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Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday called on GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore to prove he did not sexually pursue underage girls by providing a “satisfactory explanation” for the mounting allegations against him. Hannity, whose show has faced an advertising boycott after he initially appeared to come to Moore’s defense, has now joined top Republicans in demanding Moore drop out of the Senate race. “Between this interview that I did and the inconsistent answers; between him saying ‘I never knew this girl’ and then that yearbook comes out—for me, the judge has 24 hours,” Hannity said. “You must immediately and fully come up with a satisfactory explanation for your inconsistencies that I just showed. You must remove any doubt. If he can’t do this, Judge Moore needs to get out of this race.” Five women have come forward to accuse Moore of sexual misconduct, with one of the accusers saying she was 14 when Moore allegedly molested her. Moore has denied the allegations. View this cheat in a browser to see this video. | |
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Police in Northern California said the gunman who killed four people and wounded 10 others Tuesday had an ongoing dispute with a woman who lived in his neighborhood. That woman, who filed a restraining order against him earlier this year, was one of the first to be killed in the rampage. The Associated Press reports that the gunman—who was identified by multiple news outlets as Kevin Neal—had stabbed the neighbor during a dispute in January. Neal’s mother told the news agency that she had paid the bond to have him released from jail. Neal reportedly told his mother the day before the attack, “I’m on a cliff and there’s nowhere to go.” Police say they responded to another “domestic violence” incident involving him on Monday. “This was a bizarre, murderous rampage (to) get even with a neighbor,” said Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston. | |
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North Korean state media on Wednesday didn’t mince words in its review of President Trump’s trip to Asia, calling him a “hideous criminal sentenced to death by the Korean people.” In an editorial in the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, Pyongyang’s state media said “the worst crime for which (Trump) can never be pardoned is that he dared (to) malignantly hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership.” The editorial also called Trump a coward for canceling his trip to the border area separating North and South Korea. At the time, officials said the trip was called off because of the weather. | |
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Astronomers have potentially discovered another Earth-size habitable planet in our corner of the galaxy, according to new findings published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. The planet, which circles a small red star called Ross 128, may hold liquid water, among other conditions favorable for sustaining life. Ross 128 and the planet are only about 11 light-years from Earth. Xavier Bonfils, of the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics in Grenoble, France, told The New York Times that “Ross 128 is one of the quietest stars of the neighborhood.” | |
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Russia’s lower parliamentary chamber has unanimously voted to pass a bill that allows the government to register international media outlets as “foreign agents”—just days after the United States demanded the same thing from Russian state-funded television channel RT. The upper house is expected to approve the bill and then pass it on to President Vladimir Putin to be signed within the next two weeks. Putin described the U.S. categorization of RT as an attack on freedom of speech. He warned at the time that Russia would retaliate. On Wednesday, Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin referred to the bill as a “symmetrical answer” to the U.S. | |
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Australians have voted in favor of same-sex marriage in a nonbinding national vote, capping off a two-month campaign that critics had tried but failed to block through the country’s top court. Officials said Wednesday that 62 percent of voters said “yes” to legalizing same-sex marriage, and 38 percent coming out against the measure. The vote, conducted by mail, had an approximately 80 percent response rate. Organized as a survey of national opinion rather than a binding referendum, the measure now paves the way for a vote in parliament. “Millions of Australians have voted yes for fairness, they voted yes for commitment, they voted yes for love,” Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Wednesday. “Now it is up to us here in the Parliament of Australia to get on with it and get on with the job the Australian people have tasked us to do and get this done this year, before Christmas,” Turnbull said. | |
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Zimbabwe’s military has urged other security services to “cooperate for the good of the country” after taking over the country’s state broadcaster and seizing power in the capital city of Harare. In a statement read out on state-run television early Wednesday, the military insisted it was not staging a coup and assured that President Robert Mugabe and his family were “safe and sound” after government offices were seized hours earlier. The military has insisted it is “only targeting criminals” surrounding Mugabe but warned that “any provocation will be met with an appropriate response.” A “violent conflict” may erupt if certain political, social, and economic issues are not addressed, the military’s statement said. Explosions were reported in the city late Tuesday as soldiers and armored vehicles blocked roads to the main government offices and parliament. The incident comes amid a dispute between General Constantino Chiwenga, the leader of Zimbabwe’s army, and President Robert Mugabe after Mugabe ousted the country’s vice president last week. U.S. citizens have been urged to “shelter in place” in the country amid fears of a violent coup. | |
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For the first time ever, scientists have attempted to cure a person’s disease by editing a gene inside the body in a bid to permanently alter the patient’s DNA. Forty-four-year-old Brian Madeux, who has a metabolic disease called Hunter syndrome, was the subject of the first such experiment in California on Monday, the Associated Press reports. Scientists used an IV to inject Madeux with billions of copies of a corrective gene and a genetic tool to cut his DNA in a specific spot. “We cut your DNA, open it up, insert a gene, stitch it back up. Invisible mending,” Sandy Macrae, president of Sangamo Therapeutics, the California company testing the method, told the Associated Press. Scientists have edited people’s genes in the past, but that work involved altering cells inside a lab and then returning them to the body, whereas the latest experiment was performed inside a person’s body. The results of such gene editing won’t be clear until tests are done in three months, and experts say the risks of such irreversible gene tinkering are still not entirely clear. | |
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Police say countless lives were saved Tuesday when school officials in a tiny Northern California town blocked a gunman “bent on killing people at random” from entering an elementary school. Four people were killed and 10 others were injured, including one student, when the gunman tore through the town of Rancho Tehama early Tuesday and shot people at random. But authorities at Rancho Tehama Elementary School quickly put the building on lockdown after hearing gunfire in the area and students hid under their desks as the gunman tried to break in. “This individual shooter was bent on engaging and killing people at random. I have to say this incident, as tragic and as bad as it is, could have been so much worse,” Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said, praising the school staff for their “courageous and professional” response. The gunman, who has not been identified, rammed through the school gate and tried to enter the building but was only able to shoot through windows and walls. He was shot dead by police after a 45-minute shooting spree throughout the town. | |
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