| Trump wishes McCain speedy recovery: ‘We need his vote’ Posted: 17 Jul 2017 02:17 PM PDT  President Trump on Monday wished Sen. John McCain a healthy recovery from surgery — but then immediately pivoted to stressing his old foe's value in pushing the Republican health care bill through the Senate.
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| GOP Sen. Heller receives threatening note over health care Posted: 17 Jul 2017 12:25 PM PDT  Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., received a note at his Las Vegas office over the weekend that reportedly threatened the senator if he voted to take away the note writer's health care. The note writer said he would die from losing insurance if Heller backed the Republican plan — and that he would take Heller down with him if that happened, according to veteran reporter Jon Ralston at the Nevada Independent.
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| Justine Damond shooting: Police radio recording reveals Australian woman's final moments Posted: 18 Jul 2017 01:03 AM PDT  Audio has emerged of the moments surrounding the fatal shooting of an Australian spiritual healer and meditation coach by police in an alley behind her home in Minneapolis. Justine Damond, also known as Justine Ruszczyk before she took on the last name of her husband, who she had plans to marry next month, was shot and killed by a police officer after she called 911 to report an assault near her home. The audio, posted on the Minnesota Police Clips website, begins with the description of a "female screaming behind the building," a potential reference to what Ms Damond told the dispatcher in her initial call to police.
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| Tourists train at Israeli 'counter-terrorism boot camp' Posted: 18 Jul 2017 09:12 AM PDT ![Tourists train at Israeli 'counter-terrorism boot camp']( "Tourists train at Israeli 'counter-terrorism boot camp'") Taking in the scene of a simulated fruit market in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, a group of tourists ponders whether a poster-size figure of an Arab man holding a cellphone is a threat and should be shot. It is part of a counter-terrorism "boot camp" organized by Caliber 3, a company set up by a colonel in the Israeli army reserves. Admission includes watching former Israeli commandos take down an "attacker" and other means to thwart assaults, including the use of an attack dog.
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| 2 killed, 9 hurt in cleaver attack at Chinese Walmart store Posted: 16 Jul 2017 09:25 PM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Two people were hacked to death and another nine injured by a man wielding a meat cleaver inside a Walmart store in China's southern manufacturing hub of Shenzhen, police in the city's Bao'an district said Monday.
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| Family Wants Answers After Woman’s Mysterious Death At Mexico Resort Posted: 17 Jul 2017 08:51 AM PDT  "Someone needs to be held responsible for this."
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| Teenage Isil bride from Germany captured in Mosul Posted: 18 Jul 2017 04:08 AM PDT  A 16-year-old German Islamic State bride, who reportedly joined the jihadist group after being radicalised online, has been captured by Iraqi forces in the ruins of Mosul. Linda Wenzel, from the small town of Pulsnitz, near Dresden, was discovered by troops with a group of 20 other suspected foreign female Isil members in a tunnel under the Old City on Thursday. Pictures shared on social media show the girl being escorted by security forces, appearing pale and unveiled but wearing a colourful scarf around her neck. Social media images alleging to show an Isil sniper believed to be 16-year-old German Linda W Credit: Twitter She appears pale, afraid and covered in dust, unveiled but wearing a colourful scarf around her neck. She was initially mistaken for a kidnapped Yazidi girl because of her lack of Arabic. Linda was reported missing from her home a year ago, where she had been living with her mother, Katharina, and step-father, Thomas. She grew up in a Protestant family, and had not showed any interest in religion until a few months before her disappearance. In the spring of 2016 she told her parents for the first time that she was interested in Islam. Friends in Pulsnitz say she converted to Islam around this time and was radicalised online in chat rooms. She started learning Arabic, taking the Koran to