| Trump's Personal Lawyer Is Now Calling For End To Russia Probe Posted: 17 Mar 2018 09:52 AM PDT  The personal lawyer for President Donald Trump has called for the FBI probe
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| Man Killed by a 35-pound Boulder While Driving Down a California Freeway Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  The California Highway Patrol stated that the boulder was purposely moved and thrown from the overpass.
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| Court Just Found Black Victim Of White Supremacist Assault Not Guilty Of... Assault Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:58 PM PDT  Anti-racist protester DeAndre Harris, who was brutally beaten by a group of
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| FIU student Alexa Duran identified as victim of Florida bridge collapse Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:51 AM PDT  Alexa Duran was driving from a doctor's appointment with her best friend Richard next to her in the passenger's seat, when the bridge collapsed on top of them. Her best friend Richard speaks out about his amazing story of survival.
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| Graphic Videos of Pulse Nightclub Shooting Played for Jury Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:34 AM PDT  The video showed him reloading as people near him tried to crawl to safety
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| United Airlines puts dog on wrong plane, makes unscheduled landing Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:05 AM PDT  For the second time this week, United Airlines has put a dog on the wrong plane, causing flight 3996 headed to Newark from St. Louis to make an unscheduled landing in Akron, Ohio to drop off the dog.
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| Palestinian kills 2 Israeli soldiers in car-ramming attack Posted: 16 Mar 2018 11:58 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian killed two Israeli soldiers and badly wounded two others when he rammed his vehicle into them in the West Bank on Friday, the military said.
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| U.S. officials: Russia behind cyber attacks on power plants Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:38 AM PDT  U.S. officials discuss Russia's role behind the cyber attacks on power plants, and how they have been targeting U.S. networks since 2016.
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| Sean Hannity Slams Shepard Smith For Calling His Kind Of Fox Show Strictly Entertainment Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:07 PM PDT  Fox News host Sean Hannity ripped colleague Shepard Smith on Friday after
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| Miami bridge collapse: engineer's answerphone message about crack not heard Posted: 17 Mar 2018 03:55 AM PDT  Homicide detectives opened an investigation on Friday into the collapse of a new footbridge that killed at least six people at Miami's Florida International University (FIU), as questions began to swirl about the companies behind the structure's controversial design and construction. Juan Perez, the director of Miami-Dade police department, said criminal charges were possible once exhaustive inquiries by his detectives and state and federal authorities were complete.
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| Teachers Are Overwhelmingly Opposed to Carrying Guns in Schools, Says Survey Posted: 16 Mar 2018 03:39 PM PDT  But seven in 10 think it would in effective in stopping the next mass shooting
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| Academy 'launches sexual harassment investigation into its president John Bailey' days after the Oscars Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PDT  The head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is reportedly under investigation for sexual harassment. The academy, which oversees the Oscars, is responding to multiple allegations against president John Bailey, according to reports in the Hollywood Reporter and Variety. In a statement, the Academy said it "treats any complaints confidentially to protect all parties".
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| Republicans Got Greedy With Gerrymandering. Now It's Coming Back To Haunt Them. Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:33 AM PDT  When Thomas Hofeller travelled across the country at the beginning of the
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| California Student Says He Was Forced to Participate in Walkout Posted: 16 Mar 2018 11:34 AM PDT  A California high school student says a teacher denied students the option to not participate in a walkout to protest gun violence.
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| Lawyers call US gun charges for Mexican man 'vindictive' Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:48 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Attorneys for a Mexican man acquitted of murder in a San Francisco shooting that helped fuel the U.S. immigration debate are pressing for documents to help them argue that his U.S. gun charges are vindictive.
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| White House is Trying to Tamp Down Reports of an Imminent Cabinet Shakeup Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  The president recently fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a tweet and hinted at more changes to come.
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| Trump’s Legal Team Says It Can Sue Stormy Daniels For $20 Million Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:07 PM PDT  President Donald Trump has jumped into the lawsuit filed against him by an
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| Russia accuses West of enabling terrorists in Syria Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:25 AM PDT  Russia on Friday accused western powers of enabling terrorists in Syria, after meeting with Iran and Turkey for a new round of talks to try and broker an end to the conflict there. The Russian, Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers had met in the Kazakh capital of Astana, and the focus of their consultations was Eastern Ghouta, an opposition enclave just outside Damascus, which the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began pounding a month ago.
