| Trump to Merkel: ‘Perhaps’ Obama wiretapped us both Posted: 17 Mar 2017 12:11 PM PDT  Recycling an incendiary and unsubstantiated charge, President Trump on Friday joked that he and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have one thing in common: being spied on by Barack Obama's administration. "As far as wiretapping, I guess, by, you know, this past administration, at least we have something in common perhaps," Trump said at a joint press conference with the German leader. Trump had been asked by a German reporter about his March 4 claim that Obama personally ordered spying on him and Trump Tower.
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| Man Shot Dead in Paris Airport After Seizing Soldier’s Weapon: French Officials Posted: 18 Mar 2017 09:01 AM PDT  Police say Ziad Ben Belgacem in the last hours of his life shot and injured a police officer, hijacked a car and for a few terror-filled minutes held a soldier hostage at Paris' Orly Airport.
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| Despite Tough Talk, U.S. Responses to North Korea Are Business As Usual Posted: 17 Mar 2017 11:33 AM PDT  The open discussion of military action may only serve to reinforce the reclusive regime's opinions and validate their domestic propaganda.
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| White House security boosted after arrest Posted: 19 Mar 2017 03:10 AM PDT  The US Secret Service has bolstered security at the White House after a man was arrested making threats at one its checkpoints, a third such security scare in just over a week. "On March 18, 2017 at approximately 11:05 pm, an individual drove a vehicle up to a Secret Service checkpoint located at 15th Street and E Street NW," a Secret Service spokesman said in the latest of a series of White House security concerns. "Upon contact with the individual, US Secret Service Uniform Division Officers detained the individual and declared his vehicle suspicious.
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| German Foreign Minister: Turkey 'further away from EU membership than ever' Posted: 18 Mar 2017 09:32 AM PDT ![German Foreign Minister: Turkey 'further away from EU membership than ever']( "German Foreign Minister: Turkey 'further away from EU membership than ever'") Turkey has never been less likely to join the European Union than now and the bloc should seek a special relationship with Britain, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said as relations between Ankara and Berlin hit a low point. "Today Turkey is definitely further away from becoming a member of the European Union than ever before," Gabriel said in an interview with news magazine Der Spiegel published on Saturday. Before taking power in Germany in 2005, Chancellor Angela Merkel was an outspoken opponent of Turkey's membership and called for a "privileged partnership".
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| Tesla Will Discontinue its Cheapest Model Posted: 17 Mar 2017 12:43 PM PDT  The Model S 60, with its restricted 60 kWh battery pack, will be put out to pasture.
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| Trump’s budget rattles Meals on Wheels in Kansas, where the group vows to fight on Posted: 17 Mar 2017 01:04 PM PDT  President Trump's recent budget proposal, which yanks federal funding for Meals on Wheels, may feel like abstract accounting to some, but for senior citizens in Saline County, Kan., it could affect what's for dinner — and what's not. The Saline County Commission on Aging (COA) was founded in 1974 to look after the needs of the senior community. It runs the Salina Senior Center and Salina Meals on Wheels, which delivers food to senior citizens and people with disabilities.
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| Childhood TV Series Actor Faces Six-Year Sentence Posted: 18 Mar 2017 02:40 AM PDT  TV actor Ricardo Medina actor was most notably known for his role as Cole Evans, the Red Wild Force Ranger, killed his roommate with a sword in 2015.
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| Rep. Joaquin Castro: 'No conclusion one way or another' on Trump campaign ties to Russia Posted: 19 Mar 2017 06:23 AM PDT  House Intelligence Committee members Rep. Will Hurd (R) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D) weigh in on this and the Monday House hearing on Trump's ties to Russia.
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| Study Says Drug Cuts Cholesterol and Reduces Heart Attacks, But It’s Not Cheap Posted: 17 Mar 2017 03:47 PM PDT A study paid for by the drug maker of Repatha found that it can have huge benefits on patients, but the price tag is steep: $14,000 per year.
