| ‘It may be Pocahontas’: Trump attacks Warren as potential 2020 rival Posted: 28 Apr 2017 12:01 PM PDT  President Donald Trump insulted Sen. Elizabeth Warren by calling her "Pocahontas" again during a speech at the National Rifle Association's (NRA) annual meeting in Atlanta.
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| Military plane crashes in Cuba killing all eight on board Posted: 29 Apr 2017 01:49 PM PDT ![Military plane crashes in Cuba killing all eight on board]( "Military plane crashes in Cuba killing all eight on board") A military airplane crashed into a mountain in Cuba's north-western region of Artemisa on Saturday morning, killing all eight personnel on board, the Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces said. The aircraft, a twin-engined turboprop Antonov AN-26, had taken off at 6:38 a.m. (0638 ET) from Playa Baracoa, just outside Havana, and crashed into the Loma de la Pimienta mountain some 80 km (50 miles) westwards. "The eight military personnel on board, including the crew, died," the ministry said in a statement published by state-run media.
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| Pope Francis pleads for 'holy' peace during Egypt visit Posted: 28 Apr 2017 01:31 PM PDT  Pope Francis pleaded for peace in a visit to Egypt on Friday as he attended a service in solidarity with the embattled Coptic minority at a church bombed by the Islamic State group. Last December, the Saint Peter and Saint Paul church was itself targeted by a suicide bomber in an attack that killed 29 people. Francis had earlier met President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of the Al-Azhar institution, one of Muslim world's leading authorities, to push for dialogue between the two faiths.
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| Man arrested in machete attack at university coffee shop Posted: 28 Apr 2017 03:38 PM PDT  LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A man armed with a machete asked about the political affiliations of people at a university coffee shop Friday morning before injuring two females in central Kentucky, a witness said.
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| Delta Airlines Pilot Hits Passenger Posted: 29 Apr 2017 08:43 PM PDT  "We became aware of this incident and a video last week and immediately removed the pilot from duty while we completed a thorough investigation," a spokesperson said.
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| Two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan may have been hit with friendly fire, says Pentagon Posted: 28 Apr 2017 01:51 PM PDT  Two US special operations forces soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan may have been struck by friendly fire in an operation targeting the emir of Islamic State militants in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has said. Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters that the military was investigating whether the two troops may have been killed by ground fire, either by American forces or Afghan commandos taking part in the raid, though it appeared to be accidental. "We are investigating the circumstances of the combat deaths of the two Army Rangers in the beginning of what was an intense three-hour firefight," Davis said.
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| Liberia tests mystery illness after 11 unexplained deaths Posted: 28 Apr 2017 10:34 AM PDT  Liberia said Friday that samples from people struck down by a mystery illness are being tested abroad after 11 unexplained deaths, though Ebola has been ruled out. The unidentified illness has affected 19 people in Greenville, southeastern Liberia, who began showing symptoms on April 24, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed. Liberia's health ministry and the WHO have confirmed the disease is not Ebola, the hemorrhagic fever that killed thousands in a recent west African epidemic, despite some similar symptoms.
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| Cop Allegedly Fakes Suicide and Flees To Mexico Posted: 29 Apr 2017 11:25 AM PDT  Cops are still searching for him.
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| NRA’s LaPierre: Greatest U.S. ‘domestic threats’ are political, academic and media elites Posted: 28 Apr 2017 12:17 PM PDT  National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre urged gun owners to stand up to "academic elites, political elites and media elites" at the annual convention.
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| Strong earthquake hits off Philippines, no major impact seen Posted: 28 Apr 2017 04:22 PM PDT  A strong earthquake measuring 7.2 struck off the coast of Mindanao island in the Philippines on Saturday, and the country's seismology agency advised people to stay away from coastal areas but expected no major damage. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was a risk big waves could spread 300 km (190 miles) away from the epicenter, reaching as far away as Indonesia. The Philippines Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvolcs) said no tsunami warning was issued after a quake it had measured at 7.2.
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| Turkey blocks Wikipedia access, bans TV dating shows Posted: 29 Apr 2017 11:20 AM PDT  Turkey on Saturday blocked all access to Wikipedia and banned television dating shows, adding to fears of a crackdown after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's victory in a referendum on enhancing his powers. The government also dismissed almost 4,000 public officials in the latest wave of the purge under the over nine-month state of emergency that has followed last July's failed coup. Erdogan, who has dominated Turkey since 2003 as premier and now president, narrowly won the April 16 referendum on enhancing his powers which supporters believe will lead to better government but critics say creates one man rule.
