| Judge Holds Up Arkansas Execution Spree Posted: 14 Apr 2017 11:33 AM PDT  Scott Braden, chief of Arkansas Capital Habeas Unit, talks with Rachel Maddow about getting an emergency stay of execution for Bruce Ward, and the drug company lawsuit that had put on hold the eight executions Arkansas had planned this month.
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| Trump Considers More Military Action After Domestic Losses Posted: 14 Apr 2017 12:00 PM PDT  President Donald Trump has suffered political setbacks domestically, but has the administration started to learn that some consider military action a win? And what's happening with North Korea?
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| Fired officers had previously arrested same man Posted: 14 Apr 2017 01:07 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Two Georgia police officers fired after they were caught on video kicking and punching a man during a traffic stop had arrested the same person eight months earlier during another traffic stop, police records show.
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| Here's How Much David Dao Will Make From United, According To A Lawyer Posted: 14 Apr 2017 10:03 AM PDT  There is no monetary cap for lawsuits in Chicago.
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| Egyptian family to carry cross in Easter pope ritual Posted: 14 Apr 2017 02:32 PM PDT  An Egyptian family will carry the cross at an Easter procession attended by Pope Francis Friday, with tens of thousands of faithful expected to hold candles aloft in prayer at Rome's Colosseum. The holy week commemorating the last days of Jesus's life had a bloody beginning last Sunday with attacks claimed by the Islamic State group on two Coptic churches in Egypt that left 45 people dead. The pope is set to visit Egypt at the end of the month despite the church attacks.
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| Bombing of Syrian bus convoy kills dozens outside Aleppo Posted: 15 Apr 2017 12:22 PM PDT  By John Davison BEIRUT (Reuters) - A bomb blast hit a bus convoy waiting to cross into government-held Aleppo in Syria on Saturday, killing dozens of people evacuated from two Shi'ite villages the day before in a deal between warring sides. The agreement had stalled, leaving thousands of people from both government-besieged and rebel-besieged areas stranded at two transit points on the city's outskirts, before the explosion occurred. Late on Saturday buses began crossing into both government-held and rebel-held territory from the two transit points as the deal resumed, pro-Damascus media and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported.
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| Family Friends Identify Boy, 5, Killed After Getting Stuck Between Wall And Table At Rotating Restaurant Posted: 16 Apr 2017 09:02 AM PDT  He wandered off from his parents, according to reports.
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| The Latest: Damage from Bellagio shops roof fire tops $400K Posted: 14 Apr 2017 01:33 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on a fire that damaged the roof of a shopping annex at the Bellagio resort on the Las Vegas Strip (all times local):
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| Mother of Jailed Opposition Leader Asks Americans to Help Venezuela Posted: 14 Apr 2017 10:37 AM PDT  Antonieta Lopez, the mother of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez explains why people are protesting and she hopes that the U.S. and other nations in the Western Hemisphere join her to help fight the Maduro government.
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| What Is Open/Closed For Easter Sunday Posted: 15 Apr 2017 09:50 AM PDT  A refresher on what might be open and closed for Easter Sunday so you can plan your weekend accordingly.
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| Judge halts Arkansas plan to execute 8 inmates in 11 days Posted: 15 Apr 2017 03:23 PM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge dealt a serious blow Saturday to Arkansas' unprecedented plan to execute eight inmates in an 11-day period, saying the men have the right to challenge a drug protocol that could expose them to "severe pain."
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| Peace along the border despite N. Korean threats Posted: 16 Apr 2017 01:11 AM PDT  One soldier enjoys a cigarette, another sits reading quietly on the riverbank: seen from the Chinese side of the border, North Korea's army does not appear to be on a war footing despite all the bellicose language. Dandong city is the main crossing point to North Korea, and every day hundreds of tourists embark on small boats for a cruise on the Yalu border river and a fleeting glimpse of another world. Further south, the border between North and South Korea is one of the world's most heavily fortified.
