| Donald Trump Jr. retweets Roseanne Barr's discredited George Soros claims Posted: 29 May 2018 01:12 PM PDT  Donald Trump Jr. saw fit to retweet Roseanne Barr's claims that billionaire Democratic donor George Soros was "a Nazi."
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| The Right-To-Try Bill Puts Patients At Risk In The Name Of Helping Them Posted: 30 May 2018 12:04 PM PDT  Congress recently approved the federal right-to-try bill after a months-long
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| Mom Blasts Southwest Airlines For Asking To 'Prove' Biracial Son Was Hers Posted: 30 May 2018 02:14 PM PDT  A Southwest Airlines employee asked a college basketball coach over the
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| 2,000 People Evacuated in North Carolina After Alberto Triggers Mudslides and Flooding Posted: 30 May 2018 07:11 AM PDT  Mudslides triggered by the soggy remnants of Alberto forced evacuations below a dam and closed an interstate highway in the western mountains of North Carolina on Wednesday
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| Photos: 17 injured following pileup in dense fog in Southern California Posted: 30 May 2018 01:35 PM PDT  Over a dozen cars were involved in a chain-reaction pileup near Cajon Pass in Southern California on Wednesday morning amid dense fog.
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| Mississippi Delta: Still the heart of poverty Posted: 30 May 2018 02:00 AM PDT ![Mississippi Delta: Still the heart of poverty]( "Mississippi Delta: Still the heart of poverty") Photos: Yahoo News national correspondent Holly Bailey journeyed to the Mississippi Delta to find lingering poverty and racial disparities that profoundly moved both Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy fifty years earlier.
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| Bernie Sanders 'is considering another run for the presidency,' former campaign manager says Posted: 29 May 2018 08:44 AM PDT  Jeff Weaver, who managed Sen. Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential bid, says the Vermont independent "is considering another run" in 2020.
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| Japanese whaling programme slaughtered 122 pregnant minke whales on ‘barbaric and illegal’ hunt Posted: 30 May 2018 03:35 AM PDT  Animal rights activists have expressed outrage after a report on Japan's "scientific whaling" programme showed that more than two-thirds of the female minke whales harpooned in the Southern Ocean earlier this year were pregnant females. The report, submitted to a meeting of the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission in Slovenia earlier this month, also showed that 53 of the 333 whales slaughtered were juvenile animals. "The killing of 122 pregnant whales is a shocking statistic and sad indictment on the cruelty of Japan's whale hunt", said Alexia Wellbelove, of the Australia branch of Humane Society International. "It is further demonstration, if needed, of the truly gruesome and unnecessary nature of whaling operations, especially when non-lethal surveys have been shown to be sufficient for scientific needs", she said. Activists accuse Tokyo of ignoring a ruling in 2014 by the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, that Japan's whaling was a commercial exercise rather than a scientific research programme and that it had to halt. Japanese whaling vessel the Nisshin Maru returns to the Shimonoseki port in southwestern Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo on March 31, 2017, after it and two other vessels hunted 333 minke whales in the Antarctic Ocean Tokyo, which provides large subsidies to keep its domestic whaling industry afloat, responded by adding new research procedures and resuming operations in 2015 with a quota of 333 minke whales. To protect itself from further legal challenges, Japan also withdrew its recognition of the International Court of Justice as an arbiter of disputes over whales. Whale meat used to be an important source of nutrition for the Japanese but little is consumed by the general public today. Instead, whale meat is served in school meals and a handful of specialist restaurants, with the rest frozen or used as pet food. A spokesman for the environmental group Sea Shepherd said it appeared that the Japanese whaling fleet had been "targeting pregnant females, for some reason". Bob Brown, the former head of the Australian Green Party and founder of an environmental foundation, told The Telegraph that the harpooning of pregnant whales was "barbaric and illegal". "These are the most gentle of whales and people go to the Great Barrier Reef just to rub noses with these creatures", he said. "Then they fall pregnant, go to the Southern Ocean and get harpooned by the Japanese while the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the US and everywhere else sit on their hands and say this criminal behaviour is okay because the Japanese government is funding it. "The leaders who are today failing to take action have the blood of these innocent whales on their hands," he said. "This is an international disgrace and an environmental crime".
