| Central Michigan University shooting suspect apprehended after manhunt Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:57 AM PST  19-year-old James Eric Davis Jr. was taken into custody by law enforcement overnight, hours after his parents were shot and killed inside a Central Michigan University dorm room.
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| Mike Huckabee Resigns From Country Music Board After Criticism Of His Anti-LGBTQ Views Posted: 02 Mar 2018 08:21 PM PST  "If the industry doesn't want people of faith or who hold conservative and traditional political views to buy tickets and music, they should be forthcoming and say it," Huckabee wrote in his resignation letter, which came just one day after he was announced as the CMA Foundation's newest member. "Until recently, the arts was the one place America could set aside political, geographical, racial, religious, and economic barriers and come together ... At the end of the day, I'm not worth the fight, but the kids are." The letter was published in Nashville's The Tennessean. Although CMA Foundation Chairman Joe Galante had touted Huckabee's "policy experience with education reform" when announcing the former Arkansas governor's appointment to the board Wednesday, the news immediately set off a firestorm of criticism.
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| A Climate Change Litmus Test For Democrats Posted: 04 Mar 2018 05:00 AM PST  In April 2016, at a campaign stop on the campus of SUNY Purchase, just north of New York City, I filmed a short video of Hillary Clinton. The video quickly went viral, partly because of the outsized response from a famously tight-lipped politician, partly because it played so well into the Democratic primary narrative that pitted Clinton, buddy-buddy with Wall Street, against the people-powered challenge of Sen. Bernie Sanders. The furor that the video generated sprang from fissures in the Democratic Party that perfunctory resistance to President Donald Trump has only papered over.
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| Putin Tells Megyn Kelly Russia Will 'Never, Never' Extradite Accused Hackers to the United States Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:57 PM PST  In an exclusive interview with Megyn Kelly, Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the his government had nothing to do with any meddling in the 2016 election.
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| Florida Teacher Linked To White Supremacist Podcast Removed From The Classroom Posted: 04 Mar 2018 03:49 PM PST  A Florida middle school social studies teacher was removed from the classroom while her school district investigates a HuffPost report that she hosted a white supremacist podcast under a pseudonym, shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and suggested that Muslims be eradicated from the planet. HuffPost, in an article published on Saturday, revealed that Volitich was hosting a podcast titled "Unapologetic" under the name "Tiana Dalichov." Volitich also used that name on a Twitter account and two Facebook pages, in addition to several other podcasts and YouTube pages.
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| $275K going to family of each person slain in Vegas shooting Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:24 PM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A $31.5 million victims' fund that started as a GoFundMe effort announced plans Friday to pay $275,000 to the families of each of the 58 people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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| At least eight dead after Nor’easter slams east coast Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:55 AM PST  Massachusetts is under a state of emergency, with residents along the coast battling cold, wind and flooding, and more than a million across the Northeast are without power.
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| Apparent explosive device found on Mexican ferry off Cozumel Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:49 PM PST  PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — What appeared to be undetonated explosives were found on a ferry that runs between the Caribbean resorts of Playa del Carmen and the island of Cozumel, authorities said Friday, less than two weeks after a blast shook another ferry plying the same route.
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| Senate Democrat: Gun reform won't happen if Trump is 'not willing to lead' Posted: 04 Mar 2018 05:52 AM PST  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with one of the leading Democrats on gun control, Sen. Chris Murphy.
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| Panel: Chaos Rules in the 'Reality Show' White House Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:41 PM PST  Tom Brokaw, Katy Tur, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Al Cardenas discuss the chaotic week in the White House, after President Trump's Communications Director and longtime aide Hope Hicks announced her resignation.
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| Steven Mnuchin Doesn't Want People To See Video Of His Heckled UCLA Talk Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:56 PM PST  Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin doesn't want you to see what happened when he spoke at the University of California, Los Angeles on Monday. The Burkle Center for International Relations invited Mnuchin to speak with "Marketplace" public radio host Kai Ryssdal for an open discussion on the Trump administration, its policies and the U.S. economy at the university. The public event went so poorly, however, that Mnuchin asked UCLA not to publish any video of it, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
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| Wilbur Ross: 'I Have No Reason to Think' Trump's Going to Change His Mind on Trade Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:33 PM PST  Commerce Secretary Wibur Ross tells Chuck Todd that President Trump will make the final decision on any trade tariffs.
