| Charlottesville Violence Highlights Worsening Race Relations in U.S. Posted: 12 Aug 2017 09:08 AM PDT  Nearly three-quarters of American voters say that race relations in the United States are "bad", worse now than in the 1990s after the O.J. Simpson verdict and the L.A. riots.
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| Trump: If North Korea attacks US, it 'will regret it fast' Posted: 11 Aug 2017 10:00 PM PDT  BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday issued fresh threats of swift and forceful retaliation against nuclear North Korea, declaring the U.S. military "locked and loaded" and warning that the communist country's leader "will regret it fast" if he takes any action against U.S. territories or allies.
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| In Tucson, Competing Interests Fight for Solar Energy Profits Posted: 12 Aug 2017 09:15 AM PDT  A proposed rule change in the Arizona city would see new rooftop solar customers pay as much as $100 in additional fees per year, pitting solar users up against power companies.
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| Charlottesville Rally: Condolences Pour In After Death Of Virginia Paralegal Posted: 13 Aug 2017 12:57 AM PDT  Heather Heyer, a young paralegal from Greene County, Virginia, died when a car plowed into a crowd of counterprotestors of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville on Saturday.
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| Danish police to search submarine after inventor charged over missing journalist Posted: 12 Aug 2017 12:17 PM PDT  By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish police said on Saturday they were preparing to search a sunken submarine owned by Danish inventor Peter Madsen who has been charged with the inadvertent manslaughter of a journalist. The police said that Madsen, 46, was being held in custody for 24 days, accused of killing Swedish woman Kim Wall, 30, who they said had been on his submarine before it sank on Friday. Madsen was rescued on Friday morning in a navy operation and taken ashore after his homemade 17-metre submarine went down.
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| A Sonic Attack in Cuba? How an Acoustic Weapon Might Work Posted: 12 Aug 2017 05:58 AM PDT  A supersecret sonic weapon being used to attack diplomats in a foreign country may sound like the start of a sci-fi novel, but that's exactly what several U.S. diplomats in Cuba may have been exposed to, the U.S. State Department recently announced. The physical symptoms, which the State Department would not confirm, but which some news reports have suggested included hearing loss, got so bad that some of these officials had to be recalled from their duties in Havana. "Some U.S. government personnel who were working at our embassy in Havana, Cuba, on official duties — so they were there working on behalf of the U.S. embassy there — they've reported some incidents which have caused a variety of physical symptoms," Heather Nauert, a spokeswoman for the State Department, said in a news briefing Aug. 9.
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| Faith, history and community in Bosnia Posted: 13 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT ![Faith, history and community in Bosnia]( "Faith, history and community in Bosnia") Bosnia's religious leaders say politicians are standing in the way of peaceful coexistence between Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities trying to forgive and forget after the atrocities of a devastating 1990s war. Hundreds of churches, mosques and synagogues bear witness to more than five centuries of Bosnia's pluralistic past, and the capital Sarajevo is known locally as a "small Jerusalem" with its main ethnic groups — Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks — all worshipping within yards of each other.
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| Ivanka and Donald Trump Finally Condemn Nazis Posted: 13 Aug 2017 08:41 AM PDT  Neo-Nazi publication 'The Daily Stormer' praised Trump's comments as "good." "He didn't attack us. He just said the nation should come together. Nothing specific against us," the site wrote.
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| Shoplifter gets job after police officer buys him interview clothes Posted: 13 Aug 2017 05:31 AM PDT  A policeman who bought a would-be shoplifter clothes for an interview has revealed he got the job. Constable Niran Jeyanesan arrived to arrest a potential thief at a Walmart in Toronto, but decided to buy the 18-year-old the clothes after hearing what he wanted them for. Mr Jeyanesan was intrigued because the man was attempting to steal a shirt, socks and tie.
