| Senior Trump Transition Official Suggested Russia 'Threw' Election In Leaked Email: Report Posted: 02 Dec 2017 05:21 PM PST  A senior official on President Donald Trump's transition team suggested that Russia had "thrown" the U.S. presidential election in Trump's favor in a December 2016 email thread leaked to the New York Times and published Saturday.
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| The evangelical professor who turned against 'reparative therapy' for gays Posted: 02 Dec 2017 09:43 AM PST  Warren Throckmorton, a psychologist and evangelical Christian, once believed gays could turn straight if they wanted to. But science has convinced him otherwise. And direct experience with members of the LGBT community has made him question his religious assumptions about the issue.
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| Bodies Of Missing California Veteran And Dog Believed Found; Ex-Husband Under Arrest Posted: 02 Dec 2017 11:26 PM PST  Remains believed be those of an Army veteran missing for three months from her San Diego home and her dog have been found in a shallow grave in a rural desert area of Riverside County.
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| Here’s what scientists say a nuclear attack would look like Posted: 02 Dec 2017 08:04 AM PST  NBC News' Miguel Almaguer reports from Los Angeles, where America's first responders are preparing for nuclear emergency in case of attack.
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| American tourist killed in Costa Rica shark attack Posted: 02 Dec 2017 02:51 PM PST  San José (AFP) - A 49-year-old US female tourist was killed by a tiger shark this week while diving off a Costa Rican island in the Pacific Ocean, the government and local media reported. The attack also badly injured the 26-year-old male Costa Rican diving guide leading the group that included the American woman. The shark savaged the two on Thursday as they were surfacing after a dive off Coco Island, a pristine national park located 500 kilometers (300 miles) off the Costa Rican mainland, the environment ministry said in a statement.
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| Get Ready, North Korea: The F-35 Is Almost Ready to Attack from Aircraft Carriers Posted: 03 Dec 2017 04:40 AM PST  The fighter is configured to carry 19,000 pounds of fuel and 18,000 pounds of weapons. It can fire two AIM-120 air-to-air missiles and two 2,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions. The F-35C can reach speeds up to Mach 1.6 and travel more than 1,200 nautical miles. The Navy's stealthy carrier-launched F-35C is now moving much closer to combat readiness after conducting "carrier qualification" exercises from the USS Carl Vinson off the coast of Southern Calif., service officials said.
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| Crissy Teigen Dresses Up Her Baby Bump in Curve-Hugging Gown Posted: 03 Dec 2017 11:42 AM PST  Chrissy Teigen's lovin' her bun in the oven!
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| Retirement Community Resident Allegedly Tested Homemade Poison On Neighbors Posted: 02 Dec 2017 01:07 PM PST  A Vermont woman living in a retirement community has been arrested for allegedly making a deadly poison and testing it out on her fellow residents.
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| Kids send more than 600 backpacks of hope to Puerto Rico Posted: 02 Dec 2017 08:08 AM PST  Students at a Florida elementary school have sent backpacks to recently reopened schools all around Puerto Rico, each with a note to a child they have never met.
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| Thousands In Utah Protest Trump Plans To Shrink National Monuments Posted: 02 Dec 2017 10:15 PM PST  More than 5,000 angry protesters gathered outside the state capitol in Salt Lake City Saturday to rally against Donald Trump's expected plans to carve up federal public lands in Utah and open up what's left to drilling and mining.
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| Brock Turner, Former Stanford Swimmer Convicted Of Sexual Assault, Files Appeal Posted: 02 Dec 2017 01:13 PM PST  Brock Turner, a former Stanford University student, sparked nationwide outrage last year when he received a jail sentence of just six months after being convicted for sexually assaulting an unconscious, intoxicated woman beside a dumpster.
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| UAE denies claim of Yemen missile attack against its plant Posted: 03 Dec 2017 05:12 AM PST  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates on Sunday denied a claim by Yemen's Shiite rebels that they fired a missile toward an under-construction Emirati nuclear plant. The denial came as heavy fighting in Yemen's capital unraveled a rebel alliance that has been at war with a Saudi-led coalition, including the UAE.
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| Why the Delaware Earthquake Was a 5.1 Before It Was a 4.4 Posted: 02 Dec 2017 04:00 AM PST  Even experts get confused sometimes.
