| California Firefighter's Home Burned Down In Carr Fire While He Fought Other Blaze Posted: 30 Jul 2018 05:02 PM PDT  Northern California firefighter Jason Campbell came home from battling one of
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| Trump says he would meet Iran's leaders 'anytime' with 'no preconditions' Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:27 PM PDT  Months after pulling the United States out of a nuclear deal with Iran, the president says he is willing to meet with leaders from Tehran.
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| Police investigating after young pit bull left to drown in cage on river's edge Posted: 31 Jul 2018 08:52 AM PDT  New Jersey authorities are searching for a suspect who they say left a young
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| Gay Couple Told To Leave Alaska Airlines Flight So Straight Couple Could Sit Together Posted: 31 Jul 2018 08:48 AM PDT  A gay man has accused Alaska Airlines of giving a straight couple
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| The Latest: Dad suspected in murder-suicide had lots of ammo Posted: 31 Jul 2018 01:49 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a New York City murder-suicide that left four people dead, including a 6-year-old boy (all times local):
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| No fatalities in Mexican plane crash Posted: 01 Aug 2018 05:30 AM PDT ![No fatalities in Mexican plane crash]( "No fatalities in Mexican plane crash") An Aeromexico jetliner taking off in a blustery storm smashed down into a nearby field but skidded to a stop virtually intact, and all 103 people aboard were able to escape advancing flames before fire engulfed the aircraft.
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| Historians Quit UVA Think Tank After School's Hiring Of Ex-Trump Aide Marc Short Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:01 PM PDT  Two distinguished historians at the University of Virginia have resigned from
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| Redding, California, police chief goes back to scorched home Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:12 PM PDT  Redding Police Chief Roger Moore stands where his home once was while discussing the fires that have torn through Northern California.
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| A Trader Joe's shootout, an innocent death, and soul searching for LAPD Posted: 31 Jul 2018 01:00 AM PDT  A makeshift memorial outside the Silver Lake Trader Joe's, where a young woman was killed in the crossfire between a gunman and police. To shoot an innocent bystander in pursuit of a violent criminal is every police officer's nightmare. In Los Angeles, with its vexed history of police brutality, racial tension, and high-speed car chases that local television networks feast on, it elicits a special sort of horror, a throwback to an ugly not-so-distant past that the city would much rather forget.
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| 'Come and get me,' boy pleaded before California fire death Posted: 30 Jul 2018 09:46 PM PDT  A young boy pleaded for rescue before he died along with two others in a California wildfire, an anguished relative recounted Monday, while other shaken survivors told of their flight from a "tornado" of fire. Thousands of firefighters in California made some progress against several large-scale blazes that have turned around 200,000 acres (80,940 hectares) into an ashen wasteland, destroyed expensive homes, and killed eight fire personnel and civilians in the most populous US state. The worst blaze, northern California's Carr Fire, has killed six people since Thursday, including a 70-year-old woman and her two great-grandchildren, aged four and five.
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| Zimbabwe counts votes after first post-Mugabe election Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:58 PM PDT  By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe Brock HARARE (Reuters) - Counting began in Zimbabwe on Monday in the first election since the removal of former president Robert Mugabe, a watershed vote that could pull a pariah state back into the international fold and spark an economic revival. The election is a two-horse race between 75-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a long-time Mugabe ally, and 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa, a lawyer and pastor who is vying to become Zimbabwe's youngest head of state. Mnangagwa is viewed as the frontrunner, though the latest opinion polls showed a tight race.
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| CBS keeps Moonves in place during sexual misconduct inquiry Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:21 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — CBS will keep CEO Les Moonves in place during an investigation of sexual misconduct charges against him, the company said. It will hire an outside counsel to conduct the probe.
