| Kentucky Gov. Apologizes After Claiming Teacher Protest Would Result In Child Abuse Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:15 PM PDT  Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin apologized Sunday after recently saying school
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| Full Ernst: Trump needs to come to Congress for further Syria strikes Posted: 14 Apr 2018 10:55 PM PDT  In an exclusive interview on Meet the Press, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) tells Chuck Todd that she is "comfortable" with air strikes on Syria, but that the president needs authorization for any ground troops.
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| Tens Of Thousands In Hungary Protest Far-Right Leader Viktor Orbán Posted: 14 Apr 2018 11:40 AM PDT  Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Hungary's capital of
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| 14-Year-Old Nearly Shot After Trying to Ask Neighbor For Directions Posted: 14 Apr 2018 07:39 AM PDT  It's not clear why the man allegedly chose to fire a shot gun at the boy.
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| Superman celebrated in honor of 80th anniversary Posted: 14 Apr 2018 09:21 AM PDT  The iconic superhero made his debut in Action Comics #1 in 1938, evolving into cartoons, a TV series and the big screen.
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| Kate McKinnon Kills As Laura Ingraham On 'Saturday Night Live' Posted: 14 Apr 2018 11:02 PM PDT  Astounding chameleon Kate McKinnon claimed one more victim on "Saturday Night
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| Weibo to ban gay, violent content from platform Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:33 PM PDT  China's Sina Weibo will remove gay and violent content, including pictures, cartoons and text posts, during a three-month clean-up campaign, the microblogging platform said. Friday's announcement comes amid a clampdown targeting content across social media platforms as China's leaders look to tighten their grip on a huge and diverse cultural scene popular with the young. Weibo announced the move on its official administrator's account, saying the action aimed to comply with China's new cyber security law that calls for strict data surveillance.
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| Syria strikes - as it happened: Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons capability 'set back for years' by bombing, Pentagon says Posted: 14 Apr 2018 03:53 PM PDT  Joint air strikes by the US, UK and France have set back Syria's chemical weapons capability "for years", the US military said. Cruise missiles were fired at three sites in response to what Theresa May called the "despicable and barbaric" attack in Douma last week that is believed to have killed up to 75 people. Ms May said Bashar al-Assad could face even further strikes if chemical weapons are used again - and the US warned that they were "locked and loaded" if poison used again.
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| Students Were Sexually Assaulted and Used Drugs Because Teachers Protested, Kentucky Governor Says Posted: 14 Apr 2018 12:00 PM PDT  'Children were harmed'
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| Starbucks responds after video of arrest in Philly store goes viral Posted: 14 Apr 2018 12:25 PM PDT  Starbucks has confirmed they are looking into an incident that happened at a Philadelphia location earlier this week.
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| Cohen Denies Report That Mueller Has Evidence Of Secret Prague Trip Posted: 14 Apr 2018 04:44 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's lawyer is doubling down after a new report suggesting
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| OPCW continuing mission into alleged Douma gas attack despite air strikes Posted: 14 Apr 2018 06:13 AM PDT  Experts from the world's global chemical arms watchdog are continuing their mission to probe an alleged gas attack in Douma despite Western air strikes in Syria, the body said Saturday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been "working in close collaboration" with UN security experts "to assess the situation and ensure the safety of the team," it said. It vowed in its statement that the fact-finding mission due to go to Douma later Saturday "will continue its deployment to the Syrian Arab Republic to establish facts around the allegations of chemical weapons use in Douma".
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| Nearly 1,400 Sharks Spotted In Mysterious Gathering Off East Coast Posted: 14 Apr 2018 08:19 PM PDT  Nearly 1,400 basking sharks were spotted in aerial photos in a puzzling
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| Peru's Vizcarra begins presidency with 57 pct approval rating Posted: 15 Apr 2018 04:12 PM PDT  Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra kicked off his presidency with a 57-percent approval rating, according to an Ipsos poll published in a local newspaper on Sunday. A former vice president, Vizcarra took office on March 23 after his predecessor, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, resigned in a graft and vote-buying scandal. The Ipsos survey, published in El Comercio, showed 13 percent of Peruvians polled disapproved of Vizcarra.
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| The Latest: Cosby lawyers ask accuser about pyramid scheme Posted: 14 Apr 2018 03:20 AM PDT  NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on the Bill Cosby sexual-assault retrial (all times local):
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| Syria strikes: US Defence Secretary James Mattis says 'this was a one-time shot' - for now Posted: 13 Apr 2018 07:24 PM PDT  The US military has revealed the three-nation stake on Syria targeting alleged chemicals assets is over for now – declaring "right now this is a one-time shot". Defence Secretary James Mattis said the US, UK and France had acted together, having determined that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against civilians a week ago. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford, said the targets included a Syrian research facility, a chemical weapons storage facility and a command post.
