| Senate GOP moves forward on health care bill in dramatic procedural vote Posted: 25 Jul 2017 12:37 PM PDT  Over the sound of protesters crying "kill the bill," 50 Republican senators cast their votes to begin to debate repealing Obamacare on a razor-thin margin Tuesday afternoon. John McCain cast a decisive vote.
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| Minneapolis Police Department Announces New Bodycam Policy Following Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman Posted: 26 Jul 2017 05:33 AM PDT  In the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Justine Damond, the Minneapolis Police Department announced new bodycam policies for officers.
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| Imagining Trump’s big, beautiful wall. You might have to. Posted: 25 Jul 2017 11:33 AM PDT  The ever-evolving vision for the wall President Trump wants to build along the border with Mexico got some new details earlier this month, the latest in the growing list of specifications for meeting Trump's signature campaign promise — which is still in need of a source of funding.
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| Official: Driver in smuggling attempt part of larger group Posted: 25 Jul 2017 04:21 PM PDT  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Investigators believe a truck driver accused in the deaths of 10 people found inside a packed, sweltering tractor-trailer is just one member of a larger organization involved in human smuggling that they are looking to identify and dismantle, a U.S. immigration official said Tuesday.
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| Wildfires Force 10,000 People in Southern France to Evacuate Posted: 26 Jul 2017 01:14 AM PDT  The fires coincide with the peak tourism season on the French Riviera
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| War between US and North Korea is 'not unimaginable', says chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Posted: 25 Jul 2017 06:24 AM PDT  War between the US and North Korea is "not unimaginable", America's most senior military officer has said. Marine General Joseph Dunford, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not rule out the possibility of a "horrific" conflict. Although admitting that such a war would involve massive loss of life, General Dunford said it was his duty to prepare military options in order to protect US citizens.
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| Ohio executes child killer, first lethal injection since 2014 Posted: 26 Jul 2017 01:26 PM PDT  The US state of Ohio ended its three-year moratorium on the death penalty Wednesday, using a new drug cocktail that included a controversial sedative to execute a convicted child murderer and rapist. Ronald Phillips, 43, was put to death by lethal injection, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said. Phillips was 19 years old in 1993 when he was convicted of raping and killing three-year-old Sheila Marie Evans, his then-girlfriend's daughter.
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| Snapchat Video Shows 3 Women Driving Drunk Before Car Crash Posted: 25 Jul 2017 10:33 PM PDT  Having no designated driver or a paid transport, the three women got into the vehicle after consuming shots of alcohol at a bar.
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| Qatar says new terror list is "disappointing surprise" Posted: 26 Jul 2017 06:29 AM PDT  By Aziz El Yaakoubi DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar said on Wednesday a decision by four Arab states to add 18 groups and individuals allegedly linked to Doha to their "terrorist" lists was "a disappointing surprise" and that it was doing all it could to fight extremism. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain put another nine groups based in Yemen and Libya and nine people from several Arab countries on the blacklist, saying all were associated with Qatar. "(The new list) comes as a disappointing surprise that the blockading countries are still pursuing this story as part of their smear campaign against Qatar," Sheikh Saif Bin Ahmed al-Thani, director of the Gulf kingdom's Government Communications Office, said in a statement sent to Reuters.
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| Wildfires force French Riviera evacuations Posted: 26 Jul 2017 08:34 AM PDT ![Wildfires force French Riviera evacuations]( "Wildfires force French Riviera evacuations") French authorities ordered the evacuation of up to 12,000 people around a picturesque hilltop town in the southern Côte d'Azur region as fires hopscotched around the Mediterranean coast for a third day Wednesday.
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| Trump slams Sessions as he reportedly considers firing his own AG Posted: 25 Jul 2017 05:06 AM PDT  The president continued to attack his attorney general early Tuesday, railing against the nation's top law enforcement officer in a series of tweets.
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| Plane Covered in Nazi Design Lands on Georgia Highway Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:57 AM PDT  The pilot said the Messerschmitt BF 109 design was "just for fun."
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| CIA chief hints agency is working to change Venezuelan government Posted: 25 Jul 2017 08:56 AM PDT  The head of the CIA has suggested the agency is working to change the elected government of Venezuela and is collaborating with two countries in the region to do so. In one of the clearest clues yet about Washington's latest meddling in the politics of Latin America, CIA director Mike Pompeo said he was "hopeful that there can be a transition in Venezuela and we the CIA is doing its best to understand the dynamic there". Mr Pompeo's comments, delivered during a Q&A session at a security forum organised by the Aspen Institute think tank, have sparked outcry among supporters of Venezuela's government.
