| Shooting Survivor To Trump: Shame Lawmakers Who Take NRA Money, Not Florida Community Posted: 17 Feb 2018 02:53 PM PST  FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. ― Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzalez refuted President Donald Trump's suggestion that her community didn't take action to prevent a shooter from killing 17 at the school in a fiery Saturday speech.
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| Money trail key to tracking Russian troll operation Posted: 16 Feb 2018 01:01 PM PST  Clint Watts, former FBI special agent, talks with Rachel Maddow about his early description of the Russian campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election that has now been borne out by Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians.
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| Why School Cops Won’t Fix School Shootings Posted: 16 Feb 2018 01:51 PM PST  On Thursday, in response to a deadly school shooting in Florida that left at least 17 dead, President Donald Trump said he would work with state leaders to prioritize school safety.
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| Photos of the week: 2/9 - 2/16 Posted: 16 Feb 2018 03:25 PM PST  The United States experienced it's 30th mass shooting of 2018 this week, according to the Gun Violence Archive. A 19-year-old is accused of opening fire with an assault rifle on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Wednesday. The accused gunman, Nikolas Cruz, was a former student at the school who was expelled for disciplinary reasons.
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| Adults Offered 'Thoughts and Prayers' After the Florida School Shooting. But the Students Who Survived Want Action Posted: 16 Feb 2018 01:58 PM PST  "I think it's great that they're saying 'thoughts and prayers,' but it doesn't do anything"
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| How woman convicted in fiance's kayak death looks to rebuild her life: Part 6 Posted: 16 Feb 2018 04:04 PM PST  In her first interview since release, Graswald talks about the kayak incident and her future.
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| Media, Democrats Have Created 'More Chaos' Than Russians, Says White House Spokesman Posted: 17 Feb 2018 09:41 PM PST  .@hogangidley45: "There are two groups that have created chaos more than the Russians and that's the Democrats and the mainstream media."
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| FBI warned about Florida gunman but failed to act Posted: 16 Feb 2018 10:05 AM PST  The FBI said Friday that it received a detailed warning last month that Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz was a danger but that it failed to act. "On January 5, 2018, a person close to Nikolas Cruz contacted the FBI's Public Access Line tipline to report concerns about him," the FBI said in a statement. "The caller provided information about Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting," it said.
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| Florida Teacher's Quick Action May Have Saved the Lives of Students During Shooting Posted: 17 Feb 2018 08:43 AM PST  She told them they'd have to bust down the door.
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| Powerful 7.2-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Mexico Posted: 16 Feb 2018 04:01 PM PST  A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit Oaxaca, Mexico, on Friday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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| New Manafort fraud allegation could be product of flipped witness Posted: 16 Feb 2018 11:58 AM PST  Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about the possibility of new allegations of bank fraud against Paul Manafort could be a sign of cooperation by Rick Gates or Robert Mueller.
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| Florida shooting: Librarian who saved 55 'knew what to do because her friend survived Sandy Hook' Posted: 17 Feb 2018 04:35 AM PST  Diana Haneski, a library media specialist at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, jumped into action when she heard the school was under lockdown on her radio. Speaking to Reuters, Ms Haneski, 57, said she knew what to do as her friend, a fellow librarian, had managed to save 22 people during the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012. "She was there that day in Sandy Hook and because of her I knew what to do," she said.
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| The Latest: Iran vows to respond if US gives up on nuke deal Posted: 18 Feb 2018 04:48 AM PST  MUNICH (AP) — The Latest from the Munich Security Conference (all times local):
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| Chloe Kim Is Proof There’s No Definable Way To Be Asian-American Posted: 16 Feb 2018 03:09 PM PST  A gold medalist and now everyone's golden girl to boot, Korean-American Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim has, all at once, become a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
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| Brawling family of 23 removed from Australian cruise ship Posted: 16 Feb 2018 08:43 PM PST  Twenty-three members of the same family have been removed from a cruise ship near Sydney after a brawl that left several injured, reports said, just days after a separate incident forced another liner to return to port. Police removed the group, which included men, women and children, from the boat on Friday after it docked in Sydney on a 10-day South Pacific cruise. One witness told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation she had seen seven separate fights break out during the trip.
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| Tweeters Rip Trump Over 'Tone Deaf' Thumbs-Up Pose With Florida First Responders Posted: 17 Feb 2018 12:27 AM PST  President Donald Trump has sparked anger after he gave the thumbs-up while posing for a photograph with law enforcement officers who responded to Wednesday's deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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| 7.2 quake damages homes, but Mexico avoids major destruction Posted: 17 Feb 2018 02:20 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico escaped major destruction from a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that jolted southern and central parts of the country, authorities said Saturday, though 13 people were killed in the crash of a helicopter sent to assess the damage.
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| ‘Devastating’ Videos Show Jokhang Temple, ‘Heart Of Tibetan Buddhism,’ Consumed By Fire Posted: 18 Feb 2018 02:18 AM PST  The Jokhang temple, one of Tibet's most sacred sites, reportedly caught on fire on Saturday in the city of Lhasa.
