| How presidents should speak about racist violence: Lessons from history Posted: 14 Aug 2017 09:13 AM PDT  Critics are rightly castigating President Trump for issuing a series of vague, opaque statements in the wake of white supremacist-fueled violence that rocked Charlottesville, Va., this weekend. As a candidate and now as president, Trump has established a pattern of refusing to repudiate in clear moral terms the white supremacists who backed his White House run, and their hate-fueled ideology.
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| New Video Shows Violent Arrest in Euclid, Ohio, Of Officer Beating A Young Man Posted: 13 Aug 2017 09:00 PM PDT  The officer is currently on paid administrative leave, and the young man is out on bond and charged with resisting arrest and driving under suspension.
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| Mexico Raid Uncovers Thousands of Gallons of Tainted Alcohol Posted: 14 Aug 2017 08:46 AM PDT  Authorities have seized 10,000 gallons of tainted alcohol after raiding more than 30 hotels and night clubs in popular tourist spots in Cancun and Playa Del Carmen.
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| North Korea's Kim puts army on alert; U.S. warns it can intercept missile Posted: 14 Aug 2017 04:11 PM PDT  By Idrees Ali and Christine Kim WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned on Monday that the U.S. military would be prepared to intercept a missile fired by North Korea if it was headed to Guam, while North Korean leader Kim Jong Un alerted his army that it should always be fire-ready. Mattis told reporters that the U.S. military would know the trajectory of a missile fired by North Korea within moments and would "take it out" if it looked like it would hit the U.S. Pacific territory.
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| Neo-Nazi site's registration canceled by GoDaddy then Google Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:00 PM PDT  By Jim Finkle TORONTO (Reuters) - Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer had its domain registration revoked twice in less than 24 hours, in moves that threatened to take it offline if it does not find a replacement for GoDaddy and Google, which both said the site had violated their terms of service. GoDaddy Inc disclosed late on Sunday via Twitter that it had given The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move its domain to another provider, saying it had violated GoDaddy's terms of service. GoDaddy feared the site might be used to incite further violence after the events in Charlottesville, including the death of Heather Heyer, who was fatally struck by a car allegedly driven by a man with white nationalist views.
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| Israel detains diamond magnate in money laundering probe Posted: 14 Aug 2017 07:41 AM PDT  Israeli police on Monday detained diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz and four others as part of an international money laundering investigation, authorities said. Tal Silberstein, an adviser to Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern, was also among those detained, as was the acting chairman of Israeli telecommunications firm Bezeq. It was the second time Steinmetz had been detained by Israeli authorities since December, when he was placed under house arrest as part of a corruption probe involving mining deals in the African nation of Guinea.
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| Mourning and acts of solidarity for the victims of the Charlottesville attack at a white nationalist rally Posted: 13 Aug 2017 10:50 AM PDT ![Mourning and acts of solidarity for the victims of the Charlottesville attack at a white nationalist rally]( "Mourning and acts of solidarity for the victims of the Charlottesville attack at a white nationalist rally") After a deadly clash at a protest on Saturday, people across the country came together to mourn and to condemn the violence in Virginia.
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| What we know about the man charged in Charlottesville attack, James Alex Fields Jr. Posted: 14 Aug 2017 10:08 AM PDT  The 20-year-old man accused of driving a car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally Saturday was denied bail in court Monday morning.
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| With gun salutes, Pakistan marks 70 years of independence Posted: 14 Aug 2017 05:50 AM PDT  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan kicked off a day of celebrations on Monday marking 70 years of statehood and independence, the festivities beginning with gun salutes in the capital, Islamabad, and in each of the four provincial capitals.
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| Danish Submarine Owner Charged With Disappearance of Journalist Posted: 14 Aug 2017 09:07 AM PDT  Peter Madsen was arrested Friday, just hours after his submarine sank and a journalist interviewing him disappeared.
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| U.S. Soldiers Killed In Combat Operations Against ISIS Posted: 14 Aug 2017 01:18 AM PDT  "They were fighting to defeat a truly evil enemy and to protect our homelands," the military said in a statement.