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| Trump declines to shake Merkel’s hand during awkward White House interaction Posted: 17 Mar 2017 11:06 AM PDT  When it was announced that President Trump would receive German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House, there was immediate speculation that the meeting could be tense, to say the least. After the world leaders met privately in the Oval Office, press photographers and videographers were allowed to enter and captured an awkward exchange. In one clip, photographers can be heard asking for the two to shake hands.
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| This guy who uses dating apps to score free dinner is your new worst enemy Posted: 17 Mar 2017 01:15 PM PDT  Step aside, breadcrumbers. Move to the left, ghosters. There's a new kind of shitty match in town and his name is Dine-and-Dash. Just when you thought you'd encountered all the different types of dating app disasters, a new one comes along. There's a Los Angeles man who keeps inviting women to dinner via dating app and then sticking them with the check. He's like a much less fun version of Homeless Heidi from High Maintenance, and he appears mainly to have met his dates on Bumble. SEE ALSO: Can this dating app end ghosting for good? His M.O., according to CBS LA, is to invite an unsuspecting woman to dinner and immediately order a hearty meal. (In one case he went for "A glass of pinot, a Caesar salad with a side of shrimp, a steak and a baked potato.") Then he chows down and gets up to "take a call." And — surprise! — he disappears, leaving his bewildered date to pay. Paul Gonzales (who has also used the names Dave Gonzales and Tony Azini) has pulled this scam several times in the LA-area since last summer and police say the same man was spotted ditching out after a haircut at a salon last summer. There are several bench warrants out for his arrest. So if you end up on a date with this guy, you might want to be the one to step out and make a call... to the police. WATCH: Can dating apps be used to catch fugitives? You bet.
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| People in the US may soon finally be able to erase themselves from Google Posted: 17 Mar 2017 11:12 AM PDT 
The internet is a fantastic tool for archiving information, but when that information says bad things about your own personal life, character, or past missteps, it can be a huge burden. The "right to be forgotten" concept which took root in Europe about a decade ago seeks to minimize the negative impact the internet's massive wealth of information can have on a person's future by making it easier to have certain private material scrubbed from search engine results. Now, that same idea could be put into practice in the United States.
A bill currently making its way through the New York State Assembly proposes that the right to be forgotten act be implemented as amendments to the state's civil rights and civil practice laws. The proposed changes would put search companies on the hook for removing certain private and personal information within 30 days of receiving a request to do so. The information would need to be "inaccurate, irrelevant, inadequate, or excessive" in order to quality for removal from search indexes. Google has chosen not to comment on the bill's existence or its potential approval, but has taken a stand in the past against the idea of modifying search results based on being asked to do so. For companies like Google, the issue isn't necessarily the legwork involved in removing the requested information, but the likelihood that the request system will be abused by individuals seeking to censor anything and everything that they don't particularly agree with. It's a very real concern, and it will be interesting to see whether this New York proposal leads other lawmakers to consider similar measures.
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| Correction: Congress-Health Overhaul story Posted: 18 Mar 2017 06:36 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story March 17 about the House Republican health care bill, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., is a freshman from the Hudson River Valley. He is a second-term lawmaker from upstate New York.
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| Tennessee police hunt former teacher accused of kidnapping student Posted: 18 Mar 2017 11:41 AM PDT ![Tennessee police hunt former teacher accused of kidnapping student]( "Tennessee police hunt former teacher accused of kidnapping student") Tad Cummins, 50, who is believed to be armed with two hand guns, was placed on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's top 10 "most wanted" list on Friday on charges of aggravate kidnapping and having sexual contact with a minor. Cummings, who is married, was fired from his Maurey County high school teaching job on Tuesday after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with student Beth Thomas, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Thomas was last seen on Monday just before 8 a.m. CT when a friend dropped her off at a Shoney's family-style restaurant parking lot in Columbia, Tennessee, a city about 45 miles south of Nashville.
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| Israel threatens to 'destroy' Syrian air defence systems Posted: 19 Mar 2017 04:46 AM PDT  Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday threatened to destroy Syrian air defence systems after they fired ground-to-air missiles at Israeli warplanes carrying out strikes. "The next time the Syrians use their air defence systems against our planes we will destroy them without the slightest hesitation," Lieberman said on Israeli public radio. Israeli warplanes hit several targets in Syria on Friday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the strikes targeted weapons bound for Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement.
