| Protests Erupt As Trump Recognizes Jerusalem As Israeli Capital Posted: 06 Dec 2017 03:38 AM PST  Palestinians took to the streets on Wednesday to protest President Donald Trump's expected decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and relocate the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to the contested city.
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| More than 25 Democratic senators call for Al Franken to resign Posted: 06 Dec 2017 08:50 AM PST  Seven Democratic women in the Senate tweeted that Sen. Al Franken should quit over sexual misconduct allegations, and they were quickly joined by many colleagues.
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| Southern California Is Burning. Here's How You Can Help. Posted: 06 Dec 2017 06:08 PM PST  Multiple fires have started in the last three days in the hills of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, burning more than 83,400 acres and forcing tens of thousands of Californians to evacuate.
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| Striking NASA satellite views of the California wildfires Posted: 07 Dec 2017 09:59 AM PST ![Striking NASA satellite views of the California wildfires]( "Striking NASA satellite views of the California wildfires") NASA tweeted photos of the smoke plume drifting over the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. Four fires are currently blazing through thousands of acres in California, forcing residents to evacuate.
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| Chinese firm sues Venezuela as crisis tests ally's patience Posted: 07 Dec 2017 01:47 AM PST ![Chinese firm sues Venezuela as crisis tests ally's patience]( "Chinese firm sues Venezuela as crisis tests ally's patience") CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — One of China's biggest state-run conglomerates has sued a Venezuelan counterpart in a U.S. court in a dispute over unpaid bills, a sign of Beijing's growing impatience with its socialist South American ally as it slides into bankruptcy.
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| Lorde Predicted The Downfall Of Predatory Men Back In January Posted: 06 Dec 2017 06:29 PM PST  An outpouring of sexual assault accusations have destroyed the reputations of some of the most powerful men in entertainment, media and politics ― and Lorde apparently predicted it.
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| Will tax cuts spur the American economy? Maybe with a time machine. Posted: 07 Dec 2017 02:00 AM PST  The GOP tax bill's main failing is that it's based on a played-out theory, aimed at the problems of an age when the economy looked completely different.
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| North Korea Says Nuclear War on the Peninsula Is Inevitable and an 'Established Fact' Posted: 06 Dec 2017 11:46 PM PST  North Korea says a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula has become a matter of when, not if, as it continued to lash out at a massive joint military exercise between the United States and South Korean involving hundreds of advanced warplanes.
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| Dramatic Images From Devastating Southern California Wildfires Posted: 06 Dec 2017 09:54 AM PST  Southern California residents face growing uncertainty as several fast-moving wildfires continue to engulf tens of thousands of acres while destroying dozens of homes in its path. Flames consumed the hills surrounding Interstate 405 near Los Angeles' famed Getty Center early Wednesday, with the fire lighting up the high terrain in a horrifying, apocalyptic-like display. In haunting photos, rows of homes are seen razed to the ground in Ventura County, where the largest of the fires has overtaken more than 50,000 acres since Monday night.
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| Growing Southern California Wildfires Force 200,000 People To Evacuate Posted: 07 Dec 2017 11:14 AM PST  Roughly 200,000 people have been forced to flee Southern California's wildfires that as of Thursday have scorched more than 181 miles (or 116,100 acres) and destroyed more than 100 homes as intensifying winds prompted an unprecedented warning level of purple.
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| 'It's insane': White House insiders question Trump's grasp of Jerusalem fallout Posted: 07 Dec 2017 06:22 AM PST  President Trump pivoted from decades of U.S.-Israel foreign policy precedent on Wednesday when he announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and eventually move the embassy from Tel Aviv.
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| Congress Passes Stopgap Spending Bill To Avert Government Shutdown Posted: 07 Dec 2017 02:40 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Less than 48 hours before a government shutdown, House lawmakers passed a stopgap spending bill on Thursday to fund the government through Dec. 22.
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| Pope wants better translation of phrase on temptation in 'Our Father' prayer Posted: 07 Dec 2017 03:00 AM PST  Pope Francis has said the Roman Catholic Church should adopt a better translation of the phrase "lead us not into temptation" in the "Our Father", the best known prayer in Christianity. "That is not a good translation," the pope said in a television interview on Wednesday night. Francis said the Catholic Church in France had decided to use the phrase "do not let us fall into temptation" as an alternative and indicated that it or something similar should be applied worldwide.
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| The XB-70 Valkyrie: The Sad Story of the Biggest and Fastest U.S. Bomber Ever Posted: 06 Dec 2017 04:53 PM PST  With the growing realization that Soviet SAMs posed an increasing threat to American bombers, the Pentagon started to explore low-level penetration as an alternative. Many leading military strategists of the time believed bombers were too vulnerable to survive the journey into Soviet airspace. As a result, President John F. Kennedy decided to cancel the XB-70 as a frontline bomber program on March 28, 1961.
