| Trump warms to Xi Jinping as relationship with Putin chills Posted: 12 Apr 2017 06:54 PM PDT  Trump spoke glowingly of a personal connection with Xi that he said had developed during the two days that the Chinese leader visited over the weekend.
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| Gunshots Miss 4-Year-Old Girl by Inches in Horrifying Surveillance Video Posted: 13 Apr 2017 02:51 PM PDT  The child was watching television in her grandfather's barbershop when the shots rang out, police said.
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| Russia, Iran and Syria issue warning to US Posted: 14 Apr 2017 12:02 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia, Syria and Iran strongly warned the United States Friday against launching new strikes on Syria and called for an international investigation of the chemical weapons attack there that killed nearly 90 people.
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| Improperly stored raw meat among violations found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Posted: 13 Apr 2017 12:15 PM PDT  By Bernie Woodall FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - Undercooled meat, potentially dangerous raw fish and broken coolers were among 13 violations found by restaurant inspectors at Mar-a-Lago, the exclusive Florida resort owned by President Donald Trump, during visits in late January, state officials said on Thursday. Mar-a-Lago representatives did not respond to requests for comment on the problems discovered at the private club, which charges $200,000 in initiation fees and has been dubbed the Southern White House. This weekend, Trump is due to make his seventh trip as the 45th president of the United States to the Palm Beach property that he purchased in 1985.
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| Georgia Officer Fired After Kicking Handcuffed Suspect in the Head Posted: 13 Apr 2017 08:42 AM PDT  The officer has been fired after video surfaced that shows the officer kicking a handcuffed man in the head.
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| White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's daily briefing on April 13, 2017 Posted: 13 Apr 2017 10:59 AM PDT  On Thursday, April 13, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing with the White House press corp.
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| Parade of satire: Puck magazine Easter illustrations from cartooning’s Gilded Age Posted: 13 Apr 2017 09:06 AM PDT ![Parade of satire: Puck magazine Easter illustrations from cartooning's Gilded Age]( "Parade of satire: Puck magazine Easter illustrations from cartooning's Gilded Age") "Puck," considered America's first successful humor magazine, was the creation of Austrian-born cartoonist Joseph Keppler (1838-1894). The magazine took its name from the mischievous sprite in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as well as its tagline, "What fools these mortals be!"
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| This new bill would legalize weed in Canada Posted: 13 Apr 2017 02:06 PM PDT  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is trying to change the maple leaf at the center of his nation's flag into a pot leaf. That's not true. Although you could see how it might happen? There's a leaf there already? Anyway, for real, Trudeau's march to legal recreational weed has officially begun. SEE ALSO: Colorado town caters to the lazy with its first drive-thru pot shop The prime minister revealed legislation on Thursday that would make it legal to recreationally smoke marijuana across Canada. There are roughly one bajillion details to figure out before Canadians will be able to purchase weed and smoke up just like people buy alcohol and drink, but this is where it starts. If successful, Canada and Uruguay would be the only countries to completely legalize recreational pot as a consumer product across their nations. Others have decriminalized it or effectively stopped enforcing laws against it. There's still a lot to do: the bill needs to become law; each province has to figure out how people will go about buying marijuana; and marketing regulations will have to be standardized. A number of questions will need to be answered, including how the advertising will work. Will it be sold like cigarettes or like alcohol or neither? Plus people are probably going to get too high to drive but will drive anyway, so the government will have to figure out how to test drivers the same way breathalyzers test blood-alcohol content. Provinces will also have to set prices and purchasing age minimums (the federal minimum will be 18, though provinces can make it higher) and government officials will have to figure out how to comply with drug treaties that they may or may not violate with legalization. So the Canadian government's got a few things to figure out. But the bill is expected to pass, meaning soon most Canadians over the age of 18 will be able to buy weed, and households will be able to grow up to four plants. Now see if United States President Donald Trump doesn't have to build another border wall just to keep people in. WATCH: Trump is president, but at least you can get high in four more states
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| Pope makes Easter visit to fortress prison holding ex-mafiosi Posted: 13 Apr 2017 10:58 AM PDT  By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis visited a fortress prison holding mafia turncoats on Thursday and again included a Muslim and women in a traditional Holy Week foot-washing ritual that previous popes had limited to Catholic men. Francis said a Mass for the 70 inmates of the prison, a 16th century fortress at Paliano 75 km (47 miles) south of Rome. During the service, he bent to wash and kiss the right foot of 12 inmates, commemorating Jesus' gesture of humility towards his 12 apostles on the night before he died.
