| U.S., European Countries Bash Russia As Spy Poisoning Spat Intensifies Posted: 15 Mar 2018 03:20 AM PDT  The governments of the United States, Britain, France and Germany released a
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| Students across U.S. stage national walkout month after Parkland massacre Posted: 14 Mar 2018 08:58 AM PDT  Students and teachers at more than 2,000 schools across the country staged a national walkout to call for an end to gun violence on Wednesday, one month after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting a Florida high school.
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| Manafort placed under house arrest; weight of evidence cited Posted: 13 Mar 2018 02:34 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow reports on a newly released court document in which former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is put under house arrest with the judge noting that Manafort could face the rest of his life in prison.
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| Parents Of 12-Year-Old Say Son Killed Himself After Being Bullied Over Sexuality Posted: 14 Mar 2018 11:52 AM PDT  The parents of a 12-year-old Mississippi boy say he killed himself last week
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| NYC Helicopter Crash Victim Seen Saying Goodbye to Parents in Video Shot Before Moving to New York Posted: 13 Mar 2018 10:13 AM PDT  The victims of the devastating crash are revealed to have been two best friends, an Argentinian tourist and a man about to be married.
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| White nationalist leader faces battery charges in Indiana Posted: 14 Mar 2018 01:41 PM PDT  PAOLI, Ind. (AP) — A white nationalist arrested for physically harassing a woman protesting at a 2016 Donald Trump rally is accused of attacking his wife and her stepfather in southern Indiana.
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| Trump loses in Trump country Posted: 14 Mar 2018 01:18 PM PDT  Democrats turned out to lead Conor Lamb to an apparent victory in Pennsylvania's special election, but he couldn't have done it without some GOP votes in spite of the president's personal pleas.
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| Chris Christie: Special election 'isn't really a referendum on Donald Trump' Posted: 14 Mar 2018 07:12 AM PDT  Christie weighs in on the Pennsylvania election and Trump's decision to fire Rex Tillerson.
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| As Trump visits border, Latino voters are watching and biding their time Posted: 13 Mar 2018 12:26 PM PDT  Latino voters often don't turn out in large numbers for midterms, but Democrats are hoping that won't be the case this year — and Donald Trump, visiting California to inspect models for his border wall, may be helping them.
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| Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Charged With 'Massive Fraud' By SEC Posted: 14 Mar 2018 11:13 AM PDT  In a complaint filed Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission leveled
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| A Missing Nobel Prize Winner Has Been Found Wandering a Rural Road in a Daze Posted: 14 Mar 2018 11:42 PM PDT  His wife was also found dead, but authorities do not suspect foul play
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| After A Year In Space, NASA Astronaut's Genes Have Changed. Possibly For Good. Posted: 15 Mar 2018 05:51 AM PDT  After spending a year in space, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is not the man he
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| Man Who Claimed He Was Accomplice In Natalee Holloway Slaying Is Fatally Stabbed Posted: 15 Mar 2018 05:40 AM PDT  Cops say John Ludwick was accosting a woman when she used his own knife to defend herself.
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| Officials: California man shot 130 hawks, birds of prey Posted: 14 Mar 2018 02:38 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California man shot more than 130 hawks and other legally protected birds of prey on his land, leaving the carcasses to pile up at the foot of trees and telephone poles, wildlife officials said Wednesday.