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| Hawaii Developer Under Fire For Segregated 'Poor Door' For Renters Posted: 02 Dec 2017 08:51 PM PST  HONOLULU ― A real estate developer in Hawaii is under scrutiny for its plans to build a residential high-rise that has two separate entrances: one for high-income residents and another for low-income earners.
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| Storm chaser captures extraordinary images Posted: 03 Dec 2017 12:15 PM PST ![Storm chaser captures extraordinary images]( "Storm chaser captures extraordinary images") While most people head for cover at the first sign of a storm, this man runs straight toward it. Storm chaser and father of three Mike Olbinski is addicted to photographing extreme weather and regularly takes on tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms in a bid to capture extraordinary images. The photographer, from Phoenix, often travels hundreds of miles a day to reach the eye of a storm. He first became hooked on the unusual hobby almost a decade ago, following the birth of his daughter. (Caters News)
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| First baby from a uterus transplant in the US born in Dallas Posted: 01 Dec 2017 06:30 PM PST  The first birth as a result of a womb transplant in the United States has occurred in Texas, a milestone for the U.S. but one achieved several years ago in Sweden.
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| Israel Is Building Its Own Global Hawk Drone Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:24 PM PST  Israel is building a giant drone comparable to America's RQ-4 Global Hawk, according to Israeli media. The drone will be an upgrade of Israel's Eitan long-range reconnaissance UAV, the Jerusalem Post reports. Upgrading the range and capabilities of the Eitan "will bring the drone to the scale" of the RQ-4 Global Hawk, the commander of the Israeli Air Force's Eitan squadron told the Post.
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| Sen. Chuck Schumer Shames GOP Tax Bill: It's A 'Stunning Deception' Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:01 PM PST  Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) shamed Republicans on the Senate floor hours before lawmakers voted on their nearly 500-page tax bill, which included handwritten notes and crossed-out pages. Schumer, who along with other Democratic senators received a draft of the bill late Friday, called the bill a monstrosity and criticized his Republican colleagues for rushing to pass a measure that he says only benefits the wealthy. "Historians will mark this day as one of the darkest black-letter days in the long history of this Senate," Schumer said during his request to delay voting on the bill until Monday.
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| Mueller removed FBI agent from Russia probe for anti-Trump texts: reports Posted: 02 Dec 2017 09:06 PM PST ![Mueller removed FBI agent from Russia probe for anti-Trump texts: reports]( "Mueller removed FBI agent from Russia probe for anti-Trump texts: reports") The special counsel examining alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election removed a top FBI investigator from his team for exchanging text messages with a colleague that expressed anti-Trump views, two U.S. newspapers reported on Saturday. The New York Times and the Washington Post identified the investigator as FBI agent Peter Strzok, the deputy head of FBI counter-intelligence.
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| Progressives Enjoy Wealth Of Good Options In Race To Succeed Key Chicago Congressman Posted: 02 Dec 2017 07:38 AM PST  Once the dust settled after Democratic Rep. Luis Gutiérrez's surprise announcement Tuesday that he would retire from Illinois' 4th Congressional District at the end of his term, something even more unexpected happened.
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| Golden Krust Bakery Founder Who Was 'the Perfect American Success Story' Reportedly Commits Suicide in His Factory Posted: 03 Dec 2017 02:51 PM PST  The Jamaican Prime Minister shared his condolences
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| Man stabbed multiple times in fight on CTA bus Posted: 02 Dec 2017 07:55 PM PST  A man is in serious condition after being stabbed multiple times following an altercation on a CTA bus Thursday night, Chicago police said.
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| Police: Policy banning guns for legal pot users under review Posted: 02 Dec 2017 05:16 PM PST ![Police: Policy banning guns for legal pot users under review]( "Police: Policy banning guns for legal pot users under review") HONOLULU (AP) — The Honolulu Police Department is reviewing a policy requiring medical marijuana users to turn over their firearms, police officials say.
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| Argentina navy concludes ship remains not connected to missing sub Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:08 PM PST  Argentina's navy on Saturday investigated what appeared to be remains of a ship on the South Atlantic seabed, but concluded they did not correspond to the submarine that disappeared more than two weeks ago with 44 crew members on board. The remains detected at 477 meters (1565 feet) under the ocean had dimensions similar to the missing ARA San Juan, but appeared to be from a sunken fishing vessel, Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told journalists. The navy's final contact with the ARA San Juan, a 34-year-old German-built diesel-electric sub, came on November 15, when it was sailing in the South Atlantic 450 kilometers (280 miles) from the coast.
