| Cougar Kills Mountain Biker In Washington State, Injures Companion Posted: 19 May 2018 09:28 PM PDT  A cougar attacked two mountain bikers in Washington state Saturday morning,
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| Foreigners tried to influence the 2016 election – Not just Russia Posted: 19 May 2018 08:44 AM PDT  The New York Times reports Donald Trump Jr. allegedly met with an Israeli social media specialist and an emissary for the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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| 'Not looking good': How Trump has responded to mass shootings Posted: 18 May 2018 09:53 AM PDT  Another mass shooting, another tweet from President Trump.
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| Texas shooting - LIVE: Suspect Dimitrios Pagourtzis held on capital murder charge as 10 are killed and explosive devices found at Santa Fe high school Posted: 18 May 2018 02:06 PM PDT  Ten people have been killed in a shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, in the latest gun violence in a country still shaken by the massacre at a Florida high school in February. A majority of those who died were students, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that 10 people were killed and 10 others injured at .
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| China air force lands bombers on South China Sea island Posted: 19 May 2018 12:10 AM PDT  China's air force has landed bombers on islands and reefs in the South China Sea as part of a training exercise in the disputed region, it said in a statement. "A division of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) recently organized multiple bombers such as the H-6K to conduct take-off and landing training on islands and reefs in the South China Sea in order to improve our ability to 'reach all territory, conduct strikes at any time and strike in all directions'," it said in the statement issued on Friday. It said the pilot of the H-6K bomber conducted assault training on a designated sea target and then carried out take-offs and landings at an airport in the area, describing the exercise as preparation for "the West Pacific and the battle for the South China Sea".
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| Texas high school shooting: Suspect identified as student after 10 killed, 10 others wounded Posted: 19 May 2018 12:29 AM PDT  Ten people were killed and 10 others were wounded in a shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas, the governor said.
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| Dimitrios Pagourtzis: Santa Fe School Shooting Suspect Reportedly Yelled 'Surprise!' Before Opening Fire Posted: 18 May 2018 12:38 PM PDT  The suspect, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, is a student at the school.
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| AP Explains: What's behind Trump's FBI spy theory? Posted: 18 May 2018 06:58 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his supporters are circulating an explosive theory: The FBI, they say, may have planted a mole, or "spy," inside the 2016 campaign to bring him down. The unverified allegation has lit up conservative media and earned space on Trump's Twitter feed just as special counsel Robert Mueller enters his second year in the Russia probe.
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| Malaysia's luxury-loving former first lady laments 'trying times' Posted: 19 May 2018 02:02 AM PDT  Malaysia's unpopular former first lady on Saturday lamented the "trying times" since her husband Najib Razak's ouster from power, in a plea for public sympathy just a day after police seized a huge trove of cash, jewels and designer handbags linked to the couple. Rosmah Mansor, who is widely reviled for her reported luxurious tastes and tone-deaf attitude towards the struggles of ordinary Malaysians, issued a statement lashing out at the police raids, complaining that news of them amounted to a "premature public trial". The former first couple's world has been turned upside down after Najib's long-ruling political machine suffered a shock defeat in May 9 elections.
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| Hawaii volcano: Man’s leg ‘shattered’ after being hit by lava stream on his balcony Posted: 20 May 2018 05:46 AM PDT  Major evacuation routes could be blocked off by lava streams as the first serious casualty was reported during fresh eruptions from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. The unnamed man was hit by a "lava spatter" as he sat on the balcony of his property in the town of Pahoa on Saturday. Authorities have warned that the chunks of molten rock can weigh as much as a refrigerator and that even small pieces can kill.
