| ‘Robin Hood in reverse’: CBO report on GOP health care plan supports Democrats’ charges Posted: 13 Mar 2017 03:27 PM PDT  WASHINGTON — Democrats seized on the Congressional Budget Office's report estimating that 24 million fewer Americans would be insured under the Republican health care plan 10 years from now, arguing their colleagues should abandon the effort. House Speaker Paul Ryan put a positive spin on the report. The White House disputed its accuracy.
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| Rep. Steve King touts ‘Western civilization’ while defending incendiary immigration tweet Posted: 13 Mar 2017 07:40 AM PDT  In an interview Monday, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, on Monday doubled down on an incendiary tweet he sent over the weekend with a series of provocative comments about immigration and culture. The original tweet stated, "We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies." The comment set off a firestorm as critics accused the immigration hardliner of endorsing white nationalism. King said the tweet was inspired by his visits to Western Europe and witnessing the growing diversity there.
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| How to Get Rid of Frizzy Hair Posted: 13 Mar 2017 01:19 PM PDT  Does your hair look great when you walk out the door and poufy three minutes later? These styling maneuvers will keep your strands under control in all kinds of weather.
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| Deadly car bomb blast kills 6 near hotel in Somalia's capital Posted: 13 Mar 2017 12:53 PM PDT ![Deadly car bomb blast kills 6 near hotel in Somalia's capital]( "Deadly car bomb blast kills 6 near hotel in Somalia's capital") A suicide car bomber detonated near a hotel in Somalia's capital Monday morning, killing at least six people and injuring four others, police said.
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| Ousted South Korea leader slammed for defiance Posted: 13 Mar 2017 01:06 AM PDT  Ousted South Korean leader Park Geun-Hye was assailed by newspapers and politicians Monday for her defiance over the court ruling that ended her tenure as president. Park left Seoul's presidential complex on Sunday, two days after the Constitutional Court upheld her impeachment by parliament and stripped her of executive power and privileges. The conservative Dong-A Ilbo daily, which long supported Park, said in a front-page headline: "To the last... there was no word of acceptance" of the ruling.
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| These stylish sweaters are warm, colorful and made for chickens Posted: 13 Mar 2017 05:28 PM PDT  Blizzards are best spent wrapped up in a well-worn sweater and all the blankets a couch can support. But what about when you're a chicken? Good question. Great question. Egg-cellent question (sorry). SEE ALSO: Kind man dresses wild toad in wonderful, tiny hats to make a little boy happy It's a little-known fact that egg production goes way down for chickens living in tough winter conditions from a combination of low temperature and limited daylight hours. Lots of chickens aren't cut out for New England's winters — some breeds shed their feathers, while others from more tropical climates aren't used to the significantly colder temperatures. Luckily for these chilly chickens, a group of Boston-area retirees has banded together to knit chicken-sized sweaters to help them fend off the cold. Does it come in green? Of course it does. Image: AP/REX/Shutterstock Barbara Stevens holds Prince Peep, who, again, is a chicken. Image: AP/REX/Shutterstock A knitting group at the Fuller Village retirement home in Milton, Massachusetts, was inspired to undertake the project after they "heard about the hardships that some chickens suffer this time of year," according to the Associated Press. Honestly, these chickens have never looked better. Someone get this rooster an agent. Image: AP/REX/Shutterstock Their nonchalance is truly selling the garment. The knitting group said that the project helped them as well— one found it "calming," while another said it helped her overcome her fear of birds. Even better, a spokesperson for the estate that owns the chickens said that "egg production has jumped noticeably since the birds began wearing them." Good news all around! WATCH: This transparent bowl swing is what cat dreams are made of
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| Sean Spicer says you can trust Trump ‘if he’s not joking’ Posted: 13 Mar 2017 01:22 PM PDT  White House press secretary Sean Spicer defended President Trump's sometimes-tenuous relationship with the truth by saying that he can be taken at his word — unless he's joking. Amid confusion over several of Trump's fact-free assertions, Peter Alexander of NBC News asked Spicer on Wednesday whether people should trust the president to tell the truth. "If he's not joking, of course," Spicer said to laughter of disbelief from the press corps.
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| How Much Caffeine Is Too Much? Posted: 13 Mar 2017 01:48 PM PDT  How much caffeine should you actually be drinking in a day? Health's resident medical editor weighs in.
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| Carlos the Jackal regrets not killing 'people I should have' Posted: 13 Mar 2017 12:25 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Once the world's most-wanted fugitive, the man known as "Carlos the Jackal" appeared in a French court Monday for a deadly 1974 attack on a Paris shopping arcade, a trial that victims' families awaited for decades.