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| Mother Who Drove Family of 8 Off Cliff Was Drunk: Report Posted: 14 Apr 2018 09:04 AM PDT  Two of the children also had Benadryl in their system.
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| Prominent LGBTQ Lawyer Sets Self On Fire In 'Protest Suicide' Of Climate Change Posted: 14 Apr 2018 06:55 PM PDT  David Buckel, a prominent LGBTQ civil rights attorney, fatally set himself on
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| Jeremy Corbyn will try to force parliamentary vote to keep Theresa May in check over Syria Posted: 15 Apr 2018 01:31 PM PDT  Jeremy Corbyn will try to force a vote in Parliament that would make it difficult for Prime Ministers to take military action without the approval of MPs as he suggested Bashar al-Assad could be innocent of last week's chemical weapons attack. The Labour leader suggested on Sunday that all planned use of force should be signed off by the Commons as he announced plans for a "war powers act" which would ensure that all governments are accountable "for what they do in our name". Following raids on the Syrian regime's chemical weapons stockpiles on Saturday, Mr Corbyn questioned the legal basis for the mission, adding that Mrs May should have respected a convention supposedly laid down by the coalition government in 2011. Labour sources indicated that Mr Corbyn will apply to the Speaker on Monday for an emergency debate under a Parliamentary mechanism called Standing Order No24. It allows MPs to call for a debate within 24 hours on matters of national importance. The Prime Minister will also ask for an emergency debate, but while her bid will not include a request for a vote, Mr Corbyn is likely to ask for a vote which could include a call for Prime Ministers to consult Parliament in future. Although such votes are not binding, any defeat for the Prime Minister would be humiliating and would make it politically more difficult for her to take military action in future. It is up to the Speaker to decide whether to allow either of the applications. Mr Corbyn told the BBC: "There is precedent over previous interventions where parliament has had a vote, and I think what we need in this country is something more robust, like a War Powers Act, so that governments do get held to account by parliament for what they do in our name. "She could have recalled parliament last week - it is only the Prime Minister who can recall parliament - or she could have delayed until tomorrow when parliament returns." Despite receiving intelligence briefings on the chemical attack in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Mr Corbyn again refused to blame the Assad regime, suggesting that "other parties" had access to chlorine gas and could not be ruled out. His claims appeared to clash with Emmanuel Macron, the French President, who said that he had "proof" of Assad's culpability, while a number of eyewitness accounts also place a regime helicopter in the area at the time of the gassing. Mr Corbyn also questioned the legality of the strikes, suggesting that the Government's legal justification - humanitarian grounds - was not universally accepted by other countries. "If we want to get the moral high ground, as a country with a history of international involvement, then we need to abide by international law," he added. "I say to the Foreign Secretary, and I say to the Prime Minister, where is the legal basis for this?" Mr Corbyn has also written to the Prime Minister asking that the advice provided by the Attorney General be published. However, his decision to undermine the Government was heavily criticised on social media, with Labour MP John Woodcock describing Mr Corbyn's stance as "deeply troubling". The Foreign Secretary and Labour leader were both interviewed on the Andrew Marr programme Credit: Jeff Overs/BBC Brandon Lewis, the Conservative Party chairman, said that Mr Corbyn's refusal to blame the Assad regime showed he was "more worried about upsetting Russia than about preventing use of chemical weapons". "Corbyn seems determined to obfuscate to avoid showing leadership on chemical weapons and UK defending itself or most vulnerable in the world," he added. The Labour leader also faced criticism when he refused to condemn "demented" claims made by the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, who has now suggested that both the Salisbury and Douma attacks were orchestrated by the UK. When asked what he made of the comments, Mr Corbyn said: "I'm quite surprised. He's either got to back it up or withdraw it." In the wake of the Salisbury attack, the evidence against Russia's culpability has continued to grow, with newly declassified intelligence now showing that the Kremlin hacked Yulia Skripal's emails for at least five years. The intelligence, released by Sir Mark Sedwill, Theresa May's National Security Adviser, also shows that Russian agents have tested the effectiveness of Novichok as a weapon for carrying out assassinations. In a letter sent to Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg , Sir Mark revealed that the agent was being smeared on door handles as part of a secret chemical weapons programme codenamed Foliant in which President Vladimir Putin was "closely involved". But when asked whether he was prepared to lay point the finger at the Kremlin, Mr Corbyn said that he would require "incontrovertible evidence" of Russia's involvement. Rounding on the Labour leader, Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, said he was struck by his failure to dismiss the allegations with the "sort of vehemence and vigour you might have expected". "It is quite extraordinary in the view of the weight of evidence now...to continue to deny the likelihood of Russian involvement, of state-sponsored involvement," Mr Johnson added. "Quite extraordinary and a blindness to reality. I find it very, very perplexing. A defiant refusal to accept that the Kremlin is responsible."
