| Kenyan authorities investigate local role in Nairobi attack Posted: 18 Jan 2019 02:08 PM PST  Officials have released few details about the five-man assault team that carried out Tuesday's siege at the dusitD2 hotel complex, an attack that killed 21 people and was claimed by al Shabaab, a Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliate. How did he get to where he is?" said a private security official in Kenya, who asked not to be identified for operational reasons. "If al Shabaab can replicate this model, then there is a fundamental problem." All five assailants were killed in Tuesday's attack, the country's president said in a televised address the next morning.
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| On day Jayme escaped, suspect sought job _ with dodgy resume Posted: 17 Jan 2019 12:51 PM PST  BARRON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin man suspected of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents apparently applied for a job online the day that Jayme escaped, calling himself an "honest guy" even though his resume contains inaccuracies about his work experience.
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| TSA officers open up about what the government shutdown is doing to their families Posted: 18 Jan 2019 07:22 AM PST  Shutdown threatens the financial security of TSA agents across the country, including at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
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| Mexican airline trolls Americans with brilliant ad Posted: 18 Jan 2019 06:53 AM PST  While the debate over immigration and a border wall between the United States and Mexico has helped grind the U.S. federal government to a halt, Mexico's national airline, AeroMexico, is trolling Americans with a new ad called "DNA Discounts." The ad features purported residents of Wharton, Texas, a town about 60 miles southwest of Houston, professing a variety of opinions about Mexico and its citizens. The ad also drops some knowledge about the long history of immigration from Mexico to the U.S., and notes that many in southern and southwestern states have a touch of Mexican DNA. Things get flipped when the airline reveals it's offering flight discounts to Americans, including those Wharton residents, based on the amount of Mexican DNA they have (i.e., 18 percent DNA equals an 18 percent discount). That certainly turns opinions around. As one recipient says, "I love discounts!" Of course, it's such a brilliant ad, it's hard to tell if those Wharton residents are real or just actors and if this whole DNA discount thing is real or satirical. Aeromexico, which has gotten political before, isn't saying much, but we've reached out for comment and will update this post when we hear back. Either way, it's a brilliant gambit that undermines the vitriol so many Americans have expressed at our neighbors to the south, and does so without ever directly mentioning the political turmoil, the wall, or even President Trump. Instead, it directs that energy at a sense of shared community, including the tagline, "There are no borders within us." Not a bad way to spread a powerful message.
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| HHS IG: Thousands More Migrant Children May Have Been Separated from Parents Posted: 17 Jan 2019 10:19 AM PST  "It is not yet clear whether [HHS's] recent changes are sufficient to ensure consistent and accurate data about separated children, and the lack of detail in information received from [immigration authorities] continues to pose challenges," the report said.
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| Tunnel through an Australian mountain? No problem, says Elon Musk Posted: 16 Jan 2019 06:19 PM PST  Australia could become a test ground for another of Elon Musk's massive infrastructure projects after the maverick billionaire tweeted a "bargain" price to build a tunnel through a mountain to solve Sydney's traffic woes. Musk in 2017 made a Twitter pitch -- and followed through with the offer -- to build what was the world's biggest battery in an Australian state to solve its severe energy crisis. The entrepreneur behind electric carmaker Tesla has most recently turned his sights on tackling city traffic via low-cost tunnels created by his Boring Company, and in December unveiled a sample project near Los Angeles.
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| Illinois parents get 25 years in death of boy, 6, who weighed 17 pounds when he died Posted: 17 Jan 2019 11:17 AM PST  An Illinois father and stepmother will spend decades in prison in the starvation death of their 6-year-old son, who authorities say weighed just 17 pounds when he died.
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| May Said to Promise Brexiteers She Won't Cave: Brexit Update Posted: 17 Jan 2019 10:31 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Follow @Brexit, sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, and tell us your Brexit story.
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| 'Blockbuster' storm heads east, could drop 40 inches of snow. Then an Arctic blast will freeze 200 million Posted: 17 Jan 2019 10:08 AM PST  Mudslides and flooding closed roads in California as heavy rains and snow were forecast.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's first House speech breaks online viewing records Posted: 17 Jan 2019 02:10 PM PST  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's first speech on the floor of Congress broke digital viewing records for C-SPAN, Capitol Hill's public affairs network, garnering over a million views on Twitter in roughly 12 hours. The progressive freshman Gouse member took to the floor on Wednesday to decry Donald Trump's demands for border wall funding to be included in the next federal spending bill — a battle that has spurred the longest government shutdown in American history. "The truth of this shutdown is that it's actually not about a wall," the New York Democrat said.
