| From Barcelona to Charlottesville: How Trump's responses differed Posted: 17 Aug 2017 06:24 PM PDT  In the aftermath of the attacks in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday and Charlottesville, Va., five days earlier, President Trump offered very different reactions.
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| Hundreds Line Up, Dozens Ask To Be Arrested For Destroying Confederate Statue Posted: 17 Aug 2017 01:24 PM PDT  Four people turned themselves in to authorities in Durham, North Carolina, on Thursday to face charges for their role in toppling a Confederate monument during a protest on Monday.
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| Natalee Holloway's Dad Leads Investigators In New Special as Authorities Dispute Discovery of Remains Posted: 17 Aug 2017 02:12 PM PDT  Dave Holloway said he originally did not want her to go on the trip.
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| South Africa has granted Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity: source Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:57 AM PDT  By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has granted diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe's first lady, Grace Mugabe, allowing her to return to Harare and avoid prosecution for the alleged assault of a 20-year-old model, a security source said on Friday. South African police had put border posts on "red alert" to prevent Mugabe fleeing and indicated she would receive no special treatment in the case involving Gabriella Engels, who says Mugabe whipped her with an electric extension cable. A security source, however, said immunity had been granted.
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| Children in conflict zones vulnerable to killing, rape: UN draft Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:56 AM PDT  Children are particularly vulnerable in the conflicts raging around the globe, according to a draft UN report that specifically pointed the finger of blame in Yemen at the Saudi-led coalition. The draft of an annual UN report on the impact of armed conflict on children lists the countries and entities accused of recruiting child soldiers and using children as weapons of war. "I am highly concerned by the scale and severity of the grave violations that were committed against children in 2016, which included alarming levels of killing and maiming, recruitment and use and denial of humanitarian access," Secretary General Antonio Guterres says in the draft seen by AFP.
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| Hero police officer shot dead four terrorists in Cambrils and saved injured partner's life Posted: 18 Aug 2017 04:56 AM PDT  An outnumbered police officer shot dead four of the five terrorists who attacked the seaside city of Cambrils last night, saving his injured partner's life, according to a dramatic account of the shootout. The officers were carrying out a routine check at a roundabout near the seafront of Cambrils when the terrorists launched their attack, which, it was confirmed today, killed one woman. Their white Audi A3, coming from the direction of the city, ploughed through four pedestrians before smashing into the police car and overturning. The crash left one officer with a broken tibia and an injured head. According to a report in the La Vanguardia newspaper, the five men got out of the overturned vehicle, armed with knives and axes, and wearing false explosives. The overturned car used in the attack in Cambrils Credit: LLUIS GENE/AFP The hero police office shot down four of the terrorists and the fifth fled in the direction of a nearby park, stabbing a pedestrian in the face with a knife. He was gunned down by a separate police officer. The chief of Mossa, the Catalan police force, confirmed that one officer had killed the four terrrorists. Josep Luis Trapero told reporters at a press conference: "To kill four people, even if you are a professional, is not easy to digest." Video footage has emerged of one of the terrorists taunting police before being shot down. A British tourist told how families and residents were ordered to take cover as bullets tore through the air in a scene he described as being like "watching a horror film". Terror in Spain: Dozens killed and injured in Barcelona and Cambrils A total of five civilians were injured in the attack with a sixth dying from her injuries in hospital. Cambrils is tourist city 74 miles south of Barcelona, where a van had earlier sped into a street packed full of tourists, killing 13 people and injuring around 100 others. Police said the suspects in Cambrils carried bomb belts, which were detonated by a police bomb squad. Earlier in Barcelona a van had sped into a street packed full of tourists, killing 13 people and injuring around 100 others. One tourist told how families and residents were ordered to take cover as bullets tore through the air in a scene he described as being like "watching a horror film". A terrorist heads towards police armed with a knife Credit: Sky News A total of five civilians were injured in the attack with a sixth dying from her injuries in hospital. Cambril is tourist city 74 miles south of Barcelona, where a van had earlier sped into a street packed full of tourists, killing 13 people and injuring around 100 others. Police said the suspects in Cambrils carried bomb belts, which were detonated by a police bomb squad. Earlier in Barcelona a van had sped into a street packed full of tourists, killing 13 people and injuring around 100 others. Barcelona attack key articles
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| Woman Turns Confederate Monument Into Second-Place Trophy Posted: 17 Aug 2017 10:51 AM PDT  The Arizona activist and mother was left reeling, like many Americans, after President Donald Trump gave a shocking press conference to defend people who attended a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one woman dead on Saturday.
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| The 'body politic' rejects Donald Trump Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:07 AM PDT  The body politic, like the human body, can protect itself by rejecting what it perceives as alien or harmful. And that is what is happening to Trump.
