| Estonia’s president says Trump gets it about Russia Posted: 05 Apr 2018 01:59 PM PDT  As questions swirl around President Trump's relationship with the Kremlin, the president of Estonia, a country on Russia's border, dismissed concerns about American foreign policy.
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| Search for missing children in California crash continues amid new evidence Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:01 AM PDT  "I'm to the point where I'm no longer calling it an accident," said a Mendocino County Sheriff. "I'm calling it a crime."
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| Democrats hope teacher strikes will mobilize support for midterms Posted: 05 Apr 2018 07:00 AM PDT  With public school teachers taking a stand over low pay and dwindling education budgets in several Republican majority states, Democrats are sensing another opportunity to make inroads in the 2018 midterm elections.
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| Virgin Galactic tests rocket ship, three years after fatal accident Posted: 05 Apr 2018 11:50 PM PDT  At about 8 a.m. local time, The VMS Eve carrier plane took off from Mojave, California, carrying SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity before releasing it 46,500 feet (14,000 m) above ground, Virgin Galactic said in a statement. "Space feels tantalisingly close now," Branson Tweeted after the test flight.
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| Black And Brown Parkland Students Want You To Hear Their 'Stories Untold' Posted: 06 Apr 2018 02:49 PM PDT  > This is an open invitation for those who have been a victim of gun violence.
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| Philippines to close Boracay resort to tourists for six months Posted: 04 Apr 2018 10:27 PM PDT  The Philippines has announced its best-known holiday island Boracay will be closed to tourists for six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a "cesspool" tainted by dumped sewage. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the shutdown to start April 26, his spokesman Harry Roque said late Wednesday on Twitter, without providing further detail. Boracay has some 500 tourism-related businesses, which had a combined annual revenue of 56 billion pesos ($1.07 billion) last year.
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| Ghouta evacuation stalls over differences among Syria rebels Posted: 05 Apr 2018 01:16 PM PDT  Al-Wafideen (Syria) (AFP) - Evacuations of rebels and civilians from the last opposition pocket in Syria's Eastern Ghouta stalled on Thursday as divisions continued within the Islamist faction that holds the area, state media said. A convoy of 20 buses organised by the government had entered the former rebel bastion's main town of Douma to prepare for a fourth day of evacuations but later pulled back to the town's outskirts, an AFP correspondent said. Syria's state news agency SANA said the buses left Douma due to "differences between" rebels and "in order to let them sort out by themselves these differences".
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| Protesters Demand Justice For Saheed Vassell, Unarmed Black Man Shot By Cops In NYC Posted: 05 Apr 2018 05:17 PM PDT  Hundreds of people rallied in New York City on Thursday evening to call for
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| Sasse on Trump trade war: 'the dumbest possible way to do this' Posted: 05 Apr 2018 12:51 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow reports on Donald Trump raising the stakes in the trade war he is starting with China, and the reaction of Republican Senator Ben Sasse who says Trump is "threatening to light American agriculture on fire."
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| Body Of CDC Scientist Missing Since February Found In Georgia River Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:39 PM PDT  A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist who mysteriously
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| Crews recover pilot's body in South Korean fighter jet crash Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:36 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Searchers recovered the body of a South Korean pilot who was killed Thursday when his F-15K fighter jet crashed into a mountain in the country's rural south, the air force said. Workers planned to resume their search Friday for the co-pilot, who was also presumed dead.
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| Woman Who Says Mormon Church Failed To Discipline Her Abuser Files Lawsuit Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:45 PM PDT  A woman who accused a former Mormon leader of rape filed a civil lawsuit
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| America vs. China in South China Sea: Aircraft Carrier Face-Off Now In the Cards? Posted: 06 Apr 2018 06:28 AM PDT  China's only aircraft carrier in service, the Liaoning, is now in the South China Sea for a six-day drill that began on Thursday, state papers have confirmed. Reuters has also reported that the Liaoning strike group has sailed into waters close to the southern province of Hainan, flanked by 40 other warships and submarines, as seen in a satellite image. Observers believe these vessels may be from the People's Liberation Army Navy's three major fleets, as Beijing wants a variety of vessels from different naval command regions to sail with the Liaoning to hone their inter-fleet interoperability.
