| 2 Teenagers Accused of Planning Attack on Classmates and School Staffers Posted: 25 Oct 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Police found weapons and a diary containing threats for an alleged attack in Georgia.
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| Aerial Images Reveal North Korea's Secret Network Of Prisons And 'Re-Education' Camps Posted: 26 Oct 2017 04:02 PM PDT  Newly released satellite images offer a never-before-seen glimpse of North Korea's "brutal and inhumane" network of political prisons, including secret labor camps.
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| Tanya Thicke reveals late husband Alan Thicke's final words to her and the moment she 'knew something was really, really wrong' Posted: 26 Oct 2017 02:37 PM PDT  Tanya Thicke is opening up about her late husband, Alan Thicke's, last day alive.
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| Catalan regional parliament declares independence from Spain Posted: 27 Oct 2017 09:38 AM PDT ![Catalan regional parliament declares independence from Spain]( "Catalan regional parliament declares independence from Spain") Catalonia's regional parliament passed a motion Friday to establish an independent Catalan Republic, voting to secede from Spain after an acrimonious debate.
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| JFK Files Don't Make The Details Of His Assassination Any Less Mysterious Posted: 27 Oct 2017 04:33 AM PDT  Tidbits revealed in newly released National Archives documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy suggest the investigation into what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, won't settle lingering questions.
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| George W. Bush knew he'd be missed someday. Now he is, even by Democrats. Posted: 26 Oct 2017 12:33 PM PDT  Widely praised for a recent speech and with new polling showing a spike in approval even among Democrats, former President George W. Bush continues to benefit from comparisons to a certain other Republican president.
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| Walmart unveils Sam's Choice Itaila -- a new food line straight from Italy Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:38 PM PDT  Walmart is going Italian! The retail giant has teamed up with the Italian Trade Agency to create a line of authentic Italian cuisine for customers across America. Other items from the line also available in Walmart's 3,600 stores include boxed dinners, bagged pastas, pesto and pasta sauces and frozen pizzas.
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| The Latest: JFK Files: British newspaper got early tip Posted: 27 Oct 2017 04:37 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the John F. Kennedy assassination files (all times local):
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| Former Fox Host Eric Bolling Says His Son Died Of An Accidental Overdose Posted: 26 Oct 2017 04:42 PM PDT  Former Fox News host Eric Bolling said Thursday that his son, Eric Chase Bolling, died last month of an accidental overdose linked in part to opioids.
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| American who 'regretted' joining IS gets 20 year sentence Posted: 27 Oct 2017 01:52 PM PDT  A 27-year-old American who joined the Islamic State group in Syria and later claimed he escaped and fled into the hands of Kurdish troops after a "bad decision" was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday. Mohamad Jamal Khweis left his job driving a bus for disabled people in northern Virginia in December 2015 to travel to IS's stronghold of Raqa. "The evidence at trial demonstrated that Mohamad Khweis is an unpredictable and dangerous person who was radicalized towards violent jihad," said Dana Boente, the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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| Two Women Rescued After Being Stranded At Sea For 5 Months Posted: 27 Oct 2017 10:28 AM PDT  Two mariners who attempted to sail from Honolulu to Tahiti have been rescued after being stranded in their boat for five months.
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| Russia test fired massive nuclear-capable ballistic missile called Satan 2, among three others Posted: 27 Oct 2017 11:04 AM PDT  Russia just carried out a test launch of its Satan 2 nuclear missile on Thursday, which is reportedly capable of wiping out an entire country with a single strike.
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| Women On Twitter Are Sharing What Happens When They Ask Crushes Out On A Date Posted: 27 Oct 2017 01:12 PM PDT  Modern dating is nothing like it used to be, but there's one tradition we can't seem to shake: the expectation that men should be the ones to ask women out.
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| Trump declares 'public health emergency' over opioid crisis: 'We can be the generation that ends the epidemic' Posted: 26 Oct 2017 01:05 PM PDT  Responding to a calamitous rise in the number of opioid overdoses and deaths, the president took action today. In declaring a public health emergency, Trump stopped short of the strongest possible response, but the action will bring many federal resources to bear on the crisis.
