| White House: If Hillary Clinton had fired Comey, Democrats ‘would be dancing in the streets’ Posted: 10 May 2017 12:19 PM PDT  White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the Democratic reaction to James Comey's dismissal shows they are guilty of "the purest form of hypocrisy."
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| Mystery Solved: Toddler Girl Buried in 1800s Casket Under Home Is Now Identified Posted: 09 May 2017 06:26 PM PDT  The little girl's name was Edith Howard Cook. She was born on Oct. 13, 1876, and died at age 2.
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| Betsy DeVos heavily booed during commencement speech as students turn their backs Posted: 10 May 2017 02:29 PM PDT  Betsy DeVos' commencement speech to students at a historically black university has been met with boos and interruptions, with many students turning their backs on Donald Trump's education secretary as she addressed the crowd at Bethune-Cookman Universtiy. The decision of Florida's Bethune-Cookman University to have Ms DeVos speak at their commencement originally led to protests on campus.
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| Chaos erupts at Florida airport after Spirit Airlines cancels nine flights Posted: 09 May 2017 10:52 AM PDT  Chaos erupted at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Monday night when nine Spirit Airlines flights were canceled, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded. Frustrated travelers clashed with police and Spirit employees, and three unruly passengers were detained by sheriff's deputies.
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| Supporters rally for Jakarta's jailed Christian governor Posted: 09 May 2017 08:40 PM PDT  Supporters of Jakarta's Christian governor staged a colourful rally outside city hall Wednesday a day after he was jailed for blasphemy, in a case that has damaged Indonesia's image as a bastion of tolerant Islam. "Let's fight for justice," said acting governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat, who was Purnama's deputy and has taken over his powers, to cheers from the crowd. Purnama was jailed Tuesday for two years after being found guilty of blasphemy against Islam, a shock decision after prosecutors recommended only probation.
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| U.S.-backed Syria militias say Tabqa, dam captured from Islamic State Posted: 10 May 2017 03:59 PM PDT  By Ellen Francis BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Syrian militias said they fully seized the town of Tabqa and Syria's largest dam from Islamic State on Wednesday, a major objective as they prepare to launch an assault on Raqqa, the jihadists' biggest urban stronghold. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, have been battling the militant group for weeks in Tabqa, some 40 km (25 miles) west of Raqqa, along the Euphrates River. With air strikes and special forces from the U.S.-led coalition, the SDF are advancing on Raqqa to ultimately take the city, which is also the Islamic State's base of operations in Syria.
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| Dakota Access pipeline has first leak before it's fully operational Posted: 10 May 2017 02:56 PM PDT  The Dakota Access pipeline inspired huge demonstrations in 2016. The Dakota Access pipeline has suffered its first leak, outraging indigenous groups who have long warned that the project poses a threat to the environment. The $3.8bn oil pipeline, which sparked international protests last year and is not yet fully operational, spilled 84 gallons of crude oil at a South Dakota pump station, according to government regulators.
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| Comey Firing an Attack On DOJ Independence Posted: 09 May 2017 11:50 AM PDT  Matthew Miller, former Justice Department spokesman, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's effort to thwart the investigation into his ties to Russia by firing James Comey and the threat to the independence of the Justice Department.
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| Foul play not suspected in 2 deaths in Central Park waters Posted: 10 May 2017 01:50 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The bodies of two men have been discovered over two days in Central Park, each floating in a lake, but investigators don't believe either was the victim of a crime, police said Wednesday.
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| Microsoft just released an emergency patch to fix a devastating new vulnerability Posted: 09 May 2017 01:04 PM PDT 
For many Windows users, Microsoft's own built-in malware protections are the only thing standing between them and the many bad actors pushing for control of their systems. Today, the company is issuing an emergency update to fix a new, extremely scary vulnerability in the operating system's anti-malware software that not only has the power to bypass those protections, but to effectively hand over complete control of a user's computer to a hacker.
The exploit, which was discovered and reported to Microsoft by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy, requires a "specially crafted file," which can be sent via email or distributed on compromised websites. The file, when scanned by the Windows malware protection software utilizing the Microsoft Malware Prevention Engine, allows the attacker to gain full control of the system. Once the exploit is successfully executed, the malware allows the installation or deletion of programs, the ability to create new user accounts with full permissions, and gain access to private information wherever it might be stored. What's particularly scary about this vulnerability is that the file uses Microsoft's own anti-malware protections to break into the system, and because Windows is extremely thorough about scanning any and all content a user comes in contact with, even online, the malware file doesn't even need to be opened for it to work its devious magic. In fact, even getting the file in an email — whether you open the email or view the attachment or not is irrelevant — is enough to open your computer to attackers. Microsoft's patch is already being rolled out, and the company says that Windows' own built-in updates will close the gaping hole behind the scenes without you even realizing it, though it can take up 48 hours for all Windows machines to be free of this frightening oversight.
