| Trump Holds High Holidays Conference Call With Select Jewish Leaders Posted: 15 Sep 2017 02:27 PM PDT  Despite being boycotted by key liberal Jewish organizations, President Donald Trump attempted to reach out to American Jews on Friday with a conference call to express wishes for the upcoming High Holy Days.
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| Nearly a Week After Irma, Florida Keys Residents Begin Returning Home Posted: 16 Sep 2017 09:06 AM PDT  Hurricane Irma devastated the Florida Keys, overturning boats and toppling hundreds of homes. On Saturday, some residents were allowed to return home to see the damage.
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| Juggalos Draw Bigger Crowd On The National Mall Than Pro-Trump Rally Posted: 16 Sep 2017 04:08 PM PDT  Nine months into the administration of President Donald Trump, fans of the eccentric Detroit rap duo Insane Clown Posse assembled a larger rally on the national mall this Saturday than the president's diehard supporters stationed a few hundred yards away.
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| Woman arrested after four female US tourists attacked with acid in Marseille Posted: 17 Sep 2017 06:42 AM PDT  Four female US tourists have been attacked with acid in Marseille's main train station. The women, all in their 20s, were sprayed with hydrochloric acid, which hit two of them in the face and the other two hospitalised with shock. The attack took place at Saint-Charles station shortly after 11am on Sunday morning. Local media reported that it was carried out by a woman believed to be unknown to the holidaymakers, who were about to travel together to Paris. The two women sprayed with acid in their faces are aged 20 and 21. One of the women may have an eye injury, a spokeswoman for the Marseille prosecutor's office said. Reports say the acid was in a spray canister of a kind generally used for cleaning. The attack is not thought to be terror-related. A 41-year-old woman was arrested and detained by the police. The assailant, believed by police to be psychologically disturbed, was arrested minutes after the attack, the spokewoman said. More than a dozen firefighters rushed to the station in four emergency vehicles after the attack, a witness said. The witness, who declined to be named, told the Telegraph: "It was a horrific scene. The Americans were screaming and people started rushing about. No one knew what was happening and these days everyone is on edge because of terrorism." A French security report revealed by local media this weekend warned that jihadists may try to attack or derail trains. A woman was killed in Marseille last month when a man deliberately drove a vehicle into two bus stops. Police said the attack was not terror-related. In April, police said they had thwarted a terrorist attack days before the first round of the presidential election by arresting two suspected jihadists in Marseille. The port city on France's southern Mediterranean coast has a large immigrant population. It is plagued by frequent shootouts between rival drugs gangs.
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| Teacher Accused Of Assaulting Student For Sitting During Pledge Of Allegiance Posted: 16 Sep 2017 05:43 PM PDT  A school in eastern Michigan has placed a teacher on leave and launched an investigation after she allegedly "snatched" an 11-year-old student who sat during the Pledge of Allegiance.
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| Ecuador president accuses predecessor of planting spy camera Posted: 15 Sep 2017 03:27 PM PDT  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno angrily denounced his predecessor on Friday for planting a hidden video camera in his office so that he could spy on him remotely.
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| British police arrest London bomb suspect at Dover border point Posted: 16 Sep 2017 12:35 PM PDT  By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Police arrested an 18-year-old man in the departure lounge of the port of Dover on Saturday in what they said was a "very significant" step in the hunt for whoever planted a bomb on a London commuter train that injured 30 people a day earlier. Prime Minister Theresa May put Britain on the highest security level of "critical" late on Friday, meaning another attack may be imminent, and deployed soldiers and armed police to strategic locations such as nuclear power plants. On Saturday morning officers in Dover, a ferry port on the southeast coast from which passenger ships sail to France, arrested a man and then partially evacuated the area, recovering a number of items, the police said without elaborating.
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| Narcos Location Scout Carlos Muñoz Portal Found Dead in Mexico Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:30 PM PDT  Carlos Muñoz Portal was found dead on Monday in a rural area of Mexico known for gang-related drug violence while scouting for locations for the upcoming fourth season of Netflix's hit show Narcos
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| Trump Again Proves His Claim About Waiting For 'Facts' After Charlottesville Was Garbage Posted: 15 Sep 2017 11:33 AM PDT  U.S. President Donald Trump explained his botched response to a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month by saying he needed "the facts" before broadly denouncing violence from racist groups.
