| White House faces questions about Syria policy after suspected chemical attack Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:06 AM PDT  The White House released a statement on Tuesday blaming the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad for a suspected chemical attack that reportedly left dozens dead in that country — and blaming former President Barack Obama for not doing more to get rid of Assad. White House press secretary Sean Spicer read the statement in his daily press briefing on Tuesday, where he also faced questions about the Trump administration's position on Syria.
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| Russian Spies Tried to Recruit Carter Page As an Intel Source Posted: 03 Apr 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page says he only provided "immaterial" information to officials later revealed to be Russian spies.
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| New Jersey Teenager Accused Of Plotting To Assassinate Pope Francis Posted: 04 Apr 2017 02:19 AM PDT  Santos Colon Jr. from New Jersey admitted he conspired an ISIS-inspired plot for assassinating the Pope during his visit to the city for the Papal mass in 2015, and detonating of bombs across Philadelphia.
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| Donald Trump Jr. proposes conspiracy theorist for Pulitzer for breaking Susan Rice story Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:29 AM PDT  Trump administration officials and allies were out in force this week promoting the story that Susan Rice, national security adviser in the Obama administration, requested the names of Americans who were caught up in surveillance of Russian officials during last year's presidential campaign and transition. The most recent, and enthusiastic, endorsement came from Donald Trump, Jr., who proposes the writer who broke the story for a Pulitzer Prize.
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| Cocaine Smuggler Pretends to Be Delta Airlines Pilot: Authorities Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:19 AM PDT  U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the alleged smuggler was carrying $85,000 worth of cocaine.
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| Zika causes birth defects in one in 10 pregnancies: U.S. study Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:29 AM PDT  By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - About one in 10 pregnant women with confirmed Zika infections had a fetus or baby with birth defects, offering the clearest picture yet of the risk of Zika infection during pregnancy, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the first to analyze a group of U.S. women with clear, confirmed test results of Zika infection during pregnancy. Once considered a mild disease, a large outbreak of the virus that began in Brazil in 2015 and quickly spread through the Americas revealed that the mosquito-borne virus can cause severe brain damage and microcephaly, or small head size, when women are exposed during pregnancy.
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| Trump talks to Putin, offers ‘full support’ in response to St. Petersburg attack Posted: 04 Apr 2017 06:05 AM PDT  President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to condemn the deadly attack on a St. Petersburg subway train, the White House said in a statement.
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| Afghanistan sacks top generals over brazen hospital attack Posted: 03 Apr 2017 11:33 PM PDT  Afghanistan on Tuesday sacked 12 army officers including two generals for negligence over an insurgent attack on the country's largest military hospital, which pointed to a spectacular intelligence failure. Gunmen disguised as doctors stormed Sardar Daud Khan hospital in Kabul last month, with multiple surviving staff telling AFP that insiders including two interns were among the attackers. The military head of intelligence and the official in charge of medical support were among those who have been dismissed and will face prosecution, the defence ministry said.
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| The Latest: 'Help me,' kidnapped girl says after car crash Posted: 03 Apr 2017 06:08 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the slaying of a North Carolina couple and the arrest of their son discovered with his missing 11-year-old niece in Washington (all times local):
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| New Remains of Millennia-Old Pyramid Discovered in Egypt Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:11 AM PDT  It's thought to be some 3,700 years old.
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| Russian Spy Met Trump Adviser Carter Page and Thought He Was an ‘Idiot’ Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:37 AM PDT  Carter Page met with a Russian spy in 2013 and supplied research materials.
