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The Latest on the reported slaying in Ukraine of a Russian journalist: (all times local):
5:25 p.m.
Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who had been reported shot and killed in the Ukrainian capital Tuesday, has shown up at a news conference very much alive.
Vasily Gritsak, head of the Ukrainian Security Service, told a news conference on Wednesday the agency faked Babchenko's death to catch those who were trying to kill him.
Kiev and national police had said Babchenko, a strong critic of the Kremlin, was shot multiple times in the back at his apartment building and found bleeding by his wife.
He showed up at Gritsak's new conference on Wednesday and thanked everyone who was mourning his death.
Babchenko, 41, one of Russia's best-known war reporters, spoke and wrote year about leaving the country because of repeated threats that he and his family would be harmed.
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A top lawmaker says Russia is willing to help Ukraine investigate the murder of a Russian journalist.
Arkady Babchenko, who was scathingly critical of the Kremlin, was gunned down in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on Tuesday.
Babchenko fled Russia last year, fearing for his life, and settled in Ukraine. He had served in the Russian army during the two wars in Chechnya in 1990s and became one of Russia's best-known war reporters.
Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma, told Russian news agencies Wednesday that Russia would be happy to help with the investigation if Ukrainian authorities requested it.
Ukrainian authorities have said they think Babchenko was killed because of his work. Several Ukrainian politicians blamed the Kremlin for the killing. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed those comments as cynical.

A Malaysian air crash investigator inspects the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 22, 2014.
A Malaysian air crash investigator inspects the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 22, 2014. Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev
A Ukrainian military pilot was facing a Russian allegation regarding the 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. Police has said that pilot killed himself at his home in Mykolaiv, near the Black Sea on Monday , Ukrainian media report.
Capt Vladyslav Voloshyn was blamed by Russia over the shooting down of the flight, and called the allegation a lie. According to Dutch investigators, a Russian Buk missile had destroyed the Boeing 777 jet, leaving 298 people dead.
His wife reportedly said she heard gunshots and contacted an ambulance. But paramedics failed to save Voloshyn.
There are reports that claimed that a military service pistol was recovered at the scene. Experts are now examining the pistol.
The 29-year-old SU-25 fighter pilot had reportedly been working at Mykolaiv airport after retiring from the airforce. He flew 33 combat missions in a low-flying Su-25 ground attack jet against Russian-backed separatist rebels. Ukraine described him as a war hero, and he received a medal for bravery.
Mykolaiv police posted a statement on Facebook, describing Voloshyn’s death as "suicide." Under the premeditated murder article of the country’s criminal code, his death is under investigation.
The New Daily reported Voloshyn as saying that he was the victim of a smear campaign when Russian officials alleged it was his plane that shot down MH17. The airliner was shot down on July 2014 over Ukraine. Of the 298 passengers and crew, over two-thirds were Dutch, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Another Russian theory states that it was a Ukrainian military Buk missile that downed MH17. Some independent experts said the evidence pointed to a Buk fired by a Russian military unit or pro-Russian rebels. The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) wants to put the suspects on trial in the Netherlands. That is fraught, however, with legal difficulties.
Ukrainian media quoted family members as saying that Voloshyn had been feeling depressed. Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov took to Facebook to praise him (in Russian) as an exemplary pilot who had fought bravely against the Russian-backed rebels.
"He didn't let himself break down, he wasn't depressed at all - he always acted as an exemplary officer,” he wrote, adding he did not hear him speak of any enemies or unresolved problems and is happily married and adored his family. Butusov said Voloshyn had bombed Russian paratroops during the battle of Ilovaisk in August 2014. Over 300 Ukrainian soldiers died in the fighting there, BBC reports.


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A major skateboarding event appears to have found a permanent Southern California home. Again.
The Dew Tour, which landed along the shores of Long Beach last year, returns for a second year starting Thursday, with the potential for the multi-day event to remain on the site for years to come.
The event, operated by The Enthusiast Network, had signed a two-year contract with an option for a third year, which tour general manager Adam Cozens said TEN hopes to extend.
“We’re planning to come back,” Cozens said. “We have zero intention of leaving at this point. The city and community has embraced this. I think we could be here long term.”
It would not the first permanent site for the Dew Tour — Breckenridge, Colorado, has been the winter action sport’s main home for all 12 years of the tour.
Long Beach and the area around its convention center appear to be a perfect marriage for one of the top action sports events in the world. Thanks to worldwide exposure from the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the arena’s iconic whale murals, along with boats lining the nearby marina and the Rainbow Park Lagoon, have become well known. In addition, the ocean breezes can help keep the outdoor event during the hot Southern California days cooler.
But the biggest draw may be that the event is in Southern California.
“Southern California is the mecca of skateboarding,” Cozens said. “It is critical for us and our brand names.
“There is just an overall culture with everything on the side of skateboarding that is really prominent. Southern California is such as great crossover community. Skating and surfing; it’s pretty strong.”
The tour, which has been “re-imagined” several times, got another makeover after holding two summer events in Chicago and Los Angeles in 2014. It is down to just Long Beach. For now.
That could be good for Southern California action sports fans.
The X Games appear to be long gone and about the only recent big-time fix Southern California action sports fans can get is the Street League Skateboarding championships, which is one night and returns to USC’s Galen Center in September.
For the most part, it’s been ESPN’s X Games against the Dew Tour, which originally was partially owned by NBC.
“I think it’s not a competition,” Cozens said. “The beautiful thing about the X Games is their history, vision and strategy. We have that, too. We have our own stand-alone vision. The goal for us at the Dew Tour is to stand by style and progression.
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“Our paths are a little different in terms of fans and concert strategy. But at the end of the day, there is room for us and the X Games out there. Also, there is room for Street League Skateboarding and other events in the mix, too. There is plenty of room. We’re two brands that really thrive. It’s important for the sport, athletes and fans and really important for the industries and their innovations.”
Three days in Long Beach attracted approximately 25,000 last year, nearly all watching multi-champion Ryan Sheckler of San Clemente win the overall title. There was no entrance fee.
This year, the event has added a fourth day and a major expansion of an amateur competition. There is also an expansion into the Rainbow Park Lagoon, where a concert, art festivals, technology, food trucks and craft beers will be available. Again, the event is free, but those purchasing the VIP Experience will get perks, including riding with pros Sunday in the bowl. Even Saturday’s hip hop concert with Metro Boomin with Cam’ron and Amine is free, with a downloadable ticket.
The team competition remains in place and an overall title — combining bowls and street tech, gap and rail — will factor into an overall winner. Blind Skateboards won the team title last year.
The future could possibly include more events. Cozens hinted a women’s competition and adaptive skateboarding competition could be in the works, among other events.
“Our goal is to expand the Dew Tour,” Cozens said. “That does not mean to add six more stops. We have to take how we do our summer event and amplify that; new competitions, more lifestyle, art, technology, music and adding to the fan experience.”

