| North Korea Mulls Ways To 'Conceal' Nuclear Weapons From U.S.: Reports Posted: 01 Jul 2018 06:28 AM PDT  North Korea has no intention of giving up its entire nuclear stockpile and is
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| The Democratic Socialists of America show their muscle in New York congressional upset Posted: 29 Jun 2018 02:15 PM PDT  Ocasio-Cortez will be the first DSA member in Congress this century, but she isn't the first candidate to score a dramatic upset with the help of the left-wing organization. And if they have their way, she won't be the last.
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| 12-Year-Old Black Kid Has Police Called On Him For Mowing A Lawn Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:05 PM PDT  A 12-year-old child who started his own summer lawn-mowing business had the
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| Lancaster mother, boyfriend charged with murdering her 10-year-old son Posted: 29 Jun 2018 08:44 PM PDT  A Lancaster mother and her boyfriend are each facing murder charges following the death of the woman's 10-year-old son last week.
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| Temporary housing program for hurricane survivors ends Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:52 AM PDT  The FEMA program that helped Americans impacted by Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey has come to an end. The agency said the program was meant to be a temporary solution, but nearly 2,000 displaced survivors struggle to find permanent housing.
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| Pres. Obama and Jon Stewart; different method, same message Posted: 29 Jun 2018 01:16 PM PDT  Republicans have worked overtime to normalize Donald Trump's countless breaks in presidential tradition and his divisive rhetoric but Pres. Obama and Jon Stewart separately and in their own ways remind Americans not to normalize this behavior and to vote.
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| Maverick entrepreneur's space rocket fails at blast off Posted: 29 Jun 2018 09:30 PM PDT  A rocket developed by a maverick Japanese entrepreneur and convicted fraudster exploded shortly after liftoff Saturday, in a major blow to his bid to send Japan's first privately backed rocket into space. Interstellar Technologies, founded by popular internet service provider Livedoor's creator Takafumi Horie, launched the unmanned rocket, MOMO-2, at around 5:30 am (2030 GMT Friday) from a test site in Taiki, southern Hokkaido. Interstellar Technologies said it would continue its rocket development programme after analysing the latest failure.
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| North Korea is keeping nuclear program alive, officials say Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:43 AM PDT  After President Trump's historic summit with Kim Jong Un, more than a dozen U.S. intelligence officials tell NBC News that North Korea is pushing ahead with its nuclear program.
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| Annapolis Shooting: Was Jarrod Ramos' Killing Spree Fueled by Rage Over a Girl From High School? Posted: 29 Jun 2018 10:39 AM PDT  After exchanging messages on Facebook, he reportedly grew enraged and bombarded her with vulgar emails.
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| Riot in Portland as far-right marchers clash with anti-fascists Posted: 01 Jul 2018 01:15 AM PDT  A riot was declared in downtown Portland, Oregon on Saturday evening as the city exploded into its worst protest violence of the Trump era. More than 150 supporters of the far-right Patriot Prayer group fought pitched street battles with scores of anti-fascist protesters. The far-right march had started near Schrunk Plaza in the city centre, where the rightwing group had held a rally, led by the Patriot Prayer founder and Republican US Senate candidate Joey Gibson.
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| The 'Abolish ICE' Movement Is Growing. Here's Why the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Was Created Posted: 29 Jun 2018 12:12 PM PDT  Immigration and Customs Enforcement was created as part of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003, as part of a major federal reorganization
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| Plastic a big part of human life and a major source of pollution Posted: 30 Jun 2018 09:02 AM PDT  So many of the items we use are made of plastic, but much of it doesn't get recycled and pollutes the land and seas. Many cities are moving to ban certain products and some families are trying to live plastic-free.
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| Notorious gangster flees French jail by helicopter Posted: 01 Jul 2018 08:46 AM PDT  Réau (France) (AFP) - A notorious gangster who said his life of crime was inspired by films such as "Scarface" pulled off a brazen jailbreak on Sunday, fleeing a prison near Paris aboard a hijacked helicopter in a commando-style operation. Redoine Faid, 46, broke out of the prison with the help of two accomplices who used smoke bombs and angle grinders to overcome wardens in the facility's visiting room where Faid was talking to a brother, according to prison unionist Martial Delabroye. The men quickly made good their escape in the helicopter in an operation lasting just 10 minutes, Delabroye told AFP at the penitentiary in Reau in the French capital's southeastern suburbs.
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| North Korea, South Korea reopen maritime communication channel Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:30 PM PDT  North and South Korea reopened a maritime communication channel on Sunday, with vessels from the two countries making radio contact for the first time in a decade, South Korea's Defence Ministry said in a statement. A North Korean patrol boat responded immediately when the South Korean Navy contacted it via an international radio channel at 9 a.m. Sunday in the western sea, normalizing the maritime communication channel for the first time in 10 years, according to the ministry.
