| Ex-CIA Boss John Brennan Tears Into Donald Trump Over Andrew McCabe Firing Posted: 17 Mar 2018 06:15 AM PDT  Former CIA chief John Brennan did not mince his words when taking aim at
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| Man Killed by a 35-pound Boulder While Driving Down a California Freeway Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  The California Highway Patrol stated that the boulder was purposely moved and thrown from the overpass.
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| Putin accused of “likely” ordering attack on former Russian spy ahead of election Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:04 AM PDT  Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson accused President Vladimir Putin of ordering the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter — with Russia's presidential election just days away.
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| Court Just Found Black Victim Of White Supremacist Assault Not Guilty Of... Assault Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:58 PM PDT  Anti-racist protester DeAndre Harris, who was brutally beaten by a group of
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| New Zealand puts aside Russia trade plans after nerve attack Posted: 16 Mar 2018 01:01 AM PDT ![New Zealand puts aside Russia trade plans after nerve attack]( "New Zealand puts aside Russia trade plans after nerve attack") WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand on Friday put aside plans to pursue a free-trade deal with Russia and joined other nations in condemning the country following the poisoning of a former spy in Britain.
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| Miami bridge collapse: engineer's answerphone message about crack not heard Posted: 17 Mar 2018 03:55 AM PDT  Homicide detectives opened an investigation on Friday into the collapse of a new footbridge that killed at least six people at Miami's Florida International University (FIU), as questions began to swirl about the companies behind the structure's controversial design and construction. Juan Perez, the director of Miami-Dade police department, said criminal charges were possible once exhaustive inquiries by his detectives and state and federal authorities were complete.
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| 'Doors off' chopper flights restricted after deadly NYC crash Posted: 16 Mar 2018 12:53 PM PDT  U.S. authorities ordered an end on Friday to so-called "doors off" helicopter rides unless passengers are equipped with quick-release restraints, following a crash in New York City last week that killed five people. The agency said it also will conduct a "top to bottom review" of its rules governing such flights to examine any potential misapplication that could create safety gaps for passengers. The pilot survived but all five passengers were killed on Sunday evening when a Eurocopter AS350 plunged into New York City's East River while on a private "photo shoot" charter.
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| White House is Trying to Tamp Down Reports of an Imminent Cabinet Shakeup Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  The president recently fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a tweet and hinted at more changes to come.
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| My Lai massacre photographer laments US 'carnage' fifty years on Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:43 AM PDT  Fifty years after taking photos of an American massacre of Vietnamese villagers, a former US army photographer said he is sorry for the "carnage" his countrymen unleashed in one the war's worst atrocities. Ronald Haeberle told AFP he started snapping instinctively, capturing the chilling photos that would later expose the full extent of the My Lai massacre: 504 Vietnamese dead in a single day, mostly unarmed women, children and older men. "I wanted to remember what was happening there, I wanted to capture a moment in time, and I did," he told AFP while touring the My Lai massacre museum in the village on Friday, the 50th anniversary of the killings.
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| Uber’s Biggest Rival Is Experimenting With All-You-Can-Ride Monthly Subscriptions Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:00 AM PDT  For all-you-can-ride access to the car-hailing service
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| Republicans Got Greedy With Gerrymandering. Now It's Coming Back To Haunt Them. Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:33 AM PDT  When Thomas Hofeller travelled across the country at the beginning of the
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| US seeks to raise pressure on Europe over Iran nuclear deal Posted: 16 Mar 2018 12:42 PM PDT  VIENNA (AP) — Washington wants its European allies to agree on further measures against Iran in return for keeping a landmark nuclear deal with Tehran alive, U.S. officials said Friday.
