| Trump defends school safety plan that doesn't include raising age to buy guns Posted: 12 Mar 2018 08:14 AM PDT  President Trump says that the White House's proposals aimed at curbing gun violence in the wake of last month's Parkland, Fla., massacre are "moving rapidly" — and that he will take a wait-and-see approach to increasing the minimum age to purchase certain firearms.
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| Man Had 'AR-15-Styled Rifle,' Bump Stock Outside Indianapolis Hotel Before Women's March: Report Posted: 12 Mar 2018 09:05 AM PDT  A 22-year-old man living in the U.S. illegally has been charged with a federal crime after police in Indianapolis, Indiana, found him in possession of guns on two occasions in January, The Indianapolis Star reported Sunday. Alaklouk, described as as a Tunisian native and Saudi Arabian citizen in federal court documents obtained by the Star, had been renting a room at the Hyatt when hotel security contacted the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department around 3 a.m. after they saw several weapons in his parked truck. There were six handguns in the backseat and an assault-style rifle in the front seat, according to the Star.
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| Declassified Military Video Shows Fast-Moving UFO Tracked By Navy Fighter Pilots Posted: 13 Mar 2018 02:01 AM PDT  A newly declassified video obtained by a research company shows a fast-moving UFO off the East Coast as it was tracked by two U.S. Navy pilots in 2015.
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| Warren rejects DNA test idea to prove Native American ancestry: 'Nobody is going to take that part of me away' Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:36 AM PDT  Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., dismissed the idea of taking a commercially available DNA test to settle the controversy over whether or not she has Native American heritage. "I know who I am," she said.
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| Final moments of NYC helicopter crash captured on Instagram Posted: 12 Mar 2018 10:02 AM PDT  The final moments of a helicopter crash in NYC were captured by one of the victims on Instagram. The pilot, who was the only survivor, told investigators that the accident may have been caused by a passenger's luggage hitting the emergency fuel shutoff button.
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| Mueller witness Nader emerges from obscurity with new details Posted: 12 Mar 2018 09:30 AM PDT  Rachel Maddow reports on new details being learned about George Nader, the businessman who set up the Seychelles meeting involving Trump surrogate Erik Prince and a Russian investor close to Vladimir Putin.
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| Bangladeshi plane crashes in Nepal, killing at least 49 Posted: 12 Mar 2018 09:11 AM PDT  By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least 49 people were killed on Monday when a Bangladeshi airliner crashed in cloudy weather as it came in to land at the Nepalese capital's hill-ringed airport, officials said. Seventyone people were on board the plane arriving from Dhaka when it clipped the fence at Kathmandu and burst into flames, Chettri said.
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| White House denounces U.K. nerve agent attack, mum on Russia Posted: 12 Mar 2018 01:01 PM PDT  The White House on Monday denounced the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England with a nerve agent as "an outrage" but did not echo London's charge that Moscow was "highly likely" to be behind the attack.
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| Republicans Steel For A Loss In Trump Country Special Election Posted: 12 Mar 2018 01:38 PM PDT  WASHINGTON, Pa. ― Dwight Harris, 40, is a registered Republican who enthusiastically voted for Donald Trump and is largely satisfied with the choice he made. Unions, many of which have endorsed the district's Republican candidate in the past, have mobilized in full force against Saccone, whose anti-union record includes support for right-to-work laws.
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| Her Husband Killed 49 People In Orlando. Now She's On Trial For Terrorism. Posted: 12 Mar 2018 09:26 AM PDT  One year and nine months after Omar Mateen opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 and wounding dozens, his widow will stand trial on federal terrorism charges. Noor Salman, 31, is charged with aiding and abetting Mateen in his attempt to provide material support to a terrorist organization, and obstruction of justice. The trial is being held in downtown Orlando at the Middle District of Florida courthouse, just two miles from Pulse nightclub, where the crime occurred.
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| Some facts about Pope Francis at the 5-year mark Posted: 12 Mar 2018 03:45 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — In five years, the world has gotten to know Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina who was so self-deprecating that when he emerged on the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica on March 13, 2013, as Pope Francis, he quipped that his brother cardinals had to search to the "end of the Earth" to find a new leader.