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| 13 Multipurpose Beauty Products That Will Make Your Life Way Easier Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:45 AM PDT  If there's one thing we love more than beauty and skin care products, it's
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| 'A reckless and abhorrent attack': How the world has reacted to nerve agent attack on Russian spy Posted: 14 Mar 2018 11:17 PM PDT  The US has thrown its diplomatic weight behind the UK over the Salisbury nerve agent attack as the international community joins forces with Britain against Russia. Theresa May hit back at Moscow on Wednesday for the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, who have been critical in hospital since they were found unconscious on March 4 on a bench in the city of Salisbury. The Prime Minister announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats, a move that has received international support. As the Kremlin made it clear it is readying its response to the biggest expulsion of its embassy staff since the Cold War, the White House came down firmly on Britain's side, joining a growing list of countries pledging their support to the UK. Here is a round up of how the world has reacted to the escalating diplomatic crisis. The US After the brazen poisoning of a former spy, Mrs May quickly pinned the blame on Russia. So did U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, in what ultimately became one of his last public statements before being fired. But at the White House, President Donald Trump's initial response was more circumspect, with his spokeswoman pointedly avoiding naming Russia as the likely perpetrator of the attack. Sanders says "we are standing with our U.K. ally" after the nerve agent attack but will not will not say that Russia is behind the attack, despite Theresa May saying it's "highly likely" Russia is to blame. (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/NL0cZIqhGk— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 12, 2018 Tougher rhetoric came only on Wednesday evening, when White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders put out a statement saying the U. "stands in solidarity with its closest ally". "The United States shares the United Kingdom's assessment that Russia is responsible for the reckless nerve agent attack on a British citizen and his daughter, and we support the United Kingdom's decision to expel Russian diplomats as a just response," she said in a statement. "The latest action by Russia fits into a pattern of behaviour in which Russia disregards the international rules-based order, undermines the sovereignty and security of countries worldwide, and attempts to subvert and discredit Western democratic institutions and processes. The United States is working together with our allies and partners to ensure that this kind of abhorrent attack does not happen again." At the United Nations, Nikki Haley, the US ambassador, said Russia must cooperate with the British investigation and "account for its actions." Russia Moscow has strongly denied being responsible for the nerve agent attack. Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations accused British authorities of using "propaganda war tools" and having "other motives" than establishing the truth behind the poisoning of Colonel Skripal. In comments tweeted by the Russian Mission at the UN, Vasily Nebenzya said the UK was "dragging" the case to the UN's Security Council, ignoring its international commitments because the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons "will not be convinced by its arguments". #Nebenzia: The authorities of #UK are not interested in finding the truth about the Skripal case, they have other motives. They are using #propaganda war tools to influence an uninformed and impressionable public. There are no facts, only allegations about the "Russian trace". pic.twitter.com/BLhWYrW6Ce— Russian Mission UN (@RussiaUN) March 15, 2018 It said: "Incredible things are happening behind our eyes. The process of replacing the presumption of innocence with the presumption of guilt is taking place. Moreover, this criminal law principle is transferred into international relations. "The authorities of UK are not interested in finding the truth about the Skripal case, they have other motives. They are using propaganda war tools to influence an uninformed and impressionable public. There are no facts, only allegations about the 'Russian trace'." France At the United Nations on Wednesday, French officials declined to directly blame Russia until the country's involvement was proven. However a subsequent statement by the French Embassy said the country's "solidarity with the UK is unquestionable". "President Macron denounced as early as Tuesday the Salisbury chemical attack as unacceptable and assured Prime Minister May the UK had France's full support," the embassy said. Germany German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she took the British findings seriously and there would be a common European stance, although "we must still talk responsibly" with Russia despite differences of opinion. Germany's new foreign minister said Berlin "can fully and completely understand" why Britain took action over the poisoning of a former Russian spy. Heiko Maas said at a handover ceremony it was "disappointing that Russia so far doesn't appear to be prepared" to help clear up the case. He said it should "create transparency," either bilaterally to Britain or at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. German Foreign Affairs Minister Heiko Maas Credit: AFP Maas said Germany would consult closely with London "and we can fully and completely understand that Britain had to react to this." Australia Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and the country's foreign minister, Julie Bishop, issued a joint statement on Thursday saying the country is "considering its responses in support of the United Kingdom" over the Salisbury incident. Mrs May had made "a compelling case" on the Russian state's responsibility for the attack and Australia "stands with the UK in solidarity and supports, in the strongest terms, Prime Minister May's response," the statement said. The Australian Government is gravely concerned & shares UK's outrage that military-grade nerve agent developed by Russia has been used in targeted attempt to commit murder in Britain.https://t.co/x7HCI7KmhG ��������— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) March 15, 2018 "The Australian Government also supports the UK Government's right to take retaliatory measures, including its decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats and to call for an emergency session of the UN Security Council," it said, adding: "Australia is considering its responses in support of the United Kingdom, in close consultation with the UK Government and other partners." Australia already has a range of sanctions in place against Russia, some of which were applied after the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in 2014. Canada Prime Minister Just Trudeau said he spoke with Prime Minister Theresa May late on Wednesday, telling her Canada stands behind Britain. "The attack is despicable and it is unacceptable that there would be chemical weapons used against citizens of the United Kingdom," Trudeau told reporters in Evraz, Sask. after touring a steel plant. "Russia's likely involvement is absolutely unacceptable and needs to be condemned in the strongest terms. That's what I told Teresa May and that is what I'm glad to repeat here today." Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland, responds to the chemical weapon attack in Salisbury https://t.co/4Mlje0HYBMpic.twitter.com/GyhPAoWJ1m— CanadianUK (@CanadianUK) March 14, 2018 Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland also issued a statement condemning the attack. "We condemn in the strongest terms the despicable use of a chemical agent on the sovereign territory of the United Kingdom—a point I recently conveyed to my British counterpart, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Russia's likely involvement in this attack is a serious breach of the rules-based order. "Canada offers its complete support to the United Kingdom and calls on all states to cooperate fully with British investigators."
