| Star U.S. Diplomat Quits With Fiery Letter To Rex Tillerson Posted: 10 Dec 2017 07:26 AM PST  A distinguished U.S. diplomat who was seen as a rising star at the State Department resigned after writing a searing letter to Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson, accusing him of gutting the department and damaging America's standing across the world.
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| Full Sanders: Republican Tax Plan 'Is Not Designed to Help The American People' Posted: 09 Dec 2017 10:25 PM PST  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joins Meet the Press for an exclusive interview to talk about how Congress is handling misconduct allegations, and whether the president should be impeached.
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| Serial Killer Taunts Police In New Letter, Claims There Are More Victims Posted: 11 Dec 2017 01:04 AM PST  A convicted serial killer sent a letter to a South Carolina newspaper claiming police hadn't found all of his victims ― and he's not planning to help them.
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| Famous China rooftopper 'confirmed dead' after fall from skyscraper Posted: 11 Dec 2017 04:27 AM PST  A famous Chinese 'rooftopper' fell to his death from a skyscraper in a daring £11,000 challenge as he sought to use his fame to help lift his family out of poverty, media reported. Wu Yongning, aged 26, fell from the summit of the 62-storey Huayuan Hua Centre in the central city of Changsha, apparently as he attempted to scoop 100,000 yuan (£11,200) for a clip promoting an unnamed sponsor, reports say. The former movie stuntman had one million followers on the Chinese Internet and was well known for fearlessly scaling towering skyscrapers without any safety equipment. More than 300 videos of him tip-toeing on scaffolding or doing pull-ups as he hung from the side of huge buildings were widely shared by his fans. However, his account on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, went silent around a month ago after he purportedly attempted the Changsha skyscraper. The former movie stuntman had one million followers on the Chinese Internet and was well known for fearlessly scaling towering skyscrapers without any safety equipment And last Friday his girlfriend wrote online: "Today is December 8th. It makes me think of November 8th, the day you left us and left this world." The Changsha Evening News said Mr Wu was seeking to make money for his poverty-striken family and pay medical costs for his mother, who suffers from a mental condition. Local officials said authorities would support his family following the accident. Police confirmed that Mr Wu died when he fell from the Huayuan Hua Centre on November 8, reports said. His family were quoted in a news portal run by Beijing News that he was due to receive a huge cash payout for a two minute clip on a Changsha skyscraper on the same date. Additional reporting by Christine Wei
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| Moore win would 'harken us back to days of segregation': Alabama congresswoman Posted: 10 Dec 2017 02:04 AM PST  Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., joins "This Week" just days ahead of the special election for Attorney General Jeff Sessions' vacant Senate seat.
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| Judge Warns Paul Manafort About Ghostwriting Op-Eds And Talking To The Media Posted: 11 Dec 2017 11:22 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― A federal judge warned former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort about communicating with the media, less than two weeks after special counsel Robert Mueller's team said he "ghostwrote" an editorial for an English-language Ukraine newspaper about his overseas work.
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| Depression may start much earlier than previously thought Posted: 10 Dec 2017 08:08 AM PST  Research suggests 1 to 2 percent of children 2 to 5 years old have depression, and that untreated depression in toddlers can lead to more depression later in life.
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| On Mideast trip, Putin orders partial withdrawal from Syria Posted: 11 Dec 2017 12:25 PM PST  Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with his Turkish counterpart in Ankara on Monday for the last leg of a day-long diplomatic dash, during which he ordered the partial withdrawal of Russia's troops from the war-torn country. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Putin at his presidential complex in Ankara for a closed-door meeting. This is the eighth face-to-face meeting between Putin and Erdogan this year, a sign of the intensity of a relationship that had hit rock bottom in November 2015 when Turkey shot down a Russian war plane over Syria.
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| Kelsey Grammer says he forgives sister’s rapist and killer but he does not deserve freedom Posted: 10 Dec 2017 07:00 AM PST  Kelsey Grammer has spoken about his grief following his sister's murder in 1975. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, the Frasier actor said he has forgiven the man who sexually assaulted and killed his sister. Karen Grammer was abducted, raped and murdered at the age of 18 by Freddie Glenn and accomplice Michael Corbett on 1 July 1975.