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| Should black Americans boycott American Airlines? | Steven W Thrasher Posted: 26 Oct 2017 03:00 AM PDT  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has issued a travel advisory warning African-American travels against the airline. After a months-long investigation found "a pattern of disturbing incidents reported by African American passengers, specific to American Airlines," the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has issued a "national advisory alerting travelers – especially African Americans – to exercise caution, in that booking and boarding flights on American Airlines could subject them disrespectful, discriminatory or unsafe conditions". This is a wise move for the venerable civil rights organization, as boycotting or threatening to boycott companies – especially airlines in regards to racism — is the only way to push reforms and seek an end to racial profiling, micro-aggressions, and outright violence.
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| The Latest: Soldier head wound described at Bergdahl hearing Posted: 26 Oct 2017 10:07 AM PDT  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing hearing for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (all times local):
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| FEMA disavows Puerto Rico power contract amid investigations Posted: 27 Oct 2017 01:12 PM PDT  The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday it had no involvement in the decision to award a $300 million contract to help restore Puerto Rico's power grid to a tiny Montana company in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's hometown.
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| Second US team operated near site of Niger ambush: Pentagon Posted: 26 Oct 2017 03:32 PM PDT  A second team of American soldiers was operating close to the site of a deadly ambush on a US-Niger patrol, the Pentagon said Thursday, adding a new element to the much-scrutinized operation. "There are other teams that operate in Niger. There was one that had something to do with this operation," Joint Staff Director Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie said.
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| JFK files: Russia denies any connection to president's assassination before release of documents Posted: 26 Oct 2017 01:58 PM PDT  Russia has pre-emptively denied ties to any plot to assassinate late President John F Kennedy ahead of the expected release of thousands of archived records. The National Archives was due to release a trove of documents related to the 22 November 1963 assassination on Thursday. One of several conspiracy theories about Mr Kennedy's killer Lee Harvey Oswald is that he was in contact with then-Soviet intelligence services, or was given training by them while he was on a visit to the USSR.
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| Virginia's GOP Governor Hopeful Takes Aim At Voting Rights Again Posted: 27 Oct 2017 02:45 PM PDT  Ed Gillespie, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, launched another highly misleading ad on Friday targeting the practice of restoring voting rights to former felons who have completed their sentences.
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| Elaborate funeral for Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej Posted: 27 Oct 2017 10:53 AM PDT ![Elaborate funeral for Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej]( "Elaborate funeral for Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej") The cremated remains of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej were transferred Friday to spiritually significant locations for Buddhist rites that will prepare them to be enshrined on the final day of an elaborate funeral that has transfixed the nation.
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| President Trump to reporter's kids: 'I cannot believe the media produced such beautiful children' Posted: 27 Oct 2017 01:32 PM PDT  President Trump joked about the White House press corps on Friday during a pre-Halloween visit with their children in the Oval Office.
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| Muslim Senate Candidate: Jeff Flake Should Have Challenged Trump Rhetoric Sooner Posted: 26 Oct 2017 03:23 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Deedra Abboud, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona, is happy to see Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz) speak out about what he called "personal attacks, … threats against principles, freedoms, and institutions, [and] flagrant disregard for truth or decency," an apparent criticism of President Donald Trump.
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| Woman Who Disappeared 42 Years Ago Found Living With Dementia in Nursing Home Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:57 PM PDT  Florence "Flora" Stevens vanished more than 40 years ago in upstate New York. She has been found living in an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, authorities said.
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| The Latest: Searchers describe finding 3-year-old's body Posted: 27 Oct 2017 08:44 AM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the disappearance and death of a 3-year-old suburban Dallas girl (all times local):
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| The 20 Funniest Tweets From Women This Week Posted: 27 Oct 2017 09:36 AM PDT  The ladies of Twitter never fail to brighten our days with their brilliant ― but succinct ― wisdom.
