| Even on vacation, Trump sows confusion about his foreign policy Posted: 11 Aug 2017 03:27 PM PDT  It's been a week of walk backs from the White House after President Trump took questions from reporters at his golf club in New Jersey about sensitive foreign policy issues.
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| Charlottesville Violence Highlights Worsening Race Relations in U.S. Posted: 12 Aug 2017 09:08 AM PDT  Nearly three-quarters of American voters say that race relations in the United States are "bad", worse now than in the 1990s after the O.J. Simpson verdict and the L.A. riots.
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| Submarine owner detained over journalist's disappearance Posted: 12 Aug 2017 12:28 PM PDT  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish court ordered the owner of an amateur-built submarine Saturday held in pre-trial detention for 24 days while police investigate the disappearance of a Swedish journalist who had been on the ship before it sank.
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| In Tucson, Competing Interests Fight for Solar Energy Profits Posted: 12 Aug 2017 09:15 AM PDT  A proposed rule change in the Arizona city would see new rooftop solar customers pay as much as $100 in additional fees per year, pitting solar users up against power companies.
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| What You Need To Know About Unite The Right Rally Posted: 11 Aug 2017 11:42 PM PDT  Brawls erupted at the University of Virginia on Friday night, a day before the Unite to Right rally is set to take place in the Emancipation Park and McIntire Park, Charlottesville.
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| Colorado man found dead in elevator called for help twice Posted: 12 Aug 2017 09:25 AM PDT  Colorado man found dead in elevator called for help twice.
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| Is Donald Trump funny? Are you kidding? Posted: 11 Aug 2017 02:18 PM PDT  The president's spokespeople are frequently tasked with cleaning up outrageous statements, and recasting them as jokes is a clever way to shift the burden from Trump's intention to the listener's interpretation.
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| Nothing New on North Korea Except Trump Freak-Out Posted: 11 Aug 2017 11:35 AM PDT  Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about the pace of North Korea's nuclear development and the lack of anything especially new this week in that development to justify Donald Trump's burst of blustery brinkmans...
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| Kidnapped glamour model Chloe Ayling hits out at the 'lies' about her ordeal in one of her first interviews Posted: 13 Aug 2017 02:47 AM PDT  A British model has hit out at claims she fabricated her kidnap ordeal describing indepth how she was paralysed with fear after being drugged, handcuffed and gagged in a bid to sell her as a sex slave. Chloe Ayling, 20, has spoken of her week-long ordeal which saw her drugged with ketamine, taken by balaclava clad men and chained to a chest of drawers in a remote Italian farmhouse after being lured to Milan with the promise of a spoof modelling contract. Critics have questioned her account after she was seen buying shoes with her captor and laughing and joking with him in coffee shops and admitted to sharing a bed with him during her ordeal. But in an interview on Sunday, the model claims she was "desperate" to try and "build a bond" with her alleged captor Lukasz Herba in the hope he would set her free. "I understand why people have questions. People need to understand that everything I did was so I could survive," the model told the Mail On Sunday. "I was in a crazy situation and I was terrified." Miss Ayling was put in a bag in the boot of a car by kidnappers who then tried to to sell her as a sex slave in an online auction. She says it was the "worst day of her life" when her captors told her they were part of an online organisation called 'Black Death' and threatened to sell her on the 'deep web' if her agent failed to pay a ransom of $300,000 (£270,000). "I was in shock. That will always be the worst day of my life," she said. The place where a man identified as Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen with British residency, held a young British model Credit: ITALIAN POLICE PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT "Then he said he wanted to help me because I had been taken by mistake. He asked me what my family had to offer. It was just me and Mum at home, there was no way we could afford a ransom. I gave him the names of three people who might help.' I spent the first night seminaked and handcuffed to the chest of drawers." She was told that she would probably by trafficked to the Middle East where, once the man who bought her bored of her, she would be passed on to someone else or fed to the tigers. Lukasz Pawel Herba, 30, a Polish national who lives in the UK, has been arrested by police and confessed to the kidnapping