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| Counter-terror police launch murder investigation after confirming Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov strangled Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:34 PM PDT  A fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, who was found dead at his south London home earlier this week, was murdered, police have said, amid fears of a second Russia-sponsored attack on British soil. Businessman, Nikolai Glushkov, 68, who was granted asylum in the UK after fleeing Moscow in 2006, was strangled to death, Scotland Yard has confirmed. The former right-hand man of deceased oligarch, Boris Berezovsky, his death came just over a week after Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned by a nerve agent in Salisbury. The former boss of the state airline Aeroflot, Mr Glushkov had told friends he feared he was on a Kremlin hit-list. Wish suspicion falling again on Moscow, police have reportedly started contacting a number of Russian exiles to discuss their safety. Police and the security services have now reassessed their view that exiles are at a low risk, the BBC reported. A former bodyguard, who worked for Mr Berezovsky, and knew Mr Glushkov well, said his death had all the hallmarks of a state-sponsored assassination. A murder investigation was launched in New Malden The France-based security expert, who asked to be identified only by his initials, RG, said: "I'm not at all surprised [that a murder investigation has been opened]. "You can easily choke someone in 10 seconds so that they fall into a comatose state and you can then continue strangling them without leaving any other marks on the body. It's a technique they [the Russians] know well." Mr Berezovsky was found hanged in the bathroom of his Surrey home in 2013, with the cause of death being put down to suicide. But suspicion has always surrounded the circumstances of his death, with many believing he was one of a number of Putin critics who were deliberately silenced. Another of their close associates, Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, died at his Surrey home in 2008, following an apparent heart attack. 12 uk deaths with suspected Russian involvement A close personal friend of the three men, who asked not to be named, said he was in little doubt their murders were linked. He said: "All of them were in no doubt that Boris was killed. It is perhaps inevitable that they would be assassinated themselves. "It is a very horrible thing to happen, he was a lovely man, a very funny man with a great sense of humour. It sounds like somebody has a vendetta against them." Boris Berezovsky was found dead at his Surrey home five years ago Counter terror officers continued to probe the nerve gas attack on Mr Skirpal, whose attempted murder led to the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats from London. Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, escalated the war of words with Russia, when he accused Vladimir Putin of personally ordering the nerve agent attack. He said it was "overwhelmingly likely" that the Russian President was behind the attempted murder, a claim that was described as "unpardonable" by Mr Putin's spokesman. News of this latest murder investigation will further stoke fears that critics or enemies of Russia and its leader, are no longer safe on British soil. Downing Street said the Prime Minister had been "kept informed" of developments but stressed that Mr Glushkov's death was a police matter and that no link had been made with the Salisbury poisoning case. But Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, said the murder of Mr Glushkov appeared to "fit into a pattern" of violent deaths of enemies of Mr Putin. The police investigation is continuing in Salisbury He said: "If there is a link between Mr Glushkov's death and the Kremlin it will be further proof that we are dealing with essentially a rogue state which refuses to abide by international rules and has violated UN laws. "What has been going on is a deliberate attempt to settle Russian scores in the UK." Boris Johnson has laid the blame at Putin's door But a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has suggested moderate Labour MPs who blame Russia for spy poisoning are "enemies" who should be deselected. Chris Williamson, the Labour MP for Derby North, said Labour MPs who had decided Moscow was "unequivocally" to blame were "baying for blood" and he suggested they face de-selection. And the Kremlin also ramped up its language, launching a withering response to Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, who had suggested Russia should "go away and shut up". Major-General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman at Russia's defence ministry, accused Mr Williamson of engaging in "market wench talk", adding that it reflected his "intellectual impotency".
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| Saudi crown prince on Kushner, Jerusalem embassy move Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:21 AM PDT  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will meet Tuesday with President Trump at the White House. For this Sunday's "60 Minutes," "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell asked the 32-year-old crown prince about that visit, Jared Kushner and the president's plan to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
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| Teachers should not be armed because most are women, Republican politician argues Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:38 AM PDT  A Republican politician argued teachers should not be armed in the wake of the Florida high school shooting - because most of them are women. Alabama state representative Harry Shiver claimed that women "are scared of guns" and don't want to learn how to shoot. Mr Shiver told AL.com he would probably abstain from voting on a bill that would allow trained teachers to carry guns on school campuses.