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| Tillerson: No future for Assad in Syria Posted: 26 Oct 2017 11:23 AM PDT  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared Thursday that Bashar al-Assad has no future as leader of Syria and will have to leave office as part of a UN-mediated peace process. Tillerson's comments to reporters came during a visit to Geneva in which he met UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, who is trying to convene a new round of peace talks next month. The secretary said US policy has not changed, but his remarks represented tougher language from an administration that had previously said Assad's fate is not a priority.
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| These Are The Types Of Coworkers People Complain About Most In Therapy Posted: 26 Oct 2017 10:44 AM PDT  No one job title or occupation is the same, but the difficult coworkers you run into in any given field tend to be remarkably similar.
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| Venezuelan anti-Maduro governor sacked, opposition in chaos Posted: 26 Oct 2017 12:06 PM PDT  By Isaac Urrutia and Eyanir Chinea MARACAIBO/CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - The newly elected opposition governor of Venezuela's western Zulia state was dismissed on Thursday by the pro-government local state legislature, adding to disarray among foes of the ruling socialists. The sacking of Juan Pablo Guanipa, one of five opposition governors in Venezuela's 23 states, came after he refused to swear loyalty to an all-powerful national legislative superbody aligned with President Nicolas Maduro's ruling socialists. "They held a secret, express session to remove him," Guanipa's spokeswoman Erika Gutierrez told Reuters of the morning meeting of Zulia's state legislature.
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| Ted Cruz Hopes Release Of JFK Files Will End 'Ludicrous' Claim His Dad Was Involved Posted: 26 Oct 2017 10:27 AM PDT  One person with a keen interest in the JFK assassination files President Donald Trump is releasing on Thursday is Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
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| What the revelations from the new JFK files mean for the main conspiracy theories Posted: 27 Oct 2017 10:10 AM PDT  The publication of thousands of classified US Government files on the death of President John F. Kennedy has unearthed some fascinating details and colourful anecdotes surrounding the assassination. Some of the more intriguing revelations include a mysterious call made to a British newspaper minutes before the shooting and the FBI warning the Dallas police there were threats against Lee Harvey Oswald the day before he was gunned down by nightclub operator Jack Ruby while in police custody. Yet the files do not appear to have revealed anything that sheds real light on the enduring mysteries around the murder of the 35th US President. This is unsurprising in light of the fact that President Donald Trump withheld the most sensitive files at the last minute, bowing to pressure from the CIA and FBI. Mr Trump said he had made the decision to hold back on around 200 files over national security concerns. "I have no choice," the US president said in a memo, citing "potentially irreversible harm" to national security if he were to allow all records out now. He was placing those files under a six-month review. As well myriad outlandish conspiracy theories around President Kennedy's shooting there are still legitimate questions that have never been fully answered. Four unanswered questions from the JFK conspiracy As reporters and historians continue to pore over the new files, here is what the revelations that have emerged so far tell us about those unanswered questions. What did the security agencies know about Oswald? One of the key questions is how much the FBI and CIA knew about President Kennedy's shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald. The 24-year-old former US Marine was on the radar of both agencies due to his open Communist views and attempts to move to the USSR. Lee Harvey Oswald in police custody after the shooting Credit: Reuters The new files reveal that FBI agents were actively discussing Oswald just weeks before the shooting An FBI memo, which came from the bureau's New Orleans office in late October 1963, said: "Will maintain contact with Cuban sources for any indication of additional activity on the part of subject organisation which appears to have become inactive since the departure from New Orleans of Lee Harvey Oswald." The organisation referred to was the Pro-Castro "Fair Play for Cuba Committee". It adds: "If Oswald has relocated in the Dallas territory it is possible he may inaugurate a FPCC branch in that area." An inside job? A common strain of conspiracy is that Oswald, who was found to be a lone wolf by various public inquiries, was a fall guy for a shadowy wider conspiracy to kill the president. The new files have not done much to debunk this genre of speculation. A document from 1975 contains a partial deposition by Richard Helms, a deputy CIA director under Kennedy who later became CIA chief, to the Rockefeller Commission, which was studying unauthorised CIA activities in domestic affairs. Commission lawyers appeared to be probing for information on what foreign leaders might have been the