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Japan quake toll up to 16 as rescuers dig through landslides
Miami Herald - 7 Sep 2018 04:55
Searchers used dogs, backhoes and shovels to dig through mud and debris Friday looking for survivors beneath the landslides caused by a powerful earthquake in northern Japan that left at …
Trump has reportedly narrowed his list of NYT op-ed suspects down to 12
The Week - 7 Sep 2018 05:26
President Trump and White House aides have come up with a list of 12 or so people suspected of being behind the anonymous op-ed published Wednesday by The New York Times, an outside adviser told the Times Thursday. The o...
Trump backs down from shutdown threats
New York Post - 7 Sep 2018 05:20
WASHINGTON - President Trump backed down Thursday from his threats to shut down the government if he doesn't get enough funding from Congress to build a border wall with Mexico. "So most likely, I will not do that," Trum...
Teacher who had sex with student breaks down at sentencing
New York Post - 7 Sep 2018 16:30
A former history teacher in Texas who admitted smoking pot and having sex with a 15-year-old student last year broke down in court as she was sentenced to eight years in prison. Michelle Schiffer, 24, got emotional on Th...
Former USA Gymnastics Trainer Who Worked With Larry Nassar Arrested on Sexual Assault Charge
Time - 7 Sep 2018 05:15
Former former USA Gymnastics trainer Debra Van Horn, who worked with Larry Nassar, was arrested on a charge of sexually assaulting a child
How Cory Booker's 'Spartacus' moment fizzled out
New York Post - 7 Sep 2018 04:47
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker turned a Supreme Court nomination hearing into a starring film role for himself Thursday -- bizarrely claiming "this is the closest I'll get to an 'I am Spartacus' moment." Booker...
Explosive California wildfire will 'burn actively' into Thursday night
USA Today - 7 Sep 2018 04:15
An explosive wildfire spewing flames 300 feet into the air roared into a second northern California county Thursday after forcing closure of a stretch of the Pacific Coast’s primary interstate in both directions. Score...
The Tiniest Sunglasses at New York Fashion Week
Time - 7 Sep 2018 20:10
What are these? Sunglasses for ants?
Stephen Colbert Is On the Case of That 'Confusing' Anonymous Op-Ed
Time - 7 Sep 2018 17:14
"It has launched a frantic guessing game."
Tesla stock falls as CEO appears to smoke marijuana on video
ABC News - 7 Sep 2018 17:02
Shares of electric car maker Tesla Inc. tumbled about 7 percent as the markets opened Friday after the CEO appeared to smoke marijuana during a YouTube video podcast and the company's accounting chief left after a month ...
Roger Stone associate appears before Mueller grand jury
ABC News - 7 Sep 2018 17:00
Randy Credico is the latest Stone associate to be summoned to testify in Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
UK vows to hit back against Russia's shadowy GRU - but how?
Miami Herald - 7 Sep 2018 16:56
Western officials say the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, poses a growing menace around the world. Increasingly alarmed by the agency's foreign forays, Western nations are scrambling to protect themselves …...
US Postal Service honors John Lennon with new stamps
New York Post - 7 Sep 2018 16:54
John Lennon "shines on" forever - in new stamps unveiled Friday by the United States Postal Service. The agency featured the former Beatle as part of its Music Icons series with a 1974 photo snapped by rock-and-roll phot...
99-year-old man doesn’t just walk miles to see his hospitalized wife daily – he runs
USA Today - 7 Sep 2018 16:48
Luther Yonger, the man known to walk six miles to and from the hospital to see his wife with cancer, runs part of that trek. He also does pushups.
Unemployment Rate Stays Near 18-Year Low After U.S. Economy Added 201,000 Jobs in August
Time - 7 Sep 2018 16:47
The economy is on track to grow 3 percent for the first time since 2005
White House considered lie detector test to find op-ed writer
New York Post - 7 Sep 2018 16:47
President Trump's advisers briefly discussed the possibility of forcing members of his administration to undergo lie detector tests in an effort to weed out the senior official who penned the scathing op-ed in The New Yo...
The Netherlands, Turkey re-appoint ambassadors to mend ties
Miami Herald - 7 Sep 2018 16:42
Turkey's foreign ministry says the country and the Netherlands have taken a further step in normalizing relations by re-appointing ambassadors to each other's capitals. The two countries withdrew ambassadors last …
Obama to urge Democrats to vote, citing 'perilous' time for U.S.
Reuters - 7 Sep 2018 16:41
Former U.S. President Barack Obama will jump back into the political fray on Friday, telling Democratic voters the stakes are too high to sit out November's elections, when the party is seeking to wrest control of Congre...
'We will continue our fight': Teen anti-violence activist shot dead in Chicago
ABC News - 7 Sep 2018 16:38
Delmonte Johnson, 19, was shot while standing in front of a store Wednesday.
Immigration agents visit farm where Tibbetts murder suspect worked
New York Post - 7 Sep 2018 16:32
Federal immigration and homeland security agents converged this week on the Iowa dairy farm where the man accused of killing college student Mollie Tibbetts had worked, according to new reports. The investigators met Thu...
SKorea's Moon wants 'irrevocable' progress on nuke diplomacy
Fox News - 7 Sep 2018 05:38
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Friday that he's pushing for "irrevocable progress" on efforts to rid North Korea of its nukes by the end of this year as he prepares for his third summit with North Korean leader ...
A former Buddhist monk is trying to help the world relax with an app
CNN - 7 Sep 2018 05:19
After spending a decade training as a Buddhist monk, Andy Puddicombe decided he wanted to share what he'd learned with the world.