| Conservative Democrat Wins Primary In New Jersey House Seat Posted: 05 Jun 2018 09:19 PM PDT  State Sen. Jeff Van Drew easily won the Democratic nomination for New Jersey's
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| Second Guatemala volcano eruption leads to more evacuations Posted: 05 Jun 2018 08:42 AM PDT  Volcan de Fuego erupted for the second time on Tuesday leaving rescuers struggling to reach survivors scrambling for safety.
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| Colbert Has An Ugly Reminder Of What May Have Been Trump's Most Racist Moment Posted: 05 Jun 2018 08:08 PM PDT  > TONIGHT! Superbowl champs the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bail on White House
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| Suspect in 6 Arizona killings never got over his divorce Posted: 05 Jun 2018 03:36 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — Dwight Lamon Jones apparently never put his bitter divorce behind him.
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| Betsy DeVos Says School Safety Commission Won't Look At Role Of Guns In School Shootings Posted: 05 Jun 2018 12:45 PM PDT  Testifying before the Senate appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday, Education
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| How Ree Drummond Turned a Tiny Oklahoma Town into the Center of Her Pioneer Woman Empire Posted: 06 Jun 2018 03:19 AM PDT  Ree Drummond not only lives in small town Pawhuska, Oklahoma, but she's grown her business there too. After the success of her restaurant, The Mercantile, she's recently opened a boutique hotel called The Boarding House.
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| California crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking House in 2018 Posted: 05 Jun 2018 01:21 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow explains why districts in California where Hillary Clinton won but Republicans hold the congressional seat have national significance as Democrats decide which candidates to put up against incumbents in those districts.
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| Malaysia draws China link to huge financial scandal Posted: 05 Jun 2018 10:21 PM PDT  Malaysia's ousted leader has denied wrongdoing over a $2.4 billion China-backed pipeline deal after the new government said the project was "highly suspicious" and linked it to a massive financial scandal. A company owned by Malaysia's finance ministry signed the 9.4-billion ringgit deal in 2016 for a Chinese state-owned company to build a gas pipeline and an oil pipeline. Najib Razak -- toppled in elections last month -- was prime minister at the time, and battling allegations billions of dollars were looted from sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.
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| Keith Ellison, liberal stalwart in House, will run for attorney general of Minnesota Posted: 05 Jun 2018 10:20 AM PDT  Rep. Keith Ellison, a leading figure among progressive Democrats in the House, filed Tuesday to run for attorney general of Minnesota and won't stand for reelection to Congress.
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| New York kids stand against prejudice with art Posted: 05 Jun 2018 01:24 PM PDT ![New York kids stand against prejudice with art]( "New York kids stand against prejudice with art") New York City schoolchildren who are enrolled in educational arts programs through the LEAP organization went to a city park recently to show off their skills and speak for their beliefs. Yahoo News sent photographer Gordon Donovan to capture the scene.
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| Woman Diagnosed With Cancer After Doctor Spots Lump on Her Throat During HGTV Appearance Posted: 05 Jun 2018 02:09 PM PDT  Nicole McGuinness is now receiving treatment after the eagle-eyed doctor advised her to see a doctor after finding her on social media.
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| Trump’s Claims Of Vast Power Could Be Heading Toward A Supreme Court Showdown Posted: 05 Jun 2018 04:41 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― With the president and his lawyers claiming he is shielded from
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| Suspect in 6 slayings targeted people connected to divorce Posted: 04 Jun 2018 06:22 PM PDT  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A hunch from a retired detective helped lead police to a man suspected of shooting six people to death in the Phoenix area, some of whom were connected to his divorce, authorities said Monday after the assailant killed himself with officers closing in.
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| Teacher Under Investigation For Mocking Black Child's Hair In Instagram Post Posted: 05 Jun 2018 12:07 PM PDT  A substitute teacher in Canada is being investigated for posting a photo on
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| Mouth gets Duterte in trouble again, this time for kiss Posted: 04 Jun 2018 05:57 PM PDT  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's mouth has landed him in hot water again, this time for kissing a married woman on the lips in front of thousands of his cheering supporters.
