| DoJ seizes records of NY Times reporter in leak probe: NYT Posted: 07 Jun 2018 11:59 AM PDT  Rachel Maddow shares breaking news from The New York Times that the Justice Deparment seized the records of and surveilled a national security reporter who currently works for The New York Times, in an investigation of leaks of classified material.
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| Not much intelligent life in Washington. Outer space is another story. Posted: 07 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT  What's the truth behind that strange aircraft spotted off the coast of San Diego in 2004? Go ahead and laugh. But in the age of entertainment, we can no longer differentiate what's entirely superfluous from what seems superfluous but might really matter.
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| CrossFit Spokesman Fired After Calling LGBTQ Pride A 'Sin' In Homophobic Twitter Rant Posted: 07 Jun 2018 08:28 AM PDT  A CrossFit spokesman is out of a job after firing off a series of homophobic
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| This Is The Story That Launched Anthony Bourdain's Media Career Posted: 08 Jun 2018 07:12 AM PDT  The death of celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, and TV personality Anthony
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| Hawaii lava evacuee recounts neighborhood shooting near flow Posted: 08 Jun 2018 01:46 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — A woman who evacuated her Hawaii home because of the erupting Kilauea volcano said Thursday she filmed an angry neighbor shooting at a man near a lava flow.
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| Michael Avenatti Calls For 'Absolute Pig' Rudy Giuliani To Be Fired After Comments Posted: 07 Jun 2018 10:29 AM PDT  Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti went after Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday
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| The conversation around the Lewinsky affair has evolved – Bill Clinton has not Posted: 08 Jun 2018 04:00 AM PDT  Bill Clinton is currently on a book tour to promote The President is Missing, a thriller he has written with James Patterson. Clinton, 71, has been criticized for responding in a manner many consider to be tone deaf. In an interview Monday on NBC's Today program, Clinton said he doesn't owe Lewinsky a personal apology.
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| Israeli troops kill four Palestinians as Gaza protest resumes Posted: 08 Jun 2018 03:27 PM PDT  By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed four Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others on Friday with live fire and tear gas used against protesters at the Gaza border, medics said. Israel said it was defending the frontier against crowds that threw stones and burned tyres in an attempt to cross. The protests tapered off around sunset when many demonstrators left border camps for the evening meal that breaks their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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| Your Private Facebook Posts May Have Been Public For Days Posted: 07 Jun 2018 04:33 PM PDT  Facebook has had another privacy mishap, this time announcing a recent bug
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| Key White House official advocated for 'limited use of military force' in North Korea Posted: 06 Jun 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Fred Fleitz, the chief of staff of the White House National Security Council, says top officials are considering "regime change" and the so-called bloody nose strike.
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| 'Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya Posted: 08 Jun 2018 10:59 AM PDT !['Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya]( "'Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya") One of Japan's emerging stars in the field of marine life photography, Toru Kasuya was the recent Grand Prize Winner of the 6th annual Nikkei National Geographic Photo Prize, whose mission is to raise the profile of promising Japanese photographers globally.
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| Mom, boyfriend sentenced in boy's 'beyond animalistic' death Posted: 07 Jun 2018 12:23 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge sentenced a California mother to life in prison Thursday and gave her boyfriend the death penalty in the "beyond animalistic" killing of the woman's 8-year-old son, who prosecutors say was punished because the couple believed he was gay.
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| Hannity Tells Mueller Witnesses: Bash Your Phones 'To Little Itsy Bitsy Pieces' Posted: 06 Jun 2018 08:57 PM PDT  Fox News host Sean Hannity appeared to sarcastically advise witnesses in
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| The Latest: Earthquake and ash eruption hit Kilauea volcano Posted: 06 Jun 2018 08:08 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano (all times local):
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| NASA's Mars rover drills up most complex organic matter yet Posted: 07 Jun 2018 12:00 PM PDT  In a breakthrough for the hunt for life on Mars, a NASA robot has detected the most complex organic matter yet from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks on the surface of the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday. The unmanned Curiosity rover has also found increasing evidence for seasonal variations of methane on Mars, indicating the source of the gas is likely the planet itself, or possibly its subsurface water. While not direct evidence of life, the compounds drilled from Mars' Gale Crater are the most diverse array ever drilled from the surface of the planet since the robotic vehicle landed in 2012, experts say.