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| 11 Year Old Girl Dies On Water Ride At British Theme Park Posted: 10 May 2017 03:41 AM PDT  The "Splash Canyon Ride" at the Drayton Manor Theme Park was first opened in 1993 and includes about 21 boats, each having the capacity to carry six people.
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| Abby Lee Miller Has Broken Her Silence After Being Sentenced to a Year In Prison Posted: 10 May 2017 10:58 AM PDT  The "Dance Moms" star revealed what she wants to do while behind bars.
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| Accused Serial Killer Who Allegedly Terrorized Town Charged With Murdering 9, Including a Child Posted: 09 May 2017 09:38 AM PDT  The man is allegedly behind 12 shootings in total.
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| France's Macron to unveil list of candidates for new party Posted: 10 May 2017 07:01 PM PDT  Incoming French president Emmanuel Macron will on Thursday reveal a list of hundreds of candidates for his new centrist political party, as he seeks to win a parliamentary majority in next month's general election. The presidential election left France's traditional parties on the sidelines, with the conservative Republicans and ruling Socialists eliminated in the first round, and Macron facing far-right leader Marine Le Pen in last week's run off.
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| DeVos booed speaking at historically black university Posted: 10 May 2017 10:30 PM PDT  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Drawing shouts of "Liar!" and "Just go," Education Secretary Betsy DeVos powered through her commencement address Wednesday at a historically black university, even as many of the graduating students turned their backs to her in protest.
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| For one Chinese city, new 'Silk Road' leaves old problems unsolved Posted: 09 May 2017 04:08 PM PDT  By Sue-Lin Wong HUNCHUN, China (Reuters) - In August, 2014, planners in the northeastern Chinese city of Hunchun argued in state media that it should be included in the "One Belt, One Road" project, Beijing's vision laid out the previous year of a new Silk Road across Asia to Europe. In 2015, the official Xinhua news agency ran stories about how Hunchun was accelerating its "OBOR" plans, and early in 2016, China's cabinet released a list of Chinese cities included in "OBOR": Hunchun was on the map. The challenge of defining exactly what OBOR means will come to the fore later this month, when heads of state and senior officials from around the world gather in Beijing for the first major summit dedicated to the project.
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| White House says James Comey committed 'atrocities' as FBI Director Posted: 10 May 2017 11:20 AM PDT  The White House has said James Comey committed "atrocities" as FBI Director during a conference with Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Ms Huckabee Sanders said Donald Trump had considered firing director James Comey since "day one," but made his final decision after receiving written and verbal feedback from Justice Department officials. "I think also having a letter like the one he received and having that conversation that outlined the basic, just, atrocities in circumventing the chain of command in the Department of Justice ... When he saw that, he had to speak up on that action, and I think that was the final catalyst," Ms Huckabee Sanders said.
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| Baby deaths soar 30% in Venezuela: ministry Posted: 10 May 2017 09:54 AM PDT  The report said 756 women died in childbirth, just under 66 percent more than the previous year. Cases of malaria rose by 76 percent to more than 240,000. Medical associations thought the disease had been eradicated in Venezuela but say it has re-emerged during the past three years of crisis and reached epidemic level in 13 of the country's 24 states.
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| Lava Waves Sweep Largest Volcanic Crater On Io Posted: 10 May 2017 10:00 AM PDT  Io, one of Jupiter's 67 known moons and the innermost among the Galilean satellites, is the most volcanically active body in the entire solar system.
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| Mom Goes Viral for Facebook Photos Showing the Realities of Postpartum Depression Posted: 10 May 2017 10:58 AM PDT  "I work twice as hard to hide this reality from you because I'm afraid to make you uncomfortable," she wrote.
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| Friends of Doctor In Double Homicide Speak Out: 'She Was Awesome' Posted: 10 May 2017 06:25 AM PDT  Close colleagues of Dr. Lina Bolanos shared their memories of the physician, who was slain along with her fiance in a Boston penthouse.
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| Icon A5 Amphibious Plane Crashes, Killing 2 Company Engineers Posted: 10 May 2017 10:58 AM PDT  The plane meant to be a vision of the flying future suffers a fatal accident.
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| Fatima mystery blends visions, miracles and supernatural Posted: 10 May 2017 03:28 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — When Pope Francis travels to the Portuguese town of Fatima this weekend, he will be lending his blessing to a religious phenomenon that has captivated Catholics for a century: It involves visions of the Virgin Mary, supernatural meteorological events and apocalyptic prophesies of hell, Soviet communism and the death of a pope.
