| Girl, 11, diagnosed with rare cancer just a day after she started school: 'She is a very sweet girl' Posted: 26 Sep 2019 04:21 PM PDT  An 11-year-old British girl who was excited to start her first day of secondary school was diagnosed with a rare cancer just 24 hours later.
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| Three-Dozen ISIS Fighters Killed in Series of U.S. Strikes in Libya Posted: 27 Sep 2019 10:26 AM PDT  The U.S. military killed 36 ISIS militants in a series of three airstrikes in Libya over the past eight days, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced Friday."This ongoing campaign against ISIS-Libya demonstrates that U.S. Africa Command persistently targets terrorist networks that seek to harm innocent Libyans," read a statement from AFRICOM's director of intelligence, Navy Rear Admiral Heidi Berg. "We will continue to pursue ISIS-Libya and other terrorists in the region, denying them safe haven to coordinate and plan operations in Libya."Seventeen ISIS members were killed in an airstrike on Thursday in southwest Libya. That strike followed a strike Tuesday near Murzuq that killed eleven jihadis, and a previous strike in the same area late last week that killed eight alleged fighters, AFRICOM said.Tuesday's airstrike "was conducted to eliminate ISIS terrorists and deny them the ability to conduct attacks on the Libyan people," said AFRICOM's director of operations, U.S. Army Major General William Gayler. "This effort demonstrates the resolve of the U.S. and our Libyan partners to deny safe havens to terrorists."None of the three strikes, which were the first such U.S. operations in Libya in over a year, appear to have caused civilian casualties, according to AFRICOM.
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| Hong Kongers kick off days of rallies ahead of China's birthday Posted: 27 Sep 2019 08:04 AM PDT  Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists on Friday night kicked off what is expected to be an intense period of protests, aiming to cast a shadow over communist China's momentous anniversary celebrations. Beijing is preparing a huge military parade on Tuesday to mark 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, revelling in its transformation into a global superpower. Four days of action are planned in the run-up to Tuesday with clashes almost certain after police denied permission for a march on the anniversary itself citing safety concerns.
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| Tropical Storm Karen halts search for missing American woman in the Virgin Islands Posted: 26 Sep 2019 11:01 AM PDT  The Virgin Islands National Park announced that the Kentucky woman, Lucy Schuhmann, 48, has been missing in St. John since Sept. 19.
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| The Latest: Iran says US sanctions 'more unstable than ever' Posted: 27 Sep 2019 07:36 AM PDT  Erik Hanell, who heads the Sweden-based Stena Bulk group, also says the Swedish Foreign Ministry and "various UK government departments" assisted in securing the release of the vessel that was held at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The Stena Impero left Iranian territorial waters headed for Dubai where the crew would disembark and receive medical checks and be de-briefed. Iran seized the tanker July 19 in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil passes.
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| Members of disbanded EPA air quality panel form independent group Posted: 26 Sep 2019 02:09 PM PDT  The 20 experts are scheduled to review the science on particulate matter pollution and health beginning at a two-day meeting in Virginia on Oct. 10. Dubbed the Independent Particulate Matter Review Panel, the group plans to issue a report on whether the current federal particulate matter standard is adequate, members said. Members of the independent group previously served on the EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Particulate Matter Review Panel, which was disbanded last October by EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.
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| The Republicans' early response to impeachment: discredit, doubt, delay Posted: 26 Sep 2019 03:57 PM PDT  The Republican response to impeachment appears focused on a three-pronged strategy: discredit the whistle-blower, cast doubt on the most explosive elements of Trump's call and slow down the Democrats' process in the House.
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| Israel's Air Force Is Armed with F-35s and F-15s (And Now Supersonic Missiles) Posted: 27 Sep 2019 05:49 AM PDT  How good are they?
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| United Airlines flight forced to make emergency landing after passenger gets stuck in bathroom Posted: 27 Sep 2019 09:25 AM PDT  A United Airlines flight was forced to make an unexpected landing on Wednesday after a passenger got stuck inside the plane's bathroom.