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| Arizona man beaten by police speaks out Posted: 07 Jun 2018 02:20 AM PDT  An unarmed Arizona man who said he was repeatedly punched by police speaks out. ABC News' Diane Macedo reports.
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| Immigrant Faces Deportation After Delivering Pizza To New York Army Base Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:30 AM PDT  A New York City pizza deliverer who brought a pie to an Army base in Brooklyn
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| Giuliani Speaks, Causes Trouble for Trump Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:16 PM PDT  Rudy Giuliani made off-the-cuff remarks about North Korea that the Secretary of State had to rebuff. Giuliani also made claims about Melania Trump and Stormy Daniels that the First Lady's spokesperson had to shoot down.
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| Could China Turn Russia Into an Aircraft Carrier Superpower? Posted: 07 Jun 2018 06:25 AM PDT  The only downside for China would be that a Russian carrier would take up space and industrial capacity in Chinese yards, but this is a small price to pay. The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov has entered what is expected to be a substantial refit.
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| Police: 2-year-old, father believed dead in murder-suicide Posted: 06 Jun 2018 07:54 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A 2-year-old Long Island boy and the father suspected of abducting him during a bitter custody fight are believed to be dead in Virginia, each with a gunshot wound in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Wednesday. It was a tragic development in a case where authorities declined to issue an Amber Alert and waited more than six hours to ask the public for help.
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| What Will House Republicans Do If Trump Pardons Himself? We Asked Them. Posted: 07 Jun 2018 03:00 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Four days before Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, the Justice
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| Kamiyah Mobley Case: Gloria Williams Gets 18 Years for Kidnapping Newborn from Hospital, Raising Baby As Her Own Posted: 08 Jun 2018 11:06 AM PDT  Gloria Williams had pleaded guilty to kidnapping a baby girl from a Florida hospital.
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| Fire kites from Gaza a burning issue for Israel Posted: 06 Jun 2018 05:58 PM PDT  Israeli farmer Avner Yona holds up a wooden-framed sheet of plastic almost as large as he is, fitted with a now blackened tail ribbon that shows the kite-maker's malicious intent. The kite that drifted onto land he manages in the kibbutz, or collective farm, of Nahal Oz was launched from the Palestinian Gaza Strip just a kilometre (less than a mile) away over the heavily-guarded border. Like the stones and Molotov cocktails thrown in previous years, the kites have become a potent symbol of a wave of Palestinian protests that broke out on March 30 against Israel's crippling decade-long blockade of Gaza.
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| Scientists find affordable way to recapture CO2 and burn it Posted: 08 Jun 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Scientists at Harvard have developed a new method of scrubbing carbon from the atmosphere, and turning it into hydrocarbon fuels that could be burned in airplanes or even cars. Most importantly, the cost targets are considered affordable, ranging from $1 to $2.50 to remediate carbon dioxide released by burning a gallon of gasoline. Giant collectors resembling industrial cooling towers capture the carbon dioxide from the air in an alkaline liquid.
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| New Rental Law Forces Airbnb To Cancel Thousands Of Reservations In Japan Posted: 08 Jun 2018 09:02 AM PDT  Airbnb said on Thursday it's been forced to cancel thousands of bookings in
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| Report on FBI's Clinton email probe coming next week: Inspector General Posted: 07 Jun 2018 03:18 PM PDT  A report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's internal watchdog into the agency's handling of an enquiry into the management of emails by former U.S. presidential candidate Hilary Clinton will be released next week, the agency said on Thursday. U.S. Congressional committees are also currently investigating the FBI's handling of the enquiry in 2016. The U.S. Justice Department's Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, said in a letter that most of the process to sign off on the report and protect classified information it may contain "is now complete, and we anticipate releasing the report on June 14, 2018." He also said in the letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that he will appear at the committee's June 18 hearing on the FBI's actions in advance of the 2016 presidential election.
