| Trump signals trust in North Korea after agreeing to meeting Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:52 AM PST  The president told reporters that he believed the meeting would be "very successful" and that North Korea would keep a promise to put their nuclear tests on hold ahead of historic talks between the two nations.
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| Steve Bannon: 'Let Them Call You Racist; Wear It As A Badge Of Honor' Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:15 PM PST  Footage of Bannon's remarks shows him predicting "victory after victory" for the far right over the "globalists." The term is one extreme-right groups often use as an anti-Semitic slur, referring to what they see as Jewish control of financial institutions and media around the world. Bannon roused National Front members in Lille, France, to their feet, telling them: "History is on our side.
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| Mnuchin: Trump's Attacks on the Press Are 'Campaign Rally Issues' Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:49 PM PST  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tells Chuck Todd that President Trump's vulgarities and attacks on the press are less important than policy, and should be seen in the context of a "campaign rally."
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| Father Of Parkland Victim Creates Powerful Mural Honoring Son And 16 Others Killed Posted: 11 Mar 2018 05:14 PM PDT  In a silent, moving tribute, Manuel Oliver, the father of Parkland school shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, painted a mural on Saturday honoring his son and the 16 other people killed in the Florida massacre last month. The event was captured on a viral video as part of an art exhibit created by artist Evan Pestaina located in an art space in Miami. It was organized by Miami Heat NBA star Dwyane Wade.
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| Suspect in Fatal Shooting of Pomona Police Officer Is Arrested Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:22 AM PST  The suspect remains barricaded inside an apartment
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| One police officer killed, another wounded in standoff with gunman Posted: 10 Mar 2018 11:57 AM PST  A California police officer responding to a call of a barricaded suspect has been struck by gunfire and died.
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| Officer killed in California after pursuit and standoff Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:47 AM PST  A reckless driving suspect barricaded himself inside an apartment complex and shot at two officers through the door, leaving one dead. The suspect is now custody.
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| Bono sorry after bullying claims at ONE charity Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:43 PM PST  U2 frontman Bono has apologised after claims emerged Sunday that workers at his ONE charity were subjected to a culture of abuse and bullying. The Irish singer, 57, said he was "deeply sorry" and "furious" about the allegations, which appeared in The Mail on Sunday newspaper, and pledged to meet victims to apologise in person. The British tabloid detailed a string of incidents, including claims from a married woman who said she was demoted after refusing to have sex with a Tanzanian member of parliament.
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| Hong Kong election gauges city's stomach for defying Beijing Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:43 AM PDT  HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong residents voted Sunday in by-elections that give opposition supporters the chance to recapture lost ground in a contest measuring voters' appetite for democracy in the semiautonomous Chinese city.
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| Suspected shooter and three women dead after standoff at veterans home Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:46 AM PST  The community in Yountville, California are remembering the victims of the standoff: three staff members at the nation's largest veterans home, one of whom was seven months pregnant.
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| 67 NRA-Approved Politicians Voted For New Florida Gun Control Bill: Report Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:47 PM PST  Florida enacted its first gun control measures in more than two decades on Friday when Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act ― in open defiance of the National Rifle Association. As the Trace reported, 67 members of the Florida House and Senate with "A" or "A-plus" ratings from the gun rights group voted for the bill. If you count Scott, who earned an A-plus rating himself, that makes 68 NRA-approved politicians who chose to break with the group.
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| Trump Gun Proposal Probably Won't Include Universal Background Checks Posted: 11 Mar 2018 03:22 PM PDT  Less than two weeks ago, at a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers at the White House, Trump expressed support for the idea. White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah shied away from an embrace of that position during an appearance Sunday on ABC's "This Week." His backtracking was consistent with Wall Street Journal reporting from Saturday and what many skeptics had predicted. Host Jon Karl reminded Shah of what Trump had said at the Feb. 28 meeting ― in particular, the president's support for universal background checks.
