| ‘Alt-right’ figure who set up Assange meeting refuses to cooperate with Senate intel probe Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:20 AM PDT  "I'm absolutely not" going to cooperate with the committee, the far-right provocateur Charles C. Johnson said in an interview, after returning from London.
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| Bannon Takes Important Constituency With Him Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:46 AM PDT  Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian, talks with Rachel Maddow about Steve Bannon's unusual role in the Trump White House, from his job title to "nationalist" constituency he commands that could seriously sap Trump's base.
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| Two dead, six injured in Finland stabbing spree Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:39 PM PDT  Police shot and wounded a suspect after a stabbing spree in which a man killed two people and wounded six others in the Finnish city of Turku. Within hours of the attack on Friday the force had announced increased police patrols across the country. Two dead and six injured," Turku police tweeted after the assault in a market square.
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| Lost WWII USS Indianapolis Wreckage Finally Uncovered Posted: 19 Aug 2017 01:59 PM PDT  It was 18,000 feet under the water's surface.
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| Boston 'free speech' rally abandoned by right-wing demonstrators outnumbered by 15,000 counter-protesters Posted: 19 Aug 2017 01:31 PM PDT  As the official start time of the contentious "Free Speech Rally" in Boston approached, the winner in the battle of words between organisers and counter-demonstrators had already been determined. If hateful speech aimed at Jewish people or minorities was chanted at Boston Common park, it was not audible at one of the largest rallies being held just one week after the deadly demonstrations in Charleston, Virginia, where neo-Nazis marched bearing torches, and where one woman was killed. Instead, an estimated 15,000 counter-protesters dominated the air with anti-Nazi and anti-fascist chants.
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| Total solar eclipse: When is it, where is it happening and how to watch in the UK Posted: 20 Aug 2017 09:26 AM PDT  What's happening? On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will witness an eclipse of the sun for the first time in 99 years, where the Moon will pass in front of the Sun casting darkness across swathes of the Earth's surface. Dubbed the Great American Eclipse, the moment will see the Sun, the Moon and the Earth become perfectly aligned in a once-in-a-lifetime celestial spectacle seen from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. Although we won't see a perfect alignment in the UK, we will be able to see a partial eclipse (where the moon covers only a part of the sun). 10 amazing places in America to watch the 2017 solar eclipse Who will see it? Everyone in North America, parts of South America, Africa and Europe - including the UK - will see at least a partial solar eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun. However, 14 states across the United States will experience a total solar eclipse with more than two minutes of darkness descending in the middle of the day over the course of 100 minutes. More than 12 million Americans live inside the path of totality and more than half of the nation live within 400 miles of it. Millions more are expected to travel to cities along the path to witness the phenomenon. Where and when to see the eclipse What causes an eclipse? The diameter of the Sun is 400 times that of the Moon but it lies 400 times further away - which means if you are in exactly the right alignment on the surface of the Earth at the right time, you will see the two celestial bodies overlap exactly. What creates a total solar eclipse Where can I see the eclipse in the UK? Sadly Brits won't get a total eclipse like our friends across the pond, but we will be treated to a slight partial eclipse which will still be worth watching. It will be visible in parts of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from around 19:35 on August 21 - but make sure you're in a spot where there's no cloud. UK eclipse circumstances for August 21 2017 What areas will see total blackout? Anyone within the path of totality will see the sky become dark for several minutes as the moon completely covers the sun. The path is relatively thin, around 70 miles wide, and stretches from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. It will first be seen at Lincoln Beach, Oregon at 9:05 PDT, with totality beginning at 10:16 PDT. Over the next 90 minutes, it will cross through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North and end near Charleston, South Carolina at 14:28 EDT. The lunar shadow will leave the US at 04:09 EDT. Its longest duration will be near Carbondale, Illinois, where the sun will be completely covered for two minutes and 40 seconds. What time can I see the total eclipse? Here