| There's A Lot Of Drama Right Now With The West Virginia Supreme Court Posted: 08 Aug 2018 03:34 PM PDT  A stunning corruption probe into West Virginia's Supreme Court of Appeals has
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Slams Conservative Commentator: 'I Don't Owe' You A Response Posted: 10 Aug 2018 12:56 AM PDT  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shot back at a conservative commentator on Twitter
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| Midterm Mania No. 1: Why Democrats and Republicans should worry about the Ohio results Posted: 08 Aug 2018 03:09 PM PDT  Everything you need to know this week about Election 2018
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| Mother Orca Spotted Carrying Dead Calf For 17th Day Posted: 09 Aug 2018 09:53 PM PDT  A grieving orca whose calf died last month just minutes after it was born was
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| Explosive testimony in former Trump campaign chair's financial crimes trial Posted: 08 Aug 2018 01:04 PM PDT  Star witness Rick Gates, Paul Manafort's longtime associate, returns to the stand for more questioning.
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| Venezuelan migrants throng Ecuador-Colombia border high up in Andes Posted: 09 Aug 2018 01:23 PM PDT  Impoverished Venezuelans are fleeing food shortages, hyperinflation, and violent crime in their homeland, often taking days-long bus rides across South America because they cannot afford flights. Ecuador's government on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in three provinces due to a jump in Venezuelans who arrived through Colombia. Authorities said up to 4,500 Venezuelans had crossed daily since the weekend, up from around 500 to 1,000 people previously.
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| Israeli aircraft strike Gaza after Palestinians fire rockets into Israel Posted: 09 Aug 2018 12:23 PM PDT ![Israeli aircraft strike Gaza after Palestinians fire rockets into Israel]( "Israeli aircraft strike Gaza after Palestinians fire rockets into Israel") Israeli aircraft struck more than 150 targets in Gaza overnight, and Palestinian militants fired scores of rockets, including a long-range missile, deep into Israel, escalating fighting despite talks on a truce to avert an all-out conflict. Israel has fought three wars in the past decade with Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip.
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| Man at compound accused of training kids for school attacks Posted: 08 Aug 2018 06:04 PM PDT  TAOS, N.M. (AP) — A father arrested at a ramshackle New Mexico compound where 11 hungry children were found living in filth was training youngsters to commit school shootings, prosecutors said in court documents obtained Wednesday.
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| Laura Ingraham Distances Herself From ‘Racist Freak’ Who Agreed With Her Rant Posted: 10 Aug 2018 12:36 AM PDT  Fox News host Laura Ingraham defended her controversial anti-immigrant
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| Graham Worried Democrats Will Win '10 Or 12' More Seats Than They Need To Take The House Posted: 09 Aug 2018 02:19 AM PDT  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned Wednesday that Democrats, riding a blue
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| California just had its hottest month on record, and that means more wildfires Posted: 08 Aug 2018 02:34 PM PDT  It should come as no surprise that California is burning. On Wednesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that July was California's hottest month since record keeping began in 1895. Those scorching temperatures withered the land, creating profoundly parched forests primed to catch fire with just a spark. SEE ALSO: Engineering Earth's climate might quell global warming, but it could come with a cost Major wildfires are propelled by weather, notably strong winds, but they're also enhanced by overall rising global temperatures due to human-caused climate change, say scientists. This is a particularly stark reality in California, where even in early July, fire scientists noted that the state's vegetation reached near-record dryness. On Monday, the Mendocino Complex Fire became the largest blaze in state history, easily outpacing the Thomas Fire, which broke the record just this past winter. Just in: #California had its warmest July on record, as hot, dry weather fueled multiple #wildfires across the state. https://t.co/ggKyL5hS1V — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) August 8, 2018 Nearly the entire Golden State experienced either record heat or temperatures "much above average" in July, said NOAA. However, California wasn't alone in experiencing scorching temperatures and multiple heat waves. Most of the West was abnormally warm, and in the contiguous U.S., May through July temperatures were also the warmest on record, eclipsing the previous record set in 1934. Image: noaaAs climate and environmental scientists are quick to point out, individual temperature records are not too meaningful — it's the long-term trends that matter. And California's summer heat is certainly a continuation of accelerating warming trends