| Trump: Change Senate rules ‘immediately’ to pass GOP plans Posted: 30 May 2017 08:58 AM PDT  President Trump is calling on Republican senators to lower the voting threshold needed to break a filibuster and pass health care and tax reform legislation.
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| US Fires Missile to Test System Designed to Intercept Missile Attack Posted: 30 May 2017 08:31 AM PDT  Just two days after North Korea's latest missile launch, the US military fired a missile from the California coast in a test designed to defend against an attack from the rogue country.
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| Correction: Mississippi Shooting-The Latest story Posted: 31 May 2017 03:15 PM PDT  BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — In a story May 30 about a series of shootings in Mississippi, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on incorrect information from authorities, the middle name of the man charged in the shootings. His name is Willie Cory Godbolt, not Corey.
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| Asia Pivots to Germany Posted: 30 May 2017 08:52 AM PDT  After dealing with Donald Trump, Angela Merkel hosts India and China in the same week.
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| Rescued Chibok girls won't be going back to home town for school Posted: 30 May 2017 07:53 AM PDT  The rescued Chibok girls will not be going back to their rural home town to complete their schooling, Nigeria's minister for women said on Tuesday. Speaking at a ceremony welcoming 82 newly rescued girls to a government rehabilitation facility in Abuja, Aisha Alhassan said all the girls will be heading back to class in September, without specifying where. There are a total of 106 rescued Chibok girls that were kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists in 2014 who are receiving medical and psycho-social treatment at the Women Affairs Centre, located on the outskirts of the capital.
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| This creepy ‘faceless fish’ species was just discovered in the depths of the ocean Posted: 31 May 2017 09:03 AM PDT 
Despite ever increasing numbers of deep-sea expeditions, scientists continue to maintain that humanity has only a very cursory knowledge of the kinds of creatures that live in the depths of Earth's oceans. A month-long voyage off the coast of Australia has just discovered plenty of evidence to support that fact, including a fish with absolutely no face. Easily the most interesting revelation from the scientists' journey, the faceless fish measures roughly 22 inches in length, and looks like a slimy torpedo. The creature is officially known as a "Faceless Cusk," and it certainly lives up to its name. With no visible eyes and a totally featureless head with the exception of two nostrils, its mouth is situated on the bottom of its body, giving it a very odd appearance. 
The creature has only been observed once before, and that was way back in 1873, when a ship snagged one off the coast of Papua New Guinea. This most recent expedition, which was led by Dr. Tim O'Hara of the Australia's Museums Victory, used nets to trawl at depths of 2.5 miles beneath the surface. The group also used sonar and camera rigs to make additional observations, and the team says that of the species they were able to catalog, roughly one-third are completely new to science. "This little fish looks amazing because the mouth is actually situated at the bottom of the animal so, when you look side-on, you can't see any eyes, you can't see any nose or gills or mouth," O'Hara remarked, via satellite. "It looks like two rear-ends on a fish, really."
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| Michael McCarthy On Trial Charged With Killing 'Demon' Child Bella Bond Posted: 31 May 2017 04:27 AM PDT  Michael McCarthy, who allegedly killed 2-year-old toddler Bella Bond was the boyfriend of the child's mother, Rachelle, but not the biological father of Bella.
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| Chelsea Clinton weighs in on Kathy Griffin debate Posted: 31 May 2017 12:07 PM PDT  Clinton said, "I hope we can all least agree that it's never funny to joke about violence toward anyone, and particularly in this political climate, toward our president."
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| President Trump: ‘Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself’ Posted: 31 May 2017 05:02 AM PDT  "My children, especially my 11 year old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!"
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| Leaked birth control rule would broaden religious exemption Posted: 31 May 2017 02:58 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Women's groups are threatening to take the Trump administration to court after a leaked, draft regulation revealed a plan to let employers opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women for religious and moral reasons.
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| Pulse Nightclub Survivor, 20, Killed In Car Crash Posted: 31 May 2017 06:29 AM PDT  Jahqui Sevilla, 20, was killed Monday morning along with a 53-year-old mother.