are the mid-eclipse times for some of the major towns and cities along the path of totality, according to Nasa. All times are local. Where to see it | The Great American solar eclipse Will there be a live stream? Yes - Nasa will host an Eclipse Megacast for four hours during the eclipse which will be picked up by local, national and international TV stations. You can also follow all the action via the Telegraph. How can I see it safely? Never look directly at the Sun, even through sunglasses or dark material such as a bin liner or photographic negative. Makeshift filters may not screen out the harmful infrared radiation that can burn the retina of the eye risking permanent eye damage and blindness. Also, viewers must never use binoculars or a telescope. Wear special eclipse viewing glasses - not ordinary sunglasses - or construct a simple pinhole camera which projects an image of the Sun onto a blank piece of paper. Solar eclipse: how to watch the eclipse safely When will Britain next see a solar eclipse? There was a pretty spectacular eclipse in Britain in March 2015, but the last total eclipse in the UK was in August 1999. You might be waiting a while for the next decent one too - it won't take place until August 12, 2026. On that date up to 95 per cent of the Sun will be obscured. Britain will not see a total solar eclipse until September 23, 2090. How we watched the 1999 solar eclipse - in 90 seconds 01:42 Total solar eclipses in history Eclipses have both fascinated and terrified civilisations for centuries. When King Henry I of England, the son of William the Conqueror, died in 1133, his death happened to coincide with a total solar eclipse plummeting the nation into darkness for four minutes and 38 seconds. Historian William of Malmesbury wrote in 1140 that "the darkness was so great that people at first thought the world was ending."
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| Boy With Heart Transplant Collapses and Dies on His First Day of School Posted: 18 Aug 2017 01:16 PM PDT  13-year-old Peyton West's family thought he would be healthy after he got his transplant in March.
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| The storm around America's statues isn't about history. It's about whiteness | Eddie S Glaude, Jr Posted: 19 Aug 2017 03:00 AM PDT  Confederate statues are part of a politics that trades on white fears and cultural wars that scapegoat black and brown people. During his infamous press conference this Tuesday, as he vehemently defended his claim that both sides were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville, Donald Trump declared "many of these people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E Lee. "Not all of those people were white supremacists," he said.
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| Staff Change on Mueller Team Raises Questions Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:36 AM PDT  Rachel Maddow pursues reporting on the departure of former FBI counter-espionage chief Peter Strzok from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Trump Russia investigation team, questioning the reason and what it might mean for Mueller's effort.
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| Muslims fear anti-Islam backlash in tolerant Barcelona Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:29 PM PDT  Prayer time is approaching but Raja Miah, an imam at a tiny mosque in the heart of Barcelona does not expect a big turnout. Since the twin attacks in Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils claimed by the Islamic State group, the Muslim community in central Barcelona's neighbourhood of Raval fears an anti-Islam backlash. "People are very scared," said Miah, 23, as he sat in a small room at the mosque in Raval as a small group of children in an adjoining room studied the Koran.
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| Boston free speech protests: Far-right demonstrators 'outnumbered 10 to 1 by anti-fascists' Posted: 19 Aug 2017 09:00 AM PDT  Far-right demonstrators in Boston appeared to be greatly outnumbered by their opponents - perhaps as much as ten to one - as the city braced for two competing rallies. The Mayor of Boston, Marty Walsh, issued an appeal to the many thousands of people taking part in the two events to be peaceful and show respect. The events were taking place a week after clashes at a white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in more than 20 people being injured and one young woman, Heather Heyer, being killed.
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| Evacuation orders affect hundreds in California, Oregon Posted: 19 Aug 2017 03:16 PM PDT  SISTERS, Ore. (AP) — Evacuation orders affecting hundreds of people were issued in California and Oregon as wildfires neared small towns, including one that's a prime location for viewing the eclipse.
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| Man Caught Smuggling 13 Pounds of Meth Into US Via Drone Posted: 19 Aug 2017 10:44 AM PDT  Drones generally haven't appealed to smugglers because their noise attracts attention.
