| Trump defends legal team on Russia case: 'I am VERY happy with my lawyers' Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:39 AM PDT  President Trump insisted that he is happy with the legal team defending him against allegations that his campaign had colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
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| Steve Bannon: 'Let Them Call You Racist; Wear It As A Badge Of Honor' Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:15 PM PST  Footage of Bannon's remarks shows him predicting "victory after victory" for the far right over the "globalists." The term is one extreme-right groups often use as an anti-Semitic slur, referring to what they see as Jewish control of financial institutions and media around the world. Bannon roused National Front members in Lille, France, to their feet, telling them: "History is on our side.
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| Pilot Survives, 5 Passengers Die: What to Know About the N.Y.C. Helicopter Crash Posted: 12 Mar 2018 05:33 AM PDT  The pilot issued a distress call moments before the crash
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| Florida Lawmakers Vote To Ban Marriage Under The Age Of 17 Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:24 AM PDT  Florida may soon have one of the country's strictest child marriage laws after state lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a bill barring marriage for those under the age of 17. The bill passed the House on a 109-1 vote on Friday. Republican Rep. George Moraitis was the sole representative to vote no. He'd said previously that it was "very reasonable" for children aged 16 or older to marry with parental consent. The bill now heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Rick Scott, who's expected to sign it into law.
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| Five dead in New York river helicopter crash Posted: 12 Mar 2018 03:39 AM PDT ![Five dead in New York river helicopter crash]( "Five dead in New York river helicopter crash") Five people have died after a helicopter owned by a tour group plunged into Manhattan's East River, police said on Monday. The red chopper, which is owned by tourism group Liberty, was carrying six people including the pilot when it crashed into the river near the upscale Upper East Side neighborhood shortly after 7:00 pm on Sunday.
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| Arizona border officer falsely claimed to be US citizen Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:51 PM PST ![Arizona border officer falsely claimed to be US citizen]( "Arizona border officer falsely claimed to be US citizen") PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. border officer who is a Mexican native claimed he was born in Texas and illegally obtained a job with the law enforcement agency charged with protecting America's borders, authorities said.
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| US to re-open consulate at Mexican resort after threat Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:49 AM PST  The US consulate at the Mexican Caribbean resort of Playa del Carmen will re-open Monday after it was closed for several days due to an unspecified security threat, the US embassy said. US government personnel are banned from several area neighborhoods until further notice, but "are authorized to travel to resort areas in Riviera Maya including those near Playa del Carmen," the statement read. The beachside tourist magnets of Cancun and Playa del Carmen are located in the Riviera Maya, on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
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| Father Of Parkland Victim Creates Powerful Mural Honoring Son And 16 Others Killed Posted: 11 Mar 2018 05:14 PM PDT  In a silent, moving tribute, Manuel Oliver, the father of Parkland school shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, painted a mural on Saturday honoring his son and the 16 other people killed in the Florida massacre last month. The event was captured on a viral video as part of an art exhibit created by artist Evan Pestaina located in an art space in Miami. It was organized by Miami Heat NBA star Dwyane Wade.
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| Veterans home workers remembered as devoted caregivers Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:46 PM PST  After a work conference, Maura Turner was looking forward to a girls' weekend with her close friend, Christine Loeber, a social worker and executive director of The Pathway Home that treats veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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| Fmr. DNC chair on N. Korea meeting: 'Trump is betting on himself. He's not prepared' Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:30 AM PDT  The "This Week" Powerhouse Roundtable debates the week in politics, including President Trump's move to meet with Kim Jong Un and the impact of the Stormy Daniels scandal.
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| Treasury Secretary Is OK With Donald Trump Calling Maxine Waters A 'Low-IQ Individual' Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:09 AM PDT  "We have to defeat [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters ― a very low I.Q. individual," Trump said. As the crowd booed the targets of his derision, Trump continued to attack Waters, mimicking her calls for his impeachment.