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| China rejects 'smear' after Airbus hacking report Posted: 27 Sep 2019 01:59 AM PDT  Beijing on Friday rejected an AFP report that Chinese hackers were suspected of being behind a series of cyber attacks on European aerospace giant Airbus. The hackers targeted Airbus suppliers -- British engine-maker Rolls-Royce, French technology consultancy and supplier Expleo, and two other French contractors -- in search of commercial secrets, according to security and industry sources who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity. "In recent years, there have been many reports about cyber attacks in the media.
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| Saudi crown prince says journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder 'happened under my watch' Posted: 26 Sep 2019 04:57 AM PDT  "I get all the responsibility, because it happened under my watch," Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in an excerpted interview, though he denied direct knowledge.
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| See Photos of Bollinger B1 SUV and B2 Pickup Posted: 26 Sep 2019 02:00 PM PDT |
| 'Headless' 2-year-old girl goes viral for her creepy Halloween costume Posted: 27 Sep 2019 09:32 AM PDT  A young Filipina girl quite literally turned heads with her inventive Halloween costume.
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| Bangladesh to build barbed wire fences around Rohingya camps Posted: 27 Sep 2019 02:02 AM PDT  Bangladesh is planning to install barbed-wire fencing, guard towers and cameras around Rohingya refugee camps, raising fears of prison-like conditions in the already bleak settlements. The move comes amid growing security concerns and rising impatience in Dhaka that no solution has been found to repatriate or rehouse some one million refugees who have fled from Burma's Rakhine state to the Bangladeshi port of Cox's Bazar, most during a murderous military crackdown in 2017. "There are three large camps. We'll fence the three camps with barbed wires," Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters this week. "Watch towers and CCTV cameras" would also be set up to monitor activity in the Cox's Bazar district settlements, he added, according to AFP. Tensions over the camps have increased since a repatriation bid to encourage refugees to return to Burma in August failed because of the minority's fears that they would not be allowed back to their homes and would never be granted Burmese citizenship. Life inside the Bangladeshi camps is already bleak Credit: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters The aborted attempt has heightened the possibility that a large section of the Rohingya community could be forcibly relocated in the near future to Bhasan Char, a remote, cyclone-prone silt island that only recently emerged from the sea. Dhaka has been dialing up the pressure on the Rohingya, taking steps to restrict their activities, including the blocking of 3G and 4G mobile networks, confiscating SIM cards and mobile phones, reportedly over fears that criminal gangs are involved in murder and drug smuggling. Two refugees were killed in a gun battle with Bangladeshi border guards after failing to surrender when they were caught trying to cross over from Burma early on Friday and reportedly opened fire. The guards claimed the men were carrying 70,000 methamphetamine tablets. The movement of Rohingya refugees to and from the crowded Cox's Bazar camps is already severely restricted, and families are unable to earn a livelihood and children cannot receive a higher education. Aid workers have indicated that conditions in the squalid settlements are rapidly becoming more desperate. Children in the camps have no hope of a higher education Credit: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP "As tensions inside Cox's Bazar mount, violence has become a daily occurrence and we know that there are many Rohingya refugees desperate to return to their homes," Manish Agrawal, Bangladesh director for the International Rescue Committee, told The Telegraph earlier this month. "People find it impossible to look to the future and live beyond each day; they cannot access basic services and finding work is out of the question." But Mr Agarwal added that despite the hardships, there was still "immense fear" of returning to Burma and that any repatriation must be done on a safe and voluntary basis. "This will only happen if the root causes of the crisis are addressed and the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar work collaboratively with the international community; the Rohingya people must have a viable pathway to citizenship, have access to jobs and services and, most of all, protected from harm," he said. Last year, a United Nations fact-finding team recommended the prosecution of top Burmese military commanders on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Burma has rejected the allegations. In mid-September the team cited the lack of accountability for the perpetrators of the alleged crimes when it concluded that "that there is a serious risk that genocidal actions may occur or recur".