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| Rising River Threatens Florida Residents Still Picking Up the Pieces After Hurricane Irma Posted: 16 Sep 2017 12:15 PM PDT  The new evacuations come as people pick up the pieces after Hurricane Irma
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| Aunt V, The World's Oldest Person, Dies In Jamaica At 117 Posted: 15 Sep 2017 07:27 PM PDT  Violet Mosse-Brown, the Jamaican woman believed to be the oldest person in the world, died Friday.
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| US policy is 'not to defend Canada' from an attack by North Korea Posted: 16 Sep 2017 03:56 AM PDT  It is official US policy not to protect Canada in the event of a missile attack by North Korea or any other country, a leading general has warned. "The extent of the US policy is not to defend Canada. This statement surprised many in Canada, with public broadcaster CBC saying it had "demolished a long-held political assumption" that the US would intervene.
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| Blood Leaks Onto Road From Funeral Home Like A Scene From A Horror Movie Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:55 AM PDT  Residents spotted the disturbing sight of blood seeping out onto a road from a Louisiana undertaker business on Thursday afternoon.
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| Crocodile suspected in death of UK reporter in Sri Lanka Posted: 15 Sep 2017 07:24 PM PDT  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan navy divers on Friday found the body of a British journalist who is believed to have been attacked by a crocodile while holidaying with friends on a beach.
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| British police arrest 18-year-old in hunt for London train bomber Posted: 16 Sep 2017 02:56 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - British police hunting those behind a bomb which injured 29 people on a London train on Friday said they had arrested an 18-year-old man in a move described as significant. "We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning," Neil Basu, Senior National Co-ordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, said in a statement. "Although we are pleased with the progress made, this investigation continues and the threat level remains at critical." The man was arrested under the Terrorism Act in the southern port area of Dover. ...
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| Russia strike wounds US-backed Syria forces, coalition says Posted: 16 Sep 2017 02:19 PM PDT  The US-led coalition said Saturday that Russian forces had bombed American-backed fighters battling the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, wounding several, despite denials from Moscow. The unprecedented strike was initially reported by the Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters supported by Washington. The SDF accused Russian warplanes of bombing its fighters for the first time in the complex war, though Russia's military spokesman denied targeting the group.
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| Twitter Condemns Trump’s Sympathy For White Supremacy With #NaziBucketChallenge Posted: 15 Sep 2017 12:10 PM PDT  Twitter users stood in solidarity with embattled ESPN host Jemele Hill on Friday using a snarky hashtag.
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| 'Natalee Holloway's Skull Burned In Aruba Cave In 2010' Posted: 17 Sep 2017 12:16 AM PDT  Holloway went missing in Aruba, a Dutch Carribean island off Venezuela. on May 30, 2005. She was officially declared dead in 2012.
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| US federal government auctioned off disaster-response trailers days before Hurricane Harvey hit Texas Posted: 17 Sep 2017 03:03 AM PDT  The US federal government auctioned off disaster-response trailers at very low prices in the days before Hurricane Harvey devastated southeast Texas, according to a new investigation. More than 100 trailers - which are used to house people made homeless in emergencies or disasters - were sold in the two days before the hurricane made landfall. An Associated Press analysis of government data showed the trailers sold off were all of the latest 2017 model.
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| Wiener Werkstätte's Designs Are on Display at New York’s Neue Galerie Posted: 17 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT |
| Wendy's Throws Serious Shade On Carl's Jr. In 1 Delicious Tweet Posted: 15 Sep 2017 10:48 AM PDT  Another fast food chain tried to start a Twitter beef with Wendy's and, once again, got thrown in the metaphorical meat grinder.
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| About 1.5 million, mostly in Florida, without power in Irma's wake Posted: 15 Sep 2017 03:34 PM PDT  About 1.5 million homes and businesses in Florida and Georgia remained without power on Friday after Hurricane Irma, including 46 of Florida's nearly 700 nursing homes caught in the deadly storm's path. Irma, which ranked as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record before striking the U.S. mainland as a Category 4 hurricane on Sept. 10, killed at least 84 people. Florida Power & Light, owned by NextEra Energy Inc and the state's biggest electric company, said it was working aggressively to restore power to the 23 percent of its customers still in the dark.
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| Correction: Marines-Training Accident story Posted: 15 Sep 2017 04:14 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — In stories Sept. 14 and Sept. 13 about a training accident at a California Marine Corps base, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the vehicle when it caught fire. A Marine spokesman said it was inland and not on a beach at Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego.