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The world of chronic pain is far beyond the reach of most people’s imaginations. The idea of spending most, if not all, of the time with some level of discomfort is not something to which everyone can relate. It is the cursed few that suffer pain in ways lucky people can only hope to avoid experiencing.
The reality is that chronic pain patients have always suffered tragically high suicide rates due to constant suffering and comorbid mental disorders directly related to physical illnesses, and those rates are poised to make a jump with the recent crackdown on opioid prescriptions. There is something that can still help: marijuana.
Opponents of opioids fail to recognize the difference between addiction and dependence. Chronic pain patients are often dependent on opioids to be able to perform basic daily functions. Opioids have allowed patients to live not without pain, but with significant more physical and mental ability. They have allowed patients to live alone.
While they perform a vital function, opioids also come with a heavy price tag. Embarrassing, dangerous and debilitating side effects cause more frustration for chronic pain patients. Medical cannabis has none of these side effects, and CBD, the chemical found in marijuana that has medicinal benefits, can often relieve pain better than the strongest opioids available.
CBD has been known to calm seizures, provide instant and effective pain relief and sometimes benefit mental health. All without the serious side effects of opioids that have led to the recent crackdown.
Despite this, marijuana remains classed as a Schedule I drug by the Drug Enforcement administration, which is supposed to be for drugs at a high risk for abuse with no recognized medical benefits. Marijuana, a non-fatal drug with a growing list of possible uses in the medical world, is more tightly controlled and feared by the U.S. government than fentanyl, a highly lethal drug that has been killing heroin users and putting first responders in danger nationwide.
Marijuana, if utilized correctly, has the potential to almost completely eradicate the need for opioids at all, and yet it is kept out of the hands of those who could use it most by those who have the most to gain from keeping it illegal.
The prohibition of marijuana directly benefits those profiting off the so-called drug war, including drug cartels that make fortunes transporting illegal goods over national borders. Legalizing marijuana pulls the cartels’ legs out from under them and leaves them scrambling.
It would also allow the purchasing and sale of a useful commodity to be done safely and securely. Victims of scams and violence would not need to fear incriminating themselves by reporting dangerous behavior to police.
Legalization and decriminalization bring disenfranchised people out of the dark, criminal underbelly and into the safety of public awareness.
Legalizing medical marijuana, specifically CBD, has the potential to end the opioid crisis and give relief to suffering patients everywhere. It should not be kept out of reach by a misguided, uninformed, outdated government.

President Donald Trump revealed his new plan to combat the opioid crisis on Monday in New Hampshire, a state hard-hit by painkiller and heroin addiction and overdose in recent years. The call to execute certain drug traffickers is drawing the most attention, but another part of the plan could make a big difference in the fight against addiction: The White House will support research into developing a vaccine for opioid addiction.
This support would boost the efforts of scientists who hit a major breakthrough in December. Researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the National Institute on Drug Abuse developed an experimental heroin vaccine for mice and rats. They found that antibodies in the vaccine bound to the heroin before crossing the blood-brain barrier, thus preventing the euphoric effects of the drug.
Taking a drug that works in mice and making it work in humans is a big step, and this vaccine still has a long way to go. Funding will make a big difference.
"It's central," said Dr. David Rosenbloom, a professor of public health at Boston University. "You need research dollars for the basic research, and you need significant research for clinical trials."
The vaccine didn't interfere with methadone or buprenorphine, mild opioid medications that are used to wean opioid addicts off the drug. These medications reduce withdrawal and cravings. The vaccine also didn't interact with naloxone (also known as Narcan), the medication used to reverse an opioid overdose.
Doctors argue this vaccine's noninterference with other treatments is crucial because curbing the opioid crisis will require a multifaceted approach. The vaccine itself won't solve the problem.
"This is not any kind of magic bullet," said Dr. John Franklin, the chief of addictions in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern. "This is another tool to give opioid users a chance."
Franklin says the vaccine will only work in the short term and require repeated doses. It will be very expensive, and addicts will have to voluntarily take it. But if implemented along with other opioid treatments, the vaccine could play a promising role in curbing the epidemic.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, there were more than 42,000 opioid-related deaths in 2016. The White House has yet to reveal how much support it will give to developing a vaccine, but Trump has called for $13 billion in additional funding over the next two years for the Department of Health and Human Services.
The call to support this research is part of the "Reduce Demand and Over-Prescription" portion of Trump's plan unveiled by the White House on Monday as Trump spoke on opioids in New Hampshire, a state hard hit in recent years by the drug crisis. Other parts of the plan include "Help Those Struggling with Addiction" and "Cut off the Supply of Illicit Drugs," which is the section that includes seeking the death penalty against certain drug traffickers.
Although an opioid addiction vaccine is still in the early stages, there are new medications to fight the crisis that are much further along. Naltrexone, which comes in pill and injection form, blocks the effects of opiates in the brain. Doctors are also working on an implantable patch of buprenorphine to help patients.
No one treatment is going to solve the opioid crisis. A controversial study on naloxone, for example, demonstrated the drug could have adverse effects without other measures in place. But each new treatment option gives doctors a better chance of reversing the damage.
"Any of these approaches are to give people a running start on how to change their lives," Franklin said.
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Question: Netflix set to raise prices for UK users

For the first time in two years online streaming giant, Netflix, has raised its monthly subscription prices for UK customers.
The monthly cost of a basic will remain at £5.99, however, standard and premium membership prices are set to rise.
Standard membership will rise from £7.49 to £7.99 a month, and Premium membership will jump from £8.99 to £9.99 for users.
New subscribers to Netflix will immediately pay the new rates whereas existing customers will see price increases from 19 October and be given 30 days notice of the change
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The online streaming service, which currently has 104 million subscribers globally, will also be raising rates for the US, France and Germany this year.
Netflix have released a statement regarding the price hikes:
“From time to time, Netflix plans and pricing are adjusted as we add more exclusive TV shows and movies, introduce new product features and improve the overall Netflix experience to help members find something great to watch even faster.”
Netflix is set to provide more original content in 2018 and already has a budget of $6 billion for new productions.
The new money generated from the subscription price rises is expected to contribute towards the production of new original content.

