| From Barcelona to Charlottesville: How Trump's responses differed Posted: 17 Aug 2017 06:24 PM PDT  In the aftermath of the attacks in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday and Charlottesville, Va., five days earlier, President Trump offered very different reactions.
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| High-Speed Police Chases Under Scrutiny in Florida Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:52 AM PDT  Newly released dash camera footage from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office recorded an officer driving 104 mph after being told not to chase a suspect.
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| Two dead, six injured in Finland stabbing spree Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:39 PM PDT  Police shot and wounded a suspect after a stabbing spree in which a man killed two people and wounded six others in the Finnish city of Turku. Within hours of the attack on Friday the force had announced increased police patrols across the country. Two dead and six injured," Turku police tweeted after the assault in a market square.
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| Bannon Declares War on Trump, Says 'That Presidency is Over' Posted: 18 Aug 2017 12:01 PM PDT  Just hours after it was announced he was out of the administration, Steve Bannon gave an interview where he said the Trump presidency is "over," and he's already back at Breitbart.
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| Weather Channel Founder Says Climate Change Isn't Real Posted: 18 Aug 2017 12:13 PM PDT  "I'm just a dumb old skeptic. A denier, as they call me. But you know something? I'm right. So I don't care."
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| Pakistan holds state funeral for German nun who fought leprosy Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:22 AM PDT  Pakistani soldiers on Saturday carried the flag-draped coffin of German-born Catholic nun Ruth Pfau to a state funeral where she was honored after devoting her life to eradicating leprosy in the country. Widely known as Pakistan's Mother Teresa, Pfau died last week in the southern city of Karachi at age 87. Mourners paid their last respects as Pfau's coffin was carried to the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre that she founded before being taken on to St. Patrick's Cathedral for the official service.
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| Underwater devices look for Army helicopter crew off Hawaii Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:52 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — Army officials have spent days sifting through chunks of Black Hawk helicopter debris in turbulent Pacific waters off Hawaii but have yet to see any signs of life in their search for five soldiers missing since the aircraft crashed during nighttime training on Tuesday.
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| No Human Remains Found In Search For Natalee Holloway: Prosecutor Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:58 PM PDT  Dave Holloway, father of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, said on national television this week that he found human bones in Aruba, where his daughter vanished a dozen years ago, and submitted them for DNA testing.
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| Spanish police believe they may have body of missing boy Julian Cadman Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:45 PM PDT  Hopes were fading for seven-year-old British boy Julian Cadman on Saturday as Spanish authorities revealed they were no longer searching for any missing youngsters. His father Andrew made the long flight from Australia and landed on Saturday afternoon to comfort his seriously injured wife, Jumarie, who had been in the area to attend a family wedding when she and her son were struck by the terrorist's van which killed 13 people and left more than 100 injured. Despite a major appeal by his loved ones, the former Kent schoolboy, who loved to dance and fill his pockets with Lego, has not been found. It is understood that Spanish authorities have a body that they believe is his, but are waiting for formal identification to take place. Another child was also taken in the tragedy, a three-year-old boy from Spain, died next to his mother. They had been on a family day out with relatives. The last smiling photo of honeymooners Jared Tucker and his wife Heidi Nunes was taken just an hour before the atrocity. The last smiling photo of honeymooners Jared Tucker and his wife Heidi Nunes was taken just an hour before the atrocity. The pair, who were celebrating their first wedding anniversary with a belated honeymoon, became separated in the attack and as his wife hid in a souvenir shop Mr Tucker, 42, hit by the van and died. Tales of heroism emerged of a brave stranger running into the carnage to try and save the lives of a Canadian family, picking up an injured man and placing him on the back of his scooter to rush him to hospital. The man's relative, grandfather Ian Moore Wilson, died at the scene as others battled to save his wife Valerie. Grandfather Ian Moore Wilson who died at the scene of the Barcelona attack. Italian father Bruno Gulotta, 35, died while trying to protect his child. He was on holiday with his wife Martina and two children when he was crushed to death as he walked hand in hand with his five-year-old son and died as he knelt down to shield the little boy. Belgian bank worker Elke Vanbockrijck, described as "super woman", lost her life as she walked with her husband and two sons, aged 11 and 14. Mum Elke Vanbockrijck was with her children when she died. Credit: AP Others killed include three Germans, Spaniard Pepita Codina, 75, Silvina Alejandra Pereyra, 40, an Argentine-Spanish dual citizen and Francisco Lopez, 65. In the second attack in Cambrils, Ana Maria Suarez, 61, died as terrorists attacked her family with knives. Her husband and sister were also injured in the attack. Those affected came from 34 countries, including China, Colombia, France, Germany, Honduras, Morocco, a testament to the global allure of the Spanish city.
