| Ossoff to face Handel in Georgia runoff Posted: 18 Apr 2017 05:34 PM PDT  Democrat Jon Ossoff jumped to an early lead in the suburban Atlanta 6th Congressional District special election Tuesday, a contest that has drawn national attention as an early test of Democratic efforts to challenge President Trump.
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| 20,000 Convictions Dropped After Massive Drug Lab Scandal Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:22 AM PDT  Prosecutors in seven Massachusetts districts agreed to throw out an estimated 95% of drug convictions that came from drug tests that were falsified by chemist Annie Dookhan.
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| Victim’s family wishes Facebook killer had been captured alive Posted: 18 Apr 2017 11:38 AM PDT  The family of Robert Godwin Sr., the 74-year-old Cleveland man whose apparent random murder was videotaped and posted to Facebook, had hoped the killer would have turned himself in instead of committing suicide.
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| GOP Sen. Ernst says Trump should spend less time at Mar-a-Lago Posted: 18 Apr 2017 01:47 PM PDT  Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said she has "concerns" about the frequency of President Trump's trips to his Mar-a-Lago residence and particularly about his use of the Palm Beach, Fla., venue to host foreign leaders.
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| Florida state senator publicly apologizes for racial slurs Posted: 19 Apr 2017 08:58 AM PDT  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida state senator apologized Wednesday for using a racial slur and vulgar insults during a private after-hours conversation with two African-American colleagues.
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| Democrat Has Trump Worried in Georgia Special Election Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:50 PM PDT  Hours before voters go to the polls in Georgia's 6th district, Trump attacked Jon Ossoff, who could possibly flip the long-time red seat blue. The Daily Kos' David Nir, who helped Ossoff raise $1 million of the $8.3M fueling his campaign.
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| Obama attends funeral of ‘great friend’ Dan Rooney Posted: 18 Apr 2017 10:22 AM PDT  Nearly three months after leaving office, former President Barack Obama made his first public appearance Tuesday at the funeral of Dan Rooney, the Pittsburgh Steelers chairman and longtime Obama ally. The 44th president did not make any remarks at the ceremony, held at St. Paul's Cathedral in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. After Rooney died Thursday, Obama released a statement lauding the "championship-caliber good man." Rooney served as the U.S. ambassador to Ireland during the Obama years.
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| United CEO Oscar Munoz Might Have Messed Up ... Again Posted: 18 Apr 2017 10:12 AM PDT  Hoping to protect United's Asian market, the CEO met with Chinese officials — but the passenger dragged off the plane was of Vietnamese, not Chinese, descent.
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| Egypt arrests church bombings suspect Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:17 AM PDT  Egyptian police on Tuesday arrested a man wanted for alleged involvement in twin church bombings this month claimed by the Islamic State group, an official said. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Ali Mahmoud Mohamed Hassan, one of 19 suspects whose names police made public after the Palm Sunday explosions, the official said. Two suicide bombers attacked two churches in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria on April 9, killing 45 people in the deadliest attack on Coptic Christians in recent memory.
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| White nationalist Spencer speaks at Auburn; 3 arrested Posted: 18 Apr 2017 06:40 PM PDT  AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — White nationalist Richard Spencer spoke in a crowded auditorium at Auburn University on Tuesday after a federal judge blocked the school from banning his appearance.
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| Ocean lovers take note: These are the best 'coastal' places to live in 2017 Posted: 18 Apr 2017 07:22 AM PDT  Belize, the Bahamas and Playa del Carmen, Mexico have been named some of the best places to live along the coast.
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| Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Facebook F8 developer conference and more: April 18 in photos Posted: 18 Apr 2017 01:30 PM PDT ![Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Facebook F8 developer conference and more: April 18 in photos]( "Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Facebook F8 developer conference and more: April 18 in photos") Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the annual Facebook F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif.; President Trump speaks during a visit to the headquarters of tool manufacturer Snap-On in Kenosha, Wis.; Pennsylvania state police investigate the scene where Steve Stephens, the suspect in the random killing of a Cleveland retiree posted on Facebook, died in Erie, Pa. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
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| NASA providing 1st live 360-degree view of rocket launch Posted: 17 Apr 2017 01:02 PM PDT  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Want the world's best, up-close view of a rocket launch without being right there at the pad?
