| Devin Patrick Kelley Identified As Texas Church Shooting Suspect: Reports Posted: 05 Nov 2017 03:13 PM PST  Several new outlets have identified Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, as the suspect in Sunday's shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
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| Poll: Americans oppose Republican tax plan by 17-point margin Posted: 04 Nov 2017 03:00 AM PDT  President Donald Trump has been extolling the virtues of the Republican tax plan, but according to a new poll, the American public doesn't love the plan.
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| What Is The Massive Document Leak Known As The Paradise Papers? Posted: 05 Nov 2017 01:51 PM PST  The Paradise Papers closely resemble a document leak from last year known as the Panama Papers, which also detailed the offshore holdings and tax avoidance schemes of some of the world's most powerful people. The Panama Papers caused a significant international fallout when they were released in April 2016, even leading to the resignation of Iceland's prime minister amid protests and the surrounding controversy. The effects of this new Paradise Papers leak remain to be seen, but it has already put increased scrutiny on high-profile figures including U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Queen Elizabeth II.
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| Perez: 'I Don't Know What Donna Brazile Fell For' Posted: 04 Nov 2017 11:53 PM PDT  DNC Chairman Tom Perez tells Meet the Press that allegations from former acting DNC chair Donna Brazile calls her credibility into question, in an exclusive interview.
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| Man who believes current air quality is 'too clean' named to US Environmental Protection Agency advisory board Posted: 04 Nov 2017 02:46 PM PDT  A man who once claimed that the air in America was "a little too clean for optimum health", has been appointed to an advisory board of America's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Robert Phalen once claimed that children's lungs need to breathe irritants so their bodies can learn to fight them. The former director of the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory at the University of California Irvine was appointed to the agency's critical Scientific Advisory Board by EPA Director Scott Pruitt.
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| Jared Kushner Keeps Failing To Disclose Connections With Russians Posted: 05 Nov 2017 12:42 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, failed to disclose business ties to a Russian oligarch whose deep pockets helped Russian government institutions invest in Facebook and Twitter.
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| FSU Fraternity Suspended After Student Dies at Off-Campus Party Posted: 04 Nov 2017 06:43 AM PDT  He was found unresponsive after an off-campus party
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| AP Explains: What is behind the Lebanese PM's resignation Posted: 04 Nov 2017 10:30 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri's bombshell resignation in a televised speech from Saudi Arabia took the nation by surprise Saturday.
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| Florida Woman Arrested For Allegedly Riding A Horse While Drunk Posted: 04 Nov 2017 07:39 AM PDT  Police in Florida arrested a 53-year-old woman on Thursday afternoon for allegedly riding a horse while drunk.
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| Man Allegedly Used Ice Cream Truck To Lure And Sexually Assault Children: Police Posted: 05 Nov 2017 10:18 AM PST  He is being held on $1 million bond.
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| U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan: U.S. military Posted: 04 Nov 2017 12:25 PM PDT ![U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan: U.S. military]( "U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan: U.S. military") A U.S. service member was killed in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, the military said, without giving details of his identity or the circumstances of his death, which occurred as American forces have stepped up operations against the Taliban. A statement from U.S. Forces Afghanistan Command in Kabul said the service member had died of wounds sustained during operations in Logar, the eastern province where another service member was killed last week after a helicopter crash. "Despite this tragic event, we remain steadfast in our commitment to the Afghan people and to support them in our mutual fight against terrorism," Gen. John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said in the statement.
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| Under Trump, Obamacare Shopping Is Even More Confusing. We're Here To Help. Posted: 04 Nov 2017 06:43 PM PDT  Choosing health insurance can be a hassle under the best of circumstances.
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| Hurricane Maria death toll 'much higher than officially reported', mayor in Puerto Rico says Posted: 04 Nov 2017 06:55 AM PDT  The mayor of the Puerto Rican capital San Juan has warned the death toll from Hurricane Maria is far higher than the official figure. Carmen Yulín Cruz said the true number of deaths following the disaster could be as high as 500 rather than the official toll of just 54. Hurricane Maria made landfall on the island on the morning of 20 September and caused devastation to the country's already fragile infrastructure.
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| United Airlines Flight Turns Around After Passenger ‘Initiated an Altercation’ with Flight Crew Posted: 05 Nov 2017 12:32 PM PST  A United Airlines flight heading to Washington, D.C. from Beijing was turned around during the flight after an altercation occurred between a passenger and a member of the flight crew, PEOPLE can confirm.
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| George H.W. Bush Called Trump A 'Blowhard' And Said, 'I Don't Like Him' Posted: 04 Nov 2017 09:15 AM PDT  An upcoming book shows that former President George H.W. Bush did not mince words when asked about President Donald Trump, back before Trump had won the election.
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| Smog blankets Pakistan, India, causing accidents, illness Posted: 05 Nov 2017 01:59 AM PDT  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Smog has enveloped much of Pakistan and neighboring India, causing highway accidents and respiratory problems, and forcing many residents to stay home, officials said Saturday.
