| Bernie Sanders denounces 'outrageous' Trump ad as 'so sad for our country' Posted: 21 Jan 2018 09:06 AM PST  Sen. Bernie Sanders condemned as "nonsense" a new ad from President Trump accusing Democrats of being "complicit" in murders in the United States by undocumented immigrants.
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| Pope Francis Compares Gossiping Nuns To Terrorists Posted: 21 Jan 2018 10:06 PM PST  Pope Francis compared gossiping nuns to terrorists during his latest South American tour stop in Lima on Sunday.
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| House Ethics Committee Drops Republican Over Taxpayer-Funded Harassment Settlement Posted: 20 Jan 2018 05:14 PM PST  A Republican tasked with fighting against sexual harassment in Congress secretly settled a misconduct complaint filed against him by a former aide, The New York Times first reported Saturday.
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| Philippine volcano rains ash, violent eruption feared Posted: 22 Jan 2018 12:59 AM PST  A giant mushroom-shaped cloud shot up from the Philippines' most active volcano on Monday, turning day into night as it rained ash on communities where tens of thousands have fled after warnings of an impending eruption. "Hazardous eruption imminent," the state volcanology agency concluded in its latest bulletin, saying Mayon volcano could blow up within days after two weeks of activity. Fine ash and sand fell on Legazpi, a city of about 200,000 people, and nearby areas after the midday explosion turned the area into virtual nighttime, forcing motorists to switch on their lights and use windscreen wipers, an AFP video stringer said.
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| Leaders to meet with white separatist town official in Maine Posted: 21 Jan 2018 10:44 AM PST ![Leaders to meet with white separatist town official in Maine]( "Leaders to meet with white separatist town official in Maine") PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Leaders in a Maine town said Sunday they will meet with their town manager, who has come under fire for espousing white separatist views.
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| Kabul Hotel attackers 'went from room to room in search of foreigners to kill' Posted: 22 Jan 2018 07:36 AM PST  Taliban militants who killed at least 22 people at a luxury Kabul hotel went from room to room searching for foreigners, according to survivors and a security source on Monday as more details of the victims emerged. Insurgents armed with Kalashnikovs and suicide vests attacked the landmark Intercontinental Hotel overlooking the Afghan capital late Saturday in an assault that lasted more than 12 hours and prompted questions over how the attackers breached security. Guests hid behind pillars and in rooms as gunmen sprayed bullets and set fire to parts of the six-storey building. Some people climbed over balconies and used bed sheets in a desperate attempt to escape. "They were saying, 'Kill the foreigners!'," a 20-year-old hotel employee who gave his name as Hasibullah said from his hospital bed. He described hiding in a fifth-floor room and listening as the gunmen went from room to room, forcing doors open "with daggers" and killing those inside. A burned corridor of the Intercontinental Hotel a day after the attack in Kabul Credit: REUTERS Officials have said that at least 14 foreigners were killed. "They didn't want to kill the Afghans," a security source said. "The weapons and bullets they had were for the foreigners." One other witness claimed he had seen the militants beheading guests. The attack ended Sunday with all six militants killed by Afghan forces, aided by Norwegian troops. Health ministry spokesman Waheed Majroh said 22 bodies had now been taken to Kabul hospitals. "Some of the bodies (are) burned badly and need DNA tests to be identified," he said. The interior ministry gave a lower toll Monday, saying 19 people were dead. There were also conflicting accounts of the number of attackers, which the ministry had put at six. Authorities are known to understate death tolls in high-profile attacks, and much higher figures were circulating on local media. At least seven Ukrainian citizens were among the dead, the country's ambassador to Tajikistan and Afghanistan Viktor Nikitiuk told Ukrainian television 112. "A lot of Ukrainian aviation technicians work in Afghanistan. All the dead were working for the airline Kam Air and living at the Intercontinental Hotel," he said. Kam Air, an Afghan carrier, said a further two Venezuelan staff were also killed in the assault, bringing the airline's loss to at least nine of its personnel - five crew and four pilots. Captain Samad Usman Samadi, the airline's CEO, said his staff "has been shocked and they are not in normal conditions". "It will some time for them to recover," he said. Afghan security forces keep watch as smoke rises from the Intercontinental Hotel on Sunday Credit: OMAR SOBHANI/ REUTERS One German citizen and one Kazakh citizen were also killed, their foreign ministries said. Afghan officials told AFP that senior Afghan diplomat Abdullah Poyan died along with Mufti Ahmad Farzan, a member of the High Peace Council responsible for reconciliation efforts with militants. The employee Hasibullah said he saw two "fashionably dressed" gunmen in the hotel restaurant before