| Hillary Clinton on GOP health bill breakdown: ‘The fight isn’t over yet’ Posted: 24 Mar 2017 03:12 PM PDT  Hillary Clinton praised the efforts of "people in every corner of our country" and then posted tweets about people who have benefited from the ACA.
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| Why Manafort’s offer to cooperate in probe is less than meets the eye Posted: 24 Mar 2017 01:50 PM PDT  WASHINGTON — A surprise offer by Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign manager, to "provide information" to congressional committees investigating links between the Trump campaign and Russia may be far more limited than it first appeared, according to congressional sources and others familiar with the matter. "Paul Manafort to Testify Before House Intelligence Panel," read the headline in the New York Times.
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| Pope urges EU: Resist 'false' security promised by populists Posted: 24 Mar 2017 11:23 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis urged European leaders on Friday to resist the "false forms of security" promised by populists who want to wall themselves off and instead bank on a future of greater solidarity and union.
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| Defense argues no forensic evidence ties woman to mom's murder: Part 4 Posted: 24 Mar 2017 05:55 PM PDT  "Noura's blood was not at the crime scene. And Jennifer's blood was not on Noura," says defense attorney Valerie Corder.
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| 6 Simple Self-Care Tips That Changed My Life Posted: 24 Mar 2017 01:17 PM PDT  The first step: Remember that it isn't selfish to look after yourself.
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| Arctic Marines? an Inside Look at the American Marines Training in the Harshest Elements Posted: 25 Mar 2017 03:46 PM PDT  NBC Nightly News went to northern Norway where American marines are training with Norwegian and British troops this month in Operation Joint Viking — a show of force just a few hundred miles from Russia's border.
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| The coincidences mount, as another Putin critic is shot dead Posted: 24 Mar 2017 03:12 PM PDT  An outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin was shot dead in broad daylight in Kiev Thursday, just two days after a lawyer for the family of a slain Russian whistleblower was injured in a mysterious fall from his fourth-story apartment near Moscow. Denis Voronenkov was a former Russian Communist Party member who'd become increasingly critical of Putin's policies after fleeing to Ukraine in 2016. As it has after similar incidents, the Kremlin swiftly rejected any suggestion it was involved in Voronenkov's murder.
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| Rail accident at N.Y.'s Penn Station snarls travel; minor injuries Posted: 24 Mar 2017 12:22 PM PDT  A slow-moving Amtrak Acela train derailed and sideswiped a New Jersey commuter train on Friday, causing minor injuries and snarling morning rush-hour rail traffic at New York's Penn Station, a major transportation hub, officials said. The accident happened at about 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT), with passengers aboard the New Jersey Transit train describing hearing screeching metal as the Washington-bound Acela hit the commuter train while departing the station. "There was a loud sound of mangling metal and you felt the reverberations of another train raking the side of our train and I just heard screams from behind me as it traveled back," said Jordan Geary, who was traveling on the train with his wife from the New York suburb of Montclair, New Jersey.
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| Vegas Strip shooting Posted: 25 Mar 2017 03:06 PM PDT ![Vegas Strip shooting]( "Vegas Strip shooting") Las Vegas police say the gunman in a fatal shooting on the Strip who barricaded himself inside a public bus has surrendered peacefully after shutting down the busy tourism corridor for hours.
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| North Korea Threatens US Over Preemptive Strike Posted: 25 Mar 2017 05:00 AM PDT  Kim Jong Un's regime said the U.S. should be prepared for "catastrophic consequences" if it attempts to engage Pyongyang.
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| Airstrikes across rebel-held Syria kill and wound scores Posted: 25 Mar 2017 11:22 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes hit a women's prison and a clinic in rebel-held parts of Syria on Saturday, killing and wounding scores of people amid clashes on multiple fronts between government forces and insurgent groups in some of the country's worst violence in weeks, opposition activists said.
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| Kentucky lawyer pleads guilty in massive disability scheme Posted: 24 Mar 2017 04:45 PM PDT ![Kentucky lawyer pleads guilty in massive disability scheme]( "Kentucky lawyer pleads guilty in massive disability scheme") LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A flamboyant Kentucky lawyer who billed himself as "Mr. Social Security" pleaded guilty Friday for his role in what prosecutors portrayed as a long-running scheme to defraud the government of nearly $600 million in federal disability payments.
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| Firefighter Rescues Motionless Dog From Apartment Fire Using Mouth-To-Snout Resuscitation Posted: 24 Mar 2017 12:57 PM PDT  "As a nurse, I knew he was probably dead, but the firefighters wouldn't give up," said the dog's owner, Crystal Lamirande.
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| At least 50 killed by armed men in CAfrica: locals Posted: 24 Mar 2017 02:20 PM PDT  At least 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured since Tuesday after armed men attacked three villages in the central Bambari region of the Central African Republic, local residents who fled their homes told AFP. "The provisional toll of the attacks in the Agoudou Manga, Yasseneme and Ngouyanza is at least 50 dead. Dozens more have been injured," said Isaac Arata-Naba, an Agoudou Manga resident.
