| Trump says Kim 'loves his people.' Human rights groups beg to differ. Posted: 13 Jun 2018 06:57 AM PDT  President Trump emerged from his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday by heaping praise on a dictator who is considered among the worst human rights abusers in the world.
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| Big hairy eyeball of an IG report to be released Thursday Posted: 13 Jun 2018 03:19 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow reminds viewers that the inspector general's report on the FBI and Justice Department's handling of the Clinton e-mail investigation is expected to be released Thursday afternoon. All 500 pages of it.
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| Woman Says Neil Armstrong Gave Her A Vial Of Moon Dust, Sues NASA To Keep It Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:23 PM PDT  A Tennessee woman is proactively suing NASA to keep what she says is a vial of
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| Mom killed in front of her 3 young children during carjacking: 'I'm sorry. I think I'm about to die' Posted: 14 Jun 2018 07:57 AM PDT  A Missouri mother was shot dead in front of her three young children during a
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| High-Climbing Raccoon Finally Reaches Top Of St. Paul Skyscraper And America Exhales Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:19 AM PDT  A raccoon who captured the nation's attention by climbing 20 stories up the
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| Trump turns his back on Michael Cohen at crucial point in case Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:44 PM PDT  Emily Jane Fox, senior reporter for Vanity Fair, talks with Rachel Maddow about the betrayal Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen feels at losing the support of Trump, to whom he has devoted so much of his life's work.
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| Bode Miller's Daughter Wandered Off and Fell Into Swimming Pool in Matter of Moments, Authorities Say Posted: 14 Jun 2018 08:20 AM PDT  19-month-old Emeline was not in the pool long when she was discovered Saturday.
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| Indonesian students fast, and study, during Ramadan Posted: 14 Jun 2018 10:55 AM PDT ![Indonesian students fast, and study, during Ramadan]( "Indonesian students fast, and study, during Ramadan") For students at one of Indonesia's oldest Islamic boarding schools, the holy month of Ramadan doesn't only mean fasting from dawn till dusk. It also means intensive study of the Koran.
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| In primaries, Republican candidates can't love Donald Trump enough Posted: 13 Jun 2018 10:08 AM PDT  In South Carolina, the candidate who loved President Trump best, state Rep. Katie Arrington, defeated incumbent Rep. Mark Sanford, who voted with Trump a mere 89 percent of the time and accused him of incompetence and promoting bigotry.
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| Target Apologizes For Father's Day 'Baby Daddy' Cards Posted: 14 Jun 2018 08:17 AM PDT  Target apologized and pulled a Father's Day card off its shelves after it drew
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| GOP is becoming 'a cultish thing,' Republican senator says Posted: 13 Jun 2018 11:24 AM PDT  "It's not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that happens to be, purportedly, of the same party," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee.
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| Michael Cohen parts with lawyers as case enters new phase Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:28 PM PDT  Emily Jane Fox, senior reporter for Vanity Fair, talks with Rachel Maddow about what is means (if anything) that Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen has parted ways with his lawyers...
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| NASA rover knocked out as gigantic dust storm envelops Mars Posted: 13 Jun 2018 03:12 PM PDT  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's seemingly unstoppable Mars rover Opportunity has been knocked out by a gigantic dust storm that is enveloping the red planet and blotting out the sun.
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| YouTube Stars Shamed by Internet Trolls Over Size of Engagement Ring Posted: 14 Jun 2018 10:20 AM PDT  Among messages of congratulations were comments that mocked the ring presented to Jen Phanomrat by her fiance, Leo Samanamud.
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| EPA workforce 'disgusted' by Scott Pruitt's scandals and priorities, official says Posted: 13 Jun 2018 05:39 PM PDT  A demoralized workforce watching as its agency is dismantled by the very people charged to lead it: That is the grim state of affairs depicted by John J. O'Grady, a longtime employee in the Chicago field office of the Environmental Protection Agency, which is tasked with protecting the nation's air and water, while preventing the exposure of citizens to harmful chemicals. The agency is doing none of that, in O'Grady's telling, with career officials watching in dismay as EPA administrator Scott Pruitt seemingly lurches from one scandal to another while doing the bidding of oil barons and the chemical lobby. "Morale is not good," O'Grady said of the agency's 14,000 employees.