the assault began. The security source confirmed investigators had seen CCTV footage showing the attackers in the restaurant prior to the attack. "It was around 8.30 pm... They were sitting in the corner of the hotel and they immediately started spraying bullets," Hasibullah said. He ran to the fifth floor room and locked himself inside, though not before seeing "many" bodies on the ground. But as the gunmen went from door to door he leapt from the window in terror. "I fell on people lying in blood... it was horrific." Knocked unconscious, he awoke in hospital with a broken leg and other wounds. Another survivor said the attackers "even beheaded the guests and people inside the hotel". Noorullah, 24, said he worked at the hotel checking its security cameras, but fled to the fourth floor as the power went off and the attack began. Also describing the militants as wearing civilian clothes, he said they killed "dozens" of people, opening every single room and "raining" bullets. He, too, jumped from a window to escape. Witnesses said the hotel's security staff fled the scene as the attack unfolded. Authorities warned they were still investigating how militants breached hotel security, which was taken over by a private company three weeks ago. It was too soon to say if the militants had inside help, an interior ministry spokesman, Nasrat Rahimi said. The militants were armed with suicide vests, pistols, hand grenades and Kalashnikovs, he said. The attack followed security warnings in recent days to avoid hotels and other locations frequented by foreigners in war-torn Kabul. Security has been ramped up in the city, but the resurgent Taliban and Islamic State are both scaling up their assaults.
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| Paul Ryan Declines To Say If He'll Run For Another Term In Congress Posted: 21 Jan 2018 09:02 AM PST  House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Sunday he wasn't planning on leaving Congress any time soon, but he also didn't disclose whether he will serve another term in the House of Representatives.
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| With 25,339 murders in 2017, Mexico suffers record homicide tally Posted: 21 Jan 2018 12:20 PM PST ![With 25,339 murders in 2017, Mexico suffers record homicide tally]( "With 25,339 murders in 2017, Mexico suffers record homicide tally") There were more than 25,000 murders across drug-ravaged Mexico in 2017, the highest annual tally since modern records began, government data showed. Investigators opened 25,339 murder probes last year, up nearly 25 percent from the 2016 tally, interior ministry data released on Saturday showed. Mexico has struggled with years of violence as the government has battled vicious drug cartels that have increasingly splintered into smaller, more bloodthirsty, gangs.
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| The women who marched in 2018 Posted: 20 Jan 2018 02:37 PM PST  One year into President Trump's administration, another Women's March. Here are scenes from the New York City event.
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| Bipartisan Group Of Senators Push For Deal To End Government Shutdown Posted: 21 Jan 2018 03:07 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― A bipartisan group of centrist senators met Sunday to work out a potential compromise that would fund the government until Feb. 8, contingent on a promise to hold a vote on an immigration bill before then.
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| Manifestaciones masivas en la segunda Marcha de las Mujeres Posted: 21 Jan 2018 09:29 AM PST ![Manifestaciones masivas en la segunda Marcha de las Mujeres]( "Manifestaciones masivas en la segunda Marcha de las Mujeres") Miles de personas participan en la "Marcha de las mujeres, en Washington, EEUU. EFE
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| Serial Stowaway Charged Following Latest Arrest at O`Hare Airport Posted: 22 Jan 2018 05:43 AM PST  A 66-year-old woman, who has been arrested several times for sneaking onto planes without a ticket and even a passport, is back at it again. This time she made it from Chicago to London before she was caught.
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| Anti-Abortion Harassment Goes Way Beyond Picketing Clinics Posted: 21 Jan 2018 02:46 AM PST  "Can I pray for you?" a woman asked after I shared my abortion story at the Women's March Convention in Detroit last year.
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| Philippines says it won't be embroiled in US-China sea spat Posted: 21 Jan 2018 04:09 AM PST  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines said Sunday that it won't get embroiled in a fresh spat between the U.S. and China involving Beijing's protest of an American warship passing near a Chinese-controlled shoal also claimed by the Philippines.
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| Private Investigators Say Several People Murdered Canadian Billionaire Couple Barry and Honey Sherman Posted: 21 Jan 2018 10:20 PM PST  The suggestion contradicts earlier theories that their deaths were a result of a murder-suicide
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| This Is What The Future Of Legal Weed Looks Like Posted: 21 Jan 2018 02:46 AM PST  The green revolution is here ― and it's mostly black, brown and female.
