| Trump: North Korea nuclear summit is back on Posted: 01 Jun 2018 08:40 AM PDT  President Trump announced the decision to meet on June 12th in Singapore after a historic and lengthy Oval Office meeting Friday with Kim Yong Chol, who is the top deputy to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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| More young people plan to vote this year. But their key issues may surprise you. Posted: 01 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Young people sharply increased their level of political engagement after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., political scientists say. But will the passion remain for the upcoming elections?
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| Police Back at Kidnapping Suspect's Home Where Bodies Found Posted: 31 May 2018 09:00 PM PDT  Stewart Weldon was arrested Sunday following a chase after police tried to stop him for having a broken tail light, authorities said.
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| Fallen soldier's comrades cradle his newborn daughter in powerful photo Posted: 31 May 2018 12:55 PM PDT  Army Specialist Chris Harris tragically died in combat just months before his
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| Family Of Black Florida Man Killed By Sheriff's Deputy Awarded A Measly 4 Cents Posted: 01 Jun 2018 08:37 AM PDT  A federal jury determined that the family of a black man killed in his home in
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| Michael Rotondo, 30-Year-Old Evicted From Parents' Home, Finally Moves Out Posted: 01 Jun 2018 09:40 AM PDT  Michael Rotondo has finally left the building.
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| AD Celebrates the Grand Opening of the California Closets TriBeCa Flagship Posted: 01 Jun 2018 02:59 PM PDT |
| Hawaii volcano lava burns 2 buildings at geothermal plant Posted: 01 Jun 2018 08:44 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — Lava has burned down two buildings at a geothermal plant near Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano.
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| Google Employees Discuss Staging Protest Of Their Own Company Posted: 01 Jun 2018 12:32 PM PDT  A small group of Google employees, in response to a company contract with a
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| Disinformation wars: How Ukraine fought the Kremlin's fake news machine Posted: 31 May 2018 12:36 PM PDT  Yahoo interviews the founder of StopFake.com, which has grown into a Snopes-type website that debunks Russian lies and propaganda in 11 languages.
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| Outrage, apologies and pardons in the age of Trump Posted: 31 May 2018 02:01 PM PDT  From Roseanne Barr to Samantha Bee, this week's spin cycle of outrage and apologies has applied differently to President Trump.
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| 4 More People Have Died From the Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak Posted: 01 Jun 2018 07:49 AM PDT  Bringing the total to five
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| Niall Ferguson leaves Stanford role after ordering 'opposition research' on a student in free speech row Posted: 01 Jun 2018 12:17 PM PDT  Niall Ferguson, the prominent British historian, has left his role with a Stanford university free speech initiative after leaked emails showed him suggesting "opposition research" be carried out on a left-wing student. Ferguson resigned from a leadership position on the Cardinal Conversations programme at at the institution in California, which invites guest speakers from across the political spectrum to give talks. The academic said he had made an "error of judgment" but had been "deeply concerned" by the reaction on campus against a talk by Charles Murray, the controversial social scientist, who spoke on February 22. Ferguson said he acted because he believed the Cardinal Conversations programme was being taken over by "elements fundamentally hostile to free speech". His resignation from the programme's committee came against a background of controversy over free speech at universities in the US and UK. Last month Sam Gyimah, the British higher education minister, warned against left-wing bias on campuses, "institutional hostility" to unfashionable views, and the "danger of a mono-culture" where only certain views were accepted. Ferguson's leaked emails showed him in communication with conservative students including the president of Stanford College Republicans Credit: Getty In the US last year Berkeley cancelled speeches by two conservative political commentators after protesters set fires and caused $100,000 in damage. Ferguson's leaked emails, published by The Stanford Daily, showed him in communication with conservative students including John Rice-Cameron, president of Stanford College Republicans, who is the son of Barack Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice. A subject of discussion was left-wing activist student Michael Ocon, who was referred to as "Mr O". In one email Ferguson wrote that "some opposition research on Mr. O might also be worthwhile" and a research assistant replied they would "get on the opposition research for Mr. O." Opposition research is the practice of collecting information on a political opponent or other adversary that can be used to discredit or otherwise weaken them. In another Ferguson wrote: "Now we turn to the more subtle game of grinding them down on the committee. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." Rice-Cameron, added: "Slowly, we will continue to crush the Left's will to resist, as they will crack under pressure." Ferguson suggested that the original Cardinal Conversations steering committee "should all be allies against O. Whatever your past differences, bury them. Unite against the SJWs (social justice warriors)." He also indicated that someone with a position at a Christian student publication was "especially good and will intimidate them". The Cardinal Conversations initiative was launched in January as a "thought-provoking community discussion of key issues across the political spectrum". Ferguson, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and at the Center for European Studies, Harvard, said his emails had been prompted by the opposition to Murray's visit. In a statement to The Telegraph he said: "I very much regret the publication of these emails. I also regret having written them. "Having put a great deal effort into creating and organising Cardinal Conversations, I was deeply concerned by the events before, during and after the event that took place on February 22. "It seemed to me that the Cardinal Conversations student steering committee was in danger of being taken over by elements that were fundamentally hostile to free speech." He added: "It was, however, rash of me to seek to involve the Stanford Republicans, and reckless to use such inflammatory language. Realising subsequently that I had made a serious error of judgment, I resigned from Cardinal Conversations. "I remain hopeful that Cardinal Conversations will continue to foster free speech on the Stanford campus."