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| Flying dogs caught in action Posted: 20 Aug 2017 08:30 AM PDT ![Flying dogs caught in action]( "Flying dogs caught in action") These excited pooches are flying without wings in this series of hilarious images. Taken in July by photographer Peter Mueller, Each photo shows the canines' exuberant facial expressions, as they appear to be leaping through the air.
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| Neighbor, 24, Arrested After 3 Young Girls Found Murdered in Home Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:19 AM PDT  He turned 25 the day after the alleged murders.
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| Bangladesh sends back Rohingya boat carrying injured Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:49 AM PDT  Bangladesh coastguards Saturday turned back a boat carrying 31 Rohingya Muslim refugees escaping renewed army activity in their neighbouring Myanmar homeland, an official said. The push-back came after at least 500 Rohingya fled their villages in Myanmar's Rakhine state, crossing the border to take shelter in refugee camps and hills in Bangladesh's southeastern Cox's Bazar district. A coastguard patrol boat found the boat on the Naf river, which acts as a border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, as it tried to enter Cox's Bazar early in the morning.
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| US Nazi supporters move to Russian social media after Facebook ban Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:45 AM PDT  Following violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, Facebook began taking down all positive mentions of an article by the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, attacking the woman who was killed protesting the rally. But while the site has been banned from Facebook, far-right users continued to post on a Daily Stormer group on VK, Russia's most popular social network. "Cloudflare just dropped us," the Daily Stormer VK group posted on Wednesday, referring to the Internet security company that protects sites from cyber attacks. "We'll have to build an alternative." White nationalists and far-right activists from Western countries have increasingly been moving to VK, also known as VKontakte, where they don't face the same censorship as on social media like Facebook. Charlottesville far-right protest Of the 97 major neo-Nazi, white nationalist and racist skinhead organisations on the Southern Poverty Law Centre's list of US hate groups, The Telegraph found VK groups matching at least nine of them, with members that appeared to be American. There were also more than 50 VK groups named after the Ku Klux Klan, although many of them appear to be run by Russian fans. According to the news site Meduza, more than 100 nationalist groups on VK have members from the United States, Germany, Sweden and other Western countries. Membership on the most popular of these groups numbers in the thousands. A far-right user who identified himself as Henry from Houston told Meduza that moving from Facebook to VK was becoming a "trend" among nationalists trying to avoid censorship. He's started two VK groups already with a total membership of 550. "You can't even write a post about Adolph Hitler" on Facebook, he complained. In contrast, on the Daily Stormer page and other VK groups, users have continued merrily posting racist slurs and threats. Dropped by its US domain registrar, the Daily Stormer also tried to relaunch its website under a Russian domain name, but this too was soon suspended. Asked about VK's apparent lack of censorship, a spokesman said the social network is "against calls for atrocities and violence" and deletes materials that include them. Russian authorities have been increasingly fining and even imprisoning social media users under a vague law against extremism, but many of these people have been convicted for criticising Russia's intervention in Ukraine. Law enforcement here most likely wouldn't be able to bring Americans to court on similar charges, however.
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| Syria's Assad says Western plots against him foiled but war not yet won Posted: 20 Aug 2017 07:09 AM PDT  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday his country had foiled Western designs to topple him but his army had not yet won the fight to end Syria's six-year-old insurgency. In an televised address, Assad said that even though there were signs of victory after six-and-a-half years of civil war, the "battle continues, and where we go later and it becomes possible to talk about victory...that's a different matter". "Their direct support - politically, economically and militarily - has made possible bigger advances on the battlefield and reduced the losses and burdens of war," Assad added.
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| What's a total solar eclipse and why this one is so unusual Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:04 PM PDT  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Total solar eclipses occur every year or two or three, often in the middle of nowhere like the South Pacific or Antarctic. What makes Monday's eclipse so special is that it will cut diagonally across the entire United States.