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| These cities are totally slaying the solar power game Posted: 04 Apr 2017 02:20 PM PDT  With the Trump administration targeting various government clean energy programs, we can think of no better time to celebrate the U.S. cities with the most installed solar energy. A new report found the country has made some serious solar strides in 2016, particularly in 20 cities across the country. SEE ALSO: Coal-fired electricity is at its lowest since officials started keeping track America's "shining cities" helped the country attain 42,000 megawatts of solar energy capacity by the end of 2016 — enough energy to power 8.3 million average homes and slash annual carbon emissions by 52.3 million metric tons, the Frontier Group and the Environment America Research and Policy Center reported. U.S. Cities by Cumulative Installed Solar PV Capacity, End of 2016.Image: Environment America Research and Policy CenterLast year, the 20 top U.S. cities collectively accounted for nearly as much solar power as the entire country had installed at the end of 2010. Solar power is rising across the U.S. and around the world as technology prices and installation costs plummet. In many major economies, solar power (sans subsidies) is starting to outcompete coal and natural gas, and new solar projects are costing less to build than wind farms, Bloomberg New Energy Finance found. Top 20 Solar Cities in 2016 (Total Installed Solar PV Capacity) San Diego, CA Los Angeles, CA Honolulu, HI San Jose, CA Phoenix, AZ Indianapolis, IN New York, NY San Antonio, TX Albuquerque, NM Las Vegas, NV San Fransisco, CA Denver, CO Sacramento, CA New Orleans, LA Riverside, CA Austin, TX Portland, OR Washington, D.C. Jacksonville, FL Newark, NJ Despite the serious increase in solar capacity, the majority of U.S. cities have only just started to tap into their true solar energy potential, the two environmental groups said in their report. Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and San Antonio have the technical potential to generate "tens to hundreds of times more solar energy" than they do now, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)'s rooftop solar analysis for small buildings. The map below depicts each state's level of solar installation, so you can get a better sense of how beginners in the Midwest compare to "Solar Stars" on the West Coast — though even the top solar cities have room for improvement. Image: ENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTERAccording to the report, San Diego — the nation's current solar energy installation leader — has developed "less than 14 percent of its technical potential for solar power on small buildings." With the Trump administration promising to double down on coal-fired power plants and unravel federal policies for clean energy, U.S. cities and states now have an even bigger role to play in tackling climate change. WATCH: This solar-powered machine transforms desert sand into glass sculptures
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| Girl Throws Costco-Themed 5th Birthday Party, Complete With Memberships and Food Samples Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:00 AM PDT  In true Costco fashion, party guests were invited to sample Kirkland treats around the home and enjoy pizza purchased from the food court.
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| Lithuania says Russia has ability to launch Baltic attack in 24 hours Posted: 03 Apr 2017 10:33 AM PDT  By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - Russia has developed the capability to launch an attack on the Baltic states with as little as 24 hours' notice, limiting NATO's options to respond other than to have military forces already deployed in the region, Lithuania's intelligence service said on Monday. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in the 1940s but now part of both NATO and the European Union, have been increasingly nervous since the Russian takeover of Crimea in 2014. The Lithuanian intelligence service said in its annual threat assessment that Russia had upgraded its military in the Kaliningrad region last year, reducing lead times for any attack and potentially preventing NATO reinforcements.
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| Glenn Beck bashes Trump White House for ‘professional nepotism’ Posted: 03 Apr 2017 02:38 PM PDT  In light of Jared Kushner's unexpected arrival in Iraq on Monday, conservative commentator Glenn Beck expressed concerns about President Trump's son-in-law-turned-senior-adviser's large role in the White House. "This is professional nepotism," Beck told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga in a Monday interview. Kushner's White House portfolio has repeatedly expanded and now includes China policy, tax reform, brokering peace in the Middle East and running a new White House innovation office.
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| More than 270 dead in Colombia mudslides Posted: 03 Apr 2017 09:20 PM PDT  The Colombian government declared a state of economic emergency in the town of Mocoa in southern Colombia, after mudslides left more than 270 people dead, including 43 children. "We have the toll of the people who have unfortunately died," said President Juan Manuel Santos, as he revisited the scene of Friday's disaster. The president said reconstruction would begin, dismissing risks of further mudslides, but he warned that the country faces rainy weather until June.
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| How to Shoot a Great Dog Photo Posted: 04 Apr 2017 01:27 PM PDT  Scroll through your Facebook feed and you'll realize that almost everyone seems to love two things: cat videos and dog photos. When it comes to directing felines, you're on your own, but we can h...
