| GOP Lawmaker Devin Nunes Reportedly Made His Own Fake News Website Posted: 11 Feb 2018 11:30 PM PST  A Republican lawmaker from California has been reportedly operating his own news website.
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| The hallelujah cure: Trump campaign adviser says pray away the flu Posted: 12 Feb 2018 02:06 AM PST  Trump campaign adviser Gloria Copeland says to "inoculate yourself with the word of God" in order to protect against the flu. That's dangerous advice.
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| Russian Plane Carrying 71 Crashes Near Moscow Posted: 11 Feb 2018 06:30 AM PST  The country's transportation minister said there were no survivors
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| UK worried by Iran role in Israel-Syria border confrontation: Johnson Posted: 12 Feb 2018 06:43 AM PST  British foreign minister Boris Johnson said London was concerned at Iran's role in a confrontation at Israel's border with Syria. "We are concerned at the Iranian actions, which detract from efforts to get a genuine peace process under way," Johnson said in a statement on Monday. "We encourage Russia to use its influence to press the regime and its backers to avoid provocative actions and to support de-escalation in pursuit of a broader political settlement," he said.
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| California science fair project tying race, IQ sparks outcry Posted: 10 Feb 2018 08:15 PM PST ![California science fair project tying race, IQ sparks outcry]( "California science fair project tying race, IQ sparks outcry") SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California school district is investigating how a science project correlating low intelligence with racial groups was on full display at a science fair, where it drew outrage from some students, parents and staff.
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| 'We Stand With Women,' RNC Spokeswoman Says Posted: 11 Feb 2018 09:16 AM PST  The Republican Party stands with women said a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, despite a whole host of positions taken by the GOP in recent months that seem to contradict the statement.
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| Couple who quit jobs and sold belongings to sail world lose everything as boat capsizes two days into journey Posted: 12 Feb 2018 02:23 AM PST  Tanner Broadwell and Nikki Walsh began their adventure on a 28-foot sailboat last week, setting off from the marina in Tarpon Springs. Two days later, the emergency services were being called to reports of a capsized boat in the Gulf of Mexico, near Madeira Beach - about 25 miles down the coast. "I sold everything I had to do this," Mr Broadwell told the Tampa Bay Times.
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| These Marine Aces Were Some of the Best Fighter Pilots of World War II Posted: 10 Feb 2018 05:00 PM PST  Warfare History Network
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| Olympic Speed Skating Photo Finish Is Almost Too Close To Call Posted: 11 Feb 2018 02:11 AM PST  Two thousandths of a second was the difference between second and third place in Sunday's 5,000m men's speed skating final at the Winter Olympics.
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| The Christian Who Cried Abortion Posted: 11 Feb 2018 11:44 AM PST  The fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf chronicles the story of a young boy who, in his boredom, deceives his village into believing that the sheep have all been scattered by a wolf.
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| Shaun White says battling back from facial injury has been 'an amazing journey' Posted: 11 Feb 2018 11:51 PM PST  Shaun White fought back from an injury that required 62 stitches in his face.
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| CIA denies report over mystery Russian who promised Trump info Posted: 10 Feb 2018 01:11 PM PST  The CIA on Saturday categorically denied reports that it was fleeced by a mystery Russian who promised compromising information on US President Donald Trump. The secretive agency rarely issues any kind of comment, but came out to deny the report in The New York Times and a similar one in The Intercept, an online journal focusing on national security issues. "The fictional story that CIA was bilked out of $100,000 is patently false," the Central Intelligence Agency said in a statement sent to AFP.
