| Sexual assault survivors confront Flake in elevator over his support for Kavanaugh Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:47 AM PDT  Moments before, the Republicans issued a statement saying he would vote to confirm Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.
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| Parkland survivor Cameron Kasky sets a new political course Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:45 AM PDT  Cameron Kasky says one of the "biggest problems" is the lack of discussion among those who disagree, and he wants to change that.
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| Deadly earthquake and tsunami kill hundreds in Sulawesi, Indonesia Posted: 29 Sep 2018 09:50 AM PDT ![Deadly earthquake and tsunami kill hundreds in Sulawesi, Indonesia]( "Deadly earthquake and tsunami kill hundreds in Sulawesi, Indonesia") At least 384 people were killed and many swept away when a major earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, authorities said on Saturday.
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| Lavrov notes Trump blamed China, not Russia, for U.S. election meddling Posted: 28 Sep 2018 03:22 PM PDT  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took pleasure in pointing out on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump this week accused China, not Russia, of interfering in U.S. elections. Trump on Wednesday accused the Chinese government of seeking to influence the Nov. 6 U.S. congressional elections against his Republican Party. China has denied the allegation.
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| Airline in miracle lagoon landing has never had fatality Posted: 28 Sep 2018 01:50 AM PDT  The plane that crash-landed Friday in a remote Pacific lagoon was operated by Air Niugini, an airline that's hardly a household name but provides crucial links between isolated Melanesian outposts in the Pacific and the rest of the world. So far it appears none of the 47 people on board was killed, although one person was described by officials as in critical condition.
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| US wants death penalty for NY truck attack suspect Posted: 28 Sep 2018 03:50 PM PDT  US federal prosecutors on Friday signaled their intention to seek the death penalty against the Uzbek immigrant accused of killing eight people in a New York truck rampage, should he be convicted at trial. Sayfullo Saipov, 30, allegedly drove a rented pickup truck down a mile-long stretch of bike path in Manhattan as children and their parents prepared to celebrate Halloween on October 31, 2017. It was the deadliest attack in New York since the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda hijackings brought down the Twin Towers.
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| Raptor Reborn: Is a Super F-22 Fighter Heading to Japan? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:37 AM PDT  Lockheed Marting is pitching the idea to Tokyo.
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| Harvard Law School Dean Won’t Say If Brett Kavanaugh Still Has A Job Posted: 28 Sep 2018 02:09 PM PDT  In response to student protests over the sexual assault allegations against
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| 7 Gazans, including 2 boys, killed by Israeli fire on border Posted: 28 Sep 2018 10:34 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians, two of them children, and wounded dozens more, Palestinian health officials said, in the deadliest day in recent weeks as Gaza's Hamas rulers stepped up protests along the border fence.
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| Trump signs spending bill, averts shutdown threat until December Posted: 28 Sep 2018 12:19 PM PDT ![Trump signs spending bill, averts shutdown threat until December]( "Trump signs spending bill, averts shutdown threat until December") President Trump signed a massive spending bill, providing hundreds of billions of dollars for the Department of Defense.
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| Correction: United Nations-Israel-Iran story Posted: 28 Sep 2018 05:47 AM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a story Sept. 27 about Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations, The Associated Press erroneously referred to Benjamin Netanyahu as president of Israel. He is prime minister. A corrected version of the story is below:
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| The F-35B Just Went to War for the Very First Time Posted: 29 Sep 2018 02:00 AM PDT  And settled an old grudge in Afghanistan.
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| The Future of Real Estate -- With Fewer Agents? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 01:04 PM PDT ![The Future of Real Estate -- With Fewer Agents?]( "The Future of Real Estate -- With Fewer Agents?") The real estate industry is facing disruption, and not just on one front. New real estate brokerages are offering an alternative to the way agents do business, tech startups are providing more information and ease of access to consumers and professionals, and companies are helping consumers bypass the need for a real estate agent altogether. Some argue that real estate agents will become obsolete, while others believe the way real estate transactions are closed will evolve.