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| Chicago airport security under fire over United fiasco Posted: 14 Apr 2017 11:23 AM PDT  As United Airlines struggles to recover from the public relations disaster sparked when a passenger was violently removed from a flight in Chicago, the airport security officers involved in the incident are facing tough scrutiny. The officers -- who are unarmed and meant to back up local law enforcement -- were called by airline employees after the passenger, David Dao, refused to give up his seat for crew that needed to be repositioned for other flights.
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| Iraqi Christians celebrate Easter, dream of returning home Posted: 16 Apr 2017 05:51 AM PDT  "God willing, the celebration of the resurrection of Christ will also mark the return and rising-up of the Christians in Iraq," said Kyriacos Isho, 75, who was accompanied by his 12 children and grandchildren at Mar Gewargis (St George) Chaldean Catholic church in Tel Esqof. Tel Esqof, or Bishop's Hill in Arabic, did not sustain the same amount of damage as other Christian towns overrun by the militants three years ago in the plain of Nineveh.
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| UPS Driver Rescues Family From Burning Home After Spotting Flames During His Shift Posted: 14 Apr 2017 09:54 AM PDT  Delivery man Paul Pereira was delivering his last package when he noticed a house's porch engulfed in flames.
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| John Legend and Chrissy Teigen’s Relationship is So Easy to Love Posted: 14 Apr 2017 06:13 PM PDT  They are the definition of relationship goals.
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| Why Is Lobbying Legal? Posted: 15 Apr 2017 06:50 AM PDT  While lobbying has expanded in recent decades, the industry dates back to the very beginning of the U.S.
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| The Latest: Police: 16 hurt in train station stampede Posted: 14 Apr 2017 09:26 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a train stuck in a tunnel for three hours and chaos at the station after it finally arrived (all times local):
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| Foreign policy comes to the forefront as tensions rise Posted: 14 Apr 2017 12:27 PM PDT  ABC News' Amna Nawaz talks with a panel of experts about the Trump administration's policy on North Korea and Afghanistan.
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| The 6 inmates scheduled to die in Arkansas this month Posted: 14 Apr 2017 07:45 PM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Despite a court ruling Friday that puts its plans in jeopardy, Arkansas hoped to go ahead with the executions of six men between Monday and April 27, a pace exceeded only by Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorized the death penalty in 1976.
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| Dozens dead as car bomb hits Syria evacuees Posted: 15 Apr 2017 12:41 PM PDT  A suicide car bomb attack on buses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns killed 43 people on Saturday, as US-backed fighters advanced in their push towards the Islamic State group's Raqa stronghold. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast targeted buses carrying residents evacuated from the northern towns of Fuaa and Kafraya under a deal reached between the regime and rebels. It said most of the dead in the explosion in rebel-held Rashidin, west of Aleppo, were evacuees, but the blast also killed several rebels who had been guarding the buses.
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| Uber's revenue hits $6.5 billion in 2016, still has large loss Posted: 14 Apr 2017 10:12 PM PDT  Ride-hailing service Uber Technologies Inc generated $6.5 billion in revenue last year and its gross bookings doubled to $20 billion, the company said on Friday. Its adjusted net loss was $2.8 billion, excluding the operation in China it sold last year, Uber said. As a private company, now worth $68 billion, Uber does not report its financial results publicly.
