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"In Discribing...": Trump's Latest Tweet Attack On CNN Layered With Typos
President Donald Trump paused Friday morning from fighting his potential impeachment and delivered a surprise spelling lecture to the United States, in a tweet richly layered with mistakes and irony.
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US YouTube Celebrity Said "Walls Closing Around Me" On Video, Found Dead
The YouTube star Etika, who had recently turned his gaming channel into a venue for rants and confrontations with police officers, was found dead in New York's East River this week after posting a video expressing suicidal thoughts, though the cause of death has not yet been released.
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Oscars 2019: Lady Gaga To Spike Lee, Night Of Firsts With Spotlight On Diversity
Green Book wins Best Picture, Lady Gaga takes home a statuette for Best Original Song and Spike Lee gets his first Academy Award.
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"I'll Drown You": Video Shows Syrian Teen Being Choked In England School
Jamal and his sister had been bullied repeatedly since fleeing the Syrian civil war and moving to West Yorkshire two years earlier, according to British news outlets, which did not fully identify the family.
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Andaman Tribe Killed Missionary, Gave Anti-Immigration Politician An Idea
Many lessons could and have been drawn from the story of an American Christian missionary killed this month when he tried to contact a hostile hunter-gatherer tribe on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean.
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"Shot The Wrong Man": Police Admit Mistake After Alabama Mall Shooting
Authorities initially said they had killed the person who shot an 18-year-old at a mall on Black Friday. The family of Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., son of a veteran, and police later agreed he was not the shooter.
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Sarah Palin Mocks Young Democrat, Then Gets A Dose Of Her Own Medicine
Sarah Palin corrected herself seconds later in that last interview. But so did Ocasio-Cortez.
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"Wanted To Beat Him With Chair," Says Fox News Host, Seen In Bar Scuffle
In a statement released by attorney Michael Avenatti, a country club patron said he may pursue criminal charges against Tucker Carlson after cellphone video showed the Fox News host appearing to threaten him during a scuffle at the bar.
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A Delta Passenger Sat In Poo. The Plane Took Off Despite His Pleas.
"Not another flight that smells bad," Matthew Meehan recalled thinking as he boarded Delta flight 1949 in Atlanta on Thursday night - 115 years into the age of powered flight and God knows how long into the nightmare of modern air travel.
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"Kid" Who Opened Fire At Florida Yoga Studio Had History Of Groping Women
A man in Florida who has been repeatedly accused of groping women walked into a yoga class and opened fire on Friday evening, according to Tallahassee police - shooting six people and killing two of them despite an attempt to fight him off.
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Donald Trump In Pittsburgh Amid Protests, Officials Decline To Join Him
A mourning family doesn't want to meet him. Leaders of his own party declined to join him. The mayor has explicitly asked him not to come. Protesters have mobilized. And yet President Donald Trump visited this grief-stricken city Tuesday, amid accusations that he and his administration continue to fuel the anti-Semitism that inspired Saturday's mas...
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11 Killed In Pittsburgh Shooting In "Deadliest" Attack On Jews In US
A man armed with a semiautomatic assault-style rifle stormed the Tree of Life synagogue here Saturday and shot worshipers during Shabbat services, killing 11 and wounding six in the deadliest attack on Jews in the history of the United States.
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How Portrait Of Trump Drinking Diet Coke With Lincoln Reached White House
Previously spotted in D.C. gift shops and jigsaw puzzle boxes, a fantasy print of Donald Trump entertaining Abraham Lincoln while every other Republican president in history watches now hangs outside the Oval Office.
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Indian Plane Flew Into Brick Wall - And Just Kept Going: Foreign Media
An Air India pilot flew a Boeing 737 through a brick wall Friday. Incredibly, that marked the beginning of its journey and not the end.
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Watch: Republican Snatches Opponent's Mic During Debate, Throws It Down
Minnesota state Rep. Duane Quam and his rival, Jamie Mahlberg, got through the first half-hour of Monday's debate without any unpleasantness, really without anything approximating drama.