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| Photograph of Joe Biden talking with homeless man in Washington DC goes viral Posted: 11 Mar 2018 02:30 PM PDT  An image of former Vice President Joe Biden speaking with a homeless man in Washington DC has gone viral, being shared more than 100,000 times on Facebook. The photograph was taken by Caleb Baca on Thursday night, according to local television station Fox 5, but was posted into Facebook businessman Paul Equale, with that post being shared 103,000 times since it was posted on Friday - with more than 148,000 people reacting to it. Speaking about Mr Biden, he added that "character is about what you do when no one is watching".
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| Norway's Hydro says Brazil plant made unauthorized spills Posted: 11 Mar 2018 11:20 AM PDT  Norwegian aluminum maker Norsk Hydro's Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil made unauthorized spills of waste water last month, the company said on Sunday, more than two weeks after local authorities first began to raise questions. Authorities in late February ordered the plant, the world's largest alumina refinery, to cut output in half until it addressed concerns, leading Hydro to declare force majeure with no time set to restart production. A Brazilian government-backed research institute on Friday told Reuters it will soon publish evidence of a waste leak from Alunorte, located in the northern state of Para.
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| Chronicling homelessness: don't look to Ben Carson for help with the crisis Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:50 AM PST  A senior official said she was demoted after rejecting a pricey redecorating plan for Ben Carson's office. Since taking over as housing secretary, the former neurosurgeon Ben Carson has defended drastic cuts to the budget of his own department and proclaimed to the New York Times that public housing shouldn't be too comfortable lest its inhabitants get used to government largesse. To see action on homelessness, you have to look outside Washington.
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| Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:29 AM PST ![Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks]( "Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks") Khalid Alhammadi photographs Abu Dhabi's tallest landmarks rising high above the mist.
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| Srebrenica award to Bosnian Serb leader angers victims' families Posted: 11 Mar 2018 11:34 AM PDT  Authorities in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica angered relatives of the 1995 massacre there by handing its top municipal award on Sunday to the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, local media reported. The town's city hall under its Serb mayor Mladen Grujicic awarded the distinction, the Golden Plaque of Srebrenica, to Milorad Dodik, president of the Serb entity of Bosnia, Republika Srpska, the N1 television channel said. Dodik declines to describe the Srebrenica massacre as genocide.
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| Top ACLU Voting Rights Lawyer Rips Into Trump Expert's Evidence Of Kansas Voter Fraud Posted: 09 Mar 2018 07:47 PM PST  The ACLU's top voting rights lawyer faced down one of President Donald Trump's voter fraud commissioners in court on Friday, getting him to concede that he had shaky evidence of significant voter fraud in Kansas. The exchange came on the fourth day of a trial over a Kansas law that requires residents to prove they are U.S. citizens when they register to vote. Several residents who were not allowed to vote in the 2016 election are being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union in the suit against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R). Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's voting rights project, questioned Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official and member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, who is one of the most prominent people arguing that noncitizen voter registration is a substantial issue.
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| All 11 People On Board Dead After Turkish Private Plane Crashes in Iran, Authorities Say Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:49 AM PDT  The plane was flying from the U.A.E. to Istanbul
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| Jonathan Karl: Trump's unpredictable, risky move on North Korea may prove successful Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:37 AM PDT  President Donald Trump turned the usual "strategic patience" practice upside down by accepting a meeting with North Korea.
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| Former Trump Aide Sam Nunberg Says Mueller Probe 'Not A Witch Hunt' Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:19 PM PST  The probe by Mueller into whether Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign is "warranted," Nunberg told ABC News. He made the comments after testifying for close to six hours before a grand jury on the Mueller probe. "I don't think it's a witch hunt," Nunberg said.
