GOP Health Care Bill on Life Support as More Senators Reservations

Senator Susan Collins of Maine said Sunday she had “serious reservations” about the bill as Senator Ted Cruz told a Texas audience that he, too, isn’t yet ready to vote for the bill.

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  Republican states also among losers in health bill

  Associated Press
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  Latest GOP Obamacare repeal effort on verge of collapse as third Republican comes out against bill

  Orlando Sentinel

Forget Cheat ‘Sheet’ — Student Outwits Professor With Enormous 'Cheat Poster'

When Professor Reb Beatty of Maryland’s Anne Arundel Community College arrived at his accounting class to administer a test last week, he hardly could have imagined that he’d be the one getting outsmarted. In a Sept. 20 Facebook post that’s since gone viral, Beatty explained that he’d told his students that they were allowed to bring in a “3x5” cheat sheet to use during the test. Beatty, however, failed to specify the unit of measurement he was referring to.

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  Student finds loophole to pass 1st test of the semester, to teacher's delight

  Good Morning America
• Details are important, Maryland professor learns the card way

  Fox News

Soldier saves lifeless puppy with CPR in tear-worthy viral video

The 2-day-old puppy was reportedly found in a garage by the soldiers' barracks after a downpour. When the dog's mother was unable to reach her pupppy in time, a soldier recruit identified as Weeraphon Sukudom quickly took action. When the recruits found the puppy, it was already "blue," revealed reports.

Singer Jessie James Decker Voices Support For National Anthem Amid Protests

Decker, who is married to Tennessee Titans wide receiver Eric Decker, posted a video clip to Instagram Monday from one of her national anthem performances, writing that singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” is one of her “favorite things,” as she thinks of family members and troops who have served.

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  NASCAR releases ambiguous statement addressing national anthem protests

  Sporting News
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  Could USMNT players take a knee and join American anthem protests?

  Sporting News

Man arrested over London train bomb attack

Police on Monday arrested a 20-year-old man in Wales in connection with the London Underground train bombing this month, bringing the number of people in custody to four. The man was arrested before dawn by counter-terrorism officers in the Welsh capital Cardiff and has been taken to a police station in London for questioning. An 18-year-old man, Ahmed Hassan, was charged on Friday with attempted murder and the use of explosives.

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  Six injured in 'noxious substance' attack at London mall, one arrested

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  At least 5 injured in London ‘noxious substance’ attack

  hindustantimes.com

Couple's dream wedding at Costco is one we can aspire to

Ah, Costco: Where you can buy your wedding cake, and eat it there too.  As Sue Berkeley and Eli Bob from Sydney, Australia, did, when they got married in the Casula store in front of 90 of their friends and family on Saturday.  SEE ALSO: Wedding guest

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  Couple weds at Costco: 'It just made sense'

  San Francisco Chronicle
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  This Couple Tied the Knot in Costco

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Fearing eruption of volcano, thousands begin evacuations in Bali

Nearly 50,000 people have fled the Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, fearing an imminent eruption as dozens of tremors rattle the surrounding region, officials said Monday. Waskita Sutadewa, spokesman for the disaster mitigation agency in Bali, said people have scattered to all corners of the island and some have crossed to the neighboring island of Lombok. Indonesian authorities raised the volcano’s alert status to the highest level on Friday following a dramatic increase in seismic activity.

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  A volcano is set to blow, so why are tourists still flocking to Bali?

  Daily Mail
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  Bali volcano: Is it safe to travel to Bali? Update after Mount Agung alert level raised

  Express.co.uk

Nibiru: How the nonsense Planet X Armageddon and Nasa fake news theories spread globally  

Nibiru conspiracy theories about the end of the world have been circulating online for more than two decades, with the latest dubious prophecy predicting the apocalypse - September 23, 2017. Planet X, or Nibiru, refers to a mythological planet in our solar system that will supposedly crash into Earth and wipe out the human race, however it has been consistently dismissed by Nasa and other experts as an internet hoax. Despite absolutely no scientific evidence to back up the suggestions of a rogue planet getting rapidly closer to Earth, myths about Planet X continue to be perpetuated online.

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  END OF THE WORLD? Terrifying 'Doomsday message' played to stunned TV audience

  Express.co.uk
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  World Is Ending Next Month Now, Says David Meade

  Newsweek

US-backed forces say Russia attacked them in eastern Syria

U.S.-backed forces in eastern Syria say Russia bombed their positions on Monday in a major natural gas field they recently captured from Islamic State militants. The Syrian Democratic Forces said a Russian airstrike killed one of its fighters and wounded two others in the Conoco gas field, in Deir el-Zour province. Russia's Defense Ministry denied the report.