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| Russia metro bombing suspect says he was unwitting accomplice Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:16 AM PDT ![Russia metro bombing suspect says he was unwitting accomplice]( "Russia metro bombing suspect says he was unwitting accomplice") By Polina Nikolskaya and Hulkar Isamova MOSCOW/JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - The man Russian investigators say orchestrated a suicide bombing on the St Petersburg metro told a court on Tuesday he was an unwitting accomplice in the attack, in which 14 people were killed and scores injured. Russian investigators said that before the April 3 attack, the suspected suicide bomber, Akbarzhon Jalilov, had spoken by telephone with Abror Azimov, who the investigators said was helping mastermind the attack from a Moscow suburb. At a preliminary court hearing in Moscow, the suspect, Azimov, said he had participated in the preparation of the attack but only indirectly.
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| United won't fire anyone over manhandled passenger Posted: 18 Apr 2017 10:35 AM PDT  United's widely-condemned violent removal of a passenger from a flight was a "system failure" and no employees will lose their jobs as a result, United Continental chief Oscar Munoz said Tuesday. "It was a system failure across various areas, so there was never a consideration for firing an employee or anyone around it," Munoz said on a conference call. United has been under fire since video went viral showing security personnel dragging battered and bloodied passenger David Dao off an overbooked Chicago flight to make room for an airline employee.
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| T-Mobile got an amazing deal on its $8 billion spectrum haul Posted: 17 Apr 2017 03:32 PM PDT 
Last week, the results of a hugely important Federal Communications Commission auction came out. The Commission was selling the rights to use re-purposed TV spectrum to wireless carriers, and T-Mobile spent $8 billion to buy far more spectrum than anyone else. The spectrum being auctioned is particularly valuable low-band airwaves that work better in rural areas and indoors -- two areas that T-Mobile has struggled with, compared to Verizon, which has long held the licenses to a large amount of low-band spectrum.
But a new analysis of the data shows that while T-Mobile might have spent far more than any other company in the auction, it wasn't just a case of having a bigger purse. Spectrum was sold in seven 10MHz bands, and each band was available for a particular region. For example, T-Mobile could have bought Band G for use in Washington DC, but AT&T could have bought the rights to the same band in New York City. Overall, T-Mobile spent nearly $8 billion to buy 1,525 licenses. AT&T spent just $910 million, but only acquired 23 licenses. As Fierce Wireless pointed out, that brings AT&T's per-license spend to nearly $40 million, while T-Mobile spent just $5.2 million per license. A lot of that difference is probably down to geography. As you can see from the maps from Mosaik included below, T-Mobile bought spectrum in every single market across the country, including a lot of rural areas that were less valuable. AT&T focused its spectrum buys around much more expensive areas, like the Philadelphia-DC metro area, Dallas, Seattle, and San Francisco. Looking at the raw auction data from the FCC, this becomes even more clear. T-Mobile and AT&T paid exactly the same price in regions like New York, Chicago and San Francisco; the difference is that AT&T didn't even bid on spectrum in Wahpeton, ND, where licenses were sold for $5,000. But on a strategic level, it's still likely that history will show T-Mobile as the big winner from this auction. AT&T only invested in spectrum in urban areas where it already owns bandwidth, seeing it as a short-term way to alleviate network congestion. But in cities, spectrum is less likely to be a big deal in 20 years: solutions like LTE-U and Wi-Fi hotspots, deployed every couple hundred meters and inside buildings, are going to be the only way to handle overwhelming growth in the number of internet-connected devices. So, AT&T paid through the nose for a short-term fix to network problems. T-Mobile, on the other hand, bought up new spectrum nationwide, in many cases in regions that are under-populated, and bought most of that spectrum for dirt-cheap. Just think about how Verizon is able to be competitive these days: it can charge a higher price for a network that's only superior because of spectrum licenses it bought decades ago. In 20 years, AT&T might find itself ruing the day it decided Wahpeton, ND wasn't worth $5,000.  
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| Ford Will Keep Making the Mustang Shelby GT350 and GT350R for 2018 Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:25 AM PDT  The Shelby Mustangs won't get the styling updates found on the rest of the lineup for 2018, but they're still here, and that's good news.
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| White House Refuses To Say When Trump Will Release Tax Returns Posted: 18 Apr 2017 02:54 AM PDT  As uncertainty hovers over President Donald Trump's tax returns, we take a look at past presidents whose tax returns also became controversial.
