| Additional officers placed on leave over United passenger removal Posted: 12 Apr 2017 03:23 PM PDT  Videos of Dr. David Dao being dragged down the aisle of the plane and then returning to the cabin with blood on his face went viral.
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| United CEO Felt 'Shame' After Seeing Viral Video of Bloodied Passenger Posted: 11 Apr 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Oscar Munoz says he was embarrassed to see airport police dragging passenger David Dao from one of his airline's flights, calling it a "system failure."
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| Power from California sun turns wholesale electricity prices negative Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:15 PM PDT  The amount of solar power generated by California sunshine has been driving wholesale electricity prices down to zero and even into the negative at times.
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| Andrea Mitchell: Trump Now More Negative About Russia Posted: 12 Apr 2017 06:33 AM PDT  NBC's Andrea Mitchell offers analysis on President Trump' response to a question about Russia's role in being on the Syrian airbase believed responsible for a chemical attack on Syrian citizens.
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| Venezuela protests spread to poor areas, two more deaths amid unrest Posted: 12 Apr 2017 12:32 PM PDT  By Alexandra Ulmer and Corina Pons CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelans in poor areas blocked streets and lit fires during scattered protests across the country on Tuesday night, and two people were killed during the growing unrest in the midst of a crippling economic crisis. In a worrying sign for leftist President Nicolas Maduro, groups in Caracas' traditionally pro-government hillside slums and low-income neighborhoods took to the streets, witnesses and opposition lawmakers reported. Maduro foes were galvanized by footage of a crowd in the south-eastern Bolivar state heckling and throwing objects at the closely-protected leader during a rally on Tuesday, before state television cut off the broadcast.
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| Nigeria seizes $43 million cash stash in Lagos house Posted: 13 Apr 2017 08:09 AM PDT  Nigeria's anti-graft agency seized over $43 million in cash during a raid on a Lagos apartment in what it hailed as a victory for President Muhammadu Buhari's war on corruption following a string of setbacks. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in a statement issued late Wednesday it discovered the "humongous" amount of money in an apartment in Ikoyi, an upscale district of Lagos. "She comes looking haggard, with dirty clothes, but her skin didn't quite match her appearance, perhaps a disguise," said the anonymous source quoted in the EFCC statement.
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| Video Shows Man Beaten by Officer, Police Dept. Says It’s Unacceptable Posted: 12 Apr 2017 08:40 AM PDT  Nandi Cain tells NBC Nightly News that he thought he was "going to be the next Trayvon Martin" when a Sacramento Police officer stopped him for allegedly jaywalking and beat him to the ground.
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| Republican Sen. Ben Sasse takes on ‘alt-right’ movement Posted: 12 Apr 2017 09:00 AM PDT  Republican Sen. Ben Sasse from Nebraska took aim at the "alt-right" movement and said, "American exceptionalism was an understanding about the historical moment in which the American founding flipped on its head the relationship between rights and government."
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| United Airlines Dragging Passenger Off Plane Was Illegal Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:13 PM PDT  The airline was not within its rights to forcibly remove a seated passenger from an "overbooked" flight, says lawyer Brian Mahany.
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| Airplane maker ATR signs $536M, 20-aircraft deal with Iran Posted: 13 Apr 2017 01:57 AM PDT  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — European airplane manufacturer ATR said Thursday it sealed a $536-million sale with Iran Air for at least 20 aircraft, the latest aviation firm to strike a deal following Iran's nuclear accord with world powers.
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| Cop Charged In Shooting of Autistic Patient's Unarmed Caregiver Posted: 13 Apr 2017 05:54 AM PDT  The Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office is pursuing a case against North Miami Police Officer Jonathan Aledda.
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| In abrupt shift, Trump warms to China and NATO, sours on Russia Posted: 12 Apr 2017 11:18 PM PDT  By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After less than three months in office, President Donald Trump has abruptly shifted his stance on an array of foreign policy issues from the U.S. relationship with Russia and China to the value of the NATO alliance. Trump, who ran for the White House on a pledge to shake up the status quo in Washington, repeatedly lashed out at China during the campaign, accusing Beijing of being a "grand champion" of currency manipulation. Candidate Trump also dismissed the NATO military alliance as obsolete and said he hoped to build warmer ties with Russia.