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| Israel demolishes home of accused Palestinian killer Posted: 18 Jan 2019 01:47 AM PST  Israeli forces demolished the West Bank home on Friday of a Palestinian accused of the fatal September stabbing of an Israeli-American. Residents of the town of Yata, near the flashpoint city of Hebron, said that troops arrived at the home of Khalil Jabareen and were met by stone-throwing Palestinians. The Israeli army said the structure destroyed was an apartment where Jabareen lived.
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| Burkina Faso: Body of Canadian found days after abduction Posted: 17 Jan 2019 07:29 AM PST ![Burkina Faso: Body of Canadian found days after abduction]( "Burkina Faso: Body of Canadian found days after abduction") OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A Canadian national has been found dead a day after reports of his kidnapping by suspected jihadists in Burkina Faso's volatile north near the Niger border, the West African nation's security ministry said Thursday.
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| Prince Philip crash: As Duke takes delivery of another Land Rover, will he be back on the road soon? Posted: 18 Jan 2019 05:50 AM PST  A replacement Land Rover, previously driven by the Duke of Edinburgh, has been delivered to the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, hours after his car was involved in a horror crash. A black Land Rover Freelander was driven into Sandringham inside a delivery truck on Friday morning. The Land Rover is the same model as the one Prince Philip, 97, was driving in yesterday's crash, which also involved a Kia. It is believed to be the same car he has been seen driving near to Balmoral in September 2018, with a shared number plate. Armed police were on hand as the replacement vehicle was delivered to Sandringham, where Prince Phillip is now recovering. The delivery driver backed the Land Rover out of the van, then drove it through the gates of the Sandringham estate. The Duke was not injured in yesterday's crash, and was checked over by a doctor as a precaution. The two people in the other car involved in the crash were taken to hospital and treated for "minor injuries" and then discharged. Police supervise the unloading of the car Credit: Geoff Robinson The Land Rover driven by the Duke in the accident was towed away after the crash which saw the car overturn and the windscreen smash. Photographs appeared to show the air bags deployed, with heavy scratches down the sides of the vehicle. The accident will be "investigated and any appropriate action taken", Norfolk Constabulary has said. Norfolk Police said they were following standard procedure where a road traffic collision resulted in injuries. Eyewitness Roy Warne has described how Philip asked if "everybody else was all right" in the aftermath of an accident which saw his car "tumbling" over the road. "The driver of the Kia, a 28-year-old woman, suffered cuts to her knee while the passenger, a 45-year-old woman, sustained a broken wrist," said police in a statement. The aftermath of the crash "Both casualties were treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn and were discharged last night. "Police can also confirm a nine-month-old baby boy was in the Kia at the time of the incident and was uninjured. "The male driver of the Land Rover was uninjured. "Both drivers were breath tested and provided negative readings." The police are expected to take statements from the Duke, the female driver of the Kia involved in the crash and any other relevant witnesses during their investigation. Buckingham Palace declined to comment on any changes to the Duke's health, after some witnesses said the Queen's consort had been left "very, very shocked" after the accident. Yesterday, a spokesman said he suffered "no injuries". Duke of Edinburgh car crash near Sandringham Estate Asked if he held a driving licence, a spokeswoman said: "The duke has got a driving licence and follows all the usual DVLA procedures."
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| Six suspects in court over Nairobi hotel attack Posted: 18 Jan 2019 10:55 AM PST  Six suspects, including a Canadian national, appeared in a Kenyan court on Friday in connection with a radical Islamist attack on a Nairobi hotel complex that left 21 dead. A magistrate granted a request from the prosecution to detain four men and one woman for 30 days while investigations continue. The suspects are accused of "possible involvement" in the almost 20-hour siege of the DusitD2 hotel and office complex by a suicide bomber and four gunmen who were killed by security forces, a court document said.
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| Arctic blasts threaten weekend blizzards, heavy snow and paralyzing ice storms Posted: 18 Jan 2019 10:35 AM PST  Heavy snows, strong winds expected from the Corn Belt to New England, with up to 40 inches of snow in some parts.