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| Former neo-Nazi: Trump’s message parrots my old propaganda Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT  A reformed neo-Nazi says President Trump is partly to blame for legitimizing the white nationalism that exploded in Virginia last weekend.
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| Violence erupts between white nationalists, counterprotestors in Charlottesville: Part 5 Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:21 PM PDT  White nationalists had gathered in the Virginia city to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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| Muslims fear anti-Islam backlash in tolerant Barcelona Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:29 PM PDT  Prayer time is approaching but Raja Miah, an imam at a tiny mosque in the heart of Barcelona does not expect a big turnout. Since the twin attacks in Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils claimed by the Islamic State group, the Muslim community in central Barcelona's neighbourhood of Raval fears an anti-Islam backlash. "People are very scared," said Miah, 23, as he sat in a small room at the mosque in Raval as a small group of children in an adjoining room studied the Koran.
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| Boston 'free speech' rally abandoned by right-wing demonstrators outnumbered by 15,000 counter-protesters Posted: 19 Aug 2017 01:31 PM PDT  As the official start time of the contentious "Free Speech Rally" in Boston approached, the winner in the battle of words between organisers and counter-demonstrators had already been determined. If hateful speech aimed at Jewish people or minorities was chanted at Boston Common park, it was not audible at one of the largest rallies being held just one week after the deadly demonstrations in Charleston, Virginia, where neo-Nazis marched bearing torches, and where one woman was killed. Instead, an estimated 15,000 counter-protesters dominated the air with anti-Nazi and anti-fascist chants.
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| German writer critical of Turkey's Erdogan arrested in Spain Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:47 PM PDT  By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) - German-Turkish author Dogan Akhanli was arrested in Spain on Saturday after Turkey issued an Interpol warrant for the writer, a critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, fanning an already fierce row between the NATO allies. The arrest of the German national in Granada was part of a "targeted hunt against critics of the Turkish government living abroad in Europe," Akhanli's lawyer Ilias Uyar told magazine Der Spiegel, which first reported Akhanli's detention. Any country can issue an Interpol "red notice", but extradition by Spain would only follow if Ankara could convince Spanish courts it had a real case against him.
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| Oregon wildfire causes evacuations in prime eclipse zone Posted: 18 Aug 2017 07:15 PM PDT  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Residents of more than 400 homes in a prime eclipse-viewing location in Oregon were ordered to evacuate Friday because of a rapidly growing wildfire that had already closed access to a portion of a wilderness area and a regional highway.
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| The Clever Way High School Boys Protested Their School's Sexist Dress Code Posted: 18 Aug 2017 12:34 PM PDT  Students from San Benito High School in Hollister, California, are protesting their school's sexist dress code in a pretty awesome way.
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| Grace Mugabe absent from S.Africa summit as assault claim lingers Posted: 19 Aug 2017 01:14 PM PDT  Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe failed to appear Saturday at a summit in South Africa attended by her husband, an event overshadowed by her effort to obtain diplomatic immunity over assault allegations. The wife of President Robert Mugabe has not been seen since being accused of attacking a 20-year-old model with a electrical extension cord last weekend in a Johannesburg hotel where the couple's two sons were staying. The alleged assault is a political headache for South Africa and Zimbabwe, close neighbours with deep economic and historical ties.
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| USS Fitzgerald's Leadership Removed Over Poor Seamanship Posted: 18 Aug 2017 04:25 AM PDT  This is not the first time U.S. Navy took a strict action against the leadership for acting inappropriately in a particular situation.
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| Chicago activist loses US citizenship, will be deported Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:01 PM PDT  An activist known for helping Arab women in the Chicago area lost her U.S. citizenship Thursday and will be deported for failing to disclose convictions for bombings in Jerusalem decades ago.