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| Chief: Apartment building inspected 50 times before blaze Posted: 17 Mar 2017 11:12 AM PDT  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An apartment building under construction in North Carolina's capital city had been inspected 50 times, most recently on Monday, before it went up in flames near an entertainment district, the fire chief said Friday.
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| Meals on Wheels: Our donations surged after White House talked defunding Posted: 17 Mar 2017 11:28 AM PDT  Donations and volunteer sign-ups to Meals on Wheels surged, the group said Friday, in the hours after President Trump's administration pointed to the public-private partnership as an example of government spending it can no longer defend. "We received 50 times the normal amount of donations yesterday," said Jenny Bertolette, vice president of communications at Meals on Wheels. The group also "saw an almost 500 percent jump in volunteer sign-ups through our AmericaLetsDoLunch.org Ad Council website," Bertolette said.
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| 20,000 leagues beneath the ice Posted: 18 Mar 2017 07:30 AM PDT ![20,000 leagues beneath the ice]( "20,000 leagues beneath the ice") The harmonic sounds of Weddell seals penetrate the thick ice. In fact, a significant part of what we know about underwater life in Antarctica comes from within a two-hour driving radius of the McMurdo Station research base.
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| ‘Pokémon Go’ Skips St. Patrick’s Day, No Drunk Pikachu Here Posted: 17 Mar 2017 12:54 PM PDT  'Pokémon Go' players really wanted a St. Patrick's Day event, and hope is fading fast for any sort of promotion. Why can't we get a drunk Pikachu?
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| Beach Boys Singer Opens Up About Haunting Encounter With Charles Manson and His 'Maniacal Look' Posted: 17 Mar 2017 02:40 PM PDT ![Beach Boys Singer Opens Up About Haunting Encounter With Charles Manson and His 'Maniacal Look']( "Beach Boys Singer Opens Up About Haunting Encounter With Charles Manson and His 'Maniacal Look'") The 1993 interview has surfaced in a new ABC documentary, "Truth and Lies: The Family Manson."
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| Google’s newest innovation will make your internet feel significantly faster Posted: 17 Mar 2017 07:02 PM PDT 
You might not sense it immediately, but Google just made the internet faster. And you won't have to upgrade computers or internet subscriptions to take advantage of it. What the company did was to develop a new encoder for JPEG files that makes images 35% smaller than they used to be. The smaller the images, of which the web is filled with, the faster websites will load on your machine.
The new encoder is called Guetzli, Google announced, and it's already available over on Github as an open-source project. Google promises that it can create "high-quality JPEG images with file sizes 35 percent smaller than currently available methods." A second practical effect of this Google innovation is the use of less data to load the same sites, which might be an important detail to internet users who browse the web on a smartphone via a capped data plan. Google wants to increase load times without compromising image quality. In fact, Google says that Guetzli images are of higher quality than similar or larger JPEG files created using other encoders. And by sticking with the JPEG format that's used everywhere online, Google practically guarantees compatibility with any internet browser and apps out there that can process online images. There's one thing that Google can't control, however. Webmasters and graphic designers will actually have to use Guetzli on their images to reduce their size. It's not going to happen automatically to every image on the internet. More details about Guetzli are available aAt this link.
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| AP FACT CHECK: Fukushima radiation not cause for alarm in US Posted: 17 Mar 2017 11:29 AM PDT  Radiation from the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan has reached North American shores, but — despite a number of reports shared on social media— scientists say the levels of radiation are so low that it poses no risk to public health.
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| Kansas lawmakers to hash out fiscal 2017 budget fix Posted: 17 Mar 2017 10:35 AM PDT ![Kansas lawmakers to hash out fiscal 2017 budget fix]( "Kansas lawmakers to hash out fiscal 2017 budget fix") (Reuters) - A committee of Kansas lawmakers will be charged with reconciling differences in legislation passed to plug a $280 million hole in the state's fiscal 2017 budget after the Senate passed a revised version of a House-approved bill late on Thursday. Both versions would allow the state to borrow money from a long-term investment fund and delay a payment to the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. Tax cuts enacted in 2012 have gouged a hole in the Kansas budget as revenue failed to meet monthly estimates, although February marked a fourth straight month that collections met or exceeded projections.
