| Full Flake Interview: 'Behind the scenes there is a lot of alarm' among Republicans in Congress Posted: 26 May 2018 11:20 PM PDT  In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) told Chuck Todd that Congress needs to push back against the president more often.
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| Battered Woman Slips Note To Dog's Vet About Armed Boyfriend, Police Say Posted: 28 May 2018 04:04 AM PDT  A Florida woman who was allegedly beaten and threatened at gunpoint by her
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| Olympian Gus Kenworthy Mourns Death Of Dog He Adopted From Meat Farm Posted: 28 May 2018 08:08 AM PDT  U.S. freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy wrote a gut-wrenching goodbye Sunday to a
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| Real-life 'Spider-Man' who climbed building to save child to meet with French president Posted: 27 May 2018 07:38 PM PDT  It's surely a stunt out of a Hollywood film. A man's dramatic climb up the side of a building to rescue a child in Paris earned him widespread praise, plus a meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron. SEE ALSO: NASA shares the story of how a SpaceX launch completely melted this poor camera 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama, an undocumented Malian migrant, took less than 40 seconds to scale four floors of an apartment block in the city's 18th arrondissement on Saturday afternoon. Videos of the incident were widely shared on social media, showing Gassama being cheered on by a crowd of onlookers. "I saw all these people shouting, and cars sounding their horns. I climbed up like that and, thank God, I saved the child," Gassama said, according to AFP. "I felt afraid when I saved the child... (when) we went into the living room, I started to shake, I could hardly stand up, I had to sit down." Firefighters arrived later at the scene. A spokesperson for the Parisian fire department told AFP it was fortunate "there was someone who was physically fit and who had the courage to go and get the child." The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, congratulated Gassama for his "act of bravery" on Twitter, and said she had called him personally to "thank him warmly." "He explained to me that he had arrived from Mali a few months ago dreaming of building his life here," Hidalgo added in another tweet. Il m'a expliqué être arrivé du Mali il y a quelques mois en rêvant de construire sa vie ici. Je lui ai répondu que son geste héroïque est un exemple pour tous les citoyens et que la Ville de Paris aura évidemment à coeur de le soutenir dans ses démarches pour s'établir en France. — Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) May 27, 2018 "I told him that his heroic act is an example to all citizens and that the city of Paris will obviously be very keen to support him in his efforts to settle in France." An online petition has been started to help push immigration authorities to receive Gassama's papers. A presidential spokesperson told AFP that Macron will meet Gassama on Monday morning. Authorities say the child's parents were not at home at the time, according to France 24. The child's father has been placed in custody, and will face court on Sunday evening for neglecting his parental responsibilities. WATCH: We hitched a ride on Potlandia, a dispensary touring 'cannabus'
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| Earthquake shakes northeast China, but no apparent damage Posted: 27 May 2018 11:13 PM PDT ![Earthquake shakes northeast China, but no apparent damage]( "Earthquake shakes northeast China, but no apparent damage") BEIJING (AP) — A moderate earthquake shook northeastern China early Monday, but no damage or injuries have been reported.
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| Spain saves over 500 migrants at sea Posted: 27 May 2018 09:33 AM PDT  Spain's maritime rescue service said Sunday it had rescued 532 migrants who were attempting the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa this weekend. Rescue boats intercepted 239 migrants travelling in eight small boats off Spain's southern coast on Sunday, a day after 293 migrants were pulled from nine vessels. Three of the boats sank on Sunday right after the migrants were plucked from them due to their "poor state", the maritime service said in a Twitter message.
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| Border Patrol Alters Account Of Guatemalan Woman's Death Posted: 26 May 2018 06:26 PM PDT  U.S. immigration authorities have altered their account of the Border Patrol's
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| Panel: Opposition to Trump outpaces support from Republican base Posted: 26 May 2018 11:46 PM PDT  Andrea Mitchell, Eugene Robinson, Amy Walter and Matthew Continetti discuss the outlook for President Trump after an effort to discredit the Mueller investigation.
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| London introduces contactless payments for buskers Posted: 27 May 2018 09:07 AM PDT  London is introducing a contactless payment scheme for buskers in what organisers said would be a world first, Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Sunday as he unveiled a partnership with tech company iZettle. Under the "Busk in London" programme, street musicians in the British capital will be able to accept non-cash payments with contactless cards, wearable technology and chip and pin.
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| RFK Jr. Seeking New Investigation Into His Father's Assassination Posted: 27 May 2018 12:16 AM PDT  Robert Kennedy Jr. had a three-hour prison meeting in California with his
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| High school valedictorian addresses grads through bullhorn following speech ban Posted: 27 May 2018 10:31 AM PDT  Christian Bales gave his graduation speech through a bullhorn outside the commencement venue after his school ruled his address too political to be given from the stage.