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| Women Are Not Your Shield, Judge Kavanaugh Posted: 27 Sep 2018 08:15 PM PDT  Brett Kavanaugh showed up to his Supreme Court nomination hearing Thursday
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| Some defend official who said girls 'ruin everything' Posted: 28 Sep 2018 04:26 AM PDT ![Some defend official who said girls 'ruin everything']( "Some defend official who said girls 'ruin everything'") SODDY-DAISY, Tenn. (AP) — Some people are defending a Tennessee high school official who posted a video explaining his ban on athletic shorts, saying "blame the girls, because they pretty much ruin everything."
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| U.S. House committee votes to release Trump-Russia transcripts Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:28 AM PDT  The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to send transcripts of 53 interviews to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which will scrub them of classified information before they are made public. Adam Schiff, the committee's top Democrat, told reporters after the meeting that Republicans refused to make some of the most important transcripts public, including interviews with fired FBI Director James Comey and Admiral Mike Rogers, the former National Security Agency director.
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| Iraq 'regrets' US closure of Basra consulate Posted: 29 Sep 2018 03:06 AM PDT  Iraq's foreign ministry voiced "regret" on Saturday over a US decision to shut its consulate in the southern city of Basra which has been rocked by weeks of deadly protests. "The ministry regrets the American decision to pull its staff out of Basra," a statement said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ordered all but emergency staff to leave Basra, with consular duties to be taken over by the embassy in Baghdad.
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| India's top court lifts Hindu temple ban on women of menstruating age Posted: 28 Sep 2018 06:58 AM PDT ![India's top court lifts Hindu temple ban on women of menstruating age]( "India's top court lifts Hindu temple ban on women of menstruating age") The authorities at the Sabarimala temple, which attracts tens of millions of pilgrims every year, have said the ban on women and girls aged from 10 to 50 was essential to the rites related to the temple's chief deity Ayyappan, considered eternally celibate. In some Hindu communities, menstruating women are regarded as unclean, leading to restrictions and in a few cases outright bans on women of child-bearing age from entering certain places. Lifting the ban, the Chief Justice of India said "restrictions put by Sabarimala temple can't be held as essential religious practice".
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| Brett Kavanaugh Nomination Moves Ahead Despite Sexual Assault Allegations Posted: 28 Sep 2018 11:01 AM PDT  The Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday voted to advance the Supreme Court
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| Search team finds body of skydiving instructor lost in jump Posted: 28 Sep 2018 04:46 PM PDT ![Search team finds body of skydiving instructor lost in jump]( "Search team finds body of skydiving instructor lost in jump") LEBANON, Maine (AP) — Authorities in Maine on Friday found the body of a skydiving instructor who became separated from his student during a tandem jump.
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| What to know about the deadly drug fentanyl Posted: 28 Sep 2018 02:39 PM PDT  Fentanyl was first developed in 1959 and introduced in the 1960s as an intravenous anesthetic.
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| After 6-year-old's body found, search for clues continues Posted: 28 Sep 2018 02:08 PM PDT  The death of an autistic child who had been missing for days until his body was found has authorities in North Carolina searching for clues as to how he died.
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| Russia begins missile system delivery to Syria, warns West on peace talks Posted: 28 Sep 2018 02:57 PM PDT  Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had said on Monday the system would be delivered to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces in two weeks despite strong Israeli and United States objections. A week previously, Moscow had accused Israel of indirectly causing the downing of a Russian military jet in Syria. "The delivery started already and as President (Vladimir)Putin said, after that incident ... the measures that we will take will be devoted to ensuring 100 percent safety and security of our men," Lavrov told a news conference at the United Nations.
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| Rival rallies as Erdogan opens mega mosque in Cologne Posted: 29 Sep 2018 09:59 AM PDT  Thousands of demonstrators hit the streets of Cologne Saturday as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened one of Europe's largest mosques at the end of his visit to Germany, with police out in force to manage rival rallies. The inauguration capped a controversial three-day state visit aimed at repairing frayed ties with Berlin after two years of tensions. During his stay in Berlin, Erdogan met twice with Angela Merkel for talks, with both leaders signalling their interest in a cautious rapprochement.
