| Undocumented immigrant charged in slaying of 2 police officers says he wishes he killed more cops Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:20 AM PST  An undocumented immigrant who admitted to shooting and killing two Northern California police officers in October 2014 said in court on Tuesday that he regrets not killing more cops.
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| Flashback 1997: Bob Dole cracks jokes during White House medal ceremony Posted: 17 Jan 2018 03:25 AM PST  In 1997, Former Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) was invited to the White House and joked about having lost the presidency. Ten years later, Tim Russert asked him about the joke on Meet the Press
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| Pennsylvania Supreme Court Appears Open To Striking Down Gerrymandered Map Posted: 17 Jan 2018 10:11 AM PST  ― A plurality of state Supreme Court justices seemed open to the possibility that the Pennsylvania congressional map may violate the state's constitution, but during oral argument on Wednesday seemed unclear as to how to remedy the situation.
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| McCain rips Trump over threatened 'Fake News Awards': 'Stop attacking the press' Posted: 17 Jan 2018 07:10 AM PST  U.S. Senator John McCain wants President Trump to stop attacking the American free press.
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| Mystery over death of 15 million Aztecs may be solved after nearly 500 years, study suggests Posted: 16 Jan 2018 02:52 AM PST  Scientists believe they may have discovered the cause of an epidemic that struck Mexico's Aztec population in 1545, killing up to 15 million people. In a paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, they describe how DNA extracted from the teeth of 29 skeletons buried in a cemetery in southern Mexico revealed previously unidentified traces of the salmonella enterica bacterium. The epidemic was one of several to hit the indigenous population soon after the arrival of Europeans in the early 16th century.
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| Ashleigh Banfield Responds On Air To Insulting Email From Aziz Ansari Story Reporter Posted: 17 Jan 2018 02:51 PM PST  HLN anchor Ashleigh Banfield on Tuesday criticized the woman who wrote an article alleging that actor Aziz Ansari had committed sexual misconduct, saying the writer had emailed her derogatory and anti-feminist comments.
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| Bridge collapses in Colombia killing at least 9 Posted: 16 Jan 2018 02:00 AM PST  At least nine construction workers have been killed in Chirajara, Colombia, after the partially-constructed bridge they were working on collapsed. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
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| Oil spill from sunken tanker is expanding in East China Sea Posted: 15 Jan 2018 08:09 PM PST  BEIJING (AP) — Several oil slicks have been found in waters around a sunken Iranian tanker ship in the East China Sea in a spill that is growing and whose potentially major impact on the marine environment is still being assessed.
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| Philippine volcano spews lava; thousands flee Posted: 17 Jan 2018 06:14 AM PST ![Philippine volcano spews lava; thousands flee]( "Philippine volcano spews lava; thousands flee") Glowing-red lava spurted in a fountain and flowed down the Philippines' most active volcano in a stunning display of its fury that has sent more than 34,000 villagers fleeing to safety.
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| Social Security Has Paid Benefits To My Dead Husband For A Year Posted: 17 Jan 2018 02:46 AM PST  Ann Brenoff's "On The Fly" is a weekly column about navigating growing older ― and a few other things.
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| US border patrol routinely sabotages water left for migrants, report says Posted: 17 Jan 2018 01:39 PM PST  Volunteers are said to have found hundreds of water gallons vandalised in a patch of Sonoran desert. United States border patrol agents routinely vandalise containers of water and other supplies left in the Arizona desert for migrants, condemning people to die of thirst in baking temperatures, according to two humanitarian groups. Volunteers found water gallons vandalised 415 times, on average twice a week, in an 800 sq mile patch of Sonoran desert south-west of Tucson, from March 2012 to December 2015, the report said.
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| Police issue warning about drugs cut with 'Rizzy' after man's skin is eaten away Posted: 17 Jan 2018 07:22 AM PST  Police in Alliance, Ohio, issued a warning to other law enforcement officials after a man's skin was eaten away when he allegedly injected heroin tainted with a substance called "Rizzy" into his arms, according to WEWS. Narcotics officers who arrested the unnamed 25-year-old man last week said they immediately noticed his horrific injuries. WEWS reports that the man's forearm skin was blackened and peeling, and some of his flesh had been completely eaten away.