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| Man arrested for strobe-light tweet that caused reporter's seizure Posted: 18 Mar 2017 10:40 AM PDT  A Maryland man has been arrested on federal charges that he intentionally used an animated tweet to trigger an epileptic seizure in a Newsweek reporter who had been critical of President Donald Trump. The reporter, Kurt Eichenwald, was at his home office in Dallas on December 15 when he clicked on a Twitter message sent him by a man using the pseudonym "@jew_goldstein." A blinding strobe light began flashing on his screen, sending Eichenwald -- who has openly discussed his epilepsy -- into a seizure. The Justice Department said Friday that it had arrested John R. Rivello, 29, of Salisbury, Maryland, on a criminal complaint from Texas charging him with cyberstalking with the intent to kill or cause bodily harm.
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| Syria fires missiles at Israeli jets after airstrikes Posted: 17 Mar 2017 01:17 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Syria fired missiles at Israeli warplanes on a mission to destroy a weapons convoy destined for the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah prompting it to deploy its missile defense system, Israeli officials said Friday, in a rare military exchange between the two hostile neighbors.
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| Intruder on White House Grounds for Nearly 17 Minutes Before Arrest Posted: 17 Mar 2017 03:34 PM PDT It took nearly 17 minutes for the Secret Service to find and confront a man who jumped fences and a gate to get near the White House last week, the Secret Service acknowledged Friday.
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| President Trump's approval rating drops in Fox News poll Posted: 18 Mar 2017 11:01 AM PDT  Political panel weighs in on 'America's News HQ'
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| Two pharaohs, one statue: A tale of mistaken identity? Posted: 18 Mar 2017 10:02 AM PDT ![Two pharaohs, one statue: A tale of mistaken identity?]( "Two pharaohs, one statue: A tale of mistaken identity?") A colossus recently found in Matariya, a working-class neighborhood in Cairo, has proven tricky to identify. Shortly after the 26-foot tall statue was unearthed on March 7, it was identified as Pharaoh Ramses II, one of ancient Egypt's best-known rulers, but now Cairo officials say it likely portrays Psamtik I, a lesser-known pharaoh of the 26th Dynasty. Recommended: How much do you know about Egypt?
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| The murder trial against Charles Manson and his followers: Part 10 Posted: 17 Mar 2017 05:49 PM PDT  Linda Kasabian was a star witness for the prosecution and the driver on both nights of the murders.
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| Ban on Irish butter sparks fight in butter-loving Wisconsin Posted: 17 Mar 2017 12:20 PM PDT  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin resident Jean Smith snatches up entire stocks of her beloved Kerrygold Irish butter from stores when visiting family in Nebraska, thanks to an antiquated law in her dairy-obsessed state that bans it and any other butter that hasn't been graded for quality.
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| China, Russia block U.N. council concern about Myanmar violence Posted: 17 Mar 2017 11:57 AM PDT ![China, Russia block U.N. council concern about Myanmar violence]( "China, Russia block U.N. council concern about Myanmar violence") China, backed by Russia, blocked a short U.N. Security Council statement on Myanmar on Friday, diplomats said, after the 15-member body met to discuss the situation in Rakhine state, where the country's military is conducting a security operation. The U.N. human rights office last month accused the military of mass killings and rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burning their villages since October in a campaign that "very likely" amounts to crimes against humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing. U.N. political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman briefed the council behind closed doors.
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| Modi party picks firebrand to head India's biggest state Posted: 18 Mar 2017 09:40 AM PDT  Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-wing party Saturday picked a controversial firebrand leader to head India's most populous state, where it won a landslide victory last week. Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party won an absolute majority in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, home to 220 million people and seen as a bellwether of national politics, in a massive vote of confidence for the premier halfway into his first term. After an hours-long meeting with local BJP legislators on Saturday, senior party leader M. Venkaiah Naidu announced 44-year-old Yogi Adityanath as Uttar Pradesh's next chief minister.
