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Posted at 9:32 pm on June 17, 2017 by Grant Gambling Dodo.com tweeted out a rather heart-warming video of dogs waiting on babies to be born and being excited once the bundle of joy has arrived. It is friggin cute and well worth watching. “NINE” in all caps — which apparently means dogs know life begins which is in the womb –except to a dog a human pregnancy lasts 5.25 years. Dodo’s mission statement: “For animal people who want to make a difference, Dodo Impact is the advocacy-focused side of The Dodo.

Border Patrol Agents raided a humanitarian aid camp in the Arizona desert Thursday, arresting four undocumented immigrants who were receiving medical treatment there, U.S.

Sen. MORE (R-Utah) joked on Twitter that he was the prankster who signed Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) up for email subscriptions about the band Nickelback. "Got him," Sen Hatch's office tweeted Friday, responding to Sasse. "Just didn't want you to miss this.

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All seven bodies of U.S. sailors who were unaccounted for after a Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan on Saturday have been found dead. The U.S. Navy said Saturday night that the crew members were found in a flooded compartment of the USS Fitzgerald, and are being taken to Naval Hospital Yokosuka to be identified.  "The families are being notified and being provided the support they need during this difficult time," the Navy said in a statement.

Former Vice President Miami Herald reported. “The state the nation is today will not be sustained by the American people,” Biden told party activists during a speech in Hollywood, Fla. “We are better than this.” Biden's comments come as Democrats work to regroup in the wake of MORE's 2016 loss to Trump in a race that had been thought by many pollsters and pundits to be a shoo-in for the former secretary of state. Since then, Democrats have been locked in a debate over the direction of the party.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Residents of Turbat, a remote town in southwestern Pakistan, have had to cope with punishingly hot weather for generations.

OSLO — On an unseasonably warm day in May, electric cars, counting Teslas. “Two, three, four, five,” the minister marveled. And that was just one aisle. There are big perks to buying a Tesla — or any electric car — in Norway. The government waives the high taxes it imposes on sales of other cars. It lets electric cars cruise up bus lanes. Toll roads are free.

A tight supply of houses for sale, along with rising prices and worries about higher mortgage rates, is making buying a home a challenge in some areas this season. Because of a lack of inventory of homes in some markets, there is often a rush of offers when properties do become available, said Javier Vivas, manager of economic research at Realtor.com, a listing website.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Rusty Rodgers did not fit everyone’s image of a law enforcement officer, particularly in deeply conservative northeast Florida. One police chief, well ensconced in the local power structure, expressed irritation over what he called the officer’s “Jimmy Buffett look” — long hair, beard, loafers and no socks. No one, however, questioned Agent Rodgers’s tenacity as an investigator. Working for the Jacksonville sheriff, he doggedly pursued a rapist who preyed on poor women and prostitutes.