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| Upcoming Total Eclipse Will Hit All of the U.S. Posted: 14 Aug 2017 08:57 AM PDT  Next week's total eclipse, when the moon completely covers the sun, will be at least partially visible everywhere in the United States, but only last two minutes and 38 seconds.
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| High school teacher has baby with pupil 'after grooming him from the age of 14' Posted: 14 Aug 2017 06:53 AM PDT  A teacher gave birth to her pupil's child after allegedly grooming him from the age of 14. Laura Lynn Cross, 36, is said to have had a three-year sexual relationship with the boy and posed as his "mentor" so he could move into her home. Ms Cross later convinced the pupil's mother to let her son move into her house in a court-approved "partial parental custody" arrangement.
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| Bagel murder suspect had been cut out of family fortune weeks before killings, documents show Posted: 13 Aug 2017 01:30 PM PDT  A son suspected of stabbing to death his mother and sister at their £1.5m home had been cut out of the family's bagel baking fortune just weeks earlier. The wealthy bakers were found murdered in the family's home in Golders Green at 8.50pm on Friday in what police have described as "a devastating attack". Joshua Cohen, 27, was arrested in a park on Saturday after his mother Leah, 66, and sister Hannah, 33 were killed. He was charged with murder on Sunday night, and has been remanded in custody until Monday, when he will appear before Hendon Magistrates Court. Family tributes describe them both as "loving and wonderful" people. Mr Cohen's late father Asher was one of the founders of the world renown Beigel Bake in Brick Lane, London, and just weeks ago probate was granted on his estate only naming Mr Cohen's two older brothers Nathan, 30, and Daniel, 34, as directors of the company. Hannah Cohen, 33, was found stabbed to death with her mother in Golders Green, north London. His father died last December at the age of 81. Probate on his estate was granted on July 27 and on the same day the directorship of the Beigel Bake empire was altered to list two of Mr Cohen's brothers as directors. All three brothers had worked in the family business. On Sunday tributes were paid to his mother and sister. The family run the Beigel Bake business in Brick Lane. Credit: Jenny Matthews / Alamy Stock Photo Hannah, who had studied psychology at City University London, was a former pupil at the prestigious Carmel College, Wallingford, which has since closed. Her former schoolfriend told the Telegraph it was a "tragedy". She ran a cake business called Coco Cakes with her sister-in-law Deborah Cohen. Hannah Cohen with her sister-in-law Deborah. Mrs Cohen, who is married to Daniel, told the Mail: "She was a loving aunt to her niece and four nephews and the older ones loved nothing more than baking with her. "She was absolutely selfless and did everything for everyone else. "She was the greatest cook. We went over there every Sunday to eat together as a family and she made the most amazing food. My kids absolutely adored her." Yesterday a message on the company's Facebook page stated: "I'm very sad to say, there will be no more cakes by Coco Cakes." Hannah's mother Leah was described by her family as "a loving, generous and a wonderful mother to her five children". Police at the scene of the double murder of Hannah Cohen and her mother Leah in Golders Green. Credit: Paul Grover Formal identification and post mortem examinations have yet to take place but police are confident they know the identify of the victims. Their next-of-kin have been informed. Staff at Beigel Bake were too upset to talk last night. Mr Cohen senior, who died in December aged 81, arrived in the UK from Israel in the 1960s and worked at his brother's bakery next door initially before branching out and opening his bagel business. Forensics the house in Golders Green Crescent at the scene of a double murder. Credit: Paul Grover Beigel Bake was set up by Mr Cohen senior with his brother and another partner in 1974 and was first Britain's first bagel bakery. It started out as a wholesale business and almost everything was made by hand in traditional Jewish style and is famed for its salt beef bagel. It remains a 24 hour bakery and produces 7,000 bagels everyday.
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| Anti-Semitic Signs In Hotel Say Jewish Guests Must Shower Before Swimming Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:27 PM PDT  "To our Jewish guests: Please take a shower before you go swimming."
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| Tiki denounces use of torches by white nationalists in Charlottesville Posted: 14 Aug 2017 05:42 AM PDT  "We do not support their message or the use of our products in this way," the company that makes the backyard bamboo torches said in a statement.