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| Houston Police Chief Says He's Sick Of Inaction On Gun Control Posted: 19 May 2018 09:25 AM PDT  Following another school shooting, this one leaving 10 dead and 13 injured in
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| More than 100 people killed as passenger plane crashes in Cuba Posted: 18 May 2018 06:26 PM PDT  An ageing airliner carrying 110 people crashed shortly after take off from Havana airport in Cuba on Friday, leaving just three survivors in the country's worst aviation disaster in three decades. The 39-year-old Boeing 737 had taken off on an internal flight when it went down into a cassava field not far from the end of the runway just after midday, bursting into flames and leaving huge plumes of black smoke. A local resident told Granma, the Cuban state newspaper, that the plane crashed after it attempted to return to the airport – making a turn and clipping electricity cables, then plummeting to the ground. Miguel Diaz-Canel, the Cuban president, visited the scene immediately and said: "There is a high number of people who appear to have died. "Things have been organised, the fire has been put out, and the remains are being identified." Granma reported there was a baby aged under two on board, plus four children. The Cubana Airlines Boeing 737 had just left the Jose Marti airport when the accident happened Credit: ADALBERTO ROQUE/ AFP The paper also said that the crew was "foreign" and that there were foreigners on board, but did not give details. The three survivors were taken to the Calixto Garcia hospital, in the Vedado district of Havana. Families of those on board were asked to bring photos of their loved ones to the scene, to assist with identification. The Boeing 737 had just left the Jose Marti airport en route to the town of Holguin – a flight of around an hour and a half. The plane crashed near a school and lay in a farm field, heavily damaged and burnt, with firefighters spraying water on its smouldering remains. Miguel Diaz-Canel, visiting the crash site Credit: AFP What appeared to be one of the wings of the plane was wedged among scorched tree trunks, but the main fuselage appeared to have been entirely destroyed. Firefighters and rescue workers combed through the wreckage, but there seemed little chance of finding survivors. The plane was believed to be a Cubana airlines flight. Mercedes Vazquez, director of air traffic, told Prensa Latina that the plane was owned by Damojh - a Mexican company which operates under the name Global. At a glance | Cuba A Global employee told AP that the plane was theirs. Cuban state television had earlier claimed that the plane was owned by Blue Panorama, an Italian firm, but they denied involvement. The Cuban state carrier had suspended its own domestic flights in March owing to a shortage of aircraft, according to security site Garda World. Cubana has also taken many of its aging planes out of service in recent months due to mechanical problems. The airline is notorious among Cubans for its frequent delays and cancellations, which Cubana blames on a lack of parts and airplanes due to the US trade embargo on the island. Friday's crash was Cuba's third major fatal accident since 2010. A survivor is loaded into an ambulance Credit: AFP Last year, a Cuban military plane crashed into a hillside in the western province of Artemisa, killing eight troops on board. In November 2010, an AeroCaribbean flight from Santiago to Havana went down in bad weather as it flew over central Cuba, killing all 68 people, including 28 foreigners, in what was Cuba's worst air disaster in more than two decades. The last Cubana accident appears to have been on Sept. 4, 1989, when a chartered Cubana plane flying from Havana to Milan, Italy, went down shortly after takeoff, killing all 126 people on board, as well as at least two dozen on the ground. Cubana's director general, Capt. Hermes Hernandez Dumas, told state media last month that Cubana's domestic flights had carried 11,700 more passengers than planned between January and April 2018. It said that 64 per cent of flights had taken off on time, up from 59 per cent the previous year. "Among the difficulties created by the US trade embargo is our inability to acquire latest-generation aircraft with technology capable of guaranteeing the stability of aerial operations," he said. "Another factor is obtaining part for Cubana's aircraft."
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| Twitter Users Pan Ted Cruz After He Tweets 'Prayers' To Santa Fe School Shooting Victims Posted: 18 May 2018 04:46 PM PDT  After Friday's school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, a lot of people are letting
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| Parents Arrested After Five-Year-Old`s Body Found In Sacramento Storage Unit Posted: 19 May 2018 12:20 PM PDT  Police say five-year-old Cali Anderson died in the last two weeks, and her father and step-mother rented a car to take the child`s body from Reno to a Sacramento storage unit.
