| Brett Kavanaugh Protesters Arrested After Occupying W.V. Senator's Office For 11 Hours Posted: 02 Oct 2018 11:11 AM PDT  Police handcuffed and removed a group of women early Tuesday from Sen. Joe
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| 8 Times Donald Trump Claimed He Was A Self-Made Man Posted: 03 Oct 2018 04:46 AM PDT  Donald Trump has, for decades, attempted to portray himself as a self-made, up-by-your-bootstraps entrepreneur who benefited little from his father's fortune.
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| Fresh Earthquakes Strike Disaster-Hit Indonesia Posted: 01 Oct 2018 11:44 PM PDT  More earthquakes rattled Indonesia on Tuesday as authorities raced to provide aid, and search for victims
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| The Latest: Russia delivers S-300 air defenses to Syria Posted: 02 Oct 2018 11:00 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syria conflict (all times local):
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| Boy recovering from shark attack Posted: 02 Oct 2018 09:32 AM PDT  A 13-year-old boy who was attacked by a shark while lobster diving is expected to recover and says he plans to go back into the water someday.
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| Weird Goblin Planet Found On The Edge Of Solar System Posted: 03 Oct 2018 02:00 AM PDT  A strange little dwarf planet with a colorful name is giving astronomers new
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| IAEA fends off Israel pressure over Iran Posted: 02 Oct 2018 11:52 AM PDT  The UN's nuclear watchdog Tuesday refused to "take at face value" Israel's claims that Iran is harbouring a secret atomic warehouse, fending off pressure to inspect the allegedly suspect site. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the claim in front of the UN General Assembly last week. Without explicitly referring to Netanyahu's claim, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano insisted that the agency's independence was "of paramount importance" for its work.
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| How Liquefaction Made Mud Flow 'Like Waves' in Indonesia's Earthquake Disaster Posted: 03 Oct 2018 12:28 AM PDT  In one neighborhood, 1,700 houses were consumed by liquefying soil
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| Volkswagen not prepared to cover full costs of diesel retrofits: source Posted: 02 Oct 2018 04:35 AM PDT  Volkswagen is not prepared to cover the full cost of hardware retrofits for older diesel vehicles in Germany, a source at Volkswagen said, contradicting a deal announced by the German coalition parties on Tuesday. Under the coalition parties' deal, owners of older diesel cars in German cities where the air is particularly polluted will be able to choose between trade-in incentives and a hardware upgrade.
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| Body found inside plane days after it ditched into Pacific lagoon Posted: 01 Oct 2018 06:21 PM PDT  A male passenger's body has been found inside an airliner that ditched and sank in a lagoon last week after missing the runway on a remote Pacific island, officials said. The Air Niugini Boeing 737-800 was attempting to land at Weno airport in Micronesia on Friday morning but fell short of the runway and splashed down in Chuuk lagoon. "It is with great sadness I confirm that the body of a male passenger was discovered by divers today as they conducted a further search of P2-PXE and the surrounding area in Chuuk lagoon," Air Niugini chief executive Tahawar Durrani said in a statement late Monday.
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| FEMA Tests New Presidential Emergency Alert System On Cellphones Posted: 03 Oct 2018 11:20 AM PDT  In case you missed it, the Federal Emergency Management Agency tested its
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| Tucker Carlson: 'It's About Punishing Everybody Who Looks Like Brett Kavanaugh' Posted: 02 Oct 2018 05:16 AM PDT  Fox News host Tucker Carlson attacked Democrats on Monday for questioning the
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| Dunkin' Donuts Fires Worker Who Poured Water On Homeless Man Posted: 02 Oct 2018 05:00 PM PDT  Two employees at a Dunkin' Donuts franchise in Syracuse, New York, have been
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| Putin Says He Doesn’t Think Trump Is ‘Compromised’ as President Posted: 03 Oct 2018 06:34 AM PDT  "I don't think President Trump is compromised," Putin told an energy conference in Moscow on Wednesday. Putin, who said after a summit meeting with the U.S. leader in July that he'd wanted Trump to win because he supported better ties with Russia, added that he couldn't be sure the escalating standoff between the two countries would have been avoided under a different American president.