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| NASA photos capture a strange new crack in a massive Greenland glacier and we're all probably doomed Posted: 16 Apr 2017 06:52 AM PDT  A mysterious crack has been spreading across a giant Greenland glacier, and it's raising concerns that part of the floating ice shelf could splinter off into the ocean. That's bad. Scientists with the NASA field campaign Operation IceBridge recently captured the first photographs of the growing rift while flying over Petermann Glacier, a structure that connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic Ocean. SEE ALSO: NASA photo reveals a startling 300-foot-wide rift in Antarctic Ice Shelf The new chasm appears in the center of the glacier's floating ice shelf — the tongue of ice that extends into the water from the grounded glacier on land. In the photos, the crack appears relatively close to a larger rift spreading toward the shelf's center. Should the two intersect, part of the ice shelf in northwest Greenland could potentially break off. A portion of the new rift on Petermann Glacier's floating ice shelf is shown near the bottom center. The older rift appears near top center. The shaded feature, near the bottom center, is the "medial flowline."Image: NASA/Kelly BruntThere may be a savior for the shelf. A "medial flowline" in the ice could have a "stagnating effect" on the newer rift, helping to slow or halt its advance toward the older chasm, scientists with Operation IceBridge said on Facebook. Stef Lhermitte, a professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, first alerted the NASA team to the crack's coordinates after spotting it in satellite images, Washington Post reported. Polar-orbiting satellites showed the chasm for the first time in July 2016, and "it has been growing since then," Lhermitte said on Twitter. .@Petermann_Ice @AndreasMuenchow @glacier_doc @CopernicusEU @ESA_EO The internal crack growth is clearly visible in this Sentinel-1 time series, also during polar night. 3/5 pic.twitter.com/AKY2czWFtR — Stef Lhermitte (@StefLhermitte) April 12, 2017 While scientists still aren't sure what caused the crack to form, Lhermitte said a possible culprit might be "ocean forcing," a phenomenon that happens when warm ocean waters melt the ice from underneath. Ocean forcing might have been a culprit in creating cracks in another part of the world. Researchers believe it caused deep subsurface cracks to form in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, a recent study found. There a 20-mile-long rift eventually split the ice from the inside out and cleaved off a 225-square-mile iceberg in July 2015. Many of the glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica that end in floating ice shelves have been shrinking due to warming ocean and air temperatures. Petermann Glacier's east wall near the terminus of the floating ice shelf.Image: NASA/John SonntagWhen ice shelves break off into icebergs it doesn't directly increase sea levels, because the ice is already floating in the ocean, like an ice cube in a glass. However, because the ice shelves act like doorstops to the land-based ice behind them, if the shelves disappear, the glaciers can start moving into the sea. This would add new water to the ocean and therefore raise sea levels. In the case of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, researchers said that warming waters causing cracks to form beneath "provides another mechanism for rapid retreat of these glaciers, adding to the probability that we may see significant collapse of West Antarctica in our lifetimes." Greenland, Antarctica, the message is we're all probably doomed. WATCH: Watch how global warming heats up the world from 1880-2016
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| Target Recalls Easter Toys Over Safety Concerns Posted: 15 Apr 2017 02:02 AM PDT  The products have been recalled over concerns that they may expand inside a child's body if ingested, causing serious health issues.
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| At first, Vegas tourist thought fire part of Bellagio show Posted: 14 Apr 2017 04:36 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A tourist wondered at first if the flames he saw whipping across the roof of a Bellagio resort shopping complex were part of the iconic dancing fountain show on the Las Vegas Strip.
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| Science proves that training AI to be ‘human’ makes it sexist and racist, too Posted: 15 Apr 2017 12:00 PM PDT 
As we get closer and closer to create artificial intelligence that can think and reason in ways that mimic a human brain it's becoming increasingly clear that allowing a machine mind to learn from humans is a very bad idea. We've seen examples of it in the past, but a new study on AI biases reveals that not only does training an artificial brain create biases, but those leanings reinforce many societal issues regarding race and gender that plague humanity today. The study, which was conducted by scientists at Princeton University and published in the journal Science, sought to determine not just if the behavior of an AI exhibited specific biases, but whether the machine learning systems that determine the outcome inherently lean one way or the other. To do this, the team trained an AI using standard datasets that are popular choices for machine learning. These kinds of sets include millions of words and are often gathered from many sources, including the internet. The AI studies the words, how their used, and what words they're used in association with, in order to provide natural language responses and answers in a way that we can understand. It also, as it turns out, learns some of our more unfortunate quirks. After training the AI, scientists tested how it associates various words with others. For example, "flower" is more likely to be associated with "pleasant" than "weapon" is. That, of course, makes perfect sense. However, the trained AI also had a habit of associating typically caucasian-sounding names with other things that it considered to be "pleasant," rather than African-American names. The AI also shied away from pairing female pronouns with mathematics, and instead often associated them with artistic terms. This is obviously a huge issue since, in the name of creating AI that sound and behave more human, some of the standard training materials being used carry with them some of the worst parts of us. It's a very interesting problem, and one that you can bet will get a lot of attention now that evidence seems to be mounting.