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| California sues Trump administration over sanctuary policy Posted: 14 Aug 2017 07:24 PM PDT  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so-called sanctuary cities, continuing a legal counterattack by Democrats against President Donald Trump's administration. The city of San Francisco also filed its own lawsuit against the Justice Department late last week, saying the federal government has improperly sought to force local jurisdictions to enforce national immigration law by imposing funding conditions.
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| North Dakota offers to settle with Dakota Access developer Posted: 14 Aug 2017 03:02 PM PDT ![North Dakota offers to settle with Dakota Access developer]( "North Dakota offers to settle with Dakota Access developer") BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota regulators offered Monday to settle state allegations that the Texas-based developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline improperly reported the discovery of American Indian artifacts during construction.
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| Man arrested for planning bomb in Oklahoma City Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:15 AM PDT  US officials announced Monday the arrest of a man who sought to detonate a bomb in Oklahoma City reminiscent of the deadly 1995 bombing by anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh in the same city. Jerry Varnell, 23, was arrested Saturday after attempting to trigger what he thought was an ammonium nitrate fertilizer bomb -- like McVeigh's -- outside a BancFirst branch in the center of the city, according to a criminal complaint filed in Oklahoma district court. Varnell told an undercover FBI agent and a cooperating source he wanted to attack the government, with his initial target the Federal Reserve in Washington, eight blocks from the White House.
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| A snapshot of Guam before US-North Korea conflict and now Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:18 AM PDT  HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — North Korea has announced a detailed plan to launch a salvo of ballistic missiles toward the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, a major military hub and home to U.S. bombers. If carried out, it would be the North's most provocative missile launch to date.
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| Priests Must Report Confessions or Be Charged: Inquiry Posted: 14 Aug 2017 04:58 AM PDT  The Catholic Church regards what is said in confession as strictly confidential.
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| Foxconn Leaks New iPhone 8 Color Variant Name Posted: 14 Aug 2017 05:55 AM PDT  Apple supplier Foxconn may have just leaked the official name of the new color variant of the upcoming iPhone 8 flagship phone.
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| As neo-Nazis grow bolder, the 'antifa' has emerged to fight them Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:58 PM PDT  Deadly violence outside a rally in Virginia this past weekend has raised concerns about white supremacists, but also about their far-left opponents, the antifa.
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| Fleas in Arizona Test Positive for the Plague–Here’s What You Need to Know About it Posted: 14 Aug 2017 07:45 AM PDT  Scary headlines proclaim the return of the killer bacterial infection. We asked an infectious disease expert to separate the hype from the facts.
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| Trump's Approval Rating Just Hit a New Low. See How He Stacks Up Against Past Presidents Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:32 PM PDT  President Trump has some of the lowest early approval ratings of any President in modern history
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| Indian Independence Day: everything you need to know about Partition between India and Pakistan 70 years on Posted: 15 Aug 2017 08:53 AM PDT  70 years ago, Partition came into effect, dividing British India into two new, independent countries: India and Pakistan. At midnight on August 14 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India, gave a famous speech which hailed the country's decades-long, non-violent campaign against British rule: At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. However, it soon dawned on the leaders of both countries that the hope and optimism of that night would quickly turn to the harsh realities of how to handle one of the largest mass migrations in modern history and the ensuing communal violence. As India and Pakistan celebrate 70 years of independence, we look back at how two nations were formed - and the years of bloodshed that followed. A 'Google Doodle' on August 15 to celebrate Indian independence How did Indian and Pakistani independence come about? The Indian independence movement began in 1857. The early proponents led militant uprisings against British rule, but the leaders of the Indian National Congress, which was founded in 1885, pushed for more rights for Indians in terms of the vast civil service and land ownership. From the 1920s onwards, Mahatma Gandhi was established as the leader of the Indian independence movement. His belief in civil rights and non-violent struggle inspired a generation. Many inspirational activists came to the fore, such as B. R. Ambedkar, who championed greater rights for the lower