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Michael Cohen Says Trump Ordered Him To Illegally Interfere In Election
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegally interfering in the 2016 election at the direction of the president. Cohen says he worked “at the direction of a candidate for federal office,” ostensibly Trump, for the purpose of influencing the election.
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Twitter Pummels Rudy Giuliani After He Declares 'Truth Isn't Truth'
Rudy Giuliani’s stunning declaration on NBC Sunday that “truth isn’t truth” as he discussed his fears about special counsel Robert Mueller interviewing President Donald Trump galvanized a furious army of critics on Twitter. Giuliani was warned about
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Alligator Kills Woman Walking Dog In South Carolina: Police
A woman died Monday morning in a suspected alligator attack on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, police said. The woman, identified as Cassandra Cline, 45, according to South Carolina’s The State, was walking her dog near a lagoon at Sea Pines Plantation when a large alligator apparently attacked her. “She did not have the dog on a leash, and when she went to go retrieve the dog, the gator came out of the water, grabbed her by the arm and pulled her into the water,” a golf club employee, who does not wish to be identified, told HuffPost.
ScienceYahoo NewsYahoo News explains: What's the other cause impacting global warming?
The authors of the study predict a 58 percent chance that the next few years will be “anomalously warm,” with a 69 percent chance that earth’s oceans will be too. The study found that that warming trend is not just the result of a steady increase in human-made climate change driven by emissions of greenhouse gases. The study used data from 10 climate-change models and found that natural variabilities were the cause of a global warming “hiatus” in the early 2000s.
WorldAssociated PressMuslim pilgrims gather at Mount Arafat for hajj's pinnacle
Some 2 million Muslim pilgrims gathered on Monday in the valley of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for a day of prayer that marks the pinnacle of the annual hajj. Muslims believe prayer on this day at Mount Arafat, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of the holy city of Mecca, is their best chance to erase past sins and start anew. "Today is the most important part of the hajj, and we are all feeling great, and we pray for all Muslims in the world," said Abdel-Munem Ali, a Libyan pilgrim.
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Manafort trial - live updates: Former Trump campaign manger found guilty on eight counts with mistrial declared on 10 other charges
The jury in the financial fraud trial of Donald Trump‘s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, will enter its fourth day of deliberations on Tuesday. The jury has been discussing whether to convict Mr Manafort of up to 18 criminal charges related to bank and tax fraud and his alleged failure to disclose more than 30 overseas bank accounts. Mr Manafort denies all the charges against him.
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Boyfriend Of Missing Phoenix Teen Kiera Bergman Arrested
The on-again, off-again boyfriend of Kiera Bergman, a missing Arizona teenager, has been arrested on charges unrelated to his girlfriend’s disappearance. Jon Christopher Clark, the last person known to have seen Bergman, has been arrested for 22 counts of aggravated identity theft and two counts of forgery, police said. When contacted by HuffPost, Phoenix Police Sgt. Vince Lewis said Clark’s arrest has nothing to do with Bergman’s disappearance.
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Crikey! Photographer gets up close with dangerous crocs
A photographer with a passion for wild animals was able to get up close and personal with one of nature’s deadliest creatures. Alex Suh has traveled to Mexico’s Banco Chinchorro reef twice in the past three years to get into the waters and capture the
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The Taliban Have Taken at Least 100 People Hostage in Northern Afghanistan, Officials Say
The ambush came despite Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s announcement of a conditional cease-fire with the Taliban during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha this week. The fate of the abducted in Kunduz province — in an area that has recently fallen under Taliban control — was not immediately known and there was no statement from the insurgents. The Taliban have resurged in recent years, seizing entire districts across Afghanistan and regularly carrying out large-scale bombings and attacks that have killed scores of people.
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Elizabeth Warren’s Far-Reaching New Bill Aims To Actually Drain The Swamp
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) unveiled a sweeping plan on Tuesday to crack down on the lawful corruption she said has infected Washington policymaking. In a speech at the National Press Club, Warren blamed the lack of public trust in government on the undue influence of wealthy special interests and laws too toothless to curb them.
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Could soccer moms swing the House? Democrats hope so.
Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska holds a potbelly pig named Betty before a parade on May 26, 2018. Bacon will face Democratic challenger Kara Eastman in the November election. Frustrated with Washington and turned off by President Trump, they could deliver Congress to the Democrats in November.
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Customers Rally After Yelp Reviewer Calls Cafe's Gay Pride Flag 'Disgusting'
An anti-gay review on Yelp that called a restaurant in Dorchester, Massachusetts “absolutely disgusting and unacceptable” prompted other customers to voice their support for the cafe. The review of Zia Gianna Bakery and Caffe, owned by Nino Barbalace, has since been removed from Yelp.
