| Toronto Police Find Remains Of At Least 6 People Linked To Suspected Gay Village Killer Posted: 08 Feb 2018 02:24 PM PST  After days of excavation, Toronto police on Thursday said they have recovered the remains of at least six different people on property that was landscaped by suspected serial killer Bruce McArthur, who has been charged with the murder of five men connected to the city's gay village.
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| Married figure skating couple ready to take the ice in PyeongChang Posted: 08 Feb 2018 08:09 AM PST  Chris Knierim and Alexa Scimeca Knierim were married one year after winning their first U.S. pairs title in 2015. Now, the couple has achieved their dream of competing in the Olympics together.
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| The man who hid in a church, and the church that hid him: An immigrant story with an uncertain ending Posted: 08 Feb 2018 12:58 PM PST  He's 47 and has lived in America since 1993, holding a job and raising two children. Harry Pangemanan is also a Christian, who fears deportation to Indonesia, where Christians have been persecuted and even killed by Muslim extremists. He took sanctuary in a church for months, but now his fate is in the hands of a federal judge.
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| U.N. says Reuters report on Myanmar massacre 'alarming,' need for investigation Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:49 AM PST ![U.N. says Reuters report on Myanmar massacre 'alarming,' need for investigation]( "U.N. says Reuters report on Myanmar massacre 'alarming,' need for investigation") The United Nations on Friday described the details of a Reuters investigation into the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as "alarming" and said it showed the need for a thorough probe into the violence in the country's Rakhine state. This once more attests to the need for a full and thorough investigation by the authorities of all violence in Rakhine State and attacks on the various communities there," U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters.
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| Iconic Tongan Olympic flag bearer goes shirtless amid frigid temperatures in Pyeongchang Posted: 09 Feb 2018 07:04 AM PST  Temperatures in Pyeongchang are so frigid right now that Olympians are being forced to throw away their expensive skis after mere practice runs — but that sure as hell didn't stop Tonga's viral flag bearer from going shirtless (again.)
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| The Latest: YPG official confirms British extremist detained Posted: 09 Feb 2018 11:25 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the capture of two British Islamic State members (all times local):
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| LA Family's Lawsuit Says Starbucks Served Blood-Stained Frappuccino Posted: 09 Feb 2018 10:30 AM PST  A legal battle is brewing between Starbucks and a California family claiming they were served bloody cups of Frappuccino. Amanda Vice says in a lawsuit against the coffee chain that Frappuccinos she ordered for herself and her toddler daughter from a San Bernardino Starbucks in February 2016 came with a ghastly ingredient not typically found on the menu. "She was licking the whipped cream where it had been sitting on top," Vice told CBS Los Angeles, describing the moment she noticed the drink was corpuscle-enhanced.
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| 2 Koreas Make History Marching Under Unified Flag In Olympics Opener Posted: 09 Feb 2018 04:58 AM PST  North Korean and South Korean athletes participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics marched as one during Friday's opening ceremony, gleefully entering the ring as a unified team sharing a flag.
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| George W Bush: 'There's pretty clear evidence Russia meddled' in US election won by Trump Posted: 08 Feb 2018 02:02 AM PST  The former President also warned that Russia's Vladimir Putin "is zero-sum. Russia has denied trying to influence the November 2016 vote but US intelligence agencies concluded it had. Mr Trump has previously downplayed the findings but last year said he was "with our agencies, especially as currently constituted with the leadership".
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| Duterte spokesman reveals, rejects ICC probe linked to drug war Posted: 08 Feb 2018 01:23 AM PST  The International Criminal Court is opening an initial probe into allegations of crimes against humanity by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, his spokesman said Thursday, insisting the Philippine leader rejected any accusations of mass murder arising out of his war on drugs. A Philippine lawyer filed the complaint against Duterte at the world's only permanent war crimes court nearly 10 months ago, alleging his anti-crime crackdown has caused some 8,000 deaths. The Hague-based tribunal's prosecutor has recently notified the Philippine embassy there it is opening a "preliminary examination" on the case, Duterte spokesman Harry Roque told reporters Thursday.
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| Syrian Regime's Airstrikes Kill Scores Of Besieged Civilians In Eastern Ghouta Posted: 08 Feb 2018 04:37 PM PST  A renewed onslaught of bombing in Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta enclave has wreaked havoc in the region, killing nearly 200 people in a matter of days and shattering cease-fire negotiations.
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| China says new stealth fighter put into combat service Posted: 09 Feb 2018 10:25 AM PST  China has put into combat service its new generation J-20 stealth fighter, a warplane it hopes will narrow the military gap with the United States, the Chinese air force said on Friday, making it operationally ready.