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| Ford recalling 1.38 mn sedans over steering defect Posted: 14 Mar 2018 07:47 AM PDT  Ford announced Wednesday a North American recall of 1.38 million Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ sedans to address loose steering wheel bolts that could lead to the steering wheel detaching. In the cars being recalled, the steering wheel "may not maintain torque, allowing the bolt to loosen over time," Ford said. If not addressed, "a steering wheel could potentially detach and lead to a loss of steering control and increased risk of a crash," the company added.
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| Fired by Trump over Twitter, Tillerson doesn't thank him Posted: 13 Mar 2018 12:06 PM PDT  Hours after President Trump announced his firing over Twitter, outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday left the former real estate entrepreneur off the list of people he praised and thanked in a brief speech about his accomplishments and the future of his department. Tillerson, looking and sounding defeated as he delivered an eight-minute farewell, said he was delegating his duties to Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, effective at the end of the day, and formally ending his own watch as the top U.S. diplomat at the end of the month. The former Exxon chief told reporters in the State Department briefing room that Trump had telephoned him from Air Force One a little after noon — some five hours after the president announced to the world that Tillerson was out, to be replaced by CIA director Mike Pompeo.
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| Oregon Gov.: Ryan Zinke Conceded There’s No Money In Drilling Off Our Coast Posted: 13 Mar 2018 04:11 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke infuriated governors of coastal
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| Former Trump campaign manager Manafort files to dismiss charges Posted: 14 Mar 2018 07:50 PM PDT  Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on Wednesday filed a motion in federal court seeking to dismiss charges against him, saying that the special counsel had exceeded his authority by charging Manafort with crimes not related to Russian meddling in the 2016 election. In a 46-page filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Manafort's attorney Kevin Downing said Manafort had been threatened with additional indictments and "faces a game of criminal-procedure whack-a-mole" by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, "whose massive resources he cannot possibly hope to match." Under the terms of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's order in May appointing Mueller, the special counsel can probe links or coordination between Trump's campaign and Russia as well as "any matters that arose or may arise directly" from the investigation.
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| Companies Are Disclosing How Much Less They Pay Workers Than Executives Posted: 13 Mar 2018 10:00 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― A moment that corporate executives may have dreaded for years has
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| The Latest: Clinton saddened by Hawking's death Posted: 14 Mar 2018 02:12 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the death of Stephen Hawking (all times local):
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| Nikolas Cruz's Brother Cries in Court as Parkland School Shooting Suspect Appears at Arraignment Hearing Posted: 14 Mar 2018 12:41 PM PDT  The shooting suspect kept his head down during the hearing.
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| Amb. Nikki Haley: Russia must account for its actions Posted: 14 Mar 2018 01:15 PM PDT  U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says Russia must fully cooperate with the U.K.'s investigation into the assassination attempt of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.