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| Neighbor Arrested After Rand Paul Is Assaulted At His Kentucky Home Posted: 04 Nov 2017 06:48 PM PDT  A neighbor was arrested after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was attacked at his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Friday afternoon, according to a police report.
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| Islamic State on verge of defeat after fresh losses in Syria, Iraq Posted: 04 Nov 2017 03:42 AM PDT ![Islamic State on verge of defeat after fresh losses in Syria, Iraq]( "Islamic State on verge of defeat after fresh losses in Syria, Iraq") By Angus McDowall and Raya Jalabi BEIRUT/ERBIL (Reuters) - Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate was on the verge of final defeat on Friday, with Syrian government forces capturing its last major city on one side of the border and Iraqi forces taking its last substantial town on the other. The losses on either side of the frontier appear to reduce the caliphate that once ruled over millions of people to a single Syrian border town, a village on a bank of the Euphrates in Iraq and some patches of nearby desert. Iraq's Prime Minister Haidar Abadi announced that government forces had captured al-Qaim, the border town where the Euphrates spills from Syria into Iraq.
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| Man Meets Biological Sister For First Time After She Was Switched At Birth 39 Years Ago Posted: 05 Nov 2017 09:41 AM PST  The family could not believe the rumors they'd heard all these years had been true.
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| Richard Dreyfuss' Son Says Kevin Spacey Groped Him As A Teen Posted: 05 Nov 2017 11:50 AM PST  Actor Harry Dreyfuss, the son of Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, says that actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted him as a teen, adding his name to a growing list of accusers.
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| Asia Argento Tells Uma Thurman ‘We Need’ Your Voice After Her Response to Weinstein Goes Viral Posted: 05 Nov 2017 08:42 AM PST  She's shared credits with him in seven movies, but when it comes to the flood of sexual misconduct allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, Uma Thurman is staying mum… for now.
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| American woman arrested in Zimbabwe for allegedly calling Mugabe 'a sick man' on Twitter Posted: 04 Nov 2017 08:15 AM PDT  An American woman has been arrested in Zimbabwe for allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe on Twitter. Martha O'Donovan is charged with subversion and insulting the president for allegedly calling Mr Mugabe a "sick man" in a tweet, according to the Associated Press. Ms O'Donovan is accused of tweeting "We are being led by a selfish man and sick man," and posting a photo suggesting Mr Mugabe is surviving on a catheter.
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| US special forces 'fought Niger ambush alone after local troops fled' Posted: 04 Nov 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Johnson and three other US soldiers were killed in Niger on 4 October. The US special forces detachment ambushed in the Niger last month fought alone for hours after the local Nigerien forces they were accompanying fled in the first minutes of the engagement, retired and serving special forces officers with knowledge of events have said. Four US Green Berets and five Nigerien troops died in the incident, which has been the focus of an intense debate in Washington over the executive branch's extensive powers to use military force abroad without congressional approval and with little oversight.
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| Shares of 'arrested' Saudi billionaire's company dive Posted: 05 Nov 2017 10:44 AM PST  Shares in Kingdom Holding, 95 percent of which is owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, fell sharply Sunday after reports of his arrest. The share price of the company, which has high profile investments inside and outside Saudi Arabia, dropped 9.9 percent at the start of the week's trading. The Saudi Tadawul All-Shares Index (TASI) also recovered early losses to end the day up 0.32 percent.
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| Typhoon kills 27, leaves 22 missing along Vietnam coast Posted: 04 Nov 2017 09:59 PM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A powerful typhoon battering Vietnam has killed at least 27 people and left 22 others missing amid extensive damage along the south-central coast, officials said Sunday.
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| The U.S. Army Wants to Put Big Guns on Small Tanks Posted: 04 Nov 2017 05:42 AM PDT  The Pentagon hopes to get a new lightweight armored combat vehicle. Recently, the U.S. Army has been putting forth a requirement for a new lightweight armored combat vehicle, under the project name of Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF).
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| Report: 6 Florida Women Accuse State Senator Of Sexual Harassment Posted: 03 Nov 2017 06:55 PM PDT  Florida Sen. Jack Latvala (R-Clearwater) is facing allegations of sexual misconduct from six women, Politico reports.
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| U.S. carries out first strikes against Islamic State in Somalia Posted: 04 Nov 2017 12:43 AM PDT  The United States carried out its first air strikes against Islamic State militants in Somalia and killed "several terrorists," the U.S. military said on Friday. The Pentagon's Africa Command said the first strike was carried out at midnight local time (2100 GMT, Thursday) and another one at 11 a.m. on Nov. 3. "Several terrorists" were killed, the military said in a statement, adding that the strikes were conducted in coordination with Somalia's government.
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| Texas shooting - live updates: 26 people killed in church, says Governor Greg Abbott, with a 14-year-old girl among the victims Posted: 05 Nov 2017 02:39 PM PST  A man walked into a church in a small Texas church on Sunday and opened fire as the congregation were involved in weekly service - leaving at least 26 dead and a number of others injured. The mass shooting occurred at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, about 30 miles from San Antonio, with witness saying that the gunman - who has not yet been identified - started shooting about 11.30am local time. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that 26 "innocents had been gunned down".