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| Saudi general 'may have been tortured to death' during Ritz-Carlton crackdown Posted: 12 Mar 2018 07:08 AM PDT  A Saudi general may have been tortured to death and several wealthy businessmen were allegedly abused in captivity at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's recent crackdown on powerful figures in Saudi Arabia, according to a newspaper report. More than 200 businessmen, princes and government officials were detained in November and imprisoned at the luxury hotel in Riyadh in what the Saudi government said was an anti-corruption drive. According to the New York Times, some of the powerful detainees may have suffered abuse at the hands of their captors as they were coerced into agreements to hand over billions of dollars to the Saudi government in return for their freedom. Saudi Arabia has dismissed the allegations of abuse as "absolutely untrue". The most dramatic accusation involves Major General Ali al-Qahtani, an aide to a senior Saudi prince seen as a potential rival to the 32-year-old Prince Mohammed, who died in government custody in mid-December. The report was published shortly before Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives in the US for meetings with the Trump administration Credit: AFP PHOTO / Saudi Royal Palace / BANDAR AL-JALOUD Sources told the newspaper that the general's "neck was twisted unnaturally as though it had been broken" and that his body had burn marks which appeared to be the result of electric shocks. General Qahtani was taken to hospital in November but was reportedly returned to his interrogation after being seen by doctors. The government has not offered an official explanation for how he died. The general's death had been widely reported in Arab and Iranian media previously but not in detail. The US report comes shortly before Prince Mohammed, known by his initials "MBS", is due in Washington for meetings with the Trump administration. General Qahtani was an aide to Prince Turki bin Abdullah, a former governor of Riyadh who is from a rival line of the Saudi royal family to Prince Mohammed. Prince Turki was himself detained during the November crackdown on allegations of corruption. He was eventually released. The rise of MBS A further 16 detainees were allegedly left in need of medical treatment after their abuse. Some reportedly told family members they had been beaten, deprived of sleep, or interrogated with hoods over their heads. "All allegations of abuse and torture of those investigated during the anti-corruption proceedings are absolutely untrue," a Saudi official said.
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| Turkish socialite and friends killed in plane crash in Iran Posted: 11 Mar 2018 01:44 PM PDT  By Irem Koca and Sami Aboudi ISTANBUL/DUBAI (Reuters) - A wealthy Turkish socialite and her friends were among the 11 people killed on Sunday when a private plane bringing them home from a Dubai bachelorette party crashed into an Iranian mountainside. The plane was owned by the private holding company of Turkish businessman Huseyin Basaran, and carried eight passengers and three crew, an official for Turkey's transport ministry said. Basaran, a former deputy chairman of Trabzonspor football club, owns businesses that span yachts to energy.
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| 9 Of The Best Women's Hanging Toiletry Bags Posted: 12 Mar 2018 03:18 PM PDT  Even the most practically packed person relies on a few unique travel accessories to get the job done. From packing cubes and shoe bags to travel scarfs with zippered pockets, there are all kinds of ways you can smartly pack for your next getaway.
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| O.J. Simpson hypothetically confesses in ‘lost’ interview Posted: 12 Mar 2018 08:55 AM PDT  In an interview with publisher Judith Regan, Simpson goes through a "purely hypothetical" discussion of what happened on the night his ex-wife and Goldman were murdered on the steps of Nicole Simpson's Brentwood condo.
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| US threatens to act in Syria as it pushes new UN ceasefire Posted: 12 Mar 2018 05:07 PM PDT  The United States on Monday warned it was ready to act in Syria if needed to end chemical attacks and "inhuman suffering" as it pushed for a new 30-day ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta. US Ambassador Nikki Haley told the UN Security Council that a ceasefire approved two weeks ago "has failed" and circulated a new draft resolution calling for a 30-day truce in the rebel enclave and Damascus.
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| Pennsylvania special election becomes too close to call Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:52 AM PDT  President Donald Trump went to a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday night to push for Rick Saccone. However, that does not mean a Republican victory is locked in.
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| Red tape traps teenagers seeking refuge in U.S. Posted: 12 Mar 2018 11:16 AM PDT  Like most teenagers in the United States, Luis looked forward to his 18th birthday. Unlike most teens, Luis's excitement was not about being able to vote or buy cigarettes or other American rites of passage associated with turning 18, but about the prospect of being released from custody and reunited with his family.
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| Austria: motives of Iran residence knife attacker a mystery Posted: 12 Mar 2018 08:01 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities searched the Vienna home Monday of a man who attacked a guard outside the Iranian ambassador's residence and was then fatally shot, but said they still have no information on his motives.
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| Bizarre battle over body of Charles Manson won by grandson Posted: 12 Mar 2018 11:17 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A grandson of cult leader Charles Manson won the bizarre California court battle Monday over the killer's body.