school, wearing conservative clothing and becoming fascinated with Islam before her disappearance. Police believe she had fallen in love with a Muslim man she met online who persuaded her to move to Syria to join him. Image posted by Vian Dakhil, Yazidi member of Iraq's council of representatives Credit: Twitter She disappeared last July after telling her parents she wanted to stay the weekend at a friend's house. She travelled to Istanbul posing as her mother Katharina, and then down to Turkey's border with Syria, where she crossed with the help of an Islamist group aligned with Isil. The jihadists then handed her over to an Isil fighter who is believed to have groomed her over the internet and convinced her to travel to the group's so-called caliphate. Linda is thought to have made it to Mosul before the Iraqi army launched the offensive to retake the city in October. Iraqi forces image allegedly showing an Isil sniper believed to be 16-year-old German Linda Wentzel Credit: Iraqi army Until six months before she fled to join Isil, she had never even travelled by train alone. "I am devastated by the fact that she was apparently completely brainwashed and persuaded to leave the country by someone and that she managed to hide it from me," Mrs Wenzel said last July. When she searched her room, Mrs Wenzel found an Islamic prayer mat and a tablet computer with a second Facebook account they did not know about on it. On this second account Linda was in touch with people in the Middle East and shared messages such as "Pray, the end is approaching". Linda Wentzel, aged 16, orignally from Pulsnitz near Dresden in Germany Credit: ENTERPRISE NEWS AND PICTURES "At the moment the priority is to determine whether this is Linda W or not. The police will undertake all necessary investigations," Lorenz Haase, chief prosecutor and spokesman for the Dresden prosecutor's office, told the Telegraph. "If it is confirmed, we would reopen criminal proceedings against her which were set aside. We had set aside the proceedings on the grounds we did not know her whereabouts and she is a minor. She is understood to have been handed over to American troops stationed in Iraq for questioning. Four other German women were also reportedly discovered last week in a tunnel system built by Isil. A little girl named Amina was found by Iraqi Army soldiers when they heard her cries from the rubble. Credit: Rex Iraqi forces say they discovered weapons and suicide belts at the site, presumably to be used for assaults on soldiers. They were part of a group of 20 female fighters, including Russian, Turkish, Canadian and Chechen, apprehended in the last remaining pocket of Isil territory in Mosul. It is not clear whether Linda and the other women will be held in Iraq or deported back to Germany to face trial. A senior Iraqi judge told the Telegraph earlier this year that foreign members of Isil would be tried in Iraqi courts, however as she is considered a minor they may decide to extradite her. Only a handful of European Isil members under 18 year of age have ever been detained, most of whom after voluntarily returning home.
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| No, a fart didn't cause an American Airlines flight to evacuate all its passengers Posted: 17 Jul 2017 07:24 AM PDT  In today's "Not The Onion" news, an American Airlines flight supposedly had to evacuate all its passengers after a person "passed gas," causing violent episodes of nausea and headaches. Except that this isn't true. SEE ALSO: Sorry everyone, but that shocking Amelia Earhart photo has been debunked — twice The story, which originally appeared on local WNCN-TV, quotes an unidentified spokesperson with Raleigh-Durham International Airport as saying that all passengers were taken off the plane after it landed at around 4 p.m. The incident allegedly started when passengers on the flight "became ill with nausea and headaches" spurred by a foul-smelling odor in the cabin. However, American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein categorically denied this report. Feinstein told Mashable that "the flight was not evacuated, and the story is not true". He said the plane had a odor issue, but that was due to a mechanical fault, not "passed gas." "We did have an aircraft from Charlotte to RDU this afternoon, that landed at 2:19 p.m. ET, and arrived the gate at 2:21 p.m. ET, that is currently out of service for an actual mechanical issue – and odor in the cabin. But it is not due to 'passed gas' as