| Trump Reportedly To End DACA With 6-Month Delay Posted: 03 Sep 2017 06:38 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump plans to fulfill a campaign promise to end an Obama-era program that protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation, according to reports by Politico and Reuters.
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| Houston By The Numbers: Population Boom Leaves a Paved City Posted: 02 Sep 2017 11:43 PM PDT  When Hurricane Harvey slammed into Houston, it hit a city that is much bigger than it was in 2000 - changes that made the storm's impacts bigger.
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| Harvey Left Countless Pets Homeless. Here’s What It Takes To Shelter Them. Posted: 03 Sep 2017 03:32 PM PDT  Katy, Texas - Among the smallest victims of Hurricane Harvey are thousands of pets left without a home after floodwaters inundated large swathes of the Houston area.
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| Sara Netanyahu undergoes lie detector test in bid to deflect fraud investigation Posted: 03 Sep 2017 09:14 AM PDT  Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli Prime Minister, has undergone a lie-detector test in an attempt to deflect allegations she misused public funds. Police are investigating her on fraud and breach of trust charges after the former caretaker of her official residence made claims she had told him to inflate the number of guests at dinners and to record their purpose as state instead of private in order to receive more money for them. She has denied the charges. Avi Hadad, the owner of the company which conducted the test, said that, "upon examination of the test, we did not find in Mrs. Netanyahu's answers to the relevant questions any physiological responses which would indicate she is lying." Mrs Netanyahu is a divisive figure, and has been described as "one of the most unpopular people in Israel". The results of private lie detector tests are not admissible in Israeli courts because they are not believed to be reliable. The news of the test came amid reports on Israeli television that the attorney general was expected to indict her by September 10. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Credit: REUTERS/Amir Cohen Yossi Cohen, her lawyer, told Israeli public radio that the decision to take the test was taken, "following the horrible mudslinging against her and after we heard that she is going to be put on trial". Her husband, Benjamin Netanyahu, is also under investigation in two corruption cases. The first relates to suspicion he received illegal gifts from wealthy supporters, and the second alleges that he attempted to improperly arrange favorable coverage from a daily newspaper in exchange for legislation that would have hurt its competitor. He has been questioned in relation to both the cases. Close associates of his are also implicated in two other corruption investigations, though Mr Netanyahu is not directly suspected in them. The scandals resulting from accusations against him and his inner circle have raised questions about his political survival. He denies all allegations of wrongdoing, and is not required to stand down unless convicted.
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| BRICS leaders 'strongly deplore' N.Korea nuclear blast Posted: 04 Sep 2017 01:58 AM PDT  Leaders of the BRICS grouping of emerging economies said Monday they "strongly deplore" North Korea's latest nuclear test and hydrogen-bomb claim, which has overshadowed the five-nation group's annual summit. "We strongly deplore the nuclear test conducted by the DPRK," BRICS leaders said, using the initials of North Korea's official name.
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| In line and in life, Harvey's victims wait and worry Posted: 03 Sep 2017 06:09 AM PDT  PASADENA, Texas (AP) — The line snakes on and on, along a wall inside the shopping mall, each person in search of help after a hurricane swamped their town.
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| Arson caused fire at Kenyan school that killed nine girls: minister Posted: 04 Sep 2017 09:50 AM PDT  By John Ndiso and Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's education minister said on Monday that arson was to blame for a weekend blaze that killed nine pupils at a girls' boarding school, part of a rising trend of deliberate school fires. "It was not an accident, it was arson," Minister Fred Matiang'i said of the fire on Saturday at Moi Girls School in Nairobi. The Kenya Red Cross said on its Twitter feed there had been three other school fires reported in different parts of the country on Monday.
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| K-9 Officer Alerts Border Control To Pair Being Smuggled Into U.S. in Trunk Posted: 03 Sep 2017 01:31 PM PDT  All four people, including two Americans, in the car were arrested.
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| Adorable rat portraits look to remove stigma attached to rodents Posted: 04 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT ![Adorable rat portraits look to remove stigma attached to rodents]( "Adorable rat portraits look to remove stigma attached to rodents") A committed photographer who's made it her mission to remove the stigma attached to the creatures took these adorable rat portraits.
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| Trump Lawyer Asks Journalist If She's On Drugs After James Comey Question Posted: 03 Sep 2017 04:41 PM PDT  White House special counsel Ty Cobb asked Business Insider's Natasha Bertrand if she was on drugs during an email thread late on Saturday.