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| Bangladesh aircraft crashes in Kathmandu Posted: 12 Mar 2018 04:15 AM PDT ![Bangladesh aircraft crashes in Kathmandu]( "Bangladesh aircraft crashes in Kathmandu") A Bangladeshi aircraft carrying 67 passengers and four crew crashed while coming in to land at the airport in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, an airport official said, adding that 17 people on board had been rescued.
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| Police link two package bombs in Texas to earlier attack Posted: 12 Mar 2018 03:20 PM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Two package bombs exploded miles apart in the capital city of Texas on Monday, killing a teenager and injuring two women in attacks that Austin police linked to a deadly blast earlier this month. In all three cases, a package was left at the front of a residence and exploded after an unsuspecting victim picked it up or tried to open it, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley told reporters. "We are looking at these incidents as being related," Manley said, adding that federal investigators were among those looking for suspects and a possible motive for the attacks.
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| China eyes 'black tech' to boost security as parliament meets Posted: 13 Mar 2018 12:27 AM PDT ![China eyes 'black tech' to boost security as parliament meets]( "China eyes 'black tech' to boost security as parliament meets") At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features and car registration plates, and match them in real-time with a database of suspects. The test - which coincides with the annual meeting of China's parliament in central Beijing - underscores a major push by China's leaders to leverage technology to boost security in the country.
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| US Navy sends submarines to Arctic for icy exercises Posted: 12 Mar 2018 10:06 AM PDT  As countries race to militarize and exploit the Arctic, two U.S. Navy fast-attack submarines have arrived in the Arctic Ocean for a five-week biennial exercise, called ICEX 2018.
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| 'The devastation seen in Ghouta today will be Afrin city tomorrow', warns British YPG fighter, as city braces for Turkish onslaught Posted: 12 Mar 2018 09:44 AM PDT  Residents of the Syrian city of Afrin are bracing for an onslaught from Turkish troops and allied rebels, threatening a fresh humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country. Turkey was poised to enter the Kurdish-majority city after advances in recent weeks took them to within a mile of its limits. There were fears for the some one million civilians, thousands of whom have already been displaced by fighting in villages and other cantons closer to Syria's border with Turkey. Convoys of activists were reportedly leaving for Afrin from the cities of Cizre in southern Turkey and Kobane in northern Syria in an effort to protect the city by volunteering to put themselves between rebel fighters and the Turks and the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG). Turkey launched operation "Olive Branch" on January 20 against the YPG, which controls the Afrin region in northwest Syria and which Ankara regards as a terrorist group. Syrian civilians ride their cars through Ain Dara in northern Afrin region as they flee Afrin city Credit: AFP More than 200 civilians and 370 YPG fighters have been killed so far, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Some 340 Syrian rebels have also been killed, and 42 Turkish soldiers. Recent drone footage showed large-scale destruction in villages and towns on the approach to the city. Pro-Kurdish groups held protests across the UK on Sunday ahead of the Turkish assault, calling on the international community to act. "If the world stands by and continues to do nothing, the devastation you are seeing in Eastern Ghouta today will be Afrin city tomorrow," said Jamie Janson, a British volunteer fighting with the YPG in Afrin, joining the plea. Protesters trespassed onto the tracks at Manchester Piccadilly. Credit: Chris Woodhouse He claimed that while the world's attention was on Ghouta, "mass murder" was being carried out against the Kurds. "For seven weeks now Afrin has been bombed and shelled without mercy. The people have resisted one of the largest armies in the world, with no air force to protect them from round-the-clock bombardment. The human cost has been enormous, the destruction indiscriminate. "People don't even wake up when windows rattle from early morning bomb blasts any more. It feels a bit like Pompeii the day before Vesuvius," Mr Janson told the Telegraph from Syria. He is one of three Britons among dozens of international volunteer fighters in Afrin, including Huang Lei from Manchester and Dan Smith, a combat medic. Jamie Janson fighting in northern Syrian with the YPG Credit: The Telegraph Only one route currently leads out of Afrin and into government-controlled zones in Syria's northern province of Aleppo. The government has repeatedly offered the Kurds, who have long held separatist ambitions in Syria, protection in return for handing over their positions. During the course of the seven-year war, the regime and the YPG have occasionally united in a marriage of convenience against their common enemy, Turkey. But Kurdish leaders have so far rejected the deal. The latest moves will only aggravate tensions between Turkey and the US, which has urged Ankara to halt its offensive against its Kurdish partner forces - their most reliable in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). A Western diplomat said Turkey had told its Nato allies that they would stop before the city, planning only to secure the border. They were taken aback by the recent advances. "We thought the Afrin offensive was more about Turkey trying to get the US's attention rather that any serious attempt to take territory in Syria," he told the Telegraph. "We told them the last thing Syria needs is a needless battle." Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, holding an olive branch arrives to deliver a speech at an event in Ankara, Turkey, Credit: AP Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's President, on Sunday angrily lashed out at Nato, accusing the Western military alliance of failing to back its campaign. "Hey Nato! With what has been going on in Syria, when are you going to come and be alongside us?" Mr Erdogan said in remarks to supporters. "Is this friendship? Is this NATO unity?" he asked, noting how Turkey had backed the alliance by participating in its operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere. His latest comments were among the toughest he has directed in recent times against Nato, which Turkey joined in 1952 as the US sought to make sure it did not fall under Soviet sway after World War II. 2018 is shaping up to be an even bloodier year than last, which was itself one of the deadliest in the intractable conflict. The SOHR, which tracks death tolls using a network of contacts inside Syria, yesterday published figures which showed that 511,000 people had been killed since 2011. An injured girl receives treatment at the Avrin hospital in the Kurdish-majority town of Afrin in northern Syria Credit: AFP About 85 percent of the dead were civilians killed by the forces of the Syrian government and its Russian patron. The onslaught continued in Eastern Ghouta, where some 1,100 have been killed in three weeks. Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the UN, warned that if the UN Security Council fails to act on Syria, Washington "remains prepared to act if we must," just as it did last year when it fired missiles at a Syrian government air base over a deadly chemical weapons attack. "It is not the path we prefer, but it is a path we have demonstrated we will take, and we are prepared to take again," she said.
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| Trump's Retreat On Guns Is The World’s Least-Shocking Surprise Posted: 12 Mar 2018 10:41 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Democrats cheered. Following last month's Parkland school massacre in Florida, Trump held a remarkable meeting with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House, where he talked up proposals aimed at curbing gun violence. The president expressed support for ideas backed by Democrats, like universal background checks and raising the minimum age to purchase an assault-style weapon.
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| Nursing Student Killed – and Her Ex-Boyfriend Has Fled the Country Posted: 12 Mar 2018 09:41 AM PDT  The male student left the country before the victim's body was found
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| 'Black Panther' smashes past the $1 billion mark at the box office Posted: 12 Mar 2018 11:51 AM PDT  Marvel's "Black Panther" film has broken a number of records. But none may be greater than surpassing the $1 billion mark at the global box office. In just four weeks, "Black Panther" has become the first movie to do what critics said wasn't possible — prove that black films can travel overseas and sell big.
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| The Latest: Copter crash probe will eye floats, even photos Posted: 12 Mar 2018 02:18 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a helicopter crash in the East River off New York City (all times local):
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| Cuba vote opens final chapter of Castro era Posted: 11 Mar 2018 05:40 PM PDT  Cubans voted Sunday to ratify a new National Assembly, a key step in a process leading to the elevation of a new president, the first in nearly 60 years from outside the Castro family. The new members of the National Assembly will be tasked with choosing a successor to 86-year-old President Raul Castro when he steps down next month. Castro voted in the southeastern province of Santiago de Cuba while his first vice president and likely successor, Miguel Diaz-Canel, cast his ballot in the central Santa Clara province.
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| GSK wins new reprieve as Hikma's generic Advair delayed again Posted: 12 Mar 2018 01:43 AM PDT ![GSK wins new reprieve as Hikma's generic Advair delayed again]( "GSK wins new reprieve as Hikma's generic Advair delayed again") (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline has won a further reprieve for its blockbuster Advair lung drug after U.S. regulators insisted Hikma Pharmaceuticals conduct a further clinical study evaluating its generic version of the drug. The Jordan-based firm said on Monday it expected to submit a response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with new clinical data in 2019. Hikma's partner on the project, Vectura , said this meant a potential approval and launch of the generic inhaled medication could come in 2020 if all goes well.
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| 2018 Honda Accord Hybrid rated by EPA at 47 mpg combined Posted: 12 Mar 2018 07:45 AM PDT  The EPA has now released the fuel-efficiency ratings for the 2018 Honda Accord Hybrid, and they came in 1 mpg below the combined number the company had hoped to reach. At a drive event last fall, Honda said it hoped the redesigned Accord Hybrid could manage the same fuel-efficiency ratings as last year's model: 49 mpg city, 47 highway, 48 combined—or perhaps slightly better.
