| At Least 23 Ethical Issues Are Dogging EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Posted: 05 Apr 2018 01:05 PM PDT  Scott Pruitt is facing mounting pressure to resign from the Environmental
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| Police defend decision not to detain YouTube shooter hours before shooting Posted: 04 Apr 2018 11:07 AM PDT  Nasim Aghdam, whom Northern California police found sleeping in her car early Tuesday, had been reported missing by her family in San Diego. But they say she was calm and cooperative.
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| Black Parkland Students Want Peers To 'Share The Mic' Posted: 05 Apr 2018 05:53 AM PDT  Black students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are calling out the
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| Unfiltered: ‘I have never seen that many injured patients by high-velocity weapons all at once.’ Posted: 04 Apr 2018 05:00 AM PDT  "It was around noontime when all of our pages went off and we were notified that a mass shooting had occurred in Sutherland Springs, Texas," recalls Dr. Lillian Liao, a pediatric trauma surgeon and medical director at University Hospital in San Antonio. Moments earlier, 26-year-old gunman Devin Patrick Kelly opened fire on a packed Sunday church service using a semi-automatic rifle. In this third episode of "Unfiltered," a new weekly Yahoo News interview series documenting the real, unflinching and unapologetic voices of America, we learn what it's like for trauma surgeons to treat victims of assault rifle mass shootings.
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| PHOTOS: Immigrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border Posted: 05 Apr 2018 11:48 AM PDT  Even though the Trump administration speaks of an immigration "crisis" on the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Border Patrol statistics show the fewest apprehensions of illegal immigrants on the border in 46 years. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2017, there were 303,916 such arrests, the lowest level since fiscal 1971. Unable to get the U.S. Congress or Mexico to fully fund his border wall, President Donald Trump will post National Guard troops along the Mexican frontier, officials said. (Reuters)
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| Pentagon reportedly favors Amazon for cloud contract, Southwest CEO hasn’t talked to Buffett, Apple poaches Google AI chief Posted: 04 Apr 2018 07:57 AM PDT  Amazon, Southwest, Apple, CBS and Viacom are the companies to watch.
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| Jury Finds Adam Shacknai Responsible for Rebecca Zahau’s Hanging Death in San Diego Mansion Posted: 04 Apr 2018 11:06 AM PDT  The hanging death of Rebecca Zahau in the Spreckles Mansion created a long-lasting mystery.
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| Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and wife Judith divorcing: media Posted: 04 Apr 2018 01:12 PM PDT  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who rose to national fame in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, and his third wife, Judith, are divorcing, the New York Post reported on Wednesday. After a 15-year marriage, Judith Giuliani, 63, filed a contested divorce proceeding in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, indicating an expected fight over their assets, including properties in New York and Palm Beach, Florida. "It is with great sadness I can confirm that Judith and I are divorcing," Rudy Giuliani, 73, told the Post.
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| An Anti-Sinclair Spot Is Expected To Air 175 Times On 4 Sinclair Stations Posted: 05 Apr 2018 10:06 AM PDT  The viral video showing a dizzying array of local news anchors reciting the
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| 2019 Jeep Wrangler Pickup Renderings From Fourm Posted: 04 Apr 2018 06:58 AM PDT  We won't see the long-awaited Wrangler Pickup until later in 2018, but these illustrations from a Jeep forum give a great preview of what it could look like.
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| Sacramento protesters demonstrate against police shooting of Stephon Clark Posted: 05 Apr 2018 08:15 AM PDT ![Sacramento protesters demonstrate against police shooting of Stephon Clark]( "Sacramento protesters demonstrate against police shooting of Stephon Clark") Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets during a march and demonstration in front of the offices of District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert on April 4, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. It's the latest in a series of protests following the March 18 police shooting of 22-year-old Stephon Clark.
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| Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces on Gaza border: ministry Posted: 03 Apr 2018 09:50 PM PDT  A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces on the Gaza border Tuesday, the health ministry in the strip said, as tensions remained high days after 17 people were killed when a mass demonstration led to clashes. The ministry identified the dead man as 25-year-old Ahmed Arafa, saying he was shot in the chest during clashes east of Bureij in central Gaza.
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| Police: Officers mistake pipe for gun, fatally shoot man Posted: 04 Apr 2018 07:38 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Police officers responding to reports of a man threatening people with a gun on Wednesday fatally shot a man carrying a metal pipe, mistaking it for a firearm, police said.
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| Phil Bredesen is a Democrat who thinks he can win in Tennessee. He might be right. Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:00 AM PDT  The former governor's surprise decision to jump into the race in December put Tennessee's Senate campaign on the national map, giving Democrats a slim chance at regaining control of the U.S. Senate this fall.