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| Detroit man, 80, gets prison for Social Security fraud Posted: 04 Apr 2017 12:46 PM PDT ![Detroit man, 80, gets prison for Social Security fraud]( "Detroit man, 80, gets prison for Social Security fraud") DETROIT (AP) — An 80-year-old Detroit man was sentenced to 366 days in prison Tuesday for spending $265,000 in Social Security benefits that mistakenly went into his mother's bank account long after her death in 1989.
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| US, European stocks fall after Russian metro blast Posted: 03 Apr 2017 02:03 PM PDT  European and US stocks fell Monday as a deadly subway explosion in Russia rattled the market, along with anxiety over a key a US-China summit later in the week.
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| South Sudanese troops butchered civilians, shot children: refugees Posted: 05 Apr 2017 07:55 AM PDT  Hundreds of South Sudanese refugees fled into Uganda for a second day on Wednesday, bearing further grim testimony of an attack by government forces on the border town of Pajok in which at least 17 people were killed, according to a Reuters tally. Some were shot as they tried to flee. Two children were run down by a car. The testimony from the refugees, more than 3,000 of whom have gathered just inside the Ugandan border, offers a glimpse of the brutality of a three-year civil war ripping apart the world's youngest nation. The government denies its Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) forces target civilians and said Monday's operation in Pajok, a town of more than 10,000 people 15 km (10 miles) north of the Ugandan border, was to flush out rebel guerrillas.
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| Dog Rescued After Dropping Into 30-Foot Well Posted: 03 Apr 2017 02:24 PM PDT  She wasn't injured.
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| 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport: New Look, New Tech Posted: 05 Apr 2017 06:00 AM PDT  Another refresh attempts to keep Mitsu's most relevant model relevant.
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| Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice: ‘I leaked nothing to nobody’ Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:00 AM PDT  President Obama's former White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice is battling claims that she mishandled classified information when she requested the identities of people connected to President Trump's transition team in raw intelligence reports. Rice told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, "I leaked nothing to nobody."
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| Reported Sighting Of Missing Tennessee Student-Teacher In Nashville Unfounded Posted: 05 Apr 2017 03:20 AM PDT  Tennessee law enforcement officials issued an Amber Alert for 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas, who is suspected of being kidnapped by her teacher Tad Cummins.
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| Boy or Girl? Text Alerts to Deliver Gender of April the Giraffe's Calf Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:34 AM PDT  For the many millions of internet viewers who are checking YouTube (or Live Science) daily to see if April the pregnant giraffe has had her calf, the vigil continues — when the sun rose this morning (April 3), the big-bellied giraffe was still pregnant. However, April's many anxious fans can now subscribe to receive text alerts when April goes into labor — and for the first disclosure of whether the newborn is male or female. The announcement of the calf's gender will be made after its birth by a text alert system, revealing the big news hours in advance of an official press release, representatives of Animal Adventure Park (AAP), the facility in Harpursville, New York, where April is housed, reported April 3 on Facebook.
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| Iran's Aseman Airlines signs $3bn deal for 30 Boeing jets Posted: 04 Apr 2017 04:53 AM PDT  US plane maker Boeing said Tuesday that Iran's Aseman Airlines had agreed to buy 30 737 MAX jets for $3.0 billion in its second major deal since sanctions were eased last year. "Boeing confirms the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Iran Aseman Airlines, expressing the airline's intent to purchase 30 Boeing 737 MAX airplanes with a list price value of $3 billion," the US group said in a statement. Iran has been desperate to renew its ageing fleet of planes, but was largely blocked from dealing with major aircraft manufacturers until a 2015 accord with world powers that eased global sanctions in exchange for curbs to its nuclear programme.