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| Boy, 7, From Australia Is Missing After Barcelona Van Attack Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:09 AM PDT  Julian Alessandro Cadman is missing after he was separated from his mom, who was seriously injured in Thursday's terrorist attack.
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| Neo-Nazis love media attention. But ignoring them isn't an option | Bob Garfield Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:08 AM PDT  There is a genuine conflict of two public interests: the collateral damage of publicity versus the right to know. First there was the violence Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, where crowds of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, white nationalists and assorted alt-right mouthbreathers were televised chanting racist and antisemitic slogans and roughing up counter-protesters, culminating in the death of one woman. Yep, some of the finest neo-Nazis this great country has to offer.
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| Oregon wildfire causes evacuations in prime eclipse zone Posted: 18 Aug 2017 07:15 PM PDT  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Residents of more than 400 homes in a prime eclipse-viewing location in Oregon were ordered to evacuate Friday because of a rapidly growing wildfire that had already closed access to a portion of a wilderness area and a regional highway.
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| Nearly 600 dead in S. Asia floods Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:52 AM PDT  Nearly 600 people have died and millions have been affected by monsoon floods in South Asia, officials said Saturday, as relief and rescue operations continued. Indian authorities sought military help in two districts of northern Uttar Pradesh state after fresh heavy rains left hundreds of villages marooned. "We have sought army's help to reach out to the affected people," T P Gupta, a senior official from the state's disaster management authority, told AFP.
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| White Supremacists Are Using Genetic Ancestry Tests For A Creepy Purpose Posted: 17 Aug 2017 05:56 PM PDT  It's a marketing trope often repeated in viral, feel-good commercials for genetic ancestry tests: If we only knew just how related we all were, even distantly, then prejudice and racism would cease to exist.
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| Clinton's Link To Former KKK Leader, Senator Is Back Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:15 AM PDT  A prominent actor and Donald Trump supporter resurfaced an old campaign accusation involving late Senator Robert Byrd.
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| These Are the Victims of the Spanish Terrorist Attacks Posted: 18 Aug 2017 05:38 AM PDT  Here is what we know about the people who died after terrorists struck Spain twice in twelve hours, 14 people are so far confirmed dead.
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| Expert: Arkansas may have reliable source of execution drug Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:03 PM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A death penalty expert says Arkansas' recent purchase of a lethal injection drug — in a small amount and at a cheap price — suggests the state has found a reliable supplier to help it move 30 inmates from death row to the execution chamber.
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| Girl found 'brutally murdered' at home after texting mother about someone knocking at door Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:40 AM PDT  Yhoana Arteaga was found bludgeoned to death in her family's mobile home with her clothing "in disarray", police said. There was no evidence of forced entry to the trailer in Nashville, Tennessee. The girl had suffered blunt force trauma to her body, police spokesman Don Aaron told a press conference.
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| Huge Confederate flag near Interstate is one man's mission Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:30 PM PDT  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Marion Lambert is unapologetic about the abundance of Confederate flags that surround him.
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| Lebanese army finds surface-to-air missile in Nusra Front arms cache - security source Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:51 AM PDT ![Lebanese army finds surface-to-air missile in Nusra Front arms cache - security source]( "Lebanese army finds surface-to-air missile in Nusra Front arms cache - security source") The Lebanese army found a surface-to-air missile (SAM) in a weapons cache left by Nusra Front militants after it took over some of the jihadists' positions in northeast Lebanon, a Lebanese security source said on Friday. Photographs of the cache sent by the security source showed large numbers of shells and rockets. There have been sporadic reports throughout Syria's six-year-old civil war of rebel groups gaining access to SAMs.
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| No Human Remains Found In Search For Natalee Holloway: Prosecutor Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:58 PM PDT  Dave Holloway, father of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, said on national television this week that he found human bones in Aruba, where his daughter vanished a dozen years ago, and submitted them for DNA testing.
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| 10-Year-Old Indian Rape Victim Delivers Baby After Denied Abortion Posted: 17 Aug 2017 12:36 PM PDT  "The child is too young for a normal delivery. Her pelvic bones are not strong enough to push the baby and she does not have the stamina to bear labor pain."
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| California man on delayed honeymoon among Barcelona victims Posted: 18 Aug 2017 05:09 PM PDT  A 43-year-old California man on a delayed honeymoon was among the 13 people killed when a van plowed through a popular pedestrian area in the Spanish city of Barcelona, his family said on Friday. Jared Tucker and his wife had gone to Barcelona to celebrate their first anniversary in the form of a belated honeymoon. Walking in the area of the famous Las Ramblas boulevard on Thursday, he had gone to find a restroom when he was struck down by the van, his wife Heidi Nunes Tucker told KGO television in San Francisco.
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| Tribes hope for renewal in solar eclipse; not all will watch Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:30 AM PDT  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — While much of the country gawks at the solar eclipse, Bobbieann Baldwin will be inside with her children, shades drawn.