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| Italian ship accused of taking migrants back to Libya for first time Posted: 31 Jul 2018 09:05 AM PDT  A rescue operation in which an Italian towboat rescued more than 100 migrants and returned them to Libya earlier this week may have been in breach of international law, the United Nations said on Tuesday. A spokesman for the U.N. migration agency said it could not establish the location of the rescue, which is key to establishing migrants' rights, although some other parties involved in the case have made contradictory assertions about the incident including where it took place. The rescue coincides with a growing perception among human rights groups that some European countries are taking an increasingly hard line in their efforts to cut the number of migrants arriving on their shores, after Italy's new government closed its ports to charities' rescue boats in past weeks. According to Spanish charity Proactiva Open Arms, an Italian towboat, Asso 28, rescued more than 100 migrants from international waters on Monday and took them to Libya, their country of departure. This would constitute a breach of international law, under which people rescued in international waters cannot be returned to a place where their lives are put in danger. Both the United Nations and European Union have acknowledged that Libya is not safe. A distraught migrant woman arrives at a Libyan naval base after being rescued by the Libyan coast guard Credit: Hani Amara/Reuters Italy's coast guard initially said on Tuesday that the rescue was coordinated by the Libyan coast guard, and later clarified that the operation had taken place in Libya's so-called "search and rescue (SAR)" area. The Libyan coast guard was not immediately available for a comment. Libya's SAR is not clearly defined but is widely understood to extend far beyond its national waters. Proactiva spokeswoman Laura Lanuza said its members learnt the rescue occurred in international waters because their boat Open Arms was nearby and they could listen to radio communications between the Italian ship and the Libyan authorities. The U.N. refugee agency said the operation "could represent a violation of international law," it said on Twitter. A spokesman for the U.N. migration agency said the agency was still investigating the case but confirmed the return of the migrants to Libya. Italy's Interior Minister and deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini Credit: VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP He said the Libyans first told him the rescue operation was carried out by "an unknown vessel", then changed their version and said the rescuing boat was Libyan. The head of mission at Open Arms, Fabrizio Gatti, contradicted the Libyan version and said a member of the Asso 28 crew told him over the phone the Italian boat carried out the rescue and was taking the migrants back to Libya. He said he had a record of the conversation. Asso 28 is now docked in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, according to Marine Traffic, a real-time information service on ships movements. Charities are at loggerheads with the new Italian government and its right wing home affairs minister Matteo Salvini who has adopted a hard line to cut the number of migrants arriving on Italy's shores.
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| Donald Trump Echoes Rudy Giuliani: 'Collusion Is Not A Crime' Posted: 31 Jul 2018 05:35 AM PDT  President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that "collusion is not a crime," echoing his attorney Rudy Giuliani's comments a day earlier.
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| Toyota unveils 2nd-generation hydrogen fuel cell truck Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:29 AM PDT  Observers of the motor industry know that Toyota is still not entirely sure about fully electric vehicles being the answer to sustainable mobility in the short to medium term. Although it's now more onboard with EV technology that in the past, Toyota is still proudly championing hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell technologies as its preferred options.
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| Mollie Tibbetts Case: Investigators 'Confident' With Timeline for Day College Student Vanished Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:34 PM PDT  Tibbetts was apparently last seen running in Brooklyn, about 60 miles east of Des Moines, on July 18.
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| Facebook Warns Of ‘Bad Actors,’ Deletes Accounts Ahead Of Midterms Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:11 PM PDT  Facebook said Tuesday it removed over a dozen pages, profiles and accounts
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| Iran currency drops 18% in two days Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:30 AM PDT  The Iranian rial has been crashing in recent days as the country anxiously awaits the reimposition of full US sanctions, starting on August 6. On January 1, the dollar was worth 42,900 rials. The government has been in crisis mode, replacing its central bank chief last week.
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| Post-election clashes in Zimbabwe turn deadly Posted: 01 Aug 2018 08:47 AM PDT ![Post-election clashes in Zimbabwe turn deadly]( "Post-election clashes in Zimbabwe turn deadly") Protests in Zimbabwe's historic elections turned bloody on Wednesday as a man was shot dead during demonstrations over alleged vote fraud and President Emmerson Mnangagwa appealed for calm.
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| Two Koreas hold military talks as U.S. detects activity at North Korea missile factory Posted: 30 Jul 2018 11:33 PM PDT  By Hyonhee Shin and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korea held military talks to build trust on Tuesday, while the United States detected renewed activity at a North Korean missile factory, casting more suspicion over the North's intentions. The meeting, their second since June, held in the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), was designed to follow on from an inter-Korean summit in April at which leaders of the two Koreas agreed to defuse tensions and halt "all hostile acts." North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also vowed during his separate summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore last month to work toward denuclearization, but there has not been a concrete agreement to accomplish that goal.
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| On retirement question, Justice Ginsburg has go-to answers Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:01 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than a decade, audiences and interviewers have had one pressing question for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: When will you retire?
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| Porsche confirms Taycan specifications Posted: 31 Jul 2018 06:33 AM PDT  The name Taycan might not mean much at the moment, but it certainly will when this production version of the Porsche Mission E concept goes on sale towards the end of next year. Orders are already being taken for this exciting new Porsche, and the German automaker has just revealed some of the figures associated with this groundbreaking new model. When it finally goes on sale, the Taycan will be the first production electric vehicle from the legendary performance brand.