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| Impeachment Was Unpopular Before Pelosi Acted: Campaign Update Posted: 25 Sep 2019 07:31 PM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Most Americans remain opposed to impeachment, with 37% saying President Donald Trump should be removed from office and 57% saying he should not, according to a poll released Wednesday.Quinnipiac University conducted the survey from Sept. 19 to 23, as new developments regarding a conversation that the president had with Ukraine's leader unfolded.The poll doesn't capture the latest events including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to begin impeachment proceedings and the release by the White House of the transcript of a telephone call in which Trump asked the Ukrainian president to look into the business dealings of former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter.Still, the numbers are up slightly from two months ago. Then, 32% of voters favored impeachment while 60% opposed, according to a previous Quinnipiac poll. The biggest shift has come from Democrats, who have gone from 61% for impeachment to 73%.The poll has an overall margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.Trump Manhattan Fundraiser to Raise $5 Million (7:39 p.m.)President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening attended a campaign fundraiser at the Manhattan home of hedge fund founder John Paulson that will raise $5 million, according to two people familiar with the matter.Another event, at Cipriani 42nd Street on Thursday, is expected to raise at least $3 million, the people said.Paulson, a billionaire and the founder of Paulson & Co., has been a Trump supporter since he first ran in 2016, and was an economic adviser to the campaign.The money will go toward the Trump Victory fund, which benefits the president's re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee, according to a Republican familiar with the arrangement. -- Jennifer JacobsTrump Reaps $5 Million After Impeachment Drive: 3:58 P.M.The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $5 million in the 24 hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she was opening a formal impeachment inquiry."Huge groundswell of support," campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted in announcing the haul, which he said included donors from all 50 states. The total is far short of the $24.8 million Trump raised in less than 24 hours when he officially relaunched his re-election bid.The fundraising effort began within minutes of Pelosi's announcement Tuesday that the House inquiry would examine Trump's interactions with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. A text message to supporters Tuesday afternoon said, "Nancy just called for impeachment," and asked them to make a donation, with $45 the suggested amount.The campaign also sent an email to supporters Wednesday after the White House released the text of Trump's conversation with Zelenskiy. "I've done nothing wrong," the solicitation says, "Trust me, you saw the transcript." That pitch asked for donations of $5 and up. -- Bill AllisonElizabeth Warren's Having a Good Week in Polls (11:14 a.m.)Elizabeth Warren has had quite the week for positive polls.She's leading by 9 points over Joe Biden in California in a Los Angeles Times/University of California Berkeley poll out Wednesday, giving her an early lead in the country's largest Democratic state. She also has moved to the front in the first two nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to polls out in the last week.The Massachusetts senator was at 29% among likely California Democratic primary voters, up from 18% in June. She was followed by Biden at 20%, a drop of 2 points, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders at 19%. Senator Kamala Harris only had 8% support in her home state, down from 13% in June.The California poll was conducted Sept. 13-18, before the stories about President Donald Trump's request to Ukraine that its government investigate Biden's son Hunter broke. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. -- Emma KineryWarren Tied With Biden in New National Poll (6:51 a.m.)Elizabeth Warren is essentially tied with Joe Biden nationwide, continuing a surge in surveys that showed her ahead in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday.The survey will fuel questions about whether the former vice president is losing his perch as the front-runner in the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination.The poll showed Warren with support from 27% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, compared with 25% for Biden. That's well within the margin of error of the survey of 4.9% but represents the first time a candidate other than Biden has held a numerical lead since Quinnipiac began its survey in March.Warren has been riding a wave of momentum since the last Democratic debate earlier this month in Houston. -- Kathleen HunterCOMING UPThe United Food and Commercial Workers union will host forums in Iowa and Michigan with Democratic presidential candidates on Sept. 29 and Oct. 13. Michael Bennet, Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have confirmed that they will attend.\--With assistance from Kathleen Hunter, Emma Kinery, Bill Allison and Jennifer Jacobs.To contact the reporter on this story: Gregory Korte in Washington at gkorte@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Wendy Benjaminson at wbenjaminson@bloomberg.net, Max Berley, John HarneyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| UPDATE 2-Pakistan's Khan warns of 'bloodbath' when Kashmir curfew lifted Posted: 27 Sep 2019 09:30 AM PDT ![UPDATE 2-Pakistan's Khan warns of 'bloodbath' when Kashmir curfew lifted]( "UPDATE 2-Pakistan's Khan warns of 'bloodbath' when Kashmir curfew lifted") Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan warned on Friday there would be a bloodbath once India lifts its curfew in disputed Kashmir and that any all-out conflict between the two nuclear-armed nations would reverberate far beyond their borders. Khan made the remarks in an impassioned speech to the annual United Nations General Assembly after India last month removed the decades-old autonomy in the part of Kashmir it controls and detained thousands of people.