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| Offer to Withdraw America's Troops from South Korea to Seal a Nuclear Deal with the North Posted: 14 Apr 2018 05:27 PM PDT  Washington's priority should be to eliminate the North's nuclear weapons and the regime's ability to strike America. The prospect of a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un offers a unique opportunity to move Northeast Asia away from more than seven decades of confrontation and conflict.
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| ‘SNL’ Host John Mulaney Wrote Last Night’s Best Sketch In 2010 Posted: 15 Apr 2018 11:57 AM PDT  Comedian John Mulaney wrote for "Saturday Night Live" from 2008 to 2014. In
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| `I Don`t Play Mega Millions:` New Jersey Man Comes Forward as $533 Million Winner Posted: 14 Apr 2018 01:41 PM PDT  Food processing plant manager Richard Wahl says he`s only played Mega Millions once before he won a major jackpot.
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| Uber Sticking By Self-Driving Cars Despite Recent Fatality Posted: 14 Apr 2018 12:48 AM PDT  The company wants to resume testing of its driverless fleet.
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| Philadelphia police investigate arrest of two black men in Starbucks Posted: 14 Apr 2018 10:54 AM PDT ![Philadelphia police investigate arrest of two black men in Starbucks]( "Philadelphia police investigate arrest of two black men in Starbucks") Cellphone footage that onlookers filmed of Thursday's incident shows the two men sitting quietly at a table and talking for several minutes to police officers who have apparently been called to the store. Other customers, including a middle-aged white man, try to intervene. Other customers can be heard agreeing with him.
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| U.S., British and French forces launch airstrikes on Syria Posted: 14 Apr 2018 08:02 AM PDT ![U.S., British and French forces launch airstrikes on Syria]( "U.S., British and French forces launch airstrikes on Syria") U.S., British and French forces struck Syria with more than 100 missiles on Saturday in the first coordinated Western strikes against the Damascus government, targeting what they said were chemical weapons sites in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack.
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| Pope 'deeply disturbed' by lack of common response to Syria Posted: 15 Apr 2018 05:30 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis told the faithful in St. Peter's Square that he is "deeply disturbed" by the international community's failure to come up with a common response to the crisis in Syria and other parts of the world.
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| Father of Parkland Shooting Victim Said He Doesn't Want Cruz's Inheritance Money Posted: 14 Apr 2018 01:05 PM PDT  He said he wants ten minutes alone in a room with him instead.
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| Scepticism as Myanmar announces return of first Rohingya family Posted: 15 Apr 2018 04:30 AM PDT  Myanmar's government said it has repatriated the first family of Rohingya refugees, among the 700,000 who fled a brutal crackdown, but the move was slammed by rights groups as a publicity stunt which ignored warnings over the security of returnees. The stateless Muslim minority has been massing in squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh since the Myanmar army launched a ruthless campaign against the community in northern Rakhine state last August. The United Nations says the operation amounts to ethnic cleansing, but Myanmar has denied the charge, saying its troops targeted Rohingya militants.
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| US calls for additional sanctions on Venezuela Posted: 14 Apr 2018 12:37 AM PDT  US Vice President Mike Pence on Friday called for more sanctions on Venezuela to isolate President Nicolas Maduro and his administration, overshadowing the opening of a summit in Peru with Latin American leaders. Pence urged the extra measures as he met with Venezuelan opposition figures in Lima who called for more sanctions and "intervention" in their crisis-hit country. Maduro was not invited to take part in the summit, which began on Friday but was overshadowed by Pence's calls for sanctions and US-led strikes in Syria, which caused the vice president to abruptly leave the opening ceremony.
