| Trump fires back after Clinton calls U.N. speech 'dangerous' Posted: 20 Sep 2017 05:18 AM PDT  President Trump lashed out at Hillary Clinton on Twitter after his former election opponent called his speech to the United Nations General Assembly "very dark" and "dangerous."
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| Black Cornell Student Allegedly 'Bloodied Up' In Racially Charged Attack Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:20 AM PDT  Less than two weeks after someone chanted "build a wall, build a wall" near the Latino Living Center on Cornell University's campus, a white student was arrested after allegedly assaulting a black student in front of his home and yelling racial slurs at him.
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| Harrowing Videos Show The Moments An Earthquake Struck Mexico Posted: 20 Sep 2017 04:26 AM PDT  People in neighborhoods across central Mexico watched as homes, businesses, and schools fell apart before their eyes during Tuesday's catastrophic earthquake.
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| Obama blasts 'aggravating' GOP plans to repeal Obamacare Posted: 20 Sep 2017 11:33 AM PDT  Former President Barack Obama mocked Republicans in a speech on Wednesday for repeated efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, his signature health care law also known as Obamacare.
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| 10 Things to Know for Today Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:05 AM PDT  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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| Cassini captured mysterious 'glitch' on Saturn's rings before death dive Posted: 21 Sep 2017 12:12 PM PDT  Cassini sent home one last batch of photos from Saturn before plunging to its death Friday and among them was an attempt to record a mysterious object embedded in the planet's rings, otherwise known as "Peggy."
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| Greenpeace boards ship in bid to halt delivery of UK-bound VW diesel cars Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:59 AM PDT  By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists boarded a ship arriving in Britain on Thursday to stop the delivery of more than 1,000 Volkswagen cars from Germany while others sought to immobilise vehicles at a port in anti-diesel protests. VW admitted cheating diesel emissions tests in 2015, triggering political and consumer pressure that has caused a slump in sales of diesel cars in major markets, with governments announcing plans to ban vehicles powered by conventional combustion engines. Greenpeace said its volunteers had boarded the ship in the Thames Estuary in an attempt to stop it unloading at the port of Sheerness in the southeast of England.
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| Illinois Father Strangled 2 Sons Before Setting House on Fire and Killing Himself While His Wife Slept Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:20 AM PDT  An Illinois man strangled his two sons to death early Tuesday morning and then set his home on fire before killing himself while his wife slept, PEOPLE confirms
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| Presidential paranoia: Does Mueller have a mole in the White House? Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:37 AM PDT  President Trump has long spoken in conspiratorial terms about a range of topics. It appears this is partly responsible for fostering a culture of distrust and paranoia in the White House.
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| Powerball Winner Charged With Repeatedly Sexually Assaulting a Child Posted: 20 Sep 2017 04:35 PM PDT  Pedro Quezada won $338 million in 2013
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| Virginian Charters Jet To Rescue 300 Pets Stranded On Virgin Islands After Irma Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:25 PM PDT  When Hurricane Maria took aim at the U.S. Virgin Islands last week, Sali Gear knew she had to move fast. Gear, the co-founder of Virginia Beach's Island Dog Rescue, grew up in the islands. To make this happen, Gear initially aimed to fly 20 animals to the continental U.S. every day for one week, according to The Virginian-Pilot.
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| Will Barcelona secede from Spain? Catalan independence is up for a vote — and Russia is stirring the pot Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:21 PM PDT  At issue is a wave of Catalan nationalism culminating in a referendum on secession, scheduled for Oct. 1.
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| Linked By Their Choice To Become Single Mothers, Two Women Share Their Stories Posted: 20 Sep 2017 06:07 AM PDT  Welcome to "The Story We Share," a series of Q&As that profile two people with similar identities ― but who live in very different places.
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| Student's Twitter Plea For Free Birthday Drinks Quickly Spirals Out Of Control Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:12 AM PDT  A student in northern England appealed to strangers over Twitter to send free birthday drinks for his friend on Wednesday afternoon.