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| Senate May Kill Broadband Privacy Rules With Congressional Review Act As Soon As Next Week Posted: 17 Mar 2017 04:18 PM PDT  The U.S. Senate may use the Congressional Review Act to eliminate Broadband Consumer Privacy Rules, which requires internet service providers ask premission before collecting sensitive data, using the Congressional Review Act as soon as next week.
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| The Latest: Lawyer: EMT killing suspect is mentally ill Posted: 17 Mar 2017 04:14 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a New York City emergency medical technician who was fatally struck by a stolen ambulance (all times local):
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| Amazon tribe has lowest heart risk ever seen: study Posted: 17 Mar 2017 10:22 AM PDT  Researchers said Friday they had found an indigenous Amazonian tribe with the lowest levels of artery hardening -- a portender of heart disease -- ever observed. Known as the Tsimane, the small forager-farmer community in Bolivia was five times less likely to develop coronary atherosclerosis (artery hardening) than people in the United States -- where it is a major killer, scientists wrote in The Lancet medical journal.
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| King Salman ends Asia tour, returns to Saudi Arabia: agency Posted: 18 Mar 2017 01:28 AM PDT ![King Salman ends Asia tour, returns to Saudi Arabia: agency]( "King Salman ends Asia tour, returns to Saudi Arabia: agency") Saudi Arabia's King Salman, who was on an official tour in Asia, has left China to head back to his kingdom, the state news agency SPA reported on Saturday. Saudi Arabia's octogenarian monarch, who has overseen the launch of an ambitious economic reform plan since his accession two years ago, was on a month-long tour of Asia that took him to Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and China. The visits to countries that are some of world's biggest importers of Saudi oil aim to promote investment opportunities in the kingdom, including the sale of a stake in national oil company Saudi Aramco.
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| Snow Blower Storage Tip: Should You Drain the Gas? Posted: 18 Mar 2017 03:00 AM PDT  Q. Do I really have to drain the gas from my snow blower before I store it for the season? A. That depends. If you've added fuel stabilizer—an additive sold by power-equipment dealers and home c...
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| Pastor Stabbed to Death by Parishioner Who Asked to Pray With Him: Cops Posted: 17 Mar 2017 11:37 AM PDT  Pastor Herbert Valero was able to identify the murderer to his family before he died, cops say.
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| Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Caribbean poet, dies at 87 Posted: 17 Mar 2017 02:18 PM PDT  CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) — Derek Walcott, a Nobel prize-winning poet known for capturing the essence of his native Caribbean, died Friday on the island of St. Lucia. He was 87.
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| What is the Five Eyes intelligence alliance? Posted: 17 Mar 2017 01:47 PM PDT  The diplomatic spat between Britain and the United States, after the White House claimed that London's spies had snooped on Donald Trump, is just the latest incident to put focus on Five Eyes, an international intelligence alliance. The White House insisted Friday that spokesman Sean Spicer had not accused Britain of spying on Trump but was "simply pointing to public reports," following a story broadcast by Fox News that indicated Trump's predecessor Barack Obama had used Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency for the wiretaps.
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| Somalia asks Saudi coalition to investigate refugee boat attack Posted: 18 Mar 2017 01:16 PM PDT ![Somalia asks Saudi coalition to investigate refugee boat attack]( "Somalia asks Saudi coalition to investigate refugee boat attack") By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The Somali government condemned a helicopter attack on a boatload of Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen and called on the Saudi-led coalition fighting in the country to investigate, officials said on Saturday. At least 40 Somali refugees were killed when a helicopter attacked the boat they were traveling in late on Thursday, the United Nations refugee agency said. "The prime minister condemns the unfair killing of the Somalis who were sailing on the shores of Yemen ... the victims were innocent, unarmed and were mostly women and children," Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire's office said in a statement.
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| 10 fascinating facts about Grover Cleveland, the only double President Posted: 18 Mar 2017 08:15 AM PDT  Grover Cleveland stands alone in American history as the only President to serve non-consecutive terms. On the anniversary of his birth, here's a look at one of most fascinating White House occupants.
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