| Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Retirement Puts Key Issues On The Line Posted: 30 Jun 2018 05:00 AM PDT  The likely replacement of Justice Anthony Kennedy by a hard-right
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| Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — and ICE agents themselves — join the call to overhaul immigration agency Posted: 29 Jun 2018 07:41 AM PDT  Activists' call to overhaul the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency got a boost from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and from 19 supervisors in the agency itself, who wrote Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen last week saying that the current emphasis on deporting illegal immigrants undercuts efforts to combat cross-border crime and terrorism.
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| Remembering the Capital Gazette shooting victims Posted: 29 Jun 2018 08:40 AM PDT  NBC News' Catie Beck interviews Maria Hiaasen, the wife of journalist Robert Hiaasen, who was killed when a gunman opened fire at the Annapolis newspaper's office on Thursday.
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| Here Are The Best ‘Families Belong Together’ March Signs Posted: 30 Jun 2018 09:45 AM PDT  Thousands of people who attended the national 'Families Belong Together'
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| People are sending wire hangers to a senator who they think is too soft on protecting abortion rights Posted: 29 Jun 2018 01:21 PM PDT  People are sending a warning to a senator whose stance on protecting abortion rights isn't strong enough for them. On Wednesday, after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, Republican Senator Susan Collins said she views Roe v. Wade — the ruling that ensures nation-wide abortion access — as "settled law." "It's clearly precedent," she said on Wednesday when asked about her stance on protecting abortion laws. "I always look for judges who respect precedent." SEE ALSO: After Kennedy's retirement, are we entering 'Handmaid's Tale' territory? But on Thursday, her commitment to upholding Roe v. Wade seemed shaky. Her spokeswoman Annie Clark told the Portland Press Herald that Collins "always looks at their judicial temperament" and "respect for precedent" when evaluating judges, and then clarified that the senator "does not apply ideological litmus tests" to nominees. Many viewed this as Clark implying that even though Collins supports "precedent," she wouldn't outright oppose nominees who were vocally against access to abortions. That wasn't a strong enough stance for some Twitter users, who rallied together to mail clothes hangers to Collins' offices in Maine and Washington, D.C. as a dark reminder of the gruesome ways women sometimes dealt with unwanted pregnancies before abortion was legal. Collins's gift to women: pic.twitter.com/YkgHoWHOTw — June Casagrande (@JuneCasagrande) June 29, 2018 The trend seems to have started with author and podcaster June Casagrande, who responded to a tweet condemning Collins' statement with a photo of a hanger. Another Twitter user commented, "Shower these on [Collins'] doorstep." "It's already begun," Casagrande responded, sharing a screenshot of an Amazon order for wire hangers shipped to the senator's D.C. office. It's already begun. pic.twitter.com/Rr2BE1JZH9 — June Casagrande (@JuneCasagrande) June 29, 2018 Others jumped in on the #HangersForCollins trend to make a statement. Thanks for the idea! pic.twitter.com/pOdMtbVLqi — Jennifer Resists �� (@jennwheeler) June 29, 2018 Hey maine, why don't we all send letters to @SenatorCollins ...glued to coat hangers. Sen Collins, you dishonor the memory of Margaret Chase Smith and Olympia Snowe. Shame on you. https://t.co/3AOz0gRqkx — Prof. Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace) June 29, 2018 Thank you for the idea - mine are on the way. pic.twitter.com/QfLC3P3CMu — Kim Koberstein (@kkoberstein) June 29, 2018 pic.twitter.com/5ypdAGsYZm — DaisyStableGeniusDuck (@eestesx3) June 29, 2018 Thanks for the inspiration pic.twitter.com/8ajwgcF6XI — joy meads (@capnjoy) June 29, 2018 One account suggested sending blood-red hangers for an especially severe message. ���� ... Also purchase new (preferably in blood �� red color if available) or clean out your closet and mail old, used coat hangers to ����#SelloutSusan����♀️ #SusanCollins to her Bangor Office address����202 Harlow Street, Room 20100Bangor, ME 04401☎️ (207) 945-0417 pic.twitter.com/UsJwgWyozz — OceanSolitudeMaine (@OceanSolitudeME) June 29, 2018 Even Canadians, in a show of neighborly support, wanted to help out. As Casagrande pointed out, their monetary contributions to pro-choice organizations could make a difference. It makes me so grateful to see people in Canada caring about Americans in these perilous times! I'm not really set up to create that kind of effort. But I think there's no better solution than what you (and I) are already doing: contributing to pro-choice orgs. — June Casagrande (@JuneCasagrande) June 29, 2018 Since news broke of Kennedy's retirement, people in the U.S. have worried over whether pro-choice rights will remain protected, should President Donald Trump nominate a candidate that wants to overturn the ruling. Kennedy co-authored the opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a landmark 1992 case that guaranteed a continued right to abortion for women. Collins and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who are both Republicans, are potential swing votes on Trump's Supreme Court pick. Together, they can reject a nominee who might vote in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade. It remains to be seen whether #HangersForCollins will sway their opinion. WATCH: Kim Kardashian is in, but these people were uninvited from the White House
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| Donations Help Bail Out Oregon Mom Charged With Manslaughter After 1-Year-Old Dies in Hot Car Posted: 30 Jun 2018 11:01 AM PDT  She forgot her daughter was in the car, her attorney said.