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| In California primaries, Democrats could crowd themselves out in key House races Posted: 05 Jun 2018 04:28 AM PDT  In Tuesday's California congressional primaries, Democrats are energized, enthusiastic and eager to send Trump a message. Walter spoke to Yahoo News' podcast, "The Long Game," about the impact of California's primary rules, and about the forces that created the desire for such a system.
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| Kenya says plane on domestic flight missing, search halted until dawn Posted: 05 Jun 2018 11:55 PM PDT ![Kenya says plane on domestic flight missing, search halted until dawn]( "Kenya says plane on domestic flight missing, search halted until dawn") A search for a small passenger plane that disappeared in Kenya on Tuesday was called off for the evening but will resume at dawn, Kenyan aviation authorities said late on Tuesday. The plane had taken off from Kitale, a town in Kenya's west, en route to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the capital, Nairobi, the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) said.
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| How the Moon's movements could give us Earthlings a 25-hour day Posted: 04 Jun 2018 04:09 PM PDT  Many of us feel as if there are not quite enough hours in a day – but according to scientists, this could change in the future. Researchers have found that the effect of the Moon moving away from Earth causes our planet to spin more slowly, lengthening the day. A new study, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted just over 18 hours. This is at least in part because the moon was closer and changed the way Earth spun around its axis. The moon is currently moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.82cm a year, which could mean in around 200 million years' time, each day will be 25 hours long. Stephen Meyers, a professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the study, explained: "As the Moon moves away, the Earth is like a spinning figure skater who slows down as they stretch their arms out." This is because Earth's movement is at least in part determined by the bodies around it, such as other planets and the Moon, which exert force on it. How our days on Earth are getting longer Changes in this force can effect changes in the orbit Earth traces around the Sun as well as its rotation around and wobble on its axis. These variations, called Milankovich cycles, determine where sunlight is distributed on Earth, and so decide the planet's climate rhythms. These rhythms can be detected in the rock record, spanning hundreds of millions of years. Over billions of years, time has changed significantly on Earth, because the Solar System has many moving parts, including the other planets orbiting the Sun. Changes in the rock record can show changes in Earth's rotation and allow scientists to map how it moved over time. However, going back billions of years has previously proven difficult as most scientific methods do not give the precision needed for such a leap back in time. Over billions of years, time has changed significantly on Earth, because the Solar System has many moving parts, including the other planets orbiting the Sun Credit: NASA This groundbreaking new study used astrochronology, a statistical method that links astronomical theory with geological observation, to discover ancient climate change and reconstruct the history of the Solar System while looking back on Earth's geologic past. "One of our ambitions was to use astrochronology to tell time in the most distant past, to develop very ancient geological time scales," Dr Meyers said. "We want to be able to study rocks that are billions of years old in a way that is comparable to how we study modern geologic processes." Alberto Malinverno, Lamont research professor at Columbia, joined the project after hearing Dr Meyers speaking about his work at a conference. The two combined a statistical method that Meyers developed in 2015 to deal with uncertainty across time, called TimeOpt, with astronomical theory, geologic data and a sophisticated statistical approach called Bayesian inversion. This combination of methods allowed the pair to reliably assess the direction of the axis of rotation of Earth, and the shape of its orbit, from testing layers of rock in the 1.4 billion-year-old Xiamaling Formation from Northern China and a 55 million-year-old record from Walvis Ridge, in the southern Atlantic Ocean. From this, they could determine the length of day and the distance between Earth and the Moon. Dr Malinverno explained: "In the future, we want to expand the work into different intervals of geologic time."
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| Israel calls for 'military coalition' if Iran boosts enrichment Posted: 05 Jun 2018 01:38 AM PDT  Israel's intelligence minister called Tuesday for a military coalition against Iran if the Islamic Republic were to defy world powers by enriching military-grade uranium. Yisrael Katz's remarks came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began visiting European leaders to discuss Iran's regional involvement and nuclear programme, both seen by the Jewish state as grave threats. European powers have been scrambling to preserve a landmark deal over Tehran's nuclear programme since US President Donald Trump announced Washington's withdrawal from the treaty in May.