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| Martin Luther King Jr.'s Daughter Reveals Topic Of Scathing Sermon He Never Got To Give Posted: 04 Apr 2018 07:04 AM PDT  Two of Martin Luther King Jr.'s surviving children gave powerful sermons
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| Florida car crash: Audio emerges of emergency response to collision that killed British family Posted: 04 Apr 2018 08:59 AM PDT  An audio recording has emerged of the aftermath of a car crash that killed four members of a British family in Florida. The group were returning from a visit to the Kennedy Space Centre when they turned their rental car into the path of a black Ford pickup truck. "Colombia and Sisson, Colombia and Sisson, three people unconscious," says one emergency responder in the recording.
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| Watch Ted Cruz's Reaction When Asked To Take A DNA Test To Prove He's Human Posted: 04 Apr 2018 10:01 PM PDT  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was issued an unusual challenge on Tuesday night when
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| Jaime King's 4-Year-Old Son Hit With Broken Glass In Bizarre Car Attack Posted: 05 Apr 2018 05:10 AM PDT  Actress Jaime King's 4-year-old son James was showered with glass as he sat
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| New York attorney general probing Brooklyn police shooting death Posted: 05 Apr 2018 04:28 PM PDT  The New York State attorney general's office said on Thursday it would investigate the fatal shooting by police of an unarmed black man in Brooklyn after he pointed a metal pipe at officers that they believed was a gun. The death of Saheed Vassell on Wednesday was the latest fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by police, fueling more protests and heightening a nationwide debate over the use of excessive force by police and accusations of racial bias in the criminal justice system.
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| Rouhani angers Israel with 'support for terrorists' jibe Posted: 04 Apr 2018 01:09 PM PDT  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit out at Iran on Wednesday after President Hassan Rouhani accused Israel of supporting "terrorists" in Syria. "Absurdity has no limits: Iran's terrorist regime that sends tentacles of terror across the region accuses Israel of terrorism," Netanyahu wrote on Twitter. "If Rouhani is unaware of the terrorist and sabotage activities conducted daily by the Iranian Quds Force in Syria, Israel can provide him with an update," Netanyahu said, referring to the foreign arm of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
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| YouTube Shooter, Nasim Aghdam, Was Reportedly Angry at the Company for 'Censorship' Posted: 04 Apr 2018 04:46 AM PDT  Her family had reported her missing before the attack.
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| Tired of winning yet? You're not alone. Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Donald Trump warned us that we'd win so much, we'd eventually grow tired of winning. But winning, in Trump's mind, wasn't about us. It was about him.
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| Nurse Fired For Saying Stephon Clark Deserved To Die Raises $20,000 For Herself Posted: 04 Apr 2018 07:37 AM PDT  A California nurse who was fired from her job after saying Stephon Clark
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| The Latest: Air Force identifies Thunderbirds pilot who died Posted: 05 Apr 2018 01:22 PM PDT  NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on the crash of a military jet that killed a member of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team (all times local):
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| 8 Worst Muscle Cars Of The 1980s Posted: 05 Apr 2018 10:56 AM PDT |
| You're Doubling The Glycemic Index Of A Sweet Potato When You Bake It Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:46 AM PDT  A baked sweet potato is one of those rare things in life that's both good for
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| Woman Fired After Flipping Off Trump's Motorcade Sues Former Employer Posted: 04 Apr 2018 04:02 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Juli Briskman made headlines last fall after a photo of her
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| Philippines to close Boracay resort to tourists for six months Posted: 04 Apr 2018 04:38 PM PDT  The Philippines has announced its best-known holiday island Boracay will be closed to tourists for six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a "cesspool" tainted by dumped sewage. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the shutdown to start April 26, his spokesman Harry Roque said late Wednesday on Twitter, without providing further detail. Boracay has some 500 tourism-related businesses, which had a combined annual revenue of 56 billion pesos ($1.07 billion) last year.
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| Tech CEOs call for gun control following YouTube shooting Posted: 03 Apr 2018 08:10 PM PDT  Several Silicon Valley leaders called for increased gun control on Tuesday afternoon after a woman at the headquarters of YouTube shot and wounded three people before taking her own life. Tech companies have largely avoided the topic of gun control in the United States, but they have previously pushed for progressive stances on other hot-topic issues, ranging from climate change to same-sex marriage and comprehensive immigration reform. At least three major chief executives took up gun control after the shooting.
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| Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker warns party is at risk of Democratic gains in midterm elections Posted: 04 Apr 2018 10:20 AM PDT  Wisconsin's Republican governor Scott Walker has said his party is at risk of a Democratic wave of wins later this year after a liberal claimed victory in the state's Supreme Court race. Rebecca Dallet trounced conservative Michael Screnock in the election for a 10-year term on Wisconsin's high court, putting more wind in Democrats' sails ahead of the midterm elections in November. Donald Trump won Wisconsin by one percentage point in the 2016 presidential election.
