| CBO likely to say millions lose coverage under Senate health care bill Posted: 25 Jun 2017 02:51 PM PDT  Experts from across the spectrum expect the CBO to predict widespread coverage loss when it scores the Senate version of the health care bill.
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| Pakistan Tanker Explosion: at Least 153 Killed Posted: 25 Jun 2017 09:09 AM PDT  An oil tanker truck crashed on a busy highway in Pakistan Sunday, killing at least 153 people when it exploded as crowds rushed to the scene to collect leaking fuel.
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| ‘Nobody Can Be Totally Happy’: Trump Sounds Off On Senate Healthcare Posted: 25 Jun 2017 09:01 AM PDT  As Republicans and Democrats sounded the alarm on the bill across the Sunday morning shows, the president lamented the delayed process in a Fox News interview.
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| U.S. urges Arab states to reach resolution in dispute Posted: 25 Jun 2017 08:33 AM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday that Qatar and the four Arab states that imposed a boycott on their tiny but wealthy neighbor should sit down together in order to try to reach a resolution. "A productive next step would be for each of the countries to sit together and continue this conversation," Tillerson said in a statement. "We believe our allies and partners are stronger when they are working together towards one goal which we all agree is stopping terrorism and countering extremism." Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have sent a 13-point list of demands apparently aimed at dismantling Qatar's two-decade-old interventionist foreign policy which has incensed them.
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| UK: 6 hurt as car strikes people at Muslim celebration Posted: 25 Jun 2017 08:13 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Six people, including three children, were injured Sunday after a car ran into a large crowd gathered to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the northern English city of Newcastle. Police said there was no information suggesting the incident was terror-related.
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| 'We Love to Attack Our Leaders' Democrats Debate Pelosi's Leadership Posted: 24 Jun 2017 11:31 PM PDT  Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) join Meet the Press for an exclusive joint interview to talk about the future of the Democratic party.
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| California father buries wrong man after coroner's mistake Posted: 25 Jun 2017 12:11 AM PDT  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Eleven days after laying his son to rest, Frank J. Kerrigan got a call from a friend.
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| US Government Websites Hacked By ISIS Propaganda Posted: 26 Jun 2017 01:36 AM PDT  Ohio Gov. John Kasich's website was hacked to broadcast pro-ISIS propaganda, displaying a message in Arabic message and playing a call to Islamic prayer.
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| Villagers begin to mourn dead after deadly China landslide Posted: 26 Jun 2017 12:39 AM PDT  By Sue-Lin Wong XINMO, China (Reuters) - Villagers in China visited what used to be their relatives' homes on Monday to mourn loved ones lost when a landslide swept down a mountain, with little hope of finding anyone alive after more than 48 hours of fruitless searching. At least 93 people are missing after the landslide engulfed Xinmo village in mountainous Sichuan province as dawn broke on Saturday. Some villagers said they've always known landslides are a big danger but authorities never offered to help them move.
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| Not Just Coal: Retail Jobs Fall Despite Lower Unemployment Posted: 25 Jun 2017 12:38 AM PDT  A close look at labor statistics shows that retail jobs are falling, even as the national unemployment figure stays low.
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| Air Asia Pilots Asks Passengers ‘To Pray’ During Wild Flight Posted: 25 Jun 2017 09:04 AM PDT  The pilot twice asked passengers to pray on Air Asia flight D7237 from Australia to Malaysia as the plane shook like a "washing machine" for two hours, according to passengers.
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| Dozens missing after Colombian tourist boat sinks in reservoir Posted: 26 Jun 2017 04:26 AM PDT ![Dozens missing after Colombian tourist boat sinks in reservoir]( "Dozens missing after Colombian tourist boat sinks in reservoir") Nine people died and 28 are missing after a multidecked tourist boat carrying about 170 passengers sank in Colombia's Penol-Guatape reservoir on Sunday during the long holiday weekend, a government official said. Ninety-nine people were rescued, Margarita Moncada, the head of disaster relief for Antioquia province, told journalists.
