| Trump ICE Chief Wants To Prosecute Politicians Who Won't Lock Up More Immigrants Posted: 03 Jan 2018 06:36 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration is considering prosecuting state and local officials for not fully cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency's acting director said Tuesday in an escalation of his threats against so-called "sanctuary cities" and the undocumented immigrants who live in them.
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| Sessions crackdown on pot could make life harder for Republicans in November Posted: 04 Jan 2018 09:35 AM PST  A crackdown is unlikely to be popular with the solid majority — 64 percent — of Americans who support pot legalization.
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| ‘Bomb cyclone’ paralyzes Massachusetts Posted: 04 Jan 2018 08:10 AM PST  NBC News' Blake McCoy reports from Scituate, Massachusetts, where high winds and waves battered homes along the shore. Weather experts say the storm surge is nearing record highs in Boston, where rescues happened on the historic streets.
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| Turns Out Roy Moore’s Jewish Lawyer Is Actually A Christian Now Posted: 04 Jan 2018 08:54 PM PST  The Jewish lawyer Roy Moore's wife invoked when responding to anti-Semitism claims on the eve of Alabama's special election is now an evangelical Christian.
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| Walmart reveals the top-selling product in every US state Posted: 05 Jan 2018 10:23 AM PST  Despite the retail industry taking a major beating this year with multiple big-name stores across the country shuttering locations, there was one retailer that held on strong: Walmart.
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| Shaking, no damage in San Francisco Bay Area quake Posted: 04 Jan 2018 06:32 AM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area residents were shaken out of their slumber by a magnitude 4.4 earthquake that was felt over a wide area but caused no major damage early Thursday.
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| What you need to know before buying your jackpot lottery tickets Posted: 03 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST  The Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots are nearly $1 billion combined.
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| Check Out All These Doggos Enjoying The Bomb Cyclone Posted: 04 Jan 2018 08:47 AM PST  With a so-called bomb cyclone bearing down on the eastern part of the U.S. on Thursday, many people woke up to the realization that there is a lot of snow where there wasn't any the night before.
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| Airline Pilot Reportedly Slaps Co-pilot, Abandons Cockpit Mid-flight Posted: 05 Jan 2018 09:04 AM PST  Two pilots for an Indian airline have been suspended after starting a fight and abandoning the cockpit in the middle of a flight. The Jet Airways flight from London to Mumbai was left unmanned on New Year's Day when the pilots erupted in an argument
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| The tax bill that makes Trump POSTUS (president of some of the United States) Posted: 04 Jan 2018 02:00 AM PST  The tax bill's message from Republican lawmakers to Democratic-voting states seems to be: "You're not our people, so go get bent."
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| Illinois man told to stop having ‘slumber parties’ in his house for homeless people Posted: 04 Jan 2018 11:31 AM PST  A Chicago man is being warned by city officials to stop offering "slumber parties" at his home to homeless people or else his house will be condemned. Greg Schiller told NBC 5 he began opening his basement up to the homeless last month during brutally cold weather. "While we appreciate those who volunteer to provide additional resources in the community, Mr. Schiller's house does not comply with codes and regulations that guard against potential dangers such as carbon monoxide poisoning, inadequate light and ventilation, and insufficient exits in the event of a fire," Molly Center, a city spokesperson, said.
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| Yara Shahidi Compares Iran Protests With Black Lives Matter: We're All Interconnected Posted: 04 Jan 2018 05:07 AM PST  Comparing the ongoing anti-government protests in Iran to demonstrations in the U.S. like Black Lives Matter, actress and activist Yara Shahidi is urging Americans to consider just how interconnected the situation in Iran is to the U.S. experience.
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| Stay away from romaine lettuce, Consumer Reports advises Posted: 04 Jan 2018 08:15 AM PST People should stay away from romaine lettuce until U.S. and Canadian health officials get to the bottom of an outbreak of E. coli infections, Consumer Reports says.
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| Ex-Georgia leader Saakashvili jailed in absentia Posted: 05 Jan 2018 05:10 AM PST  A court in Georgia sentenced on Friday the country's former president Mikheil Saakashvili to three years in prison in absentia for abuse of power. Saakashvili, who was president from 2004 to 2013, was found guilty of illegally pardoning four men who were convicted of the high profile murder of Georgian banker Sandro Girgvliani in 2006. According to the judge, Saakashvili promised the then chief of Georgia's Constitutional Security Department to give the men pardons.