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| Violence erupts between white nationalists, counterprotestors in Charlottesville: Part 5 Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:21 PM PDT  White nationalists had gathered in the Virginia city to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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| SeaWorld: Former trainer says deaths of three killer whales a 'disgrace to humanity' Posted: 20 Aug 2017 04:46 AM PDT  A former killer whale trainer at SeaWorld has spoken out about conditions at the attraction, after the deaths of three orcas there this year. Last week, Kasatka became the third killer whale at the Californian theme park to die. The orca was 41 years old, making her the oldest killer whale at SeaWorld in San Diego.
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| Serena Williams' Fiancé Is A Little Shocked By Her Pregnancy Cravings Posted: 19 Aug 2017 08:38 AM PDT  He knew there would be cravings, but not quite like this.
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| Donald Trump seeks to placate Steve Bannon as fired strategist says ‘that presidency is over’ Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:17 PM PDT  Donald Trump appears to be trying to placate Steve Bannon, the strategist whom he fired and who subsequently claimed that the "presidency is over". Hours after Mr Trump sacked Mr Bannon, the right wing populist returned to his former position as the head of the pro-white nationalist Breitbart News. "The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over," Mr Bannon told the Weekly Standard.
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| Philippine churches to ring bells to protest drug killings Posted: 20 Aug 2017 05:50 AM PDT  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine Catholic leader said Sunday that church bells would be rung every night for three months across his northern district to raise alarm over a sharp spike in police killings of drug suspects, adding to a growing outcry over President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody crackdown.
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| Crowds rally in Hong Kong after activists jailed Posted: 20 Aug 2017 08:29 AM PDT  Thousands of supporters of three jailed young democracy activists took to the streets in Hong Kong Sunday to protest their sentences. Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow, leaders of the 2014 Umbrella Movement rallies, were sentenced to six to eight months in jail Thursday for their role in a protest that sparked the months-long demonstrations calling for democratic reforms. People took on the scorching summer heat to stream from the district of Wan Chai to the Court of Final Appeal in the heart of Hong Kong Island, protesting the jail terms.
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| NASA Wants to Stop a Doomsday Supervolcano by Stealing its Heat Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:39 AM PDT  NASA is worried about the Yellowstone supervolcano exploding, so instead they're going to harness its energy for good.
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| Judge rejects bid by Polanski's 1977 rape victim to end case Posted: 18 Aug 2017 04:18 PM PDT  A Los Angeles judge on Friday rejected a request by the woman who was raped by director Roman Polanski 40 years ago to have the criminal case against him dismissed. The ruling follows the first appearance in June in the case by Samantha Geimer, who was 13 years old when Polanski sexually assaulted her in Los Angeles in 1977.
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| Confirmed! VW Electric Microbus Coming in 2022 Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:38 PM PDT  It's finally happening. We can't believe it either.
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| Charlottesville exposes new threat for college campuses Posted: 18 Aug 2017 07:47 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — On college campuses, white supremacists and other far-right extremist groups see fertile ground to spread their messages and recruit followers. But for many colleges, last weekend's deadly attack at a rally near the University of Virginia exposed a new threat.
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| Palestinian in West Bank attack bid killed: Israel police Posted: 19 Aug 2017 11:06 AM PDT  A Palestinian teenager who tried to attack an Israeli border guard in the occupied West Bank with a knife on Saturday was shot dead, an Israeli police spokeswoman said. The Palestinian health ministry identified the teenager as Qoteiba Yussef Zahran from the Tulkarm region in the northern West Bank. The Israeli spokeswoman said one of the border guards suffered a slight leg injury during the incident, but did not say clearly if he had been stabbed by the Palestinian.
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| 2-Week-Old Orphaned Piglet Comforts Kitten Friend as She Suffers Seizure Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:38 PM PDT  Sriracha the kitten was diagnosed with a neurological disorder called cerebellar hypoplasia and suffers from seizures.
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| Steve Bannon reveals 'biggest White House divisions in history' after being fired by Donald Trump Posted: 20 Aug 2017 01:47 AM PDT  Donald Trump's ousted chief strategist Steve Bannon has spoken out against divisions in the White House, claiming "no administration in history has been so divided among itself". Within hours of leaving the Trump administration, Mr Bannon returned to the helm of Breitbart News, a far-right news site he ran before becoming the main architect of Mr Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Mr Trump appeared to support the move, tweeting: "Steve Bannon will be a tough and smart new voice at Breitbart News... maybe even better than ever before.