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| Police Release Surveillance Footage of Woman Found Dead in Hotel Freezer Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:50 PM PDT  The video shows her walking through the hotel the night she was last seen
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| Eddie Montgomery Faces the Future in Grief at Troy Gentry's Memorial Posted: 15 Sep 2017 06:45 PM PDT  How many times had Troy Gentry and Eddie Montgomery shared the stage at the Grand Ole Opry House?
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| Texas clinics offer free abortions to women caught up in Hurricane Harvey Posted: 16 Sep 2017 11:20 AM PDT  Dozens of women who were caught up in Hurricane Harvey are being offered free abortions at Texas clinics. The women's health organisation is working with the Lilith Fund, a pro-choice group in Texas, and others to create a relief fund for the patients. Whole Woman's Health has so far raised $15,000 (£11,000) to help fund the free abortions but said the total cost will be closer to $40,000.
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| Nepal survey to remeasure Mount Everest begins Posted: 15 Sep 2017 10:00 AM PDT  Nepal has begun remeasuring Mount Everest to check if the height of the world's tallest peak was altered by a powerful earthquake that struck the nation in 2015, the government said Friday. The official height of Mount Everest -- which lies in the Himalayan range, straddling the border between Nepal and China -- is 8,848 metres (29,029 feet), first recorded by an Indian survey in 1954. "Nepal has never measured Everest on its own although the world's highest peak lies in its territory.
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| Cincinnati Zoo Introduces First Gorilla Since the Death of Harambe Posted: 15 Sep 2017 10:54 AM PDT  Mshindi is a 29-year-old western lowland gorilla who arrived in Cincy from the Louisville Zoo.
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| Russia rejects allegation it bombed U.S.-backed fighters in Syria Posted: 17 Sep 2017 04:12 AM PDT  Russia's Defence Ministry on Sunday rejected allegations it had bombed U.S.-backed militias in Syria, saying its planes only targeted Islamic State militants and that it had warned the United States well in advance of its operational plans. U.S.-backed militias said they came under attack on Saturday from Russian jets and Syrian government forces in Deir al-Zor province, a flashpoint in an increasingly complex battlefield. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting with the U.S.-led coalition, said six of its fighters had been wounded in the strike.
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| Lead carver of Mount Rushmore honored with plaque Posted: 16 Sep 2017 06:59 PM PDT  KEYSTONE, S.D. (AP) — The chief carver of Mount Rushmore who was responsible for refining the expressions on the faces of the monument's four presidents was honored Saturday with a plaque that recognizes his work.
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| A Man Survived After Caustic Beer Burned Up His Organs. He Just Got $750,000 Posted: 16 Sep 2017 07:15 AM PDT  He just got $750,000
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| The Powerful Reason Why This Artist Has Been Saving His Urine For The Last 200 Days Posted: 16 Sep 2017 05:07 AM PDT  Cassils spent a good chunk of this week trying to ensure that the 200-gallon tank of urine he was installing at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts didn't leak through the floor and destroy all of the priceless art that currently might be stored in the gallery's basement.
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| U2 cancels St. Louis show amid protests over Jason Stockley acquittal Posted: 16 Sep 2017 11:15 AM PDT  U2 canceled a show in St. Louis scheduled for Saturday night amid citywide protests over the Friday acquittal of police officer Jason Stockley, who shot a black driver five times after a car chase and was charged with first-degree murder. "We have been informed by the St. Louis Police Department that they are not in a position to provide the standard protection for our audience as would be expected for an event of this size. We have also been informed that local crowd security personnel would not be at full capacity," U2 said in a joint statement with Live Nation. SEE ALSO: Activists hang 'Racism is as American as baseball' banner at Red Sox game "In light of this information, we cannot in good conscience risk our fans' safety by proceeding with tonight's concert." People throughout St. Louis started protesting after Stockley was acquitted on Friday. The former police officer killed Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011 and was charged with murder last year. Stockley and another officer chased Smith at up to 80 miles per hour, and Stockley said that he was "going to kill this motherf‑‑‑er, don't you know it," the Washington Post reported based on court documents. The officer fired five times into Smith's car. officer Jason Stockley heard pledging to kill Anthony Lamar Smith. He did & then, per DA, planted a gun. Acquittedhttps://t.co/QAljzNwVPd — Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) September 15, 2017 Stockley was also accused of planting a gun on Smith. A gun found in Smith's car only carried DNA from Stockley. Although most protests were peaceful, some violence broke out between protesters and police officers late at night. About 1,000 protesters at the mayor's house met 200 police officers in riot gear who used tear gas to disperse the crowds and ward off thrown rocks and bricks. Twenty-three people were arrested as of 6 p.m. Friday. "As much as we regret having to cancel, we feel it is the only acceptable course of action in the current environment," U2 said in their statement. Fans who bought tickets to the show online will receive refunds to their credit cards, and people who bought tickets in person can receive refunds at their point of purchase starting at 10 a.m. Monday. WATCH: Little girl proves that anyone can handle post Irma clean-up
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| Chelsea Manning hung up phone on Harvard dean who delivered fellowship snub Posted: 15 Sep 2017 11:40 AM PDT  The source said Elmendorf argued that Harvard had to 'weigh' what each visiting fellow 'brought to the table'. Chelsea Manning, the former US soldier who leaked hundreds of thousands of state secrets and served seven years in military prison, abruptly terminated a phone call with the dean of the Harvard Kennedy school in an expression of her dismay at his decision to revoke her visiting fellowship in the face of severe pressure from the CIA.
