| Mueller Catches Lawyer Lying, Brings New Charges Posted: 20 Feb 2018 12:29 PM PST  Rachel Maddow reviews recent Ukrainian political history by way of explaining new charges in Robert Mueller's Trump Russia investigation against a lawyer who is also the son-in-law of a Ukrainian-Russian oligarch, Alex van der Zwaan.
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| Autopsy confirms Virginia woman was mauled to death by her own pit bulls Posted: 22 Feb 2018 07:42 AM PST  An autopsy has confirmed that a Virginia woman believed to have been mauled to death by her own pit bulls in December did indeed die from "trauma due to mauling by animals."
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| Kushner Doesn't Want To Give Up His Security Clearance As John Kelly Cracks Down: Report Posted: 20 Feb 2018 09:44 PM PST  White House senior adviser Jared Kushner doesn't want to give up the interim security clearance that gives him access to highly classified information, even though his current duties likely don't require him to view top-secret material, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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| Truck was on tracks despite gates when struck by Amtrak train: U.S. report Posted: 21 Feb 2018 10:03 AM PST  A garbage truck was on the tracks despite lowered safety gates when it was struck by a train carrying Republican lawmakers in a fatal crash last month in rural Virginia, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday. Data from a camera mounted on the front of the chartered Amtrak train showed the gates were down at the crossing at the time of the crash, according to a preliminary NTSB report on the Jan. 31 accident. A passenger on the garbage truck was killed and two others on the truck were injured.
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| GOP Congresswoman Claims Many Mass Shooters 'End Up Being Democrats' Posted: 21 Feb 2018 02:54 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) claimed that people who commit mass shootings are often Democrats during a Wednesday discussion about the Florida school shooting.
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| New York University issues public apology for 'racially insensitive' meal served during Black History Month Posted: 22 Feb 2018 07:40 AM PST  New York University has issued a public apology and fired their director of food service after students pointed out the watermelon-flavoured water and collard greens the school was serving during Black History Month were racially insensitive. College of Arts and Science sophomore Nia Harris noticed the offensive meal when she walked into Weinstein Passport Dining Hall - before alerting the deans of the school and NYU's President Hamilton of the insensitive and "stereotypical" meal. "Not only was this racially insensitive, this was just ignorant.
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| NRA’s Wayne LaPierre: ‘Elites’ don’t care about school safety Posted: 22 Feb 2018 07:54 AM PST  On Thursday, Feb. 22, the National Rifle Association's executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference amid the nation's heated debate about gun control following the Parkland, Fla., school shooting. During his speech, LaPierre said "elites" don't care about school safety, and he called for more guns in schools.
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| 9 Converted Barn Homes: Beautiful Barn Style Home Inspiration Posted: 21 Feb 2018 10:47 AM PST |
| The public role of psychoanalysts in the Trump era: 'We live in ominous times' Posted: 21 Feb 2018 02:00 AM PST  Psychoanalysts Jonathan Lear, Kerry J. Sulkowicz and Jerrold Post addressed the ethical and psychological implications of commenting publicly on national figures, including President Trump, at the American Psychoanalytic Association's 2018 national meeting.
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| Jimmy Kimmel Shreds Donald Trump Jr. For Perpetuating Florida Shooting Conspiracies Posted: 22 Feb 2018 12:58 AM PST  Jimmy Kimmel has absolutely no time for people who peddle conspiracy theories, including Donald Trump Jr.
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| Seventh-grader who shot himself in school bathroom dies Posted: 21 Feb 2018 02:46 PM PST  MASSILLON, Ohio (AP) — A seventh-grader who died a day after shooting himself inside a middle school restroom had fireworks and extra ammunition in his backpack, police said on Wednesday.
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| Israeli judge extends Bezeq CEO police detention another 6 days Posted: 21 Feb 2018 07:57 AM PST  An Israeli judge ordered the chief executive of Bezeq Israel Telecom to remain in police custody for another six days on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the country's largest telecoms group. Bezeq CEO Stella Handler was arrested on Sunday in connection with an Israel Securities Authority (ISA) investigation of Bezeq over possible fraud and financial reporting offences.
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| Robert Mueller's Indictment Could Be a Win for Russia's Trolls Posted: 21 Feb 2018 05:06 AM PST  As well as providing a blueprint for their methods, the indictment may further diminish public trust in platforms that provide information
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| Republican congresswoman: Many mass murderers are Democrats Posted: 21 Feb 2018 08:17 PM PST  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A Republican congresswoman from upstate New York said Wednesday that "many" people who commit mass murder turn out to be Democrats.