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| Two Dozen Thrill Seekers Stranded 100-Feet Up On Six Flags Roller Coaster Posted: 14 Apr 2017 06:11 AM PDT  They came for the thrills, after all.
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| Eyeing North Korean Nukes, Trump Abandons Hardline Stance on China Posted: 13 Apr 2017 12:42 PM PDT  If Beijing didn't already see Trump as a paper tiger, they sure do now.
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| The Latest: United pilots: Dragged passenger not our fault Posted: 14 Apr 2017 07:45 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the removal of a passenger was dragged off a United Express flight in Chicago (all times local):
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| A Russian Torpedo Washed Up on a Lithuanian Beach Posted: 13 Apr 2017 10:07 AM PDT  Look what the tide brought in.
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| 10 interesting facts about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination Posted: 14 Apr 2017 03:00 AM PDT  It was 152 years ago when President Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a play at Ford's Theater. Lincoln died the next morning, and in the aftermath, some odd facts seemed to pop up.
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| Tennessee Officials Probing 381 Leads In Missing Student-Teacher Case Posted: 14 Apr 2017 03:17 AM PDT  Law enforcement officials declared an Amber Alert in Tennessee and Alabama after 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas disappeared with Tad Cummins, her teacher, on March 13.
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| US boy, 8, on joy ride for a cheeseburger Posted: 12 Apr 2017 07:03 PM PDT  Talk about a craving: an eight-year-old American boy drove his father's van to a McDonald's because he just had to have a cheeseburger. The Ohio boy said he learned to drive by watching YouTube videos, the Weirton Daily Times reported on Sunday evening's adventure. The child, at the wheel with his four-year-old sister riding shotgun, drove for about a mile and a half, stopping at red lights and letting traffic pass before he executed a left turn into the McDonald's in the town of East Palestine in eastern Ohio, the paper said.
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| U.S.-backed forces launch new attacks on Islamic State in Syria: statement Posted: 13 Apr 2017 03:25 AM PDT  U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic State in Syria launched a new phase of their offensive on Thursday, a statement said, but they have not yet begun to attack the militant group's stronghold of Raqqa city in an apparent delay in the operation. The multi-phased campaign by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance made up of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighting groups, was launched in November and aims ultimately to drive the jihadists from Raqqa, their de facto Syrian capital. Officials in the Kurdish YPG militia, a powerful component of the SDF, said last month that assaults on Raqqa city itself would start in early or mid-April.
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| Court: Detention of woman during moon rock sting 'degrading' Posted: 13 Apr 2017 03:52 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For nearly two hours on May 19, 2011, Joann Davis stood in the parking lot of a California Denny's restaurant in pants soaked in urine answering questions from a federal agent about a rice-sized piece of moon rock she wanted to sell to help pay for her son's medical care.
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| All the President's Flip-Flops Posted: 13 Apr 2017 02:00 AM PDT  In February 2017, Jon Stewart noted that Donald Trump had a remarkable affinity for a certain phrase: "Believe me."* Trump used it over and over, which made Stewart wary: "Nobody says 'believe me' unless they are lying."
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| VA unveils website on quality of care, touts accountability Posted: 12 Apr 2017 05:41 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs unveiled a new website Wednesday aimed at providing information on the quality of care at VA medical centers, touting new accountability even as it grappled with fresh questions of patient safety in its beleaguered health system.
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| United States' first female Muslim judge found dead in Hudson River Posted: 12 Apr 2017 07:41 PM PDT ![United States' first female Muslim judge found dead in Hudson River]( "United States' first female Muslim judge found dead in Hudson River") Sheila Abdus-Salaam, a 65-year-old associate judge of New York's highest court, was found floating off Manhattan's west side at about 1:45 p.m. EDT (1545 GMT), a police spokesman said. Police pulled Abdus-Salaam's fully clothed body from the water and she was pronounced dead at the scene. Abdus-Salaam, a native of Washington, D.C., became the first African-American woman appointed to the Court of Appeals when Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo named her to the state's high court in 2013.
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| Canada unveils legislation to legalize cannabis Posted: 13 Apr 2017 01:33 PM PDT  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government unveiled legislation Thursday to fully legalize marijuana, making Canada only the second country to do so, after Uruguay. While medical marijuana use has been regulated in this country since 2001, cannabis remains a controlled substance. Its legalization and regulation for recreational use is expected in 2018, in time for Canada's national holiday on July 1.