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| Roy Moore Is Now Asking For Money On Facebook To Defend Himself Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:46 AM PST  Former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has asked supporters for financial assistance to defend against a defamation lawsuit brought by an Alabama woman who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was 14 years old. In a Facebook post this week, Moore said his "resources have been depleted" and he has "struggled to make ends meet" due to legal fees and expenses. "I now face another vicious attack from lawyers in Washington D. C. and San Francisco who have hired one of the biggest firms in Birmingham Alabama to bring another legal action against me and ensure that I never fight again," he wrote in the lengthy screed.
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| Philando Castile Charity Covers Entire School District's Lunch Debt Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:03 PM PST  Two years after he was fatally shot by a police officer in Minnesota, Philando Castile is still helping students afford lunch. A charity created in Castile's honor has paid off the lunch debt for every student in the 56 schools in the St. Paul Public School District, including the school where Castile worked as a cafeteria supervisor. Castile had worked as a cafeteria supervisor at the J.J. Hill Montessori Magnet School in St. Paul for two years at the time he was killed.
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| Ohio inmate whose execution halted dies of natural causes Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:26 PM PST  CLEVELAND (AP) — A twice-convicted murderer whose execution in November had to be halted when a usable vein couldn't be found to administer execution drugs died Saturday morning of natural causes, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said.
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| Bronze stars for an elite team of Air Force surgeons Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:13 AM PST  Members of the Air Force Special Operations Surgical Team can set up an operating room on the battlefield in just 15 minutes. Their skills are tested in Syria as they treat civilians, many of them children.
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| U.N. halts aid work in northeast Nigeria town after humanitarian workers killed Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:19 AM PST  The United Nations has suspended aid work helping tens of thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants left three humanitarian workers dead and at least three others missing, possibly kidnapped. The suspension of aid work in the town of Rann, which hosts a camp for 55,000 people displaced by the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency, was announced late on Friday in a statement from the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General. "At the time of the attack, over 40 humanitarian workers were in Rann," said the UN statement.
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| 2-Year-Old Girl Dies After Mirror Falls on Her at Payless Shoe Store Posted: 04 Mar 2018 09:36 AM PST  The child was rushed to the hospital but did not survive
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| We Now Know Why Russia Wants a 100-Megaton Nuclear Torpedo Posted: 02 Mar 2018 07:20 PM PST  In a speech on March 1, 2018, Russian president Vladimir Putin detailed a half-dozen "invincible" new Russian weapons under development, which he assured would give his nation the ability to launch "unstoppable" nuclear attacks on the United States. The speech, which was met with cheers by the audience, was accompanied by a video presentation that included an animation of a separating nuclear warheads raining down on Florida, apparently in the vicinity of President Trump's retreat in Mar-a-Lago. The bellicose rhetoric is surely intended to rally political support for Putin's reelection on March 18, as well a reflection of Moscow's own insecurity, stemming from fears that new U.S. ballistic-missile defenses may eventually render Russia's nuclear deterrence ineffective.
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| Huckabee talks Trump's views on gun rights, Second Amendment Posted: 04 Mar 2018 08:37 AM PST  President Trump met with the NRA after voicing concerns about gun reforms and school safety; Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee weighs in on 'Sunday Morning Futures.'
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| Honduras energy executive arrested over activist murder Posted: 03 Mar 2018 05:45 PM PST  Honduran authorities said they have arrested an energy company executive allegedly behind the high-profile 2016 murder of prominent environmental activist Berta Caceres. Police detained electrical engineer Roberto David Castillo Mejia "as the intellectual perpetrator" behind Caceres's murder, the prosecutor's office said in a statement Friday. Officials said Castillo had served as CEO of the company Desarrollos Energeticos (DESA) -- which Caceres actively campaigned against over plans to build a hydroelectric dam -- at the time of the activist's slaying.
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| Large Avalanche Hits California's Busy Mammoth Ski Resort Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:05 PM PST  A large avalanche roared down a slope on Mammoth Mountain in California on Saturday morning. "Essentially the top of the mountain came loose," skier Barbara Maynard told The Los Angeles Times. The resort is located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range about 300 miles north of Los Angeles.
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| All The Gorgeous Looks From The 2018 Oscars Red Carpet Posted: 04 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PST  There's no red carpet event quite like the Oscars.