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| Can Nancy Pelosi delay Trump’s State of the Union address amid government shutdown? Posted: 17 Jan 2019 02:19 PM PST  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has asked President Donald Trump to postpone his State of the Union address, initially scheduled for 29 January, for as long as the partial government shutdown continues. In a letter she sent to the president on Wednesday, Ms Pelosi suggested that Mr Trump reschedules his address, deliver it from the Oval Office, or perhaps send it over in written form to Capitol Hill, citing that the government shutdown compromises security arrangements for the event. The government shutdown is reaching it's 27th day, the longest federal closer in American history, impacting more than 800,000 federal employees, including some currently out of work, and others forced to work without pay.
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| Maybe Giuliani's Right: Trump Lawyers May Not Know of Collusion Posted: 17 Jan 2019 09:39 AM PST  It may explain the always voluble Giuliani's comment in a CNN interview on Wednesday night that "I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or people in the campaign." Instead, he said he knows only that "there is not a single bit of evidence the president of the United States committed the only crime you can commit here, conspiring with the Russians to hack" the Democratic National Committee. By Thursday morning, the former New York mayor was saying his comments were being misinterpreted.
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| NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spotted fresh rainfall on Saturn’s moon Titan Posted: 17 Jan 2019 08:39 AM PST  NASA's Cassini orbiter has been dead for well over a year now, but its incredible discoveries continue to trickle in as researchers pore over data and images it collected while it was active. Consequently, studies focused on the orbiter's findings continue to crop up on a regular basis, such as a recent study from University of Idaho in Moscow doctoral student Rajani Dhingra, who, along with her colleagues, found evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in an image taken on June 7th, 2016. This indicates that summer had arrived on the moon's northern hemisphere later than climate models had predicted. "The whole Titan community has been looking forward to seeing clouds and rains on Titan's north pole, indicating the start of the northern summer, but despite what the climate models had predicted, we weren't even seeing any clouds," said Dhingra, lead author of the study. "People called it the curious case of missing clouds." Dhingra and her colleagues spotted a reflective feature near the north pole of Titan in the aforementioned image -- a feature which covered approximately 46,332 square miles -- which had never appeared before, and didn't appear when Cassini passed by again. Dhingra concluded that the reflective nature of the feature was due to sunlight reflecting off of a wet surface, which she believes was the result of a methane rainfall event. This is the first time summer rainfall has ever been observed on Titan. While Earth experiences four seasons over the course of a year, a single season on Titan lasts seven Earth years. When Cassini reached Titan, clouds and rainfall were observed in the southern hemisphere, signaling a southern summer. Climate models predicted the rain would move to the northern hemisphere "leading up to the northern summer solstice in 2017," but the clouds still hadn't appeared by 2016. The images above should help reseachers understand why this was the case. We want our model predictions to match our observations. This rainfall detection proves Cassini's climate follows the theoretical climate models we know of," Dhingra said. "Summer is happening. It was delayed, but it's happening. We will have to figure out what caused the delay, though."
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| Gillette Is Not Wrong Posted: 17 Jan 2019 03:30 AM PST  Is the new Gillette razor ad a radical feminist attack on masculinity — the commercial embodiment of a woke sensibility? The ad has been panned by some conservative commentators. Is it part of "a war on masculinity in America," as Todd Starnes argued on Fox News?
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| Facebook blocks accounts linked to Russian state-owned Sputnik Posted: 17 Jan 2019 10:18 AM PST  In a separate statement, Sputnik attacked the social network for a decision it said was political and amounted to censorship of seven Facebook pages belonging to its news hubs in neighboring countries. Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said in a blog post https://bit.ly/2W1h9LR it had unearthed two separate operations which originated in Russia, with one active in multiple countries across eastern Europe and the other specific to Ukraine. The social media company said it had taken down about 364 Facebook pages and accounts operating in Baltic Sea states, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and parts of Europe, and that the pages were linked to employees of Sputnik.
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| Why did Democrats vote for a barrier along the southern border in 2013, but won’t now? Posted: 17 Jan 2019 01:42 PM PST  Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief under former President Barack Obama Mark Morgan says that the border wall needs to be built.
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| Palestinian forces soldier on amid Israeli raids, US neglect Posted: 17 Jan 2019 11:13 PM PST  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — On a cold winter's night earlier this month, a convoy of 10 Israeli armored jeeps drove into the heart of the West Bank city of Ramallah and parked in front of the Palestinian police headquarters.