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| ProPublica leads media into correction of murky CIA story Posted: 16 Mar 2018 06:45 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The news organization ProPublica issued a detailed correction of a story about Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's choice for the next CIA director, and the waterboarding of a detainee the year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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| Companies That Built Collapsed FIU Bridge Had Been Fined for Safety Violations Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:53 AM PDT  MCM has been fined more than $50,000 for 11 violations
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| Khloe Kardashian's Good American launches maternity denim Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:17 AM PDT  Good American, an all-inclusive size denim line founded by Khloe Kardashian
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| 'Dogs Must Think We're Magical When We Rub The Wall And The Room Gets Bright' Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:18 AM PDT  The shower isn't just a place to sing. Separated from our cellphones, standing
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| The Truth, the Trial and the North Korean Trojan Horse Posted: 16 Mar 2018 06:38 PM PDT  North Korea's charm offensives have a track record of being diplomatic traps. The past week saw new developments on the Korean Peninsula. The meeting last week between Kim Jong-un and the South Korean delegation led by National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong and Chief of the National Intelligence Service Suh Hoon resulted in plans for an inter-Korean summit to be held in late April and a U.S.-North Korea summit to be held by May.
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| Missing teen may have flown to Cancun with 45-year-old man Posted: 16 Mar 2018 01:58 PM PDT  Police say a 16-year-old Pennsylvania teen, who went missing after she was signed out of school by a 45-year-old man, may have flown to Cancun with him. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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| California couple gets $2.5 million settlement after city called kidnapping a hoax Posted: 16 Mar 2018 11:19 AM PDT  Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn filed a defamation lawsuit against the city of Vallejo after officials there dismissed Mr Quinn's description of a home intruder kidnapping and raping Ms Huskins as a fabrication that had wasted police resources. Vindicating the couple, a man named Matthew Muller was later convicted of kidnapping Ms Quinn and sentenced to 40 years in prison after he was arrested and had his home searched during an unrelated investigation. It alleges police officers reacted to Mr Quinn reporting the crime by treating him as if he had "already been convicted of murdering" Ms Huskins.
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| Republican Food Stamp Plan In Disarray Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― A Republican plan to shrink food stamp enrollment is in some
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| Trump hails FBI official's firing, but critics call it 'dangerous' Posted: 17 Mar 2018 12:23 PM PDT  Donald Trump has hailed the firing of a veteran FBI agent as a "great day for democracy," a move his attorney said he hoped would bring an end to a probe into alleged collusion between the president's campaign and Russia. McCabe, who was the FBI's deputy under former director James Comey, is a potentially key witness in the Russia probe.
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| UK opposition leader: Don't rush to blame Moscow in spy case Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:45 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The United States and other allies have united behind the U.K. government in blaming Russia for the nerve-agent poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. But Britain's main opposition party is split over how firmly to point the finger at Moscow.
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| Uber’s Biggest Rival Is Experimenting With All-You-Can-Ride Monthly Subscriptions Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:00 AM PDT  For all-you-can-ride access to the car-hailing service
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| 5-Year-Old Cries as He Watches His Mom Walk Down The Aisle Posted: 17 Mar 2018 08:39 AM PDT  It was a an unforgettable moment.
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| Audi to build four-door electric sports car in 2020 Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:27 AM PDT  Audi has just confirmed it will be launching a fully-electric four-door GT model in 2020 to rival the Tesla Model S, which will be a gran turismo sibling of the e-tron SUV that arrives later this year. At its recent annual press conference, the manufacturer announced it will launch no fewer than five of those models by as soon as 2021, so we will soon have a Q3-sized EV crossover, the e-tron, e-tron Sportback and the e-tron GT. Perhaps what's most interesting about Audi's conversion to the electric cause is a focus on what will be special "Audi Sport" performance models.
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| Man who killed his family as a teen is ordered to adult jail Posted: 15 Mar 2018 06:27 PM PDT  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man who killed five family members as a teenager previously was set to walk free next week on his 21st birthday, but a judge Thursday ordered him moved from a treatment center for minors into an adult jail while his juvenile sentence faces another review.
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| Engineer warned of cracking in US bridge before deadly collapse Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:47 PM PDT  The chief engineer of a Florida bridge project warned authorities of cracking in the structure days before it collapsed, killing at least six people, the southern US state's department of transportation said Friday. Chief engineer Denney Pate left a voicemail on a Florida Department of Transportation employee's landline on March 13, two days before the pedestrian walkway came crashing down on the major road beneath, the department said in a statement. There was "some cracking that's been observed on the north end of the span," Pate said, according to a transcript of the call.
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| Indonesia pushes for Southeast Asian patrols of disputed waters Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:46 PM PDT  By Fergus Jensen SYDNEY (Reuters) - Indonesia has lobbied Southeast Asian countries to carry out maritime patrols in the disputed South China Sea, claimed in most part by China, to improve security, Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu said on Friday. Indonesia says it's a non-claimant state in the South China Sea dispute but has clashed with China over fishing rights around the Natuna Islands and expanded its military presence there, and also renamed the northern reaches of its exclusive economic zone, asserting its own maritime claim. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Defence Minister Marise Payne held talks with their Indonesian counterparts Retno Marsudi and Ryacudu in Sydney, ahead of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit.