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| Wisconsin Sends 17,000 Pounds Of Cheese To Texas For Hurricane Harvey Victims Posted: 03 Sep 2017 07:14 AM PDT  This Hurricane Harvey donation is majorly cheesy — but in the best way possible.
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| Row over bears in France intensifies after angry farmers 'fire shots' in protest at sheep deaths Posted: 04 Sep 2017 09:25 AM PDT  A bitter dispute over bears in France's Pyrenees mountains has intensified after farmers were accused of firing "50 shots" at state experts who came to assess how many sheep the beasts had killed. Prosecutors in the Ariège, south-west France, have launched a judicial investigation into "violence with weapons" after a group of "thirty aggressive people" allegedly unleashed a hail of bullets in the vicinity of four experts from the national hunting and wildlife office, ONCFS. The agents had come to check damage to sheep on August 25 after farmers reported fresh bear attacks on their livestock. The farmers threatened to kill the terrified experts, according to the Ariege authorities. A brown bear Credit: UKRAINE-BEAR/CENTER/REUTERS No-one was hurt but the shots were "manifestly to intimidate them", said Karline Bouisset,the local prosecutor, who denounced a "general climate of hostility". The experts' car tyres were also slashed. They have pressed for charges. Nicolas Hulot, the environment minister, swiftly condemned the incident. Tensions have reached boiling point in the mountain range that straddles the French-Spanish border since July, when more than 200 sheep died after they hurtled over the edge of a cliff in the Pyrenees while being chased by a bear. The sheep belonged to a farmer in the Couflens area on the French side of the border, but their bodies were found at the foot of a cliff just over the border in Spain. Local authorities sent experts to examine the scene and they concluded that the sheep had been running away from a bear. A female brown bear with cubs Credit: TASS / Barcroft Images Owners are compensated for each animal killed under a deal between the government and farmers when brown bears from Slovenia were introduced in the late 1990s. But local sheep rearers complain that the bears have killed 400 livestock in the past month and say that cohabitation is no longer possible. "Given the situation, it is clear that the bear and pastoralism are incompatible," warned three farmers' unions. They received the support of a group of local elected representatives who officially requested the French state remove the bear population, estimated at 39. The officials from the Ariège council said that the animals, should be "sent back" to their native Slovenia. France, eastern Pyrenees , aerial view of Villefranche de Conflent, Mont Canigou Credit: Brigitte MERLE/ Getty Images Alain Servat, mayor of Uvuas, where most of the sheep deaths have occurred, has even unilaterally passed a decree banning bears from "wandering" into the mountainous area around his village. "There will one day be a problem with man - a tourist or inhabitant," he warned. "Bears are no more peaceful here than in Canada where they take precautions," he told La Dépêche du Midi. Local state authorities say that coexistence is possible, pointing out that in return for re-introducing the bears, farmers receive financial compensation for any damage and funding to buy Pyrenean dogs capable of keeping bears at bay. "The state places supportive means to better protect shepherds and their flocks," Marie Lajust, the regional state prefect told AFP. "But pastoralism must evolve." "I'd rather shoot a bear than see sheep rearer shoot himself in his barn out of despair," replied Bruno Besche-Commenge, spokesman for the anti-bear Association for the Sustainable Development of the Identity of the Pyrenees ADDIP. He refused to condemn the shooting incident, saying that it was understandable that farmers were starting to "lose the plot" and that they had only fired in the air. He said that it was in practice impossible to implement the recommended protective measures given the "very steep" terrain and the fact that "bears like wolves are intelligent and find ways round them". "Last year the bears attacked and killed two 'patou' sheep dogs supposed to protect the flocks so it doesn't work," he told the Telegraph. If nothing is done, "pastoralism in the central Pyrenees will die out within three years," he predicted. For the pro-bear camp, bears only account for a tiny part of sheep losses in the Pyrenees. "The amount of sheep killed (by bears) , without playing down the tragedy for rearers, is only a very small part of deaths due to falls, storms, parasites or other animals like stray dogs or wild boar," said Alain Reynes, president of Pays de l'Ours-Adet, a pro-bear association, who put figure of deaths from other causes at up to 30,000 per year. "The bear is a scapegoat." If anything, pro-bear activists warn, the bear population is at risk of dwindling because no new ones have been have been reintroduced to the region since 2006, with successive governments avoiding the issue.
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| Defiant 'Dreamers' Call Out Trump: 'We Are Making America Great' Posted: 04 Sep 2017 01:47 AM PDT  The futures of nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants remain uncertain as President Donald Trump reportedly prepares to reverse an Obama-era program that protects them from deportation.