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| Mark Kelly: Trump Rolled Over For NRA, Did Nothing About Guns After Parkland Posted: 18 May 2018 10:56 PM PDT  Former astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of shooting survivor and former Rep.
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| California Man Wins Lottery 4 times in 6 Months For More Than $6 Million Posted: 20 May 2018 08:13 AM PDT  He said he doesn't know what caused his lucky streak.
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| Texas school shooting: Student tells media 'I wasn’t surprised, I was just scared' Posted: 18 May 2018 11:16 AM PDT  At least one student at the Texas high school that became the scene of a mass shooting on Friday has said she wasn't surprised. "It's been happening everywhere," 17-year-old student Paige Curry said in an interview hours after the shooting. Paige told ABC News that she was three classrooms away from where the Santa Fe High School gunman opened fire that morning, killing at least eight people.
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| US embassy opening in Jerusalem, killings and outrage Posted: 18 May 2018 11:48 AM PDT  The opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem, after Washington recognised the disputed city as Israel's capital, sparked deadly demonstrations in Gaza in which Israeli forces killed dozens of Palestinians. Hours before the embassy's controversial opening Monday, tens of thousands of protesters gather at the Gaza-Israel border, defying Israeli warnings to keep away. The border had been a flashpoint for deadly demonstrations that began on March 30, with some protesters attempting to breach the fence as part of demands that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to their homes now inside Israel.
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| Teen held in Texas attack is said to have used father's guns Posted: 18 May 2018 03:05 PM PDT  SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — The Texas student charged in the school shooting at Santa Fe High School described planning the attack in private journals, including a plan to kill himself, posted an image on Facebook of a "Born to Kill" shirt and used his father's shotgun and pistol in the rampage that left 10 dead and 10 wounded, authorities said Friday.
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| Final results confirm win for anti-American bloc of Moqtada al-Sadr in Iraqi elections Posted: 18 May 2018 07:23 PM PDT  A political bloc led by populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States who also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq, has won the country's parliamentary election, the electoral commission said on Saturday. Mr Sadr himself cannot become prime minister as he did not run in the election, though his bloc's victory puts him in a position to have a strong say in negotiations. His Sairoon electoral list captured 54 parliamentary seats. The Al-Fatih bloc led by Hadi al-Amiri, who has close ties with Iran and heads an umbrella group of paramilitaries that played a key role in defeating Islamic State, came in second with 47 seats. The Victory Alliance, headed by incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, took third place with 42. The victory was a surprising change of fortunes. The cleric, who made his name leading two violent uprisings against US occupation troops, was sidelined for years by Iranian-backed rivals. 'Iraq has given its backing to a militia leader with British blood on his hands' His bloc's performance represented a rebuke to a political elite that some voters blame for widespread corruption and dysfunctional governance. Mr Sadr's unlikely alliance with communists and secular Iraqis says it fiercely opposes any foreign interference in Iraq, which is strongly backed by both Tehran and Washington. It has promised to help the poor and build schools and hospitals in Iraq, which was battered in the war to defeat Islamic state and has suffered from low oil prices. An Iraqi man celebrates with a portrait of Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad Credit: AFP Before the election, Iran publicly stated it would not allow Sadr's bloc to govern. In a tweet shortly after results were announced, Mr Sadr said: "Reform is victorious and corruption is diminishing." Winning the largest number of seats does not automatically guarantee that Sadr will be able to hand-pick a prime minister. The other winning blocs would have to agree on the nomination. In a 2010 election, Vice President Ayad Allawi's group won the largest number of seats, albeit with a narrow margin, but he was blocked from becoming premier, which he blamed on Tehran. Who is Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical cleric on course to take power in Iraq? The election dealt a blow to Mr Abadi, but he could still emerge as a compromise candidate palatable to all sides because he has skillfully managed the competing interests of the United States and Iran - unwitting allies in the war against Islamic State - during his term in office. Mr Amiri is regarded as one of the most powerful figures in Iraq. He spent two decades fighting Saddam Hussein from Iran. Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of foreign operations for Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and a highly influential figure in Iraq, has been holding talks with politicians in Baghdad to promote the formation of a new cabinet which would have Iran's approval. Negotiations are expected to drag on for months. The government should be formed within 90 days of the official results.
