| Trump Defends Jim Jordan Over Ohio State Abuse Allegations Posted: 06 Jul 2018 08:28 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Thursday defended Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who at
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| Strzok, Benczkowski, SCOTUS to Make Headlines next Week Posted: 06 Jul 2018 02:33 PM PDT  Joy Reid looks ahead to the coming news week, with embattled FBI agent Peter Strzok set to testify publicly in Congress, Trump loyalists hoping to put former Russian Alfa-Bank lawyer Brian Benczkowski in the DoJ, and Donald Trump's SCOTUS announcement.
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| Outrage after white man calls police on black woman at North Carolina pool Posted: 06 Jul 2018 09:24 AM PDT  Adam Bloom asked to see Jazmine Abhulimen's ID at their neighborhood pool, then called the police. Abhulimen, who recorded the incident, said she felt unfairly targeted and Bloom has since lost his job.
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| Here's What School Is Really Like For Some Migrant Children Separated From Their Parents Posted: 06 Jul 2018 05:36 AM PDT  Serious challenges, including a lack of experienced teachers, may be
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| Mike Pompeo visits North Korea seeking details on denuclearization Posted: 06 Jul 2018 09:08 AM PDT  The Secretary of State made his third trip to the country, this time with a mission to nail down details of Kim Jong Un's denuclearization promise after reports that North Korea is expanding their weapons program.
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| Mother of girl declared dead twice slams doctors at funeral Posted: 06 Jul 2018 02:54 PM PDT  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — After battling for more than four years to keep a comatose daughter declared brain dead from being issued a California death certificate, Nailah Winkfield forcefully told mourners at her daughter's funeral service Friday to stop letting doctors "pull the plug on your people."
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| Trump Administration May Be Preparing A New Obamacare Sabotage Effort Posted: 07 Jul 2018 02:41 PM PDT  Another piece of the Affordable Care Act's machinery is grinding to a halt, at
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| Japan executes sarin gas attack cult leader and six Aum Shinrikyo members Posted: 05 Jul 2018 10:37 PM PDT  Japan on Friday executed the former leader of a doomsday cult and six other members of the group that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, killing 13 people and shattering the country's myth of public safety. The Aum Shinrikyo, or Aum Supreme Truth cult, which mixed Buddhist and Hindu meditation with apocalyptic teachings, staged a series of crimes including simultaneous sarin gas attacks on subway trains during rush hour in March 1995. Sarin, a nerve gas, was originally developed by the Nazis. The images of bodies, many in business suits, sprawled across platforms stunned Japan, and triggered public safety steps such as the removal of non-transparent rubbish bins that remain in force to this day. As well as killing the 13, the attack injured at least 5,800 people, some permanently. Chizuo Matsumoto, the cult's leader who went by the name Shoko Asahara, was the first to be hanged, media said as it broke into regular programming to report the news. Relatives spoke of their feelings of relief after the perpetrators spent years on death row. Subway passengers affected by sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway are taken to hospital March 20, 1995 Credit: Chiaki Tsukumo/AP Announcements of the other hangings followed through the morning. The justice ministry confirmed the execution of the seven. "I think it's right that he was executed," said Shizue Takahashi, whose husband was a subway worker who removed a package of sarin from a train and died as a result. "My husband's parents and my parents are already dead," the silver-haired Takahashi added. "I think they would find it regrettable that they could not have heard the news of this execution." Executions are rare in Japan but surveys show a vast majority of people supports the death sentence. Rights group Amnesty International said justice demanded accountability but also respect for civil rights. FAQ | Sarin "The death penalty can never deliver this as it is the ultimate denial of human rights," Hiroka Shoji, the group's East Asia Researcher, said in a statement. BIZARRE RITUALS AND WEAPONS Cult leader Asahara, 63, a pudgy, partially blind yoga instructor, was sentenced to hang in 2004 on 13 charges, including the subway gas attacks and a series of other crimes that killed at least a dozen people. He pleaded not guilty and never testified, but muttered and made incoherent remarks in court during the eight years of his trial. The sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2006. In all, 13 cult members were sentenced to death during more than 20 years of trials, which came to an end in January 2018. Asahara, who founded Aum in 1987, said that the United States would attack Japan and turn it into a nuclear wasteland. He also said he had travelled forward in time to 2006 and talked to people then about what World War Three had been like. At its peak, the cult had at least 10,000 members in Japan and overseas, including graduates of some of Japan's top universities. Some members lived in a commune-like complex Asahara established at the foot of Mount Fuji, where the group studied his teachings, practised bizarre rituals and gathered an arsenal of weapons - including sarin. The cult also used sarin in 1994, releasing the gas in the central city of Matsumoto on a summer night in an attempt to kill three judges set to rule on it. That attack, which involved a refrigerator truck releasing the gas to be dispersed by the wind through a neighbourhood, failed to kill the judges but killed eight other people and injured hundreds.