-_625x300_07_November_18.jpg?downsize=260:195 "A Delta Passenger Sat In Poo. The Plane Took Off Despite His Pleas.")
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"In Discribing...": Trump's Latest Tweet Attack On CNN Layered With Typos
President Donald Trump paused Friday morning from fighting his potential impeachment and delivered a surprise spelling lecture to the United States, in a tweet richly layered with mistakes and irony.
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US YouTube Celebrity Said "Walls Closing Around Me" On Video, Found Dead
The YouTube star Etika, who had recently turned his gaming channel into a venue for rants and confrontations with police officers, was found dead in New York's East River this week after posting a video expressing suicidal thoughts, though the cause of death has not yet been released.
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Oscars 2019: Lady Gaga To Spike Lee, Night Of Firsts With Spotlight On Diversity
Green Book wins Best Picture, Lady Gaga takes home a statuette for Best Original Song and Spike Lee gets his first Academy Award.
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"I'll Drown You": Video Shows Syrian Teen Being Choked In England School
Jamal and his sister had been bullied repeatedly since fleeing the Syrian civil war and moving to West Yorkshire two years earlier, according to British news outlets, which did not fully identify the family.
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Andaman Tribe Killed Missionary, Gave Anti-Immigration Politician An Idea
Many lessons could and have been drawn from the story of an American Christian missionary killed this month when he tried to contact a hostile hunter-gatherer tribe on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean.
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"Shot The Wrong Man": Police Admit Mistake After Alabama Mall Shooting
Authorities initially said they had killed the person who shot an 18-year-old at a mall on Black Friday. The family of Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., son of a veteran, and police later agreed he was not the shooter.
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Sarah Palin Mocks Young Democrat, Then Gets A Dose Of Her Own Medicine
Sarah Palin corrected herself seconds later in that last interview. But so did Ocasio-Cortez.
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"Wanted To Beat Him With Chair," Says Fox News Host, Seen In Bar Scuffle
In a statement released by attorney Michael Avenatti, a country club patron said he may pursue criminal charges against Tucker Carlson after cellphone video showed the Fox News host appearing to threaten him during a scuffle at the bar.
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A Delta Passenger Sat In Poo. The Plane Took Off Despite His Pleas.
"Not another flight that smells bad," Matthew Meehan recalled thinking as he boarded Delta flight 1949 in Atlanta on Thursday night - 115 years into the age of powered flight and God knows how long into the nightmare of modern air travel.
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"Kid" Who Opened Fire At Florida Yoga Studio Had History Of Groping Women
A man in Florida who has been repeatedly accused of groping women walked into a yoga class and opened fire on Friday evening, according to Tallahassee police - shooting six people and killing two of them despite an attempt to fight him off.
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Donald Trump In Pittsburgh Amid Protests, Officials Decline To Join Him
A mourning family doesn't want to meet him. Leaders of his own party declined to join him. The mayor has explicitly asked him not to come. Protesters have mobilized. And yet President Donald Trump visited this grief-stricken city Tuesday, amid accusations that he and his administration continue to fuel the anti-Semitism that inspired Saturday's mas...
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11 Killed In Pittsburgh Shooting In "Deadliest" Attack On Jews In US
A man armed with a semiautomatic assault-style rifle stormed the Tree of Life synagogue here Saturday and shot worshipers during Shabbat services, killing 11 and wounding six in the deadliest attack on Jews in the history of the United States.
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How Portrait Of Trump Drinking Diet Coke With Lincoln Reached White House
Previously spotted in D.C. gift shops and jigsaw puzzle boxes, a fantasy print of Donald Trump entertaining Abraham Lincoln while every other Republican president in history watches now hangs outside the Oval Office.
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Indian Plane Flew Into Brick Wall - And Just Kept Going: Foreign Media
An Air India pilot flew a Boeing 737 through a brick wall Friday. Incredibly, that marked the beginning of its journey and not the end.
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Watch: Republican Snatches Opponent's Mic During Debate, Throws It Down
Minnesota state Rep. Duane Quam and his rival, Jamie Mahlberg, got through the first half-hour of Monday's debate without any unpleasantness, really without anything approximating drama.
