| Jeb Bush: Trump is ‘a distraction in and of himself’ Posted: 27 Mar 2017 06:27 AM PDT  Jeb Bush says President Trump's evidence-free claims are kneecapping his first 100 days in the White House. "He should stop saying things that aren't true, that are distractions from the task at hand," Bush said in an interview that aired Sunday on Miami's WFOR-TV. During the bruising campaign, Bush was a prominent critic of Trump — who in turn relentlessly mocked the former Florida governor.
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| Man kills 3 home burglars; woman who aided robbers arrested Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:45 PM PDT  A woman believed to have driven three burglars to an Oklahoma home where they were shot to death during a suspected home invasion has been arrested on murder and robbery warrants but the homeowner's son who shot them has not been arrested while police investigate whether he acted in self-defense under the state's "Stand Your Ground" law.
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| Are Donald And Melania Trump Facing Marriage Troubles? Posted: 27 Mar 2017 11:26 PM PDT  Karen LeFrak, a longtime friend of the couple, speaks out about the president and first lady's relationship rumors.
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| Bodies found in Congo likely those of U.N. investigators -government Posted: 28 Mar 2017 06:57 AM PDT  The remains of two U.N. investigators who went missing earlier this month are likely among bodies discovered by villagers in central Democratic Republic of Congo, the father of one victim and Congo's government spokesman said on Tuesday Michael Sharp, a U.S. citizen, and Zaida Catalan, a Swedish national, had been part of a group of experts monitoring a sanctions regime imposed on Congo by the U.N. Security Council when they disappeared in an area engulfed by a violent uprising. "We have been informed that two Caucasian bodies have been found in shallow graves in the search area, one male and one female," John Sharp, the father of Michael, wrote on his Facebook page. Congo Communications Minister Lambert Mende said villagers had discovered three bodies - two Caucasians and one Congolese - not far from where the experts group disappeared.
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| Washington's cherry blossoms bloom despite cold snap Posted: 27 Mar 2017 08:57 AM PDT ![Washington's cherry blossoms bloom despite cold snap]( "Washington's cherry blossoms bloom despite cold snap") A mild winter followed by a spate of cold weather in Washington, made its mark on the city's cherry blossoms, but the annual festival delighted first-time visitors on Sunday. The cherry blossom trees were a gift from Japan to the United States in 1912. The cherry blossom trees currently grow in three National Park Service locations, including the Tidal Basin, Hains Point and on the Washington Monument grounds.
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| Activist targets GM share structure, board Posted: 28 Mar 2017 03:39 PM PDT  Investor David Einhorn unveiled a proposal Tuesday to try to boost General Motors share price by creating two classes of stock, signaling a possible battle at the carmaker's annual meeting. GM rejected the initiative, calling it risky, and said it also would fight a plan by Einhorn to nominate four candidates to the GM board. Shares of GM jumped on the Einhorn move, finishing up 2.5 percent at $35.56.
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| Mom Outraged at TSA, Claims They Treated Her Young Son and Family 'Like Dogs' Posted: 28 Mar 2017 09:22 AM PDT  The incident happened Sunday in Dallas.
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| S.African anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada dead at 87 Posted: 27 Mar 2017 10:47 PM PDT  Leading South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, one of Nelson Mandela's closest colleagues in the long struggle against white rule, died early Tuesday aged 87, his eponymous charity foundation said. Kathrada was among those tried and jailed alongside Mandela in the Rivonia trial in 1964, which drew worldwide attention and highlighted the brutal legal system under the apartheid regime. Kathrada spent 26 years and three months in prison, 18 of which were on Robben Island.
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| Talks produce no progress in Scottish independence dispute Posted: 27 Mar 2017 10:32 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The leaders of Britain and Scotland met for talks Monday, but failed to resolve their differences over a new push for Scottish independence as the U.K. prepares to leave the European Union.
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| Will GOP's tax reform prove easier than health care? Posted: 27 Mar 2017 11:20 AM PDT ![Will GOP's tax reform prove easier than health care?]( "Will GOP's tax reform prove easier than health care?") The Republican Party couldn't repeal and replace Obamacare like it promised. Still smarting from that setback, the GOP is turning to another daunting issue: tax reform.
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| Authorities: Maryland teen planned shooting at her school Posted: 27 Mar 2017 12:12 PM PDT ![Authorities: Maryland teen planned shooting at her school]( "Authorities: Maryland teen planned shooting at her school") THURMONT, Md. (AP) — An 18-year-old student meticulously planned a mass shooting at her high school in which she intended to die, authorities in Maryland said Monday.