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  US-backed Syria militia says Russia hit forces at gas plant

  AFP
• U.S.-backed alliance says Russian jets struck its fighters in east Syria

  Reuters

Could North Korea Really Shoot Down a U.S. F-15 or B-1 Bomber?

North Korea considers and a recent Twitter comment from President Donald Trump to effectively be a declaration of war against Pyongyang. As such, the Kim regime says that it will retaliate—potentially even engaging U.S. Air Force bombers flying around the Korean peninsula over international waters. “The whole world should clearly remember it was the U.S. who first declared war on our country,” North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters in New York.

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  Donald Trump has 'declared war', North Korea says as it threatens to shoot down US jets

  The Telegraph
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  Markets Shy from Risk as North Korea Feud Intensifies

  barrons.com

Junot Diaz: If Puerto Rico Means Anything To You, You Have To Step Up

Junot Diaz delivered an impassioned speech about the devastation currently plaguing Puerto Rico at La Fábrica Central in Massachusetts on Sunday. The author spoke for just a few minutes at La Diáspora se une por Puerto Rico: #HurricaneMaria Relief, an event put on by the Latin American restaurant, and it was captured via video by journalist Julio Ricardo Varela. “The love that we have had for Puerto Rico is, in some ways, our guide post,” Diaz says in the footage.

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  Puerto Rico governor: ‘We still need some more help’ from Washington

  Washington Post
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  American Airlines allows employees to send aid to loved ones in Puerto Rico

  Local 10 Miami

Marc Cuban: Trump Must 'Be Able to Take the Blowback' When He Attacks Athletes

Dallas Mavericks owner Marc Cuban tells Meet the Press that the president's attacks on athletes open the door for sports stars to criticize him.

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  In response to President Trump, Chargers and rest of NFL make statement of unity

  Los Angeles Daily News
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  What members of the WSU and UW football teams think of the NFL players’ protests of Trump’s comments

  The Seattle Times

Lucy Hale Perfectly Shut Down A Troll Who Called Her 'Anorexic'

Attention all trolls: Lucy Hale is not here for your BS. The “Pretty Little Liars” actress recently called out a body-shaming man on Twitter when he tweeted a cruel comment in response to a photo she posted.

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  Lucy Hale Slams Twitter User Who Called Her Anorexic: 'Keep Your Repulsive Comments to Yourself'

  People
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  Lucy Hale Slams Twitter Troll Who Tells Her to ‘Eat a Hamburger’

  Us Weekly

Deadly aftershock, volcanic ash spread alarm in Mexico

By Michael O'Boyle and Noe Torres MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.2 aftershock that shook Mexico on Saturday was blamed for five deaths, spreading fear among anxious residents reeling from a string of natural disasters and interrupting the search for survivors from a bigger tremor earlier this week. The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City sent a column of ash into the sky, capping an intense period of seismic activity including two powerful tremors this month that have killed more than 400 people and caused damage of up to $8 billion. Mexico's capital was shattered by Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 quake that flattened dozens of buildings and killed at least 307 people.

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  In Mexico City, hopes of finding quake survivors dwindle

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  Mexico City gets unsteadily back on its feet after quake

  Reuters

Model 'scalped and drained of blood' in murder unprecedented 'outside wartime', reveals LA autopsy

An autopsy report has revealed how a model was scalped and drained of blood, in a murder branded unprecedented “outside of wartime”. Comic book writer Blake Leibel, 35, is charged with the murder of the mother of his child, Ukrainian-born Iana Kasian, 30. The murder took place in May last year and Mr Leibel, the heir to a plastics and property fortune, could be given the death sentence if found guilty, due to the severity of the crime.

• Autopsy Reveals Malicious Murder | Adorable Baby Seal

  Hollywood, CA Patch
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  Murdered Model's Blood Drained, Face Ripped Off: Autopsy

  Palos Verdes, CA Patch

How This Hospital Keeps Sick Turtles Safe During Hurricane Season

A few days after Hurricane Irma slammed into south Florida ― while there were still tight travel restrictions and curfews in place ― Bette Zirkelbach stocked an ambulance with supplies and raced south. The drive from the panhandle, where she’d taken refuge from the record-breaking storm, to Marathon, a city in Florida Keys, was supposed to take 10 hours. In the wake of the disaster, it took Zirkelbach nearly a full day to reach the low-lying string of islands jutting into the Gulf of Mexico.