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| North Korea ballistic missile tests forced Singapore Airlines to reroute flights from Seoul Posted: 07 Dec 2017 04:40 AM PST  Singapore Airlines changed a flight route between South Korea and the US earlier this year over fears about North Korean missile launches in the Asia-Pacific region, it has emerged. An airline spokesperson told CNNMoney on Wednesday that it had rerouted daily flights between the South Korean capital, Seoul, and Los Angeles after Pyongyang test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in July. On July 28 an Air France flight from Tokyo to Paris, carrying 323 people, passed just 60 miles from the splashdown site of a North Korean missile test, roughly five to ten minutes after it hit the water. The French airline expanded its no-fly zone over North Korea as a result. North Korea's attempts to develop an ICBM to carry a nuclear warhead to strike the American mainland have put commercial airlines operating in the busy East Asian airspace on alert, even though the chances of a plane colliding with a missile are miniscule. According to guidelines issued by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a UN agency in charge of air safety, nations have the "responsibility to issue risk advisories regarding any threats to the safety of civilian aircraft operating in their airspace." Pyongyang, already subject to UN sanctions for its nuclear and missile programme, regularly fails to issue any warnings. The crew of a Cathay Pacific flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong on November 29 reported the sighting of what they believed was a North Korean missile as it re-entered the earth's atmosphere. The North Koreans claimed on that day to have fired the Hwasong-15, their biggest and most powerful missile to date. It reportedly reached 1,000 miles higher than the July launch. Hwasong-15 ICBM - new North Korean missile In a statement, Cathay said the flight was "far from the event location" and that it had been in touch with the relevant authorities but had no plans to change its routes. "We remain alert and review the situation as it evolves," it added. David Wright, a missile defence expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the crew most likely saw the missile early in its flight, rather than at the point of re-entry. "Given the timing, it seems likely that the crew might have seen the first stage burn out and separate from the rest of the missile. This would have happened a few minutes after launch," he wrote.
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| Sia Responds To Criticism That She Pushed Fame On Teen Dancer Maddie Ziegler Posted: 07 Dec 2017 09:07 AM PST  Sia has an uncomfortable relationship with fame and is known for retreating from the spotlight.
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| Southern California's Wildfires Will Get Worse Before They Get Better Posted: 06 Dec 2017 02:02 PM PST  It's been the most destructive wildfire season in California history, and it's getting worse.
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| President Donald Trump's newfound lisp sets internet aflame Posted: 06 Dec 2017 12:52 PM PST  While President Trump delivered a landmark speech in which he recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital Wednesday, listeners couldn't help but notice a strange moment during his announcement.
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| Dylan Farrow Asks Why Woody Allen Has Been Spared After Harvey Weinstein Scandal Posted: 07 Dec 2017 02:32 PM PST  Woody Allen's daughter Dylan Farrow is asking why her father has been spared in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the subsequent #MeToo movement.
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| Black political machine tested again in Atlanta mayor race Posted: 06 Dec 2017 04:16 PM PST  Atlanta voters woke up to deja vu Wednesday in the racially polarized contest to choose the city's next mayor, with one candidate laying claim to City Hall while the other vowed to seek a recount over a margin of just 759 votes.
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| The Key To Chip And Joanna Gaines' Marriage Isn't Really A Secret Posted: 06 Dec 2017 08:32 AM PST  Chip and Joanna Gaines have been together for over 14 years.
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| Russian military: mission accomplished, Islamic State defeated in Syria Posted: 07 Dec 2017 05:50 AM PST  Russia's military said on Thursday it had accomplished its mission of defeating Islamic State in Syria, and there were no remaining settlements there under the group's control. Russian bombers had used unprecedented force in the final stages to finish off the militant group, a senior Russian officer said. "The mission to defeat bandit units of the Islamic State terrorist organization on the territory of Syria, carried out by the armed forces of the Russian Federation, has been accomplished," Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoi, head of the general staff's operations, said on Rossiya 24 TV channel.
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| Why the U.S. Marines Love the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle Posted: 06 Dec 2017 04:29 PM PST  Marksmanship, the ability to shoot accurately and service targets with the minimum expenditure of ammunition, has always been part of the U.S. Marine Corps ethos. The adoption of the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle over the older M249 Squad Automatic Weapon marks a return to that ethos across the service at the small unit level. More accurate and capable of accomplishing its mission with fewer expended rounds, the M27 is now being considered as the front-line rifle not only for a handful of squad members but across the Corps' front line units.
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| Only 15 Cars Earn 2018 IIHS Top Safety Pick+ Rating Posted: 06 Dec 2017 09:01 PM PST  Just 15 new vehicles meet the increased requirements of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and have earned a Top Safety Pick+ rating, the safety group reported Thursday. The stricter guid...
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| You May Have Missed The 6th Woman On Time’s Person Of The Year Cover Posted: 06 Dec 2017 02:36 PM PST  Time magazine named "The Silence Breakers" its 2017 Person of the Year on Wednesday, saying the term referred to "individuals who set off a national reckoning over the prevalence of sexual harassment."
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| 14 Gifts Your Coffee-Obsessed Friends Want This Year Posted: 07 Dec 2017 09:39 AM PST |
| Donald and Melania Trump both flub Pearl Harbor tweets Posted: 07 Dec 2017 09:48 AM PST  President Donald Trump appears to have slightly misquoted Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous remarks following the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor in a tweet commemorating the 76th anniversary of the solemn day.
