| These Are the Documents Cohen Brought to Back Up His Case That Trump's a Liar Posted: 27 Feb 2019 07:51 AM PST  Cohen produced what he said were three years of Trump's financial statements, for 2011 through 2013, that purport to show Trump's net worth skyrocketing from $4.6 billion to $8.7 billion. "It was my experience that Mr. Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes," Cohen said in his prepared testimony.
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| Mountain lion killed by Colorado trail runner was a kitten, necropsy report says Posted: 28 Feb 2019 12:36 PM PST  The final necropsy report of the mountain lion killed by Colorado trail runner Travis Kauffman estimates the age of the lion at three to four months.
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| Expert: President Trump did the right thing by walking away from the negotiating table with North Korea Posted: 28 Feb 2019 12:13 AM PST  Harry Kazianis, director of Korea studies at the Center for National Interest, predicts a third summit with Kim Jong Un.
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| Maduro Extends Carnival. Defiant Venezuelans Go to Work Anyway Posted: 28 Feb 2019 10:47 AM PST  Most Venezuelans in the capital showed up to work in quiet defiance of President Nicolas Maduro's abrupt order that carnival holidays begin Thursday instead of next week. Women and men in formal business attire hurried to work in Altamira's business district and a long line of customers waited to purchase items like cornmeal and coffee from Jose Marquez's kiosk in the Manzanares neighborhood. Guaido, the 35-year-old head of the opposition-dominated National Assembly, is battling with Maduro over who is the legitimate head of state.
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| Impeachment decoded: A look at how to remove a U.S. president Posted: 28 Feb 2019 04:11 AM PST  The Constitution assigns different but equally crucial roles to the 435-seat House of Representatives and 100-member Senate. The House acts as the accuser - voting on whether to bring specific charges - and the Senate then conducts a trial with House members acting as prosecutors and the individual senators serving as jurors. A two-thirds majority is required in the Senate to convict and remove.
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| Man who bought $540 of Girl Scouts cookies is arrested Posted: 27 Feb 2019 02:00 AM PST ![Man who bought $540 of Girl Scouts cookies is arrested]( "Man who bought $540 of Girl Scouts cookies is arrested") GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who bought more than 120 boxes of Girl Scouts cookies to help the scouts escape the cold has been arrested on drug charges.
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| Marine Corps confirms investigation of officers in apparent 'blackface' video Posted: 28 Feb 2019 03:58 PM PST  The Marines have launched an investigation after two of their members appeared on a social media posting appearing to wear blackface.
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| Netanyahu says graft allegations a 'witch hunt' to topple him Posted: 28 Feb 2019 11:07 AM PST  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called corruption allegations a "witch hunt" meant to topple him after the attorney general announced plans to indict him. Speaking in a televised statement a couple of hours after the attorney general's announcement, Netanyahu said he planned on being prime minister for a long time to come despite the allegations. "The left knows it cannot beat us at the polling booth, so for the past three years they have been carrying out an unprecedented witch hunt which has one aim: to topple the right-wing government which I lead," he said.
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| Forget about North Korea: Pakistan and India Are Near the Nuclear Abyss Posted: 27 Feb 2019 11:43 PM PST  What happens now?
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| Stick to Marx not 'ghosts and spirits', China warns party members Posted: 27 Feb 2019 03:13 AM PST  China's ruling Communist Party warned party members on Wednesday to stick to Marx and Lenin and not believe in "ghosts and spirits", in the latest effort to root out superstitious practices. China officially guarantees freedom of religion for major belief systems like Christianity, Buddhism and Islam, but party members are meant to be atheists and are especially banned from participating in what China calls superstitious practices like visiting soothsayers. There have been numerous scandals in recent years where senior party members have been accused of involvement in superstition.
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| PG&E likely started the Camp Fire and expects a $10.5B impact to its bottom line, it tells regulators Posted: 28 Feb 2019 11:59 AM PST ![PG&E likely started the Camp Fire and expects a $10.5B impact to its bottom line, it tells regulators]( "PG&E likely started the Camp Fire and expects a $10.5B impact to its bottom line, it tells regulators") Amid PG&E's bankruptcy, the company notified investors that the evidence points to its transmission equipment, In a regulatory filing.
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| New solutions for the old problem of illegal massage parlors Posted: 27 Feb 2019 07:33 PM PST  BOSTON (AP) — They're nestled amid bustling downtowns and tucked into nondescript strip malls across quiet suburbs. Brothels posing as massage parlors and Asian spas have been part of the American landscape for decades, hidden in plain sight.
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| Ivanka Trump occupies a different reality from most working women Posted: 28 Feb 2019 03:00 AM PST  Responding to a question about Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposed Green New Deal and its call for a federal job guarantee, Ivanka Trump this week offered sage wisdom: "I've spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years," she said. In light of this recent controversy, it's worth revisiting Ivanka Trump's views on work through the lens of her now defunct, eponymous website dedicated to building her personal lifestyle brand – think Goop for the recently lobotomized, with fewer jade eggs and a hint of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In. Judging by the kinds of women highlighted on her site, the working women she has in mind mostly are CEOs for jewelry and wellness companies, including her fellow bootstrapping go-getter Lauren Bush Lauren, niece of George W Bush.