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| Divers progress in search for missing Thai children trapped in cave Posted: 30 Jun 2018 04:51 AM PDT  Rescue divers reached several kilometres inside a flooded cave Saturday where 12 boys and their football coach have been trapped for a week, offering a flicker of hope for the harrowing search. There has been no contact with the boys, aged 11 to 16, and their coach since they went into the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand last weekend and were hemmed in by heavy rains that blocked the entrance. The desperate, round-the-clock search for the team has been beset by torrential downpours that submerged tunnels near the entrance, blocking divers from going in. But Navy SEAL divers reached a T-junction in the depths of the cave just one to two miles from where the boys are believed to be, Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osottanakorn said. Divers reached the same spot earlier in the week but were forced back by rushing floodwaters. An ethnic Akha woman prays for the return of the missing members of an under-16 football team Credit: Reuters This time, divers planted bottles of oxygen along the tunnel walls so swimmers navigating the muddy pools with almost no visibility could stay under for longer. Water levels inside the complex labyrinth of tunnels finally dropped thanks to dozens of pumps set up to drain the floods even as heavy rain continued to pound the area near the Myanmar and Laos borders. "The situation is better today than yesterday and the day before. Water has receded considerably and we are pumping out water in all chambers (near the entrance)," Narongsak told reporters. As the search for the boys hit its seventh day, attention turned to their chances of survival inside the cave with little or no food and light. The group likely has access to fresh water - either dripping in through rocks or rushing in through the entrance - but experts warned that runoff water from nearby farms could carry dangerous chemicals or bacteria. "If they drink the water in the caves and it makes them sick it could hasten the problem that they are in, but if they don't drink it then they are also in trouble," Anmar Mirza, coordinator of the US National Cave Rescue Commission, told AFP. But even without food he said young, athletic boys could "easily live for a month or a month and a half" with the main challenge their mental resolve. "The biggest issue that they are facing right now if they are alive is psychological because they don't know at what point they might get rescued," Mirza said by phone from the US state of Indiana. Practice drills The dramatic week-long rescue has galvanised the nation and prompted emotional outpourings online from well-wishers praying for their safe return. Cartoon images of the smiling boys being found by divers circulated along with messages for the team: "Stay Strong, We are Coming" and "Don't Give Up". Teams of foreign experts, including more than 30 US military personnel, have descended on the remote mountainous site to join some 1,000 Thai rescuers. Australian, Chinese and Japanese experts also joined efforts. "We have the skills of cave rescue and rope rescue so we can try to do something for the children," James Wang, from China's Green Boat Emergency Rescue, told AFP. A group of policemen enters Tham Luang Nang Non cave where a a soccer team has gone missing Credit: Getty Several teams trekked into the thick jungle above the cave desperately looking for new openings that might lead to the trapped boys. One team was drilling into a 40-metre (130-foot) chimney that led to a muddy chamber, which the governor described as a "promising" lead. But there was still no indication it linked to the main cave complex. "We have been rotating our staff into the chimney since yesterday, they are inside... still searching and we are waiting for their findings," Surachai Thathes, chief of the parks ministry rescue team for northern Thailand, told AFP. Another chimney was discovered nearby and helicopters carrying food, water and medical supplies were dispatched to the area. But the main priority was trying to reach the boys through the main entrance, governor Narongsak said. Earlier in the day medics and police staged practice drills to prepare for the quick and complex evacuations that will be required if and when the boys are found. Stone-faced relatives kept vigil under a makeshift tent near shrines where monks are leading prayers near shrines overflowing with offerings. Stretching 10 kilometres (six miles) and with complicated, snaking pathways and narrow corridors, Tham Luang is one one of Thailand's longest and toughest caves to navigate. Officials said the boys know the site well and have visited many times before, buoying hopes that they might have trekked to a large airy chamber in the centre. Rescuers found footprints and handprints in a chamber near that spot earlier in the week, further in from where they found the kids' football boots, backpacks and bicycles.