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Netflix has released it’s financial results for the first quarter of 2017 and moving show releases has hit the service slightly.
For those that aren’t aware, House of Cards season 5 was moved from a Q1 to a Q2 release date. This move resulted in operating margins for the first quarter being higher than expected.
“We had higher operating margins in Q1 (as forecasted) at 9.7% than our plan for the year (about 7%),” Netflix said in a letter to investors.
Despite this wobble, the firm forecasts that operating margins for Q2 should come in at 4.4%, putting Netflix on track to reach its target 7% operating margin for 2017.
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In addition to this, Netflix reports that its top-tier streaming package is becoming more popular. The offering allows users to stream content across four screens consecutively and is the only package that offers up streaming in UHD quality.
At $12 (~R159) a month its also Netflix’s most expensive package and it becoming more popular means that revenue growth isn’t as reliant on membership growth.
Sports? Nope
Earlier this month Amazon announced that it would begin streaming football to Amazon Prime members, Netflix subscribers hoping for the same shouldn’t hold their breath.
“Investors ask us about Amazon’s move into NFL football. That is not a strategy that we think is smart for us since we believe we can earn more viewing and satisfaction from spending that money on movies and TV shows,” says Netflix.
Looking at the firm’s trophy cabinet it’s hard to argue. House of Cards, Making a Murderer, Stranger Things and countless others have been nominated and won various awards but surely offering up sport may tempt users to ditch their set-top boxes and sign up for Netflix?
And that leads us nicely to our question to you. Would you sign-up for Netflix if it offered live sport? Sling your comments in the space below or let us know over on Twitter.


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Question: Kenyon Martin opens up about comments on Jeremy Lin's hair

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Kenyon Martin wants to clear the air.
In a phone call with The Crossover on Friday night, Martin addressed the controversy over comments he made over Brooklyn Nets guard Jeremy Lin's decision to wear his hair as dreads. Lin wrote an essay for The Players' Tribune about cultural appropriation in regards to his hairstyle, while Martin commented about the hair on his Instagram.
Lin responded to Martin both on Instagram and after the Nets' preseason game Thursday, thanking Martin for speaking out and continuing the conversation. Martin, however, says he never intended to start a furor over Lin's hair, and his initial comments were meant to be lighthearted.
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Kenyon Martin: This was never meant to be racial. It was thought of as what would've been done in our locker room. It would've been jokes. We would've been making jokes. It's far from racist. I guess saying "Wanting to be black" made it racial. But I despise people that look down because of race. It was meant to be a "Ha Ha Ha" moment. If you watch, I was laughing in the statements. It got taken too far. I wanted to clear the air. I don't know Jeremy. He's had a few crazy hairstyles before and I had the same thought process: 'WTF.' But I wasn't trying to be racist. I didn't even know he did the Players Tribune thing.
I recently erased the post off my page. People were sending messages to my son. Like, no. Say whatever to me and about me. I have thick skin. I know what my intentions were. But then those are the things that are coming across. You n----- this. Your n----- that.
RN: So to be clear, what was your intention?
KM: If you listen to it, I was saying he wouldn't have made it in our locker room. We would've made jokes every single day. He is a grown man. He can rock whatever hairstyle he wants to rock. People missed all of that. Just like I'm a grown man. I can say whatever I want.
RN: Were you thinking about the cultural appropriation conversation when you made the comments?
KM: That wasn't even my thought process when I posted the picture. I'm strolling on the internet and the kid has dreads and I reacted. People want to make it into what it is. No matter what color, race, ethnicity, wherever you're from, you have the right to do whatever you want. It's your decision at the end of the day.
RN: Have you spoken to Jeremy?
KM: I DM'd him after the fact. I'm a grown man. I can admit if something got out of control or if I did something wrong. I'm trying to get his phone number as we speak so we can clear the air.
RN: What's your big takeaway from the situation?
KM: You definitely have to be careful the way you word things. People can take stuff out of context. I've known that. But when you experience this first hand, there's no teacher like experience.
RN: Anything else you want to get off your chest?
KM: I have no problem with Jeremy, man. People were attacking me, calling me racist or n-----. I didn't call him any kind of derogatory thing. He has the right to rock any hairstyle he wants. It got out of control. It wasn't meant to be anything more than banter. Jeremy is an athlete and I would hope he understood that this was in fun and not to offend and as long as he's not offended that's all that matters. I wish him well.

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Question: Voters want housing affordability action

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Nearly two in three Australians want federal and state governments to do more to address housing affordability.
A new Essential poll shows 62 per cent of those surveyed think the federal government isn't doing enough, while 60 per cent believe Labor needs to do more.
"We will have a minister for housing when we are in government because it's a key area," Labor senator Doug Cameron told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.
"It's the key area of intergenerational inequality in this country."
Senator Cameron said the government's bond aggregator policy - to source capital for low-interest, long-term housing development loans - is not enough.
"We will have more to say before the election on housing affordability," he said.
But crossbench senator David Leyonhjelm said housing affordability is not an issue for Australians living outside Sydney or Melbourne.
"I don't think the federal government should get involved in it at all, other than to maybe muscle the state governments," he said.
Housing affordability was essentially a problem of supply.
"It's a state government problem and it's within the control of the state governments to do something about it."
When broken down along party lines, the Essential poll reveals 49 per cent of coalition voters believe the federal government isn't doing enough on affordability, while 57 per cent of Labor voters want the opposition to do more.
The polling, commissioned by the Everybody's Home campaign, has been released to coincide with housing and community groups uniting as part of a new campaign to lobby governments to do more.
"Making sure everyone has a home is a top order priority for Australians, but it is not matched by action from our political leaders. That needs to change," campaign spokeswoman Kate Colvin said on Tuesday.

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CRESTVIEW, Fla. (WKRG) — A Walton County man has been arrested for a Saturday night rampage in Crestview.
The rampage caused more than $100,000 in damage to a liquor store under construction at the Crestview Walmart and to construction equipment.
Around 9:10 p.m., police say 32-year-old Mathew Horace Jones of Freeport used a forklift to damage the building under construction.
According to police, Jones allegedly broke into the fenced-in construction site using a JCB extendable forklift parked at the job site.
The building under construction was destroyed. Additionally, the suspect damaged a city fire hydrant and a 2-inch water meter worth about $3,200.
Crestview Police received calls that the suspect was “throwing cinder blocks off the scaffolding in the construction zone.”
According to a building contractor, the damage included $40,000 in scaffolding and materials, $15,000 in block and mortar, a $15,000 forklift, a $7,500 mixer, $1,500 in mud pans and $4,000 in damaged fencing.
The suspect also caused about $60,000 in labor to clean and rebuild the site.
When Crestview Police Officers arrived on the scene, Jones aimed the forklift toward officers. The officers stopped Jones at gunpoint and were able to detain him.
Jones stated his name was “Alice Wonderland” and said he was told to commit the offenses by a hookah-smoking caterpillar.
Crestview Police Sgt. Don Howe said, “the defendant stated Walmart was building a place to sell alcohol and he had a problem with it.”
The suspect was on probation but is now charged with felony grand theft, use of a motor vehicle to damage property of another in excess of $1,000, criminal mischief with damage greater than $1,000, and violation of felony probation.
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Question: WI man arrested in serial toilet clogging, Sheboygan cops say