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| How Tough Mudder and its 'adult obstacle courses' became a £100m business Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT  One Sunday morning, Will Dean informed his girlfriend Katie: "I am going to electrocute thousands of people." Unfazed, she continued reading her newspaper. But the Sheffield-born founder of Tough Mudder – the now-globally successful obstacle course series which comes to Gloucestershire's Badminton Estate this weekend – was devilishly serious. "I started calling engineering companies, saying: 'Hello, we're Tough Mudder, we want to shock people with electricity,'" explains Dean, 36, who launched his first "weekend obstacle course for adults" in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in May 2010, after studying a MBA at Harvard Business School. "You'd get a pause and then the line would go dead. People thought they were being pranked." In the Tough Mudder innovations lab, human guinea pigs spend their mornings running through hay bales and dipping their extremities in buckets of ice The obstacle called Electroshock Therapy, which involves running through wires fizzing with 10,000 volts (triple the sting of your average electric fence), is now the event's signature challenge. "As CEO, I have a unique role in all this because I am also the majority shareholder. People said: "Will, we can't do this." I was saying: "Yes, we can. We can have a board meeting and get it approved in two seconds. Look, it just happened…'" Dean spent five years working as a UK counter-terrorism officer in the Middle East and Afghanistan until, stifled by bureaucracy, he sought entrepreneurial fulfilment. His Harvard tutors called his business plan "optimistic". At the inaugural edition, he prayed for 500 customers and got 4,500. There are now 130 annual Tough Mudder events in 11 countries with 3 million entrants worldwide so far. This weekend's clientele have paid up to £139 to take on a 10- to 12-mile course littered with tunnels, nets, walls, fire, ice and mud. The company's annual revenues now exceed $100m. Mud Run Electroshock Wire Caught on Neck 00:27 Obstacles are conjured up at an "Innovation Lab" in Pennsylvania where human guinea pigs spend their mornings running through hay bales and dipping their extremities in buckets of ice. Cry Baby, an obstacle which requires people to crawl through eye-watering smoke, was tested by spraying staff with homemade tear gas. Spider Box (a pit full of tarantulas) and Acid Rain (a container of floating acid bubbles) didn't make the cut. "The Innovation Lab is as crazy as it sounds," says Dean. "I joke that you will never get a Nobel Prize unless you test it on yourself. We start by saying: let's think of the unthinkable. We finish by saying: now we have to make this work in Dubai, Germany and Mexico and get several thousand people of all shapes and sizes through in one hour. It is a strange remit." Splashdown: a Tough Mudder comptetitor comes to grief Credit: Ben Birchall /PA Obstacle races have become wildly popular, with 5 million people in 40 countries taking part in events each year. Tough Mudder attracts a mix of couples, families, friends, work colleagues, students and executives. "The mud is a leveller," says Dean. But why pay money to endure manufactured suffering? Dean believes the trend may be in part a reaction to our risk-averse society, with desk-bound workers seeking raw experiences to share on social media and in pub chats. But he insists the benefits are real. "I believe in challenging oneself to take on new things and I believe that is the secret to developing confidence. In a funny way, running through electric wires gives people the confidence to take on other challenges and changes in their life." Tough Mudder's latest obstacles 01:05 He says Tough Mudder's fun values have helped them outsmart rivals like Spartan Race, launched by Joe De Sena, a former Wall Street trader, in 2007. Miss an obstacle at Spartan Race and you have to do 30 burpees. At ToughMudder, nobody cares. Spartan Race times and ranks all contestants (accountability is the real secret to better health, insists De Sena), but Dean refuses, haunted by a 2008 triathlon when time-conscious athletes wouldn't stop to help him unjam the zip of his wetsuit. "My belief came from me saying: I would do this. My friends would do this. I genuinely believe there is a market for a race that is not a race." There are now 130 annual Tough Mudder events in 11 countries, with 3 million entrants worldwide so far Credit: Andrew Crowley Dean now lives in New York with his lawyer wife Katie and their one-year-old daughter, Isobel. He still tackles the courses himself and joins in "Breakfast Club" workouts at the company's Brooklyn HQ. His events deliberately inspire this