subject of assassination attempts by or on behalf of the CIA. A lawyer asks Helms: "Is there any information involved with the assassination of President Kennedy which in any way shows that Lee Harvey Oswald was in some way a CIA agent or agent" - here the document ends, short of his answer. JFK Files | Why now? Was Oswald working for a foreign nation? A key area of interest for historians is Oswald's contacts with enemy nations in the run-up to the shooting. The avowed Marxist had moved to the USSR in 1959, but ultimately failed to obtain citizenship and returned to the US in 1962. Weeks before the shooting he went to Mexico City and had meetings at the USSR embassy and Cuban consulate. A full picture of what happened in those meetings has never emerged and they became a fertile breeding ground for conspiracies suggesting Cuba or the USSR had a hand in the assassination. Previously unreleased files shed new details on JFK assassination 01:48 The files have confirmed that Oswald did meet Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov, a KGB agent who worked for the KGB's 13th department, which was responsible for assassinations, during his stay in Mexico City. However nothing is known about what they discussed and the CIA believes Oswald's meetings at the embassy and consulate were over renewed efforts to gain USSR citizenship. #JFKFiles-Lee Harvey Oswald met with #Communist#USSR#KGB#Assassination grp in #MexicoCity nearly 2 months before murder of President #JFKpic.twitter.com/QZ9vJBxDDo— R.E.A.L Human Rights (@realhumanrights) October 26, 2017 The files also show the FBI learned USSR officials thought Oswald was a "maniac". A document from the bureau written after President Kennedy's death read: "According to our source, Soviet officials claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald had no connection whatsoever with the Soviet Union. "They described him as a neurotic maniac who was disloyal to his own country and everything else. They noted that Oswald never belonged to any organisation in the Soviet Union and was never given Soviet citizenship." Aftermath and 'cover-up' Conspiracists have often accused the US Government of varying cover-ups over the shooting and the fact 200 files remain classified will do little to dampen down those suspicions. President John F. Kennedy with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (centre) in May 1963 Credit: FBI Yet the released files have shown that the security agencies were aware that Oswald's death in police custody before he could answer for his crimes was liable to fuel conspiracy. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover vented his frustration in a formerly secret report found in the files. It opened: "There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead." He added: "The thing I am concerned about, and so is (deputy attorney general) Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin".
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| Police Officer Who Killed Terence Crutcher Has Manslaughter Charge Expunged From Record Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:44 PM PDT  The former Tulsa police officer who fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher last year and was acquitted of manslaughter this spring will no longer have the charge on her record.
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| Caitlyn Jenner shares first-ever swimsuit video: 'Walking on the beach being my authentic self' Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:38 PM PDT  Caitlyn Jenner finally achieved one of her own on Friday as she hit the beach in a floppy hat and halter one-piece swimsuit -- the first time post-transition that she's publicly worn such an item for the world to see.
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| Body of Missing Teacher Found After Husband Confesses to Murder in Suicide Note Posted: 26 Oct 2017 11:03 AM PDT  The body of Theresa Lockhart, who was reported missing more than five months ago, was found in Michigan on Tuesday.
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| Car drives into immigration protest; motorist arrested Posted: 26 Oct 2017 07:33 PM PDT  BREA, Calif. (AP) — A man drove his car through marchers Thursday at an immigrant rights rally, with one demonstrator jumping on the hood as the car lurched forward and then stopped. Police quickly surrounded it and arrested the man.
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| Workers Who Help Make Haribo Gummies Kept In 'Slave'-Like Conditions, Says Report Posted: 26 Oct 2017 09:22 AM PDT  German candy company Haribo has promised an internal investigation in the wake of an explosive documentary accusing the company of abusive labor practices and animal cruelty.
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| Former Russian 'troll farm' employee says Hillary Clinton body double was hired to make sex tape Posted: 27 Oct 2017 09:31 AM PDT  The company, according to the first former employee to go on record Alan Baskaev, ran popular Twitter accounts that would promote then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign officials and surrogates. The Internet Research Agency also ran websites in favour of Mr Trump during the election, the Daily Beast reported. Mr Baskaev, now a teacher in Thailand, appeared in an on-camera interview with independent Russian television station TV Rain.
