| Betsy DeVos Mulls The Fate Of Guidance Designed To Reduce Racial Bias In Schools Posted: 04 Apr 2018 10:33 AM PDT  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos met with a group of civil rights leaders,
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| As YouTube Shooting Unfolded, Fake News Spread Like Wildfire On Twitter Posted: 03 Apr 2018 06:31 PM PDT  During crisis situations, Twitter can be a useful resource for people seeking
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| Trump lashes out at 'little' CNN executive — and the network fires back Posted: 03 Apr 2018 07:21 AM PDT  President Trump lashed out at television news networks on Tuesday for having what he called a "sick and biased" agenda while zeroing in on the cable channel that has become his favorite foil: CNN.
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| Designer Of Waterslide That Decapitated 10-Year-Old Boy Seized On Murder Charge Posted: 03 Apr 2018 08:05 AM PDT  The lead designer of a waterslide that killed a 10-year-old boy in Kansas
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| Civil jury says man responsible for woman's death at mansion Posted: 04 Apr 2018 01:25 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A woman found hanging at a San Diego mansion in what was deemed a suicide died at the hands of her boyfriend's brother, a civil jury in California ruled Wednesday.
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| Peru to Maduro: You're still not welcome at Summit of Americas Posted: 03 Apr 2018 12:32 PM PDT  Peru's new foreign minister said on Tuesday that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was still not welcome to attend a regional summit in Lima next week, upholding a decision by Peru's disgraced former president. U.S. President Donald Trump and heads of state from across the Western Hemisphere plan to travel to Peru for the Summit of the Americas, which will celebrate the theme "democratic governance fighting corruption" from April 13-14. In his first speech as Peru's foreign minister, Nestor Popolizio said Peru's decision not to invite Maduro to the event reflects the view of a dozen countries that have been pressuring Venezuela to hold free and fair elections.
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| Parkland Students Protest Clear Backpacks With Tampons And $1.05 Price Tags Posted: 03 Apr 2018 12:33 PM PDT  When survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting returned to classes
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| GOP Rep. Speculated 'Criminal Illegal Aliens' Were Behind YouTube Shooting Posted: 04 Apr 2018 06:16 AM PDT  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) speculated that the person who opened fire at
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| Trump administration seeks to close immigration 'loopholes' Posted: 03 Apr 2018 09:37 AM PDT  Trump administration officials said they're crafting a new legislative package aimed at closing immigration "loopholes" after the president called on Republican lawmakers to immediately pass a border bill using the "Nuclear Option if necessary" to muscle it through.
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| 1 Elephant Died and 4 Others Were Hurt After a Circus Truck Crash Posted: 03 Apr 2018 07:23 AM PDT  The crash provoked an outcry among animal rights defenders
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| The Latest: Fallin wants teachers to get back to classrooms Posted: 04 Apr 2018 03:37 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on teachers rallying for higher pay and education funding in several Republican-led states across the U.S. (all times local):
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| Russia requests Security Council meeting on spy poisoning Posted: 04 Apr 2018 10:37 AM PDT  Russia has asked for a UN Security Council meeting over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain, the country's ambassador to the UN announced Wednesday. Vassily Nebenzia said Russia was requesting a meeting Thursday at 1900 GMT over the British government's implication of Moscow in the nerve agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The Kremlin has vehemently denied any involvement in the March 4 attack, which Britain says was carried out with a military-grade nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union.
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| 17 States Sue Trump Administration Over Census Citizenship Question Posted: 03 Apr 2018 09:04 AM PDT  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) filed a federal lawsuit on
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| Florida car crash kills four British family members Posted: 03 Apr 2018 11:18 AM PDT  Four members of a British family have been killed in a car crash while on holiday in Florida, police have said. The family had just left Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre when their rented Mitsubishi saloon was hit by a Ford pick-up truck at about 18:00 local time [23:00 GMT] on Monday. Driver Adam Stephenson, 30, his wife Maryanne Stephenson, 29, and his parents Brian Stephenson, 66, and Sheralyn Stephenson, 56, died in the collision in Titusville.