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| Trump slammed for throwing insults at the media in the wake of attempted terror attack in NYC Posted: 11 Dec 2017 09:47 AM PST  President Donald Trump is receiving backlash for attacking the "failing" New York Times shortly after being briefed on an attempted terror attack in New York City Monday. ".@POTUS has been briefed on the explosion in New York City," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on Twitter at 8:13 a.m.
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| California's Thomas Fire Now Ranks Among Largest In State History Posted: 10 Dec 2017 12:33 PM PST  The Thomas Fire, one of five destructive blazes currently burning in California, now ranks as the tenth largest wildfire on record in the state.
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| Inside The Voucher Schools That Teach L. Ron Hubbard, But Say They’re Not Scientologist Posted: 11 Dec 2017 03:02 AM PST  CLEARWATER, Fla. ― It was a weekday afternoon here in early December, and a gaggle of kids outside of Clearwater Academy International were playing with a ball, their laughter and shouts filling the air.
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| This Judge Isn't Buying The Trump Admin's Excuses For Holding A U.S. Citizen 'Incommunicado' Posted: 11 Dec 2017 10:32 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― A federal judge on Monday aggressively questioned a Justice Department attorney about the Trump administration's contention that it can continue holding an unnamed U.S. citizen ― who has asked for an attorney ― out of the reach of lawyers who wish to represent him.
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| Battle for Moscow: How Russia Stopped Nazi Germany's Military Posted: 11 Dec 2017 11:33 AM PST  Would the capture of Moscow have altered the outcome of World War II? Moscow was more than the administrative capital of the Soviet Union: it was also a vital rail hub and production center. There was also the symbolic value: totalitarian dictators, like Hitler and Stalin, crafted images of themselves as all-knowing leaders of their nations.
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| Japan, U.S., South Korea to hold missile tracking drill amid North Korea crisis Posted: 10 Dec 2017 01:07 AM PST  The United States, Japan and South Korea will hold two days of missile tracking drills starting on Monday, Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force said, as tensions rise in the region over North Korea's fast-developing weapons programmes. The United States and South Korea conducted large-scale military drills last week, which the North said made the outbreak of war "an established fact".
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| Two killed as plane crashes into house in San Diego Posted: 10 Dec 2017 05:15 PM PST  Local media report the plane crashed into the home in the Clairemont neighbourhood at around 4.40pm local time on Saturday. The single-engine, six-seat Beech BE36 Bonanza had taken off from Montgomery Field airport around half a mile from the crash site. The pilot and a passenger were taken to hospital with burns and two passengers died at the scene, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
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| Fox News Anchor Fumbles With Facts During Segment On 'Fake News' Posted: 10 Dec 2017 04:13 PM PST  During a Sunday segment sounding the alarm about the rise of "fake news" in the mainstream media, Fox News anchor Leland Vittert twice claimed that The Washington Post had fired a reporter over a misleading tweet that sparked the ire of President Donald Trump.
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| Israel, Turkey leaders trade insults over US Jerusalem decision Posted: 10 Dec 2017 01:19 PM PST  Relations between Israel and Turkey took a bitter turn Sunday as their leaders traded accusations of involvement in terrorism, days after the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would fight against the controversial declaration, describing Israel as a "terrorist state" that kills children, in a speech in Istanbul. Hours later Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back, calling his counterpart a leader who bombs Kurdish villagers and supports terrorists, during an official visit to Paris.
