| How do protests in Iran differ from 2009? Posted: 31 Dec 2017 05:06 AM PST  Msnbc's Ayman Mohyeldin discusses how current protest in Iran differ from the protests that arose during the 2009 presidential election.
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| Houston Police Arrest 'Drunk' Man With Stash Of Weapons In Hotel Room Posted: 31 Dec 2017 07:37 AM PST  Houston police arrested an intoxicated man with a small cache of weapons in his hotel room early Sunday, officials said.
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| Police Rescue Adorable Baby Seal Found Waddling on the Road Posted: 30 Dec 2017 10:12 AM PST  He was 2 miles from the ocean.
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| Incredible New Year's Celebrations Around The World Posted: 31 Dec 2017 06:23 PM PST  From the London Eye to Athens' Acropolis, here are some of the most breathtaking scenes from New Year's celebrations around the world.
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| Social media companies ignoring pleas over extremism could face tax hikes Posted: 30 Dec 2017 10:00 PM PST  Internet companies could simply move their money abroad if the Government introduces a potential terror tax to crackdown on the spread of extremist material online, critics fear. Keith Simpson, a senior Tory MP and member of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, said taxing companies if they fail to cooperate with efforts to fight terrorism was an "attention grabber headline" but would be difficult to enforce. Ben Wallace, the Security Minister, said "patience is running out fast" with web companies. He accused them of putting profit before public safety and that "if they continue to be less than co-operative, we should look at things like tax as a way of incentivising them or compensating for their inaction". He also suggested web companies were "ruthless profiteers" - a remark which prompted an angry response from Facebook with the internet giant saying he was "wrong to say that we put profit before safety". Any levy could be similar to the windfall tax imposed on excess profits of privatised utilities by the Blair government in 1997, or the charge Margaret Thatcher's government placed on banks in 1981. The amount of tax paid in the UK by internet companies relative to their overall profits has provoked widespread fury in recent months and has prompted questions about how effective any new charge would be. The likes of Facebook and Twitter have been warned they could face tax hikes Credit: LOIC VENANCE/AFP Mr Simpson told The Telegraph: "Part of me says 'well, good luck' if you think that this can persuade them and raise money. "I suspect that it will be incredibly difficult." He said companies could react to any attempt to impose a new levy by moving their money away from the UK. "It is convenient to use the UK for many reasons but they might decide to go to another European country or somewhere else," he said. "It is incredibly difficult to do this but that is not to say that we shouldn't try to do this. "I did think this was a bit of an attention grabber headline." Mr Simpson said he believed the "broad mass of the public would agree" with such a windfall tax being introduced "but merely making promises is not enough". Mr Wallace said in an interview with the Sunday Times that obstruction and inaction by social media companies is costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds as law enforcement agencies pick up the cost of tackling radicalisation. Simon Milner, of Facebook, said: "Mr Wallace is wrong to say that we put profit before safety, especially in the fight against terrorism. We've invested millions of pounds in people and technology to identify and remove terrorist content." Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for YouTube said the video website is "doing more every day to tackle these issues" while Twitter said 95 per cent of terrorist content was removed proactively from the site.
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| Americans sound off on the 2017 headlines Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:16 AM PST  NBC News talks to Americans across the country to find out which news stories affected them the most this year.
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| Police identify 7 more victims of NYC's deadliest in decades Posted: 30 Dec 2017 08:55 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Police on Saturday released the identities of an additional seven victims of New York City's deadliest fire in decades, including a 7-month-old baby girl who was among the dozen people who lost their lives.
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| Chief justice orders review of sexual harassment standards in U.S. judiciary Posted: 31 Dec 2017 03:04 PM PST ![Chief justice orders review of sexual harassment standards in U.S. judiciary]( "Chief justice orders review of sexual harassment standards in U.S. judiciary") U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said on Sunday he would launch a review in 2018 of how the federal judiciary handles sexual harassment, following the recent resignation of a U.S. appeals court judge amid allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct and comments. In his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, Roberts said the judicial branch of government was not immune to incidents of sexual harassment and addressing it would be a new challenge in the coming year. Allegations of systematic sexual harassment and assault that surfaced against movie producer Harvey Weinstein earlier this year galvanized women to speak out about instances of sexual harassment in the media, government and workplaces across the country.