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| At least 23 dead, dozens hurt as train derails in India Posted: 19 Aug 2017 11:04 AM PDT  At least 23 people were killed and dozens injured after an express train derailed in north India Saturday, officials said, as rescuers clambered across mangled carriages to pull passengers from the wreckage. Rescue and relief operations are continuing," G S Priyadarshi, Muzaffarnagar district magistrate, told AFP. A police officer at the accident spot said 50 people had been taken to hospital.
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| Boy, 7, From Australia Is Missing After Barcelona Van Attack Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:09 AM PDT  Julian Alessandro Cadman is missing after he was separated from his mom, who was seriously injured in Thursday's terrorist attack.
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| Thousands of Counter-Protesters March Against White Nationalism in Boston a Week After Charlottesville Posted: 19 Aug 2017 05:54 AM PDT  Thousands of protesters marched through Boston in response to a right-wing free speech rally, one week after clashes in Charlottesville, Va.
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| Border agents track drone from sky to drugs on the ground Posted: 19 Aug 2017 06:38 AM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 25-year-old U.S. citizen has been charged with using a drone to smuggle more than 13 pounds (5.9 kilograms) of methamphetamine from Mexico, an unusually large seizure for what is still a novel technique to bring illegal drugs into the United States, authorities said Friday.
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| Father jumps car over open drawbridge in terrifying stunt to save family Posted: 19 Aug 2017 09:19 AM PDT  A father drove his car over an opening drawbridge in a death-defying stunt to avoid plunging into the water below. Terence Naphys was crossing New Jersey's Middle Thorofare Bridge with his family when its steel ramp began to lift beneath them. Mr Naphys was reportedly already near the centre of the bridge and was forced to accelerate his Toyota RAV 4 to jump the 6ft gap out of fear the car would fall 65ft into the deep bay below.
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| Twitter Blasts Ex-Google Employee Who Says Being Conservative Is Like Being Gay In The '50s Posted: 18 Aug 2017 07:36 AM PDT  Ex-Google employee James Damore made quite a disturbing false equivalency when he compared being a conservative at the tech company to being gay in the 1950s.
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| Donald Trump seeks to placate Steve Bannon as fired strategist says ‘that presidency is over’ Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:17 PM PDT  Donald Trump appears to be trying to placate Steve Bannon, the strategist whom he fired and who subsequently claimed that the "presidency is over". Hours after Mr Trump sacked Mr Bannon, the right wing populist returned to his former position as the head of the pro-white nationalist Breitbart News. "The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over," Mr Bannon told the Weekly Standard.
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| NASA Wants to Stop a Doomsday Supervolcano by Stealing its Heat Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:39 AM PDT  NASA is worried about the Yellowstone supervolcano exploding, so instead they're going to harness its energy for good.
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| Expert: Arkansas may have reliable source of execution drug Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:03 PM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A death penalty expert says Arkansas' recent purchase of a lethal injection drug — in a small amount and at a cheap price — suggests the state has found a reliable supplier to help it move 30 inmates from death row to the execution chamber.
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| Nearly 600 dead in S. Asia floods Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:52 AM PDT  Nearly 600 people have died and millions have been affected by monsoon floods in South Asia, officials said Saturday, as relief and rescue operations continued. Indian authorities sought military help in two districts of northern Uttar Pradesh state after fresh heavy rains left hundreds of villages marooned. "We have sought army's help to reach out to the affected people," T P Gupta, a senior official from the state's disaster management authority, told AFP.
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| Glitch Or Promo? Amazon Echo Dot Is Free Right Now Posted: 18 Aug 2017 12:50 PM PDT  The Amazon Echo Dot is free on Amazon at checkout thanks to an apparently unlisted "Audible Promo" offer.