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| Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:04 PM PST ![Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture]( "Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture") DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — An unidentified young man stabbed a prominent teacher, writer and promoter of secular values at a university in a northeastern city in Bangladesh on Saturday, police said.
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| Man shoots himself dead outside White House, Secret Service says Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:49 PM PST  The shooting incident took place along the north fence line of the White House in Washington. A man shot himself dead in front of the White House on Saturday, the Secret Service said, adding that no other injuries were reported. In a statement, the Secret Service said: "At approximately 11.46am, a white male suffered a self-inflicted gun-shot wound to the head outside the North White House fence line.
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| Newlywed groom's parents sue over fatal Grand Canyon helicopter crash Posted: 02 Mar 2018 07:41 PM PST  The parents of a newlywed groom who was among five Britons to die a helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon are suing the tour operator in a wrongful death lawsuit. Jonathan Udall, who died in hospital days before his wife Ellie Milward, could have survived if Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters and manufacturer Airbus Helicopters had not negligently failed to install a crash-resistant fuel tank, according to the lawsuit filed on Friday. The honeymooning couple died in hospital as a result of burns sustained in the February 10 crash that killed their friends Becky Dobson, her boyfriend Stuart Hill and his brother Jason Hill. Lawyers for Philip and Marlene Udall, of Southampton, claim in the lawsuit filed in Nevada that their 31-year-old son would not have sustained "severe and catastrophic" burns if the Airbus EC130 B4 had been fitted the fuel system. After the lawsuit was filed, lawyer Gary Robb said: "Mr and Mrs Udall deeply grieve for the loss of their son but their primary motivation now is to prevent anyone else from having to suffer the deadly burn injuries as their son did. Emergency personnel arrive at the scene of the deadly tour helicopter crash along the jagged rocks of the Grand Canyon Credit: AP "If this helicopter had been properly equipped with a crash-resistant fuel system, it would have allowed this young man to walk away injury-free." They are also suing pilot Scott Booth, who was hospitalised in a critical condition, accusing him of negligence for crashing. Also named in the lawsuit are Papillon directors Brenda Halvorson and Elling Halvorson, president Geoff Edlund and chief operating officer John Becker. The family allege they failed to ensure the helicopter was in a "safe and defect free" condition. They also accuse mechanic Matthew Hecker and its inspector Daniel Friedman of negligence over the state of the helicopter, in particular its tail rotor. A coroner ruled Mr Udall and Ms Milward, 29, from Worthing, West Sussex, died of "complications of thermal injury". Stuart Hill, 30 (left) and his brother Jason Hill, 32, who both died in the Grand Canyon crash Credit: PA Ms Dobson, 27, Stuart Hill, 30, and Jason Hill, 32, all from Worthing, were said to have died at the scene of "multiple injuries". Their friend, Jennifer Barham, 39, was also rescued and airlifted to Las Vegas's University Medical Centre. The Udalls are asking for in excess of 195,000 dollars (£141,000) in damages, as well as punitive damages and a jury trial. The lawsuit comes after it was announced Papillon would fit 40 of the crash-resistant tanks to its fleet in the wake of the crash, which Mr Robb called "too little, too late". Mr Robb said he previously won a 38 million dollar (£28 million) lawsuit for Chana Daskal, who suffered burns over 85% of her body, having been the sole survivor of a Papillon crash in the Grand Canyon 17 years ago. The crash-resistant fuel system is not currently mandatory in the US for helicopters certified before 1994 The cause of the crash is being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. A preliminary report said witnesses saw the helicopter do at least two 360-degree turns before hitting the ground. Investigators will interview witnesses, survivors, the helicopter operator and manufacturer and others before issuing a full report in at least a year's time.
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| Week after Papua New Guinea quake, nearly 150,000 people in urgent need of aid Posted: 04 Mar 2018 03:52 AM PST ![Week after Papua New Guinea quake, nearly 150,000 people in urgent need of aid]( "Week after Papua New Guinea quake, nearly 150,000 people in urgent need of aid") By Alison Bevege SYDNEY (Reuters) - Almost a week after a deadly quake struck the rugged Papua New Guinea highlands, nearly 150,000 people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies as damaged roads and landslides have hampered the delivery of aid to isolated communities, agencies have said. The quake destroyed or damaged the homes of around 7000 people, while 147,000 were in severe need of food, water and sanitation, the director of the International Red Cross in PNG, Udaya Regmi, told Reuters on Sunday. Landslides have cut roads, preventing the delivery of aid to several places where it's most needed.
