| Trump Says 'Fake News' Won't Show Crowd Size As CNN Shows Crowd Size Posted: 22 Sep 2017 08:56 PM PDT  President Donald Trump did what he usually does and attacked the so-called "fake news" during his speech at a campaign rally for Republican Sen. Luther Strange in Alabama on Friday night.
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| Hundreds of American medical students stranded in Dominica Posted: 23 Sep 2017 08:25 AM PDT  American students were reportedly stranded on Friday in Dominica after Hurricane Maria leveled the Caribbean island.
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| Inside Relief Flight to Hurricane Battered St. Thomas Posted: 23 Sep 2017 09:03 AM PDT  NBC News got rare access inside a U.S. military relief flight supplying food, water and even a mobile air traffic control tower to St. Thomas — an island devastated by Hurricane Irma and hit again by Maria, delaying critical relief efforts.
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| Forget Cheat ‘Sheet’ — Student Outwits Professor With Enormous 'Cheat Poster' Posted: 24 Sep 2017 06:01 AM PDT  When Professor Reb Beatty of Maryland's Anne Arundel Community College arrived at his accounting class to administer a test last week, he hardly could have imagined that he'd be the one getting outsmarted. In a Sept. 20 Facebook post that's since gone viral, Beatty explained that he'd told his students that they were allowed to bring in a "3x5" cheat sheet to use during the test. Beatty, however, failed to specify the unit of measurement he was referring to.
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| Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria Posted: 23 Sep 2017 01:28 PM PDT ![Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria]( "Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria") People across Puerto Rico struggled to dig out from the devastation left by Hurricane Maria.
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| 'Hallelujah': Slain nursing student's family praises verdict Posted: 23 Sep 2017 11:00 AM PDT  SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) — It was a prayer circle 6 ½ years in the making.
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| LeBron James Tweets Brutal Response To Trump's Steph Curry Tweet Posted: 23 Sep 2017 09:39 AM PDT  After President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday morning he would be "withdrawing" Golden State Warriors player Stephen Curry's invitation to visit the White House to celebrate his team's NBA title, LeBron James took to Twitter to give the president a piece of his mind.
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| Companies Look to Bridge U.S. ‘Middle Skills’ Gap Posted: 23 Sep 2017 09:16 AM PDT  Companies like Toyota, Boeing, General Motors and Dow Chemical are all starting or expanding specialized job training programs to bridge the gap in technical skills for "middle skills jobs."
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| Kurds stick with independence vote, 'never going back to Baghdad': Barzani Posted: 24 Sep 2017 02:57 PM PDT  By Maher Chmaytelli and Daren Butler ERBIL, Iraq/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iraq's Kurds will go ahead with a referendum on independence on Monday because their partnership with Baghdad has failed, Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani said on Sunday, shrugging off international opposition to the vote. In response, the Iraqi government asked the autonomous Kurdish region to hand over control of its international border posts, its international airports and called on foreign countries to stop importing Kurdish crude oil.
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| Bill Maher Uses Children's Book To Explain Donald Trump's Deal With Democrats Posted: 23 Sep 2017 12:15 AM PDT  Bill Maher believes there's a simple explanation for why "fast-talking city slicker" President Donald Trump reportedly cut a deal with Democrats over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program earlier this month.
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| At Least 1 Person Was Killed in Tennessee Church Shooting. Here’s What We Know Posted: 24 Sep 2017 03:22 PM PDT  At least one woman was killed and seven people were injured Sunday when a masked gunman opened fire outside a Tennessee church, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.
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| Red faces as Russia's Kalashnikov monument shows Nazi gun Posted: 23 Sep 2017 03:48 AM PDT  Workers in Moscow have erased the illustration of a gun from a freshly-inaugurated monument of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the legendary AK-47 assault rifle, after it was found that the drawing was of a Nazi weapon. The sculptor, Salavat Shtsherbakoff, has acknowledged his mistake," the state-supported Russian Military History Society, which backed the monument, told TASS news agency Friday. The erroneous drawing was of an StG44 -- for Sturmgewehr (Storm Rifle), a name reputedly conferred by Hitler himself.
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| Is Now the Time to Launch a Preemptive Military Strike on North Korea? Posted: 23 Sep 2017 04:57 AM PDT  Polls indicate that a majority of the American population is supportive of military action against North Korea. As tensions with North Korea rise to dangerous levels, there are voices in the Congress starting to call for a preemptive military strike on the regime in Pyongyang. Indeed, polls indicate that a majority of the American population is supportive of military action against North Korea.
