| What Alabama's GOP Senate Frontrunner Told Me Should Scare The Daylights Out Of You Posted: 22 Sep 2017 07:08 AM PDT  I've had the opportunity twice over the past several years to interview the current Alabama GOP Senate frontrunner Roy Moore at length and flesh out some of his, um, ideas.
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| Black Cornell Student Allegedly 'Bloodied Up' In Racially Charged Attack Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:20 AM PDT  Less than two weeks after someone chanted "build a wall, build a wall" near the Latino Living Center on Cornell University's campus, a white student was arrested after allegedly assaulting a black student in front of his home and yelling racial slurs at him.
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| Cassini captured mysterious 'glitch' on Saturn's rings before death dive Posted: 21 Sep 2017 12:12 PM PDT  Cassini sent home one last batch of photos from Saturn before plunging to its death Friday and among them was an attempt to record a mysterious object embedded in the planet's rings, otherwise known as "Peggy."
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| Rescue workers race to find survivors at collapsed Mexico City school Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:48 AM PDT ![Rescue workers race to find survivors at collapsed Mexico City school]( "Rescue workers race to find survivors at collapsed Mexico City school") Rescue workers search for students at the Enrique Rebsamen school after an earthquake in Mexico City.
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| Russia warns US, says special forces helping Syrian troops Posted: 21 Sep 2017 09:01 AM PDT  Russia on Thursday issued a stern warning to U.S. forces and their allies in Syria, saying it has deployed Russian special forces alongside Syrian government troops in the battle for the oil-rich Deir el-Zour province and that Moscow would retaliate if the Russians come under fire.
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| Greenpeace boards ship in bid to halt delivery of UK-bound VW diesel cars Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:59 AM PDT  By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists boarded a ship arriving in Britain on Thursday to stop the delivery of more than 1,000 Volkswagen cars from Germany while others sought to immobilise vehicles at a port in anti-diesel protests. VW admitted cheating diesel emissions tests in 2015, triggering political and consumer pressure that has caused a slump in sales of diesel cars in major markets, with governments announcing plans to ban vehicles powered by conventional combustion engines. Greenpeace said its volunteers had boarded the ship in the Thames Estuary in an attempt to stop it unloading at the port of Sheerness in the southeast of England.
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| Trump's 'horrible' handshake with Melania suggests 'their marriage is in jeopardy': Body language expert Posted: 21 Sep 2017 01:45 AM PDT  President Donald trump made waves last week when he greeted his wife on stage with an "awkward" handshake, and a body language expert says the move made the first couple "look horrible."
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| Will Barcelona secede from Spain? Catalan independence is up for a vote — and Russia is stirring the pot Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:21 PM PDT  At issue is a wave of Catalan nationalism culminating in a referendum on secession, scheduled for Oct. 1.
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| Please Stop Calling 911 To Report This Gruesome 'Decapitated Body' Posted: 22 Sep 2017 02:14 AM PDT  Halloween arrived early in one part of Tennessee and sparked a panicked 911 call to police.
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| Mexico Schoolgirl's Wiggling Fingers Bring Hope After 2 Others Rescued From Quake Rubble Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:43 AM PDT  The school was among 40 buildings that collapsed during Tuesday's massive earthquake.
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| Here's Why You Can't Call Puerto Rico After Maria Posted: 21 Sep 2017 02:51 PM PDT  Puerto Ricans living in Orlando and other U.S. cities are desperate to hear news from their loved ones and friends after Hurricane Maria.
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| Poll: GOP tax reform not priority for Americans Posted: 22 Sep 2017 01:00 AM PDT  President Trump continues to push tax reform as the GOP's top policy this fall, but it may not be in line with what most Americans want.
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| How North Korea Could Start World War III: A War Between Russia and America Posted: 21 Sep 2017 04:57 PM PDT  Ultimately, while American attempts to shoot-down a North Korean missile are unlikely to trigger an accidental nuclear war, it might not be good idea stress the Russian early warning system. The best option—time permitting—would be to forewarn Moscow of any attempt to shoot down a North Korean missile. If the United States decides to attempt to shoot down future North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests using the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, it is likely that Russia's early warning system will not mistake the interceptors for a potential nuclear attack.