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| Commemorating veterans over Memorial Day weekend Posted: 28 May 2018 09:10 AM PDT ![Commemorating veterans over Memorial Day weekend]( "Commemorating veterans over Memorial Day weekend") On Memorial Day weekend, towns and cities across the United States and around the world, commemorate veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces and the sacrifices they have made.
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| Hormel Recalls 228,000 Pounds Of Spam Posted: 28 May 2018 12:02 AM PDT  Hormel Food Corp. is recalling more than 228,000 pounds of canned pork and
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| Paris mayor praises Malian 'hero' for scaling building to save child Posted: 28 May 2018 12:31 AM PDT  Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Sunday praised the heroism of a Malian immigrant who scaled the facade of a four-storey building in the north of capital to save a child hanging from a ledge, saying the city will support his effort to settle in France. The video of Mamoudou Gassama's quick climbing to reach the child, cheered on by terrified onlookers, went viral on social media, with people calling the 22-year-old a real spider man. Gassama has even been invited to the Elysee presidential palace to meet with President Emmanuel Macron on Monday morning, an official at Macron's office said.
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| Correction: Venezuela-Jailed American-Improbable Release Posted: 27 May 2018 12:19 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 26 about the release of an American jailed in Venezuela, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the U.S. government had imposed sanctions on Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores. It has not.
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| Trump lawyer again attacks inquiry, admits bid to shape opinion Posted: 27 May 2018 08:39 AM PDT  A top lawyer for Donald Trump on Sunday resumed the president's all-out attack on the investigation into possible collusion with Russia as being "illegitimate," while acknowledging a concerted effort to turn public opinion against the probe. For months, Trump has attacked the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller as politically motivated and without foundation.
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| Exxon pulls offshore workers; Shell, Chevron cut output due to Alberto Posted: 27 May 2018 11:07 AM PDT ![Exxon pulls offshore workers; Shell, Chevron cut output due to Alberto]( "Exxon pulls offshore workers; Shell, Chevron cut output due to Alberto") Exxon Mobil Corp evacuated non-essential workers from the Lena production platform in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Subtropical Storm Alberto, the company said on Sunday. Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Chevron Corp shut production on platforms in the eastern Gulf of Mexico due to Alberto and evacuated workers from those sites, the companies said. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Alberto was transitioning to a tropical cyclone as its circulation became more focused around a central core located 135 miles (220 km) west of Tampa, Florida, with 50 mile per hour winds (85 kph).
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| Coffee shop racism; where America's racial divisions are exposed Posted: 27 May 2018 11:00 PM PDT  Starbucks will close more than 8,000 on Tuesday May to conduct 'racial-bias education' following the arrest of two black men in one of its cafes. When two black men were arrested in a Starbucks store in Philadelphia in April, it prompted a national debate. Many believe such incidents do not only happen at Starbucks.
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| The Parkland students stopped a huge corporation from donating to the NRA Posted: 27 May 2018 10:48 AM PDT  The Parkland students are continuing to advocate for gun control, one issue at a time, and their efforts are creating real change. The latest proof of that is Publix, a supermarket chain found based in the southeastern United States. After boycotts and protests on Friday, the grocery store has publicly announced it will stop making political contributions, including those for Florida gubernatorial candidate and proudly vocal "NRA sellout" Adam Putnam. It's all thanks to Parkland'sDavid Hogg and his peers, who spearheaded a protest against the chain with a successful "die-in" at one of the store's locations. SEE ALSO: Parkland activists had breakfast with the Waffle House hero and they were all thrilled "Anyone who supports an NRA sellout is an NRA sellout," Hogg tweeted on Tuesday in his call to arms to boycott Publix. Anyone who supports an NRA sellout is an NRA sellout. That is why I am calling on everyone to stop shopping at Publix until they pull their endorsement of Putnam publicly. Publix is supporting the inaction after pulse, strozier, Douglas, liberty city. Don't support an NRA sellout — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) May 23, 2018 Just a few days later on May 25, students — in partnership with an organization birthed out of the Parkland shooting, Change The Ref — led the protests in Coral Springs, Florida inside and outside the store, with chalk outlines in the parking lot to commemorate the lives lost during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Early this morning @davidhogg111 teamed up with @ChangeTheRef to create an art instillation outside of @publix in protest of the corporation and their support of Adam Putnam. 