| Murders By U.S. White Supremacists More Than Doubled In 2017, New Report Shows Posted: 17 Jan 2018 02:06 PM PST  White supremacists in the United States killed more than twice as many people in 2017 as they did the year before, and were responsible for far more murders than domestic Islamic extremists, helping make 2017 the fifth deadliest year on record for extremist violence in America, a new report states.
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| Trump's meeting with Kazakhstan president raises questions about human rights and business ties Posted: 16 Jan 2018 12:52 PM PST  President Trump proclaimed Tuesday "Religious Freedom Day," but he spent the afternoon meeting with an authoritarian who has been accused of conducting a brutal campaign of repression against religious minorities and political opponents in his country.
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| Police issue warning about drugs cut with 'Rizzy' after man's skin is eaten away Posted: 17 Jan 2018 07:22 AM PST  Police in Alliance, Ohio, issued a warning to other law enforcement officials after a man's skin was eaten away when he allegedly injected heroin tainted with a substance called "Rizzy" into his arms, according to WEWS. Narcotics officers who arrested the unnamed 25-year-old man last week said they immediately noticed his horrific injuries. WEWS reports that the man's forearm skin was blackened and peeling, and some of his flesh had been completely eaten away.
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| Fishermen dive into river moments before motorboat smashes into vessel Posted: 18 Jan 2018 05:31 AM PST  A group of fisherman were forced to dive into a freezing cold river to escape being crushed by a motorboat bearing down on their small vessel. Bryan Maess was fishing with friends near the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon when the motorboat crashed straight into the small boat in August last year. Footage captured on a GoPro mounted inside the fishing boat shows Mr Maess frantically waving at the boat as it approaches to get the driver's attention. He repeatedly shouts 'hey!' as the vessel gets closer, while another on board is heard saying 'oh my god' before the trio dive into the water. Mr Maess has filed a $372,500 (£270k) lawsuit against the driver of the boat, who told police he could not see the fishing party as the dash of his boat was blocking his view, The Oregonian reports. The trip were forced to dive into the water The fisherman suffered injuries to his ankle, leg and arms in the incident and has had vision problems and headaches since, the lawsuit says. Mr Maess claims in the suit that the boat driver, Marlin Lee Larsen, was distracted while using his mobile phone when the incident occurred. However Mr Larsen told local media the allegations were "fake news". The 75-year-old has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges of the reckless operation of a boat, fourth-degree assault and recklessly endangering the lives of others. The case is ongoing. There are no laws prohibiting the use of a mobile phone when driving a boat in Oregon, however there are laws against operating a boat without due care. Investigators say the trio could have been killed or seriously injured if they hadn't jumped into the water.
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| Girl From Viral Photo Dies of Aggressive Brain Cancer DIPG Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:49 AM PST ![Girl From Viral Photo Dies of Aggressive Brain Cancer DIPG]( "Girl From Viral Photo Dies of Aggressive Brain Cancer DIPG") "Our sweet Braylynn, our warrior princess, earned her sparkly pink angel wings this evening," according to a Facebook post from Braylynn's Battalion, a page started to keep family, friends and anyone else up to date with Braylynn Lawhon's fight against diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG. DIPG cases make up 10 percent of central nervous system tumors in children. "Her nickname was Princess Bel and she could light up any room," the Facebook post continued.
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| China planning to send robot sub to sunken ship Posted: 17 Jan 2018 02:46 AM PST  BEIJING (AP) — China is preparing to send a robot submarine possibly followed by divers to explore and plug holes in a sunken Iranian oil tanker whose 32 crew members are all believed to have died, the Transport Ministry said Wednesday.
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| Pennsylvania Supreme Court Appears Open To Striking Down Gerrymandered Map Posted: 17 Jan 2018 10:11 AM PST  ― A plurality of state Supreme Court justices seemed open to the possibility that the Pennsylvania congressional map may violate the state's constitution, but during oral argument on Wednesday seemed unclear as to how to remedy the situation.