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| Witnessing death: AP reporters describe problem executions Posted: 29 Apr 2017 01:30 AM PDT  The sedative midazolam is supposed to prevent condemned prisoners from suffering while they die, but opponents say several problematic executions involving the drug are evidence that it does not work consistently. They raised new concerns after an execution Thursday in Arkansas left the prisoner convulsing and pressing against his restraints.
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| Russian flags rained down in a confetti-style protest during Trump's rally Posted: 29 Apr 2017 07:42 PM PDT  Trolling is mostly dumb, but sometimes it's an art. President Donald Trump held a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday and, as he was speaking, someone tossed a bunch of tiny Russian flags, confetti-style, in front of the cameras streaming his speech to news networks. SEE ALSO: Russian refugees read powerful testimonials of gay men who escaped Chechnya As far as protests go, it certainly earns points for creativity. The Trump campaign and administration officials have had a lot of unexplained contact with Russian officials, much of which is currently under investigation. A former campaign manager allegedly laundered money for a Ukrainian political party with ties to the Russian government. The FBI got a surveillance court order in the summer of 2016 to watch a Trump adviser because of an investigation into links between the Kremlin and the current president's campaign. And if you're looking for more...oddities...they're not hard to find. The FBI is currently investigating the administration's ties to Russia, as are multiple bodies in Congress. Maybe this particular troll just wanted to remind us of that. WATCH: In stunning exchange, Trump refuses to answer question from CNN reporter
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| Former US Navy Seal Robert O'Neill describes the moment he 'shot dead Osama bin Laden' Posted: 30 Apr 2017 04:56 AM PDT  The former US Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden has described the moment he claims he shot the al-Qaeda leader dead. Robert O'Neill, who claims to have fired the fatal bullets, has for the first time published a detailed account of the mission that lead to the 9/11 mastermind being gunned down in a secure compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011. In a dramatic extract from his new book, The Operator, published in the Mirror, the former Seal described the moment he fired two shots at Bin Laden and "split open" his head.
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| AG Sessions vows to 'hammer' MS-13 street gang Posted: 28 Apr 2017 10:18 AM PDT  U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions pledged federal resources to crack down on the New York gang.
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| Details Of Aaron Hernandez's Suicide Emerge Posted: 30 Apr 2017 01:04 AM PDT  Toxicology report revealed no traces of "K2," or synthetic marijuana — or any other illegal drugs — in Hernandez's system.
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| Syria Says Israel Attacked With Missiles Today Posted: 28 Apr 2017 10:58 AM PDT  The Syrian military said in a statement that the attack, which could be felt at least 15 kilometers (9 miles) away, was carried out by Israel and aimed to "raise the morale of terrorist groups" the government maintains are waging war against President Bashar Assad's forces.
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| Berkeley Professor Robert Reich: First Amendment is 'absolutely critical' Posted: 30 Apr 2017 06:40 AM PDT  Conservative author Ann Coulter discusses the state of the First Amendment with Berkeley Professor Robert Reich.
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| Russians, in peaceful protest, call for Putin to quit Posted: 29 Apr 2017 11:53 AM PDT  By Andrew Osborn and Svetlana Reiter MOSCOW (Reuters) - Several hundred Russians lined up in central Moscow on Saturday under the gaze of riot police to hand over handwritten appeals for President Vladimir Putin to quit, as similar protests took place in other cities. Putin, who has dominated Russian politics for 17 years, has not said whether he will run in presidential elections in March 2018. Saturday's protest in the capital -- called "We're sick of him" -- was organized by the Open Russia movement founded by Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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| 'Horrifying' execution of US inmate: lawyer Posted: 28 Apr 2017 01:16 PM PDT  The last of four US prisoners rushed to death by the state of Arkansas after intense legal battles, jerked and convulsed in a "horrifying" end to his life, his lawyer said Friday, as the UN and EU renewed their opposition to the death penalty. Kenneth Williams, a 38-year-old convicted multiple murderer, was the last of four inmates put to death over the space of a week -- the first such executions by the conservative southern state since 2005. "Press reports state that within three minutes into the execution, our client began coughing, convulsing, jerking and lurching with sound that was audible even with the microphone turned off," lawyer Shawn Nolan said in a statement.