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| Rescue workers race to find survivors at collapsed Mexico City school Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:48 AM PDT ![Rescue workers race to find survivors at collapsed Mexico City school]( "Rescue workers race to find survivors at collapsed Mexico City school") Rescue workers search for students at the Enrique Rebsamen school after an earthquake in Mexico City.
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| The Hepatitis Outbreak Has Hit Los Angeles, a Week After the Disease Sickened Hundreds in San Diego Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:35 AM PDT  Here's how this highly contagious infection is transmitted and what you can do to avoid getting it.
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| Tiffany Trump faces her father's political adversaries, Sally Yates and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in law school career Posted: 21 Sep 2017 09:42 AM PDT  In Tiffany Trump's first few weeks at George Law, she's shared the campus with some of the president's most renowned critics -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
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| Utah detective who arrested nurse for refusing to take blood from unconscious patient now wants to apologise Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:07 AM PDT  The police officer who dragged a screaming nurse to jail after she refused to take blood from an unconscious patient has said he wants to apologise to her, according to his lawyer. Shocking video surfaced earlier this month showing Utah nurse Alex Wubbels calmly stating hospital policy that prevented her from drawing a blood sample without a warrant—before Detective Jeff Payne lost his patience and arrested her.
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| George W. Bush's Ethics Chief: This 'May Be What Puts An End To This White House' Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:35 PM PDT  If it turns out it was to block the Russia investigation, that would be obstruction, Painter said on MSNBC on Wednesday. "The president once again has the right to fire the FBI director," Painter said on MSNBC.
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| Russia says will target U.S.-backed fighters in Syria if provoked Posted: 21 Sep 2017 12:56 PM PDT  By Andrew Osborn and Phil Stewart MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia warned the United States on Thursday it would target U.S.-backed militias in Syria if Russian troops again came under fire, as the United States disclosed an unusual face-to-face meeting between U.S. and Russian generals meant to avoid such clashes. The Russian warning underscored growing tensions over Syria between Moscow and Washington.
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| 21 Slow Cooker Recipes That'll Inspire You To Pull Out The Crock Pot Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:01 AM PDT  People who own a slow cooker know that this kitchen appliance is truly great.
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| WATCH: Video Of Georgia Students Hitting Teacher Goes Viral Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:34 AM PDT  It was a rough day for this teacher.
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| The U.S. Is Giving $32 Million To Assist Rohingya Refugees Posted: 20 Sep 2017 06:20 AM PDT  The United States will dispense about $32 million in humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya ethnic minority facing persecution in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the State Department said Wednesday. "Through this support, the United States will help provide emergency shelter, food security, nutritional assistance, health assistance, psychosocial support, water, sanitation and hygiene, livelihoods, social inclusion, non-food items, disaster and crisis risk reduction, restoring family links, and protection to over 400,000 displaced persons in Burma and in Bangladesh," according to the press release.
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| Despair rises for relatives of the missing in Mexico quake Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:03 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — As painstaking attempts to reach survivors in quake-ravaged buildings across Mexico City stretched into a third day Thursday, desperation mounted among loved ones who earlier had high hopes for quick rescues and some complained they were being kept in the dark about search efforts.