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| Dying polar bear roams iceless land for food in 'soul-crushing' video Posted: 11 Dec 2017 10:47 AM PST  Heartbreaking footage of a starving polar bear desperately searching for food on iceless land highlights the "real face of climate change", conservationists say. Photojournalist Paul Nicklen said his team were moved to tears as they captured the struggling animal's battle to stay alive on Canada's Baffin Island last summer. The "soul-crushing" scene, captured by marine conservationists SeaLegacy, shows the emaciated bear searching an abandoned Inuit camp for sustenance. "My entire SeaLegacy team was pushing through their tears and emotions while documenting this dying polar bear," explained Mr Nicklen. "It's a soul-crushing scene that still haunts me, but I know we need to share both the beautiful and the heartbreaking if we are going to break down the walls of apathy. This is what starvation looks like. The muscles atrophy. No energy. It's a slow, painful death. Polar bears are listed as vulnerable due to a "loss of sea ice habitat from climate change" Credit: AP "When scientists say polar bears will be extinct in the next 100 years, I think of the global population of 25,000 bears dying in this manner. There is no band aid solution. There was no saving this individual bear. People think that we can put platforms in the ocean or we can feed the odd starving bear. "The simple truth is this - if the Earth continues to warm, we will lose bears and entire polar ecosystems. This large male bear was not old, and he certainly died within hours or days of this moment. But there are solutions. We must reduce our carbon footprint, eat the right food, stop cutting down our forests, and begin putting the Earth-our home-first." His colleague Cristina Mittermeier said it was "one of the hardest shoots we have ever had to do". "Through tears, we were able to capture this footage with the hope of awakening people to the realities of a climate change future," she said. Polar bears are the poster child for climate change Credit: AP SeaLegacy said though it couldn't say with 100 per cent certainty what had caused the bear to starve to death, the group added: "We do know that he didn't have any visible wounds and that he was not an old bear. "Many of you have asked whether we could have saved this individual bear, but the hard truth is that he was on his last legs and his muscles had atrophied beyond repair. It would also have been illegal to feed him, to approach him, or to do anything to ease his pain." The group warned an increasing number of polar bears are likely to die in this way "as a result of our warming climate". "As global temperatures rise, the amount of multi-year sea ice in the Arctic shrinks. Polar bears depend on that ice to travel large distances and to hunt for their food. Without sea ice this will become a common scene across the Arctic," they said. The World Wildlife Fund says polar bears are vulnerable due to a "loss of sea ice habitat from climate change". A study published last year by University of Washington researchers found that polar bears across the Arctic are facing a shorter sea ice season, a surface they depend on for hunting, travelling and breeding.
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| AP: Rohingya methodically raped by Myanmar's armed forces Posted: 11 Dec 2017 02:24 PM PST  UKHIA, Bangladesh (AP) — The soldiers arrived, as they often did, long after sunset.
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| 17 Twists On Shepherd's Pie Your Winter Dinner Rotation Is Missing Posted: 11 Dec 2017 10:22 AM PST |
| Oxford Researchers Make Startling Discovery About Ancient St. Nicholas Relic Posted: 11 Dec 2017 11:35 AM PST  A post shared by Dr Georges Kazan (@drgeorgeskazan) on Dec 5, 2017 at 4:56pm PST Researchers at Oxford University have used modern scientific technology to test a religious relic believed to belong to St. Nicholas, the fourth-century Christian bishop whose generosity inspired the legend of Santa Claus.
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| Russia’s Su-57 Stealth Fighter Is Destined to Fail Posted: 11 Dec 2017 04:29 AM PST  All of the reasons the Su-57 is going nowhere fast. Westerns analysts have concluded that Russia's fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter is unlikely to enter operational service before 2027. The Su-57 program was never really viable.
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| Barack Obama Records Robocall For Doug Jones In Alabama Senate Race Posted: 11 Dec 2017 08:31 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― Former President Barack Obama has jumped into the highly anticipated Alabama Senate race, recording a robocall to rally support and voter turnout for Democratic candidate Doug Jones, on the eve of Tuesday's special election.
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| Senator Collins says undecided on final tax bill vote Posted: 10 Dec 2017 12:15 PM PST ![Senator Collins says undecided on final tax bill vote]( "Senator Collins says undecided on final tax bill vote") By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins, whose support was crucial in passing the Senate tax reform bill earlier this month, said on Sunday she has not yet decided whether she will back the final measure negotiated by House and Senate leaders. The moderate Republican from Maine has laid out conditions for her support of a final "conference committee" version of the tax proposal. Republican Senate leaders worked hard to get Collins' support for the legislation, the largest change to U.S. tax laws since the 1980s that would slash the corporate tax rate.