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| Body Believed to Be Teen Hiker Found, Grandmother Still Missing Posted: 29 Apr 2017 09:47 AM PDT  He was found Friday, according to reports.
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| US Congress averts shutdown, passing stopgap spending bill Posted: 28 Apr 2017 11:56 AM PDT  The US Congress easily passed a one-week stopgap spending bill Friday, assuring there is no embarrassing government shutdown on the 100th day of Donald Trump's presidency. With lawmakers mindful of the midnight deadline, the measure cleared the House of Representatives 382 to 30, with broad bipartisan support. Minutes later, the Senate approved it by a simple voice vote.
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| Apple Trying To Persuade California DMV To Change Self-Driving Rules Posted: 29 Apr 2017 04:04 AM PDT  The tech giant also wants the state's restriction on using self-driving vehicles without a human driver to be removed.
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| Your weekend hate read is this ridiculously dumb New York Times op-ed Posted: 28 Apr 2017 02:04 PM PDT  It didn't take long for the controversial new editorial writer a the New York Times to deliver the goods — the goods in this case being tired and weak excuses for why mainstream media publications should give credence to climate change deniers. On Friday afternoon, the Times published the first column from Bret Stephens, in which he argues "ordinary citizens also have a right to be skeptical of an overweening scientism" in relation to climate change. SEE ALSO: We're about to test out hacking the Earth's climate. That should scare and inspire you. While the Times doesn't seem to have any writers extolling the flat earth theory or delving into the issues around chemtrails, it saw fit to recently hire Stephens, a noted conservative writer, best known in the science community for his climate change denial. He didn't waste any time. And the Times clearly saw an opportunity, finding it necessary not just to publish the column but also send a push alert about it. NYT edit board has cited "rock-solid scientific consensus" for "swift action" on climate change https://t.co/IQH8HWXBBs Latest NYT alert pic.twitter.com/DVaSeTnGZn — Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) April 28, 2017 The column extolls the virtues of skepticism in the face of certainty, leading off by pointing out that a lot of people were sure that Hillary Clinton would beat Donald Trump. Yes, the new conservative writer started off by trolling his audience while also constructing a laughable straw man argument. In Stephens's world, "data" is all the same and anyone who can add together numbers is a scientist who should be taken with a grain of salt. The push alert in particular rubbed people the wrong way. HeyHey guysHello friends are you listening?Hey[walks around poking everyone] Ok now that I have your attentionWe hired a new doofus! pic.twitter.com/GkSUYQCprH — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 28, 2017 Reasonable people can disable push notifications, @nytimes. pic.twitter.com/ink9bHiNxm — Andisheh Nouraee (@andishehnouraee) April 28, 2017 The column comes just as the Times builds up a climate reporting team. "As the earth's temperature continues to break records, climate and environmental reporting is taking on new urgency," the company wrote on a very pretty page touting the open jobs on its team. Image: New york times/screenshotThe column also comes one week after March for Science and one day before the People's March for Climate. Stephens was theoretically hired to bring "balance" to the NYT's pages, with some feeling the publication had skewed too far to the "left." Others have pointed out that this kind of "balance" tends to be a fool's errand, particularly as other kinds of "balance" are ignored. Think of never having hired a woman of color as a columnist but feeling like putting this on your page is progress pic.twitter.com/QYMx3wD1Ii — Jack Mirkinson (@jackmirkinson) April 28, 2017 We can only feel sympathetic for the science editors at the Times, one of whom decided the best defense is a good offense. It is, admittedly, a good burn. Congrats to all the tweet aggregators who will make very viral content out of all this. — Michael Roston (@michaelroston) April 28, 2017 WATCH: This NYU student went undercover as a worker in a Chinese iPhone factory
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| Two members of alt-right accused of making white supremacist hand signs in White House after receiving press passes Posted: 29 Apr 2017 09:46 AM PDT  Two conservative journalists have sparked outcry on social media by making what some have interpreted as a white supremacist hand symbol at a recent visit to the White House. "Just two people doing a white power hand gesture in the White House," Fusion senior reporter Emma Roller tweeted, alongside a screenshot of the picture.