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| Female gunman dead after shooting at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California Posted: 03 Apr 2018 04:35 PM PDT  A woman has opened fire at YouTube's global headquarters in Silicon Valley, shooting three people before killing herself, police said. Chief Ed Barberini of San Bruno police said that the three victims suffered from "treatable injuries". Two were shot "at an adjacent business". A 32-year-old female was described as being in a serious condition; a 27-year-old female was in a fair condition, and a 36-year-old male was described as being in a critical condition by CNN. He said that the first 911 calls came at 12:46pm, and his officers were on the scene two minutes later. "Upon arriving, officers found a chaotic situation with employees streaming out of the building," he said. The scenes following the shooting at the headquarters of YouTube in San Bruno, California Credit: Reuters "We did encounter one victim with apparent gunshot wound towards the front of the building as we arrived. "Several minutes later, while conducting a search of the premises, officers located a second individual with a gunshot wound that appeared to be self-inflicted. "There were two more at an adjacent business." An employee at a nearby Carl's Jr. fast food restaurant said one of the victims came in after being shot. The employee told KTVU the female victim had a gunshot wound to her calf and he tied a makeshift tourniquet around it. None of the victims were named last night, but Fox News reported that one of the victims was the shooter's boyfriend, and police were not treating the incident as terrorism. YouTube shooting - San Francisco Mass shootings by women are exceptionally rare. A FBI study of shootings from 2000 to 2013 found that, of 160 incidents, only six were carried out by a female attacker. President Donald Trump said that he was monitoring events, and wrote on Twitter: "Was just briefed on the shooting at YouTube's HQ in San Bruno, California. Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved. Thank you to our phenomenal Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders that are currently on the scene." Was just briefed on the shooting at YouTube's HQ in San Bruno, California. Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved. Thank you to our phenomenal Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders that are currently on the scene.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 3, 2018 Shaken YouTube employees were left reeling from the incident, which was over in less than an hour. Todd Sherman, a product manager in the building, wrote on Twitter: "We were sitting in a meeting and then we heard people running because it was rumbling the floor. First thought was earthquake." Emergency services are on the scene at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, California On the way out of the building he "looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs". He added: "Police cruisers pulled up, hopped out with rifles ready and I told them where the situation was." Vadim Lavrusik, a YouTube employee, tweeted that he and his colleagues were inside the offices and saw people running and barricaded themselves inside the offices. After around 20 minutes he tweeted again to say that he had been evacuated, and footage from helicopters showed hundreds of employees leaving the sprawling campus, being checked for weapons as they went. Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers.— Vadim Lavrusik (@Lavrusik) April 3, 2018 Safe. Got evacuated it. Outside now.— Vadim Lavrusik (@Lavrusik) April 3, 2018 "I was on a video conference with someone in the building when it happened," one woman, who did not want to be identified, told CNN. "We were suddenly aware of people running and screaming. The people on the video conference became scared and said: 'I have to get out of here.' "We called security, who had already been made aware of the incident. We heard on the video conference sounds of people running and screaming, but it was hard to hear anything else at that time." The woman said her colleague later told her that she did not hear any shots. A female bystander told KTVU television: "I heard boom, boom, boom. Then I heard it again. It was loud and then like it was going away." Local television images show employees being evacuated from the California Youtube campus Credit: Universal News Breaking down, she added: "I'm having a hard time. Don't get me started on guns." In a statement Google, which owns YouTube, said: "Regarding the YouTube situation, we are coordinating with authorities and will provide official information here from Google and YouTube as it becomes available." The San Bruno offices house 1,700 employees in a largely open-plan environment, in four different buildings. YouTube employees can work from treadmill desks, travel around the campus by scooter and bring their dogs to work. The campus also has a lap pool and a putting green for employees to use. There is security at all the buildings, the employee told CNN. Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Donald Trump had been briefed and the administration was monitoring the situation. YouTube announced last month that it would ban content promoting the sale of guns and gun accessories as well as videos that teach how to make guns.