The toilets of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, are finally safe.
Sheboygan police arrested a 33-year-old man Monday on suspicion that he’s the vandal who spent the past two years clogging a public toilet more than two dozen times. Repairing clog after clog has drained thousands in taxpayer funds from the city, which is perched on Lake Michigan north of Milwaukee. Police have not named the suspect.
The Memorial Day arrest came following a tip from a citizen, police said.
The villain’s clogging tool was an unconventional one, according to police. He would take a 20-ounce soda bottle and jam it into a women’s toilet at the Deland Community Center in the city. Once he’d lodged a bottle deep in the pipes, the vandal would run-off — leaving behind a messy surprise for the city to clean up.
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In March, the city got desperate enough that police issued a plea for help on Facebook.
“This is very strange … and gross, but that is the reality of life,” the city’s police department wrote at the time, begging for leads or tips.
Police said in March that surveillance cameras suggested a man was to blame. Commenters on Facebook said the city should have installed cameras years ago to catch the culprit and avoid paying to clean up after him.
As of March, the serial clogger had struck three times just this year, according to Joe Kerlin, the city’s parks and forestry superintendent. But the clogger had been even busier in past years, Kerlin told the Sheboygan Press — blocking the same public women’s toilet 14 times in 2017, and 12 the year before.
That substantial tally (29 cloggings — but who’s counting?) only includes incidents since the city began keeping track, Kerlin told the newspaper. And it wasn’t until halfway into 2016 it dawned on authorities that a serial clogger was on the loose. Kerlin estimated that the city has spent between $2,000 and $3,000 dealing with the clogger’s reign of terror.
“A lot of times we can just fish ’em out,” Kerlin told the newspaper, describing the best case scenario. Especially obstinate bottles mean plumbers have to remove the entire toilet.
The case has been passed off to the Sheboygan County District Attorney's Office for charges to be filed, WBAY reports.

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Question: Stocks rise in Asia, riding Wall Street winning streak

TOKYO >> Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Friday after the Standard & Poor’s 500 index logged an eighth straight day of gains. Encouraging reports on the U.S. economy helped the index match its longest winning streak since July 2013. Regional trading was subdued with markets in Shanghai and South Korea still closed for holidays.
KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.3 percent to 20,679.18 and the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong advanced 0.5 percent to 28,506.48. Australia’s S&P ASX/200 surged 0.8 percent to 5,694.70. Shares in Southeast Asia and Taiwan also were higher.
WALL STREET: The S&P 500 rose 0.6 percent to 2,552.07 and the Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.5 percent to 22,775.39. The Nasdaq composite added 0.8 percent to 6,585.36. All three indexes set fresh record highs. The continued gains have some professional investors a bit nervous, because even the healthiest markets tend to have some sharp sell-offs from time to time.
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How your spuds are cooked is key to your health. People who eat fried potatoes two or more times a week double their risk of an early death compared to those who avoid them, a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found.
Eating potatoes that have not been fried was not linked to a similar early mortality risk, the researchers noted.
“Fried potatoes consumption is increasing worldwide,” warned Dr. Nicola Veronese, lead author of the study and a scientist at the National Research Council in Padova, Italy.
In 2014, Americans consumed 112.1 pounds of potatoes per person, according to the National Potato Council. Of that total, 33.5 pounds were fresh potatoes, the remaining 78.5 pounds were processed. According to the US Department of Agriculture, the majority of processed potatoes Americans eat are French fries.
Trans fats in fried potatoes
Veronese and his colleagues have been tracking 4,440 people aged 45 to 79 over a period of eight years to study osteoarthritis. This research team decided to momentarily set aside the main issue of osteoarthritis and look at participants’ consumption of potatoes.
Even though most of us may have assumed that fried potatoes could be unhealthy for us, there is “very limited” scientific data on this issue, Veronese explained in an email.
So the researchers divided study participants into subgroups based on how frequently they ate potatoes each week. Over the eight years, a total of 236 of the participants died. Analyzing the data for each group, Veronese and his team found that those who ate fried potatoes two to three times each week doubled their chance of dying early compared to those who ate no fried potatoes.
French fries, potato chips, hash browns — and any other preparation requiring a fryer — are all included under the umbrella of “fried potatoes,” Veronese explained.
Age or sex of participants did not influence the result, but the data showed men were more likely than women and younger participants were more likely than older participants to enjoy the fried food.
The study is observational, meaning the researchers simply tracked the behavior of a group of people and found an association between one behavior — eating fried potatoes — and another factor — early death. Because it is an observational study, Veronese and his co-authors note it cannot be said that eating fried potatoes directly causes an early mortality — it would require more research to draw such a firm conclusion.
“Even if it is an observational study, we believe that the cooking oil, rich in trans-fat, is an important factor in explaining mortality in those eating more potatoes,” said Veronese. Trans fat has been shown to raise the “bad,” or LDL, cholesterol in the blood, which can lead to cardiovascular disease.
Yet, he also added that “other important factors,” including obesity, a sedentary lifestyle and use of high quantities of salt might also play a role in the early death of those eating two or more portions of fried potatoes each week.
National Potato Council CEO John Keeling said the “study isn’t relevant to the general population” since the data was collected for an osteoarthritis study and includes only patients with arthritis. “Potatoes are inherently a very healthy vegetable,” said Keeling in an email. He said a medium-sized potato is 110 calories, has no fat, no sodium, no cholesterol, and provides nearly a third of the daily vitamin C requirement with more potassium than a banana.
“How the potato is prepared will impact the calorie, fat and sodium content,” said Keeling, however, the basic nutrients remain “no matter how it is prepared.”
Based on the data in the study, Keeling said, “it is very much a stretch to brand fried potatoes, or any other form of potato, as unhealthy.”
Susanna Larsson, an associate professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, noted that the new study provides “no evidence” that potato consumption in and of itself may increase the risk of an early death. Larsson was not involved in the new study. Instead, it may be the “other factors” suggested by Veronese himself.
“Fried potato consumption may be an indicator of a less healthy (Western) dietary pattern which is associated with increased mortality,” said Larsson, who also conducted a study of potato consumption. Her study did not find an increased risk of cardiovascular disease linked to eating potatoes.
Understanding acrylamide
The potential danger when eating fried starchy foods, such as French fries, is acrylamide, said Stephanie Schiff, a registered dietitian at Northwell Health’s Huntington Hospital in Huntington, New York. Schiff was not involved in the study.
Acrylamide is “a chemical produced when starchy foods such as potatoes are fried, roasted or baked at a high temperature,” explained Schiff in an email. The browning process is actually a reaction that produces this chemical one shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals and considered toxic to humans, said Schiff. Acrylamide is also a potential cause of cancer, she said.
“You can reduce your intake of acrylamide by boiling or steaming starchy foods, rather than frying them,” said Schiff. “If you do fry foods, do it quickly.”
She also suggested you “go lighter” since “the darker the food, the more acrylamide it may contain.”
Finally, Schiff said that potatoes should not be stored in the refrigerator because this could lead to producing more acrylamide when the potatoes are later cooked.
“Increase your intake of fruits and vegetables for a healthier alternative,” said Schiff.
Veronese said he hopes his new study will suggest to everyone that consuming fried potatoes “could be an important risk factor for mortality. Thus, their consumption should be strongly limited.”

