| Mom killed in front of her 3 young children during carjacking: 'I'm sorry. I think I'm about to die' Posted: 14 Jun 2018 07:57 AM PDT  A Missouri mother was shot dead in front of her three young children during a
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| US citizen detained during violent Vietnam protests Posted: 15 Jun 2018 04:06 AM PDT  The US has urged the Vietnamese authorities to release one of its citizens who was among dozens of people arrested during violent protests last week. Will Nguyen, 32, a Yale graduate who comes from Houston, Texas, was visiting Ho Chi Minh City, en route from the US to Singapore, where he was due to graduate from a master's programme in July. According to a statement released on Thursday on behalf of Mr Nguyen's family and friends, he was "beaten over the head and dragged into a police truck" after joining a rare demonstration on June 9 against proposed special economic zones that have raised fears of Chinese encroachment. A video linked to the statement allegedly shows Mr Nguyen being dragged along the street with blood streaming from his face. He is later shown standing on the back of a police pickup truck. This is #democracy in #Vietnampic.twitter.com/j2hb76QZwO— Will Nguyen (阮英惟） (@will_nguyen_) June 10, 2018 Vietnam's Communist government bans anti-government protests and public gatherings must be approved by the authorities. However, demonstrations erupted over the weekend over planned special economic zones that would give leases to foreign investors with less red tape, stoking fears that national security would be undermined by giving China control over Vietnamese territory. Before he was arrested, Mr Nguyen was live-tweeting from the protest, revealing that events had taken a nasty turn after police had allegedly struck a man, who was seen in lying motionless on the ground. The statement released on Thursday said that he had been taken to a police station and accused of "causing a scene and destroying public property." Police struck a protestor and chaos has broken out pic.twitter.com/XMf5x6lEwb— Will Nguyen (阮英惟） (@will_nguyen_) June 10, 2018 It said the authorities had confiscated his laptop, passport and credit cards from the AirBnB property where he had been lodging, and that he had been falsely accused of being a member of the reform-focussed Viet Tan political party, which is banned in Vietnam. This was "not plausible" said the statement. "The diplomatic protocol is that the Vietnamese have 48 hours in which to notify the US embassy that one of its citizens has been detained, but this has not been adhered to in the current situation," it alleged. "The state of his health and his whereabouts are currently unknown." Pope Thrower, a US embassy spokesman told the New York Times that the embassy was "aware of media reports that a US citizen was arrested." He added: "When a US citizen is detained overseas, the US Department of State works to provide all appropriate consular assistance."
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| YouTube Stars Shamed by Internet Trolls Over Size of Engagement Ring Posted: 14 Jun 2018 10:20 AM PDT  Among messages of congratulations were comments that mocked the ring presented to Jen Phanomrat by her fiance, Leo Samanamud.
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| Indonesian students fast, and study, during Ramadan Posted: 14 Jun 2018 10:55 AM PDT ![Indonesian students fast, and study, during Ramadan]( "Indonesian students fast, and study, during Ramadan") For students at one of Indonesia's oldest Islamic boarding schools, the holy month of Ramadan doesn't only mean fasting from dawn till dusk. It also means intensive study of the Koran.
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| Sessions takes on microaggressions. He’s right. Posted: 14 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT  The Justice Department exists to enforce constitutional protections — none more than the right to free expression. And too many college presidents seem to have forgotten that they exist to teach students the value (and sometimes the cost) of those protections.
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| Target Apologizes For Father's Day 'Baby Daddy' Cards Posted: 14 Jun 2018 08:17 AM PDT  Target apologized and pulled a Father's Day card off its shelves after it drew
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| Disgraced comedian Cosby changes lawyer ahead of sentencing Posted: 14 Jun 2018 07:35 PM PDT  Disgraced US comedian Bill Cosby, who was convicted of sexual assault in April, has changed his lawyer ahead of his sentencing, a spokesman said Thursday. "Mr. Cosby has replaced his legal team with Attorney Joseph P. Green Jr (Philadelphia)," a spokesman for Cosby said, without offering further details. Green will replace Tom Mesereau, who has represented numerous celebrities and was Cosby's lawyer for his second trial which resulted in his conviction on three counts of sexual assault on April 26.