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| U.S. tourist killed in London would not have borne ill feelings toward attacker: family Posted: 27 Mar 2017 06:00 AM PDT  The family of U.S. tourist Kurt Cochran who was killed in last week's assault on the British parliament said on Monday he would not have borne any ill feelings toward the attacker. Cochran, 54, and his wife, Melissa, were in Europe to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary when they were mowed down on Westminster Bridge by a car driven by British man, Khalid Masood, who went on to fatally stab an unarmed policeman at the parliament building. The couple from Utah had been due to return to the United States the day after the attack took place last Wednesday.
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| Happy Anniversary to America’s Shameful Travesty of a War in Yemen Posted: 27 Mar 2017 05:00 AM PDT  After two years and thousands of civilian casualties, the Trump administration needs to realize it can't win a war that has no point.
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| U.S. senator launches probe into five top opioid drugmakers Posted: 28 Mar 2017 03:11 PM PDT  (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill sought on Tuesday details from the nation's top opioid drugmakers on their sales and marketing practices, as lawmakers step up efforts to tackle the country's deadly opioid crisis. The Missouri senator's investigation comes amid an epidemic of opioid addiction, with 91 Americans dying everyday as a result of overdose, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "This epidemic is the direct result of a calculated sales and marketing strategy major opioid manufacturers have allegedly pursued over the past 20 years to expand their market share," McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote in a letter to the drugmakers.
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| The world's largest dinosaur tracks have been found, and a human can fit in them Posted: 27 Mar 2017 09:20 AM PDT  Scientists have discovered some of the world's largest dinosaur tracks—measuring as long as the average person is tall—in western Australia. The 5.5-foot-long tracks likely belonged to a long-necked, small-headed sauropod. They're part of an unusually diverse array of dinosaur tracks imprinted into the rocks on Australia's Dampier Peninsula. SEE ALSO: Earliest dinosaurs may have originally come from Britain, new study says Paleontologists from the University of Queensland and James Cook University recently identified 21 different types of tracks on the 16-mile stretch of coastline. Rocks in the Kimberley region date back to 127 million to 140 million years ago, the team said in a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Richard Hunter lies next to a 5.5-foot-long sauropod footprint. Image: steve salisbury "It's such a magical place—Australia's own Jurassic Park," Steve Salisbury, the study's lead author a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Queensland, said in a news release. Salisbury and his team spent more than 400 hours investigating and documenting the "unprecedented" panoply of dinosaur tracks. They found five different types of predatory dinosaur tracks and at least six types of tracks from herbivorous sauropods, including the human-sized footprints. "Most people would be able to fit inside tracks that big, and they indicate animals that are probably around 5.3 to 5.5 meters [17.4 to 18 feet] at the hip, which is enormous, Salisbury told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Paleontologists document dinosaur tracks on Australia's Dampier Peninsula. Image: steve salisbury In terms of size, the sauropod tracks top a dinosaur footprint found in the Mongolian desert that measured about 3.8 feet long. Salinger's team also identified four types of tracks from two-legged, plant-eating ornithopods and six types of tracks from dinosaurs bedecked with spikes and plates, such as the stegosaurus. Their work was prompted by the potential development of a $40 billion liquified natural gas processing plant in Walmadany. Concerned the plant would pave over the area's stunning environment, the Goolarabooloo people, the local traditional custodians, contacted Salisbury and his team. "We needed the world to see what was at stake," Phillip Roe, the Goolarabooloo law boss, said in the news release. Fortunately for residents and paleontologists alike, the west Kimberley region was listed as a National Heritage Place in 2011, and two years later, the natural gas project collapsed. WATCH: 'Ancient Earth' series brings rare and wonderful dinosaurs back to life
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| White Hosue Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing on March 27, 2017 Posted: 27 Mar 2017 12:11 PM PDT  On Monday, March 27, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing with the White House press corp.
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| Ahmed Kathrada, anti-apartheid activist and Mandela prison mate Posted: 27 Mar 2017 11:50 PM PDT  South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada, who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela, was feted as a humble liberation hero who shunned the power and glory that came with freedom. Unlike many struggle veterans, Kathrada, who was imprisoned on Robben Island, never held public political office after the fall of apartheid and Mandela's election as president in 1994. When Mandela left office in 1999, after serving a single four-year term, Kathrada also stepped away from politics -- immersing himself in activism through his Ahmed Kathrada Foundation.
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| United Airlines Takes Heat After Refusing to Allow 2 Teens in Leggings to Board Plane Posted: 27 Mar 2017 09:51 AM PDT  Their dress code reportedly bars travelers from wearing spandex or lycra pants such as leggings.
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| Nuclear arms ban talks begin at UN, but US, others boycott Posted: 27 Mar 2017 04:14 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. talks aimed at banning nuclear weapons began Monday, but the United States, Russia, China and other nuclear-armed nations are sitting out a discussion they see as impractical.