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| Stalin tops Putin in Russian poll of greatest historical figures Posted: 26 Jun 2017 04:07 AM PDT  Russians have picked Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin as the greatest figure in history, a new poll said Monday, beating President Vladimir Putin into joint second alongside poet Alexander Pushkin. In the poll conducted in April by the Levada Centre independent pollster, Russians were asked to pick the ten greatest individuals of all time. Stalin came out on top with 38 percent, while Putin shared second place on 34 percent with Russia's beloved national bard Pushkin.
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| New Zealand law student launches climate change court case Posted: 26 Jun 2017 12:03 AM PDT  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand law student is taking the government to court in hopes of forcing it to set more ambitious climate change targets.
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| NY town plagued by violence graduates high school seniors Posted: 25 Jun 2017 05:00 PM PDT  BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — Approximately 1,200 high school students in Brentwood, Long Island graduated on Sunday capping a tumultuous year of gang violence that started with the killing of two fellow students.
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| Martin Shkreli Goes To Trial Posted: 24 Jun 2017 01:58 PM PDT  'The Most Hated Person' set to stand trial for security fraud.
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| Short of IT workers at home, Israeli startups recruit elsewhere Posted: 25 Jun 2017 10:46 PM PDT  By Tova Cohen TEL AVIV (Reuters) - When Alexey Chalimov founded software design firm Eastern Peak in Israel four years ago he knew he would not find the developers he needed at home. "I worked for years in the Israeli market and I knew what the costs were in Israel and I knew there was a shortage of workers," he told Reuters. Driven by startups, Israel's technology industry is the fastest growing part of the economy.
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| Eid truce in war-torn Philippines city of Marawi ends Posted: 25 Jun 2017 04:39 AM PDT  An eight-hour ceasefire in a Philippine city allowing residents to celebrate the end of Ramadan came to an abrupt end Sunday afternoon as the government continued its offensive against Islamist militants occupying parts of war-torn Marawi. Assaults backed by air and artillery bombardment had stopped at the start of Islamic prayers at 6am but gunfire broke out as soon as the truce ended around 2pm, AFP reporters in Marawi said. Regional military commander Lieutenant General Carlito Galvez said the truce also allowed five Muslim religious leaders to enter ground zero and negotiate with the militants to release civilian hostages, especially children, women and the elderly.
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| We Test Ride the Vanderhall Venice Three-Wheeler Posted: 26 Jun 2017 05:00 AM PDT  Vanderhall Motor Works Venice Roadster – Ride Drive (?) Review Sometimes, three wheels is better than four Photography by Vanderhall Not too long ago RideApart first told you about Vanderhall Motor Works , a Utah-based company making three-wheeled vehicles.
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| Texas Latinos greet court date for 'show me your papers' SB4 immigration law Posted: 26 Jun 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Students in April protested at the Texas Capitol against SB4, a state immigration law against which civil rights groups will argue this week during a federal court hearing. Anger at Texas' strict new immigration law simmered as a thousand Latino policymakers and advocates gathered in Dallas this weekend, ahead of a hearing in which civil rights groups will ask for the measure to be blocked.
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| Search continues for missing after Colombia tourist boat accident Posted: 26 Jun 2017 06:14 AM PDT  Rescue workers searched on Monday for as many as 16 people believed to be missing after a tourist boat sank the previous day in a reservoir in north-central Colombia, killing six people. The boat, El Almirante, was carrying 170 passengers and three crew members, said Margarita Moncada, the head of disaster relief for Antioquia province. Authorities had so far tallied 134 people rescued, six dead and 15 or 16 missing, Moncada told reporters, adding that they hoped the number of people rescued would continue to rise.
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| The Latest: Official: IDs of missing people to be released Posted: 24 Jun 2017 04:20 PM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on a landslide in southwestern China (all times local):
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| Colbert Considers 2020 Presidential Run Posted: 24 Jun 2017 01:36 PM PDT  If Donald Trump can be elected to office, so can Stephen Colbert.
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| Liu Xiaobo: Freed Chinese intellectual spoke out for change Posted: 26 Jun 2017 08:35 AM PDT  Liu Xiaobo, who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize from behind bars, was for decades a vocal champion of democracy and human rights until Chinese authorities locked him up for speaking out. To Beijing's fury, he was awarded the Nobel prize a year later -- and was represented by an empty chair at the ceremony in Oslo. Liu was arrested in late 2008 after co-authoring Charter 08, a widely circulated petition that called for political reform in the Communist-ruled nation.
