| Alabama Senate Front-Runner: Evolution Is Fake And Homosexuality Should Be Illegal Posted: 21 Sep 2017 02:21 PM PDT  U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore has approached his work over the decades as he once approached mastering kickboxing and building a house with own hands: with laser focus and a fervent belief that he has God on his side.
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| Trump jokes about 'deplorable' North Korea Posted: 21 Sep 2017 09:10 AM PDT  "I'm happy you used the world 'deplorable,'" Trump told South Korean President Moon Jae-in. "That's been a very lucky word for me and many millions of people."
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| Heartbreak in Puerto Rico: 'We Don't Have Anything' Posted: 22 Sep 2017 03:54 AM PDT  Puerto Ricans are now returning home to face the devastation from Hurricane Maria.
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| Erdogan says young Turks who study in West return as 'spies' - but his own children studied in US Posted: 21 Sep 2017 09:48 AM PDT  Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that young Turks who study in the West come back as "volunteer spies" - even though three of his own children studied in the US. Speaking at an event in New York, the Turkish leader said: "Those who were sent to the West for education came back with only the West's culture, losing their identity. Those who the country waited for to solve its problems came back as the West's volunteer spies." Mr Erdogan is the father of four adult children, three of whom have degrees from American universities. His daughter Esra and son Bilal both did their undergraduate studies at Indiana University, while other daughter Sumeyye has a master's degree from the university's School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Mr Erdogan's daughter Esra also studied at Indiana University Credit: CEM TURKEL/AFP/Getty Images Mr Erdogan met with the president of Indiana University in Istanbul in 2014 and the university said that both the president and his wife, Emine, had visited the university's campus in Bloomington, Indiana The president's daughters both wear Muslim headscarves. Some reports said they refused to study in Turkey because many Turkish universities banned the headscarf until 2010. Bilal also graduated with a masters in public policy from Harvard's prestigious John F Kennedy School of Government. He was working on a PhD at Johns Hopkins University but it is not clear if he completed it. Many of the president's most senior cabinet members also studied in the West. In his speech, Mr Erdogan lamented that for hundreds of years young Turks had been sent abroad to study but returned with Western ideas. "Those who look down on their own nation, those who despise their own values, be sure about that; even our enemies couldn't do damage like these so-called intellectuals did." Mr Erdogan's comments led to frustrated outpourings on social media from some Turks who accused him of hypocrisy. Hypocracy | Erdogan today has said our bright minds go to study abroad and become spies. Just to note all his 4 kids studied in UK&US. https://t.co/UAGl1y17AB— Isa Gokturk YILMAZ (@IGokturkYilmaz) September 21, 2017 So this makes his daughter Sümeyye (who studied at Indiana University thanks to a scholarship provided by Remzi Gür & at @LSEnews) a spy.— Has Avrat (@hasavrat) September 21, 2017 Mr Erdogan regularly unleashes broadsides against the West in general and often the European Union in particular. Earlier this year, in the run up to a referendum that vastly expanded his own powers, he sparked an angry diplomatic back and forth with Holland and Germany, accusing both of being Nazis.
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| Jerry Lewis Left All Six Children from His First Marriage Out of His Will Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:37 PM PDT  Jerry Lewis certainly got in the last laugh when it comes to his strained relationship with his children.
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| Mexico Schoolgirl's Wiggling Fingers Bring Hope After 2 Others Rescued From Quake Rubble Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:43 AM PDT  The school was among 40 buildings that collapsed during Tuesday's massive earthquake.
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| Insight: Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption row Posted: 20 Sep 2017 10:31 PM PDT  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust among close U.S. allies. In interviews and emails seen by Reuters, academic and industry experts from countries including Germany, Japan and Israel worried that the U.S. electronic spy agency was pushing the new techniques not because they were good encryption tools, but because it knew how to break them. The NSA has now agreed to drop all but the most powerful versions of the techniques - those least likely to be vulnerable to hacks - to address the concerns.
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| Poll: GOP tax reform not priority for Americans Posted: 22 Sep 2017 01:00 AM PDT  President Trump continues to push tax reform as the GOP's top policy this fall, but it may not be in line with what most Americans want.
