| Trump claims that health care deal is ‘easy’ despite earlier implosion Posted: 29 Mar 2017 06:30 AM PDT  Four days after blaming Democrats for the failure of the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, President Trump said he expects lawmakers will easily be able to reach a deal on health care.
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| Schiff pressing hard to reschedule Yates testimony ‘soon’ Posted: 28 Mar 2017 01:44 PM PDT  "It's time to put that hearing back on track," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric on Tuesday. "If we take the White House at its word, it wants Sally Yates to testify now. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the embattled chairman of the House intelligence committee, canceled the public hearing on Friday.
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| 'Angel of Death' serial killer dies after attack in prison Posted: 30 Mar 2017 08:37 AM PDT  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A serial killer known as the "Angel of Death" after he admitted killing three dozen hospital patients in Ohio and Kentucky died Thursday, two days after investigators said he was attacked in prison, Ohio's prisons department said.
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| Green groups denounce Trump’s ‘all-out assault’ on climate regulations Posted: 28 Mar 2017 11:28 AM PDT  President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday afternoon, following through on his campaign promise to roll back Obama-era environmental protections intended to combat climate change. The Trump administration's "Energy Independence" order essentially begins the process of dismantling the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which limits greenhouse gas emissions from coal-burning power plants. It was former President Barack Obama's signature legislation for restricting the carbon emissions that contribute to global warming.
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| Boko Haram faction seeks grassroots support in NE Nigeria Posted: 30 Mar 2017 03:54 AM PDT  A Boko Haram faction led by the son of the group's founder is trying to win over civilians by shunning the indiscriminate violence of its longtime figurehead that has alienated locals. Eyewitnesses to a spate of recent raids attributed to Islamist fighters loyal to Abu Musab Al-Barnawi in northeast Nigeria have said they repeatedly told villagers they would not be harmed. Others say mass violence has been reduced in parts of the northern Borno state around Lake Chad now controlled by Barnawi and Mamman Nur, his right-hand man who is seen by some as the real leader.
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| Exclusive: Malaysia mistook slain Kim Jong Nam for South Korean Posted: 30 Mar 2017 06:27 AM PDT  By Tom Allard, Emily Chow and James Pearson KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities wrongly identified the slain half-brother of North Korea's leader as a South Korean national and first alerted Seoul's embassy in Kuala Lumpur soon after his death, sources familiar with the incident told Reuters. The police error did have a silver lining: It enabled Seoul to quickly inform Kuala Lumpur the dead man was probably Kim Jong Nam, half-brother to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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| DNC Chairman Tom Perez Asks For Staff Resignations Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:58 PM PDT  Perez is in the midst of trying to rebuild the party in the wake of November's stunning election defeat.
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| ‘I’m a strong black woman’: Maxine Waters says she’s not responding to Bill O’Reilly jab Posted: 29 Mar 2017 08:52 AM PDT  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., responded Tuesday after Fox News host Bill O'Reilly ridiculed her appearance, saying he was unable to focus during a recent speech she gave on the House floor because he was distracted by her "James Brown wig."
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| Could House Intel Chairman Nunes Be Subject to Investigation? Posted: 29 Mar 2017 12:21 PM PDT  After mentioning that he viewed FISA warrants, House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes may have breached a House ethics rule, leaving him open to investigation and a former CIA analyst gives White House staff step-by-step instructions on how to check who ...
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| Crews to investigate head-on crash that killed 13 in Texas Posted: 30 Mar 2017 09:27 AM PDT  CONCAN, Texas (AP) — Federal officials on Thursday began an investigation into a head-on collision between a pickup truck and small church bus in southwest Texas that crumpled the front of the bus and killed 13 senior adults returning from a church retreat.
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| Now I Get It: the Brexit trigger is pulled, now what? Posted: 29 Mar 2017 07:16 AM PDT  The day has arrived: Britain has officially said "Cheerio!" to the European Union. Prime Minister Theresa May has invoked Article 50, notifying the European Council that Britain has made its exit, or Brexit. Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga takes a look at what's next for the U.K. and why Article 50 plays an important role in unwinding its four-decade relationship with the European Union.
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| China says 'no such thing' as man-made islands in South China Sea Posted: 30 Mar 2017 04:16 AM PDT  There was "no such thing" as man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea, China's Defence Ministry said on Thursday, and reiterated that any building work was mainly for civilian purposes. China, which claims most of the resource-rich region, has carried out land reclamation and construction on several islands in the Spratly archipelago, parts of which are also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. "Most of the building is for civilian purposes, including necessary defensive facilities." The South China Sea is generally stable at present, but some countries outside the region are anxious about this and want to hype things up and create tensions, Wu said, using terminology that normally refers to the United States.