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| China punishes 31 for deadly construction accident Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:43 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — China has ordered 31 people to be placed under "coercive measures" for a collapse last year at a construction site that killed 73 people, the state news agency reported Saturday.
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| Mandy Moore Shows Off New Ring After Engagement To Taylor Goldsmith Posted: 16 Sep 2017 11:46 AM PDT  Mandy Moore showed off her new ring for the first time in public since her engagement to Taylor Goldsmith
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| Many Americans Are More Racist Than They Think: Poll Posted: 15 Sep 2017 02:35 PM PDT  Very few will express outright support for the alt-right, white nationalism or neo-Nazism. But that doesn't mean they don't have similar ideas and attitudes.
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| Republican Health Care Efforts Would Harm Veterans, Report Says Posted: 15 Sep 2017 03:35 PM PDT  Repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act would likely have negative consequences for veterans, a group that Republicans lawmakers typically champion, according to a report released by the nonprofit Rand Corporation on Thursday.
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| Desperate Europe-bound migrants turn to capricious Black Sea Posted: 16 Sep 2017 03:18 AM PDT  While the arrival of exhausted migrants may be common on Mediterranean shores, it's a rare sight on the Black Sea coastline. Shortly before dawn on Wednesday, around 150 people, a third of them children, were rescued in the Black Sea -- the fifth migrant boat to be intercepted by Romanian authorities since mid-August. In 2014, the last year of relative activity, close to 300 migrants crossed the Black Sea to reach Romania.
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| Seminary Cancels Talk by Priest Who Urges Compassion for LGBT People Posted: 16 Sep 2017 11:29 AM PDT  Rev. James Martin said he planned a talk on Jesus at the seminary at the Catholic University of America, not his recent book on LGBT people
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| Awash in protests — Trump supporters, counterprotesters and rap-group fans descend on Washington Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:22 PM PDT ![Awash in protests — Trump supporters, counterprotesters and rap-group fans descend on Washington]( "Awash in protests — Trump supporters, counterprotesters and rap-group fans descend on Washington") President Donald Trump skipped town for the weekend, but that didn't stop demonstrators from making him the focus of competing rallies in the nation's capital.
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| Watch What Happened When These Two Men Swapped Grindr Profiles Posted: 17 Sep 2017 05:57 AM PDT  Popular dating app Grindr is using its new web series as a social experiment to take an honest, if lighthearted, look at how racism, ageism and other forms of discrimination play out in the queer community.
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| Hamas says ready to hand Gaza to a Palestinian unity government Posted: 17 Sep 2017 09:32 AM PDT  By Mohamed el Sherif and Ali Sawafta CAIRO/RAMALLAH (Reuters) - Hamas has agreed to dissolve the administration that runs Gaza, it said on Sunday, a major step towards handing control of the enclave to a Palestinian unity government after a decade of bitter rivalry with President Mahmoud Abbas. The Islamist group, which has ruled Gaza since a brief Palestinian civil war in 2007, said it had taken "a courageous, serious and patriotic decision to dissolve the administrative committee" that runs the territory of 2 million people, and hand power to some form of unity government. Reunification a decade after Hamas and Abbas's secular Fatah movement battled for control of Gaza may hinge on whether complex issues related to power-sharing - which stymied reconciliation bids in the past - can be resolved.
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| The Kenmore Range in CR's Lab That Just Won't Quit Posted: 16 Sep 2017 04:31 AM PDT  Tara Casaregola, the test engineer who oversees Consumer Reports' cooking appliances lab, has been evaluating ranges for more than a decade. In that time she has broiled thousands of hamburgers a...
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