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| There's A Glaring Hole In Trump's Plan To Fight Opioid Addiction Posted: 26 Oct 2017 02:24 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he's declaring the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency and vowed to fight drug addiction.
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| Rex Tillerson looked at a statue and can't anymore as secretary of state Posted: 26 Oct 2017 02:47 PM PDT  It's not easy being President Donald Trump's secretary of state. Rex Tillerson let it slip how burnt out he is while walking through a park in Geneva, Switzerland on Thursday. SEE ALSO: Trump allegedly asked for 10 times more nukes before Tillerson called him a 'moron' As he passed a statue in the Parc Mon Repos of a person curled up into themselves with their arms wrapped around their body, Tillerson said, "Yea, some days I feel like I need to do that, curl up in a ball." Secretary of State Rex Tillerson admires an art display in Switzerland: "Some days I feel like I need to do that, curl up in a ball." pic.twitter.com/MJ331iv12M — NBC News (@NBCNews) October 26, 2017 Tillerson has been on busy trip meeting with leaders from Saudi Arabia, India, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Switzerland, he discussed Syria and the U.S. role in the war-torn country's government. It's a lot to take on world leadership and politics in the Middle East — Tillerson is tired. It doesn't help when your relationship with the president is fraught and on thin ice, mostly because you think the president is a moron. Curling up in a ball sounds so much better than dealing with all this. WATCH: Someone created a storm lamp that produces lightning every time Trump tweets
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| NATO challenges Russia on military drill numbers Posted: 26 Oct 2017 08:13 AM PDT  NATO members challenged Russia on Thursday over "discrepancies" in Moscow's account of controversial military exercises last month, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said. The Zapad drills that Moscow staged jointly with Belarus on NATO's eastern flank caused concern in Poland and the Baltic states due to their size and over Moscow's intentions. Zapad is Russian for "west" and Western nations feared the exercises closely resembled a rehearsal for war with NATO.
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| Pastor Accused Of Impersonating Cop And Assaulting Teens Posted: 26 Oct 2017 02:21 PM PDT  It's a sin to bear false witness, but that didn't stop a Minnesota pastor from allegedly impersonating a police officer and pepper spraying a teenager.
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| Man Locked In Beer Cooler for 6 Hours Helps Himself to Drinks Despite Court Order to Stay Sober: Cops Posted: 27 Oct 2017 08:01 AM PDT  Jeremy Van Ert, 38, allegedly had 18 ounces of beer and several cans of Four Loko.
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| Japan's automakers tuning up to rekindle youthful passion for cars Posted: 26 Oct 2017 02:19 AM PDT  The unassuming rest stop is famous to car enthusiasts as a temple of the country's motor culture, but it also illustrates a "youth" problem that auto companies such as Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co are scrambling to address. The crowd last Friday - around 50 supercar fans who huddled around the back of a loading truck to get a first glimpse of the latest Lamborghini Huracan Performante delivered days before to collector Takeshi Kimura - were mainly men in their 40s and 50s. "Today's young people, they came of age during the recession, and some of them didn't grow up with a family car," said Kimura, who has earned a reputation on Japanese social media as an ambassador of car culture thanks to stunts including coasting his Ferrari F40 down ski slopes and racing his supercars around a driving school practice course.
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| Xi Jinping: China Will not Tolerate "Taiwan Independence" Plan Posted: 26 Oct 2017 12:08 AM PDT  In the opening speech at the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, China's President Xi Jinping said that China will not tolerate any plans to separate Taiwan from China.
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| 14 Reasons People Fall In Love With Their Partners Again And Again Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:13 PM PDT  Keeping the spark alive in a romantic relationship isn't easy, especially after the honeymoon phase has come and gone.
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| Deadly clashes mar repeat of Kenya's presidential vote Posted: 26 Oct 2017 01:58 PM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Opposition supporters boycotted Thursday's rerun of Kenya's disputed presidential election, clashing with police in some parts of the East African country and forcing authorities to postpone voting in areas affected by the violence. At least four people were killed.
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