| Hillary Clinton On Las Vegas Shooting: 'We Must Stand Up To The NRA' Posted: 02 Oct 2017 08:26 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton on Monday expressed her grief over the lives lost in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and tweeted a call to fight efforts by the National Rifle Association to loosen the nation's gun laws.
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| James Corden Makes Emotional Plea For Gun Control After Vegas Tragedy Posted: 03 Oct 2017 06:50 AM PDT  Over his short time in the United States as host of the "Late Late Show," James Corden has had to address major world tragedies again and again.
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| 2 Texas inmates set to die this month lose at Supreme Court Posted: 02 Oct 2017 12:08 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused appeals from two convicted killers facing execution in Texas this month, including one inmate set to die next week.
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| Severed head of eccentric Jeremy Bentham to go on display as scientists test DNA to see if he was autistic Posted: 02 Oct 2017 02:00 PM PDT  The severed head of eccentric philosopher Jeremy Bentham is to go on display for the first time in decades and scientists are using the opportunity to test his DNA to find out if he was autistic. Social reformer Bentham, who died in 1832 insisted that his body be preserved after his death as an 'auto-icon' so that he could be wheeled out at parties if his friends were missing him. He also wished to encourage others to donate their bodies to medical science, believing that individuals should make themselves as useful as possible, both in life and death. And Bentham was a staunch atheist who described church teachings as 'nonsense on stilts' and so was opposed to a Christian burial. The auto-icon which Bentham insisted be made after his death For more than 150 years, his body has been kept on public display in a glass case at University College London, however after a mummification mistake, his head was deemed too distasteful to show, and is now kept in safe where it is removed just once a year to check that skin and hair are not falling off. Now the head will be displayed in a new exhibition looking at death and preservation at UCL, and scientists have taken samples of Bentham's DNA to test theories that he may have had Asperger's or autism, both of which have a strong genetic component. Subhadra Das, Curator of Collections at UCL Culture, said: "I think Bentham would certainly have approved of his head going on public display. It's what he intended. "It has also allowed scientists to test his DNA to see if he was autistic. We have been working with the Natural History Museum who have new techniques of studying ancient DNA. "Studying ancient DNA is like looking at the shredded pages of a book, so much information is missing. And we have found that 99 per cent of the DNA taken has come from bacteria in his mouth. So it may be tricky to come to a firm conclusion. "We want to explore what drove Bentham to donate his body, but also to address the challenges of putting this type of material on display" The head was once displayed in the same case but was deemed to grotesque and is now kept in a safe Credit: UCL Bentham was a leading philosopher and social thinker of the 18th and early 19th century, establishing himself as a leading theorist in social and economic reform. He was pivotal in the establishment of Britain's first police force, the Thames River Police in 1800 which was the precedent for Robert Peel's reforms 30 years later. He also argued for the rights of women, and for homosexuality to be legalised. However he was notably eccentric, reclusive and difficult to get hold of. He called his walking stick Dapple, his teapot Dickey, and kept an elderly cat named The Reverend Sir John Langbourne. The mummified head of Jeremy Bentham Credit: UCL In 2006, researchers Philip Lucas and Anne Sheeran suggested his unique character was driven by Asperger's syndrome, after studying biographies which described a young Bentham as 'having few companions his own age'; and being 'morbidly sensitive.' Now scientist hope to test the theory with science. Recent studies have suggested that autism is around 82 per cent heritable and there are specific regions in the genetic code linked to traits. Other exhibits on display include to new DNA finds from archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) who also asked for his head to be preserved, and mammoth tusk, Hair and tooth dating back around 10,000 years. The exhibition What does it mean to be human? Curating Heads is free and runs until February in the Octagon Gallery, Wilkins Building, UCL.
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| Iraqi forces seize air base from Islamic state near Hawija Posted: 02 Oct 2017 08:14 AM PDT  Iraqi forces and Shi'ite paramilitaries captured an air base from Islamic State on Monday, the army said, gaining a strategic foothold in the north of the country as they push toward the town of Hawija. Iraq launched an offensive on September 21 to dislodge Islamic State from Hawija, which lies west of the oil city of Kirkuk and is one of two areas of the country still under the control of the militant group. Iraqi army commanders said the Rashad air base, which is around 30 km (20 miles) south of Hawija, was used by the militants as a training camp and logistic base.
