| Democratic strategist: WH doesn’t have proper vetting process Posted: 28 Apr 2018 11:47 AM PDT  Various members of President Trump's cabinet faced a great deal of scrutiny this week. Ronny Jackson's nomination for secretary of Veterans Affairs failed.
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| Fox News Reporter: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Deserves Apology After Press Dinner Posted: 29 Apr 2018 02:20 PM PDT  Fox News reporter Ed Henry said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee
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| North Korea’s ‘Complete Denuclearization’ pledge raises questions after summit Posted: 28 Apr 2018 08:53 AM PDT  The leaders of North Korea and South Korea committed to the idea of a nuclear-free region in Friday's historic summit, but U.S. officials want proof that Kim Jong Un will get rid of his weapons.
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| NRA Convention Bans Guns To Protect Mike Pence. Parkland Survivors' Jaws Drop. Posted: 28 Apr 2018 06:23 PM PDT  Guns will be barred during Vice President Mike Pence's appearance at an
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| Arizona police officer shot by carjacking suspect dies Posted: 28 Apr 2018 10:30 AM PDT ![Arizona police officer shot by carjacking suspect dies]( "Arizona police officer shot by carjacking suspect dies") NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A police officer in the Arizona border city of Nogales was killed after he tried to stop a carjacking suspect.
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| The Great Game in Asia: How China Sees Taiwan Posted: 29 Apr 2018 04:39 PM PDT  For the Chinese Communist Party, Taiwan represents the final obstacle to truly concluding the Chinese Civil War. In the wake of China's live-fire drills in the Taiwan Strait, along with the largest naval drills in history of the People's Liberation Army Navy, the Republic of China's (Taiwan) status and meaning to the U.S.-China relationship is more prominent than ever.
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| Police Nab cop-killer Suspect After four-day Manhunt in Maine Posted: 28 Apr 2018 08:56 AM PDT  Police caught 29-year-old John Williams, the man authorities say killed Corporal Eugene Cole on Wednesday, after four days on the run.
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| Israeli military kills three Palestinians along Gaza Strip border Posted: 29 Apr 2018 01:40 PM PDT ![Israeli military kills three Palestinians along Gaza Strip border]( "Israeli military kills three Palestinians along Gaza Strip border") Israeli troops shot and killed three Palestinians along the border with the Gaza Strip in two separate incidents on Sunday, the Israeli military said. The shootings follow a month of violence along the Israel-Gaza border, where Palestinians have been holding protests every Friday pressing for the right of return for refugees and their descendants to what is now Israel. In the first incident on Sunday, two men "attempted to infiltrate" into Israel from the southern Gaza Strip, the military said in a statement.
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| Ford shifts focus, discontinues most passenger cars Posted: 28 Apr 2018 09:02 AM PDT  Ford announced this week that it's phasing out production for most of its traditional cars, excluding the Mustang and a new Focus crossover, in favor of larger vehicles.
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| Deal reached in Arizona after teachers' walkout; Colorado teachers also walk out Posted: 28 Apr 2018 01:49 PM PDT ![Deal reached in Arizona after teachers' walkout; Colorado teachers also walk out]( "Deal reached in Arizona after teachers' walkout; Colorado teachers also walk out") Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced a deal with state legislative leaders Friday to raise teachers' pay 20 percent by 2020, as educators stayed away from classrooms a second straight day in a spreading revolt over salaries and school funding. In a joint statement with Arizona Senate President Steve Yarbrough and House Speaker J.D. Mesnard, Ducey said the deal would also restore funding for schools that were cut in the last recession. The funds would be "flexible dollars for superintendents to use for support staff pay increases, update antiquated curriculum and improve school infrastructure – without raising taxes," the statement said.
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| Archaeologists find ancient mass child sacrifice in Peru Posted: 27 Apr 2018 06:02 PM PDT  LIMA, Peru (AP) — Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have found evidence of what could be the world's largest single case of child sacrifice.
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| Gang rape acquittal fires up Spain's feminist movement Posted: 27 Apr 2018 05:44 PM PDT  Spain's feminist movement is pushing for changes to the law after a court acquitted five men of gang raping an 18-year-old woman at Pamplona's bull-running festival. Protesters have filled streets across the country in response to appeals from women's groups, leading Spain's conservative government to announce it will consider changing rape laws. The issue also hogged the headlines of newspapers all around the country and an order of Carmelite nuns added their voices to the wave of condemnation of the court judgement.
