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  Evolutionary psychology explains why haunted houses creep us out

  October 27, 2018 2:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College(THE CONVERSATION) The Haunted House is a time-honored horror setting. All of us have shivered our way through spooky flicks such as The Haunting, The Amityville Horror, The Sentinel and Poltergeist.It’s not only at the movies that we pay good money to frighten ourselves to death: commercial haunted houses are an integral part of 21st-century Halloween

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  Markets Right Now: Wall Street is rocked by more selling

  October 27, 2018 2:00 IST

  Another wave of selling rocked Wall Street, plunging major indexes back into the red for the year.

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  FANTASY PLAYS: Raiders, Rams offer attractive daily stacks

  October 27, 2018 2:00 IST

  FANTASY PLAYS: Raiders, Rams offer attractive daily stacks

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  Why we'll always be obsessed with – and afraid of – monsters

  October 27, 2018 2:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Leo Braudy, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences(THE CONVERSATION) Fear continues to saturate our lives: fear of nuclear destruction, fear of climate change, fear of the subversive, and fear of foreigners. But a Rolling Stone article about our “age of fear” notes that most Americans are living “in the safest place at the safest time in

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  GM proposes nationwide zero-emissions vehicle sales mandate

  October 27, 2018 2:00 IST

  General Motors says it will ask the federal government for one national gas mileage standard, including a requirement that a percentage of auto companies' sales be zero-emissions vehicles

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  Advocate for Chile's dictatorship-era disappeared dies

  October 27, 2018 1:45 IST

  Advocate for Chile's dictatorship-era disappeared dies at age 93 without knowing the fate of her family members who were forcibly disappeared during the country's dictatorship

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  Nuclear waste site workers ordered inside after steam leak

  October 27, 2018 1:45 IST

  Officials have ordered some workers at a nuclear weapons production site in Washington state to stay inside because steam escaped from a tunnel filled with radioactive waste

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  Pakistan beats Australia by 11 runs in 2nd Twenty20

  October 27, 2018 1:15 IST

  Pakistan beats Australia by 11 runs in 2nd Twenty20

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  The Latest: Residents say they'll bounce back after typhoon

  October 27, 2018 1:15 IST

  Residents in the Northern Mariana Islands say they will bounce back after Super Typhoon Yutu ravaged the U.S. territory in the Pacific

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  Matt Antoine, 2014 Olympic medalist, retires from skeleton

  October 27, 2018 1:00 IST

  Last slide: US Olympic veteran Matt Antoine, 2014 bronze medalist in skeleton, retires

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  South Dakota to execute inmate on Monday for guard's slaying

  October 26, 2018 23:45 IST

  South Dakota has set Monday as the execution date for an inmate convicted of killing a prison guard

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  Soccer team in Sweden gives world's Kurds something to cheer

  October 26, 2018 23:45 IST

  The 14-year journey of the soccer team known as Dalkurd began as a project to get misbehaving kids off the street in a rural town in central Sweden, but it has grown into a top-flight squad that has given the Kurdish minority something to cheer for

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  Former NHL President John Ziegler dies at 84

  October 26, 2018 23:30 IST

  John Ziegler Jr., NHL president whose term was marked by merger and labor unrest, dies at 84

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  Police: Shooting suspect tried to access black church

  October 26, 2018 23:30 IST

  Police say the white man accused of fatally shooting two African-American grocery store patrons in Kentucky was recorded on surveillance video as first trying to get inside a predominantly black church

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  Study: Online attacks on Jews ramp up before Election Day

  October 26, 2018 23:15 IST

  A Jewish civil rights group's study concludes far-right extremists have ramped up an anti-Semitic wave of harassment against Jewish journalists and political candidates ahead of next month's U.S. midterm elections

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  Look what we found: Tiny female lion cub in French garage

  October 26, 2018 23:15 IST

  France's customs agency says it has made an extremely surprising discovery in a garage in Marseille: a lion cub

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  After 24 years, Washington state charter school law stands

  October 26, 2018 23:00 IST

  A state high court decision upholding the Washington state charter school system marks the end of a decades-long political fight over the publicly funded, privately run schools

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  The Latest: Rangers recover bodies of 2 killed in Yosemite

  October 26, 2018 23:00 IST

  A Yosemite National Park official says park rangers have recovered the bodies of two people who fell to their deaths from a popular overlook

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  California blasts Trump plan to rollback emissions standards

  October 26, 2018 23:00 IST

  California officials are blasting the Trump administration's plan to freeze vehicle emissions standards, saying it threatens public health and the environment

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  Trump says Twitter removed followers _ but he's gained them

  October 26, 2018 23:00 IST

  President Donald Trump is claiming that Twitter has removed "many people" from his account and that the company has "seemingly done something that makes it much harder to join."

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  Sen. Heitkamp raises $12.4 million after Kavanaugh vote

  October 26, 2018 23:00 IST

  Sen. Heidi Heitkamp's fundraising jumped dramatically in the period after she voted against Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court

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  German Jewish community leader resigns after impostor claims

  October 26, 2018 23:00 IST

  A prominent Jewish community leader in northern Germany is stepping down from his post after reports that he may have lied about his roots

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  The Latest: UNC president Spellings quits early, gets $500K

  October 26, 2018 23:00 IST

  A former U.S. education secretary who is resigning as head of North Carolina's public universities is getting more than $500,000 as she leaves

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  Aid group: Yemen fighting killed 575 civilians since August

  October 26, 2018 22:45 IST

  An international aid organization says some 575 Yemenis have been killed in fighting between a Saudi-led coalition and the Shiite rebels in Yemen between Aug. 1 and Oct. 15

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  Migrants set out on arduous 60-mile journey to next stop

  October 26, 2018 22:45 IST

  Some 4,000 migrants are setting out on an ambitious part of their journey toward the U.S. border _ a 60-mile, single day trek up the Mexican coast

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  President Trump says suspect in mail bomb scare will be prosecuted to 'fullest extent of the law'

  October 26, 2018 22:30 IST

  President Trump says suspect in mail bomb scare will be prosecuted to 'fullest extent of the law'

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  President Trump says 'we must never allow political violence to take root in America'

  October 26, 2018 22:30 IST

  President Trump says 'we must never allow political violence to take root in America'

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  Three law enforcement officials identify person in custody in package bomb case as Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, Florida

  October 26, 2018 22:15 IST

  Three law enforcement officials identify person in custody in package bomb case as Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, Florida