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| Jill Messick, Producer and Former Manager of Rose McGowan, Dies by Suicide Posted: 08 Feb 2018 04:31 PM PST  The veteran film producer and studio executive was 50 years old
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| Mexico arrests Zetas drug cartel boss wanted in US Posted: 09 Feb 2018 03:10 PM PST  Mexican marines have captured a kingpin in the violent Zetas drug cartel who had a $5-million reward on his head in the United States, authorities said Friday. Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, alias "Z43," was arrested Thursday in the upscale Mexico City neighborhood of La Roma "without the use of force," the head of the National Security Commission, Renato Sales, announced in a press conference. "He is believed to be responsible for trafficking drugs from South America to the United States, and was one of the main drivers of violence in the states of southeastern Mexico," said Sales.
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| British Isis fighters known as 'the Beatles' captured in Syria Posted: 08 Feb 2018 01:58 PM PST  The pair were captured by the American-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, reports said. Two British Isis militants implicated in brutal acts of torture and execution, have been captured by US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria. The two men, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, formed part of a group of four fighters nicknamed "the Beatles" due to their British accents and are allegedly responsible for murdering approximately two dozen hostages in Syria.
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| Omarosa Turns On Trump: Wouldn't Vote For Him Again 'In A Million Years' Posted: 08 Feb 2018 07:31 PM PST  Omarosa Manigault Newman appears to be done with President Donald Trump.
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| Canada orders review of deal to sell helicopters to Philippines Posted: 08 Feb 2018 01:15 AM PST ![Canada orders review of deal to sell helicopters to Philippines]( "Canada orders review of deal to sell helicopters to Philippines") By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Just one day after signing a $233 million agreement to sell 16 helicopters to the Philippines, the Canadian government on Wednesday ordered a review of the deal amid concerns the aircraft could be used to fight rebels. Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said that the deal - formally signed on Tuesday - had been struck in 2012 on the understanding the helicopters would be used for search-and-rescue missions. Philippine Major-General Restituto Padilla, military chief of plans, told Reuters on Tuesday the helicopters would be used for the military's internal security operations, adding they could also be deployed in search-and-rescue and disaster relief operations.
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| Hungry Dog Snatches Pancakes From Stove, Accidentally Setting Fire in Home Posted: 08 Feb 2018 07:35 AM PST  Canines causing fires inside a home is more common than you might think.
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| Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) Expects a Big Earnings Number Posted: 09 Feb 2018 04:57 AM PST ![Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) Expects a Big Earnings Number]( "Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) Expects a Big Earnings Number") Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) investors are hoping to get some love from Cisco this Valentine's Day if the company can repeat last quarter's impressive earnings beat on Feb. 14. Wall Street analysts are expecting Cisco to get a huge boost from tax reform and demonstrate that its transition to a more software-centric business model is starting to make a meaningful impact on its growth numbers. Analysts are projecting Cisco will report earnings per share of 59 cents on revenue of $11.8 billion.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:23 AM PST  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways.
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| California teen who livestreamed crash that killed sister gets 6 years Posted: 08 Feb 2018 07:35 PM PST  Obdulia Sanchez, 19, was sentenced Thursday after being convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter, DUI and child endangerment stemming from the July crash.
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| Olympic Swimmer Says Former USA Swimming Coach Sexually Abused Her For Years Posted: 08 Feb 2018 07:00 AM PST  Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors says former U.S. Olympic swimming coach Sean Hutchison began sexually abusing her when she was 16.
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| Ex-Virginia Tech student pleads no contest in girl's killing Posted: 09 Feb 2018 02:12 PM PST  CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — After listening to days of damaging testimony from prosecution witnesses, a former Virginia Tech student pleaded no contest Friday to killing a 13-year-old girl he met through social media.
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| Kremlin critic says top Russian official vacationed with tycoon Posted: 09 Feb 2018 12:02 PM PST  A video published online by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny alleging that an influential Russian deputy prime minister enjoyed lavish hospitality from a billionaire tycoon went viral on Friday, receiving more than 2 million views. The video includes footage that Navalny said was shot by a woman who has written a book about seducing oligarchs. Navalny, who has been barred from running against President Vladimir Putin in next month's election, said the video appears to show Putin's former top foreign policy adviser Sergei Prikhodko vacationing on the yacht of 50-year-old Oleg Deripaska, an aluminium magnate.