in both the U.S. and around the globe. Heat waves and longer warming spells will certainly happen, regardless of what the climate is doing, as big blobs of warm air can settle over areas, like California or Europe, for extended periods of time. But the climate is simply warmer that it was a half century ago, giving hot temperatures an extra boost — which can mean vast swathes of land are turned to fire-ready tinder. #HolyFire appears to be picking up significantly, making a run to the north, along eastern side of the ridge leading up to Santiago Peak. Current view from HPWREN's camera #CAwx #OrangeCounty #Riverside #SanDiego pic.twitter.com/eqc3gnZ6nR — NWS San Diego (@NWSSanDiego) August 8, 2018 Yet another heat wave continues this week in portions of California, like Los Angeles. As might be expected, this doesn't bode well for the already dry vegetation in the region. Southern California's Holly Fire is now actively growing near suburban neighborhoods. Relieving rains aren't expected in much of the state for months. California, like recently scorched Greece, experiences the dry, warm summers defined by the Mediterranean climate. Historically, fires happen during this time of year. But now — just like heat waves around the world — they're getting worse. And the consequences are plainly visible. WATCH: This "horror" was spotted off the coast of the Carolinas
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| First lady Melania Trump’s parents gain U.S. citizenship through process opposed by Donald Trump Posted: 09 Aug 2018 04:22 PM PDT  First lady Melania Trump's parents became U.S. citizens Thursday, through a process President Trump wants to end.
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| On Istanbul streets, defiant Turks see U.S. hand behind lira crisis Posted: 10 Aug 2018 08:13 AM PDT  "This crisis is created by America," she said. The lira has lost more than 35 percent against the dollar this year and hit a fresh low on Friday, its biggest one day fall since Turkey's 2001 financial crisis. Food, rents and fuel prices in Turkey have all surged.
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| Trudeau defies Saudi Arabia and says Canada will stand up for human rights Posted: 08 Aug 2018 02:37 PM PDT  Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir speaks to reporters in Riyadh on 8 August. Justin Trudeau has defied Saudi Arabia's demand to withdraw Canada's calls for the release of jailed civil rights activists and insisted that Canada will continue to defend human rights around the world, suggesting that the escalating diplomatic row between the two countries is set to continue.
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| As Mollie Tibbetts Search Enters 4th Week, a Look at Other Cases of Women Gone Missing Posted: 09 Aug 2018 08:54 AM PDT  Like Tibbetts' family, many other missing women's loved ones want answers to what happened to their daughters and mothers.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week (August 4-10) Posted: 10 Aug 2018 06:01 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest
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| Trevor Noah: Trump Immigration Moves Hitting Close To Home Posted: 08 Aug 2018 10:02 PM PDT  The president's attitude toward immigrants was weighing heavily on Trevor Noah
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| Exercising for 90 minutes or more could make mental health worse, study suggests Posted: 08 Aug 2018 03:30 PM PDT  Exercising for 90 minutes a day or more could make mental health worse, a major new research suggests. In the largest study of its kind researchers at Yale University and Oxford looked at the fitness regimes of 1.2 million people and compared them with how often they felt depressed or stressed. People who did no extra physical activity said they felt low an average of 3.4 days of the month, while those who exercised regularly reported just two days, a reduction of 43 per cent. However the researchers discovered that more exercise was not always better, with 45 minutes three to five times a week found to have the biggest benefits. People who exercised for periods of 90 minutes at a time suffered up to one day extra of poor mental health each month compared to those who stuck to 45 minute sessions. "Previously, people have believed that the more exercise you do, the better your mental health, but our study suggests that this is not the case," said Dr Adam Chekroud, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. "Doing exercise more than 23 times a month, or exercising for longer than 90 minute sessions is associated with worse mental health. "It's difficult to speculate what is driving the effect. It is easy to imagine why someone might have poor mental health if they are exercising more 6 or 7 days per week. They could be getting run down (physically exhausted) or burned out (mentally), both of which might make them feel stressed or depleted." Exercise is known to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, and early death from all causes, but its association with mental health is not so clear. The study included all types of physical activity, ranging from childcare, housework, lawn-mowing and fishing to cycling, going to the gym, running