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| Sean Hannity Slams Shepard Smith For Calling His Kind Of Fox Show Strictly Entertainment Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:07 PM PDT  Fox News host Sean Hannity ripped colleague Shepard Smith on Friday after
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| Trailblazing US congresswoman Louise Slaughter dead at 88 Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:11 AM PDT  Louise Slaughter, a pioneering Democratic US lawmaker who rose to become the first female chair of the House Rules Committee, died Friday after suffering a concussion in a fall, her office announced. First elected to Congress in 1986 in western New York, Slaughter was the oldest sitting member in the House of Representatives, a tough-as-nails legislator and an influential voice within her party. "Her strong example inspired countless young women to know their power, and seek their rightful place at the head of the decision-making table," said top Democrat Nancy Pelosi, herself a political trailblazer who served as the first female speaker of the House.
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| Timeline - The rise of Chinese leader Xi Jinping Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:09 AM PDT  By John Ruwitch SHANGHAI (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, will be re-elected to a second five-year term as president on Saturday by the rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress. The son of Communist Party revolutionary and one-time deputy prime minister Xi Zhongxun, the younger Xi spent decades working his way up party and government ranks, but his consolidation of power since becoming head of the party in 2012 has been unprecedented. Xi's ascent culminated last week in parliament's passing of a constitutional amendment that eliminated term limits for the presidency, discarding a rule that had helped keep leaders in check and underpinned collective decision-making for 35 years.
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| My Lai ceremony highlights peace, but dark memories recalled Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:45 PM PDT  MY LAI, Vietnam (AP) — Talk of peace dominated the 50th anniversary commemoration of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, but among the hundreds in the audience were survivors and a former U.S. Army photographer whose gruesome images galvanized anti-war opinion.
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| Lawyers call US gun charges for Mexican man 'vindictive' Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:48 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Attorneys for a Mexican man acquitted of murder in a San Francisco shooting that helped fuel the U.S. immigration debate are pressing for documents to help them argue that his U.S. gun charges are vindictive.
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| 'Dogs Must Think We're Magical When We Rub The Wall And The Room Gets Bright' Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:18 AM PDT  The shower isn't just a place to sing. Separated from our cellphones, standing
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| This Russian Plane Was Carrying So Much Gold That Its Cargo Door Burst Open Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:56 PM PDT  Littering the runway with precious metals
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| 5-Year-Old Cries as He Watches His Mom Walk Down The Aisle Posted: 17 Mar 2018 08:39 AM PDT  It was a an unforgettable moment.
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| 1,100 Students from Two Illinois High Schools Get Detention for Walkout Posted: 16 Mar 2018 03:54 PM PDT  About 1,100 students at two suburban Chicago high schools will serve hour-long detentions for participating in this week`s walkout to protest gun violence.
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| Russia accuses West of enabling terrorists in Syria Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:25 AM PDT  Russia on Friday accused western powers of enabling terrorists in Syria, after meeting with Iran and Turkey for a new round of talks to try and broker an end to the conflict there. The Russian, Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers had met in the Kazakh capital of Astana, and the focus of their consultations was Eastern Ghouta, an opposition enclave just outside Damascus, which the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began pounding a month ago.