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| California teen put into coma after using vape pen reportedly laced with hydrogen cyanide Posted: 27 Sep 2019 07:01 AM PDT  A California teen spent nine days in a coma after using a vape pen that was reportedly laced with hydrogen cyanide.
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| Japan's Failed Twice to Track North Korean Missiles Posted: 27 Sep 2019 05:16 AM PDT  We've got a problem.
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| Rwanda welcomes first group of African refugees from Libya Posted: 26 Sep 2019 09:13 PM PDT  A group of 66 African refugees and asylum-seekers arrived in Kigali late Thursday, the UN said, the first of what could be thousands relocated from Libya under a new programme. Earlier this month, Rwanda signed a deal with the African Union (AU) and the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR agreeing to take in African refugees and asylum-seekers stranded in Libya.
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| Melting ice is slowing down the Atlantic ocean's circulation system. Yes, that's similar to what happens in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' Posted: 26 Sep 2019 11:48 AM PDT  A new UN report found global oceans could rise 3 feet by 2100 due in part to melting ice. That melt could also slow the Atlantic ocean current system.
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| 2020 Nissan Titan Makeover Adds Sharper Looks, More Muscle Posted: 26 Sep 2019 08:15 AM PDT  Nissan updates its half-ton pickup truck with a revised powertrain, fresh styling, and new features.
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| White girls accused of hate crime against black classmate Posted: 26 Sep 2019 11:35 AM PDT  Two girls, 10 and 11, face criminal charges of harassment and assault of a 10-year-old girl on a school bus in a small upstate New York town, in an episode that the local police are treating as a racial hate crime.
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| The 10 Hardest Math Problems That Remain Unsolved Posted: 26 Sep 2019 01:10 PM PDT |
| From 'America's mayor' to Trump's pit bull: Rudy Giuliani emerges as central figure in Ukraine firestorm Posted: 27 Sep 2019 11:34 AM PDT  Rudolph Giuliani, Donald Trump's chief public defender, is a central figure in the Ukraine firestorm that has triggered an impeachment inquiry.
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| Man who released Canadian PM's brownface photo says he has no political affiliation Posted: 27 Sep 2019 12:20 PM PDT  The man who gave Time magazine the photo of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wearing brownface at a school event said on Friday he had no political affiliation nor did he receive any payment for releasing the image. Vancouver businessman Michael Adamson said in a statement he was motivated solely by the belief that "Canadian public had a right" to see the photo. The photo was taken at a gala dinner of British Columbia private school West Point Grey Academy (WPGA) in 2001, when Trudeau was a 29-year-old teacher at the school, showing him in a Middle East-inspired costume, skin darkened by makeup.
