| Yes, Russia Likely Did Swing Votes For Donald Trump Posted: 24 Feb 2018 02:01 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― As John Bentley waited in line to see President Barack Obama campaign for Hillary Clinton just days before the 2016 election, he worried that he'd been unable to persuade his son to cast a ballot for Clinton, too.
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| The NRA Wasn't Always A Front For Gun Makers Posted: 24 Feb 2018 05:01 AM PST  On Thursday, Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association and unofficial leader of America's largest cult, took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in Washington, D.C.
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| Red Cross: 21 Staffers Resigned or Fired in Sexual Misconduct Cases Since 2015 Posted: 24 Feb 2018 11:05 AM PST  The Red Cross joins the list of charities that have uncovered sexual misconduct
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| Why Schools Are Flooded With Threats After Mass Shootings Posted: 23 Feb 2018 12:00 PM PST  In the days since last week's mass shooting at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, schools across the country have been receiving an onslaught of copycat threats.
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| Florida shooting a result of 'abdication of duty': NRA Posted: 25 Feb 2018 03:32 AM PST  NRA national spokesperson Dana Loesch tells ABC News' George Stephanopoulos the focus in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting should be local and FBI authorities.
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| Thousands in North Carolina bid farewell to Rev. Billy Graham Posted: 24 Feb 2018 07:57 AM PST  The funeral procession of Billy Graham made its way through North Carolina to his hometown of Charlotte as thousands came out to say goodbye to "America's Pastor."
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| US deportations targeting more people with no crime records Posted: 23 Feb 2018 07:23 PM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — People arrested by deportation officers increasingly have no criminal backgrounds, according to figures released Friday, reflecting the Trump administration's commitment to cast a wider net.
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| Rohingya exodus still growing, six months into crisis Posted: 25 Feb 2018 03:46 AM PST  Hundreds of desperate Rohingya Muslims are still pouring over the Myanmar border into Bangladesh every week, bringing harrowing accounts of torture and murder, six months after a military crackdown sparked the massive refugee crisis. One of the recent arrivals, Nur Mohammad, said his village in Myanmar's Rakhine state was surrounded by Buddhist vigilantes for days before they were allowed to leave. Thirty-year-old Enayetullah was among the 200 Rohingya who crossed the Naf river into Bangladesh on Friday.
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| The North Korea Crisis Is Back Posted: 23 Feb 2018 12:13 PM PST  While it might have arrived at the very end of a bellicose speech to his conservative base, President Trump at CPAC today revealed the obvious: Enjoy the Olympic truce while you have it. The North Korea crisis is back—and we could very well be on the brink of war in less than two months' time. In calling for new and sweeping sanctions, Trump made the right call.
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| Corporate partners cut cord with NRA as gun control debate rages Posted: 23 Feb 2018 02:54 PM PST  The fallout over this week's shooting rampage at a Florida high school started to take its toll on National Rifle Association's roster of corporate partners on Friday as a half dozen companies severed marketing ties with the gun advocacy organization. The exodus of corporate names, ranging from a major insurer to car rental brands and a household moving company, occurred after the NRA launched a counter-offensive against a student-led campaign for tighter U.S. gun ownership laws. At the same time, gun control activists are stepping up pressure on Amazon.com Inc and other online streaming platforms to drop the online video channel NRATV, featuring gun-friendly programming produced by the NRA.
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| Cow Who Escaped Slaughter And Swam To Island Dies After Recapture Posted: 24 Feb 2018 10:13 AM PST  A cow in Poland celebrated as an icon of freedom for her dramatic escape from slaughter has died from stress after being recaptured.
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| American in Custody After Severed Head Is Found in Japan Posted: 24 Feb 2018 08:02 AM PST  Police found footage of him entering a building with a missing Japanese woman
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| Ex-NFL Player In Custody After Instagram Post Prompts High School Closure Posted: 23 Feb 2018 04:22 PM PST  An Instagram post by former Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin prompted a private Los Angeles area high school to shut down Friday as authorities worked to understand the somewhat cryptic message.
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| The Latest: UN delays vote on 30-day Syria cease-fire Posted: 23 Feb 2018 02:42 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local):
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| Gucci donates $500,000 to US student gun reform march Posted: 23 Feb 2018 01:02 PM PST  Italian luxury fashion brand Gucci on Friday followed a slew of US celebrities in announcing a donation of $500,000 to next month's student march on Washington demanding tougher gun controls. The donation, first reported by Women's Wear Daily and confirmed by a Gucci spokeswoman in the United States, gives another huge boost to what is considered an unprecedented youth mobilization against gun violence following last week's shooting in Florida. The rally is scheduled to take place on March 24, with sister rallies planned across the country to demand that US Congress come up with effective legislation to address the epidemic of gun violence in the United States.
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| Donald Trump Fundraises Off Parkland Shooting Tragedy, Touts His 'Safer Schools' Posted: 24 Feb 2018 08:57 PM PST  A Donald Trump and Mike Pence "weekly newsletter" laments the horror of the Parkland school shooting that killed 17 people, then ends with a "contribute" button so people can give money ... to Trump and Pence.