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| Border patrol agent's explosive ‘gender reveal’ stunt sparks 47,000-acre wildfire and causes £6.3m damage Posted: 02 Oct 2018 03:30 AM PDT  An elaborate stunt planned by a US Border Patrol agent to reveal the sex of his future child sparked a massive wildfire that spread over 47,000 acres of land and caused $8.2m (£6.3m) damage. Dennis Dickey, 37, shot a rifle at a target containing Tannerite, a highly explosive powder, at a "gender-reveal party" near Green Valley in Arizona. The "high-velocity" bullet was intended to cause an explosion of either blue or pink powder, but it also sparked flames which spread rapidly to the Coronado National Forest.
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| Time running out in search for survivors of Indonesia's quake Posted: 02 Oct 2018 12:11 PM PDT  "We hope the death toll does not rise," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, said late on Tuesday. "We're continuing rescue operations but right now the team is racing against time." President Joko Widodo called on Tuesday for reinforcements in the search for survivors, saying everyone had to be found. Nugroho said rescuers had reached all four of the badly affected districts, which together have a population of 1.4 million, but he declined to give an estimate of casualties.
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| Trump Administration Halts Visas for Unmarried Same-Sex Partners of Diplomats Posted: 02 Oct 2018 02:26 AM PDT  The new policy could pose a problem for diplomats who can't get married at home
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| War in the South China Sea: 3 Ways America and China Fight it Out Posted: 02 Oct 2018 04:49 PM PDT  "If China decides to go ahead and declare an ADIZ over the South China Sea, matters could become even more complicated."
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| 40+ Halloween Dinner Ideas That Are So Good It's Scary Posted: 03 Oct 2018 11:11 AM PDT |
| Kavanaugh On How To Be A Good Judge: Keep Emotions 'In Check,' 'Don't Be A Jerk' Posted: 01 Oct 2018 07:02 PM PDT  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh described to law school students what it
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| Mueller shedding more attorneys in Russia investigation Posted: 02 Oct 2018 07:41 PM PDT  Robert Mueller is trimming more attorneys from his office, a sign his team of prosecutors is winding down parts of their investigation.
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| North Korea tells US it will not denuclearise in return for peace treaty Posted: 02 Oct 2018 02:45 AM PDT  North Korea has ruled out dismantling its nuclear arsenal in exchange for the US declaring an end to the Korean War, saying on Tuesday that a peace treaty should "never be a bargaining chip." The North has for decades demanded that the US formally declare the end of the 1950-53 conflict that was halted only with an armistice, saying an official end to the war would ease tensions on the flashpoint peninsula. At a summit with the South's President Moon Jae-in last month, the North's leader Kim Jong-un offered to shut down its main Yongbyon nuclear complex if Washington takes "corresponding measures". Kim did not elaborate on what those measure might be, but state news agency KCNA said in a commentary that some US experts have suggested trading the end of the war for denuclearisation. It flatly described that as only the "most basic... process" to restore ties, not a point for negotiation. "The end of war... is not just a gift from a man to another at all. Furthermore, it can never be a bargaining chip for getting the DPRK denuclearised," it said, using the North's full name. KCNA said that Pyongyang was willing to take "such... steps as eternal dismantlement" of its nuclear complex "if the US takes a corresponding measure" but again did not elaborate. Inside North Korea: fascinating images of the world's most secretive state Cho Sung-ryul, analyst at the Institute of National Security Strategy, said the commentary may be aimed at limiting Washington's room for manoeuvre. "The North is trying to reduce the negotiating value of Washington's potential offer of a peace treaty, by suggesting that 'it's not good enough to make us denuclearise'," he told South Korea's news agency Yonhap. A landmark summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump in June led to a warming of ties, but there has been little concrete progress toward denuclearisation. The North's foreign minister Ri Yong Ho also told the UN last month that there was "no way" his country would disarm first as long as the US pushes for tough enforcement of sanctions against Pyongyang. Trump however lauded Kim, saying last week the pair had fallen "in love" - their bromance fuelled by "beautiful letters" he recently received from the young leader. The ceasefire that halted the bloody conflict and divided the Korean peninsula was signed by the North, its military ally China and the US - which fought on the side of the South. The South did not take part as its then-leader refused to end the war unless the whole peninsula was unified. On Tuesday a top South Korean official told MPs that North Korea is estimated to have up to 60 nuclear weapons, in Seoul's first public comment about the size of the North's secrecy-clouded weapons arsenal. Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon told parliament the estimates on the size of North Korea's nuclear arsenal range from 20 bombs to as many as 60, saying the information came from the intelligence authorities. The National Intelligence Service, South Korea's main spy agency, did not immediately comment and it is believed Cho may have revealed the information unintentionally. His ministry said on Tuesday that Cho's comments didn't mean that South Korea would accept North Korea as a nuclear state, suggesting Seoul's diplomatic efforts to rid the North of its nuclear program would continue. North Korean missile ranges The South Korean assessment on the North's arsenal is not much different from various outside civilian estimates largely based on the amount of nuclear materials that North is believed to have produced. According to South Korean government reports, North Korea is believed to have produced 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of weaponised plutonium, enough for at least eight bombs. Stanford University scholars, including nuclear physicist Siegfried Hecker, who visited North Korea's centrifuge facility at Nyongbyon in 2010, wrote earlier this year that North Korea is estimated to have a highly enriched uranium inventory of 250 to 500 kilograms (550 to 1,100 pounds), sufficient for 25 to 30 nuclear devices. Many foreign experts say North Korea is likely to be running additional secret uranium-enrichment plants.
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| Four Californian men charged with inciting violence at 2017 Charlottesville rally Posted: 02 Oct 2018 10:32 PM PDT  Benjamin Drake Daley, 25, Michael Paul Miselis, 29, Thomas Walter Gillen, 34, and Cole Evan White, 24 - with violating the federal riots statute and conspiracy to riot. Each was ordered to remain held by the U.S. Marshals Service pending further proceedings.
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| Palestinian teen killed in clashes with Israeli army: Gaza ministry Posted: 03 Oct 2018 11:09 AM PDT  A Palestinian teenager was killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers near the Gaza border on Wednesday, the health ministry in the enclave said. Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP that Ahmed Abu Habel, 15, succumbed to a head wound after being hit with a tear gas cannister fired by soldiers near a checkpoint between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
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| Graham on Kavanaugh confirmation process: ‘Enough. Vote. Don’t destroy this man’s life’ Posted: 03 Oct 2018 10:16 AM PDT  Sen. Lindsey Graham is suspicious of the numerous allegations coming out against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Graham lists the allegations and says, "Don't destroy this man's life." Graham also says that if a seat on the Supreme Court should become open in a presidential election year, he would want to wait until the next election to confirm a nominee.
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| American Airlines flight diverted after passenger refuses to stop doing pull-ups on overhead compartment Posted: 03 Oct 2018 03:16 AM PDT  A flight had to be diverted after a passenger reportedly refused to stop doing pull-ups on an overhead compartment. American Airlines flight 2763 from Phoenix to Boston was forced to land in Kansas City so authorities could escort the unruly passenger off the plane. Eyewitness David Markoski told the WBZ-TBV news channel that the man, who has not been named, boarded the plane with two dogs and appeared to be drunk.
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| Don't Accept a Job Until You Identify Your Priorities Posted: 03 Oct 2018 09:02 AM PDT ![Don't Accept a Job Until You Identify Your Priorities]( "Don't Accept a Job Until You Identify Your Priorities") There's nothing more exciting than receiving a job offer. But that excitement is often mixed with anxiety and apprehension. What if you make the wrong decision?
