| Should Trump apologize? Paul: President 'hasn't helped his case' Posted: 13 Jan 2018 11:02 PM PST  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tells Chuck Todd that the debate over immigration shouldn't be dismissed over President Trump's vulgar comments, during an exclusive interview on Meet the Press
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| Georgia senator now says Trump 'did not use that word' Posted: 14 Jan 2018 08:08 AM PST  Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., said that President Trump never used crass language referring to Haiti and African nations during a closed-door meeting earlier this week.
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| A casino shuttle boat caught fire Sunday in Florida, forcing the evacuation of dozens of passengers Posted: 14 Jan 2018 04:33 PM PST  Officials said passengers were "lucky" the burning boat was close to shore.
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| The Latest: Thousands attend vigil for mudslide victims Posted: 14 Jan 2018 07:26 PM PST  MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on deadly California mudslides (all times local):
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| Car Flies Into Second Floor Of Building And Stays There Posted: 15 Jan 2018 03:41 AM PST  A cheesy action-film director couldn't have staged this any better.
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| MTP Panel: Decades of 'Dog-Whistles' from Trump 'Disturbing' Posted: 13 Jan 2018 11:38 PM PST Andrea Mitchell, Helene Cooper, David Brody and Elise Jordan discuss President Trump's vulgar remarks about immigrants from Haiti and African countries
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| Stealth and Speed: America's SR-71 Blackbird Might Be Old (But Still the World's Fastest Plane) Posted: 15 Jan 2018 04:30 PM PST  The Blackbird's design reflected the fact that it was pushing the limits. The SR-71's J58 engines could only start through use of two vehicle-mounted V8 starter engines, and the triethylborane used in the fuel would belch green flames during ignition. The J58s would switch to a partial ramjet mode at high speeds, such that the SR-71 actually became more fuel efficient when it went faster.
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| Chinese 'rainbow dinosaur' had iridescent feathers like hummingbirds Posted: 15 Jan 2018 02:22 AM PST ![Chinese 'rainbow dinosaur' had iridescent feathers like hummingbirds]( "Chinese 'rainbow dinosaur' had iridescent feathers like hummingbirds") Scientists on Monday announced the discovery of a crow-sized, bird-like dinosaur with colorful feathers from northeastern China that lived 161 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. Microscopic structures in the exquisitely preserved, nearly complete fossil unearthed in Hebei Province indicated that it boasted iridescent feathers, particularly on its head, neck and chest, with colors that shimmered and shifted in the light, like those of hummingbirds. The discovery "suggests a more colorful Jurassic World than we previously imagined," said evolutionary biologist Chad Eliason of the Field Museum in Chicago, one of the researchers in the study published in the journal Nature Communications.
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| Protesters Trash South African H&M Stores Over Racist Ad Posted: 14 Jan 2018 01:10 PM PST  Clothing retail chain H&M temporarily closed several of its South African stores this weekend after protests erupted over a racist image on the Swedish company's website.
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| Hawaii's False Missile Alert Caused by Employee Who Pushed the Wrong Button Posted: 14 Jan 2018 09:06 AM PST  Residents went into a panic.
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| Citing Court Order, Trump Administration Resumes Accepting DACA Renewal Applications Posted: 14 Jan 2018 12:19 AM PST  Days after a federal judge in California temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's efforts to pull the plug on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the federal government said on Saturday that it would ― "until further notice" ― resume accepting renewal applications for the program.
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| Lava flowing from Philippine volcano, thousands evacuated Posted: 15 Jan 2018 02:58 AM PST  LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP) — Nearly 15,000 people have fled from villages around the Philippines' most active volcano as lava flowed down its crater Monday in a gentle eruption that scientists warned could turn explosive.