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| Turkey condemns US for arming Kurds with weapons ahead of Raqqa assault Posted: 31 May 2017 09:38 AM PDT  The Pentagon has confirmed the first new shipment of arms to Kurdish fighters closing in on Isis in the militants' de facto capital of Raqqa is on its way to Syria. Small arms including AK-47s and small-calibre machine guns as well as vehicles were being transferred to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a mainly Kurdish alliance of fighters, spokesperson Eric Pahon told reporters on Tuesday. The news was met with consternation in Ankara, where Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called the decision a "mistake".
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| Bigelow Aerospace, Time To Put Up Or Shut Up About UFOs Posted: 30 May 2017 04:56 PM PDT  Bigelow Aerospace founder and president Robert Bigelow recently spoke with '60 Minutes' and discussed his long-held belief that alien UFOs have and are visiting Earth. But he's not just another UFO enthusiast, Bigelow has privatized piles of relevant evidence. Whatever he knows, he should tell us.
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| Syrian rebels say U.S., allies sending more arms to fend off Iran threat Posted: 30 May 2017 08:38 AM PDT  By Tom Perry, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Maher Chmaytelli BEIRUT/AMMAN/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Syrian rebels say the United States and its allies are sending them more arms to try to fend off a new push into the southeast by Iran-backed militias aiming to open an overland supply route between Iraq and Syria. The stakes are high as Iran seeks to secure its influence from Tehran to Beirut in a "Shi'ite crescent" of Iranian influence through Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, where Sunni Arab states have lost out in power struggles with Iran.
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| ISIS-linked group under heavy fire in the Philippines as civilians flee Posted: 30 May 2017 10:42 AM PDT ![ISIS-linked group under heavy fire in the Philippines as civilians flee]( "ISIS-linked group under heavy fire in the Philippines as civilians flee") The Philippine Army battles Islamic State-linked Maute group leaving many displaced.
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| Robert De Niro: U.S. has fallen from ‘uplifting drama’ to ‘tragic, dumba** comedy’ Posted: 30 May 2017 09:09 AM PDT  Robert De Niro told Brown University's graduating class that the United States has fallen from "an inspiring, uplifting drama" to a "tragic, dumba** comedy."
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| Fisherman, 73, Miraculously Survives After 9-Foot-Long Great White Shark Jumps on His Boat Posted: 30 May 2017 10:46 AM PDT  The rescue team reported he was "covered in blood with numerous lacerations on his right arm."
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| Macron vows to renegotiate sale of French shipyard Posted: 31 May 2017 12:29 PM PDT  Saint-Nazaire (France) (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that his government would seek to renegotiate the sale of the STX France shipyard to Italy's Fincantieri, in order to "guarantee job preservation" at the site. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire will negotiate "a new shareholding structure" for the sale "in the coming weeks", Macron said during a visit to the Saint-Nazaire shipyard, the last gem in France's once-thriving shipbuilding industry.
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| Fight breaks out between lawmakers on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives Posted: 30 May 2017 09:50 AM PDT  A scuffle broke out between lawmakers on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives when Republican state Rep. Matt Rinaldi said he called ICE to deal with demonstrators protesting the state's "sanctuary cities" ban. According to the Associated Press, Rinaldi told some Hispanic Democratic representatives, "This is B.S. That's why I called ICE," leading to the fight.
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| Merkel, minister stress U.S. ties after critical Trump tweet Posted: 30 May 2017 10:06 AM PDT  By Thomas Escritt and Matthias Sobolewski BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump called Germany's trade and spending policies "very bad" on Tuesday, intensifying a row between the longtime allies and immediately earning himself the moniker "destroyer of Western values" from a leading German politician. As the war of words threatened to spin out of control, Merkel and other senior German politicians stressed the importance of Germany's Atlantic ties, with Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel suggesting the spat was just a rough patch. Trump took to Twitter early in the day in the United States to attack Germany, a day after Chancellor Angela Merkel ramped up her doubts about the reliability of Washington as an ally.