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| Scientists just found the largest dinosaur footprint ever Posted: 27 Mar 2017 08:58 PM PDT  Dinosaur discovery news doesn't find its way to the mainstream all that often these days, simply because it's hard for scientists to sell each individual fossil find as unique or notable. But when researchers in Australia discovered an ancient footprint larger than anything humanity has ever seen, well, that's a whole other matter entirely. The find, which is detailed in a newly published paper by Dr. David Salisbury, is one of many discoveries made by the research team working in an area of Australia dubbed "Jurassic Park." The scientists, which were comprised of paleontologists from The University of Queensland's School of Biological Sciences, as well as the James Cook University's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, were able to uncover evidence of 21 different dinosaur species during their expedition. The search was conducted on Australia's Dampier Peninsula, which has been lovingly nicknamed "Australia's Jurassic Park" thanks to its abundance of dinosaur remains. The tracks are believed to be between 127 million and 140 million years old. As for the record-breaking footprint, the team measured it at a whopping 1.75 meters in length, which is about five feet, nine inches long. It's definitely an intimidating sight, but with a foot of that size it's extremely unlikely that the creature that created it would have had little interest in eating anything but plants. The scientists believe the print was made by some kind of long-necked sauropod, meaning that it could have easily crushed a human in a single stomp, but wouldn't have actually had an appetite to munch on the remains.
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| Jeanine Pirro Calls For Speaker Paul Ryan's Resignation Posted: 27 Mar 2017 02:29 AM PDT  Fox News host and former prosecutor Judge Jeanine Pirro started her show by asking House Speaker Paul Ryan to resign from his post citing the failure of the health care bill.
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| Watch a Twin-Turbo Ford GT Go From Zero to Nearly 300 MPH in One Mile Posted: 28 Mar 2017 09:34 AM PDT  This heavily-modified 2005 Ford GT just shattered the standing mile world record, hitting 293.6 mph from a dead stop.
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| Photos of the day - March 28, 2017 Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:42 PM PDT ![Photos of the day - March 28, 2017]( "Photos of the day - March 28, 2017") An Indian girl wearing a traditional clothe takes part in the procession to celebrate the Gudi Padwa, Maharashtrian's New Year in Mumbai, India; Dust and smoke billows out from a residential house which was blown up during a gunfight between militants and Indian soldiers in Durbagh village of Chadoora, 15 km from Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir; and, Tourists view cherry blossoms at Yuyuantan Park in Beijing, China.
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| Female Honor Student Allegedly Plotted School Shooting: Cops Posted: 28 Mar 2017 01:15 PM PDT  Nichole Cevario's father told officials the teen posed a threat to student safety.
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| US leads boycott of nuclear weapons ban talks Posted: 27 Mar 2017 01:30 PM PDT  More than 100 countries on Monday launched the first UN talks aimed at achieving a legally binding ban on nuclear weapons, as Washington led an international boycott of a process it deems unrealistic. Before the conference had even begun, the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, spoke out to reject the proposal in the light of current global security threats. "As a mom and a daughter there is nothing I want more for my family than a world with no nuclear weapons," Haley, who represents the world's largest nuclear power, said on the sidelines of the meeting.
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| South Korea officials: Bones found near ferry not of victims Posted: 28 Mar 2017 09:30 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The first government announcement Tuesday was startling: Salvage crews had found bones near the wreckage of the Sewol ferry, which sank in 2014 and killed 304 people.
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| North Korea Compares Trump To Obama Posted: 27 Mar 2017 11:57 AM PDT  Both U.S. presidential administrations have referenced "strategic patience" when dealing with Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
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| Qatar Airways chief says laptop ban not designed to hurt Gulf carriers Posted: 27 Mar 2017 12:26 PM PDT  By Tom Finn LONDON (Reuters) - Qatar Airways' chief executive said on Monday he did not believe the ban on carrying most electronics in the cabins of passenger flights to the United States from eight Muslim majority countries was designed to hurt Gulf airlines. The U.S. introduced new security measures on March 25 banning electronics larger than a mobile phone from passenger cabins on direct flights to the U.S. from 10 airports in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, including Qatar.
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| Samsung to Sell, Rent Refurbished Recalled Galaxy Note7 Smartphones--But Not in The U.S. Posted: 27 Mar 2017 12:00 PM PDT  Samsung has millions of recalled Note7 smartphones sitting around gathering dust (and hopefully not exploding), and now the company says it may sell refurbished versions of the device (which, aga...