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| Macron says Iran nuclear deal no longer enough Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:19 PM PDT  France's President Emmanuel Macron declared Wednesday that the Iran nuclear deal is no longer a sufficient safeguard against the growing power that Tehran wields in its region. "We need the 2015 accord," he said of the agreement. Macron was speaking in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, while ministers from Iran the six world powers that signed the accord met to discuss it.
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| Florida Officials Allege Disturbing Cover-Up At Nursing Home Where Patients Died After Irma Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:44 AM PDT  Staff at a Florida nursing home where 10 patients fell ill last week and eventually died after its air conditioning was knocked out for days made entries into patients' medical records that inaccurately portrayed their situation, according to state officials.
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| 18 Halloween Costume Ideas For People With Glasses Posted: 21 Sep 2017 01:25 PM PDT  Glasses wearers know all-too-well the struggle of finding a Halloween costume that fits their #brand.
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| Canoeist Emma Kelty was 'raped and tortured' before bungling attackers set off SOS alarm Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:12 AM PDT  British canoeist Emma Kelty was tortured and raped as she died after being shot, villagers have claimed. The full details of the adventurer's last moments were revealed in a confession by one of the suspects hours after the attack. Ringleader Evanilson Gomes da Costa, 24, died Wednesday after being shot by rival gangsters. Residents of the small riverside community of Lauro Sodre, near to where the crime took place, said all seven men accused of her murder are well-known drugs users in the village. And one local who knows da Costa - known by his nicknamed Baia - said the gangster spoke to him in the early hours of the morning following Ms Kelty's death last Wednesday night, revealing what they had done. The man, who didn't want to be named, said: "He said he was one of four men. The woman had put up her tent on the beach in exactly the area where the Colombia drug traffickers go through, and which is crawling with pirates who wait for them to arrive to attack. Ms Kelty was a seasoned traveller "These men aren't pirates though, they are just drug users. We are all shocked that these men from our community did such a terrible thing to this woman. "When the men saw her tent they thought it belonged to a Colombian with drugs, so they started firing from about 50 metres away. The woman was hit in the arm. She started waving frantically and screaming for help." He said that when the four men saw that she was a woman they attacked her and, still believing she was carrying drugs, cut off her hair with a knife while demanding to know where the drugs were. According to the man, one of the group then slit her through with the knife, before all four men "sexually abused her". He said they then dragged her body to the river and dumped it in the fast-moving water. He said: "The men fled into the forest after we all found out what they had done. We provided the police with the details and their identities. We're all disgusted by what they have done." Yesterday the chief police officer in Coari, Jose Afonso Barradas Junior, also revealed that one of the suspects, Artur Gomes da Silva, had confessed to slitting the former headteacher's throat. He was arrested yesterday after an anonymous tip-off. And Mr Barradas Junior also revealed how the "stupid" gangsters unwittingly alerted authorities to their crime after accidentally triggering a distress signal on her GPS device, police said today. Investigators had first thought the emergency alert which pinpointed Emma Kelty's exact location and triggered a search operation by Brazil's Navy had been sent by the victim herself. But in fact the 'SOS' button was pressed by one of her killers who was trying to work out how to use the device they had stolen, an hour and a half after her death. Police have now recovered the GPS device, as well as a mobile phone and a memory card, which the gang of seven 'pirates' sold to local villagers after killing her. The GPS signal sent at 10pm last Wednesday night led investigators to the riverside village of Lauro Sodre, 150 miles west of Manaus, and a manhunt which has brought about the arrest of three men accused of her murder. A fourth man was killed yesterday in an unrelated gangfight, and three brothers are still on the run. Yesterday Coari police chief Jose Afonso Barradas Junior said he doubted anyone would have discovered what happened to Ms Kelty if the "stupid" gangsters hadn't set off her emergency locator by mistake. He said: "They didn't know how it worked, so were messing around with it and pushing buttons. "One of them must have pushed the button which transmitted an alert that she was in trouble. In turn the company that received it alerted the Navy, along with the exact location of where the button was pushed. "Without that, it would have been very difficult to know where in this vast area of jungle she had gone missing. "It would have probably remained an unsolved mystery and her killers never brought to justice. "The place where she disappeared is a very complicated area, it's difficult to access and there are no telephones or mobile signal. The criminals thought they could kill her in impunity, but then they stupidly pressed the only button which could have turned them in to the police." Mr Barradas Junior added that some of the locals who bought Ms Kelty's stolen items from the pirates later hid them in the forest after finding out who they belonged to. He said: "They were afraid that they could be arrested for being in possession of stolen property. "But they later took police to the places where they had hid them so the items could be recovered."