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| Guaido rallies support, vows to return to Venezuela 'despite threats' Posted: 28 Feb 2019 03:15 PM PST  Brasília (AFP) - Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido vowed on Thursday to return home "in the coming days... despite threats" from President Nicolas Maduro's regime, as he continues a tour of regional allies to rally international support. Guaido, recognized as interim president by more than 50 countries, met with Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday afternoon while Paraguay's leader Mario Abdo announced Guaido would be in Asuncion on Friday. After flouting a travel ban by Maduro's regime, Guaido went to Colombia last Friday where he met President Ivan Duque, US Vice President Mike Pence, Abdo and Sebastian Pinera of Chile.
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| Nigeria's Buhari wins second term as president Posted: 26 Feb 2019 11:12 PM PST  Buhari secured 56 percent of votes, compared with 41 percent for Atiku, a candidate for the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Buhari faces a daunting to-do list, including reviving an economy still struggling to recover from a 2016 recession and quelling a decade-old Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands of people in the northeast, many of them civilians. Addressing supporters at the campaign headquarters of his All Progressive Congress (APC) party in the capital Abuja, he promised to tackle these issues.
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| Nuclear Nightmare: India and Pakistan are on the Brink Posted: 27 Feb 2019 03:46 AM PST  Whatever happens next rests in the fates of political decisionmakers in India.
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| Trump says Kim 'felt very badly' after Otto Warmbier death Posted: 28 Feb 2019 02:32 AM PST  President Trump says Kim Jong Un "tells me that he didn't know about" the treatment of Otto Warmbier, the U.S. college student who died in 2017 after being held in a Pyongyang prison. "And I will take him at his word."
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| J&J resumes production of baby talc in India after tests find no asbestos Posted: 28 Feb 2019 06:08 AM PST  "Johnson & Johnson has resumed production of its Johnson's Baby Powder at plants in Baddi and Mulund, India, after government sanctioned testing reaffirmed that the product does not contain asbestos," J&J said in a statement to Reuters. Reuters reported earlier on Thursday that the federal regulator had not found any asbestos in the company's talc, citing sources familiar with the matter. The federal regulator and its counterparts in Indian states launched an investigation into J&J's Baby Powder following a Reuters report in December that the firm knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product.
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| The Next-Generation Porsche Macan Will Be Fully Electric Posted: 27 Feb 2019 07:01 AM PST  Due in 2021, the next Macan will ride on an electric platform shared with the second-gen Taycan.
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| Hyundai, Kia recall over 500K vehicles as fire risk spreads Posted: 28 Feb 2019 10:09 AM PST  DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia have added more than a half-million vehicles to 3 ½-year string of U.S. recalls for engine failures and fires.
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| A Modern Floral Chair Will Transform Your Space Posted: 27 Feb 2019 02:04 PM PST |
| U.S. Seeks UN Security Council Vote on New Venezuela Resolution Posted: 27 Feb 2019 12:36 PM PST  The resolution, which would likely face a Russian veto, stresses "the need to prevent further deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Venezuela and to facilitate unhindered access and delivery of assistance to all in need," according to a draft of the text obtained by Bloomberg. Violence has raged along Venezuela's borders as National Assembly leader Juan Guaido and his supporters -- which include the U.S. and 50 other nations -- amassed supplies at entry points in Colombia and Brazil.
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| The India-Pakistan crisis: What we know Posted: 28 Feb 2019 03:32 PM PST  A string of violent escalations have pushed India and Pakistan to the brink of conflict, sparking global alarm and calls for restraint between the nuclear-armed neighbours. On February 14, 40 paramilitaries were killed in a suicide bomb attack in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir, igniting outrage. A ceasefire line divides it between India and Pakistan, but both claim the Himalayan region in its entirety.
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| Trump abruptly leaves Kim Jong Un summit without a deal Posted: 28 Feb 2019 01:22 AM PST  President Trump abruptly ended his planned deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday, declaring that sometimes you have to walk. This was his second summit with the dictator about the regime's nuclear weapons.
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| Apple self-driving car layoffs give hints to division's direction Posted: 27 Feb 2019 07:48 PM PST  The tech firm said in a filing with state regulators that it planned to lay off people from eight different Santa Clara County facilities near its Cupertino, California, headquarters, as of April 16. A company spokesman confirmed that the reduction was from the self-driving car program. Among those laid off were at least two dozen software engineers, including a machine learning engineer, and 40 hardware engineers, according to a letter sent by Apple to California employment regulators earlier this month.
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| Woman Says She's Receiving Threats After Posting Photo of What Group Calls `Trophy Kill` Posted: 27 Feb 2019 08:43 AM PST  A Colorado hunter is being blasted on Facebook for hunting a mountain lion. The hunter says her kill was legal, but members of an environmental group are taking her to tasksaying she is nothing more than a gory-hungry trophy hunter.