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| 'The Power of Love': address by U.S. bishop at Harry and Meghan's wedding Posted: 19 May 2018 11:53 AM PDT  Following is the address by U.S. Episcopalian bishop, Michael Bruce Curry, at the wedding of Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle, as delivered. The late Dr Martin Luther King once said, and I quote: "We must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love.
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| 2020 Mid-Engined Chevy Corvette Spied Up Close Posted: 18 May 2018 12:00 PM PDT  This is our clearest look yet.
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| Two-Tone Trends: 15 Cars With Contrasting Roofs Posted: 18 May 2018 12:24 PM PDT |
| Tina Fey's Sarah Palin Leads 'SNL' Chorus Lamenting 'What I Did For Trump' Posted: 20 May 2018 01:10 AM PDT  It's been a long time coming, but "Sarah Palin" was back on "Saturday Night
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| Santa Fe Shooting: Teacher Killed Left One Last Note For Her Family Posted: 19 May 2018 12:45 PM PDT  They have since framed the heartbreaking note.
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| Texas official responds to Santa Fe shooting by calling for fewer school doors Posted: 18 May 2018 03:04 PM PDT  Texas's lieutenant governor reacted to a deadly school shooting by suggesting schools have too many doors. There are too many entrances and too many exits", Dan Patrick said during a press conference after a gunman killed at least 10 people at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas. Texas Gov Greg Abbott said "it's time in Texas we take action to step up and make sure this tragedy is never repeated ever again", saying he would work with legislators to find as-yet-unidentified "solutions".
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| Gaza border protests resume as UN calls for inquiry Posted: 18 May 2018 01:01 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians resumed their fiery protests at Gaza's border with Israel on Friday as a U.N. human rights body criticized Israel for the "disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force" that killed at least 59 Palestinians earlier this week. Israel condemned the resolution by the U.N. Human Rights Council as biased.
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| Iran wary as EU presents plans to save nuclear deal Posted: 19 May 2018 12:05 PM PDT  Iran said Saturday it would wait to see whether Europe produces tangible results in overcoming US sanctions before it decides whether to stay in the nuclear deal, as a top EU official visited Tehran to present plans for maintaining trade ties. "The ball is in the court of the EU.
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| Texas school shooting latest: Man turns up to Santa Fe High carrying American flag and gun saying ‘Make America Great Again’ Posted: 18 May 2018 12:32 PM PDT  A man holding a large American flag, carrying a gun, was at the scene of the Sante Fe High School shooting in Texas and said "Make America Great Again". "'God bless ya'll' will go a long way...right now," the man said before walking away when it was clear he was openly carrying a pistol on his right hip, clipped to his shorts. America needs prayers," adding that though he supports Second Amendment rights to carry firearms, he thought it was "an embarrassment" that the flag-carrier showed up at the high school "crime scene" while openly carrying a gun.
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| Serena Williams Went All Out For The Royal Wedding Posted: 19 May 2018 02:42 AM PDT  Serena Williams looked simply stunning as she arrived at the royal wedding of
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| Farm bill fails in U.S. House as immigration spat roils Republican Party Posted: 18 May 2018 11:08 AM PDT  By Amanda Becker and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a sweeping $867 billion farm bill on Friday after Republican leaders failed to appease conservative lawmakers who had asked them not to hold the vote until they were given the chance to consider a bill to clamp down on immigration. The next steps are unclear for the farm bill, which failed in a 198-to-213 vote. The farm bill's passage through the House has been entangled in the debate over immigration, as the conservative House Freedom Caucus sought to pre-empt a move by moderate Republicans and Democrats to use procedural tactics to force a wide-ranging immigration debate on the House floor.