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| Iran's Revolutionary Guard Vows to Crush Anti-Government Protests Posted: 31 Dec 2017 07:20 AM PST  Days of conflict have turned deadly
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| Fireworks Barge Explodes In Australia, Forcing Beach Evacuation Posted: 31 Dec 2017 05:25 PM PST  Glad the two men are ok #Terrigal fireworks, was great up until.
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| 2 million at Times Square NYE celebration will see increased security Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:03 AM PST  The NYPD is ramping up security efforts for this year's New Year's Eve celebration, preparing officers for two big threats: terror attacks and dangerously cold temperatures.
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| Bangladesh prosecutors seek death for opposition leader's son Posted: 01 Jan 2018 05:10 AM PST  Bangladesh prosecutors on Monday demanded the death sentence for the son of opposition leader Khaleda Zia for his alleged role in a deadly 2004 grenade attack in which current prime minister Sheikh Hasina was injured. More than 20 people were killed in the assault on a rally led by Hasina when she was in opposition and Zia was in power. Zia's son Tarique Rahman, who lives in exile in London, says the criminal conspiracy case against him is part of a political witch-hunt.
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| Congo orders internet and SMS cut ahead of anti-government demonstrations Posted: 30 Dec 2017 01:37 PM PST ![Congo orders internet and SMS cut ahead of anti-government demonstrations]( "Congo orders internet and SMS cut ahead of anti-government demonstrations") Democratic Republic of Congo's government on Saturday ordered telecommunications providers to cut internet and SMS services across the country ahead of planned anti-government demonstrations. Grassroots Catholic activists have called for marches in major cities on Sunday to demand that President Joseph Kabila commit to not changing the constitution to stand for a third term and release political prisoners. Kabila was required by the constitution to step down in December last year when his mandate expired but an election to replace him has been repeatedly delayed and is now scheduled for December 2018.
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| Merkel sees Germany split over pace of social change Posted: 30 Dec 2017 07:59 PM PST  BERLIN (AP) — Germans have rarely been so divided about the changes taking place in their society, the country's long-time leader Angela Merkel said Sunday, adding in her New Year's address that she is committed to helping tackle the challenges of the future by swiftly forming a new government.
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| Christians in shock after deadly attack on Coptic Church in Egypt Posted: 30 Dec 2017 12:27 PM PST ![Christians in shock after deadly attack on Coptic Church in Egypt]( "Christians in shock after deadly attack on Coptic Church in Egypt") By Mostafa Salem CAIRO (Reuters) - At an hour that Sama'an Farag usually spends leisurely sipping his morning tea, the doorman at the Mar Mina Coptic Church near Cairo found himself springing up to close the doors upon hearing gunshots and the sound of ricocheting bullets. Inside, dozens of children at Sunday school, held on Friday morning to coincide with Egypt's weekend, were rushed upstairs out of the range of the gunfire. God forbid if he (gunman) had entered the church - there would have been many more victims," said churchkeeper Saad Saeed.
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| Alan Dershowitz on President Trump's Iran strategy Posted: 01 Jan 2018 06:40 AM PST  Harvard Law professor shares his take on 'Fox & Friends.'
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| 50 Tons Of Trash Expected After Times Square New Year's Eve Bash Posted: 01 Jan 2018 02:27 AM PST  New Year's Eve in Times Square, New York City is always one heck of a party — but it's also a cleanup effort of enormous proportions.
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| Two security guards killed at Las Vegas hotel-casino Posted: 30 Dec 2017 04:42 PM PST  Two Las Vegas security guards were fatally shot Saturday while investigating a disturbance in a room at a hotel-casino and the suspected shooter is facing critical injuries after turning the gun on himself, police said. The gunman's motive wasn't known but investigators believe it was an isolated incident. "I want you to know right now that this has nothing to do with terrorism," Capt. Robert Plummer told reporters outside the scene of the shooting. The shooting happened before 7 a.m. at Arizona Charlie's Decatur, which is located west of the Las Vegas Strip. According to police, the suspect ran from the hotel-casino after the shooting and into a nearby neighborhood where he tried to enter two homes but the residents were able to keep him out. Police found him in a laundry room accessible through a garage of the second home after he appeared to have shot himself in the head, Lt. Dan McGrath said. According to McGrath, the suspect tried to enter the first home with the intention of stealing a car and also tried to take a vehicle on the street. The gunman's condition wasn't immediately known but police said his wound was life-threatening. The victims' identities were not released. Police said the uniformed security guards were a man and a woman in their 40s and that one was armed. McGrath said the circumstances of what happened in the hotel room still unclear. The hotel-casino's office did not immediately return a message seeking comment. The shooting comes a day before law enforcement officers expect tens of thousands of New Year's Eve revelers on the Strip and three months after the city dealt with the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Officials have been trying to reassure residents and visitors that the city is safe, especially in the wake of the Oct. 1 shooting. A high-stakes gambler killed 58 people and injured hundreds more after he shattered the windows of his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino on the Strip and unleashed gunfire on a country music festival below. He then killed himself.