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| Xi Jinping cleared to rule for life as China abolishes term limits Posted: 11 Mar 2018 11:34 AM PDT  Xi Jinping has cleared the way to rule for life and set China on a more authoritarian course after the country's rubber stamp parliament voted overwhelmingly to abolish presidential term limits on Sunday. The move turns the clock back on decades of reform and reverses a system of 'collective leadership' that was installed following the turmoil of Mao Tse-tung's one-man rule. Almost 3,000 delegates of China's National People's Congress (NPC) backed the measure during a historic meeting inside Beijing's cavernous Great Hall of the People. The Chinese president was among the first to vote, placing his orange ballot paper in a red box bearing the official seal of state at the centre of the stage at the front of the huge hall. The deputies then left their seats to cast anonymous votes as jaunty music played during a ritual which lasted ten minutes. The room erupted into loud applause when the result of the vote was passed with 2,958 in support. Two voted against, while three abstained and one ballot paper was spoiled, signifying almost total loyalty to Mr Xi's vision for strongman rule. Mr Xi showed little emotion throughout. Special report: The cave the Chinese president called home At least two-thirds of delegates were required to vote in favour of the constitutional changes to allow Mr Xi to rule beyond the end of his second term in 2023. Observers now believe the Chinese president is almost untouchable. Andrew Nathan, a China expert at the University of Columbia, said Mr Xi has "locked up every possible source of power in the tripartite Party, state, and military apparatus." "I have no doubt, human nature being what it is, that there are many Party elites who are jealous and disapproving of him, or who hate him, partly due to the anti-corruption campaign and partly due simply to his monopolising power in this way," he told The Telegraph. China's President Xi Jinping places his ballot in a box during a vote on an amendment to the constitution during a session of the National People's Congress at The Great Hall Of The People on March 11, 2018 in Beijing, China Credit: Getty Images "But they have been isolated, cowed, and silenced. Although it is hazardous to make predictions about China, I can see no sign of a brewing power struggle. Xi seems secure." The ruling Communist Party says the move to scrap presidential limits has received widespread support from officials and ordinary people. China's tightly-controlled media have presented it as a routine matter. But the country's huge army of Internet censors have been forced to mobilise to confront criticism which has emerged on social media. Authorities have also moved to silence outspoken critics who have expressed concern about a return to one-man rule in a nation which now ranks among the most powerful on earth. Roderick MacFarquhar, a former China Correspondent at The Daily Telegraph and a current China expert at Harvard University, said Mr Xi's power grab still relied on the support of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the long term. "One bad adventure could lead to Xi being ousted," Prof MacFarquhar said. "In that connection, the one group that Xi has to keep on side is the military." The NPC is controlled by the ruling Communist Party and a strong vote supporting the Chinese president was widely expected. The parliament also backed inserting Mr Xi's political theory into the constitution, a feat no other leader since Mao had managed while in office. The party gave Mr Xi the title of "core" leader in 2016, a significant strengthening of his position at the time. An emerging 'cult of personality' around the Chinese leader has seen him being bestowed with a range of adulatory titles, and one local official recently likened him to a living Buddhist deity. In the 1990s, intellectuals such as Francis Fukuyama questioned whether humanity had reached the "end of history", with liberal democracy and capitalism apparently victorious over communism and totalitarianism. However, observers are now identifying a return to strongman, illiberal rule in countries like Russia, China, Turkey and the Philippines. Additional reporting by Christine Wei
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| Saudi sets up departments to investigate, prosecute corruption cases Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:04 AM PDT  DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi King Salman has ordered the establishment of specialized departments in the public prosecutor's office to investigate and prosecute corruption cases, the government's information office said in a statement on Sunday. The move is intended to increase effectiveness and accelerate the process of combating corruption, the statement quoted Attorney General Sheikh Saud al-Mujib as saying. Saudi authorities detained hundreds of top businessmen and royals in November and held them for several months at the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton in a sweeping anti-corruption probe. ...
