| U.S. Drops Charges Against Turkish Security Accused Of Attacking American Demonstrators Posted: 22 Mar 2018 05:58 PM PDT  The U.S. has dropped criminal charges against nearly all of the Turkish
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| Roy Moore supporters tried to buy off his accuser’s lawyer using 10,000 dollars and Steve Bannon Posted: 23 Mar 2018 02:07 PM PDT  A jaw dropping new storyline surrounding last year's Alabama special election ties Steve Bannon and Breitbart to a plot aimed to undermine Leigh Corfman's accusations on Roy Moore
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| Solutions: Gun Violence, voters discuss Second Amendment divide Posted: 23 Mar 2018 06:22 AM PDT  As thousands prepare to march to end gun violence on Saturday, Chuck traveled to Madison, Wis. to challenge Americans across party lines to achieve what Washington hasn't been able to: solutions.
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| The Latest: Tribal court orders baby's return to parents Posted: 22 Mar 2018 04:40 PM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on Miccosukee tribal police taking a baby from her parents (all times local):
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| Autopsies Being Performed on Family of 4 Found Dead in Mexico Posted: 22 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  Authorities said they found no trace of violence on the bodies or signs of forced entry.
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| GOP lawmaker knocks Trump for Putin call but refuses to distance himself from president Posted: 23 Mar 2018 06:52 AM PDT  A top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee chastised President Trump for congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on his reelection — but then refused to distance himself from Trump.
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| The Climate Is Changing For Climate Skeptics Posted: 23 Mar 2018 05:19 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO ― Climate change skeptics may have outlived their usefulness to
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 23 Mar 2018 06:00 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest
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| DC's Cherry Blossom Festival delayed for anti gun violence March Posted: 22 Mar 2018 01:03 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow reports that the opening of Washington, D.C.'s famous Cheery Blossom Festival is being delayed a day to accommodate the expected crowds participating in the March For Our Lives protest for new laws to prevent gun violence.
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| In photos: Damien Hirst unveils 'Colour Space' paintings in UK Posted: 23 Mar 2018 08:18 AM PDT |
| Mexico vacation ends tragically for American family of four Posted: 23 Mar 2018 04:07 PM PDT  The bodies of four Americans from Iowa were discovered in a condo Friday morning. Now, their deaths are being investigated. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports.
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| Las Vegas shooting: CCTV shows mass killer Stephen Paddock calmly smuggling weapons into hotel room Posted: 23 Mar 2018 11:58 AM PDT  The man who killed 58 people in the worst mass shooting in modern US history is seen in newly released CCTV footage calmly chatting with other people and taking suitcases hiding ammunition to his room just before carrying out the murders. Stephen Paddock gambles and nonchalantly talks to other guests and staff at the Las Vegas hotel where he was staying. Within days of the footage being taken last September, he would use the arsenal he had brought in inside suitcases to fire indiscriminately, shooting dead 58 people and wounding more than 500 others at an outdoor concert, as he targeted them from the window of his suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
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| Smoky condo fire in Vietnam kills at least 13, injures 28 Posted: 23 Mar 2018 01:34 AM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Residents startled awake by loud noise and smoke signaled for help with lit mobile phones and crawled onto cranes from their balconies to escape a fire Friday at a large condominium complex in southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City. At least 13 people were killed and 28 injured, with police saying it was unclear if anyone was missing.
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| 'Zionist hawk', 'stalwart friend': strong words greet Bolton nomination Posted: 23 Mar 2018 09:58 AM PDT  U.S. President Donald Trump's choice of John Bolton as national security adviser provoked strong reactions worldwide on Friday - and few stronger than in the bitterly-divided Middle East. Some commentators saw it as another nail in the coffin of the Obama-era agreement between Iran and world powers to limit Tehran's nuclear ambitions, already cast into grave doubt by Trump himself. Others expected Bolton to further undermine any remaining slender hopes of a "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict emerging in the foreseeable future.