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| Activist Ravi Ragbir Thwarts ICE's Attempt To Deport Him, For Now Posted: 09 Feb 2018 10:30 AM PST  A well-known immigrant rights activist who was on the cusp of being deported this week has filed a lawsuit that allows him to stay in the U.S., for now. Ravi Ragbir, executive director of the immigrant advocacy group New Sanctuary Coalition, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in January during a routine check-in with the agency. Despite his release, Ragbir was still scheduled for deportation for Saturday, Feb. 10.
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| Islamic State fighters move to Syria's Idlib, clash with factions, sources say Posted: 09 Feb 2018 11:07 AM PST  Islamic State fighters battled Syrian insurgents in the northwestern province of Idlib on Friday, a monitoring group and a rebel commander said, accusing pro-government forces of opening a corridor for the jihadists to reach the region. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government forces had allowed Islamic State fighters to leave a besieged pocket of territory at the intersection of Aleppo, Idlib and Hama provinces, and then go to southern Idlib. A military news outlet run by Lebanon's Hezbollah, which is fighting on the side of the Syrian government, reported gains by the army and its allies against Islamic State in that pocket, but made no mention of the jihadists being allowed to leave.
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| Why you should stop laughing at Trump over a stock market correction Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:29 AM PST  Repeat after me: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is not the stock market. The stock market is not the economy. And nobody should be treating short-term shifts in any of the above as fodder for their political fights on Twitter. It was probably inevitable that Donald Trump would be ignorant of all this. After a month of tweeting (25 times) about a rising stock market that he falsely claimed the "fake news media" was ignoring, the president was silent during a multi-day sell-off that saw the Dow plummet from just over 26,000 on Thursday, Feb. 1, to just over 24,000 on Tuesday, Feb. 6 — the fastest drop, by percentage, in the index's history. This Wednesday featured a brief rebound into 25,000 territory, but the market's increasing volatility was a sign of what was to come. Things got worse on Thursday, which saw another thousand-point drop. Wednesday, of course, also saw what has to stand as one of Trump's most nonsensical and monomaniacal tweets: In the "old days," when good news was reported, the Stock Market would go up. Today, when good news is reported, the Stock Market goes down. Big mistake, and we have so much good (great) news about the economy! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 7, 2018 The president has apparently taken to threatening global markets over a sell-off because he doesn't think it tracks to his interpretation of the news. It's hard not to see this the greatest example of the hubris of power since King Canute sat on a beach and told the tide it was making a big mistake. And yet Trump's legion of supporters on Twitter and on Fox News joined in. This was good sport. They cheered the stock market rebound on Wednesday as they might cheer the Patriots roaring back into the lead in the third quarter of the Super Bowl. The Trump effect is real, they cried. It is fascinating to listen to the financial prognosticators on Fox News Two weeks ago, trump was a genius for revving up the stock market. Last week, it was Obama's fault that the bottom fell out. Yesterday, trump got it back on track today, it is the Democrats. Fake News. — American Veteran (@amvetsupport) February 8, 2018 There's not much point in educating Trumpists on this score, but let's give it a shot anyway. The stock market, in as much as it can be said to have a single mind, is not acting for or against the president. It doesn't care about the health of the economy as a whole. If there is any one cause of the precipitous drop, it is largely in reaction to the threat of inflation, which may happen as a result of rising wages and low unemployment. SEE ALSO: Say hello to Buttcoin and the community celebrating Bitcoin's fall This is an ongoing global problem affecting global markets, it may well continue over the next couple of weeks, and it has nothing to do with Trump's take on good (great) news. So far so Trumpian. But there's an equally disturbing development among many people who ought to know better. On the resistance side of Twitter, some users have taken the approach that if Trump is hurt politically by a stock market sell-off, a stock market sell-off must be a good thing. Can we schedule the stock market collapse for the same day as Trump's parade? I think that would be tight as hell. — ��Chilly Wonka�� (@RlyFunAtParties) February 8, 2018 It should go without saying that this isn't a joke, and that making it one won't endear the resistance to independents and others occupying the middle ground. A stock market correction doesn't just stick it to the president, Republicans and Wall Street fat cats. It affects your retirement, wiping millions off the value of 401ks. It affects pension funds — the world's largest traders — most of all. The fat cats have plenty of cushion; unless they've over-leveraged themselves, they'll be fine. Your neighbor heading into retirement, not so much. Donald Trump on a daily basis said the record stock market rally was due to him & his policies.Will he own the stock market collapse a well? I can hardly wait to see how this unfolds in the coming months as the Dow backtracks to 24k, 22k, 20k and worse.#news @realDonaldTrump — An_Anonymous_Source (@Logic_Triumphs) February 2, 2018 No president, no political party, owns the markets. Not even if they're annoying you by taking credit for a rally. Not even if it would help your side in mid-term elections. As we know too well, Trump has decided to define himself and his political legacy by opposing everything President Obama was for, whether he considers it good for the country or not. It would be a terrible mistake for his opposition to fall into the same trap. In short, let's be sanguine about the markets. They rise and fall in the short term, and steadily rise in the long term (just like temperatures in our current climate-changed world, in fact.) Stock market indices know no political party. They affect everyone in myriad unseen ways. And they will continue to do so long after the current King Canute has left office.