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| Controversial Congressman Once Asked Why Terrorists Don’t Target The IRS and DMVs Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:05 PM PST  Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas), who was unmasked Friday as the only congressman to use funds from the now infamous Congressional Office of Compliance to settle a sexual harassment claim, once asked in a tweet, "Why do terrorists hate airplanes?
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| In Massachusetts, Protesters Balk At Pipeline Company's Payments To Police Posted: 03 Dec 2017 04:58 AM PST  ― When Karla Colon-Aponte arrived at the Otis State Forest on the morning of Oct. 25, she intended to join her fellow protesters praying beside energy giant Kinder Morgan's Connecticut Expansion Project line, a four-mile-long natural gas pipeline that runs in a loop through the town of Sandisfield in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts.
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| A lonely Texas road, a dead border patrol officer. Trump cried murder – but was it? Posted: 03 Dec 2017 02:00 AM PST  The FBI is investigating a 'potential assault' but the local sheriff believes Rogelio Martinez's death nearby may have another explanation. Two weeks after two US border patrol agents were found with head injuries by a drainage channel next to a freeway in remote west Texas, how one of them died remains a mystery.
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| Pope Francis On Meeting Rohingya Refugees: 'I Wept' Posted: 03 Dec 2017 06:40 AM PST  After facing criticism for not speaking out against Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims during his visit to the Southeast Asian country last week, Pope Francis defended his silence on Saturday, saying he'd spoken privately about the humanitarian crisis with the nation's leaders and that he believed a more direct approach would have backfired.
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| Is This the Battle That Turned the Tide of the Korean War? Posted: 03 Dec 2017 04:13 AM PST  Warfare History Network
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| How the Siberian tiger was brought back from the brink of extinction Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:00 PM PST  The forests of Russia's Far East evoke a strange feeling, one that most Europeans have not been forced to consider for centuries. It is the sensation of being watched; of unseen menace lurking between the trees. Ultimately, it is the realisation that you are among predators, and being contemplated as either a rival or prey. A loud roar echoes around as we tread through a valley of volcanic rock formed between a dense canopy of Mongolian oak and Korean pine. My guide, Pavel Fomenko, hands me a flare with the instruction to use it should a bear approach.We creep forward, crunching over fallen leaves while our other guide, the hunting inspector for Primorsky Krai province, Alexander Korneev, peels off into the undergrowth. Ravens shriek about the treetops. If the birds are up, Fomenko warns, it means something has disturbed them. We arrive at a clearing scattered with clumps of fur. A few metres away lie the remains of a black bear, buzzing with flies. This is what we have been searching for: the recently dispatched supper of an Amur tiger. They call this boreal wilderness the taiga in Russian, forests sprawling hundreds of miles from the North Korean border up towards the Arctic. They are home to a vast collection of flora and fauna and, above all, predators. An estimated 95 per cent of the world's population of Amur (or Siberian) tigers live here. Up to 10ft long, larger, heavier and stronger than their Asian cousins, they are the undisputed rulers of the forest; their orange, black and white pelts enable them to move like ghosts between the trees. Alexander Korneev, hunting inspector for Primorsky Krai province Credit: Olya Ivanova We have been tracking this particular tiger, Vladik, since my arrival in the Russian port city of Vladivostok three days earlier. A young male around four years old and weighing more than 22st, he first drew attention to himself in October 2016 after wandering into Vladivostok's concrete suburbs and provoking a storm of publicity. Eventually he was caught and taken to a tiger rehabilitation centre, before being released this May in the Bikin National Park, wearing a GPS collar. Since then, however, Vladik has been steadily heading south, back towards Vladivostok, covering around 450 miles and killing 10 large animals en route, including bear, deer and wild boar. Fomenko, who is WWF Russia's head of rare species conservation, fears that if Vladik continues this trajectory he will end up once again too close to a town and have to be recaptured and sent to a zoo. 'Vladik is a lovely tiger with all the rights and ability to live in the wild,' he says. 