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| Islamic State claims attack on U.S. forces west of Mosul Posted: 13 Aug 2017 08:20 AM PDT ![Islamic State claims attack on U.S. forces west of Mosul]( "Islamic State claims attack on U.S. forces west of Mosul") Islamic State on Sunday claimed an attack on U.S. forces assisting Iraqi troops in the war on the jihadist militants in northern Iraq. Islamic State fighters fired Grad rockets on American troops east of Tal Afar, a town still under control of the militants west of Mosul, according to an online statement from the group. The American military had said earlier that two U.S. service members had been killed and five injured during combat operations in northern Iraq on Sunday.
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| Top South Korean official: U.S. government moved from 'strategic patience' to 'strategic confusion' Posted: 13 Aug 2017 09:42 AM PDT  ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports on the North Korean nuclear threat from Seoul, South Korea.
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| Nepal revives railways as China, India vye for influence Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:05 PM PDT  Three years after its last train hit the buffers, landlocked Nepal is building a new railway network to boost its ailing economy -- helped by the rivalry between its powerful neighbours, China and India. The railway to India was a lifeline for the small southern frontier town of Janakpur, used to import everything from sweets to clothes and cosmetics and fuelling a vibrant border economy. Now it is being rebuilt with Indian backing, one of three new rail lines -- one funded by China in the north and a third by Nepal itself -- that the country hopes will help boost international trade.
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| Another F-18 Aircraft Crashes, This Time In Bahrain Posted: 12 Aug 2017 06:38 AM PDT  A U.S. fighter craft, F-18, crashed on the runway of Bahrain international airport Saturday causing the airport to shut down. Several similar incidents have been reported in the past that involved the aircraft.
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| Amazon wants to send you pre-cooked meals thanks to military technology Posted: 12 Aug 2017 10:19 AM PDT 
Amazon is already web's largest retailer, and having mastered the digital sale and delivery of everything from audio books to baby wipes, it was only a matter of time before the company tackled ready-to-eat meals, too. As reported by Reuters, the ecommerce giant is hard at work on a system that would allow it to provide fully pre-cooked meals to customers without the need for expensive and complicated refrigeration requirements. The report is sourced from a startup that is pitching the technology, and alleges that Amazon is already working out the logistics of how it would market and distribute pre-cooked meals to customers using its existing warehouse structure. The plans could get off the ground as soon as 2018. If the company does indeed plan on adopting this approach, Amazon's ready-to-eat meals would be made possible by preservation technology originally pioneered by the military to provide food for troops. Called microwave-assisted thermal sterilization, the system uses microwaves to eliminate bacteria while also sealing the meal to prevent any contamination. Thanks to this combination of cleanliness and preservation, the meals can remain viable for up to 12 months before spoiling. Such a product offering would put Amazon in a heated battle with other meal delivery services like Blue Apron and Plated. Those services provide mail-order meal packages that include all the ingredients needed to prepare a meal, but still require the customer to actually do the preparation and cooking. Cutting out those steps with completely pre-cooked meals which require just reheating would seemingly fit perfectly with Amazon's convenience-above-all-else approach, but it remains to be seen whether customers would be comfortable with such non-refrigerated meal packages.
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| Lion rescued from Syria zoo gives birth in Jordan reserve Posted: 13 Aug 2017 12:10 PM PDT  SOUF, Jordan (AP) — The odds had been stacked against Hajar, a lion cub born just hours after her mother Dana, rescued from a defunct zoo in war-torn Syria, was released into a wildlife reserve in Jordan.
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| Mother of Suspect Who Allegedly Plowed Into Charlottesville Protesters Speaks Out Posted: 13 Aug 2017 07:23 AM PDT  She tried to stay out of his political views
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| 'Most Wanted' MS-13 Gang Member Caught in Virginia Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:35 PM PDT  FBI had been on a four-year manhunt in search of Gomez before he was captured in Woodbridge, Virginia.