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| Administration sharks circle Atlantic's only national marine monument Posted: 05 Jun 2018 12:57 PM PDT  It's been six months since Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended that President Trump reduce or eliminate the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Marine Monument and open it to commercial exploitation. Scientists and conservationists are mulling over the fate of this blue park as the White House sits on Zinke's guidance.
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| Cop Who Was Fired After Ramming Suspect With Car Hired By Nearby County Posted: 05 Jun 2018 02:32 PM PDT  A Georgia police officer fired a day after video captured him hitting a
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| Siblings Pen Scathing Obituary for Mom They Say Ran Off With Uncle: 'World Is a Better Place Without Her' Posted: 06 Jun 2018 07:20 AM PDT  With 105 words, a family decimated their late mother, whose passing they took as an opportunity to air their decades-long grievances.
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| US senator refused entry to facility holding migrants' kids Posted: 04 Jun 2018 06:01 PM PDT  A U.S. senator said Monday he tried to enter a federal facility in Texas where immigrant children are being held, but police were called and he was told to leave.
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| Soldier steals armored vehicle, takes it on two-hour ride in Virginia: police Posted: 06 Jun 2018 04:17 AM PDT  (Reuters) - A soldier stole an armored personnel carrier from a National Guard base in Virginia on Tuesday and took the vehicle on a two-hour drive that ended in a police chase through downtown Richmond, the state capital, state police said. The unidentified man took the vehicle at about 7:50 p.m. from Fort Pickett, a Army National Guard base in Blackstone, Virginia, state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said in an email to Reuters.
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| Guatemala's Fuego volcano eruption: 69 dead and hundreds injured as lava surge sweeps through villages Posted: 04 Jun 2018 09:14 PM PDT  José Antonio Rivera counted to nine on the fingers of his grey ash-encased hands as he tallied relatives who had vanished in the torrent of mud and fire. "My children are gone. There is just me, my wife, and one son left," he told local television amid apocalyptic scenes in the shadow of Guatemala's El Fuego volcano. The massive eruption blasted smoke more than four miles into the sky and set off a pyroclastic surge of the kind that destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii in AD 79. Such a surge - a mixture of ash, sand, and gas - can reach temperatures of 700C and travel far faster than lava, over 100km per hour. Guatemalan villagers were caught completely off guard. Hilda Lopez described how it swept into her village of San Miguel Los Lotes during a party. She said: "We were at a party, celebrating the birth of a baby, when one of the neighbours shouted at us to come out and see the lava that was coming. Aerial view of the aftermath of a volcano eruption in Escuintla Credit: Reuters "We didn't believe it, and when we went out the hot mud was already coming down the street. My mother was stuck there, she couldn't get out." One group of villagers gathered on a bridge to watch what they thought would be a slow lava flow, only fleeing at the last minute as the bridge was suddenly overwhelmed. Death toll rising On Monday night, the official death toll was 69 and expected to rise as rescue workers combed the worst affected area about 30 miles southwest of the capital Guatemala City. The village of El Rodeo was "buried," the rescuers said. They described finding bodies so cased in ash they looked like statues. Volcano Fuego eruption in Guatemala Some rescuers had to return to their bases after their shoes melted. Others managed to dig 10 survivors out. "We are looking for people who are missing, but we don't know how many there are," Mario Cruz, spokesman for the fire brigade, told the Telegraph. He said six children, and their pregnant mother, had just been rescued from their home and taken to a local hospital where survivors were being treated for burns and breathing difficulties. A soldier takes a rescued child covered with ash to a hospital after the eruption Credit: REUTERS Volcan El Fuego - the "Volcano of Fire" - began erupting at 1pm on Sunday and that was immediately followed by a billowing grey cloud that filled the horizon. Ash rained down on towns and cities across a far wider area, including the tourist city of Antigua and Guatemala City, where the airport was temporarily closed by debris on the runway. More than 3,000 people had been evacuated to shelters. At a makeshift morgue in the city