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| Google points out everyone's terrible spelling, and then misspells a word Posted: 30 May 2017 04:03 PM PDT  While Scripps National Spelling Bee this week tries to convince us that America can spell, Google has the state-by-state breakdown to prove otherwise. SEE ALSO: California State University's grad stole features a pretty brutal spelling error The search engine revealed Tuesday which word comes up the most when people type in, "How to spell..." and the results are something else. America's most misspelled words - it's #spellingbee week and we mapped top "how to spell" searches by state#dataviz pic.twitter.com/oHkRHj8Eku — GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) May 30, 2017 The results are telling — Wisconsin looks up how to spell their own state name the most, while New Hampshire is worried about diarrhea and getting that right. @GoogleTrends "Wisconsin" being the most misspelled word in Wisconsin is perfect. — Jamison Stoltz (@EditorStoltz) May 30, 2017 @GoogleTrends Diorrh... diahrr... dioeri... never mind... — davepaisley (@davepaisley) May 30, 2017 Google itself has some of its own spelling problems to sort out. Its original map spelled Washington D.C.'s most searched word as "nintey," which is definitely not how you spell out the number 90. It was corrected later, along with some incorrect letter counting, with a new map and legend marked as the "one to use." We've made a few corrections to the legend. This is the one to use pic.twitter.com/0Z8fUlzmHc — GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) May 30, 2017 Helpfully, or embarrassingly, Google broke down the searches by letter-length. Most searches are for six to 10 letter words, like California, New York, Minnesota, Kentucky and Ohio's "beautiful" or Illinois' "appreciate." Good old Pennsylvania really pulled through with "sauerkraut." Some concernedly short search queries were "liar" in Rhode Island and "nanny" in Mississippi. The two longest words hailed from West Virginia and Connecticut (way harder to spell than Wisconsin) and were the same: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins. But the best finding was "tomorrow" topping searches in both Arizona and Colorado — but with different letter lengths. In Arizona, searches for the word were six to 10 letters, while in Colorado they were 11 to 19 letters — that's a lot of extra Ms and Rs. @GoogleTrends Interesting how "tomorrow" has eight letters in Arizona and eleven letters in Colorado — ᵖᵉᵗᵉ (@petecasellini) May 30, 2017 Catch the spelling bee finals on Thursday — they'll be on ESPN. Maybe "chihuahua" or "banana" will be the ultimate stumper. But probably not, considering last year's winning words were "gesellschaft" and "Feldenkrais." WATCH: The adaptation differences in the Harry Potter series are wickedly permissible
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| Pentagon declares success for key test of missile defense Posted: 30 May 2017 06:30 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon scored an important success Tuesday in a test of its oft-criticized missile defense program, destroying a mock warhead over the Pacific Ocean with an interceptor that is key to protecting U.S. territory from a North Korean attack.
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| Boy, 10, Flies Off Waterslide at Opening Day of New Amusement Park Posted: 30 May 2017 08:49 AM PDT  The Wave in California remains closed as the investigation continues.
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| Senior US official reduced to very awkward silence when asked about Saudi Arabia's attitude to democracy Posted: 31 May 2017 05:00 AM PDT  A senior US foreign affairs official gave one of the most awkward press conference responses ever witnessed in response to a question about Saudi Arabia's attitude to democracy. Having served as US Ambassador to Jordan and Iraq – and been in Al Anbar Province in 2004, as it became the deadliest region for US forces in Iraq – Stuart Jones might have been considered more than able to fend off questions about Saudi Arabia's apparent lack of enthusiasm for elections. Instead the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East Affairs Bureau, freshly returned from accompanying President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Saudi Arabia, seemed completely stumped by the relatively straightforward reporter's question.
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| Know Your Options to Reduce Student Loan Payments Posted: 31 May 2017 07:00 AM PDT ![Know Your Options to Reduce Student Loan Payments]( "Know Your Options to Reduce Student Loan Payments") The Student Loan Ranger receives many questions from readers. On occasion, we like to share some queries that other borrowers are likely to relate to .
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| Top Trump aide exits as wider White House overhaul expected Posted: 31 May 2017 07:20 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A top communications aide to President Donald Trump has resigned, in what many inside and outside the White House see as the first exit before a wider overhaul.
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| Ryan Edwards’ Fiancée Mackenzie Standifer Seemingly Confirms Drug Rumors Posted: 31 May 2017 11:33 AM PDT  "Here's a thought… maybe instead of making assumptions and tearing people down, you could spend that time praying for us instead," she tweeted
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| Death toll climbs from mudslides and floods in Sri Lanka Posted: 31 May 2017 10:08 AM PDT ![Death toll climbs from mudslides and floods in Sri Lanka]( "Death toll climbs from mudslides and floods in Sri Lanka") The death toll from mudslides and floods in Sri Lanka has climbed past 200, with 96 others missing, the government said Wednesday. The Disaster Management Center said 203 people were confirmed dead. More than 77,000 have been displaced and over 1,500 homes destroyed since rains began inundating the southern and western areas of the Indian Ocean island nation last Friday.