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  Florida bride-to-be donates food to needy after Hurricane Irma leads to canceled wedding

  Good Morning America
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  1st cruise ship since Irma docks in Key West

  The Seattle Times

Palestinian leader tries to put Trump on notice with warning

Overshadowed by last week's showdown between the U.S. and North Korea, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued an ominous warning in his address to the United Nations: With hopes running out for an independent Palestinian state, the Palestinian leader said he may have no choice but to seek a single, binational state with Israel. While Abbas appears to be in no hurry to disband his self-rule government, his threat raises an awkward scenario for Israel and the Trump administration that could potentially spell doom for the century-old Zionist enterprise. Abbas was a mastermind and negotiator of the historic Oslo peace accords of the 1990s — interim deals that set a five-year goal for reaching a final agreement.

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  Venezuela: Trump Acted 'Like the World's Emperor' At UN

  Bloomberg
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  Trump Can’t Handle North Korea Responsibly, Majority Say in New Poll

  Newsweek

The New York Times had an anti-Hillary Clinton agenda? That's untrue | Jill Abramson

Despite claims made in her recent book, the news editors at the paper were never hostile to Clinton. In her book, Hillary Clinton says the news media has not done enough soul-searching about its role in her loss. Conversely, there was way too little scrutiny of Donald Trump and too much reactive coverage of his every tweet and rally.

Saudi Women Allowed into Sports Stadium for First Time

Saudi Arabia is celebrating the 87th anniversary of its founding this weekend, and on Saturday it allowed women into the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh for the first time for a special pageant operetta. Saudi women sit in a stadium for the first time to attend an event in the capital Riyadh on September 23, 2017 commemorating the anniversary of the founding of the kingdom. The presence of women at the King Fahd stadium marks a departure from previous celebrations in the Gulf kingdom where they are effectively barred from sports arenas by strict rules on public segregation of the sexes.

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  Saudi Women Seated in Stadium for First Time at Anniversary Gala

  Bloomberg
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  National Celebrations Open Saudi Sports Stadium To Women For First Time

  International Business Times

SitRep: Kurds Vote, as Turks and Iranians Prepare For War

Voting began Monday in northern Iraq on a controversial referendum that will decide whether Iraqi Kurds will declare independence from Iraq. Iraq’s central government remains starkly opposed to the effort and has asked countries to stop buying oil from Kurdistan, and threatened a wider economic blockade. With roughly 30 million ethnic Kurds scattered over Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, Iraq’s neighbors are eyeing the vote anxiously, and beginning to take more drastic action.

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  Iraq Kurds in historic independence vote in defiance of Baghdad

  AFP
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  Turnout high as Iraqi Kurds defy threats to hold independence vote

  Reuters

Here's What Farms Do To Hens Who Are Too Old To Lay Eggs

Unless you’ve raised backyard chickens, we’re willing to bet that the average egg consumer doesn’t know that hens stop laying eggs pretty early on in their lives. Jesse Laflamme, CEO of Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs (which raises certified humane eggs from small family farms), explained one way that non-humane egg factories deal with the situation. This sounds horrific, but Matt O’Hayer, CEO of Vital Farms (which also raises certified humane eggs) and a long-time vegetarian, said he thinks it’s actually one of the more humane ways currently used to deal with this problem. “If you euthanize them on the farm at night, their life is over quickly,” he said.

China to build many gigafactories' worth of electric-car battery plants

While the United States federal government threatens to backslide on renewable energy, California and China continue to move at an aggressive pace to lead the world in zero-emission vehicles. As the global market for electric and plug-in car grows, battery production will need to increase dramatically to match demand. It's expected that electric-vehicle batteries will become a $240 billion industry, and China has already begun to cement itself as a leader in battery production.

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  VW moves to secure cobalt supplies in shift to electric cars

  Reuters
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  Funding Tesla Annoys Automakers That Need Electric Car Credits

  Bloomberg

1 Dead, At Least 7 Injured in Tennessee Church Shooting

Investigators said they were not aware of any relationship between the gunman and any of the worshippers, said Don Aaron, spokesman for the Metro Nashville Police Department. The gunman pulled into the parking lot as services were ending at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in the Antioch neighborhood. The gunman was identified as Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, of Murfreesboro.

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  Burnette Chapel Church shooting leaves 1 dead in Tennessee

  The Washingtion Times
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  Usher being called 'hero' for helping to stop Antioch church shooter

  WSMV Nashville

Neil deGrasse Tyson Picks Apart The Science Of Iconic ‘Game Of Thrones’ Scenes

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has some good news and bad news for the creative team behind “Game of Thrones.” On the one hand, they got a big detail about their dragons absolutely right... but on the other, they also got something glaringly wrong

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  Game of Thrones’s Nikolaj Coster-Waldau on Cersei’s “Pregnancy” and if Jaime Will Kill Her

  InStyle
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  We're Giving Away Game of Thrones: The Complete Seventh Season Digital Download Codes

  Den of Geek