| Ahead of 9/11, top Trump aide says U.S. not vulnerable to terrorists Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:31 PM PDT  "There is no current, credible actionable threat, terrorist threat, against the homeland," Tom Bossert, President Trump's homeland security adviser, told reporters just days before the 9/11 anniversary.
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| Rush Limbaugh Says Hurricane Irma Is Conspiracy, Evacuates Anyway Posted: 08 Sep 2017 07:16 AM PDT  Rush Limbaugh spent the first part of this week acting as a Hurricane Irma truther, but now it seems he's taking cover.
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| Irma: South Florida Residents Race Against Time to Prepare for Storm Posted: 08 Sep 2017 08:32 AM PDT  As South Florida residents rush to escape Hurricane Irma's wrath, some can't get out while an estimated half million people have headed to shelters.
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| How To Find Out If You've Been Hit By The Equifax Hack Posted: 07 Sep 2017 10:22 PM PDT  Everyone should be worried about the latest cybersecurity breach.
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| Key Obamacare Architect Who Shunned Single-Payer Now Backs It Posted: 08 Sep 2017 01:53 PM PDT  Former Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), a fiscal moderate who, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, presided over the passage of the Affordable Care Act, expressed his support on Thursday for the creation of a single-payer health care system.
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| Five roaming lions raise alarm in South Africa Posted: 09 Sep 2017 05:54 AM PDT  By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Five lions are on the loose in a rural area about 35 miles (60 km) west of South Africa's commercial capital of Johannesburg, police and conservationists said on Saturday as they launched operations to capture them. There have been a spate of such incidents this year in South Africa, which unlike most African countries keeps large, dangerous wildlife in enclosed reserves to prevent conflict with people and livestock. The area where the animals have been sighted near the town of Fochville is a patchwork of cattle farms, open countryside, crowded squatter camps and gold mining communities.
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| Trump doubles down on pivot to congressional Democrats Posted: 08 Sep 2017 07:45 AM PDT  President Trump defended his decision to cut a deal with Democratic leaders in Congress by pointing out that Republicans failed to pass key legislation this summer.
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| Massive earthquake rocks Mexico Posted: 08 Sep 2017 04:18 AM PDT ![Massive earthquake rocks Mexico]( "Massive earthquake rocks Mexico") One of the most powerful earthquakes ever to hit Mexico was followed by a Gulf coast hurricane, dealing a one-two punch to the country, killing at least 61 people as workers scrambled to respond to the twin national emergencies.
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| 5.6 mn Floridians ordered to evacuate as Irma closes in: emergency officials Posted: 09 Sep 2017 02:12 AM PDT  Miami (AFP) - Florida has ordered 5.6 million people to evacuate as massive Hurricane Irma menaces the southeastern US state, according to its Division of Emergency Management.
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| 'DACAmented' Teacher Explains Why America Needs Undocumented Educators Posted: 08 Sep 2017 01:25 PM PDT  Rio Djiwandana stared into the empty classroom during his prep period as he processed the morning's news.
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| Equifax Clarifies Policy After Outcry Over Consumers' Legal Rights Following Hack Posted: 08 Sep 2017 11:33 PM PDT  Equifax issued a statement Friday saying that victims of a recent massive security breach won't have to waive their right to file a class action lawsuit against the company, after people noticed language buried in Equifax's terms of service that barred customers from doing so.
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| The Latest: Pemex: Fuel supplies stable despite quake, storm Posted: 08 Sep 2017 08:28 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on the Mexico earthquake (all times local):
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| Man And Dog Denied Flight Out Of Irma Over Not Having A Pet Carrier Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:26 AM PDT  The difficulty of evacuating with pets is one of many reasons that people don't always "just leave" when a hurricane hits.
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| Venezuela's Maduro seeks debt negotiations after U.S. sanctions Posted: 08 Sep 2017 02:24 PM PDT  President Nicolas Maduro has invited bondholders to unspecified "negotiations" over Venezuela's foreign debt in coming days in response to recent U.S. financial sanctions.
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| U.S.-backed forces, Syrian army advance separately on Islamic State in Deir al-Zor Posted: 09 Sep 2017 08:34 AM PDT  By John Davison and Rodi Said BEIRUT/AL SHADADI, Syria (Reuters) - U.S.-backed militias and the Syrian army advanced in separate offensives against Islamic State in eastern Syria on Saturday, piling pressure on shrinking territory the group still holds in oil-rich areas near the Iraqi border. Syrian government forces fought their way to an air base on the outskirts of Deir al-Zor city that had been besieged for years by the jihadists, said a commander in the military alliance fighting in support of President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed alliance of mostly Arab and Kurdish fighters, meanwhile launched attacks against Islamic State in the north of Deir al-Zor province in an operation to capture areas east of the Euphrates river.