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| Hawaii Protesters Troll Donald Trump Over His Obama Birther Lies Posted: 04 Nov 2017 08:57 PM PDT  Trump visited Hawaii and they welcomed him with "Welcome To Kenya" placards.
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| The Right Way to Use a Fire Extinguisher Posted: 04 Nov 2017 01:45 PM PDT  The recent recall of 40 million Kidde fire extinguishers affected households across the country. Though Kidde is replacing the faulty fire extinguishers, the recall serves as a reminder that you ...
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| Netanyahu associates grilled in German submarine graft probe: report Posted: 05 Nov 2017 03:36 AM PST  Two lawyers close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were questioned Sunday over their roles in suspected corruption around the purchase of German submarines, media reports and police said. Police said they had detained "two senior lawyers for questioning as part of the (submarine) affair," refusing however to confirm their identity at this stage. Israeli media identified both as being close to Netanyahu, naming one as David Shimron, a relative of Netanyahu and his family lawyer who also represented German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp in Israel.
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| Man Found Guilty of Murdering 16-Year-Old Who Identified as Both Male and Female Posted: 04 Nov 2017 10:21 AM PDT  Investigators say bleach had been poured on the bullet-riddled body in an apparent attempt to destroy DNA evidence
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| This Wisconsin Bill Would Let Toddlers Hunt With Guns Posted: 04 Nov 2017 01:06 PM PDT  Wisconsin's GOP-controlled state Assembly has passed a bill that would get rid of minimum age restrictions on hunting as long as a child is accompanied by an adult who follows certain rules, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
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| 1 family has survived 5 generations of Houston storms: Mine Posted: 05 Nov 2017 05:29 AM PST  HOUSTON (AP) — I returned to the city of my birth a few weeks ago, to a place that had drowned after a monster storm brought more than a year's worth of rain and sent its bayous and reservoirs overflowing. Hurricane Harvey had long left Houston, but its legacy lived on — in the ashy floors of Aunt Christine's home and the mold of Cousin Esther's house and the buckets that still sat scattered across the living room at Mom and Dad's to catch leaks.
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| Cambodian PM tells opposition to defect or face being banned from politics Posted: 04 Nov 2017 03:36 AM PDT  Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday called on lawmakers from the main opposition party to defect ahead of a court ruling on whether to dissolve it, saying they could be banned from politics for five years if they left it too late. The government's move to ban the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) follows the arrest of its leader, Kem Sokha, on treason charges. Hun Sen, the world's longest serving prime minister, has held power for more than 32 years.
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| Terminally ill woman gives daughter life advice in poignant farewell letter Posted: 04 Nov 2017 05:32 AM PDT  An emotional letter that a mother wrote to her daughter before she died from terminal cancer has been shared by thousands online. Margaret Peggy Summers, 55, had been diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer in June 2016 before passing away in October of the same year. Hannah, 18, a nursing student in Indiana, US, told how being in receipt of the letter so soon after her parent's death felt like a connection was still there.
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| Donald Trump blames Iran after Saudi Arabia intercepts ballistic missile fired at capital by Yemen rebels Posted: 05 Nov 2017 01:16 AM PST  Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted a ballistic missile fired over capital Riyadh by rebels from Yemen, an attack Donald Trump immediately blamed on Iran. The missile was brought down near King Khaled International Airport on the northern outskirts of the city and did not cause any casualties, state-owned Al Ekhbariya TV reported. Rocket fragments fell near the airport grounds, but flights were not disrupted, the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority said.
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| Mom Kills Daughters, 5 and 7 years old, and Tells Husband 'Babe, I Shot The Kids': Report Posted: 04 Nov 2017 07:25 AM PDT  She had allegedly planned to kill her husband and herself as well, reports said.
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| Off-Duty Police Officer Fatally Shot While Sitting in Parked Car Posted: 04 Nov 2017 05:23 PM PDT  A woman with him was injured
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| Study: Chicago fund means more immigrants getting legal help Posted: 05 Nov 2017 08:23 AM PST ![Study: Chicago fund means more immigrants getting legal help]( "Study: Chicago fund means more immigrants getting legal help") CHICAGO (AP) — Months after Chicago officials established up a $1.3 million fund to boost legal services for immigrants facing deportation, there's been a big spike in immigrants with legal representation, a study has found.
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| Mila Kunis Sold Unlicensed Boyband T-Shirts On The Side While Filming 'That 70s Show' Posted: 04 Nov 2017 10:23 AM PDT  Mila Kunis may be the most relatable celebrity around.
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| Supermodel Kate Upton Marries Astros' Justin Verlander Just Days After His World Series Win Posted: 05 Nov 2017 07:19 AM PST  Capping off a perfect week after watching her fiancé win the world series, supermodel Kate Upton is now a married woman
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