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| Thousands at rallies demand Trump release tax returns Posted: 15 Apr 2017 09:28 PM PDT ![Thousands at rallies demand Trump release tax returns]( "Thousands at rallies demand Trump release tax returns") By Chris Francescani and Tom Ramstack NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people marched through midtown Manhattan and dozens of U.S. cities on Saturday to demand that President Donald Trump release his tax returns and to dispute his claim that the public does not care about the issue. Organizers of "Tax March" in more than 150 cities across the country and beyond wanted to call attention to Trump's refusal to disclose his tax history, as his White House predecessors have done for more than 40 years. The marches coincide with the traditional April 15 deadline for U.S. federal tax returns, though the filing date was pushed backed two days this year.
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| The Latest: Boy wounded in school shooting out of hospital Posted: 14 Apr 2017 04:47 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a San Bernardino elementary school (all times local):
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| 'A few dozen' US troops deployed to Somalia: Pentagon Posted: 15 Apr 2017 09:33 AM PDT  The United States is deploying "a few dozen" troops to Somalia to assist the national army and conduct unspecified security operations, a US military spokeswoman said Saturday. The soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division, a light infantry unit trained for air assaults, will mainly train and equip Somalia's army "to better fight Al-Shabab," an Al-Qaeda linked extremist group, the spokeswoman for the US Africa Command based in Germany, Samantha Reho, told AFP.
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| 3,000 migrants rescued off Libya coast Saturday: NGO Posted: 15 Apr 2017 01:54 PM PDT  The Italian coastguard and other boats rescued some 3,000 migrants from unseaworthy boats off the Libyan coast on Saturday, as the good weather pushes the numbers up, a participating NGO said. In all 35 rescue operations were launched during the day, with 15 of them still underway as night fell, the coastguard said. German NGO Jugend Rettet, which took part in the rescue operations on Saturday, said 3,000 people had been plucked to safety during a particularly busy day due to the fine Spring weather in the Mediterranean.
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| Roaming alligator walks right up to doorstep in *drumroll* ... Florida Posted: 15 Apr 2017 02:23 PM PDT  Today's hopefully unnecessary PSA: do not answer the door for an alligator. Police in Sarasota County, Florida, shared photos Wednesday of a rogue alligator that, while wandering a neighborhood, trudged right up to the front door of a house. It later tried its luck at the garage door, too, but no one let it in. Imagine! SEE ALSO: Fisherman finds a terrifying surprise at the end of his line We do not think it was invited. Perhaps it had the wrong address. "Let this be a reminder that not all reptiles show courtesy during mating season. Stay safe out there, Floridians," the post from the sheriff's office read. While non-Floridian commenters were largely horrified, others — including Florida residents — didn't seem too surprised by the photos. "I'd rather open my door and see this out as opposed to a [water moccasin]!" one commenter wrote. Still, if this gator was going to stop by uninvited, it could have at least brought flowers. [H/T: UPI ] WATCH: Wild horse attacks alligator because nature is brutal. Also, Florida.
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| 5 Of Our Solar System’s Most Important Moons Posted: 15 Apr 2017 12:10 PM PDT  If we are going to find aliens in our solar system, we might have a better shot exploring moons rather than other planets.