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| Donald Trump announces fresh sanctions on North Korea and urges Theresa May 'to increase pressure' Posted: 21 Sep 2017 09:57 AM PDT  Donald Trump has announced that further sanctions will be placed on North Korea as it continues its missile testing - a day after he asked Theresa May to increase pressure on the rogue regime. Mr Trump said on Thursday, shortly before a United Nations summit with Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, and Moon Jae-in, president of South Korea, that he was issuing an executive order against the North. "I am announcing a new executive order to sign that significantly expands authorities to target individuals, companies, financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with North Korea," he said. Profile | Moon Jae-in Mr Trump said he would expand authorities' powers to go after individuals, companies and banks involved in trade with North Korea, amid heightened tensions as that country continues ramping up its missile testing. He also announced that China's central bank has ordered the country's banks to curb trade with Pyongyang, a move which would cut a vital source of foreign currency for the regime. "Foreign banks will face a clear choice: do business with the United States or facilitate trade with the lawless regime in North Korea," he said. "The regime can no longer count on others to facilitate its trade and banking activities." On Wednesday afternoon he met Mrs May, and the White House later issued a statement detailing the meeting, saying: "President Trump asked the United Kingdom to increase pressure on North Korea to denuclearise." Donald Trump, speaking at the United Nations on Tuesday Britain has fully supported US efforts to sanction Kim Jong-un's regime through the UN, and it was not clear what increased pressure he was aiming to obtain. The UN security council unanimously approved stringent sanctions on North Korea on September 11, targeting the country's last remaining major export by fully banning the export of textiles, and preventing overseas workers from earning wages that finance the government. The sanctions also reduced about 30 per cent of oil provided to North Korea, and banned all joint ventures, to cut off foreign investments. The previous month, on August 5, the security council agreed to sanctions cutting by a third Pyongyang's $3 billion annual export revenue by banning coal, iron, lead and seafood. The UN sanctions have stopped short, so far, of a full ban on oil imports – something the US wanted, but which was blocked by Russia and China. The executive order announced by Mr Trump, of financial steps to unilaterally target North Korea, is a strong measure, given that the vast majority of all financial transactions in the world, including North Korea's, go through US banks that are regulated by the treasury department. Abraham Denmark, the Obama-era deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, pointed out that the Obama administration put in place some of the strongest international sanctions against North Korea, through the congressional passage of the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016. But he told The Atlantic in July that "much more can be done - especially unilaterally." China, North Korea's largest trading partner, will be heavily affected by Mr Trump's action on Thursday. Mr Trump has repeatedly stated that he does not believe China is doing enough to rein in their unwieldy neighbour. China has hit back, insisting the US overestimates Beijing's influence.
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| Woman in Kevin Hart Sex Tape Comes Forward, Claims She Didn't Try to Extort Him Posted: 20 Sep 2017 02:15 PM PDT  Hart's heavily pregnant wife, Eniko, says "there is absolutely no divorce talk."
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| Catalan nationalists protest in Barcelona Posted: 20 Sep 2017 12:28 PM PDT ![Catalan nationalists protest in Barcelona]( "Catalan nationalists protest in Barcelona") Thousands of people supporting a contested referendum to split Catalonia from Spain took to Barcelona's streets amid an intensifying government crackdown on the independence vote.
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| Lawrence O'Donnell Lost His Mind Over A Malfunctioning Earpiece Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:47 PM PDT  On Wednesday, Mediaite published a full eight minutes of outtakes from the MSNBC host's Aug. 29 broadcast of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." Apparently O'Donnell's earpiece was acting up that night, a malfunction he repeatedly sounded off about between segments. This has been updated with O'Donnell's comments on Twitter.
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| Views of Hurricane Maria From the International Space Station Posted: 20 Sep 2017 08:49 AM PDT  Video of Hurricane Maria taken Tuesday from aboard the International Space Station
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| Pope candidly admits Church 'arrived late' in confronting abuse Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:25 AM PDT  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in some of his most candid and personal comments on the sexual abuse of children by priests, said on Thursday that the Catholic Church had "arrived late" in dealing with the problem. Francis, speaking in unscripted remarks to a commission advising him on how to root out sexual abuse, also acknowledged that early in his papacy he had made one bad call in being too lenient with an Italian priest who later went on to abuse again. Francis surprised members of the commission by putting aside his entire prepared speech and chatting to them.
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| Hurricane Maria left over 15 dead in Dominica: prime minister Posted: 21 Sep 2017 12:00 PM PDT  Hurricane Maria left more than 15 people dead in hard-hit Dominica, the small Caribbean island's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced on Thursday. The toll from Dominica brings the overall number of confirmed deaths caused by Hurricane Maria to 18, including two in Guadeloupe and one in Puerto Rico. "So far, we would have buried in excess of 15 people," Skerrit told a television network of Antigua and Barbuda, a neighboring country.
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| Trump's trashing of Iran deal poses problems for NK strategy Posted: 20 Sep 2017 11:38 AM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump's threat before the world to obliterate North Korea left no doubt about his determination to stop the communist country's nuclear weapons buildup. His disparagement of the Iran nuclear deal in the same speech offered Pyongyang little hope of a negotiated solution.