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| US 'Self-Humiliating' Over Russia Hacking Claims: Kremlin Posted: 12 Mar 2017 11:26 PM PDT  Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election hacking and called the cyberattack claims by the United States "self-humiliating."
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| Bus in Haiti flees accident, kills 38: officials Posted: 12 Mar 2017 07:13 PM PDT  Gonaïves (Haiti) (AFP) - A bus speeding away from a hit-and-run accident plowed into dozens of street musicians in northern Haiti on Sunday, killing 38 people, officials said. Another 13 people were injured in the crash which took place just before 4 am (0900 GMT) in Gonaives, a city of some 300,000 people located about 150 kilometers (90 miles) northwest of the capital Port-au-Prince. "We were in the band, having fun! And then the bus passed by crushing people," says Jean-Renald Edouard, lying on an emergency room bed.
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| An intense cold snap turned this waterfront home into a striking ice castle Posted: 13 Mar 2017 01:07 PM PDT  While a good chunk of the Northeast is prepping for a storm, some New York residents are dealing with another winter nuisance: ice. A home situated directly on Lake Ontario in Webster, New York, has turned into an almost literal ice house after strong winds coupled with low temperatures over the course of multiple days encased the home with a thick blanket of ice. Bad will soon get worse on Lake Ontario. A foot of snow is on the way for parts of #WNY @spann @JimCantore @StormHour @News_8 @WizardWeather pic.twitter.com/Bnq2Fyp6Zv — John Kucko (@john_kucko) March 13, 2017 Photographer John Kucko brought the ice house to the internet's attention when he first posted some photos to his Facebook page and Twitter. When people tried to say they were altered, he took some videos to prove them wrong. SEE ALSO: We're doomed (for a day): Paralyzing blizzard set to slam Philly, New York and Boston Wow, didn't expect THIS reaction! #IceHouse has no retaining wall on Lake Ontario (just rocks), neighbors do @spann @JimCantore @StormHour pic.twitter.com/4izLsN4TWh — John Kucko (@john_kucko) March 13, 2017 Some believed the photos were faked because the neighboring homes did not have the problem, Kucko claims that because the other homes have retaining walls, the ice doesn't build up nearly as much. In one clip, Kucko claims that the ice may be up to six inches thick on the side if the home that faces the lake. According to a neighbor, the home has been "going through this for years," so this is probably not the first time the home looked like a house out of Disney's Frozen. We reached out to Kucko for additional information and comments. WATCH: Check out this glorious map of lightning striking around the globe
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| ‘Microwaves that turn into cameras’: Conway defends Trump claim by implying wider domestic surveillance at play Posted: 13 Mar 2017 07:00 AM PDT  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is fanning out in interviews this week to defend, among other things, President Trump's evidence-free claim that former President Barack Obama tapped his phones at Trump Tower before election. "There are many ways to surveil each other," Conway told the Record, a New Jersey newspaper, on Sunday. Conway seemed to be referring to WikiLeaks' release last week of nearly 8,000 documents that purportedly reveal methods of the Central Intelligence Agency's surveillance.
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| Google is trying really hard to make a smart jacket you won’t totally hate Posted: 13 Mar 2017 09:14 PM PDT 
If you're not tired of hearing the word "smart" in front of random appliances, furniture, and pieces of clothing, Google has a hot pitch for you. It's a smart jacket from Levi's and it uses Google's smart textiles platform that goes by the nickname "Project Jacquard." It's being shown off this week at SXSW, but even if you saw the jacket being worn by a fellow festival-goer, there's a really good chance you wouldn't even realize it.
Without a bunch of goofy screens or flashing LEDs, Levi's Jacquard jacket doesn't give the outward appearance of being a gadget at all, and that's kind of the point, at least in Levi's eyes. At a panel at SXSW, Google's Ivan Poupyrev suggested that the company's original vision for the smart apparel included a display of some kind. Levi's VP of global innovation Paul Dillinger shot down that idea and insisted the tech be integrated into parts of the jacket that already exist naturally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grKHwQIaiaA The result is a fabric touch interface that can't be seen, but still allows the wearer to control various functions of a synced device like a smartphone. Swiping across the sensitive area of the jacket, located near the wrist, lets you skip songs and answer callsA small USB device plugs into the jacket to provide its smart functionality and can be removed so that the garment can be laundered. It's an interesting — and from various hands-on reports, adequately functional — implementation of touch technology, but its usefulness is obviously a big question mark. Swiping at your wrist to control your phone is essentially what you do with a smartwatch already, and given that you won't conceivably be wearing a jacket all day long, it seems like a very small niche to try to exploit.
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| White nationalist group's tax-exempt status revoked by US Posted: 14 Mar 2017 11:10 AM PDT  The U.S. government has revoked the tax-exempt status of a group run by prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer for its failure to file tax returns.
