| Trump: I wish I didn't pick Jeff Sessions Posted: 30 May 2018 06:52 AM PDT  President Trump on Wednesday expressed fresh regret for appointing Jeff Sessions his attorney general.
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| Mike Pompeo Ramps Up Pressure On North Korea Posted: 31 May 2018 02:48 AM PDT  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continued to pressure North Korea's top nuclear
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| Televangelist Claims He Needs $54 Million Private Jet To Spread The Gospel Posted: 30 May 2018 03:24 PM PDT  A Louisiana televangelist is convinced that God wants him to own a fourth
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| Ambien manufacturer responds to Roseanne: 'Racism is not a known side effect' Posted: 30 May 2018 08:26 AM PDT  The manufacturer of Ambien on Wednesday dismissed actress Roseanne Barr's suggestion that the sleep aid was to blame for her racist and anti-Semitic tweets that led to the cancellation of her top-rated sitcom.
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| People Now: Amber Rose Opens Up About Her Breast Reduction — Watch the Full Episode Posted: 30 May 2018 11:08 AM PDT  Your latest celebrity news and top headlines for May 30th on "People Now".
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| Man tied to California blast victim freed, charge dropped Posted: 29 May 2018 05:23 PM PDT  LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man arrested on suspicion of having explosives after a blast killed his ex-girlfriend at her day spa has walked free after U.S. prosecutors said Tuesday that they had dropped the charge against him.
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| Evacuation orders canceled in North Carolina after officials deem Lake Tahoma Dam safe Posted: 30 May 2018 12:58 AM PDT  Heavy rainfall led to a landslide that compromised the Lake Tahoma Dam in western North Carolina early Wednesday morning.
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| Journalist Arkady Babchenko's 'Murder' Faked By Ukraine To Uncover Russian Plot Posted: 30 May 2018 09:11 AM PDT  Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist and critic of President Vladimir Putin,
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| Mary Kay Letourneau Defends Relationship With Vili Fualaau in New Documentary Posted: 30 May 2018 08:52 AM PDT  The former teacher was jailed for her relationship with her then-sixth grade student, Vili Fualaau.
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| Judge in Michael Cohen case admonishes Michael Avenatti over his 'publicity tour' Posted: 30 May 2018 03:32 PM PDT  Wednesday's hearing revolved, in part, around Michael Avenatti himself, including his financial dealings and the nearly 200 television appearances he has made since taking on Stormy Daniels's case. Judge Kimba Wood warned him that if he does formally enter the case, "you would have to stop doing some of the things you've been doing."
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| Gaza's Hamas Rulers Say a Cease-Fire Has Been Reached With Israel Posted: 30 May 2018 12:21 AM PDT  Israeli Cabinet minister Arieh Deri told Israel's Army Radio that he expected calm to be restored
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| Mom Blasts Southwest Airlines For Asking To 'Prove' Biracial Son Was Hers Posted: 30 May 2018 02:14 PM PDT  A Southwest Airlines employee asked a college basketball coach over the
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| The stunning rise and fall of Eric Greitens Posted: 29 May 2018 04:33 PM PDT  Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens announces his resignation during a hastily called press conference, May 29, 2018. Politicians rise and fall, but it is difficult to think of an ascent as swift, or a downfall as brutal, as that of Gov. Eric Greitens of Missouri. Celebrated only months ago as a potential Republican presidential candidate, Greitens resigned the governorship on Tuesday, as state legislators in Jefferson City expanded their inquiry into potential wrongdoing related to campaign fundraising — and moved to impeach him over the alleged blackmail and sexual assault of a woman with whom he'd once had an extramarital relationship.
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| Fast lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano closes highway Posted: 30 May 2018 02:29 AM PDT ![Fast lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano closes highway]( "Fast lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano closes highway") By Jolyn Rosa HONOLULU (Reuters) - Fast-moving lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano forced officials to close part of a highway on Tuesday, and they warned that sharp, thin strands of volcanic glass fibers carried by the wind could injure eyes and lungs. As lava crossed Highway 132, officials shut a stretch of road from Lava Tree State Park to Four Corners and told residents who had not evacuated to leave the area immediately. The lava flow destroyed a farm where Kevin Hopkins and partners raise tropical fish and the ornamental carp known as koi.