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| New earthquake, magnitude 6.1, shakes jittery Mexico Posted: 23 Sep 2017 08:58 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strong new earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, killing at least two people, toppling already damaged homes and a highway bridge, and causing new alarm in a country reeling from two even more powerful quakes that together have killed more than 400 people.
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| Clinton Says Angela Merkel Is The Most Important Leader In The Free World Posted: 24 Sep 2017 08:12 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton told MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid that she believes German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the most important leader in the free world ― an extraordinary assessment by a former presidential candidate, U.S. secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady, and a remark likely to be seen as an affront to President Donald Trump.
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| Trump takes center stage in fractious Senate race in Alabama Posted: 22 Sep 2017 06:30 PM PDT  By James Oliphant HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (Reuters) - President Donald Trump injected himself into a bitter U.S. Senate primary fight in Alabama on Friday, putting to the test his ability to enlist his anti-establishment voters to come to the aid of an endangered Republican incumbent. Trump spoke at a rally in Huntsville, Alabama, on behalf of Senator Luther Strange, who was appointed after the seat was left vacant when Jeff Sessions was named Trump's attorney general. Strange is trying to ward off a challenge from Roy Moore, an arch-conservative former state Supreme Court justice, in a runoff election next week.
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| Video Shows California Police Officer Shooting Man Multiple Times Outside 7-Eleven Posted: 23 Sep 2017 05:26 AM PDT  Huntington Beach police officer was captured on a video struggling with a suspect and then shooting him multiple times in a convenience store parking lot.
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| Helping Ponso, sole survivor of 'Chimpanzee Island' in I. Coast Posted: 23 Sep 2017 08:17 PM PDT  Grand-Lahou (Ivory Coast) (AFP) - "Oooah! Oooah!" Screeching to see visitors on the forested "Chimpanzee Island" in Ivory Coast, Ponso is the last, lonely survivor of a colony of 20 apes who mysteriously died or vanished. Chimpanzee Island adjoins the village of Grand-Lahou in the Bandaman estuary, an outlying reach of tropical forest about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the commercial capital, Abidjan. Since August 2015, the association Les Amis de Ponso (Friends of Ponso) has paid for the animal's food and for a dedicated carer, Germain Djenemaya Koidja, according to a wooden signpost near the landing stage and the website sosponso.org.
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| Here Are Some Ways People Disrespect The Flag Daily Based On Flag Code Posted: 23 Sep 2017 09:56 PM PDT  President Donald Trump accused athletes on Friday of disrespecting the American flag by silently protesting, but taking a knee isn't covered in the U.S. Flag Code's respect section.
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| Turkey OKs military intervention, warns Iraqi Kurds on vote Posted: 23 Sep 2017 12:23 PM PDT  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish parliament on Saturday renewed a bill allowing the military to intervene in Iraq and Syria if faced with national security threats — a move seen as a final warning to Iraqi Kurds to call off their Monday independence referendum.
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| Ted Cruz joins Republicans ranged against Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill Posted: 24 Sep 2017 07:06 AM PDT  The Trump administration's latest efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) appeared to be disintegrating over the weekend, as a growing number of Republican senators indicated they would vote against the so-called Graham-Cassidy bill. Maine Republican Susan Collins looked all but certain to oppose the bill, while Texas senator Ted Cruz also warned on Sunday he would not vote for the legislation in its current form and said he believed Utah senator Mike Lee would follow his lead in opposing.
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| Parents of Accused Teen: Boy’s Hanging Was Accidental Posted: 23 Sep 2017 06:09 AM PDT  Rhianna Larkin and Eric Sullivan tell Newsweek the hanging of an 8-year-old biracial boy in New Hampshire was a tragic mistake, not a hate crime.
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| These Are The 21 States Russian Hackers Targeted In The 2016 Election Posted: 23 Sep 2017 01:00 PM PDT  The Department of Homeland Security told told election officials in 21 states on Friday that Russian hackers attempted to access their voting systems in the 2016 election.
