| Female Comedian From 'Last Comic Standing' Sued For Banning Men From Show Posted: 28 Dec 2017 01:04 PM PST  A man is suing comedian Iliza Shlesinger for waging a "War On Men" after he was denied entry to her November show, "Girls Night In With Iliza — No Boys Allowed."
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| Trump opens up about Mueller, Russia probe Posted: 28 Dec 2017 12:01 PM PST  Michael Schmidt, national security reporter for the New York Times, talks with Reid about his impromptu interview with Donald Trump in which Trump discussed the Robert Mueller investigation, the Department of Justice, and his value to news media ratings
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| Child Toying With Stove Sparked Bronx Fire That Killed 12 Posted: 28 Dec 2017 06:22 PM PST  A massive fire in New York City that killed at least 12 people, including four children, at a five-story apartment building Thursday night was caused by a small child playing with a stove, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday.
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| Apartment building fire in Bronx, N.Y., is deadliest in decades Posted: 29 Dec 2017 07:26 AM PST ![Apartment building fire in Bronx, N.Y., is deadliest in decades]( "Apartment building fire in Bronx, N.Y., is deadliest in decades") New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says investigators believe a Bronx fire that killed 12 was caused by a child playing with a stove.
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| Here's the chilling reason some Disney hotels are getting rid of 'do not disturb' signs Posted: 29 Dec 2017 08:13 AM PST  Walt Disney World resorts are beginning to do away with one traditional hotel feature -- and the possible reason why is haunting.
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| Russian environmental activist hospitalized after beating Posted: 29 Dec 2017 03:23 AM PST ![Russian environmental activist hospitalized after beating]( "Russian environmental activist hospitalized after beating") A leading Russian environmental activist said on Friday he had been hospitalized after being severely beaten by unknown assailants in the southern city of Krasnodar. Andrei Rudomakha, head of the Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus NGO, told Reuters he and a group of activists were assaulted late on Thursday upon returning from the Black Sea coastal city of Gelendzhik where they were documenting the illegal construction of a mansion for high-ranking officials. The regional branch of the Russian Interior Ministry, in a statement sent to Reuters, said authorities were investigating the attack by what it said were three assailants.
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| Obama: Here are some inspiring 2017 stories Posted: 29 Dec 2017 09:34 AM PST  For the New Year, former President Barack Obama shared three uplifting news stories from 2017, encouraging Americans to look beyond the negativity that has seemed to dominate the news this year.
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| 2018 ISIS fight to rely more on general forces Posted: 29 Dec 2017 01:09 AM PST  Secretary of Defense James Mattis previewed what's next in the fight against ISIS, telling reporters that the U.S. will rely less on special forces and more on general forces, especially in Africa. NBC's Hans Nichols reports.
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| Trump reportedly fired his entire HIV/AIDS council by FedEx letter Posted: 29 Dec 2017 09:01 AM PST  President Donald Trump reportedly fired the sixteen remaining members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) Wednesday via a letter FedExed from the White House.
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| Rick Gates Files Request To Get Out Of House Arrest In Mueller Probe To Ring In The New Year (CORRECTED) Posted: 28 Dec 2017 04:48 PM PST  Former Donald Trump campaign aide Rick Gates asked a judge to get out of house arrest so he can attend "events" to celebrate the new year.
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| Australia expected to ease visa restrictions on foreign pilots as planes left grounded Posted: 28 Dec 2017 08:05 PM PST ![Australia expected to ease visa restrictions on foreign pilots as planes left grounded]( "Australia expected to ease visa restrictions on foreign pilots as planes left grounded") The Australian government is expected to relax restrictions on visas for foreign pilots as a national shortage sees planes grounded and flights canceled, aviation officials said on Friday. Australia earlier this year removed pilots from a list of eligible professions allowed to work in the country as so-called skilled migrants amid a crackdown to promote "Australia-first". With a global shortage of pilots, Australia's international carriers have lost staff to competitors, forcing them to recruit from domestic carriers, who are in turn employing trained pilots from smaller regional airlines.