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| Twitter Bans Popular Accounts Accused Of Stealing Jokes And Selling Retweets Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:44 PM PST  Twitter suspended several popular accounts on Friday in a major crackdown on "tweetdeckers," a secret network of accounts that make tweets go viral by retweeting the same content in exchange for money. The company suspended several notably large accounts in Friday's cleanup, including @GirlPosts, @Dory, @CommonWhiteGirl, @SoDamnTrue and @memeprovider. Some of these accounts, which mostly tweeted jokes and memes, had millions of followers.
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| Intel downplays report of interest in Broadcom Posted: 09 Mar 2018 04:48 PM PST ![Intel downplays report of interest in Broadcom]( "Intel downplays report of interest in Broadcom") The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Intel's competitive concern about Broadcom's attempt to buy mobile chip rival Qualcomm Inc had led it to consider a range of acquisitions in response, including a bid for Broadcom. In response to an inquiry about the Journal's report, Intel said it does not comment on "rumors or speculation" related to mergers and acquisitions but that it is focused on its previous acquisitions.
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| Mennonite investigator will testify in death penalty case Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:27 PM PST  DENVER (AP) — A Colorado criminal defense investigator jailed for refusing to testify in a death penalty case now plans to take the stand because it might help save the defendant's life.
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| US to re-open consulate at Mexican resort after threat Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:49 AM PST  The US consulate at the Mexican Caribbean resort of Playa del Carmen will re-open Monday after it was closed for several days due to an unspecified security threat, the US embassy said. US government personnel are banned from several area neighborhoods until further notice, but "are authorized to travel to resort areas in Riviera Maya including those near Playa del Carmen," the statement read. The beachside tourist magnets of Cancun and Playa del Carmen are located in the Riviera Maya, on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
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| 'This Is U.S.' Is All Tears With Ben, Jared And Sarah In 'SNL' Parody Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:41 PM PST  "Saturday Night Live" couldn't wait to do a "This Is Us" parody with guest host Sterling K. Brown, who plays grown triplet brother Randall Pearson on the hit NBC series.
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| The rich and the right want to dynamite Dodd-Frank – and Democrats are helping them do it Posted: 11 Mar 2018 03:00 AM PDT  Senators voted with Republicans to cripple banking oversight. The Senate is not on the side of those who elected its members. In an economy hollowed out by the Great Recession, legacy Democrats lurch, occasionally, in a populist direction before retreating to where they are most comfortable: doing favors for the rich in exchange for campaign donations.
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| U.S.'s Tillerson 'not feeling well', cancels activities in Kenya Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:28 AM PST ![U.S.'s Tillerson 'not feeling well', cancels activities in Kenya]( "U.S.'s Tillerson 'not feeling well', cancels activities in Kenya") U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cancelled scheduled events on Saturday on the second day of a visit to Kenya because he had been feeling unwell, a State Department spokesman said, adding that he would resume his programme on Sunday. "The secretary is not feeling well after a long couple days working on major issues back home such as North Korea and has cancelled his events for the day," spokesman Steve Goldstein told reporters travelling with Tillerson. "Some events will go ahead without him, while they are looking at the possibility of rescheduling others," said Goldstein, under-secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs at the State Department.
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| More ways to get $10K off BMW i3 electric car: new utilities add discount Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:45 AM PDT  How badly do you want to buy a BMW i3 electric car?
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| Marco Rubio Still Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Buy Guns Posted: 09 Mar 2018 05:11 PM PST  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is really trying to thread that gun control needle. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a bill into law on Friday that enacts several restrictions on gun purchases, including a three-day waiting period for long gun purchases, an age requirement of 21 for all firearm sales and some regulation of bump stocks, the after-market accessories that make a semiautomatic rifle fire more like an automatic. Although the National Rifle Association was against the bill, Rubio supported it, which made sense considering he said he backed raising the legal age for purchasing a rifle at a town hall event hosted by CNN last month in the wake of a massacre at a Florida high school.
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| 2 men sentenced in Denver train station killing Posted: 09 Mar 2018 04:55 PM PST  DENVER (AP) — A judge sentenced two men on Friday to decades in prison for the shooting death of a man at a Denver train station that sparked debate about illegal immigration.