same sense of community – what he calls his "tribe". He hates seeing runners plodding side-by-side on gym treadmills and never speaking. His event forces you to seek help from strangers to scale walls and nets. "Tough Mudder gives you a sense of personal accomplishment, a sense of a team and being a part of something bigger than yourself, and hopefully a sense of fun." He is not surprised it has proven popular in the UK. "More than any other culture, we believe in not taking ourselves too seriously. In our school sports, we have second and third teams. No American would play in that. It would be an embarrassment. You do get differences around the world. Germans ask six times more customer service questions. Australians sign up last-minute. But it's a bit like kids and ice cream – it's universal in its appeal." Tough Mudder - are you tough enough? Next month, Dean is publishing a new business book, It Takes a Tribe, which analyses the social psychology, corporate theory and personal stories behind his success. It also documents the fierce battles that shaped the company. Dean and De Sena used to fly provocative advertising banners over each other's events. De Sena once declared in an interview: "There's not a person on this planet I despise more than Will Dean." They have since bonded over lunch, but the rivalry bubbles away. "I have a lot of respect for Joe De Sena, as much as I tease him. I have said before when asked if we have anything in common: yes, we both wake up every morning and the first thing we think about is Tough Mudder. But I do think the rival philosophy has meant we ended up creating two companies which superficially may seem similar, but are very different." "Tough Mudder gives you a sense of personal accomplishment, a sense of a team and being a part of something bigger than yourself," says founder Will Dean Credit: Andrew Crowley More troubling was the multimillion dollar lawsuit Dean faced in 2010. Billy Wilson, a former soldier who launched Tough Guy, an obstacle course in Wolverhampton in 1987, had granted Dean access to his company information for his Harvard studies and then accused him of stealing his idea. Dean countersued for defamation. After a vitriolic battle, the pair agreed a confidential settlement in 2011, with Dean reportedly paying $725,000. "There is only so much I can say, but one thing I can say is that we had to literally quadruple our pace. We weren't just fighting for the survival of the company. Suddenly everything was on the line: personal bankruptcy, reputation. It was incredibly stressful. But it is part of the narrative now. I don't think we would be as ambitious were it not for that experience." The Four Phases | Chris Hall's Tough Mudder Workout Prep Aware of the perennial need to innovate, Dean has in recent years added events like Mini-Mudder (for kids) and World's Toughest Mudder (a 24-hour elite event). He has signed television deals with CBS and Sky Sports, and he is now launching Tough Mudder boot camps around the UK, offering high-intensity, 45-minute group workouts. "There are a few things in society right now which are worrying," he explains. "Obesity and diabetes rates are up, loneliness is up, people spend more time on social media and less time with friends. It all comes back to our mission to grow a global tribe. The boot camps are the local community hub and the event is the pilgrimage when the tribe comes together. I don't pretend we are curing cancer. But I do think in our own small way we are making the world a better place." For event details, go to toughmudder.co.uk. Jeep has launched a limited edition Tough Mudder Renegade: jeep.co.uk/tough-mudder
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| John McCain Just Finished His First Round Of Chemo And Radiation Treatment Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:46 AM PDT  The Arizona senator marked a major milestone Friday, with the completion of his first round of chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
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| One Day, Many Years From Now, Total Solar Eclipses Will No Longer Be Possible Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:39 AM PDT  The moon is slowly moving away from the Earth, and one distant day, it will be too small to block the sun entirely.
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| Dashcam video shows white cop punching black man during stop Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:00 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — A dashcam video of a traffic stop that led to a white police officer with a history of disciplinary issues repeatedly punching a black man and hitting his head on pavement appears to show a different sequence of events than police had originally described.
