| Shep Smith Breaks From Fox News Coverage, Tears ‘Uranium One’ Scandal To Shreds Posted: 15 Nov 2017 05:08 AM PST  Fox News anchor Shep Smith broke from his network's hyperventilating coverage of the "Uranium One" pseudoscandal to debunk allegations of wrongdoings by Hillary Clinton.
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| Sick death row inmate will be given special pillow to help him breathe during lethal injection Posted: 14 Nov 2017 11:16 AM PST  A sick death row inmate set to die by lethal injection this week will be given a special wedge-shaped pillow to help him breathe as he is executed.
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| Trump touts poll showing majority disapprove of his performance Posted: 14 Nov 2017 07:25 AM PST  President Trump tweeted on Tuesday a graphic with the results of a daily tracking poll that shows 46 percent of Americans approve of his job performance. But the same poll, conducted by Rasmussen Reports, shows 53 percent disapprove.
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| Robocall Impersonating Washington Post Reporter Pretends To Seek Dirt On Roy Moore Posted: 14 Nov 2017 03:59 PM PST  A robocall from someone posing as a Washington Post reporter offering money for "damaging remarks" about Alabama Republican Roy Moore is fake, the Post said Tuesday after a local station in Alabama reported on it.
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| Police: Man killed wife in 1983, made it appear suicide Posted: 14 Nov 2017 01:01 PM PST  A Pennsylvania man was charged with fatally beating his wife more than 30 years ago, then slashing her wrists to make it appear she killed herself, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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| Congresswoman Says At Least 2 Members Of Congress Are Sexual Harassers Posted: 14 Nov 2017 07:58 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that she knows of two members of Congress who are currently in office ― a Democrat and a Republican ― who have sexually harassed staffers.
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| Olympic Weightlifter To Sell Gold Medal For Iran's Earthquake Victims Posted: 14 Nov 2017 02:44 PM PST  Olympic gold medalist Kianoush Rostami of Iran is auctioning off his prestigious medal to raise money for the victims of Sunday's catastrophic earthquake on the Iran-Iraq border, which has left at least 530 people dead and thousands injured.
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| The World Is About to Have a New $100 Billion Man Posted: 14 Nov 2017 06:26 AM PST  Jeff Bezos is on the verge of having a net worth of $100 Billion.
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| U.S. to fight Islamic State in Syria 'as long as they want to fight': Mattis Posted: 13 Nov 2017 05:07 PM PST  By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military will fight Islamic State in Syria "as long as they want to fight," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday, describing a longer-term role for U.S. troops long after the insurgents lose all of the territory they control. As U.S.-backed and Russian-backed forces battle to retake the remaining pockets of Islamic State-held terrain, Mattis said the U.S. military's longer-term objective would be to prevent the return of an "ISIS 2.0." "The enemy hasn't declared that they're done with the area yet, so we'll keep fighting as long as they want to fight," Mattis said, speaking to reporters at the Pentagon about the future of U.S. operations in Syria.
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| Father faints after learning that he and wife are having triplets Posted: 14 Nov 2017 07:43 AM PST  A father says he fainted when his wife surprised him with some special news: They're going to have triplets. Robert Tolbert said that his wife, Nia, left him a gift bag and a handwritten note. Mr Tolbert figured, 'Hey, it's probably that FitBit I've been hinting at getting for a while now." But he was dead wrong.
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| Gunman goes on shooting spree in Northern California Posted: 14 Nov 2017 02:42 PM PST ![Gunman goes on shooting spree in Northern California]( "Gunman goes on shooting spree in Northern California") A gunman carrying a semi-automatic weapon and two handguns opened fire at multiple locations across a small Northern California community on Tuesday, killing four people before he was slain by police. At least 10 other people were wounded, including two children at an elementary school near the small town of Corning, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Sacramento, where the suspect was slain, according to police and local media. "Deeply saddened to hear of the shooting in Northern California, the loss of life, including innocent children," Vice President Mike Pence said on Twitter.