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| Republican Food Stamp Plan In Disarray Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― A Republican plan to shrink food stamp enrollment is in some
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| German interior minister declares 'Islam does not belong' in the country Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:31 AM PDT  Angela Merkel's new government got off to a rocky start on Friday as the chancellor and her interior minister clashed publicly over the role of Islam in Germany society. Horst Seehofer, who became interior minister this week under a coalition deal, used his first interview since taking office to declare "Islam does not belong in Germany". Mrs Merkel lost no time in slapping down the minister, telling a press conference: "Muslims are also part of Germany, and so their religion is just as much a part of Germany". Mr Seehofer's controversial remarks echoed last year's election slogans from the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD), which campaigned on an anti-Muslim platform. But they were most clearly aimed as a broadside against Mrs Merkel, who famously declared "Islam belongs in Germany" in a 2015 press conference after opening the country's borders to over 1 million asylum-seekers. "Islam does not belong in Germany," Mr Seehofer told Bild newspaper. "Germany is shaped by Christianity. That means not working on Sundays and celebrating religious holidays such as Easter, Pentecost and Christmas. Horst Seehofer talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the German parliament in Berlin Credit: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber "Of course the Muslims who live with us belong in Germany. But that doesn't mean we should give up our national traditions and customs." The leader of Mrs Merkel's Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Mr Seehofer was the leading opponent of her refugee policy and the dispute almost ended the longstanding alliance between the two parties. But they patched up their differences ahead of last year's election and Mr Seehofer was given control of migration and asylum policy as interior minister under the new coalition deal. His remarks on Friday suggest he is ready to reopen the feud in government. Mrs Merkel responded angrily to Mr Seehofer's comments. "We want an Islam based on the constitution and compliant with constitutional law," she said on a visit to Paris. "I think we must do everything we can to allow religions to live together in peace." Mr Seehofer also came under attack from Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the chairman of Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrat party (CDU) who is widely seen as her chosen successor. Profile | Angela Merkel "Freedom of religion undoubtedly belongs in Germany, just as the Muslims in Germany, together with their faith, belong in our country," Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer said. More than 4 million Muslims live in Germany, 1.9 million of whom are German citizens. More than 60 per cent are of Turkish heritage and were living in Germany long before Mrs Merkel's decision to open the borders to asylum-seekers. Mr Seehofer later sought to clarify his remarks. "Our country Germany has been shaped by Christianity for centuries. That's why it's wrong to say Islam belongs in Germany, " he said. "Of course we have tolerance and respect for other religious communities. And of course the Muslims living in Germany belong in Germany." It was Wolfgang Schäuble, the former finance minister and current speaker of the German parliament, who first declared in 2006 that "Islam is part of Germany and Europe". The phrase at the centre of the dispute,"Islam belongs in Germany" was first coined in 2010 by Christian Wulff, the Germna president at the time, and later taken up by Mrs Merkel.
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| ProPublica leads media into correction of murky CIA story Posted: 16 Mar 2018 06:45 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The news organization ProPublica issued a detailed correction of a story about Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's choice for the next CIA director, and the waterboarding of a detainee the year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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| Where is Amy Yu? Police Say 16-Year-Old May Have Flown to Cancun With 45-Year-Old Man Posted: 17 Mar 2018 07:46 AM PDT  She has been missing since the beginning of March.
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| Academy 'launches sexual harassment investigation into its president John Bailey' days after the Oscars Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PDT  The head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is reportedly under investigation for sexual harassment. The academy, which oversees the Oscars, is responding to multiple allegations against president John Bailey, according to reports in the Hollywood Reporter and Variety. In a statement, the Academy said it "treats any complaints confidentially to protect all parties".
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| Khloe Kardashian's Good American launches maternity denim Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:17 AM PDT  Good American, an all-inclusive size denim line founded by Khloe Kardashian
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| Intensifying assaults in Syria spark dual evacuations Posted: 16 Mar 2018 11:06 PM PDT  Syrian civilians in the last rebel-held pockets of besieged Eastern Ghouta have been urged to flee as Russia-backed regime forces storm into the beleaguered area near Damascus, with intense airstrikes killing dozens and causing thousands more to evacuate. Syria's war enters its eighth year with another deadly assault also unfolding in the north, where Turkish-led forces pressed an operation to seize the Kurdish-majority region of Afrin. The operation has sent thousands onto the roads, with bombing of the city of Afrin on Friday killing 43 civilians, a third of them killed in a deadly strike on a hospital.