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| SE Asian summit ends in uncertainty over South China Sea stance Posted: 29 Apr 2017 10:25 AM PDT  By Manuel Mogato and Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA (Reuters) - Southeast Asian leaders wrapped up a summit on Saturday with no indication of an agreement on how to address Beijing's assertiveness in the South China Sea, a divisive issue in a region uncertain about its ties with the United States. Six hours after the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit officially ended in Manila, no customary joint statement had been issued and it was unclear whether there was agreement over including references to China's militarization and island-building in the hotly disputed waterway. ASEAN references to the South China Sea issue typically do not name China.
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| Los Angeles deputies search for pair in rampage that kills 1 Posted: 29 Apr 2017 08:03 PM PDT ![Los Angeles deputies search for pair in rampage that kills 1]( "Los Angeles deputies search for pair in rampage that kills 1") PICO RIVERA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are searching for two men who stole a woman's SUV on Saturday, then went on a shooting rampage through several Los Angeles suburbs, killing one man and injuring up to three other people.
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| U.S. FDA approves Takeda's lung cancer drug as second-line treatment Posted: 28 Apr 2017 03:55 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd said on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its lung cancer drug, almost three months after the company acquired the drug's developer, Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. The drug, Alunbrig, is approved as a second-line treatment for patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive (ALK+) metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, who have progressed on or are intolerant to Pfizer's crizotinib, the standard initial treatment for the disease. Alunbrig was approved under the FDA's accelerated approval program, which allows for quicker approval of drugs that fill an unmet medical need. Takeda in mid-February completed its acquisition of Ariad for $5.20 billion, undertaken to beef up its oncology pipeline.
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| Rivals trade blame over Macedonia parliament violence Posted: 28 Apr 2017 11:07 AM PDT  Macedonia's rival political parties traded blame Friday for an eruption of violence in the unstable Balkan country's parliament which left about 100 people injured. The chaos in Skopje broke out on Thursday evening, with dozens of nationalist demonstrators -- including a group of masked men -- breaking a police cordon and storming parliament in anger over a vote for a new speaker, an ethnic Albanian. The riots, which came after two years of political crisis, drew widespread condemnation, with NATO and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan echoing the worries expressed by the European Union and Washington.
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| Trump blames Flynn's vetting on Obama administration Posted: 28 Apr 2017 03:16 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Even though he named Michael Flynn to be his top national security aide, President Donald Trump on Friday laid the blame for any flaws in Flynn's vetting at the feet of his predecessor.
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| At Steve Hogue Enterprises, One-Off Cars Get a Second Shot at Life Posted: 28 Apr 2017 10:59 AM PDT  How do you restore a custom-built car with no spare parts and no complete cars to compare to? You call bodywork expert Steve Hogue.
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| Tad Cummins' Wife Feels Betrayed By Elizabeth Thomas Posted: 29 Apr 2017 10:39 PM PDT  Tad, who is accused of kidnapping his teenage student, was arrested mid-April.
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| Get ready for all the wireless carriers to get worse Posted: 28 Apr 2017 12:34 PM PDT 
The last couple months have seen a welcome change in the wireless industry. Instead of massively confusing bills and data caps, we've had prices slashed across the board and unlimited data plans for all. But thanks to the unending drive for consolidation and profits, the good times aren't going to last. During the recent 600MHz spectrum auction, which ran from the end of 2016 all the way to last week, the government imposed a "quiet rule" on carriers. They couldn't talk about the auction, their plans with any spectrum, and they couldn't talk with anyone about merging. But now that quiet time is over, it's just a matter of time until some blockbuster deals happen.