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| Democrats Score Big Win In Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Posted: 03 Apr 2018 07:04 PM PDT  Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Rebecca Dallet won a seat on the Wisconsin
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| Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Calls Out Trump Over 'Thoughts And Prayers' Tweet Following Shooting Posted: 03 Apr 2018 10:38 PM PDT  President Donald Trump tweeted his "thoughts and prayers" following Tuesday's
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| NASA's X-Plane is designed to fly at supersonic speeds without the sonic boom Posted: 03 Apr 2018 12:19 PM PDT  NASA wants to prove that it can fly a plane faster than the speed of sound without blasting American neighborhoods below with sonic booms. Previously, commercial supersonic travel had been limited to the Atlantic Ocean, where people wouldn't be jarred awake by planes traveling overhead at more than 760 miles per hour. But with an innovative plane design that might subtly morph in the air to tame sound waves, NASA hopes to build a quieter supersonic plane that would revolutionize travel. Our cross-country flight times would be cut in half. NASA calls it the X-Plane, and the agency just awarded the aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin the $247.5 million contract to build the first one. SEE ALSO: Finding alien life won't cause chaos and panic, according to scientists At a news conference Tuesday morning, NASA said that this first X-Plane is a data-collecting experiment expected to take flight in 2021. The plane will be 94-feet-long, smaller than today's medium-sized commercial aircraft, like the popular Boeing 737. It will typically cruise around speeds of 1.4 Mach, which is approximately 940 mph when traveling at 55,000 feet, according to a NASA spokesperson. A conceptual graphic of what the NASA X-Plane prototype might look like.Image: NASAToday's commercial airliners typically travel between 550 and 590 miles per hour, far short of the 767 mph speed of sound. NASA aeronautics engineers underscored that this plane isn't a prototype for a defense mission or a private jet — but an experimental plane intended to fly over American communities and see if it is quiet enough to be a real, usable technology. NASA's goal is to not produce a sonic boom at all, but something that sounds more like a soft thud. "I'm trying not to use the word sonic boom," said Peter Coen, project manager for NASA's Commercial Supersonics Technology Project. "I'm trying to ban that from everyone's vocabulary." Getting a plane to produce a thud, as opposed to a thunderous blast, broadly means controlling the strength and position of the shock waves produced by the supersonic-speeding plane as it zooms through the air. NASA's slick X-Plane graphic.Image: NASAThis is something Lockheed Martin and NASA flight engineers will spend the next couple years developing, so by the time a sound wave hits the ground — possibly in a neighborhood near you — it's weakened to a thump, "not a boom," said Coen. Lockheed Martin has already designed much of the sleek plane. If all goes as planned, the experimental plane will make its first flight in 2021. Then, after NASA ensures the plane is safe and passes "acoustic validation tests," the aircraft will begin flying over a variety of U.S. communities in 2023. These flight tests will run through 2025. "We'll be flying over medium-sized cities, urban towns, and rural populations," said Ed Waggoner, program director for NASA's Integrated Aviation Systems Program. "It will be representative of populations that will be exposed to these sounds." NASA uses cameras with special filters (hydrogen alpha) to capture images of how supersonic planes move through the air and create booms.Image: NASAThe X-Plane tests will fly over large 50-square-mile areas, giving NASA a diversity of Americans to survey about the low-booms they're hearing — and if they notice them at all. Today, civilian supersonic flights over land are banned. But once NASA gets feedback from the public, this information can be used to not just advise plane manufacturers in the U.S. of how to build low-boom planes, but engineers all over the world. "One thing we hope this data will give the international community is that noise level," said Coen. "If your airplane produces less than X [sound decibels], it's okay to fly over land." WATCH: NASA needs you to send them pictures of clouds
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| Dashboard video shows Sacramento sheriff's car hit protester Posted: 02 Apr 2018 07:24 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Video shown Monday that was taken by a dashboard camera inside a sheriff's vehicle shows it hitting a protester and driving away — the latest flashpoint following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Sacramento.