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| British woman 'killed in murder-suicide' in Sydney Posted: 13 Jan 2018 09:11 PM PST  Police in Australia are investigating a suspected murder-suicide in which an English woman in her 20s was allegedly killed by her partner, a man in his 20s. The bodies were reportedly discovered by the couple's landlord in an apartment above a Persian restaurant on King Street in Newtown, a bustling road in the inner west of Sydney. "At this stage we suspect it is a possible murder-suicide," New South Wales Police Inspector Geoff Olsen told Sydney's Daily Telegraph. Police have appealed for information about the crime. "Investigators are still trying to piece together the last moments of those involved," a police spokesman told The Telegraph. The bodies were found inside their small apartment at about 5.30pm on Friday. Officials from the British embassy have been in contact with the woman's family. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are providing consular assistance to the family of a British national who has died in New South Wales, Australia, and our staff are in contact with the New South Wales police." The woman was planning to leave Australia, according to a report in The Daily Mail. The nationality and identify of the man have not been released, although he is understood to not be from the UK. Tenants of the Persian restaurant below, and of an adjoining Japanese restaurant, said they did not know the pair. Police would not confirm the identities or nationalities of the pair. The deaths are being investigated by officers from the local Newtown command and from the state's homicide squad.
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| Passenger plane skids off runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport Posted: 14 Jan 2018 09:47 AM PST ![Passenger plane skids off runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport]( "Passenger plane skids off runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport") A plane with 168 people aboard skidded off a runway onto a seaside cliff after landing at an airport in northern Turkey at the weekend, but no one was injured in what one passenger called a "miracle". The Pegasus Airlines flight had taken off smoothly from the capital Ankara bound for Trabzon, where the accident occurred as the plane was landing late Saturday. "There was panic, people shouting, screaming," one of the passengers, Fatma Gordu, told state-run Anadolu news agency.
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| Philippine online news site critical of Duterte ordered shut Posted: 15 Jan 2018 06:29 AM PST ![Philippine online news site critical of Duterte ordered shut]( "Philippine online news site critical of Duterte ordered shut") MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine securities commission has revoked the registration of an online news outfit known for its critical reporting on President Rodrigo Duterte, a move media watchdogs said is an act to muzzle the free press.
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| UAE accuses Qatar of 'intercepting' 2 passenger planes Posted: 15 Jan 2018 12:02 PM PST  The United Arab Emirates accused neighbouring Qatar of "intercepting" two Emirati passenger planes en route to Bahrain on Monday in the latest incident between the Gulf rivals. Qatar denied the allegations as "totally baseless" and hit back that they came "one day after a C-130 UAE military aircraft breached Qatari airspace". Tensions have escalated in the Gulf since Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut all ties with Qatar in June, accusing it of supporting Islamist extremists and being too close to Saudi Arabia's arch-rival, Iran.
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| Israel says it destroyed Gaza attack tunnel under Egyptian border Posted: 14 Jan 2018 10:58 AM PST ![Israel says it destroyed Gaza attack tunnel under Egyptian border]( "Israel says it destroyed Gaza attack tunnel under Egyptian border") By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli said on Sunday it had destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel that ran from Gaza into Israel and Egypt dug by Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Palestinian enclave, and that it would destroy all attack tunnels by the year's end. Residents in Gaza said Israeli jets bombed an area east of the southern town of Rafah, by the Egyptian and Israeli borders, late on Saturday night. Israel confirmed the attack immediately after, but gave no details until Sunday.
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| Platform Sofas Are the New Platform Beds Posted: 15 Jan 2018 05:00 AM PST  Sophisticated + obscenely comfy = a winning combination
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| Trump Insists He's The 'Least Racist Person' Posted: 14 Jan 2018 06:02 PM PST  President Donald Trump insisted Sunday night that he was not a racist, after days of people pointing out that his recent comments on immigration were racist.
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| Honda, Volvo, Ford scoop awards at Detroit auto show Posted: 15 Jan 2018 07:19 AM PST  The Detroit auto show handed out its self-proclaimed "Oscars of the auto industry" on Monday, rewarding Honda, Volvo and Ford amid a crowded slate of new truck, SUV and crossover unveilings.