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| CIA chief: Not surprising if North Korea tests missile again Posted: 13 Aug 2017 08:12 AM PDT  By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. intelligence official said on Sunday he would not be surprised if North Korea tested another missile, given that it had two tests in July, amid rising tensions between the two nations. U.S. President Donald Trump has offered fiery warnings for North Korea, saying that the U.S. military was "locked and loaded." North Korean officials in turn have accused the U.S. leader of driving the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war. "I am quite confident that (North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) will continue to try to develop his missile program, so it wouldn't surprise me if there was another missile test," U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo said on "Fox News Sunday." North Korea said on Thursday that plans would be completed by mid-August to fire four intermediate-range missiles to land near the U.S. Pacific island of Guam, 3,500 km (2,175 miles) away.
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| 64 deaths at India hospital without oxygen Posted: 12 Aug 2017 06:37 AM PDT  At least 64 children have died over six days at a government hospital in northern India that suffered oxygen shortages, officials said Saturday. Authorities have launched an inquiry into the causes of the oxygen disruption but denied reports that it had caused the deaths at the Baba Raghav Das Hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh state. Indian media said 30 children died on Thursday and Friday because of the lack of oxygen on wards.
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| Lebanon's Hezbollah says U.S. can't hurt it, dismisses sanctions Posted: 13 Aug 2017 11:01 AM PDT  The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah on Sunday dismissed the prospect of tougher U.S. sanctions against his group, which is backed by Iran, and said the U.S. administration had no way to harm it. "The American administration, with all available and possible means, will not be able to damage the strength of the resistance," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address to mark the anniversary of the end of Hezbollah's 2006 war with Israel. Nasrallah said Lebanon was being subjected to intimidation and threats over Hezbollah - which is part of the Beirut government but classified as a terrorist group by Washington - and alleged that Lebanese officials had been told that Israel could launch a war.
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| Kidnapped glamour model Chloe Ayling hits out at the 'lies' about her ordeal in one of her first interviews Posted: 13 Aug 2017 02:47 AM PDT  A British model has hit out at claims she fabricated her kidnap ordeal describing indepth how she was paralysed with fear after being drugged, handcuffed and gagged in a bid to sell her as a sex slave. Chloe Ayling, 20, has spoken of her week-long ordeal which saw her drugged with ketamine, taken by balaclava clad men and chained to a chest of drawers in a remote Italian farmhouse after being lured to Milan with the promise of a spoof modelling contract. Critics have questioned her account after she was seen buying shoes with her captor and laughing and joking with him in coffee shops and admitted to sharing a bed with him during her ordeal. But in an interview on Sunday, the model claims she was "desperate" to try and "build a bond" with her alleged captor Lukasz Herba in the hope he would set her free. "I understand why people have questions. People need to understand that everything I did was so I could survive," the model told the Mail On Sunday. "I was in a crazy situation and I was terrified." Miss Ayling was put in a bag in the boot of a car by kidnappers who then tried to to sell her as a sex slave in an online auction. She says it was the "worst day of her life" when her captors told her they were part of an online organisation called 'Black Death' and threatened to sell her on the 'deep web' if her agent failed to pay a ransom of $300,000 (£270,000). "I was in shock. That will always be the worst day of my life," she said. 