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| Russian mercenaries, a discrete weapon in Syria Posted: 17 Feb 2018 02:39 AM PST  The death of Russian citizens in Syria from a US coalition strike last week, which has been played down by both Moscow and Washington, has exposed the role of Russian mercenaries in the multi-front conflict. The incident followed a steady trickle of reports about Russians dying in battle in Syria while employed as guns for hire in a privately-owned outfit whose role may be securing oilfields for President Bashar al-Assad. Russia on Thursday has finally recognised that five Russian citizens, not officially affiliated with the Russian military, were likely killed in the strikes in eastern Syria, in the first admission of non-military combat casualties.
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| Israel's Netanyahu condemns Polish PM for 'Jewish perpetrators' comment Posted: 17 Feb 2018 10:59 AM PST  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned his Polish counterpart on Saturday for saying Jews were perpetrators in World War Two as well as Poles and others, just weeks after Warsaw drew criticism over a new Holocaust law. Poland passed a law this month imposing jail terms for suggesting the country was complicit in the Holocaust, prompting criticism from Israel and the United States. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was asked by a reporter at the Munich Security Conference in Germany whether, under the new law, the reporter himself could be penalized for telling a story in Poland about his mother who survived the Holocaust and told him that some Poles had collaborated with the Gestapo.
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| Shooting suspect was on school rifle team that got NRA grant Posted: 16 Feb 2018 07:28 PM PST  The troubled teen authorities say killed 17 people at a Florida high school excelled in an air-rifle marksmanship program supported by a grant from the National Rifle Association Foundation, part of a multimillion-dollar effort by the gun group to support youth shooting clubs and other programs.
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| A look at FBI call center that failed to flag tip on shooter Posted: 16 Feb 2018 06:07 PM PST  More than a month before 17 people were killed at a Florida high school, the FBI got a tip warning that the suspect wanted to kill people and was planning to carry out a school shooting.
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| Trolls Are Posting Fake Stories About Being Attacked At 'Black Panther' Showings Posted: 17 Feb 2018 09:51 AM PST  Audiences for this week's "Black Panther" premiere went all-out in celebration, and the film's opening weekend is expected to break records at the box office.
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| Gus Kenworthy and His Boyfriend Kissed on TV at the Olympics and Fans Are Ecstatic Posted: 17 Feb 2018 07:39 PM PST  He is one of the first openly gay Americans to compete at the Winter Olympics
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| Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrest 212 in Los Angeles operation Posted: 16 Feb 2018 06:10 PM PST  Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 212 people in a five-day operation in the Los Angeles area.
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| Needed in Syria: Disengagement Posted: 17 Feb 2018 09:40 AM PST ![Needed in Syria: Disengagement]( "Needed in Syria: Disengagement") One is the outbreak of another war between Israel and its neighbors. A reminder of this danger has come from events that began when Israel said it shot down an Iranian drone that had entered its airspace. Israeli F-16s then attacked a command center in Syria, during which Syrian air defenses downed one of the Israeli warplanes (a rare event for Israel). Israel subsequently launched a much more widespread set of aerial attacks within Syria. The Israelis have conducted scores of attacks in Syria over the last five years, but this most recent assault may have been the largest Israeli attack there since the 1980s. A new war involving Israel would surely also involve Lebanese Hezbollah. There is no indication that Hezbollah seeks such a war. The group has incurred significant costs by participating in fighting within Syria and has many wounds to lick. Its leaders still have regrets about the brinksmanship that last got Hezbollah entangled in a war with Israel. Even though it could get in some hits with cross-border rocket fire, the group's leaders know that in a new clash it would get badly bloodied by its militarily more capable foe.
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| Top GOP Donor Won’t Back Candidates Unless They Support Assault Weapons Ban Posted: 17 Feb 2018 11:52 PM PST  Following Wednesday's shooting massacre at a Florida high school, a top Republican political donor has taken a stand for gun control ― by tightening his purse strings.
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| EPA head expenses nearly $200,000 in travel over 6 months Posted: 16 Feb 2018 03:44 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt and staffers billed taxpayers nearly $200,000 for his trips over six months last year, according to travel vouchers obtained by an environmental organization.
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| The Best Of Nordstrom's Winter Sale Posted: 16 Feb 2018 11:20 AM PST  Now through Feb. 25, Nordstrom is marking down name brands like UGG, Sam Edelman, Rag & Bone, Free People, Adidas, and even Kate Spade during the their annual Winter Sale.
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| Donald Trump Uses Florida School Massacre As Excuse To Attack FBI’s Russia Probe Posted: 18 Feb 2018 02:05 AM PST  President Donald Trump has criticized the FBI for missing "all of the many signals" sent out by the suspect in Wednesday's deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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| American figure skater Vincent Zhou is brilliant, bemusing Posted: 16 Feb 2018 04:25 PM PST  GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — The personality of American figure skater Vincent Zhou, who made his Olympic debut with a superb short program Friday, was neatly summed up by his social media response to a fan who recently asked what era he would visit if he could travel back in time.