and skiing. All types of exercise were associated with improved mental health, but the strongest benefits were seen for team sports, cycling, aerobic and gym exercise which saw a reduction in poor mental health days of 22.3 per cent, 21.6 per cent, and 20.1 per cent, respectively. Even completing household chores was associated with an improvement of around 10 per cent, or around half a day less depression or stress each month. People who exercised regularly had on average two fewer days of poor mental health each month Credit: Courtney Keating Commenting on the study, which was published in The Lancet Psychiatry, Prof Stephen Lawrie, Head of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh, said: "I would summarise the results as indicating that activity, is good for mental health – but that one can do too much. Every second day for 45-60 mins might be optimal. "Certainly, the results suggest that exercising every day is associated with worse mental health. I suspect we all know people who seem 'addicted' to exercise and if this starts to impact on other aspects of life – like foregoing social activities because one has to be up at the crack of dawn to run several miles – it might actually be bad for people." Dr Brendon Stubbs, NIHR Clinical Lecturer, King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, added:" The message reinforces government guidelines which recommend people should seek to achieve over 150 minutes of physical activity per week, which could include 30 minutes 5 times a week. "The good news is that lots of different types of physical activity appear to be associated with better mental health. Thus, the key message from this paper and the wider literature is that people should find a physical activity they enjoy and try and do it regularly but just getting started is key."
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| Running against Bernie in 2020: It's easier than you think Posted: 09 Aug 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Right now, at a time when Democrats are frantically searching for the anti-Trump, Bernie is starting to look strangely like a reverse image of the president, instead.
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| Facebook fight between 'keyboard gangsters' ends in shooting Posted: 10 Aug 2018 08:31 AM PDT  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — It started on Facebook, as many political arguments do these days.
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| Steph Curry Helps Raise More Than $21,000 For Nia Wilson's Family Posted: 09 Aug 2018 08:08 AM PDT  NBA star Steph Curry helped raise more than $21,000 for the family of Nia
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| Kids' travel nightmare Posted: 09 Aug 2018 03:07 AM PDT  Two angry Florida parents are asking why an airline neglected to notify them after their unaccompanied children's flight was diverted to different destination. ABC News' Maggie Rulli reports.
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| Washington demands probe into Yemen bus strike Posted: 09 Aug 2018 02:27 PM PDT  The United States called Thursday for a "thorough" investigation following the deaths of 29 children in northern Yemen in a strike on a bus carried out by the Saudi-led coalition. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the US was "concerned" by reports of an attack resulting in civilian deaths. "We are calling the Saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident," she said.
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| China Slams 25-Percent Tariff On American Cars And Motorcycles Posted: 08 Aug 2018 11:49 AM PDT  The increases would go into effect on August 23.
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| Father, Son Charged With Killing Mother Bear And 'Shrieking' Cubs In Their Den Posted: 10 Aug 2018 01:41 AM PDT  A father and son have been charged with several crimes after they allegedly
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| Senator Paul delivers letter from Trump to Putin's government Posted: 08 Aug 2018 02:57 PM PDT  By Doina Chiacu and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul said on Wednesday he delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin's government, but the senator and the White House offered different characterizations of the message. Three weeks after Trump was widely condemned for not standing up to Putin at their Helsinki summit, Paul said the letter from Trump had offered U.S. cooperation in various areas. The White House called it a letter of introduction for Paul, who was visiting Moscow.
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| The Only iPhone Cable You'll Ever Need Is 62% Off Posted: 09 Aug 2018 11:45 AM PDT  The 10-foot Aduro lightning cable is the best and last iPhone charger you'll ever buy.
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| Nevada death-row inmate on legal delays: 'Just get it done' Posted: 09 Aug 2018 12:43 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada death-row inmate whose execution has been postponed twice said a legal fight over the drugs to be used in his lethal injection is taking a tortuous toll on him and his family and he just wants his sentence carried out.
