| These Are The 21 States Russian Hackers Targeted In The 2016 Election Posted: 23 Sep 2017 01:00 PM PDT  The Department of Homeland Security told told election officials in 21 states on Friday that Russian hackers attempted to access their voting systems in the 2016 election.
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| Inside Relief Flight to Hurricane Battered St. Thomas Posted: 23 Sep 2017 09:03 AM PDT  NBC News got rare access inside a U.S. military relief flight supplying food, water and even a mobile air traffic control tower to St. Thomas — an island devastated by Hurricane Irma and hit again by Maria, delaying critical relief efforts.
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| Trump clashes with sports world over player protests, invitation Posted: 23 Sep 2017 04:26 PM PDT  By Barbara Goldberg and Joel Schectman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump and the sports world engaged in an intensifying spat on Saturday after he called for National Football League owners to fire players who protest during the U.S. national anthem and disinvited a National Basketball Association star from a White House visit. Responding to Trump's attacks on football players who protested during the national anthem, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Saturday that Trump's statements revealed "unfortunate lack of respect" for the NFL and its players.
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| Kaiser Permanente CEO: Health Care Must Mean More Than Coverage Posted: 22 Sep 2017 12:00 PM PDT  Bernard J. Tyson asks: How can we redefine health and health care for the 21st century?
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| Syria drops off the radar at UN assembly Posted: 22 Sep 2017 11:43 PM PDT  Syria's war has taken a new turn with the expected recapture of Raqa from the Islamic State, but world leaders gathered at the United Nations this week seem to be paying little attention. Last year, tensions were running high at the UN assembly, with Western powers locked in heated exchanges with Russia and Iran, the Syrian government's allies, over the offensive against rebel-held Aleppo.
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| In Sad, Sad Press Conference, Milo Says 'Free Speech Week' Is Now Just One Measly Rally Posted: 23 Sep 2017 09:20 PM PDT  But on Saturday morning, a day before Milo Yiannopoulos's "Free Speech Week" rally at the University of California, Berkeley, was scheduled to start, the alt-right provocateur alerted his followers that he would be holding an "emergency" press conference on Facebook Live.
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| Companies Look to Bridge U.S. ‘Middle Skills’ Gap Posted: 23 Sep 2017 09:16 AM PDT  Companies like Toyota, Boeing, General Motors and Dow Chemical are all starting or expanding specialized job training programs to bridge the gap in technical skills for "middle skills jobs."
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| Police Shootings Are Killing Latinos Posted: 23 Sep 2017 04:50 AM PDT  Latinos involved in police shootings have been widely underrepresented in the past few years.
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| Jeff Sessions' New Chief Of Staff: Mueller's Russia Probe Could Be A 'Witch Hunt' Posted: 22 Sep 2017 03:42 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions has appointed as his chief of staff a former federal prosecutor who has written that the special counsel investigation into the Trump administration could be turning into a "witch hunt."
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| British man dies as Royal Navy helicopter rescues wife and children from capsized ship near Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria Posted: 22 Sep 2017 10:59 AM PDT  A British man died and his family were plucked to safety by a Royal Navy helicopter after their pleasure boat overturned while sailing off Puerto Rico in the teeth of Hurricane Maria. The 56-year-old Briton's wife, a 48-year-old Dominican, and their two 12-year-old sons were spotted on top of the capsized vessel waving desperately for help while he was trapped underneath. It was believed the family had set sail from Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands, which was battered by Hurricane Irma less than two weeks ago, and were trying to reach St Lucia. Their vessel, the Ferrel, was a 133ft former survey ship sued by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It had been decommissioned in 2002 and recently converted into a pleasure boat. US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Peter Brown said: "We initially got the call, a vessel in distress, a family of four, north of St Croix, literally in the teeth of a hurricane. "We were obviously concerned. We didn't ask their names and didn't ask why they were out there." The US Coast Guard in Miami said the Ferrel sent out an emergency position alert on Wednesday as Hurricane Maria approached Puerto Rico. Rescuers hoist up stranded family Credit: AP The family then issued a distress call saying they were adrift amid 20ft waves and 115 mph winds near Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico's east coast. Communications were then lost with the boat. A search was launched which included the Royal Navy ship RFA Mounts Bay, the US Coast Guard, and US Navy. The USS Kearsage amphibious assault ship, a search plane and helicopters also joined the hunt. In the early hours of the morning a Wildcat helicopter from RFA Mounts Bay spotted