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| Boston man sentenced for sale of guns stolen from U.S. Army site Posted: 24 Mar 2017 10:09 AM PDT ![Boston man sentenced for sale of guns stolen from U.S. Army site]( "Boston man sentenced for sale of guns stolen from U.S. Army site") A Boston man was sentenced on Friday to serve almost five years in federal prison for having helped to sell weapons including six machine guns stolen from a Massachusetts U.S. Army Reserve facility in 2015. Tyrone James, 29, was sentenced to 57 months in prison and three years' supervised release after pleading guilty in December to charges including conspiracy to possess, store and sell stolen firearms.
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| Rachel Dolezal struggles after racial identity scandal Posted: 24 Mar 2017 12:51 PM PDT  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A white civil rights leader, fired because she led others to believe she was black, said she struggles to make a living these days because she was portrayed as a fraud.
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| Tillerson's week: How top US diplomat’s ‘big reveal’ offered little clarity Posted: 24 Mar 2017 11:53 AM PDT ![Tillerson's week: How top US diplomat's 'big reveal' offered little clarity]( "Tillerson's week: How top US diplomat's 'big reveal' offered little clarity") The event was billed as a counter-ISIS conference, but for Rex Tillerson it was more like a coming-out party – with him starring as the diplomatic debutante. With all eyes on the new secretary of state with no formal diplomatic experience, the former ExxonMobil CEO offered the high-level representatives of the 68 countries in the US-led counter-ISIS coalition a bit of insight into his global philosophy and his approach to his new gig.
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| White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's daily briefing on March 24,2017 Posted: 24 Mar 2017 11:35 AM PDT  On Friday, March 24, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer hosts the daily press briefing with the White House press corp.
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| Conviction of Venezuelan first lady's nephews stands: U.S. judge Posted: 24 Mar 2017 02:18 PM PDT ![Conviction of Venezuelan first lady's nephews stands: U.S. judge]( "Conviction of Venezuelan first lady's nephews stands: U.S. judge") Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores had argued in a motion challenging their conviction that they were entrapped in a sting operation and that their trial was tainted by a witness who perjured himself. Attorneys for Flores de Freitas and Campo Flores did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Flores de Freitas, 31, and Campo Flores, 30, were convicted by a Manhattan jury in November of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.
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| Democrats oppose Gorsuch, say he rules against workers Posted: 24 Mar 2017 03:07 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Five more Democrats said Friday that they will vote against Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and will support a filibuster against him.
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| 3 dead, 1 injured in Mexico prison riot Posted: 25 Mar 2017 11:19 AM PDT ![3 dead, 1 injured in Mexico prison riot]( "3 dead, 1 injured in Mexico prison riot") MEXICO CITY (AP) — A fight between inmates at a northern Mexican prison left three inmates dead and one injured, authorities said Saturday.
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| Pro-Houthi court sentences Yemen president to death for treason Posted: 25 Mar 2017 01:10 PM PDT  A Yemeni court in territory controlled by the armed Houthi movement sentenced the group's enemy in a two-year-old civil war President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and six other top officials in his government to death for "high treason" on Saturday. Saudi Arabia and a mostly Gulf Arab military coalition have launched thousands of air strikes and a small number of ground troops to try to dislodge the Houthis and restore Hadi to power. The Houthis, allied to Saudi Arabia's arch-enemy Iran, have progressively lost territory to the offensive but maintain control over the capital and most population centers.
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| Laptop ban hits Dubai for 1.1m weekend travellers Posted: 25 Mar 2017 01:18 AM PDT  Dubai International Airport and its flag carrier Emirates began implementing a ban on laptops and tablets on direct flights to the US Saturday, on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. Around 1.1 million people are expected to pass through the world's busiest international airport as the city marks UAE spring break, Dubai Airports said. Dubai International Airport expects 89 million passengers this year.
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| Malaysia Could Soon Analyze Its Own Black Boxes Posted: 25 Mar 2017 09:40 AM PDT  Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Ab Aziz Kaprawi announced Thursday that Malaysia intended to create a laboratory with the capability to analyze flight recorders.
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| One dead after blasts at eastern Ukraine arms depot Posted: 24 Mar 2017 10:39 AM PDT  Ukraine on Friday said one person has died as a result of a fire that broke out at an arms depot in the country's east, sparking explosions and forcing a mass evacuation. Ukrainian authorities have blamed Thursday's fire on an "act of sabotage" and opened investigations into possible "diversion" or negligence of military personnel. "The body of a woman born in 1951 was recovered from under the debris of a collapsed house," the head of Ukraine's emergency service, Mykola Chechotkin, said Friday, Interfax Ukraine news agency reported.