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| VW Tanoak Pickup Truck "Carefully" Being Considered For The U.S.
Posted: 08 Aug 2018 01:35 PM PDT  The U.S. loves its domestic pickup trucks.
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| Mollie Tibbetts latest: Frustration builds as police stay mum on missing Iowa woman Posted: 04 Aug 2018 08:54 AM PDT  Investigators said they will continue to withhold basic details about the disappearance of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts because they believe it gives them the best chance to solve the case.
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| The US government said 64 people died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria – the total could be over 1,400 Posted: 09 Aug 2018 09:40 AM PDT  Flanked by Puerto Rican officials at a conference nearly two weeks after disaster struck the island, Donald Trump told locals to be "thankful" for Hurricane Maria's death count. The US government has quietly walked back the president's statements since then, adding onto an ever-increasing number of deaths related to the catastrophic hurricane. The report acknowledges 1,427 people were killed after Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico, while detailing a $139bn reconstruction plan for the island that has yet to fully recover.
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| Nasa probe will still be circling Sun at end of Solar System, say scientists Posted: 09 Aug 2018 11:15 AM PDT  Nasa's new solar spacecraft is so indestructable that parts of it will be circling the Sun until the Solar System ends, eight billion years from now, scientists have said. The US space agency launches its Parker Solar Probe on Saturday, which will travel closer to the Sun than any mission before, to unlock the secrets of fierce radioactive storms which threaten Earth. Earth, and all the other objects in the Solar System are constantly plowing through what is known as the solar wind - a constant stream of high-energy particles, mostly protons and electrons, hurled into space by the Sun. These radioactive storms are so powerful they are able to knock out satellites, disrupt services such as communications and GPS, threaten aircraft and even interfere with electricity supplies. The mission is to reach Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, the closest any man-made instrument has ever got to a star. For seven years it will orbit at around 3.38 million miles from the star's surface, where temperatures reach 1,400C. Why Nasa's daring mission to 'touch the sun' will be 'the next jump in knowledge' The probe is relying on a 4.5 inch carbon heat shield which has taken 10 years to develop and which is so strong it will survive for billions of years even when the rest of the spacecraft has disintegrated. Speaking at a briefing ahead of the launch, Andy Driesman, Parker Solar Probe Programme Manager from Johns Hopkins University, said: "At four million miles the Sun is very hot, so we need to bring an umbrella with us. "It's a carbon heat shield. It took 18 months to fabricate it and a decade to develop it. "Eventually the spacecraft will run out of propellant and will leave altitude control and parts of it will transition into the Sun. But hopefully in 10 to 20 years there is going to be this carbon disc and that will be around to the end of the Solar System." The Parker Solar Probe Credit: Ed Whitman Johns Hopkins APL/NASA The spacecraft also holds a memory card containing the names of more than 1.1 million members of the public who were asked to write in to support the mission. London-born professor Nicky Fox, project scientist from Johns Hopkins University, said: "I think the spacecraft will break up into parts and form dust, and then those names will orbit the Sun forever." The nearest a spacecraft has previously come to the Sun was the Helios 2 mission in 1976, which flew to within 27 million miles. The Parker Solar Probe will go closer to a star than any mission has ever gone Credit: Nasa Once inside the corona, sensory equipment will attempt to 'taste' and 'smell' electronic particles while they are still moving slowly enough to be measured. Professor Mathew Owens, space scientist at the University of Reading, said: "It's an incredibly hostile environment in which to do science, so the spacecraft has faced enormous engineering challenges. But everything is looking positive for Saturday. "The thing we really don't understand about the Sun, and therefore stars in general, is why its atmosphere gets hotter further away from the heat source. "We've been trying to solve this mystery for more than 50 years, by taking measurements from a nice, safe distance, and it's left us in an unusual position. We've got a bunch of theories that seem to work, but don't know which ones actually explain the Sun." Currently, solar activity is monitored by a network of satellites, but scientists still have a poor understanding of how radiation builds up in the star's outer atmosphere and then accelerates towards Earth. A better understanding of "space weather" is also considered crucial for protecting astronauts and their equipment for any future endeavours to colonise the Moon or Mars. The Parker Solar Probe, which weights 1,400lbs, will travel faster than any craft ever before at 430,000 mph, and during its seven-year mission will make 24 orbits of the Sun. The spacecraft will carry instruments to measure bulk plasma, described as the 'bread and butter' of solar waves, as well as a full package of magnetic measuring equipment. Eugene Parker, who the mission is named after Credit: AFP It will also carry a white light imager, dubbed 'Whisper', which can photograph solar waves. "Where does the solar wind come from? What causes flares and coronal mass ejections? We still don't understand these processes," said Justin Kasper, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering at the University of Michigan, mission principal investigator on the Parker Solar Probe. "The Parker Solar Probe will help us do a much better job of predicting when a disturbance in the solar wind could hit Earth." The mission was named after Eugene Parker, the solar astrophysicist who first discovered the solar wind, and has been in the works for more than half a century. The memory card on board also contains a copy of his first scientific paper outlining his work. It was conceived before a space programme, or even Nasa, existed.
