| Trump warns N. Korea it would 'regret' threatening U.S. Posted: 11 Aug 2017 01:38 PM PDT  President Trump on Friday warned that North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un would "regret it fast" if he made any threats against the United States.
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| European Leaders: 'Laughing Stock' Trump 'Obsessed with Obama' Posted: 11 Aug 2017 12:40 PM PDT  Buzzfeed's Alberto Nardelli reports European diplomats say Donald Trump's "only real position" is doing the opposite of Barack Obama and that he's a "laughing stock" who lacks historical perspective. Nardelli, Christina Greer and Jonathan Alter join Reid.
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| The Latest: Detective grilled in Penn St. hazing death case Posted: 10 Aug 2017 02:22 PM PDT  BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on the court hearing in the death of a Penn State fraternity pledge following an alcohol hazing ritual (all times local):
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| Lottery Jackpots Top $749 Million Posted: 11 Aug 2017 08:57 AM PDT  Tonight's Megamillions and tomorrow's Powerball have now topped $300 million each for a combined $749 million jackpot. The chances of winning both games is 1 in 75 quadrillion.
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| Nightmare Safari: Grandmother Attacked and Killed by Hippo During Family Vacation Posted: 11 Aug 2017 01:52 PM PDT  Carol Kirken, pictured with her son, died in his arms.
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| Captives escape Philippine militants after fake ransom Posted: 11 Aug 2017 10:52 PM PDT  Three men kidnapped by Islamist militants in the southern Philippines escaped while their captors prayed, dodging bullets as they ran, police said Saturday after a ruse using fake ransom money failed. The construction workers were taken to the police on Jolo island on Friday, four weeks after being abducted by the Abu Sayyaf group, which is holding more than a dozen other hostages including several foreigners in remote jungles. The gunmen had received an undetermined amount of cash for the hostages on Thursday, but refused to release them after realising the money was fake, regional police chief Reuben Sindac told AFP.
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| Trump Staff Shuffle Could Improve Senate Odds Posted: 11 Aug 2017 11:57 AM PDT  Rachel Maddow shares a new report that Donald Trump is considering offering Senator Joe Manchin the job of Secretary of Energy, which would allow the newly re-Republican governor of West Virginia to appoint his replacement, presumably a Republican who ...
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| Trump Tweets Military Solutions are Llocked and Loaded' Posted: 10 Aug 2017 09:00 PM PDT  U.S. officials state "no high alert for U.S. forces, but they are always in a state of preparedness."
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| Colorado man found dead in elevator called for help twice Posted: 11 Aug 2017 08:55 AM PDT ![Colorado man found dead in elevator called for help twice]( "Colorado man found dead in elevator called for help twice") DENVER (AP) — An elderly Colorado man found dead in a parking garage elevator had pushed the emergency button twice but got no response, police said.
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| Danish inventor charged with murder after submarine is wrecked Posted: 11 Aug 2017 10:42 AM PDT  A Danish inventor has been charged with the murder of a Swedish journalist who police said had been on his submarine before it was wrecked on Friday. Peter Madsen, 46, was rescued on Friday morning in a navy operation and taken ashore after the 17-metre homemade submarine sank, police said in a statement. The police later said Madsen had been charged with the murder of the female journalist.
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| 3 dead in California after SUV fleeing Border Patrol crashes Posted: 11 Aug 2017 05:29 PM PDT ![3 dead in California after SUV fleeing Border Patrol crashes]( "3 dead in California after SUV fleeing Border Patrol crashes") SAN DIEGO (AP) — An SUV fleeing from U.S. Border Patrol agents smashed through a guardrail and hurtled into a ravine off a San Diego freeway, killing three of the vehicle's occupants and seriously injuring a fourth, authorities said Friday.
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| 'Son of Sam' David Berkowitz Reveals Advice to Younger Self: 'Turn Around Before It's Too Late' Posted: 10 Aug 2017 01:05 PM PDT  It's been exactly 40 years since the notorious New York City serial killer was taken into custody.
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| Babysitters Arrested After Putting A Crying Baby In The Fridge Posted: 10 Aug 2017 03:28 PM PDT  "Be careful who you trust your children with. You can't trust anyone, not even your own family."
