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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: "Nobody can deny the seriousness of these plots"
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has blamed a foreign conspiracy for trying to destabilise Syria, as a mass uprising against his rule continues.
The "external conspiracy is clear to everybody", Mr Assad said in his first public remarks in months.
He said elections could be held later this year but "terrorism", he added, would be met with an "iron fist".
Meanwhile the Arab League said it held the government "totally responsible" for attacks against its observers.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi denounced "irresponsible action and acts of violence against the league's observers" in Syria.
Mr Arabi said some monitors had been wounded in attacks by both pro-regime elements and by opposition supporters.
Analysis We have heard much of this script before from Bashar al-Assad. The crisis in h
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Mayim Bialik arrives at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in January 2017. (Photo: Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY)
The Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik is responding to a Twitter storm swirling around her.
She became subject to social media backlash, accused by some of victim-blaming, after an op-ed she wrote for The New York Times was published Friday.
The essay titled "Mayim Bialik: Being a feminist in Harvey Weinstein’s world," offers her perspective on the scandal involving accusations of sexual assault by Weinstein going back decades. The allegations, which surfaced more than a week ago, have resulted in the influential Hollywood producer being fired from his executive position at The Weinstein Company. On Saturday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences dismissed him from its membership.
Late Saturday night, Bialik posted a res
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Venice, Louisiana (CNN) -- President Obama said Sunday his administration has mounted a "relentless response" to the oil spill unleashed by the sinking of an offshore drill rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Obama met with local, state and federal officials involved in the cleanup in southeastern Louisiana, the closest stretch of coastline threatened by the massive spill. Afterward, he said that despite "the most advanced technology available," the spill may not be stopped for many days.
"I'm not going to rest, and none of the gentlemen and women who are here are going to rest or be satisfied, until the leak is stopped at the source, the oil on the Gulf is contained and cleaned up and the people of this region are able to go back to their lives and their livelihoods," he said. "We will spare no resource to clean up whatever damage is caused."
Obama met with the commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Thad Allen; EPA administrator Lisa Jackson; Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal; and the presi
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A day before blastoff with two Intelsat communications satellites, an Ariane 5 rocket rolled into position on its launch pad in French Guiana on Tuesday behind a 540-horsepower Titan truck, and these close-up snapshots show technicians preparing for the journey.
The mighty Titan — a pillar in American rocketry for five decades — flew into orbit for the final time Wednesday, capping a distinguished career of heavy-lifting that has spanned the nation’s space age.
Pope Benedict XVI calls the space shuttle-station crew
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL--Pope Benedict XVI called the combined crews of the shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station Saturday, wishing commander Mark Kelly's gravely wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, a steady recovery and asking station flight engineer Paolo Nespoli how he endured news of his mother's death in the isolation of space.
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Iran’s recent warnings of a disruption in the global oil trade have pushed the price of a barrel of domestic oil to more than $103, a six-month high and up about 34 percent since September. That has helped drive the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States to $3.52, a 30-cent increase in the past two months. It is already approaching $4 in some places.
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Economists say the current price of oil is only a modest drag on the economy. But a big jump — combined with tensions over Iran and continuing European debt worries — could present a more significant challenge to America’s recovery, they say.
For the president’s economic team, the specter of such increases in oil prices comes on the heels of positive economic news that has lifted Mr. Obama’s approval rating, including better-than-expected job growth, a surging stock market and a payroll tax deal that will put more money in the pockets of millions of Ameri
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Gain a global perspective on the US and go beyond with curated news and analysis from 600 journalists in 50+ countries covering politics, business, innovation, trends and more. ||||| China on Monday retaliated against Donald Trump’s taxes on imported steel and aluminium with its own tariffs on a series of products from the United States, including meat, fruit and wine.
The measures, which came with a warning from state media that Beijing is prepared to “show its strength” towards the US, could seriously harm the livelihoods of American farmers, a group which is seen as being part of Mr Trump’s core support.
Beijing announced extra tariffs of up to 25 percent on 128 US products, measures which match a list of potential tariffs on up to $3 billion worth of US goods which was published in China last month.
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said in a statement that it was suspending its obligations to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and that the new tariffs would start o
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The young man didn’t need to, as the song says, smoke two joints in the morning, and smoke two joints at night. One was more than enough when it was roughly 4 feet long and weighed more than two pounds.
That’s what UC Santa Cruz police officers were confronted with when they descended on a rally last Saturday. The young man was not happy when his cartoonishly large joint was hauled away, according to video footage capturing the incident.
“Dude, you’re a liar. You’re a liar,” the young man complained as he walked beside a police officer carrying the torch-like joint. “I can’t wait to see you in court. I can show how you’re harassing me.”
Every year, hundreds of students and others gather at the campus on April 20 to smoke pot. They do so with seemingly little concern for the inevitable police crackdown, which usually involves the confiscation of dime bags, bongs and other paraphernelia.
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A group inspired by the running of the bulls in Pamplona is planning to unleash bulls in several U.S. cities to sprint through fenced-in courses as daredevils try to avoid being trampled.
The Great Bull Run is set to kick off Aug. 24 at a drag-racing strip south of Richmond, Virginia. A second event is planned for Oct. 19 at an Atlanta-area horse park that hosted events for the 1996 Olympics. More events are planned later for Texas, Florida, California, Minnesota, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Bull runs _ when the animals are released to run alongside participants as spectators cheer _ are common in Spain and can drum up controversy. Injuries often occur, as do deaths, though they are much rarer. Some groups attack the treatment of the bulls used in the runs.
About 5,000 people have signed up to participate in the Virginia event, and the number grows by about 50 each day, said Rob Dickens, co-founder and chief operating officer of The Great Bull Run. And with 2,000 signed up f
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Image copyright US Holocaust Memorial Museum Image caption Sobibor was built by the Nazis solely to exterminate Jews
One of the last known survivors of the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor has died in Ukraine at the age of 96.
Arkady Waispapir was captured by the Germans while serving in the Soviet Army and was sent to the camp because he was Jewish.
He was one of the few spared immediate death in the gas chambers by being sent to do camp maintenance work.
More than 250,000 Jews are believed to have been killed at Sobibor, in Nazi-occupied eastern Poland from 1942-43.
In October 1943, Waispapir and seven other inmates led a rebellion using knives, hatchets and captured firearms against the Ukrainian and German guards.
Nearly half of the camp's 600 prisoners managed to escape but 100 of them were caught almost immediately. Out of those who escaped, only 47 survived World War Two.
Waispapir lost his entire family during the German occupation of Ukraine. He m
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Defense attorney Harvey Fishbein, left, speaks to reporters during a break in the trial of Pedro Hernandez in New York, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Jurors deliberating in the murder trial of Hernandez, a man... (Associated Press)
Defense attorney Harvey Fishbein, left, speaks to reporters during a break in the trial of Pedro Hernandez in New York, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Jurors deliberating in the murder trial of Hernandez, a man... (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors deliberating a verdict in the 36-year-old missing-child case of Etan Patz said Tuesday they were deadlocked for a second time, but a judge told them to keep trying.
The jury sent a midday note saying it was still stuck after deliberating since April 15 in the case against Pedro Hernandez. He admitted killing Etan, one of the first missing children ever pictured on a milk carton, but his defense says the confession is false.
"After serious, significant and thorough deliberations, we still are still unable to
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You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Global warming is not expected to end anytime soon, despite what Breitbart.com wrote in an article published last week .
Though we would prefer to focus on our usual coverage of weather and climate science, in this case we felt it important to add our two cents — especially because a video clip from weather.com (La Niña in Pacific Affects Weather in New England ) was prominently featured at the top of the Breitbart article. Breitbart had the legal right to use this clip as part of a content-sharing agreement with another company, but there should be no assumption that The Weather Company endorses the article associated with it.
The Breitbart article – a prime example of cherry picking, or pulling a single item out of context to build a mi
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Image copyright Tolga Akmen/FT Image caption Hostesses were allegedly groped at the men-only charity dinner, held at London's upmarket Dorchester Hotel
A man who helped organise a men-only charity dinner, where hostesses were allegedly groped, has quit the Department for Education board.
David Meller quit his non-executive role after claims about the event by an undercover FT reporter.
Charities are refusing donations from the Presidents Club Charity Dinner, at London's Dorchester Hotel.
Event compere David Walliams said he was "appalled" by the claims but had not witnessed anything.
The comedian and author tweeted that he was there in a "strictly professional capacity" and not as a guest.
Skip Twitter post by @davidwalliams 2) I left immediately after I had finished my presenting on stage at 11.30pm. I did not witness any of the kind of behaviour that allegedly occurred and am absolutely appalled by the reports. — David Walliams (@davidwalliams) January 24, 201
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Roberto Carcelen (No. 92) of Seattle, competing for Peru, finished in last place in the Men's Cross-Country 15km Classic. He was greeted at the finish line by Nepal's Dachhiri Sherpa (No. 91) and gold medalist Dario Cologna of Switzerland (No. 95). Cologna finished nearly 30 minutes ahead of Carcelen, but returned to the finish to greet him. ||||| Originally published February 3, 2010 at 10:00 PM | Page modified February 3, 2010 at 11:32 PM
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Roberto Carcelén, who now lives in Seattle, met his wife through an online-dating service and learned cross-country skiing only about five years ago. Yet he'll be in Vancouver, B.C., later this month as Peru's first and only Winter Olympian.