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| A New Decision to Go to War in Syria Posted: 20 Jan 2018 07:00 PM PST ![A New Decision to Go to War in Syria]( "A New Decision to Go to War in Syria") Behind a façade of continuity, the deployment of U.S. armed forces in Syria for the purposes that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson described in a speech this week represents a departure from what such forces were originally sent to Syria to do. The Trump administration is having U.S. troops participate indefinitely in someone else's civil war, for reasons that are quite different from the original stated objective of helping to quash the so-called caliphate of the Islamic State (ISIS). The new reasons do not stand up to scrutiny in terms of defending any threatened U.S. interests. The administration has in effect made a decision to immerse the United States in yet another foreign war. Tillerson tried to make a case for an extended U.S. mission, partly by resurrecting the now-familiar assertion that the United States had made a "premature departure" of its troops from Iraq several years ago. As with the other times this assertion has come up, the secretary did not mention that the group that became ISIS did not exist prior to any U.S. troops entering Iraq, and that the group emerged as a direct result of the U.S. invasion and the ensuing internal war. Nor did Tillerson address how a continued modest troop presence could have done what an earlier U.S. military presence in Iraq of 160,000 troops could not do. Nor did he address how the George W. Bush administration, which negotiated the troop withdrawal agreement, could have done anything substantially different in the face of strong Iraqi government resistance to extending the U.S. military presence.
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| Cable News Chyrons Tell The Bizarre Story Of Trump's First Year In Office Posted: 20 Jan 2018 02:18 PM PST  Donald Trump has officially completed one full year as president, and holy moly what a year it's been.
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| Turkey detains 24 over 'terror propaganda' against Syria operation Posted: 22 Jan 2018 01:04 AM PST  Turkish authorities have detained 24 people on suspicion of disseminating "terror propaganda" against Turkey's military operation inside Syria, state media said on Monday. The suspects are being held in a nationwide crackdown on those posting social media messages deemed to be supportive of terror groups, the state-run Anadolu news agency said, quoting the interior ministry. The arrests come after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged national unity over the operation, warning those who respond to calls for protests will have to pay a "heavy price".
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| Major highway reopened as California mudslides toll climbs to 21 Posted: 21 Jan 2018 03:40 PM PST ![Major highway reopened as California mudslides toll climbs to 21]( "Major highway reopened as California mudslides toll climbs to 21") Torrential rains triggered the Jan. 9 mudslides, which injured dozens more people and destroyed or damaged hundreds of buildings around the affluent community of Montecito, 85 miles (137 km) northwest of Los Angeles. Cleanup crews had been working around the clock in 12-hour shifts, officials said, while ferry boats had been making commuter runs twice a day between Santa Barbara and Ventura to help residents trying to get to work. Search and rescue teams continued working with dogs on Sunday in Montecito to look for a two-year-old and a 17-year-old who are still missing, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office said on Twitter.
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| Turpin family home was 'littered with faeces and dead cats and dogs' Posted: 21 Jan 2018 10:31 AM PST  Former Texan neighbours of David and Louise Turpin, the American couple whose 13 children were discovered chained and malnourished last week, have described a previous home littered with faeces, dead animals and a makeshift classroom. Ricky Vinyard, a tree feller from Rio Vista also told how one Christmas eight bikes arrived but remained untouched outside until they bleached in the sun. And that one of the daughters once ran away from home, only to be returned to her parents by another local resident. "It was waist-deep in filth. There were dead dogs and cats in there," he told the Los Angeles Times. He described how he found two Chihuahuas that had survived by eating waste from a mound of soiled nappies in a trailer behind the property where the children slept. "There were no beds, just mattresses." Inside the four-bedroom, two-bathroom home he said that: "There wasn't a place that wasn't filthy. "Everything had locks on it: the closet had locks, the toy chest, the refrigerator." The Turpin parents have pleaded not guilty to charges of turture Credit: Damian Dovarganes/ Damian Dovarganes Source: AP The couple, David 56 and Louise, 49, claimed to home-school their children, and the faeces-littered living room included eight small desks, a chalkboard, alphabet and number signs stapled to the wall. The family lived in the rural neighbourhood, south of Dallas with eight children from approximately 2000 to 2004 before they abandoned the property and moved to Perris in California. There, last week, both were each charged with multiple counts of torture, child abuse, the abuse of dependent adults and false imprisonment relating to the children aged from two to 29. They pleaded not guilty to all counts and are being held in custody on $9 million bail each. (£6.5m) David Turpin was also charged with one count of a lewd act on a child by force. If convicted, they face up to 94 years to life in prison. Facebook photos showed the family visited Las Vegas and Disneyland The new revelations came as a California politician began drafting legislation to give greater oversight of home-schooled children, in a bid to prevent a repeat of the horrors. Jose Medina told The Telegraph: "What happened in the city of Perris was tragic, and it was horrific. And I would like to try to do everything I can to ensure that it doesn't happen again." The Turpins' 13 children, aged between two and 29, had all, except the eldest, been exclusively home-schooled - meaning that, under California law, there was no outside contact. "One of the reasons this went undetected was because the parents could keep the children hidden from the public," said Mr Medina. "So I'm looking at what the state can do, so that kids can no longer be kept in captivity."Two million children in the US are home-schooled, representing three per cent of all American youngsters, according to the Mike Smith, president of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA). The trend began in the 1970s, he told The Telegraph, but has increased in recent years. By contrast, in the UK only 30,000 children were educated at home in the 2016/17 academic year, out of over eight million.