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| Women's anger transformed the 2017 elections. Get ready for 2018. Posted: 14 Nov 2017 12:09 PM PST  Women candidates and voters — often in districts that Democrats had given up contesting — helped the party to its extraordinary gains in Virginia. In the year since Donald Trump was elected, thousands of women across the country have expressed interest in running for office, and new organizations are springing up to help them.
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| Texas State University Halts Greek Life After Fraternity Pledge Dies Posted: 14 Nov 2017 06:28 PM PST  Texas State University in San Marcos has halted all fraternity and sorority activity after a 20-year-old fraternity pledge was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive at an off-campus apartment.
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| Rohingya desperate to flee Myanmar are turning to swimming Posted: 13 Nov 2017 01:34 PM PST  SHAH PORIR DWIP, Bangladesh (AP) — Nabi Hussain owes his life to a yellow plastic oil container.
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| Horrific highway pile-up kills 18 in China Posted: 15 Nov 2017 03:47 AM PST  A highway pile-up involving at least 30 cars killed 18 people in eastern China on Wednesday, local authorities said, leaving dramatic scenes of twisted and burnt-out wreckage and a towering column of black smoke. Grisly footage from the aftermath in the city of Fuyang in Anhui province showed sedans violently crushed to around half their original size under large cargo trucks and blood stains on vehicle doors as the sound of people crying could be heard. Police said another 21 people were injured including 11 severely in the latest horrific tragedy to strike China's accident-prone highways.
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| Whistleblower Sues Interior Department For Information On Staff Shuffle Posted: 14 Nov 2017 01:51 PM PST  WASHINGTON — A scientist-turned-whistleblower who resigned from the Interior Department in October citing agency chief Ryan Zinke's "poor leadership" and "resume of failure" is suing to obtain information concerning his own reassignment and that of several of his former colleagues.
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| Breitbart sends two reporters to Alabama to discredit Roy Moore sexual misconduct story Posted: 13 Nov 2017 02:57 PM PST  The Republican Senate candidate running in the special election against Doug Jones has been accused by at least five women on the record of inappropriate behaviour while they were teenagers and he was in his 30s. Ms Corfman told the Washington Post that when she was just 14, a 32-year-old Mr Moore made advances towards her on multiple occasions. Mr Moore was working as a district attorney at the time.
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| Series of small earthquakes reminds California it is overdue for 'the big one' Posted: 14 Nov 2017 04:06 PM PST  A series of small earthquakes have rocked the San Francisco area, sparking renewed fears that the San Andreas Fault is ready for a long-overdue serious seismic shift. A 4.6-magnitude earthquake hit Monterey County in California on Monday morning, with nine smaller aftershocks being triggered. The tremors were felt 90 miles away, in San Francisco. Annemarie Baltay, a seismologist with the US Geological Survey, told SFGate that the "swarm" of earthquakes and aftershocks were typical. "It's as if someone put an oil can into the fault and lubricated it," she said. Mexico City was hit by a 7.1 earthquake on September 21 But any action along the San Andreas Fault, running from the Gulf of California to the region of Cape Mendocino, has long been cause for concern. Its last major earthquake was in October 1989, in Loma Prieta – a shift which killed 64 people and left 16,000 homes damaged. Southern California has over 300 faults, and the majority of the population live within five miles of one. It is believed the San Andreas Fault could spark an earthquake of up to 9.2 on the Richter scale. Scientists predict that a 7.8-magnitude earthquake could kill over 1,800 people and destroy or badly damage 300,000 buildings and homes. Did you feel the M4.7 NE of Gonzales, CA? Let us know here - https://t.co/d68QotdXXupic.twitter.com/tbxZAYPs5t— USGS (@USGS) November 13, 2017 Unlike most natural disasters, earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict. "Lots of seismologists have worked on that problem for many decades," said Greg Beroza, a professor of geophysics at Stanford university. He told Vox: "We're not predicting earthquakes in the short term. That requires us to know all kinds of information we don't have."
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| 33 Unbelievably Good Thanksgiving Appetizer Recipes Posted: 14 Nov 2017 02:49 PM PST |
| Duterte warns military conflict with North Korea will ‘end humanity’ Posted: 14 Nov 2017 07:40 PM PST  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday warned of the dire consequences that will result from a military conflict with North Korea.