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| Blessing of the animals on St. Anthony's Day Posted: 17 Jan 2018 10:29 AM PST ![Blessing of the animals on St. Anthony's Day]( "Blessing of the animals on St. Anthony's Day") The feast of St. Anthony, Spain's patron saint of animals, is celebrated each year. On the eve of St. Anthony's Day, riders guide their horses through a bonfire in the village of San Bartolome de Pinares as part of the Luminarias ritual in honor of St. Anthony the Abbot.
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| Eric Trump: 'My father sees one color — green' Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:09 AM PST  Eric Trump on Wednesday dismissed the backlash over President Trump's caustic comments on immigration that have led some members of the media to label his father a racist.
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| Flashback 1997: Bob Dole cracks jokes during White House medal ceremony Posted: 17 Jan 2018 03:25 AM PST  In 1997, Former Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) was invited to the White House and joked about having lost the presidency. Ten years later, Tim Russert asked him about the joke on Meet the Press
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| Fears of serial child killer in infamous Pakistan city Posted: 17 Jan 2018 12:44 AM PST  The rape and murders of a dozen children by a suspected serial killer have terrified parents in central Pakistan, and prompted soul-searching over how the country fails to protect its most vulnerable. The killing of six-year-old Zainab Fatima Ameen became the tipping point last week when her body was found on a rubbish heap near her home in the city of Kasur. Candlelight vigils were held across the country and the hashtag #JusticeForZainab trended on social media, with celebrities, opposition politicians and outraged web users demanding action.
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| White House releases report on foreign-born criminals in the U.S. Posted: 17 Jan 2018 12:26 PM PST  During a press briefing at the White House on Wednesday, January 17, The Justice Department's National Security Division released a report on criminals in the U.S. who were foreign-born.
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| Alligator and python captured tangling on golf course Posted: 17 Jan 2018 06:50 AM PST  Several golfers had their games interrupted in Florida by a highly unusual sight on Friday: a python battling an alligator.
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| Man Deported After 30 Years In America: It Wasn't My Choice To Come Posted: 17 Jan 2018 06:24 AM PST  Jorge Garcia, the man who had lived in the U.S. for 30 years and was deported to Mexico this week despite having no criminal record, wishes the Trump administration was willing to look at immigration cases individually.
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| Passenger plane skids off runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport Posted: 18 Jan 2018 05:00 AM PST ![Passenger plane skids off runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport]( "Passenger plane skids off runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport") Turkish authorities are using a large crane to lift a passenger plane that skidded off a runway in northern Turkey and stopped on the side of a slope just meters away from the Black Sea. The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800, with 168 people on board, overshot the runway while landing at Trabzon Airport on Jan. 13.
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| Can Jeff Flake turn the tide in the Republican war on the media? Posted: 17 Jan 2018 12:18 PM PST  President Trump has waged war on the media, to the delight of his base and with the unspoken – or explicit – support of his party. Now, on the floor of the Senate, one Republican, Jeff Flake of Arizona, has denounced Trump for labeling the press "the enemy of the people," a phrase also used by Stalin. Will it change anything?
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| How to protect your family against the spread of the flu Posted: 17 Jan 2018 07:54 AM PST  This year's outbreak is widespread in every state but Hawaii, and has gotten so bad in Alabama that the governor has declared a public health emergency.
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| 3 Things To Know About The Cognitive Test Trump's Doctor Gave Him Posted: 16 Jan 2018 03:55 PM PST  After speculation about President Donald Trump's mental health escalated in recent weeks, White House doctor Ronny Jackson revealed Tuesday afternoon that the president passed a cognitive assessment during his Friday physical at Walter Reed Medical Center.
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| A Killer Got Caught Because She Posted a Selfie That Showed an Incriminating Clue Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:59 PM PST  The image showed her wearing a belt used to strangle the victim
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| World's largest sea turtle could come off 'endangered' list Posted: 16 Jan 2018 10:20 AM PST  Federal ocean managers say it might be time to move the East Coast population of the world's largest turtle from the United States' list of endangered animals.