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| Melania Trump Tells UN Leaders To Be More 'Accountable' For What Children See Online Posted: 20 Sep 2017 11:02 AM PDT  First lady Melania Trump on Wednesday urged global leaders to be more "accountable" for the learning and development of children, including monitoring what young people see on social media.
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| Kansas shooting suspect owes almost $400,000 in unpaid taxes Posted: 20 Sep 2017 02:42 PM PDT  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man suspected in the shooting of a Kansas Department of Revenue employee in Wichita was under investigation by the agency and owed nearly $400,000 in sales taxes related to his construction business, according to police and records.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 22 Sep 2017 05:55 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways.
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| 11 Family Members, Including 2-Month-Old, Die During Baptism After Church Collapses in Deadly Mexico Earthquake Posted: 21 Sep 2017 10:07 AM PDT  A baby's baptism ended in tragedy on Tuesday when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked a Mexico church, killing nearly a dozen family members, according to reports
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| Florida Officials Allege Disturbing Cover-Up At Nursing Home Where Patients Died After Irma Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:44 AM PDT  Staff at a Florida nursing home where nine patients fell ill last week and eventually died after its air conditioning was knocked out for days made entries into patients' medical records that inaccurately portrayed their situation, according to state officials.
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| Mexico earthquake: rescue dog who has saved 52 lives in her career searches for more victims Posted: 21 Sep 2017 04:58 PM PDT  Having already save 52 lives during her career, Frida is plunging back into the rubble to find more people. The six-year-old labrador has been deployed at disasters across Central and North America, participating in rescue missions in Haiti, Ecuador and Honduras. Men's Best Friend, always willing to help <3 My heart and thoughts are with the people of Mexico. �� https://t.co/c9MKapIjIL— riogayguide (@riogayguide) September 21, 2017 Her bravery and resourcefulness has even earned the praise of Mexico's president, Enrique Pena Nieto, who took to Twitter to praise the labrador. "This is Frida," he wrote. "She belongs to SEMAR and has helped save 52 lives in various natural disasters at national and international levels." Wearing goggles, a khaki padded waistcoat and all-terrain boots, Frida was back in action weeks after saving 12 victims from an earlier Mexican quake. A member of the Mexican Navy stands next to a rescue dog Credit: EdgardGarrido/Reuters At least 273 people have been killed as a result of the 7.1 earthquake which struck the country on Tuesday. Others are still buried under the rubble and their hopes of survival rest on rescue dogs like Frida. Frida's exploits have been hailed on social media. There are even cartoons of Frida and some have suggested she should run for office.
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| Kim Vows To Tame 'Mentally Deranged' Trump As North Korea Threatens H-Bomb Test Posted: 21 Sep 2017 03:47 PM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made a rare, explosive address Thursday, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to "totally destroy" the isolated nation if provoked.
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| Pakistan tells UN won't be 'scapegoat' in Afghan war Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:44 PM PDT  Pakistan refuses to be a "scapegoat" for Afghanistan's bloodshed or to fight wars for others, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi told the United Nations on Thursday. Addressing the UN General Assembly, Abbasi did not explicitly criticize US President Donald Trump's new strategy on Afghanistan but made clear his displeasure with the renewed onus on Pakistan. "Having suffered and sacrificed so much due to our role in the global counter terrorism campaign, it is especially galling for Pakistan to be blamed for the military or political stalemate in Afghanistan," Abbasi said.
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| These Were The Most Popular Baby Names In England And Wales Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:57 AM PDT  In May, the Social Security Administration released the list of most popular baby names in the U.S. Now, our neighbors across the pond are sharing their data.