an upturned hull, debris, and a life raft in the water, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said. Three people were then seen clambering up on top of the capsized hull and waved for help. They were winched on to the Wildcat and flown to RFA Mounts Bay where they were treated for minor injuries, before being returned to Tortola. Captain Steve Norris, Commanding Officer of RFA Mounts Bay, said: "My ship and crew demonstrated exceptional teamwork today to save these lives and I am immensely grateful to them all for their efforts in this operation. "It is with regret that we understand that a fourth individual at the scene is missing, presumed dead. Our thoughts go out to their family." The boat capsized after being hit by Hurricane Maria Credit: AP The body of the man was not recovered and was "inaccessible to search and rescue crews" under the boat, the US Coast Guard said. A spokesman said: "The husband was a British national. The wife was Dominican." Maria's winds had blown the Ferrel about 50 miles from where the distress call was made. Dramatic video footage filmed from a US Coast Guard helicopter showed the woman and two boys, wearing life jackets, standing and waving for help from the hull of their boat, then being rescued by the Royal Navy helicopter. Maria was the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico for almost 90 years. The entire island of 3.5 million people was left without electricity and there were warnings it could take months to restore power. At least 33 people were killed on Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands, homes were destroyed, there was widespread flooding, and communities remained isolated with roads impassable. Carmen Yulin Cruz, mayor of the Puerto Rican capital San Juan, said: "I got an SOS from an elderly home and it was a text like from a horror movie. "It said if anybody can hear us, please, we are stuck here and we can't get out and we have no power, and we have very little water left. We got there just in time." Experts expected the storm to cause up to $45 billion in damage across the Caribbean, with at least $30 billion of that in Puerto Rico. On Friday Maria, the second major hurricane to hit the Caribbean this month, moved on to lash the Turks and Caicos Islands. Meanwhile Evacuations were underway in two towns in the northwest of the island after a dam began failing in what the government called an "extremely dangerous" situation. Isabela and Quebradillas, towns which are home to 70,000 people, were being cleared with buses "as quickly as they can," the National Weather Service said. The nearby Guajataca Dam holds back a man-made lake covering two square miles, and was built decades ago.
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| Anthropologie Accidentally Sold $8,000 Couches for $0 and Twitter Couldn't Handle It Posted: 22 Sep 2017 10:42 AM PDT  They quickly canceled all the orders
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| Trump promises Alabama Sen. Strange will 'drain the swamp' Posted: 22 Sep 2017 07:11 PM PDT  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — President Donald Trump implored his supporters Friday to get behind an establishment-backed incumbent in a Republican runoff race in Alabama, arguing that Sen. Luther Strange will "drain the swamp" and doesn't know the Senate Majority Leader "at all."
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| Kurds stick with independence vote, 'never going back to Baghdad': Barzani Posted: 24 Sep 2017 09:29 AM PDT  By Maher Chmaytelli ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's Kurds will go ahead with a referendum on independence on Monday because partnership with Baghdad has failed, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani said on Sunday. Iraq's Kurds will seek talks with the Shi'ite-led central government to implement the expected 'yes' outcome of the referendum, even if they take two years or more, to settle land and oil sharing disputes ahead of independence, he told a news conference in at his headquarters near the KRG seat, Erbil. "We will never go back to the failed partnership" with Baghdad, he said, adding Iraq had become a "theocratic, sectarian state" and not the democratic one that was supposed to be built after the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
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| Dog Hoards Money So She Can Pay For Treats Herself Posted: 23 Sep 2017 09:06 AM PDT  Holly the dog doesn't beg for treats — she pays for them.
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| Marriott refuses to cancel conference booking by anti-Muslim hate group Posted: 23 Sep 2017 03:50 AM PDT  The Marriot hotel group are refusing to cancel an event organised by one of the largest anti-Muslim groups in America. ACT for America was launched as a response to the 9/11 attacks and it has been accused of existing "to advance anti-Muslim legislation and spread hate speech," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group, which claims to have 750,000 members and 1,000 volunteer groups, is holding its national two-day conference on 2 October in Arlington, Virginia, at the Marriott Crystal Gateway hotel.
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| Video Shows California Police Officer Shooting Man Multiple Times Outside 7-Eleven Posted: 23 Sep 2017 05:26 AM PDT  Huntington Beach police officer was captured on a video struggling with a suspect and then shooting him multiple times in a convenience store parking lot.