castes, that had been treated despicably under British colonial rule. In 1942, Congress launched the "Quit India" movement. Britain, leading the fight against Nazism in the Second World War alongside 2.5 million Indian troops, promised to grant India independence after the war. Following the Battle of Britain, Gandhi said he would not push for India's self-rule out of the ashes of a destroyed Britain. Mahatma Gandhi in 1947 Credit: Royston Leonard / mediadrumworld However, by the end of the war and with its empire weakened, Britain was unable to resist the overwhelming demand for independence. Both Congress and the Muslim League, led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, dominated elections. Further, Clement Attlee, by now Britain's prime minister, was a supporter of independence. In a climate of growing communal tensions and pressure from Jinnah, who argued that Muslims should have their own state, the Mountbatten Plan was hastily conceived. It divided British India along broad religious lines. The problem being that there were millions of Muslims living in what would become Hindu-majority India and huge numbers of Hindus and Sikhs living in what would be Muslim-majority Pakistan. Mountbatten and Jinnah Credit: Royston Leonard / mediadrumworld Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who led the Boundary Commission, proposed the Radcliffe Line, which was a "notional division" of the vast country based on simple district majorities. He submitted his plan for both the west and east borders on August 9 1947 - just five days before it came into force. The two countries celebrate on different days because Lord Mountbatten, the viceroy of British India, had to attend the Pakistan celebration on August 14th and then travel to Delhi for India's first independence day on August 15. King George VI remained the head of state of India until the enshrining of the country's constitution in 1950. Likewise, Pakistan remained a Dominion of the Crown until 1956, when its constitution came into force. Indian Independence | The numbers behind Partition Partition leads to mass migration The separation based on border lines created by the British at the end of their colonial rule came into effect at the stroke of midnight on the eve of Aug 14, 1947. In the days, weeks and months following Partition, 15 million Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, fearing discrimination, swapped countries in an upheaval that cost more than a million lives. During the chaotic transition, train cars full of bodies arrived at railway stations in the twin cities of Lahore and Amritsar in the province of Punjab, which was split roughly down the middle. At least a million died along the journey, the rest pouring into fetid camps erected in cities already pushed to the brink by violence, looting and food shortages. Credit: Royston Leonard / mediadrumworld In New Delhi, where law and order had almost completely broken down, tens of thousands of Muslims sheltered behind the 16th-century walls of Humayan's Tomb waiting for safe passage to Pakistan. Tents were erected in the fine gardens surrounding the spectacular mausoleum - the inspiration for the Taj Mahal - and spilled over to encircle the smaller tombs dotting the Mughal-era complex. As space became scarce whole families huddled together with their life's possessions on the exposed upper levels of the grand courtyard of the enormous domed monument itself. The regal fountains at Humayan's Tomb "became so fouled with human dirt that they had to be filled in with sand", wrote historian Yasmin Khan in her book 'The Great Partition'. Indian and Pakistan: timeline of a testy relationship India marks 70 years of independence in New Delhi 01:33 'People were running around with knives, swords and guns' As India prepared to mark 70 years of independence, families who witnessed the death and destruction during partition recalled the tales of horror. Brothers Santa and Niranjan Singh were lucky to survive the crossing from their village of Bhasin on the Pakistani side of the new border to their current home in Sarangra in India. Santa, then aged 15 or 16, says everyone was baying for blood. People were running around with knives, swords and guns. Up to a dozen people from their village were killed in the madness, Santa told Reuters, saying they carried an injured brother across the border after he was shot through the head. Armed soldiers join Muslim refugees as they crowd one of the very few modern vehicles on the trek to the Muslim state of Pakistan Credit: Bettmann "The bullet went in from one side and went out from the other side of his head," said Santa, reminiscing at a gathering of his extended family. "We carried him all the way and he died after reaching this side." His younger brother, Niranjan, was barely 5 years old but still remembers the sight of houses being burnt and people being massacred, and hearing stories of women and girls being raped. Now the brothers live with their children and grandchildren, tending their lush green farmland located just two miles from the troubled border. India & Pakistan's troubled relationship | The key moments Chaos in Kashmir Shamsul Nisa was 10 when she watched her Muslim father, grandfather and six uncles killed by Hindu mobs in Udhampur, a southern town in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. "Our homes and our lives were destroyed. We were suddenly turned into beggars," Nisa, 80, told The Associated Press. She had escaped along with her mother and four brothers, and the family