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| Ruthie Ann Miles Returns to Work After Losing Her Unborn Baby and the Car Crash Death of Daughter Posted: 31 May 2018 08:10 PM PDT  Ruthie Ann Miles is returning to the stage after a car crash took the life of her 5-year-old daughter and just weeks after she lost her unborn baby
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| Red Flag Laws Are Linked To Declines In Gun Suicides, New Study Finds Posted: 31 May 2018 09:01 PM PDT  Gun suicides declined significantly in two states after they passed laws
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| Trump breaks protocol with jobs report tweet Posted: 01 Jun 2018 09:07 AM PDT  President Trump seemed to hint at a good jobs report before its release Friday, prompting critics to slam him for being indiscreet with confidential information.
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| The Latest: 14-year-old Texan wins National Spelling Bee Posted: 31 May 2018 08:01 PM PDT  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The Latest on the Scripps National Spelling Bee (all times local):
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| Denmark Just Became the Latest European Country to Ban Burqas And Niqabs Posted: 31 May 2018 05:35 PM PDT  Activists say the law violates rights to freedom of expression and religion
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| Southern Baptist Leader Fired Over Mishandling Of Student Rape Allegation Posted: 31 May 2018 11:08 AM PDT  A prominent evangelical leader has been fired from a Southern Baptist seminary
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| Wondrous dunes on Pluto are made of grains of frozen methane Posted: 31 May 2018 12:39 PM PDT  By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have detected another exotic feature on one of the solar system's most wondrous worlds, a large field of dunes on the surface of the distant, frigid dwarf planet Pluto apparently composed of wind-swept, sand-sized grains of frozen methane. "Pluto, even though it's so far away from Earth and so very cold, has a riot of processes we never expected to see. It is far more interesting than any of us dreamed, and tells us that these very distant bodies are well worth visiting," Brigham Young University planetary scientist Jani Radebaugh said.
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| Suspect charged after shooting in volcano evacuation zone Posted: 31 May 2018 07:48 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — Police have charged a man they say is seen on video shoving another man and firing a gun in a mandatory evacuation zone near the erupting Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.
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| Russia Wants to Arm Its New Husky-Class Submarines with Hypersonic Missiles Posted: 31 May 2018 04:46 PM PDT  Russia plans to arm its most advanced nuclear submarines with hypersonic missiles by 2027. The Husky-class attack submarines will be equipped with Zircon hypersonic missiles, according to Russian news organization TASS, which attributed the information to a source in Russia's defense industry.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 01 Jun 2018 11:09 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest
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| Here's Why Princess Eugenie Can Have an Instagram Account - Could Meghan Markle Be Next? Posted: 31 May 2018 10:18 AM PDT  Meghan deleted her Instagram in January 2018, just 2 months after the engagement announcement.
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| Trump Leaked Sensitive Info From The May Jobs Report, And That's A Big Effing Problem Posted: 01 Jun 2018 12:33 PM PDT  A president who is obsessed with stopping leaks leaked extremely sensitive
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| Netanyahu to push hard line on Iran during Europe trip Posted: 01 Jun 2018 08:19 PM PDT  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Europe Monday to push his uncompromising stance on Iran to leaders eager to salvage the nuclear agreement after the United States withdrew. Netanyahu, a fierce opponent of the agreement and the Iranian regime, will meet in turn with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May. Germany, France and the United Kingdom are three of the signatories of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between world powers and Iran, aimed at keeping Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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| People Are Losing It Over Malala Yousafzai's Otherworldly Message to Elon Musk Posted: 31 May 2018 01:45 PM PDT  "This is my favorite thing on the entirety of the internet right now"
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| Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Millions Of American Jobs Posted: 01 Jun 2018 04:28 AM PDT  (Get this roundup directly in your inbox each weekday ― sign up for The
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| 24 Healthy Recipes You Can Make In A Slow Cooker Posted: 31 May 2018 01:39 PM PDT |
| The Latest: Suspect arrested in volcano zone shooting Posted: 31 May 2018 06:02 PM PDT ![The Latest: Suspect arrested in volcano zone shooting]( "The Latest: Suspect arrested in volcano zone shooting") HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on a shooting in a volcano evacuation zone on Hawaii's Big Island (all times local):
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| Facebook to pull plug on 'Trending' topics feature Posted: 01 Jun 2018 09:40 AM PDT  The move, effective next week, comes at a time when the world's largest social network is combating the spread of fake news on its platform, which has in some places become central to the distribution of news. Trending accounted for less than 1.5 percent of clicks to news publishers on average, Facebook said in a blog post, adding the company was testing ways to display news including a 'breaking news label' and 'today in', a dedicated section for local news. The quality of news on Facebook has been called into question after alleged Russian operatives, for-profit spammers and others spread false reports on the site, including during the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
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| Five big cats briefly escape in flooded German zoo Posted: 01 Jun 2018 06:03 AM PDT  Overnight heavy thunderstorms had sparked flash floods in the area and completely flooded the private zoo, which is located on a riverbank. The high waters had damaged the cages, allowing the animals to go on the run.
