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• 5 takeaways from Jon Ossoff’s showing in the Georgia special election
• SCOTUS Takes On Critical Separation of Church and State Case
• ‘Judge sitting on an island’: Jeff Sessions dismisses Hawaii court’s travel ban ruling
• Ex-Patriots Player Aaron Hernandez Found Dead in Prison Cell
• Close call: When asteroids whisk past Earth
• McDonald's Witness Recalls Spotting Facebook Killer: 'He Took The Easy Way Out'
• U.S. sees increased activity by Chinese bomber aircraft: officials
• Police officers shot on Champs-Élysées in Paris and more: April 20 in photos
• GM halts Venezuela operations after government seizes factory
• Prince Harry Opens up About Needing Therapy After the Death of His Mother, Princess Diana
• Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, Kid Rock visit Trump at the White House
• Scientists rank all the ways an asteroid can kill you
• Venezuelan opposition protests again against Maduro
• GOP candidate Handel welcomes Trump support as Georgia special election heads toward runoff
• Bangkok bans its street food leaving foodies fed up, vendors in a pickle
• GM says Venezuela has illegally seized its manufacturing plant
• Correction: Massachusetts-Slain Runner story
• A Nearby Rocky Planet Is the Newest Possible Home for Alien Life
• California's 'weed nuns' on a mission to heal with cannabis
• Palestinians slam Israel for refusing talks with hunger strikers
• Tech firms urge court to toss Trump travel ban
• How Much Money Did Aaron Hernandez Have Left?
• Macron hangs on to lead in French election, Le Pen's camp rows with Brussels
• Fresno shooter wanted to kill many white people, police say
• Jinger Duggar Is Under Fire For Wearing Pants
• McDonald's order trips up Facebook slaying suspect
• Scientists just unearthed an absolutely terrifying new sea creature
• Israelis hold mass pot protest by parliament
• Venezuela opposition vows fresh protests despite deaths
• Mama Bear Splashes Around With Cub During Debut at Zoo
• Russia denies Reuters report think tank drew up plan to sway U.S. election
• Approval for Duterte's drug war slips in Philippines
• How to Choose a Solo 401(k) Provider
• Karina Vetrano's Killer Blames 'Emotions' For Murder
• Australia to raise English language standard for citizenship
• Apple has a mystery prototype that injures employees’ eyes
• Ghost in the Machine? Mysterious 'Sterile' Neutrinos May Not Exist
• Utah Rep. Chaffetz says he won't run for re-election
• White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily briefing on April 19, 2017
• Ex-NFL star Hernandez hangs self in prison; family seeks probe

5 takeaways from Jon Ossoff’s showing in the Georgia special election Posted: 19 Apr 2017 06:54 PM PDT To no one's real surprise, President Trump and Jon Ossoff came to different conclusions regarding the final results of Tuesday's special election in Georgia. On balance, however, Ossoff may have more to brag about than the president. 1. Jon Ossoff was never likely to win the Sixth District primary outright.

SCOTUS Takes On Critical Separation of Church and State Case Posted: 19 Apr 2017 08:42 AM PDT A majority of the US Supreme Court seemed to side with a Missouri church that argued that it should have been included in a state-funded project to improve playgrounds.

‘Judge sitting on an island’: Jeff Sessions dismisses Hawaii court’s travel ban ruling Posted: 20 Apr 2017 12:40 PM PDT The attorney general's seeming disdain for the 50th state in a Tuesday interview earned him a reproof from Hawaii's senators.

Ex-Patriots Player Aaron Hernandez Found Dead in Prison Cell Posted: 19 Apr 2017 09:00 PM PDT Correction officers at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, discovered Hernandez hanged in his prison cell "utilizing a bedsheet."

Close call: When asteroids whisk past Earth Posted: 19 Apr 2017 12:54 PM PDT A peanut-shaped asteroid 1.3 kilometres (3,280 feet) across streaked past Earth on Wednesday, giving astronomers a rare chance to check out a big space rock up close. Dubbed 2014-JO25, the asteroid came nearest at 12:20 GMT and is now hurtling away from the centre of our solar system, said Ian Carnelli, an astronomer from the European Space Agency (ESA). "It does not represent a danger to our planet," Carnelli told AFP, noting that the asteroid passed within 1.8 million kilometres (1.1 million miles) of Earth -- about four times the distance to the moon.