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| Bono sorry after bullying claims at ONE charity Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:43 PM PST  U2 frontman Bono has apologised after claims emerged Sunday that workers at his ONE charity were subjected to a culture of abuse and bullying. The Irish singer, 57, said he was "deeply sorry" and "furious" about the allegations, which appeared in The Mail on Sunday newspaper, and pledged to meet victims to apologise in person. The British tabloid detailed a string of incidents, including claims from a married woman who said she was demoted after refusing to have sex with a Tanzanian member of parliament.
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| Photograph of Joe Biden talking with homeless man in Washington DC goes viral Posted: 11 Mar 2018 02:30 PM PDT  An image of former Vice President Joe Biden speaking with a homeless man in Washington DC has gone viral, being shared more than 100,000 times on Facebook. The photograph was taken by Caleb Baca on Thursday night, according to local television station Fox 5, but was posted into Facebook businessman Paul Equale, with that post being shared 103,000 times since it was posted on Friday - with more than 148,000 people reacting to it. Speaking about Mr Biden, he added that "character is about what you do when no one is watching".
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| 3 children home alone die in Detroit-area fire Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:06 AM PST ![3 children home alone die in Detroit-area fire]( "3 children home alone die in Detroit-area fire") EASTPOINTE, Mich. (AP) — Three children who were home alone died early Saturday in a fire that destroyed the inside of a suburban Detroit house, authorities said.
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| Kathy Griffin to do new shows, 9 months after Trump photo Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:43 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Kathy Griffin is embarking on her comeback, some nine months after she provoked outrage — and lost much of her work — by posing with a fake severed head that appeared to depict President Donald Trump.
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| The rich and the right want to dynamite Dodd-Frank – and Democrats are helping them do it Posted: 11 Mar 2018 03:00 AM PDT  Senators voted with Republicans to cripple banking oversight. The Senate is not on the side of those who elected its members. In an economy hollowed out by the Great Recession, legacy Democrats lurch, occasionally, in a populist direction before retreating to where they are most comfortable: doing favors for the rich in exchange for campaign donations.
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| Bannon tells French far-right: 'history is on our side' Posted: 10 Mar 2018 01:51 PM PST  Former top Trump aide Steve Bannon told the French far right on Saturday that "history is on our side" as he addressed the party conference of a National Front that is seeking to bounce back from crushing electoral setbacks. "The tide of history is with us and it will compel us to victory after victory, after victory," Bannon, once a powerful figure in the Trump administration and former head of Breitbart News, told the FN conference in its northern stronghold of Lille. Because every day we get stronger and they get weaker," Bannon said in an address which drew strong applause from FN leader Marine Le Pen.
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| North Korean 'caution' seen in announcing stance on upcoming summits: Seoul Posted: 12 Mar 2018 06:30 AM PDT  By Christine Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's silence on its upcoming summits with the United States and South Korea is probably due to caution over organizing its stance on the meetings, the South said on Monday, as China's leader urged patience. North Korean media mentioned a visit by a delegation from the South last week, but no coverage has been seen of leader Kim Jong Un's invitation to meet U.S. President Donald Trump or the South Korean president to discuss the future of North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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| Knifeman killed at Iran ambassador's Vienna home: police Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:47 PM PDT  A 26-year-old Austrian was shot dead outside the Iranian ambassador's residence in Vienna on Sunday night after he attacked a guard with a knife, police said. The assailant "died on the spot" after the soldier opened fire, police spokesman Harald Soeros told AFP, adding that the attack took place just before midnight local time.
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| Myanmar Is Building Military Bases on Torched Rohingya Villages, Rights Group Says Posted: 12 Mar 2018 01:49 AM PDT  Amnesty International called the construction a "land grab on a dramatic scale"
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| Ford Revises the Ka+ for 2019 Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:00 AM PDT  There's a 2019 Ka+ for any occasion.