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| Comedian 'Stuttering John' Boasts He Duped Trump Into Air Force One Call Posted: 29 Jun 2018 03:26 PM PDT  President Donald Trump apparently carried on a lengthy phone conversation from
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| Smoke Dawg: Canadian rapper reportedly killed after shooting in Toronto Posted: 01 Jul 2018 02:05 AM PDT  Canadian rapper Smoke Dawg has reportedly been killed following a shooting in broad daylight in Toronto. "Multiple shots" were fired in the Entertainment District of the city on Saturday evening, police said, with three "seriously injured" victims - two male and one female - being rushed to hospital. Mustafa the Poet, a Canadian spoken word artist, announced the news of his friend's death on Twitter.
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| Rescue of deaf puppy stuck in hole for 30 hours draws thousands Posted: 30 Jun 2018 09:30 AM PDT  After 30 hours of effort, volunteers were able to rescue a 7-week-old deaf puppy that fell down a 50-foot crevice behind a house in Alabama.
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| Mexico's national elections, at a glance Posted: 30 Jun 2018 09:03 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans will elect a new president and numerous other officeholders on Sunday. With popular discontent high due to high murder rates and rampant corruption, all four candidates are trying to convince voters that they represent change from the status quo.
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| 12-Year-Old Boy Mowing Lawn Has Police Called on Him: 'Who Does That?' Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:50 AM PDT  He accidentally mowed a piece of a neighbor's lawn.
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| Notorious thief flees French jail by helicopter Posted: 30 Jun 2018 05:09 PM PDT A notorious career thief who was once France's most-wanted man pulled off a daring jailbreak on Sunday, fleeing a prison in the Paris area by helicopter, officials said. Redoine Faid, 46, broke out of the prison in Reau in the city's southeastern suburbs within minutes, helped by a number of heavily-armed men, sources close to the case said. The helicopter was later found in a northeastern suburb of the French capital, they said, adding that a police search has been launched across the entire Paris region.
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| Trump Has Lied And Twisted Facts To Justify His Harsh Immigration Policies Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:45 PM PDT  The national outrage against the Trump administration's separation and
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| Syria regime advances in south as air strikes kill 15 Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:59 PM PDT  At least eight battered rebel-held towns in southern Syria returned to regime control under Russian-brokered deals on Saturday as air strikes killed at least 15 civilians, a monitor said. Since June 19, backed by its ally Russia, the Damascus regime has carried out a deadly bombing campaign in southern Syria as it pushes to retake the strategic area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. As of Saturday, government forces controlled more than half of Daraa, up from just 30 percent at the start of the operation, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
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| Divers progress in search for missing Thai children trapped in cave Posted: 30 Jun 2018 04:51 AM PDT  Rescue divers reached several kilometres inside a flooded cave Saturday where 12 boys and their football coach have been trapped for a week, offering a flicker of hope for the harrowing search. There has been no contact with the boys, aged 11 to 16, and their coach since they went into the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand last weekend and were hemmed in by heavy rains that blocked the entrance. The desperate, round-the-clock search for the team has been beset by torrential downpours that submerged tunnels near the entrance, blocking divers from going in. But Navy SEAL divers reached a T-junction in the depths of the cave just one to two miles from where the boys are believed to be, Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osottanakorn said. Divers reached the same spot earlier in the week but were forced back by rushing floodwaters. An ethnic Akha woman prays for the return of the missing members of an under-16 football team Credit: Reuters This time, divers planted bottles of oxygen along the tunnel walls so swimmers navigating the muddy pools with almost no visibility could stay under for longer. Water levels inside the complex labyrinth of tunnels finally dropped thanks to dozens of pumps set up to drain the floods even as heavy rain continued to pound the area near the Myanmar and Laos borders. "The situation is better today than yesterday and the day before. Water has receded considerably and we are pumping out water in all chambers (near the entrance)," Narongsak told reporters. As the search for the boys hit its seventh day, attention turned to their chances of survival inside the cave with little or no food and light. The group likely has access to fresh water - either dripping in through rocks or rushing in through the entrance - but experts warned that runoff water from nearby farms could carry dangerous chemicals or bacteria. "If they drink the water in the caves and it makes them sick it could hasten the problem that they are in, but if they don't drink it then they are also in trouble," Anmar Mirza, coordinator of the US National Cave Rescue Commission, told AFP. But even without food he said young, athletic boys could "easily live for a month or a month and a half" with the main challenge their mental resolve. "The biggest issue that they are facing right now if they are alive is psychological because they don't know at what point they might get rescued," Mirza said by phone from the US state of Indiana. Practice drills The dramatic week-long rescue has galvanised the nation and prompted emotional outpourings online from well-wishers praying for their safe return. Cartoon images of the smiling boys being found by divers circulated along with messages for the team: "Stay Strong, We are Coming" and "Don't Give Up". Teams of foreign experts, including more than 30 US military personnel, have descended on the remote mountainous site to join some 1,000 Thai rescuers. Australian, Chinese and Japanese experts also joined efforts. "We have the skills of cave rescue and rope rescue so we can try to do something for the children," James Wang, from China's Green Boat Emergency Rescue, told AFP. A group of policemen enters Tham Luang Nang Non cave where a a soccer team has gone missing Credit: Getty Several teams trekked into the thick jungle above the cave desperately looking for new openings that might lead to the trapped boys. One team was drilling into a 40-metre (130-foot) chimney that led to a muddy chamber, which the governor described as a "promising" lead. But there was still no indication it linked to the main cave complex. "We have been rotating our staff into the chimney since yesterday, they are inside... still searching and we are waiting for their findings," Surachai Thathes, chief of the parks ministry rescue team for northern Thailand, told AFP. Another chimney was discovered nearby and helicopters carrying food, water and medical supplies were dispatched to the area. But the main priority was trying to reach the boys through the main entrance, governor Narongsak said. Earlier in the day medics and police staged practice drills to prepare for the quick and complex evacuations that will be required if and when the boys are found. Stone-faced relatives kept vigil under a makeshift tent near shrines where monks are leading prayers near shrines overflowing with offerings. Stretching 10 kilometres (six miles) and with complicated, snaking pathways and narrow corridors, Tham Luang is one one of Thailand's longest and toughest caves to navigate. Officials said the boys know the site well and have visited many times before, buoying hopes that they might have trekked to a large airy chamber in the centre. Rescuers found footprints and handprints in a chamber near that spot earlier in the week, further in from where they found the kids' football boots, backpacks and bicycles.
