| Police release surveillance video from Parkland shooting Posted: 15 Mar 2018 03:03 AM PDT  The Broward Sheriff's Office has released surveillance footage of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the shooting that left 17 dead. The video shows former school resource officer Scot Peterson's response to the shooting.
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| The Most Powerful Signs From National School Walkout Day Posted: 15 Mar 2018 11:32 AM PDT  Historically, we've seen what happens when the younger generation comes to take their power
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| Penn Won't Punish Professor Who Said Black Students ‘Rarely’ Score Well Posted: 15 Mar 2018 05:21 AM PDT  A University of Pennsylvania law professor will no longer teach a first-year
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| Saudi crown prince amassing power by hiding his mother Posted: 15 Mar 2018 03:52 AM PDT  The Saudi crown prince who has been a controversial figure is accused to hiding his mother in order to solidify his authority and succession to rule.
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| Ryan Zinke To U.S. Rep. Whose Grandparents Were Imprisoned In WWII: 'Konnichiwa!' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 03:43 PM PDT  Let's all hope President Donald Trump's next candidate for secretary of state
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| Hillary Clinton treated at India hospital after suffering minor injury Posted: 16 Mar 2018 06:57 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton required brief medical attention this week after suffering a
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| The Latest: Alabama executes man convicted of 2000 murder Posted: 15 Mar 2018 05:38 PM PDT  ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on the planned execution of Michael Wayne Eggers (all times local):
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| The Artifice of the Deal Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Trump isn't really a man of action. He's a man of artifice. He talks and he talks and he talks, the world's foremost expert on dominating a news cycle, knowing all along that by the time we realize none of it's real, he'll have ushered us along to whatever's next.
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| Sarah Sanders Changes Her Tune With Message Chastising Russia For UK Poisoning Posted: 14 Mar 2018 06:45 PM PDT  Just one day after Sarah Huckabee Sanders went through verbal hoops to avoid
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| Oklahoma officials plan to use nitrogen for executions Posted: 14 Mar 2018 03:10 PM PDT ![Oklahoma officials plan to use nitrogen for executions]( "Oklahoma officials plan to use nitrogen for executions") OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — After trying unsuccessfully for months to obtain lethal injection drugs, Oklahoma officials said Wednesday they plan to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates once the state resumes using the death penalty, marking the first time a U.S. state would use the gas to carry out capital punishment.
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| Survivors of Vietnam's My Lai massacre remember 'darkness and silence' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:12 AM PDT  By James Pearson and Minh Nguyen QUANG NGAI, Vietnam (Reuters) - It took Pham Thi Thuan a while before she could muster the courage to fetch water from across the ditch where 170 of her neighbors, most of them women and children, were killed by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. It was the worst recorded U.S. war crime committed in Vietnam, but preparations for a 50th anniversary ceremony at the site, now a memorial to the victims, are low key. Because of those better relations, Vietnam is not dwelling on the pain of the past, a senior Vietnamese government official told Reuters.
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| Stoneman Douglas shooter appears in court Posted: 14 Mar 2018 11:41 AM PDT  Accused Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz was arraigned in a Florida court. Cruz faces the death penalty in the shooting deaths of 17 people.
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| S.Africa rages at Australia visa plan for 'persecuted' whites Posted: 15 Mar 2018 10:54 AM PDT  South Africa summoned Australia's envoy to Pretoria Thursday to explain comments by a Canberra minister who suggested "persecuted" white farmers in the country should be offered fast-tracked humanitarian visas. Australia's Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who has drawn criticism for cracking down on asylum seekers from Asia and the Middle East, said white farmers could be admitted as refugees. Dutton made the offer in response to Pretoria's vow to enact land "expropriation without compensation" to redress land confiscations of the colonial and apartheid era.
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| Edward Snowden Takes On Liz Cheney Over Torture Links To Trump's Pick For CIA Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:29 PM PDT  National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has jumped into the fray
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| 6 Confirmed Dead in Bridge Collapse at Florida International University Posted: 15 Mar 2018 11:20 AM PDT  At least 8 cars were reportedly pinned underneath the bridge, which was installed over the weekend.
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| Nepal authorities struggle to identify plane crash survivors Posted: 15 Mar 2018 03:25 AM PDT  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal are struggling to identify the survivors of a deadly plane crash earlier this week, with many of the injured badly burned, in critical condition and unable to speak, officials said Thursday.
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| Anderson Cooper And Longtime Boyfriend Benjamin Maisani Split Posted: 15 Mar 2018 05:48 PM PDT  Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend of nine years, Benjamin Maisani, broke up,
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| Zinke says Interior negotiating lower price for $139K doors Posted: 15 Mar 2018 01:47 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department has negotiated a significantly lower price for a $139,000 project to upgrade double doors in his office, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Thursday.