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| Mueller: Flynn not ready to be sentenced yet in Russia probe Posted: 29 Jun 2018 01:31 PM PDT ![Mueller: Flynn not ready to be sentenced yet in Russia probe]( "Mueller: Flynn not ready to be sentenced yet in Russia probe") WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn is not ready to be sentenced yet, special counsel Robert Mueller said Friday in a one-page filing that suggests the former White House official is still cooperating with prosecutors.
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| The Democratic Socialists of America show their muscle in New York congressional upset Posted: 29 Jun 2018 02:15 PM PDT  Ocasio-Cortez will be the first DSA member in Congress this century, but she isn't the first candidate to score a dramatic upset with the help of the left-wing organization. And if they have their way, she won't be the last.
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| Stunned Community Mourns Capital Gazette Shooting Victims Posted: 29 Jun 2018 11:34 PM PDT  Hundreds of mourners streamed into the streets of Annapolis, Maryland, Friday
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| The coming war over Trump's next Supreme Court nominee Posted: 29 Jun 2018 12:45 PM PDT  Immediately after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court on Wednesday, pro-choice and civil rights organizations across the country started preparing for a fight.
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| Pres. Obama and Jon Stewart; different method, same message Posted: 29 Jun 2018 01:16 PM PDT  Republicans have worked overtime to normalize Donald Trump's countless breaks in presidential tradition and his divisive rhetoric but Pres. Obama and Jon Stewart separately and in their own ways remind Americans not to normalize this behavior and to vote.
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| Maverick entrepreneur's space rocket fails at blast off Posted: 29 Jun 2018 09:30 PM PDT  A rocket developed by a maverick Japanese entrepreneur and convicted fraudster exploded shortly after liftoff Saturday, in a major blow to his bid to send Japan's first privately backed rocket into space. Interstellar Technologies, founded by popular internet service provider Livedoor's creator Takafumi Horie, launched the unmanned rocket, MOMO-2, at around 5:30 am (2030 GMT Friday) from a test site in Taiki, southern Hokkaido. Interstellar Technologies said it would continue its rocket development programme after analysing the latest failure.
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| Latest E. Coli Outbreak Is Over; Consumer Reports Says It's Safe to Eat Romaine Lettuce Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:07 PM PDT  One of the nation's deadliest E. coli outbreaks is over, the government advised Thursday, and Consumer Reports says it's now safe to eat romaine lettuce again. The Centers for Disease Control and...
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| Mark Janus on Supreme Court's blow to labor unions Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:49 AM PDT  Supreme Court rules 5-4 that government workers cannot be forced to pay union dues.
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| California park slaying probe looks back to 7 past shootings Posted: 29 Jun 2018 12:26 PM PDT  CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — Detectives investigating the fatal shooting of a camper at a popular California wilderness park last week will look for links to seven past shootings in the area dating back to 2016, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Friday.
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| Here's A Look At Disney World’s Toy Story Land Posted: 29 Jun 2018 11:59 AM PDT  On Saturday, the long-awaited Toy Story Land will officially open at Walt
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| ICE Director Erroneously Blames Congress For Family Separation Policy Posted: 29 Jun 2018 07:46 AM PDT  The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday
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| Shotgun migrant deal frees Merkel to fight another day Posted: 29 Jun 2018 07:09 AM PDT  By Thomas Escritt and Noah Barkin BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to have secured a temporary respite for her government with an early morning migration deal in Brussels that, while short on substance, looks to have mollified her restless Bavarian allies. The deal reached by EU leaders in the small hours threw a lifeline to Merkel, whose government was brought to the brink of collapse by demands from Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU) for a tougher immigration policy. While neither of her two principle adversaries - CSU head and interior minister Horst Seehofer, and Bavarian premier Markus Soeder - was prepared to concede immediately on Friday morning, other senior figures offered a cautious welcome.
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| Annapolis gunman wanted to 'kill as many as possible' Posted: 29 Jun 2018 01:03 PM PDT  The 38-year-old gunman who carried out a deadly assault on a newspaper office in Annapolis had barricaded a back door hoping to "kill as many" as he could, authorities said Friday, confirming he pursued a years-long vendetta against the paper. Police said the suspect -- identified as Maryland resident Jarrod Ramos -- used a legally purchased pump-action shotgun in an onslaught that left five employees of the Capital Gazette dead, and two others wounded on Thursday. A judge ordered Ramos held without bail on five counts of first-degree murder, county prosecutor Wes Adams told a media briefing.
