| Trump Camp Turns Over Thousands of Documents Posted: 08 Aug 2017 11:34 AM PDT  Rachel Maddow reports breaking news from Bloomberg News that among thousands of documents turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating Trump-Russia, roughly 20,000 of them are from the Trump campaign.
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| Trump says U.S. will 'win' fight against opioid epidemic Posted: 08 Aug 2017 02:07 PM PDT  Trump held a "major briefing" at his private golf club to discuss how to properly combat the crisis and "keep youth from going down this deadly path."
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| Tourists Who Stop At Crash Horrified To Find Mom Dragging Daughter's Body Into Woods: Cops Posted: 09 Aug 2017 06:20 AM PDT  Motorists from New York stumbled upon the shocking sight Sunday, officials said.
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| Qatar offers visa-free entry to 80 nationalities Posted: 09 Aug 2017 05:53 AM PDT  Qatar, isolated by its neighbours in a diplomatic crisis, on Wednesday introduced a visa-free entry programme for 80 nationalities to stimulate air transport and tourism. "The visa exemption scheme will make Qatar the most open country in the region," tourism department official Hassan al-Ibrahim told a news conference in Doha. Interior ministry official Mohamed Rashed al-Mazrouei said that nationals of 80 countries would only need to present a valid passport for entry to the energy-rich Gulf state which is to host football's 2022 World Cup.
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| Colon Cancer Deaths Rising for Young, White Americans Posted: 08 Aug 2017 08:47 AM PDT  Despite higher rates of screening, a growing number of white Americans under the age of 55 are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
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| Car chase reveals 'driverless van' actually has driver disguised as front seat Posted: 08 Aug 2017 05:20 AM PDT  A self-driving van that appeared completely unmanned has been revealed as under the control of a driver hiding dressed as a car seat following a chase with journalists. The Ford Transit was spotted on the streets of Arlington, Virginia, driving around the town with no visible driver. Although the state had authorised the testing of autonomous cars locals had not expected to see one, let alone a completely unmanned vehicle. The van was seen driving over the weekend and was hunted down by local journalists. Unlike most self-driving vehicles, it appeared to have no Lidar array for tracking its surrounding, which have been seen on test cars from Uber or Waymo, two of the leaders in autonomous vehicles. Any tests of self-driving vehicles are normally accompanied by a human driver, who sits in the driver's seat to control the car if it strays off course. Local journalists from ARL Now and NBC News 4 reporter Adam Tuss tracked the van, attempting to see how the vehicle was driving. Tuss and his team ultimately pulled up alongside at a red light, revealing hands and feet sticking out of the front seat controlling the wheel. "This is one of the strangest things I have ever seen," Tuss tweeted. "We have found the self-driving van in Arlington - and there's a guy hiding behind the seat." The "self-driving" van photographed in Virginia Credit: Adam Tuss/NBC After the reporter questioned the driver through the window, the driver sped off without a word to the reporter. The driverless car turned out to be a test by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute as part of a study into autonomous vehicles. The institute told NBC: "The driver's seating area is configured to make the driver less visible within the vehicle, while still allowing him or her the ability to safely monitor and respond to surroundings." The big players | Driverless cars There are still plenty of challenges ahead for driverless cars, such as learning to navigate potentially vandalised road signs and struggling to avoid Kangaroos. The crazy future of transport - in pictures
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| Parents of Indiana 15-year-old killed by police file lawsuit Posted: 08 Aug 2017 03:31 PM PDT ![Parents of Indiana 15-year-old killed by police file lawsuit]( "Parents of Indiana 15-year-old killed by police file lawsuit") INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The parents of a black teenager fatally shot by Indianapolis police after an alleged 2015 carjacking are suing the city and several police officers they contend used "deadly, excessive, unreasonable, unlawful and unnecessary force" against the youth.