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| The Latest: Officer to plead not guilty after man's death Posted: 18 Jan 2019 02:09 PM PST ![The Latest: Officer to plead not guilty after man's death]( "The Latest: Officer to plead not guilty after man's death") NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on the criminal case against a white Nashville police officer who shot and killed an armed black man who was fleeing (all times local):
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| Omaha airport reopens after Southwest Airlines plane goes off runway Posted: 18 Jan 2019 05:11 PM PST  The airport tweeted out a statement Friday afternoon about the incident, and followed up with several additional tweets.
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| Winter storm disturbs travel as it rolls toward U.S. Midwest, Northeast Posted: 18 Jan 2019 02:21 PM PST  A major winter storm was expected to clobber a large swath of the northern United States with heavy snow, gusty winds and frigid temperatures making travel difficult and dangerous starting on Friday and through the weekend, forecasters said. The storm system will dump 6 to 10 inches (15 to 25 cm) of snow in the Plains and Midwest on Friday night and Saturday and as it moves east at least a foot of snow in parts of the Northeast on Saturday and Sunday, the National Weather Service (NWS) said in several advisories. The system was expected to also bring freezing rain, wind gusts of 35 miles (56 km) per hour and quickly dropping temperatures that will to dip into the teens and even below zero Fahrenheit in several areas, the service said.
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| Tour Dominic West and Catherine Fitzgerald's Historic Home Posted: 17 Jan 2019 06:00 AM PST |
| 'Thousands' more children separated from parents at US border in 2017-18 Posted: 17 Jan 2019 07:40 PM PST  Thousands more children were forcibly separated from their parents after illegally crossing the US-Mexico border from 2017-2018 than originally admitted by President Donald Trump's administration, an official report said Thursday. The inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which was given responsibility for the children, said the total number separated under the administration's "zero-tolerance policy" toward illegal immigrants remains unknown.
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| Trump Postpones Pelosi’s Overseas Trip after She Calls on Him to Delay SOTU Posted: 17 Jan 2019 12:02 PM PST  President Trump on Thursday postponed Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming international trip due to the ongoing government shutdown — the same justification Pelosi provided when asking that the president delay his State of the Union address. In a letter sent to Pelosi's office on Thursday, Trump suggested that her upcoming trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan, which he characterized as a "public relations event," should be cancelled so that the speaker could remain in Washington to negotiate a compromise that would end the historically lengthy government shutdown. Staffers and lawmakers were en route to board a military jet and begin the trip on Thursday afternoon when Trump released the letter.
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| Netflix tidying guru sparks charity shop boom Posted: 18 Jan 2019 11:38 AM PST  A Netflix tidying guru has sparked a charity shop boom, as branches of Salvation Army, Scope and the British Heart Foundation have said she has led to increase in donations. It comes as decluttering expert Marie Kondo has rapidly risen to fame with her "KonMari" household organisation method, which promises to provide not only a de-cluttered house, but also a clean mind. Through her hit Netflix show she is teaching those with messy tendencies to get their homes in order by throwing out old and unwanted items to create a calmer home environment. Many people following the craze claim her various techniques have helped their mental health, and are adamant that a clean and organised home helps them feel calm. Charity shops across the country said they had seen donations of clothes double over the past few weeks since Ms Kondo's show was released on the streaming service. Marie Kondo, the author of the international best-seller, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," became famous for advising readers to transform their lives by sifting through all their belongings, one by one, embracing those that "spark joy" and bidding a fond but hasty farewell to the rest Credit: Natsuno Ichigo They say they are able to identify items which have come from people who have watched the show as they are folded according to her "signature fold", which sees items placed upright to reduce creasing. For example, according to the method socks should be lain flat as a pair, with one sock on top of the other. The toe is folded inward about an inch from the top, then into to the centre, and then in half so it stands upright. A branch manager for disability charity Scope also said she was able to recognize items donated by KonMari fans due to their immaculate presentation on arrival at the store, adding that the folding hack had led to more donations due to more space being available inside plastic sacks. The Salvation Army said that although shops usually experience an increase in donations after Christmas, shop managers had seen a larger than usual volume of donations. It comes amid a decline in charity shops across the UK with numbers down by more than 100 in first half of 2018, according to Third Sector magazine. Yorkshire and Humber was the only region that saw more charity shops open than close, it said. Charity shops have come under criticism in recent years for pricing items for middle class bargain hunters, rather than the poorest people in society who rely on cheap second hand clothing to dress themselves.