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| Russian envoy references 'Midsomer Murders' as he compares UK spy claims to Goebbels propaganda Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:22 PM PDT  Russia's UN envoy referenced "Midsomer Murders", "Alice in Wonderland" and "Crime and Punishment" on Thursday as he attacked Britain at the UN Security Council for Goebbels-style propaganda over the poisoning of a former spy. It was the second showdown between Russia and Britain at the world body since the March 4 nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in an English town. Russia has denied any involvement in the attempted assassination, which has had major diplomatic ramifications, with mass expulsions of Russian and Western diplomats. Earlier on Thursday, Alexander Yakovenko, Russia's ambassador to London, laid out Moscow's position on the Salisbury attack, the latest in series of claim and counter claim surrounding the poisoning. The 15-member Security Council first met over the issue on March 14, when Russia's Ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, compared the British government to Inspector LeStrade, a "hapless" investigator from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. What to believe, and not believe, about Russia's claims on Skripal poisoning "It's some sort of theatre of the absurd. Couldn't you come up with a better fake story?", Mr Nebenzia told the council on Thursday. "We have told our British colleagues that 'you're playing with fire and you'll be sorry.'" Mr Skripal, a former double agent, and his daughter Yulia were found in a critical condition on a public bench in the English city of Salisbury on March 4. In her first public statement, Yulia confirmed on Thursday that she was recovering in hospital and her "strength is growing daily". London blames Russia but the Kremlin denies any involvement. Britain says the poisoning was carried out with a military-grade nerve agent called Novichok, which was developed by the Soviet Union. What is Novichok Mr Nebenzia claimed "a propaganda war" against Russia was being waged that sought "to discredit and even de-legitimise Russia." "This is all using the method of Dr Goebbels," he added in reference to Nazi Germany's propaganda chief. Russia requested the UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday, the same day that Moscow failed in its bid to join a probe into the Salisbury incident by global chemical watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. In response, Karen Pierce, British Ambassador to the UN, said London had conveyed Russia's demand for consular access to Yulia Skripal and that the British government had acted entirely properly within international convention. Karen Pierce, UK Ambassador to the United Nations gives a speech during a UN Security Council meeting Credit: Getty "I won't take any lectures on morality or on our responsibilities," said Ms Pierce, "from a country that, as this council debated yesterday, has done so much to block the proper investigation of the use of chemical weapons in Syria." "It's yet another attempt by Russia to use this Security Council for political gains," said US diplomat Kelley Currie. "This is not a tactic that is appropriate for this body," she said of the Goebbels reference. In lengthy, rhetorical flourishes, the Russian envoy referenced popular British television series "Midsomer Murders" – set in the bucolic countryside – suggesting that anyone who watched such television crime shows would know "hundreds of clever ways to kill someone" to illustrate the "risky and dangerous" nature of the method Britain says was used to target Skripal. In another literary nod, he referred to Russian masterpiece "Crime and Punishment" as he mocked Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Yesterday, Russia failed to persuade OPCW that they, the chief suspect, should join an investigation of attempted assassinations in Salisbury. Today's gambit is to rope the UN Security Council into their disinformation campaign. The world will see through this shameless cynicism— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) April 5, 2018 "It's not a crime novel as the British minister thinks, but rather a deep philosophical work of literature," he said. "I would suggest that Mr Johnson read some other novels by Dostoevsky or at least get to know their names." He then mused on the whereabouts of reported Skripal pets, two cats and two guinea pigs. "What happened to these animals? Why doesn't anyone mention them? Their condition is also an important piece of evidence," he said. A British government spokeswoman told AFP late on Thursday that both guinea pigs had died and that a cat found in a distressed state was euthanised. She did not mention a second cat. Mr Nebenzia also reached for a copy of "Alice in Wonderland" and read read a passage about a trial where the Queen demands the sentence first and the verdict afterward. "Does that remind you of anything?" he added. Ms Pierce responded: "There is another very good quote from Alice in Wonderland which is: 'sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast' so I think that's the quote the suits my Russian colleague best." Mapped: Russian diplomats expelled from West Richard Gowan, a UN expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said it suited Russia "to turn the whole business into a farce". "By playing up the melodrama at the UN, Nebenzia succeeds in distracting from the seriousness of the crime," he told AFP. "By turning it into a game, Russia aims to make the UK look a bit silly. A lot of other countries might like to let the matter drop before it worsens relations with Russia further, so Moscow's strategy may not be a joke," he added. But even before the meeting, the British ambassador kicked off the literary allusions by taking aim at her Russian counterpart's purported fondness for a Sherlock Holmes analogy. Allowing Russians scientists "into an investigation where they are the most likely perpetrators of the crime... would be like Scotland Yard inviting in Professor Moriarty," she told reporters of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional criminal mastermind.