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| Russia says spy poisoning 'grotesque provocation' by UK, US Posted: 04 Apr 2018 01:43 AM PDT  The head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence agency said Wednesday the poisoning of a Russian former double agent in Britain was a "grotesque provocation" by the British and US security services. "Even when it comes to the grotesque provocation with the Skripals that was crudely concocted by the British and American security services, a number of European countries are in no rush to unquestioningly follow London and Washington but prefer to look into what has happened in detail," SVR chief Sergei Naryshkin said at a security conference.
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| Syrian Kurdish leader signals possible joint action with Iraq Posted: 04 Apr 2018 07:40 AM PDT ![Syrian Kurdish leader signals possible joint action with Iraq]( "Syrian Kurdish leader signals possible joint action with Iraq") By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - A top Syrian Kurdish politician suggested on Wednesday that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Iraqi government could mount joint operations against Islamic State in the area on the border of the two countries. Aldar Xelil warned of a jihadist revival in eastern Syria, where operations by the U.S.-backed SDF have tapered off since they diverted fighters to the northwest to fight a Turkish offensive. "Iraq is a neighboring state and is also suffering from Daesh terrorism," he said in a telephone interview with Reuters, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
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| How Did a Miles-Long Crevice Appear in the Earth Overnight? Posted: 04 Apr 2018 10:35 AM PDT  Scientists are torn about why the crack in the earth suddenly appeared outside Nairobi, Kenya.
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| Who is Nasim Najafi Aghdam? Suspect in shooting at YouTube headquarters identified by police Posted: 04 Apr 2018 09:10 AM PDT  Authorities identified 39-year-old Nasim Najafi Aghdam as the suspect in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, California. Law enforcement sources confirmed Aghdam died at the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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| Japanese couple apologise for ignoring work pregnancy timetable by conceiving ‘before their turn’ Posted: 03 Apr 2018 01:59 PM PDT  A Japanese worker has been reprimanded by her boss for "selfishly breaking the rules" after she became pregnant before it was her "turn", according to media reports. The woman was working at a private childcare centre in Aichi prefecture, north Japan, when she found out she was pregnant. However, the timing reportedly clashed with "shifts" drawn by the childcare centre director, which listed when female staff were allowed to marry and have children. The plight of the woman, who has not been identified, highlights the unsettling practice of some Japanese companies dictating when female staff are allowed to marry and have children, depending on their level of seniority. Her experiences came to light after her husband, aged 28, wrote a letter outlining their plight to Mainich Shimbun, one of Japan's leading newspapers. Yuka Ogata was banned from feeding her baby in the Kumamoto City council chamber earlier this year in another blow to maternity rights Credit: KYODO/ REUTERS Describing how his wife felt "glum and anxious" after finding out she was pregnant, the husband wrote: "The director at the child care center where she works had determined the order in which workers could get married or pregnant, and apparently there was an unspoken rule that one must not take their 'turn' before a senior staff member..." The couple formally met with the director to apologise about the pregnancy in person, but the husband claimed that his wife has since been "chided" for "selfishly" breaking the rules of the child care center. He added: "Childcare providers sacrifice their own children to care for the children of others. It is a noble profession that nurtures children who will forge the future of this country. "I respect my wife for her commitment to her profession, and continue to encourage her. The conditions of those working to nurture and care for children are evidence of a backward country." Why has a generation given up on having children? The case has prompted a flood of support in Japan, a nation famed for both its shrinking birth rate and a chronic shortage of public childcare establishments. Many commentators were critical of the nursery, claiming such rules are a violation of human rights - although some were sympathetic to the challenges faced by childcare centres due to widespread staffing shortages. Japanese women have long had a tough time in the workplace, due to