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| People Are Blaming the Parents After a Child Was Crushed to Death at a Rotating Restaurant Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:26 AM PDT  And I totally understand why.
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| Uganda begins winding down operation against Lord's Resistance Army Posted: 19 Apr 2017 05:59 AM PDT  By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - The Ugandan military said on Wednesday it has begun withdrawing troops from Central African Republic where it had been pursuing rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army, saying it has accomplished its mission - although Kony remains at large. Uganda has been leading a U.S.-supported African Union regional task force tracking the LRA and Kony, who has been indicted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court. For nearly two decades the rebels battled the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni from bases in the north of the country and across the border in what is now South Sudan.
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| Britain arrests Indian tycoon Mallya for extradition Posted: 18 Apr 2017 06:43 AM PDT  Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya has been arrested in London following an extradition request from India where he is accused of fraud, British police said on Tuesday. The flamboyant financier, who co-owns Formula One team Force India, appeared in a London court on Tuesday and was granted bail. Mallya fled India in March 2016 owing more than $1 billion after defaulting on loan payments to state-owned banks and allegedly misusing the funds.
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| Dude's hack for walking on hot sand is clever, if odd Posted: 18 Apr 2017 12:45 AM PDT  Walking on a searing hot beach is the worst. Especially if you hate sand. You have to choices: Either tip-toe and face the consequences, or experience the dread of getting sand in your precious shoes. But never fear: There's another way. SEE ALSO: People are kissing a car on Facebook Live for a chance to win it, and yes, it's dark A now-viral video posted on Brown Cardigan shows an enterprising young man using a plastic bag to navigate the hot, hot sands of Bondi Beach, Australia. A post shared by browncardigan.com (@browncardigan) on Apr 15, 2017 at 10:14pm PDT Of course the method doesn't lend well for mobility, but for fellow sand-hating people everywhere, it's better than touching the stuff. For added mobility, put a "have a nice day" plastic shopping bag on each foot. Because sand sucks. *shudders* WATCH: This mini scuba gear lets everyone dive like a pro
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| Nerves in Macron camp as French election looms Posted: 18 Apr 2017 06:16 AM PDT  Paris (AFP) - "We're going to win! We're going to win!" thundered thousands of supporters of French centrist Emmanuel Macron at his mega-rally in Paris six days before voting. Victory for the 39-year-old looked the most likely outcome of France's presidential election a month ago, but the race has tightened as the first round of voting looms on Sunday. Polls now show a close four-way race developing between Macron, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, scandal-hit conservative Francois Fillon and the surprise challenger, far-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon.
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| 117-Year-Old Jamaican Woman Says It Took 'Hard Work' to Become Oldest Person in the World Posted: 18 Apr 2017 12:42 PM PDT  Violet Brown of Jamaica is believed to be the new record holder after Emma Moran of Italy, who was 117 years, died last weekend.
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| Trump Seeks to Limit Foreign Workers With New Executive Order Posted: 18 Apr 2017 03:17 PM PDT  "Buy America, Hire America" proposes to overhaul the H-1B visa program and renegotiate trade agreements.
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| $10M bail for suspect in death of jogger in Massachusetts Posted: 18 Apr 2017 10:04 AM PDT  LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — A man arrested in connection with the death of a New York City woman jogging near her mother's Massachusetts home last summer was tied the crime scene through DNA and cellphone evidence, as well as eyewitness reports, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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| Google Earth Just Received A Major Upgrade Posted: 18 Apr 2017 07:55 AM PDT  Google Earth now has a feature called Voyager that provides users with an interactive guided tour.
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| The Latest: Search continues for 2 missing at Grand Canyon Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:38 PM PDT ![The Latest: Search continues for 2 missing at Grand Canyon]( "The Latest: Search continues for 2 missing at Grand Canyon") GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on the search for two missing hikers at Grand Canyon National Park (all times local):
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| Gunman targeting white men kills three in Fresno, California Posted: 18 Apr 2017 04:47 PM PDT ![Gunman targeting white men kills three in Fresno, California]( "Gunman targeting white men kills three in Fresno, California") A gunman who went by the nickname Black Jesus killed three white men in downtown Fresno, California, on Tuesday, and fired at another before he was taken into custody while shouting "Allahu Akhbar," police said. The suspect, 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad, was also wanted in connection with the fatal shooting last week of an unarmed security guard at a Motel 6 in Fresno, Police Chief Jerry Dyer told reporters at a press conference. Dyer said Muhammad fired at least 16 rounds from a large-caliber handgun in less than a minute at four downtown Fresno locations at about 10:45 a.m. local time before he was spotted running through the streets by a police officer.