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US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over 'modern slavery'
On Tuesday, America’s vast army of incarcerated men and women – at 2.3m of them they form by far the largest imprisoned population in the world – will brace itself for what has the potential to be the largest prison strike in US history. Nineteen days of peaceful protest are planned across the nation, organised largely by prisoners themselves. The strike is being spearheaded by incarcerated members of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, a group of prisoners providing mutual help and legal training to other inmates.
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Good Samaritans rescue two people, dog from sinking car
Witnesses say the vehicle crashed through a marina railing in Long Beach, California, and into the water.
WorldAssociated PressThe Latest: Latest earthquake on Indonesian island kills 2
A strong earthquake Sunday on the Indonesian island of Lombok has killed at least two people. National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho tweeted Monday that both victims died in collapsed houses, one on Lombok and the other on neighboring Sumbawa island. Power was still off across Lombok, several hours after the quake, and building collapses were reported.
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Man Confesses To Abducting Mollie Tibbetts: Police
Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, has admitted to abducting the 20-year-old college student, according to Rick Rahn, of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. Rivera was taken into custody Tuesday morning and is facing a first-degree murder charge. Rahn said a vehicle driven by Rivera was seen on surveillance video in the Brooklyn, Iowa, area on the day Tibbetts disappeared.
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Pope addresses Catholic Church sexual abuse report in open letter: ‘We showed no care for the little ones'
Pope Francis has condemned the “atrocities” of child sex abuse and cover-ups by the clergy in an open letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. Addressing a US Grand Jury report revealing decades of alleged sexual abuse inside the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, the Pontiff described allegations against the Church as “crimes that inflict deep wounds of pain and powerlessness” in victims, their families and the religious community. The report detailed at least 1,000 cases of alleged sexual abuse committed by 300 “predator” priests in Pennsylvania — and what was a systematic cover-up by Church officials.
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A 46-Year-Old Woman Who Fell Off a Cruise Ship Was Rescued Alive 10 Hours Later
A British woman who fell overboard from a cruise ship says she spent ten hours treading water before rescuers pulled her from the Adriatic Sea Sunday morning. Kay Longstaff, a 46-year-old air hostess, told local media that she fell from the back of cruise ship Norwegian Star as it traveled from Vargarola, Croatia to Venice, Italy, ABC News reports. Using on-board cameras to find the time of her fall — around 11:30 p.m. local time — the Croatian Coast Guard was able to pinpoint the area where she was most likely to be, some 60 miles off shore.
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Families Separated Since Korean War Reunite In North Korea
One woman, Lee Keum-seom, told CNN that she was seeing her son for the first time since he was 4 years old. ”(My family) in North Korea didn’t live long so I prayed for my son’s health,” she said. At 101 years old, Baik Seong-gu will finally meet his granddaughter, almost 70 years after being separated from his children during the Korean War.
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Trump Implies Taking Away Security Clearances Is Punishment For Criticizing Him
President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued to lash out at former top intelligence officials and threaten the removal of their security clearances — and in the process, suggested what many have suspected is the reason for his unprecedented move: the officials’ criticism of him. In a Tuesday morning tweet, Trump suggested that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper “is being nice to me” to prevent the removal of his security clearance. Maybe Clapper is being nice to me so he doesn’t lose his Security Clearance for lying to Congress!
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Dad of slain pregnant woman breaks down in Colorado court as murder charges read against son-in-law
Chris Watts is accused of killing his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, and their two daughters, Celeste, 3, and Bella, 4, last week.
WorldReutersTaliban reject Afghan ceasefire, kidnap nearly 200 bus passengers
Two Taliban commanders said their supreme leader rejected President Ashraf Ghani's Sunday offer of a three-month ceasefire, beginning with this week's Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday. In June, the Taliban observed a government ceasefire over the three-day Eid al-Fitr festival, leading to unprecedented scenes of government soldiers and militants embracing on front lines, and raising hopes for talks. Taliban leader Sheikh Haibatullah Akhunzada rejected the new offer on the grounds that it too would only help the American-led mission.
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Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for first time
The thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, experts have warned. Scientists said it could prove catastrophic for polar bears and seals, threatening their survival. The sea off the north coast of Greenland had long been known as “the last ice area” because it was expected to be the last place to remain frozen, given it had the oldest and thickest ice.
NewsAssociated PressPolice: 1 dead after woman opens fire at Texas warehouse
A female employee opened fire at a Houston-area food distribution center early Monday, killing a company manager and wounding another worker, police said. The shooter, identified by police as Kristine Peralez, 38, was also killed in the attack, which happened around 2:30 a.m. at the Ben E. Keith facility in Missouri City, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) southwest of Houston. Police Chief Mike Berezin said the woman walked outside the warehouse after the shooting and was confronted by a responding officer.