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| Insider attack kills US soldier in Afghanistan Posted: 07 Jul 2018 12:41 PM PDT  A US soldier was killed and two others wounded in an "apparent insider attack" in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, NATO said, the first such killing in nearly a year. "The wounded service members, who are in stable condition, are currently being treated," NATO's Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan said in a statement. NATO did not release the identity of the American soldier killed or provide further details about where the incident took place.
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| Mike Pence: 'We will never abolish ICE' Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:26 PM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence visited the headquarters of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Washington, D.C., on Friday, where he delivered a speech that attacked the push to abolish the agency.
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| The Mars Opportunity Rover Has Defied All Odds for 15 Years. But Now, It Could Be in Danger Posted: 06 Jul 2018 01:39 PM PDT  It was only supposed to last for 90 days
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| Former Ohio State wrestlers say Rep. Jim Jordan knew of sexual abuse by team doctor Posted: 06 Jul 2018 09:09 AM PDT  Four former wrestlers at the university tell NBC News they were sexually abused by Dr. Richard Strauss and that Jordan, who served as an assistant wrestling coach, had to be aware.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week, June 30 To July 6 Posted: 06 Jul 2018 06:01 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest
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| Three contract workers injured at Shell Convent, La. refinery: company Posted: 05 Jul 2018 08:09 PM PDT ![Three contract workers injured at Shell Convent, La. refinery: company]( "Three contract workers injured at Shell Convent, La. refinery: company") Three contract workers were injured on Wednesday while working on a hydrogen line on a sulfur unit at Royal Dutch Shell Plc's Convent, Louisiana, refinery, a company spokesman said on Thursday. The sulfur unit is shut as part of a planned overhaul of units at the 209,787 barrel-per-day (bpd) Convent refinery that includes the gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit, the sources said. "Shell initiated its emergency response plan, which included immediately deploying personnel to respond to the incident," Shell spokesman Ray Fisher said on Thursday.
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| Man punches restaurant worker, video shows Posted: 06 Jul 2018 05:23 PM PDT  Surveillance video shows the attack which happened at a George Webb restaurant in Milwaukee.
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| Deadly torrential rains and flooding batter southwestern Japan Posted: 07 Jul 2018 12:48 PM PDT ![Deadly torrential rains and flooding batter southwestern Japan]( "Deadly torrential rains and flooding batter southwestern Japan") Torrents of rainfall and flooding battered a widespread area in southwestern Japan on Saturday, with local media casualty reports climbing quickly. Public broadcaster NHK said 38 people were dead, four were injured seriously and 47 were missing. Television footage showed a residential area in Okayama prefecture seeped in brown water spreading like a huge lake.
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| Buddhist meditation may calm team trapped in Thai cave Posted: 05 Jul 2018 07:28 PM PDT  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — At a gilded temple in Thailand's mountainous north, Ekapol Chanthawong honed a skill that will serve him well as he sits trapped underground in a dark cave: meditation.
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| Trump Admin Fails to Make Deadline to Reunite Separated Families Posted: 06 Jul 2018 02:05 PM PDT  Lee Gelernt, ACLU attorney suing the Trump administration on behalf of separated families, talks about the sloppy job the Trump administration has done tracking the families it has broken up.