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| 'Blockbuster' WWII bomb forces evacuation of 60,000 in Frankfurt Posted: 03 Sep 2017 10:25 AM PDT  At least 60,000 Frankfurt residents were forced to leave their homes on Sunday, in Germany's biggest post-war evacuation, to allow bomb disposal experts to defuse a huge unexploded World War II bomb dubbed the "blockbuster". The operation in central Frankfurt to get residents to safety was the biggest evacuation of its kind in post-war Germany, the city's security chief Markus Frank said. After hours of delay as police struggled to get the area cleared, bomb disposal experts finally managed to disarm the explosive in the evening.
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| Joel Osteen Tells Harvey Survivors Not To Have A ‘Victim Mentality’ Posted: 03 Sep 2017 08:58 PM PDT  Pastor Joel Osteen, who has been under fire for his Houston megachurch's slow response to helping survivors of Hurricane Harvey, vowed on Sunday that God would "pay back" victims for what they lost.
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| Touchdown! Hall of Fame Quarterback Troy Aikman Marries ‘the Love of My Life’ in California Posted: 04 Sep 2017 12:30 PM PDT  Troy Aikman is a married man!
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| Small boy's body found encased in concrete in Kansas house Posted: 04 Sep 2017 12:42 PM PDT ![Small boy's body found encased in concrete in Kansas house]( "Small boy's body found encased in concrete in Kansas house") WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police are investigating after the body of a small child was discovered encased in concrete inside a rental home in Wichita, Kansas.
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| James Mattis to North Korea: Any Threat Will Be Met With 'Massive Military Response' Posted: 03 Sep 2017 01:59 PM PDT  "A response both effective and overwhelming"
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| Above Devastated Houston, Armies of Drones Prove Their Worth Posted: 04 Sep 2017 04:00 AM PDT  After the hurricane, professional drone pilots get to work.
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| Idaho Police Department Thanks 'Heroic' Nurse For Standing Up To Utah Cop Posted: 04 Sep 2017 01:58 AM PDT  An Idaho police department is hailing nurse Alex Wubbels as a hero for standing up to Salt Lake City Detective Jeff Payne, who tried to take blood from a patient without a warrant or the patient's consent.
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| Mother's fight to discover fate of dead baby's body finds empty coffin Posted: 04 Sep 2017 12:27 PM PDT  A mother who has been fighting for four decades to find out what happened to her dead baby boy has discovered that his coffin has no human remains in it.
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| Denmark Is Selling Off Its Last Oil Company And Spending The Money On Wind Power Posted: 04 Sep 2017 10:58 AM PDT  REYKJAVIK, Iceland ― Denmark, the world's top wind turbine producer, is selling off its last oil company.
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| Mexico breaks world record with 3-tonne guacamole Posted: 03 Sep 2017 05:21 PM PDT  By Fernando Carranza CONCEPCION DE BUENOS AIRES, Mexico (Reuters) - The recipe for a record-breaking guacamole? 25,000 avocados and 1,000 people to mash them. That is what avocado growers in Mexico's Jalisco state mobilized on Sunday to break the world record for the biggest guacamole, a whopping 3 tonnes (6,600 lbs) of delicious dip made from "green gold." The mass mash-up was part entertainment and part politicking, as growers and Mexico make the point that they - and the guacamole loving Americans - have benefited from the North American Free Trade Agreement that is now under threat from U. ...
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| In Warsaw, youths rescue Europe's largest Jewish cemetery Posted: 02 Sep 2017 09:13 PM PDT  Wielding axes, rakes and shears, young European volunteers with sweat on their brows have been sprucing up the continent's largest Jewish cemetery, a Warsaw site largely neglected since the Holocaust. "At the cemetery's entrance, the pathways are rather well kept and the graves well preserved, but the rest of it, like this spot here, is more of a jungle," says volunteer Stanislaw Knapowski. Over nine days last month, he cleared the cemetery grounds with around 60 other volunteers from a dozen countries, among them Belarusians, Danes, Finns, Germans and Spaniards.
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| Trump promised to put American workers first. He lied | Michael Paarlberg Posted: 04 Sep 2017 07:29 AM PDT  'It's hard to imagine a more anti-worker agenda from any president, much less one claiming the mantle of champion of the American worker.' Donald Trump in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in June, where he spoke about renegotiating Nafta. As Donald Trump celebrates Labor Day by proposing to slash taxes for CEOs such as himself, it may come as a shock that a president who was previously best known for firing people on TV might not have been completely sincere in his promise to put "American workers first".