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| Hackers Messaged Donald Trump With Former Fox News Hosts' Twitter Accounts Posted: 16 Jan 2018 09:58 PM PST  The Twitter accounts of two former Fox News hosts were hacked on Tuesday, resulting in both of their feeds being filled with Turkish propaganda supporting the country's controversial president.
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| Senator reaches for nonexistent glasses and takes them off anyway Posted: 16 Jan 2018 02:31 PM PST  Today's collective LOL at the expense of lawmakers came courtesy of Senator Orrin Hatch, who just reached for his glasses and, upon finding there were none there, decided to take them off anyway. SEE ALSO: This state senator wants to revive net neutrality in California The 83-year-old was deep in the middle of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen when he made the gaffe. Of course Twitter pounced like a rabid fox on the nonsensical gesture. Here it is in all its glory. And here's perhaps the best of the inevitable jokes that followed. .@OrrinHatch we got you, dude pic.twitter.com/ymMhRuiiOS — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 16, 2018 Hatch's communications director Matt Whitlock followed up the incident with a pretty boring explanation — "The senator wears reading glasses and normally reads over his notes one last time before questioning witnesses in a hearing" — before his official account made a slightly funnier joke on Twitter. Oh you mean his invisible glasses from Warby Parker? They're new, you've probably never heard of them. pic.twitter.com/pygTRwbJl7 — Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) January 16, 2018 The glasses episode was just a sideshow, however, to the most significant event of the hearing: New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker slammed Nielsen for refusing to corroborate reports that Trump used the word "shithole" to refer to African nations. "Your silence and your amnesia is complicity": Sen. Cory Booker unleashes on Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen after she says she doesn't remember President Trump using the word "shithole" to refer to African countries at the DACA meeting https://t.co/tPCw1t4SSR pic.twitter.com/HY3ff6M637 — CNN (@CNN) January 16, 2018 "Why am I frankly seething with anger?" he asked her. "The commander-in-chief in an Oval Office meeting referring to people from African nations and Haitians with the most vulgar language ... that language festers." He finished with a devastating barb: "Your silence and your amnesia is complicit." WATCH: Someone shaved Donald Trump into the back of their head and it's frightening AF
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| UAE to file complaint over Qatar flight 'interception' Posted: 16 Jan 2018 02:16 AM PST  The UAE will lodge a complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organization after Qatari jets came within little more than three kilometres of Emirati passenger flights, its civil aviation chief said on Tuesday. "Today we will file our complaint to the International Civil Aviation Organization about the two serious incidents, along with the evidence that we've gathered, and ask for the intervention of the council to stop Qatar from repeating the act," Saif al-Suwaidi, head of the general civil aviation authority, told AFP. The United Arab Emirates said on Monday that Qatari fighter jets had "intercepted" two passenger flights headed for Bahrain, drawing a swift denial from Gulf rival Qatar.
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| Muslim county in China bans children from religious events over break Posted: 17 Jan 2018 12:39 AM PST ![Muslim county in China bans children from religious events over break]( "Muslim county in China bans children from religious events over break") By Christian Shepherd BEIJING (Reuters) - A mostly Muslim county in western China has banned children from attending religious events over a winter break, an education bureau said in a notice posted online, as authorities step up control of religious education. School students in Linxia county in Gansu province, home to many members of the Muslim Hui ethnic minority, are prohibited from entering religious buildings over their break, a district education bureau said, according to the notification.
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| Casino company: Boat that caught fire had no past problems Posted: 15 Jan 2018 08:52 PM PST  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A casino company said Monday it never had a problem with the shuttle boat that burst into flames off Florida's Gulf Coast, leading to the death of a female passenger.
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| Larry Nassar’s Victims Get Their Day In Court: ‘Little Girls Don’t Stay Little Forever’ Posted: 16 Jan 2018 11:57 AM PST  Larry Nassar, the disgraced former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State team doctor, listened to more than a dozen of his sexual abuse victims read impact statements in an East Lansing, Michigan, court on Tuesday.
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| Glossier Just Dropped Its First-Ever Solution To Acne-Prone Skin Posted: 17 Jan 2018 02:50 PM PST  The glossy-faced, dewy-skinned experts at Glossier just dropped a new addition to the skincare-as-makeup retailer's collection that's perfect for blemish-prone faces.