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| Would a Russian veto at the UN trigger US strikes on Syria? Posted: 13 Mar 2018 06:41 PM PDT  A two-pronged US push for action on Syria at the UN Security Council could prompt Russia to again use its veto, a move some diplomats see as a possible trigger for American strikes in Syria. Russia has used its veto power 11 times to block action against its Syrian ally, shielding President Bashar al-Assad's government from sanctions, war crimes investigations and an inquiry into chemical weapons attacks. Speculation about a 12th Russian veto on Syria is again rife after the United States on Monday put forward a draft resolution on a 30-day ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta and Damascus.
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| Democrats dissect Lamb's win with an eye to November's races Posted: 14 Mar 2018 09:40 AM PDT  "I think most Republicans realize we're running into a very serious headwind — hurricane-force wind," Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., said of the improbable victory.
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| Google guru Page tests flying taxis in New Zealand Posted: 13 Mar 2018 10:06 AM PDT  Self-piloted flying taxis are being tested in New Zealand as part of a project backed by Google co-founder Larry Page that supporters say will revolutionise personal transport. New Zealand regulators on Tuesday approved plans for Zephyr Airworks, a subsidiary of Page's company Kitty Hawk, to develop and test the futuristic air taxis. Known as Cora, the electric aircraft has a dozen lift fans on its wings, making it capable of vertical take-off and landing like a helicopter.
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| Iconic Physicist Stephen Hawking Dies At 76 Posted: 13 Mar 2018 08:50 PM PDT  Stephen Hawking died Wednesday after complications due to amyotrophic lateral
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| South Africa's Ramaphosa says will stop illegal land grabs Posted: 14 Mar 2018 07:55 AM PDT  South Africa will not allow illegal land grabs, new President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday, as the country prepares to expropriate land without compensation following a vote in parliament. Ramaphosa, who replaced Jacob Zuma as president in February, is under pressure to deliver on promises to speed up land reform after slow progress at redistributing land to the country's black majority since the end of white minority rule in 1994. "We cannot have a situation where we allow land grabs, because that is anarchy," Ramaphosa said in a speech in parliament.
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| Police: Man shoots his 2 kids, wife before killing himself Posted: 13 Mar 2018 06:49 PM PDT  SPANAWAY, Wash. (AP) — A member of the U.S. Air Force in Washington state fatally shot his two young children and his wife before killing himself, authorities said Tuesday.
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| Nikki Haley calls poisoning of former spy 'Russia's crime' as she backs Britain at UN Posted: 14 Mar 2018 01:56 PM PDT  The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has accused Russia of a "crime" worthy of action by the UN Security Council, as she backed Britain's attempts to punish Moscow for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Salisbury. The Trump administration was relatively quiet on the Russia issue for much of Wednesday after Theresa May expelled 23 Russian diplomats and blamed Moscow for this month's nerve agent attack on the former spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter.
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| Rex Tillerson Leaves With A Shattered Reputation And A Broken Department Posted: 13 Mar 2018 10:10 AM PDT  President Donald Trump ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday,
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| US Navy sees better Iranian behaviour in Gulf Posted: 15 Mar 2018 01:12 AM PDT  The Iranian military's behaviour in the Gulf has changed "across the board" in recent months, the US Navy said on Thursday, after years of tensions in the busy waterway. Commander Bill Urban, spokesman for the Navy's Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet, said there had been no "unsafe or unprofessional" interactions with the Iranians at sea since August 14, 2017 when an Iranian drone with no lights on flew close to US aircraft operating in the Gulf. Last year and in 2016, the US Navy complained repeatedly about the behaviour of Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels, which would often shadow and steer towards US ships.
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| As Spring Break Kicks Off, Investigation Looks Into the Hidden Danger of Drinking On Hotel Balconies Posted: 14 Mar 2018 09:35 AM PDT  Every year, revelers are injured or killed after slipping and falling off hotel balconies.
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| All-new 2019 Toyota RAV4 to be unveiled in New York Posted: 15 Mar 2018 04:27 AM PDT  Despite being regarded by many observers as one of the less attractive models in the extremely popular compact crossover SUV segment of the current auto market, the Toyota RAV4 is still one of the biggest-selling vehicles of its type in the entire world. The current generation of the RAV4 has been around now since 2013, which isn't a particularly long time for a model to be in production before an all-new replacement is brought in. It's also worth noting that the current RAV4 is now significantly older than some of its big rivals, such as the Honda CR-V and Mazda CX5, so it's no surprise Toyota has seen the need for a redesign of its biggest-selling model.