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| Labour MPs who criticise Jeremy Corbyn on Russia should be deselected, says ally Posted: 16 Mar 2018 12:24 PM PDT  A key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has suggested moderate Labour MPs who blame Russia for spy poisoning are "enemies" who should be deselected. Chris Williamson, the Labour MP for Derby North, said Labour MPs who had decided Moscow was "unequivocally" to blame were "baying for blood" and suggested they face de-selection. Mr Corbyn, the Labour leader, is under intense pressure over his repeated failure this week to condemn directly Russia for carrying out a nerve agent attack in the UK. Splits have emerged between Mr Corbyn and key members of his shadow cabinet who have unequivocably backed Theresa May's handling of the Salisbury poisoning crisis. By last night 33 Labour MPs had signed a Commons motion "unequivocally accepts the Russian state's culpability for the poisoning of Yulia and Sergei Skripal in Salisbury using the illegal novichok nerve agent". Some are now set to try to table a motion of no confidence in Seumas Milne, the Labour party's communications chief who is blamed for Mr Corbyn's moderate line on Russia, at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday evening. Labour MP Chris Williamson Mr Williamson was speaking to a meeting of the Momentum campaign group in Ealing, west London, on Thursday evening, according to a report on the Huffington Post website. He said: "I don't know if anyone saw the debate in the House of Commons yesterday, my God, it was unbelievable. "I mean these characters, they are like baying for blood. Some of them would be quite happy were we to enter into a hot war. "Regrettably we have a few on our own benches who are like-minded, 18 of them have signed an Early Day Motion saying they unequivocally accept Russia are responsible for the attack." Mr Williamson said the poisoning was an "appalling incident" which the UK "certainly can't tolerate on British soil". But added: "It's far from certain, it seems to me, that it was ordered by the Kremlin." Mr Williamson – who quit the Labour frontbench team in January after calling for council taxes to be doubled on expensive homes - issued a strong defence of Corbyn and threatened Labour MPs who didn't support the leader with de-selection. He said: "It's exactly the sort of response you want from a leader, rather than the knee-jerk response you are getting from the Tories and one or two on our own benches. "It would definitely be helpful, I think, for our own people on the green benches to actually fall in behind the leader's very statesmanlike and measured response. "It only helps our political enemies. But frankly I see them as political enemies as well. "I have been advocating for a long time now for mandatory re-selection. "We mustn't allow the tiny minority of irrelevant malcontents that sit on the green benches on the House of Commons to deter party members." "To be honest with you I'd be quite happy if some of them b*****ed off. "The likes of John Woodcock and Ian Austin and people like that, God, it's so depressing." Mr Woodcock, the MP for Barrow and Furness, and Austin, the MP for Dudley North, are both critics of Corbyn's leadership. Mr Woodcock said that his colleague "used to be such a sweet fellow". Ian Austin MP, far right, with Harriet Harman Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Mr Austin told The Daily Telegraph: "Last night, tonight and tomorrow night I have been out there knocking on doors to persuade people to vote Labour in the local elections. "I have spent this week campaigning against rough sleeping, against cuts which have hit council services and the police in Dudley. That is what I think people in Dudley think I should be concentrating on." The Labour leader had used an article in The Guardian newspaper today to urge Mrs May not to "rush way ahead of the evidence". On Thursday, shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said Mr Corbyn's statement had made it more difficult to focus on how to respond to Russia. The father in law of Nick Bailey, the Salisbury policeman who suffered the effects of the nerve agent used in the poisoning criticised Mr Corbyn's "mealy mouthed" response to the attack.
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| Saudi crown prince on Kushner, Jerusalem embassy move Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:21 AM PDT  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will meet Tuesday with President Trump at the White House. For this Sunday's "60 Minutes," "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell asked the 32-year-old crown prince about that visit, Jared Kushner and the president's plan to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
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| An Immigrant Couple Has Died in a Car Crash While Fleeing From Federal Agents Posted: 15 Mar 2018 07:11 PM PDT  They left behind six children
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| In Syria, at least 100 killed in attacks as more people flee Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:08 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes in Syria killed more than 100 people on Friday as civilians, weary and many wounded, fled besieged areas for the second straight day.
