| 17-year-old girl killed in crash on prom night; 3 others injured Posted: 02 May 2018 02:15 PM PDT  A 17-year-old girl is dead following a prom night crash in Ohio. Four teenagers from Monroe High School were involved in a single-car crash on their way to dinner in Mason before their prom Friday night, police said. Kaylie Jackson, 17, was pronounced dead Monday, days after the crash.
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| Trump Replaces Ty Cobb With Clinton Impeachment Lawyer Posted: 02 May 2018 12:43 PM PDT  President Donald Trump plans to replace White House lawyer Ty Cobb with Emmet
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| South Korea, China and Japan to hold summit, as Pyongyang starts removing propaganda speakers Posted: 02 May 2018 11:02 AM PDT  South Korea, China and Japan will hold a trilateral summit in Tokyo next week, in the latest round of fast pace diplomacy to resolve tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons programme. The meeting will bring together Moon Jae-in, the South's president, Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, and Li Keqiang, the Chinese premier, for the first time in more than two years. It follows a historic summit between Mr Moon and North Korea's Kim Jong-un last Friday, where they vowed to pursue "complete denuclearisation" and a peace treaty to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War. The dramatic pageantry of their first ever negotiations set a positive tone for future talks between Kim and US President Donald Trump, expected in late May or early June. However, experts have sounded a note of caution, warning that similar pledges have fallen by the wayside, and pointing out that no timetable or conditions have been decided to establish how Kim would give up his nuclear weapons. A few days before Friday's summit, the North Korean leader did, however, promise to halt all missile tests and dismantle his country's Punggye-ri nuclear test site. South Korean soldiers take down a propaganda loudspeakers on the border with North Korea Credit: Chung Sung-Jun/ Getty Images South Korea on Tuesday asked the United Nations to help verify the planned shutdown, due to begin later this month. Mr Moon made the request in a phone call with Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary general, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. On Sunday, Mr Moon's office revealed that Kim would invite experts from South Korea and the US to the country to ensure "transparency" around the site's dismantlement. Presidential spokesperson Yoon Young-chan said that Kim had revealed during the summit that he had no intention of targeting the US or the South with nuclear weapons, reported CNN. "There is no reason for us to possess nuclear weapons…if mutual trust with the United States is built through frequent meetings from now on, and an end to the war and non-aggression are promised," Kim was quoted as saying by Mr Yoon. Kim also refuted claims by Chinese scientists earlier in the week that parts of the site had been so badly damaged by previous explosions that the site was useless. "Some claim we are closing down an unusable test site, but if they come and see, they will understand that there are two bigger tunnels than the existing test facilities and that they are in a very good condition," Kim said. In another positive gesture towards peace, the South's defence ministry said it had seen signs that the North had started dismantling loudspeakers that blared propaganda across the border. The de-escalation in propaganda from both sidescomes amid rare reports from inside North Korea that the public is aware of ongoing talks and hopeful for change. "Right now you can just stop anywhere and hear talk of unification all around you", a resident of the South Hamgyong Province told the Daily NK news web site. "Members of the younger generation especially are expressing hopes that they may shed the [socialist] organisational restrictions after unification or that they will watch South Korean movies for a whole month straight after other controls and crackdowns are lifted", the unnamed source said. Even members of the "hostile class" are holding out hope that change might mean that relatives will be released from the North's political prison camps. The Daily NK quoted a source in Ryanggang Province as saying that a neighbour has been given renewed hope of seeing her younger sister, who was sent to prison 18 years previously, even though nothing has been heard about her well-being since. Korean detente How did we get here? "The woman had become really dispirited about her younger sister and lost hope, but now, because of expectations surrounding the inter-Korean summit, they are holding out hope that unification might mean the release of her family members". Dreams of previously unthinkable freedoms are being tempered by realism, however, with a resident of North Hamgyong Province saying: "Most people are generally quiet, but they have really big expectations for the future. But they also understand that lots of things need to develop a certain way, and then we can all be joyful together". Despite the speakers being switched off, North Korean defectors in the South continued their campaign of sending water bottles filled with rice and K-pop-loaded USB sticks floating towards their homeland. Jung Gwang-il, a former North Korean political prisoner, and other activists tossed bottles into the sea from an island, hoping the tide will carry them northwards. Korea summit | Read more "What is one thing that Kim Jong Un hates the most?" he asked. "It's North Koreans becoming aware of the reality." Park Jung-oh, another defector, added: "We all lived in North Korea for at least 30, 40 years so we know exactly what the people there want and need," Park said. "When they watch the content of our USB sticks, they will realise that they have been tricked by their government," he said. Films and television programmes from abroad have long been banned in the North due to the regime's fear that it will show its citizens the high living standards of foreigners, while travel abroad was impossible unless a person was willing to take their chances and defect. On Tuesday Moon Jae-in, South Korea's president, asked the United Nations to help verify North Korea's planned shutdown of its nuclear test site. Moon made the request in a phone call Tuesday with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Yonhap news agency reported.