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| Sweden sends leaflets to 5m homes on how to prepare for war with Russia Posted: 17 Jan 2018 04:23 AM PST  Sweden is preparing to issue a public information manual on what to do in the event of war, as debate in the country grows over how to deal with the threat from Russia. The brochure, due to be sent to 4.7m households, will inform the public how they can take part in "total defence" during a war and secure water, food and heating. The booklet with the working title If Crisis or War Comes will also give guidance on dealing with threats from cyber attacks, terrorism and climate change, the FT reported. Russia's annexation of Crimea and military support for Ukrainian separatists, along with increased activity and exercises near the Baltics and Scandinavia have caused deep unease in Sweden. The neutral country has begun to reverse deep post war defence cuts and incursions by Russian planes and submarines have sparked intense public debate over whether to join Nato. Sweden has seen debate over whether to join Nato Credit: Victor Svedberg / Regeringskansliet In September 2017, the country held its biggest military exercise in 23 years, with war games involving 19,000 Swedish personnel and allies from Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, France, Norway and America. The country last year voted to reintroduce conscription. "All of society needs to be prepared for conflict, not just the military. We haven't been using words such as total defence or high alert for 25-30 years or more. So the knowledge among citizens is very low," said Christina Andersson, leader of the project at the Swedish civil contingencies agency.
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| Alligator and python captured tangling on golf course Posted: 17 Jan 2018 06:50 AM PST  Several golfers had their games interrupted in Florida by a highly unusual sight on Friday: a python battling an alligator.
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| Tiffany Trump Serves As Flower Girl At Friends' Wedding, Drops Petals Out Of Tiffany Bag Posted: 16 Jan 2018 06:11 AM PST  First family member Tiffany Trump served as a flower girl at an unusual Las Vegas wedding on Sunday, dropping petals from what appears to be a Tiffany bag.
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| Across the Mideast, Palestinians brace for Trump aid cuts Posted: 15 Jan 2018 06:48 PM PST  SHATI REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) — Mahmoud al-Qouqa can't imagine life without the three sacks of flour, cooking oil and other staples he receives from the United Nations every three months.
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| Humpback whale entangled in 285ft of rope freed by rescuers off coast of Hawaii Posted: 16 Jan 2018 08:23 AM PST  A humpback whale spotted off the coast of Hawaii entangled in 285ft of rope has been freed by rescuers. The animal was first spotted on Thursday by the captain of a fishing boat near Makena Beach, on Maui island. "On release, the animal immediately breached several times," the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a statement.
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| 'Hanging On to Life.' 4 Police Officers Shot Responding to Domestic Disturbance Call Posted: 16 Jan 2018 04:38 AM PST  The suspect was also wounded
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| Mormon Church Confirms New Leader In Live Broadcast Posted: 16 Jan 2018 04:18 PM PST  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has officially named Russell M. Nelson as its 17th president.
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| 2019 Jeep Cherokee Updates Appearance, Adds Turbo Engine Posted: 15 Jan 2018 09:01 PM PST  Jeep is freshening up its compact Cherokee SUV, replacing the controversial headlights and adding a turbocharged four-cylinder engine. The thin-lined headlights have had Jeep loyalists, known for...
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| Blessing of the animals on St. Anthony's Day Posted: 17 Jan 2018 10:29 AM PST ![Blessing of the animals on St. Anthony's Day]( "Blessing of the animals on St. Anthony's Day") The feast of St. Anthony, Spain's patron saint of animals, is celebrated each year. On the eve of St. Anthony's Day, riders guide their horses through a bonfire in the village of San Bartolome de Pinares as part of the Luminarias ritual in honor of St. Anthony the Abbot.