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| China Southern, American Airlines announce tie-up Posted: 28 Mar 2017 12:15 AM PDT  China Southern Airlines said Tuesday it would sell almost a one-tenth stake to American Airlines in a $200 million tie-up that could see two of the world's biggest carriers cooperate in a range of areas. American Airlines is the world's largest carrier by scheduled passengers carried, while China Southern is fourth globally and the biggest in Asia, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The deal could give American a foot in the door of China's rapidly expanding air transport market, while China Southern said the move would support its own ambitions of expanding its global presence.
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| Dog Abuser Gets 5 Years After Canine's Mouth Is Tightly Bound With Electrical Tape Posted: 27 Mar 2017 10:08 AM PDT  William Dodson, 43, of South Carolina, was found guilty of animal cruelty against Caitlyn, an American Staffordshire-Terrier discovered severely abused.
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| What happened today in France's presidential race Posted: 27 Mar 2017 11:58 AM PDT  Hollande, visiting Singapore, said his final mission before he steps down in May would be to ensure that "populism, nationalism and extremism cannot prevail, including in my own country". The National Front's Marine Le Pen is seen as one of the leading candidates to replace him in the election, which follows Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the election of the populist Donald Trump in the United States.
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| Clashes in Kashmir: Civilians killed in protests against Indian rule Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:57 AM PDT ![Clashes in Kashmir: Civilians killed in protests against Indian rule]( "Clashes in Kashmir: Civilians killed in protests against Indian rule") Three civilians were killed and 28 other people were injured in anti-India protests that erupted Tuesday following a gunbattle between rebels and government forces that killed a rebel in disputed Kashmir, police and witnesses said.
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| 13 Places the Royals Like to Vacation Posted: 27 Mar 2017 03:13 PM PDT  From a castle in Scotland to the coast of Greece, here are thirteen places the royals like to vacation.
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| Venezuela seeks to stymie OAS meeting, vows 'severe' response Posted: 27 Mar 2017 01:24 PM PDT ![Venezuela seeks to stymie OAS meeting, vows 'severe' response]( "Venezuela seeks to stymie OAS meeting, vows 'severe' response") By Diego Oré and Lesley Wroughton CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Venezuela called on Monday for the suspension of an Organization of American States meeting intended to air regional concerns over the OPEC nation's economic crisis and democratic standards. The Washington-based OAS is due to debate Venezuela on Tuesday after its secretary-general, Luis Almagro, said the country should be suspended from the regional bloc if it does not hold elections. Last week, 14 nations urged elections and freedom of jailed opponents of President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government, turning up the pressure after authorities thwarted a referendum on him last year and postponed local polls.
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| Uber diversity: low on women, like other tech companies Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:34 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Uber's first report on employee diversity shows low numbers for women, especially in technical positions. In that regard, the company is similar to other Silicon Valley giants such as Google, Facebook and Apple.
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| Woman Accused of Hiring Hitman to Kill Ex Found Dead in Apparent Suicide: Report Posted: 28 Mar 2017 01:30 PM PDT  The Harris County District Attorney's Office confirmed Valerie McDaniel's death to InsideEdition.com Tuesday, but declined to comment further.
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| The Latest: Club operator calls shooting 'senseless' Posted: 26 Mar 2017 07:25 PM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Latest on the nightclub shooting in Cincinnati (all times local):
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| Wall Street's 'Fearless Girl' statue to stay until 2018 Posted: 27 Mar 2017 05:51 PM PDT  The popular bronze statue of a young girl staring down a bull on Wall Street will stay in place until March 2018, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. Initially installed on March 7 for one week, the "Fearless Girl" sculpture appeared in media around the world, seen by many as a defiant symbol of women's rights under the new administration of President Donald Trump, who has bragged about sexually assaulting women. The exhibit of artist Kristen Visbal's work was first extended until April 2 and is now set to run until next year's International Women's Day on March 8.
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| Generation born under Putin finds its voice in Russian protests Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:28 AM PDT  By Denis Pinchuk and Svetlana Reiter MOSCOW (Reuters) - Protests across Russia on Sunday marked the coming of age of a new adversary for the Kremlin: a generation of young people driven not by the need for stability that preoccupies their parents but by a yearning for change. Thousands of people took to the streets across Russia, with hundreds arrested. Many were teenagers who cannot remember a time before Vladimir Putin took power 17 years ago.
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| 2018 Buick Regal: A Buick We're Genuinely Excited For Posted: 27 Mar 2017 09:07 AM PDT  It could pack up to 300 horses and offer torque-vectoring all-wheel drive.
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| College Costs Concern Applicants Posted: 28 Mar 2017 06:09 AM PDT  In the Princeton Review's College Hopes and Worries Survey, 98 percent of student and parents said they were experiencing some level of anxiety about the application process.
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