| ‘What Happened’: Hillary’s new book isn’t out yet, but Twitter is already making fun of the title Posted: 27 Jul 2017 12:44 PM PDT  The book is weeks away, but the title and cover of the candidate's campaign memoir have already been found wanting by detractors.
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| Fatal Ride Malfunction Posted: 26 Jul 2017 11:46 AM PDT  At least one person was killed and five critically injured after a ride malfunctioned at the Ohio State Fair.
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| Bipartisan Group of Governors Blast Republican-Led 'Skinny Repeal' of Obamacare Posted: 26 Jul 2017 05:49 PM PDT  They urged the Senate leaders to bring their parties together to compromise
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| New Developments in Murder-at-sea Case Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  A man has been taken into federal custody for allegedly killing his wife after other passengers heard screams coming from their room.
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| Bomb-Sniffing Marine Dog Who Served in Afghanistan Gets a Hero's Farewell Posted: 28 Jul 2017 07:58 AM PDT  Marine Corporal Jeff DeYoung served with Cena in Afghanistan before adopting him as his service dog.
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| Grandmother lays in pool of blood playing dead after being attacked night before her husband's funeral Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:26 AM PDT  An Arizona community is reeling after a grandmother was beat up in her home by an unknown assailant, and forced to lay in her own blood for hours playing dead for fear that her attacker would return. Jesse Leetham said in a Facebook that his grandmother was attacked after 11 p.m. the night before her husband's funeral, shortly after he left her home. The 82-year-old grandmother was washing dishes when she was assaulted, according to a press release from the Gila County Sheriff's Office.
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| Scaramucci calls into CNN for wild interview about Priebus and leaks Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:11 AM PDT  The White House communications director called into CNN's "New Day" early Thursday to explain his Twitter message that reportedly suggested he wants the FBI to investigate White House chief of staff Reince Priebus for the "leak" of Scaramucci's financial disclosure form.
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| Popular Ride Shut Down After Deadly Fair Accident Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  The Ohio State Fair reopened the day after the tragic accident took the life of an 18-year-old man who had just enlisted in the Marines; state fairs across the country shut down the same ride and others like it.
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| Two People Injured In Korean War-Era Plane Crash Near Texas Airport Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:56 AM PDT  Federal authorities say the fuselage of the vintage plane came apart as it crash-landed, but fortunately the pilot and passenger survived.
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| Pakistani council orders "revenge rape" of 16-year-old girl Posted: 27 Jul 2017 02:40 AM PDT  By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police have arrested 25 members of an informal village council accused of ordering the rape of a 16-year-old girl as revenge for her brother's alleged sexual assault of another girl. The Supreme Court also requested a report on the case, which echoed a notorious case from 2002 in which another teenager was gang-raped on a local council's order. "A total of 29 people were involved in this ghastly crime, and we have 25 of them in our custody," Multan City Police Officer Ahsan Younus told Reuters by telephone on Thursday.
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| Medical examiner: Judge in river died by suicide in drowning Posted: 26 Jul 2017 03:55 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent judge found in the Hudson River died by suicide in a drowning, according to findings issued by the city's medical examiner on Wednesday.
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| Baidu rebounds in Q2 with 83% jump in net income Posted: 28 Jul 2017 03:29 AM PDT  Chinese internet giant Baidu said Friday that its net income had soared 83 percent in the second quarter -- a strong recovery from tumbling profits in 2016 thanks to drastic spending cuts. The figure far exceeds analysts' estimates of 2.9 billion yuan, and is a sign of Baidu's recovery after authorities cracked down on its online advertising business, the company's primary revenue stream. Total revenues in the second quarter were 20.9 billion yuan ($3.08 billion), a 14.3 percent increase from the same period in 2016.
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| Indiana Police Officer Fatally Shot While Helping People In Car Crash Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:10 AM PDT  Lt. Aaron Allan, an Indianapolis police officer, was killed while responding to a car crash. He joined the Southport Police Department six years ago.
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| Canadian military after Trump announcement: We welcome transgender people Posted: 26 Jul 2017 02:04 PM PDT  After President Trump announced Wednesday that transgender people would be barred from serving in the military, the Canadian Armed Forces took a different tack. In an apparent jab at its southern neighbor, the Canadian military invited individuals "of all sexual orientations and gender identities" to join the ranks. Join us! #DiversityIsOurStrength #ForcesJobs," a tweet sent from the official Canadian Armed Forces handle read.
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| Congressional Budget Office showdown: GOP tries to shoot the messenger, misses Posted: 27 Jul 2017 04:37 PM PDT  Angry over CBO projections that made Obamacare repeal bills look bad, some GOP House members tried to scale back the influence of the nonpartisan budget analysts. They failed.