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| Trump Administration Deported 19 Parents Whose Young Kids Are Still In Custody Posted: 06 Jul 2018 09:25 AM PDT  The Trump administration revealed on Friday that it has deported 19 migrant
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| 21 people treated for rabies exposure after woman rescues abandoned baby raccoon Posted: 06 Jul 2018 11:57 AM PDT  A woman who lives in the southern part of Weld County, Colorado found a baby racoon on her property and took the animal into her home after she believed the animal had been abandoned by its mother, a Weld County Department of Health and Environment press release stated. According to Colorado's Greeley Tribune, the woman then apparently had 20 visitors to her home, all who reportedly expressed interest in seeing the baby raccoon. "This was a baby wild animal, so I think there was some heightened interest to seeing a baby animal in the home," Rachel Freeman, the health department's supervisor, told the newspaper.
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| Donald Trump Rips NFL's New National Anthem Policy After Praising It Posted: 06 Jul 2018 06:56 AM PDT  If the NFL thought its new national anthem policy was going to permanently
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| Fires menace US West, tornado touches Colorado wildfire site Posted: 05 Jul 2018 10:23 PM PDT  DENVER (AP) — An erratic wildfire charging through extremely dry land in the heart of Colorado ski country destroyed three homes and forced people to flee, authorities said Thursday.
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| Lions eat rhino poachers on South African game reserve Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:15 AM PDT ![Lions eat rhino poachers on South African game reserve]( "Lions eat rhino poachers on South African game reserve") At least two rhino poachers were eaten by lions on a South African game reserve, the owner of the lodge said on Thursday. A ranger taking guests at the Sibuya Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape on a safari drive on Tuesday afternoon discovered human remains close to a pride of lions. "We suspect two were killed, possibly three," Sibuya owner Nick Fox said.
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| Mother Teresa charity shocked after India babies 'sold' Posted: 06 Jul 2018 07:46 AM PDT  An Indian charity founded by Mother Teresa expressed outrage and regret Friday after a nun and an employee were arrested for allegedly selling infants for adoption for potentially thousands of dollars. It should have never happened," said the Missionaries of Charity organisation, set up by the Catholic missionary nun in 1950. After the arrests, 13 girls living in the home were shifted to another shelter, the Press Trust of India reported, adding that 22 children from a nearby shelter that was run by the same charity were also moved to a new accommodation on Friday.
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| Three Canadian YouTube travel bloggers killed after falling over a waterfall in British Columbia Posted: 06 Jul 2018 11:02 AM PDT  Three Canadian YouTube travel bloggers have been killed after falling over a waterfall in British Columbia. Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Megan Scraper were part of High On Life, a video blog group which posts videos of their travel adventures on social media. The trio were swimming at the top of Shannon Falls in Squamish, British Columbia on Tuesday when they slipped and fell into a pool 98ft below, local police siad. The High On Life group, which has more than one million Instagram followers and more than 500,000 YouTube subscribers, named the trio in a post online. In a video tribute the group praised them as "three of the warmest, kindest and most driven and outgoing people you could ever meet". Their Facebook page says: "High On Life is the attitude to embrace all of life's opportunities with a positive outlook and energy." "There are truly no words that can be said to ease the pain and the devastation we are all going through right now," they said. The video bloggers, who were all in their late 20s and early 30s, had hiked up Shannon Falls on Tuesday and were swimming in a pool system at the top of the falls. The adventurers were "then walking along the ledge shortly thereafter" before falling nearly 100ft, said Corporal Sascha Banks, from Canada's Federal Police. Megan Scraper and Alexey Lyakh had recently celebrated five years together The tragedy occurred when Ms Scraper slipped and fell, with Mr Gamble and Mr Lyakh also getting swept away as they tried to save her , according to the Vancouver Sun. The difficult terrain meant it took the Squamish Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) force two days to find and recover the adventurers. "I can't say enough about the incredible skilled work done by the RCMP teams along with Squamish Search and Rescue," Cpl Banks said in a statement. Ms Banks added that heavy water flow and a a steep mountainside area posed a significant challenge for the crew involved in the efforts. Their Facebook page says: "High On Life is the attitude to embrace all of life's opportunities with a positive outlook and energy." Mr Gamble and Mr Lyakh founded the High On Life group, which is based in Vancouver, with another high school friend after they travelled the world in 2012. The adventurers turned their passion for travel into full-time jobs, posting pictures and videos of their experiences online in partnership with various brands. The group made headlines in 2016 after Mr Gamble, Mr Lykah and another member were handed five-year bans from US federal lands after an out-of-bounds excursion on a sensitive hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. In one of his most recent Instagram posts, 30-year-old Mr Gamble wrote: "Life isn't about responsibilities, tough decisions and hard work, it's about feeling bliss and living in the moment." High On Life has created a GoFundMe memorial fund in support of the three travellers families.