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| US bombers fly near North Korea in show of force after Donald Trump 'rocket man' comments Posted: 23 Sep 2017 10:58 AM PDT  The show of force follows a contentious week in which Mr Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un exchanged personal barbs over North Korea's nuclear ambitions. The comments marked an escalation in rhetorical warfare that has already seen Mr Trump promise "fire and fury" if North Korea does not curb its pursuit of nuclear weapons that could hit America. Earlier on Saturday an earthquake was detected near the site where North Korea has conducted numerous nuclear tests, sparking fears of a new detonation.
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| The Latest: Before church shooting, bizarre Facebook posts Posted: 24 Sep 2017 04:09 PM PDT  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a church in Nashville (all times local):
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| Last flight home for icon of 'German Autumn' of terror Posted: 23 Sep 2017 07:37 AM PDT  Forty years ago next month, German anti-terror commandos stormed a Lufthansa jet in Somalia, shot its Palestinian hijackers and freed 90 hostages, a climax in a bloody era of far-left militancy. The 1977 Mogadishu raid became a symbol of the "German Autumn" when the state was at war with the "urban guerrillas" of the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, and their international allies. On Saturday, the storied old Boeing 737 "Landshut", having quietly rusted away in Brazil for almost a decade, finally came home, destined to serve as a memorial to that turbulent era.
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| NFL Players Show United Front Against Trump by Kneeling and Locking Arms During National Anthem Posted: 24 Sep 2017 10:59 AM PDT  Before facing off in London, multiple players on both the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars took a knee during the national anthem on Sunday
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| Susan Collins Criticizes Obamacare Repeal Bill, Hints Strongly At A 'No' Vote Posted: 24 Sep 2017 08:41 AM PDT  A bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act suffered another blow on Sunday when Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) reiterated her criticism of the proposal and said she was likely to vote no.
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| These 7 Wild Creatures Were Found Deep In The Pacific Posted: 23 Sep 2017 06:00 AM PDT  NOAA has been conducting years of deep sea exploration in the Pacific, researchers have found some pretty wild creatures.
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| Woman Charged After Allegedly Leaving Baby in Hot Car While She Shopped Posted: 23 Sep 2017 07:55 AM PDT  She said she had to go make a return, according to authorities.
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| India, at U.N., calls Pakistan 'pre-eminent export factory for terror' Posted: 23 Sep 2017 09:37 AM PDT  By David Brunnstrom UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - India responded with irritation on Saturday to Pakistani allegations of brutality in Kashmir, saying that while India had made substantial progress since independence, all Pakistan had achieved was a reputation as the "pre-eminent export factory for terror." Addressing the annual United Nations General Assembly, Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj rejected allegations by Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi at the world body earlier in the week in which he accused India of state-sponsored terrorism, and violating human rights. "Those listening had only one observation: 'Look who's talking!'," Swaraj said.
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| What Can We Expect From Megyn Kelly's New NBC Show? Posted: 24 Sep 2017 05:10 AM PDT  The former Fox News host has a new gig—and it's not about politics.
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| Conservative theologians accuse pope of spreading heresy Posted: 23 Sep 2017 03:16 PM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Several dozen tradition-minded Roman Catholic theologians, priests and academics have formally accused Pope Francis of spreading heresy with his 2016 opening to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.
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| Fans Should Boycott NFL Games Over National Anthem Protests, Trump Says Posted: 22 Sep 2017 08:12 PM PDT  President Donald Trump went after players protesting in the National Football League during his speech Friday in Alabama to campaign for Sen. Luther Strange.