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| Just How Much of a Threat is Russia’s Status-6 Nuclear Torpedo? Posted: 16 Jan 2018 06:02 PM PST  The United States' new Nuclear Posture Review asserts that Russia's Status-6 intercontinental, nuclear-armed undersea autonomous torpedo (AUV) is a real weapon and could be a genuine threat. "It certainly is a threat U.S. forces will need to take into account," Bryan Clark, a former U.S. Navy submarine officer and current senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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| Donald Trump scores top marks in Montreal cognitive test - how well would you do? Posted: 17 Jan 2018 03:26 AM PST  The cognitive test on which Donald Trump received a perfect score is considered a good screening tool for mental decline in an otherwise healthy person, medical experts said. The US president asked to be administered a mental test and was given the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) as part of a medical exam by Dr. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, who on Tuesday said he had absolutely no concerns about Mr Trump's neurological function. The president scored 30 out of 30. Montreal Cognitive Assessment Cognitive testing looks for signs of mild cognitive impairment and/or Alzheimer's disease. It focuses on cognitive functions including memory, attention, language, abstraction, delayed recall and orientation. Sample questions on the Montreal test include repeating a set of numbers in order both forwards and backwards and remembering a list of common words. Test takers are asked to identify animals, and draw a clock face, putting in all of the numbers and setting the clock hands to a specific time. It takes about 10 minutes to administer. One memory test involves memorising the words 'face', 'velvet', 'church', 'daisy', 'red' and recalling them after five minutes. Another test challenges participants to name as many words as they can in one minute that begin with the letter F. In general, patients with good or average memory forget one of the five words and can still be within the normal range, said Dr James Mastrianni, an expert in memory disorders and other neurodegenerative conditions at the University of Chicago Medicine. "It's a screening assessment that we use routinely in the clinics to determine whether someone has some degree of cognitive impairment or not," he said. "If they score poorly on that assessment, then usually there is more detailed evaluation that follows. But if they score well that usually indicates there is pretty good cognitive function. They are essentially intact," Mastrianni added. How the Presidents' physicals compare The test was was created by Dr Ziad Nasreddine, a neurologist who graduated from University of Sherbrooke, Québec, in 1996. Recognising the need for a more expeditious cognitive function test, he adapted his comprehensive screen and created a much quicker assessment which could be adapted to first line specialty clinics. The test is designed to precisely measure cognitive impairment, assess major cognitive domains by acting as a cognitive brain scan and help detect early stages of impairment for the most common neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. It is also been sensitively designed so that it does "not falsely label someone who is normal as being impaired". The MoCA has been found to be useful to detect mild cognitive impairment in many conditions including Alzheimer's disease, Vascular Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease and head trauma. Test instructions may be repeated once, however items listed in the memory section may not. The MoCA is used in 100 countries around the world. The standard version of the test is "pretty good" but "not definitive" said Dr. Ronald Petersen, an Alzheimer's disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Petersen said he could not comment specifically on the president's cognitive health. The test does not assess the president's psychiatric fitness and the president did not undergo a psychiatric evaluation, according to his doctor. According to the Alzheimer's Association, there is no single test that proves a person has Alzheimer's disease. That diagnosis is made through a complete assessment that considers all possible causes.
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| Erdogan: NATO must take stance against US over border force Posted: 16 Jan 2018 05:35 AM PST  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on NATO to take a stance against the United States, a fellow ally, over its plans to form a 30,000-strong Kurdish-led border security force in Syria.
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| Worst-case global warming scenarios not credible: study Posted: 17 Jan 2018 01:04 PM PST  Earth's surface will almost certainly not warm up four or five degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a study released Wednesday which, if correct, voids worst-case UN climate change predictions. A revised calculation of how greenhouse gases drive up the planet's temperature reduces the range of possible end-of-century outcomes by more than half, researchers said in the report, published in the journal Nature. How effectively the world slashes CO2 and methane emissions, improves energy efficiency, and develops technologies to remove CO2 from the air will determine whether climate change remains manageable or unleashes a maelstrom of human misery.
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| Blaze Bernstein homicide case: Charges to be announced against suspect Posted: 17 Jan 2018 07:20 AM PST  Prosecutors plan to announce charges in the killing of Blaze Bernstein, a University of Pennsylvania student found buried in an Orange County park.
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| Ann Curry Was 'Not Surprised' By Matt Lauer's Sexual Misconduct Allegations Posted: 17 Jan 2018 05:47 AM PST  Former "Today" show co-host Ann Curry said Wednesday that she was "not surprised" by the sexual misconduct allegations that led to the firing of her former co-host Matt Lauer ― but was reluctant to elaborate on what she knew, saying she wanted to "move on" from her tumultuous time at the show.