of Escuintla, about 18.6 miles from the explosion, distraught family members came to search for their relatives among the dead. Guatemala's Fuego volcano eruption, in pictures Francisco Quiche, a 46-year-old welder, gave a blood sample to try to identify his son's body, though he already knew his son's fate. After evacuating the town of El Rodeo with his family, he returned to search for his son and daughter-in-law. Peering through a hole in the wall of his son's home, Quiche saw the boy's body. He fears his daughter-in-law is dead as well. "We had time to leave, thank God, but I am very sorry for the loss of my son and my daughter in law," he said through tears. "My son was just 22 years old, the same as my daughter-in-law, who was expecting a baby." Mourning period President Jimmy Morales declared three days of mourning but his government was already facing criticism for not acting sooner to start forced evacuations. The slow reaction may have been related to the fact that Guatemalans are used to seeing El Fuego, one of Central America's most active volcanoes, spit burning material into the sky. A small industry exists of trips for tourists who trek up an adjacent volcano and camp to watch the spectacle. "We ran a tour on Saturday," tour guide Camilo Toledo told the Telegraph. "It looked like it was a bit more active than normal but what happened on Sunday was a massive surprise." Eddy Sanchez, the director of the country's seismology and volcanology institute, said that El Fuego has an average of between 10 and 16 "explosions" a day. Neighbours stand outside a temporary morgue near the volcano in Alotenango Credit: Luis Soto/ AP He said last year the volcano erupted 12 times. The biggest one, in February this year, sent ash a mile into the sky. Unexpected tragedy Sunday's eruption, however, was on a completely different scale. He told The Telegraph it was still much smaller than the last really major eruption in 1974, although that one did not cause any deaths. Police officers carry a wounded man after the eruption in El Rodeo village Credit: NOE PEREZ/ AFP He blamed the greater destruction on the fact rivers were already overflowing and filled with mud, which meant that the pyroclastic flow became far more dangerous. "The rain made it far more deadly," he said. "It also meant that the evacuation effort was much more difficult." The task of retrieving bodies on Monday was hindered by another eruption and an apparent landslide on the southern slopes of Fuego triggered fresh evacuations. CONRED shared a photo showing the flows of gas and mud sweeping down a mountainside and across a broad valley, engulfing a small village. "The landscape on the volcano is totally changed, everything is totally destroyed," government volcanologist Gustavo Chigna said on local radio. David Rothery, a volcanologist with The Open University, said: "Pyroclastic flows may be hot enough to glow like molten lava. They can travel further, as well as much faster, than lava flows. "This is the phenomenon that claimed many lives during the famous AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii. "Given the (previous) activity it might have been wise to declare an evacuation zone around the volcano."
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| Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein Wins the California Senate Primary Posted: 05 Jun 2018 10:18 PM PDT  This is Feinstein's bid for a fifth full term in Washington
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| Designer Kate Spade Dead At 55 Posted: 05 Jun 2018 09:16 AM PDT  New York-based designer Kate Spade died Tuesday, the eponymous company she
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| Best Friends Fall to Their Deaths While Rock Climbing in Yosemite National Park Posted: 04 Jun 2018 10:19 AM PDT  A pair of experienced rock climbers fell to their deaths Saturday morning while scaling a massive rock formation at Yosemite National Park in northern California, the National Park Service announced
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| Not Many Eagles Fans Showed Up To Watch Donald Trump Sing The National Anthem Posted: 05 Jun 2018 03:51 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump headlined a White House event on Tuesday
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| Macron warns of risk of 'conflict' over Iran nuclear deal Posted: 05 Jun 2018 01:09 PM PDT  French President Emmanuel Macron warned of the risk of "conflict" in the standoff with Iran after Tehran announced plans to boost its uranium enrichment capacity as Europe scrambles to save a beleaguered nuclear deal. The deal hangs by a thread after the US withdrew last month -- a move applauded by Iran's arch-foe Israel -- but so far fellow signatories France, Britain, Germany, China, Russia and the EU, have stood firm.