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| 71 feared dead as Russian plane crashes near Moscow Posted: 11 Feb 2018 04:34 AM PST  A Russian plane crashed in the outskirts of Moscow on Sunday after vanishing from radars, killing all 71 people on board. The Saratov Airlines An-148 jet, was en route to the city of Orsk when it vanished from radar and plunged into a field. "The plane crashed near the village of Argunovo. Passengers as well as the crew could hardly survive," a Russian emergency services source told local media. Eyewitnesses in Argunovo said they saw a burning plane falling from the sky, while rescue workers were unable to reach the crash site by road and had to approach on foot. Video footage obtained by Russian media showed plane debris scattered across a snow-covered field. Moscow plane crash - Argunovo map Russian news agencies quoted official sources saying that no one had survived the crash of the Saratov Airlines flight. Flight records showed that four minutes after takeoff the plane suddenly plunged to the ground from a height of 6,000 feet, crashing in rural area in the Moscow region. Interfax news agency reported that technical fault was the leading suspected cause of the crash, and that investigators were analysing the plane's black box. The temperature was -5C with light snow near Domodedovo airport on Sunday afternoon, which is not extreme or challenging weather for this time of year. A meteorologist told state television channel Rossiya 24 that there had not been particularly strong or suddenly changing winds. "Meteorological conditions probably couldn't have directly or indirectly affected the development of the catastrophic situation," said Yevgeny Tishkovets. An Antonov An-148-100V plane operated by Saratov Airlines President Vladimir Putin "expresses deep condolences to all those who lost family and loved ones in this catastrophe," his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state news agency TASS. Mr Putin also ordered the government to create a special commission to look into the causes of the crash. Investigative committee head Alexander Bastrykin personally went to the site of the crash, and the transport oversight agency said it would do a safety audit of Saratov Airlines. Video from the area of the crash uploaded on social media showed fragments of the plane in a snowy field. The person filming the video said letters could be seen on the ground. Reports said a Russian postal service helicopter had collided with the plane, but the postal service denied it had any helicopters or was involved in any way with the tragedy. Relatives of the plane's passengers have gathered at the airport in Orsk in the Orenburg region, its intended destination. The emergencies ministry opened a hotline offering information about the tragedy and psychological assistance. A view shows a scene where a short-haul regional Antonov AN-148 crashed after taking off from Moscow's Domodedovo airport Footage from the Orsk airport showed emergency ministries personnel arriving there, and psychologists were on hand at the airport to speak with relatives. The ill-fated An-148 was built in Voronezh, Russia, in 2010. In a statement, Russia's transport agency said: "The An-148 passenger plane of the Saratov Airlin took off from the Domodedovo airport at 14:21 Moscow time. "According to preliminary data, there were 65 passengers and six crew members aboard the plane. Radio contact with the plane was lost several minutes after the takeoff and the plane went off radar." The emergencies ministry told state news agency TASS that "fragments of the An-148 plane and several bodies" had been found near the village of Stepanovskoye. Видео с места крушения самолета. pic.twitter.com/y8vikN1akP— Тот самый Мартин (@martin_camera) February 11, 2018 Emergencies, medical and law enforcement personnel were working at the crash site. Andrei Odintsov, mayor of Orsk, told Rossiya 24 that all those on the plane were residents of the Orenburg region and said "calls are starting to come in from relatives". "The main task for us is to check the passenger list, today we have the names but we need to establish their addresses and relatives," he said. A Rossiya 24 correspondent at the Orsk airport said people were coming to check lists of people killed. "People are still arriving here and trying to find out if their loved ones or friends were among the dead," she said. Local news site Ural56 published the list of 65 passengers who had been on the flight. One of the names on the list was Tamerlan Aknazarov. A social media page for a man by that name living in Orsk listed his age as 32. It had last been active a little over an hour before the flight took off. In photos, Mr Aknazarov was shown posing with friends and riding a horse. He had posted videos about maintaining cars and an image of the popular game World of Tanks. According to an Orsk social media page listed under the name of another passenger, Svetlana Machneva, she was a single mother with a 16-year-old daughter. Saratov Airlines is a small company with 13 planes and has not suffered previous fatal crashes.
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| South Africa's Ramaphosa says power transfer to be finalized Posted: 11 Feb 2018 08:07 AM PST  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's deputy president consolidated his control of the government on Sunday, promising to conclude a power transition in which he would succeed President Jacob Zuma, who faces widespread calls to resign because of corruption allegations.
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| A Disney Vacation Just Got Way More Expensive Posted: 12 Feb 2018 02:02 AM PST  Disney raised entry prices for most tickets at Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida over the weekend.
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| FP Security Brief: Syrian and Israeli Forces Clash; Israeli F-16 Downed Posted: 12 Feb 2018 05:30 AM PST  Israeli and Iranian forces directly clash for the first time since 1982.
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| Disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor sent to Arizona federal prison Posted: 10 Feb 2018 12:40 PM PST  Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been transferred to a high security federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, after being convicted of molesting scores of young women who went to him for treatment, authorities said on Saturday. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said the 54-year-old Nassar was at the United States Penitentiary, Tucson, which holds about 1,390 male inmates. After weeks of horrifying testimony from nearly 200 victims about his decades of abuse, Nassar was sentenced on Monday in Michigan to 40 to 125 years in prison.