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| 1,300-Pound Great White Shark Named Hilton Spotted Near Florida Panhandle Posted: 28 Apr 2018 03:37 PM PDT  A Twitter-famous shark turned up in a new location on Friday -- near the
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| Trump on Russian 'informant': Putin wants to make U.S. more chaotic Posted: 28 Apr 2018 11:02 AM PDT  Trump says Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, claiming to be an "informant" is only doing so because Putin wants to make the United States more chaotic.
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| Southwest Airlines sued after woman claims post-traumatic stress disorder following fatal engine explosion Posted: 28 Apr 2018 11:41 AM PDT  A passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight that made an emergency landing after an engine burst apart is suing the company, saying she has been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder sparked by the carriers' alleged negligence. Lilia Chavez was sitting three rows behind the window that was shattered by shrapnel from the exploding engine. Ms Chavez, a California native, has argued in her federally filed lawsuit that she has been suffering from PTSD, depression and other personal injuries since the fateful flight.
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| Special celebration for longtime Pittsburgh Pirates usher’s 100th birthday Posted: 28 Apr 2018 09:06 AM PDT  Phil Coyne is beloved in the Steel City, serving the Pittsburgh Pirates for 82 years as an usher. The team and his fans honored Coyne for his 100th birthday with a celebration at the ballpark he loves.
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| U.S. appeals court allows Texas to implement voter ID law Posted: 27 Apr 2018 07:31 PM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday allowed Texas to implement a law requiring photo identification at the ballot box, reversing a lower court decision that blocked the measure on the grounds it could be discriminatory against racial minorities. The panel said the new legislation enacted last year had "improvements for disadvantaged minority voters," the latest chapter in a seven-year dispute over voter ID at the ballot box in Texas, the most-populous Republican-controlled state.
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| 'Avengers: Infinity War' Just Had The Biggest Opening Weekend Ever Posted: 29 Apr 2018 01:41 PM PDT  "Avengers: Infinity War," the culmination of a 10-year Marvel film journey,
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| Russian Lawyer Who Met With Kushner And Donald Jr. Says She's A Kremlin 'Informant' Posted: 27 Apr 2018 06:10 PM PDT  The Russian lawyer who met with Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr. and other
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| The Latest: Slain deputy's handcuffs used to arrest suspect Posted: 28 Apr 2018 02:04 PM PDT  NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine (AP) — The Latest on the search for a suspect in the slaying of a Maine deputy sheriff (all times local):
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| Lynching memorial leaves some quietly seething: 'Let sleeping dogs lie' Posted: 28 Apr 2018 03:00 AM PDT  One mile away, another historical monument tells a very different tale about the American south: the First White House of the Confederacy celebrates the life of "renowned American patriot" Jefferson Davis, who served as the president of the Confederate states, while making virtually no mention of the hundreds of black people he and his family enslaved. The contradictions of Montgomery's historical narratives were on full display this week as thousands of tourists and progressive activists flocked to the city to mark the opening of the country's first memorial to lynching victims – while some locals quietly seethed, saying they resented the new museum for dredging up the past and feared it would incite anger and backlash within black communities. "It's going to cause an uproar and open old wounds," said Mikki Keenan, a 58-year-old longtime Montgomery resident, who was eating lunch at a southern country-style restaurant a mile from the memorial.
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| Mexico's Pemex back in black, but production drops Posted: 27 Apr 2018 06:03 PM PDT  Mexican state oil company Pemex returned to profit in the first quarter of the year, it reported Friday, but falling production continued to dog the firm. Pemex posted net profits of 113 billion pesos ($6.2 billion) from January to March, up 29 percent from the same period last year, and an improvement on its $18 billion loss in the last three months of 2017. Pemex, whose output peaked at 3.4 million barrels per day in 2004, has struggled for years with declining production.
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| 3 Siblings Are on Their Way to Recovery After The Accident That Killed Their Parents Posted: 29 Apr 2018 08:56 AM PDT  They are all in critical care.
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| Michelle Wolf performs stand-up routine at White House Correspondent's dinner Posted: 28 Apr 2018 08:41 PM PDT  Wolf's routine took shots at President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and the media.
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| Africa’s democratic 'laggards' must listen to calls for change - Liberia’s Johnson Sirleaf Posted: 28 Apr 2018 11:30 AM PDT  By Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) - African leaders resisting "democratic transformation" must heed their citizens' calls for change, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Saturday after receiving an award aimed at promoting good leadership on the continent. Without naming specific countries or leaders, she referred to "laggard" countries in the region of one billion people who are "not meeting democratic transformation". "Their own citizens are making the call for change and I don't think they can continue to resist or deny that call for change," Johnson Sirleaf told Reuters after accepting the award in Rwanda's capital Kigali.