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| Zimbabwe arrests journalist over Grace Mugabe 'used' underwear Posted: 03 Oct 2017 06:33 AM PDT  Zimbabwe police have arrested a journalist at a privately-owned daily over a story claiming that President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace had donated second-hand underwear to supporters, lawyers said Tuesday. Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) said that Kenneth Nyangani, a NewsDay journalist, was arrested on Monday night "for allegedly writing and publishing a story over the donation of some used undergarments by First Lady Grace Mugabe". Nyangani was being detained in the eastern city of Mutare and is likely to face "criminal defamation" charges, the organisation said in a statement.
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| Trump to Maria survivor: ‘Have a good time’ Posted: 03 Oct 2017 11:46 AM PDT  Social media had a field day on Tuesday after President Trump, touring storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, concluded a conversation with a man whose home was damaged by telling the man to "have a good time."
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| Veteran staying just 2 rooms below Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock gives chilling account of attack Posted: 03 Oct 2017 07:57 AM PDT  An Iraq War veteran who was staying just two rooms below Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock gave a harrowing account of the tragic events that unfolded on Sunday night.
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| Keith Olbermann: The NRA Should Be Branded A Terrorist Organization Posted: 03 Oct 2017 01:21 AM PDT  Keith Olbermann tore into the National Rifle Association for "enabling such massacres" as the one that took place in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
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| Why North Korea Might Do the Unthinkable: Test a Nuclear Weapon in the Pacific Ocean Posted: 02 Oct 2017 05:04 PM PDT  The Trump Administration may inadvertently be provoking North Korea into conducting a live-fire test of a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. While it is clear that North Korea has both ballistic missile technology and a working hydrogen bomb, the U.S. State Department recently suggested in a tweet that Pyongyang does not have such capabilities. While many prominent international relations experts and former U.S. government officials immediately derided the State Department's tweet, similar statements in previous decades prompted China to conduct a risky live-five nuclear missile test on October 27, 1966.
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| Oklahoma judge rules former cop will face 4th murder trial Posted: 02 Oct 2017 01:19 PM PDT  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge Monday ruled that a white former police officer will face a fourth murder trial in the 2014 killing of his daughter's black boyfriend.
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| Stunning images capture 'UFO' clouds surrounding volcano Posted: 03 Oct 2017 10:11 AM PDT ![Stunning images capture 'UFO' clouds surrounding volcano]( "Stunning images capture 'UFO' clouds surrounding volcano") The Kamchatka peninsula's volcanoes are portrayed in a series of stunning shots by photographer Vladimir Voychuk, 37, from Klin, Russia. It is said that Kamchatka is one of the most picturesque distant corners of Russia and attracts hundreds of photographers with its unique environment.
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| Trump administration backpedals on citizenship for 'Dreamers' Posted: 03 Oct 2017 03:33 PM PDT  By Yeganeh Torbati and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. official told Congress on Tuesday it would be "rational" to legislate a path for citizenship for illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, but within hours the administration backtracked, saying his comments did not state the views of President Donald Trump. The Trump administration last month ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which began in 2012 under former President Barack Obama.
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| 'Fixer Upper' star Joanna Gaines makes major business announcement Posted: 02 Oct 2017 11:24 AM PDT  We can't keep up with Chip and Joanna Gaines anymore!
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| Australian Authorities Regret the 'Unacceptable' End to MH370 Search Posted: 03 Oct 2017 01:27 AM PDT  The 1,046-day search for the missing Malaysian flight yielded little solid data
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| Jason Aldean Is Afraid To Raise His Children In 'Scary' World After Vegas Shooting Posted: 03 Oct 2017 09:04 AM PDT  Musician Jason Aldean was performing at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night when shots were fired.
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| Friend: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry 'already' engaged, but 'holding the news' until this one thing happens Posted: 03 Oct 2017 08:44 AM PDT  Are Prince Harry and Meghan Markle already engaged?
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| Russia vs. America in the Sky: Su-35 Fighter vs. F-15C (Who Wins?) Posted: 02 Oct 2017 04:29 AM PDT  Bottom line: unless the F-15 is fighting World War III, the Air Force is probably going to be ok keeping the Eagle in service for another two decades. It might not be the one-sided turkey-shoot the Air Force has gotten used to, but the United States isn't in danger of losing air superiority. The Boeing F-15C Eagle has been in service with the U.S. Air Force for nearly 40 years and will likely serve for decades to come.