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| Tiny Bird Found In Cockpit Forces Delta Flight To Make A U-Turn Posted: 31 Dec 2017 02:49 PM PST  A Delta pilot traveling from Detroit to Atlanta turned back when he found a small-winged creature flapping around his large-winged aircraft on Saturday.
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| All vehicles destroyed in Liverpool car park blaze Posted: 31 Dec 2017 07:00 PM PST  A blaze has destroyed every vehicle left in a 1,600-capacity car park serving the British city of Liverpool's indoor arena, police said on Monday. The Liverpool International Horse Show, taking place in the northwest English city's neighbouring 11,000-seater arena, was cancelled due to the fire, which broke out after dark on Sunday. Nobody has been seriously injured in the blaze, the local Merseyside Police said, while all horses are accounted for.
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| George Papadopoulos Helped Spur Russia Probe By Spilling Secrets To Diplomat: NYT Posted: 30 Dec 2017 02:12 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat in May 2016 that Russia had political dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
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| Ohio's move to toss inactive voters from rolls goes to court Posted: 31 Dec 2017 11:26 AM PST  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joseph Helle was expecting a different sort of reception when he returned home from Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and showed up to vote in his small Ohio town near Lake Erie.
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| What has brought Iranian protesters to the streets? Posted: 31 Dec 2017 11:07 AM PST ![What has brought Iranian protesters to the streets?]( "What has brought Iranian protesters to the streets?") By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) - Iran warned of a tough crackdown on Sunday against demonstrators posing one of the boldest challenges to its clerical leaders since nationwide unrest shook the Islamist theocracy in 2009. Political protests are rare in Iran, where security services are pervasive. The demonstrations are the biggest since unrest in 2009 that followed the disputed re-election of then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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| Video captures emotional moment a teenager asks her stepfather to adopt her for Christmas Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:07 AM PST  A father has shared footage of the moment his 18-year-old stepdaughter asked him to adopt her on Christmas Eve. Makayla Dabney made the decision to ask her stepfather Stephen, the man who raised her for 14 years, to become one of her legal guardians as his Christmas present. The college student from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was inspired by a dream in which she asked him to adopt her.
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| German police union chief slams NYE 'safe zone' for women Posted: 30 Dec 2017 10:19 AM PST  BERLIN (AP) — A German police union boss has criticized organizers of Berlin's annual open-air New Year's Eve party for designating a special "safety area" for women, saying it suggests they aren't safe from assault elsewhere.
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| Guy arrested for 'Nigerian prince' email scams is definitely not Nigerian royalty Posted: 30 Dec 2017 01:40 PM PST  The "Nigerian prince" email scam is one of the most notorious cybercimes out there, and the people behind it may have hit a bit of a snag after one of their alleged co-conspirators was arrested in Louisiana on Thursday. Police arrested a 67-year-old man in Slidell, Louisiana after an 18-month investigation in connection with Nigerian prince email scams. The man is suspected of being a middle-man for a group in Nigeria that used the Nigerian prince email scam to get money from unsuspecting people, the Slidell Police Department announced on Facebook. SEE ALSO: Man replies to scam emails — and hilarity ensues If you're unfamiliar with the Nigerian prince email scam, the Federal Trade Commission dedicates an entire page to them on their website, which describes the common phishing tactic that continues to con people out of their money: The man police arrested, Michael Neu, is suspected of facilitating these transfers of money from victims to his co-conspirators. Neu faces 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering, having participated in hundreds of scam transactions. Michael Neu faces 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering for his involvement with 'Nigerian prince' email scams.Image: Slidell Police department/facebookAlthough the scam has become a bit of a joke like the FTC says, it still results in millions of dollars in losses for victims every year, and people who get caught up in the scams can sometimes face personal harm. "According to State Department reports, people who have responded to these emails have been beaten, subjected to threats and extortion, and in some cases, murdered," the FTC states. The Slidell Police Department said that its investigation is ongoing, but can be extremely difficult because many leads point toward people who live outside the United States. Although Neu himself is not Nigerian, the police stated that money acquired by Neu was wired to people in Nigeria. Let this be a lesson to anyone on the internet: if a stranger is soliciting you for money, it's probably not a good idea to just hand it over to them. WATCH: Email scammer tries to lure man to invest $30,000 in snail farming
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| Woman Takes Her Wedding Vows Just Hours Before Cancer Takes Her Life Posted: 30 Dec 2017 01:08 PM PST  On Dec. 23, 2016, school psychologist Heather Lindsay was diagnosed with the breast cancer that would eventually take her life.