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| 19 Attorneys General Call On Congress To Legalize Banking For Weed Industry Posted: 17 Jan 2018 03:35 PM PST  Attorneys general from over a dozen states where some form of marijuana use has been legalized are urging Congress to pass legislation that would allow banks to provide services to cannabis businesses without risking federal prosecution.
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| California community reeling over Turpin 'house of horrors': 'I served them pizza while their children were starving?' Posted: 17 Jan 2018 10:34 AM PST  The quiet California community of Perris has been left reeling after the discovery of 13 children found chained and malnourished in squalid conditions in their parents' house. Matthew Alex Padilla, a 20-year-old former Marine, said he was sickened to learn that Louise Turpin, the woman he served pizza to near the Perris property, had a house full of starving children. Mr Padilla has worked at Leonardi's Pizza inside the WinCo supermarket for a year, and told The Telegraph he last saw Mrs Turpin a week or so ago. "Louise was in here every other day," he said. "Sometimes with her husband, and a few times with a little girl, but never more than one. "We knew each other, and would chat – she was normal, if maybe a bit reserved. I had no idea she had 13 children, because she'd only ever order a slice of pepperoni, or a chicken club sandwich with no tomato. David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, were arrested after the discovery of the 13 children Credit: AFP "I've seen her buy food and eat, and yet there were 13 hungry kids at home? That's messed up. They should be sentenced to a long time in jail. To do that to your kids – it's not OK." Louise and her husband David forced their offspring to march around the house, drill formation, at the dead of night, one neighbour claimed. Mike Clifford, a 60-year-old aerospace machinist, lived opposite the family for three years in Murrieta, where the couple rented a six-bedroom home between 2011 and 2014. Described by their family as "deeply religious", the Turpins home-schooled their children and the youngsters were rarely seen in the community. "We thought they were mentally handicapped kids, so they kept them in," said Mr Clifford, who worked late shifts and would catch sight of them in the evenings. "I never saw them play. What we did used to see a lot was on the second floor, the kids would be walking in circles like they were marching for hours at a time. It was military like." He told the Mail Online he would see the Turpins bundling their children into their minivan at least twice a month in the early hours of the morning as he arrived home. Neighbours stand outside the house where the children were found Credit: Los Angeles Times "They would load up the kids at about one in the morning," he said. "The garage doors would just pop open and half a dozen kids would get into the van and then they'd drive off. "My weirdest thought was that they were selling the kids, sexually or whatever." Despite his concerns, Mr Clifford says he never saw anything that would have warranted a call to the police and said the children appeared clean, if "robotic" when spoken to. In 2014 the family moved up the road to Perris, from where the alarm was raised by their 17-year-old daughter on Sunday morning. Inside the house, police found 12 more of the couple's children, aged two to 29, begging for water and food, some shackled to the bed in a stench-filled room. Gabriela Del Toro, manager at the Primos Mexican restaurant in Perris, said that Mrs Turpin would come in several times a week to get takeaway food – but never in family-sized quantities. "She was pleasant enough – there was absolutely nothing out of the ordinary," she said. "It's mad to think that was going on just down the road." The couple posted several pictures from family outings on their Facebook page Mr Turpin's parents were also left reeling by the news. James Turpin, who lives near Princeton, West Virginia, with his wife Betty, told his local newspaper that their son was "a fine person". David Turpin grew up in West Virginia's Green Valley area and studied at Virginia Tech before moving away – first to Texas, then to California. "He did an outstanding job and worked in school, and the last time we were out there was about six years ago," he said. "The kids were fine. They were healthy and nothing was wrong. "I cannot understand. I'm going to talk to the kids as soon as they let me. I'm getting ready to make a call." Their other son, Randy, president of Valor Christian College in Ohio, said he was estranged from his brother and has taken leave to deal with the fallout. Yet on Mrs Turpin's side of the family, a more damaging picture was presented. Elizabeth Jane Flores, her 41-year-old sister, appeared on US breakfast television on Wednesday and said her family tried "for years" to get in touch with her sister - but "she just shut us out of her life" for decades. "I want to reach out to the kids, I want them to know that for years we begged to Skype, we begged to see them, the whole family," she said. The couple are being held on a $9 million bond