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| Turkey's Erdogan seeks to mend strained ties with Europe Posted: 28 Dec 2017 02:23 PM PST  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signaled he wants to mend fences with the governments of several European nations he's quarreled with this year, saying Turkey must "decrease the number of enemies and increase friends."
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| Happy New Year From The Rachel Maddow Show! Posted: 28 Dec 2017 01:22 PM PST  Thanks very much to everyone who has watched the show this year. See you in 2018!
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| 10 Winter Hats For Natural Hair That'll Protect Your Beautiful Curls Posted: 29 Dec 2017 11:52 AM PST  I know the struggle that is trying to find a winter hat or beanie that will stylishly fit over my massive head of hair ― which I recently transitioned back to its naturally curly state.
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| Trump shakes up diplomacy in first year Posted: 29 Dec 2017 12:48 AM PST  From "Rocket Man" to glowing orbs and all the awkward handshakes in between, take a look back at all the ways President Trump shook up global diplomacy in his first year in office.
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| Blue Apron Is Launching A Whole30 Meal Plan Just In Time For The New Year Posted: 29 Dec 2017 11:54 AM PST  If your New Year's resolution is to eat cleaner and healthier, the challenge just got a little bit easier.
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| India's 'moonwalking' traffic cop turns heads Posted: 29 Dec 2017 01:17 AM PST  "I have been a Michael Jackson fan for years and copied his moonwalk step to halt traffic 12 years ago," Singh told AFP. "It's a tiring task maintaining traffic amid noise pollution and reckless motorists but moonwalking amuses commuters and drivers," Singh added, after another tiring day seemingly gliding backwards across the street. Singh claims the number of traffic violations at the high court intersection where he spends most days has fallen over the years.
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| The High-Tech Ways Authorities Are Keeping You Safe This New Year Posted: 29 Dec 2017 09:55 AM PST  Following a year of deadly terrorist attacks, security is going to be tighter than ever before.
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| California set for New Year's buzz with recreational marijuana sales Posted: 29 Dec 2017 03:43 PM PST ![California set for New Year's buzz with recreational marijuana sales]( "California set for New Year's buzz with recreational marijuana sales") California adults not content to ring in the New Year with the traditional fizz of champagne can look forward to celebrating with the buzz of marijuana, purchased for the first time from state-licensed retailers of recreational pot. Dozens of newly authorized marijuana stores are due to open for business across California on Jan. 1, launching yet another chapter in America's drug culture and the largest regulated commercial market for cannabis in the United States - one valued at several billion dollars. Newly permitted retailers will rely on a hodge-podge of marijuana producers in the state's illicit "gray market" to stock their shelves for the next six months, until state-licensed growers can harvest their first crops.
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| President Trump Says He's Signed More Laws Than Any President Since Truman Posted: 28 Dec 2017 01:39 PM PST  President Trump falsely claims that he has signed more legislation than any president since Harry Truman.
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| Gardening games: from 'Yonder: The Cloud Chronicles' to 'Flower Design' Posted: 29 Dec 2017 02:44 AM PST |
| Hedge Fund Bets Bilked Kentuckians Out Of Their Pensions, Lawsuit Says Posted: 28 Dec 2017 02:57 PM PST  Years of risky hedge fund investments helped plunge Kentucky's public pension system billions of dollars into the red, making it one of the worst-funded state pension systems in the country.
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| Records say paraplegic Palestinian shot during protest Posted: 28 Dec 2017 02:28 PM PST  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian medical records in the Gaza Strip show that a paraplegic man who died during a violent protest along the border with Israel earlier this month was killed by a bullet that struck him in the head.
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| 31 Tweets That Perfectly Sum Up New Year's Eve For Parents Posted: 28 Dec 2017 01:17 PM PST  New Year's Eve festivities look a little different when you add kids to the mix.