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| Kenya opposition demands Odinga be 'declared president' Posted: 10 Aug 2017 12:50 PM PDT  Kenya's opposition demanded Thursday that its candidate Raila Odinga be declared president, rejecting results that showed him trailing incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta in a fraught election that has sent jitters through the east African nation. Celebrations erupted in opposition strongholds that have also seen angry protests over Odinga's rigging claims, which sparked a gloomy sense of deja vu in a country that witnessed disputed polls in 2007 and 2013. Britain and the US joined foreign observer missions from the European Union, African Union, Commonwealth and the Carter Center in urging party leaders to be patient and refrain from inflaming tensions ahead of the release of final results, expected Friday.
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| Trump says he is 'doing military a great favour' with transgender troop ban Posted: 10 Aug 2017 02:49 PM PDT  Banning transgender people from serving in the American military would be "doing the military a great favour," Donald Trump has said - a statement undercut by resistance to the proposal from current and former servicemembers. Mr Trump was seeking to defend his controversial prohibition on transgender troops, which he announced on Twitter to the reported surprise of military officials. After claiming to enjoy "great support from that community," an apparent reference to transgender Americans, Mr Trump framed the proposal as a gift to the armed forces.
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| These Popular Restaurant Chains Are Closing 150 Locations Posted: 11 Aug 2017 10:02 AM PDT  If you're used to spotting multiple Applebee's restaurants all around town, you may be in for a surprise. After closing 46 restaurants in 2016, the popular casual dining chain recently announced that it's planning to shut down between 105 and 135 of its nearly 2,000 nationwide locations by the end of the year. While the company hasn't revealed exactly which stores would be shutting their doors, Applebee's president John Cywinski told investors in a sales call that they would be targeting locations that didn't hit sales targets as well as those in less-trafficked areas.
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| Marijuana's Popularity Among US Adults Continues to Grow. Here's Why Posted: 12 Aug 2017 06:05 AM PDT  Marijuana's popularity among American adults is on the rise — and use of the recreational drug is expected to continue to increase, according to several surveys. Forty-five percent of adults in the U.S. have used marijuana at least once in their lives, according to a Gallup poll released in mid-July — the all-time highest percentage in the 48-year history of Gallup asking Americans this question. Meanwhile, data from two large national surveys done by the federal government also finds increasing rates of marijuana use among adults.
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| The 16 Best Back to School Deals to Take Advantage of This Fall Posted: 10 Aug 2017 03:37 PM PDT |
| Magnitude 6.2 quake hits Philippine island of Luzon, jolts buildings Posted: 10 Aug 2017 11:20 PM PDT  An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 hit the Philippines' northern island of Luzon on Friday and was felt in the capital Manila, shaking buildings and forcing the evacuation of offices and schools. There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries in the quake, which the United States Geological Survey earlier measured at 6.6. No tsunami warning was issued by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, which put the magnitude of the quake at 6.3, and said it expected aftershocks.
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| Father: Woman killed by officer was 'ripped from our arms' Posted: 11 Aug 2017 08:48 PM PDT  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The father and the fiance of an Australian woman shot to death by a Minneapolis police officer responding to her 911 call grieved at a public memorial service Friday night, the same time the family had planned to be on a plane to her wedding.
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| Boy , 4, Shot in Head During Road Rage Incident Making Miraculous Recovery, Suspects Arrested Posted: 12 Aug 2017 07:33 AM PDT  He was shot in the head.
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| ISIS Used eBay And PayPal To Send Funds To US Operative Posted: 11 Aug 2017 11:35 AM PDT  The FBI said in a recently revealed affidavit ISIS used eBay and PayPal to send money to a U.S. operative.