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| Saudi coalition killed hundreds of children in Yemen, confidential UN report claims Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:03 AM PDT  The Saudi military coalition – which receives logistical support, weapons and political backing from the US and UK – has been accused of killing hundreds of children in Yemen, according to a confidential UN report. The report, which has yet to be made public and could still be changed, says that 51 per cent of all child deaths and injuries in Yemen last year were the result of the Saudi-led military operation. Saudi Arabia has insisted it is operating within international law.
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| 911 Call Released in Death of Boy, 3, Who Cops Say Was Left in Day Care Van Posted: 17 Aug 2017 10:53 AM PDT  Myles Hill was found dead in Orlando on Aug. 7.
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| White supremacists cheer Trump's evolving response to Charlottesville Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:22 AM PDT  President Trump's comments about violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend have been condemned by Democrats, Republicans, business leaders and even athletes. "I think he's speaking to the fact that a nation should respect its heritage, its identity, its heroes, and we shouldn't engage in antiwhite multicultural political correctness," Matthew Heimbach told Yahoo News on Thursday. Heimbach was scheduled to speak at the event, which attracted supporters from white supremacist, "alt-right" and neo-Nazi groups.
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| Starbucks' Howard Schultz Compared What's Going On In The U.S. Today To Nazi Germany Posted: 17 Aug 2017 11:17 AM PDT  "I know we are better than this."
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| Driver forced to gun engine and jump rising drawbridge Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:48 AM PDT ![Driver forced to gun engine and jump rising drawbridge]( "Driver forced to gun engine and jump rising drawbridge") LOWER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A driver was forced to gun his engine and jump a drawbridge that began rising as he crossed it with his family.
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| Glitch Or Promo? Amazon Echo Dot Is Free Right Now Posted: 18 Aug 2017 12:50 PM PDT  The Amazon Echo Dot is free on Amazon at checkout thanks to an apparently unlisted "Audible Promo" offer.
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| Top U.S. general reaffirms commitment to Japan amid N.Korea tensions Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:41 AM PDT  By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) - The top U.S. general restated Washington's "ironclad commitment" to the security of its close Asian ally, Japan, on Friday amid regional tensions over North Korea, telling his counterpart in Tokyo that "an attack on one is an attack on both of us". Fears about North Korea's missile and nuclear weapons programs have grown in recent weeks. Pyongyang has said it was considering plans to fire missiles over Japan toward the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, although North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to have delayed the decision.
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| Chicago activist loses US citizenship, will be deported Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:01 PM PDT  An activist known for helping Arab women in the Chicago area lost her U.S. citizenship Thursday and will be deported for failing to disclose convictions for bombings in Jerusalem decades ago.
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| 2 Men Charged After 9-Month-Old Boy Killed in Drive-By Shooting: Cops Posted: 17 Aug 2017 11:19 AM PDT  Shaquille Chamberlain, 18, and 20-year-old John Brown III, were taken into custody this week.
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| Twitter Blasts Ex-Google Employee Who Says Being Conservative Is Like Being Gay In The '50s Posted: 18 Aug 2017 07:36 AM PDT  Ex-Google employee James Damore made quite a disturbing false equivalency when he compared being a conservative at the tech company to being gay in the 1950s.
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| 'Unraveling our national fabric': Romney condemns Trump after Charlottesville Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:48 AM PDT  Mitt Romney said Trump's comments after violence in Charlottesville had caused 'the vast heart of America to mourn'. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, warned of an "unraveling of our national fabric" on Friday as he excoriated Donald Trump over his defence of people involved in a neo-Nazi rally. Nearly a week after white nationalists led a bloody protest against the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee, Trump continues to face backlash for blaming "both sides" for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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| Lost Art: Babbitt Bearings Posted: 17 Aug 2017 02:30 PM PDT  The lost art of babbitt bearings.
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| A grim subway reality: Corpses sometimes kept in break rooms Posted: 17 Aug 2017 05:27 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — It's a largely overlooked but gory reality of the New York City subway system: When someone takes their life by jumping in front of a train, police need to find a place to put the mutilated body until a medical examiner truck arrives.
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| Assad advisor says Syria war nearing its end Posted: 18 Aug 2017 04:14 AM PDT  An advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the six-year war is nearly over as foreign states cut backing for rebels, and vowed the government would confront any "illegitimate" forces, whether Turkish or American. Bouthaina Shaaban said the fact that Syria was staging the Damascus International Fair for the first time in the war "sends a message that the war has ended ... and we are at the start of the path towards reconstruction." With the help of Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, Damascus has shored up its rule over much of the country's populated west. The war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, has reached its "penultimate stage" as foreign powers that backed rebels change their policies, Shaaban said in comments to Lebanese al-Mayadeen TV carried on Syrian state news agency SANA on Thursday.
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