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| 'Stephen Hawking proved you can achieve remarkable things - even once you've lost control of your body' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:47 AM PDT  In what can sometimes feel like a sea of darkness, Stephen Hawking was a shining light for motor neurone disease sufferers. I cannot emphasise enough how important he has been to me personally since my own diagnosis with the same disease last year, and I am sure thousands more people around the world. When you are told that you might have MND - an agonising process that takes months - your head spins. The first thing you see online is that life expectancy is between one to three years from diagnosis. Fear sweeps over you. The next thing you look for is examples of people who have defied MND and there is no better example than Professor Hawking. Like most people, he was told he only had a few years to live when he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of MND, at 22. He ended up sticking around for more than 50 years. That may be a statistical anomaly but straight away, you think: 'why can't that be me too? Why can't I live until I am 76 or longer?' He was the first person that made me realise that the doctors might be wrong and that the worst-case scenario can be overcome. But it is not just how long he lived, but how he lived. MND will take away most of your bodily functions and your independence, something that, as a former Scotland rugby international, I can barely comprehend, but there is one thing that it does not affect - your brain. Professor Hawking proved that you can still achieve truly remarkable things even once you have lost control of your body. He refused to let his circumstances dictate what he could accomplish and he changed our understanding of science in the process. The wheelchair was made entirely irrelevant; I just found that so inspiring. What I have found since being diagnosed aged 47 is that hope is the single best pill you can take for MND. If you think positively that you are going to beat it, that filters into everything you do. The day you think that MND has got you is the day the disease wins. That means you have to think positively every day. You are trying to do things to prove that MND isn't going to get a hold of you all the time, whether that is simply lifting a coffee cup, or going to the gym and lifting weights. Doing all these little things gives a middle finger to MND to say: 'you are not going to stop me living my life.' Doddie Weir, left, and Scott Murray during training at Murrayfield in 1999. Credit: RUI VIEIRA /AP The issue with MND is that your own timetable becomes a mystery. When it came to my own diagnosis, which followed a year and a half of symptoms, I was told that I would be in a wheelchair within a year: yet here I am, still standing, still telling bad jokes and wearing terrible suits. You have to believe that you can at least influence your own timetable, even though you don't know what that is going to be. I know I will eventually be trapped inside my own body, but his example shows that life does not end there. Without wishing to pretend that I knew his circumstances particularly well, I am sure he relied upon a team of people, family, friends and carers to help him through some of the dark times. Sometimes the support of those crucial people can be forgotten. Yesterday was a tremendously sad day, and so too are the ones that will follow: for so long, he has been a figurehead within the MND community, and now he is gone. We will have to ask, 'who is going to be the next Stephen Hawking? Who is going to be the next person in the MND community who we look up to?' Even now, he leaves the most inspiring of legacies. He may have lost the final battle, but he definitely won the war against this wicked disease. One day, hopefully, we will develop the drugs that allow every MND sufferer to live as long as Professor Hawking did, and to enjoy an even better quality of life. That has become my mission with the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation. If I was to take one message from his life, it would be never give up, and I don't intend to ever stop battling MND. The fight goes on.
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| Family forced off Southwest flight after witness says child got nervous on plane Posted: 16 Mar 2018 03:17 AM PDT  A family was forced off a Southwest Airlines flight after a witness says the child got nervous riding on a plane.
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| Dylann Roof's Sister Accused Of Having Weapons At School During National Walkouts Posted: 14 Mar 2018 10:08 PM PDT  The younger sister of Dylann Roof, the convicted mass murderer who killed nine
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| New German foreign minister criticizes Russian response to chemical attack Posted: 14 Mar 2018 10:46 AM PDT  Germany's new foreign minister, Heiko Maas, criticized Russia on Wednesday over its stance towards a nerve agent attack in England for which the British government has blamed Moscow and he said it could not go unpunished. In his first speech as foreign minister shortly after taking up the post in Germany's new coalition government, Maas also criticized Russia's behavior in Ukraine but said he still hoped to improve relations with Moscow through dialogue.
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| Mueller Subpoenas The Trump Organization: Report Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:08 PM PDT  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed documents from the Trump
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| More Than $300M in Gold Falls From Sky After Hatch Blows Open on Russian Cargo Plane Posted: 15 Mar 2018 10:18 AM PDT  More than three tons of gold fell from a Russian cargo plane.
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| ‘The sound was thundering’: Florida bridge collapse witnesses describe screams and chaos at scene Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:56 PM PDT  Witnesses of the bridge collapse at Florida International University in Miami have described a cloud of dust being sent into the air alongside a thunderous boom as the newly built, 950-tonne pedestrian structure smashed into the street below, trapping several vehicles. People could be heard screaming from the trapped cars underneath the rubble of the bridge as emergency responders arrived and began to search for survivors. "The sound was thundering," Piqué Philips, who was driving on the fourth floor of a parking garage adjacent to the bridge, told The Independent.
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| No, The Queen Isn't Being Shady About Meghan Markle And Prince Harry's Wedding Posted: 15 Mar 2018 01:54 PM PDT  Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been engaged since November, but Queen
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| After poisoning, new spotlight on 14 UK deaths Posted: 15 Mar 2018 10:09 AM PDT  Following the nerve agent attack on Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal, British MPs have called on the government to re-examine 14 deaths on UK soil. The deaths, investigated by the BuzzFeed news website, include those of a Russian oligarch, a British spy found in a bag, and Russians whose deaths remain unexplained. Yvette Cooper, who chairs parliament's interior affairs scrutiny committee, has written to Home Secretary Amber Rudd, the interior minister, asking for a review of the cases.