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| Two North Koreans defect in latest upset for diplomatic thaw on Korean peninsula Posted: 18 May 2018 09:53 PM PDT  Two North Koreans, including a military officer, defected to the South early on Saturday morning in the latest upset for Pyongyang after a fractious week in which Kim Jong-un threatened to pull out of June talks with Donald Trump, the US president. The officer and a civilian defected by boat and were picked up by the South Korean military in the Yellow Sea, near the inter-Korean sea border, after expressing willingness to defect, reported the South's newswire, Yonhap. The defection, the first of a North Korean military officer since 2008, is awkward timing for Seoul, which has a longstanding policy of accepting any North Korean defectors who want to live in the South. Moon Jae-in, South Korea's president, has been at pains to keep this year's diplomatic détente between North and South on track, particularly in the run up to June 12 summit in Singapore between Kim and President Trump, which aims to make progress on denuclearisation and peace on the peninsula. But despite a friendly first meeting between Kim and Mr Moon at the end of April, during which they held hands as they crossed their shared border, the diplomatic thaw that began in January showed the first signs of a breakdown last week, and the latest defection could raise tensions further. Thae Yong-ho, the highest ranking North Korean official ever to defect Credit: AFP/AFP In a stinging rebuke on Thursday, North Korea's chief negotiator, Ri Son Gwon, called the South Korean government "ignorant and incompetent" for going ahead with joint air combat drills with the US, threatening to halt all talks. Mr Ri also hit out at Seoul for allowing "human scum" to speak at its National Assembly. Although he did not mention him by name, it is believed that Mr Ri was referring to Thae Yong-ho, the highest ranking North Korean official ever to defect, who warned that Kim would never fully give up his nuclear arsenal during a press conference in the Assembly on Monday. Korea summit | Read more Pyongyang's angry outburst at the South followed an earlier threat to Washington last week that it may pull out of the Singapore summit. Citing the joint military drills as one reason, Kim Kye Gwan also took aim at John Bolton, the US national security adviser, for championing the so-called "Libya model" of denuclearisation as one that could be applied to North Korea. "It is essentially a manifestation of awfully sinister move [sic] to impose on our dignified state the destiny of Libya or Iraq which had [sic] been collapsed due to yielding the whole of their countries to big powers," said Mr Kim in a statement.
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| The Latest: Man's condition in fatal cougar attack upgraded Posted: 19 May 2018 06:10 PM PDT ![The Latest: Man's condition in fatal cougar attack upgraded]( "The Latest: Man's condition in fatal cougar attack upgraded") NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal cougar attack in Washington state (all times local):
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| Florida Woman Sports Ear-to-Ear Grin After She's Arrested for DUI After Fatal Crash Posted: 18 May 2018 11:01 AM PDT  Angenette Welk's blood-alcohol level was allegedly .172, more than twice the legal limit.