mentioned," Feinstein said. A spokesman at the airport, Andrew Sawyer, also confirmed that the plane was not evacuated, and said the whole incident was about a passenger who had to receive medical help after a foul smell: "A medical call for someone overcome by an odor was received after the plane deplaned normally," he said. The story was picked up by many news outlets, including NBC, The Daily Telegraph, and Fox News: Passengers on an American Air flight to Raleigh were forced to evacuate after someone 'passed gas,' officials said https://t.co/JUysbmlVyu pic.twitter.com/A5fqxfJ1np — NBC Charlotte (@wcnc) July 17, 2017 American Airlines flight evacuated in Raleigh, NC due to epic fart. https://t.co/pk3ekxPzsm@BigfootStacy @BAMedia45 @Grimerica @RT_com — FRINGE Media (@FreidrichDean) July 17, 2017 Image: google/screenshot WATCH: How 'The Walking Dead' Season 2 diverged from the comics
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| Small U.S. towns brace for rare solar eclipse, and crowds, in August Posted: 18 Jul 2017 07:06 AM PDT  By Ann Saphir DRIGGS, Idaho (Reuters) - Hyrum Johnson, mayor of the tiny city of Driggs, Idaho, expects some craziness in his one-stoplight town next month when the moon passes in front of the sun for the first total solar eclipse in the lower 48 U.S. states since 1979. The town of 1,600 people in Teton County, just west of the jagged peaks of the Rocky Mountains Teton Range, is getting poised to receive as many as 100,000 visitors on Aug. 21 for the celestial event, said Johnson, who was both excited and worried. Driggs is one of hundreds of towns and cities along a 70-mile arc, stretching from Oregon to South Carolina, that are in the direct path of the moon's shadow.
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| Outgoing federal ethics chief: ‘We are pretty close to a laughingstock at this point’ Posted: 17 Jul 2017 06:35 AM PDT  Walter M. Shaub Jr., director of the Office of Government Ethics, said President Trump's apparent disdain for ethical norms has undermined the credibility of the U.S. around the world.
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| Cameroon army vessel capsizes at sea, dozens missing: security sources Posted: 16 Jul 2017 03:36 PM PDT  Yaoundé (AFP) - A Cameroon army vessel transporting "dozens" of troops from the elite Rapid Intervention Brigade capsized on Sunday off the country's southwestern coast, a security source told AFP. The Rapid Intervention Brigade is in the front line of Cameroon's fight against Boko Haram jihadists in the far north. "The army has begun searches," the source said, while another source close to the Cameroon army said at least one body had been recovered.
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| Australian woman 'shot and killed by police after she called 911 to report assault' Posted: 16 Jul 2017 11:06 PM PDT  An Australian woman was shot and killed by a police officer in the US after she called 911 to report an assault near her home, family members have said. Justine Ruszczyk, also known as Justine Damond, 40, had already taken the last name of Don Damond, the man she had plans to marry next month. "Basically, my mom's dead because a police officer shot her for reasons I don't know," Zach told Australia's Star Tribune.
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| Scientists Nervously Watch The Huge Iceberg That Broke From The Larsen C Ice Shelf Posted: 17 Jul 2017 01:08 PM PDT  Now that the iceberg has broken off of the Larsen C ice shelf, researchers are watching closely to see if it follows a typical path.
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| Vatican trial dawns for alleged misuse of hospital donations Posted: 17 Jul 2017 12:04 PM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Other than St. Peter's Basilica, there is hardly better real estate in Vatican City than the sprawling penthouse apartment in the Vatican gardens, where the rooftop terrace has in-your-face views of the dome itself and overlooks the hotel that Pope Francis calls home.
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| Watch As Cops Arrest Priest In Corvette Accused Of Armed Road Rage Encounter Posted: 17 Jul 2017 05:36 AM PDT  William Rian Adams allegedly pointed a gun at another driver.
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| A Woman Is Suing Disneyland After Getting Seriously Burned At A Restaurant Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:39 AM PDT  This dessert should probably be taken off the menu.