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| Arizona Lawmaker: Immigration A 'Threat' Because 'There Aren't Enough White Kids' Posted: 14 Jun 2018 08:20 AM PDT  An Arizona state lawmaker faces backlash after claiming immigration represents
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| A look inside Trump immigration facility: 'effectively, these kids are incarcerated' Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:08 PM PDT  Today, MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff was one of a small group of reporters allowed inside the largest facility for immigrant children in the U.S. – the facility Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) was refused entry to earlier this month.
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| Turtle Gives Finger To Louisiana Police Posted: 14 Jun 2018 02:06 PM PDT  COVINGTON, La. ― A fisherman here made a bizarre discovery when he found what
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| 911 Call Released From Moments After 12-Foot Alligator Dragged Shizuka Matsuki to Her Death Posted: 15 Jun 2018 05:35 AM PDT  "I think an alligator got this lady."
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| The Latest: UN Assembly blames Israel for Gaza violence Posted: 13 Jun 2018 02:58 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The latest on the U.N. General Assembly's vote on a proposed resolution that would blame Israel for recent deadly violence on its border with Gaza (all times local):
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| Arizona Officers Seen Beating and Mocking Hospitalized Suspect on Video Posted: 14 Jun 2018 06:46 PM PDT  Suspect Jose Luis Conde said doctors had to sew part of his ear back on
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| Trump heaps praise on 'tough guy' Kim Jong Un Posted: 13 Jun 2018 04:47 PM PDT  The president again downplays the North Korean leader's repressive acts.
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| Ramadan's End Gives Muslim Players Reprieve As 2018 World Cup Begins Posted: 13 Jun 2018 05:03 PM PDT  Muslim athletes competing in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Moscow are ending a
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| Raccoon released into wild after successful skyscraper climb Posted: 13 Jun 2018 11:31 AM PDT  A daredevil raccoon that became an online sensation when it spent almost 20 nail-biting hours scaling a 25-storey office tower in Minnesota has been safely rescued and released back into the wild after making it to the top of the building unscathed. The animal's ascent on the outside of the UBS building in downtown St Paul city was watched across the world on social media on Tuesday, with updates on its progress posted regularly by the Minnesota Public Radio under the hashtag #MPRraccoon. "It was heartbreaking to see yesterday," MPR journalist Tim Nelson told the BBC after the racoon made it to safety.
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| Activists, Lawmakers Of Color Denounce Hard-Line GOP Immigration Bill Posted: 14 Jun 2018 01:18 PM PDT  A coalition of immigrant rights activists, policy experts and faith leaders
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| Haiti permanently bans scandal-hit Oxfam charity Posted: 13 Jun 2018 12:34 PM PDT  Port-au-Prince (AFP) - The Haitian government said Wednesday it has permanently banned international charity Oxfam Great Britain from operating in the country following a scandal over sexual misconduct by some of its workers there. A government statement said the action -- which followed a temporary suspension in February -- was taken because of Oxfam's "violation of Haitian legislation and serious breach of the principle" of human dignity. "The NGO is therefore declared persona non grata," Aviol Fleurant, minister of planning and external cooperation, said Wednesday at a press briefing also attended by the communications and interior ministers.
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| Jamie Foxx 'Emphatically Denies' Sexual Misconduct Allegation Posted: 13 Jun 2018 04:43 PM PDT  A lawyer representing actor Jamie Foxx put out a statement on the star's
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| U.S. returns stolen 525-year-old Columbus letter to Vatican Posted: 14 Jun 2018 06:55 AM PDT  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A 525-year-old copy of a letter by Christopher Columbus that was stolen from the Vatican was returned on Thursday after joint sleuthing by U.S. Homeland Security agents and Holy See antiquity experts. "We are returning it to its rightful owner," said U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Callista Gingrich, at a handover ceremony in a frescoed room of the Vatican Library, which houses tens of thousands of rare, historic items. One of the Latin letters, printed in Rome by Stephan Plannack in 1493, found its way into the Vatican Library.
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| Fewer US teens smoking, doing drugs ... and drinking milk Posted: 14 Jun 2018 04:04 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Fewer U.S. teens are smoking, having sex and doing drugs these days. Oh, and they're drinking less milk, too.
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| Boy Killed, His Brother and Mom in Critical Condition After Denver Shooting Posted: 14 Jun 2018 11:57 PM PDT  One boy died and his brother and mom were in critical condition Thursday following a shooting in a suburban Denver parking lot, according to police.