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| Islamic State says U.S. 'being run by an idiot' Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:57 AM PDT  Islamic State said on Tuesday the United States was drowning and "being run by an idiot". In the first official remarks by the group referring to President Donald Trump since he took office, spokesman Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer said: "America you have drowned and there is no savior, and you have become prey for the soldiers of the caliphate in every part of the earth, you are bankrupt and the signs of your demise are evident to every eye." "... There is no more evidence than the fact that you are being run by an idiot who does not know what Syria or Iraq or Islam is," he said in a recording released on Tuesday on messaging network Telegram. Trump has made defeating Islamic State a priority of his presidency.
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| Cub Cadet vs. John Deere Lawn Tractor Face-Off Posted: 03 Apr 2017 10:37 AM PDT  Trading up to a riding mower can be a daunting proposition if you're used to a walk-behind mower. They're much bigger and pricier than your walk-behind mower, and the myriad controls might look c...
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| Suiting up the Swiss Guard: Austrian blacksmiths practice vanishing craft for Vatican guards Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:54 AM PDT ![Suiting up the Swiss Guard: Austrian blacksmiths practice vanishing craft for Vatican guards]( "Suiting up the Swiss Guard: Austrian blacksmiths practice vanishing craft for Vatican guards") Austrian blacksmiths who produce ceremonial suits of armor for the Vatican's Swiss Guards are close to the end of their current deal to do so, and say supplying the suits will not be an issue for many years to come. One of the drawbacks of the Swiss Guards' medieval uniforms is that the craftsmanship needed to make them is disappearing. Faced with an aged stock in need of replacement, the Guards turned to brothers Johann and Georg Schmidberger—the fifth generation to run the family blacksmith's business in the Austrian town of Molln—to provide them with 80 suits of armor covering the torso and arms.
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| Tesla, Google, and Uber are all losing the self-driving car race Posted: 03 Apr 2017 05:00 PM PDT 
If you see a headline about self-driving car tech, chances are great that it's a story about Tesla, Uber, or Google, but mindshare doesn't always match up with reality and a new study focusing on what companies are leading the charge in automated vehicles puts seasoned carmakers firmly in the driver's seat. The study, which was conducted by Navigant, declares Ford, GM, Daimler, and Renault-Nissan to be the current leaders in automated vehicle technology, with Silicon Valley stars like Uber and Tesla still trying to catch up.
The study looked at a number of criteria in order to give each company a ranking based on two overall factors: strategy and execution. The combination of those two scores produced the final rankings chart you see above, along with the ranking list: Leaders - Ford
- GM
- Renault-Nissan Alliance
- Daimler
Contenders - VW Group
- BMW
- Waymo
- Volvo/Autoliv/Zenuity
- Delphi
- Hyundai Motor Group
- PSA
- Tesla
- Toyota
- ZF
Challengers - Honda
- Uber
- nuTonomy
- Baidu
Ford, as you might expect, was quite happy to be placed number one on the list, and company Executive VP and CTO Raj Nair took to Medium to put the study into perspective. Nair highlights the fact that Navigant's research takes a big-picture approach in determining not just what companies are leading in technology development such as sensor advancements and AI, but also the capability of the companies to actually bring self-driving cars to the public en masse. In short, just because a company like Google or Uber can build a suite of self-driving software and a sensor array, that doesn't mean those innovations will ever actually be adopted on a level the general public will benefit from.
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| Pope makes appointments amid criticism of sex abuse response Posted: 04 Apr 2017 07:09 AM PDT ![Pope makes appointments amid criticism of sex abuse response]( "Pope makes appointments amid criticism of sex abuse response") VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Tuesday named a new official to oversee the Vatican office that processes clerical sex abuse cases amid mounting criticism over a yearslong backlog of cases and Francis' handling of the problem.
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| Protests rattle Ecuador following election fraud claims Posted: 03 Apr 2017 08:08 PM PDT  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Supporters of Ecuadorean opposition leader Guillermo Lasso gathered in the streets for a second night Monday to protest what they consider fraud at the ballot box that tilted a presidential runoff in favor of his leftist rival.
