price of a first class stamp," he said. Also, Queen's pay rise will take place as refurbishment is taking place at Buckingham Palace, costing £369 million. However, people on Twitter weren't happy, to say the least, about the new funding, linking it to the Grenfell Tower fire: Glad we can find more taxpayer money to fix up Buckingham Palace while hundreds of tower blocks are dangerous. Priorities, hey? — Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) June 27, 2017 It would appear Austerity is only for poor peopleQueen to receive £6m pay increase from public funds - https://t.co/IY8ZGRlTxt — codfather (@codfather) June 27, 2017 The Queen is getting a £6m pay rise LOL beginning to see a theme here with the Conservatives' spending priorities #MagicMoneyTree — Political Hipster (@escofree) June 27, 2017 So the Queen is getting a payrise to £82mil per tax year - to help pay for refurbishments to Buckingham Palace..... pic.twitter.com/Uvs6IJqa78 — Barcho (@LouisMarch) June 27, 2017 Queen gets £82m pay rise to pay for Buckingham Palace works but we need to cut benefits for the poor to save money 樂https://t.co/gsLXFzSuUV — Parveen Agnihotri (@Parveen_Comms) June 27, 2017 If the government wants to save money on the Buckingham Palace refurb, there are some very good deals to be had these days on cladding — Aunt Olive (@HelpfulOlive) June 27, 2017 WATCH: How 'The Walking Dead' show left the original comic behind
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| 3 People Have Caught Plague in New Mexico This Month Posted: 28 Jun 2017 07:54 AM PDT  Three people in New Mexico have been infected with plague this month, which is close to the number of plague cases that the state saw in all of 2016, according to health officials. This week, the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) reported two cases of plague — one in a 52-year-old woman and one in a 62-year-old woman, both living in Santa Fe County, in the northern part of the state. Earlier in June, the state reported a case of plague in a 63-year-old man, also living in Santa Fe County.
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| Can Democratic pediatrician Mai-Khanh Tran unseat one of the most powerful House Republicans in 2018? Posted: 28 Jun 2017 02:00 AM PDT  In many ways, Dr. Mai-Khanh Tran isn't all that different from millions of other Democrats who have been dismayed or depressed or indignant since Donald Trump was elected president. On election night, Tran watched in shock as the returns rolled in. The next morning, she wept at work — Tran is a pediatrician — with her colleagues.
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| U.S. worries Russia could step up North Korea support to fill China void Posted: 27 Jun 2017 10:04 AM PDT  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - As the United States pressures China to enforce United Nations sanctions on its ally North Korea, Washington is concerned that Russia could provide support to Pyongyang and fill any vacuum left by Beijing, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Tuesday. "I'm concerned that Russia may backfill North Korea," Haley told U.S. lawmakers in Washington.
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| 7 couples from same town charged with public benefits fraud Posted: 28 Jun 2017 12:10 PM PDT  LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Seven married couples from the same New Jersey shore town, including a rabbi and his wife, now face charges that they misrepresented their income to get a combined $2 million in public welfare benefits they weren't entitled to.
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| HMS Queen Elizabeth Still Uses Windows XP Posted: 27 Jun 2017 04:21 AM PDT  Instead of an updated operating system, the HMS Queen Elizabeth has opted for a group of cyber specialists on board to ward off virtual attacks.
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| Woman's Body Found In Walmart Bathroom 3 Days After She Went Inside Posted: 28 Jun 2017 05:49 AM PDT  The woman was identified as 29-year-old Katherine Caraway.
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| Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong detained by police Posted: 28 Jun 2017 06:43 AM PDT  Hong Kong student pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong was detained by police on Wednesday after an anti-China protest ahead of a visit by President Xi Jinping. Wong was among around 30 protesters who had staged a three-hour sit-in at a harbourfront statue and were led away into police vans. Xi's visit this week marks 20 years since Hong Kong was handed back to China by Britain and comes at a time when fears are growing that Beijing is tightening its grip on the semi-autonomous city.
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| It’s not just you: CNN, New York Times, Reddit, and other sites are all down Posted: 28 Jun 2017 07:20 AM PDT  A strange outage has struck a number of extremely popular websites this morning, bringing The New York Times, CNN, Reddit, Pinterest, Etsy, and Amazon to their knees in many areas of the country. The downtime is slamming the coasts particularly hard, with huge numbers of reports coming in from both the East Coast as well as Southern California. The issue appears to be linked to the cloud hosting service Fastly, which supports the backends of all these major web destinations, and has been dealing with a "global event."  The error manifests itself in failed page loads and a number of different errors ranging from "Maximum threads" to simple "Could not load" notifications. "Fastly is reporting a global event on our network at this time; multiple teams are responding and investigating," the company's first notice of downtime reads. The company followed up by noting that the it identified the issue and was working on implementing a fix, while monitoring the results. The company notes on its Customers page that it supports many of the sites currently dealing with page load errors and other issues, including NYT, Pinterest, Reddit, Wired, and Business Insider. When the unseen companies that support the entire structure of major websites like these experience downtime it can be a serious issue for everyone involved. Depending on the length of downtime, the cost can be absolutely devastating, but it appears that in this case the company has identified and fixed the issue in a rather rapid manner.
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| Trump promotes faulty White House math on health care Posted: 27 Jun 2017 06:23 AM PDT  In addition to the elementary math error, the president's tweets attacked CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, the Washington Post and the New York Times as "fake news."
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| China launches new class of naval destroyer Posted: 28 Jun 2017 05:38 AM PDT  China's military on Wednesday launched a new type of domestically-built destroyer, state media said, the latest addition to the country's rapidly expanding navy. The 10,000-tonne warship was launched at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, the official Xinhua news agency said, making it the first of the People's Liberation Army Navy's "new generation" destroyers. "It is equipped with new air defense, anti-missile, anti-ship and anti-submarine weapons," Xinhua said, without giving further details.