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| Florida's Seminole Heights Slayer 'Won't Stop,' Serial Killer Expert Says Posted: 15 Nov 2017 05:23 AM PST  He lurks in the shadows of the Seminole Heights neighborhood in central Tampa, Florida.
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| Bride Becomes Fourth Woman in Her Family to Wear 86-Year-Old Wedding Dress Posted: 14 Nov 2017 07:46 AM PST  The dress was made in 1931.
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| Bangkok firefighters on front line of city's snake scourge Posted: 14 Nov 2017 08:15 PM PST  BANGKOK (AP) — When the latest distress call came into Phinyo Pukphinyo's fire station in Bangkok, it was not about a burning home or office building. Instead, the caller needed urgent help with a far more common problem facing Thailand's capital: snakes.
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| Tank convoy seen outside Zimbabwe capital Posted: 14 Nov 2017 08:18 AM PST  Several tanks were seen moving near the Zimbabwean capital Harare on Tuesday, witnesses told AFP, a day after the army warned it could intervene over a purge of ruling party officials. The sightings came as uncertainty swirls in Harare due to President Robert Mugabe's decision to fire his vice president last week, prompting a warning of possible military intervention from the army chief. Zimbabwe's army chief General Constantino Chiwenga on Monday warned President Robert Mugabe to "stop" purges of the ruling ZANU-PF party after Mugabe abruptly sacked vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa last week.
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| That tweet trolling a Muslim woman during the Westminster attack was actually by a Russian bot Posted: 14 Nov 2017 05:43 AM PST  On the day of the Westminster attack that left 6 dead, a Twitter troll shared an image of a Muslim woman on the phone, wrongly claiming she was ignoring the victims on the bridge: Image: screengrab/twitter/@southlonestarBoth the photographer and the woman in the image debunked @SouthLoneStar's account of the scene, saying it was taken out of context: Please circulate: Statement from the Muslim woman photographed on Westminster Bridge during #WestminsterAttack (via @TellMamaUK) pic.twitter.com/2sHFb56lEu — TellMAMAUK (@TellMamaUK) March 24, 2017 Nonetheless, the tweet got over 1,800 likes and 1,600 retweets, picked up by alt-right personalities and white nationalists like Richard Spencer: Walk on by... pic.twitter.com/8kCHYoNTIh — Richard �� Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) March 22, 2017 Now, it turns out that this account that spews hatred and anti-Muslim sentiment to its 16,000+ followers is a Russian bot, which has since been closed by Twitter, according to Wired. The report looks at a cache of posts from 2016 collected by New Knowledge, an American security startup, and reveals a network of Russian bots posting about "the Brexit vote, pictures of London Mayor Sadiq Kahn, anti-Muslim language around European terror attacks and racial slurs against refugees." In June 2016, @SouthLoneStar, which claimed to be a "Proud TEXAN and AMERICAN patriot", tweeted about Brexit: "I hope UK after #BrexitVote will start to clean their land from muslim invasion!" Image: Screengrab/twitter/@southlonestarThe account also appears in the Russian congressional investigation released by U.S. democrats. WATCH: Flying taxis could be here by 2020 thanks to Uber
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| Lebanese patriarch, in Saudi, says supports reasons Hariri quit Posted: 14 Nov 2017 06:23 AM PST  By Stephen Kalin RIYADH (Reuters) - Lebanon's Christian Maronite Patriarch, visiting Saudi Arabia in an historic visit to the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, expressed support on Tuesday for the reasons behind Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri's resignation. Hariri, a Saudi ally, resigned abruptly on Nov. 4 in a move Lebanese political leaders ascribed to pressure from Riyadh. Hariri said his resignation had been prompted by an assassination plot and accused Iran and Hezbollah of sowing strife in the region.
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| Trump Trades In Steak For Shark Fin Soup In Vietnam Posted: 14 Nov 2017 12:33 AM PST  President Donald Trump reportedly dined on shark fin soup during a meal in Vietnam.