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| The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is up to 16 times more massive than thought Posted: 22 Mar 2018 01:30 PM PDT  The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a massive area of floating plastic debris that is more than twice the size of Texas, contains about 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. This is between 4 and 16 times the mass of plastic that scientists previously estimated. What's worse is that the amount of plastic within this area is growing "exponentially," according to a comprehensive three-year-long study using 30 vessels and a high-tech reconnaissance aircraft. The study, published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, provides a detailed analysis of the size and types of plastic caught up in the Garbage Patch, which occupies about 1.6 million square kilometers, or 617,763 square miles, between Hawaii and California. SEE ALSO: A floating 'island of trash' has surfaced in the Caribbean The GPGP is just one of five ocean garbage patches that have developed around the world as people use more and more plastic, which is not biodegradable and is used for everything from water bottles to shipping crates. A fleet of 30 vessels, each dragging nets behind them to scoop up pieces of plastic, gathered 1.2 million samples. Scientists from The Ocean Cleanup Foundation in the Netherlands, as well as six universities and an aviation sensor company, used the samples they'd gathered to build a model of how plastic is transported in and out of the GPGP. The study estimates that the approximately1.8 trillion pieces of plastic within the GPGP weighs about 80,000 metric tons. Another unexpected finding: Most of this mass — 92 percent — is composed of large plastic debris, such as crates and bottles, while just 8 percent or so of the mass is made up of microplastics, pieces smaller than 5 millimeters in size. Modeled mass concentration of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage PatchImage: THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION/lebreton et. al. scientific reports."We were surprised by the amount of large plastic objects we encountered," said Julia Reisser, chief scientist of the expeditions, who works for The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, in a press release. At least 46 percent of the mass was composed of ghostnets, or fishing nets drifting at sea, unmoored from the ships that once towed them, the study found. "There's a lot more plastic out there than thought," said Boyan Slat, a co-author of the study and founder of The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, in an interview. Unlike earlier studies, which focused on collecting small pieces of plastic within a smaller area of the GPGP, this one attempted to capture the full range of debris floating in the GPGP. The armada of research ships used small nets to catch the small pieces, large ones to wrangle the medium-to-large pieces, and a C-130 Hercules aircraft equipped with LIDAR equipment in order to detect "these mega-pieces" of larger than 1 meter, Slat said. Using their transport model, the researchers pointed to Asia as a main source of plastic pollution for the GPGP, particularly Japan and China, though plastics from North America contribute to it as well. Plastics that get routed into the Garbage Patch by winds and ocean currents are likely to be permanently trapped there, in a zone of little wind and devoid of weather systems that would break up and disperse the debris. Eventually, some of the surface plastic does sink to the ocean bottom, where it can endanger marine life. A styrofoam buoy collected during the 2015 ocean surveyImage: the ocean Cleanup Foundation.The researchers used an "apples to apples" comparison of small plastic pieces, dating back to 1970, to analyze their mass estimates against previous studies, Slat said. The conclusion was inescapable: There is more and more plastic being added to the Garbage Patch each year, with far less plastic escaping, to the point where it's undergoing exponential growth. This May, scientists and engineers affiliated with The Ocean Project plan to test out technology to clean up plastic from the sea, using a vessel off the California coast. The eventual plan is for the group to reduce plastic pollution by cleaning up the GPGP and similar areas of plastics around the world. The nearly $40 million initiative relies on private funding; since 2013, they'd been raising funds using crowdfunding. Now, according to Slat, the group relies on a group of anonymous philanthropists, split about equally between Silicon Valley and Europe. One prominent investor is Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce, Slat said. "We need to understand how much plastic is out there so that we can clean it up," Slat said. The goal is to have the first plastic from the Garbage Patch recovered and back in port before the end of this year, Slat said. On its website, the foundation says its goal is to clean up 50 percent of the GPGP recovered within five years of deployment. WATCH: 'Supercolony' of 1.5m penguins discovered in Antarctica
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| If The Law Says Scott Walker Has To Call Early Elections, The GOP Will Rewrite It Posted: 23 Mar 2018 03:21 PM PDT  A day after a judge said Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) was violating state
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| Former Cop Who Killed Sam DuBose Awarded $350,000 Settlement Posted: 23 Mar 2018 01:54 PM PDT  The University of Cincinnati on Thursday awarded the officer who shot and
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| Russia's Putin says focus in new term will be improving living standards Posted: 23 Mar 2018 03:22 AM PDT  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he would repay the trust voters had placed in him by working toward creating jobs, raising incomes, improving healthcare and building new infra-structure. Putin, in an address to the nation after his victory in an election last Sunday was confirmed, said though it would be irresponsible to promise that all shortcomings would be fixed immediately. He said there was a role in Russia for debate about the authorities' actions, but there was no place for irresponsible populism by Kremlin opponents. ...
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| Prosthetics, Guide Dogs and Wheelchairs: Here Come Apple's Proposed Accessibility Emoji Posted: 23 Mar 2018 04:08 PM PDT  Apple wants to "better represent individuals with disabilities"
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| Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Scolds His Own Party For Trying To Impeach Justices Posted: 22 Mar 2018 01:31 PM PDT  The chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a Republican, spoke out
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| United Airlines gives woman $10,000 after taking her off overbooked flight Posted: 23 Mar 2018 02:11 PM PDT  A woman has received a $10,000 travel voucher from United Airlines after she was bumped from her flight. United reportedly had an issue with one of the seats on a fully booked plane leaving from Washington and headed to Austin. In a series of tweets, the experience is documented on Ms Preiss' Twitter feed as she shifts from outrage that United was forcing a traveller off a flight, to still-inconvenienced surprised delight.
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| Poles demonstrate against tightening abortion law Posted: 23 Mar 2018 11:46 AM PDT  Thousands in Poland demonstrate against government's new effort to restrict access to procedures. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
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| FBI seeks motive for fiery van crash at California air base Posted: 24 Mar 2018 01:21 AM PDT  ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Investigators are working around the clock as they struggle to determine why a man with no apparent ties to terrorism drove a flaming minivan full of propane tanks and gasoline cans through the main gate of a major Northern California Air Force Base this week.