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| 106-year-old Afghan woman faces deportation from Sweden Posted: 04 Sep 2017 01:30 PM PDT  A 106-year-old Afghan woman who made a perilous journey to Europe, carried by her son and grandson through mountains, deserts and forests, is facing deportation from Sweden after her asylum application ...
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| 9 Luxury Hotels With Sweeping Views of Iconic Architecture Posted: 04 Sep 2017 05:30 AM PDT |
| Duchess Of Cambridge Pregnant With Third Child Posted: 04 Sep 2017 03:06 AM PDT  Prince George and Princess Charlotte are going to have another sibling!
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| Man Tells 911 He Woke From a Dream to Find Wife Stabbed in Their Bedroom: 'I Think I Did It' Posted: 04 Sep 2017 07:54 AM PDT  Matthew Phelps, an aspiring pastor, has been arrested for the murder of his wife, who was a Sunday school teacher.
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| Mummified Dog And Other Oddities 'Shatter Your Senses' In New Ripley's Book Posted: 04 Sep 2017 09:48 AM PDT  In case you haven't noticed, it's a weird world out there.
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| Venezuelan President Maduro to address U.N. Human Rights Council Posted: 04 Sep 2017 07:52 AM PDT  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - President Nicolas Maduro, accused of trampling on human rights and democracy in Venezuela, is expected to address the opening day of a three-week U.N. Human Rights Council session on Sept. 11. Maduro's government has been criticized by the United Nations, Washington and other governments for overriding Venezuela's opposition-led Congress, jailing hundreds of opponents and failing to allow the entry of foreign humanitarian aid to ease a severe economic crisis. "We received a 'note verbale' today that he is coming," U.N. human rights spokesman Rolando Gomez said on Monday.
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| In Nicaragua, a fight to save endangered tapirs Posted: 04 Sep 2017 03:25 AM PDT  The largest land mammals in Central America, the brown, pig-like animals with sloping snouts came into the world in captivity, in an enclosure a short distance from the country's Masaya Volcano, under a scheme to save their endangered species. "Here, they're well fed," said Eduardo Sacasa, a wildlife expert who runs the reproductive program. Human encroachment and climate change have decimated the woodland habitat of the Baird's tapir, one of five species left in the world, and, along with human and feline predators, have helped wipe out 16 other tapir species.
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| Chelsea Clinton Criticizes Trump Over Harvey Comments Posted: 03 Sep 2017 04:39 AM PDT  Chelsea Clinton called out the president for calling the response to Hurricane Harvey 'a wonderful thing.'
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| Teen's bar mitzvah gives Houston chance to commiserate, heal Posted: 03 Sep 2017 09:54 AM PDT  BELLAIRE, Texas (AP) — It wasn't a typical bar mitzvah, but then nothing has been typical in the Houston area since Harvey came ashore as a powerful hurricane and left whole sections of the city underwater, including its predominantly Jewish neighborhood.
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| Angela Merkel under pressure but still election favourite after TV debate Posted: 03 Sep 2017 01:31 PM PDT  Angela Merkel was forced to defend her controversial decision to open Germany's borders to more than 1m asylum-seekers on Sunday as she come under pressure in a televised election debate. Martin Schulz, the main challenger, accused the German chancellor of a "serious mistake" with her "lone decision" and said she should have worked with European allies to find a common approach. But a defiant Mrs Merkel insisted Germany had been faced with a "very dramatic situation" and had no choice but to act. "That is what being chancellor is about. You have to decide," she said. German voters go to the polls on September 24 Credit: Handout via Reuters The televised debate brought to life an election that has until now seemed little more than a victory procession for Mrs Merkel. With just three weeks until Germany votes on September 24, the debate was widely seen as Mr Schulz's last chance to lift his flagging campaign and prove that he can mount a serious challenge to Mrs Merkel. "Integrating a million people into German society will be the task of a generation," he said at one point, and at another: "Integration is not something that happens on paper." But Mrs Merkel was able to present herself as the voice of experience, quoting detailed figures on immigration off the top of her head, and mentioning her recent conversations with other world leaders. In Germany, the debate format is different. There is no live audience and only the leaders of the two main parties take part in what is popularly known as the "TV Duel". Bottom line: @MartinSchulz needed to win big tonight and failed. #TVDuell— Matthew Karnitschnig (@MKarnitschnig) September 3, 2017 That gave Mr Schulz, who has repeatedly accused Mrs Merkel of dodging the issues, the chance to pin his opponent down. But while he landed some telling blows against the long-serving chancellor, Mr Schulz failed to deliver the knock-out punch his campaign badly needed. Mr Schulz's Social Democratic Party (SPD) went into the debate 14 points