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| How Long Can You Keep Meat In The Freezer? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 10:22 AM PST  Before the invention of the freezer, snow and cold weather were the only ways to keep food cold.
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| New protests flare over Trump's Jerusalem declaration Posted: 10 Dec 2017 01:03 PM PST  New protests flared in the Middle East and elsewhere Sunday over US President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a move that has drawn global condemnation and sparked days of unrest in the Palestinian territories. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Palestinians needed to come to terms with Jerusalem's long Jewish history. "It's always been our capital," he said at a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
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| Akayed Ullah: First photo released of New York bombing suspect Posted: 11 Dec 2017 09:51 AM PST  Authorities have released the first image of the suspect in the explosion at New York City's Port Authority terminal. Police named 27-year-old Akayed Ullah of Brooklyn, New York as the suspect. Mr Ullah sustained severe burns to his abdomen and hands.
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| Los Angeles subway work uncovers array of Ice Age fossils Posted: 11 Dec 2017 12:15 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — As part of the crew digging a subway extension under the streets of Los Angeles, Ashley Leger always keeps her safety gear close by.
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| 7 of the Best Bank Stocks to Buy for 2018 Posted: 11 Dec 2017 12:23 PM PST ![7 of the Best Bank Stocks to Buy for 2018]( "7 of the Best Bank Stocks to Buy for 2018") The first year of the Trump administration was great for the financial sector, which, with a few weeks left in the year, had risen 19 percent in 2017 alone. CUBI is a small-cap regional bank that looks like one of the most undervalued names in the entire market. CUBI suffered in 2017 after writing off a bad investment that damaged earnings per share, but with that impairment almost totally behind it, EPS is expected to rise 27 percent in 2018 -- and it wouldn't be shocking for CUBI to rise that amount, either.
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| What Is Eggnog Made Out Of, Anyway? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 06:52 AM PST  What other time of year do we drink something that's basically custard spiked with booze?
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| U.S. high court turns away dispute over gay worker protections Posted: 11 Dec 2017 03:02 PM PST  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by a Georgia security guard who said she was harassed and forced from her job because she is a lesbian, avoiding an opportunity to decide whether a federal law that bans gender-based bias also outlaws discrimination based on sexual orientation.
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| Watch a Barn-Find Tucker Lay Numbers on a Dyno Posted: 11 Dec 2017 09:09 AM PST  Tucker number 44, in the midst of a major restoration, hits the dyno to prove exactly how much power that helicopter-sourced flat six makes.
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| White House Calls CNN 'Fake News' After Outlet Mixed Up 2 Indian-Americans Posted: 11 Dec 2017 12:58 PM PST  The White House laid into CNN after the news outlet mixed up the photos of two men named Shah on Friday.
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| Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Girlfriend Lauren Hashian Are Expecting a Baby Girl! Posted: 11 Dec 2017 04:15 PM PST  Dwayne Johnson is going to be a dad again — and it's another girl
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| Subway bomber wounds self, three victims in New York Posted: 11 Dec 2017 03:55 PM PST  By Nick Zieminski and Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Bangladeshi man set off a homemade pipe bomb strapped to his body in a crowded New York City commuter hub during the morning rush hour on Monday, officials said, immediately calling it an attempted terrorist attack. The suspect, Akayed Ullah, 27, was taken to a hospital after suffering burns from the explosive device, which was attached to his body with Velcro and zip ties and did not fully ignite, officials said. Investigators told Reuters they believe the attack in midtown Manhattan was intended to be a suicide bombing.