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| The Latest: France, UN leaders worried about Syria's Ghouta Posted: 03 Mar 2018 03:54 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — The latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
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| Bomb-sniffing dogs mistreated by US Army after returning from service in Afghanistan Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:42 AM PST  Bomb-sniffing dogs were mistreated by the US Army after returning from duty in Afghanistan, according to an official report. Several dogs had to be rescued by the soldiers they served with during Operation Enduring Freedom. The Army allowed one dog described as having canine PTSD and another which may have received bite training to go to families with children.
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| Swiss vote for public media Posted: 04 Mar 2018 08:46 AM PST  Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal that would have cut taxpayer funding to public broadcasters, after a campaign that stirred debate about the media's role in fostering national unity. The "No Billag" initiative -- a reference to the Billag firm that collects the media licensing fee -- divided Switzerland on political and generational lines. Rejection of the initiative was "a strong sign for the public service and for private regional radio and television," said the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SSR) director Gilles Marchand.
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| Readers write: What do we leave behind in space?, celebrity presidents, information about helping veterans, drug treatment in Oklahoma Posted: 03 Mar 2018 03:00 AM PST ![Readers write: What do we leave behind in space?, celebrity presidents, information about helping veterans, drug treatment in Oklahoma]( "Readers write: What do we leave behind in space?, celebrity presidents, information about helping veterans, drug treatment in Oklahoma") What do we leave behind in space?
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| 'Black Panther' Passes The $500-Million Mark At The Box Office Posted: 04 Mar 2018 02:40 PM PST  This weekend, Marvel Studio's blockbuster "Black Panther" made another $65 million. The film has now raked in over $500 million after just 17 days in theaters, making it the 10th highest-domestic-grossing movie in history. The film is sure to eclipse the ninth spot on the list, 2017′s "Beauty and the Beast," which made $504 million domestically. The superhero film could even pass "The Avengers," which made $623 million domestically in 2012 and is the highest-grossing Marvel film of all time. It brought in $242 million domestically in its four-day opening weekend — just behind "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Those numbers make "Black Panther" the fifth largest opening of all time, and the top February opening weekend.
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| Michigan man cleared of murder now fights for compensation Posted: 04 Mar 2018 07:47 AM PST  DETROIT (AP) — David Gavitt spent 26 years in prison for the deaths of his wife and two daughters before a prosecutor agreed that the evidence behind his arson conviction was no longer credible. The case helped inspire a Michigan law aimed at compensating the wrongfully convicted.
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| Trump's Tariff Can't Start A Trade War Because It Started Years Ago Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:13 PM PST  President Donald Trump's announcement that he would place tariffs on steel and aluminum imports has economists cringing. Conservative Republicans are dusting off the principles they learned in Econ 101, liberal Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is warning that Trump will start an economically destructive trade war, and prominent world leaders are vowing to prove Krugman right. On Friday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker threatened to retaliate against "unfair" U.S. tariffs with new levies on American motorcycles, bourbon and blue jeans.
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| Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:16 AM PST ![Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League]( "Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League") Marcador de la vigésima novena jornada de la Premier League:
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| Tiger and Bear Battle it Out Over Territory in Intense Video Posted: 04 Mar 2018 09:40 AM PST  The bear fought back to protect her cub.
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| Vietnam seeks to pacify China as landmark U.S. carrier visit signals warming ties Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:14 PM PST  By Greg Torode and Mai Nguyen HONG KONG/HANOI (Reuters) - The visit of a U.S. aircraft carrier to Vietnam for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War is a powerful symbol of the growing strategic ties between the former foes. For months now, Vietnamese envoys have been working to ease the concerns of their giant Chinese neighbor over the visit and the prospect of broader security co-operation between Hanoi and Washington, according to diplomats and others familiar with discussions. Vietnamese diplomats and military officers have repeatedly stressed the country's independent foreign policy and its desire for broad foreign relations - hoping to maintain stable ties with China while standing up to it over the South China Sea, the sources said.
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| FBI director makes historic visit to Navajo Nation Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:30 PM PST  GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray met with tribal officials of the largest Indian reservation in the U.S. this week, becoming the first head of the federal law enforcement agency to visit the Navajo Nation.