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| Airbus to scrap A380 programme if no new orders Posted: 15 Jan 2018 01:32 AM PST  Airbus will have no other choice but to halt the A380 programe if Dubai's Emirates airline does not place another order, the European aerospace giant's sales director, John Leahy, told a news conference on Monday. Originally launched in 2007, the A380 is the world's largest passenger airliner. Orders from Emirates, the main customer of the superjumbo, have stalled over the past two years.
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| Philippines' president made call on China's sea research - spokesman Posted: 15 Jan 2018 04:34 AM PST ![Philippines' president made call on China's sea research - spokesman]( "Philippines' president made call on China's sea research - spokesman") Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte personally made a decision to let China conduct scientific research off the Philippines' Pacific coast, his spokesman said on Monday, despite concern among critics about threats to maritime sovereignty. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said that as chief architect of foreign policy, Duterte allowed China to work with the University of the Philippines in Benham Rise, an area roughly the size of Greece and believed by some scientists to be rich in biodiversity and tuna.
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| Egypt's leader seeks to defuse tension with Sudan, Ethiopia Posted: 15 Jan 2018 08:30 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president on Monday sought to defuse tensions with Ethiopia and Sudan, reassuring them that his country was not meddling in their internal affairs or planning to go to war against them.
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| Turkey's Erdogan warns US against forming 'terror army' on its border with Syria Posted: 15 Jan 2018 10:43 AM PST  Turkey has warned the US it was "playing with fire" over plans to set up a 30,000-strong force to police its border with Syria, saying it had tanks ready at the frontier. The US announced plans on Sunday for a "border security force" - made up of Kurdish and Arab fighters - to prevent a resurgence by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). The BSF will be tasked with securing the long sections of Syria's northern border with Turkey and eastern border with Iraq that are under the fighters' control, as well as parts of the Euphrates river valley, which effectively serves as the dividing line between them and Syrian pro-government forces. Ankara has repeatedly warned Washington over its support for the Syrian Kurdish People's Defence Units (YPG), which it sees as terrorist group over its links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) waging a bloody insurgency in southern Turkey. Kurdish and Arab fighters will make up the 30,000-strong border force Credit: AFP But reacting to the news on Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could barely contain his rage. "A country we call an ally is insisting on forming a terror army on our borders," he said of the US in a speech in Ankara. "What can that terror army target but Turkey? Our mission is to strangle it before it's even born. "Don't stand between us and these herd of murderers. Otherwise, we won't be responsible for the unwanted incidents that may arise," he continued. He said that the Turkish army was ready to launch an operation against the YPG in the northern Syrian enclave Afrin in the coming days. The Turkish army had already positioned a convoy of tanks and was pounding the area yesterday with artillery from its positions inside Syria. The YPG was the backbone of the fight against Isil in Raqqa. Mr Erdogan tolerated the US's backing of Kurdish groups during the operation to liberate the city, in the hope Washington would abandon them after the city was liberated. Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces gesture the "V" sign in Raqqa, Syria Credit: Reuters But the latest plans hint at the US's longer-term plans for their involvement in the region and will concern Turkey, which fears the move is a step towards Syrian Kurds achieving a breakaway state. The threat could bring the two Nato allies, who once worked together to support rebel groups opposed to President Bashar al-Assad's government, into direct military confrontation. "The Kurdish people will rise up as a whole. It will be total warfare," Saleh Muslim, former head of the YPG's political wing, said in a warning to Turkey.
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| CAIR Exec: What American Muslims Can Do Today With Dr. King’s Lessons Posted: 15 Jan 2018 06:39 AM PST  Coordination is key
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| Today's Toilets Use Less Water and Make Less Noise Posted: 14 Jan 2018 03:00 AM PST  From space age–looking models to new technologies that greatly improve water efficiency, the latest toilets on display at the recent International Builders' Show featured all kinds of innovations...