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| 5 Retirement Fees You Should Never Pay Posted: 11 Dec 2017 06:00 AM PST ![5 Retirement Fees You Should Never Pay]( "5 Retirement Fees You Should Never Pay") Retirement benefits often have complicated rules, and it's easy to trigger fees. Here are some retirement penalties you can avoid with careful planning. The penalty is applied in addition to the regular income tax due on the withdrawal.
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| Charlie Sheen Sues National Enquirer Over Corey Haim Rape Allegation Posted: 10 Dec 2017 02:35 AM PST  Charlie Sheen is suing the National Enquirer over the publication of a Nov. 8 report alleging the actor raped then-child star Corey Haim in the 1980s.
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| 17 Game-Changing Guinness Recipes Posted: 11 Dec 2017 10:12 AM PST |
| The Army's Has Over 100,000 'New' M4A1 Rifles - Here's What They Can Do Posted: 10 Dec 2017 05:10 AM PST  To date, the Army has completed more than 117,000 M4A1 upgrades on the way to the eventual transformation of more than 480,000 M4 rifles. As a result, it is entirely conceivable that the Army will explore new requirements and technologies for the M4A1 as time goes on. The service's so-called M4 Product Improvement Program, or PIP, is a far-reaching initiative to upgrade the Army's entire current inventory of M4 rifles into higher-tech, durable and more lethal M4A1 weapons, Army spokesman Pete Rowland, spokesman for PM Soldier Weapons, told Scout Warrior in an interview.
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| Iraqi PM declares 'end of war against IS' in Iraq Posted: 09 Dec 2017 09:01 PM PST  Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Saturday declared victory in a three-year war by Iraqi forces to expel the Islamic State jihadist group that at its height endangered Iraq's very existence. "Our forces are in complete control of the Iraqi-Syrian border and I therefore announce the end of the war against Daesh (IS)," Abadi told a conference in Baghdad. As the authorities announced a public holiday on Sunday "to celebrate the victory", Abadi said in a speech at the defence ministry that Iraq's next battle would be to defeat the scourge of corruption.
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| Is the World's First Nuclear Fusion Plant Finally on Track? Posted: 11 Dec 2017 08:57 AM PST  The world's first nuclear fusion plant has now reached 50 percent completion, the project's director-general announced Wednesday (Dec. 6). When it is operational, the experimental fusion plant, called the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), will circulate plasma in its core that is 10 times hotter than the sun, surrounded by magnets as cold as interstellar space. To fuse hydrogen atoms and generate 10 times more power than goes into it by the 2030s.
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| Billionaire Guo Wengui wants regime change in Beijing Posted: 09 Dec 2017 07:44 PM PST  From a luxury Manhattan apartment, Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui is plotting a "change of the regime" in Beijing and developing a new media platform with the aim of introducing democracy in the world's most populous country. For several months, Guo has been flooding social networks with searing accusations of corruption against China's rich and powerful. While some accuse the businessman, who is not shy about publicizing his ostentatious lifestyle, of hypocrisy in his allegations of corruption among China's political elite, Guo denies accusations that he himself is also guilty of graft.
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| Court reverses itself and restores woman's murder conviction Posted: 11 Dec 2017 10:01 AM PST ![Court reverses itself and restores woman's murder conviction]( "Court reverses itself and restores woman's murder conviction") ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's highest court on Monday reversed its own recent decision and restored the felony murder conviction of a woman whose husband shot and killed a police officer.
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| Elliott says chipmaker NXP worth 23 percent more than Qualcomm's offer Posted: 11 Dec 2017 08:08 AM PST ![Elliott says chipmaker NXP worth 23 percent more than Qualcomm's offer]( "Elliott says chipmaker NXP worth 23 percent more than Qualcomm's offer") Elliott, which has a stake of about 6 percent in NXP, said NXP was worth $135 per share on an intrinsic standalone basis, compared with Qualcomm's offer of $110 made in October 2016. NXP shares were up 0.6 percent at $116 in morning trading, while Qualcomm's shares were up about 1 percent at $64.87. Elliott, a New York-based hedge fund, said Qualcomm's offer had taken advantage of NXP's depressed stock price last year and has acted as a ceiling on its valuation.
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