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| Report: Homeland Security fields 1,000 sex abuse complaints Posted: 11 Apr 2017 02:50 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — An advocacy group said Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog fielded more than 1,000 complaints of sexual assault or sexual abuse from people in custody in a little more than two years.
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| Walmart has a new program that’s the opposite of Amazon Prime Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:35 PM PDT 
Amazon's yearly Prime subscription is supposed to be the ultimate in lazy shopping: pay an annual fee, and in return order as much stuff as you want for home delivery, thanks to the free two-day shipping. In Amazon's model, you trade a modest fixed fee for ultimate convenience and the wonders of never having to put on clothes and leave your home. But Walmart is trying something different.
Pickup Discount is a new Walmart program that offers customers a discount on items bought online, but only if they pick them up at a store. The discounts vary, but it seems like some items that would be expensive for Walmart to ship (a TV, for example) get discounted by up to $50. That's a good discount, which Walmart can fund as it's saving big-time on the cost of shipping. It also gets you into Walmart, which means there's also a chance you'll impulse-buy a $3 pair of sunglasses, bumping up the margins even more. Not everything gets a Pickup Discount. Initially, Walmart is planning on rolling the program out to 10,000 products across 4,000 stores. However, the ambitions go up from there, as Walmart wants to offer a discount on a million items by June. Walmart is also taking this as a chance to make its in-store pickup system slicker and faster for customers to use. Expect to see curbside pickup and automated collection machines roll out, so that even if you have to go to a store to get your packages, you still won't actually have to talk to anyone while doing it.
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| Saudi woman seeking asylum in Australia returned to Saudi Arabia Posted: 12 Apr 2017 07:15 AM PDT ![Saudi woman seeking asylum in Australia returned to Saudi Arabia]( "Saudi woman seeking asylum in Australia returned to Saudi Arabia") By Katie Paul RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi woman claiming she sought asylum in Australia was stopped on a layover in the Philippines and returned to Riyadh on Wednesday. Dina Ali Lasloom said in self-recorded videos the Philippine authorities had held her at the Manila airport and confiscated her passport. "My name is Dina Ali and I'm a Saudi woman who fled Saudi Arabia to Australia to seek asylum," she said in one video, adding she feared violence from any relatives who came to bring her back home.
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| United continues to take hits from stocks, loyalty members and fellow airline Posted: 12 Apr 2017 02:42 AM PDT  Stocks have plunged at United Airlines, frequent flier members are cutting up their loyalty cards, a competing airline has thrown shade at United in a bold new ad, and the incident has traveled around the world and reached the highest levels of governments. On April 11, Emirates posted a snarky and rather audacious video on Twitter, getting back at United CEO Oscar Munoz who is cited as having said "Those [Gulf] airlines aren't airlines," back in March.
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| Teacher Accused of Kidnapping 15-Year-Old Student Running Out of Prescription Medication: Authorities Posted: 12 Apr 2017 05:42 PM PDT  The 50-year-old teacher accused of kidnapping his 15-year-old former student may be catastrophically low on blood pressure meds.
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| Spicer says Hitler comment 'inexcusable and reprehensible' Posted: 12 Apr 2017 10:20 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that his attempt to compare the Holocaust and Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons was "inexcusable and reprehensible" and was made all the worse by this being a holy week for Christians and Jews.
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| Putin meets Tillerson as US, Russia wrangle over Syria Posted: 12 Apr 2017 09:38 AM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after complaining of worsening ties with Donald Trump's administration as the two sides spar over Syria. Putin received Tillerson at the Kremlin along with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after the top diplomats held several hours of talks dominated by the fallout of an alleged chemical attack in Syria.
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| Mosul zoo's last two animals reach safer ground in Jordan Posted: 12 Apr 2017 06:57 AM PDT  The last two surviving animals from Mosul's dilapidated zoo arrived this week at an animal shelter in Jordan, after months of malnutrition and a long journey out of Iraq that included being stuck at the border for 12 days. Simba the lion and Lola the bear lived in a once-peaceful animal park that has been destroyed by months of fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants. The park, located in Eastern Mosul, was retaken by Iraqi forces earlier this year. Amir Khalil, a vet from animal charity Four Paws who saw the animals in Mosul in February and organized their transfer to Jordan, said the animals were in a dire state.