Rumors suggest that T-Mobile, Sprint, and Dish are all in talks for partnerships, acquisitions, or mergers. For Sprint, it's a fight for survival: recent financial results have been dire, and since the company didn't buy any new spectrum in the FCC's auction, the network won't see substantial improvements in the near future. SoftBank, the Japanese company that owns Sprint, has been looking for a chance to unload Sprint for years. The most-talked-about target is Deutsche Telekom, the majority owner of T-Mobile. The idea would be to merge T-Mobile and Sprint, the third-largest and fourth-largest networks in America, to form one super-network. Although that might lead to slightly improved coverage, it would be terrible for consumers in general. The fight between T-Mobile and Sprint for customers has led to lower prices, the ending of multi-year-contracts, and a host of other consumer-friendly moves in recent years. Losing Sprint, which offers the cheapest contracts of any of the big networks, would mean losing the one company that applies downwards pressure to prices. The alternatives aren't much better. One of the few other companies with the money and desire to build out a US-wide cell network could be Amazon. Owning a wireless network would give Amazon direct control over delivering some of its services, like Prime Video, straight to consumers without having to go through an existing internet service provider. A wireless network could also be invaluable in the future for Amazon's drone delivery service, which would need some kind of national command-and-control network. It's not just T-Mobile and Sprint that are rumored in merger deals, either. Dish Network, the satellite TV provider that also owns Sling TV, bought up $6 billion of spectrum at the FCC's recent auction, and now sits on one of the largest spectrum holdings in the US. It's possible that it could be bought out by a company like Comcast to build out a brand-new wireless network, or merge with an existing wireless network for further expansion. Any of those options would involve losing the country's biggest independent TV provider to a major cable company, which would be more bad news for consumers. Analyst Tim Farrar sees a combination of all these scenarios being the logical option: a three-way deal between T-Mobile, Amazon and Dish to build out a new network, using T-Mobile's new spectrum and Dish's spectrum holdings. Using Amazon's capital, they could quickly build out a fast and wide-reaching network with brand-new technology, which could be used by T-Mobile for cell service, by Dish for internet TV, and by Amazon for world domination/any of Jeff Bezos's pet projects. The bottom line is that the status quo isn't here to stay. Between Sprint's financial woes, T-Mobile's desire to build a giant new network at speed, and Dish's unused spectrum, it seems that a deal is likely. The only questions are when, and how badly it will affect wireless customers.
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| NSA Halts Controversial Spy Program Posted: 28 Apr 2017 01:27 PM PDT  The program had been used to scoop up large numbers of digital communications, including those belonging to Americans, "about" targets of foreign surveillance.
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| British PM May sees lead over Labour fall by 10 points in a week: YouGov Posted: 29 Apr 2017 04:52 PM PDT  Britain's governing Conservative party has seen its lead narrow considerably over the last week, a poll by YouGov showed on Sunday, the third poll of the weekend to show the party's advantage over the opposition shrink. British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party was set to garner 44 percent of the vote, the poll for the Sunday Times showed, still a commanding 13 point lead over Labour, who polled at 31 percent.
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| New Hamas chief to be announced soon: officials Posted: 30 Apr 2017 08:38 AM PDT  The new leadership of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas will be announced in the coming days, officials said Sunday, while it also prepared to unveil a new version of its charter. Ismail Haniya, until recently head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, said the results of internal elections will be announced "in the coming days". The official said Haniya is likely to be named the new head of the movement, replacing Khaled Meshaal who lives in Doha in exile and has completed the maximum two terms in office.
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| Journalists honor press freedom at a dinner without Trump Posted: 29 Apr 2017 11:47 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Prominent Washington journalists, if not Hollywood stars, celebrated the First Amendment during the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, an event that lacked the glitter of past years because of the absence of the president of the United States.
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| Mom tells school: My daughter will do less homework Posted: 28 Apr 2017 02:33 PM PDT  Too much homework is the worst. Luckily for this 10-year-old girl, her mother has her back.
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| Mexico approves legalising medical marijuana Posted: 29 Apr 2017 09:25 AM PDT  Mexico's Congress has approved the legalisation of medicinal cannabis. On Friday, the Lower House of Congress voted 371 in favour of the bill, with only 19 politicians voting against it or abstaining. The bill will now go to President Enrique Pena Nieto, who is expected to sign it.
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| 12 hazing complaints since 2014 confirmed at Marine base Posted: 29 Apr 2017 05:41 PM PDT ![12 hazing complaints since 2014 confirmed at Marine base]( "12 hazing complaints since 2014 confirmed at Marine base") BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Officials at the Marine Corps' training base in South Carolina say half of 24 hazing complaints investigated since 2014 have been confirmed.
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| Merkel sides with Gabriel in dispute with Israel's Netanyahu Posted: 28 Apr 2017 09:40 AM PDT  German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday defended her foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel, whose meeting with a group critical of Israel's treatment of Palestinians prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel talks. Netanyahu said in an interview with a German newspaper he had tried to telephone Gabriel to clear the air after cancelling the talks but the visiting German foreign minister would not take his call.
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