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| Iraqi forces to deploy new tactics in Mosul, civilians flee city Posted: 24 Mar 2017 11:28 AM PDT  By Angus MacSwan and Patrick Markey MOSUL/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces are to deploy new tactics in a fresh push against Islamic State in Mosul, military officials said on Friday, after advances slowed in the campaign to drive the militants out of their last stronghold in the country. Iraq's military is assessing opening up another front and isolating Mosul's Old City, where the militants have put up fierce resistance, a U.S. deputy commanding general for the coalition said.
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| 2017 Nissan Maxima Posted: 24 Mar 2017 02:00 PM PDT  Athletic, luxurious, and practical, the highly styled Maxima attempts to do it all.
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| University of Texas survey: 1 in 7 female students raped Posted: 24 Mar 2017 08:25 PM PDT ![University of Texas survey: 1 in 7 female students raped]( "University of Texas survey: 1 in 7 female students raped") AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Nearly 15 percent of female undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin reported being raped in a survey released by officials at the 50,000-student campus Friday.
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| Sacramento man arrested in killing of 2 adults, 2 juveniles Posted: 24 Mar 2017 08:28 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Police arrested a 56-year-old man who works for the state Friday on suspicion that he killed two adults and two children in a quiet Northern California neighborhood.
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| Democratic opposition to U.S. high court nominee grows Posted: 24 Mar 2017 02:06 PM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A third of Democratic senators have so far announced they will vote against confirming U.S. President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, adding to a chorus of opposition from the left, but leaving questions over whether there will be a concerted effort to block a vote in the Senate. To date, 16 of the 48 Democratic senators have publicly backed their leader, Chuck Schumer, who said on Thursday he opposes confirming appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch. Gorsuch is headed toward a Senate Judiciary Committee vote, likely on April 3, on his nomination to the high court after a marathon four-day confirmation hearing this week.
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| Pelosi: 'Today is a great day for our country' Posted: 24 Mar 2017 02:00 PM PDT  Moments after President Trump's healthcare bill collapsed, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a press conference: "Today is a great day for our country... It's a victory for the American people"
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| Photos of the day - March 25, 2017 Posted: 25 Mar 2017 01:55 PM PDT ![Photos of the day - March 25, 2017]( "Photos of the day - March 25, 2017") A woman dressed as "Europa" performs during a rally in Berlin marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome; a woman, pushed to the ground by police, tries to defends herself as the police detain an activist during an opposition rally in Minsk, Belarus; Pope Francis waves to the faithful from the Popemobile in Milan, Italy, as Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan, looks on, after the Angelus in Duomo Square. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
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| April The Giraffe Defying The Odds Posted: 25 Mar 2017 11:12 PM PDT  The pregnant was expected to go into labor weeks ago, but is yet to show signs of active labor.
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| Close race in Bulgaria vote Posted: 26 Mar 2017 08:58 AM PDT  Bulgarian voters went to the polls Sunday in a tightly fought election pitting Socialists seen as closer to Russia against two-time centre-right premier Boyko Borisov, who is seeking another comeback. Opinion polls ahead of the vote in the European Union's poorest country, where the average monthly salary is just 500 euros ($540) and corruption is rife, also indicated a strong showing by nationalists. A close result is expected between the karate-kicking Borisov's enthusiastically pro-European Union GERB party and the Socialist Party (BSP), newly led by the energetic Kornelia Ninova.
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| Hundreds detained as Belarus struggles to quell protests Posted: 25 Mar 2017 07:34 AM PDT  By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus authorities detained hundreds of people on Saturday during an attempt to hold a street protest in the capital Minsk, amid rising public anger over falling living standards and an unpopular tax on the unemployed. A Reuters reporter saw hundreds of police deployed to block off access points to the square where the protests were due to take place. Saturday's demonstration is the latest in a wave of protests since February that pose the biggest challenge in years to President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the ex-Soviet state with an iron fist for nearly a quarter of a century.
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| Get a Discounted Mower at a Lawn Mower Exchange Posted: 24 Mar 2017 12:59 PM PDT  In San Diego the program that gives you a discounted electric mower for your old gas guzzler is so popular that the county prohibits residents from camping out overnight to get a prime place in l...
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| Victim's husband appeals for calm after Wisconsin shooting Posted: 24 Mar 2017 05:01 PM PDT ![Victim's husband appeals for calm after Wisconsin shooting]( "Victim's husband appeals for calm after Wisconsin shooting") MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The husband of one of four people killed in a string of shootings by a suspect who is Hmong urged community members not to "get caught up in colors" in reacting to the attack.
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| Powerful Texas Republican sees tough road for 'bathroom bill' Posted: 24 Mar 2017 02:27 PM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Republican speaker of the Texas House of Representatives said on Friday a bill to limit bathroom access for transgender people would face a tough time in the chamber, where there are worries of an economic hit to the state if it became law. Speaker Joe Straus, who sets the Republican-dominated House's legislative agenda, stopped short of saying the measure was doomed. "I don't feel a great deal of fervor to promote that bill in the House," Straus said.
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