| Zimbabwe's New Leaders Are None Other Than Mugabe's Former 'Enforcers' Posted: 21 Nov 2017 12:42 PM PST  Jubilant crowds filled the streets of Zimbabwe's cities on Tuesday, after the country's speaker of parliament announced that President Robert Mugabe had resigned after decades in power.
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| Military Staff Removed From White House After 'Incident' On Trump's Asia Trip: Report Posted: 21 Nov 2017 08:14 PM PST  Three members of a White House team staffed by military personnel have been removed from their positions after being accused of improper contact with foreign women during President Donald Trump's recent trip through Asia, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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| No verdict yet in San Francisco pier killing as jury breaks Posted: 22 Nov 2017 12:40 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The criminal case against a Mexican man accused of killing a woman on a crowded San Francisco pier is coming to a close more than two years after setting off a national firestorm over immigration.
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| Net neutrality repeal was decided after 'enormous numbers' of fake people sent messages of support for Trump administration Posted: 22 Nov 2017 09:20 AM PST  The profound and fundamental changes currently being made to the internet are being done partly on the basis of hundreds of thousands of fake people, according to New York's attorney general. This week, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it would repeal Obama-era protections that guaranteed net neutrality. Campaigners say that the move would allow internet companies to force people to pay for access to specific websites, for instance, or charge a fee if they want to download things at any speed.
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| Additional remains found of U.S. soldier killed in Niger Posted: 21 Nov 2017 09:07 AM PST  Investigators found additional human remains in early November of U.S. Army Sergeant La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush last month in Niger along with three other U.S. soldiers, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The ambush drew attention to the little-known U.S. military presence in Niger, and it came under further scrutiny when President Donald Trump's handling of condolence messages to the families of the dead U.S. soldiers was criticized by lawmakers in Washington. Investigators found the remains on Nov. 12 and military medical examiners have verified that the remains were Johnson's, Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement.
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| Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird Posted: 21 Nov 2017 11:49 PM PST  A Catholic school in Australia has covered up a statue of a saint giving a loaf of bread to a boy after complaints that it was too suggestive.
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| Donald Trump's Childish 'IT WAS ME' Plea For Credit Sets Twitter On Fire Posted: 22 Nov 2017 05:30 AM PST  President Donald Trump is being ridiculed after he pleaded for credit in the release of three college basketball players detained in China.
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| What 3 Creepy Meetings With Charlie Rose Taught Me About Toxic Sexism And Blurred Lines Posted: 21 Nov 2017 01:49 PM PST  A few years ago I belonged to the group of people who thought that working for Charlie Rose represented the holy grail of journalism.
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| Years into journey, transgender teen still finding himself Posted: 22 Nov 2017 08:58 AM PST  HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — It's been six years since Theo Ramos first cut himself in the school bathroom, six years since his parents and friends and teachers found out he wanted to be a boy instead of a girl, six years in transition.
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| Lebanon's PM Hariri shelves resignation, easing crisis Posted: 22 Nov 2017 12:42 PM PST  By Ellen Francis and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Saad al-Hariri on Wednesday shelved his decision to resign as prime minister at the request of President Michel Aoun, easing a crisis that had deepened tensions in the Middle East. Hariri made his announcement after returning to Beirut for the first time since he quit abruptly on Nov. 4 in a broadcast from Saudi Arabia. Top Lebanese officials have said Riyadh forced him to quit and held him in the kingdom.
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| President Trump and Vladimir Putin Just Had an Hour-Long Phone Call Posted: 21 Nov 2017 02:27 PM PST  Iran and Ukraine were also on the agenda
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| 15 Twists On Shepherd's Pie Your Winter Dinner Rotation Is Missing Posted: 22 Nov 2017 07:16 AM PST |
| Shelter Dogs Get Week-Long 'Vacation' To Spend Thanksgiving In Real Homes Posted: 22 Nov 2017 08:54 AM PST  Twenty Georgia shelter dogs don't have permanent homes yet, but that won't stop them from celebrating Thanksgiving in style.
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| Karina Vetrano murder : Man beat jogger so hard her teeth broke, court hears Posted: 21 Nov 2017 03:13 AM PST  Cathie and Philip Vetrano heard the accused Chanel Lewis explain that he struck Karina Vetrano so hard that her teeth broke. In a pre-taped confession, Mr Lewis said he "lost it" and grabbed the 30-year-old from Queens as she ran past him through a marshy swamp along a bike path in Spring Creek Park. The confession was recorded back in February 2017 after Mr Lewis spent the night in a police precinct watching cartoons.