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| 22 Healthier Chips That Will Satisfy All Your Salty Cravings Posted: 05 Jan 2018 10:35 AM PST |
| Dogs Left Outside In The Cold Have Died And Been Found ‘Frozen Solid’ Posted: 04 Jan 2018 12:42 PM PST  The brutal cold that's believed to be responsible for at least 11 human deaths this week is also taking a toll on animals — particularly pets left outside in the frigid weather.
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| We Found The Neo-Nazi Twitter Account Tied To A Virginia Double Homicide Posted: 04 Jan 2018 02:45 AM PST  WASHINGTON —The warning signs were there, flaring up from Nicholas Giampa's pseudonymous Twitter feed for over a year.
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| Safety probe warns California's dam crisis a 'wake-up call' Posted: 05 Jan 2018 04:19 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — "Long-term and systemic failures" by California dam managers and regulators to recognize inherent construction and design flaws at the tallest U.S. dam caused last year's near-disaster there, an independent panel of dam safety experts said Friday, calling it a wake-up call for dam operators around the country.
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| Republican Sen. Gardner torches Sessions over pot reversal Posted: 04 Jan 2018 08:29 AM PST  The Colorado senator says Attorney General Jeff Sessions had personally promised him prior to his confirmation that he wouldn't take steps to tighten enforcement of federal pot laws.
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| Earthquake hits San Francisco, shaking Berkeley awake Posted: 04 Jan 2018 07:34 AM PST  San Francisco Bay area residents have been shaken awake by a 4.5-magnitude earthquake, which hit the region in the early hours of Thursday. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake's epicenter was two miles from Berkeley, California. The earthquake had a preliminary depth of eight miles. No damage or injuries was immediately recorded, but supermarket produce was shaken from its shelves and ceiling panels knocked loose. The quake hit at 2:39am local time, and the USGS website said that people reported feeling the quake 40 miles south, in San Jose. The Did You Feel It? survey form for the Berkeley, CA M4.4 EQ is back up and running: https://t.co/jY2poBayEX Please tell us what you felt. pic.twitter.com/OVb8r4p22q— USGS (@USGS) January 4, 2018 "Felt like a big truck drove into the building or something blew up downstairs. It just rocked the room and bed like two or three times quickly with a decently loud rumble in North Berkeley," Dale Fest wrote on the San Francisco Chronicle's Facebook page . Jack Boatwright, a geophysicist with the USGS Earthquake Science Center in Menlo Park, said the shaking from the quake "seemed a little weak, about half as strong as what you would expect." He told the Chronicle that by 4:15 a.m., there had been no aftershocks, which he called "a good sign. It may mean less likelihood of a larger earthquake to follow." San Francisco sits on the San Andreas Fault, a continental transform fault that extends roughly 750 miles through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. The quake was on the Hayward Fault, part of the San Andreas Fault. The Hayward Fault is capable of producing a 7-magnitude fault, which would have caused significantly more damage. Its last major earthquake was a 6.8-magnitude quake, which occurred on October 21st, 1868, destroying downtown Hayward and killing five people, injuring 30. It was considered the "Great Earthquake" until 1906, when San Francisco was hit by its last major quake, which killed 700 people. The region is considered overdue for another quake, given they usually occur every 140 years.
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| Pakistan shrugs off impending U.S. aid cuts, wary of harsher measures Posted: 04 Jan 2018 05:21 AM PST ![Pakistan shrugs off impending U.S. aid cuts, wary of harsher measures]( "Pakistan shrugs off impending U.S. aid cuts, wary of harsher measures") By Drazen Jorgic ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is shrugging off proposed U.S. aid cuts but frets that Washington could take more drastic measures to deter what it sees as the South Asian nation's support for Taliban militants causing chaos in neighboring Afghanistan. Washington plans to imminently slash "security assistance" to Pakistan, U.S. congressional aides told Reuters on Wednesday, although the type, scale and length of the cuts was unclear. A day earlier, the White House said it would suspend about $255 million in already delayed military assistance.
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| The Latest: Texas man who took girls has violent history Posted: 04 Jan 2018 03:05 PM PST ![The Latest: Texas man who took girls has violent history]( "The Latest: Texas man who took girls has violent history") DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the capture of a man named as a person of interest in a Texas woman's death (all times local):
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| Want to make good on your weight loss resolutions? Here are the best diets for 2018, ranked Posted: 04 Jan 2018 12:37 PM PST  Determined to make 2018 the year you lose those last stubborn pounds? A new report that analyzed dozens of the most popular diets and weight-loss programs has identified the Mediterranean diet, DASH and Weight Watchers your best chances for success.