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| Vaccination critic placed on probation by medical board Posted: 29 Jun 2018 01:31 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California pediatrician and outspoken critic of mandatory vaccinations has been placed on probation for 35 months by the state's medical board.
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| Inside the classes where people are learning how to overthrow Trump's family-splitting immigration policy Posted: 30 Jun 2018 06:43 AM PDT  The attendees are looking for ways to respond directly to what they see as a crisis caused by ICE, or the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The federal agency has been weighing heavily on the national conversation this past month, particularly following revelations over the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which has caused widespread outrage at the separation of families at the border. The people here have come to a "non-violent direct action training".
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| Police called suspect in Capital Gazette newsroom shooting no threat in 2013 Posted: 29 Jun 2018 08:27 PM PDT  The man accused of killing five people at a Maryland newspaper was investigated five years ago for a barrage of menacing tweets against staff members, but a detective concluded he was no threat, and the paper didn't want to press charges for fear of inflaming the situation, according to a police report released Friday. The newspaper was afraid of "putting a stick in a beehive." The 2013 police report added to the picture emerging of Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, as the former information-technology employee with a longtime grudge against The Capital of Annapolis was charged with five counts of first-degree murder in one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in US history. Authorities said Ramos barricaded the rear exit of the office to prevent anyone from escaping and methodically blasted his way through the newsroom Thursday with a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, gunning down one victim trying to slip out the back. Three editors, a reporter and a sales assistant were killed. "The fellow was there to kill as many people as he could," Anne Arundel County Police Chief Timothy Altomare said. Capital Gazette shooting suspect split Ramos, clean-shaven with long hair past his shoulders, was denied bail in a brief court appearance he attended by video, watching attentively but saying nothing. Authorities said he was "uncooperative" with interrogators. He was placed on a suicide watch in jail. His public defenders had no comment. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life without parole. Maryland has no death penalty. The bloodshed initially stirred fears that the recent surge of political attacks on the "fake news media" had exploded into violence. But by all accounts, Ramos had a specific, longstanding grievance against the paper. President Donald Trump, who routinely calls reporters "liars" and "enemies of the people," said, "Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their jobs." Ramos had filed a defamation lawsuit against the paper in 2012 after it ran an article about him pleading guilty to harassing a woman. A judge later threw it out as groundless. Ramos had repeatedly targeted staffers with angry, profanity-laced tweets. "There's clearly a history there," the police chief said. Annapolis shooting Ramos launched so many social media attacks that retired publisher Tom Marquardt called police in 2013. Altomare disclosed Friday that a detective investigated those concerns, holding a conference call with an attorney for the publishing company, a former correspondent and the paper's publisher. The police report said the attorney produced a trove of tweets in which Ramos "makes mention of blood in the water, journalist hell, hit man, open season, glad there won't be murderous rampage, murder career." The detective, Michael Praley, said in the report that he "did not believe that Mr. Ramos was a threat to employees" at the paper, noting that Ramos hadn't tried to enter the building and hadn't sent "direct, threatening correspondence." "As of this writing the Capital will not pursue any charges," Praley wrote. "It was described as putting a stick in a beehive which the Capital Newspaper representatives do not wish to do." The five victims of the Annapolis shooting: (top) Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, (bottom) John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters Marquardt, the former publisher, said he talked with the newspaper's attorneys about seeking a restraining order but didn't because he and others thought it could provoke Ramos into something worse. "We decided to take the course of laying low," he said Friday. Later, in 2015, Ramos tweeted that he would like to see the paper stop publishing, but "it would be nicer" to see two of its journalists "cease breathing." Capital Gazette reporter Chase Cook (right) and photographer Joshua McKerrow work on the next days newspaper while awaiting news from their colleagues Credit: IVAN COURONNE/AFP Then Ramos "went silent" for more than two years, Marquardt said. "This led us to believe that he had moved on, but for whatever reason, he decided to resurrect his issue with The Capital yesterday," the former publisher said. "We don't know why." The police chief said some new posts went up just before the killings but authorities didn't know about them until afterward. Few details were released on Ramos, other than that he is single, has no children and lives in an apartment in Laurel, Maryland. He was employed by an IT contractor for the US Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2007 to 2014, a department spokesman said.