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| "They said, I’m sorry, because you weren’t physically injured, you can’t go to the private events." Posted: 21 Nov 2017 11:10 AM PST  Lisa Hamp was in the same building as the gunman on the day of the Virginia Tech shooting. She and her classmates pushed against the door of the room to keep him from entering. Last fall, we were talking, and we were like, "Are you going to the 10-year anniversary?" And I said, "I haven't been to one since my senior year, which was the first anniversary, but I'd love to go because now I'm recognizing all this power from recovery and healing.
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| The Latest: FBI says officer's death a 'potential assault' Posted: 21 Nov 2017 01:40 PM PST  DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the death of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Texas (all times local):
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| Five major submarine disasters Posted: 21 Nov 2017 05:06 AM PST  With an Argentine submarine missing for five days with 44 people aboard, we recall five of the most deadly submarine disasters over the past few decades. In August 2000, Russia's northern fleet nuclear submarine Kursk catches fire and explodes underwater while conducting war games. Seventy Chinese naval officers and crew are killed, apparently suffocated, in an accident on a Ming-class submarine conducting exercises east of the Neichangshan islands in May 2003.
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| U.S. diplomats accuse Tillerson of breaking child soldiers law Posted: 21 Nov 2017 02:05 PM PST  By Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of about a dozen U.S. State Department officials have taken the unusual step of formally accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a federal law designed to stop foreign militaries from enlisting child soldiers, according to internal documents reviewed by Reuters. A confidential State Department "dissent" memo, which Reuters was first to report on, said Tillerson breached the Child Soldiers Prevention Act when he decided in June to exclude Iraq, Myanmar, and Afghanistan from a U.S. list of offenders in the use of child soldiers.
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| AP source: Border patrol agent may have fallen Posted: 20 Nov 2017 07:16 PM PST  DALLAS (AP) — A U.S. official with knowledge of the investigation into the death of a border patrol agent said Monday that the surviving agent who radioed in for help doesn't remember what happened.
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| What Experts Have Learned So Far From the JFK Records Releases Posted: 22 Nov 2017 06:05 AM PST  In the months since the document drops began, here's what experts have gleaned from newly released JFK assassination files
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| For Flight Attendants, Sexual Assault Isn't Just Common, It's Almost A Given Posted: 22 Nov 2017 10:54 AM PST  Flight attendant Caroline Bright was kicking off her last shift of the day when she realized one of the pilots on board reminded her of someone.
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| Ann Maguire murder: Parents should be made to sign contracts with Facebook and monitor children's accounts, says coroner Posted: 22 Nov 2017 11:36 AM PST  Parents should be made to sign contracts compelling them to monitor their children's Facebook messages, the coroner in the Ann Maguire murder inquest has claimed. Under proposals due to be presented to the Digital minister Matt Hancock, parents would be given the right to pry on their children's accounts because their "responsibility transcends" a teenager's "entitlement to privacy". The suggestions would also require teens aged 13 to 18 to have a named parent on their application to open an account, and make parents contractually obliged to monitor their communications. Coroner Kevin McLoughlin outlined the proposals yesterday as a jury ruled that the murder of Spanish teacher Ann Maguire could have been prevented. Teenage killer of teacher Ann Maguire told ten friends 'precisely' what he planned to do Delivering a conclusion of unlawful killing, the jury at Wakefield Coroner's Court said that her death had resulted from "missed opportunities to share and record the problem behaviour" of her killer. It comes more than two years after Ms Maguire, an employee of Corpus Christi College, Leeds was stabbed to death by pupil Will Cornick during a lesson at the school on 28 April 2014. During the inquest, the jury heard that Cornick, then 15, had exchanged a series of messages on Facebook with friends in which he professed his hatred for Ms Maguire and his desire to harm her. In one Facebook exchange, he expressed his loathing for the 61-year-old and offered a friend "a tenner" for them to kill her. Another associate of Cornick told police officers in an interview that Cornick had said of Mrs Maguire: "I don't want to hurt her, I want to kill her." Cornick was 15 years old when he stabbed to death Mrs Maguire, 61, as she taught a class at Corpus Christi Catholic College, in Leeds The teenager told 10 pupils of his intention to kill Mrs Maguire and other members of staff, and showed four of them the 34-inch knife he later used in her brutal murder. Despite his litany of threats, none of the pupils reported the outbursts to the school. Their conversations with Cornick only surfaced in pre-inquest hearings, and it later emerged that they had never been questioned about them by police officers or teaching staff after her murder. In statements following Mrs Maguire's murder, Cornick's parents claimed they had no prior knowledge of their son's intentions. Commenting on the disclosures, Mr McLoughlin said that Cornick's online threats had been "sinister and grotesque", adding that he believed that "parents have a responsibility to protect children". In order to do this, he said that they should be given "access to supervise content", adding: "any parent's responsibility transcends any teenager's entitlement to privacy." A Facebook spokesman said: "We want everyone to feel safe when using Facebook. We work closely with online safety experts including the UK Safer Internet Centre and Childnet International to make sure that young people and their parents know how technology works and what they need to think about before sharing online."