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| Virginia Adopts Medicaid Expansion, Promising Health Coverage To Almost 400,000 Posted: 30 May 2018 02:05 PM PDT  Medicaid expansion is coming to Virginia after the state's legislature
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| The Latest: Girl seriously wounded in school attack improves Posted: 28 May 2018 10:25 PM PDT  NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on a science teacher shot while tackling an armed student in Indiana (all times local):
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| Union: Strike would cost top Vegas casinos over $10M a day Posted: 30 May 2018 02:52 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The union representing thousands of Las Vegas casino workers estimated Wednesday that the two largest resort operators would lose more than $10 million a day combined if housekeepers, cooks and others go on strike at any time starting Friday.
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| The Mali 'Spider-Man' Was Offered French Citizenship. What About the Muslim Migrants Who Aren't Superheroes? Posted: 30 May 2018 07:11 AM PDT  The coverage of Malian migrant Mamoudou Gassama reveals a great deal about our attitude toward migrants, particularly Muslim ones
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| US to keep confronting Beijing in S. China Sea: Mattis Posted: 29 May 2018 02:43 PM PDT  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis vowed Tuesday that the US would keep confronting China over its territorial claims in the South China Sea, where Beijing has established a significant military presence on contested islands. Mattis's remarks came after Beijing voiced "strong dissatisfaction" Sunday after two US warships sailed by an island in the disputed Paracel Island chain. "You'll notice there's only one country that seems to take active steps to rebuff (such operations) or state their resentment of them, but it's international waters and a lot of nations want to see freedom of navigation, so we will continue that," Mattis told reporters as he flew to Hawaii.
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| Roman Abramovich becomes an Israeli citizen a month after his UK visa was delayed Posted: 29 May 2018 02:54 AM PDT  Roman Abramovish has become an Israeli citizen a month after the UK delayed renewing his visa in a move that could allow him to return without one. The Chelsea FC owner, who is Jewish, exercised his right under Israel's Law of Return, which states that Jews from anywhere in the world can become citizens of Israel. The oligarch, worth an estimated £8.6 billion, instantly became Israel's wealthiest person after receiving his citizenship yesterday. The 51-year-old had been travelling in and out of the UK for years on a Tier-1 investor visa, designed for wealthy foreigners who invest at least £2 million in Britain. He applied to renew the visa in April but did not immediately receive approval from the Home Office amid diplomatic tension between London and Moscow. It is unclear if the UK decided to reject his application permanently but a source familiar with the matter told The Daily Telegraph that the renewal process seemed to be taking an unusually long time. Amber Rudd ordered a review of the visa status of wealthy Russians after the Salisbury nerve agent attack Credit: Jack Taylor/Getty Images Europe Mr Abramovich is believed to have returned to Russia after his visa expired. He did not attend Chelsea's 1-0 win over Manchester United in the FA Cup at Wembley on May 19. Israeli passport holders can travel to Britain without a visa for short periods of time, and can stay as long as six months. Russians must apply for a visa from the British Embassy in Moscow if they wish to travel to Britain. Mr Abramovich's decision comes after the Government suggested it would take a harder line on Russian oligarchs in Britain following the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March. Q&A | Roman Abramovich's visa His private G650 jet touched down at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport on Monday and he was immediately granted Israeli citizenship. A spokesman for the Israeli interior ministry said he applied at the Israeli embassy in Moscow and was found eligible for citizenship after proving his Jewish heritage. "He filed a request to receive an immigration permit, his documents were checked according to the Law of Return, and he was indeed found eligible," the spokesman told Israel's Channel 10 news. Mr Abramovich previously purchased a £17.1 mansion in Tel Aviv's upmarket Neve Tzedek neighbourhood. The house was a former hotel and Mr Abramovich bought it from the husband of Gal Gadot, the Israeli actress who starred in Wonderwoman.