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| Macron vows 'French renaissance' in 2018 Posted: 31 Dec 2017 12:45 PM PST  President Emmanuel Macron vowed to pursue his reform agenda with the "same intensity" in 2018 and kickstart a "French renaissance" in his first New Year's address as leader, which comes as the economy picks up. Despite winning May's presidential election on a promise to ditch politics as usual Macron stuck with tradition in Sunday's televised address from the Elysee Palace, which began and ended with the national anthem.
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| Remember Don Lemon's Drunken NYE Rant Last Year? Turns Out There's A Happy Ending. Posted: 01 Jan 2018 02:05 AM PST  CNN audiences may remember that host Don Lemon had quite the time celebrating New Year's Eve last year.
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| 2 men charged in deaths of women, children found in home Posted: 30 Dec 2017 04:19 PM PST  TROY, N.Y. (AP) — Two men were arrested Saturday on murder charges in the deaths of two women and two children who were found dead in their upstate New York apartment.
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| When Is an Extended Car Warranty Worth It? Posted: 31 Dec 2017 04:00 AM PST  My car salesman was pushing me to buy an extended warranty because I put a lot of miles on my car per year. Is it worth it? "You might be tempted to roll the cost of an extended warranty into you...
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| Man Arrested in Connection to Hoax 911 Phone Call that Led to Death of Innocent Man Posted: 30 Dec 2017 11:46 AM PST  A man has been arrested in Los Angeles in connection to a hoax phone call that led to the death of an unarmed man in Wichita, Kansas, according to multiple reports
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| U.S. Politicians Can Afford To Grow A Spine On Saudi Arabia Posted: 01 Jan 2018 04:00 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― On the morning of Sept. 10, 2016, aircraft bombed a remote area in western Yemen where workers were drilling a well for a nearby village.
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| Netanyahu wishes success to Iran protesters, denies Israeli involvement Posted: 01 Jan 2018 09:56 AM PST ![Netanyahu wishes success to Iran protesters, denies Israeli involvement]( "Netanyahu wishes success to Iran protesters, denies Israeli involvement") Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Iranian anti-government protesters on Monday, while denying as "laughable" Tehran's apparent accusations that Israel was behind the demonstrations. Five days of protests in Iran have posed the boldest challenge to its clerical leadership since pro-reform unrest in 2009. "I wish the Iranian people success in their noble quest for freedom," Netanyahu said in a video posted on his Facebook page.
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| Trump aide told Australian diplomat Russia had dirt on Clinton – report Posted: 30 Dec 2017 04:17 PM PST  US officials told the NYT it was Papadopoulos's revelation, not the infamous Steele dossier, that lead to Russia inquiry. The FBI reportedly launched its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election after George Papadopoulos, then a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump, told an Australian diplomat that Moscow had damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
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| China tightens rules on oversea cash withdrawals Posted: 30 Dec 2017 05:37 PM PST  China has tightened rules on how much cash cardholders can withdraw overseas in a bid to clamp down on money laundering, terrorist financing and tax evasion, authorities said Saturday. The new rules will "prevent law breakers from withdrawing a large amount of cash with different cards from different banks," the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said according to state news agency Xinhua.
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| Google Rings In the New Year With a Festive Penguin-Themed Doodle Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:29 PM PST  A special interactive Google Doodle is the final installment in a December global festivities series
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| Words banned for the new year? 'Fake news' gets top vote Posted: 31 Dec 2017 01:04 PM PST  DETROIT (AP) — Let me ask you this: Would a story that unpacks a list of tiresome words and phrases be impactful or a nothingburger? Worse, could it just be fake news?
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