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| In Mosul, Iraqi snipers track jihadists around the clock Posted: 18 Apr 2017 08:37 PM PDT  A few hundred metres from an iconic mosque in west Mosul, Iraqi sniper Salah al-Zuheiri has his eye glued to his scope as he searches for Islamic State group jihadists. Iraqi forces are battling to retake Mosul from IS, after the group overran the city in 2014 and its leader proclaimed a "caliphate" from the mosque in its Old City.
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| 'River piracy' is the latest weird thing to come out of climate change Posted: 17 Apr 2017 03:01 PM PDT  A pirate is lurking in northern Canada, and global warming is only making it stronger. The Alsek River recently stole water flowing into the Slims River and took it for itself, a phenomenon known as "river piracy" — which scientists blame on a massive retreating glacier distributing water in new ways. The development is the first known case of river piracy in the modern era, and it's the first to be pinned in part on climate change, researchers wrote in a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. It also points to an unexpected consequence of human-caused global warming. SEE ALSO: NASA photos capture a strange new crack in a massive Greenland glacier and we might be doomed "So far, a lot of the scientific work surrounding glaciers and climate change has been focused on sea-level rise," Dan Shugar, the study's lead author and a geoscientist at the University of Washington, Tacoma, said in a news release. "Our study shows there may be other under-appreciated, unanticipated effects of glacial retreat." A Sept. 2, 2016, photo shows the meltwater stream along the toe of Kaskawulsh Glacier, on the left, that is diverting fresh water from one river to the other.Image: Dan Shugar/University of Washington TacomaThe river piracy began last year at the edge of the massive Kaskawulsh Glacier, which spans some 15,000 square miles across Canada's Yukon territory. For hundreds of years, the glacier poured meltwater into river basins of the Slims, which ends in the Bering Sea, and the Kaskawulsh, which empties into the Gulf of Alaska. Researchers found that a new, 100-foot canyon in the glacier's toe had abruptly rerouted meltwater away from a glacial lake that feeds the Slims River and instead delivered that water to the Kaskawulsh River, which feeds the Alsek River. As a result, the Alsek River — a popular whitewater rafting destination — ran higher than normal last summer, bloated with stolen water. The Slims River, meanwhile, was rapidly reduced to a trickle. Kluane Lake, which is fed by the river, was so low that residents struggled to launch their boats. Dust swirled in the parched valley, making it hard to fly on certain days, Yukon News reported last June. Satellite images in 2015 and 2016 show a dramatic drop in the Slims River's flow. The receding toe of Kaskawulsh Glacier is seen at the bottom. Kluane Lake isseen at the top of the 2016 image.Image: European space agencyShugar and his co-authors, including Jim Best at the University of Illinois and John Clague at Canada's Simon Fraser University, had originally planned to study the Slims River in August 2016. Instead, they found "a long, skinny lake," Shugar said. Gauges showed that the river, once 10 feet deep, had dropped suddenly from May 26 to 29, not long after the canyon was formed in the glacier. "Day by day we could see the water level dropping," he said. Scientists said there are two main reasons why the Kaskawulsh Glacier has retreated by about mile over the last century. After expanding during a cold period centuries ago, known as the Little Ice Age, the glacier is naturally readjusting its size in these warmer times. But it's also melting in part because of greenhouse gases. The team found only a tiny probability — 0.5 percent — that the glacier's retreat could have happened in a "constant climate," meaning there's a 99.5 percent probability that the glacier is responding to modern climate change. The ice fields of Ellesmere Island, Canada, are retreating due to warming temperatures.Image: Mario Tama/Getty Images"I always point out to climate-change skeptics that Earth's glaciers are becoming markedly smaller, and that can only happen in a warming climate," Clague, one of the co-authors, said in the news release. Canadian scientists who observed this river piracy last year were more ambivalent about the role of human-driven global warming in the glacier's retreat. "Would this particular event have happened without anthropogenic climate change? Probably," Kristen Kennedy, a geologist with the Yukon Geological Survey, told the Yukon News last summer. "It's neat to see. It's really just an interesting natural phenomenon that's happening right before our eyes, and not very many people get to see something like this," she said. But outside scientists praised Monday's study and said it was significant. Richard Alley, a glacier expert at Pennsylvania State University who wasn't part of the study, told the Associated Press that the findings reconfirm "that climate change has large, widespread and sometimes surprising impacts." WATCH: NASA timelapse shows just how quickly our Arctic sea ice is disappearing