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| Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Way Faster Than Expected, Scientists Warn Posted: 14 Jun 2018 05:23 AM PDT  The Antarctic ice sheet is melting at a faster rate than at any previously
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| Hillary Clinton masterfully mocks James Comey over his misuse of private email Posted: 14 Jun 2018 04:00 PM PDT  "But her emails." It's become a meme at this point. The Republican party — and Trump campaign — made such a huge stinkin' deal about Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, that any time a more serious scandal enveloped the right, people would mock the time and effort spent trying to "lock her up." The phrase has also been used jokingly to insult Trump supporters for latching onto the email scandal for so long, while there's plenty of better things to be concerned about. a man in a MAGA hat stumbles out of his basement, choking on dust and radioactive fallout"but her emails!" he whispers, before dying — tom (@toms_spaghetti) May 15, 2017 So, when it was revealed on Thursday that former FBI director James Comey used a personal email account for official government business by the Justice Department's internal watchdog, many saw the irony. You know, considering it was Comey who issued a statement in October 2016 — just 11 days before the election — saying the FBI was reopening its investigation into Clinton's email use. "But my emails," Clinton tweeted on Thursday in response to a tweet from a Politico reporter highlighting Comey's own email missteps. But my emails. https://t.co/G7TIWDEG0p — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 14, 2018 The watchdog report also concluded that Comey's handling of Clinton's email investigation was "extraordinary and insubordinate" but was not motivated by political boas. Well, if anything, Clinton has proved once again that she is truly a killer of memes. First the "delete your account" meme, and now "but her emails." Thanks, Hillary. WATCH: These trees have lived for 2,500 years. Now they're suddenly dying
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| 'Like Dominoes.' Brushfire Destroys Homes in Utah Tourist Town as Wildfires Menace U.S. West Posted: 13 Jun 2018 07:11 PM PDT  A fast-moving brush fire destroyed eight homes in the Utah tourist town of Moab, while more than 3,000 people in Colorado and Wyoming fled multiple wildfires scorching the drought-stricken U.S. West on Wednesday.
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| New Jersey's Tough Gun Laws Just Got Even Stronger Posted: 13 Jun 2018 11:52 AM PDT  New Jersey gun laws, long considered among the nation's strongest, became even
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| Iran arrests human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh after she criticised judiciary Posted: 13 Jun 2018 07:08 AM PDT  One of Iran's most prominent human rights lawyers has been arrested after criticising the country's judiciary, according to her family. Nasrin Sotoudeh, 55, has been a well-known defender of Iranian dissidents, including some of the young women arrested recently for refusing to wear the hijab. Her husband, Reza Khandan, said in Facebook post on Wednesday that police arrested her at home and took her to Tehran's Evin prison. "Of all the functions that governments of the world are expected to do, the Iranian one is only good in arresting and imprisoning innocent people," he wrote. No official charges were announced but the arrest came shortly after Ms Sotoudeh spoke out against efforts by Iran's judiciary to force its own candidates onto the board of Iranian Bar Association. Ms Sotoudeh said the move would make it even more difficult for Iranian lawyers to defend dissidents. Vida Mohaved was arrested in Tehran in December "This action will erode the half-baked defence rights of those who have been accused of political and security offences and means a final farewell to the profession of independent attorney in Iran," she said in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Ms Sotoudeh was previously arrested in 2010 and accused of spreading propaganda and endangering national security. Western governments protested her detention and she went on several hunger strikes in prison. She was eventually released in 2013, shortly before Hassan Rouhani, Iran's president, was due to speak at the UN. Ms Sotoudeh came to prominence representing defendants sentenced to die for crimes committed when they were children, opposition politicians, and the Nobel Prize winning-Iranian dissident Shirin Ebadi. She recently represented Vida Mohaved, a 31-year-old mother of one who was arrested in Tehran as she stood on top of a telecoms box hoisting a white hijab on a stick in protest at Iran's compulsory veiling laws. Ms Mohaved's protest helped inspire dozens of other women and some men to mount similar protests.
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| Soviet Cars Were Weird: Celebrating The 2018 World Cup In Russia Posted: 14 Jun 2018 03:35 AM PDT |
| A look inside Trump immigration facility: 'effectively, these kids are incarcerated' Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:08 PM PDT  Today, MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff was one of a small group of reporters allowed inside the largest facility for immigrant children in the U.S. – the facility Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) was refused entry to earlier this month.
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| Trump heaps praise on 'tough guy' Kim Jong Un Posted: 13 Jun 2018 04:47 PM PDT  The president again downplays the North Korean leader's repressive acts.
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| Yemen port assault could lead to 'catastrophe': Russia Posted: 14 Jun 2018 02:03 AM PDT  Russia warned on Thursday that an offensive against the Yemeni port city of Hodeida could lead to "catastrophic consequences" for the entire war-ravaged country. Yemeni forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition launched an assault on Wednesday to retake the rebel-held city, which is a key aid hub.