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| Five people killed in 'horrific' Kentucky shooting spree Posted: 11 Feb 2018 11:22 AM PST  Five people have been killed, including a gunman thought to have taken his own life, during a "horrific" shooting spree in Kentucky. Police received an emergency call on Saturday afternoon reporting a shooting at a rural home near the small city of Paintsville, in the northeast of the state. Officers found two people dead and began to search the area for the shooter, Johnson County Sheriff Dwayne Price said in the statement.
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| Idris Elba Proposes To Girlfriend Sabrina Dhowre In Front Of Cheering Crowd Posted: 10 Feb 2018 10:26 AM PST  Video shows the "Luther" star getting down on one knee and proposed to girlfriend Sabrina Dhowre during a screening of "Yardie" — the first film Elba has directed — in Dalston, London.
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| Gigi Hadid Shuts Down Body Shamers, Speaks Out On Hashimoto's Disease Posted: 12 Feb 2018 08:51 AM PST  Gigi Hadid slammed critics of her weight on social media on Sunday night, explaining her journey with Hashimoto's disease and imploring others to have more empathy.
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| Democrats Will 'Clean Up' Their Blocked Memo Into the Russia Investigation Posted: 11 Feb 2018 07:57 PM PST  The document tries to counter Republican allegations of surveillance excesses
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| Helicopter Crash in Grand Canyon Kills 3, Injures 4: 'It Was Horrible' Posted: 11 Feb 2018 10:47 AM PST  The Papillon Airways EC130, which was carrying a pilot and six passengers, crashed under unknown circumstances near Quartermaster Canyon on the Hualapai Nation about 5:20 p.m. Saturday.
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| Bishop declares nun's recovery as 70th Lourdes miracle Posted: 11 Feb 2018 01:39 PM PST  PARIS (AP) — A French bishop declared Sunday that the recovery a long-debilitated nun made after she visited the shrine in Lourdes was a miracle, the 70th event to be recognized as an act of divine intervention at the world-famous Catholic pilgrimage site.
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| EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's First Class Habit Costing Taxpayers Thousands Posted: 11 Feb 2018 08:47 PM PST  Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, regularly flies first or business class, often costing American taxpayers thousands of dollars more than equivalent seats in coach, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
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| 11 Turkish troops killed in deadliest day of Kurdish offensive Posted: 10 Feb 2018 12:17 PM PST  Eleven Turkish soldiers were killed on Saturday, including two military personnel when a helicopter was downed, in the bloodiest day in Ankara's offensive against a Kurdish militia in northern Syria. On January 20, Turkey launched a military operation against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in the Afrin region, backing Syrian rebels with air strikes and ground troops. "At this stage, we can say that one out of two helicopters was downed.
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| Investor Soros pledges new donation to pro-EU group Posted: 11 Feb 2018 03:39 PM PST  (Reuters) - Billionaire financier George Soros will pledge an additional 100,000 pounds ($138,130) to Best for Britain, a campaign group seeking to keep Britain in the European Union, the group said in an email to Reuters. Soros, who donated 400,000 pounds to the campaign last week, will match any donations given to Best for Britain up to 100,000 pounds after attacks against him in the right-wing press, the group said. "I am happy to take the fight to those who have tried to use a smear campaign, not arguments, to prop up their failing case," Soros told the Guardian, which had reported on the donation earlier on Sunday.
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| Officials: Correctional officer shoots just-released inmate after attack Posted: 12 Feb 2018 09:28 AM PST  Authorities say a correctional officer shot and critically injured a just-released prison inmate during an apparent attempted carjacking in a parking lot near the prison.
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| Monday's Morning Email: The Next Recession Will Be Brutal. Here's Why. Posted: 12 Feb 2018 04:22 AM PST  TOP STORIES (And want to get The Morning Email each weekday?
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| For the Kids: Yamaha Unveils New YZ65 MXer Posted: 12 Feb 2018 04:26 AM PST  For the Kids: Yamaha Unveils New YZ65 MXer Yamaha rounds out its 2018 motocross lineup with new model for the little ones Start 'em young. Whether you're a motorcycle or a tobacco company, it's not a bad business strategy and Yamaha has just doubled on in
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| Top Democrat’s Return Sows Uncertainty for Iran Deal Posted: 10 Feb 2018 02:01 PM PST  Iran hawk Bob Menendez's reinstatement as top Democrat on Senate Foreign Relations Committee could alter politics around the nuclear deal.
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| Long Island man arrested on cockfighting charges Posted: 10 Feb 2018 02:42 PM PST  ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Police searching for drugs at a home in New York discovered more than 60 caged roosters, a mistreated pit bull, a pheasant and equipment used to stage illegal cockfighting matches.