History starts with a love story.
It starts with a Peruvian man falling head over skis for an American woman in cyberspace. It starts with a connection, forged through instant messaging, that bridges the 5,000 miles between Lima, Peru, and Seattle. It start
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The singed fur and charred feet are testament to the weasel’s last stand: an encounter with the world’s most powerful machine that was never going to end well.
Now an exhibit at the Rotterdam Natural History Museum, the stone marten met its fate when it hopped over a substation fence at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva and was instantly electrocuted by an 18,000 volt transformer.
The incident in November last year knocked out the power to the vast particle accelerator which recreates in microcosm the primordial fire that prevailed at the birth of the universe. The partly-cooked corpse was duly secured for inclusion in the museum’s Dead Animal Tales exhibition.
“It’s a fine example of what the exhibition is all about,�? said Kees Moeliker, director of the museum. “It shows that animal and human life collide more and more, with dramatic results for both.�?
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The quickly emerging field of canine neuroscience has just provided evidence for something most dog owners have long known: based on the tone of your voice, it appears that dogs can tell if you're happy or sad.
Related Content What fMRI Can Tell Us About the Thoughts and Minds of Dogs
Over the past few years at E ötvös Loránd University, in Hungary, a team of researchers has been using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) technology—which tracks blood flow to various areas of the brain, a sign of increased activity—to peer inside the minds of dogs. One of a handful of labs groups worldwide that's using the technology in this way, they've used positive reinforcement training to get a study group of 11 dogs to voluntarily enter the fMRI scanner and stay perfectly still for minutes at a time, which is necessary to get accurate readings.
Recently, they've experimented with playing different sounds to the dogs while they lie in the scanner. In a new paper, published to
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Women in 69 of the world’s poorest countries will have access to an injectable contraceptive shot priced at just $1.
The move to expand access to the contraceptive was announced by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the Children’s Investment Fund last week.
Sayana Press, the official name of the injection system, will be sold to registered purchasers, enabling some of the poorest women in the world to buy the device at a reduced cost or receive it free.
The contraceptive is based on technology that was used to give Hepatitis B inoculations in Indonesia and was first used for contraception in Burkina Faso.
The single-use, prefilled, non-reusable device cuts the risk of infection due to needle sharing and is effective for three months.
Its simplicity means health workers can easily administer it in a range of settings, including in rural homes.
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ATTN!!! Due to the overwhelming and supportive response to Lemmy's memorial we are now using the entire Strip to compensate for overflow. The Rainbow will close from 5:00 until 9:00 for a private service however the Roxy and Whisky will remain open to accommodate ... those looking to show their respects during this time.
Itinerary for Lemmy's Memorial service on Saturday, January 9th:
Join us from 2pm until 5pm at the Rainbow where we will stream Lemmy's funeral service on behalf of Motorhead and their livestream.
At 5pm will be shutting our doors for a private service until 9pm. You are welcome to line up and wait for us to re-open to the public at 9pm or may go next door to The Roxy which will be the official staging location for the memorial itself.
At 6pm doors will open at the Whisky where Metal Allegiance will commence a tribute show in Lemmy's
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South Africa’s justice department is intervening to prevent Oscar Pistorius’ early prison release with Justice Minister Michael Masutha seeking advice over the legality of a parole board decision to free the Olympic athlete on Friday.
Under South African law, Pistorius is eligible for release under “correctional supervision”, having served a sixth of his sentence. But his intervention has come after The Progressive Women’s Movement of South Africa petitioned the Justice Minister, opposing the Bladerunner’s release on parole, especially during Women’s Month.
The decision of the parole board was outrageous and an insult to victims of abuse. — Progressive Women’s Movement of South Africa
Pistorius was due to be moved to house arrest on Friday after serving 10 months of his five-year sentence for manslaughter for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
Listen below to Justice Masutha speaking to 702's Xolani Gwala... ||||| JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Oscar P
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To celebrate the 65th anniversary of her coronation, Queen Elizabeth gives a rare interview about the tradition-steeped ceremony that formally launched her reign in The Coronation, a documentary debuting Sunday evening on the Smithsonian Channel. In the film, which also features commentary from historians, Queen Elizabeth shares her memories of the 1953 ceremony and is reunited with her coronation regalia. Though the monarch is her usual picture of properness, she does drop her guard for a few moments of delicious, no-nonsense commentary. Ahead, the documentary highlights and most surprising revelations about the ceremony itself.
Queen Elizabeth’s father, King George VI, was so determined to prepare his daughter for her own coronation that he had her, at age 11, write a complete review of his coronation.
“I thought it all very, very wonderful and I expect the Abbey did too,” wrote the future queen. “The arches and the beams at the top were covered in a sort of haze of wonder as
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The former White House chef whose body was found late Sunday, after a week-long search in the New Mexico mountains, died from drowning, state police said Tuesday.
Medical examiners ruled 61-year-old Walter Scheib's death as accidental after police saw no signs of foul play, according to a news release. The circumstances surrounding how he died were not immediately known.
Related: Body of Former White House Chef Missing in New Mexico Mountains Found
Scheib's body was found off of the Yerba Canyon hiking trail near Taos in northern New Mexico, where he set off on a solo hiking trip June 13, state police said. After an extensive search, rescue crews found him submerged in a mountain drainage that was flowing with runoff. He was wearing a windbreaker jacket, running pants and tennis shoes.
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Ads withdrawn, and a online petition started in support of a northwest Arkansas gay couple who wants to announce their engagement in a local newspaper.
Cody Renegar and his partner Thomas say they wanted to celebrate their upcoming union with friends and family, by publishing their engagement in the Northwest Arkansas Times.
According to the Northwest Arkansas Times publisher Rusty Turner, its policy is to only print announcements for marriages legally recognized by the state.
Turner says the policy has been around for a long time and has not changed.
Depite the denial the couple says news of the rejection brought a flood of support. The local Backyard Burger franchise pulled it's ads from the paper and an online petition in support of the couple has surpassed 1,000 signatures. ||||| Related Content
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The CEO of JD.com Inc (JD.O), Richard Liu, has returned to China, the Chinese e-commerce giant said on Monday, days after he was arrested by police in the U.S. city of Minneapolis on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct and later released.
Police said an investigation was ongoing.
JD.com has said that the accusation against Liu, 45, was unsubstantiated.
A Minnesota-based lawyer for Liu, Earl Gray, said Liu denies any wrongdoing, and added he does not expect his client to be charged, noting that Liu was released without charges or bail, and was allowed to return to China.
“Under these circumstances based on our substantial experience in the criminal justice system in Minnesota charges are highly unlikely in the future to be brought against our client,” Gray said in an emailed statement.
Minneapolis police said on Sunday that “an active investigation” was under way, although it was possible for the billionaire founder of the firm to leave the Unite
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Police are believed to have identified the suspected perpetrators of the novichok attack on the Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.
Detectives think several Russians were involved in the attack in Salisbury in March and are looking for more than one suspect, the Press Association reported.
On Thursday an inquest was opened into the death this month of Dawn Sturgess following exposure to novichok.
During the 15-minute hearing it emerged that Sturgess, 44, did not regain consciousness after falling ill at her partner Charlie Rowley’s home in Amesbury, eight miles north of Salisbury. A family member described saying goodbye to her after doctors said they were going to turn off life-support systems.
It was also revealed that Sturgess’s body was guarded by police in hospital and on the way to an unnamed facility where the postmortem took place – a sign of the public health concerns surrounding her death. More tests will take place before a cause of
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Image caption Planes are already encountering stronger winds, scientists say
Flights across the North Atlantic could get a lot bumpier in the future if the climate changes as scientists expect.
Planes are already encountering stronger winds, and could now face more turbulence, according to research led from Reading University, UK.
The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that by mid-century passengers will be bounced around more frequently and more strongly.
The zone in the North Atlantic affected by turbulence could also increase.
Reading's Dr Paul Williams said comfort was not the only consideration; there were financial consequences of bumpier airspace as well.
"It's certainly plausible that if flights get diverted more to fly around turbulence rather than through it then the amount of fuel that needs to be burnt will increase," he told BBC News.
"Fuel costs money, which airlines have to pay, and ultimately it could of course be passengers
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By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer
Published: 03/09/2012 12:11 PM EST on LiveScience
Springtime in Concord, Mass., has changed since the town was home to Henry David Thoreau, and the writer himself has helped scientists figure out how.
So have other naturalists, whose written records of the plants and animals around them have helped researchers decipher how climate change has affected eastern Massachusetts and beyond.
Beginning in 1851, Thoreau scribbled records of the timing of the first spring flower blooms in his journals.
A century and a half later, Richard Primack, a professor of biology at Boston University, and his then-graduate student, Abe Miller-Rushing, followed in the writer's footsteps, observing the habits of the same species. [Gallery: Signs of Early Spring in Brooklyn]
An analysis of Thoreau's observations, those of another 19th-century naturalist and their own modern records indicate the first flowering date for 43 of the most common spe
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We'd have more luck playing pickup sticks with our butt-cheeks than we will getting a flight out of here before daybreak. AND...