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| The FBI Agent Accused of Accidental Shooting During a Backflip Has Been Arrested Posted: 12 Jun 2018 10:14 PM PDT  Video appeared to show him dropping his handgun while doing a backflip
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| Bodycam Footage From Harrowing First Moments of Police Response to Las Vegas Shooting Is Released Posted: 14 Jun 2018 07:15 AM PDT  Officers huddled with concertgoers, led terrified people to safety and helped the wounded.
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| Woman Gets Head Stuck In Exhaust Pipe Posted: 13 Jun 2018 04:01 PM PDT  That's trucked up!
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| People Are Selling Elon Musk's Flamethrowers On eBay for Thousands Posted: 14 Jun 2018 11:25 AM PDT  People Are Selling Elon Musk's Flamethrowers On eBay for Thousands
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| MSNBC Host Can't Stop Laughing At Trump's North Korea Real Estate Pitch Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:01 AM PDT  MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace couldn't stop laughing on Tuesday as she watched
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| 'Melting Away' — Climate change and Greenland's Inuits Posted: 14 Jun 2018 09:59 AM PDT !['Melting Away' — Climate change and Greenland's Inuits]( "'Melting Away' — Climate change and Greenland's Inuits") Over the past five years, photographer Ciril Jazbec has documented the changing lives of the Inuit people in Greenland, the world's largest island, which is covered by the world's largest and fastest-melting ice sheet. This fact, together with the darkening of its surface, mean the changes in Greenland will affect the entire planet and its species, the majority of the scientists have come to agree. Jazbec's long-term project, Melting Away, is about a people at the forefront of climate change, who have an ancient knowledge of hunting and are in search of ways to survive a collapsing ecosystem. Qaanaaq and Siorapaluk, the world's northernmost settlements of roughly 700 Inuits, continues its traditional ways despite several alarming climate, environmental and cultural threats.
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| UN Assembly blames Israel for Gaza violence, but not Hamas Posted: 13 Jun 2018 05:55 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly approved a Palestinian-backed resolution Wednesday blaming Israel for violence in Gaza and deploring its "excessive use of force," after narrowly rejecting a U.S. demand to add a condemnation of attacks on Israel by Gaza's Hamas rulers.
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| Former Rolls-Royce engineer 'arrested under Official Secrets Act' amid fears China tried to obtain F-35 fighter jet details Posted: 13 Jun 2018 11:30 PM PDT  A man in his 70s has been arrested as part of a probe under the Official Secrets Act, police said on Thursday, amid reports he was a former Rolls-Royce engineer suspected of divulging secrets about Britain's new stealth fighter to China. Scotland Yard said the man was arrested on Tuesday afternoon and taken to a police station in Derbyshire before being released under investigation. A search at an address in Derbyshire was ongoing while a search warrant was also executed at an office address in the West Midlands. The man was named by the Sun as Bryn Jones, a former chief combustion technologist, who it said had been detained in connection with efforts by China to obtain classified information about Britain's new £100million RAF stealth fighter jet. The 73-year-old former Rolls-Royce employee was reportedly held after MI5 received information that classified details were passed to Beijing. Factfile | F-35 Lightning II fighter He was detained in an "ultra-discreet" swoop by officers from Scotland Yard's SO15 counter-terrorism command at his home on Tuesday, it was reported. Mr Jones, who describes himself as a "visiting professor" in "gas turbine combustion" at the Aeronautical University of Xian, central China, denies any wrongdoing, the newspaper reported. The investigation reportedly centres on information about the F-35 Lightning II jet, which arrived in Britain last week. Britain has committed to buying 138 F-35 fighter aircraft and has so far bought 48 at a cost of £9.1 billion. The F-35 programme is the world's largest defence development, worth over $1.3trillion. UK industry provides 15 per cent of each of the 3,000 aircraft currently on the order books and at peak production 25,000 British jobs will be supported throughout the supply chain.