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| Fast lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano closes highway Posted: 30 May 2018 02:29 AM PDT ![Fast lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano closes highway]( "Fast lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano closes highway") By Jolyn Rosa HONOLULU (Reuters) - Fast-moving lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano forced officials to close part of a highway on Tuesday, and they warned that sharp, thin strands of volcanic glass fibers carried by the wind could injure eyes and lungs. As lava crossed Highway 132, officials shut a stretch of road from Lava Tree State Park to Four Corners and told residents who had not evacuated to leave the area immediately. The lava flow destroyed a farm where Kevin Hopkins and partners raise tropical fish and the ornamental carp known as koi.
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| Paris Jackson Explains Why She Left Dior Show: 'I Do Not Support Animals Being Branded & Whipped' Posted: 29 May 2018 07:19 PM PDT  Paris Jackson is breaking her silence after abruptly leaving the Dior fashion show
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| Who Is Kim Yong Chol? North Korea’s 'Go-To Diplomat' And Ex-Spy Chief Headed To U.S. Posted: 30 May 2018 02:37 AM PDT  President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Kim Yong Chol, North Korea's top
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| Supreme Court Blocks Appeal, Allowing Arkansas To Restrict Medical Abortions Posted: 29 May 2018 09:02 AM PDT  The Supreme Court refused to hear a case from a Planned Parenthood affiliate
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| Pompeii: New find shows man crushed trying to flee eruption Posted: 29 May 2018 08:28 AM PDT  MILAN (AP) — Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site have announced a dramatic new discovery, the skeleton of a man crushed by an enormous stone while trying to flee the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
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| Showdown in the South China Sea: Why China or America Won't Backdown Posted: 29 May 2018 07:32 AM PDT  The South China Sea is once again rapidly becoming a major point of contention between Washington and Beijing, with both sides refusing to back down. Two U.S. Navy warships — the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins and Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam — conducted a freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea Saturday, sailing within twelve nautical miles of several Chinese-controlled islands in the Paracels, territories the Chinese military forcefully seized from Vietnam in the 1970s. Asserting that the American vessels entered China's territorial waters "without the permission of the Chinese government," the Chinese Ministry of National Defense explained that the Chinese military "immediately dispatched warships to identify and inspect the American ships according to law, and warned them to depart." This claim has not been verified.
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| Ethiopian govt and opposition start talks on amending anti-terrorism law Posted: 30 May 2018 06:51 AM PDT  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling coalition started talks with opposition groups on Wednesday on amending provisions of an anti-terrorism law that critics say has criminalised dissent, state-affiliated media said. Watchdog groups say the 2009 law's broad definitions have been used indiscriminately against anyone who opposes government policy. The discussions follow the release on Tuesday of opposition leader Andargachew Tsige, who was sentenced to death under the law in 2009 over his role in the opposition group Ginbot 7, which the government has labelled a terrorist organisation.
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| Evacuation orders canceled in North Carolina after officials deem Lake Tahoma Dam safe Posted: 30 May 2018 12:58 AM PDT  Heavy rainfall led to a landslide that compromised the Lake Tahoma Dam in western North Carolina early Wednesday morning.
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| Donald Trump Says He Wishes He Hadn't Picked Jeff Sessions As Attorney General Posted: 30 May 2018 06:01 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Wednesday threw Attorney General Jeff Sessions under
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| Was Starbucks' Racial Bias Training Effective? Here's What These Employees Thought Posted: 29 May 2018 09:01 PM PDT  "I was angry we had to educate people on how to not be racist"
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| The Latest: Searchers find body of missing Maryland man Posted: 29 May 2018 10:52 AM PDT  ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — The Latest on the aftermath of Maryland's flash flooding (all times local):
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| British passenger dies after falling from plane at Dalaman airport in Turkey Posted: 30 May 2018 05:52 AM PDT  A British man died after falling from a plane on to a runway at Dalaman airport in south-west Turkey early on Tuesday morning. Local media reported that staff were trying to remove the 30-year-old when he fell from a door. The unconscious passenger was taken to hospital where he was found to have broken ribs. The man - named by a relative as Andrew Westlake - never regained consciousness before dying later that day, according to Hurriyet newspaper. It reported that the man had spent three days at the airport waiting for a flight home after losing his ticket. After finally boarding the aircraft at 3am he became argumentative with cabin crew and was ordered off the plane as a risk to flight safety. Dalaman airport serves the south-west of Turkey, including resorts such as Marmaris Credit: Alamy Stock Photo An investigation has been launched. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are supporting the family of a British man following his death in Turkey and are in touch with the local authorities." Dalaman airport is one of the country's busiest and serves seaside resorts including Marmaris and Fethiye, which are popular with British tourists. Some four million passengers pass through the airport each year, and it handles airlines including EasyJet and seasonal charters operated by Thomson Airways.