McDonald's Witness Recalls Spotting Facebook Killer: 'He Took The Easy Way Out' Posted: 19 Apr 2017 08:21 AM PDT Several people watched in shock as Steve Stephens fled a Pennsylvania McDonald's on Tuesday.

U.S. sees increased activity by Chinese bomber aircraft: officials Posted: 20 Apr 2017 02:31 PM PDT The United States is aware of a higher-than-usual level of activity by Chinese bomber planes, signaling a possible heightened state of readiness, U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday, but downplayed concerns and left open a range of possible reasons. None of the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, suggested alarm or signaled that they knew the precise reason for such Chinese activity.

Police officers shot on Champs-Élysées in Paris and more: April 20 in photos Posted: 20 Apr 2017 01:13 PM PDT The Champs Élysées shuts down after a shooting; a rocket carries crew to the International Space Station; a flying car debuts: among the photos of the day.

GM halts Venezuela operations after government seizes factory Posted: 20 Apr 2017 10:23 AM PDT General Motors has shut down its Venezuelan operation and laid off 2,678 people after the crisis-struck Latin American country nationalized the plant and seized cars, the company says. On Wednesday, the factory was "unexpectedly seized by the Venezuelan authorities, preventing normal operations," GM's spokesperson in Brazil, Julia Bastos, said Thursday in an email. The US auto-maker's plant has capacity for building 100,000 cars a year, but had already ground to a standstill because of the collapse in oil-rich Venezuela's economy and lack of access to US dollars.

Prince Harry Opens up About Needing Therapy After the Death of His Mother, Princess Diana Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:00 PM PDT Prince William and Harry work together to end the stigma around mental health.

Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, Kid Rock visit Trump at the White House Posted: 20 Apr 2017 07:22 AM PDT The White House was enlivened Wednesday evening by a visit from some special guests, both political and musical.

Scientists rank all the ways an asteroid can kill you Posted: 19 Apr 2017 03:20 PM PDT Tonight, a particularly large asteroid is going to cruise by Earth at its closest point in 400 years, and while we humans are going to be observing the flyby at a safe distance, there's always a small twinge of doubt that whispers "what if...?" in the back of our minds. Scientists led by Clemens Rumpf of the University of Southampton in the UK decided to answer that question by figuring out what aspects of an asteroid collision are actually the biggest threats to human existence. The results might surprise you. The research paper, which attempted to rank seven key effects of an asteroid slamming into Earth in terms of their destructive capabilities, was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters this week. To generate the rankings, the scientists ran 50,000 asteroid impact simulations, playing out the scenario over and over on different parts of a virtual Earth. The simulations took into account asteroids that simply explode before actually reaching the ground, called airbursts, as well as space rocks of much larger sizes. Of the seven different destructive effects — which included wind, thermal, cratering, tsunami, pressure, seismic, and ejecta (debris) — the simulations showed that wind was by far the biggest threat to human life in the wake of an astroid impact, pushing down everything in its path including structures. The thermal threat and high-pressure shock wave are more pronounced on land than they are during an oceanic impact, but the tsunamis created during an asteroid strike at sea remains the biggest threat to life in those particular scenarios. In short, it's not the actual impact of an asteroid that is most likely to kill you, but the response of Earth's elements to the unwelcome invader that will spell your doom.

Venezuelan opposition protests again against Maduro Posted: 20 Apr 2017 10:13 AM PDT By Brian Ellsworth and Diego Oré CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition renewed nationwide protests on Thursday to pressure the government of President Nicolas Maduro to hold elections and improve a collapsing economy, a day after three people were killed in similar demonstrations. Government officials dismiss the protests, characterized by street barricades and clashes with security forces, as violent and lawless efforts to overthrow Maduro's leftist government with the backing of ideological adversaries in Washington. The opposition counters that Maduro, deeply unpopular as Venezuelans grapple with triple-digit inflation and shortages of food and basic consumer goods, is seeking to stay in power indefinitely by barring opposition leaders from office and quashing independent state institutions.

GOP candidate Handel welcomes Trump support as Georgia special election heads toward runoff Posted: 19 Apr 2017 08:03 AM PDT Trump called former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel on Wednesday morning, congratulating her on making it to the runoff with Democrat Jon Ossoff.

