| Obama approved ‘cyber weapons’ in response to Russian attacks: report Posted: 23 Jun 2017 07:31 AM PDT  President Barack Obama's team reportedly debated dozens of options for making Moscow pay for attempting to influence and discredit last year's presidential election.
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| Judge: Another Mistrial in Case Against Former Officer in Deadly Ohio Shooting Posted: 23 Jun 2017 08:36 AM PDT  A mistrial was declared Friday in the retrial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing, who was accused of murder and manslaughter in the 2015 shooting death of Samuel DuBose, an unarmed black motorist.
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| Health Care Declassified No. 4: Was the Obamacare process really more transparent? Posted: 23 Jun 2017 11:52 AM PDT  Yahoo News peeks behind the curtain of secrecy surrounding the Republican health care bill to learn what we can about what it may contain.
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| JetBlue Flight Makes Emergency Landing in South Carolina Posted: 22 Jun 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Passengers and crew noticed smoke halfway through the flight, leading to an emergency landing in Charleston.
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| Grandmother, 81, Sparks Police Chase After Driving Wrong Way While on Coffee Run Posted: 23 Jun 2017 02:16 PM PDT  Nancy Strader was arrested and spent 14 hours in jail.
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| Deadly landslide in southwestern China Posted: 24 Jun 2017 08:39 AM PDT ![Deadly landslide in southwestern China]( "Deadly landslide in southwestern China") Fears grew for 141 people missing in China after a landslide buried their mountain village in southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, with reports that only three survivors had been pulled out of the mud and rock hours after the calamity struck. The landslide swept over 46 homes as dawn broke at around 6 a.m. in Xinmo village in Maoxian county, a remote mountainous area of north Sichuan close to the region of Tibet, according to the official Xinhua state news agency. President Xi Jinping urged on the rescue effort, but state broadcaster CCTV reported that by midday the only people rescued were a couple and their two-month-old baby.
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| Conjoined McDonald Twins Surgeons Reflect On Separating Babies Posted: 23 Jun 2017 09:58 AM PDT  "The one thing we knew was to expect the unknown."
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| Ex-Homeland Security head: Trump is ‘sending signals’ that Russian hacking is tolerated Posted: 23 Jun 2017 06:43 AM PDT  Former Homeland Security Chief Jeh Johnson said that President Trump is "sending signals" that Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election is acceptable.
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| Who Is Mohammed Bin Salman? Posted: 23 Jun 2017 05:41 AM PDT  Saudi Arabia's new Crown Prince has earned a reputation at home as a reformer and has called for a loosening of some conservative social restrictions.
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| Hillary Clinton: ‘If Republicans pass this bill, they’re the death party’ Posted: 23 Jun 2017 03:21 PM PDT  Hillary Clinton didn't mince words Friday when it came to the Senate Republicans' health care legislation unveiled the day before.
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| Trump vs. Medicaid Posted: 23 Jun 2017 12:16 PM PDT  Despite repeated campaign promises not to cut Medcaid, Trump supports the Senate health care bill, which one GOP senator said cuts health care for "tens of millions."
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| Khmer Rouge leaders deliver closing defense at trial Posted: 23 Jun 2017 03:40 AM PDT  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — As his trial for genocide ended, the former head of state of Cambodia's 1970s Khmer Rouge regime on Friday rejected the charges against him, saying the allegation was concocted by the country's traditional enemy, neighboring Vietnam.
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| Suicide Bomber Planning To Attack Mecca's Grand Mosque Blew Himself Up Posted: 24 Jun 2017 01:25 AM PDT  Just days ahead of Eid Al-Fitr, Saudi Arabia law enforcement officials said a man who was planning to attack Mecca's Grand Mosque blew himself up after being surrounded by police.