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| Mosul celebrates first Eid without Islamic State in years Posted: 25 Jun 2017 12:10 PM PDT  By Alaa Marjani MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - People in the Iraqi city of Mosul celebrated their first Muslim Eid holiday without Islamic State in years on Sunday after the militants were ejected from much of the city, and hoped the battle to recapture the remaining area would soon be over. Some played on old swings and others with toy guns and rifles, which were among the toys allowed by Islamic State militants after they took over the city in June 2014. Eid prayers were allowed under Islamic State but festivities were not.
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| Donald Trump Does Away With White House Iftar Tradition Posted: 26 Jun 2017 01:14 AM PDT  The president could have used the annual dinner tradition to bridge the distrust between his administration and the Muslim community, a Muslim cleric told Newsweek.
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| Stray cats, killers and no regrets: Duterte's drug-war foe on life in jail Posted: 25 Jun 2017 09:06 AM PDT  By Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police have arrested more than 80,000 people during President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs, but few as prominent or defiant as Leila de Lima. A Philippine senator and Duterte's long-time foe, de Lima was arrested in February on drugs charges she says were trumped up as part of a presidential vendetta. Held at police detention facility in Manila that she shares with murder suspects and mangy cats, the 57-year-old lawyer remains implacably critical of the anti-narcotics campaign and Duterte, who will complete his first year in office this week.
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| Q&A: Afraid of sharks? Flu, asteroids pose far greater risk Posted: 25 Jun 2017 06:49 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — You might want a bigger boat, but you probably don't need better odds.
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| Fugitive lawyer says he's fled the US using fake passport Posted: 25 Jun 2017 07:05 PM PDT  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A fugitive Kentucky lawyer at the center of a nearly $600 million Social Security fraud case has fled the country using a fake passport and has gotten help from someone overseas with a job to help support himself.
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| How the CIA hacks computers that aren’t even connected to the internet Posted: 25 Jun 2017 12:01 PM PDT 
Air-gapped computers are supposed to be ultra-secure PCs that can't be infected with malware that spreads with the help of the internet. That's because of these computers, often connected to sensitive machines, aren't also connected to the internet. You'd think these systems would be impenetrable by remote attacks and would require a hacker to be in the same room with the PC. But, unsurprisingly, the CIA developed tools that can infect air-gapped computers.
Wikileaks on Thursday published more than 150 pages of materials that explain how the CIA used USB drives to sneak malware to the air-gapped machines. After all, even these computers need to exchange data, and the only way to do it is using USB drives or external hard drives. A platform called Brutal Kangaroo contains tools that can be used to target computer systems not connected to the internet, Ars Technica explains. Drifting Deadline is a tool installed on a computer of interest. When a USB drive is connected to it, the tool will infect it with malware that would then be passed to the air-gapped computer. These advanced malware versions would be able to infect air-gapped computer immediately after the USB drive is plugged in. Some of them required no user interaction and could be activated by default behaviors in Windows, such as Windows Explorer displaying icons, or the letter corresponding to the thumb drive that was just inserted. Microsoft said it patched some of these vulnerabilities, and they don't work on any of the supported versions of Windows. The documentation says that the first infection — the deployment of Drifting Deadline — might need manual access to a computer, but Ars argues that intrepid hackers could find ways to deliver the malware to the computer that would be used to transmit it to a USB stick.
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| Hong Kong activists stage China protest ahead of Xi visit Posted: 25 Jun 2017 04:49 PM PDT  Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters on Monday draped a black flag over a statue symbolising the city's return to China by Britain, days before a visit by President Xi Jinping to mark 20 years since the handover. High-profile student campaigner Joshua Wong and a dozen demonstrators attached the black cloth to the giant golden bauhinia flower on Hong Kong's harbourfront in an early morning protest as security tried to stop them climbing on the famous tourist attraction. The sculpture of the bauhinia, which became the emblem of Hong Kong after the handover, was a present to the city from China in 1997 and stands outside the convention centre where Xi will attend anniversary events during a three-day visit starting Thursday.