I assure you, sir, that the execution of my duties is entirely unaffected by my private opinion of you. ||||| Ed King, the Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist who joined the band in 1972 to give the Southern rock group its iconic three-guitar sound, died Wednesday in Nashville. He was 68. A cause of death was not specified, though King had been battling lung cancer and had recently been hospitalized for the disease.
A message on King’s Facebook confirmed his death: “It is with great sorrow we announce the passing of Ed King who died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee on August 22nd, 2018. We thank his many friends and fans for their love and support of Ed during his life and career.”
A California native, King was a founding member of the psychedelic Sixties band Strawberry Alarm Clock, known for their hit “Incense and Peppermints.” He offered to join Skynyr
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SMPD shifts; says Howell never said he intended to do harm at the Gay Pride Parade in WeHo
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Police arrest James Howell, 20 for illegal possession of Explosives, Guns.
Santa Monica Police said they arrested James Howell, 20, in Santa Monica Sunday morning for possession of weapons. They originally said he had the intent to harm people at the West Hollywood gay pride event today. Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrook tweeted Sunday evening that Howell said he intended to go to the Gay Pride event, but didn’t specifically say that he intended to harm anyone there.
The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office filed three felony charges against James Wesley Howell, 20, as well as one misdemeanor charge, said to Deputy Dist. Atty. Sean Carney. Howell appeared Tuesday morning at the Airport Courthouse, at his arraignment. He plead not gu
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It's been more than two months since the tragedy in Tucson stunned the nation. It was a moment when we came together as one people to mourn and to pray for those we lost. And in the attack's turbulent wake, Americans by and large rightly refrained from finger-pointing, assigning blame or playing politics with other people's pain.
But one clear and terrible fact remains. A man our Army rejected as unfit for service; a man one of our colleges deemed too unstable for studies; a man apparently bent on violence, was able to walk into a store and buy a gun.
He used it to murder six people and wound 13 others. And if not for the heroism of bystanders and a brilliant surgical team, it would have been far worse.
But since that day, we have lost perhaps another 2,000 members of our American family to gun violence. Thousands more have been wounded. We lose the same number of young people to guns every day and a half as we did at Columbine, and every four days as we did at Virginia Tec
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First, a batch of top-tier Republican prospects -- including Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Mitch Daniels and Mike Huckabee – decided to sit out tomorrow night’s GOP presidential primary debate, co-sponsored by Fox News and the South Carolina Republican Party.
And now, major media organizations are sitting it out too.
The Associated Press announced Wednesday night that it’s not going to cover tomorrow night’s Republican presidential debate, citing “restrictions placed on media access.”
“The debate sponsors, Fox News Channel and the South Carolina Republican Party, will only allow photos to be taken in the moments ahead of the debate and not during the event itself,” the AP said in an advisory to editors.
“These are restrictions that violate basic demands of news-gathering and differ from other debates where more access was granted. Accordingly, the AP will not staff the event in any format nor will the AP disseminate any pool photos taken by another ou
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[Lindsay Lohan appeared healthy, upbeat, and pulled together (if somewhat surgically adjusted) and—putting to rest speculation that she might crash and burn spectacularly on live television—comported herself just fine in what proved to be an uneven episode. She poked fun at her train-wreck reputation in the monologue (in which she was subjected to assorted drug tests by the SNL cast) and played herself as a prisoner in the show's recurring "Scared Straight" sketch. Jimmy Fallon and Jon Hamm made cameos. Musical guest Jack White performed "Love Interruption" (backed by Ruby Amanfu and an all-female band) and "Sixteen Saltines" (with an all-male band).]
Some highlights...
Bill Hader as a Norman Bates-esque Shepard Smith ("I'm a shy little possum...") interviews a creepy Mitt Romney and family, including sons Tagg, Tiggy, and Tic Tac, and diehard supporter Kidd Rock (Andy Samberg), who performs his new song ("He's Mitt Romney...get the eff out of his way...")
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Korean Air's Boeing 747-8 (AFP)
It could be the end of an era for one of aviation’s most iconic airplanes, with Boeing hinting at the end of the production line for its double-decker 747 aircraft.
Weak sales and encroaching competition are forcing the planemaker to re-evaluate the production of its legendary 747 aircraft, the original Jumbo Jet which changed the face of the industry when it debuted in 1970.
In a post-earnings call with analysts this week, Boeing said “it’s reasonably possible” that production could halt altogether if sales continue to plummet.
The company has slashed production plans from 12 a year, to six, beginning in September.
In addition to its distinctive hump which is most commonly used as a first class cabin, the 747 became the world’s first wide-body aircraft and held onto the title of world’s biggest airliner for nearly four decades, before the arrival of Airbus A380 in 2007.
The most popular version of the 747 currently in service is
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Nancy Grace speculated on Monday that someone might have "pushed" Whitney Houston underwater, leading to her death.
The HLN host was speaking to CNN's Brooke Baldwin about the late music icon, who died suddenly on Saturday. Police said on Monday that she had been found underwater in the bathtub of the hotel room where she was found.
Grace appeared before the police's press conference. But she seemed to sense that some kind of foul play was afoot. Speaking about the prescription drugs found in Houston's hotel room, she wondered "who if anyone put it in her system or gave it to her?" Then, she went further.
"I'd like to know who was around her, who, if anyone gave her drugs...and who let her slip, or pushed her, underneath that water?" she said. "Apparently, no signs of force or trauma to the body. Who let Whitney Houston go under her water?"
"Might it have been one person, might it have been multiple people, all excellent questions," Baldwin said. "Again, we don't know t
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SS United States, Once A Marvel Of Technology, May Be Sold For Scrap
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An iconic luxury ocean liner, originally designed and built in 1952 to be the fastest ship on the seas and a symbol of America's postwar strength and pride, may soon be reduced to scraps of metal.
The conservancy that owns and maintains the SS United States said it has retained a broker to explore the potential sale of the vessel. It adds that if no donor or investor comes forward before Oct. 31, the conservancy will have no choice but to sell the vessel to "a responsible, U.S.-based metals recycler," according to a statement on its website.
The group called the ship a "unique and endangered historic landmark," and said the upkeep costs for it are more than $60,000 a month.
"After much deliberation and consultation, the SS United States Conservancy's Board of Directors has decided to retain a broker to explore the potential sale of America's Flagship,
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The Obama administration Monday lifted a veil of secrecy surrounding the status of the detainees at Guantánamo, for the first time publicly naming the four dozen captives it defined as indefinite detainees men too dangerous to transfer but who cannot be tried in a court of law.
The names had been a closely held secret since a multi-agency task force sifted through the files of the Guantánamo detainees in 2009 trying to achieve President Barack Obamas executive order to close the detention center. In January 2010, the task force revealed that it classified 48 Guantánamo captives as dangerous but ineligible for trial because of a lack of evidence, or because the evidence was too tainted.
They became so-called indefinite detainees, a form of war prisoner held under Congress 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
The Defense Department released the list to The Miami Herald, which, with the assistance of Yale Law School students, had sued for it in federal court i
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You probably haven’t given much thought to what your local weatherwoman is donning as she enlightens you as to whether an umbrella is indeed necessary today, and when that cold front will be pushing strong, gusty winds in your direction. But there’s a lengthy laundry list of on-air dressing rules for female meteorologists, and a popular Reddit thread over the weekend brings light to the official and unofficial dress codes women face in this particular field.Using the power of social media, a group of female meteorologists came up with a solution to the problem. They all bought the same $23 dress on Amazon , after seeing it in a Facebook group used by women in the profession. A member of the group decided to create a collage of everyone's photos in the sheath, which Jennifer Myers, a meteorologist for Dallas’ FOX 4, posted to Reddit on Saturday, and it's been gaining popularity ever since.“Some of us have very strict dress codes...so it's pretty hard to have a closet stocked with solid
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This Friday, something unusual will happen in the sky over Los Angeles. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to see it.
Sept. 30 marks the emergence of the “black moon” — when a second new moon rises in one month. Like all new moons, you cannot see it with the naked eye, because the side of the moon that’s lit by the sun is facing away from Earth.
A black moon is not in any way different from a regular new moon, except for the fact that it occurs in the same month of the calendar as a previous one. The last new moon rose on Sept. 1. The black moon will rise about 5 p.m. this Friday, the last day of the month.
NASA The phases of the moon. The phases of the moon. (NASA)
Many news outlets have reported this as a “rare occurrence.” A handful have suggested it’s a harbinger of the apocalypse. Ian O’Neill, an astrophysicist and the senior producer for space at Discovery News and Seeker.com, says neither of those things are true.
He started investigating the black moon this we
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Life on the run will make a drug lord thirsty.
Escaped Mexican kingpin Joaquin Guzman enjoyed a beer and relaxed in the cockpit of a plane in photos purportedly leaked by El Chapo’s son following the crime boss’ daring prison break.
The taunting pics, posted on Spanish-language site El Blog del Narco, come just two days after Guzman’s Saturday night escape from his cell in a maximum security Mexican prison.
The 58-year-old Sinaloa cartel chief fled through a mile-long tunnel dug over the course of a year, authorities said.