Credit: Barcroft Media Mrs Flores said she lived with her sister and brother-in-law for a few months when she was at university. At the time, the couple only had four children and the eldest was in elementary school. "I thought they were really strict, but I didn't see any type of abuse," she said of the parents. "Now that I'm an adult, I look back, I see things that I didn't see then." She also said she had "uncomfortable" experiences with her brother-in-law but never told anyone because she was "young" and "scared." "He did things that made me feel uncomfortable," she said. "If I were to get in the shower, he would come in there while I was in there and watch me, and it was like a joke. He never touched me or anything." Mrs Flores said her mother drove for hours to visit the family in Texas at one point, but the Turpins didn't let her inside the house. A few years later, Mrs Flores said, her father bought a flight to see the family but his daughter told him not to come, insisting she would visit them instead – which they never did. Another sister, Teresa Robinette, said that Mrs Turpin did not visit her parents even when they begged, on their death beds, to see her. "She didn't even show up to either of their funerals," she said. "So we have really no connection with Louise in a long, long time since we were young." She said her sister had married Mr Turpin when she was 16. "We always thought she was living the perfect life. She would tell us they went to Disneyland all the time. They would go to Vegas." But, she admits, in hindsight there were signs of neglect. "I always made comments to Louise when I talked to her about: 'Gosh, they're so skinny,'" she told NBC's Today show. "And she would laugh it off: 'Well David's so tall and lanky, they're going to be like him.' "I can't even say the words to you that I would like to say to her — I'm so angry inside."
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| House of horrors for 13 siblings: Yahoo Newsroom reacts Posted: 16 Jan 2018 02:01 PM PST  "No punishment in the world will make up for the damage done to these children." "This sounds like something out of a horror movie." The chilling details of 13 siblings who suffered alleged torture in their home and the news of their parents' arrest have rattled Yahoo Newsroom and the world. An investigation is underway after 13 siblings -- ages 2 to 29 -- were allegedly held captive in their Perris, Calif. home by parents David Allen and Louisa Anna Turpin. According to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, some were "shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks," malnourished and abused. One of the siblings, a 17-year-old girl so frail that officials say she looked 10 years old, escaped to lead authorities to a home where they were discovered living in foul-smelling conditions. Among the many questions, some perhaps never to be answered: How could this go undetected for so long? One reader writes, "This is why we need nosey neighbors, people paying attention to their neighborhood." What is your reaction, what are your questions about the story? Join the conversation in Yahoo Newsroom.
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| U.S. signals open-ended presence in Syria, seeks patience on Assad's removal Posted: 17 Jan 2018 01:54 PM PST ![U.S. signals open-ended presence in Syria, seeks patience on Assad's removal]( "U.S. signals open-ended presence in Syria, seeks patience on Assad's removal") By David Brunnstrom PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday signaled an open-ended military presence in Syria as part of a broader strategy to prevent Islamic State's resurgence, pave the way diplomatically for the eventual departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and curtail Iran's influence. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, in a speech at Stanford University, called for "patience" on Assad's departure - the clearest indication yet of an acknowledgment that Russia and Iran have bolstered Assad and that he is unlikely to leave power immediately. Billed as the Trump administration's new strategy on Syria, the announcement will prolong the risks and redefine the mission for the U.S. military, which has for years sought to define its operations in Syria along more narrow lines of battling Islamic State and has about 2,000 U.S. ground forces in the country.
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| Democrats Score Special Election Upset In Wisconsin GOP Stronghold Posted: 16 Jan 2018 07:56 PM PST  Democrat Patty Schachtner won a special election for a state Senate seat in Wisconsin on Tuesday, scoring a huge upset victory for her party in a district that President Donald Trump handily captured just over a year ago.
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| USA Gymnastics Won't Seek To Punish McKayla Maroney For Speaking About Nassar Abuse Posted: 17 Jan 2018 07:12 AM PST  USA Gymnastics said Wednesday it will not seek to penalize Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney for breaking a confidentiality agreement to speak out against former team doctor Larry Nassar, an admitted sexual predator whose sentencing hearing began this week.