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| Northrop Grumman Has a Smart Strategy for Business Success Posted: 29 Apr 2018 04:09 AM PDT  Northrop Grumman is only bidding on projects that the company believes will generate the best financial returns on its investments. Continuing a recent trend amongst major defense companies, Northrop Grumman is only bidding on projects that the company believes will generate the best financial returns on its investments. The company even ruled out bidding on certain programs where it is the incumbent, such as a new replacement electro-optical distributed aperture system (DAS)—the contract for which ended up going to Raytheon.
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| Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Photobombs Kellyanne Conway Posted: 28 Apr 2018 11:43 PM PDT  > LOL here's @MichaelAvenatti photobombing @KellyannePolls and @PressSec
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| Hundreds pay respects for woman slain in Waffle House attack Posted: 27 Apr 2018 07:23 PM PDT  GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — Hundreds of people thronged a Tennessee church on Friday, some hugging and crying, as they paid their respects for a college student killed in the weekend shooting rampage at a Waffle House.
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| RIP Larry Harvey: Burning Man's leading light dies at 70 Posted: 28 Apr 2018 02:26 PM PDT  Larry Harvey, the co-founder of the Burning Man festival who grew it from an event on a San Francisco beach to a desert arts festival of global significance, died Saturday. He was 70. Harvey had been hospitalized after a stroke on April 4, and had remained in critical condition. "Though we all hoped he would recover, he passed peacefully this morning at 8:24am in San Francisco, with members of his family at his side," wrote Burning Man CEO Marian Goodell in the organization's official announcement. SEE ALSO: Burning Man Isn't What You Think, and Never Has Been Harvey's story has already passed into countercultural legend. A former landscape gardener and carpenter, he and his friend Jerry James decided to burn a large wooden figure of a man on San Francisco's Baker Beach in 1986. The Burning Man event, repeated annually, began to draw exponentially increasing numbers of attendees — so many that Harvey and friends needed a new location where it could grow relatively unchecked by authorities. In 1990 they found one in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, and the week-long extravaganza of Burning Man began. Much of the event's energy in those early years was provided by the Cacophony Society, a culture-jamming collective of California artists. But it was Harvey who became the face and the driving force behind Burning Man's expansion. After a particularly anarchic version of the festival in 1996, in which one participant ran his car over a number of people in tents, Harvey oversaw Burning Man's transformation into Black Rock City — a temporary urban environment with roads, gas lamps and an army of volunteers. Harvey was a self-educated deep thinker who would never use one word where a paragraph would do. He was often to be found delivering lectures and giving interviews, his signature cowboy hat never far from his head. But that ceaseless brain provided the philosophy and principles that made Burning Man what it is today — a year-round global network with 85 official regional events on six continents. He insisted that the event resist commercialization, so that even now, with around 70,000 regular annual attendees, the only things you can buy with actual money at Burning Man are ice and coffee. He balanced the "radical self reliance" needed to survive in the harsh desert environment with a "gift economy" culture — encouraging participants to offer goods and services freely to others in the name of community. Harvey insisted that everyone think of themselves as a participant and a provider; at Burning Man, there were to be "no spectators." Indeed, the volunteerism rate at Black Rock City — roughly 70% of attendees get involved with one of the events' many sub-organizations such as the Lamplighters or the Department of Public Works — has amazed the urban planners and city managers who made the pilgrimage. Burning Man's fame soon far outgrew the numbers who made the actual trek to Black Rock. In particular, Silicon Valley took to the event with a vengeance. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were regular attendees. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were not only enthusiastic Burners themselves, but chose their CEO, Eric Schmidt, because he was the only candidate who had been to Burning Man. SEE ALSO: Make Burning Man suck again! Harvey allowed and accommodated the increasing number of celebrities (such as Kanye West and Katy Perry) to attend. He weathered storms of grumbles from old-time Burners over the "turnkey" camps that accommodated the rich, pointing out that only 2 percent of attendees were members of society's wealthiest 1 percent. He soothed the event's constant conflicts with its landlords at the Bureau of Land Management, and encouraged the artists whose work has spread out from the festival, now installed in locations such as Las Vegas and the San Francisco Bay Bridge. But his mind was forever on the philosophy behind the event and the good it could do in the world at large. Burning Man was never just a party or an arts festival to Harvey; it was what anarchists call a Temporary Autonomous Zone, a space to try different ways of living, that would inspire change back in the "default world." Harvey called Burning Man a "hundred year movement," and felt that regional events known as "burns" would soon overtake the need for one central Burning Man. And still it grew. Every year Harvey designated a theme for the event — from the simple ("Floating World," a nod to the prehistoric lake bed of Black Rock) to the historical ("Da Vinci's Workshop") to the obscure ("Caravansary"). Some themes were more successful than others, but they all inspired jaw-dropping art and playfully improvised theme camps. Harvey had initially set up Burning Man as a private corporation — one that began to take in more than $10 million in annual ticket revenue. (Its expenditure often matched that, not least because the BLM kept raising its land use fees). Facing down criticism on this front, Harvey turned the organization into a nonprofit. He ceded day-to-day management to Goodell, his dear friend and colleague for 22 years, and designated himself Chief Philosophical Officer. A sign above his office door read "Larry Harvey does not exist." But he did. He most definitely did, and he changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who have attended the event and found it to be transformational. "Larry Harvey had an idea and because of that idea my life changed forever," wrote one attendee on Facebook who first got together with her husband at the event. "That idea brought me dozens of amazing friends from across the globe, obscene amounts of fun, broken bones, an empty wallet, dreadful over-confidence, desert survival skills (sometimes), the ability to cook dinner for 50 people in tent in a sandstorm, some beautiful corsets, a half-share in a lock-up garage in Reno, camping kit that's eternally full of gypsum, and the love of my life." Harvey is survived by a son, a brother, a nephew, and a hundred-year movement.
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| Saudi Aramco appoints first woman to board of directors Posted: 29 Apr 2018 04:46 AM PDT  Saudi national oil giant Aramco said Sunday that five new members had been appointed to its board of directors, including the first woman in the firm's history. Lynn Laverty Elsenhans, 60, is the former head of US oil company Sunoco Inc. and has been director of oil services company Baker Hughes since July last year. Other newly-appointed Aramco board members include Minister of Finance Mohammed al-Jadaan, while Energy Minister Khaled al-Faleh was retained as the company's chairman, state-owned Aramco said in a statement.
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| Five universities revoke Bill Cosby's honorary degrees after sexual assault conviction Posted: 27 Apr 2018 06:57 PM PDT  Five universities, including his alma mater, have rescinded comedian Bill Cosby's honorary degrees in the wake of his sexual assault conviction. "As a university, we stand in firm opposition to sexual assault, whether on our campuses or elsewhere," said Johns Hopkins University spokesman Dennis O'Shea said in a statement. "The university will not tolerate sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking or sexual harassment," added Carnegie Mellon in an unsigned statement.
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| 'My gladiator lay down his shield': Toddler Alfie Evans dies in Britain Posted: 28 Apr 2018 06:07 AM PDT  Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old British toddler whose grave illness drew international attention, died early on Saturday, his family said. Alfie had a rare, degenerative disease and had been in a semi-vegetative state for more than a year. After a series of court cases, doctors at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool removed his life support on Monday, against his parents wishes.
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| IS 'emir' killed in southern Yemen: police Posted: 28 Apr 2018 04:00 AM PDT  A top Islamic State group leader was killed and three others arrested in a government raid on Saturday in southern Yemen, police said. Saleh Nasr Fadl al-Bakhshi, self-proclaimed "emir" of the radical group's branch in the Aden and Abyan regions, was killed in the raid on an IS hideout in government-held territory, a senior officer with Aden's police force told AFP. The government of Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi has been based in southern Yemen since 2015, after Shiite Huthi rebels drove it from the capital Sanaa and much of the country's north, prompting a Saudi-led military intervention.