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| Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:29 AM PST ![Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks]( "Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks") Khalid Alhammadi photographs Abu Dhabi's tallest landmarks rising high above the mist.
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| Former Trump Aide Sam Nunberg Says Mueller Probe 'Not A Witch Hunt' Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:19 PM PST  The probe by Mueller into whether Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign is "warranted," Nunberg told ABC News. He made the comments after testifying for close to six hours before a grand jury on the Mueller probe. "I don't think it's a witch hunt," Nunberg said.
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| Latest: Brother says shooter obsessed about minor conflicts Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:35 AM PDT  YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the ex-soldier who killed three people and himself at a California veterans center (all times local):
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| Srebrenica award to Bosnian Serb leader angers victims' families Posted: 11 Mar 2018 11:34 AM PDT  Authorities in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica angered relatives of the 1995 massacre there by handing its top municipal award on Sunday to the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, local media reported. The town's city hall under its Serb mayor Mladen Grujicic awarded the distinction, the Golden Plaque of Srebrenica, to Milorad Dodik, president of the Serb entity of Bosnia, Republika Srpska, the N1 television channel said. Dodik declines to describe the Srebrenica massacre as genocide.
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| Jonathan Karl: Trump's unpredictable, risky move on North Korea may prove successful Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:37 AM PDT  President Donald Trump turned the usual "strategic patience" practice upside down by accepting a meeting with North Korea.
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| California man arrested for killing one police officer, wounding another Posted: 11 Mar 2018 01:15 AM PST ![California man arrested for killing one police officer, wounding another]( "California man arrested for killing one police officer, wounding another") A California man was arrested Saturday after a 15-hour standoff with a police SWAT team and charged with killing one police officer and wounding another, authorities said. Pomona, Ca., Police Officer Gregg Casillas was shot and killed, and a second officer was shot in the face, authorities said on the Pomona police Twitter and Facebook pages.
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| Black Filmmakers Make History At The Box Office This Weekend Posted: 11 Mar 2018 12:56 PM PDT  This weekend marks the first time when two movies directed by black filmmakers, with budgets over $100 million, hold the number one and two spots at the box office. The Ryan Coogler-helmed "Black Panther" continues its fourth week of domination, bringing in another $41.1 million. "A Wrinkle In Time" opens this weekend in second place with $33.3 million.
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| France will strike Syria chemical arms sites if used to kill: Macron Posted: 12 Mar 2018 07:13 AM PDT  France is prepared to launch targeted strikes against any site in Syria used to deploy chemical attacks that result in the deaths of civilians, President Emmanuel Macron said. Shortly before the United Nations was due to discuss Syria, Macron said Moscow, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, had not done enough to permit relief efforts into the rebel-held Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta. Asked about the Syrian conflict at a news conference in India, Macron said France would be ready to strike if it found "irrefutable evidence" chemical weapons had been used to kill.
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| Ford Gives the Transit a Facelift Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:30 AM PDT  It also gets a diesel engine option.
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| Contamination in ex-spy case ups pressure on UK to act Posted: 11 Mar 2018 04:42 PM PDT  SALISBURY, England (AP) — The health implications of the nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy and his adult daughter broadened Sunday after British officials said limited traces of contamination were found in a restaurant and a pub in the English city of Salisbury.
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| Trump To Visit Ground Zero Of The Anti-Trump Resistance: California Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:42 AM PDT  Trump's fraught relationship with California, where he has some of his lowest approval ratings, is sure to cast a shadow on the visit. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said this week he considers the state at war with Trump's government, and has fiercely denounced the president on climate change, marijuana policy, offshore drilling and, lately, immigration. Trump's administration on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against California over its so-called sanctuary laws meant to protect undocumented immigrants.