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| Parents of abducted Nigerian girls plan to join Bring Back Our Girls campaign Posted: 23 Feb 2018 02:11 PM PST  Islamist militant group Boko Haram is suspected to have kidnapped scores of girls on Monday from a school in Dapchi village, Yobe state. It would be the largest mass abduction since Boko Haram took more than 270 schoolgirls from the northeastern town of Chibok in 2014, sparking an online campaign that went viral and spurring several governments into action to try and find them. A roll-call at the school in Dapchi on Tuesday showed 91 students were absent, though estimates of the number of missing range from around 50 to more than 100.
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| Alabama's aborted execution comes under court review Posted: 23 Feb 2018 01:55 PM PST  Alabama was planning to execute Doyle Hamm, 61, on Thursday for the 1987 murder of a motel clerk but called it off due to venous issues it said could not be solved before a death warrant expired at midnight. The case in Alabama comes after states including Oklahoma and Arizona have had botched executions that raised questions about death chamber protocols in the 31 U.S. states with the capital punishment. Chief U.S. District Judge Karon Bowdre in Alabama called for a medical check on Hamm and ordered the state to preserve the clothes the inmate was wearing on the execution night.
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| Woman Stabbed to Death With Hunting Knife at Public Library, Police Say Posted: 24 Feb 2018 04:34 PM PST  A man attacked a woman from behind at a public library near Boston on Saturday and stabbed her repeatedly with a hunting knife
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| US to open Jerusalem embassy in May, marking Israel's 70th anniversary Posted: 23 Feb 2018 10:23 AM PST  The United States will relocate its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem in May, coinciding with Israel's celebration of the 70th anniversary of its independence, US officials said Friday. "We are planning to open the new US Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem in May. The Embassy opening will coincide with Israel's 70th anniversary," a State Department spokesperson said.
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| Turkey urges 'world to say stop to E.Ghouta massacre' Posted: 24 Feb 2018 07:40 AM PST  Turkey called on the international community to end the "massacre" in the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta hit by intense regime bombardment ahead of a UN Security Council vote on Saturday. "The regime is committing massacres in Eastern Ghouta," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Twitter. "The world should say stop to this massacre together," Kalin said.
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| How to Avoid Vacation Rental Nightmares Posted: 24 Feb 2018 03:01 AM PST  Staying in a vacation rental can be riskier than staying in a hotel, which is part of the heavily regulated hospitality industry. "Most of the places you go, you're going to be fine," says Rob Wa...
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| Pro-Russia GOP Congressman Features Prominently In Trump Aide's Plea Document Posted: 23 Feb 2018 02:42 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― The criminal information document released by special counsel Robert Mueller ahead of Trump campaign aide Rick Gates' guilty plea on Friday contains prominent references to "a member of Congress" who met in 2013 with future Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and another lobbyist.
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| Bank of America takes aim at gun-making clients Posted: 24 Feb 2018 09:40 PM PST  Bank of America, the second-biggest U.S. bank by assets, said its request to makers of the military-style weapons was in line with those taken by other financial industry companies to help prevent deadly gun rampages. "An immediate step we're taking is to engage the limited number of clients we have that manufacture assault weapons for non-military use to understand what they can contribute to this shared responsibility," the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank said in a statement. It did not name the clients who make assault rifles.
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| The Waldorf Astoria Is Now Owned by the Chinese Government Posted: 23 Feb 2018 10:54 AM PST  With one swift move, New York's Waldorf Astoria and JW Marriott Essex House and the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., are now controlled by Beijing
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| Wisconsin woman charged in 3 infant deaths from the '80s Posted: 23 Feb 2018 04:31 PM PST  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin woman has been charged with suffocating three babies more than 30 years ago — cases that investigators initially attributed to sudden infant death syndrome, prosecutors said Friday.
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| Perris torture case: District attorney adds new charges against David, Louise Turpin Posted: 23 Feb 2018 05:21 PM PST  New charges were added Friday in the case of the Perris couple accused of torturing their children and holding them captive.
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| US weighs Sheldon Adelson offer to fund Jerusalem embassy Posted: 23 Feb 2018 12:49 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is considering an offer from Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson to pay for at least part of a new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, four U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
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| At least 23 killed in multiple attacks in Afghanistan Posted: 23 Feb 2018 04:04 PM PST  At least 23 people, mostly soldiers, were killed and more than a dozen wounded in a series of attacks and suicide bombings in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the latest assaults on the war-torn country's beleaguered security forces. In the biggest attack, Taliban militants stormed an army base in the western province of Farah overnight, killing at least 18 soldiers. "Last night a big group of militants attacked an army base in Bala Buluk district of Farah.
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| Olympian Gus Kenworthy Is Bringing Home a Dog From PyeongChang Posted: 24 Feb 2018 08:20 AM PST  Kenworthy also brought stray dogs to the United States when he was in Sochi
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| Samuel L. Jackson Shreds 'Mothaf***a' Donald Trump Over Armed Teachers Idea Posted: 24 Feb 2018 10:59 PM PST  Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson has torn apart President Donald Trump's idea to arm some teachers in a bid to prevent school shootings.