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| Try a Checklist to Avoid FAFSA Mistakes Posted: 26 Jul 2017 06:00 AM PDT ![Try a Checklist to Avoid FAFSA Mistakes]( "Try a Checklist to Avoid FAFSA Mistakes") When Evelyn Lee was applying to colleges as a high school senior, she knew that she would need financial aid to be able to afford to go. At 108 questions, the FAFSA is longer than a 1040 tax form, with questions about student and parent income, savings, family make up, number of students in college and more. "It can seem terribly intrusive , and it can be confusing," says Peter Van Buskirk, former dean of admission at Franklin & Marshall College and founder and president of Best College Fit.
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| California Man Arrested For Smuggling King Cobra Into US In Potato Chip Cans Posted: 25 Jul 2017 08:54 PM PDT  Federal agents arrested a California man for smuggling king cobras into the U.S. in potato chip cans. They also found tanks with a live baby Morelet's crocodile, alligator snapping turtles, and other reptiles protected under law.
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| Israeli removal of holy site metal detectors not enough: Erdogan Posted: 26 Jul 2017 04:45 AM PDT  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday welcomed Israel's removal of metal detectors from a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site but said it was "not enough". Israel installed metal detectors at entrances to the Haram al-Sharif mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, after an attack on July 14 that killed two policemen. "Israel took the right step to remove the metal detectors to help lower tension," Erdogan said.
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| FOX News host Kat Timpf went on a Twitter rant after someone dumped a water bottle on her head Posted: 25 Jul 2017 02:23 AM PDT  Fox News' "Specialist" co-host Kat Timpf did not hold back with her outrage over a person who dumped water on her ahead of a speaking engagement in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday.
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| Shocking Pet Horror Headlines! Posted: 25 Jul 2017 05:51 PM PDT  Dr. Edward tells The Doctors about a two-year-old beagle named Rex who chased a rabbit in a park and returned to his owner with a bloody nose. Initially, the owner and vet failed to see the underlying issue and put little Rex on medications. When bleeding persisted, a CT scan revealed the dog had a 5-inch long stick lodged in his nose! Thankfully, they successfully removed the stick and Rex is doing much better.
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| Agency: Small plane broke apart in Georgia storm, killing 4 Posted: 25 Jul 2017 11:29 AM PDT ![Agency: Small plane broke apart in Georgia storm, killing 4]( "Agency: Small plane broke apart in Georgia storm, killing 4") CHATSWORTH, Ga. (AP) — Federal investigators who examined the wreckage of a small airplane crash that killed four people earlier this month in Georgia concluded that the aircraft broke apart in midair after flying into a thunderstorm.
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| Let’s All Tell Harley-Davidson What to Do Posted: 26 Jul 2017 11:03 AM PDT  Let's All Tell Harley-Davidson What to Do Iconic company has been continuously producing motorcycles for more than a century but seemingly everyone thinks they can do better You might have noticed a number of stories in recent days – both here on RideApart
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| EU court rejects 'open-door' policy and upholds right of member states to deport refugees Posted: 26 Jul 2017 04:34 AM PDT  In a ruling which could have far-reaching consequences for how the European Union deals with migrants in future, the European Court of Justice on Wednesday upheld the right of member states to deport asylum-seekers to the first EU country they enter. The ruling amounted to an effective rejection of Angela Merkel's controversial "open-door" refugee policy, which saw more than one million asylum-seekers flood into Germany. The court ruled that the EU's Dublin regulations, under which refugees must seek asylum in the first member state they enter, still apply despite the unprecedented influx of 2015. In doing so, the court ignored the advice of Eleanor Sharpston, its British advocate-general, who warned that the system could leave border states "unable to cope". The court ruled on the cases of two Afghan sisters and a Syrian man who entered the EU during the 2015 crisis. The Jafari sisters, Khadija and Zainab, entered the EU through Croatia after fleeing Afghanistan with their children. At the time, Mrs Merkel had opened Germany's borders to migrants and Austria was operating a similar policy. Croatia allowed the sisters and their children to cross its territory in order to reach one of the two countries. Peter Foster talks about Merkel's migrant crisis one year on 01:52 They claimed asylum in Austria, but the Austrian government later reversed its position and returned the families to Croatia, ordering them to seek asylum there. The sisters challenged the decision, arguing they should be given asylum in Austria as they had been allowed to cross Croatia and had not entered its territory illegally. In a second case, an unnamed Syrian man challenged his deportation from Slovenia to Croatia under similar circumstances. The court rejected the challenges, ruling that the fact Croatia had allowed the migrants to cross its territory did not mean the Dublin rules had been waived. The ruling will be welcomed in central European countries like Austria and Slovenia, where there is considerable political resistance to letting in more migrants. But it will cause concern in the countries where most migrants first enter the EU, Italy and Greece, which complain the system leaves them to shoulder too much of the burden. FAQ | Dublin Regulation The court's decision was unexpected, after the judges took the unusual step of ignoring the advice of the advocate-general. In a written opinion issued last month, Ms Sharpston warned that the Dublin system "was simply not designed to cover such exceptional circumstances". "If border member states, such as Croatia, are deemed to be responsible for accepting and processing exceptionally high numbers of asylum-seekers, there is a real risk that they will simply be unable to cope with the situation," she wrote. While the ruling will be seen as a victory by many in central Europe, Hungary and Slovakia suffered a setback in a separate case over EU quotas for sharing asylum-seekers between member states. In an opinion presented to the court, Yves Bot, another advocate-general, said the court should reject a bid by the two countries to have the quota system overturned.