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| Oroville crisis drives harder look at aging US dams Posted: 11 Feb 2018 09:18 AM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One year after the worst structural failures at a major U.S. dam in a generation, federal regulators who oversee California's half-century-old, towering Oroville Dam say they are looking hard at how they overlooked its built-in weaknesses for decades.
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| Police Move In As Clashes Erupt At Right-Wing Rally At University Of Washington Posted: 10 Feb 2018 10:22 PM PST  Five people were arrested Saturday when counter-protesters clashed with members and supporters of a controversial right-wing "Patriot Prayer" group at the University of Washington campus in Seattle.
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| Foreign jihadists should face trial at home, US tells Britain and allies Posted: 12 Feb 2018 04:29 AM PST  The US has said it wants Britain and other allies to try their Islamic State jihadists captured on the battlefield, which could set them on a collision course over the fate of the two "Beatles". The US is urging the UK and other members of the coalition fighting Isil to help deal with the growing number of foreign fighters that are being held by Syrian Democratic Forces partners, saying the militants should be turned over to face justice in their home countries. The US-backed SDF is currently holding hundreds of foreign fighters, including Alexanda Kotey, 34, and El Shafee Elsheikh, 29, from London, and British-Canadian Muslim convert Jack Letts. "We're working with the coalition on foreign fighter detainees, and generally expect these detainees to return to their country of origin for disposition," said Kathryn Wheelbarger, a senior Pentagon official. British jihadi Alexanda Kotey "Defense ministers have the obligation and the opportunity to really explain to their other ministers or their other Cabinet officials just the importance to the mission, to the campaign, to make sure that there's an answer to this problem." The comment has been read as a direct response to Gavin Williamson, the Defence Secretary, who said last week that the jihadists should not be allowed home. "I don't think they should ever set foot in this country again," he said. "They turned their back on Britain, our values and everything we stand for — they are the worst of the worst." Jim Mattis, US Defense Secretary, is expected to press the issue during a meeting in Rome tomorrow with his European counterparts. The thorny subject of what to do with foreign Isil suspects has sparked intense debate in the West, with France saying they should be tried in situ by their captors. Alexanda Kotey, one of two Britons suspected of having been part of the Islamic State extremist group dubbed "The Beatles" who were captured by Kurdish militia fighters in January. Credit: ITV The pair, who are thought to have had their British citizenship stripped, were arrested last month by the SDF as they tried to flee across the Syrian border to Turkey among refugees. Together they make up half of an Isil cell commonly dubbed "The Beatles" because of the British accents, which tortured and beheaded Western hostages in a prison near the Syrian city of Raqqa. US officials admitted that putting the two in the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility is not an option. And British leaders have suggested they do not want the two men returned to to the UK. The legal issues are daunting. Most nations, including the US, would be unwilling to take back detainees unless they have the evidence to prosecute them, and that often is difficult to collect in such battlefield captures. The US could try to build a case around evidence gathered from Elsheikh and Kotey over the Beatles' torture and killing of American hostages James Foley, Peter Kassig and Steven Sotloff. Britain has made no suggestion they plan to do so for the British victims, aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning. The Beatles If Washington fails to do so, the pair's fate becomes uncertain. The SDF has no internationally recognised legal status to try the suspects themselves and it is unclear what will happen to the hundreds of foreign suspects in their custody. An SDF official confirmed to the Telegraph that they are currently holding the men in northern Syria and have not yet received any extradition appeal. "Judging by the words of the British Defence Secretary I don't think the UK wants them back. He already said he wants all these fighters in Syria dead," Sherin Abdullah said. "We haven't heard anything from Britain at all." The commander of the SDF said on Monday that they were overwhelmed by the number of foreigners in their detention and bemoaned how "no one wants to take them back". "The capacity problem is very real," Ms Wheelbarger said, noting that at one point the SDF was capturing as many as 40 militants a day. "Success in the campaign means you get more people off the battlefield. ... These facilities are eventually going to be full." Elsheikh and Kotey have already been interrogated at length by the CIA to extract intelligence about Isil's current operational capacity. They have also questioned them on the location of the burial sites of the Western hostages executed by fellow Beatle Mohammed Emwazi, known as "Jihadi John". The pair are understood to be talking and have offered some information that US commandos on the ground are now acting on.
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| Alibaba broadens offline reach with $865 million Easyhome stake Posted: 10 Feb 2018 09:31 PM PST  Alibaba Group Holding will pay about 5.45 billion yuan ($866 million) for a 15 percent stake in China's Easyhome, a home improvement chain, as the internet giant expands its investments in offline and retail businesses. The investment underscores the company's retail strategy, aimed at leveraging offline and online activities, Alibaba said in a statement.
