| White House Says Trump Would Sign House GOP's Immigration 'Compromise' After All Posted: 14 Jun 2018 05:47 PM PDT  President Donald Trump threw House Republicans' immigration compromise into
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| The United States’ Long History Of Separating Families Of Color Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:29 PM PDT  The Trump administration's policy of separating children from their families
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| Clapper: 'We had a suspect' in Kremlin-WikiLeaks transfer Posted: 15 Jun 2018 05:41 AM PDT  U.S. intelligence officials last year identified a "suspect" who served as the "cut-out" for Russian intelligence to funnel thousands of DNC emails and documents to WikiLeaks, according to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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| Florida roller coaster derailment raises questions about safety regulations Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:53 AM PDT  Just hours before a roller coaster in Daytona Beach went off the rails, state inspectors had given it the "all clear" after it had been shut down last month.
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| Police say 2 Kansas deputies killed by inmate were parents Posted: 16 Jun 2018 10:25 AM PDT  KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Two Kansas sheriff's deputies who were shot and killed by an inmate while transporting him between the courthouse and jail were both parents, authorities said Saturday.
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| World Cup in Kenya prison Posted: 16 Jun 2018 06:15 AM PDT ![World Cup in Kenya prison]( "World Cup in Kenya prison") As part of their rehabilitation, inmates at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison in rural Kenya are playing their own version of the World Cup, with teams named after the countries competing at the real thing.
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| Emmanuel Macron Ordered a Really Fancy Set of China and People Are Angry Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:07 AM PDT  He's facing criticism for his spending habits again
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| Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Indicted On Wire Fraud Charges Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:42 PM PDT  Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and company president Ramesh "Sunny"
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| Trump on Kim Jong Un: 'His people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.' Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:42 AM PDT  The president on Friday expressed admiration for the way Kim Jong Un is treated by North Koreans.
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| Americans' Crowdsourced Imagining of God Looks Like A Guy Named Brad Posted: 15 Jun 2018 09:29 AM PDT  Liberals and conservatives, meanwhile, see God slightly differently.
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| US drone kills Taliban chief wanted in Malala attack: Ghani Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:25 PM PDT  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani confirmed Friday that Pakistani Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah had been killed in a US drone strike. Fazlullah is believed to have ordered the failed 2012 assassination of Malala Yousafzai, who became a global symbol of the fight for girls' rights to schooling, and who later won the Nobel Peace Prize. US forces targeted Fazlullah in a counterterrorism strike on Thursday in eastern Kunar province, close to the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, US officials said, without confirming his death.
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| Kids deliver a special message in honor of Father’s Day Posted: 15 Jun 2018 09:01 AM PDT  From their sense of humor to pancake recipes, children share what they love about their fathers and grandfathers ahead of Father's Day on Sunday.
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| Boy dies, his brother, mom critical after Colorado shooting Posted: 14 Jun 2018 10:15 PM PDT  WESTMINSTER, Colo. (AP) — One boy died and his brother and mom were in critical condition Thursday following a shooting in a suburban Denver parking lot, according to police.
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| China Said It Will "Immediately Respond" To Any U.S. Trade Actions Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:57 AM PDT  China warned on Friday that Beijing will "immediately respond and take necessary measures to defend our legitimate rights and interests" if the US takes actions that harm Chinese interests.
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| Black hole eats and destroys hapless star which wandered too close Posted: 14 Jun 2018 07:32 PM PDT  Beware of the hungry black hole. Astronomers tracked a supermassive black hole, 20 million times larger than the sun, which ate up and destroyed a star that came too close. SEE ALSO: Three baby planets hanging around a star discovered by astronomers Located nearly 150 million light years away from Earth, scientists theorise the star swirled around the black hole, emitting intense x-rays and visible light, as a jet of material spat out at a quarter of the speed of light. Such an occurrence, called a tidal disruption event (TDE), has been rarely spotted. But scientists think they happen more often. In the case of this stellar death, astronomers used radio and infrared telescopes, such as New Mexico's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), to keep an eye on the event which happened in a pair of colliding galaxies called Arp 299. "Never before have we been able to directly observe the formation and evolution of a jet from one of these events," Miguel Perez-Torres, from the Astrophysical Institute of Andalusia and who published a report in the journal Science, said in a statement online. Artist's rendering of a tidal disruption event (TDE) that happens when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black hole, which reacts by launching a relativistic jet. It zooms out of the central region of its host galaxy, Arp299B, which is undergoing a merging process with Arp299A (the galaxy to the left).Image: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA, STScIPerez-Torrez and Seppo Mattila, of the University of Turku in Finland, got their first indication something was going on in January 2005. Astronomers noticed a bright burst near Arp 299, and kept track of the occurrence over a decade, which revealed a jet of electromagnetic waves going in one direction from the black hole. A black hole is an area of space which has such strong gravitational pull that nothing can escape from it, including light. Although most galaxies have black holes, they're not necessarily out there actively eating everything up. Mattila said the discovery might just be the "tip of the iceberg" for TDEs, with the potential for more discoveries ahead. "By looking for these events with infrared and radio telescopes, we may be able to discover many more, and learn from them," he added. WATCH: These trees have lived for 2,500 years. Now they're suddenly dying
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| The United States Has A World Cup Team. It's Mexico. Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Sergio Tristan couldn't believe he was alone. His beloved Mexican national
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| Experts say Trump's Russia policy is at odds with itself Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:00 AM PDT  At a meeting of the Helsinki Commission, experts said President Trump obfuscates his administration's policy toward the Kremlin by making pronouncements that contradict the positions of the U.S. intelligence community and diplomatic corps.