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| Uber just added a feature to protect you from creepy drivers Posted: 13 Apr 2017 01:09 PM PDT 
2017 hasn't exactly been kind to Uber, and while the company and its CEO can't seem to get out of each others' way, day-to-day operations continue to march on. Today, the Uber apps gets an all-new feature that, unlike almost every tidbit of Uber news so far this year, might actually make its users pretty happy. Starting today, riders who summon an Uber to their location can specify their pick-up and drop-off points without using physical street addresses, in an effort to boost user privacy and cut back on the creepiness of letting a driver know where you live.
With the new location options, if you don't feel like having an Uber driver meet you at a specific address you can choose any cross-street, including pre-determined pick-up spots at most major intersections. It's essentially an easier, faster way to obfuscate your comings and goings from the random drivers who show up to give you a lift. It's worth noting that, if you really wanted to protect your privacy with the previous system, it has always been possible to physically move the pickup point on the Uber map, or simply choose a nearby address rather than your own. But as TechCrunch notes, Uber discovered that very few people were actually taking advantage of that option, and many desired an easier way to apply an additional layer of privacy. This new pickup option should go a long way to fulfilling that request. The update to add the feature should be rolling out to all US users shortly, with wider implementation expected later.
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| This Stay-at-Home Dad Leaves Hilarious Sticky Notes Around the House for His Wife Posted: 14 Apr 2017 09:48 AM PDT  "Her diaper bag is so heavy, I checked the side pocket thinking I'd find a kid inside."
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| Mexico to extradite accused gunman to U.S. for 'Fast and Furious' slaying Posted: 13 Apr 2017 02:20 PM PDT  Mexico's government said on Thursday it planned to extradite the man accused of pulling the trigger in the 2010 killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in a case tied to the U.S. government's ill-fated "Fast and Furious" gun-running sting. Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes was arrested on Wednesday on the border of the northern Mexican states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua for the shooting of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, according to the U.S. Marshal for Arizona. Identifying the suspect only as Heraclio "N", the Mexican attorney general's office said in a statement that following his capture by Mexican marines, steps were underway to initiate the process of his extradition to the United States.
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| It’s Time for America to Cut South Korea Loose Posted: 13 Apr 2017 12:54 PM PDT  The first step to solving the North Korean problem is removing U.S. troops from the middle of it.
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| The Most Upsetting Jelly Bean Flavors At The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter Posted: 13 Apr 2017 02:32 PM PDT |
| Sean Spicer Throws In the Towel Posted: 13 Apr 2017 12:36 PM PDT When the president of the United States makes several major shifts on policy in the course of the week, it's bound to raise a series of questions. Luckily, there's someone whose job is to answer those questions, giving the press information about the president's thinking and direction: the White House press secretary.
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| Preview of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's town hall meeting Posted: 13 Apr 2017 08:17 PM PDT  ABC News' Charli James talks with constituents in Salem, Massachusetts.
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| Philippines' Duterte cancels visit to disputed South China Sea island Posted: 12 Apr 2017 07:01 PM PDT  Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte has canceled a planned visit to an island the Philippines claims in the disputed South China Sea, after Beijing warned him against the visit. The brash Philippine leader last week announced his plan to raise the Philippine flag in the island of Thitu and fortify it with barracks, setting off alarm bells. "Because of our friendship with China and because we value your friendship I will not go there to raise the Philippine flag," Duterte said in a speech before the Filipino community in Riyadh late Wednesday.
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| Chinese foreign minister: No winners if Korea war breaks out Posted: 14 Apr 2017 08:07 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — There can be no winners in a war between the U.S. and North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missile programs, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday, while pledging support for dialogue between the sides.
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| JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup profits up; Wells Fargo flat Posted: 13 Apr 2017 06:52 AM PDT  Strong trading results in the first quarter drove profits higher at JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, which also got a boost from a decline in funds set aside for bad energy loans, the banks reported Thursday. "The momentum we saw across many of our businesses towards the end of last year carried into the first quarter, resulting in significantly better overall performance than a year ago," Citigroup chief executive Michael Corbat said.
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| Egypt's interior ministry identifies Tanta church suicide bomber: state TV Posted: 13 Apr 2017 11:15 AM PDT  Egypt's interior ministry on Thursday identified the suicide bomber in the church bombing in the city of Tanta as Mamdouh Amin Mohamed Baghdadi, a resident of Qena, south of Cairo. At least 45 people, as well as the bombers, were killed in attacks on a cathedral in Alexandria and the church in Tanta in the Nile Delta on Palm Sunday, April 9. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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| Enceladus and Europa Are the Most Likely Worlds to Support Alien Life Posted: 13 Apr 2017 07:12 AM PDT  Saturn's Enceladus and Jupiter's Europa are two moons with active oceans beneath their surfaces. NASA believes they are top contenders in the race to find life beyond Earth.