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| 'Delta Hill Riders': African-American cowboy culture in the Mississippi Delta Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:04 AM PDT !['Delta Hill Riders': African-American cowboy culture in the Mississippi Delta]( "'Delta Hill Riders': African-American cowboy culture in the Mississippi Delta") Rory Doyle's ongoing personal project shares the story of African-American cowboy culture in the rural Mississippi Delta, challenging the Hollywood portrayal of the American cowboy. An exhibition opening and talk for "Delta Hill Riders" by Rory Doyle is on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at 7 p.m. at the Half King Photography Series in New York City. It will be led by Anna Van Lenten, curator of the Half King Photography Series. The exhibition will run until Aug. 6. A concurrent show at Tikhonova Gallery in Harlem will have an opening reception Sunday, June 17, 2018, from 2 to 5 p.m. with an artist talk at 4 p.m. and runs through July 29, 2018.
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| Virginia GOPers worry Senate nominee Corey Stewart could drag down House members Posted: 13 Jun 2018 11:05 AM PDT  The morning after Corey Stewart's victory in the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Virginia, party officials assessed how their candidate might affect House races in November. They didn't like what they saw.
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| Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Way Faster Than Expected, Scientists Warn Posted: 14 Jun 2018 05:23 AM PDT  The Antarctic ice sheet is melting at a faster rate than at any previously
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| Reporter to Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Trump immigration policy: 'Don't you have any empathy?' Posted: 14 Jun 2018 03:11 PM PDT  Reporters in the White House press are trying something new with Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: appealing to her "empathy." During Thursday's White House press briefing, Sanders fielded searing criticism from an outspoken reporter over the Trump administration's policy to separate migrant families at the Mexican border. SEE ALSO: Watch Michelle Wolf torch D.C. at the White House Correspondents' Dinner The reporter in question was Brian Karem, executive editor of the Sentinel Newspapers. Just before, Sanders had been sparring with another reporter over of the question of why the administration chooses to separate children from parents who arrive in the U.S. illegally, with the reporter arguing that that the administration "doesn't want to take responsibility" for this new element of its immigration policy. When Sanders moved to take another question, Karem cut in: WOW — @BrianKarem heatedly confronts Sanders about the White House's family separation policy, says, "Come on! You're a parent! Have some empathy." pic.twitter.com/MaZckfqGYv — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 14, 2018 When Sanders accused Karem of using the moment to "get some more TV time," Karem shot back: Sanders chose to ignore Karem's appeals, and moved on. The exchange comes amid questions regarding Sanders' future with the White House. Though a CBS News report from Wednesday reports that the press secretary plans to bail on the role, Sanders has since denied that's the case. Does @CBSNews know something I don't about my plans and my future? I was at my daughter's year-end Kindergarten event and they ran a story about my "plans to leave the WH" without even talking to me. I love my job and am honored to work for @POTUS — Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) June 14, 2018 So, uh ... we'll just see what happens Friday. WATCH: Kim Kardashian is in, but these people were uninvited from the White House
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| Bodycam Footage From Harrowing First Moments of Police Response to Las Vegas Shooting Is Released Posted: 14 Jun 2018 07:15 AM PDT  Officers huddled with concertgoers, led terrified people to safety and helped the wounded.
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| Rep. Steve King Won't Answer Questions About His Neo-Nazi Retweets Posted: 13 Jun 2018 06:43 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Congressman Steve King is normally one of the more talkative
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| NASA rover knocked out as gigantic dust storm envelops Mars Posted: 13 Jun 2018 03:12 PM PDT  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's seemingly unstoppable Mars rover Opportunity has been knocked out by a gigantic dust storm that is enveloping the red planet and blotting out the sun.
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| 'Melting Away' — Climate change and Greenland's Inuits Posted: 14 Jun 2018 09:59 AM PDT !['Melting Away' — Climate change and Greenland's Inuits]( "'Melting Away' — Climate change and Greenland's Inuits") Over the past five years, photographer Ciril Jazbec has documented the changing lives of the Inuit people in Greenland, the world's largest island, which is covered by the world's largest and fastest-melting ice sheet. This fact, together with the darkening of its surface, mean the changes in Greenland will affect the entire planet and its species, the majority of the scientists have come to agree. Jazbec's long-term project, Melting Away, is about a people at the forefront of climate change, who have an ancient knowledge of hunting and are in search of ways to survive a collapsing ecosystem. Qaanaaq and Siorapaluk, the world's northernmost settlements of roughly 700 Inuits, continues its traditional ways despite several alarming climate, environmental and cultural threats.