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| Pro-government rallies in Iran as U.S. imposes fresh sanctions Posted: 05 Jan 2018 07:28 AM PST ![Pro-government rallies in Iran as U.S. imposes fresh sanctions]( "Pro-government rallies in Iran as U.S. imposes fresh sanctions") Pro-regime rallies were held around Tehran Friday with authorities seeking to put the recent violent unrest to bed, as Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Iran.
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| White House calls it 'laughable' to question Trump's mental fitness Posted: 04 Jan 2018 01:21 PM PST  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday that it's "disgraceful and laughable" to question President Trump's mental fitness.
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| NFL Heiress Allegedly Attacked Man with Her Purse and Used Anti-Semitic Slurs on New Year's Eve Posted: 04 Jan 2018 07:46 AM PST  The socialite daughter of former Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke was arrested Wednesday following an altercation on New Year's Eve, where she allegedly left a man bloodied after hitting him with her purse
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| 5 Ways To Stop Blowing So Much Of Your Budget On Food Posted: 04 Jan 2018 02:45 AM PST  So, how did that "50/30/20 rule of budgeting" work out for you in 2017?
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| North Korea agrees to talks after U.S., South Korea postpone military drills Posted: 05 Jan 2018 12:19 PM PST ![North Korea agrees to talks after U.S., South Korea postpone military drills]( "North Korea agrees to talks after U.S., South Korea postpone military drills") By Christine Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea agreed on Friday to hold official talks with South Korea next week, the first in more than two years, hours after Washington and Seoul delayed a military exercise amid a standoff over the North's nuclear and missile programs. South Korea said the North had sent its consent for the talks to be held on Tuesday. The meeting will take place at the border truce village of Panmunjom where officials from both sides are expected to discuss the Winter Olympics, to be held in the South next month, and inter-Korean relations, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Baik Tae-hyun told reporters.
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| How To Beat The '7-Year Itch' In Your Relationship Posted: 04 Jan 2018 07:56 PM PST  Ups and downs are par for the course in any long-term relationship.
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| Neo-Nazi behind Daily Stormer website Andrew ‘Weev’ Auernheimer 'is of Jewish descent, his mother says' Posted: 04 Jan 2018 01:12 AM PST  The mother of a neo-Nazi who co-runs the white supremacist website Daily Stormer has said he has Jewish relatives on "both sides of his family". Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, who has previously said Jewish children "deserve to die", comes from a "large, mixed race family" and is of Jewish descent and Native American heritage, his mother Alyse told Newsweek. Auernheimer, 32, from Arkansas, who runs the technical side of the website alongside editor Andrew Anglin, has been estranged from his mother for more than ten years, she told the magazine.
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| 'I Screwed Up': Sean Spicer Says He Regrets Comments on Inauguration Crowd Size and Hitler Posted: 04 Jan 2018 04:20 PM PST  Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday that he "screwed up" during his time serving in the Trump administration.
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| Three TVs, a phone and a cheeseburger: tell-all book reveals Donald's bedtime Posted: 04 Jan 2018 11:33 PM PST  Michael Wolff's new book paints the most detailed portrait yet of life inside the Trump White House. Reported first by the Guardian, then in more detail by New York magazine and other outlets, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House has illuminated what the book suggests is a toxic stew of personal feuding, disorganization and alarming behavior behind the gates of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The president, excerpts suggest, has struggled to feel at home during his first year in power, expressing paranoia about his surroundings and pummeling residence staff with odd requests and rules.
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| Pakistan: U.S. Decision to Suspend Military Aid 'Not Good' for Peace Posted: 05 Jan 2018 07:01 AM PST  "What the U.S. is doing now is not good for its policy against terrorism"
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 05 Jan 2018 10:13 AM PST  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways.
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| Zimbabwe court dismisses case of U.S. woman charged with insulting Mugabe Posted: 04 Jan 2018 03:24 AM PST ![Zimbabwe court dismisses case of U.S. woman charged with insulting Mugabe]( "Zimbabwe court dismisses case of U.S. woman charged with insulting Mugabe") A U.S. citizen charged with attempting to overthrow the Zimbabwean government after police accused her of insulting then-president Robert Mugabe had her case dismissed by a Harare court on Thursday. Martha O'Donovan works for Magamba TV, which describes itself as Zimbabwe's leading producer of political satire. O'Donovan was first charged with insulting and undermining the president, and subsequently with subversion, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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| Democrats Aren't Sure Whether To Make Jeff Sessions' Pot Crackdown An Election Issue Posted: 04 Jan 2018 07:16 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Leading Democrats blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Tuesday announcement that he would open the door to a federal crackdown on states that have decriminalized forms of marijuana use.