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| Mindfulness can lead to selfishness, warns psychiatry expert Posted: 28 Dec 2017 10:51 AM PST  Mindfulness has grown in popularity as people search for meaning in life. But doing it alone could actually make you more selfish, an expert at the Royal College of Psychiatrists has warned. Dr Alison Gray, chair of the spirituality special interest group at the College, which advises psychiatrists on how to deal with spiritual issues, said more "inward-focused" types of spirituality "can become self-involved". "In as much as religion is about binding people together, spirituality can become inward looking and selfish," she said. "In no way does that happen to everyone - in many cases increases their passion for the whole world. But there's a potential for it to become inward-looking and basically self-centred." She warned that meditation can lead to problems as people uncover the more negative aspects of their personality, which they might previously have buried. "When you look inside yourself what you find can be quite negative and quite destabilising, and so you need a community around you to help process this stuff and keep you healthy", she told the Daily Telegraph. Meditation and mindfulness can mean people notice "selfish drives and ambitions, bits of themselves that they previously projected onto other people, anger hatred, all the negative emotions." To counter this, the practises should be done in groups. "I would encourage people to be in with a community," she said. Practises such as meditation and mindfulness have been growing in popularity in the UK and other western countries as people who do not have religious beliefs turn to "spirituality" instead. Mindfulness is increasingly offered by schools and workplaces to help employees and students improve their mental health. Dr Gray said she believed people were "rediscovering the old ways". Mindfulness: a cheat's guide "We're still the same human beings that have been around for thousands of years. The neanderthals had basic religion and ways of burying the dead, it's always been there. "I would suggest that it's a rediscovery of the old ways rather than anything completely new - the newness is the recombination of different traditions." Several studies have linked religion with better health and wellbeing. Data from the Office for National Statistics published last year found that people with no religion have below-average happiness and life satisfaction levels. On average respondents scored their life satisfaction as 7.53 out of 10 and their happiness the previous day as 7.38, while those who describe themselves as having no religion scored their happiness slightly below average, at 7.22 out of 10. But the data on spirituality is less clear, with the vague meaning of the word making it hard for scientists to define.
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| Deadly Police Shooting May Have Been Result of Online Gaming Prank Posted: 29 Dec 2017 11:27 AM PST  The practice is known as "swatting"
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| Brazil's top court suspends parts of President Temer's Christmas pardons Posted: 28 Dec 2017 02:51 PM PST ![Brazil's top court suspends parts of President Temer's Christmas pardons]( "Brazil's top court suspends parts of President Temer's Christmas pardons") By Ricardo Brito and Jake Spring BRASILIA (Reuters) - The head of Brazil's Supreme Court suspended parts of a Christmas decree from President Michel Temer granting pardons to convicted criminals on Thursday, saying Temer's actions needed further examination by the court. Cármen Lúcia ruled largely in favor of a legal challenge by Brazil's top prosecutor, Raquel Dodge, who said on Wednesday that the pardons were unconstitutional and threatened a probe into the country's largest-ever corruption scandal.
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| Putin toughens terrorist recruitment sentences Posted: 29 Dec 2017 09:58 AM PST  Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law Friday a bill toughening sentences for terrorist recruitment as the country deals with the issue of returning jihadists from Syria. Official publication of the law came two days after a bomb attack on a supermarket in Saint Petersburg, Russia's second city, injured 14 people. The new law, which parliament voted through on December 14 and the upper chamber approved on December 26, immediately raises the maximum sentence for terrorist recruitment and finance to life from 10 years.
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| Bronx fire that killed 12 people 'caused by child playing with stove' Posted: 29 Dec 2017 07:15 AM PST  New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio said investigators believe the Bronx fire which killed 12 people was caused by a child playing with a stove. The four-alarm fire – five being the highest level of alert – began on Thursday evening in a neighbourhood near the Bronx Zoo and by the next morning had turned into the city's deadliest blaze in nearly 25 years. Mr De Blasio called it "an unspeakable tragedy in the middle of the holiday season" during a news conference at the scene, amid subfreezing temperatures in the city.
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| Battle Over Contested Virginia House Of Delegates Seat Will Drag On Posted: 29 Dec 2017 10:29 AM PST  The dramatic race for a Virginia House of Delegates seat that could decide which party controls the chamber — a race that's come down to a name-drawing — is expected to continue into the new year.
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| Recy Taylor, who fought for justice after 1944 rape, dies Posted: 28 Dec 2017 08:14 PM PST  ABBEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention, died Thursday. She was 97.