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Question: 'Sepsis could have killed my baby' - just like Coronation Street's Jack Webster

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A Huddersfield mum has told how her baby daughter contracted the life-threatening condition Sepsis - like Coronation Street’s Jack Webster.
Emma Haley, 36, of Cowlersley knows first-hand how terrifying sepsis - a blood poisoning infection in which the body attacks its own organs and tissues - can be.
Her two-year-old daughter Grace was just nine months old when her temperature soared and she was rushed to hospital just hours away from fatal organ failure.
Emma’s experience was mirrored on-screen in Coronation Street on Monday night when dad Kevin Webster is devastated to hear his son Jack is struck down by sepsis.
The condition can be hard to diagnose as it disguises itself as a virus but can arise as a result of any infection or even cuts and scrapes.
Mum-of-three Emma recalls: “Grace spiked a temperature out of nowhere and I gave her Calpol and she seemed to pick up and then I put her to bed. She didn’t have any rashes but was really irritable and it wasn’t until the following day when I got her up she couldn’t move and her breathing was fast.
“I took her to the doctors and they said could I take her to hospital so we went to Calderdale.
“Once we were in the hospital it all happened really fast. She was on the bed lifeless but still breathing.
“The doctors took us into a side room and said it was either sepsis or meningitis and they’d start her on medications for both.
“It’s the last thing you want for your child to go through.
“When the full blood count came back four hours later they told us it was sepsis which had spread to her kidneys from an undiagnosed urine infection.
“Fortunately they had caught it early and she responded to the treatment.
“Doctors later told us that if she’d been treated another three or four hours later her organs would have shut down and it could have been fatal.
“It’s absolutely terrifying.
“I think it’s so important to talk about Sepsis and raise awareness like with the Coronation Street storyline.”
National charity The Sepsis Trust says earlier diagnosis and treatment could prevent at least 14,000 unnecessary deaths every year and save millions of pounds.
Dr Ron Daniels, Chief Executive of the UK Sepsis Trust said: “We have been working very closely with Coronation Street both with the writers and the technical team over the last few months to ensure that the subject matter is dealt with both accurately and sensitively.
“It’s incredible that Coronation Street is raising the profile of a condition which affects so many people and yet until now has been so poorly recognised. It’s about shared responsibility and, together, we aim to empower both families and health professionals to ‘think sepsis’ and to change the way sepsis is handled in the UK.”
Geoffrey Keen, 70, of Milnsbridge also contracted sepsis last March and was rushed to HRI.
His step daughter Lisa Wilson, of Mirfield, said: “I took him to his GP as he’d been unwell with cold symptoms but was also struggling to wake up and had no energy.
“Within minutes of being seen he was in an ambulance and was then treated in resus.
“He was diagnosed with sepsis caused by pneumonia and put on medication. He stayed in hospital for two weeks.
“As a parent myself it’s worrying that sepsis disguises itself as a virus - that’s why it’s so it’s important to trust your instincts when you know something is wrong.
“The more awareness of sepsis the better.”
What is sepsis?
Sepsis, or blood poisoning, is the reaction to an infection in which the body attacks its own organs and tissues. If not diagnosed and treated quickly sepsis can rapidly lead to organ failure and death. Every year in the UK, at least 250,000 people develop sepsis, 44,000 die (that’s 120 people every single day), and 60,000 suffer permanent, life-changing after-effects. Despite the statistics, awareness of sepsis among the public and healthcare professionals is astonishingly low.
What are the warning signs of sepsis in children?
Feels abnormally cold to touch
Looks mottled, bluish or has very pale skin
Has a rash that does not fade when you press it
Is breathing very fast
Has a fit or convulsion
Is very lethargic or difficult to wake up
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Eva Price recently left the Coronation Street cobbles after her secret pregnancy became too obvious to hide from her Weatherfield neighbours - and next week the barmaid goes into labour in dramatic scenes.
Eva, played by Catherine Tyldesley is hiding out at a cottage after telling friends and family she was going on a beauty course to America, but on Monday there's trouble ahead when she gets locked in the bathroom without her phone.
Toyah Battersby arrives to hear Eva's screams coming from the bathroom and races to the rescue in scenes to be screened on Monday.
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The Rovers Return landlady manages to break into the bathroom and calls 999 - and an operator talks them through the birth.
Eva, who is having the baby for Toyah after the surrogate tragically lost the baby she was having for her and Peter Barlow, gives birth in the bathroom and is taken to hospital.
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Having avoided holding the baby, she is left alone with her daughter, named Suzie. And has no choice but to pick her up and an emotional Eva gazes down at her little face in awe.
Will Eva, played by Walkden actress Catherine Tyldesley, decide to keep the baby and shatter Toyah's dreams of having a family with Peter who has no idea of their scheme?
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Toyah is becoming quite the midwife on Coronation Street.
Last February she was also present for the birth of her nephew Oliver after her step-sister Leanne went into labour when she became trapped in a lift.
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Question: What Is The Logan Act, And Why Does It Matter?