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| Mississippi flag with rebel symbol flies at police building Posted: 04 Jan 2018 03:37 PM PST ![Mississippi flag with rebel symbol flies at police building]( "Mississippi flag with rebel symbol flies at police building") TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi state flag with the Confederate battle emblem began flying this week outside a police building in a predominantly black neighborhood.
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| Texas Man Who Used Grindr To Assault And Rob Gay Men Gets 15 Years Posted: 05 Jan 2018 11:36 AM PST  A 21-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for using Grindr to rob and assault gay men.
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| Indian groom forced by gunpoint into marriage Posted: 05 Jan 2018 06:29 AM PST  Indian police are investigating after a groom says he was abducted and forced to marry a woman at gunpoint. Dubbed a literal shotgun wedding, the nuptials took place in the eastern state of Bihar, according to police and video clips that surfaced online on Friday. The family of Vinod Kumar, an engineer at the steel plant in the town of Bokaro, claim he was abducted and coerced into the pakadua vivah, or forced wedding, in Bihar. The case is unusual even for a relatively volatile state like Bihar as the protagonists are from middle-class, urban, high caste families. Typically forced marriage cases involve lower caste, rural families and more often than not the abductee is a bride, not a groom. Although cases are rare, grooms are known to be coerced into marriage to force them to enter legal agreements over property or business with the bride's family, or simply so the woman's relatives do not have to put up an expensive dowry to attract a suitor. Police say Mr Kumar's relatives approached them a few weeks after the incident for protection, as they feared reprisals from a local underworld chief. Mr Kumar's brother also said one of the bride's family was holding a gun during the ceremony. Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj. from Patna, the state capital, then ordered officers to free Kumar from the village where he was kept after the marriage. The groom is currently under police protection and the bride and her relatives are said to be on the run, local media reported. The saga came to light when video clips of the marriage ceremony surfaced this week, showing a distraught Kumar being coerced into performing traditional Hindu wedding rituals. When the 29-year-old engineer refused to put vermillion, the traditional red dye used in Hindu weddings, on the bride's forehead, members of her family are heard saying in the local language of Bhojpuri: "Are you being hanged? We are solemnising your wedding only. Which mountain is being placed on your head?". Kumar's brother Sanjay alleges Surendra Yadav, described as a gangster by local media, orchestrated the events at the behest of the bride's family. News18 interviewed the bride's brother, Umesh Prasad, who denied that it was a forced marriage and said it was a normal wedding. However, he became irritable when asked about the video clips that surfaced on the web, in which the groom was seen being manhandled. "I do not know about any video. He is now opposing this marriage at the behest of his brother. I wish they live a happy married life", said Mr Prasad. Mr Kumar added that local police were unhelpful, which is why he went to the police in Patna. Mr Kumar hinted that they were in cahoots with the local strongman Mr Yadav, who in the past has been linked to the disgraced former chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, (no relation). Superintendent Amarkesh of Patna Police, in charge of Mr Kumar's protective detail, said: "We are looking into it and will take action against the culprits. We are also probing the role of the local police." Forced marriage remains a major problem for India, various estimates put the number of kidnaps related to marriage between 2,800-3,000 last year, and several websites and phone hotlines are available for potential victims.
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| Personal cell phones banned in West Wing Posted: 04 Jan 2018 05:52 AM PST  The White House announced Thursday that its staff and visitors will no longer be allowed to use personal cell phones in the West Wing, the nerve center of the American executive branch. The personal mobile phone ban will go into effect next week, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said. "The security and integrity of the technology systems at the White House is a top priority for the Trump administration," Sanders said.
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| How to Avoid Serious Injury When Slipping on Ice Posted: 04 Jan 2018 11:16 AM PST  Falling on a slippery surface can cause serious injury. Here's how to fall the right way.
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| The Latest: Iran: UN meeting on protests is 'US bullying' Posted: 05 Jan 2018 02:04 PM PST  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on a U.N. Security Council meeting on the protests in Iran (all times local):
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| The 101 Most Delish Ways To Eat Peanut Butter Posted: 05 Jan 2018 03:25 PM PST  ...other than with a spoon out of the jar, of course.
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| C'mon, Sexism Is At Least Part Of The Reason Hoda Kotb Is Making Less Than Matt Lauer Posted: 04 Jan 2018 10:26 AM PST  Even when women make it to what seems like the top, they're still slightly behind.
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