settled in Muslim-majority Srinagar, the main city on the Indian-controlled side of the still-divided territory. India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over control of Kashmir. Today, they each administer part of it, separated by a heavily militarised line of control. A third, smaller portion is controlled by China. In the chaos of those first days, when ancient principalities were pledging to join one of the two nations, Kashmir's final status was by no means certain. The Muslim majority rose up repeatedly against the Hindu Maharaja and his plans to remain independent. Pakistani tribesmen raided in an effort to wrest control; India marched troops into the region with a promise to keep the peace and to hold a referendum. Tens of thousands of Muslims were slaughtered by Hindu mobs in the southern Jammu region, while hundreds of thousands more were driven from their homes to Pakistan or Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. Until Partition, "Kashmir was not divided," Nisa said. "But whosoever could, grabbed and occupied parts of it." Nisa eventually became a teacher, got married and had three daughters and a son. Since the recent death of her husband, she remains with her son. "I can't stay alone" since those violent days in 1947, she said. "My heart palpitates with pain." She still believes Partition was the right move for South Asia - if only Kashmir could decide its own affiliation. "I think it was a right decision, and we also say that Kashmir should be freed (from India)." In this photo taken on August 2, 2017, Indian and Pakistani border guards take part in the nightly ceremony at the India-Pakistan border in Wagah Credit: AFP War, peace and dusk goose-stepping India and Pakistan have fought three wars since 1947, and relations remain tense, particularly when it comes to Kashmir, which both claim in full but rule in parts. Even as the rawness of the carnage that marked partition fades into history, the nuclear-armed neighbours re-enact their hostilities in ritual form in a colourful flag ceremony staged every day as the sun is setting over the Wagah border post that lies midway between Amritsar and Lahore. Thousands of supporters from each country come to witness a parade of patriotism from their border guards who, in a mock confrontation, goose-step up to each other, stomp their feet and shout their lungs out during their daily retreat. Pakistani Wing Commander Bilal (2L) presents sweets to presents sweets to Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Commandant Sudeep (4R) during a ceremony to celebrate Pakistan's Independence Day at the India-Pakistan Wagah border post on August 14, 2017 Credit: AFP Fists occasionally fly between Indian and Pakistani soldiers during the ceremony, but there is worse along the border. Kashmir, divided between the rivals and claimed by both, is on a permanent conflict alert with near daily clashes and shelling across the Line of Control (LoC), the official name of the disputed frontier. A woman relative of 28-year-old Muhammad Haseeb was killed as she worked in a field in the Nakyal sector on the Pakistani side just days before the partition anniversary. "We don't know when we will become the victim of a bullet," he told AFP. Tens of thousands, mainly civilians, have died in Muslim-majority Indian Kashmir in the past 30 years. India says about 40 militants have been killed this year trying to sneak across the border. Nine Indian soldiers have been killed on the LoC. Kashmiri Muslim protesters shout anit Indian slogans during an anti India protest on August 11, 2017 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India Credit: Getty Today's prospects for entente look slim Cricket is the national game for both countries, but they have not played a five-day Test match against each other in either country since 2007. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Pakistan in 2015. But ties are in deep freeze again since Pakistan detained and sentenced to death Kulbushan Jadhav, a former Indian naval officer it accuses of espionage. For most politicians, observers and activists, India and Pakistan just cannot get over its split. Pakistan has been in new political chaos with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ousted over corruption allegations. But some on both sides blame Modi's hardline stance. "So long as there is a Hindu India that acts like a mirror to a Muslim Pakistan I don't see any chance of a reconciliation," said Mani Shankar Aiyar, an outspoken former Indian minister who as a diplomat was his country's first consul general in the Pakistani city of Lahore. Aiyar says that India and Pakistan need an Anglo-French style "Entente Cordiale" and then to get down to serious talks. Prominent Pakistani political analyst Hasan Askari said both countries have grievances and that relations can barely get any worse. "The present tension between India and Pakistan is unnatural. Therefore I don't expect this to stay as it is for all the time to come," he told AFP. "As no dialogue is taking place, this relationship is really bad," he added. How Pakistan celebrated independence Pakistan on Monday celebrated 70 years of independence from British India with a patriotic display including a giant flag and a show of airpower, as the military's top brass vowed to wipe out terrorists hours before a new bomb attack killed six soldiers, AFP reports. Celebrations began at the stroke of midnight with firework shows in major cities. People cleberate the Independence Day, in Karachi, Pakistan, 14 