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| US senator warns of Russian interference in French election Posted: 29 Mar 2017 01:45 PM PDT  The head of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee warned Wednesday that Russia is interfering in the French election just as it did in the US presidential campaign last year. Senator Richard Burr, who has access to some of the most highly classified US intelligence, said Moscow has shown a clear will and ability to disrupt elections in Western democracies. "I remind you that we're within 30 days of the first French election, with four candidates.
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| Prehistoric Prints: 'Unprecedented' Dinosaur Discovery in Australia Posted: 29 Mar 2017 05:31 AM PDT  A team of researchers in Australia just made an incredible discovery – and it involves some seriously massive dinosaur footprints.
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| Sean Spicer knocks critics of his ‘spirited back-and-forth’ with April Ryan Posted: 29 Mar 2017 10:07 AM PDT  A day after scolding journalist April Ryan during his daily briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said criticism of the now-viral exchange is "demeaning" — to her.
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| Trump's debt collector: Tillerson heads to NATO Posted: 28 Mar 2017 11:13 PM PDT  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will present a meeting of the NATO allies on Friday with a demand from President Donald Trump that they increase defense spending. The annual NATO foreign ministers talks in Brussels were brought forward at the last minute after Tillerson warned he would not be able to attend on the long-planned date. Washington's top diplomat is reportedly keeping time free in early April to take part in a possible golf resort summit between Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping.
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| Completely insane architects are planning to hang a skyscraper from an asteroid Posted: 29 Mar 2017 03:00 PM PDT  Words like "insane," "crazy," and "nuts" get thrown around a lot — I use them more than my fair share, if I'm being honest — but a New York design group just revealed plans for a new type of skyscraper that really can't be described any other way. Their plan is to construct a huge structure on the surface of an asteroid and, believe it or not, that's probably the most rational part of the proposal. Clouds Architecture Office is the firm that wants to build the massive skyscraper, which it calls Analemma Tower. The structure, which at this point is completely conceptual and likely completely impossible, would require that an asteroid be captured and brought into near-Earth orbit. With anchor points on the asteroid, the building is designed to — this is the part where things go completely off the rails — hang completely upside down, using the asteroid like a gravitational balloon to hold the structure in place above the Earth's surface.  The tower would be in eccentric geosynchronous orbit, and would "travel" between hemispheres on a regular daily schedule, and in a figure eight pattern. The architects say the tower would spend much of its time over New York City thanks to its planned trajectory. The building could remain completely disconnected from the surface indefinitely by drawing power from solar panels situated above cloud level. Water would be filtered within the structure in a semi-closed loop, but the tower could also capture its own water while in-flight.  As far as traveling to and from the tower, the concept suggests that people could just parachute down to Earth whenever they needed to leave. As for getting back home, the company doesn't seem to have nailed down exactly how that will work, but by the time the tower is actually built we'll probably have teleportation pads, too.
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| Samsung unveils Galaxy S8 smartphone Posted: 30 Mar 2017 03:29 AM PDT  Updated features include a safety check to prevent the battery fires that plagued the Galaxy Note 7.
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| Two Miami police officers shot in ambush-style attack Posted: 28 Mar 2017 03:40 PM PDT  Two plainclothes police detectives in Miami were wounded when a group of men fired dozens of shots into their unmarked car Monday night in an ambush, the Miami-Dade Police Department said. Police apprehended several suspects early Tuesday and charges were pending, police spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta said by phone. The attack on the detectives occurred as they conducted surveillance for gang activity outside an apartment complex in northwestern Miami, police said in a news release.
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| Amal Clooney Calls For Action Against ISIS Posted: 30 Mar 2017 02:40 AM PDT  The human rights lawyer spoke at a discussion Wednesday about international crimes in Iraq and Syria, calling for legal action against the Islamic State group.
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| Mysterious carving found at church where John F. Kennedy wed Posted: 29 Mar 2017 01:44 PM PDT  NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A mysterious carving of a woman's face has been discovered at the church where John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier married in 1953, the church announced Wednesday.