which investigators described as an elaborate plot that involved months of planning. His home in Oldbury, in the West Midlands, has been raided by British officers. It was reported last night that Milan magistrate Dr Giovanna Campanile had ruled Mr Herba was "highly dangerous to society" and should remain in custody ahead of his trial later this year. What is the dark web? 01:33 "There is grave evidence of the guilt of the arrested person, who has admitted to the Public Prosecutor that he was involved in the kidnap," he said. It is claimed Mr Herba has also implicated nine men in the plot, three from Birmingham, but has made no mention of Miss Ayling. Miss Ayling told Italian police that her agent had booked her a photo shoot in Milan on July 11 but when she turned up at the abandoned building she was attacked. "A person wearing black gloves came from behind and put one hand on my neck and one on my mouth to stop me from screaming,"she said in her statement. Photo released by police of a man identified as identified as Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen with British residency Credit: Italian Police Photo via AP "A second person wearing a black balaclava gave me an injection in my right forearm. I think I lost consciousness. When I woke up I was wearing a pink bodysuit and the socks I am wearing now. "I realised I was in the boot of a car with my wrists and ankles handcuffed, adhesive tape on my mouth. I was inside a bag and was only able to breathe through a small hole." She claims she was initially forced to lie on the floor next to a chest of drawers and was handcuffed but later was allowed to move freely and sleep in the same bed as her alleged captor. She added: "People might think I'm gullible. It's easy to say that if you've not been through what I've been through. "I didn't want to upset him – he had told me he was a killer. Anyone in my position would have done the same. "I couldn't run. I was paralysed with fear. I thought they would track me down." They had taken compromising photographs of her whilst she was unconscious which were posted on the dark web with the view to auctioning her off. A screenshot of a "Black Death Group" document on a laptop belonging to Lukasz Pawel Herba, Credit: REUTERS However, one of them confessed to her that they had made a mistake seizing her because she was the mother of a young child. He said it was against the "rules" of his organisation and his superiors were angry. They later released her and drove her to the British Consulate in Milan on July 17. The day before the pair had been seen in a shop together buying shoes, and Miss Ayling told police that she "made him believe we could be more intimate when the incident ended" so that she could escape. Since her release Miss Ayling has been helping Italian police. She told police she had met Mr Herba a few months earlier on a shoot that was aborted in Paris.
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| Nepal revives railways as China, India vye for influence Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:05 PM PDT  Three years after its last train hit the buffers, landlocked Nepal is building a new railway network to boost its ailing economy -- helped by the rivalry between its powerful neighbours, China and India. The railway to India was a lifeline for the small southern frontier town of Janakpur, used to import everything from sweets to clothes and cosmetics and fuelling a vibrant border economy. Now it is being rebuilt with Indian backing, one of three new rail lines -- one funded by China in the north and a third by Nepal itself -- that the country hopes will help boost international trade.
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| Faith, history and community in Bosnia Posted: 13 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT ![Faith, history and community in Bosnia]( "Faith, history and community in Bosnia") Bosnia's religious leaders say politicians are standing in the way of peaceful coexistence between Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities trying to forgive and forget after the atrocities of a devastating 1990s war. Hundreds of churches, mosques and synagogues bear witness to more than five centuries of Bosnia's pluralistic past, and the capital Sarajevo is known locally as a "small Jerusalem" with its main ethnic groups — Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks — all worshipping within yards of each other.
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| Another F-18 Aircraft Crashes, This Time In Bahrain Posted: 12 Aug 2017 06:38 AM PDT  A U.S. fighter craft, F-18, crashed on the runway of Bahrain international airport Saturday causing the airport to shut down. Several similar incidents have been reported in the past that involved the aircraft.
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| Trump declares opioid epidemic a national emergency: What it means Posted: 11 Aug 2017 11:20 AM PDT  President Donald Trump has informally declared a national emergency for the opioid epidemic.