August 2017 Credit: EPA At the highly symbolic Wagah eastern border crossing with India, army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa raised a massive national flag on a 400 foot (122-metre) pole as crowds chanted patriotic slogans. Following the chest-thumping performance Bajwa said the country was making progress and promised to "go after each and every terrorist in Pakistan". "We have made a few mistakes in the past, but we are on the road to development under the guidance of our constitution," he added. An aerobatic team performs during celebrations to mark the country's Independence Day in Islamabad on August 14, 2017 Credit: AFP Later on Monday a roadside bomb in restive Balochistan province's Harnai district killed six paramilitary soldiers and wounded two others, a spokesman for the troops said. The separatist Baluch Liberation Army claimed responsibility in a telephone call to AFP.
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| Simone Askew is first black woman to lead West Point cadets Posted: 14 Aug 2017 02:34 PM PDT  WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Simone Askew marched into history Monday as the first black woman to lead the Long Gray Line at the U.S. Military Academy.
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| Yemeni man executed for rape, murder of 4-year-old Posted: 14 Aug 2017 02:16 AM PDT  Yemenis gathered Monday in the rebel-held capital to witness the putting to death of a man convicted of raping and killing a child, in the second such public execution in weeks. Hussein al-Saket, 22, was found guilty of abducting, raping and murdering a four-year-old girl, who he later buried, said Rajeh Ezzedine, a judge who attended the execution. Ali Ayedh, the victim's uncle, said Saket "took part in the search for the girl before being unmasked" during the police investigation.
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| Upgrade! Canceled Flight Leads Man to Buy Winning $1 Million Lotto Ticket Posted: 14 Aug 2017 08:38 AM PDT  Paul Kuharevicz, 56, matched the five balls drawn in Friday's drawing from the Michigan lottery and won the $1 million prize.
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| College GOP groups condemn Charlottesville rally amid outcry over state leader’s attendance Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:15 PM PDT  Leaders of at least two universities and the national college Republicans organization are moving to denounce white supremacist views after a member of at least one campus GOP chapter appeared to attend at a violent rally in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend.
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| SpaceX just landed a rocket back on Earth after flying it to space. How's your Monday? Posted: 14 Aug 2017 10:32 AM PDT  This isn't getting old yet. The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket built by Elon Musk's SpaceX came in for a dusty and impressive landing at the company's landing zone in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Monday. The landing occurred about 10 minutes after the rocket launched a Dragon cargo craft carrying supplies to the International Space Station. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk's SpaceX starts off its week with an impressive rocket launch and landing This marks the company's 14th successful landing and its 6th successful one on land, with the rest of them taking place on drone ships in the ocean. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has long said that he hopes this kind of feat can become routine, and the company is well on its way toward making that happen. Quick video recap of Falcon 9 launch of Dragon for its twelfth @ISS resupply mission. A post shared by SpaceX (@spacex) on Aug 14, 2017 at 12:04pm PDT The rocket landings are a critical component of SpaceX's business plan, which calls for lowering the cost of spaceflight through the reuse of rockets. At this point it's a surprise when a landing doesn't work perfectly, not when it does. The Dragon is now working its way to the Space Station, loaded down with thousands of pounds of supplies for the crew onboard. It should arrive at the orbiting lab in about two days. This marks SpaceX's 12th official cargo run to the station for NASA. Kicking up some dust during landing.Image: spacexIn the future, the company is expected to start launching people to the station for NASA as part of the agency's commercial crew program, designed to end reliance on Russian rockets to get astronauts to outer space. WATCH: Here's how Virgin's space program is different than SpaceX
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| 9 Cheap European Destinations to Visit This Fall Posted: 14 Aug 2017 01:46 PM PDT ![9 Cheap European Destinations to Visit This Fall]( "9 Cheap European Destinations to Visit This Fall") With a dip in crowds and reduced flight and hotel prices, fall is an enticing time to jet off to an exotic locale, complete with inspiring coastal scenery, seasonal events and food that will delight your taste buds. With shrinking crowds and enticing bargains following the popular summer travel season and prime tulip-viewing in April and May, Amsterdam is an appealing autumn vacation choice for penny-wise travelers. In September and October, you can still enjoy comfortable daytime temperatures in the 50s and 60s, yielding ideal conditions for whizzing around canals lined by buildings on bike and exploring world-class art at the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum.
