| President Donald Trump Suggests Death Penalty For Drug Dealers Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:02 PM PST  President Donald Trump suggested drug dealers in the United States should face harsher punishments, such as the death penalty or life in prison, during a campaign rally for congressional candidate Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania on Saturday. "I think it's a discussion we have to start thinking about," Trump said during the rally in Moon Township. "That means if we catch a drug dealer, death penalty," Trump said of Singapore, recalling a conversation he had with the country's president.
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| Suspected shooter and three women dead after standoff at veterans home Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:46 AM PST  The community in Yountville, California are remembering the victims of the standoff: three staff members at the nation's largest veterans home, one of whom was seven months pregnant.
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| Officer killed in California after pursuit and standoff Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:47 AM PST  A reckless driving suspect barricaded himself inside an apartment complex and shot at two officers through the door, leaving one dead. The suspect is now custody.
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| 67 NRA-Approved Politicians Voted For New Florida Gun Control Bill: Report Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:47 PM PST  Florida enacted its first gun control measures in more than two decades on Friday when Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act ― in open defiance of the National Rifle Association. As the Trace reported, 67 members of the Florida House and Senate with "A" or "A-plus" ratings from the gun rights group voted for the bill. If you count Scott, who earned an A-plus rating himself, that makes 68 NRA-approved politicians who chose to break with the group.
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| Mauritius president to resign over financial scandal claims: PM Posted: 09 Mar 2018 10:11 AM PST  Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is to resign after becoming embroiled in a financial scandal, Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced on Friday. Gurib-Fakim, who is the only female head of state in Africa, has been accused of using a bank card provided by an NGO to make personal purchases and will step down after ceremonies to mark the 50th anniversary of independence on March 12. "The President of the Republic told me that she would resign from office and we agreed on the date of her departure," Jugnauth told reporters in Port Louis, capital of the Indian Ocean archipelago nation without revealing the chosen date.
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| Trump signals trust in North Korea after agreeing to meeting Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:52 AM PST  The president told reporters that he believed the meeting would be "very successful" and that North Korea would keep a promise to put their nuclear tests on hold ahead of historic talks between the two nations.
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| Palestinian killed during clash with Israelis in West Bank: officials Posted: 10 Mar 2018 11:20 AM PST ![Palestinian killed during clash with Israelis in West Bank: officials]( "Palestinian killed during clash with Israelis in West Bank: officials") A Palestinian was shot and killed on Saturday in what began as a clash between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said. Both sides blamed the other for instigating the violence that erupted between residents of a Jewish settlement and a nearby Palestinian village. Palestinian officials said a 19-year-old was killed and a second person was wounded, but it was unclear whether they were shot by Israeli soldiers or settlers.
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| Kentucky man pleads guilty to attacking US Sen. Rand Paul Posted: 09 Mar 2018 12:14 PM PST  U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's neighbor pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge for tackling the lawmaker in an attack his attorney says was triggered by a dispute over lawn maintenance.
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| Trump Courting Clinton Impeachment Lawyer Amid Russia Probe: Reports Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:53 AM PDT  President Donald Trump is in talks to add a high-profile Washington lawyer to the White House legal team to help respond to the special counsel's Russia probe, reported The New York Times and Reuters. Emmet T. Flood, who represented President Bill Clinton during his impeachment hearings in the late 1990s, met with Trump in the Oval Office last week to discuss the possibility of representing him, the Times first reported Saturday. It's unclear if Flood expressed interest in joining the White House after last week's reported meeting.
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| USS Carl Vinson in Vietnam sends a message to China Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:01 AM PST  The American aircraft carrier arrived this week in Vietnam, serving as a reminder to China that the U.S. will not stand for its claim to the South China Sea and the islands it has built there.
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| Active shooter takes three hostages at California veterans home Posted: 09 Mar 2018 12:21 PM PST  Law enforcement authorities from multiple agencies responded to a report in the morning of shots being fired at the Yountville Veterans Home in Napa County, working to clear buildings and establish a perimeter. A sheriff's deputy exchanged gunfire with the assailant, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said. In the early evening, California Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt Robert Nacke said he knows of no contact on Friday with the gunman or the people who were holed up with him at the veterans home.
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| West Virginia teachers end strike victorious, may serve as model Posted: 09 Mar 2018 01:33 PM PST  Rachel Maddow reports on the teachers of West Virginia ending their record-setting strike after winning the raise they were demanding, and points out that West Virginia isn't the only state with teachers who are overdue raises.
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| These Dreamers Were Deported to Mexico. Now, They're Helping Others Start Again Posted: 09 Mar 2018 11:07 AM PST  If the DACA program ends, thousands of young people could be deported to Mexico. A band of committed activists is waiting to help them
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| Waffle House employee gets scholarship after act of kindness Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:10 AM PDT  Waffle House employee took the time to help an elderly customer and her good deed went viral.