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| MIT Creates Psychopath AI By Making It Look At A Reddit Forum Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:27 PM PDT  Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have truly created a
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| Queen Maxima of the Netherlands' Sister, 33, Found Dead in Her Home of Apparent Suicide Posted: 07 Jun 2018 08:00 AM PDT  Queen Maxima of the Netherlands' sister was found dead of an apparent suicide at her apartment in Buenos Aires on Wednesday night, according to reports, including the BBC
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| The Latest: Police: Father, son dead in murder-suicide Posted: 06 Jun 2018 07:49 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on missing 2-year-old and father found dead in Virginia (all times local):
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| More U.S. Government Workers Are Being Evacuated From China After Mysterious Medical Symptoms Posted: 06 Jun 2018 09:44 PM PDT  Testing revealed they might have been affected by unexplained health incidents similar to those in Cuba
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| Gator killed woman after dragging her into Florida lake Posted: 08 Jun 2018 02:35 PM PDT  Authorities captured and killed an alligator that they believe fatally attacked a woman while she was out walking her dogs near a Florida lake Friday.
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| Spain arrests suspected drug lord in trafficking hotspot Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:08 AM PDT  Spanish police said Thursday they had arrested one of the main suspected drug smugglers in a southern area where narco-traffickers are operating in an increasingly brazen manner, which has alarmed authorities. Over 100 officers were involved in the operation to arrest the man on Wednesday night in a neighbourhood of narrow streets in the southern city of La Linea de Concepcion, which lies across the border with Gibraltar, police said in a statement. The man had been on the run since the end of 2016 when police arrested 30 suspected members of the group in Spain and Morocco.
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| China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post Posted: 08 Jun 2018 03:48 PM PDT ![China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post]( "China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post") Chinese government hackers compromised the computers of a U.S. Navy contractor and stole a large amount of highly sensitive data on undersea warfare, including plans for a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing unnamed U.S. officials. The breaches took place in January and February, the officials told the Post, speaking on condition of anonymity about an ongoing investigation led by the Navy and assisted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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| Texas man nearly died after being bitten by venomous snake he decapitated, wife says Posted: 07 Jun 2018 07:37 AM PDT  Jennifer Sutcliffe said she and her husband were doing yard work on Memorial Day weekend – in preparation for a family barbecue – when she spotted a 4-foot long Western diamondback rattlesnake slithering through her flowerbed. Ms Sutcliffe screamed, she told the Washington Post, altering her husband to the snake's presence.
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| The Latest: Hawaii lava destroys more than 600 homes Posted: 07 Jun 2018 08:02 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on Kilauea volcano's eruption in Hawaii (all times local):
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| What Is the Sound of an Electric Porsche? Posted: 08 Jun 2018 08:58 AM PDT  Porsche doesn't want its electric performance car to be silent.
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| Arizona police under scrutiny after beating video surfaces Posted: 07 Jun 2018 07:43 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — The attorneys and a pastor for a suburban Phoenix man seen on video being beaten by police while standing against a wall said Thursday that the officer's claim that their client posed a threat "doesn't pass the smell test."