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| A Man Was Charged With Killing His Wife and Staging Her Death as a Suicide in 1983 Posted: 14 Nov 2017 01:47 PM PST  Carl Rodgers was arrested in the death of his wife, Debra Rodgers, who was 23 when her body was found in a state forest
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| Navy Widow Learns She's Pregnant After Husband's Death and Honors Him with Special Gender Reveal Posted: 14 Nov 2017 01:57 PM PST  Cassie and Hospital Corpsman 1st class Ryan Lohrey had just celebrated their first month of marriage when tragedy struck. On July 10, Ryan, 30, died in a military plane crash during training in Mississippi
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| 5 'Stealth' Reasons the U.S. Military Can't Be Beat on Any Battlefield Posted: 14 Nov 2017 11:31 AM PST  Stealth doesn't just apply to aircraft—submarines have been incorporating stealthy features for decades. Among submarines, the most powerful combination of lethality and stealth is almost certainly the Ohio-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines. Thousands of years later, with the ability to detect objects on the ground, in the air and at sea using electromagnetic radiation, hiding weapons in plain sight has become much harder.
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| Last document signed by JFK in White House up for sale Posted: 13 Nov 2017 11:32 AM PST  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The last document President John F. Kennedy signed in the White House is up for grabs in Philadelphia.
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| 49 Insanely Delicious Stuffing Recipes For Thanksgiving Posted: 14 Nov 2017 03:05 PM PST |
| Senate Republicans Shoehorn Anti-Abortion Measure Into Tax Bill Posted: 14 Nov 2017 09:16 AM PST  Republicans are making tax reform about abortion rights.
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| Missing Teen Feared Abducted For Sex Trafficking Posted: 13 Nov 2017 10:21 AM PST  It's been almost two months since a Pennsylvania teen who'd recently moved to New York City disappeared.
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| Israel destroys home of Palestinian who killed three Posted: 15 Nov 2017 12:58 AM PST  The Israeli army on Wednesday destroyed the home of a Palestinian who killed three Israelis at the entrance to a settlement in the occupied West Bank, the army said. Nimer Aljamal, 37, was shot dead on September 26 after killing two Israeli security guards and a border police officer outside the Har Adar settlement in the central West Bank. Israel occupied the West Bank and east Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967 in a move never recognised by the international community.
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| U.S. would welcome new EU sanctions on Iran: official Posted: 14 Nov 2017 05:10 AM PST  By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Any move by the European Union to impose new sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missile program and alleged involvement in Middle East conflicts would be "interesting and helpful", a U.S. administration official said on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has taken a more hawkish line on Iran than predecessor Barack Obama, has said Tehran's missile program should be curbed and wants to punish Tehran over its role in Yemen and Syria.
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| Mike Pence's NFL Stunt Cost Police Department $14,000 Posted: 14 Nov 2017 09:54 AM PST  A planned political stunt by Vice President Mike Pence, in which he walked out of an NFL game in protest of players kneeling during the national anthem, cost the Indiana Metropolitan Police Department more than $14,000, new records show.
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| Mother Shot Dead by Husband at Play Center in Front of Her Children Posted: 14 Nov 2017 08:13 AM PST  Police say 32-year-old Cheryl Myny was shot Saturday.
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| Could France's Leclerc Tank Destroy America's M1 or Russia's Best Armor in Battle? Posted: 14 Nov 2017 07:11 AM PST  Could Paris have the world's best tank? Could France's Leclerc Tank Destroy America's M1 or Russia's Best Armor in Battle? At 60 tons, the Leclerc is 10 tons lighter than most Western main battle tanks are. "So what do you think of France's new super tank, the Leclerc?" a retired colonel in the French army's logistical brigade jokingly asked me in 2002.