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| NOT REAL NEWS: Walmart not housing immigrants for DHS Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:05 PM PDT ![NOT REAL NEWS: Walmart not housing immigrants for DHS]( "NOT REAL NEWS: Walmart not housing immigrants for DHS") Walmart is not working with the Department of Homeland Security to create detention centers for migrants despite reports online claiming the two have been working together in recent years.
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| UN envoy in Yemen for emergency talks on Hodeida Posted: 16 Jun 2018 03:08 AM PDT  The UN envoy for Yemen arrived in the rebel-held capital Sanaa on Saturday for talks on the key aid port of Hodeida where rebel fighters are battling a regional coalition. Martin Griffiths is expected to propose to rebel leaders that they cede control of the Red Sea port to a UN-supervised committee to avoid further fighting with advancing government troops which are backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. More than 70 percent of Yemeni imports pass through Hodeida's docks and the fighting has raised UN fears of humanitarian catastrophe in a country already teetering on the brink of famine.
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| Angela Merkel facing battle to save her coalition as immigration row splits Europe Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:45 AM PDT  Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is to hold last-ditch talks to save her coalition government this weekend amid a major European rift over migrant policy. The German chancellor is facing open rebellion from her interior minister, Horst Seehofer, over his plans to turn away migrants at the German border. Mrs Merkel has blocked the measure but Mr Seehofer is threatening to impose it unilaterally if he doesn't win agreement by Monday - essentially daring the chancellor to sack him. As leader of her Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Mr Seehofer could pull it out of Mrs Merkel's coalition if he is fired, depriving her of a majority in parliament. With both sides refusing to back down, German political commentators on Friday warned that the stand-off could potentially bring down the government, and even mean the end of Mrs Merkel's term as chancellor. On Friday, French president Emmanuel Macron came out in support of Mrs Merkel. "Countries are committed to the paths taken by their heads of state or government," the French president said, speaking at a press conference in Paris alongside Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Mr Macron also spoke out against the proposed hardline "axis" on migration formed this week by the interior ministers of Italy, Germany and Austria. France and Italy rowed this week over the fate of a ship carrying more than 600 migrants that was turned away from Italian ports Credit: Reuters "I don't trust these catchphrases which did not bring us luck in the course of history," he said. But the French president was at also pains to put on a united front with the leader of Italy's new populist government, after a week in which he had clashed over their hardline on immigration Mr Macron and Mr Conte called for the European Union to set up asylum processing centres in African nations which have seen an exodus towards Europe in recent years. The Aquarius, the ship carrying more then 600 migrants that sparked the row between the two after Italy refused it permission to dock, is now on its way to the Spanish port of Valencia. In Germany, Wolfgang Schäuble, the speaker of parliament and Mrs Merkel's former finance minister, is to mediate at talks this weekend in an attempt to find a compromise. "The end of Merkel's chancellorship has never been so close," Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said in an editorial. Mrs Merkel's 2015 decision to throw open Germany's borders to migrants has suddenly and dramatically come back to haunt her. At the heart of the dispute are Mr Seehofer's plans to turn away migrants who have already registered in another European Union country at Germany's borders. Under the EU's Dublin rules, Germany can return migrants to the first EU member state they enter, but only after they apply for asylum in Germany, a time-consuming and expensive process. Mrs Merkel has so far blocked the proposals, arguing it could fatally undermine her efforts to agree a new EU-wide migrant policy at the next European summit in two weeks. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has declared an "axis of the willing" with his hardline counterparts in Italy and Austria Credit: Getty But her opponents say she is more concerned at being seen to close the borders now after keeping them open during the influx of 2015. Mr Seehofer says Germany needs a solution to the migrant issue now and cannot wait. But his critics say he is more concerned with grandstanding ahead of Bavarian elections in October, and fending off a challenge from the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD), which has campaigned on an anti-migrant platform. The issue is complicated by the German political system. Individual ministers have considerable autonomy in their own departments, which means Mrs Merkel can only block Mr Seehofer from introducing the plans by sacking him. That has left the two sides facing off in a dangerous game of brinkmanship in which both have plenty to lose. In a development that could prove decisive, Mrs Merkel reportedly won the backing of her party's MPs at a meeting behind closed doors on Thursday. Mrs Merkel has also won the backing of her main coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), who have denounced Mr Seehofer's plan. Carsten Schneider, the SPD chief whip, warned that the proposals to turn away migrants at the border could lead to the "end of the European Union", while Anke Rehlinger, another SPD politician, said it would mean the return of heavily armed border troops and "the end of free Europe as we know it". But the CSU has rallied as strongly behind Mr Seehofer. "We don't want to risk losing credibility," Markus Söder, the regional prime minister of Bavaria and Mr Seehofer's chief rival within the party said. And sources within the party told the German press on Friday they were ready to go with the "nuclear option" if Mrs Merkel doesn't back down.