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| Speeding car flies into the air and crashes into top floor of California building Posted: 15 Jan 2018 09:15 AM PST  Dramatic video footage shows the Nissan Altima was travelling at high speed in Santa Ana, in Orange County, at around 5.25am on Sunday. It narrowly missed a passing car before hitting a central reservation, missing a passing bus, and then becoming wedged into the second floor of the building. Santa Ana Police Department said the driver admitted to being under the influence and that they will be submitting a DUI/narcotics case to the District Attorney for review.
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| Iceland's incredible, ever-changing ice caves Posted: 14 Jan 2018 02:00 AM PST ![Iceland's incredible, ever-changing ice caves]( "Iceland's incredible, ever-changing ice caves") The photographer captured the amazing shots in the Vatnajokull National Park on the Breidamerkurjokull glacier tongue. Matej said: "One of the ice caves has been well known for few years already, but new ones appeared on east side of the glacier tongue this year.
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| Japan PM Abe honors 'Japanese Schindler' in Lithuania Posted: 14 Jan 2018 08:34 AM PST ![Japan PM Abe honors 'Japanese Schindler' in Lithuania]( "Japan PM Abe honors 'Japanese Schindler' in Lithuania") By Andrius Sytas KAUNAS, Lithuania (Reuters) - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday honored a Japanese diplomat credited with saving an estimated 6,000 Jews from almost certain death in 1940 at a visit to the former Japanese consulate in Lithuania. Chiune Suhigara was serving as Japanese consul in Kaunas, then capital of Lithuania, when he disobeyed his superiors and issued Japanese visas to Jews fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland despite his country being a close ally of Nazi Germany. Abe's visit to Lithuania, the first by a Japanese prime minister, comes as Japan seeks greater cooperation with countries such as China, a former adversary in World War Two, in the face of rising tensions over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.
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| Egypt: 2 presidential hopefuls take aim at el-Sissi's rule Posted: 14 Jan 2018 08:48 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — Barely a week after authorities set a date for Egypt's presidential elections, two hopefuls have launched their campaigns with criticism of general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's rule, with one promising to end "repression" if elected and the other claiming the incumbent is establishing a dictatorship.
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| Iran removes block on Telegram Posted: 14 Jan 2018 12:14 AM PST  Iran has lifted restrictions imposed during recent protests on the country's most popular social media app Telegram. "The information concerning the end of filtering on Telegram is correct," a spokesman for the telecoms ministry told AFP. Telegram, which counts some 25 million users in Iran, was blocked on mobile phones during the five days of unrest that hit dozens of cities over the new year.
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| Warning over alarming 'Tide Pod Challenge' detergent eating YouTube trend Posted: 13 Jan 2018 08:23 AM PST  An alarming new trend involving teenagers eating detergent capsules and posting the videos on YouTube could "put them in danger", health officials have warned. The concerning 'Tide Pod Challenge' phenomenon has spread across social media since the turn of the year. Teenagers have filmed themselves biting into Tide laundry detergent capsules, with some of the videos racking up more than 100,000 hits before being removed by YouTube. The first mention of the 'Tide Pod Challenge' on YouTube dates back to June 2014, while parody website The Onion followed this up with a satirical op-ed about the pods in 2015. A video by CollegeHumor titled 'Don't Eat the Laundry Pods' posted in March 2017 has been viewed more than three million times and towards the end of last year it spread into a popular meme. Tide Pod Challenge: The Viral Challenge Encouraging Teens To Eat Laundry Detergent. @StahlCBS3 reports:https://t.co/igDt2P8n7ypic.twitter.com/aB1XiRtZDT— CBS Philly (@CBSPhilly) January 12, 2018 There has been a spike in the number of cases of detergent pod ingestion in the first two weeks of 2018 reported to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC). Health officials have warned the capsules contain "highly concentrated toxic contents" which can cause vomiting, diarrhea and in worst case scenarios, breathing difficulties. "Teens trying to be funny are now putting themselves in danger by ingesting this poisonous