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| National Council Of Churches Calls For Brett Kavanaugh's Withdrawal Posted: 03 Oct 2018 04:42 PM PDT  The National Council of Churches called for the withdrawal of Brett
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| The new Bugatti Divo makes European debut in Paris Posted: 03 Oct 2018 06:04 AM PDT  Anyone looking to get their hands on one of the production run of the Bugatti Divo that made its European debut at the Paris Motor Show is out of luck because they're already sold out. There were only 40 made, and if you haven't already ordered your €5 million Bugatti Divo, which made its world premiere in Monterey, California in August, the dream went fleeting by -- each and every one was sold before it even made its debut at the Paris Motor Show on Tuesday. Paris, the city of outstanding architecture becomes the perfect playground for the groundbreaking 1500HP #BUGATTIDivo.
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| AP Explains: Removal of mines from Korean Demilitarized Zone Posted: 01 Oct 2018 05:49 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Seoul says the rival Koreas began removing mines and other explosives at two sites inside their heavily armed border on Monday as part of their recent tension-reduction steps. They will likely end up pulling out a very small portion of an estimated 2 million mines littered inside and near the 248-kilometer (155-mile) -long, 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) -wide Demilitarized Zone. But it would be the two countries' first joint demining work in more than a decade and comes amid international diplomacy aimed at ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
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| Pizza Delivery Man Credited With Stopping Kidnapping After He Notices Woman Mouth 'Help Me’: Cops Posted: 02 Oct 2018 08:13 AM PDT  Joey Grundl, 24, was dropping off a pizza in Waldo, Wisconsin, when he said he noticed a woman in distress inside the home on Sept. 27.
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| World Court orders U.S. to ensure Iran sanctions don't hit humanitarian aid Posted: 03 Oct 2018 09:45 AM PDT  Judges at the International Court Of Justice (ICJ) handed a small victory to Tehran, which had argued that sanctions imposed since May by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump violate terms of a 1955 Treaty of Amity between the two countries. "This is a decision frankly that is 39 years overdue," Pompeo told a news conference.
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| Oil price of $65-$75 per barrel would 'suit' Russia: Putin Posted: 03 Oct 2018 06:22 AM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said an oil price of $65 to $75 per barrel would "suit" Moscow, as crude soared this week to reach the highest level since November 2014. "A price of $65 to $75 per barrel would suit us. This would be completely normal to ensure the efficient functioning of energy companies and the investment process," the Russian leader told an energy forum in Moscow.
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| Nobel Prize in Physics Goes To U.S., Canadian and French Scientists for Laser Breakthrough Posted: 02 Oct 2018 03:43 AM PDT  Along with colleagues from France and Canada
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| How Applying Early for College Affects Financial Aid Posted: 03 Oct 2018 08:44 AM PDT ![How Applying Early for College Affects Financial Aid]( "How Applying Early for College Affects Financial Aid") Early decision applicants may enjoy improved odds of being accepted at their dream school, but that could come at the price of receiving less in college aid, experts say. Among schools with early decision policies, the average overall admissions rate was almost 48 percent in fall 2016 -- that's more than a 10 percentage point difference compared with early decision admissions. Under early decision, students commit to a first-choice college and, if admitted, agree to enroll and withdraw their other college applications.
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| 10 Things to Know for Today Posted: 03 Oct 2018 03:12 AM PDT  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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| The 2019 Porsche Macan gets way more than some fancy new colors Posted: 02 Oct 2018 09:23 AM PDT  When you think of Porsche, SUVs probably aren't the type of cars that come to your mind first. This Macan, however, which comes in four new colors, is definitely one you will remember. Since making its debut a couple months ago in July, the 2019 Porsche Macan is back for its European premiere at the Paris Motor Show.
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