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| Wife of Man Who Was Among 13 Killed in Bus Crash Found Dead in Home Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:53 PM PDT  Police said there was no sign of foul play.
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| United passenger dragged from plane has concussion, broken nose: lawyer Posted: 13 Apr 2017 02:57 PM PDT  By Timothy Mclaughlin and Karen Pierog CHICAGO (Reuters) - The United Airlines passenger dragged from a plane in Chicago in an incident that sparked international outrage and turned into a corporate public relations nightmare suffered a concussion and broken nose and will likely sue, his attorney said on Thursday. "For a long time airlines, United in particular, have bullied us," Thomas Demetrio told a news conference in Chicago, outlining the potential causes of action they may pursue against United and the city of Chicago. Yeah, probably." David Dao, a 69-year-old Vietnamese-American doctor, was hospitalized after Chicago aviation police dragged him from the plane to make space for four crew members on the flight from the city's O'Hare International Airport to Louisville, Kentucky.
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| The Dodge Demon descends on New York Posted: 12 Apr 2017 03:06 AM PDT  After a month-long series of video teasers, the most powerful series production American muscle car in history is ready to impress its public. The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is so potent that it is essentially a collection of automotive superlatives with a wide, Nitto street-legal drag radial tyre at each corner. It boasts a 6.2-litre Hemi V8 with a massive supercharger bolted to it.
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| Deepest Life on Earth May Be Lurking 6 Miles Beneath Ocean Floor Posted: 12 Apr 2017 07:15 AM PDT  A host of hardy microbes may be living miles beneath the ocean floor, new research suggests. Complex chemical compounds found in the rocks spewed from oceanic mud volcanoes suggest microbial life-forms may be dwelling some 32,800 feet (10,000 meters) beneath the seafloor. "Although we cannot pinpoint the exact origin of the organic matter, chemical analysis of the constituents resembles molecular signatures that could be produced by microbial life deep within or below the mud volcano," the researchers wrote in the study.
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| Marshals nab last of 'cocaine cowboys,' on lam for 26 years Posted: 13 Apr 2017 12:59 PM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — A quarter-century after he vanished on the eve of a major drug indictment, the last of Miami's fabled "cocaine cowboys" was in custody Thursday, nabbed on a suburban bike ride with his wife near Disney World.
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| What changes under Turkey's new constitution plan Posted: 11 Apr 2017 09:05 PM PDT  Turkey on Sunday votes in a landmark referendum on a new constitution that would grant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expanded powers. While critics say the move is part of a grab by Erdogan for one-man rule, supporters say it will simply put Turkey in line with France and the United States and is needed for efficient government. The current constitution was adopted in 1982 after the 1980 military coup.
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| Mike Coffman Faces Backlash At Town Hall For Supporting Trump Posted: 13 Apr 2017 02:26 AM PDT  Republican Mike Coffman faced criticism at a town hall meeting Wednesday, for backing the Obamacare repeal policy.
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| Spicer responds after U.S. drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan Posted: 13 Apr 2017 10:35 AM PDT  Press secretary Sean Spicer said United States forces used GBU-43 bomb on "a system of tunnels and caves that ISIS fighters used to move around freely" in Afghanistan.
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| The Latest: Little new information in unsolved killing of 8 Posted: 13 Apr 2017 09:22 AM PDT  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on the unsolved killing of eight family members in southern Ohio (all times local):
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| United Airlines CEO won't resign Posted: 12 Apr 2017 02:51 PM PDT  United Continental chief executive Oscar Munoz said Wednesday he will not resign and again apologized for the removal of a customer from an overbooked flight by force -- an incident that earned the carrier global scorn. Munoz reiterated his regret at the incident, which mushroomed into a global public relations disaster after video showing passenger David Dao, 69, his face bloodied, being dragged off the plane went viral. Munoz pledged a thorough review of United's procedures and promised that police would not be used in the future to remove passengers.