substance," Ann Marie Buerkle, from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, told Good Morning America. Some YouTube creators say their videos about the Tide Pod Challenge have been removed for violating the platform's rules. "Why did my video on kids doing the 'Tide Pod Challenge' get taken down and striked when there are millions of compilations of kids eating them?" questioned user Niksfinity. A spokesperson for Procter & Gamble, Tide's parent company, said: "Our laundry pacs are a highly concentrated detergent meant to clean clothes, and they're used safely in millions of households every day. "They should be only used to clean clothes and kept up, closed and away from children. "They should not be played with, whatever the circumstance is, even if it is meant as a joke." Eight deaths as a result of eating detergent pods were reported from 2012 to early 2017 in the US, involving six adults suffering from dementia and two children. In 2013, a seven-month-old boy from Florida died after biting into a laundry pod. Members of the public seeking specific information on poisons should contact the NHS 111 service or call 999 if a person is showing signs of being seriously ill. The extreme lengths YouTubers go to for viral fame
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| VW unveils all-new Jetta in Detroit but drops it from European markets Posted: 15 Jan 2018 07:51 AM PST  One example is the all-new Volkswagen Jetta that's just been unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Although it's a huge deal for the American market as the Jetta is the brand's biggest-selling car over there, it's also been announced the Jetta is being dropped completely from European markets. The headline news about the 2019 Jetta is the fact it's now being built on the MQB platform that already underpins models as diverse as the Atlas and the Golf.
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| Here's What The FBI Lovers' Secret Texts Actually Say About Trump, Clinton And Leaks Posted: 14 Jan 2018 05:16 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Last week, a story by The Hill's John Solomon set off another firestorm in the conservative media about the ongoing special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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| Martin Luther King Day 2018: Nine quotes from the civil rights leader that still resonate today Posted: 15 Jan 2018 03:48 AM PST  More than three decades have passed since Martin Luther King Jr's birthday became a national holiday across America. Initially President Reagan resisted plans to make King's birthday a public holiday, arguing it would lead to other groups and leaders to seek similar concessions. Republicans also claimed they were concerned King had an 'inappropriate' sexual past and links to communism.
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| 1 dead, 7 injured after crash on I-70 in Missouri Posted: 15 Jan 2018 09:41 AM PST  A fatal crash occurred on I-70 in Missouri Monday morning. The accident is causing traffic delays, with the eastbound lanes in the area shut down and one westbound lane closed.
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| Accord, Navigator, XC60 take top prize at Detroit auto show Posted: 15 Jan 2018 07:17 AM PST  DETROIT (AP) — Automotive journalists crowned the Honda Accord the North American Car of the Year on Monday, a first for the longtime model that's twice flirted for the top honor as a finalist.
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| Saudi Prince Alwaleed in settlement talks with government: sources Posted: 14 Jan 2018 02:22 AM PST ![Saudi Prince Alwaleed in settlement talks with government: sources]( "Saudi Prince Alwaleed in settlement talks with government: sources") By Rania El Gamal and Stephen Kalin DUBAI/JEDDAH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, detained for over two months in an anti-corruption crackdown, is negotiating a possible settlement with authorities but so far has not agreed on terms, a senior Saudi official said. Prince Alwaleed, whose net worth has been estimated by Forbes magazine at $17 billion, is chairman and owner of international investment firm Kingdom Holding <4280.SE>, and one of the country's most prominent businessmen. A second source familiar with Prince Alwaleed's case told Reuters on Saturday that the price had offered to make a "donation" to the Saudi government, which would avoid any admission of wrongdoing, and to do so from assets of his own choosing.
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| Chicago Police Officers Might Get 'Textalyzers' Posted: 12 Jan 2018 09:05 AM PST  Chicago police officers might soon have the technology to tell if drivers were using their smartphone before an accident.