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| Mother-daughter duo shoot would-be robber in their liquor store Posted: 24 Feb 2018 12:50 PM PST  A mother and daughter took matters into their own hands and shot a would-be robber at their liquor store in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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| Four police arrested in Mexico over disappearance of Italian men Posted: 24 Feb 2018 03:51 PM PST ![Four police arrested in Mexico over disappearance of Italian men]( "Four police arrested in Mexico over disappearance of Italian men") Four police officers in western Mexico have been arrested on suspicion of abducting three missing Italian men for local gangsters, state prosecutors said on Saturday. The three men reportedly went missing on Jan. 31 after being detained by police at a gasoline station in the municipality of Tecalitlan in southern Jalisco state, the home of Mexico's second biggest city, Guadalajara. The Jalisco attorney general's office said four Tecalitlan police officers, three men and a woman, had been held on suspicion of carrying out the forced disappearance of the Naples natives Raffaele Russo, Antonio Russo and Vincenzo Cimmino.
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| Emily Ratajkowski Marries Sebastian Bear-McClard In Surprise City Hall Ceremony Posted: 23 Feb 2018 01:56 PM PST  The 26-year-old model announced on Instagram Friday that she had married her boyfriend, Sebastian Bear-McClard.
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| Florida shooting: Two more officers investigated over claim they were outside school but failed to intervene Posted: 24 Feb 2018 10:33 AM PST  A local sheriff's office is investigating claims that three deputies on patrol at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School failed to intervene when a gunman entered the Florida school and killed 17 people. Coral Springs police officers who responded to the shooting that day said two deputies from Broward County were standing outside the building when they arrived, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said the department was investigating the claims.
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| 2018 Buick Regal GS Posted: 23 Feb 2018 12:55 PM PST  That's not a hatchback!
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| Charged 'Putin's chef' runs news sites along with troll army Posted: 24 Feb 2018 06:47 AM PST  MOSCOW (AP) — He's been indicted in the U.S. for meddling in the 2016 presidential election with an army of trolls and his private military company has trodden battlefields in Ukraine and Syria. Still, the Russian multimillionaire dubbed "Putin's chef" runs yet another asset that is valuable to the Kremlin: a sprawling Russian media empire.
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| Syrian Kurd leader arrested in Prague on Turkish warrant: parties Posted: 25 Feb 2018 03:52 AM PST  One of the most prominent leaders of Syria's Kurdish community has been arrested in Prague on a Turkish warrant, Kurdish political parties said Sunday. Saleh Muslim, the former co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), was arrested late on Saturday in the Czech capital, according to a statement by a coalition of political parties that includes the PYD. Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported that Saleh was detained based on an Interpol red notice issued by Turkish authorities.
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| Bike of the Week: Alta Motor’s “The Crapshoot” Drag Racer Posted: 23 Feb 2018 02:19 PM PST  Bike of the Week: Alta Motor's "The Crapshoot" Drag Racer Alta Motors brings something you might not expect to the 2018 One Moto Show in the form of a custom Redshift-based drag build. Founded in 2010 as BRD Motorcycles, Alta Motors has quickly earned a
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| Parkland Survivor To Melania Trump: Stop Donald Trump Jr. From Cyberbullying Me Posted: 23 Feb 2018 06:12 PM PST  A 14-year-old survivor of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has pleaded with first lady Melania Trump to stop her stepson Donald Trump Jr. from bullying her and her family online.
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| Snowboarding-Lee sends Koreans wild with first snowboarding medal Posted: 24 Feb 2018 01:55 AM PST  By Jack Tarrant PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Lee Sang-ho became the first South Korean to win a snowboarding medal when he claimed silver in the parallel giant slalom at the Winter Olympics on Saturday. Despite never having won a World Cup event, the 22-year-old, who is ranked 10th in the world, was regarded as the host nation's best medal hope in the freestyle skiing and snowboarding events, albeit a slim one. With thousands of fans packing the stands at Phoenix Snow Park, many of them waving South Korean flags, Lee admitted he had felt the pressure.
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| Christians shutter famous Jerusalem church to protest taxes Posted: 25 Feb 2018 04:18 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — The leaders of the major Christian sects in Jerusalem closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the traditional site of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, for several hours on Sunday to protest an Israeli plan to tax their properties.
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| EU's Tusk warns Poland must stop anti-Semitic remarks Posted: 23 Feb 2018 12:28 PM PST  By Jan Strupczewski and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Poland's ruling party must do everything it can to stop anti-Semitic remarks that are hurting Poland's standing in the world and putting its interests at risk, European Council President Donald Tusk told a news conference on Friday. Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, said after he met Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki that discussions with other European leaders showed the situation of Warsaw was "very serious". "I told the prime minister the situation ... has a direct impact on Polish interests, Poland's reputation and Poland's standing in the world," Tusk said, adding that Morawiecki understood that.
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