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CNN’s White House correspondent Jim Acosta has been called “the enemy of the people,” had his press pass briefly stripped away and has become an unwilling foil to U.S. President Donald Trump.
“(It) started off as an act where he would taunt and troll us and call us ‘fake news,’ and even the ‘enemy of the people’ and has really spiraled out of his control,” Acosta told CTV News Washington Bureau correspondent Richard Madan.
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A police officer was arrested after a California student used Snapchat’s popular “gender swap” filter to pose as an underage girl on a dating app, in a vigilante effort to lure potential pedophiles.
According to reports, the student created a Tinder account claiming to be a 19-year-old girl named “Ester” in order to meet Tinder’s minimum age requirements.
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There is little threat of a tsunami hitting New Zealand after an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.0 struck the remote Kermadec Islands.
The earthquake occurred at 10:55 a.m. New Zealand time. New Zealand’s Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency initially issued the beach and marine tsunami warning but said minutes later that the earthquake is "unlikely to have caused a tsunami that will pose a threat to NZ.
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PORT HADLOCK, Wash. -- At least one Washington state waterfront landowner has said yes to a request to allow dead gray whales to decompose on their property.
So many gray whale carcasses have washed up this year that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries says it has run out of places to take them.
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The six contenders vying to become Britain's next prime minister held a leadership hustings on Saturday with rival candidates aiming their fire at frontrunner Boris Johnson.
The men battling for the leadership of the governing centre-right Conservative Party spoke at a central London hotel ahead of a week of voting that will whittle them down to two.
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Disgraced former football star O.J. Simpson has joined Twitter the same week as the 25th anniversary of his ex-wife’s murder.
Simpson, who was cleared of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, uses the handle @TheRealOJ32.
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