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| Democrat trounces Republican in Kentucky state race where Trump won with 72% of vote Posted: 21 Feb 2018 02:10 AM PST  The Democrats have emphatically won a state House seat in a Kentucky district where Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by 49 points in 2016. Linda Belcher's victory in Bullitt County, where she polled more than two-thirds of the vote, is thought to be the Democrats' 37th gain since the presidential election and is the latest sign of the party's momentum ahead of pivotal midterms later this year. Rebecca Johnson had denied the accusations against husband Dan Johnson, claiming he was a victim of "an assault from the left." However, they were backed up by an on-the-record interview from the victim, plus pages of police documents that were published by the Kentucky Centre for Investigative Reporting.
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| Iran teams carry plane crash dead down from mountain Posted: 21 Feb 2018 05:03 AM PST  Emergency teams on Wednesday began recovering bodies from a plane crash in Iran's Zagros mountains but the operation had to be suspended due to bad weather, officials said. Search helicopters located the crash site after a break in the weather on Tuesday at a height of around 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) in the Dena range. Helicopters were unable to land but officials said a recovery operation had begun on Wednesday, with emergency personnel carrying bodies on their backs to a road at the foot of the mountain.
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| 14 Mulled Wine Recipes That'll Warm You Up Posted: 20 Feb 2018 12:40 PM PST |
| Police: Officer shot, killed intervening in domestic dispute Posted: 21 Feb 2018 02:34 PM PST  BRANDYWINE, Md. (AP) — An off-duty police officer who answered a neighbor's request for help in a domestic dispute was shot and killed Wednesday in Maryland, officials said.
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| Mississippi Town Rejects 'Historic' LGBTQ Pride Parade Despite Local Support Posted: 21 Feb 2018 01:37 PM PST  Local leaders in Starkville, Mississippi, denied a request to host what would have been the town's first gay pride parade.
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| School Shooting's Survivors Cry As Florida House Rejects Talks On Assault Weapon Ban Posted: 20 Feb 2018 04:21 PM PST  Survivors of last week's school shooting in Florida were brought to tears as state lawmakers refused to debate a gun control measure in Tallahassee on Tuesday.
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| At 'listening session' on school shootings, Trump urges giving teachers guns Posted: 21 Feb 2018 03:55 PM PST  In a White House "listening session," President Trump said his administration would look "very strongly" at allowing concealed carry weapons in schools, even though he knew "a lot of people are going to be opposed to it."
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| U.S. raps ally Albania for 'careless' words on Kosovo Posted: 21 Feb 2018 11:09 AM PST  The United States urged Albania on Wednesday to avoid "careless language" after its prime minister suggested a single president and single security policy for both his country and neighboring Kosovo in a speech that infuriated Serbia. Serbia is sensitive to any talk of unification of its former province of Kosovo, which has a majority ethnic Albanian population, and Albania. Addressing Kosovo's parliament on Sunday on the 10th anniversary of the country's independence from Belgrade, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said: "Kosovo and Albania will have a single foreign policy and not just the same embassies and diplomatic representations, but why not one president, a symbol of national unity, and one national security policy." Rama later complained that his comments had been taken out of context, but the European Union said they were "not helpful" and Serbia accused the Albanian premier of seeking to build a "Greater Albania" in the region.
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| 'Black Panther' Is Breaking An Insane Number Of Box Office Records Posted: 21 Feb 2018 02:57 PM PST  The King of Wakanda is still conquering the box office.
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| These Surprising Countries Now Have the Most Powerful Passport in the World Posted: 21 Feb 2018 09:53 AM PST  European countries no longer top the charts
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| Russia blamed as key clinic in Syria enclave bombed out of service Posted: 20 Feb 2018 10:30 AM PST  A key hospital in Syria's rebel-held Eastern Ghouta was put out of service on Tuesday, a medical group said, with a monitor blaming Russian air strikes. "The Arbin hospital was hit twice today and is now out of service," said Moussa Naffa, country director in Jordan for the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), which supported the clinic. The news came as the United Nations said six hospitals had been hit in Eastern Ghouta in the past 48 hours, in addition to the one reported by SAMS.
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| Police officer shot dead by murder suspect during standoff Posted: 21 Feb 2018 07:44 AM PST  Officer Justin Billa, a former officer of the month, was fatally injured in the city of Mobile, after trying to detain a man wanted in connection with a murder. The dead officer joined the force in January 2016 and won the Mobile Police Department's Officer of the Month award in June 2016, Mobile Police Department Chief Lawrence Battiste told reporters, according to the Associated Press. The suspect was identified as Robert Hollie.
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| Crews to leave Puerto Rico as $750M Fluor contract nears end Posted: 21 Feb 2018 03:25 PM PST  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Crews who are helping restore power in Puerto Rico as part of a $750 million federal contract will leave the U.S. territory soon as nearly a quarter of a million customers remain in the dark more than five months after Hurricane Maria, officials said Wednesday.