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| Samantha Bee Slams ‘Feckless C**t’ Ivanka Trump For Not Doing Something About Immigration Posted: 31 May 2018 01:18 AM PDT  Samantha Bee is outraged that U.S. immigration authorities are separating
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| Photos: 17 injured following pileup in dense fog in Southern California Posted: 30 May 2018 01:35 PM PDT  Over a dozen cars were involved in a chain-reaction pileup near Cajon Pass in Southern California on Wednesday morning amid dense fog.
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| 'Armed and dangerous' suspect sought in deputy's killing Posted: 31 May 2018 08:16 AM PDT  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A manhunt continued Thursday in the slaying of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy who was fatally shot during a traffic stop. Police were offering a $12,500 reward to help them find a suspect who was charged the day before with hitting a woman and stealing her car.
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| Donald Trump Jr. retweets Roseanne Barr's discredited George Soros claims Posted: 29 May 2018 01:12 PM PDT  Donald Trump Jr. saw fit to retweet Roseanne Barr's claims that billionaire Democratic donor George Soros was "a Nazi."
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| Brigitte Nielsen Pregnant With Fifth Child At Age 54 Posted: 31 May 2018 02:53 AM PDT  Brigitte Nielsen has an important project in the works.
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| The Mali 'Spider-Man' Was Offered French Citizenship. What About the Muslim Migrants Who Aren't Superheroes? Posted: 30 May 2018 07:11 AM PDT  The coverage of Malian migrant Mamoudou Gassama reveals a great deal about our attitude toward migrants, particularly Muslim ones
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| US to keep confronting Beijing in S. China Sea: Mattis Posted: 29 May 2018 02:43 PM PDT  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis vowed Tuesday that the US would keep confronting China over its territorial claims in the South China Sea, where Beijing has established a significant military presence on contested islands. Mattis's remarks came after Beijing voiced "strong dissatisfaction" Sunday after two US warships sailed by an island in the disputed Paracel Island chain. "You'll notice there's only one country that seems to take active steps to rebuff (such operations) or state their resentment of them, but it's international waters and a lot of nations want to see freedom of navigation, so we will continue that," Mattis told reporters as he flew to Hawaii.
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| Sarah Sanders gets choked up after a young boy asks about school safety Posted: 30 May 2018 12:51 PM PDT  On Wednesday, May 30, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders got choked up after a young boy asked about school safety during a press briefing.
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| Florida school shooting suspect foretold intention in videos Posted: 30 May 2018 05:08 PM PDT  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In chilling cellphone videos released Wednesday, the suspect in a February massacre at a Florida high school announced his intention to become the next school shooter, aiming to kill at least 20 people and saying "you're all going to die."
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| Mitt Romney Reveals His 2016 Vote For President Posted: 31 May 2018 04:50 AM PDT  Mitt Romney, who is running for the U.S. Senate from Utah, has had a hit-or-
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| Wanda Sykes Says She's Left 'Roseanne.' Others React To Barr's Racist Remarks. Posted: 29 May 2018 09:49 AM PDT  Comedian and writer Wanda Sykes has quit her job as a consulting producer on
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| The mother of all lizards found in Italian Alps Posted: 30 May 2018 11:41 AM PDT  Scientists said Wednesday they had tracked down the oldest known lizard, a tiny creature that lived about 240 million years ago when Earth had a single continent and dinosaurs were brand new. Scans of the fossilised skeleton of Megachirella revealed the chameleon-sized reptile was an ancestor of today's lizards and snakes, which belong to a group called squamates, an international team wrote in the science journal Nature. This finding dragged the group back in time by 75 million years, and means that "lizards inhabited the planet since at least 240 million years ago," study co-author Tiago Simoes of the University of Alberta in Canada told AFP.
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| Ethiopian govt and opposition start talks on amending anti-terrorism law Posted: 30 May 2018 06:51 AM PDT  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling coalition started talks with opposition groups on Wednesday on amending provisions of an anti-terrorism law that critics say has criminalised dissent, state-affiliated media said. Watchdog groups say the 2009 law's broad definitions have been used indiscriminately against anyone who opposes government policy. The discussions follow the release on Tuesday of opposition leader Andargachew Tsige, who was sentenced to death under the law in 2009 over his role in the opposition group Ginbot 7, which the government has labelled a terrorist organisation.