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| U.S.'s Tillerson 'not feeling well', cancels activities in Kenya Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:28 AM PST ![U.S.'s Tillerson 'not feeling well', cancels activities in Kenya]( "U.S.'s Tillerson 'not feeling well', cancels activities in Kenya") U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cancelled scheduled events on Saturday on the second day of a visit to Kenya because he had been feeling unwell, a State Department spokesman said, adding that he would resume his programme on Sunday. "The secretary is not feeling well after a long couple days working on major issues back home such as North Korea and has cancelled his events for the day," spokesman Steve Goldstein told reporters travelling with Tillerson. "Some events will go ahead without him, while they are looking at the possibility of rescheduling others," said Goldstein, under-secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs at the State Department.
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| Teen charged with manslaughter in Alabama school shooting Posted: 09 Mar 2018 03:48 PM PST  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A 17-year-old high school junior was charged Friday with manslaughter and illegal firearms possession in a classroom shooting that killed a fellow student at an Alabama high school.
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| It Only Takes One Trump Tweet To Fall Into North Korea's Trap Posted: 09 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PST  On Thursday, President Donald Trump shocked the world by agreeing to meet Kim Jong-Un in person in Pyongyang, in what would be the first ever face-to-face meeting between a U.S. president and a North Korean leader. It is certainly possible the White House is correct.
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| Twitter Bans Popular Accounts Accused Of Stealing Jokes And Selling Retweets Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:44 PM PST  Twitter suspended several popular accounts on Friday in a major crackdown on "tweetdeckers," a secret network of accounts that make tweets go viral by retweeting the same content in exchange for money. The company suspended several notably large accounts in Friday's cleanup, including @GirlPosts, @Dory, @CommonWhiteGirl, @SoDamnTrue and @memeprovider. Some of these accounts, which mostly tweeted jokes and memes, had millions of followers.
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| Missing Teen Girl Told School Older Man Was Her Stepdad, Police Say Posted: 10 Mar 2018 11:38 AM PST  A man who repeatedly signed a girl out of school before the two went missing was listed as her stepfather on documents.
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| Video: 5 Things to Know About Daylight Saving Time Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:14 PM PST  March 11, 2018 is Daylight Saving Time. Did you know that the biannual tradition celebrates 100 years, this year? Daylight Savings Time, What You Need to Know Established in the U.S. in 1918 Established to save energy, but time-skeptics say that is no longer the case Arizona and Hawaii refuse to change their DST clocks Florida is fighting to become exempt from the time-warp The Federal Government controls DST as well as time zones Check out Kinsey Grant's Dumbest Thing on Wall Street and Subscribe on Youtube:
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| Top ACLU Voting Rights Lawyer Rips Into Trump Expert's Evidence Of Kansas Voter Fraud Posted: 09 Mar 2018 07:47 PM PST  The ACLU's top voting rights lawyer faced down one of President Donald Trump's voter fraud commissioners in court on Friday, getting him to concede that he had shaky evidence of significant voter fraud in Kansas. The exchange came on the fourth day of a trial over a Kansas law that requires residents to prove they are U.S. citizens when they register to vote. Several residents who were not allowed to vote in the 2016 election are being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union in the suit against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R). Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's voting rights project, questioned Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official and member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, who is one of the most prominent people arguing that noncitizen voter registration is a substantial issue.
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| The Latest: Al-Qaida fighters in Syria want to go to Idlib Posted: 09 Mar 2018 11:07 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
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| Oakland coffee shop Hasta Muerte bans uniformed police offers for 'emotional health' of customers Posted: 09 Mar 2018 02:09 PM PST  A coffee shop has banned police officers dressed in uniform in an effort to prevent their customers from becoming upset by their presence. The ban began when Hasta Muerte in Oakland, California, denied a police officer's request to buy a drink last month over fears for the "emotional safety" of other customers.
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| Trump to make first trip as president to defiant California Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:08 PM PST  US President Donald Trump is heading to California, a state at the forefront of resistance to his anti-immigration agenda, for what is almost certain to be a contentious trip. Trump's first trip to California as president, on Tuesday, comes at a time of high tensions between his Republican administration and the Democratic-leaning most populous US state, especially on immigration issues. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has accused the state of deliberately obstructing enforcement of federal law by offering undocumented immigrants sanctuary protections.