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| Storm Maria brings fear, pain and shock to Puerto Ricans Posted: 21 Sep 2017 01:35 PM PDT  By Dave Graham and Robin Respaut SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Miguel Cruz awoke to the descent of Hurricane Maria on his home on Wednesday morning when the massive storm peeled off most of the roof, sent his belongings flying in all directions, but left intact an icon of Jesus hanging above his bed. Cruz was one of thousands of Puerto Ricans picking through the wreckage left by Maria after the hurricane devastated basic services on the debt-laden U.S. territory, pitching most of its 3.4 million residents into darkness as night fell. Crashing into Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, Maria flipped the tops off buildings, knocked out phones and electricity across the island and turned low-lying roads into swollen rivers awash with debris.
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| Lawrence O'Donnell Lost His Mind Over A Malfunctioning Earpiece Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:47 PM PDT  On Wednesday, Mediaite published a full eight minutes of outtakes from the MSNBC host's Aug. 29 broadcast of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." Apparently O'Donnell's earpiece was acting up that night, a malfunction he repeatedly sounded off about between segments. This has been updated with O'Donnell's comments on Twitter.
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| Woman in Kevin Hart Sex Tape Comes Forward, Claims She Didn't Try to Extort Him Posted: 20 Sep 2017 02:15 PM PDT  Hart's heavily pregnant wife, Eniko, says "there is absolutely no divorce talk."
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| Jerry Lewis Left All Six Children from His First Marriage Out of His Will Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:37 PM PDT  Jerry Lewis certainly got in the last laugh when it comes to his strained relationship with his children.
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| Trump praises nonexistent African country 'Nambia' in speech to African leaders Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:18 AM PDT  President Trump made a major blunder during his United Nations speech on Wednesday.
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| Russia Accuses U.S. of Working With Al-Qaeda Affiliate Posted: 20 Sep 2017 11:57 AM PDT  The U.S. has designated the Al-Qaeda affiliated a "terrorist" group, despite its attempts to rebrand. However Russia has repeatedly accused Washington of sparing its militants.
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| Fearing far-right surge, Merkel urges Germans to vote on Sunday Posted: 21 Sep 2017 02:15 PM PDT  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - Fears that apathy could boost the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in an election on Sunday have driven Chancellor Angela Merkel and her main rival to urge their backers to go out and vote. A GMS poll on Thursday said 34 percent were not planning to vote or were undecided, higher than the 29 percent who did not cast ballots in the last election in 2013. "My request to everyone is that they vote, and vote for those parties that adhere 100 percent to our constitution," Merkel told MDR radio on Thursday, pointing to the AfD.
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| Canoeist Emma Kelty was 'raped and tortured' before bungling attackers set off SOS alarm Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:12 AM PDT  British canoeist Emma Kelty was tortured and raped as she died after being shot, villagers have claimed. The full details of the adventurer's last moments were revealed in a confession by one of the suspects hours after the attack. Ringleader Evanilson Gomes da Costa, 24, died Wednesday after being shot by rival gangsters. Residents of the small riverside community of Lauro Sodre, near to where the crime took place, said all seven men accused of her murder are well-known drugs users in the village. And one local who knows da Costa - known by his nicknamed Baia - said the gangster spoke to him in the early hours of the morning following Ms Kelty's death last Wednesday night, revealing what they had done. The man, who didn't want to be named, said: "He said he was one of four men. The woman had put up her tent on the beach in exactly the area where the Colombia drug traffickers go through, and which is crawling with pirates who wait for them to arrive to attack. Ms Kelty was a seasoned traveller "These men aren't pirates though, they are just drug users. We are all shocked that these men from our community did such a terrible thing to this woman. "When the men saw her tent they thought it belonged to a Colombian with drugs, so they started firing from about 50 metres away. The woman was hit in the arm. She started waving frantically and screaming for help." He said that when the four men saw that she was a woman they attacked her and, still believing she was carrying drugs, cut off her hair with a knife while demanding to know where the drugs were. According to the man, one of the group then slit her through with the knife, before all four men "sexually abused her". He said they