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| Adultery verdict is latest progressive ruling by India court Posted: 27 Sep 2018 07:43 PM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — The chief justice of India's Supreme Court has presided over a string of recent rulings that grant more rights to women, gay couples and religious minorities, challenging deeply conservative Indian society before he retires next month.
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| U.S. regulator sues Musk for fraud, seeks to remove him from Tesla Posted: 27 Sep 2018 10:36 PM PDT  NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday of fraud and sought to remove him from his role in charge of the electric car company, saying he made a series of "false and misleading" tweets about potentially taking Tesla private last month. In a lawsuit, the regulator described Musk surprising members of his own team and investors with a series of tweets, starting with the Aug. 7 announcement that he was thinking of taking Tesla private. Twelve minutes after the first tweet, Tesla's head of investor relations texted Musk's chief of staff to ask whether Musk's announcement was "legit", the SEC said.
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| Washington bar apologises for offering 'tone-deaf' bottomless mimosa special during Brett Kavanaugh hearing Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:40 AM PDT  A Washington DC restaurant has apologised for offering a bottomless mimosa promotion to patrons viewing Dr Christine Blasey Ford's testimony against US Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday. The tweet and the bottomless alcohol offer from the popular DC hangout was considered insensitive by some due to the nature of the Senate testimony - Dr Ford was testifying on behalf of her claims that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a party in the 1980s. Although Kavanaugh denies the allegations, Dr Ford alleges that alcohol consumption was a factor in the events that took place that night.
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| Reporter's notebook: Watching as the world watches Trump Posted: 28 Sep 2018 12:54 PM PDT ![Reporter's notebook: Watching as the world watches Trump]( "Reporter's notebook: Watching as the world watches Trump") When President Trump this week regaled a fancy New York hotel ballroom full of journalists with a tale of how China's leaders respect him for his "very, very large brain," it rang a bell with me. Ah yes, I thought, as I observed the ripple of laughter the president's remark elicited: Mr. Trump's NATO summit press conference, just a few weeks earlier in Brussels. In that case, hundreds of mostly foreign journalists had assembled in a large press conference tent to glean any clues as to the US leader's intentions for the transatlantic alliance.
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| UN rights council renews Yemen war crimes probe Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:10 AM PDT  The United Nations Human Rights Council voted to extend an international probe of alleged war crimes committed in Yemen despite strong opposition from Saudi Arabia and several of its allies. Last month, investigators detailed evidence of possible war crimes committed in Yemen by both the Saudi-led coalition and the Huthi rebels supported by Iran. The coalition and the Yemeni government, which together are battling the Huthis, strongly criticised the probe's initial report, arguing that it underplayed rebel violations and Iran's role.
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| Dutch raids neutralized extremists' threat, authorities say Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:27 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police who arrested seven men suspected of plotting a major extremist attack somewhere in the Netherlands found large quantities of raw materials for explosives at their homes, prosecutors said Friday.
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| French scholar names model for artist Courbet's famous nude Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:58 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — She was a courtesan who relied on financial support from rich men —but preferred the company of women— and died with a reputation as an honorable patroness of orphans.
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| A Plane Crash Landed in Micronesia and Sunk Into a Lagoon Posted: 27 Sep 2018 11:10 PM PDT  All of the passengers and crew survived the crash landing of a plane Friday morning in a Pacific lagoon.
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| Brexit challenger Gina Miller: UK's battle over EU membership must end Posted: 28 Sep 2018 10:23 AM PDT  More than two years since the 2016 EU referendum, the United Kingdom, its politicians and its business leaders remain deeply divided over Brexit while Prime Minister Theresa May has yet to clinch a divorce deal with the EU. Opponents of Brexit are exploring ways to stop what they say is Britain's biggest mistake since World War Two. Miller is leading a campaign to have another referendum, but she said if the government manages to successfully navigate an exit deal then politicians must be allowed to focus on domestic issues without the distractions of a debate about Britain's relationship with Europe.