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| Man of mystery: Tourist arrives, vanishes, is finally found Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:25 AM PDT ![Man of mystery: Tourist arrives, vanishes, is finally found]( "Man of mystery: Tourist arrives, vanishes, is finally found") NEW YORK (AP) — For weeks, an Uzbek tourist who had come to the country to visit his daughter was a man of mystery.
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| Hong Kong goes to polls in crunch vote for democrats Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:58 PM PST  Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp will try to claw back lost seats as polls opened early Sunday in controversial by-elections that have exposed the heart of the city's political divide. The vote comes as China signals a harder line against any challenges to its sovereignty, with high-profile young candidate Agnes Chow barred from standing because her party promotes self-determination for the semi-autonomous city. Beijing has become increasingly incensed at the emergence of activists advocating independence and sees calls for self-determination as part of a splittist push.
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| Depression, burn out, trauma, exhaustion: inside the minds of doctors Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:00 AM PDT  We like to believe doctors are all-powerful and omniscient. When we visit one, it is naturally concerns about our own health that are uppermost in our minds. Yet rarely do we stop to consider the psychological toll a doctor's work takes on them. In my work as a psychologist specialising in helping doctors, I have seen at close quarters just how serious this toll can be. The emotional and physical strain experienced by those in the medical profession is described in my new book, Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors, in which I've tried to shine a light on the hidden cost of medicine. For more than 20 years, I have met doctors dealing with depression, burn out, extreme trauma, exhaustion, anxiety, and a whole host of other problems, which they must somehow set aside while powering through long shifts helping others. Bella was one example; a real high flyer, she attended one of the most academic medical schools in the country, winning prizes in both medicine and surgery. But as her first day of work as a junior doctor approached, she experienced a mounting dread: how would she cope with the demands of the job? A few weeks in, she was approaching the end of a 13-hour shift in A&E. She and her peers had been clearly told in their induction they must not work more than 13 hours at a time. Some doctors, once they're 12-and-a-half hours in, will busy themselves with paperwork rather than take on any new cases, but Bella wasn't like that, and took on a new patient just before her shift ended. First she made sure that all the immediate tasks had been completed. But when she went to her supervisor to try and ensure a safe handover, she was given a furious dressing down in front of the whole team and accused of being irresponsible. Caroline Elton, a psychologist who specialises in helping doctors Credit: Caroline Elton (c) Charlotte Knee Photography.jpg Despite what she'd been told in her training, Bella was ordered to stay for as long as it took to finish treating the patient, and ended up working a 15-hour shift. "What really shocked me was that I worked so hard, and followed all the rules, but I still ended up getting shouted at," she told me later. Too exhausted to drive home, she went to the toilets and broke down in tears. When a colleague found her crying there, she was devastated the image of herself as a cool and competent doctor was torn to shreds. Perhaps society will eventually recognise that, while the demands of a job in medicine are exceptional, doctors, like their patients, are also human With her confidence destroyed, an insidious depression spiralled rapidly out of control. Again, Bella did as she'd been instructed to do in medical school and asked her supervising consultant for help. His response? "Of course this is how you feel. You're an F1 [Foundation Year 1 medic]; you're a girl. You're going to be upset." She ended up leaving frontline healthcare and working in pharmaceuticals. Bella's case is far from exceptional. Over the years I have seen a number of junior doctors who have become so distressed in their first posts they have had to stop work. Some leave permanently while others - like Kelly - return to the profession. Within days of starting her first job as a doctor, Kelly thought, 'I can't do this any more.' So extreme was her anxiety, she vomited out of fear every morning before work. A couple of weeks later she went to speak to the senior clinician in charge of training; the clinician was so concerned about Kelly's state of mind, she mentally ran through a suicide checklist before letting her go home. Junior doctors can go for 13 hours without finding time to eat Credit: Peter Byrne/PA "I'm not going back," Kelly told me in our first sessions. But she did, eventually, return, and