then dragged her body to the river and dumped it in the fast-moving water. He said: "The men fled into the forest after we all found out what they had done. We provided the police with the details and their identities. We're all disgusted by what they have done." Yesterday the chief police officer in Coari, Jose Afonso Barradas Junior, also revealed that one of the suspects, Artur Gomes da Silva, had confessed to slitting the former headteacher's throat. He was arrested yesterday after an anonymous tip-off. And Mr Barradas Junior also revealed how the "stupid" gangsters unwittingly alerted authorities to their crime after accidentally triggering a distress signal on her GPS device, police said today. Investigators had first thought the emergency alert which pinpointed Emma Kelty's exact location and triggered a search operation by Brazil's Navy had been sent by the victim herself. But in fact the 'SOS' button was pressed by one of her killers who was trying to work out how to use the device they had stolen, an hour and a half after her death. Police have now recovered the GPS device, as well as a mobile phone and a memory card, which the gang of seven 'pirates' sold to local villagers after killing her. The GPS signal sent at 10pm last Wednesday night led investigators to the riverside village of Lauro Sodre, 150 miles west of Manaus, and a manhunt which has brought about the arrest of three men accused of her murder. A fourth man was killed yesterday in an unrelated gangfight, and three brothers are still on the run. Yesterday Coari police chief Jose Afonso Barradas Junior said he doubted anyone would have discovered what happened to Ms Kelty if the "stupid" gangsters hadn't set off her emergency locator by mistake. He said: "They didn't know how it worked, so were messing around with it and pushing buttons. "One of them must have pushed the button which transmitted an alert that she was in trouble. In turn the company that received it alerted the Navy, along with the exact location of where the button was pushed. "Without that, it would have been very difficult to know where in this vast area of jungle she had gone missing. "It would have probably remained an unsolved mystery and her killers never brought to justice. "The place where she disappeared is a very complicated area, it's difficult to access and there are no telephones or mobile signal. The criminals thought they could kill her in impunity, but then they stupidly pressed the only button which could have turned them in to the police." Mr Barradas Junior added that some of the locals who bought Ms Kelty's stolen items from the pirates later hid them in the forest after finding out who they belonged to. He said: "They were afraid that they could be arrested for being in possession of stolen property. "But they later took police to the places where they had hid them so the items could be recovered."
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| Why the Rapture Won't Happen on September 23, According to NASA Posted: 20 Sep 2017 02:24 PM PDT  No, Nibiru isn't real. Stop it.
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| Japan PM says time for North Korea dialogue is over Posted: 20 Sep 2017 11:41 AM PDT  Addressing the UN General Assembly, Abe said "there is not much time left" to take action on North Korea which in recent weeks has detonated another nuclear bomb and fired a series of missiles over or near Japan. Abe said that the world has already tried exhaustively to reach a negotiated settlement with North Korea, starting with the US-backed 1994 Agreed Framework which collapsed a decade later.
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| Fans Petition For Wonder Woman To Be Bisexual In Sequel Posted: 21 Sep 2017 04:53 AM PDT  Woman and girls were thrilled to see themselves reflected in a superhero when "Wonder Woman" premiered this summer.
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| Chrissy Teigen needed 6 brown bananas, so she sent her mom to get them from one of her Twitter followers Posted: 21 Sep 2017 01:04 PM PDT  Chrissy Teigen just really wanted six brown bananas, you guys.
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| Trump To African Leaders: My Friends Go To Your Countries To Get Rich Posted: 20 Sep 2017 12:43 PM PDT  Africa is a continent of "tremendous, tremendous potential," U.S. President Donald Trump told African leaders at a luncheon on Wednesday.
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| Pope candidly admits Church 'arrived late' in confronting abuse Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:25 AM PDT  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in some of his most candid and personal comments on the sexual abuse of children by priests, said on Thursday that the Catholic Church had "arrived late" in dealing with the problem. Francis, speaking in unscripted remarks to a commission advising him on how to root out sexual abuse, also acknowledged that early in his papacy he had made one bad call in being too lenient with an Italian priest who later went on to abuse again. Francis surprised members of the commission by putting aside his entire prepared speech and chatting to them.
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