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| RNC Sells Trump-Themed Pet Leash In Honor Of National Puppy Day Posted: 24 Mar 2018 02:14 AM PDT  The Republican National Committee attempted to cash in on National Puppy Day
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| Fort Standard's Terrazzo Planters and Other Top Picks from the AD Design Show Posted: 23 Mar 2018 11:42 AM PDT |
| Mattis calls Tillerson firing a 'Washington D.C. story' Posted: 22 Mar 2018 11:30 AM PDT ![Mattis calls Tillerson firing a 'Washington D.C. story']( "Mattis calls Tillerson firing a 'Washington D.C. story'") By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Thursday that Rex Tillerson's firing as U.S. secretary of state did not come up during his talks overseas this week, describing interest in the issue as largely a "Washington, D.C., story." In his first public remarks on the matter since President Donald Trump announced Tillerson's dismissal on Tuesday, Mattis, who had forged a close working relationship with Tillerson, said allies understood that ties with the United States were deeper than with any one individual. "This issue has not even come up, other than with you all(in the media) – and I understand why you're asking," Mattis told reporters as he flew back to Washington from the Gulf nation of Bahrain.
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| French female IS fighter caught in Afghanistan: officials Posted: 23 Mar 2018 07:01 AM PDT  A French woman fighting for the Islamic State group in Afghanistan has been detained, Afghan officials said Friday, amid fears that IS militants fleeing Syria and Iraq are finding their way to the country. The woman was captured during a military operation in the northern province of Jowzjan -- an IS stronghold -- on Thursday night, several officials said. "In a joint operation between NDS and Afghan special forces, five Afghan men and a French woman fighting for IS were arrested in Darzab district of Jowzjan," the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan's spy agency, said in a statement.
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| Historians resolve fatality count of USS Indianapolis Posted: 23 Mar 2018 02:24 PM PDT ![Historians resolve fatality count of USS Indianapolis]( "Historians resolve fatality count of USS Indianapolis") INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two historians have resolved a decades-old mystery about how many men died when the USS Indianapolis was struck by Japanese torpedoes during World War II.
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| The Irony Of Joe Biden Trying To Protect Women By Threatening Donald Trump Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:13 PM PDT  Former Vice President Joe Biden was speaking at a rally against sexual
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| Jim Carrey Appears To Shred Jared Kushner In Biting New Portrait Posted: 23 Mar 2018 03:14 AM PDT  Jim Carrey has returned to Twitter with yet another politically-charged
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| Waterslide That Decapitated 10-Year-Old Boy Was a 'Deadly Weapon,' Indictment Says Posted: 23 Mar 2018 04:44 PM PDT  (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — A Kansas waterslide hyped as the world's highest was a "deadly weapon" that had already injured more than a dozen people…
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| 14 Most Reliable Pickups, SUVs, and Minivans On The Road Posted: 24 Mar 2018 07:09 AM PDT |
| DA: Eagles DE Michael Bennett pushed 66-year-old paraplegic woman Posted: 23 Mar 2018 03:12 PM PDT  The Eagles' newly acquired defensive end, Michael Bennett, has been indicted for allegedly pushing a 66-year-old paraplegic woman following Super Bowl LI.
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| The Kris Kobach Voter Fraud Trial Was About Much More Than Kris Kobach Posted: 23 Mar 2018 08:57 AM PDT  Since the year 2000, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) has found 129
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| Expert: No sign of foul play in US youth's death in Bermuda Posted: 22 Mar 2018 03:04 PM PDT  HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — A U.S. student who died while visiting Bermuda for a rugby tournament died from an apparent fall and there are no signs of any foul play, police and a forensic expert said Thursday.
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| House Passes 2,232-Page Omnibus Spending Bill That No One Read Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:05 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Six months late and about 17 hours after they first introduced
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| Royal Caribbean picks up world's largest cruise ship Posted: 23 Mar 2018 10:09 AM PDT  French shipbuilder STX handed over the world's biggest cruiseliner, the Symphony of the Seas, to US giant Royal Caribbean International on Friday ahead of its maiden voyage in the Mediterranean. The ship, which weighs 228,000 tonnes, is at 362 metres (1,188 feet) long just 20 metres shy of the length of the Empire State Building. It is marginally bigger than its sister ship, the Harmony of the Seas, which STX France delivered to Royal Caribbean in 2016.
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| Four-year-old child accidentally shoots baby at Texas home, police say Posted: 23 Mar 2018 06:09 AM PDT  A nearby resident in the city of Temple said he saw a police officer carrying a "lifeless-looking" baby out to an ambulance. "The police officer carried [the infant] out," witness Bradley Martin said. Temple Police Department's criminal investigations division is working on the case.
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