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| Removing Richard Spencer from Facebook is a gesture, not a fix Posted: 14 Apr 2018 10:33 AM PDT  After a long month and an even longer week for Facebook, the social network is taking publicity-friendly steps to scrub hateful views from its platform. Two pages associated with the prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer were removed on Friday. Both the National Policy Institute, an organization that favors a white ethnostate, and Altright.com, Spencer's online magazine, no longer have a home on Facebook. SEE ALSO: Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook testimony turned into a lesson on how the internet works The removals came after Vice News reached out to the site to find out why those two pages were still active. The query was prompted after Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg insisted during his Congressional testimony that "we do not allow hate groups on Facebook." A third group flagged by Vice, The Nationalist Initiative, was also removed. It's not clear how many followers that third page had, but the two connected to Spencer combined for around 15,000 followers. The move comes exactly one month after Facebook banned Britain First, the far-right, anti-Islamic group whose hateful and misleading tweets were once retweeted by Donald Trump. Earlier in the week, Zuckerberg told Congress: "We do not allow hate groups on Facebook, overall. So if there's a group that, their primary purpose or a large part of what they do is spreading hate, we will ban them from the platform overall." The pledge was met with skepticism in various corners of the world. In one example, a group of civil liberty organizations in Myanmar penned an open letter to Zuckerberg, decrying "the inadequate response of the Facebook team" to stamping out hate speech. That skepticism isn't without merit. Spencer is a widely known figure on the internet because of his toxic, xenophobic views, but it took a media organization asking "Why?" for any action to be taken. This isn't difficult to research, either. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal advocacy nonprofit, maintains a running list of active hate groups in the United States. As of this writing, 62 groups are listed; we won't link to them here, but a quick Google search reveals that many also appear on Facebook even now. Make no mistake: It's great to see Facebook stepping up and shutting down the influence of problematic figures like Spencer and Britain First. But there are plenty of groups out there that exist and are known, but haven't made headlines yet. Why does it take a major news event, or a query from a media organization, for Facebook to take action? Wouldn't it be more of a fix to root these problem groups out before they build a platform for themselves? WATCH: It seems Mark Zuckerberg's team should be the one answering questions
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| Hear The 2019 Audi TT RS Play Its Five-Cylinder Symphony Posted: 15 Apr 2018 01:11 PM PDT  Don't expect any major styling changes.
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| New satire offers Zimbabweans a chance to laugh at Robert Mugabe Posted: 14 Apr 2018 10:11 PM PDT  For the first time Zimbabweans can laugh at Robert Mugabe at the theatre without worrying they may be arrested or that the play will be banned. A new and daring comedy, Operation Restore Regasi, about the soft coup d'etat in Harare last November, has packed out the theatre. Audiences have been convulsed with laughter as they watch Carol Magena, playing Grace Mugabe, teetering around the stage trying to seduce Constantino Chiwenga, the army commander, while her frail old husband, Robert Mugabe, 93 at the time, is slumped in his chair, asleep. There was standing room only at the play, which opens with Mr Mugabe under house arrest in his mansion, and Mrs Mugabe shrieking that she wants to leave Zimbabwe immediately and go to Dubai, her favourite shopping destination. Charles Munganasa based his script on what he imagined the first couple would be saying to one another, and to Chiwenga, shortly after the army took power. Carol Magenga as Grace Mugabe, Khetani Banda (2nd L) in the role of former Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe and Charles Munganasa as Zimbabwe's former army commander General Costantino Chiwenga Credit: AFP Ms Magena said she was having the "time of her life" playing the former first lady, who emerged into Zimbabwe's political arena only three years ago and hatched a plan to inherit the top job from her husband. She said it was easy to portray Grace Mugabe, both physically and emotionally, as the former first lady so regularly appeared on state television. Profile | Robert Mugabe "She ensured all her meetings were on TV. She is unpredictable, erratic, volatile, even crazy. She said anything that came into her head. We watched as she dominated the media, getting people fired, insulting senior people. She was in control of Zimbabwe." The play's short three-day run was packed out and was extended this week. It closed on Friday but will tour Zimbabwe and South Africa. Munganasa said the play destroys Mugabe's legacy: "He was lost within his own political camp and he thought he was untouchable and invincible and he surrendered power to his wife." He called the play Operation Restore Regasi, because General Chiwenga cannot say L in English and uses R instead. The army's campaign against Mr Mugabe was called Operation Restore Legacy.
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| Mercedes: Nissan Will Never Get X-Class' V6 Diesel For The Navara Posted: 15 Apr 2018 01:10 AM PDT  A sporty Navara to take on the Ford Ranger Raptor is planned, but it won't have Mercedes' 3.0-liter diesel engine.