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| Climate change more important than partisan politics: Schwarzenegger Posted: 23 Jun 2017 06:58 PM PDT  Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger urged people from both ends of the political spectrum to join a "crusade" to save the planet, after a Friday meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. Just a few weeks after US President Donald Trump announced he was pulling America out of the Paris Climate accord, Schwarzenegger said all countries had to work together in order to protect the environment. "We all have to work together in order to get this done," he said, adding that he and Macron had discussed the climate issue in depth during their meeting.
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| Dinosaurs That Once Roamed Antarctica 'Live' Again in Exhibits and Film Posted: 23 Jun 2017 06:42 AM PDT  But nearly 200 million years ago, Antarctica was very different. There were no polar ice caps, it was far warmer and wetter than it is now, and its lush, forest environments were inhabited by a variety of animals — including dinosaurs. Scientists dedicated to uncovering Antarctic dinosaur fossils spend months at a time camped on glaciers and digging in a frozen desert in order to excavate and reconstruct beasts that lived in the distant past.
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| This Super Common Beauty Product Could Be Linked to Breast Cancer Posted: 24 Jun 2017 03:41 AM PDT  A new study conducted by Rutgers School of Public Health found a connection between hair dye and relaxer usage and an increased chance of developing breast cancer. The results show that way these products affect you has a lot to do with your race. The study found that African-American women who used dark brown or black hair dyes saw a 51 percent increased risk of developing breast cancer. These products also led to a 72 percent increase specifically in estrogen-positive ...
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| White House wants more ‘outrage’ over Johnny Depp comments Posted: 23 Jun 2017 12:35 PM PDT  The White House spoke against suggestions of violence by an actor and a play but said less against similar remarks last year by a campaign supporter.
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| Black off-duty cop shot by colleague while responding to car crash Posted: 23 Jun 2017 11:52 AM PDT  A complex situation involving a car crash and three sets of police led to the shooting of a black officer by a white one in St. Louis.
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| California father buries wrong man after coroner's mistake Posted: 24 Jun 2017 12:53 PM PDT  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Eleven days after laying his son to rest, Frank J. Kerrigan got a call from a friend.
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| Panda mania hits Germany as China's cuddly envoys arrive Posted: 24 Jun 2017 01:55 AM PDT  Germany was bracing for panda mania as furry ambassadors arrive from China on Saturday, destined for a new life as stars of Berlin's premier zoo. The pair, named Meng Meng and Jiao Qing, will be jetting in on a special Lufthansa cargo plane, accompanied by two Chinese panda specialists, the Berlin Zoo's chief vet and a tonne of bamboo. Berlin's mayor, China's ambassador to Germany and a gaggle of journalists will greet the VIPs as LH8415 pulls to a stop on the tarmac of Schoenefeld airport.
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| 2 Amazing Pictures Of Space Taken By An Amateur Posted: 24 Jun 2017 04:00 AM PDT  These are some of the most visually striking things related to space.
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| Venezuela: death of a protester Posted: 23 Jun 2017 02:40 PM PDT  Over months of protests Carlos Garcia Rawlins has been on Venezuela's streets daily, documenting increasingly violent clashes with security forces, experience that helped put him within eyeshot of a soldier who fatally wounded a young activist at close range. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets across the country since April to demand elections, solutions to hunger and shortages, and an end to President Nicolas Maduro's plan to overhaul the constitution. On Thursday, a thousands-strong march that was aiming to reach the chief prosecutor's office in Caracas was broken up by security forces with tear gas and pellets.
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| Former prisoners in North Korea recall the conditions they were held in: Part 3 Posted: 23 Jun 2017 06:32 PM PDT  American Kenneth Bae spent 735 days in captivity in North Korea and was the longest held American prisoner ever.
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| Barack Obama received 'intelligence bombshell' on Russian hacking plans, investigators report Posted: 24 Jun 2017 01:49 AM PDT  Barack Obama received an "intelligence bombshell" from the CIA to warn him of a hacking campaign led by Vladimir Putin to help Donald Trump win the US election, it has been reported. The Russian president had given specific instructions on the operation's objectives to defeat Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton, and help get her opponent elected, the Washington Post revealed in a special report. Citing interviews with current and former senior US officials, the newspaper detailed how the Obama administration allegedly considered retaliating against Putin by releasing intelligence on him, and planting "cyber weapons" in Russia's infrastructure to destroy its economy.