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| FBI locates car related to missing Chinese scholar case Posted: 27 Jun 2017 04:49 PM PDT  CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — The FBI has located the car that a missing Chinese scholar studying at the University of Illinois was last seen getting into earlier this month, the FBI said Tuesday.
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| 15 Still Missing After Tourist Boat Sinks in Colombia Posted: 27 Jun 2017 10:57 AM PDT  The latest on the tourist boat packed with more than 150 passengers that capsized, leaving at least six people dead.
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| Refurbished Galaxy Note 7 Release Date Revealed? Posted: 28 Jun 2017 02:42 AM PDT  The refurbished Galaxy Note 7 is said to be called the Galaxy Note FE (Fandom Edition) and will cost less than 700,000 won (US$616).
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| 15 Signs Divorce Isn't in Your Cards, According to Divorce Lawyers Posted: 27 Jun 2017 10:38 AM PDT |
| Kentucky to allow public schools to teach from the Bible Posted: 28 Jun 2017 11:07 AM PDT  Kentucky has signed a law allowing public, state-funded schools to teach courses on the Bible. Governor Matt Bevin participated in the bill signing ceremony in the state capitol building which opened with a Christian prayer. State Representative DJ Johnson said the Bible "really did set the foundation that our founding fathers used to develop documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights," local news station WDRB-TV reported.
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| Man with Super Smiley Mugshot Allegedly Threatened to Kill Lawmaker on Facebook: Cops Posted: 28 Jun 2017 08:58 AM PDT  Cops say Steve St. Felix threatened Republican State Rep. Jose Felix Diaz.
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| 10 must-have iPhone accessories under $25 Posted: 27 Jun 2017 10:53 AM PDT  Apple's iPhones are arguably the best smartphones on the planet. The hardware is fantastic, the customer service is positively unbeatable, and the iOS platform is the best mobile software platform in the world. Of course, all that comes at a price — iPhones are also some of the most expensive smartphones out there. You've already spent somewhere between $650 and $950 on your iPhone, so now it's time to save some money. In this post, you'll find 10 different must-have iPhone accessories that each cost less than $25.
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| Thank Putin, Not Trump, For NATO’s New Defense Spending Boost Posted: 28 Jun 2017 09:37 AM PDT  NATO allies plan to increase defense spending this year, but Trump can't take full credit.
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| Pope gives prestigious red hats to 5 new cardinals Posted: 28 Jun 2017 11:16 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis gave the Catholic church five new cardinals Wednesday, somberly instructing them to act as servants and not "princes" in a world where innocents are dying from wars and terrorism, slavery persists and refugee camps often are living hells.
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| Mother's Picture Of Son's Hospital Bills Goes Viral Posted: 28 Jun 2017 01:45 AM PDT  With the costs of Ethan's healthcare, the family's bills skyrocketed. However, with their current insurance plan, they only had to pay $500.
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| Greenland ice sheet meltoff quickens sea levels rise: study Posted: 27 Jun 2017 09:01 AM PDT  Ocean levels rose 50 percent faster in 2014 than in 1993, with meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet now supplying 25 percent of total sea level increase compared with just five percent 20 years earlier, researchers reported Monday. "This result is important because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)" -- the UN science advisory body -- "makes a very conservative projection of total sea level rise by the end of the century," at 60 to 90 centimetres (24 to 35 inches), said Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Oxford who did not take part in the research. Greenland alone contains enough frozen water to lift oceans by about seven metres (23 feet), though experts disagree on the global warming threshold for irreversible melting, and how long that would take once set in motion.
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| These $80 wireless headphones are just as good as $300 Beats Posted: 27 Jun 2017 09:38 AM PDT 
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| German audience cheers as US commerce secretary speech is cut off Posted: 28 Jun 2017 09:07 AM PDT  Wilbur Ross was addressing the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) political party conference in Berlin via video when his feed abruptly ended after 20 minutes due to time constraints. The crowd laughed and cheered at the organiser's decision to cut him off as they waited for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, sitting on stage in front of the video screen, to speak. "[He] had promised us a 10-minute statement," said Werner Bahlsen of the CDU, adding that Mr Ross spoke "a bit slowly," according to Bloomberg.
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| Haley says warning to Syria also aimed at Russia and Iran Posted: 27 Jun 2017 09:11 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A warning from the White House to Syrian President Bashar Assad about another possible chemical weapons attack was also aimed at two of Assad's key backers, Russia and Iran, the U.S ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday.
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| Illinois House Democrats push new budget plan to end impasse Posted: 27 Jun 2017 04:20 PM PDT  Staring down the start of a new fiscal year, Illinois House Democrats offered a budget on Tuesday that would spend less than the Republican governor's plan, but kept their specific revenue-raising proposal under wraps. An impasse between Governor Bruce Rauner and Democrats who control the legislature has left Illinois without complete budgets for an unprecedented two-straight fiscal years. The nearly $36.5 billion general funds budget was the first spending blueprint offered by House Speaker Michael Madigan for the fiscal year that begins Saturday.
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| The 10 Best National Parks in the USA Posted: 27 Jun 2017 06:00 AM PDT ![The 10 Best National Parks in the USA]( "The 10 Best National Parks in the USA") Explore the great outdoors at one of America's can't-miss national parks. If you're dreaming of an outdoor vacation filled with gushing geysers, animal encounters, towering rock formations and more, odds are you'll enjoy exploring a national park. Considering factors like the uniqueness of sights, historical significance and park accessibility, we determined which of the country's 59 national parks qualify as the Best National Parks in the USA.
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