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| 'Increasingly Nazified' white nationalist rally descends on Virginia amid expected protests Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:00 AM PDT  Members of the KKK are escorted by police past a large group of protesters during a KKK rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in July this year. A white nationalist rally, which some have predicted could be the largest in the US in years, is expected to descend on Saturday on Charlottesville, Virginia, and be met by counter-protests. Far-right monitoring groups estimate that between 500 and 1,000 people and 30 speakers and groups will descend on the downtown area for the afternoon event, organised by the local rightwing activist and former Daily Caller writer Jason Kessler.
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| Egypt punishes train disaster 'selfie medics' Posted: 12 Aug 2017 01:47 PM PDT  Egypt's health ministry has punished six medics who took selfies in front of a deadly train wreck by transferring them to a remote part of the country, it said Saturday, following an online uproar. Two trains collided Friday near the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, killing 41 people in one of the deadliest such accidents in the North African country. Dubbed the "Selfie Medics" by Twitter users, they faced calls for punishment on social media.
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| 'Most Wanted' MS-13 Gang Member Caught in Virginia Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:35 PM PDT  FBI had been on a four-year manhunt in search of Gomez before he was captured in Woodbridge, Virginia.
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| Nigeria's Buhari 'feels ready to go home', awaiting doctor's OK Posted: 12 Aug 2017 11:47 AM PDT  Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has said he feels ready to return home from medical leave in Britain, and is awaiting his doctor's permission, a presidency statement said on Saturday. Buhari's extended absence for an undisclosed ailment, his second this year, left many in Nigeria questioning whether he was well enough to run the country. The president has spent more time since the beginning of 2017 in Britain than in Nigeria.
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| Drone enthusiast 'amazed' as he lands device on deck of £3bn HMS Queen Elizabeth without being detected Posted: 12 Aug 2017 01:15 AM PDT  It is a £3bn state-of-the-art investment, commissioned to reassert Britain's supremacy on the high seas. But this week the Royal Navy was left blushing after it emerged that an amateur enthusiast managed to land a £300 drone on the deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth - without anyone raising the alarm. According to local media reports in Scotland, the drone user managed to fly the drone past armed patrol boats before landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier. The pilot, who is yet to be named, told reporters this week that he had been "amazed" how easy it had been to carry out the stunt. "I was amazed that I was able to land on the aircraft carrier for two reasons, the first being that there was no one about to prevent it from landing although were security police around in small boats who were waving at the drone," he said. "The second reason was more technical. I received a high wind warning as I was videoing up and down the flight deck and my control system advised me to land." The rules on | Operating a drone He added that when attempted to discuss his concerns about security with crew members, he returned to find a "ghost ship". "There was absolutely no-one around when I landed, it was like a ghost ship," he continued. "After I posted the picture taken from the flight deck I got some flak from other drone users who were saying 'You are going to make a lot of people unhappy'. I thought the only law I had broken was that I flew over a vessel I didn't have control over. "I was a bit concerned so I drove round to Invergordon and spoke to the port security and explained that I wanted to speak to someone from the ship such as the duty watch or the captain about what I had done. "I was only able to speak to some heavily armed police, I think from the MoD, and they said there was no-one available on the carrier as they were at dinner ashore." "No-one seemed too concerned, but the officer I spoke to said he would pass it up the chain of command. I was fascinated by the Queen Elizabeth and wanted to have a crack at filming her. I wasn't out to get anyone in trouble. What's done is done, and I can't undo the images I shot. "I think if the MoD were in any way bothered by this then these videos and stills would not have been allowed to see the light of day." Fallon: Russia will look at HMS Queen Elizabeth with envy 01:16 Whilst the anonymous drone pilot appeared relaxed about his exploits, the disclosure has prompted concern among military and security experts. Speaking to The Daily Mail, Lord West, a former First Sea Lord, said it was worrying because terrorist groups such as Islamic State had already used drones in the Middle East to launch bombs. He said: "Daesh [Islamic State] are already using drones to deliver bombs in Syria, so I think it is something we need to take very seriously. "The fact drones can reach it is a worry. The Queen Elizabeth is doing some work with helicopters and if a drone hits a helicopter that could be very dangerous. "We need to have harsher punishments if you fly a drone into a carrier's air space. There's a real risk from drones and [it's] something we need to take very seriously." Commenting, an MoD spokesperson said: "We take the security of HMS Queen Elizabeth very seriously. This incident has been reported to Police Scotland, an investigation is underway and we stepped up our security measures in light of it."