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| Details emerge of aborted deal for Moscow's Trump Tower - 'help peace and make money' Posted: 08 Sep 2017 02:53 PM PDT  The Trump Organisation stood to make $4 million and a cut of the profits under the aborted deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, it has emerged. According to detailed plans, obtained by CNN, the scheme even included proposals to open a spa which would have been named after Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka. Negotiations were still taking place in October 2015, four months after Mr Trump announced he was running for the White House. The plans entailed building a hotel, flats and commercial property in central Moscow in a venture which would have carried the Trump brand under a franchising agreement. Ivanka Trump Credit: Susan Walsh/AP Mr Trump's interest in exploiting commercial opportunities in Moscow have hardly been secret, he first expressed interest in building a tower in the Russian capital in the 1990s. But he repeatedly denied having any business links with Russia while he was campaigning for the White House. The documents include a Letter of Understanding for the venture between Trump Acquisition LLC and the I.C. Expert Investment Company of Moscow. In an accompanying email Felix Sater, a Russian born property developer to Michael Cohen, Trump Organisation's executive vice president attached a "Letter of Understanding" for Mr Trump to sign. Mr Sater wrote: "Help world peace and make a lot of money. I would say that's a great lifetime goal for us to go after." The deal, Mr Sater added, could "possibly fix relations between the countries by showing everyone that commerce & business are much better and more practical than politics. Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin Credit: Evan Vucci/AP "That should be Putin's message as well, and we will help him agree on that message." In late 2015 there appeared to be considerable warmth between Mr Trump and Mr Putin. The aspiring Republican candidate voiced a desire that he and the Russian leader would "get along". In turn, Mr Putin described the billionaire as "a bright and talented person without any doubt." Despite the detailed negotiations, the project was scrapped. Nevertheless, details of the proposal will rekindle suggestions that Mr Trump's desire for a rapprochement with Moscow was commercially as well as politically driven. A special counsel and the Senate Intelligence Committee are both probing alleged Russian involvement in the presidential election.
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| Hurricane Harvey First Responder Gets Flesh-Eating Bacteria From Texas Storm Water Posted: 07 Sep 2017 05:49 PM PDT  Now he wants others to take precautions against infection
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| Six-month-old British triplets some of youngest survivors of Hurricane Irma Posted: 08 Sep 2017 10:49 AM PDT  Six-month-old British triplets are said to be among the youngest survivors of Hurricane Irma. Beatrice, Charlotte and Isabella were with their parents Kate Jackson, 33, and Alex Ashman, 31, on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands when the catastrophic storm hit. Mr Ashman was able to briefly call Ms Jackson's sister, Claire Jackson, 29, to say that her nieces were safe – but that the home in Tortola was "destroyed".
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| Mexico's strongest quake in 85 years kills dozens in the poor south Posted: 08 Sep 2017 04:39 PM PDT  By David Alire Garcia and Jose Cortes JUCHITAN, Mexico (Reuters) - At least 60 people died when the most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in over eight decades tore through buildings and forced mass evacuations in the poor southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, triggering alerts as far away as Southeast Asia. The 8.1 magnitude quake off the southern coast late Thursday was stronger than a devastating 1985 temblor that flattened swathes of Mexico City and killed thousands. "It almost knocked me over," said Gildardo Arenas Rios, a 64-year-old security guard in Mexico City's Juarez neighborhood, who was making his rounds when buildings started to tremble.
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| Egypt dig unearths goldsmith's tomb, mummies Posted: 08 Sep 2017 05:49 PM PDT  Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of a goldsmith dedicated to the god Amun and the mummies of a woman and her two children, the antiquities ministry said on Saturday. The finds, dating back to the New Kingdom (16th to 11th centuries BC), were made in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor, famed for its temples and burial grounds. A burial shaft in the tomb led to a chamber where the archaeologists discovered mummies, funerary statues and masks, the ministry said.
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| Police: Officer arrested nurse after being told to let it go Posted: 09 Sep 2017 08:44 AM PDT  A Utah police officer whose rough arrest of a hospital nurse has drawn condemnation put the woman in handcuffs even after investigators told him not to worry about getting a blood sample he was seeking from a patient, the chief whose department asked for it said Friday.
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| Chelsea Handler Exposes The Most Sinister Part Of Trump's DACA Repeal Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:21 AM PDT  In one swift sentence, Chelsea Handler summed up her moral outrage over President Donald Trump announcing his decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in six months.
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| Poll: Majority oppose deporting DACA recipients Posted: 08 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT  According to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey, a majority of Americans think that immigrants who benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), often called Dreamers, should not be forced to leave the country.
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| Florida gun owners encouraged to 'shoot the storm' and fire their guns at Hurricane Irma Posted: 09 Sep 2017 12:47 AM PDT  A Florida man who suggested shooting guns at Hurricane Irma out of "stress and boredom" has found that his idea has captured peoples' imaginations - with over 46,000 signing up to join in. Hurricane Irma is due to hit Florida on Saturday, and the state is currently experiencing the largest ever mass evacuation due to a hurricane in American history. But Ryon Edwards, 22, came up with a novel way of amusing himself during the storm: firing bullets into it. He started a Facebook "event", and as of Friday evening 46,000 people say they are interested. "A combination of stress and boredom made me start the event," he told the BBC. "The response is a complete and total surprise to me. "I never envisioned this event becoming some kind of crazy idea larger than myself. It has become something a little out of my control." The "Shoot at Irma" page Graphics suggesting how to shoot at a hurricane have sprung up online, with the suggestion that if you fire correctly the bullet might not come back and kill you. Since Mr Edwards came up with his "masterplan", other similar Facebook pages have been created - including one suggesting using flame throwers to scare away the storm. "It's time we took a stand against this bully!" reads the event description. "This is our home, nobody drives us out of our own territory. "Join me in this fight as we shoot flames at Hurricane Irma and dissipate her on the spot."