widespread gender discrimination, with the nation slipping to 114th place out of 144 countries in last year's World Economic Forum global gender equality rankings. Maternity harassment – known as "matahara" in Japan – is also a major issue, with a 2015 government survey revealing that half of the nation's working women suffered some kind of harassment after becoming pregnant, with one in five dismissed from their job. Japan is placed 114 of 144 in the World Economic Forum's global gender equality rankings Credit: ISSEI KATO/ REUTERS The practice of telling female employees exactly when they are allowed to have children – and when they cannot - is reportedly not confined to the childcare industry in Japan. Another woman, aged 26, from Tokyo also reportedly spoke out about how a female supervisor at a cosmetics-related company told her she would not be allowed to have a child until she was around 35. She reportedly received a document detailing childbirth and childrearing schedules which was circulated among 22 female colleagues via email, with the warning: "Selfish behaviour will be subject to punishment." The married woman, who has fertility issues, told Mainichi Shimbun: "I already have trouble getting pregnant. How are they going to take responsibility if I put off getting pregnant and lose my chances to have children altogether?" The outdated postwar concept of "gendered division of labour" still lingers in many Japanese companies, according to Dr Brigitte Steger, an expert on modern Japanese studies at Cambridge University. Generations apart | How pregnancy advice has changed "The term matahara is used frequently," she told the Telegraph. "Women are being harassed for being selfish for taking time out to have children or look after them and for being inconsiderate towards their fellow employees - while women are also criticised for being selfish and not having children." Referring to the prime minister Shinzo Abe's so-called policies of "womenomics", she added: "The main aim of this politics is to allow more women to combine career with having children, encouraging fathers' involvement in childcare, allowing maternity and paternity leave, providing more childcare facilities, etc. "But there are no real structural changes and industries have not all changed their attitudes and demands towards their workforce."
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| What to Know About Suspected YouTube Shooter Nasim Aghdam Posted: 03 Apr 2018 03:29 PM PDT  The suspected shooter died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot
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| Graphic Street Art Of Trump Shooting Schoolchildren Sparks Outcry Posted: 04 Apr 2018 02:54 AM PDT  Mystery surrounds who is behind an Alabama mural that depicts President Donald
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| Shout 'Dilly Dilly' At The Masters And You'll Be Thrown Out On Your Can Posted: 04 Apr 2018 09:39 AM PDT  To combat disruptive fan behavior at golf tournaments, the Masters has banned
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| Teacher rebellion puts red-state Republicans on defensive Posted: 03 Apr 2018 08:54 PM PDT OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A teacher rebellion in red states from West Virginia to Arizona has put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to walk a fine line in the months before midterm elections between placating constituents who are angry over education cuts and conservative supporters who want a smaller government and low taxes.
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| N. Korea rights record likely off table at Korean summit: Seoul Posted: 03 Apr 2018 10:24 PM PDT  Seoul's top diplomat said Wednesday that North Korea's human rights record is unlikely to be discussed at this month's summit, after Pyongyang denounced the South for supporting a fresh UN resolution against the North. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South's president Moon Jae-in are due to meet for a rare inter-Korean summit on April 27.
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| Russia, Iran and Turkey struggle to find common ground on Syria Posted: 03 Apr 2018 06:13 AM PDT  By Parisa Hafezi and Ezgi Erkoyun ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three foreign powers who have shaped Syria's civil war - Iran, Russia and Turkey - will discuss ways to wind down the fighting on Wednesday despite their involvement in rival military campaigns on the ground. The leaders of the three countries will meet in Ankara for talks on a new constitution for Syria and increasing security in "de-escalation" zones across the country, Turkish officials say. The Syria summit brings together two powers which have been President Bashar al-Assad's most forceful supporters, Iran and Russia, with one of his strongest opponents, Turkey.