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| Sil Lai Abrams Accuses Russell Simmons Of Rape, A.J. Calloway Of Assault Posted: 29 Jun 2018 11:25 AM PDT  Author and activist Sil Lai Abrams accused music mogul Russell Simmons of rape
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| China manufacturing activity slows in June Posted: 29 Jun 2018 07:39 PM PDT  Chinese factory activity slowed in June, dropping from an eight-month high the previous month official data showed Saturday, missing expectations as the world's second largest economy faces the prospect of a trade war with the US. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a key gauge of factory conditions, came in at 51.5 in June, decelerating from 51.9 in May, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said. The number was below the 51.6 reading tipped in a Bloomberg News survey of economists.
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| UN migration agency snubs Trump's nominee to lead it Posted: 29 Jun 2018 10:00 AM PDT  GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s migration agency snubbed the Trump administration's candidate to lead it on Friday, a major blow to U.S. leadership of a body addressing one of the world's most pressing issues — and only the second time that it won't be run by an American since 1951.
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| Two New Russian Stealth Submarines Are Headed to the Pacific. Here Is What They Can Do. Posted: 29 Jun 2018 07:50 PM PDT  More range + more stealth = trouble.
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| Larry Nassar And Trainer Debbie Van Horn Charged With Child Sexual Abuse Posted: 29 Jun 2018 02:23 PM PDT  Larry Nassar and former USA Gymnastics trainer Debbie Van Horn were charged
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| Bali volcano erupts: Thousands of tourists stranded as ash closes airport Posted: 28 Jun 2018 09:58 PM PDT  The Indonesian tourist island of Bali closed its international airport on Friday, stranding thousands of travellers, as the Mount Agung volcano gushed an 8,200-feet column of ash and smoke. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency said nearly 450 flights were cancelled, affecting some 75,000 people. The regional Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in Darwin, Australia, said winds would carry the ash southwest toward Java, Indonesia's most densely populated island. Volcanic ash is a potentially deadly threat to aircraft that can cause engines to "flame out." The volcano began belching ash and smoke on Thursday and several airlines cancelled inbound and outbound flights scheduled for the evening. "We hadn't a place to stay for the night so we had to find something else, just took a taxi and stayed at a random hostel," said a stranded German backpacker who identified herself as Louisa. "We hoped we could leave this morning, but the airport is closed," she said. Mount Agung - Bali Two small airports, at Banyuwangi and Jember in eastern Java, also closed because of the ash threat. Agung's alert level has not been raised and an exclusion zone around the crater remains at 2.5 miles. The disaster agency said the closure of Bali's airport was in effect until 7 pm. Australia's national airline Qantas said in a statement that it's "currently not safe" to operate Bali flights. A flight information board shows cancelled flights at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali Credit: AP It said it was monitoring advice from the ash advisory centre and its own pilots and meteorologists would decide when flights can resume. Australian visitor Rod Bird came early to the airport only to be told his flight back to Perth had been cancelled for the second time. An earlier flight on AirAsia was called off before the airport was shuttered early Friday morning. "They told us the volcano is going off so they rebooked us for this morning and we got here at 5:00 am only to be turned away again. So we've had two cancelled flights," Bird told AFP. "Well it's Bali, these things happen and we are fine with it. We just miss the kids," he added. Tourists rest as Ngurah Rai International Airport is closed due to the eruption of Mount Agung in Bali Credit: AP The volcano, about 45 miles northeast of Bali's tourist hotspot of Kuta, last had a major eruption in 1963, killing about 1,100 people. It had a dramatic increase in activity last year, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, but had quietened by early this year. Authorities lowered its alert status from the highest level in February. Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 250 million people, sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" and is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Government seismologists monitor more than 120 active volcanoes.
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| Comedian 'Stuttering John' Boasts He Duped Trump Into Air Force One Call Posted: 29 Jun 2018 03:26 PM PDT  President Donald Trump apparently carried on a lengthy phone conversation from
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| Iran's leaders seek ways to defend economy from U.S. sanctions Posted: 30 Jun 2018 03:11 PM PDT ![Iran's leaders seek ways to defend economy from U.S. sanctions]( "Iran's leaders seek ways to defend economy from U.S. sanctions") Iran is studying ways to keep exporting oil and other measures to counter U.S. economic sanctions, state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. Since last month, when U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal which lifted most sanctions in 2015, the rial currency has dropped up to 40 percent in value, prompting protests by bazaar traders usually loyal to the Islamist rulers. Speaking after three days of those protests, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the U.S. sanctions were aimed at turning Iranians against their government.