17 chalk outlines in multiple parking spots were drawn and wrapped in caution tape. #msd #neveragain pic.twitter.com/043cC2o6kA — Emilee McGovern (@EmileeRose) May 25, 2018 Inside, people staged a "die-in," lying on the floor of two local Publix stores on Friday. Additionally, Hogg put out a call for 12-minute die-in's to occur in various locations that afternoon as well. Together we can do anything. Together the young people will win by choosing love. pic.twitter.com/TRrfTJL2Wb — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) May 26, 2018 Guac's parents Manuel and Patricia lied down together at "die in " protest to Publix's contributions to pro-NRA Adam Putnam's campaign #ChangeTheRef #MarchForOurLives #parklandstrong pic.twitter.com/dYZSd6u9M7 — Change the Ref (@ChangeTheRef) May 25, 2018 The action worked, and Publix released a statement announcing that its donations to political candidates would cease. "We regret that our contributions have led to a divide in our community," the statement read, according to Tampa Bay Times. "We did not intend to put our associates and the customers they serve in the middle of a political debate. At the same time, we remain committed to maintaining a welcoming shopping experience for our customers. We would never knowingly disappoint our customers or the communities we serve." The corporation and its leaders have donated $670,000 to Putnam specifically over three years, as reported by Tampa Bay Times. Hogg is also asking Publix to donate $1 million to the Stoneman Douglas Victims fund, though it's not clear if that's going to happen. I call on @Publix to donate double the money they gave to Putman to the Stoneman Douglas Victims fund, $1,000,000. And never support an A rated NRA politician again. — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) May 24, 2018 WATCH: These celebs brought their star power to March for Our Lives
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| Tynes: NFL kneeling rule submits to Trump’s ‘fear-mongering’ Posted: 26 May 2018 11:20 AM PDT  Tyler Tynes, writer for SB Nation, says the National Football League overstepped its bounds by issuing its latest National Anthem regulation. However, former NFL safety Jack Brewer says the league has every right to dissuade protests in the workplace.
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| Famous Ivan the Terrible painting 'badly damaged' after vandal attacks Moscow gallery Posted: 27 May 2018 06:45 AM PDT  A vandal enraged by what he claimed is a misleading portrayal of Ivan the Terrible has badly damaged one of the most iconic paintings of the infamous Tsar. The attacker, who has not been named, used a metal pole to break the glass protecting Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16th, 1581, just before closing time at Moscow's Treyakov gallery on Friday. "The painting is badly damaged, the canvas is ripped in three places in the central part.... The falling glass also damaged the frame," the gallery said in a statement. "Luckily, the most valuable images, those of the faces and hands of the tsar and prince were not damaged," the statement said. A 37-year old man from the town of Voronezh was arrested at the scene, police said in a statement. The suspect told officers that he had acted because of what he called the "falsehood of the historical facts depicted on the canvas." Ilya Repin was one of the greatest Russian artists of the 19th century Credit: GL Archive / Alamy Stock Photo "I came to see the painting. I wanted to leave, but then dropped into the buffet and drank 100 grams of vodka. I don't drink vodka, and became overwhelmed by something," he said in a video released by police. Repin's painting, which was completed in 1885, depicts the moment of deranged grief when the aging Ivan the Terrible realizes he has murdered his son and heir apparent in a rage. It is considered one of Repin's most emotionally intense paintings, and it has been said that Ivan the Terrible's eyes can drive viewers mad. Tsar Alexander III disliked the painting so much he banned its display for several months after it was unveiled - making it the first painting subject to censorship in Russia. The painting after the 1913 knife attack Credit: Wikipedia Commons In 1913 a mentally ill man called Abram Balashov cut it with a knife in three places, shouting "enough death, enough blood!" Gregory Khruslov, the curator responsible for the painting, threw himself under a train when he heard about it. Repin, who is widely considered the greatest Russian painter of the 19th century, was still alive to help restore the painting after that attack. The painting has been held by the Tretyakov since the 19th century. In 2011 Repin's A Parisian Cafe fetched £4.5 million at auction. Ivan the Terrible ruled Russia from 1547 to 1584. Putin last year defending Ivan the Terrible (not that bad, look at all the other leaders back then!) "Take the famous legend about how [in English, here] Ivan the Terrible, Ivan Grozny, killed his son. That's known yet, whether he killed his son or not"https://t.co/Ko0tyZZSG2— Scott Rose (@rprose) May 26, 2018 Most sources agree he killed his son Ivan in a quarrel over the Tsar's handling of a war with Poland and his treatment of the Tsarevich's wife, who had miscarried after being beaten by her father-in-law. But some Russian nationalists argue that his reputation for brutality, including the story that he murdered Ivan, is actually a product of Western propaganda. Vladimir Putin said last year that "its is not known yet" whether Ivan the Terrible killed his son, and that the whole story may have been made up by envoys from the Vatican who wanted to convert Russia from Orthodoxy to Catholicism. In 2013, a nationalist group called Holy Rus sent an open letter the Tretyakov's director and Russia's minister of culture demanding Repin's painting be removed on the grounds that there was no evidence for the murder and that the painting was thus "a libel against the Russian people." In October 2016 the Russian town of Oryol courted controversy by erecting the first public statue of Ivan the Terrible.