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| Grimes is legally changing her name, thanks to Elon Musk Posted: 18 May 2018 02:03 PM PDT  Elon Musk and Grimes are being the world's nerdiest couple, again. SEE ALSO: Of course Elon Musk and Grimes spawned a beautiful new meme Originally born Claire Boucher, Grimes announced on Thursday that she's legally changing her name to just c, which is the measurement for the speed of light in a vacuum. She tweeted a screenshot of the Wikipedia article about it, adding "this will be much better." Grimes also specified the name c will be lowercase and italicized. i'm legally changing my name from claire to 'c' , as in the speed of light. {☄️ lowercase and italics ��} ___ this will be much better pic.twitter.com/nOG5kNEU9O — Grimes (@Grimezsz) May 17, 2018 Grimes/ c said that she's wanted to change her name "4ever" but her friends already call her c. Musk pointed out that her nickname "actually rox" and that she didn't need to look for another. well he's the one who pointed out that my working nickname (c) actually rox and i don't need to look further (been trying 2 change name 4ever but couldn't find a gud 1, but my friends call me c } — Grimes (@Grimezsz) May 17, 2018 She added that she hasn't liked her given name since she "became sentient" (confirming that Musk is into manic pixie dream robots) and that her speech impediment makes it difficult to say. if u like ^_^ claire has been the bane of my existence since i became sentient... i can barely say it w my speech impediment altho c is technically worse 4 lisp haha , omg nice quiet avatar �� and general font — Grimes (@Grimezsz) May 17, 2018 The tech mogul and indie pop artist made their relationship official at the Met Gala earlier this month after weeks of awkward Twitter flirting. Apparently they got together because of a niche joke that blended artificial intelligence and French baroque art. The couple's debut at the Met Gala — with Grimes dressed as a goth fairy queen and Musk dressed as a standard rich guy — had people wondering if we really are in a simulation. Grimes went from tweeting Elon Musk to being his date at the #MetGala SOMEBODY END THIS SIMULATION pic.twitter.com/MvKm1aZzWL — �� (@moonlightzenty) May 8, 2018 With her name change, coming up with couple names will be a little more challenging. Space C? Elon Mus c? cElon Musk? But don't worry, everyone — professionally speaking, Grimes is staying Grimes. of course, i'm just changing my legal name not the band haha �� — Grimes (@Grimezsz) May 17, 2018 She also announced that she's releasing new music "soon ish" — we're either getting a "super dark heavy ballad about fighting balrog in the center of earth that is a sex metaphor" or a "very not pg13 ethereal shadow of colossus demon nu metal song abt insomnia." Musk, being the supportive AI enthusiast boyfriend that he is, can add a few more jams to his list of favorite Grimes songs. Want more clever culture writing beamed directly to your inbox? Sign up here for the twice-weekly Click Click Click newsletter. It's fun – we promise.
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| Sri Lanka warns of Tamil separatist resurgence Posted: 19 May 2018 08:28 AM PDT  Sri Lanka's president Saturday warned that Tamil extremists were regrouping abroad to revive their demand to divide the island nation nine years after the end of its decades-long ethnic war. Maithripala Sirisena said government forces had failed to quash the Tamil rebels' separatism, although they were militarily conquered by May 2009 following a no-holds-barred offensive. "We have defeated terrorism of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), but we have not been able to defeat their ideology," Sirisena said.
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| Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc wins Iraq election Posted: 19 May 2018 05:24 AM PDT ![Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc wins Iraq election]( "Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc wins Iraq election") By Raya Jalabi and Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A political bloc led by populist Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States who also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq, has won the country's parliamentary election, the electoral commission said on Saturday. Sadr himself cannot become prime minister because he did not run in the election, though his bloc's victory puts him in a position to have a strong say in negotiations. The Victory Alliance, headed by incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, trailed in third place with 42 seats, behind the Al-Fatih bloc, which won 47 seats.
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| Texas shooting suspect seems 'weirdly nonemotional,' lawyer says Posted: 19 May 2018 03:37 PM PDT  By Erwin Seba SANTA FE, Texas (Reuters) - The 17-year-old student who authorities said killed 10 people when he opened fire in an art class in his Houston-area high school appeared "weirdly nonemotional" on the morning after the rampage, one of his lawyers said on Saturday. The teenager, identified by law enforcement as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, has been charged with capital murder and is being held without bail in Santa Fe, Texas, where authorities said he went on a shooting spree shortly before 8 a.m. on Friday. For graphic on timeline of major mass shootings in the United States since 2007 click https://tmsnrt.rs/2LfKug6 Nicholas Poehl, one of two lawyers hired by the suspect's parents to represent him, told Reuters he had spent a total of one hour with Pagourtzis on Friday night and Saturday morning.