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| Don't let lava stop you from visiting Hawaii Posted: 29 May 2018 10:34 PM PDT  The images are downright apocalyptic. With plumes of ash and glowing lava, the area around Mount Kilauea looks more like Mordor than a tropical paradise. That hasn't been great for tourism. National Park System economist Lynne Koontz told the New York Times the local economy is losing $455,000 per day. SEE ALSO: Can I roast a marshmallow over lava? Still, if you've got a plane ticket to Hawaii, there's no need to cancel your trip — you'll probably be fine. First of all, the Big Island of Hawaii is, well, big. The volcano is erupting on a tiny corner of an island that measures more than 4,000 square miles, which is more than double the area of the entire state of Delaware. Most of the big resorts are in Kona, on the island's west side. That's about 100 miles from the volcano. Concord University volcanologist Janine Krippner put the danger in perspective in this tweet: The #Kilauea eruption is affecting people. People are losing their homes. This is serious. But this is a big island and this eruption is being exaggerated just a little, don't ya think?Thank you, who ever made this image: pic.twitter.com/O6MJxY4N5q — Dr Janine Krippner (@janinekrippner) May 23, 2018 As a tourist, you'd have to go out of your way to be affected by the lava. Also, the state of Hawaii is made up of eight main islands, which are separated by large swaths of the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is actually pretty spread out.Image: Google Honolulu, on Oahu, is located more than 200 miles from the volcano. That's farther than New York City is from Boston. Kauai — the lush Garden Isle of Hawaii — is even farther. (Most of the island was unscathed by the floods that hit in April, although some communities are still in need of aid.) Now, if you are going to the Big Island, you'll have to cancel your trip to the closed Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The eastern part of the island around Mount Kilauea is indeed dangerous. In Pahoa, a man trying to save his friend's house from fire was hit by a red-hot "lava bomb" that snapped the bones in his leg. The Leilani Estates community has been hit especially hard. Avoid this area.Image: USGSAnother problem: Kilauea is releasing vapor, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide into the air, which can lead to volcanic smog, aka "vog." Vog can irritate eyes and cause respiratory problems, especially in people with pre-existing respiratory conditions and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Krippner said in an email. So far, most of the vog has blown offshore, although it can travel to the western side of the Big Island and even other islands if the conditions are right. The University of Hawaii's Vog Measurement and Prediction Project (VMAP) is a useful tool for monitoring the spread of vog. The threat of vog — and "laze," a toxic haze created when lava hits seawater — is higher the closer you are to active fissures. Obviously, if there's lava flowing nearby, you're going to want to stay away. None of this is to diminish the need for humanitarian and government aid in Hawaii. More than 70 houses and other buildings have been destroyed and more than 2,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes. But overblown fears could damage Hawaii's already hurting tourism industry. "I don't think people should be largely concerned if they are healthy, listening to the authorities ... and if they are prepared ahead of time," said Krippner. (Tourists would be wise to bookmark the sites for the USGS and Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency.) "If I had travel plans to Hawai'i," she said, "I would still be going." WATCH: Exploring volcanoes with robots: a day in the life of Carolyn Parcheta
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| Singapore Airlines to launch world's longest flight Posted: 30 May 2018 08:51 AM PDT  Singapore Airlines said on Wednesday that it will relaunch the world's longest commercial flight in October, a journey of almost 19 hours from the city-state to New York, but it will not be available to economy travellers. The daily, non-stop journey from Changi to Newark Airport will cover about 16,700 kilometres (10,300 miles) and take about 18 hours 45 minutes, the airline said in a statement. The current record holder is Qatar Airways Flight 921 from Auckland to Doha, which takes 17 hours 40 minutes.