'I worry about him and all of Russia's Amur tigers. All of the time.' The Amur tiger is that rarity, an endangered species whose population is increasing. In the 1930s, numbers fell as low as 20 animals, threatened to the point of extinction by poaching and logging. In 1995, there were 330 to 371 adult tigers. In 2015, after a survey of 60,000 square miles of the tigers' habitat, the number had risen to 540 in the wild (including some 100 cubs). The success story (albeit one cautiously told) of Amur tigers is at the forefront of the WWF's mission to increase the world's tiger population in the wild to more than 6,000 by 2022, the next Chinese year of the tiger (up from the 3,900 counted in 2016).That figure would mark a huge step forward in achieving global security for tigers, whose populations were decimated by 97 per cent in the past century. Much of the progress in Russia is down to men like Fomenko and Korneev, who have spent decades on the front line fighting poachers seeking tiger skins and body parts to supply the voracious Asian market. Like rhinos, tigers are valued for bogus medicinal properties. The taiga, Russia's forests, are home to the Amur tigers Credit: Olya Ivanova One of many prevailing myths is that if you poke a tiger whisker into a decaying tooth it will stop it aching. The stakes are high. A poacher can pay fines of up to one million roubles (£13,000), while those caught killing a tiger also face 15 years in prison. As a result, poachers are willing to fight to the death. Fomenko can recall at least three occasions on which armed poachers have tried to kill him. A few years ago, Korneev, whose brigade catches around 120 culprits a year, was seriously injured after being run over by a poacher on a snowmobile. When he first started as a hunting inspector 13 years ago, Korneev tells me, even to find a tiger paw print was big news. 'Now I see the actual animal three times a year,' he grins. The most recent sighting was four days previously when he spotted a tiger stalking a family of wild boar over a ridge. It paused, contemplating him with unblinking amber eyes before bristling and slowly beginning to advance. To ward it off Korneev fired his hunting rifle into the air. As the report cracked through the stillness, the tiger melted into the forest. The first time Pavel Fomenko met a tiger, it ate his dog. He tells me the story during lunch one day when we are sitting by a fire in the forest eating cheese and bread, and drinking smoke-infused tea boiled on the open flames. He was barely 20 at the time, out hunting with his dog, Amba, when it suddenly started barking at something rustling in the bushes. 'I was inexperienced and didn't realise what was happening, and suddenly this tiger pounced in front of me.' Fomenko's weather-beaten face takes on a rueful expression, 'I loved that dog.' A great bear of a man prone to long philosophical soliloquies in-between explaining his scientific studies of the tiger, the 54-year-old is a hero in the Tolstoyan mould. Not least in his connection to the land. A watchtower used to keep track of illegal poaching and logging Credit: Olya Ivanova Fomenko spends weeks at a time in the wilderness away from his wife Yulia and two sons, and regards his time there as spiritually cleansing. He grew up in a coal-mining town in south Siberia where, like his father and grandfather before him, he worked in the pits. He recalls operating a digger and looking up at a distant forest on the horizon: 'All the time I knew I was doing something wrong.' Fomenko decided, instead, to study ecology at Irkutsk Agrarian University. After graduating, he moved to Primorsky Krai to continue his studies as a biologist and work as a wildlife game manager. Like some 90,000 others in the province he is a proud hunter and would supplement his income by shooting sable (a small mammal similar to a pine marten, prized for its fur). He still hunts today and says, 'Many people do not understand hunters are the true friends of nature.' Amur tiger Fomenko revels in such contradictions and insists numerous times while we're together that he doesn't even like tigers. 'For me, the tiger is an umbrella. I can protect everything using money intended only for tigers and can conserve the forest where they live. So thank God we have our tigers.' Fomenko joined the WWF in 1994. The Soviet Union had been dissolved three years earlier and with it state funding for nature protection disappeared almost overnight. Chinese prospectors quickly moved in. 'Everything was targeted, from timber to frogs and, of course, tigers,' Fomenko says. 'And so people started to kill.' But in recent years the tiger protectors have found themselves a powerful ally: the Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has come to regard the Amur tiger as a potent symbol of national pride. The Russian government has agreed to restrict logging in Amur tiger habitat and a presidential order in 2011 banned logging of Korean pine (although, over the past five years enough illegal wood from other species was logged to fill 400 miles of railways carriages). Pavel Fomenko, WWF Russia's head of rare species conservation Credit: Olya Ivanova At the same time, it has has also increased penalties for poaching and possession of tiger parts. Putin nowadays rarely wastes a photo opportunity with a tiger, and a few years ago state media reported he had personally immobilised one with a tranquilliser dart as it charged towards a nearby camera crew – although no footage of the deed exists. Fomenko only raises an eyebrow when I ask him what he thinks. My visit comes a few weeks before the first snowfall of the year in Primorsky Krai. The silver birches, bent almost double under the weight of last year's drifts, stand testament to the severity of winter here, when temperatures of -30C are not uncommon. In late autumn, the mercury hovers around freezing in the day and well below at