is now on her way to completing her training as a psychiatrist. Each year, at hospitals all over the country, newly qualified junior doctors start work on the first Wednesday in August and, like Bella and Kelly, become overwhelmed by the extent of their responsibilities. On a night shift, they can be called all over the hospital to deal with patients. If they feel uncertain, they can theoretically ask someone more senior, but these seniors have their own heavy workloads to manage and may not respond as quickly as needed, or at all. Unsupported and overloaded, junior doctors can go for 13 hours without finding time to eat, and sometimes, like Hilary, they face situations they do not feel equipped to handle. The path to becoming a junior doctor Hilary, a GP who came to see me because she was also thinking of leaving medicine, described her first day as a junior doctor years earlier, in which she was the only doctor on the surgical ward that day. Faced with a very sick patient who looked like she was going to die, she had little idea what to do and no-one to ask. When a fledgling doctor attached to another ward walked past, she spotted Hilary's distress and summoned her own mother, a highly experienced nurse in the same hospital, who immediately took control of the situation. Meanwhile Hilary's bleep had been been going off repeatedly, summoning her to the surgical assessment unit (SAU). Once the initial patient had been dispatched for urgent treatment, she dashed down to the SAU and encountered an angry nurse. "There are nine patients waiting. Where have you been?" the nurse demanded. Before Hilary could explain, the nurse gave her a rushed account of each of the nine patients. "Could you possibly help me work out who I should see first?" Hilary asked. "Figure it out yourself, blue eyes," came the response. And with that the nurse walked off - probably to get on with her own enormous list of tasks. There's little understanding of what happens when doctors are exposed to traumas repeatedly Credit: Sam Edwards/Caiaimage Even when the systems function more effectively, and junior doctors aren't thrown in at the deep end, it remains the case that death, dying and distress are inescapable components of a doctor's work. Yet there's little understanding of what happens when doctors are exposed to such traumas repeatedly. How do they respond when they hear a patient screaming in pain, or see the ravages of disease or trauma on somebody's body? How do they cope when they need to tell a parent their child has died? A common defence is to shut down emotionally, unable to take on board so much suffering. This is understandable but can rapidly turn into burn-out. Yet if they can't put any form of protective barrier between themselves and the suffering of their patients, very rapidly they can become overwhelmed. Neither response is healthy, but doctors are given precious little help with finding the middle way. Some specialties, such as surgery, remain hostile to women, and- as in many other professions - there is still not equal pay. At the same time, incidents of institutional racism are more common than we might like to think. One student felt humiliated when a patient refused to be examined by her because she was black. When she told her supervisor of her distress, the supervisor brushed it off, telling her it was no different to when a patient won't let a junior doctor examine them because they fear they're too inexperienced. In another incident, a devout Muslim doctor was looking at an x-ray of someone with broken bones when a consultant said to him, "you people blow people up." Perhaps historians looking back at how we treated doctors in 2018 will regard our medical systems with the same horror we do when reading about surgeons in the 19th century refusing to wash their hands between patients. Perhaps society will eventually recognise that, while the demands of a job in medicine are exceptional, doctors, like their patients, are also human. Names have been changed As told to Rosa Silverman Also Human - the Inner lives of Doctors by Caroline Elton is published by Cornerstone (£16.99). To order your copy for £14.99 plus p&p call 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk
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| Five years on, Pope Francis under fire over sex abuse scandals Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:10 PM PST  As Pope Francis marks the fifth year of his papacy next week, the pontiff once hailed as a fearless reformer is under fire for his handling of the sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church.
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| China, the South China Sea and North Korea Posted: 11 Mar 2018 05:01 PM PDT  The United States needs to diplomatically engage China over the South China Sea to reduce tensions, build trust, and achieve a quick and lasting solution to the North Korea problem. The USS Carl Vinson's port call to Danang, Vietnam, the first port call of its kind since the Vietnam War, is aimed at China's posture in the South China Sea and will no doubt elicit criticism from Beijing.