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| Corgi comforts stranger who recently lost his own dog Posted: 21 Feb 2018 12:27 PM PST  Cora, a therapy dog in training sought out a man at the airport who'd lost his own pet the day before.
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| Models Carried Their Own Severed Heads At Gucci's Nightmarish Milan Fashion Show Posted: 21 Feb 2018 02:03 PM PST  Things got extra freaky at Gucci's Milan Fashion Week show on Wednesday when designer Alessandro Michele sent models down the runway carrying replicas of their own heads.
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| White House Press Secretary Dodges Questions On Russia's Election Meddling Posted: 20 Feb 2018 03:23 PM PST  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders evaded reporters' questions Tuesday about what the president is doing to address Russian meddling in the 2016 elections.
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| Supreme Court forbids seizure of ancient Persian artifacts Posted: 21 Feb 2018 01:01 PM PST  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Americans injured in a 1997 suicide bombing in Jerusalem cannot seize ancient Persian artifacts from a Chicago museum to satisfy a $71.5 million court judgment against Iran, which they had accused of complicity in the attack. The justices, in an 8-0 ruling, upheld a lower court's decision in favor of Iran that had prevented the plaintiffs from collecting on the judgment, which Tehran has not paid, by obtaining antiquities held at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute.
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| Malaysia holds Filipinos seeking to set up extremist cell Posted: 21 Feb 2018 12:18 AM PST  Ten suspected Islamic militants who were trying to establish a Malaysian cell of a Philippine kidnap-for-ransom group have been arrested in Borneo island, police said Wednesday. The alleged extremists, mostly Filipinos, are also accused of trying to help fighters linked to the Islamic State (IS) group travel to the Philippines to join up with militants there, they said. The southern Philippines has long been a pocket of Islamic militancy in the largely Catholic country.
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| Here's How To Stop The Next Nikolas Cruz Posted: 21 Feb 2018 11:11 AM PST  Someone close to him called the FBI to report his "desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting."
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| Texas governor weighs parole board's advice on inmate's fate Posted: 22 Feb 2018 10:08 AM PST  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A condemned Texas inmate set for execution Thursday awaited word on whether Gov. Greg Abbott would accept the state parole board's rare clemency recommendation to spare the prisoner's life at the urging of his father.
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| White powder and 'racist' letter sent to Meghan Markle Posted: 22 Feb 2018 09:48 AM PST  A package containing white powder and an allegedly racist message sent to Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle is being treated as a hate crime, police said on Thursday. Officers from the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism command were called in after the package was received on February 12 at a sorting office in St James's Palace in central London. Contacted by AFP, Prince Harry's press service at Kensington Palace declined to comment on the report.
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| Trump’s Attempt to Strike “Ultimate” Middle East Deal Faces New Setback Posted: 20 Feb 2018 02:20 PM PST  Mahmoud Abbas challenges American leadership of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process at the United Nations.
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| Democrats want $300 million to fight possible Russia election tampering Posted: 21 Feb 2018 11:45 AM PST  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic leaders called on Congress on Wednesday to give the Federal Bureau of Investigation $300 million to fight foreign efforts to interfere in congressional and state elections in November, amid growing concerns about potential Russian influence on the polls. Citing warnings from intelligence agencies that Russia is trying to influence the upcoming vote, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House of Representatives Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi asked that the additional funds be included in a bill to fund the government which Congress aims to pass by March 23.
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| Miami Heat To Wear Patches In Honor Of Parkland Shooting Victims Posted: 21 Feb 2018 03:21 PM PST  The Miami Heat plan to unveil new patches they will wear in honor of the victims of last week's deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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| Man Assaults Gas Station Cashier With Hot Dogs After Refusing to Let Him Buy Beer: Cops Posted: 20 Feb 2018 10:27 AM PST  A corn dog stick was allegedly also involved.
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| Ex-Arkansas judge sentenced to 5 years in sexual favors case Posted: 21 Feb 2018 04:57 PM PST  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced a former Arkansas judge Wednesday to five years in prison — a stiffer punishment than prosecutors recommended — after he admitted giving young male defendants lighter sentences in return for personal benefits that included sexual favors.
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| A Conspiracy Theory About A Stoneman Douglas Student Reaches No. 1 On YouTube Posted: 21 Feb 2018 10:00 AM PST  A video peddling a conspiracy theory that Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg is an actor reached No. 1 on YouTube's trending page Wednesday morning before the company ultimately removed it.
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| 11 Cherry Cobblers That'll Convince You To Switch It Up From Pie Posted: 20 Feb 2018 11:46 AM PST |
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