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| Mazda confirms HCCI engine for 2019 Posted: 07 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT  Mazda on Tuesday laid out a company-wide strategy that looks ahead to the year 2030. Chief among the plans is the introduction of the world's first production Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engine. Mazda says the technology will appear in 2019 in a next-generation Skyactiv-X engine, though no particular models were mentioned.
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| Car attack on soldiers in Paris suburb Posted: 09 Aug 2017 05:29 AM PDT ![Car attack on soldiers in Paris suburb]( "Car attack on soldiers in Paris suburb") A car rammed into a group of soldiers in a Parisian suburb on Wednesday, injuring six before speeding off in what officials identified as a suspected terrorist attack.
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| Trump warns 'fire and fury' if North Korea threatens U.S., Pyongyang weighs Guam strike Posted: 08 Aug 2017 04:04 PM PDT  By James Oliphant and Ben Blanchard BEDMINSTER, N.J./BEIJING (Reuters) - President Donald Trump warned North Korea on Tuesday it would face "fire and fury" if it threatens the United States, prompting the nuclear-armed nation to say it was considering firing missiles at Guam, a U.S.-held Pacific island. As tensions escalated, Pyongyang said it was "carefully examining" a plan to strike Guam, site of a U.S. military base. A North Korean military spokesman, in a statement carried by state-run KCNA news agency, said the plan would be put into practice once leader Kim Jong Un makes a decision.
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| Landlord troubles: rich San Franciscans in uproar after their private street is sold Posted: 07 Aug 2017 06:54 PM PDT  The neighborhood is one of San Francisco's most expensive and exclusive. For most San Franciscans accustomed to being at the whims of speculators in a soaring real estate market, the arrival of a new landlord is a near certain harbinger of bad news. Two upstart real estate investors from San Jose, Tina Lam and Michael Cheng, had snapped up the street, the sidewalks and the landscaped islands of Presidio Terrace at a public auction of tax-defaulted properties in April 2015.
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| Video Captures Moment When Gunmen Open Fire On Mexico Beach Posted: 08 Aug 2017 03:24 AM PDT  The shooting resulted in the deaths of three people and injured another two.
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| A Woman Is Suing Costco For A Chicken Salad That Ruined Her Life Posted: 08 Aug 2017 12:15 PM PDT  She's still recovering two years later.
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| Elon Musk Reveals How the $35,000 Model 3 is So Cheap Posted: 09 Aug 2017 06:07 AM PDT  It's all under the hood.
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| Brigitte Macron 'will not become France's First Lady', after 280,000 people sign petition to block her Posted: 08 Aug 2017 06:01 AM PDT  Brigitte Macron, the wife of French president Emmanuel Macron, will not officially be France's First Lady, according to government officials and reports. The decision flies in the face of Mr Macron's pre-election promise to make an official position for his wife, a move that turned heads particularly as the government is soon to pass a law preventing MPs from hiring family members as assistants, as part of his own anti-corruption drive. But after 280,000 people signed a petition over the last two weeks in an attempt to block Mrs Macron from having a salary, it appears the government is back-pedalling. French government spokesman Christophe Castaner took to Twitter on Monday night to stress that Mrs Macron would not have an official role. President Macron had intended to give his wife the official First Lady title, much life Melania Trump Credit: Michel Euler/AP "Brigitte Macron has a role and responsibilities. We are looking to be transparent and to outline the means she has at her disposal," he wrote. "No modification of the constitution, no new funding, no salary for Brigitte Macron. Stop the hypocrisy!" Mr Macron, 39, had promised on the campaign trail in March that his wife would have a "real status". "Paid by the Republic, no. Having a role, a real status, a real capacity to act, yes," Mr Macron said at the time. The presidency has said it will clarify Mrs Macron's role in the coming days and that there would be no change to the constitution to create a First Lady position, sources told AFP and BFM TV. The French government plans to make clear exactly how much Mrs Macron will be costing taxpayers. "The idea is for the French people to know how much this role costs," Aurore Berge, a senior lawmaker from Macron's party, told Europe 1 radio today. Former president Francois Hollande and his companion Valerie Trierweiler, who, like all previous presidents' wives, was not First Lady Credit: Jacques Brinon/AP Mrs Macron currently has a team of two or three aides, two secretaries, and two security guards. Former President Francois Hollande's wife Valerie Trierweiler cost the public €400,000 in 2013, public figures show. Neither Ms Trierweiler or any former wife of France's past presidents have ever had the official title of First Lady. Brigitte Trogneux's most elegant looks