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| Killing of Ivy League Student Stabbed More Than 20 Times May Have Been a Hate Crime, Parents Say Posted: 17 Jan 2018 07:12 AM PST  The killing may have been a hate crime against their gay son, Blaze Bernstein
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| The Best Instant Pot Recipes To Make With The Pressure Cooker Feature Posted: 18 Jan 2018 02:46 AM PST  No matter how hard you fight it, an Instant Pot is almost certainly going to weasel its way into your life at some point.
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| Sweden sends leaflets to 5m homes on how to prepare for war with Russia Posted: 17 Jan 2018 04:23 AM PST  Sweden is preparing to issue a public information manual on what to do in the event of war, as debate in the country grows over how to deal with the threat from Russia. The brochure, due to be sent to 4.7m households, will inform the public how they can take part in "total defence" during a war and secure water, food and heating. The booklet with the working title If Crisis or War Comes will also give guidance on dealing with threats from cyber attacks, terrorism and climate change, the FT reported. Russia's annexation of Crimea and military support for Ukrainian separatists, along with increased activity and exercises near the Baltics and Scandinavia have caused deep unease in Sweden. The neutral country has begun to reverse deep post war defence cuts and incursions by Russian planes and submarines have sparked intense public debate over whether to join Nato. Sweden has seen debate over whether to join Nato Credit: Victor Svedberg / Regeringskansliet In September 2017, the country held its biggest military exercise in 23 years, with war games involving 19,000 Swedish personnel and allies from Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, France, Norway and America. The country last year voted to reintroduce conscription. "All of society needs to be prepared for conflict, not just the military. We haven't been using words such as total defence or high alert for 25-30 years or more. So the knowledge among citizens is very low," said Christina Andersson, leader of the project at the Swedish civil contingencies agency.
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| What Is A 'Sunshine Baby'? Posted: 17 Jan 2018 10:11 AM PST  Over the years, some of this vocabulary has gained wider currency, like the term "rainbow baby," which refers to a child born after a miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death or other early loss of a child.
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| US border patrol routinely sabotages water left for migrants, report says Posted: 17 Jan 2018 01:39 PM PST  Volunteers are said to have found hundreds of water gallons vandalised in a patch of Sonoran desert. United States border patrol agents routinely vandalise containers of water and other supplies left in the Arizona desert for migrants, condemning people to die of thirst in baking temperatures, according to two humanitarian groups. Volunteers found water gallons vandalised 415 times, on average twice a week, in an 800 sq mile patch of Sonoran desert south-west of Tucson, from March 2012 to December 2015, the report said.
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| Donald Trump 'could have lived to 200 years old' if he ate fewer hamburgers, doctor says Posted: 17 Jan 2018 01:17 AM PST  Donald Trump has "incredible genes" and could have lived to 200 years old if his diet had been better in recent years, the White House presidential physician said. Dr Ronny Jackson, who performed Mr Trump's first medical exam as president, declared him "fit for duty" physically and mentally. As well as a thorough physical, the US president asked to be administered a mental test and was given the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. Dr Jackson performed the "difficult" cognitive test and Mr Trump scored 30 out of 30. How the Presidents' physicals compare Cognitive testing looks for signs of mild cognitive impairment and/or Alzheimer's disease. Sample questions on the Montreal test include repeating a set of numbers in order both forwards and backwards and remembering a list of common words. The doctor said: "He's very sharp, he's very articulate around me, I've no indication to be concerned about his thought process." Dr Jackson said he had not planned to do a cognitive test but Mr Trump asked him to, and he did "exceedingly well" on it. The doctor said: "If he had some kind of mental cognitive issue he would not have got 30 out of 30 on the test. He has no mental or cognitive issues." White House physician Dr Ronny Jackson Credit: AP He said it was the first time a president had undergone such a test, and Mr Trump asked for it specifically so he could lay to rest recent speculation about his mental capability. In a recent book, Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff, White House aides were said to have questioned his state of mind, and Mr Trump responded by calling himself a "very stable genius". Last