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| The Radioactive Puppies Of Chernobyl Are Finally Getting The Help They Need Posted: 23 Sep 2017 11:21 AM PDT  A viral video this week sheds light on a heart-rending situation: The radioactive puppies and dogs of Chernobyl.
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| Red faces as Russia's Kalashnikov monument shows Nazi gun Posted: 23 Sep 2017 03:48 AM PDT  Workers in Moscow have erased the illustration of a gun from a freshly-inaugurated monument of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the legendary AK-47 assault rifle, after it was found that the drawing was of a Nazi weapon. The sculptor, Salavat Shtsherbakoff, has acknowledged his mistake," the state-supported Russian Military History Society, which backed the monument, told TASS news agency Friday. The erroneous drawing was of an StG44 -- for Sturmgewehr (Storm Rifle), a name reputedly conferred by Hitler himself.
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| Magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits off northern California: USGS Posted: 23 Sep 2017 11:48 AM PDT ![Magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits off northern California: USGS]( "Magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits off northern California: USGS") A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck on Friday off the coast of Northern California in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no reports of damage or injury.
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| Forget Cheat ‘Sheet’ — Student Outwits Professor With Enormous 'Cheat Poster' Posted: 24 Sep 2017 06:01 AM PDT  When Professor Reb Beatty of Maryland's Anne Arundel Community College arrived at his accounting class to administer a test last week, he hardly could have imagined that he'd be the one getting outsmarted. In a Sept. 20 Facebook post that's since gone viral, Beatty explained that he'd told his students that they were allowed to bring in a "3x5" cheat sheet to use during the test. Beatty, however, failed to specify the unit of measurement he was referring to.
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| Syria looks to peace, North Korea to attack on US mainland Posted: 23 Sep 2017 05:51 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria's foreign minister told world leaders Saturday that victory against terrorists in his war-ravaged nation "is now within reach" while North Korea's foreign minister said U.S. President Donald Trump's insult to his country makes an attack against the U.S. mainland inevitable.
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| Congo president says whoever killed U.N. experts will be punished Posted: 23 Sep 2017 09:23 AM PDT  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Congolese President Joseph Kabila told the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations on Saturday that he would ensure those responsible for killing two U.N. investigators earlier this year would be punished. Michael Sharp, an American who was coordinator of an independent sanctions monitoring group, and Zaida Catalan, a Swede, were killed in central Congo on March 12 while carrying out investigations for a report to the U.N. Security Council. "We are determined to ensure that light is shed on the exact circumstances of this crime and to ensure that this horrendous act ... will not remain unpunished," Kabila said.
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| Here's The Simplest Reason Lisa Murkowski Likely Won't Support This ACA Repeal Bill Posted: 22 Sep 2017 03:08 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has all but killed Obamacare repeal, but there's still one senator in particular who could make it a done deal and nobody knows where she stands: Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
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| Michelle Obama makes first public appearance in months -- and she looks stunning! Posted: 22 Sep 2017 12:22 PM PDT  The former first lady was spotted at a tech conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, her first public appearance since late July, on Thursday evening.
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| The Latest: Deaf man's family calls for officer's arrest Posted: 22 Sep 2017 04:07 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of a deaf man by a police officer in Oklahoma City (all times local):
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| Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria Posted: 23 Sep 2017 01:28 PM PDT ![Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria]( "Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria") People across Puerto Rico struggled to dig out from the devastation left by Hurricane Maria.
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| Walmart Wants To Stick Groceries In Your Refrigerator While You're Away Posted: 22 Sep 2017 04:07 PM PDT  Walmart is one of the most familiar brands in America, but are you ready to give them access to your home?
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| Protesters against Turkey's president Erdogan again beaten up on US soil Posted: 23 Sep 2017 10:26 AM PDT  Violence broke out at a New York hotel when protesters disrupted a speech by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. As Mr Erdogan addressed supporters in Turkish at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square, one man shouted in English "You're a terrorist, get out of my country" before being struck and dragged away. Protesters were seen being hit and pushed by men in suits, thought to be the president's bodyguards, his supporters or hotel security, before being thrown out of the venue.