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| Turkey leader calls on US to reverse decision to arm Kurds Posted: 10 May 2017 12:06 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey slammed the Trump administration's decision to supply Syrian Kurdish fighters with weapons against the Islamic State group and demanded Wednesday that it be reversed, heightening tensions between the NATO allies days before the Turkish leader heads to Washington for a meeting with President Donald Trump.
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| Hundreds gather at White House to protest Trump’s firing of FBI Director Comey Posted: 10 May 2017 12:15 PM PDT ![Hundreds gather at White House to protest Trump's firing of FBI Director Comey]( "Hundreds gather at White House to protest Trump's firing of FBI Director Comey") Protesters gathered outside of the White House displaying signs with various messages from calling for a special prosecutor and alleging a cover-up to tying Trump to Putin.
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| Palestinians seek Pizza Hut boycott for 'mocking hunger strike' Posted: 09 May 2017 11:10 AM PDT  Palestinians called for a boycott of Pizza Hut on Tuesday after the company's franchise in Israel was accused of mocking hunger-striking prisoners. The franchise's Facebook page was said to have shared an image released by Israeli police which appears to show Palestinian hunger-strike leader Marwan Barghouti secretly breaking his fast. "Barghouti, if you are going to break your (hunger) strike, isn't pizza the better choice?" a screenshot of the post said, with a pizza box seemingly photoshopped into the picture.
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| Vermont could be about to legalise marijuana – and become first US state to do so without public vote Posted: 10 May 2017 02:32 PM PDT  Vermont lawmakers on Wednesday approved a measure to legalise recreational use of marijuana, which if not vetoed by the governor would make the state the ninth to legalise the drug and the first to do so by legislation rather than ballot initiative. The U.S. state's House of Representatives voted 79-66 for the measure, which was attached to a bill increasing penalties for the possession and sale of the opioid drug fentanyl. The measure, which would take effect in July 2018 and allow adults 21 and over to buy and use the drug, was passed by the state Senate last week in a 20-9 vote.
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| Bear vs. Dog: Who Comes Out on Top in This 'David and Goliath' Battle? Posted: 10 May 2017 02:31 PM PDT  Ba Bao was protecting his turf and did not want the curious bear interfering, leaving the wild animal to retreat back to its home in the woods.
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| Aaron Hernandez's Fiancee Breaks Silence About Suicide Posted: 10 May 2017 08:32 AM PDT  It's the first time she has spoken publicly since Hernandez committed suicide April 19.
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| Saturn's moon Titan looks like a pretty chill place in new photos Posted: 10 May 2017 02:40 PM PDT  Titan, Saturn's largest moon, captures the imagination. The distant world plays host to lakes of liquid methane and ethane that look like they could be a nice spot for an alien yachting expedition, dunes of hydrocarbons, and clouds that sometimes rain methane down onto the surface of the world, feeding its lakes. Long story short, Titan is everything you could wish for in an alien world, and new photos taken by the Saturn-exploring Cassini spacecraft put that on stark display. SEE ALSO: NASA just schooled actor Milo Ventimiglia about space because Twitter The new images — snapped by Cassini on May 7 — show bright, fluffy streaks of methane clouds in the world's atmosphere. Titan seen by Cassini.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThis isn't the first time these types of clouds have been seen by Cassini. Scientists have been keeping an eye on these types of features for about a year, though these new images are particularly gorgeous. Titan is actually thought to be one of the best places in the solar system to hunt for alien life. Scientists think it's possible that Titan actually has a huge subsurface ocean beneath its crust which might be perfect for microbes to thrive. Titan's atmosphere.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThe May 7 photos were taken from Cassini's new orbit around Saturn that brings it through the 1,500-mile-wide gap between the huge planet and its plane of rings. During this ring dive orbit, Cassini also took some images of the huge planet and its rings looking moody in black and white. Saturn and its rings.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteCassini spacecraft has been exploring Saturn and its many moons on humanity's behalf for more than 10 years, but its mission will come to an end in September when the spacecraft makes its planned death plunge into Saturn's thick atmosphere. Mission controllers working with Cassini decided to force it to fall into Saturn's atmosphere in order to protect the planet's moons like Titan and Enceladus, which also seems to have a subsurface ocean, from contamination. WATCH: Watch clouds move above Saturn's largest moon in new NASA video
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| Ask Yourself These 6 Questions Before You Quit Posted: 10 May 2017 08:10 AM PDT ![Ask Yourself These 6 Questions Before You Quit]( "Ask Yourself These 6 Questions Before You Quit") If you're considering quitting your job, it's important to keep in mind that it's best not to do so without a new job offer in hand. No matter how dissatisfied or ill-fitting your current job is, you may need the money or stability. And that's not all. Studies show the longer you are unemployed, the more difficult it is to get hired. Fair or unfair, that's the reality. Before leaving your current job, ask yourself the following questions.
