| Family Of Elizabeth Tollison, Accidentally Killed By LAPD, Files Claim Posted: 02 Aug 2018 11:42 AM PDT  The family of 49-year-old Elizabeth Tollison, whom California police officers
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| Man who harassed Yellowstone bison arrested at Glacier park Posted: 03 Aug 2018 05:00 PM PDT  MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — An Oregon man who was caught on video harassing a bison in Yellowstone National Park was arrested in Glacier National Park in the third disturbance in less than a week at a national park, officials said Friday.
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| Reported sighting of missing Iowa student Posted: 02 Aug 2018 10:09 AM PDT  Police are following up on a report of Mollie Tibbetts being spotted at a truck stop in Missouri.
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| Netanyahu warns Iran over Red Sea waterway Posted: 01 Aug 2018 10:31 PM PDT  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Iran it would join military action to stop it blocking a key seaway after Yemen's Iranian-aligned Huthi rebels attacked two Saudi oil tankers. Speaking at a navy ceremony late Wednesday, Netanyahu warned against any attempt to block the Bab al-Mandab strait, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes and the southern entrance to the Red Sea. On July 26, Saudi Arabia said it had temporarily halted all oil shipments through the waterway after the Huthi rebels attacked two of its tankers.
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| Worst red tide bloom in over a decade kills hundreds of marine mammals along Florida's west coast Posted: 02 Aug 2018 05:52 AM PDT  The ongoing toxic algae bloom is considered to be the longest red tide outbreak for the Gulf of Mexico in over a decade, and officials say it will most likely last until 2019.
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| The sad last act of Rudy Giuliani Posted: 02 Aug 2018 02:00 AM PDT  In politics, as in life, your greatest strength always turns out to be your greatest weakness, and Giuliani's strength was always his relentlessness.
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| Here's A Closer Look At Paul Manafort's $15,000 Ostrich Jacket Posted: 02 Aug 2018 10:34 AM PDT  On Tuesday, while Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was on
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| Andrew Cuomo Offers To Perform Gay Wedding After Couple Is Denied Marriage License Posted: 02 Aug 2018 04:42 PM PDT  Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged to investigate after a same-sex couple claimed a
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| Man with Down's Syndrome shot dead by Swedish police after running away from home with toy gun Posted: 03 Aug 2018 01:19 AM PDT  A man with Down's Syndrome has been shot dead by Swedish police after running away from home in the middle of the night carrying a toy gun. Eric Torell, 20, who was autistic and was described by his family as being severely disabled, was fatally shot by police who erroneously believed he was carrying a real weapon in the early hours of Thursday morning in downtown Stockholm. Police officers say Mr Torell acted "threateningly" after responding to reports of a man showing a gun to residents at around 4am local time in the district of Vasastan. He died of his injuries after being shot in the stomach. One witness, who was awoken by the sound of several gunshots, said they heard police shouting at someone to lay down his weapon and lie on the ground. Mr Torell had been staying with his father when he wandered out of his home with the toy gun his mother, Katarina Söderber, said looked like a "submachine gun". Eric Torell was shot dead by police "He got it as a gift. It looked a little like a submachine gun. Until now it was just thrown in a pile of toys," Ms Söderber told Swedish newspaper Expressen. She reacted angrily to the suggestion her son may have acted threateningly, describing her son as "the world's sweetest and most lovable person", adding he could only say a few words like 'mum' due to his speech difficulties. Eric Torell was shot dead by a police patrol in the residential neighbourhood of Vasastan around 4am Credit: AFP Ms Söderber compared her son to "being like a three-year-old", adding he had been reported missing after leaving home in the night. "It's impossible to understand. He wouldn't hurt a fly," she said [translated]. Katarina Söderberg (R), mother of Eric Torell, speaking to the Expressen Ms Söderber added that her son had left home unannounced on previous occasions but had always returned. His father, Rickard Torell, told Expressen he went out to search for his son when he realised he was missing. Mr Torell paid tribute to his son who he described as the "friendliest and most loving person in the world". A bullet hole is seen at a bicycle at the site Credit: AFP Sweden's Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed a routine preliminary investigation into possible police misconduct has been launched. Police said they would not speculate on the case until the investigation is complete. Stockholm police chief Ulf Johansson called the shooting "a terrible event."
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| White House refuses to say media is not 'enemy of the people' Posted: 02 Aug 2018 12:13 PM PDT  CNN's Jim Acosta and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders engage in a heated exchange over the president's characterization of the media.
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| SEC drops investigation into Exxon climate change response Posted: 03 Aug 2018 02:51 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The government has dropped a two-year investigation into how Exxon Mobil Corp. factors climate-change regulations into its calculations of the value of its assets, the company said Friday.