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| Gorgeous World Heritage sites you can visit Posted: 19 Apr 2017 06:22 AM PDT ![Gorgeous World Heritage sites you can visit]( "Gorgeous World Heritage sites you can visit") From natural wonders to architectural masterpieces, there are more than 1,000 spots on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) list. Talk about travel goals. (By V.L. Hendrickson)
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| Audi sees China as the catalyst for its future electric car range Posted: 19 Apr 2017 02:24 AM PDT  After keeping a comparatively low profile at New York, Audi, a company with a reputation for delivering show-stopping concept cars for every automotive event it attends, has arrived in Shanghai in top form with a sporty electric car concept, the e-tron Sportback, that it promises will be a production reality within the next two years. Like VW, Audi is showing the world what's possible with plug-in electric cars via a series of conceptual studies. It started with the e-Tron Quattro in Frankfurt back in September 2015 -- a plug-in SUV -- and on Wednesday the second car in the series, a fastback (Audi's name for a car with a coupé form factor but with four, rather than two doors) made its global debut.
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| The Latest: Congressional race: Democrat leads early returns Posted: 18 Apr 2017 06:49 PM PDT  DUNWOODY, Ga. (AP) — The Latest on Georgia's 6th Congressional District election. (all times local):
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| Pearl Harbor survivor interred with fallen shipmates aboard sunken USS Arizona Posted: 19 Apr 2017 12:59 AM PDT  A veteran who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and died last year at age 94 has been reunited with his fallen shipmates on the sunken ship.
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| After Facing Brother Who Sexually Abused Her, Woman Is Ready to Help Others Confront Their Own Monsters Posted: 17 Apr 2017 10:20 AM PDT  After facing her own monster head on, Katie Bailey has wasted no time dedicating her life to help others find the courage to do the same.
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| North Korea accuses US of creating situation for nuclear war Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:06 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador accused the United States on Monday of turning the Korean Peninsula into "the world's biggest hotspot" and creating "a dangerous situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment."
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| What Are Fidget Spinners? Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:24 AM PDT  And should you buy one?
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| Here’s what the driverless semi trucks of the future will look like Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:44 PM PDT 
While Google, Ford, Apple, and others slug it out to see who the future king of driverless transportation will be, shipping companies are patiently waiting for their own revolution. Einride is one of the companies that thinks it might have an answer, at least when it comes to replacing modern semi trucks with a greener, and potentially even safer solution that a traditional driver.
Einride's concept is to swap out an on-board human truck driver with a control system that allows the vehicle to both pilot itself as well as be controlled remotely by a trained operator. The idea is that when a truck is making a long haul and cruising along the highway it will, for the most part, navigate itself to its destination, with a remote "driver" keeping an eye on many of the trucks at the same time, only stepping in an issue arises. 
Once the truck approach their final stop, a driver keeps a much closer eye on the action and helps the vehicle find its way through city streets and more challenging roadways. Einride's vehicles, which it calls "T-pods," are fully battery powered, with the ability to cruise for 124 miles on a single charge. Early concepts of the trucks look like a cross between a traditional semi and an alien space ship. Each T-pod can haul 20 tons of cargo on its 23-foot-long frame, and Einride wants to have at least 200 of the vehicles on the road in Sweden by 2020, with an early test fleet hitting the pavement next year.
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| Sulphur-powered giant shipworm unearthed in Philippines Posted: 19 Apr 2017 12:03 AM PDT  An enormous black worm that lives in the mud of the sea floor and survives on the remnants of noxious gases digested by bacteria has been unveiled by scientists for the first time. The slimy giant shipworm can grow up to 155 centimetres (five feet) in length, despite living a sedentary life in ocean sediment and apparently eating nothing more than the waste products of the micro-organisms that live in its gills. This is the first time we saw a shipworm as large as this.
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