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| Take 5: Coconut Shrimp Curry Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:20 AM PDT  Fast, easy and delicious recipes straight from the People Food test kitchen
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| Breathtaking shots of king penguins marching in golden sunrise Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:34 AM PDT ![Breathtaking shots of king penguins marching in golden sunrise]( "Breathtaking shots of king penguins marching in golden sunrise") Wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever, 45, visited the Falkland Islands this year to shoot pictures and scout the area for future tours. Wim's breathtaking images show a small group of king penguins before they head out to sea at sunrise. Wim said: "The sunrise created beautiful vibrant colors and amazing reflections.
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| The Victory Speech Hillary Clinton Never Gave Is Devastating Posted: 19 Sep 2017 09:18 PM PDT  Throughout the book, Clinton discusses the ins-and-outs of her stunning loss to Donald Trump, but arguably no detail captures the above sentiment more than a passage from the victory speech she planned to give on election night.
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| Mother Wakes Up to Find House Burning and Her Infant and 2-Year-Old Sons Strangled Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:33 AM PDT  The man hanged himself shortly after
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| Oil up 2 percent despite U.S. crude build; set for best third quarter since 2004 Posted: 20 Sep 2017 04:50 PM PDT  By Julia Simon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices settled up 2 percent on Wednesday despite a rise in U.S. crude inventories, with the market heading for its largest third-quarter gain in 13 years after the Iraqi oil minister said OPEC and its partners were considering extending or deepening output cuts. Brent crude futures rose $1.06, or 1.9 percent, to $56.20 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained 93 cents, or 1.9 percent, to $50.41. U.S. crude oil stockpiles jumped last week as imports and production increased, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said, as operations resumed from the impact of Hurricane Harvey which hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 25.
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| Turkey, Iran and Iraq warn of 'counter-measures' against Kurd vote Posted: 21 Sep 2017 02:29 AM PDT  Turkey, Iran and Iraq on Thursday urged Iraq's Kurdistan region to abandon a planned referendum on independence, threatening unspecified "counter-measures" if it goes ahead with the vote. The foreign ministers of Turkey, Iran and Iraq held a rare trilateral meeting Wednesday in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, days ahead of the non-binding September 25 referendum. Ankara and Tehran fear independence for the Kurds of northern Iraq would embolden their own Kurdish minorities, and Baghdad has bitterly opposed the plebiscite.
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| Captain: Oklahoma City man killed by police was deaf Posted: 20 Sep 2017 05:44 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City police officers who opened fire on a man in front of his home as he approached them holding a metal pipe didn't hear witnesses yelling that he was deaf, a department official said Wednesday.
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| Mexico City earthquake: Salma Hayek donates $100,000 to victims after revealing she lived through 1985 quake Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:18 AM PDT  Mexican-born actress Salma Hayak is donating $100,000 to help rescue efforts following the earthquake that has killed around 240 people and injured 2,000. The 51-year-old posted a video message on Instagram in which she revealed not only was she making the donation, but that she had survived the 1985 earthquake that devastated the country's capital city. "After the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, I was evacuated from my building.
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| Chinese dockless bike-share giant launches US beachhead Posted: 20 Sep 2017 08:27 AM PDT  Chinese bike-sharing giant Mobike on Wednesday launched in the US capital, bringing its "dockless" system which has swept China and is used in some 180 cities worldwide. Washington is the first US city for Mobike, which has distributed some seven million "smart" bicycles in China and elsewhere and is competing with other rivals to disrupt the industry by eliminating the dock used in most sharing systems. "We are thrilled to call Washington DC Mobike's first home in North America," said Hu Weiwei, co-founder and president of Mobike.
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| Preet Bharara, US Attorney Fired By Trump, Joins CNN As Contributor Posted: 20 Sep 2017 07:47 PM PDT  Politico's Michael Calderone reported Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York whom Trump fired in March, joined the cable news network as a senior legal analyst. The network also signed a deal with Walter M. Shaub Jr., the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, who resigned in July.
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