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| Defiant Qatar emir meets Iran's Zarif Posted: 03 Oct 2017 06:17 AM PDT  Iran's foreign minister held talks with the emir of Qatar Tuesday aimed at strengthening "co-operation," nearly four months into a Saudi-led blockade against the Gulf emirate. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif met at a time of heightened Gulf tensions, with Qatari officials warning the ongoing Arab blockade would only drive Doha towards regional powerhouse Iran. Qatar's state news agency said the pair discussed the impasse in the region, which has seen Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties with Doha over its ties with Iran and accusations that it supports extremists.
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| Indiana woman accused of confining 2 teenage girls for years Posted: 02 Oct 2017 01:23 PM PDT ![Indiana woman accused of confining 2 teenage girls for years]( "Indiana woman accused of confining 2 teenage girls for years") DECATUR, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman accused of keeping her two daughters confined at home for years allegedly failed to educate the now teenage youths, who told authorities their mother gave up on them "a long time ago."
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| Rock Legend Tom Petty Dead at 66 After Massive Cardiac Arrest Posted: 02 Oct 2017 09:07 PM PDT  Tom Petty died Monday of a cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, PEOPLE confirms
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| U.S. Drone Crash in Yemen Captured on Video Posted: 02 Oct 2017 02:16 PM PDT  The drone was shot down by Houthi rebels fighting against the Saudi Arabia-backed government.
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| 2018 Honda Accord Posted: 01 Oct 2017 09:01 PM PDT  Elevating the mid-size sedan to a higher plane.
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| More daytime images of the Larsen C iceberg have come in, and they're amazing Posted: 02 Oct 2017 11:28 AM PDT  In July, one of the largest icebergs ever recorded — measuring in at about the size of Delaware and containing a volume of ice twice the size of Lake Erie — broke off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in northwest Antarctica. The event, which took place during the frigid blackness of the Antarctic winter, was detected using satellite instruments that could pierce the darkness to sense the ice below. As the austral spring dawns, scientists are now being granted their first glimpses of the new iceberg during the daytime. And the images are incredible. SEE ALSO: Just how big is this new, trillion ton Antarctic iceberg, anyway? The first daytime satellite photo to be released by NASA came on Sept. 11, via an instrument on NASA's Terra satellite, which is known as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. It revealed the massive iceberg, which dwarfs Manhattan yet somehow has taken on its shape, in all its glory. Satellite image showing the massive Antarctic iceberg and its smaller sibling on Sept. 16, 2017.Image: nasaSoon after, other NASA satellites, including Landsat 8, captured detailed images that NASA published on Sept. 30. The new data shows how the massive iceberg has split into smaller pieces since it cleaved off from the floating ice shelf last summer, and reveals that it has begun to push away from the ice shelf that birthed it, thanks to offshore winds. The original iceberg weighed about 1 trillion tons, according to a team of researchers affiliated with a U.K.-based research project, known as Project MIDAS. While the iceberg calving event itself is likely mostly natural, it nevertheless threatens to speed up the already quickening pace of ice melt in the region due in large part to global warming. The wider EW footprint of @ESA_EO 's #sentinel1 gives a nice overview of the drift of iceberg #A68 away from #LarsenC. From-rift-2-drift pic.twitter.com/c6j39bWDBt — Stef Lhermitte (@StefLhermitte) September 21, 2017 In its original shape, the iceberg was about 2,200 square miles in area, Project MIDAS researchers said in a blog post on July 12. In late July, the main iceberg, known as A-68A, lost several chunks of ice as it began to slowly drift out to sea. One of those large chunks is now known as A-68B, according to the National Ice Center, which tracks large icebergs because they pose a danger to ships. Around the same time, scientists revealed that new cracks were developing on the Larsen C ice shelf, potentially signaling additional breakup events in the coming months to years. Scientists are closely monitoring the Larsen C Ice Shelf because of the warming occurring in that region, and the unsettling history of other ice shelves in the area. The icebergs in natural color (left). Thermal image (right) reveals where the colder ice ends and warmer water begins.Image: NASAThe Antarctic Peninsula, which is where the Larsen C Ice Shelf is located, is one of the most rapidly warming parts of the Earth. Two of its neighbors, Larsen A and Larsen B, have already collapsed. (The rapid breakup of Larsen B inspired the opening scene in the disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow.) Because of that history, there is tremendous scientific interest in seeing how Larsen C responds to losing about 12 percent of its area in a single, trillion-ton iceberg. While the iceberg calving event itself is not likely caused specifically by climate change, it nevertheless threatens to speed up the already quickening pace of ice melt in the region by leaving the ice shelf behind it in a weakened state, with new cracks that may develop additional icebergs in the future. The melting of the ice shelf does not affect global sea levels directly, since the ice was already floating, like an ice cube in a glass, before the calving event. However, when ice shelves like Larsen C melt, they can free up land-based ice behind them to flow faster into the sea, which does raise sea levels. WATCH: An iceberg the size of Delaware broke off Antarctica
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| Las Vegas Gunman Stephen Paddock Rented Two Rooms Posted: 02 Oct 2017 12:09 PM PDT  The gunman rented out two rooms, facing different directions, in the Mandalay Bay hotel and stayed for four days ahead of the shooting.