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| The Best-Sounding V12 Engines on Earth Posted: 31 May 2018 08:00 AM PDT |
| Japanese whaling programme slaughtered 122 pregnant minke whales on ‘barbaric and illegal’ hunt Posted: 30 May 2018 03:35 AM PDT  Animal rights activists have expressed outrage after a report on Japan's "scientific whaling" programme showed that more than two-thirds of the female minke whales harpooned in the Southern Ocean earlier this year were pregnant females. The report, submitted to a meeting of the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission in Slovenia earlier this month, also showed that 53 of the 333 whales slaughtered were juvenile animals. "The killing of 122 pregnant whales is a shocking statistic and sad indictment on the cruelty of Japan's whale hunt", said Alexia Wellbelove, of the Australia branch of Humane Society International. "It is further demonstration, if needed, of the truly gruesome and unnecessary nature of whaling operations, especially when non-lethal surveys have been shown to be sufficient for scientific needs", she said. Activists accuse Tokyo of ignoring a ruling in 2014 by the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, that Japan's whaling was a commercial exercise rather than a scientific research programme and that it had to halt. Japanese whaling vessel the Nisshin Maru returns to the Shimonoseki port in southwestern Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo on March 31, 2017, after it and two other vessels hunted 333 minke whales in the Antarctic Ocean Tokyo, which provides large subsidies to keep its domestic whaling industry afloat, responded by adding new research procedures and resuming operations in 2015 with a quota of 333 minke whales. To protect itself from further legal challenges, Japan also withdrew its recognition of the International Court of Justice as an arbiter of disputes over whales. Whale meat used to be an important source of nutrition for the Japanese but little is consumed by the general public today. Instead, whale meat is served in school meals and a handful of specialist restaurants, with the rest frozen or used as pet food. A spokesman for the environmental group Sea Shepherd said it appeared that the Japanese whaling fleet had been "targeting pregnant females, for some reason". Bob Brown, the former head of the Australian Green Party and founder of an environmental foundation, told The Telegraph that the harpooning of pregnant whales was "barbaric and illegal". "These are the most gentle of whales and people go to the Great Barrier Reef just to rub noses with these creatures", he said. "Then they fall pregnant, go to the Southern Ocean and get harpooned by the Japanese while the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the US and everywhere else sit on their hands and say this criminal behaviour is okay because the Japanese government is funding it. "The leaders who are today failing to take action have the blood of these innocent whales on their hands," he said. "This is an international disgrace and an environmental crime".
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| What Medical Schools Are Doing to Reduce Student Debt Posted: 29 May 2018 10:08 AM PDT ![What Medical Schools Are Doing to Reduce Student Debt]( "What Medical Schools Are Doing to Reduce Student Debt") The rising cost of higher education makes affording medical school tough for the vast majority of students. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, 75 percent of medical students who graduated in 2017 borrowed student loans to pay for school. Among U.S. medical school graduates who borrowed, those who attended public institutions finished their degrees with nearly $170,000 on average in student loans, according to data submitted to U.S. News by 52 ranked schools in an annual survey.
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| Amazon blocks Australia from global sites over tax Posted: 31 May 2018 12:49 AM PDT  US internet giant Amazon will block Australian shoppers from its international websites to counter new tax laws on online purchases, it announced Thursday. New rules require internet retailers like the American behemoth to collect a 10 percent goods and services tax on everything bought from overseas sites from July 1, including under the current tax-free threshold of Aus$1,000 (US$760). As a result, Amazon said Australian shoppers wanting to use its global platforms will instead be directed to its smaller Australian site, which offers much less for sale.
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| Mayor strongly defends Wildwood police after beach incident Posted: 29 May 2018 03:26 PM PDT  WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A Philadelphia woman seen on video being punched in the head by a police officer on a New Jersey beach said Tuesday she didn't spit at the officers before the weekend altercation. The mayor of the beach town meanwhile vehemently defended the police and said the woman is no angel.