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| Dozens injured in Barcelona commuter train crash Posted: 28 Jul 2017 06:33 AM PDT ![Dozens injured in Barcelona commuter train crash]( "Dozens injured in Barcelona commuter train crash")
A commuter train slammed into the end of the platform during the morning rush hour at a busy station in Barcelona on Friday, leaving dozens of people injured, emergency services said. One person was seriously injured, 19 were injured "less seriously" including the driver, and 34 were lightly injured in the accident at Francia station in the center of the Spanish city, emergency services said on Twitter. A French citizen and a Romanian were among the injured, a spokesman for the civil protection agency said. The rest were Spanish nationals. The regional train, traveling from the town of Sant Vicenc de Calders located about 70 kilometers (40 miles) southwest of Barcelona, ran into the buffers at 7:15 am (0515 GMT), Spanish train operator Renfe said. (AFP) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Twitter and Tumblr.
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| Science journalist retires at 98 and warns of generation of Americans who suffer from a thinking 'disability’ Posted: 28 Jul 2017 03:46 AM PDT  A 98-year-old US science journalist, who has finally decided to retire, has said a generation of Americans are suffering from a "major disability in what they can think about and understand". David Perlman, who has not only won awards but had them named after him, said this was one reason why so many people refused to recognise climate change was real. Speaking to the website of the Poynter Institute, which trains the media, The San Francisco Chronicle journalist described cuts in science coverage by newspapers as "absolutely obscene".
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| China's exiled tycoon Guo 'fabricated' corruption claims: Xinhua Posted: 26 Jul 2017 10:58 PM PDT  China's Xinhua news agency accused fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui of using "fabricated and distorted information to mislead the public", the latest salvo in a campaign to discredit the billionaire who has made accusations of Communist Party corruption. Central to Guo's claims over recent months has been that a man named Yao Qing used his status as a nephew of a senior Communist Party official to amass a business empire worth tens of billions of dollars. In an online video stream last month, Guo produced a corporate tree diagram which he said showed companies linked to Yao, including GI Technologies (Beijing) Co. Xinhua interviewed Yao, who is listed in corporate records as general manager of GI Technologies.
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| Officer dies after shot multiple times in Indianapolis Posted: 27 Jul 2017 08:08 PM PDT ![Officer dies after shot multiple times in Indianapolis]( "Officer dies after shot multiple times in Indianapolis") INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A police officer died after being shot multiple times while responding to a traffic crash on the south side of Indianapolis, authorities said Thursday.
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| Venezuela's government, opposition on deadly collision course Posted: 27 Jul 2017 06:32 PM PDT  Venezuela's political crisis looks headed for a dangerous showdown Friday, after the opposition called three more days of nationwide protests against President Nicolas Maduro, defying a ban on demonstrations ahead of a controversial weekend vote. The war of words escalated on Thursday, the second day of a 48-hour general strike by Venezuelans angry over Maduro's plans for a Sunday poll to elect a new body to rewrite the constitution. "The regime declared we can't demonstrate... We will respond with the TAKING OF VENEZUELA" through a protest on Friday, the opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable, said on its Twitter account.
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| Dad Abandons Daughter, 10, in Desert Without Shoes or Water: Authorities Posted: 26 Jul 2017 06:19 PM PDT  An Arizona dad abandoned his 10-year-old daughter in the scorching desert with no shoes, authorities said.
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| Who Is Jeff Bezos' Wife, MacKenzie? Posted: 27 Jul 2017 10:46 AM PDT  Bezos' wife describes herself as the opposite of her extrovert husband.
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| 4 Dangerous Myths About the Transgender Military Ban Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:39 PM PDT  What the facts say (and the President doesn't)
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| 2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 Posted: 27 Jul 2017 03:00 PM PDT  The Voodoo makes our skulls glow with excitement.
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| Baby dies after days 'strapped in a car seat without food' Posted: 27 Jul 2017 09:05 AM PDT  Lovily K Johnson has been charged with felony murder and first-degree child abuse following the death of her son Noah Edward Johnson at their apartment in Wyoming, Michigan. Police said Johnson had arrived at the local hospital last week with Noah who was already "clearly deceased and had been for some time".
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| Frightening Video Of A Shark Jumping Aboard A Boat Posted: 27 Jul 2017 11:50 PM PDT  A fishing crew off the coast of Long Island got the shock of their life when a huge mako shark jumped onto their boat and got trapped.
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| Senators prepare bill to block firing of special counsel Posted: 27 Jul 2017 02:21 PM PDT  Warning of "holy hell" to pay if the president fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a top Senate Republican is working to prevent the potential end result, the dismissal of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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| Putin says Russia will respond to 'insolence' of US sanctions Posted: 27 Jul 2017 08:47 AM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow will ultimately have to respond to sanctions imposed by the United States that he condemned as insolent towards Russia. "We are behaving in a very restrained and patient way, but at some moment we will need to respond," Putin said at a news conference after talks with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto. "This practice is unacceptable -- it destroys internatioanl relations and international law," Putin said of sanctions.