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| Fractured Ethiopia parliament endorses emergency decree Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:28 PM PST  Ethiopia's parliament approved a nationwide state of emergency on Friday despite unusual opposition from some lawmakers, in the latest sign of fractures within the all-powerful ruling coalition. The council of ministers made the emergency declaration last month, one day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's surprise resignation amid a growing political crisis and divisions in the ruling party. The six-month decree, which required approval from two-thirds of lawmakers, has been condemned by several of Ethiopia's allies including the United States and the European Union.
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| Man confesses to murdering his fiancee's sister in hotel room Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:59 PM PST  Police say a man turned himself in after admitting to killing his fiancee's sister Saturday morning.
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| Rescue teams recover black boxes at site of Iran plane crash Posted: 04 Mar 2018 03:47 AM PST  Rescue teams have recovered the black boxes of a plane that crashed last month in the mountains of southwestern Iran leaving 66 people dead, official media reported on Sunday. "The box that recorded flight parameters and the one with conversations in the cockpit have been handed over to judicial authorities," Reza Jafarzadeh, the public relations director of Iran's civil aviation organisation, told official news agency IRNA. Jafarzadeh said the two black boxes of the Aseman Airlines ATR-72 were found on Saturday by rescue teams, who had resumed search operations in the Zagros mountains on Friday after bad weather forced them to halt efforts for nearly a week.
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| UK police charge three men over shop blast that killed five in Leicester Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:46 AM PST  British police investigating a shop blast a week ago which killed five people in the central English city of Leicester, said on Saturday they had charged three men with manslaughter and arson with intent to endanger life. The five died when a blast ripped through a Polish convenience store and a home last Sunday, turning the building into rubble. Police said in a statement they had charged three men over the case: Aram Kurd, 33, from Leicester, Hawkar Hassan, 32, from Coventry and Arkan Ali, 37, from Oldham.
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| Trump Mocks George W. Bush, Calls Iraq Invasion 'Single Worst Decision Ever Made' Posted: 04 Mar 2018 05:30 AM PST  "Here we are, like the dummies of the world, because we had bad politicians running our country for a long time," Trump said. As CNN noted, Trump has used this faulty assessment about the WMDs to question the reliability of the U.S. intelligence community, particularly regarding its conclusions about Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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| Russia's Navy Might Be Modernizing—But It's Overstretched Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:17 PM PST  President Vladimir Putin's speech on the first of March revealed a whole panoply of new nuclear capabilities, from cruise missiles with nearly unlimited range to unmanned undersea vehicles also operating with extraordinary range, together with unprecedented speed and depth capabilities. Along the maritime periphery of Russia, tensions continue to escalate. Russian warships sortied en masse into the Baltic Sea on 20 February as part of a readiness drill, and in January, Russian news reported that a U.S. drone made a long-range intelligence-gathering sortie along Russia's Black Sea border in the vicinity of Kerch, Sochi, and the Crimea.
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| Florida python devours deer that weighs nearly 4 lbs. more Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:56 AM PST ![Florida python devours deer that weighs nearly 4 lbs. more]( "Florida python devours deer that weighs nearly 4 lbs. more") NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Researchers studying invasive Burmese pythons in Florida came upon something they'd never seen before: an 11-foot-long python had consumed an entire deer that weighed more than the snake itself.
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| Porsche could build flying taxis, says sales chief Posted: 03 Mar 2018 05:06 AM PST  Volkswagen's sports car maker Porsche could develop a flying passenger vehicle to compete with rivals in a possible market for urban air taxis and ride-sharing services, Porsche sales chief Detlev von Platen told a German magazine. If I drive from (the Porsche plant in) Zuffenhausen to Stuttgart airport, I need at least half an hour, if I'm lucky. Flying would take only three and a half minutes," Automobilwoche quoted von Platen as saying.
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| The Latest: Report: 2nd person dies as snow hits California Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:33 PM PST  MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on snowstorms in the mountains of California (all times local):
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| Residents worried about small cell safety have been waiting years for federal guidance Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:00 PM PST ![Residents worried about small cell safety have been waiting years for federal guidance]( "Residents worried about small cell safety have been waiting years for federal guidance") Local governments look to the government for guidance on radiofrequency exposure guidelines — with no answer in sight.
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