Escaped drug lord Joaquin Guzman (r) chats with a pilot after his prison escape, according to the site El Blog del Narco, which claims the image came from Guzman’s son. (elblogdelnarco.com)
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The photos, which haven’t been verified, would be the first of the mastermind since his escape.
He appeared at ease, casually gripping a bottled brew next to a couple of women in one image and
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An Oregon lawyer Thursday will post a searchable database of 1,250 Boy Scout volunteers from across the country accused of sexual abuse between 1965 and 1985.
The public will be able to access the Scouting records at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at: KellyClarkAttorney.com
For more than 80 years, the Boy Scouts of America has maintained a confidential list of "Ineligible Volunteers" — adults tossed from Scouting because they're suspected of pedophilia and other offenses.
Some people call them the "perversion files." And the Scouts have fought hard to keep the records a secret.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colorado - Can you imagine a gunman's surprise when his pistol suddenly becomes jammed by a deputy's bullet?
Two men tried to rob off-duty Jefferson County Deputy Jose Marquez at gunpoint at a Colorado apartment complex.
Deputy Marquez was shot in the stomach and shoulder, triggering his adrenaline to not only fight back, but to make the shot of a lifetime.
His bullet made a beeline for the alleged robber's gun, lodged inside the bad guy's barrel, jamming the weapon, and possibly saving his own life.
"I'd say that's probably one in a million shot," said Jimmy Graham, Director of the Active Shooter Response Training Center in Centennial, Colorado.
"I've never seen an instance where the bullet actually traveled backwards back down and contacted the bullet," Graham told KUSA. "I don't know that that can be done again."
Deputy Marquez has recovered and the routine investigation into firing his weapon
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(CNN) The US Olympic Committee's CEO has asked all members of the USA Gymnastics board of directors to resign, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
Scott Blackmun said USAG will lose its status as a sports governing body unless the board resigns by Wednesday and an interim board is in place by February 28.
Three top USA Gymnastics board members resigned earlier this week , but the Indianapolis-based governing body has 18 other board positions.
Blackmun's request comes in the wake of a scandal over sexual abuse by former national team doctor Larry Nassar, who was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison on Wednesday.
"We do not base these requirements on any knowledge that any individual USAG staff or board members had a role in fostering or obscuring Nassar's actions," Blackmun wrote. "Our position comes from a clear sense that USAG culture needs fundamental rebuilding."
Blackmun acknowledged the series of resignations and policy changes that USAG has experienced in
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Texas Right to Life distributed “hundreds” of “Former Fetus” name plates to anti-abortion legislators ahead of Planned Parenthood’s lobby day at the Capitol Wednesday. The signs displayed outside of offices were removed for violating Capitol rules.
Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, posted a picture of his sign, displayed outside of his office door, on Facebook with a caption reading “organizations that murder children are not welcome in my office.” Shortly after he tweeted that the sign had been removed.
Texas Right to Life spokeswoman Melissa Conway said the group and legislators hoped the signs would “send a very clear message about the humanity of the ‘preborn’ child and that they themselves were a former fetus.”
“We’re very saddened by the thought that there would be anyone that would want to take down the signage, which each legislator feels the need to display,” Conway said.
Rep. Charlie Geren, R-Fort Worth, chair of House Administration Committee tweeted th
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WASHINGTON — Millions of people facing the cancellation of health insurance policies will be allowed to buy catastrophic coverage and will be exempt from penalties if they go without insurance next year, the White House said Thursday night.
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, disclosed the sudden policy shift in a letter to Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, and five other senators.
It was another effort by President Obama to cushion the impact of the health care law and minimize political damage to himself and Democrats in Congress who adopted the law in 2010 over solid Republican opposition.
In recent weeks, insurers have told many people that their insurance policies were being canceled because they did not comply with the minimum coverage requirements of the law. Insurers usually offer to replace the coverage with new policies that do comply, providing more benefits at higher cost.
The Department of Health and Human Services issued
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The Virgin plane's flight path. FlightRadar24
A Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330 made a romantic detour on Wednesday.
The plane was on a test flight anyway, and made a diversion to form a heart over Cornwall, southwest England.
Virgin Atlantic marked Valentine's Day by sending on of its planes on a round-trip to love.
The carrier flew an Airbus A330 along a heart-shaped flight path over the southwestern tip of England around lunchtime on Wednesday, February 14.
The airbus, with callsign VIR850P, took the heart-shaped diversion over the North Atlantic, not far from the town of Penzance.
The path was visible on public air traffic data streams, and could be seen on the tracking website FlightRadar24.
The flight took off from Gatwick Airport, not far from London, and was in the sky on a test flight.
Virgin identified the plane as one it calls Honkytonk Woman, in keeping with the airline's practice of giving its fleet female names.
A Virgin spokeswoman told Bu
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Rape victim suing county after being jailed following courtroom collapse
Photo: Sean Buckley & Assoc. PLLC Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 A mentally ill rape victim is suing Harris County and the county's law enforcement agencies for jailing her over the Christmas holidays after she had a psychological breakdown on the witness stand while testifying against her attacker. The victim's face has been blurred in this photo to protect her identity. less A mentally ill rape victim is suing Harris County and the county's law enforcement agencies for jailing her over the Christmas holidays after she had a psychological breakdown on the witness stand while ... more Photo: Sean Buckley & Assoc. PLLC Image 2 of 3 A mentally ill rape victim, pictured on the right during a graduation ceremony, is suing Harris County and the county's law enforcement agencies for jailing her over the Christmas holidays after she had a psychological breakdown on the witness stand while t
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More than $1 billion dollars worth of a digital currency known as "bitcoins" now circulate on the web – an amount that exceeds the value of the entire currency stock of small countries like Liberia (which uses “Liberian dollars”), Bhutan (which uses the “Ngultrum”), and 18 other countries.
So what is a “bitcoin,” and why would anyone use it?
Unlike traditional currency, bitcoins are not issued by a government or even a private company. Instead, the currency is run by computer code that distributes new bitcoins at a set rate to people who devote web servers to keep the code running. The bitcoins are then bought and sold for regular U.S. dollars online.
'They buy gold, they put it under the mattress, or they buy bitcoin.' - Tony Gallippi, the CEO “BitPay.com,
Bitcoin is in high demand right now -- each bitcoin currently sells for more than $90 U.S. dollars -- which bitcoin insiders say is because of world events that have shaken confidence in government-issued currencies.
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There is one scene from "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" that was so heart-wrenchingly beautiful, it almost seemed out of place in a summer blockbuster. Our main characters have just escaped from Isla Nublar, the home of the dinosaurs from the "Jurassic Park" movies, as it is slowly consumed by the hot lava and ash clouds from an erupting volcano. When they look back to the shore, a lone brontosaurus can be seen bellowing for help. While many other dinosaurs have been saved, this one has been abandoned to die, and on some visceral level it seems to know it. As the clouds and flames overtake it, we see its body gradually lose focus and become a silhouette. With its life slowly being snuffed out, the sad and terrified beast rears on its hind legs and lets out one last, desperate call.
All of this is seen by our heroes as they can do nothing but watch helplessly with tears in their eyes. I'll confess: My eyes weren't entirely dry either.
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Nearly four years before school shooter Nikolas Cruz gunned down 17 students and educators at a Parkland high school, he confided in a therapist that he saw himself in a dream drenched in human blood.
A May 3, 2014, notation in a Broward County schools psychiatric file said Cruz “reported [a dream] last week of him killing people and covered in blood. He smiled and told the therapist that sometimes he says things for shock value.”
After Cruz’s disclosure to his therapist at the alternative Cross Creek School, administrators developed a “safety plan” to ensure the welfare of Cruz and others while the teen was on summer vacation. The plan included provisions for removing “all sharp objects from the home” and encouraging the youth to “verbalize what the problem is.”
If talking about “the problem” was seen as a solution to Cruz’s volatile behavior — and, in the short term, it may have been — it did not last. Portions of his psychiatric file, obtained by the Miami Herald on Frid
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CLOSE Sen. Rand Paul discusses tax reform at UPS training center Marty Pearl, Special to the CJ
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to supporters gathered at The Champions of Liberty Rally in Hebron, Ky., Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. Paul was joined at the fundraising event by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, and U.S. Reps Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. (Photo: Bryan Woolston, AP)
Police say they've arrested a man who intentionally assaulted U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, causing a minor injury.
Rene Boucher, 59, of Bowling Green, is charged with one count of fourth-degree assault and is being held in the Warren County Detention Center, according to a news release from Kentucky State Police.
Police responded to a report of an assault at Paul's residence just before 3:30 p.m. Friday. They determined Boucher had intentionally assaulted the junior senator, according to the release. It was not immediately clear what injury Paul suffered.
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A spokesman for the hospital, Christian Preston, said Friday that he could not comment on the case because of the litigation and privacy concerns. But he defended the hospital’s record, saying it had a 22-percent C-section rate compared with a state average of 34 percent. Its 2012 rate of “vaginal birth after C-section” was almost 29 percent, much higher than the state average of 11 percent, he said.
The lawsuit, filed last month in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, where Mrs. Dray lives, also names Dr. Leonid Gorelik, who delivered the baby, as a defendant. Dr. Gorelik, in court papers, denied that he had taken Mrs. Dray for a C-section against her will. He said that her own “culpable conduct and want of care” contributed to any injuries she may have sustained.