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| Sheryl Sandberg speaks out on Facebook data breach scandal Posted: 05 Apr 2018 08:58 AM PDT  After the company disclosed that as many as 87 million people could have been impacted, COO Sheryl Sandberg defended the company and echoed CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said a fix would take at least three years.
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| MMA superstar McGregor surrenders to New York police, report Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:50 PM PDT  Conor McGregor has turned himself into US police Thursday night following an incident where he allegedly attacked a shuttle bus loaded with fellow mixed martial arts fighters who were attending a New York media event. The 29-year-old McGregor surrendered to the 78th Precinct station but there was no immediate indication whether charges had been filed, the New York Post reported. The newspaper said McGregor was being questioned and would eventually be charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.
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| Atlantic Fires Kevin Williamson After Suddenly Realizing He Believes The Things He Says Posted: 05 Apr 2018 11:41 AM PDT  In an email to his staff Thursday afternoon, The Atlantic's editor-in-chief,
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| Israeli fire kills Palestinian at Gaza border, with more protests ahead Posted: 05 Apr 2018 05:05 PM PDT ![Israeli fire kills Palestinian at Gaza border, with more protests ahead]( "Israeli fire kills Palestinian at Gaza border, with more protests ahead") By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli fire killed a Palestinian at the Gaza border on Thursday and another died of wounds suffered several days ago, health officials said, bringing to 19 the number of Palestinian dead from a week of frontier protests. The Israeli military said one of its aircraft targeted an armed militant near the security fence along the Gaza Strip. Tens of thousands of Palestinians are holding a six-week-long protest in tent encampments along the fenced border of the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, an enclave of 2 million ruled by the Islamist Hamas group.
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| An Anti-Sinclair Spot Is Expected To Air 175 Times On 4 Sinclair Stations Posted: 05 Apr 2018 10:06 AM PDT  The viral video showing a dizzying array of local news anchors reciting the
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| Stranger finds young girl’s letter to late father, helps her achieve a dream Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:09 AM PDT  After the death of her father, 11-year-old Emily started writing a yearly letter and sending it skyward to him with a balloon. After one was found miles away, the kindness of a stranger helped Emily accomplish her dream.
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| Ex-teacher pleads guilty to fleeing with Tennessee student Posted: 05 Apr 2018 07:43 PM PDT  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee teacher who set off a nationwide manhunt last year after he fled with a 15-year-old student broke down in court after pleading guilty to crossing state lines to have sex with a minor.
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| Brazil jaguars find safe haven from floods in rainforest trees Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:19 AM PDT ![Brazil jaguars find safe haven from floods in rainforest trees]( "Brazil jaguars find safe haven from floods in rainforest trees") Brazilian jaguars, imperiled by hunters, ranchers and destruction of their habitat, have learned to survive at least one menace — flooding in the Amazon. They take to the trees!