Bangkok bans its street food leaving foodies fed up, vendors in a pickle Posted: 20 Apr 2017 04:50 AM PDT Authorities in Thailand's capital are banishing its world-famous street-food vendors as part of a clean-up drive by the military government, outraging foodies and threatening the livelihoods of the road-side cooks. Bangkok is often voted the world's best destination for street food in travel polls. "We would like the consumers, tourists or even the Thai patrons to be entitled to sanitary food, so far I don't think we have achieved that," Wallop Suwandee, chief adviser to Bangkok's governor, told Reuters.

GM says Venezuela has illegally seized its manufacturing plant Posted: 20 Apr 2017 12:30 PM PDT General Motors will immediately cease operations in the country of Venezuela after the U.S. automaker announced authorities there illegally seized its manufacturing plant and industrial hub. "Yesterday, GMV's (General Motors Venezolana) plant was unexpectedly taken by the public authorities, preventing normal operations.

Correction: Massachusetts-Slain Runner story Posted: 19 Apr 2017 12:02 PM PDT LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — In a story April 18 about a man arrested in connection with the death of a New York City woman out running near her mother's Massachusetts home, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the suspect, Angelo Colon-Ortiz, was a driver for FedEx. FedEx says he worked for a third-party logistics company contracted to provide trucking services.

A Nearby Rocky Planet Is the Newest Possible Home for Alien Life Posted: 20 Apr 2017 10:02 AM PDT This new, big, dense planet is rocky, like Earth, and has the right temperatures for water.

California's 'weed nuns' on a mission to heal with cannabis Posted: 20 Apr 2017 03:58 PM PDT By Omar Younis MERCED, Calif. (Reuters) - The Sisters of the Valley, California's self-ordained "weed nuns," are on a mission to heal and empower women with their cannabis products. Based near the town of Merced in the Central Valley, which produces over half of the fruit, vegetables and nuts grown in the United States, the Sisters of the Valley grow and harvest their own cannabis plants. The group says its Holy Trinity is the marijuana plant, specifically hemp, a strain of marijuana that has very low levels of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive compound in the plant.

Palestinians slam Israel for refusing talks with hunger strikers Posted: 18 Apr 2017 05:57 PM PDT Palestinian leaders on Wednesday denounced Israel's refusal to negotiate with Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails, warning of a "new intifada" if any of them die. Some 1,500 Palestinian prisoners have joined the hunger strike that began Monday, according to Issa Qaraqe, head of detainees' affairs for the Palestinian Authority. Contacted by AFP, Israel's prison service declined to comment on the number.

Tech firms urge court to toss Trump travel ban Posted: 19 Apr 2017 07:00 PM PDT Scores of technology firms including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft joined a legal filing urging a judge to toss out President Donald Trump's latest travel ban. More than 160 companies, all but a couple of which are in the technology sector, signed a "friend of the court" brief siding with opponents of Trump's executive order in a US appeals court for the District of Maryland. Federal judges have halted Trump's revised executive order issued in March to temporarily close US borders to refugees and nationals from six Muslim-majority countries, dealing the president a humiliating defeat.

How Much Money Did Aaron Hernandez Have Left? Posted: 19 Apr 2017 09:27 AM PDT He was reportedly worth $8 million before lawyer fees.

Macron hangs on to lead in French election, Le Pen's camp rows with Brussels Posted: 19 Apr 2017 11:07 AM PDT By Richard Balmforth and Sarah White PARIS (Reuters) - Centrist Emmanuel Macron clung on to his status as favorite to win France's presidential election in a four-way race that is too close to call, as the camp of far-right challenger Marine Le Pen ramped up its eurosceptic rhetoric in a row with Brussels. A closely-watched Cevipof opinion poll published on Wednesday showed frontrunners Macron and Le Pen both losing some momentum ahead of Sunday's first round, and conservative Francois Fillon and far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon still in contention for the second round run-off. With millions of French voters still undecided or planning to abstain, the vote is the most unpredictable in France in decades and investors are nervous about potential last-minute surprises that could trigger market turmoil.

Fresno shooter wanted to kill many white people, police say Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:23 PM PDT FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A man wanted in the slaying of a security guard set out to kill as many white people as he could on Tuesday, gunning down three men on the streets of downtown Fresno before he was captured and admitted to the shootings, authorities said.