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| Taliban lays claim to deadly attack on Kabul hotel Posted: 21 Jan 2018 11:20 AM PST ![Taliban lays claim to deadly attack on Kabul hotel]( "Taliban lays claim to deadly attack on Kabul hotel") Taliban militants who killed at least 22 people at a luxury Kabul hotel went from room to room searching for foreigners, survivors and a security source said Monday as more details of the victims emerged. Insurgents armed with Kalashnikovs and suicide vests attacked the landmark Intercontinental Hotel overlooking the Afghan capital late Saturday in an assault that lasted more than 12 hours and prompted questions over how the attackers breached security. Officials have said that at least 14 foreigners were killed.
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| Mulvaney has been at center of last 2 government shutdowns Posted: 20 Jan 2018 12:44 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's budget chief Mick Mulvaney stormed Washington as a tea party lawmaker elected in 2010, and he hasn't mellowed much as director of the Office of Management of Budget at the White House.
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| White House Tries To Distance Itself From Trump Campaign Ad Calling Democrats 'Complicit' In Murder Posted: 21 Jan 2018 09:19 AM PST  A top White House aide defended an online ad by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign saying Democrats are culpable for murder if they refuse to support the administration's immigration proposals.
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| UK's Johnson slaps business lobby for EU customs call Posted: 21 Jan 2018 11:44 AM PST  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson pushed back Sunday at calls from Britain's biggest business lobby group for the country to stay in the European customs union after Brexit. The Confederation of British Industry has said remaining in the customs union after the UK leaves the EU would be a "practical, real-world answer" to its profound challenges. Hitting back on Twitter, Johnson said it made "no sense" for the CBI to keep calling for Britain to be part of the customs bloc.
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| Aziz Ansari Skips 2018 SAG Awards, Receives No Applause When Mentioned Posted: 21 Jan 2018 07:34 PM PST  Aziz Ansari did not attend the 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards, but his presence was definitely felt Sunday night during the announcement of the nominees for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.
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| Las Vegas Shooter Was Germophobe and Possibly Bipolar, Records Show Posted: 20 Jan 2018 01:53 PM PST  Police have learned more about Stephen Paddock
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| 'Snow Tornado' Blows Through Picturesque Alpine Village Posted: 21 Jan 2018 08:43 AM PST  Residents of the snow-covered Austrian village of Stall witnessed what's called a 'gustnado.'
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| The Latest: Russia warned Kurdish officials of Turkey attack Posted: 21 Jan 2018 10:12 AM PST  HASSA, Turkey (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):
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| In New York, tourists left high and dry as Statue of Liberty shuts down Posted: 20 Jan 2018 01:57 PM PST ![In New York, tourists left high and dry as Statue of Liberty shuts down]( "In New York, tourists left high and dry as Statue of Liberty shuts down") By Chris Francescani and Ian Simpson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tourists who came to Battery Park in lower Manhattan hoping to catch a ferry to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor got an unpleasant surprise on Saturday, learning the must-see destination was closed because of the U.S. government shutdown. The National Park Service announced on Friday afternoon that it would close the historic statue and nearby Ellis Island to visitors if Congress failed to reach a funding deal by midnight. "If they knew it was being shut down, they should have told us," said Amparo Mendez, 17.