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| Pakistani Taliban leader killed in air strike in Afghanistan near border Posted: 15 Jun 2018 04:29 AM PDT  By Rupam Jain and Jibran Ahmad KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a U.S.-Afghan air strike in Afghanistan, a senior Afghan Defence Ministry official said on Friday, a killing likely to ease tension between the United States and Pakistan. An official at the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan confirmed Fazlullah was killed on Thursday. The U.S. military said earlier in Washington it had carried out a strike aimed at a senior militant figure in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, which is on the Pakistani border, and one U.S. official said the target was believed to have been Fazlullah.
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| Michael Avenatti Tells Colbert: 'Moron' Michael Cohen Will Be Arrested, Then Flip On Trump Posted: 13 Jun 2018 07:13 PM PDT  > TONIGHT! Scaramucci and Avenatti talk Cohen with Stephen. #LSSC
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| Ex-miss Iraq calls for peace on Israel visit after selfie scandal Posted: 13 Jun 2018 11:34 AM PDT  A former Miss Iraq whose selfie with her Israeli counterpart triggered criticism called Wednesday for coexistence and regional peace in a speech during her first visit to the Jewish state. Baghdad-born Sarah Idan, 28, had posted the picture on her Instagram account with her newly made friend, Israel's Adar Gandelsman, during the 2017 Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas. The outcry in her native Iraq, which does not recognise Israel and is formally at war with it, compelled Idan's family to relocate to the United States, where Sarah had been living.
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| Four Dead as Violence Mars Election Campaigning in Turkey Posted: 14 Jun 2018 10:02 PM PDT  Anticipation and anxieties around the election have mounted as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces a close race
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:33 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest
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| Russian official urges love at World Cup after backlash Posted: 14 Jun 2018 08:09 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian women and visiting World Cup soccer fans: be fruitful and multiply.
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| GOP is becoming 'a cultish thing,' Republican senator says Posted: 13 Jun 2018 11:24 AM PDT  "It's not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that happens to be, purportedly, of the same party," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee.
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| Honda Civic Type R Vs. Ford Focus RS: A Battle Of Philosophy Posted: 14 Jun 2018 06:00 AM PDT  Two radically different approaches to hot-hatch bliss.
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| Arab states launch biggest assault of Yemen war with attack on main port Posted: 13 Jun 2018 03:30 PM PDT  By Mohammed Ghobari and Mohamed Mokhashef ADEN (Reuters) - A Saudi-led alliance of Arab states launched an attack on Yemen's main port city on Wednesday in the largest battle of the Yemen war, aiming to bring the ruling Houthi movement to its knees at the risk of worsening the world's biggest humanitarian crisis. Arab warplanes and warships pounded Houthi fortifications to support ground operations by foreign and Yemeni troops massed south of the port of Hodeidah in operation "Golden Victory". Fighting raged near Hodeidah airport and al-Durayhmi, a rural area 10 km (6 miles) south of the city, media controlled by the Arab states and their Yemeni allies reported.
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| Donald Trump Says He 'Won't Sign' House GOP's Compromise Immigration Bill Posted: 14 Jun 2018 05:47 PM PDT  President Donald Trump said Friday he "certainly won't sign the more moderate"
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| DNA leads to breakthrough in grisly French cold case Posted: 14 Jun 2018 06:52 AM PDT  Police investigating a three-decade-old murder that mystified France said Thursday they had finally identified a four-year-old girl whose mutilated body was found by a motorway and arrested her parents on suspicion of killing her. The little girl's body, bearing the signs of horrific abuse including burns from an iron and human bite marks, was found in August 1987 in a ditch alongside the A10 motorway in central France. The grisly murder sparked what was France's biggest ever investigation at the time, with the girl's photograph posted in public places and an alert sent to more than 30 countries, but it was declared unsolved in 1997.
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| New Jersey's Tough Gun Laws Just Got Even Stronger Posted: 13 Jun 2018 11:52 AM PDT  New Jersey gun laws, long considered among the nation's strongest, became even
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| “Real Housewives of New York City” Star Luann de Lesseps Is Now Selling—Or Renting—Her Hamptons House Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:27 AM PDT  Now you can buy or rent the Bravo reality star's Sag Harbor home, depending on your preference
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