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| Gal Gadot Surprises College Student With First Wonder Woman Scholarship Posted: 06 Dec 2017 03:52 PM PST  Gal Gadot stepped out of her Wonder Woman costume on Wednesday to surprise a young woman with a truly wonderful award: a college scholarship.
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| US House approves easing of interstate rules on concealed guns Posted: 06 Dec 2017 07:22 PM PST  US lawmakers voted Wednesday to allow gun owners to carry concealed firearms across state lines, a controversial bill that critics say is aimed at undermining national gun control efforts. The move came two months after the worst mass shooting in modern US history, when a gunman who had taken a vast arsenal into a Las Vegas hotel fired down on concert-goers and killed 58. It passed the House of Representatives 231 to 198, after six Democrats joined all but 14 Republicans in supporting the bill, which will also need Senate passage if it is to become law.
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| 32 of the Best Ways to Update Grandma's Favorite Recipes Posted: 07 Dec 2017 02:35 PM PST |
| U.S. to deny visas to Cambodian officials over opposition crackdown Posted: 06 Dec 2017 06:56 PM PST ![U.S. to deny visas to Cambodian officials over opposition crackdown]( "U.S. to deny visas to Cambodian officials over opposition crackdown") By Eric Walsh and Prak Chan Thul WASHINGTON/PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it would restrict entry to people involved in the Cambodian government's actions to undermine democracy, including the dissolution of the main opposition party and imprisonment of its leader. The visa sanctions were the toughest steps by any Western country since a crackdown on critics of Prime Minister Hun Sen ahead of an election next year in which the authoritarian leader seeks to extend more than three decades in power. "We call on the Cambodian government to reverse course by reinstating the political opposition, releasing Kem Sokha, and allowing civil society and media to resume their constitutionally protected activities," the State Department said in a statement.
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| Naya Rivera Is Divorcing Husband Ryan Dorsey For The Second Time Posted: 06 Dec 2017 07:30 AM PST  Actress Naya Rivera and husband Ryan Dorsey are calling it quits for the second time.
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| The 93 Most Delish Ways To Eat Peanut Butter Posted: 07 Dec 2017 11:07 AM PST  ...other than with a spoon out of the jar, of course.
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| House Votes Down Trump Impeachment Resolution Posted: 06 Dec 2017 02:16 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Fifty-eight House Democrats voted to advance the impeachment of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, in direct defiance of the pleas of House Democratic leaders earlier in the day.
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| The Latest: Los Angeles fire reaches Rupert Murdoch winery Posted: 06 Dec 2017 06:26 PM PST  VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on Southern California wildfires (all times local):
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| Kate McKinnon Breaks Out A Glorious Gal Gadot Impression On 'The Tonight Show' Posted: 06 Dec 2017 03:01 AM PST  If Gal Gadot should ever need a day off from acting, Kate McKinnon of "Saturday Night Live" would make one hilarious substitute.
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| North Korea says U.S. threats make war unavoidable as China urges calm Posted: 07 Dec 2017 06:57 AM PST  Two American B-1B heavy bombers joined large-scale combat drills over South Korea on Thursday amid warnings from North Korea that the exercises and U.S. threats have made the outbreak of war "an established fact".
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| Russia’s Terrifying Nuclear-Armed Doomsday Train: Everything You Need To Know Posted: 06 Dec 2017 04:35 AM PST  In 2013, the Russian military announced it would bring back rail-mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles. In other words, trains with big nukes crammed inside, capable of darting around Russia, raising their launchers and firing at a moment's notice. It was called Barguzin and would begin testing in 2019.
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| Kinder Morgan Canada wins appeal on Trans Mountain expansion Posted: 07 Dec 2017 02:39 PM PST  Canada's energy regulator ruled on Thursday in favor of Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd in its appeal seeking to sidestep some municipal permits needed for the company's C$7.4 billion ($5.8 billion) Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Kinder Morgan Canada stock fell as much as 4.7 percent on Tuesday. The federally approved project has faced fierce opposition from environmentalists, aboriginal groups and some municipal governments.
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| Chance The Rapper Shoots 'Hyperbolic Racist' Twitter Troll Down In Flames Posted: 07 Dec 2017 03:20 AM PST  Chance the Rapper does not entertain ignorant trolls.
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| FBI Director Defends Bureau's 'Brave Men And Women' After Trump Twitter Attack Posted: 07 Dec 2017 08:11 AM PST  FBI Director Chris Wray, who took over the bureau in August, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee for an oversight hearing on Thursday. Under questioning from House Judiciary Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Wray responded directly to Trump's tweet, saying there was "no shortage of opinions out there." He then described the FBI he knows: a bureau full of tens of thousands of "brave men and women" working hard to keep Americans "safe from harm" from threats like gang violence, child predators and terrorists. He spoke of being inspired by the recent graduates of FBI academy in Quantico, and of the response teams the FBI sends into harm's way.
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