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| Giuliani Says He Might Have Recused Himself From Russia Probe Too Posted: 30 May 2018 10:40 AM PDT  WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said that he can
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| George Soros responds to Roseanne Barr's false claim that he is 'a Nazi' Posted: 29 May 2018 01:09 PM PDT  Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has dismissed attacks from Roseanne Barr, the star of ABC's now-cancelled sitcom Roseanne, who falsely accused the Jewish businessman of being a Nazi. Ms Barr went on a Twitter tirade on Tuesday morning, making racist comments about members of the Obama administration and falsely claiming that Chelsea Clinton was married to a nephew of Mr Soros – a Hungarian-born businessman and major left-wing donor. After Ms Clinton corrected the falsehood, Ms Barr tweeted a half-apology, writing: "Sorry to have tweeted incorrect info about you!I[sic] please forgive me!".
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| Singapore Airlines to launch world's longest flight Posted: 30 May 2018 08:51 AM PDT  Singapore Airlines said on Wednesday that it will relaunch the world's longest commercial flight in October, a journey of almost 19 hours from the city-state to New York, but it will not be available to economy travellers. The daily, non-stop journey from Changi to Newark Airport will cover about 16,700 kilometres (10,300 miles) and take about 18 hours 45 minutes, the airline said in a statement. The current record holder is Qatar Airways Flight 921 from Auckland to Doha, which takes 17 hours 40 minutes.
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| Kremlin critic turns up alive at televised briefing about his 'murder' Posted: 30 May 2018 12:55 PM PDT  By Matthias Williams and Andrew Osborn KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A dissident Russian journalist reported murdered in Kiev on Tuesday dramatically reappeared alive on Wednesday during a televised briefing by Ukrainian state security about the killing, which they then said they had faked. Authorities said Arkady Babchenko was shot dead at his flat and found by his wife in a pool of blood. "I would like to apologize for what you have all had to go through," said Babchenko, who looked on the verge of tears.
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| US general says some Taliban interested in peace Posted: 30 May 2018 11:52 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Some elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan are showing interest in peace talks, the top U.S. commander in Kabul said Wednesday, citing "off stage" contacts involving what he described as mid- and high-level leaders of the insurgency.
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| Was Starbucks' Racial Bias Training Effective? Here's What These Employees Thought Posted: 29 May 2018 09:01 PM PDT  "I was angry we had to educate people on how to not be racist"
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| China's Just Gave the World a Preview of Its Naval Future Posted: 30 May 2018 04:32 AM PDT  Chinese papers and military buffs are hailing the historic rendezvous of the two seagoing airbases, relishing the picture-perfect occasion of two huge vessels moored alongside each other. Liaoning is back at her homeport of Dalian in the northeastern Chinese province it is named after for scheduled maintenance as well as R&R for her crew, having spent the majority of the first half of the year at sea. The last time Liaoning was in dry-dock was in May 2014, in the same berth where the Soviet-era vessel was retrofitted.
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| Two Belgian policewomen shot dead: What we know Posted: 29 May 2018 11:49 PM PDT  A gunman killed two female police officers and a man in a parked car in the eastern Belgian city of Liege, before he was shot dead by police. The assailant is suspected of being radicalised in prison by Islamist militants. - At around 10:30 am (0830 GMT), a man followed two female police officers in Liege, stabbed them several times, then grabbed their firearms and shot them both dead.
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| 12 Predictable Father's Day Gifts, Clever-ized Posted: 29 May 2018 01:32 PM PDT |
| 2,000 People Evacuated in North Carolina After Alberto Triggers Mudslides and Flooding Posted: 30 May 2018 07:11 AM PDT  Mudslides triggered by the soggy remnants of Alberto forced evacuations below a dam and closed an interstate highway in the western mountains of North Carolina on Wednesday
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| Mexican campaigns awash with dirty money, pre-election report finds Posted: 29 May 2018 12:41 PM PDT  A man cast his ballot during the election of 60 deputies in Mexico City, Mexico on 5 June 2016. For every peso spent by Mexican parties on campaigning and reported to electoral authorities, another 15 pesos goes unreported, according to a new study showing that the country's political campaigns are awash in cash from dubious sources. The report, published on Tuesday by the anti-graft group Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, comes four week's before the country's presidential elections.
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