Jinger Duggar Is Under Fire For Wearing Pants Posted: 19 Apr 2017 11:50 AM PDT Jinger Duggar, of the "19 Kids and Counting" family- is receiving some backlash for her decision to wear pants. The Duggar family is known for its conservative values, so this seemingly minor style choice is quite controversial.

McDonald's order trips up Facebook slaying suspect Posted: 19 Apr 2017 09:42 AM PDT Facebook slaying suspect Steve Stephens was undone by a 20-piece Chicken McNuggets and an order of fries.

Scientists just unearthed an absolutely terrifying new sea creature Posted: 19 Apr 2017 04:12 PM PDT It's hard to imagine that, after thousands of years of cataloguing every living thing we come across, humans are still discovering new animals, but when it comes to the ocean there's just so much space to cover that it's easy to miss things. Researchers led by Northeastern University professor Dan Distel just made history by unearthing the first living example of a creature that scientists have had a hard time finding for hundreds of years. It's called a Giant Shipworm, and it's absolutely bizarre. The "worms," which are actually part of the mollusk family, live inside thick, calcified tubes buried under the sea floor, allowing just two small tips of its body to be seen. The creature feeds almost exclusively on hydrogen sulfide, which is processed by bacteria inside its gills and converted to carbon that the worm then utilizes. The most striking aspect of the discovery is just how odd the shipworms actually look. Measuring an average of three feet long, the mollusks look like long slippery black rubber tubes with little to no defining features or recognizable body parts. The rigid shells in which they live are said to be as heavy as a tree branch. Researchers have known that these worms exist for some time thanks to their durable tubes that remain long after the worms die, but have never actually found a living specimen until now. Scientists now set about learning how the species reproduces, their life cycles, and other crucial information needed to paint an accurate picture of the creatures.

Israelis hold mass pot protest by parliament Posted: 20 Apr 2017 11:00 AM PDT Hundreds of Israelis gathered on a grassy hill overlooking parliament on Thursday to smoke marijuana in an act of communal defiance of current laws. "This is my healthy Ritalin," he said, referring to a drug for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Venezuela opposition vows fresh protests despite deaths Posted: 19 Apr 2017 10:53 PM PDT Opponents of the Venezuelan government vowed fresh huge protests on Thursday, upping the ante in their bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro after a day of deadly clashes in the oil-rich but beleaguered nation. A 17-year-old boy and a 23-year-old woman died after being shot Wednesday during massive protests, and a soldier outside Caracas was said to have been killed, bringing to eight the number of people killed this month in a mounting political crisis. Riot police fired tear gas to force back stone-throwing demonstrators as hundreds of thousands of people fed up with food shortages and demanding elections joined protest marches in Caracas and several other cities.

Mama Bear Splashes Around With Cub During Debut at Zoo Posted: 19 Apr 2017 10:22 AM PDT The Columbus Zoo welcomed three polar bear cubs in the same month last year in an effort to increase the species' population.

Russia denies Reuters report think tank drew up plan to sway U.S. election Posted: 20 Apr 2017 07:11 AM PDT Russia dismissed as false on Thursday a Reuters report that said a government think tank controlled by President Vladimir Putin had developed a plan to swing the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump's favor. Reuters reported on Wednesday that the Moscow-based Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) had provided the framework and rationale for what U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded was an intensive effort by Russia to interfere with the Nov. 8 election. The Reuters report cited three current and four former U.S. officials who had acquired two documents prepared by the institute.

Approval for Duterte's drug war slips in Philippines Posted: 18 Apr 2017 11:12 PM PDT Satisfaction in the Philippines with President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs declined in the first quarter this year, a survey showed on Wednesday, with opinions split about police accounts that the drug suspects they killed had resisted arrest. Seventy-eight percent of 1,200 people surveyed by Social Weather Stations (SWS) said they were satisfied by the government's crackdown on illegal drugs, down from 85 percent in a similar poll in December last year. Almost 9,000 people, many small-time users and dealers, have been killed in the Philippines since Duterte took office on June 30.