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| Ageing Japanese towns overrun by wild boars Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:36 AM PST  Less than 20 years ago, the only challenges for the 100 residents of the tiny island of Kakara, off southwest Japan, were the elements and ensuring the fishermen's catch could get to market on time. Today, the islanders are outnumbered three to one by wild boar who feast on their gardens and are becoming increasingly aggressive and territorial. The problems facing the residents of Kakara are being repeated across Japan, with boar numbers exploding as rural populations decline. Japan's rapidly ageing and shrinking population is part of the reason behind the increase in wild boar, as older rural populations die out, leaving towns and villages empty. Meanwhile, young people are also moving to the cities in search of work. The number of people with shotgun licenses has also fallen sharply in recent years. And as the people leave, the boar are moving in. The first boars apparently swam to Kakara, which covers a mere 1 square mile and sits between Fukuoka and Saga prefectures, but have been in hog heaven ever since. They have found a place with no natural predators and plenty of crops, such as pumpkins and sweet potatoes, that the local people grow in their back gardens. Other than farming and fishing, the island's only other industries were small-scale tourism and growing camellia for use in cosmetics, Kyodo News reported, but the famously aggressive boar have chased the tourists away and eaten the camellia plants. Local children cannot play outdoors for fear of being attacked and residents have stopped walking even relatively short distances for fear of encountering one of the aggressive creatures. Desperate islanders have set countless traps and catch around 50 of their tormentors every year, but that figure is far outstripped by the rapidly breeding boar population – a sow can give birth to as many as six piglets a years. Some residents are even suggesting that they should evacuate the island, abandoning it to the wild pigs. Across Japan, confrontations between boar and man are inevitable as the hog population rises, and rural media are frequently reporting incidents in which humans have come face-to-face with large beasts. In October, a large specimen barrelled into a suburban shopping mall on the island of Shikoku, biting five staff and causing mayhem before it was captured. In December, two boars managed to get into a high school in Kyoto and panicked students had to be evacuated. Elsewhere, they are finding their way out of the forests and fields and into train stations, gardens and school sports grounds. And with few checks on the boars' territory, they are growing larger as well as more numerous. In February, farmers in north-east Japan caught a male that weighed in at 280 pounds, well over the average 220 pounds of boars in Europe. They are also expanding their range into areas that were previously considered too inhospitable, taking over villages with shrinking populations. They are being given even greater licence to roam in areas close to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, abandoned in March 2011 in the aftermath of the destruction of three of the plant's reactors and the release of radiation across the surrounding countryside. Local people fled to safety; the wildlife remained and thrived.
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| Black Girl Magic Is Written In The Pages Of ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:01 AM PST  Fifty-six years after it's publication, Madeleine L'Engle's beloved children's book A Wrinkle In Time came to the big screen under the direction of Ava DuVernay, the Oscar-nominated black woman filmmaker from Compton. DuVernay's version of the classic story comes with many changes, the most obvious being that the main protagonist Meg looks a lot different than how many readers may have imagined her. DuVernay's creation is a representation of multifaceted black girlhood where positive traits, like love, hope and determination exist alongside anger, stubbornness and impatience.
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| Markets Right Now: Strong hiring sends stocks, yields up Posted: 09 Mar 2018 01:07 PM PST  The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. Stocks and bond yields rose sharply on Wall Street after the government reported a big increase in hiring last month. Investors ...
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| A Cleaning Schedule You Can Stick To Posted: 09 Mar 2018 03:01 PM PST  Some folks make their bed as soon as they get up in the morning, one small part of a routine to maintain a neat, orderly home. You know these people: their home looks like it's perpetually staged...
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| Marco Rubio Still Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Buy Guns Posted: 09 Mar 2018 05:11 PM PST  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is really trying to thread that gun control needle. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a bill into law on Friday that enacts several restrictions on gun purchases, including a three-day waiting period for long gun purchases, an age requirement of 21 for all firearm sales and some regulation of bump stocks, the after-market accessories that make a semiautomatic rifle fire more like an automatic. Although the National Rifle Association was against the bill, Rubio supported it, which made sense considering he said he backed raising the legal age for purchasing a rifle at a town hall event hosted by CNN last month in the wake of a massacre at a Florida high school.
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| Venezuela's Maduro calls U.N. rights chief a U.S.-backed 'tumor' Posted: 09 Mar 2018 04:24 PM PST  Venezuelan socialist President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday the United Nations human rights chief was a puppet of the United States who had implanted himself like a "tumor" and had no right to criticize Maduro's handling of the crisis-stricken nation. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said on Wednesday that crimes against humanity may have been committed by state forces in Venezuela and voiced alarm at "the erosion of democratic institutions" in the country.
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| 2019 Bentley Bentayga V-8 Posted: 09 Mar 2018 12:51 PM PST  Making reductions to produce more.