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| Harry and Meghan go straight to work after lavish wedding Posted: 20 May 2018 03:12 AM PDT  Prince Harry and his new wife Meghan began married life on Sunday after their spectacular, rule-breaking wedding, but will be delaying a honeymoon as they turn immediately to royal duties. The newly ennobled Duke and Duchess of Sussex staged a huge party after the ceremony on Saturday at Windsor Castle, where they were greeted by around 100,000 people lining the streets and watched by millions around the world. The beaming couple were seen driving to the evening bash in a vintage Jaguar, Meghan having changed from her sweeping Givenchy wedding gown into a sleek Stella McCartney halterneck dress, with Harry switching his military frockcoat for black tie.
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| The first photo from NASA's planet-hunting TESS satellite is full of so many stars Posted: 18 May 2018 11:01 AM PDT  A new NASA telescope, sailing toward its assigned orbit, took a moment to look around before it starts its ultimate mission: searching the galaxy for alien planets. NASA's TESS spacecraft — short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — beamed home one of its first photos taken from space, and it's a doozy. SEE ALSO: Here's how NASA's TESS will hunt for alien planets The photo, which effectively amounts to a test of one of the satellite's four cameras, contains more than 200,000 stars, NASA said. But that's only a fraction of the number of stars it will eventually study in order to find alien worlds out there circling them. A test image from NASA's TESS.Image: NASA/MIT/TESS"TESS is expected to cover more than 400 times as much sky as shown in this image with its four cameras during its initial two-year search for exoplanets," NASA said in a statement. The satellite is designed to hunt for new worlds by using the transit method, meaning that TESS will watch for minute dips in a star's light as a planet passes in front of its host star. By detecting these transits, TESS can piece together a bit about the orbits of these worlds and whether or not they might be friendly to life. In total, the satellite's field of view will include about 20 million stars that could all play host to worlds unknown. Researchers hope that TESS will be able to find at least 50 planets that are around the size of Earth during its quest. "TESS is kind of like a scout," TESS scientist Natalia Guerrero said in a statement. "We're on this scenic tour of the whole sky, and in some ways we have no idea what we will see. It's like we're making a treasure map: Here are all these cool things. Now, go after them." TESS still has a bit of a ways to go before it begins its hunt for planets outside of our solar system in earnest. It should start its search in June after scientists check to make sure that its instruments are in working order. Scientists hope that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, expected to launch in 2020, will be able to follow up on some of the results sent back to Earth by TESS. The powerful telescope — designed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope — is expected to be able to scope out the atmospheres of alien worlds, learning more about their composition and possible habitability. WATCH: NASA's TESS planet-finder satellite just rode a Falcon 9 to space
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| ‘I am not obstructing justice, I am seeking it’: Oakland mayor fires back at Trump after warning immigrants about raids Posted: 19 May 2018 08:04 AM PDT  The mayor of Oakland is pushing back on President Donald Trump's claims that she obstructed justice by warning undocumented immigrants of an impending federal raid. Mayor Libby Schaaf, a Democrat, wrote in a weekend op-ed that it was her "duty" to warn immigrants about the raid, which was set to target around 1,000 people living in the Bay Area earlier this year. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has indicated that a tweet from the mayor prevented the arrest of as many as 800 people.
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| Princess Diana still a major influence despite heartbreaking absence in royal wedding Posted: 18 May 2018 10:38 PM PDT  Prince Charles walking Meghan Markle down the aisle will be a beautiful moment but one that reminds us of a heartbreaking absence: Diana, princess of Wales.
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| At OIC, Muslim nations condemn Israel and US, call for unity Posted: 18 May 2018 03:26 PM PDT  ISTANBUL (AP) — Muslim nations on Friday condemned Israel and the inauguration of the American embassy in contested Jerusalem as a "provocation and hostility against" the Islamic world, while Turkey's president called for action, including a peacekeeping force.
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