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| Boston free speech rally organisers say they fear far-Right groups could repeat violence of Charlottesville Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:15 PM PDT  Organisers of a free speech rally in Boston on Saturday are warning far-Right groups to stay away amid growing fears of a repeat of the violent clashes that led to the death of a protester in Virginia last weekend. The national director of the Ku Klux Klan has said members are expected to turn out for the event, due to start on Boston common at midday. And police, already preparing for the presence of thousands of counter-protesters, said they were stepping up their vigilance in the wake of Thursday's terrorist attack in Barcelona. The result is a city preparing for the worst. John Medlar, of Boston Free Speech which is organising the rally, said he was as shocked and horrified as anyone else at the violence in Charlottesville when white supremacist groups protested the removal of Confederate statutes commemorating the Civil War. White supremacists stand behind their shields at a rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017 Credit: Reuters "We are afraid some of the groups that caused trouble might come up here and cause more trouble," he said. The Boston group held a similar rally in May but this weekend's event has come under intense scrutiny after neo-Nazi groups and counter-protesters clashed in Charlottesville. A 32-year-old woman died when a car drove into a crowd sparking a week of debate about race relations, freedom of speech and America's tempestuous political climate under Donald Trump. Mr Medlar said the roster of speakers included libertarians from both Left and Right but insisted there was no place for groups such as the KKK. "We don't think the KKK is the type of group that will defend the first amendment rights of black people, so we don't want them at our rally," he said, referring to the part of the US constitution that guarantees free expression. Several of the most inflammatory speakers have already dropped out. Gavin McInnes, who describes himself as a "Western Chauvinist" and heads a group called the Proud Boys, said this week would no longer be attending. Trump says 'both sides' to blame in Charlottesville 01:19 Among the confirmed guests are Joe Biggs, who used to work for the conspiracy-mongering website Infowars, as well as Shiva Ayyadurai, a scientist who claims to have invented email and is now running for the Senate. Mr Medlar said he had been working with city authorities to ensure the day would go off peacefully. A planned march has been cancelled and police are setting up physical barriers and a neutral zone to separate counter-protesters from the rally. Several thousand people are expected at the rival "Fight Supremacy" rally. It was planned as a response to the Charlottesville unrest but, coming at the same time as the free speech rally, now raises the prospect of fresh clashes between the two sides. Mr Medlar said he had considered cancelling but realised people might still show up anyway. The responsible course, he added, was to work with city authorities on ensuring an orderly event. "No-one will be able to bring anything that can be used as a weapon," he said. Charlottesville far-right protest In Charlottesville, armed militias linked to both Left and Right made use of Virginia's open carry laws to patrol the area carrying assault rifles. About 500 police officers will be on the streets to maintain order. They are planning to close some roads to vehicle after of the car attacks that killed Heather Heyer in Charlottesville and 13 in Barcelona. "We all know the tragedy that happened in Barcelona. That only makes us more vigilant," said William Evans, Boston Police Commissioner. At the same time, Thomas Robb, of the KKK, told the Boston Herald that he expected members to attend. "I don't think they're going to cause a disturbance," he said. "Our members don't stand out, they don't walk around giving Nazi salutes, they might be your next door neighbour or Cub Scout leader."
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| Confirmed! VW Electric Microbus Coming in 2022 Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:38 PM PDT  It's finally happening. We can't believe it either.
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| 2-Week-Old Orphaned Piglet Comforts Kitten Friend as She Suffers Seizure Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:38 PM PDT  Sriracha the kitten was diagnosed with a neurological disorder called cerebellar hypoplasia and suffers from seizures.
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| Iran Is Not About to Fall for Trump’s Trap Posted: 18 Aug 2017 07:11 AM PDT  President Hassan Rouhani is positioning himself to be the next supreme leader — and he isn't going to let U.S. threats to blow up the nuclear deal get in his way.
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| Children in conflict zones vulnerable to killing, rape: UN draft Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:56 AM PDT  Children are particularly vulnerable in the conflicts raging around the globe, according to a draft UN report that specifically pointed the finger of blame in Yemen at the Saudi-led coalition. The draft of an annual UN report on the impact of armed conflict on children lists the countries and entities accused of recruiting child soldiers and using children as weapons of war. "I am highly concerned by the scale and severity of the grave violations that were committed against children in 2016, which included alarming levels of killing and maiming, recruitment and use and denial of humanitarian access," Secretary General Antonio Guterres says in the draft seen by AFP.
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| Tribes hope for renewal in solar eclipse; not all will watch Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:30 AM PDT  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — While much of the country gawks at the solar eclipse, Bobbieann Baldwin will be inside with her children, shades drawn.
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| Girl found 'brutally murdered' at home after texting mother about someone knocking at door Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:40 AM PDT  Yhoana Arteaga was found bludgeoned to death in her family's mobile home with her clothing "in disarray", police said. There was no evidence of forced entry to the trailer in Nashville, Tennessee. The girl had suffered blunt force trauma to her body, police spokesman Don Aaron told a press conference.
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| NY subway tiles with Confederate flag look to be altered Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:21 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Transit officials have decided to alter subway station tiles that have a cross-like design similar to that of the Confederate flag.