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| Uber and Lyft subpoenaed for employment records after landmark gig economy ruling Posted: 29 May 2018 01:23 PM PDT  San Francisco's city attorney has demanded that Uber and Lyft turn over employment records after a California high court ruling that could reshape the gig economy. Technology firms that allow people to perform discrete tasks for money - like driving passengers to their destination - typically classify those workers as independent contractors, rather than full-time employees, a designation that means they are not entitled to wage and benefit guarantees. The California Supreme Court recently threw that business model into doubt by ruling that companies must meet a series of conditions to prove workers should be independent contractors.
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| China's Just Gave the World a Preview of Its Naval Future Posted: 30 May 2018 04:32 AM PDT  Chinese papers and military buffs are hailing the historic rendezvous of the two seagoing airbases, relishing the picture-perfect occasion of two huge vessels moored alongside each other. Liaoning is back at her homeport of Dalian in the northeastern Chinese province it is named after for scheduled maintenance as well as R&R for her crew, having spent the majority of the first half of the year at sea. The last time Liaoning was in dry-dock was in May 2014, in the same berth where the Soviet-era vessel was retrofitted.
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| Giuliani Says He Might Have Recused Himself From Russia Probe Too Posted: 30 May 2018 10:40 AM PDT  WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said that he can
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| Jada Pinkett Smith And Gabrielle Union Settle 'Petty' Feud Once And For All Posted: 29 May 2018 07:37 AM PDT  The best daytime talk show isn't even on TV. No, it's Jada Pinkett Smith's
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| Man tied to California blast victim freed, charge dropped Posted: 29 May 2018 05:23 PM PDT  LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man arrested on suspicion of having explosives after a blast killed his ex-girlfriend at her day spa has walked free after U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday that they had dropped the charge against him.
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| Kendall Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian Pose in Sexy Bikinis for 'Low-Key' Memorial Day Weekend Posted: 29 May 2018 09:51 AM PDT  Kendall Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian spent their Memorial Day at the pool, showing off their summer-ready figures in sultry bikinis.
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| Tesla Model 3 Performance Fans Just Got Some Incredible News From Elon Musk Posted: 29 May 2018 09:43 AM PDT  New, more powerful cars could be arriving soon.
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| Kim Yong Chol: N. Korean leader's hawkish right-hand man Posted: 30 May 2018 04:40 AM PDT  The hawkish North Korean general on his way to New York for pre-summit talks is a skillful politician who has thrived through three generations of the ruling Kim family. Kim Yong Chol, described as Kim Jong Un's right-hand man, left Beijing on Wednesday bound for the North's "imperialist enemy" where he will meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and possibly Donald Trump. The man blamed by South Korea for the 2010 sinking of a warship that killed 46 sailors will become the most senior North Korean to step on US soil in nearly two decades.
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| France offers citizenship to Malian immigrant who scaled building to save child Posted: 28 May 2018 11:32 PM PDT ![France offers citizenship to Malian immigrant who scaled building to save child]( "France offers citizenship to Malian immigrant who scaled building to save child") France on Monday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said. Video shows Mamoudou Gassama, 22, risking his life on Sunday as he climbed up the balconies to rescue the four-year-old who is clinging to a railing and glancing at the ground below, while horrified onlookers watched. The video went viral and Gassama, who has been nicknamed "Spider-Man" for reaching the boy in the nick of time, was swiftly granted a meeting at the Elysee Palace.
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| Ivanka Trump embodies her father's family values Posted: 29 May 2018 03:00 AM PDT  Ivanka Trump holds her son Theodore alongside her husband Jared Kushner in the East Room of the White House. Bush badly misjudged his party, as well as his own powers of persuasion. Now, under his Republican successor, it is official US policy to deny family values for the undocumented migrants who cross the Rio Grande.
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| Ted Cruz's Attempt At Tweeting Sports Did Not Go Well Posted: 29 May 2018 01:51 AM PDT  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tried to show some support on Twitter for the Houston
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