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| 4 dead of injuries consistent with methods used by gang Posted: 13 Apr 2017 01:09 PM PDT  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Four young men found dead in a park from injuries inflicted by a sharp-edged object were killed in a way that is consistent with the methods of the MS-13 street gang, according to police, who declared war against gang violence in the suburbs of Long Island.
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| Nintendo Switch battery case could be the system’s first must-have accessory Posted: 13 Apr 2017 04:28 PM PDT 
As massive of an improvement as the Nintendo Switch is over the Wii U, it still has its share of issues. The battery only lasts a few hours, the kickstand is flimsy and the charging port is positioned at the bottom of the tablet, making it impossible to charge while playing in tabletop mode. None of these issues are deal-breakers for most Switch owners, but they do hinder what could be the best portable consoles on the market. Thankfully, someone has decided to solve all of these problems (and more) with one simple accessory.
InDemand Design's SwitchCharge is a battery case for the Nintendo Switch expected to ship in August. The creators are currently raising money for the case on Indiegogo, where over 1,800 backers have already more than doubled the $80,000 goal. With 23 days left, the campaign is primed to be a huge success. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQULgVJocMo The primary feature of the SwitchCharge case is its 12,000mAh battery, which should give Switch owners up to 12 hours of uninterrupted game time. The case is also equipped with a sturdy, adjustable kickstand, 2 game card storage slots, quick charge technology and a USB-C port on the side (perfect for tabletop mode). InDemand Design is asking for $85 for a SwitchCharge case and power supply, but you can save a few dollars by purchasing a set of multiple cases. The company plans to begin shipping SwitchCharge cases in July, with deliveries expected to arrive in August. As this is an unreleased project, we can't say whether or not it does everything it claims to do, but it looks like it could be the ultimate all-in-one accessory for the Switch.
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| Exposure to Pesticides May Increase Risk of Liver Cancer Posted: 13 Apr 2017 04:43 PM PDT  People who are exposed to pesticides may face an increased risk of liver cancer, a new meta-analysis suggests. Pesticide exposure was associated with a 71 percent increased risk of liver cancer, according to the meta-analysis, which was presented on April 3 at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The findings have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world, and the No. 2 cause of cancer deaths (behind lung cancer), said lead study author Hamdi Abdi, a cancer research fellow at the National Cancer Institute.
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| CIA chief calls WikiLeaks a 'hostile intelligence service' Posted: 13 Apr 2017 04:24 PM PDT  CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday called WikiLeaks a "hostile intelligence service," using his first public speech as spy agency chief to denounce leakers who have plagued U.S. intelligence. "It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia," Pompeo said.
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| 2018 Subaru Crosstrek Looks to Gain an Edge in the Small-SUV Field Posted: 12 Apr 2017 06:07 PM PDT   The all-new, second-generation 2018 Subaru Crosstrek looks to further the company's reputation for a small, efficient sport/utility with a dash of fun. Subaru originally morphed the Crosstrek by ...
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| Water releases to resume at damaged California dam spillway Posted: 13 Apr 2017 05:02 PM PDT  OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — With stormy weather approaching, state water managers announced Thursday they will resume releasing water down a damaged spillway at the nation's tallest dam.
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| New video shows ‘mother of all bombs’ being dropped in Afghanistan Posted: 14 Apr 2017 06:48 AM PDT  New video released by the Department of Defense shows the "mother of all bombs" being dropped on ISIS targets in Afghanistan on Thursday. The bomb, the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. military's arsenal, was used for the first time ever in this week's strike.
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| At Chinese border with North Korea, trade cools but few signs of strain Posted: 13 Apr 2017 01:56 AM PDT  By Philip Wen and Joseph Campbell DANDONG, China (Reuters) - Despite heightened tension on the Korean peninsula and North Korea warning of a nuclear strike against any sign of U.S. aggression, there were few signs of strain on Thursday on the main border post between China and the reclusive nation. In Dandong, through which about three-quarters of China's trade with North Korea flows, long queues of trucks heading in both directions formed across the Friendship Bridge, despite what locals said was a relative lull due to the North's most important national holiday on Saturday marking the birth of founder president Kim Il Sung. China has signed up to wide-ranging United Nations sanctions designed at halting Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and local traders told Reuters that blanket bans on key North Korean commodities exports like coal, iron ore powder and precious metals have dealt a blow to business.
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| 153 Ways To Cook An Egg Posted: 13 Apr 2017 09:48 AM PDT |