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| Argentinian Immigrant Blasted After Shaming Trump in Facebook Post That Shows She Pays Her Taxes Posted: 29 Mar 2017 01:55 PM PDT  She received several hate messages afterward.
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| College campus free-speech zones face new scrutiny, lawsuit Posted: 28 Mar 2017 05:46 PM PDT  On some college campuses, students and outsiders are allowed to protest and distribute flyers only in free-speech zones. Supporters say it's a way to protect against disruptions to school operations, but opponents call it censorship.
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| US-led coalition 'probably' had role in Mosul civilian casualties Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:09 PM PDT  The US-led anti-jihadist coalition said Tuesday it "probably" played a role in civilian casualties in west Mosul, as the UN and Amnesty International called for greater efforts to protect civilians. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are still inside west Mosul, caught up in deadly fighting between the Islamic State group and Iraqi forces who are backed by coalition air strikes in the battle to retake the area from the jihadists. West Mosul is both smaller and more densely populated than the city's east, meaning that this stage of the battle poses a greater danger to civilians than those that came before.
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| Elon Musk explains why drivers won’t care about the Model 3’s bizarre dashboard design Posted: 29 Mar 2017 07:30 PM PDT  When Tesla unveiled the Model 3 last year, tech and auto observers couldn't help but notice that the car lacked an instrument cluster. Instead, Tesla representatives suggested that drivers would be able to ascertain all the information they needed right from the car's 15-inch tablet located on the center console. Because the design Tesla showed off was so outside the norm, many Tesla enthusiasts began speculating that Tesla must have a cool and advanced design it was planning to show us later on down the line. This speculation was only fueled by coy remarks from Tesla CEO Elon Musk who said via Twitter that everything would all make sense soon enough. Responding to a question about the lack of a dashboard/HUD, Musk last April said that "it will make sense after part 2 of the Model 3 unveil." Of course, part 2 of the Model 3 unveil came and went and we still didn't hear anything about Tesla's plans for the dashboard area. Meanwhile, speculation surrounding Tesla's plans to incorporate a futuristic HUD on the Model 3 began to grow wildly. Looking to keep expectations grounded, Musk over the past few days has come out and said that the Model 3 will not have a HUD and that users won't really care. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/846768171486855169 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/846768497904369664 Musk later added that drivers don't need an instrument cluster on the dash because "the more autonomous a car is, the less dash info you need." Driving the point home, Musk asked the following question: "How often do you look at the instrument panel when being driven in a taxi?" All that said, the Model 3 dashboard will more or less look like this.  While such a design may make sense in a world where cars are fully autonomous, the reality is that many drivers today not only want, but need quick and easy access to pertinent information like range, speed and more. Addressing this, Musk took to Twitter once again where he explained that the final Model 3 design will display such information on the center console. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/847178475970547712
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| Westeros can't handle the perfection of this 'Game of Thrones' wedding Posted: 29 Mar 2017 10:00 AM PDT  If you're going to do a themed wedding — particularly a Game of Thrones wedding — you better get it right. Well, sometimes miracles do happen and we all feel really bad about making fun of themed weddings. Case in point: the Game of Thrones wedding shoot Katie Lee of Katherine Elena Photography recently helped to design. The photographer took pains to make sure every detail accurately reflected the show for couples who wanted to follow the theme. While it didn't include an actual couple getting married, the stylized wedding conception will surely inspire many lovebirds in the Seven Kingdoms and beyond. SEE ALSO: Everything we know about 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 Lee explained her process: "The gowns had a lot to do with finding a happy medium between fantasy and wedding as well," Lee told Mashable. "We knew that we wanted some sort of cape for Austen (who was playing Daenarys) with a very ethereal dress. For Courtney (playing Sansa), we wanted something regal and girly, but very strong. The velvet was the perfect fabric for that and the fur cuffs and stole along with the long train were perfect for her. " Image: katherine elena photography The wedding shoot was filmed at an actual "Castle" in the Blue Ridge mountains. Lee wanted to make a wedding that was simultaneously fantastical but realistic so that other couples could incorporate the theme into their weddings. "I also really wanted to highlight the strong women of the show and show off their grace and beauty, but also their power," Lee said. Image: katherine elena photography, smithmore castle, Image: katherine elena photography, celestial cakery Image: katherine elena photography Image: katherine elena photography Image: katherine elena photography, trumpet and horn Image: katherine elena photography Image: katherine elena photography Image: katherine elena photography Image: katherine elena photography Image: katherine elena photography Just imagine: a wedding album your friends actually wouldn't get bored looking at. WATCH: OpTic crowned champions at $1 million 'Halo' championship
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| ‘Carlos the Jackal’ Receives Third Sentence to Life in Prison Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:39 PM PDT  The final chapter in a legal battle against the man who was once the world's most wanted fugitive.