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| Minneapolis Police Were Justified in Killing Black Man, Prosecutor Says Posted: 30 Jul 2018 11:54 AM PDT  The county attorney said 'the decision to use deadly force' was authorized
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| U.S. Revokes Visas Of Nicaraguan Officials Over Violence Against Protesters Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:03 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's White House moved Monday to revoke the visas of
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| Bernie Sanders calls study projecting trillion dollar costs for universal healthcare 'grossly misleading' Posted: 30 Jul 2018 05:11 PM PDT  "This grossly misleading and biased report is the Koch brothers response to the growing support in our country for a 'Medicare for all' program," the veteran Vermont senator said. The Mercatus Center at George Mason University published the study earlier this week with projections on Mr Sanders' single-payer health care program that guarantees health care coverage to all Americans. "Doubling all currently projected federal individual and corporate income tax collections would be insufficient to finance the added federal costs of the plan," the study read in part.
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| Counting begins in Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe election Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:06 PM PDT  Counting was underway in Zimbabwe's first election since Robert Mugabe was ousted after 37 years in power as observers warned of possible shortcomings in Monday's landmark poll. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe's former right-hand man in the ruling ZANU-PF party, faced off against opposition leader Nelson Chamisa of the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) in the historic vote.
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| Greenlight's bet against Tesla crashes fund's second-quarter returns Posted: 01 Aug 2018 04:09 AM PDT  Billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn told investors on Tuesday that a sharp rally in Tesla Inc shares, which he bet against, turned into heavy second-quarter losses at his Greenlight Capital fund, and stuck by his dim outlook for the electric carmaker. Greenlight lost 18.3 percent in the first six months of 2018, Einhorn wrote in a letter to investors seen by Reuters. Tesla shares, which rose 29 percent in the last quarter, was the fund's "second biggest loser" during that period, he added.
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| Here Are the Coolest Cars Bonhams Is Auctioning Off at Monterey This Year Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:00 PM PDT |
| Small plane crash near rural Maine airport leaves 3 dead Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:34 PM PDT  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Police and federal authorities were investigating the crash of a small plane in rural Maine that killed three people on Monday after the aircraft departed from Canada.
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| Shark called Helen disguised as baby and stolen from aquarium in pushchair Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:26 AM PDT  Thieves stole a shark called Helen from an aquarium by disguising it as a baby and smuggling it out in a pushchair. The grey horn shark, less than 2ft long, was snatched from the San Antonio Aquarium in Texas and put into a bright orange pickup truck used as a getaway vehicle, footage showed. A member of aquarium staff challenged the group but was unable to stop them leaving, according to local reports.
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| 15 dead as gunmen storm Afghan govt building, 11 killed in bus bombing Posted: 31 Jul 2018 07:58 AM PDT  A suicide bomb and gun attack by militants on an Afghan government building in Jalalabad on Tuesday killed at least 15 people, some burned "beyond recognition", officials said, the latest in a series of assaults on the eastern city. On the other side of the country a roadside bomb apparently intended for security forces hit a passenger bus and killed 11 people, marking yet another bloody day for civilians who have borne the brunt of violence in Afghanistan. The attack in Jalalabad targeted the compound of the refugees and repatriations department.
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| Three Russians 'carrying press cards' killed in Central Africa Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:05 PM PDT  Three Russians carrying press cards have been killed in the troubled Central African Republic (CAR), Russia's foreign ministry said Tuesday. "According to information received on July 30 (Monday), three people were killed not far from the town of Sibut, 300 kilometres (185 miles) north of Bangui," the ministry said in statement. Although the foreign ministry said the trio were carrying press cards, a Russian security official reached in Bangui said representatives in the CAR were not aware of the presence of any journalists from Russia.
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| Here's What Happened After I Was Sexually Assaulted While Sleeping On A Plane Posted: 31 Jul 2018 05:30 AM PDT  In the early morning of July 17, somewhere 40,000 feet above one of the Great
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| Zimbabwe's president, opponent both confident of win after close vote Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:41 AM PDT  By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe Brock HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main opponent, Nelson Chamisa, both said on Tuesday they were confident of victory in an election the previous day which observers deemed too early to call. Mnangagwa said he was receiving "extremely positive" information on the vote. Chamisa said earlier the opposition Movement for Democratic Change had done "exceedingly well" in the vote.
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| Aeromexico Plane Crash Was Caused by a Gust of Wind, Mexican Governor Says Posted: 31 Jul 2018 07:45 PM PDT  A Mexican governor says a gust of wind hit an Aeromexico jetliner after it took off, causing the plane to hit the ground with its left wing
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| Man Charged With Assaulting Elderly Catholic Priest In Delaware Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:28 PM PDT  Police in Delaware have arrested a 25-year-old man they claim violently
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| Accusations fly as firms seek to avoid Trump's steel tariff Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:22 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. companies seeking to be exempted from President Donald Trump's tariff on imported steel are accusing American steel manufacturers of spreading inaccurate and misleading information, and they fear it may torpedo their requests.
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