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| Man Sues Ex-Girlfriend For Sabotaging Music Career So He Wouldn't Move Away Posted: 15 Jun 2018 12:12 PM PDT  People in love do strange things, but sabotaging their partner's career is not
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| 13 Of Our Favorite Small-Space Storage Solutions From Ikea Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:30 PM PDT  Ikea is a mastermind at making those impossible rooms in your home work extra
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| Trump Calls Female Reporter 'So Obnoxious,' Tells Her To Be Quiet Posted: 15 Jun 2018 10:08 AM PDT  Are you looking for more substance to President Donald Trump's vague claim
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| Sanders uses Bible to defend Trump's separation of children from families at border Posted: 14 Jun 2018 11:13 PM PDT  Press secretary rejects criticism of Jeff Sessions citing Romans 13 to justify policy and says 'it is very biblical to enforce the law'
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| Taliban chief who ordered Malala assassination 'killed in airstrike' Posted: 15 Jun 2018 03:47 AM PDT  The head of the Pakistan Taliban has been targeted and is believed killed in a United States drone strike in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan officials said Mullah Fazlullah, who is one of the world's most wanted militant leaders, had been killed in Kunar province. As well as terrorist outrages, he also spearheaded a campaign against a government polio vaccination programme, claiming it was a "conspiracy of Jews and Christians to make Muslims impotent and stunt the growth of Muslims". News of the attack came as Afghanistan waited to see if a unprecedented three-day Afghan Taliban ceasefire would hold over the Eid holiday period. Photos shared on social media in the country appeared to show fighters and Afghan forces celebrating the truce together. Mullah Fazlullah became notorious for ordering a string of attacks including the 2014 massacre of scores of pupils at an army school in Peshawar and the failed assassination of schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai. His group has also been linked to terrorist plots inside America. Afghanistan's defence ministry said Fazlullah had been "killed in a joint Afghan and US operation", while a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan would only say the US had struck "a senior leader of a designated terrorist organisation". The militant leader has wrongly been claimed dead before and a Pakistan security source said his death was as yet "not possible to verify". A member of the Taliban told Reuters the group was trying to get word if its leader was dead. Malala Yousafzai is now a student at Oxford Credit: AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images He said: "We have been hearing since early Friday that our Emir was martyred along with four other militant commanders in Marawar area of Kunar. They were staying at a house when the drone fired missiles and martyred them." Fazlullah, believed to be aged in his mid-forties, has led the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) since 2013 and had a $5m American reward for information on his head. The TTP in December 2014, carried out the deadliest terrorist attack in Pakistan's history when militants killed 151 people including more than 130 children, during an attack against the Army Public School in Peshawar. He first rose to prominence inside Pakistan's Swat valley with fiery radio tirades that earned him the nickname Mullah Radio. His broadcasts opposed America, female education and vaccination programmes while advocating a strict form of Islamic law. While in Swat When Ms Yousafzai publicly challenged the Taliban's stance in Swat, Fazlullah ordered the 14-year-old be killed, though she survived and went on to be awarded the Nobel peace prize. The US State Department says the TTP has "demonstrated a close alliance with Al-Qaeda" and had given explosives training to Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber. Well, this hasn't been witnessed since the beginning of war in Afghanistan. Taliban fighters & Afghan forces had a chance to chit chat & attend Eid prayers together during the temporary three day ceasefire. Photos from Maidan Shahr pic.twitter.com/jJi4xz6gFe— Ahmad Yar (@Pashtunist) June 15, 2018 Meanwhile the Nato-led coalition in Afghanistan said the Taliban ceasefire appeared to be holding on Friday. Afghans used social media to share photographs purporting to show Taliban fighters and members of the Afghan force celebrating the truce together.