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| Day care worker faces charges after boy found dead in van Posted: 08 Aug 2017 09:22 AM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the death of a child inside a van outside a Florida day care center (all times local):
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| Florida man discovers huge snake has been living in his attic for years Posted: 09 Aug 2017 12:23 PM PDT  Out of all the stuff that can go wrong in Florida, finding out that a snake has been hiding out in your attic is probably low on the list. Bob van der Herchen recently had the pleasure of discovering a 6-foot boa constrictor living in the attic of his home in Englewood, Florida, rent free. According to WFLA, van der Herchen's son and wife often complained about noise coming from the attic, but he payed no attention to it. SEE ALSO: Commuting snake hitches a ride home on a Boston train "He used to complain he'd hear sounds in the attic. I didn't think much of it, I thought maybe it was rats," van der Herchen told WFLA. Just rats, nothing to see here. Well, the attic intruder was actually a massive snake. A snake trapper helped the family safely remove the boa from the attic, and in the process found it had shed some skin. The man estimates the snake had been living in the attic for years. According to van der Herchen, the snake's cozy resting spot was right above the chair his wife sat in. "It was actually bunking in the rafter space right above the Florida room chair where my wife sits," he said. The man believes the snake was once a pet, a common problem in Florida, and entered his home by a tree branch that was hanging close to his house. "He hopes this story serves as a reminder to homeowners to trim overgrown trees," WFLA wrote. Yeah, that's the problem here. Overgrown trees. WATCH: Rogue deer tackles innocent man in a parking lot
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| Venezuela army hunts rebels behind raid on military base Posted: 08 Aug 2017 02:09 AM PDT  Venezuela's top military brass appeared on state TV late Monday to show support for President Nicolas Maduro, as the government hunts for leaders of uniformed rebels who raided an army base and made off with weapons. Padrino gave an updated report on Sunday's attack on the base in the northwestern city of Valencia by 20 men in uniform, an incident that fueled fears the country's worsening crisis could tip into armed conflict. Padrino said that ex-National Guard captain, Juan Carlos Caguaripano, and a former lieutenant, Jefferson Gabriel Garcia, were behind the raid.
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| Kenya election chief rejects opposition's hacking claims as protests erupt Posted: 09 Aug 2017 01:31 PM PDT  By Humphrey Malalo and Rajiv Golla NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's election commission dismissed claims on Wednesday by opposition leader Raila Odinga that its systems and website had been hacked to produce a "fictitious" lead for Odinga's long-time rival President Uhuru Kenyatta. Angry protests erupted in opposition strongholds in the capital Nairobi and the western city of Kisumu as the counting of votes from Tuesday's election continued, but the election commission said the election had been free and fair. As of 1900 GMT, provisional results from the election commission website put Kenyatta in front with 54.3 percent of votes counted to 44.8 percent for Odinga - a margin of 1.4 million ballots with 97 percent of polling stations reported.
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| Delta Jet Blows Two Tires on Takeoff Posted: 09 Aug 2017 09:33 AM PDT  No one was hurt.
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| Store Owner and Son Take On Armed Robbers Who Attempted to Hold Up Shop Posted: 09 Aug 2017 02:42 PM PDT  The armed pair encountered a business owner and son who were ready to fight back.
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| The White House Still Won't Condemn the Minnesota Mosque Attack Posted: 08 Aug 2017 05:11 PM PDT  "Lets allow the local authorities to provide their assessment and then the White House will make its comments"
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| How Much Does Tesla's Model X SUV Cost Now? Posted: 08 Aug 2017 08:09 AM PDT  As Tesla looks to boost sales in the second half of the year, the Model X gets a price cut.