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| Istanbul's Ataturk airport closed after private jet crashes: reports Posted: 21 Sep 2017 12:48 PM PDT  Turkey's main international airport was closed to traffic on Thursday after a private jet crashed on landing and burst into flames, reports said. The plane, which had four people on board, was making an emergency landing at Ataturk International Airport, the DHA news agency said. All four were injured but the fire was brought under control, NTV television said.
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| These Were The Most Popular Baby Names In England And Wales Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:57 AM PDT  In May, the Social Security Administration released the list of most popular baby names in the U.S. Now, our neighbors across the pond are sharing their data.
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| Trump praises nonexistent African country 'Nambia' in speech to African leaders Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:18 AM PDT  President Trump made a major blunder during his United Nations speech on Wednesday.
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| North Korea says sanctions threaten survival of its children Posted: 21 Sep 2017 04:47 AM PDT  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea told a U.N. rights panel that international sanctions imposed on it over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs would endanger the survival of North Korean children. Han Tae Song, Pyongyang's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, was speaking at a hearing of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child late on Wednesday.
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| Bill Cassidy Says Jimmy Kimmel 'Doesn't Understand' Health Care. Experts Say He Does. Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:23 AM PDT  Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Thursday continued feuding with late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel on Senate Republicans' latest attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, complaining that Kimmel doesn't understand the bill.
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| Puerto Rico wants US aid after quake but not second-class treatment Posted: 22 Sep 2017 02:25 PM PDT  The calamity of Hurricane Maria could not have come at a worse time for Puerto Rico. People are wondering aloud if reconstruction money will be as forthcoming for them as for those hit by Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Irma in Florida.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 22 Sep 2017 05:55 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways.
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| Man Who Accidentally Burned His Wife Leaves Her, Says He Has Nothing to Apologize For Posted: 22 Sep 2017 09:30 AM PDT  She spent 51 days in the hospital and underwent 20 surgeries.
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| Fans Petition For Wonder Woman To Be Bisexual In Sequel Posted: 21 Sep 2017 04:53 AM PDT  Woman and girls were thrilled to see themselves reflected in a superhero when "Wonder Woman" premiered this summer.
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| Hillary Clinton opens up about Vladimir Putin and his apparent habit of ‘manspreading’ Posted: 20 Sep 2017 06:40 PM PDT  Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may think that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, but it's not the only way in which she thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin oversteps his bounds The former secretary of state opened up about her relationship with Putin during an appearance on "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Tuesday, and detailed the leader's apparent fondness for "manspreading."
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| How North Korea Could Start World War III: A War Between Russia and America Posted: 21 Sep 2017 04:57 PM PDT  Ultimately, while American attempts to shoot-down a North Korean missile are unlikely to trigger an accidental nuclear war, it might not be good idea stress the Russian early warning system. The best option—time permitting—would be to forewarn Moscow of any attempt to shoot down a North Korean missile. If the United States decides to attempt to shoot down future North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests using the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, it is likely that Russia's early warning system will not mistake the interceptors for a potential nuclear attack.
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| Please Stop Calling 911 To Report This Gruesome 'Decapitated Body' Posted: 22 Sep 2017 02:14 AM PDT  Halloween arrived early in one part of Tennessee and sparked a panicked 911 call to police.
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| Thousands rally in Philippines, warn of Duterte 'dictatorship' Posted: 21 Sep 2017 03:37 PM PDT  Thousands of Filipinos rallied on Thursday to denounce Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and warn of what they called an emerging dictatorship, in a major show of dissent against the controversial but hugely popular leader.
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| Michigan Teacher Accused Of Stealing Over $30,000 From School Posted: 21 Sep 2017 03:36 PM PDT  A Michigan teacher was accused of stealing thousands of dollars from students that she used on trips to the casino.
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| Pakistan tells UN won't be 'scapegoat' in Afghan war Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:44 PM PDT  Pakistan refuses to be a "scapegoat" for Afghanistan's bloodshed or to fight wars for others, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi told the United Nations on Thursday. Addressing the UN General Assembly, Abbasi did not explicitly criticize US President Donald Trump's new strategy on Afghanistan but made clear his displeasure with the renewed onus on Pakistan. "Having suffered and sacrificed so much due to our role in the global counter terrorism campaign, it is especially galling for Pakistan to be blamed for the military or political stalemate in Afghanistan," Abbasi said.