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| Chevy Pulls Commercial Claiming Superior Reliability Posted: 18 Jan 2019 06:22 AM PST  A consumer group challenges the automaker's small-print disclaimer-who's right?
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| Chinese ambassador warns Canada to stop rallying allies Posted: 17 Jan 2019 03:20 PM PST  TORONTO (AP) — China's ambassador to Canada warned the Canadian government Thursday to stop recruiting international support in its feud with China and threatened retaliation if Canada bans Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei for security reasons.
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| Man convicted in the brutal death of Morgan Freeman's granddaughter sentenced Posted: 17 Jan 2019 05:41 PM PST  Lamar Davenport was sentenced for fatally stabbing E'Dena Hines outside her New York apartment in 2015.
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| BMW unveils 2020 7 Series sedan with controversial redesign Posted: 17 Jan 2019 04:31 AM PST  While the interior design and mechanics haven't significantly changed in the latest version of the BMW 7 Series, the exterior received a serious facelift that is leaving some fans confused and a few disappointed. BMW officially unveiled the latest 7 Series luxury sedan Wednesday with a redesign that the company says gives it a "confident presence" while some onlookers are giving it a mediocre review. The focal point of the new design is the inflated, trademark 7 Series kidney grille placed on a two-inch taller front end which has grown about 40 percent since the last generation, an expansion that already hasn't been welcomed very warmly.
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| The Latest: California storm cancels Santa Anita horse races Posted: 17 Jan 2019 02:10 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on California storms (all times local):
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| The Coolest Real-Life Lego Cars You Can Buy Posted: 17 Jan 2019 11:21 AM PST |
| Portugal promises no visas for Britons in any no-deal Brexit Posted: 17 Jan 2019 08:24 AM PST ![Portugal promises no visas for Britons in any no-deal Brexit]( "Portugal promises no visas for Britons in any no-deal Brexit") Britain is due to leave the European Union on March 29 but parliament's rejection this week of Prime Minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement with Brussels has thrown those plans into chaos and opened up a range of outcomes, from quitting with no agreement on future relations to halting Brexit altogether. "At this moment we do not even know what the United Kingdom wants," Siza Vieira told Reuters in an interview late on Wednesday. "In the absence of an alternative proposal by the United Kingdom, what every (EU) member state is doing is adopting measures that allow them to react to a unilateral circumstance." Even without a Brexit deal, British citizens living in Portugal would retain rights including access to healthcare.
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| EU sets out plans for 'limited' US trade deal Posted: 18 Jan 2019 05:52 AM PST  The EU on Friday published its negotiating plans for a free trade deal with the United States, part of an effort to avert a trade war with US President Donald Trump. Negotiating a trade deal was included in a transatlantic truce secured last year after the US slapped tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the EU, alarming the world. The effort is also part of an effort to stop Trump from slapping tariffs on European car imports, a danger that has especially unnerved export powerhouse Germany.
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| The Best Winter Sales over MLK Day Weekend Posted: 17 Jan 2019 12:30 PM PST  Get discounts on mattress, rugs, and everything in between
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| How to Find a Real Estate Agent Posted: 18 Jan 2019 09:41 AM PST ![How to Find a Real Estate Agent]( "How to Find a Real Estate Agent") The necessary steps in the real estate process change over the years, so you might as well have someone on your side who's well-versed in the nuances and can help ensure you get the best possible deal.
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| Women’s March Leader Refuses to Acknowledge Israel’s Right to Exist Posted: 18 Jan 2019 08:31 AM PST  Embattled Women's March co-chairwoman Tamika Mallory refused to acknowledge the state of Israel's right to exist during a recent interview on PBS's The Firing Line and seemed to suggest that, unlike Palestinians, Israelis were not "native" to the region. Mallory, who has been forced in recent days to confront questions about her association with notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, acknowledged during the interview that "all people have the right to exist" but would not address the legitimacy of the Israeli state. The Women's March lost the support of the Democratic National Committee and a host of other prominent liberal groups this week after Mallory defend her past praise for Farrakhan during a Monday appearance on The View.
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| Violent Sex Offender Arrested Again After Woman Says He Forced Her into Prostitution Posted: 17 Jan 2019 01:17 PM PST  A violent sex offender in Memphis was taken into custody again after a woman claimed she was the victim of sex trafficking.
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