month, the president slurred his words while announcing a decision to recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. Dr Jackson took responsibility for Mr Trump slurring his words during the speech, saying he had prescribed him Sudafed, a cold remedy, and that had dried up his mouth. Mr Trump's weight was 239 pounds. He had a Body Mass Index at the very top of the "overweight" range and just shy of "obese". Here is the release of President Donald Trump's medical exam by Dr. Ronny Jackson, on paper: https://t.co/kLR436GYM8pic.twitter.com/24zbLYQD0C— Lisa Feierman (@lisathefeierman) January 16, 2018 His resting heart rate was 68 beats per minute, and his blood pressure was 122/74. His total cholesterol was 223, which is higher than recommended, and had risen over the last year. Mr Trump takes a medication for his cholesterol, the doctor said. He also takes Propecia to combat male pattern hair loss. Dr Jackson said Mr Trump "could do with losing 10 or 15 pounds". He added: "We talked a lot about diet and exercise. He was more keen on the diet than exercise but we will do both." The physical part of the four-hour medical exam settled a long mystery over how tall Mr Trump is. He has claimed to be 6ft 3ins, while an old driving licence showed him as 6ft 2ins, leading to accusations he had exaggerated his height. Dr Jackson confirmed Mr Trump is 6ft 3ins. Presidential height Asked how a 71-year-old man known to like hamburgers could be in "excellent" physical health, he said: "It's called genetics. Some people have great genes. "I told the president if he'd had better diet over the last 20 years he could have lived to 200 years old. The answer is he has incredibly good genes, it's just the way God made him. "He had great findings across the board but his cardiac health stood out. Hands down he is in the excellent range. "He continues to enjoy the significant long-term cardiac and overall health benefits that come from a lifetime of abstinence from tobacco and alcohol."
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| Watch How This School In Puerto Rico Reacts When Power Returns After 112 Days Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:33 AM PST  Children in Puerto Rico have had to live much of their life in the dark since Hurricane Maria devastated the island nearly four months ago.
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| Police still baffled by discovery of 13 starved, abused siblings Posted: 16 Jan 2018 06:11 PM PST ![Police still baffled by discovery of 13 starved, abused siblings]( "Police still baffled by discovery of 13 starved, abused siblings") By Alan Devall and Bob Mezan PERRIS, Calif. (Reuters) - Police said on Tuesday they were still seeking answers after finding 13 siblings starving in their parents' squalid Southern California home, some of them chained to beds under "horrific" conditions in an otherwise ordinary suburb. "I wish I could come to you today with information that would explain why this happened," said Captain Greg Fellows of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. "But we do need to acknowledge the courage of the young girl who escaped from that residence to bring attention so they could get the help they so needed." The parents, 57-year-old David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, were arrested at their darkened, foul-smelling house after the girl's 12 siblings were found there.
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| Pope meets with abuse survivors, weeps with them in Chile Posted: 16 Jan 2018 04:29 PM PST  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Pope Francis met on Tuesday with survivors of priests who sexually abused them, wept with them and apologized for the "irreparable damage" they suffered, his spokesman said.
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| Glossier Just Dropped Its First-Ever Solution To Acne-Prone Skin Posted: 17 Jan 2018 02:50 PM PST  The glossy-faced, dewy-skinned experts at Glossier just dropped a new addition to the skincare-as-makeup retailer's collection that's perfect for blemish-prone faces.
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| US nuclear review calls for development of low-yield weapons Posted: 17 Jan 2018 12:01 PM PST  The US military wants to overhaul its atomic arsenal and develop a new type of low-yield weapon that experts worry could lead to greater proliferation and heighten the risk of nuclear war. The proposed changes to the nuclear weapons program, outlined in a draft version of the Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review, mark a signficant break from the vision for America's nuclear future under Barack Obama, who during a famous speech in Prague in 2009 called for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Arguing today's security environment is vastly more complex than in 2010 -- the last time the Pentagon published a nuclear review -- the draft document states that the United States needs to realign its nuclear policy with a "realistic assessment" of the threats it now faces, including from North Korea, Russia and China.