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| Judi Dench Was Up For 'Leading Roll' SAG Award, And Twitter Rolled With It Posted: 22 Jan 2018 08:02 AM PST  A half-baked SAG Awards graphic on Sunday showed that Judi Dench of "Victoria & Abdul" was among the nominees for outstanding female actor in a "leading roll."
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| The Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship Will Soon Be Armed with Hellfire Missiles Posted: 21 Jan 2018 05:35 PM PST  The Navy's Littoral Combat Ship will be armed and operational with deck-launched HELLFIRE missiles by 2020, a key step in a sweeping strategic move to expand the attack envelope across the entire fleet of surface ships, senior service officials said. Current HELLFIRE LCS testing and development, described as an integral part of the ship's Surface-to-Surface Missile Module, has resulted in 20 successful hits out of 24 total attempted missile shots, Capt. Ted Zobel, Program Manager, PEO LCS, said recently at the Surface Navy Association symposium.
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| Alison Brie Talks Allegations Against Brother-In-Law James Franco At SAG Awards Posted: 21 Jan 2018 04:44 PM PST  Alison Brie addressed the sexual misconduct allegations waged against her brother-in-law James Franco during a red carpet interview at the 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards, saying that anyone who "feels victimized should and does have the right to speak out and come forward."
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| Turpin family: Police may bring in dogs to search for bodies in house where children 'tortured' by parents, reports say Posted: 21 Jan 2018 06:15 AM PST  Detectives investigating the case of the 13 siblings found locked up in a house in California, may "send cadaver dogs" to see if there was anyone else in the house who may have died, reports have suggested. Crime Watch Daily, a syndicated news show broadcast in multiple states across America, also reported that investigators were considering carrying out DNA tests on the Turpin children to check if they were all related, citing sources close to the case. The Sheriff's Department in Riverside County and the police department in the City of Perris, California did not respond to The Independent's requests for comment on the alleged plans.
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| Charles Manson Follower Leslie Van Houten Is Denied Parole Posted: 20 Jan 2018 11:36 AM PST  Leslie Van Houten is serving a life sentence
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| Heavy casualties after overnight battle at Kabul hotel Posted: 21 Jan 2018 09:50 PM PST  Gunmen in army uniforms who stormed Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel late on Saturday and battled Afghan Special Forces through the night killed more than 30 people and wounded many more, although the final toll of dead and wounded may still be higher. Grace Lee reports.
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| Germany's SPD wants Merkel to sweeten coalition deal Posted: 22 Jan 2018 09:36 AM PST ![Germany's SPD wants Merkel to sweeten coalition deal]( "Germany's SPD wants Merkel to sweeten coalition deal") By Holger Hansen and Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said on Monday he wanted to renegotiate key issues agreed in a coalition blueprint with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives after his party narrowly approved the start of formal coalition talks. At an SPD congress where divisions over the proposed alliance were laid bare, 56 percent of delegates voted on Sunday to start formal negotiations on the basis of the blueprint. The SPD leadership tried on Monday to appease critics by demanding that the conservatives make concessions on immigration and healthcare.
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| Neil deGrasse Tyson Has A Haunting Question About Bears Posted: 22 Jan 2018 12:56 AM PST  Neil deGrasse Tyson is known for using his Twitter account to tackle everything from urgent scientific issues to pop culture.
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| In Trump's America, The Statue Of Liberty Is Closed While Immigrants Are Pushed Out Posted: 20 Jan 2018 12:47 PM PST  President Donald Trump is likely not enjoying his anniversary of being sworn in.
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| Saudi Arabia calls for oil producers to extend cooperation Posted: 21 Jan 2018 06:21 AM PST  Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia called Sunday for extending cooperation between OPEC and non-OPEC producers beyond 2018, after a deal to cut output succeeded in shoring up prices. The call, the first explicit invitation by Riyadh for long-term cooperation between oil producers, came with oil prices topping $70 a barrel thanks to the deal, after they dove below $30 a barrel in early 2016.
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| Gleeful Kate McKinnon Unleashes Her Inner Robert Mueller On 'SNL' Posted: 20 Jan 2018 11:18 PM PST  "Saturday Night Live" chameleon Kate McKinnon pulled off yet another dead-on impression of a Washington personality, this time conjuring up a barely-contained, gleeful Robert Mueller.
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| Lawyers: Firing squad must be option for condemned killer Posted: 21 Jan 2018 10:16 AM PST  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Attorneys for a condemned killer whose execution was stopped last year after 25 minutes of unsuccessful needle sticks are once again recommending the firing squad as an alternative.
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