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| Killer of San Antonio woman set for execution Thursday Posted: 26 Jul 2017 02:50 PM PDT  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man dressed in black and wearing a hood and gloves kicked in the door of a San Antonio apartment where his drug supplier lived, attacked two people inside with a knife and fled, only to return because he dropped his car keys in the struggle.
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| ‘New York City Up and Down’ — 4 decades through the lens of photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont Posted: 28 Jul 2017 08:41 AM PDT !['New York City Up and Down' — 4 decades through the lens of photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont]( "'New York City Up and Down' — 4 decades through the lens of photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont") Renowned documentary photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont, transplanted from Paris to New York City since 1965, has squarely focused his camera on his new hometown. Organized into three parts (the City Never Sleeps, the Movers and Shakers, and the Mean Streets), "New York City Up and Down" an elegant, incisive and unexpected review of 40 years of exploration by one of the most revered documentarians working today.
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| Nigerian Senate backs plans to reduce power of presidency Posted: 27 Jul 2017 12:12 AM PDT  By Paul Carsten ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's upper house of parliament backed a series of constitutional amendments on Wednesday that could weaken the presidency and boost the legislature, the latest twist in a two-year power struggle between the two institutions. The head of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, who is pushing the changes, said they would help boost Nigeria's development but a senior official in President Muhammadu Buhari's government said they amounted to "a very unhealthy" power grab. Saraki has been tipped as a possible eventual successor to the ailing Buhari, who has spent more time this year in Britain receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical problem than he has in Nigeria.
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| Doctors: Banning Transgender People From Military Service Is Not 'Medically Valid' Posted: 26 Jul 2017 01:15 PM PDT  The American Medical Association said that transgender people should be allowed to serve in the military
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| American Airlines launches baggage alert system for bags gone astray Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:53 AM PDT  American Airlines has launched a new baggage alert system that will inform customers about the status of their luggage and save them from waiting around at baggage carrousel.
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| Charter increases already-ridiculous fee because there’s nothing you can do to stop it Posted: 26 Jul 2017 01:36 PM PDT 
For the last two years, big cable TV companies have been charging a "Broadcast TV Fee" which, in every way, is already a bunch of bullshit. It's not a regulatory fee: it's just the cable companies charging extra for the cost of delivering channels to your TV, which is exactly what you're paying for with your monthly fees anyway. Anyway, in case that didn't already hurt enough, Spectrum (which is also Charter, Time Warner Cable and Bright House) has raised its bullshit fee that little bit more.
Users on the DSL Reports forum have posted copies of July bills that show the price increase. It's currently at $6.05, and that's creeping up to $7.50. That might not sound like a lot, but Charter serves around 25 million customers across the US. Even if only half of those (a low-ball estimate) subscribe to cable, a $1.50 increase is still around $17 million. That's not much compared to the billions in revenue Charter pulls down, but it's also pure unadulterated profit. It's also not the kind of thing that gets people to quit cable, sadly. Pay TV has proven itself to be a highly inelastic product, and with the average pay TV bill over $100 a month, a $1.50 increase just isn't going to force people off. But there is some good news. Arguably the only reason that cable companies can get away with barefaced crap like this is the lack of competition. In the majority of the regions that Charter offers service, Charter is the only company offering cable TV. But a wealth of new pay TV streaming services, which only need an internet connection, finally offers some competition to Charter's regional monopolies. Fed up with a broadcast TV fee? Try paying $35 to Fubo, a streaming service that offers sports and all major broadcast channels. The broadcast TV fee you'll save is nearly enough to add Netflix and be happier than you already were.
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| Animals evacuated to Turkey from 'neglected' Syria zoo Posted: 28 Jul 2017 04:44 AM PDT  An international animal welfare charity was on Friday completing the evacuation of a dozen animals stranded in a neglected zoo in the conflict-torn Aleppo province of northern Syria. The Four Paws group was seeking to move two lions and two domestic dogs from the "Magic World" zoo and amusement park in Syria over the border into Turkey and then to an animal protection centre in the north of the country, a spokesman for the charity told AFP. A Four Paws team is currently at the border close to the town of Kilis, with the remaining animals expected to arrive shortly before being transported to their new home on Saturday, said spokesman Martin Bauer.