Dr. Ducey’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. In the medical record, he wrote that the fetus was “at risks for serious harm without the C-section.”
Dr. Howard Minkoff, chairman of obstetrics at Maimoni
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VA To Volunteers: Stop Quilting
Officials can’t quite piece together their story but quilters say they’ve been asked to stop making blankets for veterans due to, depending on who you believe, either a bed bug infestation or a quilt surplus. The Minneapolis Star Tribune says because of the “generosity and efficiency of the quilting volunteers” the VA simply has no place to store the handmade donations. The official cease and desist went like this: “Thanks to your skill, talents and dedication to helping our hospitalized veterans of the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, we have an overabundant supply of lap robes, quilts, blankets, neck pillows, armrest pillows, heart pillows, slippers and laundry bags.”
The Quilts of Valor has distributed more than 37,000 quilts since it was formed in 2004. ||||| Quilts have fallen victim to the war on bugs.
Or to their makers' speedy fingers.
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The two suspects in last week's Boston Marathon bombing weren't licensed to have guns, the Cambridge, Mass., Police Department confirmed Sunday.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who was captured after a gun battle with police Friday, wasn't old enough to be licensed to own a gun in Massachusetts. The minimum legal age is 21.
His older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was fatally wounded hours earlier, never had a license to own or carry a gun in Cambridge, where the pair shared an apartment, Cambridge Police spokesman Dan Riviello told the Los Angeles Times. It's unclear whether he ever applied for a license.
The pair's deadly, chaotic showdown with police that began Thursday night continued to come into focus Sunday as investigators plied through the brothers' lives before the bombing and their actions afterward.
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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A former Cleveland school bus driver accused of kidnapping and holding three women captive for years pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to hundreds of criminal charges, but his lawyers said they are seeking a plea agreement to avert a trial.
Ariel Castro, 52, is shown in this Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office booking photo taken on May 9, 2013. Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office/Handout via Reuters
A grand jury on Friday added 648 charges to a previous indictment against Ariel Castro, bringing the total number of charges against him to 977.
Castro, 53, is accused of abducting the first of the women in 2002 and holding them captive until they escaped from his house on May 6 along with a 6-year-old girl he fathered with one of the women.
During a brief court appearance, a lawyer for Castro entered the not guilty plea and the judge kept in place an $8 million bond, and an order that Castro have no contact with the three women and the child.
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OCEAN CITY, Md. - A scary scene on the Ocean City beach Sunday afternoon after a Pennsylvania woman was wounded by a windswept umbrella.
Ocean City Beach Patrol said the incident happened on the 54th Street beach, and they received the call just after 3 p.m.
Beach Patrol said an unattended umbrella swept by the wind pierced the woman's skin on her upper left chest. However, Captain Butch Arbin who was on scene said it was a non-life threatening injury.
Beach Patrol said the 46-year-old victim was medevaced to PRMC.
Beach patrol said it's important visitors take steps to prevent their umbrellas from getting swept up in the wind. That means rocking the whole umbrella pole back and forth until 18 to 24 inches of the pole are beneath the sand, as well as making sure the umbrella is tilted into the wind. ||||| OCEAN CITY, Md. - A 46-year-old Pennsylvania woman was flown out after officials say she was pierced in the chest by a beach umbrella on 54th Street in Ocean City Sund
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When most BASE jumpers come to Twin Falls they jump from the Perrine Bridge. Tuesday night a stunt jumper ascended from the canyon’s edge and found himself in a bit of trouble.
The jumper miscalculated his takeoff and the result left him hanging by his parachute from the rocky edge.
Regardless of experience some jumps aren’t worth the risk. Miles Daisher, a professional Red Bull BASE jumper and Twin Falls native, declined to jump from the same spot two years prior due to the dangers of not only the rocks but powerlines in the area.
“If you have a 180 degree off headed opening that wall is coming at you fast, and if you’re not like lightening on your toggles, you’re going to hit the wall, like what happened yesterday,” Daisher said.
Luckily for the stunt jumper, the Magic Valley Paramedics, Search and Rescue and Twin Falls Fire Department are trained and prepared for these rescues. Though rare, they're always high risk.
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A recently published study reveals new evidence that a major earthquake is way overdue on a 100 mile stretch of the San Andreas Fault from the Antelope Valley to the Tejon Pass and beyond.Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey released the results of the years-long study warning a major earthquake could strike soon."They're actually looking back in time and they were able to identify 10 earthquakes that occurred over the last 1,200 years," explained Robert Graves, a research geophysicist with the USGS.Geologists studied the area along the Grapevine near Frazier Park and found earthquakes happen there, on average, every 100 years. Experts said it's been 160 years since the last major quake."The stress is building up along the San Andreas and a large earthquake is inevitable," Graves said.Most earthquakes were 7.5 magnitude or larger, according to the study. Graves said the damage from an earthquake that powerful could be significant across the region."That would make it difficult t
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GENEVA — The United Nations experts investigating human rights conditions in North Korea said Tuesday that the “shocking” evidence they had collected from defectors and others suggested “large-scale” patterns of abuse that demanded an international response.
The Human Rights Council pushed for the investigation in an attempt to bring new attention to allegations of horrifying abuses at the North’s infamous gulags that have been trickling out for years as more people have escaped the brutal police state. Until now, world powers including the United States had focused instead on attempts to dismantle the North’s nuclear weapons program.
The chairman of the three-member Commission of Inquiry, Michael Donald Kirby, told reporters that the testimony he had heard in recent months evoked reactions similar to the discovery of concentration camps in Europe after World War II.
He cited the statements of a former prisoner who said she had seen another woman forced to drown her baby in
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Babies Who Eat Rice Cereal Have Higher Arsenic Levels, Study Finds
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When it comes to introducing babies to solid foods, rice cereal is often first. And rice is a staple in many baby and toddler foods.
But, as we've reported, multiple studies have found that rice-based foods contain traces of arsenic, and sometimes levels are surprisingly high.
Now comes a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics that finds babies who are fed rice cereals — and other rice-based snacks — have higher concentrations of arsenic in their urine compared with infants who are not fed rice.
"The highest arsenic concentrations were among those who consumed infant rice cereal," says researcher Margaret Karagas, an epidemiologist at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine. "Among those [babies] who ate rice snacks, levels were about double [that of] non-rice eaters."
The study was based on data from the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study. Th
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KABUL (Reuters) - A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit northern Afghanistan and Pakistan late on Friday, two months after more than 300 people were killed by a quake in the same mountainous region.
Strong shocks were felt in the Afghan capital Kabul at 11:14 p.m. local time (1914 GMT) and in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, waking sleeping people and driving them out of their houses. Tremors were felt as far away as New Delhi, officials said.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake, initially reported as magnitude 6.4, was at a depth of 126.5 miles (203 km) and centered 51 miles (82 km) southeast of the town of Feyzabad, capital of the Afghan province of Badakhshan.
In Pakistan, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government issued a red alert soon after the earthquake but there was no immediate information about loss of life or damage to property.
A magnitude 6.2 quake is considered strong and can cause severe damage. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties but com
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THERE HAVE BEEN GREAT MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN RHETORIC. Yet there has been only one occasion of pure, unadulterated genius. That’s what happened last night: a debate staged between the Internet’s favorite Tennessee gubernatorial candidate, Basil Marceaux, and two other crazies.
After Marceaux became a viral hit, you see, a guy named James Crenshaw and some other people decided they wanted to be his campaign staff. Why would any sane people do this? It seems to us that they perhaps want to exploit him. America is fun like that! These ruffians are filming a “possible documentary” about him, your Wonkette has been told, and they put up the videos on this YouTube account, apparently to try to manufacture a sustained Internet interest in their subject. And Wednesday night, the night before today’s Tennessee gubernatorial primaries, this “staff” staged this magnificent debate at the Scarritt-Bennett Center’s Harambee Auditorium in Nashville. A Wonkette operative WITNESS TO HIS
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Senate Republicans intend to block action on virtually all Democratic-backed legislation unrelated to tax cuts and government spending in the current postelection session of Congress, officials said Tuesday, adding that the leadership has quietly collected signatures on a letter pledging to carry out the strategy.
If carried out, it would doom Democratic-backed attempts to end the Pentagon's practice of discharging openly gay members of the military service and give legal status to young illegal immigrants who join the military or attend college.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has made both measures a priority as Democrats attempt to enact legislation long sought by groups that supported them in the recent midterm elections.
A nuclear arms treaty with Russia that President Barack Obama wants ratified would not be affected, since any debate would take place under different rules than those that apply to legislation. Even so, its passage is not assured as Republicans are s
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“Organ trafficking is a growth industry,” said Jonathan Ratel, a European Union special prosecutor who is leading a case against seven people accused of luring poor victims from Turkey and former communist countries to Kosovo to sell their kidneys with false promises of payments of up to $20,000. “Organized criminal groups are preying upon the vulnerable on both sides of the supply chain: people suffering from chronic poverty, and desperate and wealthy patients who will do anything to survive.”
The main supply countries have traditionally been China, India, Brazil and the Philippines. But experts say Europeans are increasingly vulnerable.