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| Venezuela opposition votes against Maduro, woman shot dead Posted: 16 Jul 2017 03:23 PM PDT  By Alexandra Ulmer and Andreina Aponte CARACAS (Reuters) - Gunmen in Venezuela shot into a crowd of voters on Sunday, activists said, killing one woman and wounding three others during an unofficial referendum organized by the opposition to push for an end to two decades of socialist rule. Graphic: Venezuela's dark days: http - //tmsnrt.rs/2pPJdRb The opposition Democratic Unity coalition said a pro-government "paramilitary" gang opened fire in Caracas' poor neighborhood of Catia, where thousands were participating in the opposition event. "The day was stained by the killing of a Venezuelan woman who protesting and exercising her rights," said opposition leader Freddy Guevara of the killing of Xiomara Escot.
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| On ‘Made in America Week,’ White House fields questions about what’s not: Trump products Posted: 17 Jul 2017 02:48 PM PDT  Shirts are among the products made abroad by the Trump Organization. WASHINGTON — Monday was the start of "Made in America Week" at the White House, a celebration of U.S. industry and products. Along with a showcase of goods made in each of the 50 states, the event came with questions about the wide selection of products President Trump's family businesses source from overseas factories.
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| Needles everywhere: Drug crisis creates pollution threat Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:27 AM PDT ![Needles everywhere: Drug crisis creates pollution threat]( "Needles everywhere: Drug crisis creates pollution threat") Syringes left by drug users amid the heroin crisis are turning up everywhere. In March alone, San Francisco collected more than 13,000 syringes, compared with only about 2,900 the same month in 2016. "I just want more awareness that this is happening," said Nancy Holmes, whose 11-year-old daughter stepped on a needle in Santa Cruz, California, while swimming.
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| 'I Demand Answers.' A Minneapolis Cop Shot and Killed a Bride-to-Be Posted: 17 Jul 2017 07:39 AM PDT  "My mom's dead because a police officer shot her for reasons I don't know"
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| Russia earthquake: Magnitude 7.8 quake off far east coastline triggers US tsunami warning Posted: 18 Jul 2017 12:02 AM PDT  A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a tsunami warning for parts of the Pacific. The quake struck some 125 miles (200 km) from the city of Nikolskoye on Bering Island off the Kamchatka Peninsula. The epicentre was west of Attu, the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands.
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| Video Of Saudi Woman In Miniskirt Triggers Probe Posted: 18 Jul 2017 01:10 AM PDT  The video triggered debate in Saudi Arabia with some praising the woman for her "bravery" while others called for her arrest.
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| The Latest: CBO delays analysis of latest health care bill Posted: 16 Jul 2017 11:18 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the health care bill in the Senate (all times local):
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| OPEC thinks the electric car revolution is upon us, too Posted: 17 Jul 2017 10:24 AM PDT  A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which suggested that the electric car revolution may happen far more quickly than anyone expects. In 2016, BNEF's team of analysts thought that by 2040, 35 percent of the world's new cars would run on electricity. Now, they think it'll be closer to 54 percent. Some of you probably found that figure far too optimistic, but you know who didn't? The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, better known as OPEC. According to BNEF, OPEC now believes that sales of electric vehicles will be five times stronger than previously estimated. Just last year, OPEC predicted that by 2040, 46 million electric cars would roam Planet Earth's roads. This year, that number has been revised upward to 266 million. And OPEC's not entirely alone. Private oil companies like BP and Exxon are keeping an eye on EVs, too. Though their outlooks are dimmer than OPEC's, both companies project that the world's fleet of EVs will surpass the 100 million mark sometime between 2035 and 2040. As with BNEF's own analysts, those revised numbers stem largely from the rapidly dropping price of lithium ion batteries. If those projections bear out, by 2040, demand for oil could plummet by eight million barrels a day. That's about what the U.S. currently produces in a day, or roughly the output of Iran and Iraq combined. The big question, of course, is whether the projections are accurate. And even if they are, what effect might they have? Though the numbers seem huge and the revised estimates appear significant, a drop in oil production of eight million barrels wouldn't devastate the petroleum industry. Companies and governments currently churn out about 96 million barrels of oil each day. Cutting eight million barrels from that total would be a noticeable drop, and it might be enough to cause stagnation in the oil industry, but it wouldn't be a death blow by any means. Furthermore, OPEC's projections related to electric vehicles are definitely at odds with BNEF's. OPEC believes that by 2040, electric cars will make up just 12 percent of the world's auto fleet. BNEF believes the figure will be nearly three times higher, at 33 percent.