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| Preet Bharara, US Attorney Fired By Trump, Joins CNN As Contributor Posted: 20 Sep 2017 07:47 PM PDT  Politico's Michael Calderone reported Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York whom Trump fired in March, joined the cable news network as a senior legal analyst. The network also signed a deal with Walter M. Shaub Jr., the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, who resigned in July.
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| Hurricane Maria: British man dies as partner and children rescued from capsized boat Posted: 22 Sep 2017 04:46 AM PDT  A British man has died after a boat he was travelling in with his family was overturned by Hurricane Maria. The unnamed man had been with his family on a boat that sounded a distress call off the coast of Puerto Rico as the storm moved in on Wednesday. The 20ft seas and 115mph winds capsized their vessel, with the extreme weather delaying rescue efforts by the US Coast Guard and a Royal Navy helicopter.
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| Will Meghan Markle appear alongside boyfriend Prince Harry at the 2017 Invictus Games? Posted: 22 Sep 2017 09:44 AM PDT  Prince Harry has officially landed in Toronto to launch the 2017 Invictus Games on Saturday, but is his talked-about girlfriend Meghan Markle going to join him?
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| Russia and China Have a Sneaky Way to Crush America if World War III Goes Down Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:08 PM PDT  Russia and China are actively pursuing new weapons and capabilities to counter America's dominance of space according a U.S. Intelligence Community assessment. Indeed, both nations are considering the development of weapons that could attack U.S. satellites and other space-based assets in orbit.
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| In Alaska town packed with cabs, bootleggers give you a ride Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:32 AM PDT ![In Alaska town packed with cabs, bootleggers give you a ride]( "In Alaska town packed with cabs, bootleggers give you a ride") ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A far-flung Alaska town is known for having streets that are among the most taxi-congested in the U.S. in proportion to the small number of people who call it home.
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| New Pictures Reveal Bone Fragments Found In Natalee Holloway Investigation Posted: 21 Sep 2017 10:42 AM PDT  The bone fragments were undergoing DNA testing to determine whether they belonged to Natalee.
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| Police Shoot and Kill Deaf Man Holding Metal Pipe as Neighbors Shout 'He Can't Hear You' Posted: 20 Sep 2017 06:15 PM PDT  The two officers did not hear witnesses shouting, "He can't hear you."
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| Syria's Kurds to hold historic vote in 'message' to Assad Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:26 AM PDT  By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish-led regions of northern Syria will hold elections on Friday, a historic expression of free will and a message to President Bashar al-Assad as he seeks to reassert control over the whole country, a senior Syrian Kurdish politician said. As Kurds in neighboring Iraq prepare to vote on secession from Baghdad, Hadiya Yousef told Reuters that Assad's aim to take back all of Syria could lead to its partition, though Syria's Kurds insist that independence is not their aim. The three-phase vote set to begin on Friday is part of a plan mapped out by Syrian Kurdish groups and their allies to set up a federal system of government that will shore up the autonomy they have enjoyed in the north since 2011, when Syria's civil war broke out.
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| 'South Park' Finally Attacks Trump Again, Focusing On North Korea Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:38 AM PDT  Donald Trump has returned to ruin the lives of citizens in "South Park" yet again, despite show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker's previous hints that the series wouldn't satirize the president this season.
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| Canada imposes sanctions on Venezuela leadership Posted: 22 Sep 2017 01:38 PM PDT  Ottawa (AFP) - Canada imposed sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his regime Friday to punish what it called "anti-democratic behavior."
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| Chrissy Teigen needed 6 brown bananas, so she sent her mom to get them from one of her Twitter followers Posted: 21 Sep 2017 01:04 PM PDT  Chrissy Teigen just really wanted six brown bananas, you guys.
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| Rescue workers race to find survivors at collapsed Mexico City school Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:48 AM PDT ![Rescue workers race to find survivors at collapsed Mexico City school]( "Rescue workers race to find survivors at collapsed Mexico City school") Rescue workers search for students at the Enrique Rebsamen school after an earthquake in Mexico City.
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