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| Trump Lied About Terrorists, Comey’s Friend Claims Posted: 14 Aug 2017 08:40 AM PDT  Benjamin Wittes, editor of the blog Lawfare, is challenging Trump's claim that the majority of people convicted of terrorism in the U.S. came from abroad.
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| Argentina primary vote measures appetite for populist ex-president Posted: 13 Aug 2017 04:29 PM PDT  By Caroline Stauffer and Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentines vote on Sunday in a closely watched mid-term primary election that will test their appetite for bringing back the left-wing populism of former President Cristina Fernandez. Fernandez, who was indicted for corruption last year, is vying for a Senate seat in Buenos Aires province, home to nearly 40 percent of the country's voters. Investors and wealthy Argentines fear a Fernandez comeback in Congress could pave the way to her running for president in 2019.
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| 312 dead as mudslides, flooding sweep through Sierra Leone capital Posted: 14 Aug 2017 03:38 PM PDT  At least 312 people were killed and more than 2,000 left homeless on Monday when heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown, leaving excavators to pull bodies from rubble and overwhelming the city's morgues. An AFP journalist saw several homes submerged in Regent village, a hilltop community, and corpses floating in the water in the Lumley West area of the city, as the president assured emergency services were doing all they could to tackle one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the city. Red Cross spokesman Patrick Massaquoi told AFP the death toll was 312 but could rise further as his team continued to survey disaster areas in Freetown and tally the number of dead.
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| Sleuth Uses Promise of Pizza to Trick 4-Year-Old Girl's Alleged Captor Into Revealing His Location Posted: 14 Aug 2017 09:43 AM PDT  A gamer in Britain was able to dupe the alleged captor, a father who fled to Arizona with the child after losing custody.
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| U.S. tax change proposals anger builders, realtors, charities Posted: 14 Aug 2017 09:49 AM PDT  With U.S. Congress members focused during their August recess on finding ways to lower the corporate tax rate, industry groups and other sectors of society are gearing up to fight proposed changes to the personal income tax.
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| Charlottesville photo: Man shouting angrily at white supremacist rally insists he is not an 'angry racist' Posted: 14 Aug 2017 01:31 AM PDT  A student pictured chanting white nationalist slogans during a neo-nazi rally in Charlottesville has spoken out to insist he is not "an angry racist". Peter Cvjetanovic, a 20-year-old studying at the University of Nevada, claims he "cares for all people". "I came to this march for the message that white European culture has a right to be here just like every other culture," Mr Cvjetanovic told Channel 2 News.
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| Demolishing Beijing's 'disorderly' development Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:20 AM PDT ![Demolishing Beijing's 'disorderly' development]( "Demolishing Beijing's 'disorderly' development") Beijing's municipal government launched a campaign this year to eradicate what it called an "urban disease" of illegal construction and unsafe buildings in the city of nearly 22 million people.
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| 70 years after Pakistan-India split, Sikhs search for home Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:44 AM PDT  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Radesh Singh's grandfather was just 11 years old when he left his village in India's Punjab province to move to Peshawar, in the far northwest of the country on the border with Afghanistan.
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