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| California wildfires entering ‘uncharted territory,’ Governor Jerry Brown warns Posted: 02 Aug 2018 12:09 PM PDT  The wildfires ravaging California are plunging the state into "uncharted territory", governor Jerry Brown has said. Mr Brown – like other officials before him – warned on Wednesday that that situation could be the "new normal" for the state. Every year is teaching the fire authorities new lessons," the governor said at a press conference, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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| NASA Announces New Crew For The Return Of Space Flights From American Soil Posted: 03 Aug 2018 01:03 PM PDT  America, meet your new astronauts.
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| Engine flaw delays Boeing test of crew capsule to 2019 Posted: 02 Aug 2018 09:22 AM PDT  An engine flaw discovered during a launchpad test of Boeing's Starliner spaceship, designed to carry humans to the International Space Station, has delayed its first crew test flight until next year. "We are confident we identified the root cause and are implementing corrective actions now," said vice president and program manager of Boeing's commercial crew program John Mulholland, indicating that "minor design changes" are under way. The setback means the first crewed test flight will be pushed back to the middle of 2019, he said.
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| Tweeters Troll Trump By Renaming Grocery Stores After Him Posted: 02 Aug 2018 02:24 AM PDT  Earlier this week, President Donald Trump claimed that shoppers need to show
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| Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved? Scientists Think They've Figured It Out Posted: 02 Aug 2018 01:40 AM PDT  Scientists believe they've solved the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle ― and
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| Prosecutors at Manafort trial offer evidence of apparently fake invoices Posted: 02 Aug 2018 02:45 AM PDT  By Sarah N. Lynch, Nathan Layne and Karen Freifeld ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - Two witnesses in the trial of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort testified on Wednesday that invoices purporting to bill a company tied to Manafort appeared to be fake. It was the first time that prosecutors from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office disclosed the invoices, which contained spelling and address errors, missing information and in one case, contained information about services that were never rendered. It is unclear who created the invoices or how they were used.
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| Smith College employee calls police on black student that 'seemed to be out of place' Posted: 02 Aug 2018 12:56 PM PDT  A Smith College employee called the police on a black student who was eating lunch in a common area because she "seemed to be out of place," the school said.
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| US, ACLU divide on how to reunify separated families Posted: 02 Aug 2018 10:27 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration and the American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday revealed widely divergent plans on how to reunite hundreds of immigrant children with parents who have been deported since the families were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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| Record 'Red Tide' Of Toxic Algae Is Killing Wildlife In Florida Posted: 02 Aug 2018 07:13 AM PDT  A toxic algae bloom sweeping Florida's southwest coast is being described as
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| Emmerson Mnangagwa Wins Historic Zimbabwe Presidential Election Posted: 02 Aug 2018 04:34 PM PDT  It was the first vote since the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe
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| NRA has major financial issues - but could it really collapse? Posted: 03 Aug 2018 12:57 PM PDT  The National Rifle Association (NRA) may be the most powerful gun lobbying group in the world. Each year, the organisation blocks significant gun control research and legislation in Congress, while influencing local and national elections through funding, media and outreach to its self-reported five millions members. This week, however, the NRA became the focus of a national news story — not for falling prey to an alleged Russian spy, or failing to respond after a deadly mass shooting, two issues the group has recently endured — about its supposedly dire economic state.
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| Ancient Cremated Bodies Reveal Who Was Allowed to Be Buried at Stonehenge Posted: 03 Aug 2018 09:08 AM PDT  It wasn't just the local elite.
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| Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Is Far From Inevitable Posted: 03 Aug 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Many of the oh-so-wired political commentariat have declared Brett Kavanaugh's
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| Firefighters outflank California blaze, last four missing found alive Posted: 01 Aug 2018 08:58 PM PDT  By Rollo Ross REDDING, Calif. (Reuters) - Weary firefighters in Northern California were outflanking a deadly, 10-day-old blaze on Wednesday that has destroyed over 1,000 homes as authorities reopened more evacuated neighborhoods and the last few people listed as missing were found alive. Having scorched more than 121,000 acres (48,967 hectares), an area larger than New Orleans, the blaze was the biggest of 16 major wildfires burning throughout California and the most formidable of more than 90 across 13 Western states from Texas to Alaska. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) commanders said the Carr Fire, sparked by a vehicle on July 23, was burning with far less intensity this week and posed little immediate threat to populated areas.
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| Judge in Manafort trial brings short fuse and sharp wit Posted: 02 Aug 2018 03:14 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — "I'm not in the theater business," Judge T.S. Ellis asserted during jury selection in Paul Manafort's financial fraud trial. "You have to be better-looking for that."