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| Google fires employee behind anti-diversity memo for 'perpetuating gender stereotypes' Posted: 08 Aug 2017 09:10 AM PDT  Google has fired a computer engineer who caused a storm in Silicon Valley by asserting that the gender gap among technology workers was down to biological differences between men and women. James Damore, a Harvard university graduate who had worked at Google for four years, ignited a sexism row last week when he distributed a 10-page manifesto that accused the company of "political bias" against conservatives and said initiatives to encourage female programmers were "unfair". On Tuesday Damore revealed he had been dismissed by Google for "perpetuating gender stereotypes" and said he was considering legal action against the company. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, offered him a job and accused Google of censorship. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai Credit: Reuters Damore's manifesto had accused the company of a "left bias" and a "politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence". It said the yawning gap in jobs and pay for male and female computer experts was partly due to biological causes such as "men's higher drive for status" and women being "more prone to anxiety" rather than any biases and called for an end to the company's initiatives to promote minorities. Google employees publicly criticised the memo but Damore said he had received many private messages of support from staff who felt the same way. Sundar Pichai, the company's chief executive, said that while parts of the memo were fair to debate, much of it violated the company's code of conduct. "To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK," he said in an email to staff. The controversy has come at a sensitive time for Google, which is under investigation by the US government after accusations of gender pay inequality, and has been forced to hand over pay records. Former Google staff member Joshua Damore (centre) with two colleagues Assange, who has repeatedly attacked Google over privacy issues, tweeted: "Women and men deserve respect. That includes not firing them for politely expressing ideas but rather arguing back." Damore said he was exploring all possible legal remedies against the company. Debate over the treatment of women in the male-dominated tech industry has raged for months. Claims of persistent sexual harassment in the ranks of Uber and of several venture capital firms led to management shakeups. Management at the largest tech firms, including Google, have publicly committed to diversifying their workforces, although the percentage of women in engineering and management roles remains low at many companies. Inside Google London offices
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| Water trapped inside Ohio fair ride may have led to accident Posted: 08 Aug 2017 11:01 AM PDT  A manufacturer's explanation that corrosion caused an amusement ride to fly apart in a deadly accident at the Ohio State Fair doesn't answer why or when it began rusting away or how it went unnoticed.
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| Vietnam wins U.S. defense pledges as tension with China grows Posted: 09 Aug 2017 01:08 PM PDT  Vietnam has won the promise of a visit from a U.S. aircraft carrier and deeper defense cooperation from the United States as strains show with China over the disputed South China Sea.
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| Former Pakistan PM Sharif says ouster was 'insult to voters' Posted: 09 Aug 2017 02:19 PM PDT  Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the Supreme Court's decision to depose him last month was a "joke" and an insult to voters as he addressed a rally in Rawalpindi late Wednesday. The speech marks the first time Sharif has publicly commented on the court's ruling and comes as the former prime minister leads a defiant procession from Islamabad to his party's stronghold in the eastern city of Lahore. "No prime minister in Pakistan has ever been allowed to complete his term.
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| Japanese fighters conducted air drills with U.S. B-1B bombers on Tuesday Posted: 08 Aug 2017 06:36 PM PDT  Japan said it had conducted joint air drills with U.S. supersonic bombers in Japanese skies close to the Korean peninsula on Tuesday as tension in the region escalates amid North Korea's continued ballistic missile tests. The exercise around Japan's southern Kyushu island involved two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers and two Japanese F-2 jet fighters, Japan's Air Self Defence Force (ASDF) said in a news release.
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| The Truth About In-Flight Turbulence Posted: 09 Aug 2017 05:31 AM PDT  A rundown of statistics, recent incidents, and what pilots and airlines do to avoid hitting potholes in the sky.