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| Ford Gives the Transit a Facelift Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:30 AM PDT  It also gets a diesel engine option.
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| Japan tsunami, nuclear tragedy remembered seven years on Posted: 10 Mar 2018 11:48 PM PST  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led a sombre ceremony Sunday as Japan marked the seventh anniversary of a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated its northeastern coast and left around 18,500 people dead or missing. The killer tsunami also swamped the emergency power supply at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, sending its reactors into meltdown as cooling systems failed in what was the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Abe, lawmakers and family members who lost their loved ones in the disaster bowed their heads in silent prayer at a ceremony in Tokyo at 2:46 pm (0546 GMT) -- the exact moment the quake struck.
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| Zoos are rating animals online and it's too good Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:09 PM PST  Zoos are giving animals Amazon-esque species ratings, and it's honestly kind of great. The trend started Friday with the Oregon Zoo in a tweet hashtagged #rateaspecies. Other animal conservancies got in on the fun – including aquariums – providing informative ratings for people looking to, er, buy the products. SEE ALSO: We're calling 'fake news' on the report that 'Black Panther' caused a surge in black cat adoptions ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ FIRST IMPRESSIONSOverall very good first impressions. Sturdy built, totally winter-ready and waterproof. Only comes in brown but that's actually a plus for me. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/IK99ODsTPT — Oregon Zoo (@OregonZoo) March 9, 2018 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ otter be 4 stars butok first of all i'm very satisfied much improved over river edition. extremely warm insulation which adds buoyancy. if u like kelp the UrchinCrusher+ is a must on coastal trips. minus one star because it's actually a weasel lol?! #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/oCGV3aGlZ0 — Monterey Bay Aquarium (@MontereyAq) March 9, 2018 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ A+ VINTAGE ROADSTERDespite few major design updates since the Ice Age, a worthy investment for current and future aficionados. Oxygen-processing and sustained land speed unparalleled. Extremely rare, though hopefully not for long.#rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/Dqa0Gp7Q7m — Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens (@LAZoo) March 9, 2018 ⭐ very unsatisfied with the shipping. I ordered a frog and what I got was this big melted pile. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/6pj9D2HcED — Slartibartfast (@shtoopy) March 9, 2018 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ POUNCE ON THIS ONEStarted out small but got stretched out over time. Still, even after heavy use in all weather, very tough, very hardy. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/lPCLxIfCYi — Woodland Park Zoo (@woodlandparkzoo) March 9, 2018 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Pleasantly surprised. Thought I had ordered a Roomba, but this did an excellent job of cleaning up my ecosystem. Only downside is the projectile vomiting. Overall 5 stars, would drunkenly purchase again. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/5fDfHiaWNq — Katherine O'Reilly (@DrKatfish) March 9, 2018 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ VERY HAPPYNot to be confused with a smiling leaf. Very bouncy and keeps cricket population under control. Offers eye antennas for improved smile signal. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/qz4frTnoqL — Josh's Frogs (@JoshsFrogs) March 9, 2018 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THESE FISH ARE NOT BROKENAnyone who says otherwise didn't read the instructions. A+ globiform, not supposed to swim well just look cute, does as promised. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/86q4PFhM83 — CA AcademyOfSciences (@calacademy) March 9, 2018 WATCH: We could see a decline in King Penguins thanks to — you guessed it — climate change
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| Couple Hilariously Shoots Engagement Photos at Target Because They Love it so Much Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:51 PM PST  Going to the store had become a tradition for them.
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| Trump Is Remaking The Courts In His Image: White, Male and Straight Posted: 11 Mar 2018 06:08 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― More than a year into his presidency, Donald Trump is making the nation's courts look a lot more like him: white, male and straight. To date, Trump has nominated 87 people to be judges with lifetime tenure on U.S. district courts, circuit courts or the Supreme Court. Eighty of them are white, or nearly 92 percent.