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| The Latest: Kenya's leader asks country to 'shun violence' Posted: 11 Aug 2017 01:08 PM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Latest on Kenya's presidential election (all times local):
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| Trump Under Fire for Blaming Violence on ‘Many Sides’ in Virginia Posted: 12 Aug 2017 09:05 AM PDT  President Trump's comments sparked a backlash among Democrats, and several Republicans, for failing to single out the white nationalists who organized the rally in Charlottesville.
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| Two girls aged 12 and 13 killed after 14-year-old crashes car during police pursuit Posted: 12 Aug 2017 10:28 AM PDT  According to the accident report, the boy was trying to outrun police when the car flipped over, ejecting three of the five passengers who were not wearing seatbelts. Katana Richley, 13, has been named as one of the victims. "[Katana and her friend] were supposed to be spending the night at my house.
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| Kristoff St. John Still Angry Over Son’s Death Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:42 AM PDT  Kristoff St. John and his ex-wife, Mia, are still grieving their son's death.
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| Venezuela state oil company PDVSA reports sharp drop in revenues Posted: 12 Aug 2017 12:03 PM PDT  Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA revealed on Saturday that its revenues have dropped sharply, spelling bad news for a crisis-torn country heavily reliant on its exports of crude oil. PDVSA registered $48 billion in income for last year, compared to $72 billion in 2015. The country's oil ministry has projected that Venezuelan crude would fetch $43.72 a barrel in 2017, but oil prices remain depressed globally.
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| 29 Super-Sweet Blueberry Desserts That Taste Like Summer Posted: 11 Aug 2017 04:15 PM PDT |
| We Need a Lot More Charging Stations Before the Electric Car Revolution Takes Off Posted: 12 Aug 2017 07:54 AM PDT  Those lofty ambitions face numerous challenges, including one practical consideration for consumers: If they buy electric cars, where will they charge them?
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| One Dead, Several Injured After Car Plows Into Pedestrians at White Nationalist Rally: 'I Am Heartbroken' Posted: 12 Aug 2017 01:11 PM PDT  No arrest have been made, according to reports.
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| Protestors occupy Shell plant in Nigeria Posted: 12 Aug 2017 09:30 AM PDT  Hundreds of protesters have occupied a Nigerian oil facility owned by Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, demanding that a local company take over its operations, a community leader said Saturday. "We want Shell to hand over the operations of the flow station to Belema Oil Company because it appreciates our challenges and needs," community leader Godson Egbelekro told AFP.
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| Court temporarily halts recall effort of California judge Posted: 11 Aug 2017 07:23 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A court on Friday temporarily halted the campaign seeking to oust a Northern California judge targeted for recall for sentencing a college athlete convicted of sexual assault to jail instead of prison.
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| Ex-officer charged in murder case cites tribal membership Posted: 12 Aug 2017 03:32 PM PDT ![Ex-officer charged in murder case cites tribal membership]( "Ex-officer charged in murder case cites tribal membership") TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former police officer facing a fourth trial for the death of his daughter's black boyfriend can't be tried in Oklahoma because the shooting happened on American Indian territory, his attorneys argued in a new court filing.