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| US troops 'will stay in South Korea' even if peace treaty is signed with North Posted: 02 May 2018 09:39 AM PDT  South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday dismissed claims that US troops stationed in the country would have to leave if a peace treaty was signed with the North. Seoul and Pyongyang have remained technically at war since the 1950s but Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed at a landmark summit last week to work towards a permanent treaty to replace a 65-year-old armistice agreement. "US Forces Korea (USFK) is a matter of the South Korea-US alliance. It has nothing to do with signing a peace treaty," Moon said, referring to the agreement that sees 28,500 US forces based in the South. Moon's comments came after a presidential adviser publicly suggested the presence of US soldiers, sailors and airmen would be called into question if a peace treaty were to be agreed with Pyongyang. Moon Chung-in had written in Foreign Affairs magazine that it would be "difficult to justify (US forces) continuing presence in South Korea" after the adoption of a peace treaty. The 'Max Thunder' joint US-South Korea military drill will kick off on May 11, ahead of Mr Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un Credit: JIM WATSON/ AFP The Blue House - President Moon's office - has warned the adviser "not to cause any more confusion," with such comments, spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom said. The rebuttal came as Seoul's defence ministry confirmed that several US fighter jets had arrived in the country to take part in a regular joint exercises. The F-22 "Raptor" stealth fighters last came to the South in December when Seoul and Washington staged their largest-ever joint air exercise, days after North Korea test-fired a missile believed to be capable of hitting the US mainland. Local media reported eight F-22 jets had arrived Sunday at an airbase in the southern city of Gwangju. The North customarily reacts with anger to the deployment of American stealth fighters, which it fears could be used for surgical strikes against its leadership and strategic facilities. Rocket man: How Kim Jong-un emerged from his father's shadow to silence the doubters However, Kim Jong Un has recently shown a more conciliatory attitude, telling Seoul envoy Chung Eui-yong in March that he understood the need for the US-South Korea joint exercises. The "Max Thunder" drill will kick off on May 11 for two weeks, with the reported participation of 100 aircraft from both countries. The defence ministry urged news media to refrain from producing "speculative reports" about the move. That request came after the conservative Chosun Ilbo daily claimed the aircraft deployment could be intended to heap pressure on Pyongyang ahead of a planned summit between Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump. "Max Thunder is a regular exercise that has been on the docket long before a planned US-North Korea summit," the defence ministry said in a statement. The Panmunjom truce village in the demilitarised zone between North and South, where last week's inter-Korean summit was convened, has emerged as a possible venue for the Kim-Trump meeting. The Chosun Ilbo daily suggested the arrival of F-22 jets could also be aimed at bolstering security in case the North Korea-US summit takes place at Panmunjom.
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| Lion that mauled man in enclosure in South Africa is killed Posted: 02 May 2018 06:35 AM PDT ![Lion that mauled man in enclosure in South Africa is killed]( "Lion that mauled man in enclosure in South Africa is killed") JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A lion has been killed after attacking the owner of a wildlife center in South Africa, a mauling recorded in a graphic video .
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| Gallery: 70 Years Of Land Rover Posted: 02 May 2018 03:21 AM PDT ![Gallery: 70 Years Of Land Rover]( "Gallery: 70 Years Of Land Rover")
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| More Than 60 Roller Coaster Riders Left Upside Down as Universal Studios Ride Gets Stuck Posted: 02 May 2018 01:57 AM PDT  The ride in Japan reportedly became stuck some 65 to 100 feet above the ground.
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| CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Rank News Outlets By Trustworthiness Posted: 01 May 2018 08:19 PM PDT  MENLO PARK, Calif. ― Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a meeting Tuesday
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| Alleged Sexual Predators Don't Need Letters Of Support Posted: 01 May 2018 07:29 PM PDT  Veteran NBC journalist Tom Brokaw has not followed what's become a typical
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| US: Vet implanted heroin in puppies for Colombia drug ring Posted: 01 May 2018 04:19 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A veterinarian pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that he implanted liquid heroin in puppies to turn them into drug mules for a Colombian trafficking ring.
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| Ex-Trump Doctor: Trump bodyguard, lawyer ‘raided’ my office, took medical files Posted: 01 May 2018 02:13 PM PDT  Trump's former doctor says President Trump's bodyguard and lawyer "raided" his office and took medical records. NBC's Anna Schecter discusses her exclusive reporting.
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