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| US firms face hiring difficulties, business survey says Posted: 16 Jul 2017 10:35 PM PDT  The National Association of Business Economists said its quarterly survey showed members were a little less sanguine about the prospects for strong economic expansion over the next year, although most still expect sustained quarterly growth of better than two percent. With unemployment already very low, anecdotal reports indicate employers around the country are struggling to fill open positions and have been obliged to boost compensation to lure in new candidates. "Slightly over one third of panelists reports that their firms have experienced some difficulty in hiring," NABE survey chair Emily Kolinski said in a statement.
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| Kamala Harris: The Democratic message is ‘telling the American public we see them’ Posted: 18 Jul 2017 09:10 AM PDT  Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., said Democrats have a message "much bigger" than opposing President Trump and that the party is focused on telling Americans "we see them."
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| Woman Shot and Killed by Police After Calling 911 to Report Possible Assault Posted: 17 Jul 2017 08:42 AM PDT  Justine Ruszczyk Damond was a 40-year-old yoga and meditation teacher who moved to Minneapolis from Australia to be with her fiance.
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| Woman cancels £23,000 wedding and turns reception into party for homeless people Posted: 17 Jul 2017 04:58 AM PDT  A woman who did not want her cancelled £23,000 wedding to go to waste threw a party for homeless people instead. Three of Ms Cummins' seven bridesmaids, along with her mother and aunts, came to support her at the event.
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| Dogs Aren't Just Man's Best Friend: Video Shows Golden Retriever Rescuing Deer Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:38 PM PDT  A golden retriever dog was hailed a hero after a video of him emerged where he was seen rescuing a baby deer struggling in the waters of Long Island Sound in New York.
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| Iran says it has received 'contradictory signals' from Trump Posted: 17 Jul 2017 09:02 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Iran's foreign minister said the government has received "contradictory signals" from the Trump administration and doesn't know how to interpret them, but he held open the possibility of talks and improved relations with the United States.
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| Doctors Find 27 Contact Lenses 'Bound Together by Mucus' in a Patient's Eye Posted: 17 Jul 2017 05:12 AM PDT  "None of us have ever seen this before"
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| 2017 Mazda CX-5 AWD Posted: 17 Jul 2017 03:30 PM PDT  On a tightrope between passion and practicality.
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| Macron puts France top of 'soft power' rankings: survey Posted: 18 Jul 2017 03:35 AM PDT  France has leapfrogged the United States and Britain as the world's top so-called soft power, helped by the election of President Emmanuel Macron, a study of countries' non-military global influence showed Tuesday. While France has risen, Donald Trump's ascent to the White House has seen the US slip from the top last year to third place in the Soft Power 30 study, compiled by PR company Portland Communications and the University of Southern California.
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| Pakistan's Supreme Court starts hearings to decide PM's future Posted: 17 Jul 2017 04:45 AM PDT  By Drazen Jorgic ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday began hearings that will decide the fate of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is fighting for his job as he contests the damning conclusions of a corruption investigation into his family's wealth. The Supreme Court could put Sharif on trial on corruption charges or disqualify him from office, but few expect the judges to dismiss the case after an investigation team submitted a 254-page report into his family wealth last week. Speaking outside the Supreme Court, Information Minister Maryam Aurangzeb said Sharif's family lawyers had challenged the legality of the investigators' findings, including allegations falsified evidence was submitted.