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| South Korean ferry saga a tale of government blunders Posted: 29 Mar 2017 02:21 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — From a botched rescue job to severely wrong death counts, South Korea's government has been blamed for a series of egregious errors in its handling of the 2014 sinking of the Sewol ferry, which killed 304 people in one of the country's worst disasters.
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| Rep. Schiff on the Russia investigation, Rep. Nunes, former AG Sally Yeats, and more Posted: 28 Mar 2017 12:34 PM PDT On Tuesday, March 28, 2017, Yahoo News Global Anchor Katie Couric talks with Rep. Adam Schiff (D- Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Rep. Devin Nunes's revelations to the press and White House staff, and more.
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| Supreme Court nominee to face confirmation vote April 7: Senate leader Posted: 28 Mar 2017 07:37 PM PDT ![Supreme Court nominee to face confirmation vote April 7: Senate leader]( "Supreme Court nominee to face confirmation vote April 7: Senate leader") By Lawrence Hurley and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that the Senate would have a final vote on April 7 on President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, even as more Democrats opposed his confirmation The Gorsuch nomination, McConnell told reporters, will hit the Senate floor next week after the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday approves him. McConnell added that Gorsuch will be "confirmed on Friday" of next week.
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| OAS discusses Venezuela crisis, Caracas protests Posted: 28 Mar 2017 06:38 PM PDT  The Organization of American States held a special meeting on the crisis in Venezuela on Tuesday, triggering a furious reaction from the Venezuelan government and its staunchest regional allies. It comes after 14 countries in the OAS, including the United States, urged Venezuela's leftist government last week to release political prisoners and "reestablish democracy" by holding elections. In a sign that Venezuela is increasingly cornered, a total of 20 countries voted to open Tuesday's special session of the OAS Permanent Council in Washington.
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| 2017 Ford Transit Connect Wagon LWB Posted: 29 Mar 2017 03:10 PM PDT  It's a van called a wagon that drives like a car.
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| iOS 11’s big feature could be a massive Siri upgrade Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:44 PM PDT 
While there's an abundance of iPhone 8 rumors to check out on a regular basis, we don't see that many iOS 11 leaks. It's surprising, given that iOS represents one of the most important features of the iPhone and a reason why many people would not leave Apple's platform for any competing mobile operating system. A new report out of Israel brings says that Siri will get a massive upgrade in iOS 11, revealing some of the new purported features of Apple's smarter virtual assistant. According to The Verifier, Siri will gain more powers on all of Apple's devices, including iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. The most important features, if the report is accurate, seem to be Siri integration in iMessage and iCloud. Siri in iMessage would probably work very similarly to what Google's Assistant inside Google Allo. The assistant would be ready to offer context-based suggestions, like where to go to dinner and how to get there. Apple already has a patent detailing such a feature. The iCloud integration would allow Siri to identify the user's various devices that might be associated with an Apple ID, and offer actions and responses across operating systems, including Mac and iPhone. Siri would reportedly learn more details about the user's habits, and offer different actions based on the context, not just in iMessage, the report indicates. The report says Siri will be comparable to Bixby when it comes to feature, which is Samsung's recently introduced voice-based assistant. Bixby, however, is yet to prove itself as it'll only launch in limited form with the Galaxy S8. Considering that everyone is beefing up their virtual assistants, it's likely Apple will upgrade Siri in iOS 11, even though there's no way of verifying The Verifier's interesting claims at this point.
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| 911 Call Released in 'Make My Day' Home Invasion Killings Posted: 29 Mar 2017 02:10 PM PDT  Three teens are dead, and a 21-year-old woman has been arrested.
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| Man kills 3 home burglars; woman who aided robbers arrested Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:45 PM PDT  A woman believed to have driven three burglars to an Oklahoma home where they were shot to death during a suspected home invasion has been arrested on murder and robbery warrants but the homeowner's son who shot them has not been arrested while police investigate whether he acted in self-defense under the state's "Stand Your Ground" law.
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| 2020 Census To Ignore Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Questions Posted: 29 Mar 2017 12:41 PM PDT  The questions disappeared from a "corrected" draft of proposed topics posted on the Census Bureau website.
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