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| More Democrats Want To Abolish ICE. Decriminalize Migration? Not So Much. Posted: 06 Jul 2018 02:46 AM PDT  DEL RIO, Texas ― The Trump administration's scorched-earth tactics against
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| UK police hunt object that poisoned couple with nerve agent Posted: 06 Jul 2018 06:08 AM PDT  Police on Friday raced to find the object that contaminated a British couple with the Soviet-made Novichok nerve agent in southwestern England where a former Russian spy was poisoned with the same toxin four months ago. Dawn Sturgess, 44, and Charlie Rowley, 45, fell ill on Saturday in Amesbury, a small town near the city of Salisbury where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed on March 4, spreading fear once again among locals.
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| Scott Pruitt's Resignation Is Just The Start Posted: 06 Jul 2018 08:49 AM PDT  It started way back on Sept. 27, 2017, with a Washington Post report exposing
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez taunts Republicans for being 'terrified' of her progressive policies Posted: 06 Jul 2018 11:07 AM PDT  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has taunted Republicans, tweeting about how "terrified" their politicians will be once they learn more about her platform. The 28-year-old from the Bronx borough of New York City, recently defeated handily the longtime US House Representative and Democratic Party star Joe Crowley, who had been in Congress for 20 years. Ms Ocasio is challenging the old guard GOP which under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has taken away federal government grants to low-income students and done nothing to mitigate the crushing debt of student loans Americans experience.
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| Activists block major freeway to protest gun violence in Chicago Posted: 07 Jul 2018 02:14 PM PDT ![Activists block major freeway to protest gun violence in Chicago]( "Activists block major freeway to protest gun violence in Chicago") Hundreds of protesters calling for an end to gun violence in Chicago partially shut down a major freeway in the city on Saturday, restricting traffic as they demanded lawmakers and members of the community do more to stop the bloodshed.
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| Once known as the awkward rhino, Stormy fathers baby Posted: 06 Jul 2018 03:30 PM PDT  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The zookeepers just didn't think Stormy the male rhinoceros had it in him. Now, they owe him an apology.
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| Macron gathers world's top sovereign funds to send climate signal Posted: 05 Jul 2018 10:02 PM PDT  By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - Sovereign wealth funds managing more than $2 trillion are to lay out a strategy on Friday in Paris to pressure companies to be more climate-friendly, French officials said. President Emmanuel Macron, who has cast himself as the guardian of the Paris agreement on climate change since Washington announced it would pull out, is championing the initiative, which will bring together the heads of six sovereign funds to thrash out a pro-environment investment framework. The guidelines, which funds will ask the companies they invest in to meet, are expected to influence other big asset managers, French presidential advisers said.
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| Mexico town known for fireworks disasters mourns 24 deaths Posted: 06 Jul 2018 05:31 PM PDT  TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Grieving emergency personnel in the Mexico City suburb of Tultepec carried the caskets of four comrades through the town's streets Friday as authorities investigated whether an attempt to douse burning fireworks with water may have triggered further blasts that killed a total of 24 people.
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| Man killed when tire mysteriously crashes into his car on New York highway Posted: 06 Jul 2018 05:32 PM PDT  The vicitm, David Dorazio, was driving a 1998 Saturn sedan on Sunrise Highway in West Babylon Thursday afternoon when the tire struck the car, Suffolk County Police said.
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| As Trade War Begins, Feds Eye $30 Billion Bailout Fund For Farmers Facing Losses Posted: 05 Jul 2018 09:56 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's trade war was officially launched at 12:01 Friday
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| Cardinal Tauran, key figure in Catholic-Muslim dialogue, dies aged 75 Posted: 06 Jul 2018 07:46 AM PDT  French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, a leader in Catholic-Muslim dialogue and the man who announced Pope Francis' election to the world, has died aged 75, the Vatican announced Friday. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told AFP that Tauran, from Bordeaux in southwest France, had suffered from Parkinson's disease and had recently been hospitalised in the United States. "(Tauran) profoundly marked the life of the universal church," Pope Francis said in a telegram to Genevieve Dubert, the cardinal's sister.