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| Regrets For Sarah Sanders? Not On The Trump Letter Question, She Says Posted: 07 Jun 2018 12:45 AM PDT  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Chris Cuomo of CNN
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| Trump's Immigration Policies Are Making It Harder for Foreign Doctors to Work in the U.S. — And That Could Hurt Patients Posted: 08 Jun 2018 12:23 PM PDT  It's only the latest threat to foreign medical graduates
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| Taiwan conducting war games simulating repelling Chinese attack amid heighted tensions Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:18 AM PDT  Fighter jets, helicopters and thousands of troops in Taiwan fought back a simulated Chinese invasion Thursday as the self-ruled island faces increasing military and diplomatic pressure from Beijing. Relations between Taipei and Beijing have deteriorated since President Tsai Ing-wen was elected in 2016, as her government refuses to acknowledge that Taiwan is part of "one China". Live-fire drills began Monday with troops simulating surprise air and coastal assaults to reflect increased military threats from China, which sees Taiwan as a renegade province to be brought back into the fold - by force if necessary. Tsai watched Thursday's session of the ongoing "Han Kuang" (Han Glory) exercise involving 4,100 soldiers, attack helicopters and fighter jets from an air base in Taichung. Thursday's scenario simulated the enemy bombing of an airfield and a paratrooper attack, with air and ground troops deployed to take back the base. A C-130 Hercules aircraft drops supplies during Han Kuang military drill simulating the China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) invading the island Credit: TYRONE SIU/REUTERS An F-16 fighter flew overhead and deployed flares in a defensive move against heat-seeking missiles. Special operations troops were seen moving to secure a building. "I have seen our troops' capabilities and I have faith that our troops can achieve the goal of 'solid defence and multiple deterrence'," Tsai said. China held its own live-fire drills in April in the Taiwan Strait - the narrow waterway separating the Chinese mainland from Taiwan - following weeks of air and naval manoeuvres in the area. Beijing has also stepped up diplomatic pressure on Taipei, luring four countries to switch allegiance from Taiwan to China since Tsai took office. China has been incensed by a recent warming in relations between Taiwan and the United States, which remains the island's most powerful ally and arms supplier even though it has no official diplomatic ties. President Donald Trump recently signed a symbolic bill paving the way for mutual visits by high-level officials and Washington gave long-awaited approval for a licence necessary to sell submarine technology to Taiwan. A defence spending bill currently before congress in Washington calls on the US military to participate in Taiwan's drills, including the annual Han Kuang exercise. "We are optimistic about all exchanges with the US as long as it's about national security, and regional peace and stability," defence ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi said when asked to comment on American participation in Taiwan's drills. On Monday, the pilot of an F-16 jet involved in the drills was killed after crashing into a mountain in northern Taiwan. The cause of the incident was under investigation.
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| Canada Senate passes bill legalizing recreational marijuana Posted: 07 Jun 2018 07:39 PM PDT  Canada's Senate passed a bill Thursday legalizing recreational marijuana, moving it closer to becoming the first member of the Group of Seven nations to legalize the production, sale and consumption of the drug. Bill C-45, or the Cannabis Act, passed the Senate with 52 votes for, 30 against and one abstention after months of debate over the ramifications of legalization. The Cannabis Act will now go back to the House of Commons, which passed the bill in November 2017 but needs to sign off on changes made by the Senate.
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| China looks to bolster militancy fight at security summit Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:39 AM PDT  By Ben Blanchard and Christian Shepherd BEIJING (Reuters) - China will seek to bolster the fight against extremism at a regional security summit this weekend with some of its closest diplomatic allies, including Russian President Vladimir Putin. Jointly led by Russia and China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was launched in 2001 to combat radical Islam and other security concerns in their own countries and across Central Asia. It added two new members, India and Pakistan, last year and Iran has been knocking at the door.
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| Are Portable Air Conditioners a Lot of Hot Air? Posted: 08 Jun 2018 02:06 PM PDT  Think of portable air conditioners as the cooling choice of last resort. They're better than a fan, but not much. That's what Consumer Reports discovered in its tests of portable air conditioners...
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| Suspected Los Angeles street race ends in massive crash ‘like Armageddon’ Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:26 AM PDT  A suspected street race in Los Angeles ended in a driver who may have been intoxicated crashing into several parked vehicles, authorities said. Police officers responded to reports of a collision involving street racing in the Reseda section of Los Angeles to find a scene of destruction after the drivers rammed into a number of parked cars. A Los Angeles Police Department official said that two people were in critical condition and local reports said three were injured in total.
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