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| The 9 funniest lines from a coal kingpin's lawsuit against John Oliver Posted: 22 Jun 2017 05:41 PM PDT  John Oliver is facing the legal wrath of a lawsuit-happy coal baron after a brutal segment in which the host tore into the American coal industry. The document accuses Oliver of a "ruthless character assassination" of Robert Murray, CEO of the nation's largest coal mining operation, Murray Energy. SEE ALSO: Coal company sues John Oliver for being John Oliver It didn't exactly come as a surprise; in fact, Oliver more or less dared the notoriously litigious coal boss by mocking an earlier cease-and-desist letter from his company on the show. And at least one first amendment lawyer has said Murray doesn't have much of a leg to stand on. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy the absurd spectacle of the legal team for the man Oliver described as a "geriatric Dr. Evil" trying to out-bombast the HBO comedian's signature hyperbolic wit in dry legalese. Here are some of the lawsuit's best moments: Murray's giant squirrel tormenter "Defendants continued their ruthless character assassination and attack on Plaintiffs' business reputations by describing Mr. Murray as someone who 'looks like a geriatric Dr. Evil' and arranging for a staff member to dress up in a squirrel costume and deliver the message 'Eat Shit, Bob!" to Mr. Murray.'" This is one of the lawsuit's several references to a staffer dressed as a giant squirrel whom Oliver brought out to insult Murray. The stunt was a reference to some apocryphal company lore about a squirrel urging Murray into the coal business — it's a long story. Suffice to say, Mr. Nutterbutter seems to have really gotten under Murray's skin. BTW Murray didn't actually talk to a squirrel, OK? "Specifically, in reference to an absurd story that Mr. Murray claimed a squirrel had told him he should operate his own mines, Defendant Oliver stated 'You know what, I actually believe him on that one.'" At least everyone's in agreement that Murray didn't actually consult a squirrel about his business decisions. Maybe there's hope for an amicable resolution yet! Oliver endorses Mr. Nutterbutter's vulgar harassment "If that were not enough, after the live taping, Defendant Oliver exclaimed to the audience that having someone in a squirrel costume tell Mr. Murray to 'Eat Shit' was a 'dream come true.'" On second thought, he's got a point. Have you no decency, Mr. Nutterbutter? Good faith efforts "Even worse, toward the end of the broadcast, Defendant Oliver confirmed that Defendants intentionally expanded their attack against Mr. Murray and the Plaintiffs as retaliation for Plaintiffs' good faith efforts to ensure the accuracy of the broadcast. Defendant Oliver stated "Bob Murray, I didn't really plan for so much of this piece to be about you, but you kind of forced my hand on that one." Murray's lawyers seem to be working under a loose definition of "good faith efforts" that encompasses cease-and-desist letters. Neither ceasing nor desisting "Intentionally and in obvious retaliation for this humanitarian request, Defendant Oliver boldly announced '[a]s we have been explicitly told to cease and desist, let us do neither of those things, and let's talk about Bob Murray.'" How many lawsuits are able to claim that a defendant explicitly announced their intention to ignore them on national television? Clinton conspiracy "[HBO parent Time Warner] is widely reported as a top ten donor of Hillary Clinton, as tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics at OpenSecrets.org. As a presidential candidate, Mrs. Clinton's agenda was to 'put a lotta coal miners and coal companies outta business.'" Murray's lawyers have connected the dots. This one goes all the way to the top. Anti-Trump agenda "[The defendant's statements] advance their biases against the coal industry and theirdisdain for the coal-related policies of the Trump Administration." What's a controversy these days without a Donald Trump cameo? Oliver's job description "Instead, presumably to boost ratings, line their pockets with profits and advance the show's anti-coal agenda..." The first two items are, after all, Oliver's job. As for the third, it seems pretty fair to say he's not a huge fan of the industry's practices. Public shame and disgrace "The Defamatory Statements are defamatory per se in that, on their face, they reflect upon Plaintiffs' reputation and character in a manner that: injured Plaintiffs' reputation and subject Plaintiffs to public hatred, ridicule, shame, or disgrace." This would actually make a good blurb for Oliver's show. WATCH: John Oliver proves Trump's scandals are way worse than Clinton's with raisins
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| APNewsBreak: Military heads want transgender enlistment hold Posted: 23 Jun 2017 12:54 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Military chiefs will seek a six-month delay before letting transgender people enlist in their services, officials said Friday.