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| U.S.-backed Syrian groups take Raqqa district from Islamic State Posted: 25 Jun 2017 01:33 PM PDT  A U.S.-backed Syrian coalition of Kurdish and Arab groups advanced against Islamic State in the jihadists' Syrian capital of Raqqa on Sunday, taking the al-Qadisia district, they said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) began its assault on Raqqa earlier this month after a long campaign to isolate Islamic State inside the city. It took Qadisia, located in the west of Raqqa, after three days of intense fighting, it said in a statement on one of its official social media feeds.
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| Europeans learn to live with _ and adapt to _ terror attacks Posted: 25 Jun 2017 02:20 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — The jihadis' targets in Europe are depressingly repetitive: the Brussels metro, the Champs-Elysees in Paris (twice), tourist-filled bridges in London (twice) and a U.K. rock concert. And that's just the past few months.
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| Will Justice Anthony Kennedy Retire This Summer? Posted: 24 Jun 2017 11:05 PM PDT  As rumors start circulating whether Justice Anthony Kennedy will retire this summer, we take a look at some of his landmark decisions.
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| New York City gay pride parade Posted: 25 Jun 2017 04:00 PM PDT ![New York City gay pride parade]( "New York City gay pride parade") Tens of thousands of marchers paraded through New York streets Sunday in a huge Gay Pride parade, with many proudly carrying rainbow flags or waving virulently anti-Trump signs.
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| Seattle police: No choice but lethal force in fatal shooting Posted: 24 Jun 2017 03:15 PM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — Two Seattle police officers who shot and killed a 30-year-old pregnant woman each say they fired their weapons after the woman suddenly pulled a knife and came after them.
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| Ford testing plug-in hybrid Escape Posted: 26 Jun 2017 02:25 AM PDT  The possibility of a plug-in hybrid version of the Ford Escape dates back as far as 2009 when Ford actually took a prototype to the Detroit Auto Show, and a small batch of them were handed over to a California utility to be tried out. It now seems as though a plug-in hybrid variant of the current model could finally be arriving in showrooms for sale to the public, and it could possibly be unveiled as soon as next year. Although Ford has confirmed it's currently testing a new Escape PHEV prototype, no details have yet been released regarding the expected range, how it's likely to perform, or how much it will eventually cost to buy.
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| Putin praises Russia's 'unique' spy network Posted: 24 Jun 2017 11:55 AM PDT  President Vladimir Putin on Saturday praised Russia's network of intelligence officers as "unique people" who are devoted to the country. "To give up their life, their nearest and dearest and leave the country for many years, and to dedicate one's life to the Fatherland, not everyone is capable of doing that," the former KGB officer said on state television. "These are people not like the rest," who have qualities, convictions and character out of the ordinary, Putin added on the Russia-1 channel.
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| Britain's Davis 'pretty sure' he'll get good deal to leave EU Posted: 25 Jun 2017 03:43 AM PDT  Britain's Brexit minister David Davis said on Sunday he was "pretty sure" he could negotiate a good deal to leave the European Union, something that would require a transitional arrangement for around one or two years. Davis, who launched the Brexit talks with EU negotiator Michel Barnier last week, also threw his support behind Prime Minister Theresa May, saying he took his share of the blame for advising her to hold an early election this month in which her Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority. Telling members of the Conservative Party to stop being "self-indulgent" at a time when local media are rife with reports about who will replace May, he said: "I happen to think we've got a very good prime minister." Asked whether he was sure there would be a Brexit deal, Davis told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "I am pretty sure, I am not 100 percent sure, it's a negotiation ... You can be sure there'll be a deal, (but) the deal I want is the free trade agreement, the customs agreement and so on.
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| Marines rekindling old Afghan relations in Helmand Province Posted: 26 Jun 2017 06:04 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — In Afghanistan's turbulent Helmand province, U.S. Marines are rekindling old relationships and identifying weaknesses in the Afghan forces that the Trump administration hopes to address with a new strategy and the targeted infusion of several thousand American forces.
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| Animal Hope And Wellness Saves 5,000 Dogs From Yulin Posted: 24 Jun 2017 06:58 PM PDT  "I never knew what a hero was. Never met one, until the day I first walked into a slaughterhouse," Ching wrote on Instagram.
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