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| EU's Tusk says 'far too early to talk about a success' in migrant deal Posted: 29 Jun 2018 07:02 AM PDT  EU President Donald Tusk said Friday it was "far too early to talk about a success" in a hard-fought deal on migration, warning that tough work lies ahead to make the agreement work. The bloc's leaders thrashed out an agreement in bitter all-night talks that were almost sunk by Italy's new hardline right-wing prime minister Giuseppe Conte, but Tusk said the task had only just begun. "As regards our deal on migration, it is far too early to talk about a success.
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| 3 Men Sentenced for Killing Chicago Teen in Front of His Twin Brother Posted: 29 Jun 2018 09:46 AM PDT  Demario and Demacio Bailey were identical twins.
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| Report: Merkel secures deal with 14 EU nations on migrants Posted: 30 Jun 2018 09:56 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reportedly secured agreements with 14 European Union countries to rapidly return some asylum seekers as she seeks to end a schism in her government over migration policy.
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| The Last Aircraft Carrier Showdown: Welcome to the Battle of the Philippine Sea Posted: 29 Jun 2018 07:46 PM PDT  It was a naval fight for the ages.
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| Five-metre great white shark spotted off Majorca in first confirmed sighting in decades Posted: 29 Jun 2018 04:56 AM PDT  Agreat white shark has been spotted in a marine park in Spain's Balearic Islands, in the first confirmed sighting of the predator in Spanish waters for more than four decades. The five-metre (16.4 ft) shark was tracked for more than an hour by an international conservation team in the Cabrera Archipelago National Park, a reserve six miles off the southern coast of Majorca. The team from Alnitak, a Spanish conservation project with researchers from several European countries including the United Kingdom, published an image of the shark following the "historic sighting" on Thursday. The organisation said it would be releasing more footage and images later on Friday. Shark sighting Ten researchers, including British woman Georgina Stevens, were on board Alnitak's vessel conducting data collection and monitoring when the shark was sighted, the group said. While there have been unconfirmed sightings and rumours of great white sharks in Spanish waters over the years, this is believed to be the first confirmed incident since 1976, when a Majorca fisherman caught a specimen measuring more than six metres. The five-metre (16.4 ft) shark was tracked for more than an hour by an international conservation team in the Cabrera Archipelago National Park Credit: Beat vNi In 2006, a Spanish documentary film said that 27 great whites had been caught by fisherman in the Balearics between 1920 and 1976. But since then, the species had all but disappeared. Alnitak said that the presence of great white sharks in Spanish waters was the subject of a "constant rumour", supported by historic photographs and even local place names in the Balearic Islands and along Mediterranean coastline of mainland Spain. Tourists sunbath on Palma's beach Credit: JAIME REINA / AFP "However, since many years ago it has not been possible to document this like it has (now) been done," the group said in a statement. The only national park in the Balearic Islands, the uninhabited Cabrera Archipelago can be visited by boat on day trips from Majorca.
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| Rescue of deaf puppy stuck in hole for 30 hours draws thousands Posted: 30 Jun 2018 09:30 AM PDT  After 30 hours of effort, volunteers were able to rescue a 7-week-old deaf puppy that fell down a 50-foot crevice behind a house in Alabama.
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| Resistance Alone Won't Save Us. We Need Radical Action. Posted: 29 Jun 2018 09:22 AM PDT  In the wake of the Trump administration's decision to incarcerate thousands of
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| Iraq executes 12 after PM calls for speedy executions Posted: 29 Jun 2018 04:01 AM PDT  By Ahmed Aboulenein BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq put to death 12 people convicted of terrorism hours after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called for speedy executions in response to the kidnapping and killing of eight members of the security forces, the government said on Friday. Late on Thursday Abadi had ordered "just retribution" through faster executions of al those on death row for terrorism convictions who had exhausted their appeals. "Based on the orders of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, executions were carried out on Thursday of 12 convicted terrorists who have received final verdicts," a government spokesman said in a statement.
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| Dodgers' Hernandez to fund house building in Puerto Rico Posted: 29 Jun 2018 05:24 PM PDT  Los Angeles Dodgers utility player Enrique Hernandez on Friday said money he raised to help Puerto Rico recover from last year's deadly Hurricane Maria will be spent in the coming weeks to build more than 100 homes, but more aid is needed. Hernandez and his fiance raised more than $120,000 for aid group Habitat for Humanity in the aftermath of the storm and the Dodgers and team owner Mark Walter donated an additional $2 million in March.
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