night. On one such cold afternoon I meet Alexander Primenko who lives in a small clearing in the forest. The 65-year-old has stayed here alone for the past seven years and is part of a network of so-called 'watchmen', established to stay in the forest throughout winter to keep a lookout for poachers. Three tigers roam the forest close to his home and that morning we'd set camera traps nearby – tying them to trees on known routes. We manage to capture an image of one of the beasts. We also come across a paw print in the mud, the size of two fists and unmistakably belonging to a tiger. Being a watchman is a dangerous occupation. The left side of Primenko's face carries a livid scar from a bear attack five years ago and his nostril is torn in half, whistling during the several shots of home-brewed liquor he drinks in my presence. 'It was only a scratch,' he says. He grew up in a village 120 miles from here, which is now all but abandoned. After his wife died of cancer a decade ago, he decided to move into the forest and live self-sufficiently as a watchman helping to save the tiger. He keeps chickens and bees, has a small generator for electricity and a wood-fired stove. In total, he has lost 14 dogs to tigers over the years and points out the empty kennels where a tiger recently broke in and ate three. A camera trap to follow the tigers'progress is set by Alexy, Alexander Korneev's son Credit: Olya Ivanova 'I see it like paying rent to them,' he says. 'The only feeling I have for the tiger is one of total respect. When you hear the roar, the noise is loud enough to split your head from your ears.' A four-hour drive away I meet another watchman, Alexei Mitusov, 57, who also lives alone but with a stack of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie books to see him through the winter. 'The tigers are always present, even when you don't see them,' he says. 'To me, the tiger is the owner of the forest and I am his guest.' As well as tackling poachers and loggers, Fomenko has placed great emphasis on conserving tigers' habitat and prey. Over the past decade, three major national parks and other protected areas have been established, encompassing a land mass spanning almost 4,000 square miles and around 20 per cent of the tigers' range. He also works closely with the 90 or so privately leased hunting estates in Primorsky Krai, 10 of which have now been transformed into what Pavel calls 'model estates', where tigers, and the animals they feed on, are thriving. Increasing their food in the forests means fewer tigers are wandering into villages. But, still, 40 conflicts are recorded each year, resulting in mauling and occasionally death. At present, roughly one person is killed by a tiger every two years. The most recent came this October when a 43-year-old man was mauled to death gathering pine nuts in Khabarovsk region, which neighbours Primorsky Krai. If caught, Fomenko says, the maneater will most likely end up in permanent captivity. Tiger 'prison', he calls it. With the vast majority of Russia's Amur tigers that come into contact with humans, though, capturing and rehabilitating them before releasing them elsewhere in the wild is key to the national strategy. Not far from Vladivostok is a specialist centre for tigers that have come into conflict with humans. The team fight to keep the habitat safe for the animals to live within Credit: Olya Ivanova Established in 2012 with support from the government and various wildlife groups, so far 10 animals have been released from here back into the wild (including Vladik). The work is overseen by Ekaterina Blidchenko, a 30-year-old zoologist from Moscow. When I visit, there are two cubs, Saihan and Lazovka, who were bought here the previous winter. Blidchenko explains that the tigers are kept in sealed pens away from humans and slowly taught how to fend for themselves with live prey released once every five days. She shows me a recent CCTV recording of the tigers taking down a deer. One of the cubs lies in wait while the other chases the deer towards it. At the moment of impact the tiger leaps from its hiding place and catches the deer head on, grabbing its body and mauling its head. The deer is dead in a few seconds. It is both shocking and deeply impressive. 'I love all predators,' she says. 'Sometimes they are prejudged by the people who live close to them but I don't think this is fair. The tiger is part of our legend and fairy tales. If you start to look deeper, you see they are afraid themselves – more frequently than we can imagine.' For days, we wait for news of Vladik's latest movements. He's passed through numerous villages and crossed the Trans-Siberian railway. If he moves any closer to Vladivostok he will have to be caught. One morning towards the end of our trip, Fomenko receives a phone call. Vladik has turned south-west, away from the city, over a vast plateau leading towards the mountains of the Chinese border. A broad smile cracks across Fomenko's face. Vladik is safe – for now. wwf.org.uk/russiantigers
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| Syrian state media: Israeli missiles strike near Damascus Posted: 02 Dec 2017 03:51 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — Israel fired several surface-to-surface missiles at a military post near the Syrian capital of Damascus early on Saturday, causing material damage but no casualties, Syria's state-run news agency reported.