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| World Cup: More than 1,200 UK football hooligans blocked from flying to Russia Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:57 AM PDT  Dozens of football hooligans have failed to surrender their passports ahead of Thursday's World Cup opening ceremony, raising fears they could attempt to travel to Russia. Police are now visiting known hooligans who have yet to hand over their travel documents in a bid to ensure they remain at home. Latest Home Office figures show that 58 people banned from travelling to the World Cup have not surrendered their passports since the exclusion period began on June 4. Of the 1,312 individuals subject to football banning orders preventing them from travelling to overseas games, 1,254 have either handed over the documents voluntarily, been forced to do so or did not have a passport in the first place. Police are in place at UK ports to stop any suspected troublemakers trying to get to to the tournament, which promises to open with a spectacular ceremony at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium. Officials say they are confident that few, if any, hooligans will succeed in getting to Russia, and if they do they will be met by a huge security operation. Nick Hurd , Minister for Policing and the Fire Service said: "The World Cup is a festival of football and is no place for violence or disorder. "The UK's system of football banning orders is unique and means that people intent on causing trouble in Russia will instead be staying at home." Metal detectors and security near the entrance to Red Square, Moscow Credit: Aaron Chown /PA Football banning orders lasting up to 10 years aim to stop hooligans travelling to international fixtures and if breached can lead to a fine of up to £5,000 and a six-month jail term. Officials will be keen to avoid a repeat of scenes at Euro 2016 in France, when England fans were involved in violent clashes, including with Russia supporters. Around 10,000 fans are expected to travel from the UK to Russia in the coming days, with each required to have a unique fan number allowing them access to the games. There is a large police presence in parts of Moscow, with airport-style scanners and searches in operation around Luzhniki Stadium ahead of kick off. Deputy Chief Constable Mark Roberts, the UK's national lead for football policing, said: "Ahead of the World Cup, a comprehensive policing operation has been in place across the country to account for passports of those on banning orders, which has once again seen only a handful of those outstanding. "The legislation used for banning orders is the most effective of its kind, and affords us the ability to ensure the vast majority of England supporters travelling to Russia are genuine fans who simply want to enjoy the tournament." World Cup 2018 | The best of the Telegraph's coverage The warnings come after the head of the German football association said the German secret service had identified threats from terrorist groups intent on attacking the tournament. Reinhard Grindel, president of the DFB, admitted there was no guarantee fans would be safe from the threat from a lone-wolf extremist. He said: "We know from our secret service there a lot of videos from different terrorist groups which say they want to do something during the World Cup and they request their followers to do actions. "I think the security administration is so good that groups who were active will be seen and they will prevent a big terror act, but you can never, ever, say it is impossible for a lonesome terrorist to make something. He added: "It is clear that in a country like Russia you need security and it's in our interest, in the interests of our team, of our fans to have security. On the other hand it should not be so much that it overloads everything so we must find a wise, middle way." World Cup 2018 | Fixtures, groups, squads and more Mr Grindel, who was in Moscow for the Fifa Congress which on Wednesday awarded the 2026 World Cup to a joint bid from Canada, Mexico and the US, suggested the British government's boycott of the World Cup was "unwise". Officials from the English FA and British Government and Royal Family are not expected to be present, following the attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March. But Mr Grindel said: "If you play in Russia, this is not similar to supporting everything Mr (Vladimir) Putin is politically doing, but the point is to build bridges between the civil societies."
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| Italy economy minister cancels Paris meeting over migrant spat Posted: 13 Jun 2018 07:27 AM PDT  Italy's Economy Minister Giovanni Tria cancelled a meeting with his French counterpart in Paris on Wednesday as a diplomatic row spiralled over Rome's refusal to take in an overcrowded migrant ship. "The minister #GiovanniTria has cancelled his meeting with the French Minister of the Economy and Finance (Bruno) #LeMaire," his ministry said on Twitter. The tweet confirmed that Tria's meeting with German Economy Minister Olaf Scholz scheduled for Thursday would go ahead in Berlin.
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| Movie Company Confused After Being Credited In Trump's Fake North Korea Trailer Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:06 PM PDT  A Hollywood-style movie trailer presented on Tuesday by President Donald Trump
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| American detained in Vietnam after joining protests Posted: 14 Jun 2018 04:59 AM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An American citizen of Vietnamese descent has been detained in Vietnam after joining a protest over a controversial draft law on special economic zones that protesters fear would favor Chinese investors.
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| South Sudan rebel leader to attend talks with president in Addis Ababa Posted: 13 Jun 2018 06:39 AM PDT  South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has accepted an invitation from the Ethiopian Prime Minister to talks with South Sudanese president Salva Kiir in Addis Ababa next week, a spokesman for Machar said on Wednesday. "The Movement welcomes this invitation ... it will go a long way in building confidence in the peace process," the spokesman said in an emailed statement. The statement said Machar, who is under house arrest in South Africa, had been invited by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to attend the talks on June 20.
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