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| Father of teen abused by female teacher claims school threatened boy with paddling for 'spreading rumours' Posted: 25 Jul 2017 03:17 AM PDT  The family of an eighth-grade boy who was abused by his teacher say the school threatened to paddle him as punishment for "spreading rumours". Jennifer Caswell, 31, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2015 for sex crimes against the student, who is thought to be 15 years old. The teenager, who has not been identified, was allegedly told to "keep his mouth closed" by Marty Webb, the Principal of the high school he attended in Oklahoma.
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| 'Difficult' fight for Hezbollah on Lebanon-Syria border Posted: 26 Jul 2017 10:37 AM PDT  Surveying the rocky no-man's land on Lebanon's eastern border with Syria, Hezbollah fighters recalled the "difficult" battle they fought to recapture much of the terrain from militants. The Lebanese Shiite movement has waged a five-day offensive across the scraggy landscape known as Jurud Arsal to oust what it says are ex-Al-Qaeda Syrian jihadists. On Wednesday, Hezbollah brought journalists to its positions overlooking the last pocket of enemy territory.
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| Passengers Stranded In Vegas, Stay In Vegas Posted: 25 Jul 2017 10:42 AM PDT  Allegiant Air left over 200 passengers in Las Vegas for four days after a canceled Oklahoma City-bound flight.
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| Canadian military tweets welcome as Trump bans transgender personnel Posted: 26 Jul 2017 01:50 PM PDT  Canada's military took to Twitter to welcome recruits from all gender identities on Wednesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would ban transgender people from the U.S. military. The tweet from the Canadian Armed Forces' official account included a photo of military band members marching in a parade with rainbow flags fluttering from their instruments. Join us!" said the tweet, which included the hashtag #DiversityIsOurStrength.
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| Hop on! Wild rabbits surf on sheep to flee New Zealand flood Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:29 AM PDT  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It was a woolly ride, but three wild rabbits managed to escape rising floodwaters in New Zealand by clambering aboard sheep and surfing to safety on their backs.
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| How to Make Zucchini Boats Posted: 25 Jul 2017 09:58 AM PDT  Summer is here and the time is right to go overboard with summer squash recipes! One of my go-to summer meals is the zucchini boat, which can best be described as a sort of "flatbread" with a long slice of zucchini standing in for crust. Unlike a real boat, zucchini boats are extremely budget-friendly. This first boat resembles garlic bread, but with zucchini subbing in for the bread.
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| The Latest: Man slain at protest in western Venezuela Posted: 26 Jul 2017 12:59 PM PDT  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The latest on Venezuela, where a two-day national strike has been called beginning Wednesday to protest President Nicolas Maduro's plans to rewrite the country's constitution (all times local):
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| Alt-right leader is schooled by British historian and it's glorious Posted: 26 Jul 2017 04:03 AM PDT  One of the prominent members of the loose-knit alt-right movement in the US has been given a lesson from a very sassy historian in the UK. Paul Joseph Watson, editor-at-large of alt-right conspiracy site Infowars, got a free educational tale on ancient Rome by English historian Mike Stuchbery. SEE ALSO: Meet the guy who pranked Infowars into publishing fake Trump news Watson posted a tweet slamming the BBC for portraying Roman Britain as ethnically diverse: Let's just say that Stuchbery didn't spare words in his long, sassy reply: He started off explaining why Roman Britain was actually very ethnically diverse: There are several reports of "moors" along with (modern-day) Iraqi and Syrian soldiers on Hadrian's Wall, noted Stuchbery. Also, every camp in the province would have a settlement where wives, kids, slaves and tradespeople lived. Many of the inhabitants would travel with the legion, he added. Governors deployed to Britannia would take slaves with them from anywhere in the Empire, Stuchbery added. And London was particularly diverse: Stuchbery also reported that people from southern Mediterranean, North Africa, and Rome lived in Britain: It seems that Paul Joseph Watson needs to go back to school to study history. And Stuchbery got some well-earned praise from the undisputed Queen of Twitter, J. K. Rowling: WATCH: Filmmakers tried to use hilarious code words to keep 'The Avengers' under wraps
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| Man stabbed woman he met on dating site 119 times after she told him she was transgender Posted: 26 Jul 2017 04:21 AM PDT  Dwanya Hickerson, 21, "lost it" after learning Dee Whigham, 25, had been born a man. Mississippi's Jacksonville Circuit Court heard that he knifed Ms Whigham multiple times in the face and slashed her throat in a hotel room before showering and leaving her for dead. The hospital nurse picked him up at the gates of Keesler Air Force Base, where he was training to be a weather forecaster, and drove them to her hotel, the court heard.