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| Man throws hot coffee at McDonald's manager Posted: 27 May 2018 08:11 PM PDT  Police in Washington State said a McDonald's manager suffered severe burns to her face and neck after an angry customer threw hot coffee at her.
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| Saudi Arabia Told The World Its Problem Was Islam. It's Actually Tyranny. Posted: 27 May 2018 04:47 PM PDT  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman doesn't apologize for much. In the past
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| Ex-CIA Chief Says Trump Will 'Throw Anything At The Wall' To Hurt Mueller Probe Posted: 27 May 2018 09:10 PM PDT  George W. Bush's CIA chief Michael Hayden dismissed Donald Trump's "spygate"
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| Oklahoma restaurant shooting victims recovering Posted: 26 May 2018 03:10 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The family of a woman and girl who were wounded in an Oklahoma restaurant shooting said Saturday that the victims didn't know the gunman or why he attacked them as they walked into the lakeside restaurant for a birthday party.
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| France to make Malian 'hero' legal for scaling building to save child Posted: 28 May 2018 04:35 AM PDT  France will give residence papers to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday. Video shows Mamoudou Gassama, 22, risking his life on Sunday as he climbed up the balconies to rescue the four-year-old who is clinging to a railing and glancing at the ground below, while horrified onlookers watched. The video went viral and Gassama, who has been nicknamed "Spider-Man" for conducting the rescue in less than a minute, was swiftly granted a meeting at the Elysee Palace.
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| Service Dog Gives Birth to 8 Puppies at Florida Airport Gate Posted: 26 May 2018 12:00 PM PDT  They missed their flight.
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| India to ignore US sanctions on Iran, Venezuela: minister Posted: 28 May 2018 06:11 AM PDT  India will keep trading with Iran and Venezuela despite the threat of fallout from US sanctions against the two countries, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said Monday. Swaraj, asked at a news conference whether US action against Iran and Venezuela would damage India, said the country would not make foreign policy "under pressure". US President Donald Trump this month withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal and ordered the reimposition of sanctions suspended under the 2015 accord.
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| Focus-Based Mach 1 Electric SUV Report Might’ve Been Inaccurate Posted: 27 May 2018 02:32 PM PDT  The plot thickens. Sort of.
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| The Latest: Restaurant shooting victims recovering Posted: 26 May 2018 12:43 PM PDT OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on a restaurant shooting in Oklahoma City that left the gunman dead (all times local):
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| Nicki Minaj Has Relationship Advice For You: 'Queen, Know Your Worth' Posted: 27 May 2018 08:51 AM PDT  Sit down, because Nicki Minaj has a lot to tell you about relationships and
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| Ireland votes to liberalize abortion laws with 66 percent in favor Posted: 26 May 2018 10:24 AM PDT  DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland voted by a landslide to liberalize its highly restrictive abortion laws as 66 percent of the electorate backed a referendum, official results showed on Saturday. Voters in the once deeply Catholic nation were asked if they wished to scrap a prohibition that was enshrined in the constitution by referendum 35 years ago, and partly lifted in 2013 only for cases where the mother's life was in danger. Over 64 percent of eligible voters cast their ballot, one of the highest ever for a referendum. (Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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| Ellicott City flooding: Baltimore area hit by flash floods for second time in as many years Posted: 27 May 2018 03:32 PM PDT  Less than two years after a flash flood that left two people dead, a Maryland town once again found itself underwater Sunday.
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| Ryan Reynolds Says Blake Lively Drove Him To Hospital While She Was In Labor Posted: 28 May 2018 04:59 AM PDT  Ryan Reynolds just became a pioneer of sorts for expecting dads everywhere.
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| Thousands square off in Berlin far-right rally and counter demos Posted: 27 May 2018 08:25 AM PDT  Thousands of demonstrators for and against the far-right faced off in mass rival rallies in Berlin on Sunday, where calls of "We are the people" were countered with "Go away, Nazis" and techno beats. Police, who were out in force to keep the groups apart, said the march organised by the anti-immigrant, anti-Islam Alternative for Germany (AfD) drew over 5,000 supporters while the counter-demonstrators numbered more than 25,000. The rallies passed off largely peacefully, although Berlin police said on Twitter that they had to use pepper spray to stop "demonstrators from trying to break down barriers" at one square.