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| Watch the Jaws moment for police as great white shark stalks their dinghy Posted: 04 Apr 2018 01:29 AM PDT  Police in South Australia had a "Jaws" experience when their operation was interrupted by a great white shark. The shark serenely followed them as they rode on a small police dinghy, which was in turn pursuing a recreational fishing boat selected for a random breath test. Their inflatable dinghy was only 4.5m long, shorter than the shark following them. The animal, after a few minutes, left the police alone and went to circle the fishing boat. The force saw the funny side and named the shark Noah. The South Australia Police Force wrote on social media: "Police launch Investigator 2 had a close encounter with a Great White shark today while patrolling at Tapley Shoal, about 9 nautical miles east of Edithburgh. The shark in pursuit of the boat Credit: REUTERS "Police were concentrating on recreational boats and checking registration, licences and safety equipment along with alcohol and drug testing operators when they were paid a visit by one of the locals. "30 boats were checked and pleasingly, no operators tested positive to drugs or alcohol and only a few minor breaches for safety equipment were found. Noah wasn't keen on being breath tested and our Water Operations Unit officers were happy to oblige!" Mark Oates, one of the men on the fishing boat, told ABC that he was drift fishing when his friend swore and said: "Look at the size of this thing that's come up behind us!" The great white dwarfed the dinghy Credit: REUTERS He explained: "I told [the police] to back off a bit because the shark was right next to us. "For probably the next 10 or 15 minutes we just sat around. The police brought the big boat in, which is where the footage from above the shark has come from. "There was very little fish caught that day, I can tell you." The fishermen were not breathalysed in the end, and said they thought it was because the police were not too keen on coming very close to them and their travelling companion.
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| Kaley Cuoco Explains Why Her Ex-Husband 'Ruined' Marriage For Her Posted: 04 Apr 2018 08:15 AM PDT  Kaley Cuoco is calling out her ex-husband, former professional tennis player
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| APNewsBreak: Woman says she reported abuse in 2013 Posted: 03 Apr 2018 07:57 PM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — A woman said Tuesday that she told Oregon child welfare officials in 2013 that Jennifer and Sarah Hart — who plunged off a California cliff with their children last month in an SUV — had been depriving the kids of food as punishment.
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| Nasim Aghdam: YouTube shooting suspect visited firing range hours before attack on California campus Posted: 04 Apr 2018 09:44 AM PDT  Hours before YouTube employees were sent fleeing from a shooter on their campus, the suspected assailant practised her aim at a shooting range. Shortly afterwards Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39, strode into the video streaming giant's headquarters and opened fire with a legally obtained Smith and Wesson semiautomatic handgun before fatally shooting herself, authorities said. An emerging timeline suggests that Ms Aghdam travelled from southern California to Silicon Valley in the days before the shooting, propelled by a sense of grievance at YouTube.
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| Shep Smith Fact-Checks Trump's Latest Amazon Claim: 'None Of That Was True' Posted: 03 Apr 2018 03:32 PM PDT  Fox News' Shep Smith was quick to pounce on President Donald Trump Tuesday,
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| Fiji PM warns of 'frightening new era' as he blames deadly cyclone on climate change Posted: 03 Apr 2018 07:26 AM PDT  Fiji's prime minister has blamed climate change for a cyclone which killed five people and caused severe flooding, saying the Pacific nation is now under constant threat and has entered a "frightening new era". As authorities tried to restore power and water supplies across various islands, Frank Bainimarama said Fiji was facing a "fight for our very survival" and urged other countries to support efforts to tackle the causes of climate change. "We are now at an almost constant level of threat from these extreme weather events that are becoming more frequent and more severe because of climate change," he said. "As a nation we are starting to build our resilience in response to the frightening new era that is upon us." Cyclone Josie brought torrential rains and led to heavy flooding on the weekend. It came just six weeks after Cyclone Gita in February, which caused some property damage in Fiji but devastated Tonga, and two years after Cyclone Winston, which killed 44 people. Cyclone Josie crashed into Fiji on Easter Weekend, killing at least five people Credit: REUTERS Fiji and other small Pacific nations have led a desperate push for global action to combat climate change, saying that rising sea levels and intense weather events have already begun to make