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| German election 2017: Polls and odds tracker as Merkel seeks fourth term as Chancellor Posted: 23 Sep 2017 09:03 AM PDT  The German election takes place this Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel heavy favourite to defend her position against Martin Schulz for a fourth term in power. Polls currently show that Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party - with its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) - will be the largest party after the Bundestag election on 24 September, but they will fall short of a majority. This is common in Germany, and so the resulting parliament is in part determined by how the smaller parties perform, and which coalition possibilities will be born. German election poll tracker How does the German voting system work? Each person casts two votes in the Bundestag election, to allocate a total of 598 seats. Half of these are to elect a local MP by constituency, in a first-past-the-post fashion. The remaining 299 votes are elected via party lists, allocated near-proportionately to the party vote share in each of Germany's 16 federal states. To be included in this seat allocation process, a party must achieve five per cent of the national vote. 2013 German Federal Election Results Map This second round of seat allocation also means that the total number of MPs can be higher, with politicians elected in "overhang seats" in order to balance the state- and constituency-level votes. The most recent parliament had 32 overhang seats, taking the total up to 631 MPs. This allows voters to represent their interests locally through their chosen representative, as well as nationally in the party they feel will be strongest in the Bundestag. In the end, the seat share for each party ends up very similar to their vote share - unlike the system used in the UK's parliamentary elections. Graphic: The German electoral system So who will win the German election and when will we know the results? Merkel's CDU is looking most likely to win the most seats in the Bundestag - for the fourth election in a row. The SPD, led by former President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, is in second place in the polls - securing around a quarter of the vote. The AfD - the far-right Alternative for Germany party - had enjoyed a slight rise in the polls in 2016 but have since collapsed into in-fighting and unpopularity. German election projected seat share In reality, the CDU will have to seek a coalition agreement with the SPD or one of the other minor parties to form a government. We should know who has won the election by 6pm BST this Sunday, when voting ends and the exit poll is released, although it won't be several more weeks until a coalition government is officially agreed. The return of the far-right A late surge in support has propelled the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party into third place in the opinion polls with just days to go before the ballot. Last time around the party, fighting in it's first federal election, failed to win a constituency outright and fell just short of the five per cent required in order to secure MPs via the secondary proportional representation stage of the election. The rise of the AfD This time however they seem guaranteed to win representation in the Bundestag with the latest polling average putting them at slightly over 10 per cent. YouGov's Multilevel Regression with Poststratification model puts them on 12 per cent. Were the AfD to secure a third place finish they could find themselves becoming the main opposition party in Germany if Merkel's CDU/CSU party decide to extend their Grand Coalition with the SPD. AfD support mapped Potential coalitions The centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) has been in coalition with centre-right CDU in this current government, as well as in Merkel's first term. These two parties are Germany's biggest, leading to a union dubbed the "Grand Coalition". The polls are currently suggesting that Germans are content with their current government, which means a Grand Coalition could happen for a third time in just four elections. Another option is a Black-Yellow coalition, consisting of Merkel's CDU party propped up by the smaller Free Democratic Party (FDP). This would take Merkel over the target needed for a majority, and was the option the party opted for in 2009-2013. The only situation that poses a risk to Merkel's leadership is a left-wing "Red-Red-Green" coalition, led by the SPD's Martin Schulz. For this, he would have to gather enough seats together alongside the Linke (Left) and Grüne (Greens) parties. German election coalition scenarios What do the parties stand for? The main parties standing in the election are as follows: Christian Democrats (CDU): The leading party in Germany, headed by Angela Merkel. The centre-right group - made up of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) - they have employment, tax cuts and ongoing public investment at the forefront of their manifesto. Social Democrats (SPD): Led by Martin Schulz, the centre-left are vying to make another Grand Coalition to remain in government. The party polled well following the election of their new leader, but then suffered once again in regional polls. The SPD is a traditionally working class party, pledging investment in education and infrastructure, funded by higher taxes for the rich. Left (Linke): Led by Sahra Wagenknecht and loosely descended from the East German communists. This small party, often used as a protest vote, is campaigning for a rise in national minimum wage, a rejection of military missions abroad and the dissolution of NATO. Green (Grüne): Led by co-chairs Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Cem Özdemir, this party could be the coalition kingmakers. They rely on educated, urban citizens, focusing on the environment, taxes and social policies. Free Democratic Party (FDP): Led by Christian Lindner, the party was Merkel's junior coalition party in her second term. It failed to reach five per cent of the vote to allow another coalition in 2013. The party campaigns for tax cuts and to remain in financial markets - particularly within the EU. Alternative for Germany (AfD): A right-wing populist party lead by Alice Weidel and Alexander Gauland. The party's hardline anti-EU, anti-immigration views have attracted voters from almost all of the other parties, especially among lower income households. Graphic: Germany's political spectrum What are the betting odds for the German Bundestag election? Political pollsters have taken a beating recently after failing to predict a British Hung Parliament in 2017, a Leave vote last summer and a Donald Trump victory in November. For those who have lost faith in polling, there is another way of predicting electoral outcomes: ask people who are prepared to put their money where their mouth is. Many now believe that political betting markets can better predict elections, relying on the wisdom of a crowd of punters to sort and weigh all the probabilities. Coral's latest odds for the election have Mrs Merkel as most likely to continue as Chancellor after the election. The latest odds for the party to emerge with the most seats are: CDU/ CSU - 1/100 SPD - 16/1 AfD - 100/1 Die Linke - 100/1 Greens - 100/1 FDP - 100/1 Our poll tracker takes in national polls from a range of German pollsters: INSA, Infratest Dimap, Emnid, Forsa, Forschungsgruppe Wahlen, Allensbach and IPSOS. Their individual polls, while of different sample sizes, use nationally representative samples. Our seat share projection is based on the average of the last eight polls, excluding any parties that are polling at under five per cent, as the German proportional top-up system does.