An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 kidneys are illegally sold globally each year, according to Organs Watch, a human rights group in Berkeley, Calif., that tracks the illegal organ trade. The World Health Organization estimates that only 10 percent of global needs for organ transplantation are being met.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, the director of Or
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The post from a popular Twitter page called "Yes, You're Racist" points to Pete Tefft of Fargo.
It's sparked thousands of retweets and likes, as well as many threats of violence.
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Local family members also report being harassed.
The 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville turned deadly this weekend when a man drove a car into a crowd that was protesting the white nationalists.
One woman died and at least 19 others were hurt.
In February, Tefft responded to flyers in downtown Fargo that called him a Nazi.
In an video interview with The Forum, he said he was interested in political action to further pro-white interests.
Statement by Jacob Scott, Pete Tefft's nephew:
"In brief, we reject him wholly – both him personally as a vile person who has HIMSELF made violent threats against our family, and also his hideous ideology, which we abhor. We are all bleeding-heart liberals who believe in the fundamental equality of all human beings. Peter is
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Walk into a college lecture these days and you'll see legions of students sitting behind glowing screens, pecking away at keyboards.
Presumably, they're using the computers to take notes, so they better remember the course material. But new research shows that if learning is their goal, using a laptop during class is a terrible idea.
taking notes by hand forces you to actively listen and decide what's important
It's not just because internet-connected laptops are so distracting. It's because even if students aren't distracted, the act of taking notes on a computer actually seems to interfere with their ability to remember information.
Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer, the psychologists who conducted the new research, believe it's because students on laptops usually just mindlessly type everything a professor says. Those taking notes by hand, though, have to actively listen and decide what's important — because they generally can't write fast enough to get everything d
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Couples who drink about the same amount of alcohol were less likely to divorce in a study of nearly 20,000 Norwegian couples that was released Tuesday. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Here’s something to ponder if and when you and your spouse make your Valentine’s Day toasts this year: when it comes to drinking — as in so many other facets of marriage — compatibility may be key to keeping couples together.
Researchers reviewing data collected from 19,977 married couples in one county in Norway reported that spouses who consume about the same amount of alcohol were less likely to divorce than pairs where one partner is a heavy drinker and the other is not — especially when the wife is the one doing the drinking.
By reviewing such a large data set, the team, which reported its findings (abstract here, subscription required for full text)Tuesday in the online edition of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, were able to tease out some of the alcohol-relat
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Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| Most people who have to pay the price for a particularly hard night of drinking nurse their wounds prostrate on the couch or slouching at a desk with greasy delivery and some ibuprofen. But many people who have felt the crippling effects of a particularly cruel hangover one too many times take it upon themselves to devise their own creative hangover treatments, sourcing inspiration from any number of bizarre hangover cure concoctions that exist in some unwritten drinkers’ almanac sourced from “wild” aunts the world over.
But in South Korea, Asia’s hardest drinking country, the hangover cure is a $125 million per year industry unto itself, with pills, cosmetic products to hide the effects of a night of boozing, and, of course, stomach-calming foods like hangover soup. But in a new step forward fo
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Since Victorian times, the 180ft Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset has been said to cure childlessness and bless women with improved fertility.
Now the women in the surrounding towns and villages have the highest birth rates in the country.
The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show that the women of North Dorset have on average three children each – nearly double the national average and nearly three times as much as the city dwellers of Westminster.
In the past locals would erect a maypole on the earthwork, around which childless couples would dance to promote fertility.
According to folklore, a woman who sleeps on the figure will be "blessed with fecundity", and infertility may be cured through having sex on top of the figure, especially the phallus.
Standing erect for locals to see the giant could be having an inspirational effect on couples in the area said locals.
Katie Raine, a nursery manager, said the increasing number of small clients at
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Radiohead have always sounded like a band in constant motion: every album has seemed like an agitated shift from the last (XL)
Last Tuesday, the world was treated to the improbable spectacle of tastemaking US music website Pitchfork earnestly trying to explain 1960s and 70s UK kids’ show Trumpton to its American readers. Their London-based contributing editor was drafted in, the better to elucidate the importance of Pugh, Pugh and Barney McGrew, as was the son-in-law of the show’s 96-year-old creator, whose solitary quote – “I’m not aware of anything” – winningly suggested a man quite keen to get the bloke from Pitchfork off the phone.
Elsewhere, parallels were drawn between Trumpton and what might become of America were Donald Trump to become president, which feels like rather a harsh judgment on the seemingly benign regime of the mayor and Mr Troop the town clerk.
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Tweet with a location
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Two campus monitors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have been barred from school property after it was reported one of them warned school staff members that Nikolas Cruz was acting suspicious as he entered the campus on Feb. 14.
Andrew Medina and David Taylor, both sports coaches and unarmed campus monitors, "have received administrative reassignments ... until further notice," a Broward County Public Schools spokesperson told Fox News.
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Medina told Coral Springs police in the aftermath of the massacre that unfolded on the Florida high school campus on Valentine's Day that he saw Cruz exit an Uber and enter the campus carrying a black
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Moscow (CNN) Vladimir Putin has extended his grip on Russia for another six years after an overwhelming victory in Sunday's presidential election, a result that was never in doubt.
With 99.8% of the votes counted, Putin won with 76.7%, according to Central Election Commission data. It means Putin will rule until 2024, when he will be 71 and obliged by law to step down.
Putin sailed to victory against the backdrop of wall-to-wall support from state media and with no serious challenger. His nearest rival, Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin, won 11.79%,while ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky took 5.7%. Former reality TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak was on 1.7%, while veteran liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky received just over 1% of the vote.
Putin, a former KGB spy, has dominated Russian politics for 18 years and the 65-year-old was already the country's longest-serving leader since Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
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Last fall, Takoma Park Middle School math teacher Sarah Manchester heard “Wheel of Fortune” tryouts were taking place in Northern Virginia, so she went. As a huge fan of the show, why not? She sat on the ground, grading papers, as staffers pulled names by random draw to audition for the legendary game show.
“I figured if my name wasn’t pulled, at least I was getting my work done,” Manchester recalls almost a year later.
As it happened, her name was called and there was a little more excitement in store when she actually made it on the show. On Wednesday night, Manchester, 42, became the third person in the history of “Wheel of Fortune” to win a million dollars.
Manchester’s win thrilled the crowd – and host Pat Sajak – as she answered the bonus round puzzle correctly, “Loud Laughter.” That meant she got to open a bonus round envelope, which after spinning the wheel, turned out to be the $1 million option.
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption "It's yours, sold" - the moment Women of Algiers breaks record
Picasso's Women of Algiers has become the most expensive painting to sell at auction, going for $160m (£102.6m) at Christie's in New York.
Eleven minutes of prolonged bidding from telephone buyers preceded the final sale - for much more than its pre-sale estimate of $140m.
The final price of $179.3m (£115m) includes commission of just over 12%.
The sale also featured Alberto Giacometti's life-size sculpture Pointing Man, which set its own record.
It is now the most expensive sculpture sold at auction, after going for $141.3m (£90.6m). Both buyers chose to remain anonymous.
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The previous world record for a painting sold at auction was $142.4m, for British painter Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud in 2013.
The Picasso oil painting is a vibrant, cubist depiction of nude courtesans, and is part of a 15-w
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You must log in to continue. ||||| While President Donald Trump backtracked on Friday to end a controversial five week partial government shutdown, Congressional leaders kick started work on a border security funding agreement, even as the White House threatened to use a national emergency declaration if no border wall money is approved by a February 15 funding deadline. “We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier,” the President said Friday in remarks from the White House Rose Garden, as he announced the deal to fund the government for three weeks. “If we don’t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on February 15th, again, or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution of the United States to address this emergency,” the President added. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders emphasized that option in a tweet posted later on Friday night, sending a clear signal that if House-S
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His statement was quickly but not definitively rebutted by officials of Tokyo Electric Power, the Daiichi’s plant’s operator, and Japan’s nuclear regulatory agency.
“We can’t get inside to check, but we’ve been carefully watching the building’s environs, and there has not been any particular problem,” Hajime Motojuku, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric, said Thursday morning in Japan.
Later Thursday, a spokesman for Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Yoshitaka Nagayama, was more equivocal, saying, “Because we have been unable to go the scene, we cannot confirm whether there is water left or not in the spent fuel pool at Reactor No. 4.”
At the same time, officials did raise concern about two other reactors where spent fuel rods were stored, Nos. 5 and 6, saying they had experienced a slight rise in temperature.
On Wednesday night, Mr. Jaczko reiterated his earlier statement and added that commission representatives in Tokyo had confirmed that the pool at No. 4 was
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A single rope was seemingly all that was left between a woman and certain death today in Brazil, as she stood on the roof of a home being quickly swallowed by rushing water and earth amid the country's worst mudslides in a generation.With the ground disappearing beneath her, the woman took a leap of faith, grabbing a rope rescuers threw to her from a neighboring building before jumping straight into the torrent of mud as she was lifted to safety.Video of the rescue shows the woman clinging to her dog, then finally being forced to let the animal go, as she braves the brown rapids threatening to sweep her away.Record rainfall has brought powerful walls of mud and water to the mountainous region outside Rio de Janiero, killing at least 400 people and leaving thousands more homeless. In some hard-hit areas, the devastation was so complete that residents said it was of biblical proportions."There's no chance of even making this human. We've just never seen anything like it here," Jose Ricar
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Milton Nkosi says up to seven people were killed
Police in South Africa have opened fire during clashes with striking workers at the Marikana platinum mine, leaving at least 12 people dead, witnesses say.