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| Chloe Ayling: Who is the British model who was drugged and kidnapped in Italy? Posted: 09 Aug 2017 07:52 AM PDT  Chloe Ayling, 20, is the glamour model who was drugged and abducted in Italy after reportedly being duped into attending a bogus photoshoot. Italian police say she was snatched last month by at least two men who claim to be part of dark web group Black Death, who say they sell women as sex slaves online. The kidnapping The place where a man identified as Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen with British residency, held a young British model Credit: ITALIAN POLICE PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT Miss Ayling was snatched last month by a group calling itself Black Death and is believed to have been drugged and transported in a bag to an isolated village near Turin, where she was held for six days as her captors tried to auction her online. She described how she was drugged, handcuffed, gagged and put in a bag in the boot of a car by kidnappers before being driven off to the farmhouse where she was held captive. "A person wearing black gloves came from behind and put one hand on my neck and one on my mouth to stop me from screaming," she said in her statement. "A second person wearing a black balaclava gave me an injection in my right forearm. I think I lost consciousness. When I woke up I was wearing a pink bodysuit and the socks I am wearing now. "I realised I was in the boot of a car with my wrists and ankles handcuffed, adhesive tape on my mouth. I was inside a bag and was only able to breathe through a small hole." What is the dark web? 01:33 As she screamed for help she was driven 120 miles to the tiny hamlet of Borgial near the French border where they forced her to lie on the floor next to a chest of drawers and handcuffed her hands and feet to the legs, leaving her " totally immobilised". She was kept handcuffed to furniture in the village of Borgial but was freed after six days and taken to the British Consulate in Milan, despite the ransom not being paid, police said. They had taken photographs of her whilst she was unconscious which were posted on the dark web with the view to auctioning her off. Why was she released? According to Ms Ayling, one of her kidnappers confessed to her that they had made a mistake seizing her because she was the mother of a young child. He said it was against the "rules" of his organisation and his superiors were angry. Afterwards they removed the cuffs from her feet and allowed her to move around the farmhouse, she said. The captors demanded £270,000 from her agent but eventually dropped agreed to accept £50,000 and Herba took her to the British Consulate in Milan on July 17 where he was arrested. Her captor Photo released by police of a man identified as identified as Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen with British residency Credit: Italian Police Photo via AP Lukasz Pawel Herba is accused of being part of a Black Death gang which drugged and kidnapped Chloe Ayling, who had been lured to Milan on the promise of a fashion shoot. Herba, 30, a Polish national who was living in Oldbury, in the West Midlands, told the 20-year-old glamour model as she was held prisoner in a remote farmhouse that unless her agent paid a ransom of $300,000, she would be sold as a sex slave in the Middle East. His home in Oldbury, in the West Midlands, has been raided by British officers. Under questioning by Italian police, he claimed he became part of the kidnapping gang because he was suffering from leukemia and desperately needed to raise half a million pounds for treatment. He could provide no medical proof of having the illness. He was arrested as he dropped the model off at the British Consulate in Milan on July 17. Who are the Black Death group? The Black Death group operates on the Dark Web and allegedly sells kidnapped women as sex slaves in online auctions. The group was investigated in 2016 amid fears that they were selling a 15-year-old British girl in an online auction. Europol had monitored the group's Dark Web site of as they advertised two teenagers for auction, one of whom was under the age of consent and described as "pure". A screenshot of a "Black Death Group" document on a laptop belonging to Lukasz Pawel Herba, Credit: REUTERS The auction of the 15-year-old, whose name was given as Laura, started at $750,000 and was due to take place at the end of May 2016, with the Black Death website warning that it was "fully booked". A second auction for a 17-year-old girl born in the UK named only as