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| White supremacists carry torches and chant Nazi slogans at rally in Virginia Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:56 AM PDT  Hundreds of white supremacists carrying burning torches and chanting Nazi-era slogans rallied in Virginia on Friday night before violently clashing with counter-protesters. The brawl at the University of Virginia came ahead of a much larger rally planned for Saturday, when thousands are expected for what monitors described as the "largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the US". The "alt-Right" demonstrators gathered late on Friday and chanted "blood and soil" and "one people, one nation, end immigration" as they carried burning torches through the university campus. #Charlottesville 9:56pm �� CHANTS: "One people, one nation, end immigration" & "blood and soil" pic.twitter.com/FbM1N8Ie1r— Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) August 12, 2017 "Blood and soil" was a phrase commonly used by the Nazis to hail their ideas about racial superiority and traditional rural life. The mostly male crowd marched through the empty campus in Charlottesville and rallied around a statue of Thomas Jefferson, who designed the university's grounds. There they clashed with a small group of counter-protesters, who had linked arms around the statue. Several people were injured as punches were exchanged and pepper-spray was fired. Mike Signer, the mayor of Charlottesville, called the white nationalist march "a cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism, and intolerance march down the lawns of the architect of our Bill of Rights". Larry Sabato, a professor at the university, said it was "the most nauseating thing I've ever seen" in his 47 years of being associated with the university. In my 47 years of association with @UVA, this was the most nauseating thing I've ever seen. We need an exorcism on the Lawn.— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) August 12, 2017 Richard Spencer, the provocateur credited with coining the term alt-Right, was also at the rally. The torch lit scenes on the university campus may be only a foreshadowing of the much larger demonstrations expected on Saturday at the Unite the Right rally - which is expected to bring together different factions of the alt-Right. Police expect that between 2,000 and 6,000 demonstrators will gather in Emancipation Park around a statue of Robert E Lee, a Confederate general during the American Civil War. White nationalist protesters have angrily opposed plans to take down statues of Lee and other Confederate figures who fought for the cause of slavery during the war. Don't make the white kids angry.#UniteTheRight#Charlottesvillepic.twitter.com/mBqUYAhVnK— Alt-Knight Right † (@populationwatch) August 12, 2017 The demonstrators accuse local governments of trying to erase history by removing the statues and often chant "you will not replace us" as they rally around the statues. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that tracks extremist organisations in the US, said that Saturday's rally may be the "largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the US". The city of Charlottesville had tried to get the protest moved to another park but the rally organisers sued and a judge ruled they must be allowed in Emancipation Park. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a civil liberties group, supported the nationalist demonstrators in their suit, saying that freedom of speech "applies equally to everyone regardless of their views". The ACLU has previously defended the right of the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups to hold rallies. The governor of Virginia has urged people to stay away from the rally and not to take part in counter-protests.
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| Republicans willing to suspend 2020 US election if Trump asks, poll shows Posted: 10 Aug 2017 12:07 PM PDT  More than half of Republican voters surveyed said they would be in favour of suspending the 2020 election if Donald Trump asked for more time to weed out illegal voters, a new poll shows. According to the poll, run by two academic researchers and published in the Washington Post, 52 per cent of those Republicans would agree with postponing the election if the President felt it was necessary. The poll was conducted between 5 June and 20 June, comprising interviews of 1,325 Americans, with 650 self-identifying as Republicans.
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| Why Is Israel Spending $800 Million on a New Wall? Posted: 11 Aug 2017 08:23 AM PDT  The Israeli army has revealed details of a wall in the planning since 2014.
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| New Orleans at risk of further floods after fire cuts power to pumps Posted: 10 Aug 2017 11:16 AM PDT  With heavy rains forecast for Thursday, New Orleans is in a "vulnerable position" following a fire at one of the power stations that runs the city's flood-control water pumps, its mayor has said. "We are at risk if we have a massive rain event," Mitch Landrieu said at an emergency 3am press conference on Thursday. New Orleans is still reeling from a day-long deluge on Saturday that caused flooding in several city neighborhoods, with waist-high accumulations on streets in Mid-City, Lakeview and elsewhere.
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| Fired Google Engineer James Damore Defends Anti-Diversity Memo Posted: 11 Aug 2017 02:19 PM PDT  The ex-Google employee was fired after writing a scathing internal memo
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| U.S. destroyer challenges China's claims in South China Sea Posted: 10 Aug 2017 02:29 PM PDT  A U.S. Navy destroyer carried out a "freedom of navigation operation" on Thursday, coming within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built up by China in the South China Sea, U.S. officials told Reuters.
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| More Syrians returning home, still outnumbered by fresh displacements: U.N. Posted: 11 Aug 2017 06:53 AM PDT ![More Syrians returning home, still outnumbered by fresh displacements: U.N.]( "More Syrians returning home, still outnumbered by fresh displacements: U.N.") More than 600,000 Syrians returned to their homes in the first seven months of this year, nearly as many as in all of 2016, but they are still outnumbered by those freshly displaced, the U.N. migration agency said on Friday. "The returns are not confirmed as voluntary, safe or sustainable," IOM spokeswoman Olivia Headon told a briefing. Most of the 602,759 Syrians who returned to their homes between January and July had been uprooted within their war-torn homeland, with the other 16 percent returning from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, Headon said.
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| Boy, 7, With Autism Captured on School Surveillance Video Being Dragged by 2 Teachers: Authorities Posted: 10 Aug 2017 06:37 PM PDT  Corbin Kemle, 7, who has autism, is seen on surveillance video being dragged down school hallways by two teachers, authorities said.