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| Pantheon burial honours French rights icon Simone Veil Posted: 30 Jun 2018 11:03 PM PDT  Hundreds of people are expected to line the streets of Paris on Sunday to honour Holocaust survivor and women's rights icon Simone Veil, who will be given the rare honour of burial at the Pantheon a year and a day after her death at age 89. Veil's death prompted an outpouring of emotion, as she had long been considered one of France's most popular and trusted public figures. "Mum never thought she would be placed in the Pantheon.
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| Turkish military kills eight Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey Posted: 01 Jul 2018 12:31 AM PDT ![Turkish military kills eight Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey]( "Turkish military kills eight Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey") The Turkish military killed eight Kurdish militants in air strikes in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey at the weekend, it said on Sunday. The air strikes were carried out on northern Iraq's Zap region and Turkey's southeastern provinces of Sirnak and Van, the military tweeted. Turkey has stepped up strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq, especially its stronghold in the Qandil mountains.
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| The War On Women Is Already Here Posted: 30 Jun 2018 02:45 AM PDT  The Supreme Court has been terrible to women all year ― and that's with
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| School Bus Overturns on Jersey Turnpike Posted: 29 Jun 2018 12:33 PM PDT  A school bus carrying several children crashed and overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike. No serious injuries have been reported. (June 29)
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| Worried Guatemalan mom waits in US for a daughter taken away Posted: 29 Jun 2018 12:09 PM PDT  HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — She came to the U.S. to help her family and ended up having it torn apart instead.
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| 14 Family Cars That Are Genuinely Fun to Drive Posted: 29 Jun 2018 12:08 PM PDT |
| Rebels, Russia pursue talks over battered south Syria: monitor Posted: 01 Jul 2018 06:14 AM PDT  Syrian rebels and local officials pursued talks with regime ally Russia on Sunday over the fate of a key southern region facing a government offensive, a Britain-based monitor said. The Jordan-backed talks came as a tentative calm reigned over most fronts in the southern province of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. A "ceasefire has largely held since Saturday at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) to facilitate the ongoing negotiations," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
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| Idaho stabbings: Nine injured after 'unprovoked' knife attack at apartments housing refugees Posted: 01 Jul 2018 06:29 AM PDT  Idaho police have arrested a man after a mass stabbing at a Boise apartment complex housing many refugee families. Boise Police Chief Bill Bones said nine individuals were taken to area hospitals, some with life-threatening injuries, following the Saturday night attack. "At this point we haven't lost anybody, but as I said the injuries are very serious," Bones said.
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| Hezbollah says 'very big victory' imminent in south Syria Posted: 29 Jun 2018 11:02 AM PDT ![Hezbollah says 'very big victory' imminent in south Syria]( "Hezbollah says 'very big victory' imminent in south Syria") BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Iran-backed Hezbollah, a key Damascus ally, said on Friday a "very big victory" was near in south Syria, where an army offensive has made rapid gains against insurgents. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also denied a statement by a Saudi-led coalition that its forces had killed eight members of Lebanon's Hezbollah in Yemen. While Nasrallah has said his Shi'ite movement has not sent fighters to Yemen, he said "we do not confirm or deny" if Hezbollah has any other kind of presence there. (Reporting by Ellen Francis; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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| Original Bullitt Mustang To Make International Debut At Goodwood Posted: 01 Jul 2018 03:00 AM PDT  The iconic car emerged earlier this year after years out of the spotlight.
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| The Latest: USA Gymnastics responds to more Nassar charges Posted: 29 Jun 2018 03:20 PM PDT  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the investigation into allegations of criminal behavior by disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar at a famed gymnastics training center in Texas (all times local):
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| 7 Deals on Amazon You Don't Need to Wait for Prime Day For Posted: 29 Jun 2018 12:31 PM PDT  There are some seriously good discounts on Amazon ahead of its big 24-hour sale event.
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