If Michael Flynn, President Trump's former national security adviser, was trying to reassure the Russian ambassador about sanctions leveled by the Obama administration, then he may have broken the law.
That law is the Logan Act. It's gotten a lot of attention recently and is at the center of the scandal surrounding Flynn, who resigned Monday night after multiple reports were published noting that Flynn misled the vice president and others in the administration. Flynn categorically denied to Mike Pence, then vice president-elect, last month that he did not discuss the sanctions.
That has turned out to be not true. And Pence unwittingly repeated the falsehood on Sunday shows. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that Trump asked for Flynn's resignation because of an "eroding level of trust." He reiterated that it was not a "legal issue, but a trust issue."
"There was nothing wrong or inappropriate about those discussions," Spicer contended.
But without the release of the transcript of the phone call, which exists, between Flynn and the Russian ambassador, there's no way to know if there isn't a legal issue.
So what is the Logan Act, has it ever been prosecuted and could Flynn be susceptible?
First, what is it?
The Logan Act states, in part:
"Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."
Let's break that down. This is saying that no private person can try to conduct foreign policy without the permission of the U.S. government. Specifically, that person isn't allowed to talk with a foreign government or their representative and try to influence foreign policy.
When was it put in place and why?
It's named for Dr. George Logan, a Republican lawmaker from Pennsylvania, who traveled to France in 1798 and negotiated a lifting of an embargo and the release of American sailors held captive in French prisons. He did so without the permission of President Adams, though, he was a friend of then-Vice President Thomas Jefferson.
It was after the French Revolution, and the United States didn't helped France because of a treaty with England. The French were upset and began robbing passing American ships and jailing its sailors. Official Adams administration envoys tried unsuccessfully to settle the unrest with France — and the country appeared tumbling toward war with France.
That's when Logan, a Quaker, embarked on his effort. He succeeded, but when he got back to the U.S., Adams, Washington and others were furious. Congress then acted to bar actions like Logan's from taking place again.
Has anyone ever been prosecuted?
No, but plenty of people have been mentioned in relation to it and at least one was indicted.
The indictment was way back in 1803, four years after the law was put in place. An anonymous column ran in a Kentucky newspaper arguing for "A Western America" allied with France. The U.S. Attorney for Kentucky was an Adams ally and got a grand jury to indict Francis Flournoy, a farmer, who actually wrote the column. But it never went to trial. Later that year, the Louisiana Purchase, which expanded the U.S. west, made it moot.
Various courts have mentioned the Logan Act, as the Congressional Research Service points out, but it has mostly been used as a weapon to try and shame political opponents. For example, in the 1980s, there was former House Speaker Jim Wright's relationship with the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and Jesse Jackson negotiating in Syria and Cuba for prisoner releases.
"That is the law of the land," a frustrated President Ronald Reagan said in an interview in 1984 of the Logan Act and Jackson's efforts, adding, "We are not going to take legal action, but I do feel that while in this instance he was successful, there were things that make you pause and think."
During the Bush administration, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took a trip to Syria and talked about improving U.S.-Syria relations with that government, irritating the Bush administration. Former President Jimmy Carter also traveled to Syria in 2008 to meet with Hamas about Mid-East peace. As recently as 2015, the act was mentioned again when 47 Republican U.S. senators wrote a letter to Iran downplaying the nuclear deal.
And Syria again raised the potential of a Logan Act violation when Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii met with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad last month before President Trump took office.
"I wanted to see if there was, in some small way, a way that I could express the love and the Aloha and the care that the American people have for the people of Syria," she told CNN.
The Obama administration's official position as regime change in Syria.
Could Flynn be susceptible?
Had Flynn, in any way, reassured the Russian ambassador in his phone conversations or texts that the incoming Trump administration would loosen or drop the sanctions Obama put in place, that could potentially be a violation
As noted above, there is a transcript. The White House is confident Flynn didn't say anything that could have violated the law. Of course, that could be open to interpretation. It would be up to the Jeff Sessions' Justice Department to review the transcript and bring a case, if it saw fit. That is seen as unlikely.
But there are other ways in which Flynn could be at risk.
Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Tuesday said it's possible that Flynn will be called to testify under oath. More could become known about the specifics of the call before then. And the New York Times reports Tuesday evening that the FBI questioned Flynn in the early days of the Trump presidency about his conversations. And investigators believe Flynn "was not entirely forthcoming":
"That raises the stakes of what so far has been a political scandal that cost Mr. Flynn his job. If the authorities conclude that Mr. Flynn knowingly lied to the F.B.I., it could expose him to a felony charge."

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Question: Iran's leader names conservative cleric to arbitration body

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV says the country’s supreme leader has appointed a conservative cleric to head a council tasked with mediating disputes between government bodies.
Monday’s report says Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi as the new chief of the arbitration body — known as the Expediency Council — for the next five years.
Shahroudi replaces former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who died in January after heading the council for more than 27 years.
Shahroudi served as the chief of the Iranian Judiciary for 10 years, from 1999 to 2009.
The council was created in 1988 and its main responsibility is to resolve differences or conflicts between the country’s parliament and Iran’s constitutional watchdog.
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Ex-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reacts as he submits his name for registration as a candidate in Iran's presidential election, in Tehran, Iran April 12, 2017. Tasnim News Agency/Handout via REUTERS
ANKARA Hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised Iran's clerical establishment by registering for the May 19 presidential election, defying the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader's warning not to enter the race.
Vilified in the West for his barbs against America and Israel and questioning of the Holocaust, the blacksmith's son Ahmadinejad has upset predictions before by stealing the show in 2005 when he defeated powerful former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a run-off vote.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei revealed last year that he had recommended to Ahmadinejad not to enter the contest. But after his registration on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad told journalists that Khamenei's recommendation was "just advice", Iranian media reported.
Khamenei praised Ahmadinejad as "courageous, wise and hard-working" after his re-election in 2009, which ignited an eight-month firestorm of street protests. His pro-reform rivals said that vote was rigged.
But throughout Ahmadinejad's presidency, Khamenei was wary of him, and his insubordination and relentless self-aggrandisement rankled the hardline clergy.
Ahmadjinejad was required to step down because of term limit rules in 2013, when President Hassan Rouhani won in a landslide on a promise to reduce Iran's international isolation.
After a term out of office, Ahmadinejad is now permitted to stand again under Iran's constitution, but he still needs the approval of the 12-member Guardian Council which vets candidates, six members of which are appointed by Khamenei.
"His disqualification by the Guardian Council would show that the council is not independent and follows the orders of the supreme leader," said political analyst Saeed Leylaz.
Khamenei's backers accuse Ahmadinejad's camp of pursuing an "Iranian" school of Islam, viewed as an inappropriate mix of religion and nationalism. Ahmadinejad may pay the price for disobeying Khamenei by running for president, analysts said.
"Khamenei will not forget this move, which was aimed to harm his image," said political analyst Hamid Farahvashian.
In 2011, Khamenei was so annoyed by Ahmadinejad's hunger for more power that he floated a proposal to change Iran's constitution to do away with a directly elected presidency altogether, an idea Ahmadinejad briskly dismissed as "academic".
"AN AFFRONT TO KHAMENEI"
Khamenei ultimately calls the shots in Iran, where the president can only influence policy, not decide it.
A former officer of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Ahmadinejad relies on Iran's devout poor, who felt neglected by past governments and helped sweep him to power in 2005. However, his popularity in Iran remains in question.
"Ahmadinejad's faction is still alive. He enjoys the support of the poor and lower-income in the cities," said Leylaz.
Rouhani and his allies have criticised Ahmadinejad's free-spending policies for fueling inflation and accuse him of wasting Iran's oil revenues.
Ahmadinejad's critics say his fiery anti-Western talk helped isolate Iran diplomatically. During his term, the U.N. Security Council imposed three sets of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.
Rouhani, who engineered Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that secured a removal of international financial and trade sanctions against Tehran, is expected to seek re-election.
Although Rouhani won in a single round with more than 50 percent of the vote four years ago when no other candidate won more than 17 percent, he could face a more difficult campaign this time if hardliners unite against him. Many Iranians have grown impatient with the slow rate of improvement in their economic fortunes since the lifting of sanctions last year.
In a move to widen Ahmadinejad's support, his senior aide Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie in May sent a conciliatory letter to Ahmadinejad's predecessor as president, Mohammad Khatami, seen as the father of Iran's reform movement.
Insiders said if disqualified, Ahmadinejad is likely to call on his supporters to back Rouhani, whose main rival is likely to be influential hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi, who declared his candidacy on Sunday.
"The irony is that by spoiling the conservatives' game and taking away from Raisi's voter-base, Ahmadinejad is in fact aiding Rouhani's re-election," said senior Iran analyst Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group.
Raisi, 57, heads Astan Qods Razavi, an organisation in charge of a multibillion-dollar religious foundation that manages donations to Iran's holiest Shi'ite Muslim shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
"Ahmadinejad knows full well that his candidacy is an affront to Khamenei who had publicly barred him from running," said Vaez. "Disqualifying Ahmadinejad is hard, but not impossible."
(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Peter Graff)