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| Kim Vows to Close North Korea Nuclear Weapons Test Site by May, South Korea Says Posted: 29 Apr 2018 06:40 AM PDT  Kim's comments could indicate his biggest step towards denuclearization so far
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| Tesla owner who turned on car's autopilot then sat in passenger seat while travelling on the M1 banned from driving Posted: 28 Apr 2018 05:03 AM PDT  A man who switched on his car's autopilot before moving to the passenger seat while travelling along a motorway has been banned from driving for 18 months. Bhavesh Patel, aged 39, of Alfreton Road, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving at St Albans Crown Court on Friday, April 20. The court heard that at 7.40pm on May 21, 2017, Patel was driving his white Tesla S 60 along the northbound carriageway of the M1, between junctions 8 and 9 near Hemel Hempstead. While the £70,000 car was in motion, he chose to switch on the supercar's autopilot function before moving across to the passenger seat and leaving the steering wheel and foot controls completely unmanned. A witness noticed Patel, who had owned the car for a maximum of five months at the time of the incident, sat in the passenger seat of the vehicle. Tesla founder Elon Musk Credit: Joe Skipper/Reuters No one could be seen in the driver's seat and Patel appeared to have his hands behind his head. The witness, who was a passenger in another car, filmed Patel as the car drove past. Witness accounts stated that traffic was heavy due to congestion and it has been estimated that the vehicle was travelling at approximately 40mph at the time. Footage of the incident was first posted on social media before it was reported to police and a Notice of Intended Prosecution was then sent to Patel in the post. He was later interviewed by officers at Stevenage Police Station, where he admitted that he knew what he had done was 'silly', but that the car was capable of something 'amazing' and that he was just the 'unlucky one who got caught'. As part of the investigation, officers obtained a statement from a Tesla engineer who described autopilot as a 'suite of driver assistance features'. Tesla Model 3 puff They stated that these are hands-on features intended to provide assistance to a 'fully-attentive driver'. Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) assists with acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle whilst Autosteer provides assistance with steering of the vehicle. Further literature provided by Tesla states that drivers should 'never depend on TACC to adequately slow down model S, always watch the road in front of you and be prepared to take corrective action at all times. Failure to do so can result in serious injury or death'. Investigating officer PC Kirk Caldicutt, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Road Policing Unit, said: "What Patel did was grossly irresponsible and could have easily ended in tragedy. He not only endangered his own life but the lives of other innocent people using the motorway on that day. History of Tesla "This case should serve as an example to all drivers who have access to autopilot controls and have thought about attempting something similar. I want to stress that they are in no way a substitute for a competent motorist in the driving seat who can react appropriately to the road ahead. "I hope Patel uses his disqualification period to reflect on why he chose to make such a reckless decision on that day." In addition to his 18-month disqualification, Patel was given 100 hours unpaid work, ordered to carry out 10 days rehabilitation and pay £1,800 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.
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| What the T-Mobile Merger With Sprint Means for Consumers Posted: 29 Apr 2018 01:02 PM PDT  T-Mobile and Sprint Sunday unveiled a deal to merge in a bid to better compete with AT&T and Verizon, a move that also would shrink the number of major players in the cellular industry to just th...
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| Detroit police seek to end citywide paintball battle Posted: 27 Apr 2018 07:10 PM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — Stepped up police enforcement is planned this weekend in Detroit to quell a social media-publicized citywide paintball war that — so far — has resulted in six arrests and left an unmarked patrol car splattered.
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| Tesla Self-Driving Architect Leaves Company Posted: 29 Apr 2018 09:00 AM PDT  As Autopilot comes under increasing fire.
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| The Best Of Brabus - 40 Years Of Finest German Tuning Posted: 28 Apr 2018 11:19 AM PDT |
| Madagascar's president rules out resignation despite protests Posted: 29 Apr 2018 11:51 AM PDT  Madagascar's President Hery Rajaonarimampianina on Sunday refused to yield to opposition demands that he resign from office, following eight days of anti-government protests in the capital. The opposition accuses the government of trying to elbow them out of the race through new electoral laws they claim benefit the incumbent. The protests erupted last week and on the first day two people were killed and at least 16 people wounded, with the police accused of firing real bullets at the crowd.
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| Retired Officer in Disbelief After Seeing His Former Colleague Named as Golden State Killer Posted: 28 Apr 2018 08:37 AM PDT  A man who used to work with Joseph James DeAngelo, the alleged Golden State Killer and a former cop, says he`s lucky to be alive after working with the man.
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| Israel briefly holds Lebanese woman who crossed border: army Posted: 29 Apr 2018 01:05 AM PDT ![Israel briefly holds Lebanese woman who crossed border: army]( "Israel briefly holds Lebanese woman who crossed border: army") BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's army said on Sunday that it had briefly held a Lebanese woman who crossed the border and then repatriated her, a detention Beirut denounced as an abduction. The Lebanese army said that the woman, Nohad Dali, was taken on Saturday evening from Shebaa, a small disputed area that Israel regards as part of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967, but which Beirut says is Lebanese territory. "An Israeli enemy patrol carried out the abduction of Nohad Dali," a Lebanese army statement said.
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| Nicaragua student protesters put conditions on talks Posted: 28 Apr 2018 05:00 PM PDT  University students at the forefront of anti-government unrest in Nicaragua on Saturday issued conditions for talks with the government of President Daniel Ortega. In a bid to calm the situation, 72-year-old veteran leader Ortega has agreed to hold talks, but the framework has not yet been defined. The students told a news conference in Managua that their demands must be met for them to take part.
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