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| Wait is over for April the giraffe, YouTube star and new mom Posted: 15 Apr 2017 09:41 PM PDT  HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The wait is over for April the giraffe and the legions of fans who watched a New York zoo's livestream for signs that the long-legged internet star was in labor.
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| Listeners can now 'feel the Bern' with new Sanders podcast Posted: 14 Apr 2017 12:34 PM PDT ![Listeners can now 'feel the Bern' with new Sanders podcast]( "Listeners can now 'feel the Bern' with new Sanders podcast") Progressives who felt "the Bern" in 2016 can keep up with their preferred Democratic candidate anytime, anywhere, thanks to a new podcast from Bernie Sanders. The independent senator from Vermont released the first episodes of the podcast "The Bernie Sanders Show" in late March. At around a half an hour long each, the segments are conversations between Mr. Sanders and activists, scientists, and journalists who share the senator's progressive views.
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| Former NFLer Heap kills daughter in accident in Arizona: media Posted: 15 Apr 2017 02:26 PM PDT  The unidentified girl was hit at about 4 p.m. in Mesa, Arizona. Rescue workers took the girl to the hospital where she died, an ABC affiliate reported. Heap was not impaired and there was no suspicious circumstances surrounding the incident, police told ABC 15 Arizona.
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| Afghan official: Massive US bomb death toll rises to 94 Posted: 15 Apr 2017 05:17 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military has risen to 94, an Afghan official said Saturday.
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| Teen and Boyfriend Accused of Killing Her Grandparents Had Friends Over As Bodies Decomposed: Cops Posted: 14 Apr 2017 11:13 AM PDT  Cassandra Bjorge and her boyfriend, Johnny Rider, have been charged with two counts of murder.
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| Hacked files suggest NSA penetrated SWIFT, Mideast banks Posted: 14 Apr 2017 03:17 PM PDT  Files released by the mysterious hacker Shadow Brokers suggested Friday the US National Security Agency had penetrated the SWIFT banking network and monitored a number of Middle East banks. The files, according to computer security analysts, also showed the NSA had found and exploited numerous vulnerabilities in a range of Microsoft Windows products widely used on computers around the world. Analysts generally accepted the files, which show someone exploiting so-called "zero-day" or hitherto unknown vulnerabilities in common software and hardware, came from the NSA.
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| New protests set in troubled Venezuela Posted: 15 Apr 2017 04:08 PM PDT  Opponents and backers of Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro announced new marches for Wednesday after violence in ongoing anti-government protests that have left five people dead. Both sides promised to hold sway across Caracas on the heels of two weeks of demonstrations that also have seen 117 people arrested. The latest in more than a week of violent clashes erupted overnight Thursday to Friday in the town of Los Teques near the capital.
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| As Protections for Borrowers Fall, What to Do If You Face Trouble Repaying a Student Loan Posted: 14 Apr 2017 11:42 AM PDT  The decision by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to rescind reforms making student loan servicers more accountable was just the latest salvo against student borrower protections that were built...
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| 20 killed in Sri Lanka as massive mound of garbage collapses Posted: 15 Apr 2017 09:42 PM PDT  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a massive garbage mound near Sri Lanka's capital rose to 20 on Sunday, and residents feared more victims could be buried underneath the debris.
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| California mosque led by women opens doors to all Posted: 14 Apr 2017 03:26 PM PDT  The second mosque in the United States led solely by women held its inaugural service in California on Friday, but unlike a Los Angeles congregation that opened two years ago, the new female-led Muslim house of worship in Berkeley is open to both genders. The Qal'bu Maryam Women's Mosque "is a place for women to worship in the sanctuary, to not be hidden away in dank rooms," said Rabi'a Keeble, founder of the Berkeley mosque, whose name means "heart of Mary" in Arabic. At the Women's Mosque of America in Los Angeles, male worshippers over the age of 12 are excluded, making the new Berkeley mosque the first of its kind in the country.
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