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| Lightning Strike at Rwanda Church Kills 16 Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:20 AM PDT  Lightning strikes are frequent across Rwanda
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| Gunman had been treated at California veterans home where he killed three people, investigators say Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:52 AM PST  A gunman who took hostages and killed three workers at a veteran's facility had been treated there as a patient. Albert Wong, a 36-year-old former Army infantryman, killed three workers and himself at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville just a week after he had been dismissed from a programme there, state Senator Bill Dodd said.
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| US narrows travel alert for Mexico's Playa del Carmen Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:32 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has narrowed its travel warning for the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen amid what it calls an unspecified "ongoing security threat" just as the spring holiday season is kicking into high gear.
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| Hundreds urged to wash clothes after UK nerve agent attack Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:34 AM PDT  By Henry Nicholls and Alex Fraser SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - Hundreds of people who visited the Zizzi restaurant or the Mill pub in the English city of Salisbury were told on Sunday to wash their clothes after traces of nerve agent used to attack a former Russian spy last week were found at both sites. Public Health England said there was no immediate health risk to anyone who may have been in either the restaurant or the pub, but their was a small chance that any of the agent that had come into contact with clothing or belongings could still be present in minute amounts and contaminate skin. Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital in a critical condition since March 4, when they were found unconscious on a bench in the southern English cathedral city of Salisbury.
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| 3 women killed in veterans home standoff helped former service members with PTSD Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:27 AM PST  Three women who devoted their lives to helping traumatized veterans were killed by a patient who had been kicked out of their treatment program, authorities said.
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| Anti-cholesterol drug Praluent cuts death risk Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:00 PM PST  The anti-cholesterol drug Praluent (alirocumab), made by France's Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, is linked to a 15 percent lower risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke, a study said Saturday. Alirocumab was also associated with a 15 percent reduction in death from any cause, marking the first evidence that this relatively new class of drugs, called PCSK9 inhibitors, can extend lives. The benefit was even greater among those with stubbornly high "bad," or LDL cholesterol, above 100 mg/dL.
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| Waymo self-driving rigs to haul Google cargo Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:13 AM PST  Google-owned Waymo on Friday said that its self-driving trucks will haul cargo bound for the internet giant's data centers in Georgia. Rival Uber made a similar announcement on Tuesday, saying it is using self-driving semi trucks to augment human-driven rigs in its on-demand trucking service in the US state of Arizona. Waymo driverless trucks will go to work in the Atlanta area Monday as part of a pilot program intended to help integrate autonomous big rigs with the operations of shippers, ports, terminals, factories, and distribution centers, according to the company.
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| Gun control: US justice department moves to ban rapid-fire bump stocks Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:17 AM PST  A bump stock device (left) at a gun store in Salt Lake City. The NRA has not supported an outright ban on bump stocks. The US Department of Justice on Saturday moved to ban bump stocks, firearm accessories used to mimic automatic fire.
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| Trump to make first trip as president to defiant California Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:08 PM PST  US President Donald Trump is heading to California, a state at the forefront of resistance to his anti-immigration agenda, for what is almost certain to be a contentious trip. Trump's first trip to California as president, on Tuesday, comes at a time of high tensions between his Republican administration and the Democratic-leaning most populous US state, especially on immigration issues. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has accused the state of deliberately obstructing enforcement of federal law by offering undocumented immigrants sanctuary protections.
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| Black Filmmakers Make History At The Box Office This Weekend Posted: 11 Mar 2018 12:56 PM PDT  This weekend marks the first time when two movies directed by black filmmakers, with budgets over $100 million, hold the number one and two spots at the box office. The Ryan Coogler-helmed "Black Panther" continues its fourth week of domination, bringing in another $41.1 million. "A Wrinkle In Time" opens this weekend in second place with $33.3 million.
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