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| Luke Skywalker Might've Been Hiding In Plain Sight In 'The Force Awakens' Posted: 03 Oct 2017 01:57 PM PDT  Luke Skywalker was missing from most of "The Force Awakens" — but he might've been closer than we'd thought.
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| U.S. Interior Secretary investigated over speech to donor's hockey team Posted: 03 Oct 2017 12:31 PM PDT  By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke broke the law when he gave a speech to a professional hockey team owned by a political donor in June, the agency said on Tuesday. Zinke is already being investigated by the Interior Department's inspector general in connection with his travels and the use of private charter flights, amid heightened scrutiny into private plane use by administration officials. The Campaign for Accountability complained last week that a speech Zinke gave on June 26 to the Vegas Golden Knights, a National Hockey League team based in Las Vegas, violated the Hatch Act barring executive branch employees from engaging in political activity.
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| Trump says envoy 'wasting his time' talking to North Korea Posted: 01 Oct 2017 11:34 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was "wasting his time" trying to negotiate with North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs, raising speculation about whether Trump could be undermining efforts to maintain channels of communication or somehow bolstering the diplomat's hand in possible future talks.
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| New Mom Serena Williams Graces Us With Sizzling Instagram Photos Posted: 03 Oct 2017 10:45 AM PDT  Serena Williams is a goddess in all seasons of life, and her post-pregnancy look is no exception.
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| Assad's Victory in Syria Has Cost Him Control of the Country Posted: 01 Oct 2017 06:28 PM PDT  The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Russian military—not the Syrian army or the Syrian political class—are managing Syria's destiny. Four years ago, with Syrian government forces stretched increasingly thin and rebel fighters assaulting some of the regime's most precious and strategic areas, it seemed as if it was only a matter of time before Bashar al-Assad and his extended family were driven into exile. As the violence began creeping closer and closer to Damascus, and as rebel units started launching mortars into the heart of the capital city, rumors abounded about Assad's fate.
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| What NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Saw Before It Died Posted: 02 Oct 2017 02:42 PM PDT  Right before NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere and ended its mission, it sent back photos to Earth of its final moments.
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| 'Dancing With the Stars' couple allegedly 'fighting a lot' behind-the-scenes Posted: 03 Oct 2017 07:34 AM PDT  There's drama brewing behind-the-scenes on "Dancing With the Stars" this season.
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| Four South Sudanese soldiers killed in fighting with rebels Posted: 02 Oct 2017 03:24 AM PDT  Rebels in South Sudan killed four soldiers when they attacked a strategic northeastern town to try to push the government out ahead of a resumption of peace talks, a government spokesman said on Monday. The soldiers came under heavy fire on Sunday in Waat town and 14 were also wounded, said Dickson Gatluak Jock, spokesman for Vice President Taban Deng Gai. South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a long civil war.
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| Trump helps Florida Democrats gain rare special election win Posted: 02 Oct 2017 01:21 PM PDT  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has helped Democrats win an improbable victory in Florida, taking a state Senate seat away from the Republicans who have dominated state politics for two decades.
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