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| Relatives demand answers in fatal Minnesota police shooting Posted: 17 Jul 2017 09:03 PM PDT  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Relatives and neighbors of an Australian woman fatally shot by Minneapolis police over the weekend demanded answers Monday about the mysterious shooting in which the meditation teacher was reportedly killed by an officer who fired from the passenger seat of a squad car as the woman stood outside the driver's door.
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| American CNN pundit refuses to say Trump is her president Posted: 17 Jul 2017 01:51 PM PDT  A CNN political commentator is refusing to call Donald Trump her president, and instead has been calling the President "your president" during panel discussions on the cable news network. Angela Rye, who served as the executive director and general counsel for the Congressional Black Caucus before joining CNN, initially attacked the President for encouraging the Russian government in 2016 to "find" Hillary Clinton's emails that were deleted from her private server she used while serving as secretary of State. "He went into a press conference during the summer [of 2016] asking Russia to find the other 30,000 emails," Ms Rye said.
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| Everything We Know About Murders Of Four Missing Pennsylvania Men Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:36 AM PDT  Two cousins were arrested for the grisly murders of four missing young men in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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| We Put Moe's New Queso Against Chipotle's New Queso And We Were Shocked By Who Won Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:39 AM PDT  There can only be one cheese queen.
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| Detroit at crossroads 50 years after riots devastated city Posted: 16 Jul 2017 12:48 PM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — Deborah Chenault Green is 62, a writer. But 50 years ago she was a pre-teen, sleeping on the porch to escape the oppressive heat, awakening to see a sky that glowed unnaturally.
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| New Accord Gets Detuned Civic Type R Engine Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:45 AM PDT  Yes, you can get it with a stick. But you can't get a coupe.
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| Debunking Common Breast Cancer Myths and Misconceptions Posted: 18 Jul 2017 03:00 AM PDT ![Debunking Common Breast Cancer Myths and Misconceptions]( "Debunking Common Breast Cancer Myths and Misconceptions") Many myths and misconceptions surround breast cancer, the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women. In 2017, almost 253,000 new cases will be diagnosed in women, according to the American Cancer Society. Myth: Breast cancer can be caused by antiperspirants, deodorants or underwire bras.
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| 'Inappropriate' and 'Insulting.' Most Americans Disapprove of Trump's Twitter Use Posted: 17 Jul 2017 05:02 AM PDT  Most Americans disapprove of President Trump's Twitter use, a new poll finds
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| House Republican 2018 budget ties tax reform to spending cuts Posted: 18 Jul 2017 08:59 AM PDT  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives released a fiscal 2018 budget plan on Tuesday that could pose a major new political test for President Donald Trump's legislative agenda by combining tax reform with controversial spending cuts. The $4 trillion blueprint would allow an overhaul of the U.S. tax code to pass Congress without support from Democrats, along with a partial repeal of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law and $203 billion in savings from mandatory federal programs including food stamps over the next decade. "In past years the budget has only been a vision but now with a Republican Congress and a Republican White House this budget is a plan for action," House Budget Committee Chair Diane Black said at a news conference.
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| As Islamic State militants routed in Iraq, their families fear reprisals Posted: 17 Jul 2017 03:01 AM PDT  By Isabel Coles BARTELLA, Iraq (Reuters) - Their husbands, sons and brothers are dead, but the women and children Islamic State militants left behind will live to pay the price for their actions. As Islamic State's days of ruling over vast swathes of Iraq come to an end, questions are emerging about what to do with their families. "All the men were killed," said 62 year-old Umm Hamoudi, who fled the Midan district last week with 21 members of her family -- all women and children.
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| China upset about 'negative' Taiwan content in U.S. defense bill Posted: 17 Jul 2017 12:56 PM PDT  China said on Monday it had lodged a stern complaint with the United States after the U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of a big annual defense bill that would expand exchanges with self-ruled Taiwan.
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