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| Tom Cruise Shares Photo To Tease Start of Production on 'Top Gun 2' Posted: 31 May 2018 02:55 PM PDT  Tom Cruise is officially back in the cockpit.
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| John Boehner Hits GOP: 'There Is No Republican Party. There's A Trump Party.' Posted: 01 Jun 2018 01:57 AM PDT  Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the Republican Party is
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| U.S. vetoes U.N. resolution denouncing violence against Palestinians Posted: 01 Jun 2018 03:55 PM PDT  By Rodrigo Campos UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States vetoed on Friday a Kuwaiti-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Israel's use of force against Palestinian civilians, underlining Washington's differences with friends and foes alike over the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Later, a second, U.S.-drafted resolution that blamed Hamas for the violence and upheld Israel's right to defend itself failed to attract any other country's support when it was put to vote in the 15-member council. Blasting the council majority, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the two votes showed it was willing to blame Israel and unwilling to blame Hamas, the Islamist group that dominates Gaza.
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| Fiat Chrysler to phase out diesel in Europe by 2021 Posted: 01 Jun 2018 06:48 AM PDT  The clock is ticking for diesel at Fiat Chrysler, at least in its passenger cars in Europe and other key regions, CEO Sergio Marchionne said Friday. Fiat Chrysler, owner of the Jeep and Maserati brands, plans to phase out diesel-powered engines in its passenger cars by 2021 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Marchionne told a meeting of investors and analysts in Balocco, northern Italy.
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| Judge Temporarily Blocks Iowa From Enforcing Nation's Strictest Abortion Ban Posted: 01 Jun 2018 10:13 AM PDT  A county judge in Iowa on Friday temporarily barred the state from enforcing
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| Could Japan Have Won World War II by NOT Attacking Pearl Harbor? Posted: 01 Jun 2018 07:00 AM PDT  In other words, it would have evicted U.S. forces from the Philippine Islands, seized Pacific islands and built airfields there, and employed air and submarine attacks to cut the U.S. Pacific Fleet down to size on its westward voyage to the Philippines' relief. Interceptive operations would have culminated in a fleet battle somewhere in the Western Pacific.
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| 20 Creative 4th of July Crafts You Need to Try Posted: 01 Jun 2018 09:00 AM PDT |
| Anti-Kremlin journalist defends faking own murder Posted: 31 May 2018 02:30 PM PDT  Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko on Thursday defended faking his own murder with the cooperation of the Ukrainian security services, after the shock operation was criticised by fellow reporters. Kiev has come under fire after it admitted staging the killing in a bid to foil what it said was a real assassination plot by Moscow against the anti-Kremlin journalist. Babchenko made a scarcely credible reappearance at a press conference in Kiev on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the Ukrainian authorities reported he had been shot dead at his home in a contract-style killing.
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| Walmart goes upscale with personal shopper service Posted: 31 May 2018 01:55 PM PDT  Walmart on Thursday unveiled a new concierge shopping service enabling customers to get quick deliveries and advice from a personal assistant, going upscale in the retail giant's battle with Amazon. The new $50 per month service called Jetblack is launching in New York, offering "curated shopping recommendations" using both artificial intelligence and professional assistants. The new subscription service ramps up competition with Amazon, which gives customers a variety of benefits and delivery options through its Prime subscription membership.
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| Robert Mueller’s Russia Investigation Has Cost $16.7 Million, Report Shows Posted: 31 May 2018 11:54 PM PDT  President Trump has already criticized how much the investigation's price tag
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| Assad raises prospect of clashes with U.S. forces in Syria Posted: 31 May 2018 01:19 PM PDT  By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad raised the possibility of conflict with U.S. forces in Syria if they do not withdraw from the country soon. In an interview with Russia's RT international broadcaster, Assad said he would negotiate with fighters backed on the ground by Washington, but would reclaim territory they control by force if necessary, whether or not American troops supported them. In Washington, the State Department said it was not looking to fight Syrian or Iranian forces, but would use "necessary and proportionate force" to defend U.S. and partner forces in the fight against Islamic State in Syria.
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| Facebook No Longer The Dominant Social Media Platform For Teens Posted: 01 Jun 2018 10:16 AM PDT  Only about half of teenagers use Facebook these days, says a new Pew Research
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