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| Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Was Just Charged With 'Massive Fraud.' Here's What the SEC Says She Did Posted: 14 Mar 2018 03:46 PM PDT  She claimed $100 million in revenue in 2014. It was really $100,000
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| Shepard Smith Says Fox News Opinion Personalities 'Don't Really Have Rules' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 06:41 PM PDT  Shepard Smith derided the journalistic rigor of Fox News opinion programming
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| Kremlin says UK position in spy case 'irresponsible' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 04:24 AM PDT  Moscow considers Britain's stance in the conflict over the poisoning of a former spy in southern England as "irresponsible" and is preparing to retaliate over London's measures against it, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. British Prime Minister Theresa May said earlier this week that Russia was to blame for the nerve agent poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and she ordered that 23 Russian diplomats be expelled from the country. Peskov promised retaliation to the British move, which Moscow sees with "strong bewilderment" as he said there is no proof for the accusations that London has made against Russia.
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| FBI Official Trump Loathes May Be Fired For Disclosing Info That Helped Trump's Campaign Posted: 14 Mar 2018 12:40 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Andrew McCabe, who took over as acting head of the FBI after
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| Girl, 11, Agonizes Over Death of French Bulldog on United Flight: 'It Can't Breathe There!' Posted: 14 Mar 2018 12:45 PM PDT  The family says their dog, Kokito, barked for about an hour while in the overhead bin before his death.
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| Tearful families wait as bodies remain under failed bridge Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:49 AM PDT  Authorities said Friday that the cables supporting a pedestrian bridge under construction in Florida were being tightened following a "stress test" when the 950-ton concrete span collapsed over ...
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| Ex-MLB Prospect Cut By Team After Video Of Him Beating Girlfriend Surfaces Posted: 15 Mar 2018 11:22 AM PDT  A minor league baseball team in Pennsylvania released a player after a TV
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| Police: Disgruntled worker killed nurse in Alabama hospital Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:07 PM PDT  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A job-related dispute led to a health care worker opening fire inside a hospital in a shooting that left two people dead and another critically injured, authorities said Thursday.
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| Russia-Lebanon deal? What the resurgent power sees in Syria's tiny neighbor. Posted: 15 Mar 2018 05:16 AM PDT ![Russia-Lebanon deal? What the resurgent power sees in Syria's tiny neighbor.]( "Russia-Lebanon deal? What the resurgent power sees in Syria's tiny neighbor.") At first glance, it may seem unclear why resurgent world power Russia, flush with success after restoring its regional foothold in Syria, would show much interest in Lebanon. The tiny country on the eastern Mediterranean, once a vassal state of its far more powerful neighbor Syria, a former Soviet client, is grappling with a long list of political and economic woes. In addition, Lebanon seems forever perched on the edge of a potentially catastrophic war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah organization, the dominant political force in the country.
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| Israel hits Hamas posts in Gaza in response to bombs Posted: 15 Mar 2018 04:49 AM PDT  Israel's military hit Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after Palestinians set off two bombs near the border fence, the military said, with no casualties reported. Israel's military also said it suspected based on surveillance video there was "an attempt" to fire rocket-propelled grenades toward its forces, but nothing was hit. If confirmed, it would be the first time such weapons were used by Gaza militants against Israeli forces since a 2014 war, army spokesman Jonathan Conricus said.
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| Turkey raps European Parliament over call to halt Afrin offensive in Syria Posted: 15 Mar 2018 07:48 AM PDT  Turkey slammed a motion approved by the European Parliament on Thursday that calls for a halt to Ankara's military offensive in northern Syria's Afrin region, saying it demonstrated "clear support" for militants. The non-binding motion also urges Turkey to remove its troops from Afrin, where Ankara is targeting the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in an offensive launched nearly two months ago. The Parliament's motion stressed "the need to focus on defeating the U.N.-listed terrorist organizations", a reference to Islamic State and other militant Islamist groups operating in Syria.
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| Democrats Projected To Win Pennsylvania District That Went Heavily For Trump Posted: 14 Mar 2018 03:10 PM PDT  ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP, Pa. ― Democrat Conor Lamb defeated Republican Rick Saccone
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| Accused Casino Robber Tried To Disguise Himself With Blackface Posted: 14 Mar 2018 11:11 AM PDT  A man accused of robbing a Las Vegas casino in January attempted to elude
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| Toys 'R' Us Is Closing Stores and the Internet Is Having a Hard Time Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:08 PM PDT  "Pouring a Capri Sun out for Geoffrey"
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| Fatalities reported after pedestrian bridge collapses at Florida university Posted: 15 Mar 2018 01:14 PM PDT  A newly-installed pedestrian bridge collapsed Thursday at Florida International University, trapping at least five vehicles underneath.
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