Gemma had been scheduled to take place just days earlier with a starting bid of $120,000. The age, hair colour and measurements of both teenagers were posted alongside their auction adverts. It is unknown whether these auctions went ahead. Questions over shoe shopping incident The Italian media has raised questions over the kidnapping after it was revealed the model went shoe shopping with her captor. Newspaper La Repubblica claimed Ms Ayling burst into tears when police investigators asked her about the trip. The newspaper reported: "That the kidnapping was real or that she was doped with ketamine is not put into question by the investigators. "But it is also tremendously true that many details do not add up. "Starting with a question that the police investigators suddenly asked Chloe, causing her to cry, 'But don't you think it is strange to go and buy shoes with your kidnapper? "Because that also happened and, of course, the shop assistant, identified by the cops, recognized her, and recognized the person she calls MD [Herba]." Her lawyer has called people who raised these questions "evil", defending his client's shoe shopping trip. He told Radio 4's Today programme: "She was told that she was going to be sold to somebody in the Middle East for sex. "She was told that people were there watching her and ready to kill her if she tried anything. "So she thought that the best idea was to go along with it and to be nice in a way to her captor because he told her that he wanted to release her somehow and sometime and she thought that the best thing to do was not to go in conflict with him. "So she abided to his request, 'let's go and buy groceries' and 'you need shoes, let's go buy shoes' and she didn't try to flee. "But I believe she was terrified at the moment and even if she could've asked for help she didn't because she was subjugated to this person, or people as she was given to understand." She told police she had developed a trusting relationship and even shared a bed with her kidnapper, who gave her chocolate and underwear, but she said he had not sexually assaulted her.
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| North Korea to U.S.: War Is No Game, We Can End You Posted: 09 Aug 2017 09:56 AM PDT  President Donald Trump vowed to answer North Korea's threats with "fire and fury," fueling speculation that the U.S. wants to overthrow Kim Jong Un.
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| Let’s All Tell Indian Motorcycle What to Do Posted: 09 Aug 2017 11:16 AM PDT  Let's All Tell Indian Motorcycle What to Do Iconic name has grown considerably under Polaris' guidance, but is it doing enough? Not too long ago we here at RideApart got it into our heads that it would be a clever idea to sit down and tell Harley-Davidson
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| Philippine president on human rights: "Don't go there" Posted: 07 Aug 2017 06:51 PM PDT  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte met Monday with America's top diplomat, where he voiced solidarity with the U.S. amid global concerns over North Korea's nuclear program and angrily dismissed media questions about human rights abuses by his government.
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| Iranian drone buzzes US naval jet in Gulf: US Posted: 08 Aug 2017 09:45 AM PDT  An Iranian drone flew within 100 feet (30 meters) of a US Naval jet Tuesday as the American plane was trying to land on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf, the Navy said. The encounter unfolded in international air space as the F/A-18E Super Hornet was preparing to land on the USS Nimitz, US Naval Forces Central Command spokesman Commander Bill Urban said. "The dangerous maneuver by the QOM-1 in the known vicinity of fixed-wing flight operations and at coincident altitude with operating aircraft created a collision hazard and is not in keeping with international maritime customs and laws," Urban said.
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| Sean Hannity breaks 12-hour promise to stop ‘petty political disagreements’ Posted: 09 Aug 2017 08:13 AM PDT  Fox News host Sean Hannity vowed not to engage in "petty political disagreements" for 12 hours, but that didn't last very long. Just hours later, he called Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell "weak" and "spineless" and urged him to retire.
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| 'Son of Sam' killer was arrested 40 years ago this week Posted: 09 Aug 2017 12:33 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — For a year, David Berkowitz terrorized New York.