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 "Then he said he wanted to help me because I had been taken by mistake. He asked me what my family had to offer. It was just me and Mum at home, there was no way we could afford a ransom. I gave him the names of three people who might help.' I spent the first night seminaked and handcuffed to the chest of drawers." She was told that she would probably by trafficked to the Middle East where, once the man who bought her bored of her, she would be passed on to someone else or fed to the tigers. Lukasz Pawel Herba, 30, a Polish national who lives in the UK, has been arrested by police and confessed to the kidnapping which investigators described as an elaborate plot that involved months of planning. His home in Oldbury, in the West Midlands, has been raided by British officers. It was reported last night that Milan magistrate Dr Giovanna Campanile had ruled Mr Herba was "highly dangerous to society" and should remain in custody ahead of his trial later this year. What is the dark web? 01:33 "There is grave evidence of the guilt of the arrested person, who has admitted to the Public Prosecutor that he was involved in the kidnap," he said. It is claimed Mr Herba has also implicated nine men in the plot, three from Birmingham, but has made no mention of Miss Ayling. Miss Ayling told Italian police that her agent had booked her a photo shoot in Milan on July 11 but when she turned up at the abandoned building she was attacked. "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. 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 "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." She claims she was initially forced to lie on the floor next to a chest of drawers and was handcuffed but later was allowed to move freely and sleep in the same bed as her alleged captor. She added: "People might think I'm gullible. It's easy to say that if you've not been through what I've been through. "I didn't want to upset him – he had told me he was a killer. Anyone in my position would have done the same. "I couldn't run. I was paralysed with fear. I thought they would track me down." They had taken compromising photographs of her whilst she was unconscious which were posted on the dark web with the view to auctioning her off. A screenshot of a "Black Death Group" document on a laptop belonging to Lukasz Pawel Herba, Credit: REUTERS However, one of them 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. They later released her and drove her to the British Consulate in Milan on July 17. The day before the pair had been seen in a shop together buying shoes, and Miss Ayling told police that she "made him believe we could be more intimate when the incident ended" so that she could escape. Since her release Miss Ayling has been helping Italian police. She told police she had met Mr Herba a few months earlier on a shoot that was aborted in Paris.
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| Court temporarily halts recall effort of California judge Posted: 11 Aug 2017 07:23 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A court on Friday temporarily halted the campaign seeking to oust a Northern California judge targeted for recall for sentencing a college athlete convicted of sexual assault to jail instead of prison.
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| Charlottesville Victim Identified as 32-Year-Old Woman Who Stood Up Against 'Hate & Bigotry' Posted: 13 Aug 2017 09:46 AM PDT  She stood up against "hate & bigotry"
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| Two girls aged 12 and 13 killed after 14-year-old crashes car during police pursuit Posted: 12 Aug 2017 10:28 AM PDT  According to the accident report, the boy was trying to outrun police when the car flipped over, ejecting three of the five passengers who were not wearing seatbelts. Katana Richley, 13, has been named as one of the victims. "[Katana and her friend] were supposed to be spending the night at my house.
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| Beijing Stays Neutral As US-North Korea Tensions Escalate Posted: 12 Aug 2017 02:03 AM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed North Korea crisis with President Donald Trump on phone and urged for restraint, Chinese state media reported.
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| The FCC is actively working against consumers Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:42 AM PDT 
The Federal Communications Commission is arguably the federal government's least-loved and geekiest body. 30 seconds of talk about rural broadband deployments and spectrum allocation is enough to send most people running from the room. But don't be fooled: the FCC wields a huge amount of power over one of the nation's most critical pieces of infrastructure, and right now, it's a mess.