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| Photos: Antiwar activists and Syrians protest U.S.-led airstrikes against Syria Posted: 15 Apr 2018 02:09 PM PDT  Antiwar activists and Syrians worldwide demonstrated against the joint U.S., British and French airstrikes launched in Syria Saturday. The missile attack was in response to a suspected chemical attack on civilians by Syrian President Bashar Assad's government. (AP)
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| Only 11 Syrian refugees have been taken in by the US this year Posted: 14 Apr 2018 02:57 PM PDT  America has accepted just 11 Syrian refugees so far this year, it was revealed, hours after Donald Trump ordered air strikes on the country, risking sparking an uprising in violence. It prompted accusations of hypocrisy by the Trump administration. In 2015, under Barack Obama's presidency, the US admitted 2,192 Syrian refugees, State Department figures show.
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| Mother Discovers Cancerous Tumor on Her Foot During Pedicure Posted: 15 Apr 2018 09:27 AM PDT  She had to have her foot amputated.
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| In Kentucky, teachers claim victory as vetoes rejected Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:05 PM PDT FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — As Kentucky teachers declare victory after the Republican-dominated legislature overrode vetoes from the state's GOP governor of a spending plan that included new money for education, the question going forward is whether teachers will be able to sustain their momentum into the fall elections when Republicans will try to defend their super majority.
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| Beyoncé Makes History As First Black Woman To Headline Coachella Posted: 15 Apr 2018 09:29 AM PDT  Beyonce made history this weekend at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts
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| AP Analysis: Gaza flare-up driven by deep misery in strip Posted: 15 Apr 2018 10:09 AM PDT  ALONG THE ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER (AP) — The flareup of deadly violence in Gaza is of a new kind, even in the inventive annals of Mideast conflicts: Israeli soldiers shooting at Palestinian demonstrators burning tires and hurling firebombs across what looks like an international border, inflicting casualties while claiming concerns of a mass breach of the barrier.
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| NASA's new planet-hunter to seek closer, Earth-like worlds Posted: 15 Apr 2018 12:04 PM PDT  NASA is poised to launch a $337 million washing machine-sized spacecraft that aims to vastly expand mankind's search for planets beyond our solar system, particularly closer, Earth-sized ones that might harbor life. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is scheduled to launch Monday at 6:32 pm (2232 GMT) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA predicts that TESS will discover 20,000 exoplanets -- or planets outside the solar system -- including more than 50 Earth-sized planets and up to 500 planets less than twice the size of Earth.
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| Indian lawmaker arrested over rape as protests mount Posted: 13 Apr 2018 11:04 PM PDT  By Krishna N. Das and Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A lawmaker from India's ruling party was arrested on Friday in connection with the rape of a teenager, police said, after days of protests by activists accusing authorities of failing to investigate the case and other attacks. The rallies, which echoed mass protests against sexual violence in 2012, have piled pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi who, hours earlier on Friday, had promised to take action. The BJP lawmaker, Kuldeep Singh Sengar from the legislature of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, was arrested in connection with the rape case, senior state police officer Rahul Srivastav told Reuters.
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| Putin: Further Western strikes on Syria will lead to chaos -agencies Posted: 15 Apr 2018 06:59 AM PDT ![Putin: Further Western strikes on Syria will lead to chaos -agencies]( "Putin: Further Western strikes on Syria will lead to chaos -agencies") Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Sunday that further Western missile strikes on Syria would lead to chaos in international relations, Russian news agencies cited the Kremlin as saying. Putin and Rouhani spoke by phone to discuss the situation in Syria after the United States, France and Britain launched missile strikes on the country over a suspected poison gas attack.
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| Abe seeks to move Japan off sidelines with Trump trip Posted: 14 Apr 2018 07:31 PM PDT  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to the US Tuesday, hoping his carefully cultivated relations with "golf buddy" Donald Trump will help keep Japan in the loop and out of danger amid a flurry of diplomacy on North Korea. During talks at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, the two allies are expected to stress the need to maintain "maximum pressure" on Pyongyang, as well as thrash out bilateral trade frictions. Few leaders have courted the US president as furiously as Abe, who famously visited Trump in his gilded New York tower before the billionaire businessman was even sworn in.
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| Deported veteran becomes US citizen after California pardon Posted: 13 Apr 2018 07:29 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A decorated former U.S. Army paratrooper whose work on behalf of deported veterans drew widespread attention to his cause became a U.S. citizen Friday, giving immigration advocates a rare reason to celebrate.
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| 'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 2: Spock Confirmed, But Not the Way You Think Posted: 15 Apr 2018 09:05 AM PDT  This is big.
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