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| Country Singer Troy Gentry Dies In Helicopter Crash At 50 Posted: 08 Sep 2017 02:36 PM PDT  Montgomery Gentry singer Troy Gentry has died in a helicopter crash, the band's Facebook page and website confirmed on Friday.
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| Houston residents confront officials over decision to flood neighborhoods Posted: 09 Sep 2017 04:03 PM PDT  By Emily Flitter HOUSTON (Reuters) - Angry Houston residents shouted at city officials on Saturday over decisions to intentionally flood certain neighborhoods during Hurricane Harvey, as they returned to homes that may have been contaminated by overflowing sewers. A town hall grew heated after City Council member Greg Travis, who represents parts of western Houston, told about 250 people that an Army Corps of Engineers official told him that certain gauges measuring water levels at the Buffalo Bayou - the city's main waterway - failed due to a decision to release water from two municipal reservoirs to avoid an overflow.
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| 4 killed in medical helicopter crash in North Carolina Posted: 08 Sep 2017 01:26 PM PDT  BELVIDERE, N.C. (AP) — A medical helicopter crashed Friday in North Carolina, killing four people, the Highway Patrol said.
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| Teen Girl Who's Been Missing for a Month Swims Across Lake to Escape Captors: Cops Posted: 08 Sep 2017 10:46 AM PDT  The girl was a victim of sexual assault and three suspects have been arrested, cops say.
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| China's Xi asks Macron for French help easing N. Korea tensions Posted: 08 Sep 2017 06:46 AM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping called on France to help ease the situation in North Korea during a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, state media said Friday, days after Pyongyang's largest ever nuclear test. The conversation came one day after statements from China supporting stronger sanctions against Pyongyang and "necessary measures" at the UN Security Council, where China and France both hold vetoes.
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| Top Trump Aide Hope Hicks Hires Lawyer for Russia Probe Posted: 09 Sep 2017 06:07 AM PDT  Hicks is one of six past and current Trump administration aides whom Robert Mueller reportedly wants to question.
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| Country Music Hall of Famer Don Williams Dead at 78 Posted: 08 Sep 2017 03:06 PM PDT  Country Music Hall of Famer Don Williams has died after a short illness, PEOPLE confirms. He was 78.
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| Irma: Four killed by hurricane in British Virgin Islands, officials say Posted: 08 Sep 2017 08:16 AM PDT  Four people have been killed by Hurricane Irma in the British Virgin Islands, officials have said. The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency confirmed the deaths in a statement on Friday but gave no further details. The British government has been coordinating relief efforts to the cluster of islands near Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
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| Does Betsy DeVos care more about those accused of rape than its victims? | Lucia Graves Posted: 08 Sep 2017 06:29 AM PDT  Protesters at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where Betsy DeVos delivered a policy address on sexual harassment, rape and assault on 7 September. As she announced the rollback of Obama-era rules on campus sexual assault, education secretary Betsy DeVos seemed at times less like the head of the Department of Education than the department of rape apologists.
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| Nauseating trash heaps in India spark citizen cleanup drives Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:37 PM PDT  MUMBAI, India (AP) — Lawyer Afroz Shah moved to Mumbai with a dream of looking out at the wild, blue Arabian Sea. What he saw instead was nauseating — waves churning with plastic shopping bags and empty chip packets, beaches covered so thick with soda bottles and snack wrappers he could no longer see the sand.
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| 15-Year-Old Girl Held Captive and Abused for 29 Days Swims Across Lake to Escape Posted: 08 Sep 2017 06:31 AM PDT  She was repeatedly raped, tied up with zip ties and locked in a closet
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| Saudi Arabia suspends any dialogue with Qatar: SPA Posted: 08 Sep 2017 04:49 PM PDT  Saudi Arabia on Saturday suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of "distorting facts", just after a report of a phone call between the leaders of both countries suggested a breakthrough in the Gulf dispute. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke by the telephone with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on Friday when they discussed the Gulf dispute, state media from both countries reported earlier. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain cut diplomatic and trade links with Qatar on June 5, suspending air and shipping routes with the world's biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas, which is home to the region's biggest U.S. military base.
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| Ravaged French Caribbean islands brace for new hurricane Posted: 09 Sep 2017 12:59 PM PDT  The ravaged French Caribbean islands of Saint Martin and Saint Barts braced Saturday for a second potentially devastating hurricane as shellshocked residents scrambled for safety while air and sea links were severed. France's meteorological agency issued its highest warning, saying the Category Four Hurricane Jose could become a "dangerous event of exceptional intensity". Jose was expected to pass 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Saint Martin, 95 percent of which has already been ravaged by Hurricane Irma, which struck three days ago and is expected to reach Florida at 1000 GMT Sunday.
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