| NASA's Operation IceBridge studies ice loss in Antarctica Posted: 12 Nov 2017 06:21 AM PST ![NASA's Operation IceBridge studies ice loss in Antarctica]( "NASA's Operation IceBridge studies ice loss in Antarctica") NASA's Operation IceBridge has been studying how polar ice has evolved over the past nine years and is currently flying a series of nine-hour research flights over West Antarctica to monitor ice loss aboard a retrofitted 1966 Lockheed P-3 aircraft. According to NASA, the current mission targets "sea ice in the Bellingshausen and Weddell seas and glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula and along the English and Bryan Coasts." Researchers have used the IceBridge data to observe that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be in a state of irreversible decline, directly contributing to rising sea levels.
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| Trump lands in Philippines, offers to mediate on South China Sea Posted: 12 Nov 2017 05:37 AM PST  By Steve Holland and Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump landed in the Philippines on Sunday for a summit of Southeast and East Asian nations, hours after offering to mediate on competing claims to the South China Sea that have long stoked tensions in the region. It will be the last leg of a marathon Asia tour that, despite Trump's "America First" policy, may reassure some that his administration remains committed to a region that Beijing sees as its strategic domain. In Vietnam earlier on Sunday, Trump said he was prepared to mediate in the dispute over the South China Sea, where four Southeast Asian countries and Taiwan contest China's sweeping claims to the busy waterway.
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| 60,000 join far-right march on Poland's Independence Day Posted: 12 Nov 2017 03:52 AM PST  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Tens of thousands of nationalists marched in a demonstration organized by far-right groups in Warsaw Saturday, as Poles celebrated their country's Independence Day.
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| Iraq forces seize villages in last IS-held pocket Posted: 12 Nov 2017 02:24 AM PST  Iraqi forces seized several villages from the Islamic State group on Saturday in an operation to retake the last pocket of jihadist-held territory in the country, the operation's commander said. The Euphrates Valley town of Rawa and nearby villages were bypassed by government troops and allied militia when they retook the town of Al-Qaim on the Syrian border last week.
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| Airport worker, one other, charged over crude bomb in North Carolina Posted: 12 Nov 2017 01:09 AM PST  Police in North Carolina have arrested and charged two men -- one an airport employee -- for possessing a homemade bomb, police said. Fells told police in Charlotte he had intended to use the bomb against a neighbor with whom he had been arguing, but changed his mind and gave it to Paul Dandon, 30, a full-time employee of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) based at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Police said Dandon's job gave him access only to an offsite air traffic control tower, but not to any restricted area in the airport terminal or to any aircraft.
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| Charlottesville unrest was a factor for many Virginia voters Posted: 11 Nov 2017 11:00 PM PST  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Unease over violent white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville this summer and President Donald Trump's response loomed in the minds of many Virginia voters during Tuesday's elections in which Democrats made significant gains, according to progressive advocacy groups and interviews with voters.
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| Trump, again on defensive, says Putin denies 2016 meddling Posted: 11 Nov 2017 09:09 PM PST  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Days before returning home from a whirlwind trip to Asia, President Donald Trump was back on the defensive over Russian election meddling and accusing Democrats of trying to sabotage U.S.-Russia relations.
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| Tens of thousands join Polish nationalists' march on independence day Posted: 11 Nov 2017 07:16 PM PST  Carrying Polish flags and throwing red smoke bombs, tens of thousands of people on Saturday joined a march in Warsaw organised by far-right nationalists to mark independence day, while counter-protesters rallied against fascism. The annual march also attracted a considerable number of supporters of the governing conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party to honour the reestablishment of Poland's independence in 1918. It's 50 to100,000 mostly football hooligans hijacking patriotism," said 50-year-old Briton Andy Eddles, a language teacher who has been living in Poland for 27 years.
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| Daughter of Polygamous Sect Leader Says He Sexually Abused Her for Years Posted: 11 Nov 2017 05:38 PM PST  Rachel Jeffs, now 33, said the abuse began when she was 8 and happened countless times
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| Buzz Aldrin joins New York City Veterans Day parade Posted: 11 Nov 2017 04:57 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin and the U.S. Air Force's highest-ranking woman joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and others at the city's Veterans Day parade.
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