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| Zimbabwe arrest over Grace Mugabe's 'fake' PhD Posted: 16 Feb 2018 11:25 AM PST  Zimbabwean anti-corruption investigators said Friday they had arrested a university professor over the suspected fraudulent awarding of a doctorate to former first lady Grace Mugabe. Levi Nyagura, the vice chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe, was arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission following an investigation into the PhD. It emerged that Grace was awarded the degree by the university in 2014 after just months of study.
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| Anchor Invites Her 4-Year-Old 'Mini Me' On Show To Celebrate Natural Hair Posted: 16 Feb 2018 04:07 PM PST  North Texas traffic anchor Demetria Obilor gets up in the early hours of the morning to deliver a traffic report for WFAA-TV, rocking her gorgeous natural hair all the while.
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| ‘Lost’ ancient Mexican city had as many buildings as Manhattan, laser map shows Posted: 16 Feb 2018 02:00 PM PST  A "lost" Mexican city built by rivals to the Aztecs has as many buildings as Manhattan and was home to around 100,000 people, according to new research. The sprawling urban centre of Angamuco which was part of the Purépecha empire that peaked in the 16th century was detected by an aerial laser mapping technique called the Lidar system. An aircraft beamed out laser pulses and experts later examined the signals that bounced back from the ground, which helped them pull together a 3D map of the city near modern day Morelia in the state of Michoacan in western Mexico.
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| Florida school massacre suspect on authorities' radar in 2016: report Posted: 17 Feb 2018 11:43 AM PST  A teenager accused of shooting to death 17 people at a Florida high school was investigated by police and state officials as far back as 2016 after slashing his arm in a social media video, and saying he wanted to buy a gun, but authorities determined he was receiving sufficient support, a newspaper said on Saturday. Nikolas Cruz, 19, is charged with committing multiple murders on Wednesday at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a Miami suburb. More vigils and funerals were scheduled for this weekend in and around Parkland.
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| Olympic Skier Ted Ligety’s Son 'Could Give 2 S***s That Daddy Sucked At Work' Posted: 18 Feb 2018 03:45 AM PST  U.S. alpine skier Ted Ligety may have had a tough time on the slopes at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Sunday.
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| School shooting massacre victims torn from community fabric Posted: 17 Feb 2018 06:15 AM PST  Two of the victims were coaches. One was a student who played trombone in the school band. Another proudly wore his ROTC uniform. Still another loved soccer. And most were so very young.
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| Activists Launch Voter Registration Drive At 'Black Panther' Screenings Posted: 17 Feb 2018 10:49 AM PST  The Movement for Black Lives has channeled the energy and excitement surrounding the opening weekend of Marvel's "Black Panther" into a voting registration campaign. The movement's Electoral Justice Project is organizing the #WakandaTheVote initiative that encourages moviegoers to register to vote at "Black Panther" screenings across the country. "The Movement for Black Lives is an ecosystem of black leaders and organizations fighting every single day for the healthy and happy lives of Black folks," activists Jessica Byrd and Kayla Reed told Blavity in an interview.
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| Helicopter crash kills 13 in Mexico Posted: 17 Feb 2018 02:14 PM PST  At least 13 people on the ground, including three children, were killed when a Mexican military helicopter carrying top officials surveying damage from an earthquake crashed in a small town in the southern state of Oaxaca. Yahaira Jacquez reports.
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| Shepard Smith: Mueller Indictments Prove Russian Probe Is 'Opposite Of A Hoax' Posted: 16 Feb 2018 05:31 PM PST  Fox News host Shepard Smith said Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller's string of indictments against Russian operatives for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is a stark demonstration that the probe into Kremlin election interference is "the opposite of a hoax."
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| India, Iran agree to step up efforts to help Afghanistan Posted: 17 Feb 2018 03:37 AM PST  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani agreed on Saturday to step up efforts to bring stability to war-ravaged Afghanistan. Modi reiterated India's commitment to help Afghanistan become "a peaceful, secure, permanent, prosperous and pluralistic country" after holding talks with Rouhani in New Delhi on the last day of his three-day visit. There was no mention of financial assistance or providing weapons to help Afghanistan fight militants by either leader.
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| Apple 'repeatedly calls emergency services' after multiple employees injured walking into glass panes at new HQ Posted: 17 Feb 2018 11:33 AM PST  Apple's new 175-acre headquarters, centred on a glass ring which hosts 12,000 staff, has become an architectural fascination since the first designs were unveiled seven years ago. Apple employees reportedly keep walking into the glass panels which form the walls of the spaceship-like building. The building, in Cupertino, California, is surrounded by 50ft curved glass panels - the largest in the world.
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