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| France signs deals worth $16 billion in India; to deepen defence, security ties Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:24 AM PST  PARIS/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - French and Indian companies signed contracts worth 13 billion euros ($16 billion) on the first day of President Emmanuel Macron's visit to India on Saturday, the French presidency said in a statement. The deals include a contract for France's Safran to supply airline Spice Jet with engines, water system modernisation by Suez in the southern city of Davangere and a contract between industrial gas company Air Liquide and Sterlite. Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – addressing a news conference in New Delhi – also committed to strengthening their partnership on defence and security.
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| Community, family honor slain Pomona police officer in candlelight vigil Posted: 12 Mar 2018 12:09 AM PDT  Hundreds turned out to honor Pomona police officer Gregg Casillas, who was killed in the line of duty last week.
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| Ethiopia command post says 9 civilians killed by mistake Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:39 AM PDT ![Ethiopia command post says 9 civilians killed by mistake]( "Ethiopia command post says 9 civilians killed by mistake") ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian security forces mistakenly killed nine civilians in Moyale, located on the country's southern border with Kenya, according to a command post established to oversee Ethiopia's state of emergency.
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| Caitlyn Jenner: Trump's Administration Has Set Trans People 'Back 20 Years' Posted: 11 Mar 2018 04:33 PM PDT  Over a year after she publicly supported Donald Trump's candidacy, Caitlyn Jenner continues to distance herself from the increasingly unpopular president, saying on Thursday that his administration has been the worst ever for trans people. "As far as trans issues, this administration has been the worst ever," she told Newsweek at the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards Gala in New York on March 9. The former Olympian has flip-flopped somewhat on Trump before.
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| Tesla paused Model 3 production for planned upgrade in February Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:10 PM PDT  Tesla Inc temporarily suspended production of its Model 3 electric car from February 20-24 for planned work to adjust equipment in order to improve automation and increase production rates. Tesla said the planned pause was normal and common for increases in output when a company is ramping up a new product. Last month, Tesla said in a shareholder note that it continues to target weekly Model 3 production rates of 2,500 by the end of the first quarter and 5,000 by the end of the second quarter.
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| Vet in California attack had trouble after return from war Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:13 PM PST YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The man who killed three women after a daylong siege at a Northern California veterans home had trouble adjusting to regular life after he returned from the Afghanistan war and had been kicked out of the treatment program designed to help him.
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| Elon Musk drops epic Falcon Heavy launch trailers made by 'Westworld' co-creator Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:45 PM PST  Attendees of the the Westworld panel at SXSW got a surprise visit from Elon Musk. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO used the panel to not only inspire a new generation on space exploration, but also drop two epic highlight reels of the Falcon Heavy rocket launch that carried Starman riding in a Tesla Roadster into deep space. SEE ALSO: At SXSW, Sony's putting people in digital hamster balls "Life cannot just be about solving one miserable problem after another," Musk said. "That cannot be the only thing. There need to be things that inspire you, that make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity." The rocket launch highlight videos were created by Westworld co-creator Jonah Nolan. "The only way I know how to share [the Falcon Heavy launch] is a trailer," Nolan said. "It's not for TV or a movie, it's for the next part of the human story." Here's part one, posted to Musk's Instagram: Falcon Heavy and Starman, Part 1 A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Mar 10, 2018 at 4:00pm PST And here's part two: Falcon Heavy and Starman, Part 2 A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Mar 10, 2018 at 3:51pm PST The Falcon Heavy is SpaceX's most powerful rocket, and is designed to take payloads to deep space, such as a future Mars mission. It effectively contains the power of three of the company's Falcon 9 boosters strapped together. Why Falcon Heavy & Starman?Life cannot just be about solving one sad problem after another. There need to be things that inspire you, that make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity. That is why we did it. We did for you. https://t.co/5STO7q4wro — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2018 Karissa Bell contributed to this report. WATCH: This guy built his own Boring Company flamethrower
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