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| Russians held for 'mining bitcoin' at top nuclear lab Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:19 AM PST  Engineers at Russia's top nuclear research facility have been detained after they attempted to mine bitcoin on its computers, Russian news agencies reported Friday. Several employees at the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre in the city of Sarov have been detained after making "an attempt to use the work computing facilities for personal ends, including for so-called mining," a spokeswoman for the centre, Tatiana Zalesskaya told Interfax news agency. The centre is overseen by Rosatom, the Russian nuclear agency, and works on developing nuclear weapons.
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| Barb From 'Stranger Things' Received The Best Coffee Cup Message From A Barista Posted: 09 Feb 2018 06:32 AM PST  Barb's tragic disappearance from the "Stranger Things" universe is still a sore point for Canadian barista Abigail Bahnman.
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| The Stock Market Plunged Again Just Days After a Massive Drop Posted: 08 Feb 2018 09:46 AM PST  Extending the market's losses
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| Comedian Rob Delaney Announces Death Of Two-Year-Old Son Posted: 09 Feb 2018 12:54 PM PST  Comedian Rob Delaney announced on Friday the heartbreaking death of his 2-year-old son, Henry.
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| Police say Texas officer's killer likely gunned down 2nd man Posted: 08 Feb 2018 01:02 PM PST  DALLAS (AP) — A gunman who mortally wounded a suburban Dallas police officer likely killed a second man before barricading himself in an apartment and randomly firing his weapon during the standoff, authorities said Thursday.
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| Poland’s Holocaust Denialism Will Come Back to Haunt It Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:22 AM PST  Polish leaders thought peddling historical revisionism at home had no consequences; now, it could threaten two crucial alliances.
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| Catt Sadler Says She Left E! To Avoid 'Collaborating With An Evil System' Posted: 09 Feb 2018 11:47 AM PST  Catt Sadler says she left E! in December for bigger reasons than getting only half the salary of her male co-star.
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| The Latest: UN official calls for 30-day Syria cease-fire Posted: 08 Feb 2018 03:28 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the situation in Syria (all times local):
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| $2K goes missing from couple's bank account, but it wasn't a thief Posted: 08 Feb 2018 03:29 PM PST  When the couple found almost $2,000 missing from their checking account, they thought they were bank fraud victims. The real shock was who really took their money.
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| Philippines says Canada helicopters 'not for attack' Posted: 08 Feb 2018 02:10 PM PST  The Philippine military on Thursday denied it planned to use 16 Bell helicopters bought from Canada as attack aircraft against local insurgents, following reports Ottawa was reviewing the deal. Canadian media had reported that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government was reconsidering the sale over fears the aircraft would be used in internal security operations, just hours after both governments had announced the deal. President Rodrigo Duterte's spokesman warned Manila may walk away from the deal in light of the controversy.
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| The Most Dazzling Moments From The 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Posted: 09 Feb 2018 05:27 AM PST  The 2018 Winter Games kicked off Friday in Pyeongchang, South Korea, with an opening spectacle for the ages, complete with dancing, drones, fireworks and even a little diplomacy.
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| Teaching Kids About Gender Identity Might Be Banned in This State Posted: 08 Feb 2018 12:02 PM PST  "I think we need to be focusing on reading, writing and arithmetic"
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| Donald Trump Jr.'s Valentine's Day Gift Ideas Are 'Grounds For Divorce' Posted: 08 Feb 2018 01:25 AM PST  Donald Trump Jr. played the role of romance consultant on Wednesday when he offered Valentine's Day advice on Twitter.
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| Volatile Stocks Causing Investor Worry: Here Are 5 Moves If You've Lost Faith in Bull Market Posted: 06 Feb 2018 07:48 AM PST  After rising for years, the stock market has become increasingly volatile. The question on the mind of many investors is whether the recent turbulence is simply a healthy pullback or the start of...
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| Scott Baio Facing New Allegations From Another 'Charles In Charge' Costar Posted: 08 Feb 2018 02:19 AM PST  A second cast member of the 1980s sitcom "Charles in Charge" has accused actor Scott Baio of abusive behavior.
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