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| US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan quits post Posted: 23 Jun 2017 10:39 PM PDT  Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan stepped down on Friday, just as the United States is preparing to send thousands more troops to the region. A senior State Department official told AFP that acting special representative Laurel Miller left the post without a replacement being named. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Miller is returning to a position at the Rand Corporation and that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has not yet decided what to do with post.
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| California AG bans state travel to Texas, 3 other states Posted: 22 Jun 2017 06:11 PM PDT ![California AG bans state travel to Texas, 3 other states]( "California AG bans state travel to Texas, 3 other states") SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's attorney general blocked state-funded travel to Texas and three other states on Thursday in response to what he considers anti-LGBT rights laws enacted this year.
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| Michelle Carter Spotted First Time In Public After Guilty Verdict Posted: 23 Jun 2017 06:11 AM PDT  Photos of the 20-year-old Massachusetts woman, who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself, were posted by Daily Mail on Thursday.
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| Scientist says the sun is sneezing on Earth Posted: 23 Jun 2017 05:30 PM PDT 
The sun at the center of our Solar System is one of the big reasons why we're here today, but it can also be a bit of a nuisance from time to time. Coronal mass ejections — when the sun spews a whole bunch of plasma and energy into space — can seriously mess up human communication infrastructure if they happen to graze Earth. For years, researchers have attempted to forecast and predict CMEs in the hopes that warnings could help prevent damage to electronics and the power grid, and when doing so, they've modeled the huge solar blasts as bubbles moving through space. As it turns out, a CME is more like a sneeze.
"Up until now, it has been assumed CMEs move like bubbles through space and respond to forces as single objects," Professor Mathew Owens of the University of Reading explains. "We have found they are more like an expanding dust cloud or sneeze, made up of individual plasma parcels all doing their own thing. When the solar wind acts on the CME as it moves through space, it causes the shape and behavior of the energy blast to become unpredictable. "Therefore if we want to protect ourselves from solar eruptions, we need to understand more about the solar wind," Owens says. This new study, and the suggestion from the research team that solar wind readings be included in the forecasting and prediction of future CMEs, could help scientists more accurately assess the risk that the ejections pose to human technology, and potentially help mitigate the damage they cause.
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| Minnesota police officer's brutal arrest of driver was 'disturbing', ACLU says Posted: 23 Jun 2017 10:19 AM PDT  A Minnesota arrest in which a driver was dragged from his vehicle and repeatedly punched and kneed by a police officer was a "disturbing and completely unnecessary" example of an excessive use of force, the state ACLU has said. Video recently obtained by the Minnesota chapter of the ACLU shows Buffalo Ridge drug taskforce agent Joe Joswiak initiating a traffic stop with his gun leveled at the driver's seat of the vehicle, shouting expletives at the driver, and violently removing him from the vehicle – seemingly before he had a chance to comply with the officer's commands.
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| Trump, Putin and Erdogan behave like autocratic rulers: Germany's Schulz Posted: 23 Jun 2017 05:03 PM PDT ![Trump, Putin and Erdogan behave like autocratic rulers: Germany's Schulz]( "Trump, Putin and Erdogan behave like autocratic rulers: Germany's Schulz") The European Union must become stronger in response to a weakening of democracy in the United States, Russia and Turkey, the leader of Germany's centre-left Social Democrats said in remarks published on Saturday. Martin Schulz, who is also a former president of the European Parliament, said that U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan behaved like "autocratic rulers". Not only through words but also through concrete policies," Schulz told the Passauer Neue Presse.