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| Multiple Shots Fired During Ferguson Protests Posted: 12 Mar 2017 11:14 PM PDT  Protesters gathered around Ferguson Market and Liquor on Sunday after new facts emerged in the Michael Brown shooting case.
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| States pile pressure on new Trump travel ban Posted: 13 Mar 2017 04:36 PM PDT  Several US states run by Democrats on Monday stepped up the pressure in federal court for the suspension of Republican President Donald Trump's amended travel ban, if possible before it takes effect Thursday. The state of Washington -- with the support of California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Oregon -- has asked the same Seattle judge who issued a stay against Trump's first executive order on immigration to block the new measure. The first version of the order, signed by Trump on January 27, triggered howls of protest at home and abroad as well as chaos at US airports as some people were detained upon arrival and either held for hours or sent back to where they came from.
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| Death toll in Ethiopian garbage dump landslide rises to 65 Posted: 13 Mar 2017 12:45 PM PDT ![Death toll in Ethiopian garbage dump landslide rises to 65]( "Death toll in Ethiopian garbage dump landslide rises to 65") "My babies, my babies, my little daughter," cried one man wandering through the garbage dump in the Ethiopian capital, tears streaming down his face. The landslide late on Saturday destroyed 49 dwellings and left 28 people injured, city spokesman Amare Mekonen said. Hundreds of people live on the 50-year-old Reppi dump, the city's only landfill site, scavenging for food and items they can sell such as recyclable metal.
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| The Best Vegetarian Chili Recipe You'll Ever Eat Posted: 14 Mar 2017 10:07 AM PDT  This slow-cooker chili dish hits all the right notes - it's savory and delicious, low in calories, packed with meat-free protein, and it's very affordable, so you can feed a crowd. What's not to like? Watch the video for the recipe.
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| Israel closes Palestinian map bureau, arrests head Posted: 14 Mar 2017 11:18 AM PDT  Israeli police on Tuesday closed a Palestinian research centre in Jerusalem and briefly arrested its director, a prominent cartographer, accusing him of working for the Palestinian security services. The office of cartography in occupied east Jerusalem was shut down for six months, a police statement said. Israeli officials accused its head Khalil Tafakji of working with the Palestinian Authority to monitor the sale of land by Palestinians to Israeli Jews in east Jerusalem.
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| Arctic ice loss driven by natural swings, not just mankind: study Posted: 13 Mar 2017 09:02 AM PDT ![Arctic ice loss driven by natural swings, not just mankind: study]( "Arctic ice loss driven by natural swings, not just mankind: study") By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Natural swings in the Arctic climate have caused up to half the precipitous losses of sea ice around the North Pole in recent decades, with the rest driven by man-made global warming, scientists said on Monday. The study indicates that an ice-free Arctic Ocean, often feared to be just years away, in one of the starkest signs of man-made global warming, could be delayed if nature swings back to a cooler mode. Natural variations in the Arctic climate "may be responsible for about 30–50 percent of the overall decline in September sea ice since 1979," the U.S.-based team of scientists wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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| Minneapolis hits rogue liquor store with 30-day suspension Posted: 13 Mar 2017 01:54 PM PDT  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minneapolis liquor store that opened for Sunday business nearly four months before a new state law allowed it will lose its license for 30 days.
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| Dutch Warn Citizens Amid Erdogan Nazi Comments Posted: 13 Mar 2017 06:09 AM PDT  Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher told reporters that "to be called Nazis by a regime which is walking backwards in regards to human rights is just disgusting."
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| 'El Chapo' health deteriorating in US custody: lawyers Posted: 13 Mar 2017 08:52 PM PDT  The health of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, one of the world's most notorious criminals, is deteriorating in US custody, his lawyers complained Monday, challenging the conditions of his detention. The 59-year-old, accused of running one of the world's biggest drug empires and who escaped twice from prison in Mexico, has been held in solitary confinement in New York since being extradited on January 19.
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| NY AG says Tillerson used alias in emails on climate change Posted: 14 Mar 2017 02:21 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — The New York attorney general says that while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was CEO of Exxon he used an alias in emails to talk about climate change.
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| OPEC says oil stocks still increasing, Saudis raise output Posted: 14 Mar 2017 08:28 AM PDT ![OPEC says oil stocks still increasing, Saudis raise output]( "OPEC says oil stocks still increasing, Saudis raise output") By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC said on Tuesday oil inventories have risen despite a global deal to cut supply and raised its forecast of production in 2017 from outside the group, suggesting complications in an effort to clear a glut and support prices. In a monthly report, OPEC also said its biggest producer Saudi Arabia increased output in February by 263,000 barrels per day to 10 million bpd, after in January making a larger cut than required by the OPEC accord to ensure strong initial compliance. OPEC said in the report oil stocks in industrialized nations rose in January to stand 278 million barrels above the five-year average, of which the surplus in crude was 209 million barrels and the rest refined products.