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| Shooter Fires Through Hospital's Emergency Room Window, Police Say Posted: 02 Dec 2017 07:53 AM PST  No one was injured before police shot and wounded the gunman
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| UAE 'deports' Egypt presidential hopeful Shafiq to Cairo: aides Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:10 PM PST  UAE officials on Saturday deported former Egyptian premier and presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafiq from the Gulf country he had been living in since 2012 to Egypt after he announced his candidacy in upcoming elections, two of his aides told AFP. Shafiq landed in Cairo airport on Saturday evening and quickly left to an unknown destination, an airport official said. The move comes days after Shafiq, in exile in the UAE since 2012, announced his candidacy in next year's election and then said he was being prevented from leaving the country, angering his Emirati hosts.
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| Actual Asian Comic Writers Respond To Marvel Editor-In-Chief's 'Yellowface' Controversy Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:27 PM PST  As the comic industry grapples with the revelation that new Marvel editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski posed as an Asian writer for a year, real writers of Asian descent are speaking up.
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| Corrected: Uber's use of encrypted messaging may set legal precedents Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:24 PM PST ![Corrected: Uber's use of encrypted messaging may set legal precedents]( "Corrected: Uber's use of encrypted messaging may set legal precedents") Top executives at Uber Technologies Inc used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret conversations, current and former workers testified in court this week, setting up what could be the first major legal test of the issues raised by the use of encrypted apps inside companies. The revelations Tuesday and Wednesday about the extensive use of Wickr inside Uber upended the high-stakes legal showdown with Alphabet's Inc Waymo unit, which accuses the ride-hailing firm of stealing its self-driving car secrets.
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| Orrin Hatch comments on Chip health program at heart of social media storm Posted: 03 Dec 2017 02:21 PM PST  Orrin Hatch speaks about Chip. A social media storm blew up on Sunday after a TV host suggested the Utah Republican Orrin Hatch thought children and pregnant women who receive federal healthcare assistance did not deserve such help because they "won't lift a finger" to help themselves. Joe Scarborough, the former Republican congressman and TV host who shared Hatch's remarks on Twitter, was accused of taking them out of context.
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| Barack Obama Appears To Zing Donald Trump With Twitter Followers Boast Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:18 AM PST  Former President Barack Obama appeared to throw subtle shade at President Donald Trump for having less Twitter followers than himself during a forum in India on Friday.
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| Half of Yazidis kidnapped by IS still missing Posted: 03 Dec 2017 07:24 AM PST  Around half of the Yazidis kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago are still missing, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Sunday. In 2014, IS jihadists killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the religious minority to abuse them as sex slaves. Kurdish fighters backed by the US-led coalition against IS captured Sinjar from the jihadists in November 2015 before Iraqi security forces took control of the region in October.
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| Leader of 'Cult-Like' Boarding School Is Arrested In Late 1980s Cold Case Death Of Toddler Posted: 02 Dec 2017 11:30 AM PST  Anna E. Young once ran a religious boarding house in Florida.
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| Final death toll in Somalia's worst attack is 512 people Posted: 02 Dec 2017 07:36 AM PST  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The final death toll in October's massive truck bombing in Somalia's capital is 512 people, according to the committee tasked with looking into the country's worst-ever attack.