How to Choose a Solo 401(k) Provider Posted: 20 Apr 2017 06:43 AM PDT Creation of the individual 401(k) with the Bush-era tax cuts went practically unnoticed, and the financial services industry was slow to set up these retirement plans and still has not done much marketing. In fact, the solo 401(k) can be even better, because the single participant is in charge of choosing the investment options and can even get a tax deduction for additional contributions in his or her role as the employer. This year, a plan participant can put in $18,000 as employee ($24,000 if 50 or older), plus an employer's contribution of up to 25 percent of his compensation, with total contributions limited to $54,000 ($60,000 if 50 or older).

Karina Vetrano's Killer Blames 'Emotions' For Murder Posted: 19 Apr 2017 01:06 PM PDT 'I was just mad at that time. I beat her to let my emotions out," said accused killer Chanel Lewis.

Australia to raise English language standard for citizenship Posted: 19 Apr 2017 09:34 PM PDT CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia plans to tighten its citizenship rules to require higher English language skills, longer residency and evidence of integration such as a job, officials said Thursday.

Apple has a mystery prototype that injures employees’ eyes Posted: 20 Apr 2017 12:58 PM PDT According to a workplace Health and Safety report obtained by Gizmodo, Apple is working on some kind of eye-mounted system that involves using lasers. We only know this because in two instances, Apple employees were left injured after testing the prototype. The document leaked to Gizmodo is an incident report on workplace injures, compiled for Apple by an independent contractor. The report details a number of accidents that could be linked to new products Apple is testing, including a face-mounted AR or VR system, and possibly a minivan linked to an Apple project. The report details two injuries related to a prototype that sounds like it has a lot to do with augmented reality: "After BT4 user study, user advised study lead, that she experienced discomfort in her eye and said she was able to see the laser flash at several points during the study. Study lead referred her to optometrist and secured prototype unit for analysis." In another report, an employee working at Apple's Vallco Parkway office in Cupertino reported eye pain on March 2. "Employee reported eye pain after working with new prototype, thought it may be associated with use. He noticed that the security seal on the magenta (outer) case had been broken and had thought the unit may have been tampered with." A source inside Apple speculated that this injury may have something to do with an augmented reality product Apple may be testing, something like glasses with an overhead display. Laser flashes and "eye pain associated with use" all sound like some kind of head-mounted display, like the ill-fated Google Glass. The fact that the prototype had a magenta housing also points it towards being a piece of wearable technology. The only thing that Apple has gone out of its way to make colorful is its other wearable, the Apple Watch. Apple has been linked to some kind of augmented reality project for a long time. CEO Tim Cook has repeatedly said that he thinks AR will be more interesting than VR, and numerous reports have suggested that Apple has been working on a prototype for some time now. The leaked report also detailed an incident where a company-owned minivan turned into a crosswalk and hit an Apple employee. It's possible that the minivan is something to do with Apple's long-rumored self-driving car program, or it could also be collecting mapping data for Apple Maps.

Ghost in the Machine? Mysterious 'Sterile' Neutrinos May Not Exist Posted: 19 Apr 2017 07:17 AM PDT Proposed elusive subatomic particles that only fleetingly interact with matter through gravity may not exist, at least if new data from a nuclear reactor is any indication. Scientists had long noticed a discrepancy between the predicted and actual number of antineutrinos, or the antimatter partners to neutrinos, produced in nuclear reactors. Now, a new analysis suggests that this reactor antineutrino discrepancy isn't the result of a new hypothetical particle known as a sterile neutrino.

Utah Rep. Chaffetz says he won't run for re-election Posted: 19 Apr 2017 02:23 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican who doggedly investigated Hillary Clinton before the 2016 presidential election but declined to investigate President Donald Trump, abruptly announced Wednesday that he won't run for re-election.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily briefing on April 19, 2017 Posted: 19 Apr 2017 10:00 AM PDT On Wednesday, April 19, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily briefing with the White House press corp.

Ex-NFL star Hernandez hangs self in prison; family seeks probe Posted: 19 Apr 2017 11:54 AM PDT Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez hanged himself on Wednesday in a prison cell where he was serving a life sentence for murder, prison officials said, and his family called for an immediate investigation into the circumstances. The body of the 27-year-old former athlete was found hanging from a bed sheet at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts. Hernandez was serving a life sentence for the 2013 murder of an acquaintance but on Friday had been found not guilty of killing two other people.

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