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| San Juan Mayor Says Trump Lacks 'Good-Hearted' American Values Posted: 29 Dec 2017 10:55 AM PST  One-hundred days after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz on Friday again slammed President Donald Trump's response to a disaster the president says wasn't a "real catastrophe," even though it left at least 64 dead.
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| Keepers Wrangle Ally the Alligator So They Can Save Her Record-Breaking 60 Eggs Posted: 29 Dec 2017 12:50 PM PST  The zoo's general manager Tim Faulkner explained the eggs wouldn't hatch in the Australian heat if they were not moved.
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| Mother Says Alabama Police Beat Black 17-Year-Old Son Posted: 29 Dec 2017 09:17 AM PST  Angela Williams shared a photo of her son's bloodied face on Facebook
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| At Least 15 People Have Been Killed in Mumbai After a Fire Engulfs a Building Posted: 28 Dec 2017 10:21 PM PST  A fire broke out early Friday in an upscale rooftop restaurant in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, leaving at least 15 dead and a dozen injured, officials said.
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| South Korea finalizes energy plan to boost renewable power generation Posted: 28 Dec 2017 11:59 PM PST ![South Korea finalizes energy plan to boost renewable power generation]( "South Korea finalizes energy plan to boost renewable power generation") South Korea has finalised a power supply plan that aims to make renewables the country's fuel of choice for power generation for the next 15 years, its energy ministry said on Friday. The plan is largely unchanged from a draft released earlier this month that outlined the gradual reduction in use of coal and nuclear fuel as the usage of gas and renewables for power generation increased over 2017-2031. South Korea plans to meet 20 percent of its total electricity consumption with renewables by 2030.
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| Someone swapped photos of Trump with his animatronic, and plz let my mom know I am dead Posted: 29 Dec 2017 02:55 PM PST  This photoshop says a thousand words, all of which are "help." For Twitter user's @Bornmiserable's latest creation, he swapped photos of the real Trump with his now legendary Disney animatronic figure. The result was just as upsetting as you always imagined it would be. SEE ALSO: Disney's new weapon in the war on Netflix: Hulu @BornMiserable says it's an improvement, which I cannot independently verify as this image has turned me into stone. "I've done several Trump Photoshops and when I saw that animatronic figure, I just thought it would make more sense to put it in place of him — just about as much of a human being as he is," @BornMiserable told Mashable. Image: bornmiserable/twitter Image: bornmiserable/twitter Image: bornmiserable/twitter another, requested by .@Browtweaten: pic.twitter.com/sQ1g5BS2qd — Born Miserable (@bornmiserable) December 29, 2017 When Disney world introduced the Trump animatronic two weeks ago, it was met with fairly universal horror. Critics accused the artist of modeling Trump after a Chucky Doll and/or Hillary Clinton, which is both fair and accurate. Trump robot in the Hall of Presidents looks like a 71-year-old Chucky doll. pic.twitter.com/yLCBmhpNvG — John Cohen (@JohnCohen1) December 19, 2017 Here me out on this. Clearly Disney had Hilary's robot ready to go and then they had to try and make it look like Trump. Don't hate me. This is just a necessary and painful fact we all need to deal with. pic.twitter.com/biSirfwE59 — Shannon O'Neill (@spotastic) December 19, 2017 Frankly, I'd take the animatronic over the real one. Animatronic 2020! WATCH: 2017 was a year of beauty— weird, weird beauty
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| What I Learned From Reading All The Media Safaris Into 'Trump Country' I Could Handle Before Wanting To Die Posted: 29 Dec 2017 11:00 AM PST  This was the year the political media couldn't stop reminding us of the forgotten Americans.
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| AP PHOTOS: Jerusalem walls offer glimpse of city's richness Posted: 28 Dec 2017 10:28 PM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — What would Jerusalem be without its walls? Poets have sung of them since ancient times, they are mentioned in the Book of Psalms, and they have shadowed conflicts past and present.
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| Disney World Guest Mercilessly Heckles Animatronic Donald Trump Posted: 29 Dec 2017 11:51 AM PST  A guest at Disney World got very, er, animated while attending the Hall of Presidents attraction on Wednesday.
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