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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Somali police officer says a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a security checkpoint near Mogadishu's international airport, killing at least three people.
Capt. Mohamed Hussein says the bomb detonated Monday as security forces were searching cars at the checkpoint, a few hundred meters (yards) from the main base of the African Union peacekeeping mission.
The checkpoint is close to United Nations offices and the Peace Hotel, which is often frequented by foreigners and officials. The powerful blast blew roofs off nearby buildings.
A second blast and heavy gunfire could be heard at the checkpoint after the attack, but there were no immediate details.
The al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which often carries out such attacks, quickly claimed responsibility for Monday's attack through its radio arm, Andalus.
Despite being ousted from most of its key strongholds across large parts of south and central Somalia, the homegrown group continues to wage deadly attacks across the country.
Somalia's capital has seen frequent bomb attacks at hotels and military checkpoints. In July, two al-Shabab suicide bombers detonated explosives-laden cars outside the office of the U.N.'s mine-clearing agency and an army checkpoint near the African Union's main base, killing 13.
The assaults have threatened this Horn of Africa nation's attempts to rebuild from decades of chaos. The country's presidential election, a key step toward recovery, already has been delayed multiple times because of security and other concerns.

10 captives released but attackers remain inside after car bombing followed by storming of popular eatery in troubled nation’s capital
Gunmen posing as military forces held an unknown number of hostages inside a popular restaurant in Somalia’s capital in an attack that began when a car bomb exploded at the gate, police and a witness said, while the extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility. At least 17 people, including foreigners, were dead, according to police and an ambulance driver.
Two of the gunmen were shot dead and 10 hostages were rescued but five other attackers were thought to remain inside, cutting off electricity to complicate security forces’ efforts to end the siege, said Captain Mohamed Hussein, who reported heavy gunfire. Most of the victims were young men who had been entering the Pizza House when the vehicle exploded, Hussein said.
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COVENTRY, R.I. — Police say a woman in Rhode Island had taken out a gun to investigate a noise when she accidentally shot herself.
Coventry police say the woman slipped Friday night and the gun she was carrying discharged, striking her. She had been looking into a noise she heard from behind her home.
WJAR-TV reports the woman was taken to Kent Hospital to be treated for injuries. Her condition wasn’t clear.
A police investigation confirmed it was an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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The best of the North Dufferin Baseball League will gather in New Lowell for the Senior and Junior All-Star Games. The Clearview Orioles are playing hosts this year; The senior game starts at 1:00 p.m. between the East and West divisions, with the junior contest getting underway at 4:00 p.m. between the Jays and Expos.
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Jake Morris
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Cale McLean
Jeff Shilling
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Mitch McCron (Jays)
Coach Glenn Strickland (Jays)
Jamie Strickland (Expos)
Liam Woodford (Expos
Orillia Kings
Dylan Embury (Jays)
Tanner Woodhouse (Jays)
Cade Lafrance (Expos)
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Prime Minister Theresa May has been urged to investigate donations to the Scottish Conservatives amid claims they were trying to evade scrutiny.
The elections watchdog is investigating whether cash from the Scottish Unionist Association Trust complied with rules.
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford claimed the Tories were "systematically shielding their donations" from view.
But Mrs May insisted that all donations to her party were "accepted and declared in accordance with the law".
A spokesman for the Scottish Tories said the party "always works closely with the Electoral Commission on the permissibility of donors".
An investigation by the Ferret website found that the Scottish Unionist Association Trust (SUAT) donated £318,876 to the party between April 2001 and February 2018.
Under Electoral Commission rules, groups which make political contributions of more than £25,000 have to register with the watchdog, and report any donations in excess of £7,500.
The SUAT is not listed as an "unincorporated association", and the Commission said it was investigating whether it had "complied with their reporting requirements as set out in law".
Image caption Ian Blackford urged Mrs May to investigate donations to the Scottish Conservatives
The issue was raised at the weekly session of questions to the prime minister by Mr Blackford. He highlighted money from the trust which was given to campaigns for MSP Jackson Carlaw and MPs David Duguid and Douglas Ross.
Mr Blackford said: "There is no information available about who the people are who currently manage the trust, no public accounts indicate who its donors are, or what assets it holds.
"The BBC has revealed that the former vice chairman of the Conservative Party in Scotland, Richard Cook, was behind the DUP's £435,000 donation during the EU referendum and has a trail of involvement in illegal activity and foreign money.
"I'm giving the PM the chance to tell us what checks the Scottish Tory party had in place before accepting such large donations, and will she investigate the links between the party and the trust and promise to publish a list of all donations and donors?"
Mrs May replied: "All donations to the Scottish Conservative Party are accepted and declared in accordance with the law, and the Scottish Conservative Party works in accordance with the Electoral Commission to make sure that is all done properly."
Image caption David Duguid said he was "more focused on winning the election than where any donation was coming from".
The donations to Mr Duguid and Mr Ross were each of £7,500, and the group's individual donations to the Tories since 2001 have averaged just over £3,100.
The Ferret investigation said the funding was "legal", but raised questions about why so little information was in the public domain about the group.
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Duguid - who won the Banff and Buchan seat from the SNP in the 2017 election - said he "was more focused on winning the election than where any donation was coming from".
He said he "wouldn't call it dark money", insisting that the donations "went through the appropriate process and approvals".
A Scottish Conservative spokesman echoed the prime minister's words, saying: "The party has declared all donations from the Unionist Trust and always works closely with the Electoral Commission on the permissibility of donors."