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| Rough Landing: Brawl Erupts on Southwest Plane as Flight Attendant Tries to Break Up Melee Posted: 10 May 2017 02:15 PM PDT  A passenger was seen throwing a series of punches until another passenger intervened.
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| Raucous, angry crowd grills Virginia Rep. Brat at town hall Posted: 09 May 2017 08:00 PM PDT  MIDLOTHIAN, Va. (AP) — Critics of Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Brat and the House health care bill he voted for packed a raucous town hall meeting in his Virginia district Tuesday night, booing and shouting down the congressman from start to finish.
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| Commentator who amplified Macron hacks given White House press access Posted: 11 May 2017 07:58 AM PDT  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. far-right online activist credited with initially sharing on Twitter hacked emails from the French presidential campaign of centrist Emmanuel Macron is the latest conservative media figure to receive White House access from the Trump administration. Jack Posobiec, a Washington-based writer at the Rebel Media, a Canadian online political and social news commentary platform, attended the daily press briefing on Tuesday and later broadcast video from the White House grounds with positive commentary on President Donald Trump's abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey. Posobiec told Reuters he first obtained temporary White House credentials in early April, but he has submitted a request for a permanent pass.
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| Yemen strongman Saleh open to negotiations with Saudi Posted: 10 May 2017 03:40 AM PDT  Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is open to negotiations with rival Saudi Arabia, two years into a deadly war between Saleh's Huthi rebel allies and the Saudi-backed government. "We have no choice but dialogue," Saleh said at a meeting of his General People's Congress party in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday. "We are ready to go to Riyadh, Khamis Mushit, Muscat or elsewhere to start dialogue and to reach an understanding," Saleh said, referring to cities in Saudi Arabia and neighbouring Oman.
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| Harvard University will hold first ever black only graduation ceremony Posted: 11 May 2017 08:21 AM PDT  Harvard University will host a graduation ceremony exclusively for black students, organisers have announced. More than 170 students and 530 guests have signed up to attend the event, which will be held 23 May. All-black ceremonies have been held at other US universities, such as Stanford and Columbia, but this will be a historic first for Harvard.
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| Now I Get It: Why South Korea held its presidential election early Posted: 09 May 2017 12:04 PM PDT  South Koreans have elected a new president, Moon Jae-in, who is a liberal. The election wasn't supposed to happen until December, but former President Park Geun-hye was ousted from office and now sits behind bars awaiting trial. Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga looks at how South Korea's first female president ended up here.
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| James Corden mocks Trump's James Comey decision in comical rant Posted: 10 May 2017 07:30 AM PDT  Last night on the Late Late Show, James Corden weighed in on Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. SEE ALSO: James Corden and Stephen Curry singing along to 'Frozen' is a joy to behold The exact reason for Comey's demise might be unclear to the rest of the world, but Corden seems to have the whole thing figured out. In the video above, Corden lists the different speculations about Comey's dismissal. The White House says he was fired for how he handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Others say it was because of how he dealt with the Russia investigation. Corden, however, has a much simpler explanation. "Comey is being fired because Donald Trump is crazy. He a crazy man. He be crazy." Corden then drags Sean Spicer for general incompetence and delivers a round-up of the latest in Republican politics.
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| London's dark river and its secrets Posted: 10 May 2017 10:24 AM PDT ![London's dark river and its secrets]( "London's dark river and its secrets") Over three months, photographer Stefan Wermuth walked along the banks of the Thames, photographing the river and the abandoned objects exposed by the receding tide.
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| Hungary, Slovakia challenge quotas on asylum-seekers at top EU court Posted: 10 May 2017 08:00 AM PDT  By Gabriela Baczynska LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Hungary and Slovakia told the European Union's top court on Wednesday that sharing out asylum-seekers among member states under a quota system was unlawful, clashing with Germany, France and others in a dispute that threatens to tear the bloc apart. Some 1.6 million migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean and entered the EU since in 2014, mostly fleeing conflicts or poverty in the Middle East and Africa. The EU proposed in 2015 redistributing just 120,000 of them to help relieve pressure on frontline states Italy and Greece but ran into fierce resistance from ex-communist countries.
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| After the White House, Obama 'captive to selfies' Posted: 09 May 2017 09:42 AM PDT  Former US president Barack Obama shared Tuesday his relief at no longer being leader of the Free World -- but joked he is now "captive to selfies" whenever he is out. "The hardest thing about being the president of the US is it is unique in its isolation," he told an audience of 3,000 who had paid 650-850 euros ($700-925) to see him Milan, Italy. Wearing a navy blue suit and shirt without a tie, Obama took questions in a relaxed session led by Sam Kass, his former White House chef and senior advisor on nutrition policy.
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