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| Tucker Carlson Mocks Fox Colleague Shep Smith for Defending Fox News Analyst Posted: 25 Sep 2019 06:56 PM PDT  Hours after Fox News anchor Shepard Smith blasted frequent network guest and Trump ally Joe diGenova for calling Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano a "fool" during Tucker Carlson's show, Carlson devoted a Wednesday night segment to mocking Smith's outrage and defense of their mutual colleague.Inviting diGenova back on his program on Wednesday night, Carlson noted that the Trump-boosting lawyer's insult of Napolitano caused "quite a firestorm," reminding viewers that diGenova was responding to Napolitano's assertion that Trump committed a crime with his phone call to the Ukrainian president. Carlson then took aim at Smith."Apparently our daytime host who hosted Judge Napolitano was watching last night and was outraged by what you said and, quite ironically, called you partisan," Carlson exclaimed in a rather jovial manner.The Fox News star went on to air a clip of Smith not-so-subtly calling out Carlson for letting a "partisan guest" attack Napolitano without being challenged. "Attacking our colleague, who is here to offer legal assessments on our air in our work home, is repugnant," Smith added."Repugnant!" Carlson mockingly shouted. "Not clear if that was you or me, but someone was repugnant!"Playing another clip of Napolitano reiterating his view that Trump broke the law by seeking election assistance from a foreign leader, the primetime Fox star insisted that "unlike maybe some dayside hosts, I'm not very partisan."After accusing Smith of being partisan, the conservative talk show host opened the floor for diGenova to continue to rail against Napolitano's analysis. "I was very truthful last night," diGenova said."So that's why it doesn't seem honest to me when a host, any host on any channel, including this one, pretends that the answer is obvious," Carlson stated. "That there is ironclad consensus about what the answer is when there, in fact, isn't, when it's a subjective question. That's not news, is it? That's opinion."diGenova, meanwhile, insisted he was absolutely right to claim Trump has not committed any crimes because he's a former U.S. attorney before taking some additional shots at Napolitano."He is entitled to feel that way," the Trump-supporting lawyer declared. "He is a disappointed office seeker. He didn't get the seat on the Supreme Court that he desperately wanted and he has been mad about it ever since. He showed it yesterday and he showed it so many times over the last year it's pretty embarrassing actually for me. You know, I love the guy. God bless him.""I do too," Carlson replied. "We invited him on tonight by the way. It makes people cynical when you dress up news coverage, when you dress up partisanship as news coverage and pretend that your angry political opinions are news. You know, people tune out."This wasn't the only time we saw friendly fire on Carlson's show Wednesday night. Earlier in the program, Fox News reporter Trace Gallagher said "most legal analysts, even on the liberal media outlets, acknowledge it would be very difficult to make a case that President Trump broke the law." This would, however, contradict Napolitano's assessment, as well as a number of lawyers and legal analysts Smith also cited on Wednesday to show Trump broke the law.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Pakistan court gives slain model's brother life sentence Posted: 27 Sep 2019 05:59 AM PDT  A Pakistani court on Friday found the brother of a slain social media model, Qandeel Baloch, guilty of her 2016 murder and sentenced him to life in prison. Baloch, aged 26, was found strangled in her home near the city of Multan. Friday's decision by a judge in Multan acquitted four other suspects, including Qawi, whose supporters showered him with rose petals as he left the court.
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| TV reporter responds to stranger who kissed her during live broadcast: 'It is not OK' Posted: 27 Sep 2019 11:45 AM PDT  A Kentucky TV reporter is speaking out after a stranger kissed her during a live broadcast last Friday.
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| Family sues Best Buy after the death of a 75-year-old woman who police say was bludgeoned and set on fire by a man delivering her washing machine Posted: 27 Sep 2019 06:11 PM PDT  Evelyn Udell's family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Best Buy and two delivery contractors.
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| New poll: Majority of Americans against impeachment and removal of Trump Posted: 27 Sep 2019 07:18 AM PDT  A Quinnipiac poll was conducted while controversy surrounded Donald Trump over whether he had pressured a Ukrainian leader to investigate Joe Biden.