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The Liberal Democrats have seen a surge of new members in the minutes following the announcement of a snap general election, the party has said.
The party's internal membership figures show it has gained around 1,000 new members in just one hour after Theresa May announced that there would be a general election on 8 June.
The party is hoping to make significant gains at the election, following a disastrous result in 2016 where it was reduced to just six MPs after going into coalition with the Conservatives.
The party has since since its fortunes rise somewhat in the polls following a renewed focus on supporting membership of the EU.
Despite the surge the Liberal Democrats membership is still significantly smaller than Labour's. The party has just under 90,000 members while Labour had 528,000 at last count at the start of the year.
The Conservatives have not released up to date membership figures since 2013; they are estimated to have around 100,000 members.
President of the Liberal Democrats, Sal Brinton, said: “This is a time when liberals must stand together, and people across the country are doing just that.
“The surge in our membership proves that the Liberal Democrats are seen as the real opposition to this Conservative Brexit Government.
“While Theresa May is seeking to divide the country, the Liberal Democrats are the only party fighting to keep Britain Open, Tolerant and United.”
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1/26 Brexit will put British patients at 'back of the queue' for new drugs Brexit will put British patients at the “back of the queue” for vital new drugs, the Government has been warned – forcing them to wait up to two years longer A medicines regulator has raised the alarm over a likely decision to pull out of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), as well as the EU itself. ealth Secretary Jeremy Hunt dropped the bombshell , when he said he expected the UK would quit the EMA – because it is subject to rulings by the European Court of Justice. Getty Images
2/26 London to lose status as 'gateway to Europe' for banks One of Germany’s top banking regulators has warned that London could lose its status as “gateway to Europe” for the banking sector after Britain quits the European trading bloc. Andreas Dombret, who is an executive board member for the Bundesbank—Germany’s central bank—told a private meeting of German businesses and banks earlier this week in Frankfurt that even if banking rules were “equivalent” between the UK and the rest of the EU, that was still “miles away from [Britain having] access to the single market”, the BBC reports. Jason Hawkes
3/26 Exodus The number of financial sector professionals in Britain and continental Europe looking for jobs in Ireland rocketed in the months after the UK voted to leave the European Union Shutterstock
4/26 Brexit is making FTSE 100 executives richer Pay packages of many FTSE 100 chief executive officers are partly tied to how well share prices are doing rather than the CEO’s performance -- and some stocks are soaring. ritish equities got a boost since the June vote because the likes of Rio Tinto, Smiths Group and WPP generate most sales abroad and earn a fortune when they convert these revenues back into the weakened pound. Sterling’s fall also made UK stocks more affordable for overseas investors. Rex
5/26 Theresa May: UK to leave single market Theresa May has said the UK "cannot possibly" remain within the European single market, as staying in it would mean "not leaving the EU at all". Getty
6/26 Lead campaigner Gina Miller and her team outside the High Court Getty
7/26 Raymond McCord holds up his newly issued Irish passport alongside his British passport outside the High Court in Belfast following a judges dismissal of the UK's first legal challenges to Brexit PA wire
8/26 SDLP leader Colum Eastwood leaving the High Court in Belfast following a judges dismissal of the UK's first legal challenges to Brexit PA wire
9/26 Migrants with luggage walk past a graffiti on a wall as they leave the 'Jungle' migrant camp, as part of a major three-day operation planned to clear the camp in Calais Getty
10/26 Migrants leave messages on their tents in the Jungle migrant camp Getty
11/26 The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (Adra) which distributes approximately 700 meals daily in the northern Paris camp states that it is noticing a spike in new migrant arrivals this week, potentially linked the the Calais 'jungle' camp closure - with around 1000 meals distributed today EPA
12/26 Migrant workers pick apples at Stocks Farm in Suckley, Britain Reuters
13/26 Many farmers across the country are voicing concerns that Brexit could be a dangerous step into the unknown for the farming industry Getty
14/26 Bank of England governor Mark Carney who said the long-term outlook for the UK economy is positive, but growth was slowing in the wake of the Brexit vote PA
15/26 The Dow Jones industrial average closed down over 600 points on the news with markets around the globe pluninging Getty
16/26 Immigration officers deal with each member of the public seeking entry into the United Kingdom but on average, 10 a day are refused entry at this London airport and between 2008 and 2009, 33,100 people were detained at the airport for mainly passport irregularities Getty
17/26 A number of global investment giants have threatened to move their European operations out of London if Brexit proves to have a negative impact on their businesses Getty
18/26 Following the possibility of a Brexit the UK would be released from its renewable energy targets under the EU Renewable Energy Directive and from EU state aid restrictions, potentially giving the government more freedom both in the design and phasing out of renewable energy support regimes Getty
19/26 A woman looking at a chart showing the drop in the pound (Sterling) against the US Dollar in London after Britain voted to leave the EU Getty
20/26 Young protesters outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, to protest against the United Kingdom's decision to leave the EU following the referendum Getty
21/26 Applications from Northern Ireland citizens for Irish Passports has soared to a record high after the UK Voted in favour of Leaving the EU Getty
22/26 NFU Vice President Minette Batters with Secretary of State, Andrea Leadsome at the National Farmers Union (NFU) took machinery, produce, farmers and staff to Westminster to encourage Members of Parliament to back British farming, post Brexit Getty
23/26 The latest reports released by the UK Cabinet Office warn that expats would lose a range of specific rights to live, to work and to access pensions, healthcare and public services. The same reports added that UK citizens abroad would not be able to assume that these rights will be guaranteed in the future Getty
24/26 A British resident living in Spain asks questions during an informative Brexit talk by the "Brexpats in Spain" group, about Spanish legal issues to become Spanish citizens, at the town hall in Benalmadena, Spain Reuters
25/26 The collapse of Great Britain appears to have been greatly exaggerated given the late summer crowds visiting city museums, hotels, and other important tourist attractions Getty
26/26 The U.K. should maintain European Union regulations covering everything from working hours to chemicals until after the government sets out its plans for Brexit, said British manufacturers anxious to avoid a policy vacuum and safeguard access to their biggest export market Getty
Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have said they will support a Commons vote tomorrow that would trigger the general election.
Under the Fixed Term Parliament's Act 2011, passed by the Coalition, the next election is scheduled for 2020 but can be called earlier if two thirds of MPs vote in favour.


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