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| Inside the Penn State fraternity battle sparked by one student's tragic death Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:32 AM PDT  This spring, the 140-year tradition of Greek life at Penn State University nearly came to a dramatic end. The university's constellation of fraternities and sororities – exclusive, Greek-letter social clubs that encompass nearly 20 per cent of the student population – seemed on the verge of collapse. In a single weekend in April, nine of the university's fraternities and sororities had violated the university's restrictions on drinking and social events.
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| Today’s Amazon deal on Dyson’s Ball Animal vacuum is so good, it has to be a mistake Posted: 12 Aug 2017 05:51 AM PDT 
If you want Dyson's latest Ball Animal vacuum, it's going to cost you $400. For those who don't mind dumping that much money into a vacuum, it's well worth the price. But what if we told you that on Saturday, for one day only, you can snag a refurbished version of the original Animal for just $262? No, seriously, Amazon's deal of the day on Saturday slashes the Dyson Ball Animal Complete Upright Vacuum with Bonus Tools refurb to its lowest price ever — the previous low was $349 — and it'll probably never be this low again. Here's what you need to know from the product page: - This Certified Refurbished product is manufacturer refurbished, shows limited or no wear, includes all original accessories, and a 6 month Dyson limited warranty against original defects in materials & workmanship; warranty covers private household use in accordance with the owner's manual
- Tools included: Tangle-Free Turbine Tool, Stiff Bristle Brush, Soft Dusting Brush, Reach Under Tool, Up Top Tool, Mattress Tool, Stair Tool, and the Combination Tool
- Self-adjusting cleaner head for all floor types; active base plate automatically raises and lowers to seal in suction across all floors
- Instant release wand for high reach cleaning; wand and long-reach hose release in one smooth action, so it's easy to clean up high and under furniture
- Bagless with HEPA filtration; hygienic bin emptying, just push the button to release- no need to touch the dirt
- Turns on a dime; the vacuum is light to maneuver and steers easily into difficult places
- Recommended Surface Application: all floor types
- Weight 17.56 lbs.; Suction Power 245 AW; Bin Volume 0.55 gallons; Cord Length 35 ft.; Maximum Reach 51.7 ft.
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| Detectives: Dad tells daughter he killed her mom in '87 Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:40 AM PDT  Detectives: Dad tells daughter he killed her mom in '87.
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| White Supremacists in Charlottesville Show Alt-Right's True Colors Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:02 AM PDT  Hundreds marched on the University of Virginia Friday night.
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| President Trump Warns North Korea's Kim Jong Un Will 'Regret It Fast' If Threats Continue Posted: 11 Aug 2017 01:26 PM PDT  Trump's warning follows earlier comments that the U.S. is "locked and loaded"
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| How Atheists Under Oath Can Affect Verdicts Posted: 12 Aug 2017 11:20 AM PDT  Rather than citing God as their witness, some people instead swear to "solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm" that they will tell the truth.
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| Reward offered to catch Nevada lake invasive fish dumper Posted: 12 Aug 2017 08:02 PM PDT  RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada game wardens who spend most of their time hunting down big-game poachers are focusing on a serious threat to nature in a lake: An invasive fish species that eats all the other fish prized by anglers and then turns cannibalistic.
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| Tesla Model 3's battery-pack size revealed in EPA documents Posted: 11 Aug 2017 02:00 PM PDT  The Tesla Model 3 has officially begun rolling off the assembly line, but the car will see a staggered launch. Specifically, the Model 3 in production today is what has been named the "Long Range" variant. Preliminary EPA documents, discovered by Inside EVs, show the Tesla Model 3 Long Range model utilizes a battery of 80.5 kilowatt-hours.
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| 5-Foot Alligator Spotted Wandering in Family's Backyard, Kids Mistake It for Pool Toy Posted: 11 Aug 2017 01:33 PM PDT  Sophie, 11, spotted the alligator as she was getting out of the pool, and wondered, "Did dad buy an inflatable alligator to play a prank?"
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