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| Parents arrested in death of boy who had begged not to be returned to them Posted: 27 Sep 2019 10:49 AM PDT  The parents of a 4-year-old boy who had begged not to be returned to them have been arrested in his death.
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| View Photos of the 2020 Ford Super Duty Posted: 26 Sep 2019 09:45 AM PDT |
| They Will Kill You: The Secrets of the Delta Force Revealed Posted: 27 Sep 2019 06:25 AM PDT  One of America's top forces.
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| Borneo pygmy elephant found dead in Malaysia Posted: 27 Sep 2019 04:09 AM PDT  A pygmy elephant has been found dead in a river on the Malaysian part of Borneo island, an official said Friday, the latest of the endangered creatures to perish. There are only around 1,500 surviving Borneo pygmy elephants, a subspecies that can reach a height of up to three metres (10 feet), according to international conservation group WWF. Wildlife officials are still investigating the cause of death of the male creature, aged around 10 years, whose body was discovered floating in the water, attached by a rope to a tree on the riverbank.
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| 'Used and dehumanized': Dozens of boys found chained in Nigeria Posted: 27 Sep 2019 09:47 AM PDT  More than 300 boys and men, some as young as five and many in chains and bearing scars from beatings, have been rescued in a raid on a building that purported to be an Islamic school in northern Nigeria, police said on Friday. Most of the freed captives seen by a Reuters reporter in the city of Kaduna were children, aged up to their late teens. Some children had been brought from neighboring countries including Burkina Faso, Mali and Ghana, police said, while others had been left by their parents in what they believed to be an Islamic school or rehabilitation center.
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| Aubrey O'Day claims flight attendant forced her to 'undress in front of the entire plane' Posted: 27 Sep 2019 07:47 AM PDT  'I literally had to have my breasts in a bra out in front of everyone around me in order to not get kicked off.'
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| China Accused of Harvesting Organs of Uighurs, Falun Gong Religious Group Posted: 26 Sep 2019 10:03 AM PDT  A human rights lawyer has accused the Chinese government of murdering members of the Uighur Muslim minority and the Falun Gong religious group to harvest their organs, and has urged the U.N. Human Rights Council to investigate the allegations.The lawyer, Hamid Sabi, represents the China Tribunal, an independent panel founded to examine the issue of Chinese organ harvesting. The tribunal is headed by British Lawyer Sir Geoffery Nice, who previously led the prosecution against Serbian president Slobodan Milošević."Forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, including the religious minorities of Falun Gong and Uighurs, has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale," Sabi told the U.N.H.R.C. on Tuesday.The tribunal's final report on the matter details abuses committed by the Chinese government, and asserts that the government sanctioned doctors to "cut open [victims' bodies] while still alive for their kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs, cornea and skin to be removed and turned into commodities for sale."Falun Gong, a religious practice based on meditation, has long been banned in China. Its practitioners are often imprisoned.China maintains that it ceased using organs from executed prisoners in 2015.Waiting times in China for an organ transplant are extremely low, leading patients from overseas to seek treatment there. The tribunal charges that under Chinese organ donation laws, the supply of organs on the market should be much lower than it currently stands if all the donations are voluntarily given.China is concurrently accused of human rights violations with regard to the Uighur minority. Reports from the Xinjiang region, home to the Uighur population, indicate that China has arrested around one million Uighur citizens and placed them in political and religious re-education camps.
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| A first: Vermont GOP governor backs Trump impeachment probe Posted: 26 Sep 2019 01:27 PM PDT  Vermont's governor became the first Republican chief executive to support an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump but cautioned that he wants to know more before any further actions are taken. "I think the inquiry is important, yes, and where it leads from here is going to be driven by the facts that are established," Scott said. Scott's remarks are one of the few signs of Republican discomfort with the revelations.
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| 12 candidates, one night: Here's who has made the October debate Posted: 27 Sep 2019 02:07 PM PDT  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and billionaire Tom Steyer are additions to this stage from the September debate, where only 10 candidates faced off.
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