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| No. 16 UMBC Defeats No. 1 Virginia In Biggest Upset In Men's NCAA Tournament History Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:36 PM PDT  For the first time in the history of the men's NCAA tournament, a No. 16 seed
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| Botswana accuses US of 'encouraging' elephant poaching Posted: 16 Mar 2018 03:51 PM PDT  Botswana's President Ian Khama on Friday accused the US government of encouraging elephant poaching following its recent decision to reverse a ban on imports of sport-hunted trophies. Khama was speaking at an African elephant conservation conference in Botswana. "I want to take this moment to condemn in the strongest possible terms, the decision taken by... the (Donald) Trump administration who on the 1st of March this year... issued a memorandum that with immediate effect, the US government would consider issuing permits for certain elephant trophies from six African countries," said Khama.
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| This Russian Plane Was Carrying So Much Gold That Its Cargo Door Burst Open Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:56 PM PDT  Littering the runway with precious metals
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| Trump signs U.S.-Taiwan travel bill; China 'strongly dissatisfied' Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:48 PM PDT  By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that encourages the United States to send senior officials to Taiwan to meet Taiwanese counterparts and vice versa, angering China, which views Taiwan as a wayward province. The bill, which is non-binding, would have gone into effect on Saturday morning, even if Trump had not signed it, said the White House. The move adds to strains between the two countries over trade, as Trump has enacted tariffs and called for China to reduce its huge trade imbalance with the United States, even while Washington has leaned on Beijing to help resolve tensions with North Korea.
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| German interior minister declares 'Islam does not belong' in the country Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:31 AM PDT  Angela Merkel's new government got off to a rocky start on Friday as the chancellor and her interior minister clashed publicly over the role of Islam in Germany society. Horst Seehofer, who became interior minister this week under a coalition deal, used his first interview since taking office to declare "Islam does not belong in Germany". Mrs Merkel lost no time in slapping down the minister, telling a press conference: "Muslims are also part of Germany, and so their religion is just as much a part of Germany". Mr Seehofer's controversial remarks echoed last year's election slogans from the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD), which campaigned on an anti-Muslim platform. But they were most clearly aimed as a broadside against Mrs Merkel, who famously declared "Islam belongs in Germany" in a 2015 press conference after opening the country's borders to over 1 million asylum-seekers. "Islam does not belong in Germany," Mr Seehofer told Bild newspaper. "Germany is shaped by Christianity. That means not working on Sundays and celebrating religious holidays such as Easter, Pentecost and Christmas. Horst Seehofer talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the German parliament in Berlin Credit: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber "Of course the Muslims who live with us belong in Germany. But that doesn't mean we should give up our national traditions and customs." The leader of Mrs Merkel's Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Mr Seehofer was the leading opponent of her refugee policy and the dispute almost ended the longstanding alliance between the two parties. But they patched up their differences ahead of last year's election and Mr Seehofer was given control of migration and asylum policy as interior minister under the new coalition deal. His remarks on Friday suggest he is ready to reopen the feud in government. Mrs Merkel responded angrily to Mr Seehofer's comments. "We want an Islam based on the constitution and compliant with constitutional law," she said on a visit to Paris. "I think we must do everything we can to allow religions to live together in peace." Mr Seehofer also came under attack from Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the chairman of Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrat party (CDU) who is widely seen as her chosen successor. Profile | Angela Merkel "Freedom of religion undoubtedly belongs in Germany, just as the Muslims in Germany, together with their faith, belong in our country," Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer said. More than 4 million Muslims live in Germany, 1.9 million of whom are German citizens. More than 60 per cent are of Turkish heritage and were living in Germany long before Mrs Merkel's decision to open the borders to asylum-seekers. Mr Seehofer later sought to clarify his remarks. "Our country Germany has been shaped by Christianity for centuries. That's why it's wrong to say Islam belongs in Germany, " he said. "Of course we have tolerance and respect for other religious communities. And of course the Muslims living in Germany belong in Germany." It was Wolfgang Schäuble, the former finance minister and current speaker of the German parliament, who first declared in 2006 that "Islam is part of Germany and Europe". The phrase at the centre of the dispute,"Islam belongs in Germany" was first coined in 2010 by Christian Wulff, the Germna president at the time, and later taken up by Mrs Merkel.
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| Stephen Hawking Was Very Particular About His Tea Posted: 16 Mar 2018 07:59 AM PDT ![Stephen Hawking Was Very Particular About His Tea]( "Stephen Hawking Was Very Particular About His Tea") As a theoretical physicist who specializes in cosmology and gravitation, I naturally had many opportunities to interact with Stephen Hawking before his death. We attended the same physics conferences, where he was always rightfully celebrated as one of the world's great scientists. He regularly visited the California Institute of Technology, where I work as a researcher. And, in perhaps my greatest contribution to world culture, I helped arrange Stephen's cameo appearance on The Big Bang Theory.
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