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| Last flight home for icon of 'German Autumn' of terror Posted: 23 Sep 2017 07:37 AM PDT  Forty years ago next month, German anti-terror commandos stormed a Lufthansa jet in Somalia, shot its Palestinian hijackers and freed 90 hostages, a climax in a bloody era of far-left militancy. The 1977 Mogadishu raid became a symbol of the "German Autumn" when the state was at war with the "urban guerrillas" of the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, and their international allies. On Saturday, the storied old Boeing 737 "Landshut", having quietly rusted away in Brazil for almost a decade, finally came home, destined to serve as a memorial to that turbulent era.
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| Twitter Claps Back At Trump 'Withdrawing' Steph Curry's White House Invite Posted: 23 Sep 2017 11:42 AM PDT  Twitter had no patience for President Donald Trump's tweets this weekend.
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| California gang members found guilty of killing 5 Posted: 22 Sep 2017 06:27 PM PDT ![California gang members found guilty of killing 5]( "California gang members found guilty of killing 5") LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Two gang members were found guilty Friday of killing five people at a homeless encampment near Los Angeles in a feud involving drug debts.
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| Duchess Kate wore a second dress on her wedding day -- here's what it looks like Posted: 22 Sep 2017 10:40 AM PDT  Duchess Kate's Alexander McQueen wedding dress will go down as one of the most stunning in history. The iconic 2011 photograph of Kate in her white gown while looking back at sister Pippa Middleton as they both walked into Westminster Abby will remain engrained in our memories forever. With its intricate lace detailing, extravagant train and V-neck bodice, the look designed by Sarah Burton led to brides wanting similar looks of their own.
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| Everything We Learned From Russia's Massive Zapad Military Exercise Posted: 23 Sep 2017 05:04 AM PDT  Nicholas J. Myers
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| Day Care Workers Accused of Taunting Boy With Autism as He Cried Under Table Posted: 22 Sep 2017 11:34 AM PDT  Kadericca Smith, 26, and 19-year-old Alexis Henderson turned themselves in to police in Winter Haven, Fla., on Friday.
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| Fires rage in Rakhine as Myanmar army blames Rohingya for mosque blast Posted: 23 Sep 2017 01:30 AM PDT  Myanmar's army chief on Saturday blamed Rohinyga militants for an explosion outside a mosque in Rakhine state, as a rights group accused the military of starting fires in the region to prevent refugees from returning. The unrest comes days after Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared troops had ceased "clearance operations" in the border area that have forced more than 430,000 Rohingya refugees to flee for Bangladesh in under a month. The army claims it is targeting Rohingya militants who attacked police posts on August 25.
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| McCain's choice: Ailing senator plays spoiler again for GOP Posted: 23 Sep 2017 07:34 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain faced a choice that balanced friendship, party loyalty and his convictions. He made the decision some of his closest advisers expected.
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| FDA declines to approve J&J arthritis drug sirukumab Posted: 22 Sep 2017 02:23 PM PDT ![FDA declines to approve J&J arthritis drug sirukumab]( "FDA declines to approve J&J arthritis drug sirukumab") The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has declined to approve Johnson & Johnson's rheumatoid arthritis drug sirukumab, saying additional clinical data is needed to further evaluate its safety, the company said on Friday. The FDA's decision is in keeping with an advisory panel's recommendation in August that the FDA reject the drug. The most common causes of death were major heart problems, infection and malignancies.
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| 9 of the Best Cities for Oktoberfest—That Aren't in Germany Posted: 22 Sep 2017 12:25 PM PDT |
| Trump Says 'Fake News' Won't Show Crowd Size As CNN Shows Crowd Size Posted: 22 Sep 2017 08:56 PM PDT  President Donald Trump did what he usually does and attacked the so-called "fake news" during his speech at a campaign rally for Republican Sen. Luther Strange in Alabama on Friday night.
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| This Baseball Team Learned There's A Wrong Way To Celebrate Japanese Culture Posted: 22 Sep 2017 09:40 PM PDT  The San Jose Giants, a farm team for the San Francisco Giants, was forced to apologize earlier this month after it shared a tone-deaf tweet to celebrate its annual Japanese Heritage Night.
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| Parents of Accused Teen: Boy’s Hanging Was Accidental Posted: 23 Sep 2017 06:09 AM PDT  Rhianna Larkin and Eric Sullivan tell Newsweek the hanging of an 8-year-old biracial boy in New Hampshire was a tragic mistake, not a hate crime.
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