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| New York Attorney General Launches Investigation Into Police Killing Of Black Man Posted: 05 Apr 2018 08:45 AM PDT  The New York attorney general's office is opening an investigation into the
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| The Latest: US forces setting up positions in north Syria Posted: 04 Apr 2018 08:34 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):
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| There's a whole meme community that doesn't think Mark Zuckerberg is human Posted: 05 Apr 2018 04:00 AM PDT  There's a whole subreddit poking fun at Mark Zuckerberg's supposed power complex. The Facebook CEO is currently in some hot water for the Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal, and the company has been a PR nightmare as people delete their accounts and flee the social media giant. Overall, there's a pretty universal distrust of Mark Zuckerberg right now. Comment from discussion Zuck memes horribly undervalued.. But a community of Redditors has shared that distrust for a while now — six months ago, Redditor u/SirLotsaLocks created r/ZuckMemes after positive feedback from r/MemeEconomy. According to its description, "Mark Zuckerberg is the human founder of the massive social media website called Facebook." The subreddit, which has just under 19,000 subscribers, mocks Zuckerberg's flowery, sappy posts about how he's just an average guy and instead insists that he's a robot learning to assimilate with humans. Like this post from last July. "If you eat meat, you should know where it comes from," Zuckerberg mused in a live Facebook video. He explained that he challenged himself to be vegetarian for a year unless he was involved in killing and butchering the animal himself. One of the side effects, he said, was that he got really into preparing meats himself, which is how we were blessed with this nice chat with Zuckerberg while he smoked meats in his backyard. In the livestream, Zuckerberg answered questions from commenters, discusses revolutionizing education, charmingly tried to convince his wife Priscilla to join him in the video. In the r/zuckmemes take, Zuckerberg enjoys "charring meat inside of an unpressurized vessel behind my domicile." "Once the animal carcass reaches a temperature sufficient to destroy bacteria and viruses that would pose a threat to my empire," the fake post says, "I will consume the flesh to replenish my stores of energy." In this Zuck meme, the Facebook CEO attempts to order from a food truck. "The animal's flesh was warm." How could he not be a human? Look at him eat normal toast, like a normal human! (Turn your volume up to hear the very human sound effects.) Both of these clips were modified from a video in which Zuck, aka Zucc, showed off his home named AI Jarvis. But the weirdness of the original video was ripe for the Zuck meme community. The memes also make fun of Zuckerberg's "profound" posts about interacting with underrepresented groups, like this one. Last year, Zuckerberg sat down for dinner with a group of Somali refugees in Minneapolis and wrote a poignant post about the meaning of home. "I left impressed by your strength and resilience to build a new life in an unfamiliar place," his caption said, "And you are a powerful reminder of why this country is so great." The Redditors who frequent r/zuckmemes don't see his posts as a sentimental reflection on the real meaning of America. They joke about Zuckerberg's need for power trips. In the highest rated post on r/zuckmemes, the robotic Zuck bullies an elderly Alabaman editor into eating an entire newspaper, threatening to buy out the Selma Times-Journal and turn it into an "anime fanzine." "For 43 minutes I had total power over that man," the fake posts says. "I'd never felt more alive. I bet that's what being president feels like." According to r/zuckmemes, Zuckerberg has a wild god complex. This fake Elon Musk posts talks about both tech billionaires' idea of a fun activity. For Musk, it's a jetpack paint ball fight with "Don't Stop Believing" playing in the background. For Zuckerberg, it was paying off a man's student loans in exchange for beating him. There's even a handy guide to creating Zuck memes, which involves editing Facebook in HTML to make realistic looking posts from the CEO himself. r/zuckmemes peaked in popularity about six months ago, but since the Cambridge Analytica scandal happened, people have been straying away from the usual meme format to joke about Facebook's privacy breaches. Will the god-king Mark Zuckerberg ever learn to assimilate with humans? Or will he always be a secret lizard person? Although there were rumors that Zuckerberg was seeing a behavioral therapist to appear more human, take it with a grain of salt. The Facebook CEO hasn't publicly spoken about the memes or about his public persona. Until then, Zuckerberg will continue to be the lizard robot human philanthropist, innovator and family man he says he is. r/zuckmemes, though, will for sure be keeping an eye on him. WATCH: 5 Instagram pro tips you probably didn't know about
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| Missing CDC Employee Timothy Cunningham Found Dead Two Months After He Vanished Posted: 05 Apr 2018 10:21 AM PDT  He vanished nearly two months ago
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| Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin: Teachers on strike are like 'teenagers who want a better car' Posted: 04 Apr 2018 11:28 AM PDT  Teachers going on strike to demand a salary increase are like "a teenager wanting a better car," according to Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin.