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| NASA took the 1st, astonishing aerial photos of the giant new Antarctic iceberg Posted: 14 Nov 2017 02:25 PM PST  Each Antarctic spring and summer, NASA flies special aircraft over the continent to keep tabs on how global warming is altering the landscape. The agency does the same in the Arctic each summer, for a project known as Operation IceBridge. Just a few days ago, a NASA P-3 Orion aircraft flew from Ushuaia, Argentina, out over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, including the new, Delaware-sized iceberg that the shelf gave birth to sometime between July 10 and July 12 of this year. The iceberg, named A-68, was one of the largest ever observed on Earth, and though it has shed some small sections since then, it remains a behemoth. SEE ALSO: Major federal climate report rebuts everything Trump administration has said about climate change The NASA images, posted to the agency's social media accounts, constitute the first time we've seen this iceberg up close with the human eye. Until now, all the views of it have been with the aid of remote sensing, primarily using satellites that could pierce the Antarctic winter darkness using specially-designed instruments. Sea ice seen with the Larsen C iceberg in the distance.Image: nasa/nathan kurtzOn September 16, the space agency provided us with the first sunlit images of the iceberg, which still has not yet drifted totally out of sight from the ice shelf it came from. The iceberg itself does not pose a danger, except to ships in the area. It won't immediately add to sea level rise, since it has already been floating in the water like an ice cube in a glass. But there is a chance that by breaking off the Larsen C ice shelf, which is located in a rapidly warming part of Antarctica, it may hasten the ice shelf's demise. That could, in turn, speed up the flow of inland ice into the sea, which would add to sea level rise. From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: The edge of Larsen C Ice Shelf with the western edge of iceberg A68 in the distance pic.twitter.com/lN4lHanIfY — NASA ICE (@NASA_ICE) November 1, 2017 Nearby ice shelves, including the Larsen B Ice Shelf, have already disintegrated, and recent research has shown that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet as well as the East Antarctic Ice Sheet are more vulnerable to melting than previously thought as air and sea temperatures increase. What happens to Antarctica's massive ice sheets is of huge importance to the rest of the world, since coastal megacities are extremely vulnerable to a rapid rise in sea level. From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: The western edge of iceberg A68, which calved in July; new edge of Larsen C Ice Shelf in the distance pic.twitter.com/DsCoSLWDbU — NASA ICE (@NASA_ICE) November 1, 2017 One study, published in the journal Nature in 2016, projected more than a meter, or 3.4 feet, of sea level rise from West Antarctica by the year 2100. The real amount of sea level rise experienced by any given location worldwide would be far higher, though, considering this estimate excludes the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet as well. The study projected a calamitous 15 meters, or 50 feet, of sea level rise by the year 2500, which would sink much of Florida, Louisiana, Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, and other populated coastal regions. So, while the iceberg itself is a natural marvel to look at, it serves as a reminder of the need for scientists to race to understand how stable our planet's ice sheets are before time runs out. WATCH: An iceberg the size of Delaware broke off Antarctica
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| Airbus lands biggest-ever contract for 430 A320s Posted: 14 Nov 2017 04:59 PM PST  Airbus announced its biggest-ever order on Wednesday, signing a deal to supply 430 of its medium-range A320 family of aircraft to US investment firm Indigo Partners, at a list price of $49.5 billion (42 billion euros). "An order for 430 aircraft is remarkable," said Airbus chief operating officer, John Leahy. The announcement sent Airbus's share price soaring, rising by more than 3.0 percent to 86.09 euros in a generally softer market.
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| Senate Tax Bill Makes Millionaires Eligible For Child Tax Credit Posted: 13 Nov 2017 02:07 PM PST  Republicans say tax reform will benefit middle-class families.
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| Joe Jackson Shares Rare Photo of Grandson Blanket and Posts Odd Video Message to the Teen Posted: 13 Nov 2017 07:31 PM PST  Joe Jackson had a strange but heartfelt message to give to his grandson, Blanket, who now goes by B.G. or Bigi, on Monday
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| Roy Moore’s Base Is Sticking With Him, Attacking Those Who Attack Him Posted: 13 Nov 2017 04:10 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Even as Roy Moore's campaign for Senate in Alabama has been rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct against him, many of the candidate's most fervent supporters aren't ready to abandon ship. A group of over 50 pastors, who endorsed Moore in August, published a letter Monday renewing their support for his campaign. "Roy Moore has been an immovable rock in the culture wars," the letter, posted by Moore's wife and later published on AL.com, read.
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| Back from Asia, Trump resumes morning tweets and slams media Posted: 15 Nov 2017 09:14 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Just back from Asia, President Donald Trump has resumed his morning tweeting routine — this time citing what he's calling a "successful" trip and slamming a regular media target.
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