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| Jimmy Kimmel Perfectly Skewers Judge's Same-Sex Wedding Cake Ruling Posted: 11 Feb 2018 02:00 PM PST  Jimmy Kimmel broke down last week's headline-making ruling allowing a California bakery to refuse to make cakes for same-sex weddings as only Jimmy Kimmel can.
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| 'Clearly there was a breakdown in process': Chris Christie on Porter's access to classified info Posted: 11 Feb 2018 03:02 AM PST  ABC News contributor former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., former Clinton white house staff secretary, discuss former Trump White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter's access to classified information.
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| Trump's confidante Hope Hicks finds herself center stage in scandal Posted: 11 Feb 2018 12:37 AM PST  Throughout Donald Trump's campaign and relentlessly chaotic presidency, the single constant presence at his side, outside of his family, has been the 29-year-old former Ralph Lauren model and White House communications director Hope Hicks. While aides and advisers fall in and out of favor, Hicks has remained Trump's Oval Office gatekeeper, companion and sounding board, offering consistent loyalty. In one, Hicks features as a likely target in the special counsel Robert Mueller's effort to acquire cooperating witnesses in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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| Surging US output 'a concern' for oil market: OPEC Posted: 12 Feb 2018 03:35 AM PST  Oil prices, long battered by a global glut in supply, have been rising recently as the market returns to balance on the back of a landmark deal between producers to throttle output, but surging shale production in the United States could throw a spanner in the works, OPEC said on Monday. Crude prices fell as low as $35 per barrel at the start of 2016, but they have been rising since, reaching a three-year high of more than $70 per barrel last month, "on signs that production adjustments by OPEC and non-OPEC participating countries are balancing the market," the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries wrote in its latest monthly market report. OPEC countries and other oil-producing countries, such as Russia, agreed at the end of 2016 to cut back production to combat the global glut in oil.
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| Cardi B May Be One Of The Few People Who Can Actually Make Anna Wintour Smile Posted: 11 Feb 2018 05:18 PM PST  It's beginning to look a lot like Cardi B's 2017 luck has spilled well over into 2018.
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| The Russian New Warfare Doctrine Has the Army Worried Enough to Make a Manual About It Posted: 11 Feb 2018 05:48 AM PST  The U.S. Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group was formed in 2006 to identify gaps in U.S. military doctrine, equipment and field tactics, and to study how potential adversaries are developing tactics to exploit them. In 2017 the group released the sixty-one-page Russian New Generation Warfare Handbook, which you can read here, based on observation of Russian tactics in Ukraine and to a lesser extent Syria, as well as published doctrine and public statements. It paints an intimidating picture of a military ready to combine old strengths in artillery and antiaircraft systems with new technologies and tactics, leveraging drones, electronic warfare, information warfare and massed sniper fire.
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| Honda to recall roughly 350,000 cars in China over engine issue Posted: 12 Feb 2018 03:15 AM PST  Honda Motor Co Ltd will recall roughly 350,000 vehicles in China to resolve a cold-climate engine issue and quell a barrage of customer complaints that has hit the Japanese automaker over the past month. The recall involves the CR-V sport utility vehicle and the Civic car, Honda's joint venture with Dongfeng Motor Group Co Ltd said in a statement on Monday. The company is calling back those cars to resolve a problem caused by an unusual amount of un-combusted petrol collecting in the engine's lubricant oil pan.
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| Two Ohio police officers shot dead responding to 911 call Posted: 10 Feb 2018 02:37 PM PST  The two officers were immediately fired upon when they entered an apartment responding to a 911 call that had hung up, Westerville Police Chief Joe Morbitzer said at a news conference. This was their calling and they did it right," said Morbitzer, his voice halting and thick with emotion.
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| S.Africa's ANC to meet Monday as Zuma deadlock tightens Posted: 11 Feb 2018 12:02 AM PST  The top decision-making body of South Africa's ruling ANC will meet on Monday following days of talks over President Jacob Zuma's expected departure from office, a party spokeswoman said Sunday. "An NEC (national executive committee) meeting is scheduled for tomorrow in Pretoria," ANC spokeswoman Khusela Diko told AFP, declining to reveal the meeting's agenda. South Africa's president-in-waiting Cyril Ramaphosa has said negotiations should be concluded within days.
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| Team USA's Only Mom Athlete Opens Up About Parenthood Posted: 11 Feb 2018 03:00 AM PST  The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, are officially underway.
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