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| UFC president calls McGregor's actions 'disgusting' Posted: 06 Apr 2018 12:19 AM PDT  'I don't think anybody is going to be huge Conor McGregor fans after this,' White says
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 06 Apr 2018 11:53 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest
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| Air strikes return to Syria's Ghouta killing 40 as talks sputter Posted: 06 Apr 2018 02:33 PM PDT  Air strikes killed 40 civilians in the last opposition-held town in Syria's Eastern Ghouta on Friday and the army launched a ground offensive on its outskirts after talks sputtered over a rebel withdrawal. Backed by Russia, Syrian troops have captured nearly all of the one-time opposition stronghold of Ghouta with a combination of ferocious bombing raids and negotiated withdrawals. All that remained was its largest town of Douma, held by the Jaish al-Islam Islamist faction and home to tens of thousands of people.
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| 3,000 Google employees 'sign letter protesting company’s work with the Pentagon' Posted: 05 Apr 2018 10:09 AM PDT  More than 3,000 Google employees have reportedly signed a letter protesting the company's work with the Pentagon that could help with drone strikes. The letter, obtained by The New York Times, includes the line: "We believe that Google should not be in the business of war". Dozens of senior engineers have added their name to the letter, which has been circulating internally for weeks. It calls on the company to stop working on Project Maven, a Pentagon pilot programme that uses artificial intelligence to analyse video imagery. Those signing the letter, which is addressed to Sundar Pichai, the Google chief executive, also want a promise that the company will never "build warfare technology". The clash emphasises the challenges Google faces to live up to its motto – "don't be evil" – in a world of rapidly advancing technology. The letter has reportedly garnered more than 3,100 signatures from Google's 70,000-strong workforce. One section quoted by The New York Times warns that embracing military work could put off other customers. "This plan will irreparably damage Google's brand and its ability to compete for talent," the letter says. "Amid growing fears of biased and weaponised AI [artificial intelligence], Google is already struggling to keep the public's trust." Another part reads: "The argument that other firms, like Microsoft and Amazon, are also participating doesn't make this any less risky for Google. "Google's unique history, its motto Don't Be Evil, and its direct reach into the lives of billions of users set it apart." Google said in a statement to The New York Times that Project Maven is using "open-source object recognition software available to any Google Cloud customer". It added: "The technology is used to flag images for human review and is intended to save lives and save people from having to do highly tedious work." The company also said the project was "specifically scoped to be for non-offensive purpose".
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| New York attorney general probing Brooklyn police shooting death Posted: 05 Apr 2018 04:28 PM PDT  The New York State attorney general's office said on Thursday it would investigate the fatal shooting by police of an unarmed black man in Brooklyn after he pointed a metal pipe at officers that they believed was a gun. The death of Saheed Vassell on Wednesday was the latest fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by police, fueling more protests and heightening a nationwide debate over the use of excessive force by police and accusations of racial bias in the criminal justice system.
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| Air Force names Thunderbirds pilot killed in Nevada crash Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:47 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot who died in the crash of a military jet during a training flight in Nevada was a former civilian flight instructor and banner tow pilot from Valencia, California, officials said Thursday.
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| WATCH: Eagle, chicks react to 5.3 magnitude earthquake in Southern California Posted: 05 Apr 2018 05:58 PM PDT  An eagle and its chicks on Santa Cruz Island were rattled as 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook Southern California.
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| Mick Mulvaney Doles Out Fat Raises To New CFPB Staffers Amid Push To Cut Costs Posted: 06 Apr 2018 05:06 AM PDT  Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
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| Earthquake hits off coast of Southern California, shaking felt in Los Angeles Posted: 05 Apr 2018 12:53 PM PDT  A magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook Southern California early Thursday afternoon, the strongest earthquake to rattle the region since 2014.