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| Toyota Corolla Hybrid vs. Honda Insight: How These Fuel Sippers Measure Up Posted: 27 Feb 2019 01:40 PM PST  Both Honda and Toyota now have hybrid sedans that look far more conventional than the Prius, and here's how they compare.
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| At least 4,500 abuse complaints at migrant children shelters Posted: 26 Feb 2019 06:45 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of accusations of sexual abuse and harassment of migrant children in government-funded shelters were made over the past four years, including scores directed against adult staff members, according to federal data released Tuesday.
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| Did Pakistan Just Blink? Posted: 28 Feb 2019 01:38 AM PST  Things did not go as Islamabad planned.
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| After summit diplomacy collapse, what's Donald Trump's North Korea Plan B? Posted: 28 Feb 2019 12:20 PM PST  In the aftermath of the scrapped Hanoi summit, it's time to formulate a new plan for dealing with the strategic challenge posed by the Kim regime.
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| ECB’s Rimsevics Is Back at Work and Headed to Frankfurt Posted: 27 Feb 2019 08:42 AM PST  "I will not restrict him, I will let him travel" to Frankfurt, Viorika Jirgena, the prosecutor in charge of his case, said in an interview. The central banker's case hasn't been sent to Latvian court yet, since he is still submitting evidence in the pre-trial stage. The Latvian central bank board won't grant Rimsevics access to documents involving the case or information about commercial banks that are connected to it, with all legal inquires going through his deputy Zoja Razmusa, spokesman Janis Silakalns said in an email.
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| Zarif goes back to work after his resignation is rejected Posted: 27 Feb 2019 02:39 AM PST  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected on Wednesday the resignation of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, as it was against national interests of the Islamic Republic. Saskia O'Donoghue reports
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| Top Bristol-Myers shareholder comes out against $74 billion Celgene deal Posted: 27 Feb 2019 03:09 PM PST  Wellington Management, which owns about 8 percent of Bristol-Myers shares, said they believe the deal is too risky and too expensive, and that alternative options to create value for shareholders "could be more attractive." Celgene shares fell 8.5 percent after the Wellington statement was released, while Bristol-Myers shares rose 3 percent. Bristol-Myers said in January that it would buy New Jersey-based Celgene, combining two of the world's largest cancer therapy businesses, with Bristol acquiring Celgene's cash cow Revlimid, one of the world's top-selling blood cancer drugs. The company said in a statement that its board and management have had "numerous conversations and meetings" with investors, including Wellington, since announcing the Celgene deal.
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| There are red flags common in human trafficking cases. Here's how the Florida spas compare Posted: 28 Feb 2019 02:31 PM PST  The red flags present in Florida that human trafficking possibly occurred are similar to those experts describe in a variety of other cases.
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| Boeing lands huge British Airways order, after Airbus ends A380 Posted: 28 Feb 2019 09:18 AM PST  British Airways announced a multi-billion dollar order for up to 42 Boeing 777 fuel-efficient passenger jets on Thursday, just two weeks after Airbus said it would no longer make its A380 superjumbo. Separately, UK engineering group Rolls-Royce said it dived into a net loss last year as its Trent jet engines were hit by costly repairs -- as well as the decision by Boeing's European rival Airbus to pull the plug on the A380. IAG on Thursday said the 777s would replace BA's Boeing 747s, which were seen as a competitor to the A380.
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| House passes first major gun control legislation in nearly quarter of a century Posted: 27 Feb 2019 02:08 PM PST  For now the measure is a mostly symbolic gesture, not likely to be taken up in the Republican-controlled Senate. Gun control campaigners celebrated a precious win on Wednesday when the US House of Representatives passed its first major legislation on the issue in nearly a quarter of a century. Members of Congress approved a measure requiring federal background checks for all firearms sales, including online and at gun shows, by 240 votes to 190.
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| Marie Kondo Helps Celebs Like Jennifer Garner, Hasan Minhaj Get a Head Start on Spring Cleaning Posted: 27 Feb 2019 12:27 PM PST  The tidying expert has gone viral following the premiere of her Netflix series Tidying Up With Marie Kondo
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| The Latest: Pompeo urges restraint in India, Pakistan Posted: 26 Feb 2019 07:45 PM PST  ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Latest on India-Pakistan tensions (all times local):
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| President Trump and Kim Jong Un's Summit Ended Early Without a Deal. Watch the Press Conference Posted: 27 Feb 2019 10:22 PM PST  It's unclear whether a signing will still take place
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| Photos of the Ford Bronco Prototype Posted: 28 Feb 2019 01:00 PM PST |
| Maduro and Trump should meet to 'find common ground': Venezuela minister Posted: 27 Feb 2019 12:11 PM PST  Jorge Arreaza, addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council, suggested that Maduro and Trump meet to "try to find common ground and explain their differences." He also said his country had lost $30 billion in assets "confiscated" since November 2017 under sanctions. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence ruled out prospects of talks. "The only thing to discuss with Maduro at this point is the time and date for his departure," Pence said on Twitter.
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