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| Father jumps car over open drawbridge in terrifying stunt to save family Posted: 19 Aug 2017 09:19 AM PDT  A father drove his car over an opening drawbridge in a death-defying stunt to avoid plunging into the water below. Terence Naphys was crossing New Jersey's Middle Thorofare Bridge with his family when its steel ramp began to lift beneath them. Mr Naphys was reportedly already near the centre of the bridge and was forced to accelerate his Toyota RAV 4 to jump the 6ft gap out of fear the car would fall 65ft into the deep bay below.
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| Roadblocks, weapons bans as Boston braces for 'Free Speech' rally Posted: 18 Aug 2017 01:14 PM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston officials are planning road blockades and even banning food vendors from the historic Boston Common as they step up security around a "Free Speech" rally on Saturday featuring right-wing speakers, aiming to avoid a repeat of last weekend's violence at a white supremacist rally in Virginia. Saturday's rally has drawn intense concern from city and state officials following the violence in Charlottesville, when white supremacists at a "Unite the Right" rally fought in the streets with anti-racism protesters.
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| How to watch the eclipse without eclipse glasses Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:51 AM PDT  With the solar eclipse just days away, everyone is trying to get their hands on a last-minute pair of eclipse glasses. But what if you don't have $250 to spend on a pair because you spent too much money on pizza the night before? In a new video, Pizza Hut demonstrates how to use last night's pizza box to make your own eclipse viewer, so you can enjoy the event without burning your eyes. All you need is a cardboard pizza box, foil, scissors, pen, tape and a sheet of white paper — all which would probably cost you less than 20 bucks. According to Business Insider, the finished product becomes a pinhole camera, which harnesses a property of light called diffraction to bend and magnify light. In this case, that's the sun as it eclipses. It won't allow you to look directly at the eclipse, but it's definitely better than hurting your eyes trying to look at the event without glasses. Sorry Pizza Hut, you could do this with any pizza box/cardboard, but kudos for trying to keep people from burning their eyes out.
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| Indiana's Donnelly, a top GOP target, starts re-election bid Posted: 20 Aug 2017 05:54 AM PDT  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly is positioning himself as a moderate who will fight for "common sense and compromise" as he launches a re-election bid in a state that President Donald Trump easily won last year.
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| Echo is under $100 for back to school (and 7 other unmissable Amazon device deals) Posted: 20 Aug 2017 05:57 AM PDT 
The bad thing about back to school shopping is when everything is said and done, you have to... you know... go back to school. But the good thing is that you can save a ton of cash on much more than just back to school supplies, and Amazon just kicked off a huge sale that perfectly illustrates our point. Beginning today and running through August 26 for Kindle devices or September 4 for Echo devices, Amazon is shaving as much as $90 off its most popular devices and bundles. There are 14 different SKUs that get discounts in this big sale, but we've picked out the best of the bunch for you in this post. Highlights include $20 off the Fire HD 8 tablet, $20 off the Kindle, $20 off the Kindle Paperwhite, $5 off an Echo Dot, $30 off the Tap, and a whopping $80 off the Amazon Echo, dropping the price all the way down to $99.99. Check out all the best deals below, and grab them while you still can.
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| Boston 'free speech' demonstrators outnumbered by counter-protesters Posted: 20 Aug 2017 04:05 AM PDT  Right-leaning groups, made up of "libertarians, conservatives, traditionalists, classical liberals, [and] Trump supporters" gathered in Boston for a "free speech" rally on Saturday. However, the rally ended earlier than organizers planned after ten of thousands of counter-protesters made their presence known and their voices heard.
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| The Clever Way High School Boys Protested Their School's Sexist Dress Code Posted: 18 Aug 2017 12:34 PM PDT  Students from San Benito High School in Hollister, California, are protesting their school's sexist dress code in a pretty awesome way.
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| California mass killer spared death sentence Posted: 18 Aug 2017 03:38 PM PDT  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California mass killer will be spared the death penalty amid a long-running scandal over local authorities' use of jailhouse informants, a judge decided Friday.
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