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| Meghan Markle’s Ex-Husband Is Producing a Show Based On Her Relationship With Prince Harry Posted: 22 Sep 2017 07:18 PM PDT  According to Deadline, Trevor Engelson, her ex-husband, is producing an as-of-yet-untitled show with a premise that sounds awfully familiar — because it's based on his own relationship with Markle, and her relationship with Prince Harry.
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| Everything We Learned From Russia's Massive Zapad Military Exercise Posted: 23 Sep 2017 05:04 AM PDT  Nicholas J. Myers
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| 'Human computer’ Katherine Johnson opens Nasa research facility named in her honour Posted: 24 Sep 2017 01:13 AM PDT  One of Nasa's "human computers", who helped plan the mission that saw an American astronaut orbit the Earth for the first time, has opened a new research centre named in her honour. The key contribution of Katherine Johnson, 99, and other African-American women to the US space programme was recounted in the film Hidden Figures, which gave overdue recognition to their work.
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| Arkansas schoolteacher loses job and faces criminal charges after 'seducing' four of her students Posted: 23 Sep 2017 03:12 AM PDT  A US teacher faces one count of first-degree sexual assault after allegedly having sex with four of her students, including two which took place in her apartment on the same day, according to police. Prosecutors said that the single charge was filed as only one of the students was under 18 years of age at the time of the alleged incidents. The investigation into the schoolteacher started when parents accused the 25-year-old of having sexual relations with several students at Marked Tree High School, where Goline taught.
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| Melania Trump meets Prince Harry, Trudeau, thanks U.S. Invictus team Posted: 23 Sep 2017 05:09 PM PDT  By Nichola Saminather TORONTO (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Melania Trump, on her first solo international trip on Saturday, to Toronto, met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and invited Britain's Prince Harry to visit the White House. Trump, 47, who is leading the U.S. delegation attending the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games for wounded soldiers in Canada's biggest city, also wished the U.S. team luck in a brief speech. "On behalf of my husband and our entire country, I want to thank you and your families for all you have sacrificed to keep us safe," Trump said at a reception for the U.S. team.
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| MLB's First Player Just Took A Knee During The National Anthem Posted: 23 Sep 2017 08:03 PM PDT  Bruce Maxwell, catcher for the Oakland Athletics, just became the first major league baseball player to take a knee during the national anthem in Saturday's game against the Texas Rangers.
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| Lawyers: Death sentence tainted by juror's racial bias Posted: 23 Sep 2017 08:20 AM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — As Georgia prepares to put to death a man who killed his sister-in-law 27 years ago, his lawyers say the execution should be stopped because his death sentence is tainted by a juror's racial bias.
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| Seattle Seahawks Absent At National Anthem To Protest 'Injustice' Against People Of Color Posted: 24 Sep 2017 02:31 PM PDT  As a protest of the "injustice that has plagued people of color in this country," the Seattle Seahawks chose not to come on the field for the singing of the national anthem at their Sunday NFL game in Tennessee.
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| Kabul suicide attack on NATO convoy wounds three civilians Posted: 24 Sep 2017 03:58 AM PDT  A suicide car bomber targeting a NATO convoy wounded three Afghan civilians in Kabul on Sunday morning without causing casualties to Danish troops on board, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing in the west of the Afghan capital. "Around 11:02am, a suicide car bomber detonated himself, targeted a convoy of foreign forces near Afshar neighbourhood of Kabul city," Najib Danish, interior ministry spokesman, told AFP.
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| Arrowverse Crossover 2017 Gets Title, Key Art Posted: 22 Sep 2017 10:21 PM PDT  Barry and Iris' much anticipated wedding will take place in this year's Arrowverse crossover.
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