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| 2019 Hyundai Veloster N: This Is Hyundai's Hottest Ever Hatch Posted: 15 Jan 2018 07:30 AM PST  The second-gen Veloster gains a more credible high-performance variant.
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| Russia condemns Trump's threats to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal Posted: 15 Jan 2018 08:49 AM PST  Russia's foreign minister has condemned Donald Trump's threats to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, arguing that the United States' reckless actions are destabilising the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korean peninsula. Speaking at an annual press briefing, Sergei Lavrov said Russia, Europe and China had warned the United States of the "harmfulness of such a step, of its unpredictable consequences". "We will keep trying to make the United States acknowledge reality. And the reality is that Iran is fulfilling all its obligations" under the nuclear deal, he said. On Friday, Mr Trump waived US sanctions on Iran for another 60 days, leaving in place the nuclear deal signed by Barack Obama. But he said it would be the last time he would waive them and said Europe and America must must "fix the deal's disastrous flaws, or the United States will withdraw". At the same time, he raised pressure on Iran by announcing separate sanctions against 14 Iranian individuals and companies for human rights abuses. Mr Lavrov called these new sanctions an "attack" on Iran, a longstanding Russian ally, and said Mr Trump's actions were "deplorable". Donald Trump speaks at the White House last week Credit: Evan Vucci/AP Photo The foreign minister also argued that the collapse of the Iran deal could discourage North Korea from engaging in talks about its own nuclear weapons programme. Healso castigated military exercises held by the United States, South Korea and Japan last month. "The US is almost openly talking about the inevitability of military action (on the Korean peninsula) even though everyone recognizes the disastrous consequences of such a path," he said. Russia and China weren't invited to North Korea talks in Vancouver this week, he sniffed, calling the US-Canadian initiative "harmful". Meanwhile, North and South Korean officials met on Monday to discuss plans for the recently agreed participation of the North in the Pyeongchang Olympics next month. Mr Lavrov devoted much of the two-and-a-half-hour press conference to the evils of US "exceptionalism" and its failure to "listen to the opinions of other centres of world politics". Mr Lavrov meets Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Moscow last week Credit: Russian Foreign Ministry Press Office/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Although the foreign minister was photographed last spring laughing with Mr Trump and Sergei Kislyak, the ambassador at the centre of the collusion investigation, relations have only grown more strained since then. Russia's ban from the Pyeongchang games and the new US sanctions expected in 2018 showed the "fear of honest competition," Mr Lavrov said. Washington was, along with the Kiev government, prolonging the conflict in eastern Ukraine, as well as undermining the peace process in Syria, he argued. Mr Lavrov blamed rebels for an uptick in violence outside Damascus that has killed least 85 civilians since the start of the year and claimed all Russian-Syrian military operations there were retaliatory. Batting away the lone question from a US news outlet about whether he regretted Mr Trump's election win, the long-serving diplomat dwelled on queries from friendlier countries. One particularly desperate journalist even waved a flashing traffic wand light in the air, but was not called upon. A journalist waves a flashing traffic wand light in a futile attempt to ask a question of Mr Lavrov Credit: Valery Sharifulin/TASS via Getty Images
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| This 'Harry Potter' Fan Film About Voldemort's Rise Is Better Than You Think Posted: 14 Jan 2018 05:35 PM PST  In 2016, after reading through "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince," a few filmmakers began crowdfunding the fan film "Voldemort: Origins Of The Heir," which follows Voldemort's path to evil.
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| Turkey unveils route of 45 km 'Istanbul Canal' Posted: 15 Jan 2018 02:27 AM PST  The Turkish government on Monday unveiled the route of its planned new canal for Istanbul, a hugely ambitious 45 kilometre (28 mile) project designed to be its answer to the famed artificial shipping lanes in Panama or Egypt's Suez. The project, first announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan while he was prime minister in 2011, is by far the most complex of a string of new ventures for the city. The government argues it will create attractive new living areas and take pressure off the Bosphorus Strait that splits the European and Asian sides of the city and is one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
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