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| Where is Guam, the paradise island threatened by North Korea, and why is it important? Posted: 09 Aug 2017 06:41 AM PDT  The apparently sudden threat by North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, of a missile strike on the Pacific holiday paradise island of Guam is not as obscure as it first sounds. The remote 210-square mile island in the western Pacific Ocean, known for its white beaches and crystal blue waters, is also a strategic US military outpost and host to nuclear bombers and at least 6,000 US service members. Japanese soldiers take part in joint military exercises between the US, Japan, France and UK on Naval Base Guam Credit: AP On Monday night, two US B-1 bombers flew from Guam over the Korean peninsula, joining the South Korean and Japanese airforces in joint exercises that were bound to have riled Pyongyang, which over the weekend accused America of devising a "preventive war." The exercises are one likely reason why North Korea, located roughly 2,100 miles away to the northwest, selected the island as a potential target shortly after President Donald Trump vowed "fire and fury like the world has never seen" in response to Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. An aerial view of U.S. Naval Base Guam Credit: Reuters The North's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported on Tuesday that the pariah nation's military may send a strong message that it can neutralise military assets on the US territory. Pacific Air Forces command, based in Hawaii, upped the rhetoric shortly afterwards, declaring "US ready to fight tonight" on its official Twitter account, linking to details of Monday's ten hour sortie. S. Dakota #Airmen arrive on Guam; conduct #bilateral missions w/Japan & ROK--U.S. ready to #fighttonighthttps://t.co/DhOTTdNT19pic.twitter.com/HSOkYKHPQ4— PACAF (@PACAF) August 8, 2017 "How we train is how we fight and the more we interface with our allies, the better prepared we are to fight tonight," said a B-1 pilot, quoted in an official press release. "The B-1 is a long-range bomber that is well-suited for the maritime domain and can meet the unique challenges of the Pacific." The tense stand-off puts Guam, and its population of just over 160,000, at the centre of one of the world's most volatile flashpoints. American military bases, including the sprawling Andersen Air Force Base and the Naval Base Guam, occupy nearly 30% of Guam's land. Governor of Guam reassures the island's residents after North Korea threat 00:48 The island, which was captured by the US from Spain in 1898 during the Spanish-American war, is America's most western territory but it is not a state. It has a seat in the US House of Representatives, currently occupied by Democrat Madeleine Bordallo, and it is run by an elected governor, Eddie Baza Calvo. Guam's citizens, 40% of whom are comprised of the Chamorro ethnic group, are American citizens by birth. Map: Guam in relation to North Korea Chamorros first settled the island about 4,000 years ago but over the past 400 years Guam has been ruled by Spain, the US and Japan. Located in the Micronesia region of the Pacific, it is positioned just over 3000 miles from both Sydney and Hawaii. The territory's tropical climate, with an average temperature of 28 degrees Celsius, makes it a popular location for tourists. At a glance | Guam North Korea and Donald Trump: Timeline of tensions North Korea & Donald Trump: Timeline of tensions 02:27
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| This Carl Sagan Prediction from 1995 Is Surprisingly Correct Posted: 09 Aug 2017 09:00 AM PDT  "When awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few..."
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| 2018 Range Rover Velar Posted: 08 Aug 2017 03:35 PM PDT  Land Rover's new Range Rover Velar is a suburban delight.
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| Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors write messages to future generations Posted: 09 Aug 2017 10:41 AM PDT  As escalating tensions between North Korea and the US under Donald Trump prompt fears of a nuclear war, survivors of the only two nuclear attacks to have taken place have issued a warning about the threat posed by atomic weapons. Survivors of the US attacks on Japanese cities of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 gave their recollection of the deadly bombings and their thoughts, 72 years after the events, on nuclear weapons and the consequences of using them. "Japan is the only nation that has experienced a nuclear attack.
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| Iran's Rouhani names female VPs as reformists slam all-male ministers Posted: 09 Aug 2017 04:37 AM PDT  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appointed two female vice presidents on Wednesday but continued to take flak from reformists for nominating no women ministers. The appointments came a day after the moderate president announced his all-male list of ministers to parliament, seen as a betrayal by reformists who backed his re-election campaign in May. "It is incredible and shocking that the president has ignored the demands of women in nominating his government," Parvaneh Salahshouri, head of a parliamentary women's group, told lawmakers.
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| Fact vies with fantasy in 'Black Death' model kidnap case Posted: 09 Aug 2017 11:21 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The man accused of kidnapping a British model in Italy painted a picture of big money, international intrigue and spine-chilling dealings as a member of Black Death, an organization selling drugs, guns and murder on the dark web.
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