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| Parkland School Guard Who Didn't Stop Shooter Had Harassed One of the Victims, Family Says Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:47 AM PDT  The guard was allegedly suspended for sexually harassing two female students
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| Truck Crash Leaves Hundreds of Whiskey Bottles Scattered Across Arkansas Highway Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:36 AM PDT  Grab a straw!
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| Banning Bikinis Won't Fix Miss America Posted: 15 Jun 2018 06:00 AM PDT  In 1922, Margaret Gorman, who had won the Miss America pageant's very first
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| Report: FBI agents discuss Clinton aide falsehoods Posted: 15 Jun 2018 03:20 PM PDT  Inspector general's report found FBI personnel on the Clinton email case dismissed the idea that anyone would be prosecuted for misleading investigators. Catherine Herridge goes in-depth for 'Special Report.'
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| Stephen Colbert Offers A Scathing Takedown Of Trump's Cruel Immigration Policy Posted: 14 Jun 2018 08:03 PM PDT  > The United States is using cruelty as a deterrent on our southern border.
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| U.S. expected to retreat from main U.N. rights forum: activists, diplomats Posted: 15 Jun 2018 09:39 AM PDT ![U.S. expected to retreat from main U.N. rights forum: activists, diplomats]( "U.S. expected to retreat from main U.N. rights forum: activists, diplomats") By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Talks with the United States over how to reform the main U.N. rights body have failed to meet Washington's demands, activists and diplomats say, suggesting that the Trump administration will quit the Geneva forum whose session opens on Monday. A U.S. source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the withdrawal appeared to be "imminent" but had no details. Diplomatic sources said it was not a question of if but of when the United States retreats from the Human Rights Council, which is holding a three-week session through July 6.
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| Nicaragua bishops summon government, civil leaders aiming to revive talks Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:53 AM PDT  Nicaragua's prominent bishops on Friday convened rival government and civil group representatives to discuss reviving talks aimed at ending a spiraling crisis that's now left at least 162 dead. The Central American country's Catholic clergy had earlier this week scheduled the 10:00 am (1600 GMT) meeting, at which they were to present their mediation proposal as well as embattled President Daniel Ortega's long-awaited response. The previous evening, Nicaragua's Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) had raised to 162 the toll since anti-government protests broke out two months ago.
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| BMW M850i xDrive Finally Breaks Cover: Here’s What We Know Posted: 15 Jun 2018 10:30 AM PDT  BMW's latest coupe, the 8-series, which replaces the 6-series, brings back memories-not all of them fond-of a similar switch that took place in the late 1980s. Back then, BMW replaced the E24 6-series with the 850i. Now BMW is finally letting us see the undisguised production model and is openly discussing details about what's coming, just as the racing variant takes to the track at Le Mans.
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| 10 Supercars Inspired By Cars That Ran The 24 Hours Of Le Mans Posted: 15 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT |
| Starbucks Discriminates Against Older Workers, According To Former Employees Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Andrea spent a recent 13-hour shift at Starbucks, where she works as a
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| The Dangers Posed by the Bird Scooter Craze Catching On Across America Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:46 AM PDT  Riders of the scooters have often been seen without helmets, a violation of the law.
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| 'Viva Le Resistance': FBI Anti-Trump Messages Give President More 'Deep State' Fodder Posted: 15 Jun 2018 12:49 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump on Friday seized upon aspects of a Justice
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| Elon Musk's Tesla Plans to Build Pods for The Boring Company’s Loop Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:13 AM PDT  The two firms are giving each other a helping hand.
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| Toy guns banished as Iraqis celebrate peaceful Eid in Mosul Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:00 AM PDT  It has long been a tradition in Iraq's second city Mosul for young boys to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday by running riot with firecrackers or toy guys -- scaring their sisters and grandparents. "Weapons have destroyed our city and wounded our children," she told AFP. "It's not a good idea (to buy toy guns) and anyway I haven't found one in my neighbourhood this year", he said.
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| Attorney General Sessions hits out at Philadelphia over 'sanctuary' status Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:32 PM PDT  U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a speech at a local college on Friday, criticized Philadelphia and its mayor over the city's 'sanctuary' status, one that limits its cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities. Sessions accused the city of coddling dangerous criminals and refusing to turn them over to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials when requested. "Philadelphia is not giving sanctuary to Americans but to foreign criminals," he said.
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