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| 2019 Mercedes-Benz G-Class Is Bigger and Modernized but Keeps Its Off-Road Appeal Posted: 16 Jan 2018 09:22 AM PST  The 2019 Mercedes-Benz G-Class has received its most comprehensive update in decades, though you'd probably never guess it from the exterior of this rugged SUV. While the original G-Class started...
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| Home and Away actress Jessica Falkholt dies after Boxing Day car crash Posted: 16 Jan 2018 07:10 PM PST  An actress who appeared in Home And Away has died after being involved in a crash that killed several members of her family. Jessica Falkholt, 29, played Hope Morrison in the long-running soap and was considered to be a rising star in her native Australia. Her life support was switched off last Friday and Falkholt died at 10.20am on Wednesday, a statement from St George's Hospital in Sydney said. A spokeswoman said: "Jessica passed away from serious injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident on 26 December, 2017. "The family has asked for privacy during this very difficult time." Channel Seven, the Australian broadcaster that produces the show, said the cast were "heartbroken" to learn of her death. "Jessica's shining talent was recognised and respected by all her cast mates and crew and her beautiful friendship treasured," a spokesman added. "We send our sincere condolences to her extended family and friends during this difficult time." Scene of the car crash on the Princes Highway at Mondayong, New South Wales Falkholt's parents Lars and Vivian were also killed in a head-on crash - while her sister Annabelle was critically injured and died three days later in hospital. Jackson Heywood was among the soap stars who sent their wishes to Falkholt after the crash. Writing on December 27, he said: "Can we please send all our support, love and prayers to Jess and her sister Annabelle, fighting for their lives after their crash on boxing day. "Much love darlin. I'm with ya." Emergency services were called to Princes Highway at Mondayong on 10.45am on December 26 with three people pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the other car, Craig Whitall, also died.
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| Trump administration appeals ruling on young immigrants Posted: 16 Jan 2018 01:35 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday appealed a judge's ruling temporarily blocking its decision to end protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants and announced plans to seek a U.S. Supreme Court review even before an appeals court issues a decision.
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| The Latest: California lawmaker wants home school oversight Posted: 17 Jan 2018 11:56 AM PST  PERRIS, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on family members found shackled in a California home (all times local):
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| Someone Edited 'The Last Jedi' To Make A 'Chauvinist Cut' Without Women Posted: 16 Jan 2018 08:52 AM PST  Someone edited "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" to remove almost all women from the hit movie and anonymously uploaded the result to The Pirate Bay website on Monday.
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| Airbus gets early 2018 jump on rival Boeing with Mexico order Posted: 16 Jan 2018 11:35 AM PST  Airbus got an early jump on rival Boeing for 2018 with news Tuesday that low-cost Mexican airline Volaris has ordered 80 of its popular A320 planes for a total $9.3 billion. The planned purchase, which entails deliveries over the next eight years, comes after the European Aerospace giant overtook Boeing last year in terms of aircraft orders, booking 1,109 against the US company's 718. "The announcement of the investment in 80 Airbus aircraft by Volaris for a total $9.3 billion is very important," Mexican Communications Minister Gerardo Ruiz said, accompanied by Volaris executives.
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| Pakistani police arrest suspect in rape and murder of 7-year-old girl Posted: 17 Jan 2018 04:20 AM PST ![Pakistani police arrest suspect in rape and murder of 7-year-old girl]( "Pakistani police arrest suspect in rape and murder of 7-year-old girl") By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities on Wednesday arrested a suspect in the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl that ignited nationwide protests and outrage over allegations of government inaction, two police officials said. Police found Zainab Ansari's body in a garbage dumpster in Kasur district near the eastern city of Lahore last week, four days after she was reported missing. Residents of the area have said the murder was the 12th such incident in a year, and has fueled fears a serial rapist killer might be on the loose.
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| Could This Be the U.S. Military's Secret Weapon to Stop a 'Swarm' Strike? Posted: 16 Jan 2018 05:52 PM PST  It might be possible. Could This Be the U.S. Military's Secret Weapon to Stop a 'Swarm' Strike? Last week's massed attempted drone strike against Russian forces in Syria is a harbinger of things to come. Indeed, it is almost inevitable that American forces could come under similar attack.
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