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| Indonesia pushes for Southeast Asian patrols of disputed waters Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:46 PM PDT  By Fergus Jensen SYDNEY (Reuters) - Indonesia has lobbied Southeast Asian countries to carry out maritime patrols in the disputed South China Sea, claimed in most part by China, to improve security, Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu said on Friday. Indonesia says it's a non-claimant state in the South China Sea dispute but has clashed with China over fishing rights around the Natuna Islands and expanded its military presence there, and also renamed the northern reaches of its exclusive economic zone, asserting its own maritime claim. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Defence Minister Marise Payne held talks with their Indonesian counterparts Retno Marsudi and Ryacudu in Sydney, ahead of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit.
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| Donald Trump Hails Andrew McCabe's Firing As 'A Great Day For Democracy' Posted: 17 Mar 2018 12:06 AM PDT  President Donald Trump wrote a celebratory tweet hours after former FBI deputy
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| Husband of Suburban Mom Who Lived Double Life on the Internet Is Charged With Her Murder Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:45 AM PDT  A court document filed Thursday shows 44-year-old William Jeffrey West is charged with murder in the slaying of Kathleen Dawn West
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| Audi to build four-door electric sports car in 2020 Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:27 AM PDT  Audi has just confirmed it will be launching a fully-electric four-door GT model in 2020 to rival the Tesla Model S, which will be a gran turismo sibling of the e-tron SUV that arrives later this year. At its recent annual press conference, the manufacturer announced it will launch no fewer than five of those models by as soon as 2021, so we will soon have a Q3-sized EV crossover, the e-tron, e-tron Sportback and the e-tron GT. Perhaps what's most interesting about Audi's conversion to the electric cause is a focus on what will be special "Audi Sport" performance models.
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| Immigration agency's latest California focus hits San Diego Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:58 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal immigration officers arrested 115 people during a three-day operation in the San Diego area amid heightened tensions between the Trump administration and the state of California over immigration enforcement.
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| Engineer warned of cracking in US bridge before deadly collapse Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:47 PM PDT  The chief engineer of a Florida bridge project warned authorities of cracking in the structure days before it collapsed, killing at least six people, the southern US state's department of transportation said Friday. Chief engineer Denney Pate left a voicemail on a Florida Department of Transportation employee's landline on March 13, two days before the pedestrian walkway came crashing down on the major road beneath, the department said in a statement. There was "some cracking that's been observed on the north end of the span," Pate said, according to a transcript of the call.
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| Stephen Hawking Was Very Particular About His Tea Posted: 16 Mar 2018 07:59 AM PDT ![Stephen Hawking Was Very Particular About His Tea]( "Stephen Hawking Was Very Particular About His Tea") As a theoretical physicist who specializes in cosmology and gravitation, I naturally had many opportunities to interact with Stephen Hawking before his death. We attended the same physics conferences, where he was always rightfully celebrated as one of the world's great scientists. He regularly visited the California Institute of Technology, where I work as a researcher. And, in perhaps my greatest contribution to world culture, I helped arrange Stephen's cameo appearance on The Big Bang Theory.
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| Report: Abortion is safe but barriers reduce quality of care Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:30 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortions in the U.S. are very safe but getting one without facing delays and false medical information depends on where women live, says a broad examination of the nation's abortion services.
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| Hillary Clinton fractures hand on India trip Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:34 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton has fractured her hand during a tour of India, reportedly slipping in a bathtub at a luxury hotel in a former palace. A doctor at the private Goyal Hospital told AFP Friday that Clinton had undergone screening after suffering pain in her right hand following a fall. Local and international media quoted unnamed sources as saying Clinton had slipped in the bath in an accident that comes just five months after she broke her toe in London.
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| Russia to expel 23 U.K. diplomats in escalating feud over nerve agent attack Posted: 17 Mar 2018 04:43 AM PDT  Russia announces Friday night it will take action against the U.K. by expelling 23 British embassy staff from Moscow. It's just the latest move in an escalating crisis between the two countries triggered by the killing of a former Russian spy in Britain. Elizabeth Palmer reports from Moscow.
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| The Hilarious Way John Cleese Treats Donald Trump Supporters Who Walk Out Of His Show Posted: 16 Mar 2018 03:11 AM PDT  "Monty Python" star John Cleese is no fan of President Donald Trump.
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