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| Thai PM says 'don't worry' about U.S. trade policy yet Posted: 04 Apr 2017 04:47 AM PDT  By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Orathai Sriring BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's prime minister said on Tuesday he had told officials to prepare for changes in U.S. trade policy under President Donald Trump, but it was too soon for the big exporter to worry. As in other Asian countries which run large trade surpluses with the United States, concern has spread in Thailand since Trump last week said he had ordered a study of the causes of U.S. trade deficits.
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| Boy, 13, Dies of Suspected Heroin Overdose After Allegedly Getting Into Dad's Drugs: Reports Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:14 PM PDT  Medics reportedly administered four milligrams of Narcan to Nathan Wylie, 13, to no avail.
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| 5 Things to Consider When You Are Preparing for a Job Interview Posted: 04 Apr 2017 08:33 AM PDT ![5 Things to Consider When You Are Preparing for a Job Interview]( "5 Things to Consider When You Are Preparing for a Job Interview") In order to land your ideal position, you need to go beyond the minimal investment of time and effort and instead reach for new levels of personal insight and interview preparedness. Be sure you understand in your own head why this job makes sense for you, and why it makes sense for the employer to want to hire you. Use the employer's products or services.
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| 2018 Buick Regal TourX: An American Wagon with a European Soul Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:31 PM PDT  The Outback/Allroad bandwagon? It's got a hop on.
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| Tesla overtakes giant Ford in market cap Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:28 AM PDT  Tesla on Monday became the second-largest US car maker in terms of market capitalization, displacing Ford, whose sales lagged amid concerns about the ability of the US market to keep growing. Many major auto makers reported US sales declines in March compared to a year ago, but Tesla over the weekend said it saw a huge jump in vehicles delivered to consumers in the first three months of the year. Tesla said it delivered 25,000 of its high-tech vehicles in the January-March period -- a 69 percent surge compared to the first three months of 2016 -- indicating it was on its way to meeting its goal of 50,000 vehicle deliveries by mid-2017.
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| What happens when a small Apple supplier loses its contract Posted: 03 Apr 2017 10:14 AM PDT 
Until Monday morning, Imagination Technologies was a successful processor technology company going through a bit of a rough patch. The company designed some of the underlying architecture of chips that Apple uses in its iPhone range, and as a result, it earns royalty money from every iPhone sold. It's a solid business model, so despite a downturn in iPhone 6s sales causing a cash shortage, Imagination was doing well. Emphasis on the "was."
Early this morning, Imagination dropped a bombshell on its investors: Apple is planning a fundamental rebuild of the GPU used in the iPhone, to increase control over the design and to remove the need to pay Imagination royalties. As you can imagine, the result has been ruinous for Imagination. In the hours since the press release dropped, Imagination Technologies stock dropped by 65 percent, as investors bail out hard. It's a hard result for Imagination: though Apple's revenue does make up about half of Imagination's revenue in total, the stock has dropped by more than half. The revenue for Apple relates to patents and designs that Imagination already owns, so the marginal costs required to earn that cash from Apple are minimal. Without the promise of future cheap revenue streams from Apple, Imagination's core business is left looking a lot more tenuous. But before Imagination's stock fully craters, it's worth looking at the press release the company put out in greater detail. Imagination points out that it will be difficult to Apple to completely abandon the design and architecture that it pays Imagination for. Redesigning a new GPU may well reduce Apple's reliance on Imagination's design, but cutting out the company's intellectual property altogether will be difficult. In a statement, Imagination described its reaction to Apple's news: Apple has not presented any evidence to substantiate its assertion that it will no longer require Imagination's technology, without violating Imagination's patents, intellectual property and confidential information. This evidence has been requested by Imagination but Apple has declined to provide it. Further, Imagination believes that it would be extremely challenging to design a brand new GPU architecture from basics without infringing its intellectual property rights, accordingly Imagination does not accept Apple's assertions. Apple's notification has led Imagination to discuss with Apple potential alternative commercial arrangements for the current license and royalty agreement.
That last line in particular raises the specter that this is just a bargaining move from Apple: announce it plans to sever ties entirely, watch Imagination's investors freak out, and then offer the company a lifeline of reduced royalty payments.
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