Police opened fire after miners carrying machetes, clubs and spears refused to disarm, eyewitnesses said.
A witness told the BBC he saw 18 bodies on the ground after the shooting.
The mine, owned by Lonmin, has been at the centre of a violent pay dispute, exacerbated by tensions between two rival trade unions.
Ten people had previously died in violence since the strike began last Friday.
The striking miners had gathered on a rocky hill overlooking Marikana, the third-largest platinum mine in the world.
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Several injured people were treated at the scene after the violence
Union leaders and police had tried in vain to disperse the crowd, some of whom s
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It’s up to me to make this memorable. However, if I fail, you’ll want to remember this trick anyway, so start reading aloud.
Saying words while reading feels slightly awkward and isn’t conducive to all environments, of course, yet it’s an effective method of remembering information, according to an October study in the journal Memory (paywall). Speaking aloud works by creating a “production effect” which cements information in your memory. Meanwhile, hearing words said in your own voice personalizes the references and enhances recollection, according to psychology professor Colin MacLeod and researchers from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
“This study confirms that learning and memory benefit from active involvement,” MacLeod said in a statement. “When we add an active measure or a production element to a word, that word becomes more distinct in long-term memory, and hence more memorable.”
The findings are based on a study of 95 students (75 of whom returned
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Then came Thursday, when the leader of one of the most isolated and repressive regimes in the world — a government responsible for killing thousands in a quest to silence dissent — welcomed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Burma has lurched unexpectedly toward reform in the past three months. Its move has coincided with a broader attempt by Obama to pivot his administration’s foreign policy focus away from the Middle East, to counter-balance of China’s rise in Asia.
The result was the first U.S. secretary of state ever to set foot in the gaudy presidential palace in this constructed-from-scratch capital. And Clinton carried to her meeting with Burmese President Thein Sein a letter from Obama that conveyed praise, but also a warning that significantly more progress is needed for change to take root.
“For decades, the choices of this country’s leaders kept it apart from the global economy and the community of nations,” Clinton said after the meeting. “While the
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We examined fossil specimens, high-resolution museum-grade casts, computed tomography (CT) data, and professional photographs of the skulls, jaws, and dentitions of seven adult T. rex specimens (BHI 3033 [skull, cast, and CT], BHI 4100 [skull and cast], FMNH PR 2081 [cast], LACM 23844 [cast], MOR 008 [cast], MOR 980 [cast], RTMP 81.6.1 [skull and cast] at the AMNH and BHI). Adulthood in these individuals is based on corroborating information from craniofacial osteology52, overall size, and a mass-age growth curve47. We documented variation in head size using measures (linear distance to the nearest millimetre [mm; here and throughout our protocol]) of head width across the quadrates and head length from the anterior surface of the premaxillae to the posterior superior margin of the parietal bones. Individual variation in the lever mechanics of each skull was accounted for by measuring the linear distances between the quadrate-articular joint, and (1) the antero
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Portrait of a Woman by Edgar Degas (Fig. 1a) has historically been known to have a concealed figure, and the work has been criticised since at least 1922 for the gradually increasing outline of the underpainting22. Degas painted directly on the underlying portrait with no intermediate ground paint layer using exceptionally thin paint layers, thus little pigment is present to provide hiding power. The hiding power of paint layers often decreases as oil paintings age. The index of refraction of the natural oil medium has a tendency to increase over time, thus the difference between the pigment’s and the oil’s indices of refraction become smaller, leading to less light scattering at the oil-pigment interface and therefore yielding lower opacity23. The gradual increase in transparency of pigments such as emerald green (Cu(C 2 H 3 O 2 ) 2 ·3Cu(AsO 2 ) 2 )24 and lead-based pigments25 has been observed and studied, with metal soap formation considered to play a major
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Donald Trump faces an exodus of support from top Utah Republicans after the disclosure of a damning video showing him bragging about groping and kissing women in a way some believe would constitute sexual assault.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Rep. Jason Chaffetz said they can no longer vote for Trump, while former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Chris Stewart said the Republican presidential nominee should drop out of the race.
The video, first reported by The Washington Post, is a bombshell in this highly unusual contest and it comes just two days before the second presidential debate. Among the offensive things Trump says in the three-minute video is that he tries to sleep with married women and that he is forceful with a woman he finds attractive.
"I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait," he says. "And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
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Chagas disease may be obscure, but the economic burden it imposes on the world is greater than that of better-known diseases, like cervical cancer or cholera, according to a new study. Even in the United States, the authors said, the costs of Chagas are commensurate with those of more publicized diseases, like Lyme disease.
(In the same league, perhaps, but not quite equal. In their study, published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, the authors calculated that Chagas cost the American economy $900 million a year. A 1998 study estimated that Lyme disease cost $2.5 billion.)
Chagas disease is caused by a trypanosome parasite transmitted by the bloodsucking “kissing bug,” which bites victims as they sleep. Transmission is endemic in much of Latin America, from central Mexico to northern Argentina. Kissing bugs have been found in the southern United States; the bugs tend to live in substandard housing and animal pens.
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Barack Obama last night shattered the record for fastest time to reach one million followers on Twitter, after his new verified account @POTUS reached the figure in less than five hours.
The US President already has the account @BarackObama , which has amassed nearly 60 million followers. However, the new @POTUS account is associated with the presidential office - or as Obama puts it: "The handle comes with the house."
Obama's latest social media achievement beats a record previously held by Ironman star Robert Downey Jr., a feat the movie star achieved in 23 hours and 22 minutes back in April 2014.Downey Jr.'s Twitter debut was recognised in the 2015 edition of the Guinness World Records book.
"The @POTUS Twitter account will serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him," wrote the White House Deputy Director of Online Engagement for the Office of Digital Strategy, Alex Wall, in a blog post.
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MUMBAI, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A five-storey apartment block collapsed on Friday in the Indian financial centre of Mumbai, killing at least thirteen people.
Rescuers worked into the night to pull out survivors and casualties from the concrete rubble. City authorities said 46 people were rescued by evening. It was not clear how many more were still in the rubble.
Employees of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, also known as the BMC, were housed in the building.
A neighbour in the next block said she heard a loud cracking sound as the building caved in.
“As dust settled, I realised the BMC building was gone,” the neighbour, Catherine James, told Reuters.
Rescue workers used six cranes to remove debris. The building was believed to have been about 35-years-old and home to about 20 families.
“Five members from my family were trapped inside. So far, two have been rescued. I am praying to God others will also co
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A Provisional Guide for Observing a Weekly Day of Rest
What is this?
The Sabbath Manifesto is a
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The National Day of Unplugging is on March 1-2, 2019. Join us in taking the pledge to unplug from technology regularly. Take the pledge at NationalDayofUnplugging.com. We want to know what you will do when you UNPLUG. Download the I UNPLUG TO _____ poster, take a photo with it and upload your image to NationalDayofUnplugging.com. Share your picture on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
For our Sabbath Manifesto, we created 10 core principles completely open for your unique interpretation. We welcome you to join us as we carve a weekly timeout into our lives and to continue the momentum of the National Day of Unplugging throughout the year.
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Starting Friday evening, a campaign largely spread via Twitter Facebook , and all things new media wants you to do s
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But for all their enthusiasm — so many C.I.A., F.B.I. and Pentagon spies were hunting around in Second Life, the document noted, that a “deconfliction” group was needed to avoid collisions — the intelligence agencies may have inflated the threat.
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The documents, obtained by The Guardian and shared with The New York Times and ProPublica, do not cite any counterterrorism successes from the effort. Former American intelligence officials, current and former gaming company employees and outside experts said in interviews that they knew of little evidence that terrorist groups viewed the games as havens to communicate and plot operations.
Games “are built and operated by companies looking to make money, so the players’ identity and activity is tracked,” said Peter W. Singer of the Brookings Institution, an author of “Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know.” “For terror groups looking to keep their communications secret
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Tyler Hamilton, an American cyclist who accused former teammate Lance Armstrong of taking performance-enhancing drugs, turned in his 2004 Olympics gold medal to the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
Hamilton, 40, tested positive for blood doping at the 2004 games in Athens and was allowed to keep the medal in the individual time-trial event because no back-up test could be done. He returned the medal to the USADA, the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based agency said today in an e-mailed statement.
“USADA continues its ongoing investigation into the sport of cycling,” the agency said in the release. “Where there is credible evidence of doping, a fair and thorough process exists for resolving such violations.”
Chris Manderson, Hamilton’s lawyer, said in a telephone interview that the cyclist voluntarily delivered the medal to USADA last week because he did not want it to be a distraction from his recent admission to doping or his comments about Armstrong in a “60 Minutes” televis
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that police in Ferguson and St. Louis County used excessive force and falsely arrested innocent bystanders amid attempts to quell widespread unrest after the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The five plaintiffs in the suit in St. Louis include a clinical social worker who said she and her 17-year-old son were roughed up and arrested after not evacuating a McDonald's quickly enough. They also include a 23-year-old man who said he was shot multiple times with rubber bullets and called racial slurs by police while walking through the protest zone to his mother's home, and a man who said he was arrested for filming the disturbances.