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| Contractors brought in to CIA heaquarters steal $3,000 in vending machine snacks Posted: 23 Jun 2017 04:03 AM PDT  Multiple CIA contractors have been sacked after stealing more than $3,000 (£2,360) worth of snacks from vending machines, it has been reported. The machines work with cards that need to be topped up online, so hackers unplugged a cable connecting the machines to electronic payment systems and used unfunded cards to get food at no cost. When the CIA realised that an unusual amount of snacks were disappearing from their vending machines they set up cameras to catch the culprits.
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| Firefighter Arrested After He Allegedly Beat A Man Who Refused to Give Him a Cigarette: Cops Posted: 24 Jun 2017 12:32 PM PDT  The victim sustained injuries to his face before a bartender broke up the fight.
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| Israel launches air raid on Syria in return for fire: army Posted: 24 Jun 2017 12:34 PM PDT  An Israeli aircraft carried out a strike on Syria after 10 projectiles fired from the war-torn country hit the occupied Golan Heights on Saturday, an army spokesman said. The Israeli Air Force also targeted two Syrian regime tanks in the northern part of the Golan, the spokesman said, adding the projectiles did not cause any casualties. "Because of the unacceptable violation of Israeli sovereignty", Israel has protested to the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) which monitors a 1974 ceasefire between the two countries, he added.
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| Senate panel seeks details on Lynch role in Clinton probe Posted: 23 Jun 2017 02:31 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are seeking information about alleged political interference by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch into the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
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| Mom Pleads to Save Her Nearly 300 Pound 11-Year-Old Daughter Posted: 23 Jun 2017 11:20 AM PDT  Miranda and her mother Julie have come to The Doctors seeking guidance and help to transform their eating habits in hopes of reversing their health issues. Miranda says the bullying from other kids has become a "daily routine" for her.
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| Casey Anthony’s Parents Counter Sue Over Family Home Foreclosure Posted: 23 Jun 2017 12:29 PM PDT  Caylee Anthony lived with her mother and grandparents at the home at the time of her death in 2008.
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| Invasive Asian carp found near Great Lakes beyond electrified barrier Posted: 24 Jun 2017 09:26 AM PDT  Asian carp can weigh up to 100lbs and often outcompete other fish. An Asian carp has been found just miles from the Great Lakes, beyond an electrified barrier designed to keep the invasive species from entering the ecosystem and wreaking the sort of damage seen elsewhere in the US. The carp was sent to Southern Illinois University for further analysis.
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| Pakistan says Indian man admits spying, India dismisses it as farce Posted: 23 Jun 2017 01:10 AM PDT ![Pakistan says Indian man admits spying, India dismisses it as farce]( "Pakistan says Indian man admits spying, India dismisses it as farce") ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian citizen sentenced to death for spying in Pakistan has admitted espionage and filed a mercy petition with the chief of army staff, the Pakistan military said on Thursday, a statement India dismissed as a farce. Former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav was arrested last year in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan, the site of a long-running conflict between the Pakistan military and separatist insurgents.
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| Donald Trump defies calls to appoint envoy to combat anti-Semitism around the world Posted: 24 Jun 2017 10:44 AM PDT  Donald Trump has defied calls to appoint a special envoy to combat anti-Semitism across the world despite growing pressure from Jewish groups and Congress. The two remaining staffers in the US State Department's office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism are reportedly set to be reassigned next month, which will leave the branch completely unstaffed after 1 July. President Trump is legally required to appoint a Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, a position created under former president George W. Bush.
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| 12 Bizarre Kitchen Ingredients That Get Rid Of Stains Fast Posted: 23 Jun 2017 08:54 AM PDT |