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| California's Plan to Eliminate Student Debt Posted: 14 Mar 2017 09:19 AM PDT ![California's Plan to Eliminate Student Debt]( "California's Plan to Eliminate Student Debt") While a national policy on higher education has yet to be decided, it's clear where California stands. On Monday, the state's Democrats released a financial-aid plan that covers both tuition and living expenses, with the end goal of eliminating student loans among 400,000 students enrolled in the University of California and California State systems.
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| Texas executes man for crime spree that left four dead, including baby Posted: 14 Mar 2017 04:51 PM PDT ![Texas executes man for crime spree that left four dead, including baby]( "Texas executes man for crime spree that left four dead, including baby") The state of Texas on Tuesday executed a man for launching a 1987 crime spree in which four people were killed, including a 4-month-old boy he drowned in a sink. After more than 25 years on death row, James Bigby, 61, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber and pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m. CDT, a prisons official said. The execution was the 542nd in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.
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| Enbridge insists pipelines safe despite worn-away covering Posted: 13 Mar 2017 06:01 PM PDT  DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Operators of twin oil pipelines beneath the swirling waterway where Lakes Huron and Michigan converge insisted Monday they remain structurally sound even though an outer layer of protective covering has worn away in some places, while skeptics said the deterioration is further evidence the lines should be shut down.
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| White House: Microwave is 'not a sound way of surveilling someone' Posted: 14 Mar 2017 12:38 PM PDT  During Tuesday's White House press briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer said that a microwave is "not a sound way of surveilling someone" and that previous comment made by the White House suggesting otherwise was made "in jest."
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| Couple Found Guilty In Bali Policeman Killing Posted: 13 Mar 2017 08:22 AM PDT  Both Connor and Taylor were sentenced for killing a Bali policeman last summer.
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| Turkey warns 'fascist' Netherlands will pay in rally row Posted: 12 Mar 2017 06:18 PM PDT  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday warned the Netherlands would pay for blocking his ministers from holding rallies to win support in a referendum on expanding his powers, as a crisis escalated with Turkey's key EU partners. Erdogan also repeated hugely controversial accusations that the Netherlands -- occupied by Nazi Germany in World War II -- was behaving like fascists in its treatment of Turkish ministers. Also this weekend, The Hague refused to allow Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu's plane to land ahead of a planned rally.
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| Officials warn of global religious extremism threat to China Posted: 13 Mar 2017 03:49 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Chinese officials are issuing new warnings about the specter of global religious extremism seeping into the country, following reports of fighters from China's Muslim minority fighting alongside militants in Syria and Iraq.
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| Mermaid Toast Is the New Breakfast Obsession That’s Almost Too Pretty to Eat Posted: 13 Mar 2017 05:32 AM PDT  A post shared by Adeline Waugh (@vibrantandpure) on Mar 9, 2017 at 5:01am PST It's official: Avocado toast is old news. While you might think you're taking your breakfast meal to the next level by adding a poached egg or some brightly colored fruit on top of that avo-smeared bread, it's still kind of boring. The reason? The invention of mermaid toast is now completely overshadowing any other variation of a bread-based meal, making avocado toast seem rather bland. Mermaid ...
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| 16 Bad Parenting Tips That Sound Like Good Parenting Tips Posted: 14 Mar 2017 10:23 AM PDT  "Stalk your child on social media to make sure they are safe."
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| France's Fillon under formal investigation for fraud ahead of election Posted: 14 Mar 2017 12:24 PM PDT ![France's Fillon under formal investigation for fraud ahead of election]( "France's Fillon under formal investigation for fraud ahead of election") By Simon Carraud and Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - Francois Fillon's troubled election campaign suffered yet another blow on Tuesday when magistrates put him under formal investigation on suspicion of embezzling state funds, a first for a presidential candidate in France. With less than six weeks to go until the first round of voting, Fillon has been unable to draw a line under allegations that he paid his wife hundreds of thousands of euros of public money for little work. Tuesday's decision put him one step closer to a trial and covered a wide range of grounds: suspicion of embezzling public funds, complicity in misappropriating funds, receiving the funds and not declaring assets fully, a judicial source said.
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| The Latest: Cleanup finished at pipeline protest camps Posted: 13 Mar 2017 09:51 AM PDT  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Latest on the Dakota Access oil pipeline: (all times local):
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| Jordanian woman charged in US with 2001 Jerusalem bombing Posted: 14 Mar 2017 01:15 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Jordanian woman has been charged in connection with a 2001 bombing of a Jerusalem pizza restaurant that killed 15 people and injured dozens of others.
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