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| Progress with Russia over air-defence system: Erdogan Posted: 25 Jul 2017 06:37 AM PDT  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday announced progress in talks to get Russia to supply its latest S-400 air-defence system to Ankara. "We have signed with Russia. God willing, we will see S-400s in our country," Erdogan said in a speech to his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmakers in parliament.
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| Woman Sobs in Court as She Pleads Guilty in Kayaking Death of Her Fiance Posted: 25 Jul 2017 09:56 AM PDT  Graswald pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide on Monday, and will serve a lesser sentence in her fiance's death.
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| How Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Could Work For Space Travel Posted: 25 Jul 2017 08:24 AM PDT  Elon Musk recently proposed the high-speed floating train that's accelerated by magnets and coasts between destinations.
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| After spate of Chinese patrols, Taiwan says it's prepared to defend itself Posted: 25 Jul 2017 03:13 PM PDT  Taiwan is prepared to defend itself against China if necessary, the self-ruled island's defense ministry said on Tuesday, in a strongly worded response to recent flybys by Chinese warplanes near the island China claims as a wayward province.
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| US Navy fires warning shots near Iran ship in Persian Gulf Posted: 26 Jul 2017 12:38 AM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. Navy patrol boat fired warning shots near an Iranian vessel that American sailors said came dangerously close to them during a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf, the first such incident to happen under President Donald Trump. Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Guard later blamed the American ship for provoking the situation.
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| Prosecco Grapesicles Are The Boozy Summer Snack You Need Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:47 AM PDT  Frozen grapes have got nothin' on these.
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| John McCain gives stirring speech against Obamacare repeal bill – but votes for it twice in one day Posted: 26 Jul 2017 12:31 AM PDT  John McCain voted twice in favour of pushing forward with Donald Trump's controversial new health bill – despite telling the US Senate in an impassioned speech he "will not vote for this bill as it is today". The senator, who was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, returned to Washington DC to have his say on the divisive legislation that aims to dismantle Obamacare. Mr McCain joined the 51 senators who narrowly passed the motion to proceed with the bill, the bare minimum needed to pass the motion, as 50 senators, including two Republicans, voted against it.
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| Toyota set to sell long-range, fast-charging electric cars in 2022: paper Posted: 25 Jul 2017 11:27 AM PDT  Toyota Motor Corp is working on an electric car powered by a new type of battery that significantly increases driving range and reduces charging time, aiming to begin sales in 2022, the Chunichi Shimbun daily reported on Tuesday. Toyota's new electric car, to be built on an all-new platform, will use all-solid-state batteries, allowing it to be recharged in just a few minutes, the newspaper said, without citing sources. By contrast, current electric vehicles (EVs), which use lithium-ion batteries, need 20-30 minutes to recharge even with fast chargers and typically have a range of just 300-400 kilometres (185-250 miles).
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| The 2018 Ford Mustang Starts at $25,585 Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:58 AM PDT  The EcoBoost is actually cheaper than the 2017 model, but the GT's price rises by $2000.
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| China denies its jets operated dangerously in US encounter Posted: 25 Jul 2017 05:48 PM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday denied its fighter jet pilots operated dangerously during an encounter with a U.S. surveillance plane in international airspace in which the American pilot took evasive action to avoid a possible collision.
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| Golfers Offer Thirsty Coyote Some Water as It Walks Up to Them on the Green Posted: 25 Jul 2017 02:41 PM PDT  Photographer Ryan Taplin said the coyote didn't look like a threat: "He just looked like he needed help."
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| Seven Observations About Jared Kushner’s Statement Posted: 25 Jul 2017 07:01 AM PDT  The president's son-in-law apparently thinks he's pretty safe from investigators. But he threw Don Jr. under the bus.
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