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| Manafort had $16.5 million in unreported income, court told Posted: 08 Aug 2018 04:16 PM PDT  By Sarah N. Lynch, Nathan Layne and Karen Freifeld ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is on trial on tax and bank fraud charges, had $16.5 million in unreported taxable business income between 2010 and 2014, a U.S. Internal Revenue Service agent testified on Wednesday. IRS agent Michael Welch told a jury that Manafort's unreported income includes foreign wire transfers to U.S. vendors like landscapers and clothiers, wire transfers to buy property, and income improperly reclassified as loans.
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| Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids Posted: 09 Aug 2018 10:20 AM PDT  A federal court on Thursday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban
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| Pawtraits! Husband and wife capture diverse personalities of a wide variety of dog breeds Posted: 09 Aug 2018 12:30 PM PDT ![Pawtraits! Husband and wife capture diverse personalities of a wide variety of dog breeds]( "Pawtraits! Husband and wife capture diverse personalities of a wide variety of dog breeds") These adorable pawtraits seem to show the personalities of a variety of canines, capturing their incredible diverseness in their expressions and fine details.Whether it be Chika the miniature schnauzer's shy wave or Fiji the basenji's cheeky side-eye, Alexander Khokhlov and Veronica Ershova allow the personalities of their subjects to really come out in their series, "The Dog Show."Khokhlov and Ershova, who are from Moscow, have taken portraits of about 50 breeds of pooches — earning much critical acclaim. (Caters News)
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| Saudi MDs get brief grace period to remain in Canada Posted: 08 Aug 2018 12:57 PM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — Canadian health authorities said Wednesday that hundreds of Saudi doctors and residents who make up the largest segment of foreign medical trainees in the country will remain in Canada until the end of the month, giving hospitals a few weeks to cope with the sudden staffing loss caused by a diplomatic spat.
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| Parents Charged With Murder After Refusing To Get Medical Help For Sick Baby: Cops Posted: 09 Aug 2018 12:41 PM PDT  A Michigan couple who told cops they declined to get medical help for their
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| German drug maker sues to halt US execution Posted: 08 Aug 2018 01:32 PM PDT  German drug maker Fresenius Kabi is suing to halt a planned execution in Nebraska, claiming the US state illegally obtained the company's drugs to use for the lethal injection procedure. Fresenius Kabi filed the lawsuit Tuesday evening, saying the state was planning to use two of its drugs on August 14 to put to death convicted killer Carey Dean Moore. If carried out, the execution would be Nebraska's first in 21 years and its first ever lethal injection.
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| Science Finally Proves True a Common Theory About Online Dating Posted: 08 Aug 2018 12:15 PM PDT  If you write very long messages, you're on the wrong side of the "desirability gap."
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| Laura Ingraham Has Been Peddling White Nationalism For Years: A Reminder Posted: 09 Aug 2018 11:34 AM PDT  From her perch on a prime-time national television show, conservative
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