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| Climate Models Overlook Hot Spots Posted: 11 Aug 2017 09:41 AM PDT  The Southeastern part of the United States is seeing accelerated sea level rise thanks to "hot spots" according to research from the University of Florida.
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| Trump says mulling 'military option' on Venezuela Posted: 11 Aug 2017 04:25 PM PDT  Washington has slapped sanctions on President Nicolas Maduro and some of his allies, and branded him a "dictator" over his attempts to crush his country's opposition. "We have many options for Venezuela, including a possible military option if necessary," Trump told reporters in New Jersey.
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| Torch-wielding white nationalists give Nazi salutes during University of Virginia protest Posted: 12 Aug 2017 02:20 AM PDT  Far-right protesters shouting the Nazi-linked phrase "blood and soil" marched through the university's Charlottesville campus on Friday night, the day before a large nationalist gathering was planned in the centre of the city. Charlottesville's mayor, Mike Signer, said: "When I think of torches, I want to think of the Statue of Liberty. Saturday's "unite the right" gathering is intended as a protest against the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee.
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| Kenya's opposition party claim election results rigged and demand Raila Odinga be made president Posted: 10 Aug 2017 12:40 PM PDT  Kenya's disputed election was thrown into further turmoil on Thursday after the losing opposition said the result had been faked and demanded its leader be handed the presidency. Amid mounting anxiety in a country haunted by its history of post-election violence, Raila Odinga's opposition coalition accused the body responsible for conducting the poll of deliberately denying its leader the presidency. Widening an alleged conspiracy to hand re-election to President Uhuru Kenyatta, the opposition said that a "whistleblower" at the electoral commission had disclosed the existence of a hidden database showing that Mr Odinga had beaten his rival by 250,000 votes. Map: Kenya counties "We demand that the IEBC chairperson announce the presidential election results forthwith and declare Raila Amolo Odinga… as the duly elected president," Musalia Mudavadi, one of the opposition coalition's leaders, told a press conference. Provisional results released by the commission, known as the IEBC, on its website indicated that Mr Kenyatta had a lead of more than 1.4m votes — or nearly 10 per cent — after nearly all ballots had been tallied. President Uhuru Kenyatta celebrates during a campaign rally in Nairobi Credit: EPA The new allegations, which leave the country in an increasingly perilous and uncertain position, come a day after Mr Odinga rejected the result, claiming that IEBC computer servers had been hacked to alter the result. Although that allegation was roundly ridiculed, the IEBC's chairman, Wafula Chebukati, admitted that an attempt to hack the database had been made, but insisted that it had been detected and thwarted. Supporters of Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga wave as he departs in a helicopter after addressing a rally Credit: AFP Mr Odinga's refusal to concede sparked fury among his supporters, many of whom seem convinced that their candidate has again be rigged out of victory. His defeat in an election ten years ago triggered the worst violence in independent Kenya's 54-year history, killing more than 1,300 people and forcing 600,000 more to flee their homes. Small-scale protests erupted in the slums of Nairobi and elsewhere in the country and police shot dead at least two protesters they accused of looting. Most opposition supporters have so far heeded calls from their leaders to remain calm until an official declaration of the winner is made. But now that Mr Odinga has not just rejected the result but also claimed victory, the prospect of an angry backlash by his supporters seem much higher if President Kenyatta is formally given a second and final five-year term. An official declaration is expected on Friday. Kenya's electoral commission denied the allegations, with one official telling Reuters that the opposition did not have "any credible data" on the results. A supporter wears a cloth wrap showing Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, with writing in Swahili reading "President Uhuru, Five More" referring to the wish for another 5-year term Credit: AP Mr Odinga has long nursed a sense of grievance after being on the losing side of three questionable elections. In 2007, many analysts believe he was cheated out of victory by the president's predecessor, Mwai Kibaki. Five years ago, he was also denied the chance of a run-off after Mr Kenyatta secured a first round victory by a margin narrow enough to raise suspicions. But there is much greater scepticism about Mr Odinga's claims this time round amid suggestions they smack of desperation. Foreign observers appeared to dismiss the credibility of opposition allegations of a hacking attack, with John Kerry, the former US secretary of state, saying he had seen nothing to make him question the poll's integrity. Mr Kerry pointedly referred to his own defeat in the 2004 American presidential election, while Marietje Schaake, leading the European Union's observer mission was even blunter. Supporters of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Alliance Credit: AP "Candidates and their supporters must accept that not winning is a natural part of a democratic competition," she said. While the IEBC has been praised for its conduct of the election, questions are now being raised why the commission, in apparent contravention of a court order, published results that had no supporting documentation. Returning officers in a quarter of polling stations failed to send scanned copies of handwritten forms, signed by agents for both candidates, alongside results transmitted electronically to the central tallying centre. Although the IEBC is now uploading the missing forms to its website the opposition says the late forms themselves could since have been doctored.