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| 11 Hanging Chairs You’ll Never Want to Get Out Of Posted: 28 May 2018 04:00 AM PDT |
| The origins of the Memorial Day holiday Posted: 28 May 2018 04:25 AM PDT  For many people, Memorial Day is the symbol of summer's start. What's lost to some today is its original meaning - and day.
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| Freed from a Venezuela jail, US couple arrive back home Posted: 27 May 2018 02:08 AM PDT  An American couple who spent nearly two years in a Venezuelan jail received a heroes' welcome at the White House as they returned home Saturday after Caracas freed them in a bid to spur dialogue with Washington. "Very glad that Josh Holt is now back home with his family where he has always belonged. Sanctions continue until democracy returns to Venezuela," Vice President Mike Pence wrote on Twitter.
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| Small plane makes emergency landing on Utah freeway Posted: 26 May 2018 02:50 PM PDT  OGDEN, Utah (AP) — No one was injured Saturday when a small plane clipped a car from behind while making an emergency landing on a major freeway in Utah, authorities said.
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| One Harvey Weinstein accuser says she won't celebrate his arrest in a must-read thread Posted: 27 May 2018 03:03 PM PDT  In the days following Harvey Weinstein's arrest, some within the entertainment industry have posted a statement released by Time's Up — the organization created in the wake of the scandal. Others, like actress Annabella Sciorra, have taken things a step further. Sciorra was one of the women to come forward in Ronan Farrow's follow up stories featured in The New Yorker. On Sunday, she shared that she felt the farthest thing from celebratory when she heard the initial news about his arrest. SEE ALSO: Harvey Weinstein hands himself in to police in New York "The law finally caught up with Harvey Weinstein on Friday and charge him with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault," she tweeted. "But nothing about that felt celebratory to me." The law finally caught up with Harvey Weinstein on Friday and charged him with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault. But nothing about that felt celebratory to me. — Annabella Sciorra (@AnnabellSciorra) May 27, 2018 "The smirk on his face as he was led out of the police station in cuffs made me physically sick," she continued. "The public statement from his lawyer was intended only to denigrate all the brave women who came forward and spoke out against him." "All that says is, money buys VIP treatment in the justice system no matter how serious or violent the crimes," she tweeted, after referencing his "million dollar bond." Compare that to the case of Kalief Browder, who was denied bail after being accused of a misdemeanor, then spent four years in Rikers, over half of it in solitary confinement, awaiting a trial that never occurred. — Annabella Sciorra (@AnnabellSciorra) May 27, 2018 "Compare that to the case of Kalief Browder, who was denied bail after being accused of a misdemeanor, then spent four years in Rikers, over half of it in solitary confinement, awaiting a trial that never occurred," she went on, referencing the tragic case of Browder, who ultimately committed suicide at the age of 22 because of mental distress due to his incarceration. "If there was truly 'equal justice under the law,' Harvey Weinstein would be behind bars in Rikers today, waiting for his own day in court, not free to roam New York, his other hunting ground, wearing an ankle bracelet," Sciorra wrote. If there was truly 'equal justice under the law', Harvey Weinstein would be behind bars in Rikers today, waiting for his own day in court, not free to roam New York, his other hunting ground, wearing an ankle bracelet. — Annabella Sciorra (@AnnabellSciorra) May 27, 2018 Mira Sorvino, who has been a vocal Time's Up supporter and came forward with her own Weinstein story in 2017, chimed in and thanked Sciorra for her words. This thread is so important. I feel the same way, there was no jubilation although I was heartened that he was starting the process of standing trial. — Mira Sorvino (@MiraSorvino) May 27, 2018 WATCH: 82 women walked this year's Cannes red carpet in protest, calling for gender equality in the film industry
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| Only Syrian army should be on country's southern border: Russia Posted: 28 May 2018 07:36 AM PDT  MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday only Syrian army troops should be on the country's southern border with Jordan and Israel, after Washington warned of "firm measures" over truce violations in the region. Rebels control stretches of southwest Syria, bordering the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, while Syrian army troops and allied Iran-backed militias hold nearby territory. The United States has voiced concern about reports of an impending Syrian army offensive in a "de-escalation zone" in the southwest, warning Damascus it would respond to breaches.
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| BMW M8 Gran Coupe Concept Filmed At Villa d'Este 2018 Posted: 28 May 2018 01:12 AM PDT  We can only hope the production version will look that good.
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