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| Undocumented Immigrant Whose Wife Has Cancer Finally Granted Temporary Stay Posted: 22 Nov 2017 01:53 PM PST  Thanks to a large social media push, an undocumented immigrant from Bangladesh will get to stay in the U.S. ― for now.
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| Mom Allegedly Killed in Front of Family by Her Children's Dad Posted: 22 Nov 2017 11:23 AM PST  "He stood right there and he looked me dead in my face and unloaded the gun again on her," the victim's mother, Gloria Blaylock, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution
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| Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder Will Get $15 Million From L.A. County Posted: 22 Nov 2017 12:06 PM PST  Franklin O'Connell has maintained his innocence for the last 32 years.
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| U.S. warns citizens against risks of travel to Saudi Arabia Posted: 21 Nov 2017 12:37 PM PST  The U.S. State Department on Tuesday warned citizens to "consider the risks" when traveling to Saudi Arabia due to militant threats and the threat of ballistic missile attacks on civilians by rebels in Yemen. The warning comes two weeks after U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia said it had shot down a ballistic missile fired by Iran-aligned Houthis from Yemen towards the Saudi capital Riyadh. The missile, which the Houthis said was in response to Saudi-led air strikes on civilians in Yemen, was shot down near Riyadh airport without causing any casualties.
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| Conservatives knew 'family values' pol had secret gay life Posted: 21 Nov 2017 02:03 PM PST  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As Wes Goodman built a political career around values including "committed natural marriage," the 33-year-old Republican was secretly engaging in sexual encounters with men online, via cellphone and, on one significant occasion, in his state office.
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| Russia Wanted Trump As President And It Got Him. Now What Does America Do? Posted: 22 Nov 2017 02:00 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― Russia's tyrant works to help the Republican nominee win America's presidential election.
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| Lisa Murkowski Says She's OK With Killing The Health Insurance Mandate Posted: 21 Nov 2017 07:27 PM PST  Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) cast a decisive, dramatic vote to save health care for millions of people over the summer.
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| Man arrested in cop killing; mom accused of helping him flee Posted: 21 Nov 2017 01:50 PM PST  NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Tips from informants helped lead law enforcement to the man accused of fatally shooting a rookie police officer, and the suspect's mother is accused of helping him evade arrest during a four-day manhunt, officials said Tuesday.
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| Lebanon army chief warns of Israel threat amid political crisis Posted: 21 Nov 2017 08:49 AM PST ![Lebanon army chief warns of Israel threat amid political crisis]( "Lebanon army chief warns of Israel threat amid political crisis") Lebanon's army chief told his soldiers on Tuesday to be extra vigilant to prevent unrest during political turmoil after the prime minister quit, and accused Israel of "aggressive" intentions at the southern frontier. Troops should be ready to "thwart any attempt to exploit the current circumstances for stirring strife," the army's Twitter account quoted General Joseph Aoun as saying ahead of Independence Day celebrations on Wednesday. "The exceptional political situation that Lebanon is going through requires you to exercise the highest levels of awareness." Aoun called on troops to "assume full readiness at the southern border to face the threats of the Israeli enemy, its violations, and the aggressive intentions it is indicating towards Lebanon." A senior Israeli official dismissed the warnings of border aggression as "nonsense".
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| Sean Hannity’s Thanksgiving Advice For Dealing With Liberals Hits A Snag Posted: 21 Nov 2017 12:39 AM PST  Fox News host Sean Hannity offered to give advice for dealing with "liberal relatives" during Thanksgiving.
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| Scientists Were Wrong About This Water on Mars Posted: 21 Nov 2017 12:50 PM PST  It might be worse than it sounds.
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| Trump Administration Is Sending Haitians Back To A Country Still Mired In Disaster Posted: 22 Nov 2017 02:45 AM PST  The Trump administration has ended immigration protections for thousands of Haitians in the U.S. starting in 18 months, which will force many to abandon the lives and communities they've built to return to a country still recovering from disaster.
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| Russian oligarch Kerimov questioned in France over tax evasion Posted: 22 Nov 2017 03:21 AM PST  Billionaire Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov faced a second day of questioning by investigators in France on Wednesday, two days after his arrest in Nice on suspicion of tax evasion. Kerimov, 51, spent a second night Tuesday at a police station in the southern resort city, where he was arrested on arrival at the airport on Monday night, legal sources said. A source close to the probe told AFP he was suspected of laundering "tens of millions of euros" hidden away from tax authorities.
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| U.S. threatens to sue Harvard over admissions policies Posted: 21 Nov 2017 01:09 PM PST  The U.S. Justice Department has threatened to sue Harvard University to force it to turn over documents as it investigates whether the Ivy League school's admission policies violate civil rights laws by discriminating against Asian-American applicants.
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