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| The Cheesecake Factory Is Being Sued for Allegedly Misleading Customers Into Giving Bigger Tips Posted: 11 Aug 2017 02:33 PM PDT  Marcel Goldman claimed the company's misleading receipts tricked her into paying more than her portion of the bill.
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| 10 Sweet and Moist Cornbread Recipes You'll be Obsessed With Posted: 11 Aug 2017 03:43 PM PDT |
| Judge sentences hit man for Chicago gang to life in prison Posted: 11 Aug 2017 05:22 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — A hit man for a Chicago street gang was sentenced to life in prison on Friday, with the judge saying witnesses who testified against the Hobos enforcer during one of the city's biggest gang cases in years no longer have to worry he might one day come after them.
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| Americans Tell FCC Mobile Internet Can't Replace Broadband Posted: 11 Aug 2017 12:54 PM PDT  More than 300 comments opposing a suggestion by the FCC that mobile internet could be a suitable replacement for broadband have been left on the FCC website.
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| Trump attacks Mitch McConnell for second day over Senate health policy failure Posted: 10 Aug 2017 02:31 PM PDT  By James Oliphant BEDMINSTER, N.J. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump attacked his own party's Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, for a second day on Thursday, complaining from the steps of his private New Jersey golf club about Republicans' failure to repeal and replace Obamacare. In the aftermath of last month's collapse in the Senate of a years-long Republican campaign to gut the 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, Trump has berated McConnell and other Republican senators, urging them to return to the divisive issue of reforming the U.S. healthcare insurance system. Many senators, including McConnell, have been making the case that it is time to move on to other policies, such as tax reform and improving infrastructure.
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| Palestinian woman stabs, wounds Israeli in Jerusalem: police Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:19 AM PDT  A Palestinian woman stabbed and wounded an Israeli man near an east Jerusalem flashpoint on Saturday, before she was arrested, police said. The woman, a Jerusalem resident aged about 30, was arrested at the scene, police added. The Old City is located in east Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israel in 1967 and later annexed in a move never recognised by the international community.
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| Turkey detains Russian 'planning drone attack on US warplane' Posted: 10 Aug 2017 10:59 AM PDT  A Russian man suspected of fighting for Isil was detained in Turkey on Thursday for reportedly plotting to stage terrorist attacks on a US military plane, according to reports. Renat Bakiev was reported to be an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) militant who was preparing to attack the İncirlik air base in Adana. Mr Bakiev was detained near the airbase, where he reportedly arrived on a bike to scout out the area before the attack. According to the Hurriyet newspaper, Mr Bakiev confessed to planning to shoot down a US military plane with a drone. He was also suspected of carrying out preparations for a plot to attack a centre of the Alevi religious minority - an offshoot of the Shia sect of Islam - in Adana city, Dogan news agency reported. The Russian embassy in Turkey could not immediately confirm the arrest. "This morning Turkish media reported [the police] detaining Russian national Renat Bakiev on Turkish soil upon suspicion that he was involved in terrorist activities. "The Russian consulate is working on clarifying the situation and the circumstances of the case," the embassy spokeswoman Irina Kasimova told in a statement to Russian news agencies. Mr Bakiev was previously deported from Turkey after he tried to illegally cross the Syrian border, Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported. It was not immediately clear how he managed to return to Turkey. The United States uses Incirlik, in Adana province, as a key base for air strikes against Isil jihadists in neighbouring Syria.
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| Man Who Tried to Cram 6 Dates Into One Night Says He's Just 'Looking for Love' Posted: 10 Aug 2017 03:09 PM PDT  Justin doesn't even like to call them dates. He prefers "preliminary conversations."
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| Rotting foot horrifies family at burial for family patriarch Posted: 12 Aug 2017 04:57 AM PDT ![Rotting foot horrifies family at burial for family patriarch]( "Rotting foot horrifies family at burial for family patriarch") BUTLER, N.J. (AP) — Mourners at a New Jersey cemetery received a horrific shock when a corpse's rotting foot from an adjoining grave was uncovered during a New York City man's burial.
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