behind Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), according to a poll released on Saturday. It is a gap most commentators believe is too large to make up, and there was little sign that Mr Schulz had done enough on Sunday night to change the course of the election. In a debate that was largely dominated by foreign policy, there was no mention of Brexit. Mr Schulz, who was memorably described by one of the country's top pollsters as "Merkel with a beard", attempted to differentiate himself from his opponent by taking a hard line on Turkey, pledging that if elected he would end EU accession talks. A pub shows the TV debate in Berlin Credit: Getty Images "Turkey has crossed every single red line," he said, referring to the arrest of several German nationals But the tactic played into the hands of Mrs Merkel, who was able to portray herself as the cooler, more pragmatic head by pledging to keep the channels of communication open in order to free the arrested Germans. A similar scenario played out when the candidates were asked about Donald Trump. Mr Schulz said the US president was "too unpredictable" and that Germany needed to concentrate on its "more reliable allies". But Mrs Merkel emphasised the importance of keeping the lines of communication open. "I will do everything to convince the American president that we need a peaceful situation" to the North Korea crisis, she said. Both candidates insisted Islam has a place in German society, although Mrs Merkel stressed she would show no tolerance for extremism. Two things confirmed by that debate: 1) #Brexit is below road tolls as a priority issue in Germany; and 2) Angela Merkel is going to win.— Chris Morris (@BBCChrisMorris) September 3, 2017 As the debate turned to domestic policy, Mr Schulz attempted to shift the focus to his campaign's central issue of social justice. "Germany is a prosperous country, but not all Germans are prosperous," he said. But Mrs Merkel matched him. "Every single unemployed person is one too many," she said. In the run-up to the debate, there was embarrassment for Mr Schulz in the run-up, as his SPD party accidentally released a pre-prepared statement claiming victory for their man — several hours before it even started. But a snap poll of 1,000 viewers held at the halfway point found Mrs Merkel was ahead, with 59 per cent saying she had the best arguments.
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| How a Houston Community Fed Thousands of First Responders Posted: 04 Sep 2017 06:59 AM PDT  A volunteer group has been making 3,000 meals a day to feed those in need
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| Female brain injury patient raped in New York hospital Posted: 04 Sep 2017 02:21 AM PDT  A female patient with a brain injury was raped in a New York hospital, police said. A nurse walked in to check on the women and found Keith Nembhard sexually assaulting the 32-year-old earlier this month, sources told the New York Post. Staff at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital immediately called security, who detained the man before officers arrived.
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| This 'Game Of Thrones' Star Just Got An Adorable New Puppy Posted: 03 Sep 2017 05:42 PM PDT  "Game Of Thrones" actress Sophie Turner just made a furry new friend.
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| Cambodian leader gets China's backing as West condemns crackdown Posted: 04 Sep 2017 08:09 AM PDT  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen won words of support from China on Monday after the United States and European Union condemned the arrest of his main rival and a widening crackdown on his critics before next year's election. A day after Kem Sokha was arrested in a midnight raid on his house, one of his deputies said donor countries should open their eyes to Cambodia's "false democracy" and put more pressure on Hun Sen. When asked about Kem Sokha's arrest at a press briefing in Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China "supports the Cambodian government's efforts to protect national security and stability." Opposition politicians, rights groups and independent media have come under growing pressure as next year's election approaches.
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| Hundreds of People Displaced By Hurricane Harvey Fed After Couple Postpones Wedding Posted: 03 Sep 2017 10:28 AM PDT  The food was scheduled to be used for the couple's welcome dinner.
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| 5 Buildings That Show the Power of Modernist Architecture Posted: 04 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT |
| North Korea’s Nuclear and Missile Tests Are Aimed at Splitting Its Rivals Posted: 03 Sep 2017 01:54 AM PDT  Can Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. stand firm against Pyongyang's efforts to drive wedges among them?
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| Jaguar Bets On AI Steering Wheel In Self-Driving Age Posted: 03 Sep 2017 11:37 PM PDT  According to the company, the steering wheel might be the only part of the car you own in the future.
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| Sharon Osbourne Reveals Ozzy Cheated on Her with Six Women: ‘He Had Women in Different Countries’ Posted: 04 Sep 2017 02:54 PM PDT  Sharon Osbourne is opening up about the affairs she says her husband Ozzy had that almost led to their divorce
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