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| Beautiful images show the Tibetan sky at night in the Himalayan mountains Posted: 02 Aug 2018 07:08 AM PDT ![Beautiful images show the Tibetan sky at night in the Himalayan mountains]( "Beautiful images show the Tibetan sky at night in the Himalayan mountains") The Tibetan night sky was captured in these beautiful images showing the stunning buildings and statues in the Himalayan mountains. Grey Chow, 33, traveled for two hours to get to the Spiti Valley to capture the starry backdrop along the isolated, deserted roads. The senior project engineer was able to take amazingly clear images thanks to the limited amount of pollution at the 4,500-foot altitude. (Caters News)
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| Sarah Huckabee Sanders Refuses To Say Press Isn't 'The Enemy Of The People' Posted: 02 Aug 2018 11:52 AM PDT  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday refused to say
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| Boeing's New F-15X: A Strike Eagle on Steroids? Here Is What We Know. Posted: 03 Aug 2018 12:03 PM PDT  A legendary fighter jet gets even better?
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| Elon Musk Responds to Controversy Over His Tesla Earnings Call Outbursts Posted: 02 Aug 2018 10:10 AM PDT  Musk is ready to listen.
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| Portland's Patriot Prayer Rally Could Be Most Violent Since Charlottesville, Activists Say Posted: 03 Aug 2018 11:17 AM PDT  Armed, proto-fascist gangs are set to rally in Portland, Oregon, this weekend,
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| How Facebook Decided Anti-Racist Activists Were Part Of A Foreign Influence Operation Posted: 02 Aug 2018 10:14 AM PDT  WASHINGTON -- Facebook removed 32 pages and accounts it said exhibited
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| Manafort trial: Former bookkeeper Heather Washkuhn testifies she did not know about off-shore accounts as she details former Trump aide's Posted: 02 Aug 2018 02:52 PM PDT  Paul Manafort's former bookkeeper has testified that the former Donald Trump campaign chairman kept her in the dark about the foreign bank accounts he was using to allegedly buy millions in luxury items and personal expenses. Mr Manafort, facing trial on back fraud and tax charges otherwise approved "every penny" of the personal bills she paid for him, said Heather Washkuhn of the accounting firm NKFSB. Washkuhn's testimony on the third day of the trial appeared to undercut an argument by Manafort's attorneys that he can't be responsible for financial fraud because he left the details of his spending to others, including his longtime associate Rick Gates.
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| BEFORE AND AFTER: Redding neighborhood destroyed by Carr Fire Posted: 01 Aug 2018 06:31 PM PDT  The property loss from the Carr Fire burning in Shasta County is most poignant when you look at before and after photos of the affected neighborhoods.
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| Venezuela's Constituent Assembly legalizes money exchanges Posted: 02 Aug 2018 11:54 AM PDT  By Vivian Sequera and Angus Berwick CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's all-powerful Constituent Assembly on Thursday voted to legalize money exchange operations to relax the strict currency controls imposed by the social government that have throttled the oil-rich nation's economy. It is unlikely, economists say, that President Nicolas Maduro's government would do away completely with currency controls, first introduced by his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, in 2003 to curb capital flight. The decision appears, however, to be a sign that Maduro's government recognizes the impact of the controls on Venezuela's economy, which is in its fifth year of recession, with inflation expected to hit 1 million percent this year.
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| Photographer captures crystal-clear images of lions drinking at night Posted: 03 Aug 2018 07:20 AM PDT ![Photographer captures crystal-clear images of lions drinking at night]( "Photographer captures crystal-clear images of lions drinking at night") A daredevil photographer staked out a pride of lions for 15 hours to capture stunning, crystal-clear images of big cats drinking water together just 13 feet away. Freelance photographer Peter Haygarth, 55, captured the rare moment — snapping the intensity of the lionesses' stares and the contrast of night and light — in the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in South Africa.
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| Nearly 600 Migrant Kids Are Still Separated From Parents A Week After Court Deadline Posted: 02 Aug 2018 07:40 PM PDT  The Trump administration has still not reunited nearly 600 migrant children
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| The Darkly Twisted Logic Behind The NRA's Support For 3D-Printed Guns Posted: 03 Aug 2018 10:13 AM PDT  Depending who you ask, the widespread release of downloadable blueprints for
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| The Latest: New evacuations ordered for California wildfire Posted: 02 Aug 2018 09:27 PM PDT  UPPER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires raging in California (all times local):
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| Sexual Misconduct Allegations Hit a Beijing Monastery as #MeToo Movement Grows in China Posted: 02 Aug 2018 11:17 PM PDT  He allegedly told nuns having sex with him was part of their study of Buddhist doctrine
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