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Taylor Swift's New Song, "Look What You Made Me Do"
The New Yorker - 25 Aug 2017 16:06
Carrie Battan reviews Taylor Swift's New Song, "Look What You Made Me Do"
Hurricane Harvey could trigger PTSD for Katrina survivors
New York Post - 25 Aug 2017 18:17
Texas-bound Hurricane Harvey also threatens to wreak havoc in southeast Louisiana, where an official says survivors of Katrina 12 years ago could suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. “Not only for us but for our frie...
What to Stream This Weekend: The Cinematic Universe of Jerry Lewis
The New Yorker - 25 Aug 2017 21:00
Richard Brody recommends movies to stream that honor Jerry Lewis's legacy, such as "Norbit," starring Eddie Murphy, and "Welcome to Me," starring Kristen Wiig.
Student's decomposing body found in USC dorm room
New York Post - 25 Aug 2017 05:36
LOS ANGELES -- The decomposing body of a University of Southern California student who may have been dead for a week has been discovered in his dorm room. Twenty-four-year-old Jacob Kelley was found Wednesday afternoon a...
A stroke paralyzed her. Her husband left. With her personal trainer, she found love.
Miami Herald - 25 Aug 2017 14:47
When a rare spinal stroke paralyzed 37-year-old Riona Kelly from the waist down in 2015, doctors warned the mother of four that she would never walk again. Just five days …
Hiker hit by lightning woke up with 'blood everywhere'
New York Post - 25 Aug 2017 05:48
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An Austrian man hiking 9,000 feet up in the Sierra Nevada was on a peak taking a photo when he was struck by a lightning bolt that blasted away his clothes, burned a hole in one of his shoes and lef...
'Broke' Secret Service spending big on portable toilets, golf carts
New York Post - 25 Aug 2017 20:20
The Secret Service shelled out thousands of dollars to rent fancy portable toilets during President Trump’s vacation in New Jersey, according to a report. The agency spent $7,100 to rent the luxury thrones from Imperia...
ISIS video shows boy claiming to be son of Americans vowing to 'defeat' Trump
New York Post - 25 Aug 2017 06:43
A boy with a sniper rifle claiming to be the son of American parents is the new face of Islamic State propaganda, vowing in a video that the bloodthirsty militants will "defeat" President Trump, the "puppet of the Jews."...
4 service members on Pence detail removed for bringing women back to Panama hotel
ABC News - 25 Aug 2017 03:47
The women were not registered, a violation of security protocol.
10-year-old boy who saved his brother from drowning credits 'The Rock'
New York Post - 25 Aug 2017 16:08
A 10-year-old boy from Detroit became a hero for saving his drowning brother — by channeling his favorite screen hero, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Jacob O'Connor recalled a scene from Johnson's movie "San Andreas" in or...
Sweden suspects Syrian asylum-seeker of war crimes
Fox News - 25 Aug 2017 15:46
A Swedish court has placed a Syrian asylum-seeker suspected of committing war crimes in Syria in pre-trial detention.
Man wrongly imprisoned for 25 years sues Detroit police for more than $100M
New York Post - 25 Aug 2017 15:32
A Detroit man who served 25 years in prison for murder based on sham evidence has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $100 million, saying police deliberately framed him by switching bullets to win a conviction. Desmond Ri...
Florida Uses New Drug To Execute Double Murderer
USA Today - 25 Aug 2017 07:36
Florida executed a man on Thursday with a drug never used before in a US lethal injection. Mark Asay is the first white man executed in Florida for killing a black man. He received a three-drug injection, starting with t...
North Korean spies were tricked into stealing fake missile plans
New York Post - 25 Aug 2017 04:46
They just couldn’t resist. Two North Korean spies were caught on camera stealing what they thought were top-secret missile designs -- giddily snapping pictures of the plans -- which in reality, were completely fake. Th...
Hurricane Harvey strengthens, bears down on Texas
CBSNews - 25 Aug 2017 02:45
Harvey intensified into a hurricane that forecasters said would be the first major hurricane to hit Texas in 9 years
Man arrested after assault on police at Buckingham Palace
Fox News - 25 Aug 2017 22:34
British police say a man has been arrested after an assault on police outside Buckingham Palace in central London.
Neighbors arrested in case of missing pregnant woman after newborn found
New York Post - 25 Aug 2017 20:24
The neighbors of a missing pregnant woman from North Dakota have been charged in connection to her disappearance. William Henry Hoehn, 32, and Brooke Lynn Crews, 38, were arrested Thursday after police searched and found...
Magazine slammed for Trump "Nazi salute" cover
ABC News - 25 Aug 2017 17:47
This week's cover of a popular German news magazine depicting U.S. President Donald Trump draped in the American flag while giving a stiff-armed Nazi salute is drawing sharp criticism from a prominent Jewish group
Somalia official says 10 civilians killed in joint raid
Miami Herald - 25 Aug 2017 16:47
Ten civilians, including a child, are dead after a raid by foreign and Somali forces on a farm in southern Somalia, a deputy governor said Friday as officials displayed victims' …
Afghan official: Taliban attack police outpost, killing 4
Miami Herald - 25 Aug 2017 11:37
An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked a security outpost in southern Kandahar province, the insurgents former heartland, killing 4 troops. Provincial police chief's spokesman, Zia Durrani, says the …
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The Week - 25 Aug 2017 11:25
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Hurricane Harvey strengthens, threatens U.S. with most powerful storm in 12 years
Reuters - 25 Aug 2017 08:43
(Reuters) - Hurricane Harvey intensified early on Friday, spinning into potentially the biggest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in more than a decade, with life-threatening floods expected along the Gulf Coast.