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| ‘In A Dogs' World, Humans Are Elves That Routinely Live To Be 500+ Years Old’ Posted: 06 Apr 2018 04:22 AM PDT  The shower isn't just a place to sing. Separated from our cellphones, standing
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| Brazil's Lula negotiates after arrest deadline passes Posted: 06 Apr 2018 04:41 PM PDT  São Bernardo do Campo (Brazil) (AFP) - Ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's polarizing election frontrunner and leftist icon, was negotiating his surrender after dramatically skipping a first deadline Friday to start his 12-year prison sentence for corruption. Holed up with thousands of cheering supporters in the metalworkers' union building in his hometown of Sao Bernardo do Campo, near Sao Paulo, the 72-year-old let the 5:00 pm (2000 GMT) deadline pass without public comment. This raised the temperature in the standoff between the leftist former two-term president and Judge Sergio Moro, who heads the mammoth "Car Wash" anti-graft probe and who ordered Lula's imprisonment.
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| If you catch a burglar breaking into your home, what are you allowed to do? Posted: 06 Apr 2018 11:54 AM PDT  What would you do if you apprehended an intruder in your home? It's a question that has crossed the mind of most of us at some point, and is especially pertinent this week following the arrest of Richard Osborn-Brooks on suspicion of murdering career criminal Henry Vincent. The 37-year-old from Kent was fatally stabbed during a break-in at the pensioner's home in Hither Green, south east London, on Wednesday. Osborn-Brooks has since been told he will face no charges, but his arrest sparked anger from neighbours. So where do you stand legally, as a homeowner, when responding to a break-in in your house? The law says: You can use reasonable force to protect yourself or others if a crime is taking place inside your home. What does this mean in practice? It means you can protect yourself "in the heat of the moment", including by using an object as a weapon. You are also allowed to stop an intruder running off, for example by tackling them to the ground. Norfolk farmer Tony Martin Credit: ANDREW PARSONS/PA How does the law define 'reasonable force'? There's no specific definition of this term - it depends on the circumstances. If you only do what you honestly think is necessary at the time, this provides strong evidence that you acted within the law. Do you have to wait to be attacked before defending yourself in your home? No, but you could still be prosecuted if, for instance, you continue to attack the intruder even if you're no longer in danger, or if you pre-plan a trap for someone rather than involve the police. So why was the farmer Tony Martin jailed? Tony Martin shot dead a teenage burglar in 1999. He was convicted of murder and jailed for life in April 2000 for killing 16 year-old Fred Barras and seriously injuring his accomplice, Brendon Fearon, then 28. The sentence was later reduced to manslaughter. His conviction came after prosecutors argued he had lain in wait for the burglars and shot them in cold blood. And Munir Hussain? Munir Hussain attacked an intruder with a cricket bat after the lives of his family were threatened by knife-wielding burglars in their home in High Wycombe, Bucks, in 2008. He was jailed along with his brother Tokeer after being found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, who reduced Munir's sentence in 2010, explained: "This trial had nothing to do with the right of the householder to defend themselves or their families or their homes. "The burglary was over and the burglars had gone. No one was in any further danger from them."
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| U.S. military cancels training exercise near Djibouti after aircraft mishaps Posted: 05 Apr 2018 12:32 PM PDT ![U.S. military cancels training exercise near Djibouti after aircraft mishaps]( "U.S. military cancels training exercise near Djibouti after aircraft mishaps") The U.S. military has canceled a training exercise off the coast of Djibouti and paused air operations from the country after two air mishaps this week raised questions about the state of military readiness, U.S. officials said on Thursday. "U.S. air operations in Djibouti are on hold and U.S. Naval Forces Central Command has canceled the remainder of exercise Alligator Dagger in response to two separate aviation incidents in Djibouti," the military said in a statement.
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| YouTube Shooter Was Enraged After Popular Video Earned Her Just 10 Cents Posted: 05 Apr 2018 10:27 AM PDT  Nasim Aghdam expressed her anger on her website after a video that was viewed 300,000 resulted in income of just a dime.
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| Time's Up, Men: More Than 300 Women File For House Races Posted: 05 Apr 2018 07:38 PM PDT  Women serving in the House of Representatives made up only 19.6 percent of
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| This Bobcat's Suspenseful Fight With a Rattlesnake Has Gone Viral Posted: 06 Apr 2018 10:23 AM PDT  The two predators savagely battled it out
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