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| Suspect in Fatal Shooting of Pomona Police Officer Is Arrested Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:22 AM PST  The suspect remains barricaded inside an apartment
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| Putin 'couldn't care less' about US election interference Posted: 09 Mar 2018 07:09 PM PST  President Vladimir Putin said in an interview released Friday that he "couldn't care less" if fellow Russian citizens sought to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election, insisting such efforts could not be tied to the Kremlin. "Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do this?" Putin asked in the often-combative interview with NBC television. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is conducting a wide-ranging investigation to determine whether President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow to help elect him.
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| Florida school shooting: Governor signs bill allowing some school teachers to carry guns Posted: 09 Mar 2018 12:46 PM PST  Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed a school safety bill in the wake of the Parkland school shooting in which 17 people were killed that would allow some school teachers to carry guns.
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| 'This Is U.S.' Is All Tears With Ben, Jared And Sarah In 'SNL' Parody Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:41 PM PST  "Saturday Night Live" couldn't wait to do a "This Is Us" parody with guest host Sterling K. Brown, who plays grown triplet brother Randall Pearson on the hit NBC series.
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| US narrows travel alert for Mexico's Playa del Carmen Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:32 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has narrowed its travel warning for the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen amid what it calls an unspecified "ongoing security threat" just as the spring holiday season is kicking into high gear.
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| Couple Hilariously Shoots Engagement Photos at Target Because They Love it so Much Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:51 PM PST  Going to the store had become a tradition for them.
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| Kristen Wiig Officially Joining Cast For 'Wonder Woman 2' Posted: 09 Mar 2018 10:42 AM PST  Kristen Wiig will play the villain in the next "Wonder Woman" movie, director Patty Jenkins confirmed Friday. Yes! It's true! So incredibly lucky to welcome the sensationally talented Kristen Wiig to our Wonder Woman family. Reports surfaced last week that the comedian was being considered for the role of Cheetah, a villain who first appeared in Wonder Woman No. 6 back in October 1943.
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| Shooter takes hostages at Yountville veterans home Posted: 09 Mar 2018 06:18 PM PST  Police are responding to an active shooting situation at a veterans home in Yountville where officials say at least three hostages are being held.
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| U.S.'s Tillerson says Kenya should not stifle media, threaten courts Posted: 09 Mar 2018 10:07 AM PST  U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday in Nairobi that he had shared his concerns with Kenya's president about the importance of democracy and said the government should not stifle the media and threaten the courts. The Kenyan government shut down three television channels in January on the day opposition leader Raila Odinga took a symbolic presidential oath, then defied a court order to switch them back on. "We believe that there are actions that need to be taken in Kenya and that they need to correct certain actions like shutting down independent TV stations and threatening the independence of the courts," Tillerson told a news conference in the Kenyan capital.
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| Missionaries Who Gave Adopted Children Religion-Inspired Beatings Head to Prison Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:17 AM PST  A Kansas missionary couple has been sentenced for giving brutal, religion-inspired beatings to two children they adopted from Peru
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| Interior Officials Are Citing Coal Execs And Crank Bloggers To Defend Climate Stances Posted: 09 Mar 2018 01:41 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Top officials at the Department of the Interior cited former coal executives and crank bloggers to challenge the overwhelming evidence of the threat posed by man-made climate change, according to department emails released through a Freedom of Information Act request by former Interior scientist Joel Clement. On Sept. 26, Indur Goklany, a science and technology policy analyst at the Interior Department, cited a study briefing from a group called CO2Science, highlighting a selective finding that some plankton communities may benefit from increased levels of carbon dioxide, which causes the oceans to acidify. CO2Science is the shortened nickname for the Arizona-based Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, an oil-funded think tank run by former Peabody Energy executive Craig Idso.
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| Hong Kong election gauges city's stomach for defying Beijing Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:43 AM PDT  HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong residents voted Sunday in by-elections that give opposition supporters the chance to recapture lost ground in a contest measuring voters' appetite for democracy in the semiautonomous Chinese city.
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| Turkish Airlines to buy at least 50 Airbus, Boeing jets Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:25 AM PST  Turkish Airlines has confirmed plans to buy at least 50 wide-body aircraft from Airbus and Boeing as the flag carrier ramps up its ambitions ahead of a move to a new Istanbul airport. The company said in a statement late Friday that it had agreed to buy 25 Boeing B787-9 aircraft, known as the Dreamliner, and 25 Airbus A350-900 aircraft. A statement by Airbus indicated that the catalogue price of the 25 A350s alone would amount to $9.5 billion.
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| As economic problems pile up, Iran cautiously weighs changes Posted: 10 Mar 2018 01:27 AM PST  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Labor strikes. Nationwide protests. Bank failures.
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| Alstom inks $92mn supply deal with India metro firms Posted: 10 Mar 2018 02:34 AM PST  Paris (AFP) - French rail giant Alstom on Saturday said it had inked a deal to supply three Indian companies running metro train services in Mumbai, Jaipur and Chennai.
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