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| The Afghan Taliban's Deceptive Peace Initiative Posted: 11 Mar 2018 04:57 PM PDT  The content of the Taliban's letter and subsequent messages should leave little doubt of its intentions. Expectations for an Afghan peace process grew last month with the Taliban's release of a letter addressed to the American people offering to negotiate. It was followed more recently by Afghan president Ashraf Ghani's unconditional willingness to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate political party and other significant concessions.
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| GOP Rep. Tom Rooney Breaks Ranks On Russia Report: 'We've Lost All Credibility' Posted: 12 Mar 2018 07:44 PM PDT  "I don't know that necessarily there was a full-fledged campaign to do everything that they could to help elect Donald Trump," he added. "We've gone completely off the rails, and now we're just basically a political forum for people to leak information to drive the day's news.
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| Good Samaritans Rescue 9-Month-Old Found Lying in the Middle of the Road Posted: 11 Mar 2018 01:50 PM PDT  The child's mother has since been arrested.
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| Turkey demands life sentence for detained US pastor: reports Posted: 13 Mar 2018 07:12 AM PDT  Turkish prosecutors have demanded a life sentence for an American pastor accused of being a member of the group blamed for the 2016 failed coup, in a case that has raised tensions with Washington, reports said Tuesday. Andrew Brunson, who ran a church in the western city of Izmir, was detained by the Turkish authorities in October 2016 and then remanded in custody. Gulen, who is based in the US state of Pennsylvania and who Turkey wants to see extradited to face trial, denies the charges.
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| S-Hooks Are for So Much More Than Just Kitchen Organization Posted: 12 Mar 2018 02:46 PM PDT  4 other ways they'll up your storage game
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| Video shows officer shooting defendant in Utah courthouse Posted: 12 Mar 2018 06:59 PM PDT  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dramatic video released Monday shows a U.S. marshal firing four times at close range at a defendant inside a Utah federal courthouse after he rushed the witness stand, jumped and swung with a pen at a shackled witness who barely backed out of the way.
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| A Top Iowa Republican Just Resigned After Getting Caught on Video Kissing a Lobbyist Posted: 12 Mar 2018 02:08 PM PDT  Bill Dix is married
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| Hong Kong democrats struggle to recapture lost ground in by-elections Posted: 11 Mar 2018 03:09 PM PDT  By Venus Wu and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - A low turnout in by-elections in Hong Kong on Sunday raised alarms among the city's pro-democracy camp as its candidates struggled to gain sufficient seats to win back a legislative veto bloc and a recount was ordered in one closely fought district. Some voters voiced concerns about the city's future in light of news that China's parliament had passed a constitutional change paving the way for President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely. The city's democratic opposition has so far won two of the four seats up for grabs, and the pro-establishment camp one.
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| Space bases could preserve civilization in World War III: Elon Musk Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:10 PM PDT  Bases on the moon and Mars could help preserve human civilization and hasten its regeneration on earth in the event of a third world war, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, said on Sunday. Musk, the founder of rocket and spacecraft company SpaceX, said the company's interplanetary ship could begin test flights as soon as next year. There is "some probability" that there will be another Dark Ages, "particularly if there is a third world war," Musk said at the SXSW conference.
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| Man with hammer tries to stop driver from fleeing a car crash Posted: 12 Mar 2018 02:34 PM PDT  Several people tried to stop the driver of an SUV who fled the scene of a multi-vehicle crash in Miami. One man got out of his van with a sledgehammer to smash the windows of the SUV.
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| What You Learn After Autocrossing a BMW i3 Posted: 12 Mar 2018 01:30 PM PDT |
| Trump Brags That He Won Most Of The Women's Vote In 2016. He Didn't. Posted: 11 Mar 2018 03:02 PM PDT  President Donald Trump inaccurately bragged that he won the majority of women's votes in the 2016 presidential election at a political rally on Saturday. Appearing before a crowd in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, Trump boasted that he had proved his naysayers wrong when he received 52 percent of women's votes. It will be a rough night for Donald Trump because the women won't come out.' We got 52 percent, right?
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| 11 killed as Turkish jet carrying hen party crashes in Iran Posted: 12 Mar 2018 03:03 AM PDT  Eleven women were killed when a private plane crashed in Iran while flying the daughter of a prominent Turkish businessman and her friends back from a hen party, officials and media reports said on Monday. The Bombardier Challenger 604, carrying Mina Basaran and seven of her friends back from the United Arab Emirates, went down in southwestern Iran on Sunday en route from Sharjah to Istanbul. Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation said the plane crashed at 6:09 pm (1439 GMT) on Sunday after the pilot had asked to descend due to a "technical problem".
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