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| China warns US against provocations following B-52 flyby Posted: 06 Jun 2018 04:30 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — China lashed out at the U.S. on Wednesday after a pair of B-52 bombers flew past a Chinese-held shoal in the South China Sea, amid escalating words and displays of military strength from the two major Pacific powers.
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| Dwight Jones Killing Spree: Death Toll Rises to 6 in Arizona Slayings of JonBenet Ramsey Consultant and 5 Others Posted: 04 Jun 2018 10:58 AM PDT  Arizona authorities said the suspect was responsible for six killings within 30 hours.
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| A look back at D-Day 74 years later Posted: 06 Jun 2018 08:10 AM PDT ![A look back at D-Day 74 years later]( "A look back at D-Day 74 years later") Pictures of that pivotal battle in Normandy, France, in June 1944 are a sober reminder of the courage, resolve and selflessness needed to fight fascism and the debt subsequent generations owe to the GI Generation.
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| Sen. Jeff Merkley: 'Zero Tolerance' Refugee Policy Is Actually 'Zero Humanity' Posted: 04 Jun 2018 01:35 PM PDT  "Are we really putting children through a traumatic experience here in the U.S. in order to dissuade their parents from seeking asylum?"
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| US: A Man Takes Knee during Anthem at Trump's Event Posted: 05 Jun 2018 03:01 PM PDT  US: A Man Takes Knee during Anthem at Trump's Event
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| Trump's 'celebration of America' in lieu of cancelled Eagles gala fails to shine Posted: 05 Jun 2018 02:19 PM PDT  Donald Trump's "celebration of America" at the White House, hastily put together on Tuesday in the absence of Super Bowl winners the Philadelphia Eagles, proved that rare thing in the Trump era: an anticlimax. "I was surprised from the ordeal to get here that it was only a 12-minute shindig," said Emma Wittstruck Call, 30, who did not vote for the president. Trump handed more ammunition to critics who compare him to a tinpot dictator wrapping himself in the flag and appealing to cheap patriotism.
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| Russia not trying to split EU, Putin says before rare visit to Western Europe Posted: 04 Jun 2018 01:09 PM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview broadcast on Monday, said he did not want to divide the European Union as he prepared to visit Austria in his first bilateral trip to a West European country in almost a year. "We do not pursue the objective of dividing anything or anyone in the EU," Putin told broadcaster ORF. "We are far more interested in the EU being united and flourishing because the EU is our most important trading and economic partner." Putin, who has not made a bilateral visit to a West European country since he went to Finland last July, will meet government and business leaders in Austria in a trip which officially marks 50 years since the two countries' energy firms Gazprom and OMV first signed a gas supply deal.
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| Kidnapped baby back with mom; sex offender dad arrested Posted: 05 Jun 2018 03:29 PM PDT  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Following an anonymous tip, police rescued a kidnapped 7-month-old girl and arrested her father at a mobile home in North Carolina, nearly two days after he took the infant from her mother at knifepoint in Virginia, authorities said Tuesday.
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| 'Star Wars' Director Rian Johnson Strikes Back At Trolls For Bullying Kelly Marie Tran Posted: 06 Jun 2018 01:26 AM PDT  Rian Johnson, director of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," slammed the "manbabies"
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| French carmaker PSA to exit Iran over US sanction risk Posted: 04 Jun 2018 10:31 AM PDT  French automaker PSA said Monday that it would pull out of two joint ventures to sell its cars in Iran to avoid the risk of US sanctions after Washington withdrew from a key nuclear deal with Tehran. "The group has begun to suspend its joint venture activities, in order to comply with US law by August 6, 2018," the maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars said in a statement. European officials have vowed to try to shield their companies working in Iran from the reach of punishing US sanctions that are set to come into effect by November.
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| Audi Is Finally Entering The Coupe-SUV Segment With All-New Q8 Posted: 05 Jun 2018 05:00 AM PDT  The new flagship of the Q range will be built in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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| A Look Back at the Funeral of Robert F. Kennedy, 50 Years Later Posted: 05 Jun 2018 08:25 AM PDT  The U.S. senator and presidential candidate was fatally shot in 1968.
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