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| Stephen Hawking wanted his most famous formula engraved on his tombstone: Here's what it means Posted: 14 Mar 2018 08:42 AM PDT  In 1974, long before Stephen Hawking was the famous cosmologist he became, he developed his most influential theory. That concept, which came to be known as Hawking radiation, explained how energy and even matter could escape the immense gravitational pull of a black hole. On Wednesday, Hawking died at the age of 76, but his scientific theory lives on. And in fact, Hawking himself will make sure of it, even in death. SEE ALSO: Stephen Hawking, beloved author of 'A Brief History of Time,' dies at 76 In 2002, the famous scientist said that he wants his formula for Hawking radiation — originally put forward in a 1974 paper in the journal Nature — engraved on his tombstone, according to the New York Times. It's a worthy place for his most elegant theory. Hawking radiation transformed our understanding of physics as we know it, in a bid to start bridging the gap between quantum physics and physics on a larger, astronomical scale. To date, that bridge still hasn't been fully built. In order to understand Hawking's greatest contribution to science, you have to understand some of the largest objects in the universe as well as the smallest particles. Black holes are extremely dense objects that warp the fabric of space and time around them. It was thought that nothing can escape from a black hole, but Hawking radiation contradiction that conventional wisdom. Hawking found that unless black holes continue to feed on matter, they will eventually die by effectively radiating off small amounts of energy over the course of billions of years. Those black holes, if left without more matter to consume, would eventually shrink and then likely explode, blasting their guts back into the universe, effectively recycling whatever matter they took in over the course of their lifetime. It sounds simple enough, but by proposing that particles can, in fact, leave black holes, Hawking actually started a battle that has raged in cosmology for decades. In the 1970s, Hawking suggested that whenever matter fell into a black hole, information about its origin and whatever it was before entering the black hole was destroyed. Even the Hawking radiation — which is effectively random particles blinking into existence outside the black hole — wouldn't contain that information within them. On its most basic level, this violates quantum theory, even if it fits well within our understanding of physics on a more grand scale in the cosmos. Eventually, Hawking conceded that he does think information is preserved in a black hole, but the debate over the paradox still rages on. Scientists still aren't sure how information could leave a black hole, and perhaps Hawking's greatest contribution to science is starting this debate. Now he's left it up to future generations of scientists to finish it. WATCH: The most massive black holes on record were just discovered 3.5 billion light-years away
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| Thousands flee in first mass exodus from Syria's besieged eastern Ghouta Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:20 AM PDT  Thousands of Syrian civilians fled from a rebel pocket in eastern Ghouta on Thursday, crossing by foot to army positions in the first mass exodus from the besieged enclave since Syrian government forces launched an assault to capture it a month ago. Men, women and children staggered under the weight of blankets, bags and suitcases as they walked along a dirt road to army lines on the outskirts of Hammouriyeh town. Others reached government positions in the nearby town of Beit Sawa on wheelchairs.
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| Ex-radical convicted in 1971 police killings gets parole Posted: 14 Mar 2018 05:05 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A former member of a black radical group who was convicted in the 1971 killings of two police officers has been granted parole after 44 years behind bars for a crime that crystalized an era when militant groups declared war on authorities.
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| Britain boots 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning Posted: 14 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Relations between Britain and Russia plunged Wednesday to a chilly level not seen since the Cold War as Prime Minister Theresa May expelled 23 diplomats, severed high-level contacts and vowed both open and covert action against Kremlin meddling after the poisoning of a former spy.
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| Utah judge releases video of deadly courtroom shooting Posted: 13 Mar 2018 02:54 PM PDT  Four years later, a judge has finally released graphic video of a violent courthouse confrontation in Utah.
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| Hillary Clinton Says Trump Appealed To Racist, Sexist Voters Posted: 14 Mar 2018 03:18 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton provoked ridicule and censure for tone-deaf comments at a
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| Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin is Dropping After Google’s Major Decision Posted: 14 Mar 2018 10:23 AM PDT  Google follows in Facebook's footsteps.
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