The hot-topic issue in the FCC is net neutrality. We're not going to try and rehash the argument right now, but in a nutshell, Trump-appointed commissioner Ajit Pai is moving to roll back rules that allow the FCC to enforce net neutrality rules on internet service providers. Net neutrality is bad for the bottom line of internet providers, since it prevents them from using the regional monopoly power that they have to rip off customers. Pai has given lip service to being in favor of net neutrality -- he wants a gentleman's agreement with the ISPs to uphold the "spirit" of net neutrality -- but he's working to dismantle the framework that allows the FCC to make and enforce rules to protect net neutrality. Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, claims (falsely) that net neutrality hurts investment by ISPs, and that the magic free hand of capitalism will protect consumers anyway (it won't). But the FCC's anti-consumer agenda doesn't end at net neutrality. In recent days, the commission has considered redefining "high-speed" broadband at a lower speed -- 10Mbps, to be specific, down from the 25Mbps it's currently at. Doing so would overnight make the US's internet market look a lot better. Right now, 80% of Americans have only one option for high-speed broadband at home, assuming they have any choice at all. That's because for most people, the only high-speed option is the cable network, and as you well know, most people don't have a choice of cable provider. But alongside the cable line running into your house, there's also normally a copper telephone line. It's possible to get ADSL internet speeds of up to 10Mbps over a phone line, which means that if you redefine "high-speed" as 10Mbps, many more Americans will overnight get a second option for high-speed internet. Expect President Trump to crow about how more Americans than ever before have access to high-speed internet in the coming days. Then, there's the FCC's new advisory panel. As The Daily Beast notes, Pai has filled the 30-person Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC) with 28 reps from telecoms companies, and just two from local cities. The committee was supposed to work out how cities and companies can work together best to deploy high-speed wireless internet; instead, it will likely be a list of telecoms industry wishes that the FCC will use its power to push through local government. This isn't how it's supposed to work. Without wanting to wave the hammer and sickle while singing Les Mis, internet service providers are using valuable public resources -- our roads, airwaves, and federal subsidies -- to provide a valuable service. The FCC is supposed to regulate those services and ensure that our scarce resources are being used optimally, not work out how to best maximise profits for a handful of gargantuan corporations. You can guess which the current FCC is doing.
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| Nigeria's Buhari "feels ready to go home", awaiting doctor's OK Posted: 13 Aug 2017 12:18 AM PDT  Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has said he feels ready to return home from medical leave in Britain, and is awaiting his doctor's permission, a presidency statement said on Saturday. Buhari's extended absence for an undisclosed ailment, his second this year, left many in Nigeria questioning whether he was well enough to run the country. The president has spent more time since the beginning of 2017 in Britain than in Nigeria.
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| Bagel family's son arrested on suspicion of murdering his mother and sister in north London home Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:52 AM PDT  The son from a world renown London family-run bagel firm has been arrested over the double murders of his mother and sister at their £1.5m home. Joshua Cohen, 27, was found in a north London park after officers launched a manhunt following the discovery of the bodies of his mother, named locally as Leah, 66, and sister Hannah, 33, at the family's home in Golders Green. The pair had been stabbed to death in what police have described as "a devastating attack". Detectives were called at 8.50pm on Friday night to reports two women had been seriously injured and pronounced them dead at the scene. Hannah Cohen, 33, was found stabbed to death with her mother in Golders Green, north London. The family run the world renown Beigel Bake in Brick Lane, London, which was set up by Mr Cohen's late father Asher with his brother and another partner in 1974 and was first Britain's first bagel bakery. Mr Cohen had worked in the family business, which is now predominantly run by his brothers. A family friend told the Telegraph: "I find it it quite shocking what's happened. Josh used to come and go but it was mostly his brothers Nathan and Daniel who worked there." On his Facebook page Mr Cohen lists his last employment had been at a Costa Coffee store. Detectives said Mr Cohen has mental health issues and suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. His sister Hannah, who had studied psychology at City University London, was a former pupil at the prestigious Carmel College, Wallingford. The family run the Beigel Bake business in Brick Lane. Credit: Jenny Matthews / Alamy Stock Photo Her former schoolfriend told the Telegraph it was a "tragedy". A neighbour said it was "sickening". "It's absolutely sickening, the police presence afterwards was crazy so I knew something really serious had happened," Following a police appear, a member of the public reported seeing Mr Cohen in Golders Hill Park, north west London, yesterday afternoon. Detectives arrested him shortly afterwards and he is presently at a north London police station undergoing