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| Allegations of abuse, mismanagement shadow gains against IS Posted: 30 May 2017 04:36 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — As the U.S.-led coalition ratchets up operations in Syria, there are concerns that it will result in a rerun of what happened in Iraq, where $1 billion in weapons supplied to local fighters is unaccounted for.
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| Principal's Suicide in School Parking Lot Came Amid Adultery Allegations, Officials Say Posted: 31 May 2017 10:59 AM PDT  Dennis Reeves was allegedly having an affair with his secretary.
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| Silk Road website founder loses appeal of conviction, life sentence Posted: 31 May 2017 12:38 PM PDT  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ross Ulbricht, the accused mastermind behind the underground Silk Road website for the sale of illegal drugs to customers worldwide, failed to persuade a federal appeals court to overturn his conviction and life sentence. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Wednesday rejected Ulbricht's claim that he was denied a fair trial because he could not introduce evidence of corruption by two federal agents involved in his probe. It also rejected the 33-year-old Ulbricht's claim that his prison term of life with no possibility of parole, was too long.
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| Girl, 7, found critically injured after domestic incident in Olney section of Philadelphia Posted: 31 May 2017 04:05 AM PDT  Philadelphia Police are investigating how a 7-year-old girl who is hospitalized in extremely critical condition became unresponsive in her home.
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| Shutdown for 50th anniversary of Biafra declaration Posted: 30 May 2017 06:10 AM PDT  Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since the declaration of an independent republic of Biafra sparked a brutal civil war. In Onitsha, the economic hub of Anambra state on the banks of the River Niger, most markets were closed and the streets were largely empty of people and traffic. Separatist sentiment persists in the region, which is dominated by the Igbo people, and the main pro-Biafran independence group has called on supporters to stay at home.
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| Nest has a new security camera and it’s smarter than ever Posted: 31 May 2017 12:01 AM PDT 
Nest exists in a strange place in the smart home. While every other company is rushing to be the whole-home smart assistant that you've never needed (see: Amazon Alexa), Nest has tried to identify a few key niches and make its products around those. It successfully made its name in thermostats; now, smart cameras are the new big thing. Nest has a new one, and it's riding the AI trend to a creepier stop than ever.
The new camera is called Nest Cam IQ, and on the surface, it isn't all that different to the Nest Indoor or Outdoor Camera that came before it. Fundamentally, it's still an internet-connected camera that live-streams video from your house to an app. If you never had any use for a home camera before, it's still going to be pointless. But for people who are interested in tracking the comings and goings in a house, Nest's new camera will be invaluable. Out of the box, it will ship with a feature that can identify humans (rather than cats or shadows) and alert you to the presence of a person in the house. With a Nest subscription, you can even had the app identify people using facial recognition, and then alert you when certain people show up. The Nest Cam IQ costs $299, and is available for pre-order right now on the website. Delivery should be expected sometime in June.
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| Donald Trump 'may have ordered Jared Kushner to set up secret Russia communication channel' Posted: 30 May 2017 05:59 AM PDT  Donald Trump may have ordered Jared Kushner to try and set up a secret communication link with Russia, a former CIA official has claimed. Mr Kushner allegedly met with the Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak In December to discuss setting up a channel which would be immune from security monitoring, The Washington Post reported last week. The FBI is thought to be in the process of scrutinising Mr Kushner's presence at meetings with Mr Kislyak.
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| Did Aliens Ever Live On Mars? Posted: 30 May 2017 09:00 AM PDT  We can't say yes or no with certainty, but new findings made by NASA's Curiosity rover extend the time frame in which life as we know it could have existed on the red planet.
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| This Barista's Confessions About What Really Went Down At Work Will Horrify You Posted: 30 May 2017 12:45 PM PDT  Spoiler: There's nothing that mice can't get into.
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| Dakota Access pipeline expected to begin shipping Thursday Posted: 31 May 2017 03:30 PM PDT ![Dakota Access pipeline expected to begin shipping Thursday]( "Dakota Access pipeline expected to begin shipping Thursday") BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, which is expected to begin shipping oil on Thursday, will face scrutiny later this summer on whether it violated North Dakota rules during construction.
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