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| Canadian MPs vote to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of honorary citizenship Posted: 27 Sep 2018 09:58 PM PDT  The Canadian parliament has voted unanimously to strip Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's civilian leader, of her honorary citizenship after global criticism of her handling of the Rohingya crisis. Ottawa had awarded the symbolic honour, which does not afford Canadian rights or privileges, to the Nobel laureate in 2007 after she endured years of house arrest as a political prisoner. The vote in the House of Commons lower chamber means that she will no longer be a member of an elite group of only five other honorary Canadians, which includes Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, and the Dalai Lama. The decision, which must still be ratified by the Senate, comes one week after another unanimous vote by Canadian MPs to declare the Burmese military campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority a genocide. The Burmese army is accused of mass killings, rape and arson in a brutal crackdown last year which drove more than 700,000 Rohingya into neighbouring Bangladesh, where they now live in cramped refugee camps. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt meets with members of the Rohingya community in Rakhine State Credit: Ye Aung Thu/AFP A spokesman for Chrystia Freeland, Canada's foreign minister, confirmed to the Globe and Mail that the government supported the motion to revoke Ms Suu Kyi's citizenship in response to "her continued failure to speak out against the genocide of the Rohingya, a crime being committed by the military with which she shares power." Ms Suu Kyi was previously called out by a searing United Nations investigation for failing to use her "moral authority" to prevent violence against the Rohingya minority. The investigation by three independent UN experts, which concludes that Burma's top generals should be tried for genocide, and the case referred to the International Criminal Court, was presented to the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva last week. The rights body voted on Thursday to set up an independent panel to prepare criminal indictments over the atrocities committed in Burma. Saw for myself in Rakhine that real accountability for atrocities requires this new mechanism to secure the evidence. Burma has been a priority for us here at #UNGA so the decision by @UN_HRC today is great news. Step forward but much more to do. https://t.co/QEpHvhouWh— Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) September 27, 2018 Thirty-five of the council's 47 members supported a text that mandates the panel to prepare "files in order to facilitate and expedite fair and independent criminal proceedings... in national, regional or international courts or tribunals." Only three countries – China, the Philippines and Burundi – voted against the resolution. Jeremy Hunt, the British foreign secretary, welcomed the decision as a "step forward" for establishing justice. "Saw for myself in Rakhine that real accountability for atrocities requires this new mechanism to secure the evidence. Burma has been a priority for us her at #UNGA so the decision by @UN_HRC today is great news. Step forward but much more to do," he said on Twitter. The military has denied nearly all wrongdoing, justifying its crackdown as a legitimate means of rooting out Rohingya militants.
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| Memphis civic leader, former Pinnacle Airlines CEO shot dead Posted: 28 Sep 2018 11:39 AM PDT ![Memphis civic leader, former Pinnacle Airlines CEO shot dead]( "Memphis civic leader, former Pinnacle Airlines CEO shot dead") MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A civic leader and former airline executive was alone when he was fatally shot in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, and authorities are investigating whether he was killed in a robbery or as part of a "personal vendetta," police said Friday.
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| In extraordinary maneuver, Jeff Flake halts Brett Kavanaugh's march to Supreme Court Posted: 28 Sep 2018 12:50 PM PDT  Sen. Flake said he wouldn't vote to confirm Kavanaugh unless the FBI investigated the sexual assault allegations against him.
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| Prosecutor files charge in police shooting of black man Posted: 27 Sep 2018 05:56 PM PDT ![Prosecutor files charge in police shooting of black man]( "Prosecutor files charge in police shooting of black man") NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A white Tennessee police officer was charged with criminal homicide Thursday after surveillance footage appeared to show him chasing a black man and opening fire as the man fled from the officer in July.
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