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| Philippines to close Boracay island to tourists for six months Posted: 05 Apr 2018 04:10 AM PDT  The Philippines is closing its best-known holiday island Boracay to tourists for up to six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a "cesspool" tainted by dumped sewage, authorities said on Thursday. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the shutdown to start on April 26 for a maximum period of half a year, his spokesman Harry Roque said. "Boracay is known as a paradise in our nation and this temporary closure is (meant) to ensure that the next generations will also experience that," Roque told reporters.
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| Four Marine helicopter crew presumed dead after California crash Posted: 04 Apr 2018 12:02 AM PDT  The helicopter was a Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing based at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, Ca., according to a statement from the Marines. It is the largest and heaviest "heavy-lift" helicopter in the U.S. military.
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| US seizes pot-growing houses tied to China-based criminals Posted: 04 Apr 2018 05:14 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of federal and local law enforcement agents have seized roughly 100 Northern California houses purchased with money wired to the United States by a Chinese-based crime organization and used to grow massive amounts of marijuana illegally, authorities said Wednesday.
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| Zach Braff face-swapped with Dax Shepard and the result must be seen to be believed Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:28 AM PDT  It's a well known fact that Zach Braff and Dax Shepard are practically identical looking. SEE ALSO: Kristen Bell Shaved Dax Shepard's Butt for a Movie Role The two of them have even joked about it before: @zachbraff its been 2 hours since someone has pointed out that we look alike. I think twitter might be broken! — dax shepard (@daxshepard1) April 17, 2013 .@daxshepard1 Dax! I am honored to be as handsome as you. There's buddy-cop movie with Ray Ramano in this somewhere... — Zach Braff (@zachbraff) April 17, 2013 Well, now we have indisputable proof. On Wednesday, Braff shared a face-swap of the two of them that was apparently taken some years ago by Kristen Bell. Behold: Years ago @IMKristenBell took a FaceSwap picture of @daxshepard1 and I. I'm gonna get this put on a T-shirt. pic.twitter.com/La4fcHx9ie — Zach Braff (@zachbraff) April 4, 2018 If you find those images fascinatingly creepy, you're not alone. Am I the only one that finds this deeply disturbing but can't stop looking at it? — April Resists (@AprilDelRario) April 4, 2018 Nope. — dax shepard (@daxshepard1) April 4, 2018 Shepard, in particular, couldn't stop analysing the results. For me, it's really the pictures in the left colomn. I mean, it almost appears that there was no swap there. — dax shepard (@daxshepard1) April 4, 2018 Unsurprisingly, there were some A+ responses. If you Then youDon't love me Don't deserve meAt my At my pic.twitter.com/HXLSDZnZOM — multicoloured panda (@Running_84) April 4, 2018 You should post the result too, for comparison. — Nod Stork (@necromaunzer) April 4, 2018 HAHAHAHAHA — dax shepard (@daxshepard1) April 4, 2018 It's high time Hollywood gave these two their own TV series. WATCH: Memes are the best thing on this planet, change my mind
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| Sri Lankan PM survives no confidence vote Posted: 04 Apr 2018 12:10 PM PDT  By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday survived a no confidence vote in parliament after a majority of legislators voted to support his coalition government but the instability caused may damage its reform agenda. The opposition, eyeing fractures within the ruling alliance, had sponsored the trust vote against Wickremesinghe blaming him for failing to prevent an alleged scam https://www.reuters.com/article/sri-lanka-bond-arrest/sri-lanka-police-arrest-two-over-alleged-bond-scam-idUSL4N1PU07C in the bond market, and for failing to stop anti-Muslim riots https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-clashes-insight/police-politicians-accused-of-joining-sri-lankas-anti-muslim-riots-idUSKBN1H102Q that occurred last month.
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| Bollywood Star Salman Khan Has Been Convicted of Poaching Protected Antelopes Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:40 AM PDT  Khan, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, was sentenced to five years in prison
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| April's Cheap New Lease Deals Below $179 A Month Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:50 AM PDT |
| Turkey, Russia, Iran urge 'lasting ceasefire' in Syria Posted: 04 Apr 2018 09:01 AM PDT  The presidents of Iran, Turkey and Russia vowed to work for a lasting ceasefire after over seven years of civil war in Syria, following a summit aimed at boosting both peace prospects and also their influence in the country. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iran's Hassan Rouhani and Russia's Vladimir Putin reaffirmed their commitment to cooperating for "the achievement of a lasting ceasefire between the conflicting parties", a joint communique said. The meeting in Ankara was the second such tripartite summit after the first hosted by Putin in November in the Black Sea city of Sochi, in a new symbol of an increasingly deep cooperation.
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