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| White Supremacists Are Using Genetic Ancestry Tests For A Creepy Purpose Posted: 17 Aug 2017 05:56 PM PDT  It's a marketing trope often repeated in viral, feel-good commercials for genetic ancestry tests: If we only knew just how related we all were, even distantly, then prejudice and racism would cease to exist.
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| Lebanese army finds surface-to-air missile in Nusra Front arms cache - security source Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:51 AM PDT ![Lebanese army finds surface-to-air missile in Nusra Front arms cache - security source]( "Lebanese army finds surface-to-air missile in Nusra Front arms cache - security source") The Lebanese army found a surface-to-air missile (SAM) in a weapons cache left by Nusra Front militants after it took over some of the jihadists' positions in northeast Lebanon, a Lebanese security source said on Friday. Photographs of the cache sent by the security source showed large numbers of shells and rockets. There have been sporadic reports throughout Syria's six-year-old civil war of rebel groups gaining access to SAMs.
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| The Manual Car Is About More Than Shifting Gears Posted: 19 Aug 2017 06:43 AM PDT  Why you should care about turn signals.
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| US Nazi supporters move to Russian social media after Facebook ban Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:45 AM PDT  Following violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, Facebook began taking down all positive mentions of an article by the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, attacking the woman who was killed protesting the rally. But while the site has been banned from Facebook, far-right users continued to post on a Daily Stormer group on VK, Russia's most popular social network. "Cloudflare just dropped us," the Daily Stormer VK group posted on Wednesday, referring to the Internet security company that protects sites from cyber attacks. "We'll have to build an alternative." White nationalists and far-right activists from Western countries have increasingly been moving to VK, also known as VKontakte, where they don't face the same censorship as on social media like Facebook. Charlottesville far-right protest Of the 97 major neo-Nazi, white nationalist and racist skinhead organisations on the Southern Poverty Law Centre's list of US hate groups, The Telegraph found VK groups matching at least nine of them, with members that appeared to be American. There were also more than 50 VK groups named after the Ku Klux Klan, although many of them appear to be run by Russian fans. According to the news site Meduza, more than 100 nationalist groups on VK have members from the United States, Germany, Sweden and other Western countries. Membership on the most popular of these groups numbers in the thousands. A far-right user who identified himself as Henry from Houston told Meduza that moving from Facebook to VK was becoming a "trend" among nationalists trying to avoid censorship. He's started two VK groups already with a total membership of 550. "You can't even write a post about Adolph Hitler" on Facebook, he complained. In contrast, on the Daily Stormer page and other VK groups, users have continued merrily posting racist slurs and threats. Dropped by its US domain registrar, the Daily Stormer also tried to relaunch its website under a Russian domain name, but this too was soon suspended. Asked about VK's apparent lack of censorship, a spokesman said the social network is "against calls for atrocities and violence" and deletes materials that include them. Russian authorities have been increasingly fining and even imprisoning social media users under a vague law against extremism, but many of these people have been convicted for criticising Russia's intervention in Ukraine. Law enforcement here most likely wouldn't be able to bring Americans to court on similar charges, however.
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| Bob Lutz on Why Ford Ousted Mark Fields Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:34 AM PDT  How could Ford's Mark Fields compete with Elon Musk's tunnels and spaceships?
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| Casualties mount in White House in Trump's first seven months Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:13 PM PDT  Traffic through the White House exit door has been astonishingly high since Donald Trump became president on January 20. On Friday chief strategist Steve Bannon became the latest casualty of seven months of bedlam in the executive offices of the world's most powerful country. Trump steadfastly defended his national security adviser, even though Flynn had been fired by Barack Obama from his job as defense intelligence chief and was deeply distrusted across the intelligence community.
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| Once homeless, Iraq War veteran moves into unique new home Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:02 AM PDT  MIDWAY CITY, Calif. (AP) — Vernon Poling was 44 years old when he finally got a home of his own.
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| Charlottesville: Student who attended neo-Nazi rally forced to leave university after backlash Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:43 AM PDT  A student who took part in the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville has said he is leaving Boston University because of the violent threats he has received since the event. "It's becoming very dangerous," Nicholas Fuentes told the Boston Globe. "Massachusetts, and Boston in particular, are among the most left-wing states and cities," he said.
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