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| Heart transplants likely to be obsolete within 10 years, says heart surgeon Posted: 02 Dec 2017 04:01 PM PST  Heart transplants are likely to become obsolete within 10 years, because they help so few people, a leading heart surgeon has said. On the 50th anniversary of the first human heart transplant, carried out by South African cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard, Professor Stephen Westaby said it was time to switch to artificial pumps and stem cell therapy, which could help thousands more people in Britain each year. Currently around 15,000 people under 65 each year in Britain could benefit from a heart transplant, but there are only around 150 organs available annually. New figures released today from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) also show that the number of patients waiting for a heart transplant has risen by 162 per cent in a decade, because of the growing population and improvements in medicine. Prof Stephen Westaby, of the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford: "I am a great supporter of cardiac transplantation. Some patients live for 20 years with excellent quality of life, but we can only treat one per cent of people. "How does a society value a treatment that needs another young person to die first and is applicable to less than one per cent of those who might benefit? "I think within ten years we won't see anymore heart transplants, except for people with congenital heart damage, where only a new heart will do. "I think the combination of heart pumps and stem cells has the potential to be a good alternative which could help far more people." 15,000 people could benefit from a heart transplant in Britain each year but only 150 hearts are available Credit: Shutterstock Prof Westaby has already shown it is possible to reverse scarring of heart tissue, and improve quality of life, by injecting stem cells into the hearts of people undergoing coronary bypass operation. Further trials to test out bone marrow stem cells on bypass patients is due to begin at the Royal Brompton in London in January. The hope is that stem cells injections could stop patients ever progressing to the stage where they would need a transplant. Prof Westaby is also developing a titanium mechanical heart pump which would be cheaper and more widely available than current models, which are currently cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. In the meantime, the BHF is urging people to talk to their loved ones about organ donation. Although around eight in 10 people support organ donation, fewer than 50 per cent of people have talked to family members about their wishes. More than half of families refuse a donation when they don't know what their loved one would have and the NHS must respect their decision, even if the dead individual was signed up to the donor register. Professor Sir Nilesh Samani, Medical Director of the BHF said; "On the 50th anniversary of the first heart transplant, we can look back and see how cardiovascular research has turned this fledgling procedure into a life-changing, life-saving operation. "The BHF continues to fund research into organ rejection and other approaches to help improve success rates, sa well as into regenerative medicine to try and repair the heart without the need for surgery, "The hope is that, one day, this research, will help to make heart transplant operations- and waiting lists for a new heart - a thing of the past."
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| Pizza Delivery Driver Kills Robber During Shootout Posted: 03 Dec 2017 08:59 AM PST  An Imo`s Pizza delivery driver in St. Louis killed an armed robber after police say he was shot at on the job.
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| Ryan Reynolds Wished His Brother A Happy Birthday In The Only Way He Knows How Posted: 02 Dec 2017 03:13 AM PST  Ryan Reynolds busted out his grade-A trolling game once again to wish his big brother Jeff a happy birthday on Friday.
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| Germany's far-right AfD chooses nationalist as co-leader Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:48 PM PST  By Sabine Ehrhardt HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Members of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party elected a right-wing nationalist to be their co-leader on Saturday, signaling a possible toughening of tone before regional votes next year. A party congress chose Alexander Gauland - who once defended an AfD member who had said history should be rewritten to focus on German victims of World War Two - to return to the post he had held until 2015. As members deliberated, thousands of anti-AfD protesters marched outside carrying placards reading "Hanover against Nazis" and "Stand up to racism".
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| The U.S. Army's Powerful New 7.62mm Service Rifle Is Officially Dead Posted: 02 Dec 2017 04:37 AM PST  The Army has officially canceled its search for an off-the-shelf 7.62mm Interim Combat Service Rifle (ICSR) meant to replace the standard-issue M4 carbine — a major setback in the branch's search for a new infantry rifle to augment soldier lethality. Army Contracting Command announced the cancellation of the ICSR program on Nov. 28, citing a "reprioritization" of funding for the commercially made service rifle to the Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) as a replacement for both the M4 and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon and "a long-term solution to meet the identified capability gap instead of the ICSR, which was an interim solution." The announcement did not disclose the scope of the funds involved, and PEO Soldier and U.S. Army Contracting Command did not immediately respond to inquiries from Task & Purpose.
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| Trump recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital would fuel violence: Arab League Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:55 PM PST  Any move by the United States to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital would fuel extremism and violence, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Saturday. The Palestinians want Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, and the international community does not recognize Israel's claim on all of the city, home to sites holy to the Jewish, Muslim and Christian religions.
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