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| Parade of satire: Puck magazine Easter illustrations from cartooning’s Gilded Age Posted: 13 Apr 2017 09:06 AM PDT ![Parade of satire: Puck magazine Easter illustrations from cartooning's Gilded Age]( "Parade of satire: Puck magazine Easter illustrations from cartooning's Gilded Age") "Puck," considered America's first successful humor magazine, was the creation of Austrian-born cartoonist Joseph Keppler (1838-1894). The magazine took its name from the mischievous sprite in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as well as its tagline, "What fools these mortals be!"
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| Taiwan bans eating dogs and cats Posted: 12 Apr 2017 03:33 AM PDT  Taiwan has banned the eating of dogs and cats, lawmakers said Wednesday. The bill also hiked the penalty for killing or abusing animals to a maximum two-year jail term and a stiff fine of Tw$2 million, more than doubling that for repeat offenders. "This shows that Taiwan is a society with advanced animal welfare," said lawmaker Wang Yu-min who proposed the amendment.
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| NATO deploys troops to Poland while concerns about country's army rise Posted: 13 Apr 2017 10:16 AM PDT  By Lidia Kelly ORZYSZ, Poland (Reuters) - Poland on Thursday welcomed the first U.S. troops in a multi-national force which is being posted across the Baltic region to counter potential threats from Russia. More than 1,100 soldiers -- 900 U.S. troops as well as 150 British and 120 Romanians -- are to be deployed in Orzysz, about 57 km (35 miles) south of Russia's Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad, where Moscow has stationed nuclear-capable missiles and an S-400 air missile defense system. "Deploying of these troops to Poland is a clear demonstration of NATO's unity and resolve and sends a clear message to any potential aggressor," NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Curtis Scaparrotti, said at a welcoming ceremony for the first arrivals at Orzysz, 220 km (140 miles) northeast of the capital Warsaw.
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| Will Sean Spicer Be Fired Over Hitler-Assad Comments? Posted: 12 Apr 2017 03:00 AM PDT  "Even Hitler," "Sean Spicer" and "Holocaust Centers" began trending on Twitter Tuesday almost immediately after the White House press secretary's remarks.
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| The Latest: Iran's Ahmadinejad defends decision to run Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:10 AM PDT  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on Iran's upcoming presidential election after former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defied the advice of the supreme leader and registered to run (all times local):
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| Teen Accidentally Shoots, Kills Self on Instagram Live as Friends Watch Posted: 13 Apr 2017 10:21 AM PDT  Malachi Hemphill was just 13 when his mom believes he died while playing with a gun in his bedroom.
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| Nevada case pitting U.S. against ranchers goes to jury Posted: 13 Apr 2017 03:24 PM PDT  By John L. Smith LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A Nevada jury on Thursday began deliberating the fate of six armed supporters of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy in a tense 2014 standoff with federal agents that drew hundreds of protesters and made headlines worldwide. The six defendants are the first of 17 people to go on trial charges related to the standoff at Bundy's property near Bunkerville, 75 miles (120 km) northeast of Las Vegas, in a case that has come to symbolize tensions in the U.S. West over the federal ownership of land that ranchers use to graze cattle.
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| David Dao Files Petition Against United Airlines, City Of Chicago Posted: 13 Apr 2017 09:20 AM PDT  The passenger at the center of the airline's overbooking incident demanded that all related evidence be preserved.
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| Tesla investor group seeks to limit Musk sway on board Posted: 12 Apr 2017 11:45 AM PDT  A group of Tesla shareholders has urged the electric-car maker to recruit two independent directors to add to the company's board to limit the influence of co-founder and chief executive Elon Musk. The shareholders, who together manage $721 billion through public and private investment organizations, said in an April 10 letter to Tesla lead independent director Antonio Gracias that the electric car maker needed to update its seven-member board, which is largely unchanged from the days before the company went public and remains dominated by Musk allies.
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| These Diamond Nails Are Taking Nail Art to a Whole New Level Posted: 13 Apr 2017 10:57 AM PDT  Who needs a diamond ring when you can have diamond nails?!
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| 13 New Lunch Items Were Added To The Starbucks Menu Posted: 13 Apr 2017 10:02 AM PDT  All of the lunch items are freshly prepared.
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| The Latest: Clashes with Abu Sayyaf raise tourism concerns Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:14 AM PDT  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Latest on clashes between Philippine forces and suspected militants (all times local):
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