questioning. Detective Inspector Ian Lott from the Homicide and Major Crime Command said: "Following a recent media appeal a discerning member of the public alerted police to a real time sighting and officers moved quickly to detain and arrest the man wanted for questioning shortly before 2pm. "This was a devastating attack on two women in their homes. Our investigation is ongoing." Police at the scene of the double murder of Hannah Cohen and her mother Leah in Golders Green. Credit: Paul Grover A 44-year-old neighbour added: "I'm really shocked and upset by what has happened. I know Josh from being about. Sometimes we'd be outside and smoke a cigarette together. "I know of his mum and sister, the family were very private. "I knew them to say hello to but not well. "His mum was disabled, mentally and psychically and she had a lot of help at the house. "I've spoken to Josh and sat on the wall and had a cigarette with him - it was that type of relationship. "I last saw Josh on Friday night when I was coming back from Sainsbury's. He crossing the road. "He was wearing a big red hooded fleece with a logo on it and grey tracksuit bottoms and was heading towards the tube station." Forensics the house in Golders Green Crescent at the scene of a double murder. Credit: Paul Grover Formal identification and post mortem examinations have yet to take place but police are confident they know the identify of the victims. Their next-of-kin have been informed. Staff at Beigel Bake were too upset to talk last night. Mr Cohen senior, who died in December aged 81, arrived in the UK from Israel in the 1960s and worked at his brother's bakery next door initially before branching out and opening his bagel business. Beigel Bake, famed for its salted beef bagel, started out as a wholesale business and almost everything was made by hand in traditional Jewish style. It remains a 24 hour bakery and produces 7,000 bagels everyday.
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| US military says 2 American soldiers killed in Iraq Posted: 13 Aug 2017 08:35 AM PDT ![US military says 2 American soldiers killed in Iraq]( "US military says 2 American soldiers killed in Iraq") BAGHDAD (AP) — Two American soldiers have been killed while conducting combat operations in Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday, adding that "initial reports indicate the incident was not due to enemy contact."
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| Victim in Virginia melee wept for social justice, her boss says Posted: 13 Aug 2017 02:38 PM PDT  Victim in Virginia melee wept for social justice, her boss says
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| Charlottesville Has a Long History With the KKK Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:45 AM PDT  Charlottesville was the last town in the United States to desegregate schools.
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| Inside the Penn State fraternity battle sparked by one student's tragic death Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:32 AM PDT  This spring, the 140-year tradition of Greek life at Penn State University nearly came to a dramatic end. The university's constellation of fraternities and sororities – exclusive, Greek-letter social clubs that encompass nearly 20 per cent of the student population – seemed on the verge of collapse. In a single weekend in April, nine of the university's fraternities and sororities had violated the university's restrictions on drinking and social events.
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| As Trump vacations in NJ, West Wing turned upside down Posted: 11 Aug 2017 06:39 PM PDT  The West Wing is where it all happens at the White House -- historic decisions, power struggles, meetings with foreign leaders. The West Wing, which was made even more famous by the award-winning television series of the same name, is home to the Oval Office and the Situation Room, where the president and his top aides meet in a crisis. It also houses the offices of the president's closest advisors, the White House press corps and the briefing room.
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| Kristoff St. John Still Angry Over Son’s Death Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:42 AM PDT  Kristoff St. John and his ex-wife, Mia, are still grieving their son's death.
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| Ex-officer charged in murder case cites tribal membership Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:32 PM PDT ![Ex-officer charged in murder case cites tribal membership]( "Ex-officer charged in murder case cites tribal membership") TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former police officer facing a fourth trial for the death of his daughter's black boyfriend can't be tried in Oklahoma because the shooting happened on American Indian territory, his attorneys argued in a new court filing.
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| U.S. North Korea Policy Must Rely on More Than Threats Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:56 AM PDT  With U.S. capacity to negate North Korea's military threat limited, cooperation is necessary.
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| How to Grill Lettuce Posted: 13 Aug 2017 07:00 AM PDT  This article, How to Grill Lettuce, originally appeared on Chowhound. When I think about lettuce, I usually think of salad. And when I think of salad, I don't usually think about throwing one of those bad boys on the grill. But it turns out that grilling lettuce is more than just possible—it's delicious. The smoky aroma and lightly charred taste takes eating lettuce from chore to summertime treat.
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