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| Former Gymnastics Coach Tells Larry Nassar To 'Go To Hell' During Sentencing Posted: 17 Jan 2018 03:12 PM PST  A coach who sent more than 100 girls to Larry Nassar for medical treatment told the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University team doctor to "go to hell" in court Wednesday.
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| Chelsea Manning's US Senate bid could upend Maryland race Posted: 16 Jan 2018 02:37 PM PST  BALTIMORE (AP) — Chelsea Manning's high-profile bid for the U.S. Senate threatens to upend the 2018 Maryland Democratic primary.
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| Donald Trump scores top marks in Montreal cognitive test - how well would you do? Posted: 17 Jan 2018 03:26 AM PST  The cognitive test on which Donald Trump received a perfect score is considered a good screening tool for mental decline in an otherwise healthy person, medical experts said. The US president asked to be administered a mental test and was given the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) as part of a medical exam by Dr. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, who on Tuesday said he had absolutely no concerns about Mr Trump's neurological function. The president scored 30 out of 30. Montreal Cognitive Assessment Cognitive testing looks for signs of mild cognitive impairment and/or Alzheimer's disease. It focuses on cognitive functions including memory, attention, language, abstraction, delayed recall and orientation. Sample questions on the Montreal test include repeating a set of numbers in order both forwards and backwards and remembering a list of common words. Test takers are asked to identify animals, and draw a clock face, putting in all of the numbers and setting the clock hands to a specific time. It takes about 10 minutes to administer. One memory test involves memorising the words 'face', 'velvet', 'church', 'daisy', 'red' and recalling them after five minutes. Another test challenges participants to name as many words as they can in one minute that begin with the letter F. In general, patients with good or average memory forget one of the five words and can still be within the normal range, said Dr James Mastrianni, an expert in memory disorders and other neurodegenerative conditions at the University of Chicago Medicine. "It's a screening assessment that we use routinely in the clinics to determine whether someone has some degree of cognitive impairment or not," he said. "If they score poorly on that assessment, then usually there is more detailed evaluation that follows. But if they score well that usually indicates there is pretty good cognitive function. They are essentially intact," Mastrianni added. How the Presidents' physicals compare The test was was created by Dr Ziad Nasreddine, a neurologist who graduated from University of Sherbrooke, Québec, in 1996. Recognising the need for a more expeditious cognitive function test, he adapted his comprehensive screen and created a much quicker assessment which could be adapted to first line specialty clinics. The test is designed to precisely measure cognitive impairment, assess major cognitive domains by acting as a cognitive brain scan and help detect early stages of impairment for the most common neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. It is also been sensitively designed so that it does "not falsely label someone who is normal as being impaired". The MoCA has been found to be useful to detect mild cognitive impairment in many conditions including Alzheimer's disease, Vascular Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease and head trauma. Test instructions may be repeated once, however items listed in the memory section may not. The MoCA is used in 100 countries around the world. The standard version of the test is "pretty good" but "not definitive" said Dr. Ronald Petersen, an Alzheimer's disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Petersen said he could not comment specifically on the president's cognitive health. The test does not assess the president's psychiatric fitness and the president did not undergo a psychiatric evaluation, according to his doctor. According to the Alzheimer's Association, there is no single test that proves a person has Alzheimer's disease. That diagnosis is made through a complete assessment that considers all possible causes.
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| Californians launch bid to create new state after accusing government of 'failing' the people Posted: 16 Jan 2018 02:53 PM PST  A group seeking to carve out a breakaway state called New California issued a declaration of independence that asserted California's existing government had "failed in their oath of office, obligations, and responsibilities as representatives of 'We the People' to provide a republican form of government". It accuses California politicians of "repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of a Tyranny over the Counties of New California". "After years of over taxation, regulation, and mono party politics the State of California and many of it's 58 Counties have become ungovernable," the group said in a press release.
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| Illegal immigrant alleged cop killer wishes he 'killed more' Posted: 17 Jan 2018 06:28 AM PST  Luis Enrique Monroy Bracamontes accused of killing two California police officers interrupts first day of trial with profane outbursts.
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