"The police were completely out of control," said attorney Malik Shabazz of Black Lawyers for Justice, a group whose members sought to quell tensions at the nightly protests that stretched for more than week after Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, who is white, shot the unarmed Brown, w
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As a member of the Utah Food Allergy Network (UFAN) and mom of an allergic kid, I've learned food allergies are easier to handle with information, a few handy tools, and a community of friends who “get it.” I post a new article most Mondays. Thanks for stopping by!
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||||| FILE - This image released by Columbia Pictures shows Peter Rabbit, voiced by James Corden and Cottontail in a scene from "Peter Rabbit." The filmmakers and the studio behind it are apologizing for insensitively... (Associated Press)
FILE - This image released by Columbia Pictures shows Peter Rabbit, voiced by James Corden and Cottontail in a scene from "Peter Rabbit." The filmmakers and the studio behind it are apologizing for insensitively depicting a character's allergy in the film that has prompted backlash online. Sony Pictures... (Associated Press)
FILE - This image released by Columbia Pictures shows Peter Rabbit, voiced by James Corden and Cottontail in a scene from "
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According to the Iowa City Press-Citizen, Gilbert Phelps was pulled over for speeding at around 2 a.m. last Thursday, and was taken into custody for a breath test after the officer, Ben Hektoen, noticed “an odor of ingested alcohol coming from the cabin of the vehicle.” From Hektoen’s filed police report, which you can view at the Smoking Gun:
The defendant admitted to smoking marijuana prior to driving and displayed measurable impairment on Standardized Field Sobriety Tests. He gave a preliminary breath test and DataMaster test result of 0.000% BrAc. A Certified Drug Recognition Expert conducted an evaluation and determined the defendant was under the influence of cannabis and was unsafe to operate a motor vehicle. During the testing process the defendant requested to take a SnapChat selfie with me to which I happily obliged. He said he captioned the photo using emoji icons showing a police car, next to a passenger car, next to a tow truck.
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false modesty Okay, Steve Carell’s Willful Humbleness Is Starting to Get a Little Weird
Steve Carell cannot believe that anybody cares he is leaving The Office. What is the big deal? He’s just the most important, likely irreplaceable character on a well-rated, beloved TV show that is one of the few bright spots in a network's entire lineup, working in a town that's interested even when a totally replaceable actress leaves a CSI spinoff, but, heck, who could care? "I'm surprised by it, frankly. I didn't think it would be that big a deal. I'm just not renewing my contract. I'm surprised there's any sort of hubbub about it,” Carell told the L.A. Times. This would be easier to believe if Carell is playing contract-negotiation games, which he doesn't seem to be, or if he is playing a character whose leading characteristic is intentional obliviousness, which we are starting to think he might be. [24 Frames/LAT] |||||
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Growing up in Bridgeport, Conn., Nejdra Nance suspected she wasn't really related to the woman she called "Mom." Finally, she found her baby picture on a missing children's website. She was born Carlina Renae White and was less than a month old when she was snatched from a New York City hospital in 1987. Now 23, she has been reunited with her birth parents. Click through for other cases.
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Julia Xanthos, NY Daily News / Getty Images ||||| A North Carolina woman who raised a child kidnapped 23 years ago from a New York hospital surrendered to authorities on a parole violation charge Sunday, days after a widely publicized reunion between the biological mother and the daughter taken from her as a baby.
In this undated photo provided by the North Carolina Department of Correction, Ann Pettway is shown. Pettway, the woman who raised a child kidnapped from a New York hospital two decades ago has violated... (As
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More than 117 million adults included in ‘virtual, perpetual lineup’, which authorities can use to track citizens, raising concerns over privacy and profiling
Half of US adults are recorded in police facial recognition databases, study says
Half of all American adults are included in databases police use to identify citizens with facial recognition technology, according to new research that raises serious concerns about privacy violations and the widespread use of racially biased surveillance technology.
A report from Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology found that more than 117 million adults are captured in a “virtual, perpetual lineup”, which means law enforcement offices across the US can scan their photos and use unregulated software to track law-abiding citizens in government datasets.
Numerous major police departments have “real-time face recognition” technology that allows surveillance cameras to scan the faces of pedestrians walking down the street
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Nov. 12, 2016, 3:25 PM GMT / Updated Nov. 12, 2016, 6:51 PM GMT By Erik Ortiz
An Ohio judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a white former police officer accused of murdering an unarmed black driver during a traffic stop last year.
The jury on Saturday was unable to reach a verdict for Ray Tensing, 26, charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting of 43-year-old Samuel DuBose — an incident caught on police bodycam.
Related: What to Know in Case Against Cincinnati Cop
Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Megan Shanahan accepted the jury's deadlock Saturday morning. The case is now back in the hands of prosecutors, who must decide whether they will retry the case or dismiss it.
In the meantime, Tensing remains free on a $1 million bond.
Al Gerhardstein, an attorney for DuBose's family, said they are "incredibly upset" and
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, whose job hangs in the balance, will meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday.
"We'll be determining what's going on," Trump said Monday afternoon before a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in New York. "We want to have transparency, we want to have openness. I look forward to meeting with him." The president also said he had talked with Rosenstein earlier Monday.
Rosenstein had been expected to learn his fate during a visit to the White House on Monday, but, with Trump in New York for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, any decision on his future was postponed. Rosenstein attended a regularly scheduled meeting at the White House and was stil
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry says he once "wanted out" of the British royal family.
In an interview published in the Mail on Sunday, the prince said the time he spent in the army was "the best escape I've ever had" and that he once considered giving up his title.
He said: "I felt I wanted out, but then decided to stay in and work out a role for myself."
Harry is fifth in line to the throne.
The comments followed an interview published in Newsweek in which he said he doubted anyone in the royal family wanted to be king or queen.
He said his family "will carry out our duties at the right time" and that they're "not doing this for ourselves, but for the greater good of the people." ||||| In an extraordinary interview, Prince Harry, pictured, has given an astonishing insight into how he once felt directionless, and sought an escape from the pomp and pageantry surrounding him
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A coalition of more than 60 organizations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement called for policing and criminal justice reforms in a list of demands released ahead of the second anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
The agenda was released Monday by the Movement for Black Lives after both the Republican and Democratic conventions, during which Black Lives Matter activists were noticeably absent from protest lines.
"We seek radical transformation, not reactionary reform," Michaela Brown, a spokeswoman for Baltimore Bloc, one of the group's partner organizations, said in a statement. "As the 2016 election continues, this platform provides us with a way to intervene with an agenda that resists state and corporate power, an opportunity to implement policies that truly value the safety and humanity of black lives, and an overall means to hold elected leaders accountable."
The agenda outlines six demands and offers 40 recommendations
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1 of 15. HSBC Bank President and Chief Executive Officer Irene Dorner (L) and HSBC Holdings Chief Legal Officer Stuart Levey are sworn in before testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington July 17, 2012.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Officials of HSBC Holdings Plc pledged to a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday that the bank is changing the way it polices illicit funds, but senators were skeptical the bank could deliver on promises it had broken before.
HSBC's top compliance officer announced he was stepping down and that the bank will shut down businesses in secret havens such as the Cayman Islands, but those offers did not blunt the senators' allegations that the bank sacrificed propriety for profits.
The hearing by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations came a day after it released a 400-plus-page report detailing how the British bank acted as a financier to clients routing funds from the world's most dangerous corners,
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Newt Gingrich stepped up his attack against President Barack Obama as he campaigned in Florida Monday, accusing the Democratic administration of declaring a “war against Christianity” with a new regulation requiring employers to cover birth control in their health policies.
Newt Gingrich greets supporters at a rally on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront hotel in Jacksonville, Fla. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)
At airport rallies in Pensacola and Fort Myers, Mr. Gingrich added a new pledge in his stump speeches, saying he would sign an executive order overturning all “anti-religious” federal policies on his first day in office.
Mr. Gingrich, a Catholic convert, also sought to drag his main rival Mitt Romney into the controversy, saying that as governor, Mr. Romney had imposed a similar requirement on Catholic hospitals. Mr. Gingrich appeared to be referring to abortion provisions in the state health-care overhaul law passed in Massachusetts.
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The judge who let Jerry Sandusky return home without paying any bail and without an ankle monitor after being arrested on 40 counts of child sexual assault charges was a volunteer at Sandusky's charity, The Second Mile.
Sandusky turned himself in to District Judge Leslie Dutchcot's office on Nov. 5, after a 23-page grand jury presentment detailing the allegations against Sandusky was accidentally posted online on Nov. 4, according to the attorney general's office.
Despite prosecutors' request for $500,000 bail and an ankle monitor to be placed on Sandusky, Dutchcot ordered Sandusky freed on $100,000 unsecured bail, only to be paid if Sandusky failed to show up for court.
The Second Mile charity is listed as one of a handful of organizations Dutchcot volunteers for in a biography on her law firm's website.
The Patriot News reported today that Dutchchot only volunteered a few times in 2008 and 2009, after Sandusky had stopped participating in the Second Mile, according to
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