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| McDonald's employee shares some disturbing images of a moldy ice cream machine Posted: 26 Jul 2017 04:51 PM PDT  A (now) former McDonald's employee shared some disturbing images of the inside of a moldy ice cream machine in one of the hamburger giant's restaurants. An 18-year-old named Nick was a McDonald's employee in LaPlace, Louisiana, until he shared some gross images of unsanitary practices inside the fast food restaurant. His employment came to an end after that. According to BuzzFeed, Nick was recently instructed by a manager to refill the ice cream machine when he spilled some of the dessert. While cleaning up his mess, Nick discovered a moldy tray inside the machine. This came out of McDonald's ice cream machine in case y'all were wondering... pic.twitter.com/DTXXpzE7Ce — nick (@phuckyounick) July 14, 2017 Nick says that he assumed the machine was cleaned regularly, but that none of the general crew employees were ever told to do so. On July 14 he tweeted the pictures, which have since received over 13,000 retweets at the time of writing. He told Mashable he didn't alert management about the moldy trays. He was fired last Wednesday for tweeting the photos. In addition to the mold pics, Nick also shared some other photos of uncooked food, which look exactly like ordinary frozen food. Since I'm exposing McDonald's I might as well show y'all what y'all really eating... fresh out the freezer. pic.twitter.com/KZ7Ao1kWsR — nick (@phuckyounick) July 18, 2017 Two days later, Nick posted a video of himself enjoying a free cone for National Ice Cream Day. I got my free cone #NationalIceCreamDay pic.twitter.com/oJwpkkZDYU — nick (@phuckyounick) July 16, 2017 Nick says the ice cream is "still trifling" but he doesn't care. He also shared some photos which show greasy and unkept conditions in the restaurant. Nice and dirty... pic.twitter.com/vjxuVLJpgF — nick (@phuckyounick) July 18, 2017 We should note here that this is just one McDonald's location. It's unclear which employees are responsible for cleaning the machine. plus aout the ice cream its only like that because y'all the employees aren't cleaning the machine daily like your suppose to be. — D'King (@notdannym) July 19, 2017 Actually they dnt teach the employees to do this regularly, the managers clean the machines, well supposed to once a week according to regs. — pennie (@wydpennie) July 19, 2017 So I see nothing's changed since I worked for MickeyD's 17 years ago. we had weird white alive things in the machine WITH the ice cream — LowDownLorettaBrown (@TranscendentMe) July 16, 2017 McDonald's has a company policy that prohibits employee's from sharing things that may "undermine the goodwill, reputation, development and/or operation" of the brand. Nick claims he knew about the policy, but decided to share the photos to let people know what was going on. McDonald's did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, a spokesperson told BuzzFeed that the moldy section of the ice cream machine does not make contact with the ice cream. Regardless, gross. "This is a part of our soft-serve equipment that does not come into contact with any food and is required to undergo regular and timely cleaning," the representative told BuzzFeed. If you want some quality ice cream, maybe consider spending more than $1 on your next treat. UPDATE: July 27, 2017, 9:32 a.m. PDT A spokesperson for McDonald's issued the following statement from the franchise owner John Valluzzo. WATCH: Protect your face from sun damage with this portable awning
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| Alabama prison toll rises; 4 inmates killed, 6 officers hurt Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:44 AM PDT  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Another inmate was stabbed in a prison yard at Alabama's Elmore Correctional Facility, the third prisoner slain this year at the overcrowded and understaffed lockup, officials said Wednesday.
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| Saudi coalition downs Yemen rebel missile near Mecca Posted: 28 Jul 2017 12:58 AM PDT ![Saudi coalition downs Yemen rebel missile near Mecca]( "Saudi coalition downs Yemen rebel missile near Mecca") A ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels toward the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia was shot down late on Thursday, said the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. Air defense forces downed the missile over the Wasaliyah area of Taif province, 69 km from Mecca, without causing any damage, the coalition said in a statement carried by Saudi state news agency SPA. The statement called the missile launch "a desperate attempt to spoil the haj pilgrimage," due to begin next month.
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| Pentagon 'worried Trump was going to declare war on North Korea' during today's tweets about military Posted: 26 Jul 2017 01:09 PM PDT  Some officials at the Pentagon where reportedly concerned Donald Trump was set to declare war on North Korea when he started tweeting about his plans for the military. There were nine long minutes between Mr Trump's first tweet - announcing he had been consulting with his generals - and the second, in which he said he had decided transgender people could not serve in the military. During that time, some people were apparently worried Mr Trump had Pyongyang in his sights, rather than the rights of LBQTQ servicemen and women.
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| Omaha Police Officers Face Assault Charges After Death of Man Hit With a Stun Gun Posted: 26 Jul 2017 03:28 PM PDT  The officers were fired earlier this month
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| Reports: Japan defense chief to quit over document cover-up Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:58 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — Japan's beleaguered defense minister, a protege of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will step down in connection with an alleged cover-up of military documents from U.N. peacekeeping operations, media reports said Thursday.
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