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| U.S. Army Reportedly Discharging Immigrants Who Enlisted With Promises Of Citizenship Posted: 05 Jul 2018 09:19 PM PDT  The U.S. Army has begun discharging some immigrants who enlisted in the
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| 10 Of The Best Self Tanners At Sephora For Summer 2018 Posted: 06 Jul 2018 11:36 AM PDT  Glowing summer skin is easier said than done. Laying out in the sun for hours
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| Widespread riots in Haiti over fuel prices Posted: 07 Jul 2018 03:20 PM PDT ![Widespread riots in Haiti over fuel prices]( "Widespread riots in Haiti over fuel prices") The Haitian government suspended a fuel price hike Saturday after widespread violence broke out across the capital and in the northern city of Cap-Haitien.
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| South Syrian rebels agree surrender deal, Assad takes crossing Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:11 PM PDT  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Laila Bassam AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - South Syrian rebels agreed to give up arms in a Russian-brokered ceasefire deal on Friday, rebel sources said, surrendering Deraa province to the government in another major victory for President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian allies. The Syrian government recovered the Nassib border crossing with Jordan, held by rebels for three years, state media reported, after an assault in insurgent territory along the frontier backed by Russian air strikes. Rebel sources said Russia would guarantee the safe return of civilians who fled the government offensive in the biggest exodus of the war, with 320,000 people uprooted.
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| At least 24 die in series of explosions in Mexican fireworks workshops Posted: 06 Jul 2018 08:57 AM PDT  A series of explosions triggered inside buildings housing black market fireworks workshops have killed twenty-four people and injured at least 49 in Mexico. Four buildings were destroyed by the blasts in the town of Tulepec, 20 miles from Mexico City. The government of the state of Mexico said in a statement that eight people from Tultepec were killed, along with the six emergency personnel and two others who have not yet been identified.
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| Trump 'Apologizes' For Pocahontas Slur, Uses It Again 2 Seconds Later Posted: 05 Jul 2018 07:30 PM PDT  Despite groans from his supporters in the crowd, President Donald Trump
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| Starbucks back in hot water, 'disrespects' stutterer Posted: 06 Jul 2018 02:39 PM PDT  Starbucks was back in hot water Friday, three months after a branch manager called the police on two black men -- this time for seemingly mocking a customer with a stutter. When the customer, called Sam, gave his drink order in a Philadelphia Starbucks on June 27 he stuttered over his name. The barista replied "Okay, S-s-s-sam" and, retrieving his iced coffee, found the label was marked "SSSAM," according to friend and business school student Tan Lekwijit, who reported the incident on Facebook.
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| Woman finds nearly 50 brown recluse spiders in bedroom Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:00 PM PDT  The woman was rushed to the hospital with hallucinations after she was bitten several times by brown recluse spiders.
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| Michael Cohen Hires Former Clinton White House Attorney Lanny Davis Posted: 06 Jul 2018 11:58 AM PDT  Michael Cohen, beleaguered former personal attorney for President Donald
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| 8 Great Stocks to Buy for the Third Quarter Posted: 06 Jul 2018 08:44 AM PDT ![8 Great Stocks to Buy for the Third Quarter]( "8 Great Stocks to Buy for the Third Quarter") Bank of America loves these stocks now. Overall, the U.S. stock market has been relatively solid so far this year, with the S&P 500 index up about 2 percent for the year. The Bank of America analyst team recently selected the following eight U.S. stocks as its top "buy" ideas for the third quarter.
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| Sexy Cadillac Coupe Revealed In GM Patent Filing Posted: 06 Jul 2018 05:59 AM PDT  Cadillac is absent from the grand touring coupe market, and this could be the answer.
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| Palestinian killed as Gaza protests against Israel enter fourth month Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:40 PM PDT  By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian taking part in a border protests was killed on Friday, Gazan medical officials said, bringing to 136 the number killed in the confrontations that have often drawn a lethal Israeli army response since they began on March 30. The Gaza Health Ministry said the 22-year-old died of a chest wound. It said Israeli shelling wounded eight people in the same location, east of Gaza City, though it was not clear if the two incidents were linked.
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