parts of their territory uninhabitable. Mr Bainimarama assumed a leading role in international climate talks last November when he served as president of the UN's COP23 negotiation in Bonn. Torrential rains and heavy flooding is becoming a recurring theme on the tiny Pacific islands Credit: REUTERS "We need to get the message out loud and clear to the entire world about the absolute need to confront this crisis head on," he said. Most scientists believe climate change will reduce the frequency of cyclones as temperature differences between the earth's surface and the atmosphere decrease. But it will lead to more intense cyclones – including higher wind speeds and greater rainfall - as warmer water temperatures add to overall precipitation and to the amount of energy at the water surface. Scientists believe cyclones are likely to become more intense in the region Credit: REUTERS Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said it was difficult to detect trends about cyclone intensity in the region because of a lack of consistent data. But it noted: "We may have fewer cyclones but the ones we do have will be stronger." Five places | threatened by climate change Professor James Renwick, an expert in atmospheric sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, told Radio New Zealand in February he expected cyclone intensity to increase because there will be "more energy in the climate system". "Warmer seas, warmer air - so when you have a tropical cyclone it's likely to be more intense," he said. Since the latest cyclone in Fiji, authorities have been clearing debris, restoring roads and assisting people who have taken shelter in dozens of evacuation centres. Bainimarama has long spoken out about climate change Credit: AFP/PHILIPPE LOPEZ Ranjana Devi, a mother of two, said her family was trapped in their house as the floodwaters smashed through their village and started rising in their home. She and her husband were in separate rooms – each with a son - and survived when their boys kicked through a window and opened a door to allow them to escape. "At one point it was me and my younger son Veron trapped in one room," she told the Fiji Sun. Families and business owners were left with a major clean-up job after the latest storms Credit: REUTERS "My husband and elder son Devan were trapped in the other room. It all happened so quickly. As the water rose, we knew we could have all died and what made it worse was the fact that we were separated and locked in different rooms." She added: "From here, we will rebuild and start all over. We have lost everything in this flood."
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| Crash Tests Show Some Small-SUV Passengers Less Safe than Drivers Posted: 03 Apr 2018 09:01 PM PDT  New crash test results show that some popular vehicles still don't offer adequate protection for passengers even if they can keep drivers safe in certain types of crashes. On Wednesday, the Insur...
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| Architectural Digest, Bon Appetit & Le Coucou Celebrate the Arrival of Liebherr's Monolith Posted: 03 Apr 2018 12:35 PM PDT |
| Israel arrests 10 Gazans accused of planning naval attack Posted: 04 Apr 2018 02:58 AM PDT  Israeli authorities said Wednesday they have arrested 10 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip accused of planning a missile attack and hostage taking against a navy ship. The announcement of the March 12 arrests comes ahead of expected new mass protests along the Gaza Strip's border with Israel on Friday. Authorities did not immediately respond to a question on why the announcement was delayed for more than three weeks, though Israel often keeps such arrests under a gag order while it investigates.
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| China's defense chief calls his Moscow trip a signal to US Posted: 03 Apr 2018 12:55 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — China's new defense minister says his visit to Russia is a signal to the United States about the increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing.
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| Jenna Dewan Tatum Hinted At Marital Trouble With Channing Tatum Months Ago Posted: 03 Apr 2018 09:33 AM PDT  Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum's announcement that they were splitting
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| Former U.S. Army Sniper, 2 Other Soldiers Accused of Becoming International Hitmen Posted: 04 Apr 2018 07:48 AM PDT  A prosecutor said the ex-soldiers became contract killers for a crime boss
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| Mother allegedly used stun gun to wake son for Easter service Posted: 03 Apr 2018 02:50 AM PDT  Police in Phoenix arrested a mother for child abuse after they say she used a stun gun to wake him up for church.
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| 2 Florida Republicans Now Joining Calls For Scott Pruitt To Resign Posted: 03 Apr 2018 10:33 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Reps. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)
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