| Late US student's mother urges pressure on 'cancer on Earth' N.Korea Posted: 03 May 2019 02:13 PM PDT  Joining families of abducted Japanese who have pressed for years for answers from North Korea, Cindy Warmbier said she did not oppose President Donald Trump's diplomacy with Pyongyang but voiced concern for the future. "North Korea, to me, is a cancer on the Earth. It's going to kill us all," said Warmbier, who asked to look at pictures of her son so she could maintain her composure.
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| Pompeo Says All Venezuela Options Open, Including Military Posted: 05 May 2019 08:20 AM PDT  "We're preparing those for him so that when the situation arises, we're not flat-footed,'' Pompeo said on ABC's "This Week," one of three scheduled appearances on Sunday morning political shows. Pompeo said Sunday that he can't predict when Maduro will be forced out of office -- whether days, weeks or months. "There's enormous poverty, enormous starvation, sick children that can't get medicine," Pompeo said.
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| Sri Lanka Catholics celebrate Mass via TV amid new warnings Posted: 05 May 2019 03:25 AM PDT  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan Catholics celebrated Sunday Mass in their homes for a second week as churches remain closed amid fears of possible fresh attacks by Islamic extremists.
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| Pro-life rally features live 4-D ultrasound in Times Square as message to Cuomo: 'Here we are' Posted: 05 May 2019 05:10 AM PDT  Former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson and abortion survivor Claire Culwell talk about the pro-life event in New York City.
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| Probe begins after Boeing 737 slides off runway into Florida river Posted: 04 May 2019 03:59 PM PDT  The Boeing 737-800 chartered by the U.S. military was arriving from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba with 136 passengers and seven crew members when it slid into the St. Johns River at the end of the 9,000-foot runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville on Friday night, authorities said. Officials raised the count of people injured to 22, from 21, after a three-month-old child was admitted to a local hospital for observation, Capt. Michael Connor, commanding officer at the Jacksonville station, told a news conference. National Transportation Safety Board investigators have recovered an undamaged flight data recorder and it has been sent to Washington for analysis, NTSB Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg said at the news conference.
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| SpaceX just blasted a critical NASA instrument into space Posted: 04 May 2019 06:38 AM PDT  NASA's carbon-detecting sleuth has left Earth.SpaceX launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) to the International Space Station (ISS) at 2:48 a.m. ET on Saturday morning aboard the company's dependable Falcon 9 rocket. After NASA's cargo load arrives at the ISS, astronauts will use a long robotic arm to attach the refrigerator-sized instrument to the side of the earth-orbiting station. OCO-3 will peer down on Earth, keeping tabs on the planet's amassing carbon dioxide emissions, which are now at their highest levels in millions of years. "Carbon dioxide is the most important gas humans are emitting into the atmosphere," Annmarie Eldering, the project scientist for OCO-3 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Mashable in February. "Understanding how it will play out in the future is critical."> Liftoff! https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/IaHMvakoX7> > -- SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 4, 2019After the SpaceX rocket lifted into space, the booster -- the bottom portion of the rocket containing nine powerful engines -- returned to Earth. It successfully landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX now regularly lands its rockets on both drone ships and land. It's a fundamental part of the spaceflight company's business model -- reusing expensive rockets rather than letting them crash into the ocean. Earlier this month, SpaceX impressively landed three boosters after its massive Falcon Heavy rocket (which consists of three rockets strapped together) launched an Arab communications satellite into Earth's orbit.SEE ALSO: We're probably not going to hit the world's most important climate goalNASA had slated the launch for late April, but asked SpaceX to delay it until the space agency could fix a power distribution problem on the ISS -- which is currently home to six astronauts and cosmonauts. OCO-3 -- which can detect carbon dioxide concentrations on Earth within 1 part per million -- almost didn't make it into space. In both 2017 and 2018 the Trump administration (which is candidly opposed to climate science) sought to eliminate the earth-monitoring instruments. "We heard OCO-3 was not going to go," Britton Stephens, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who works on the OCO-3 science team, said in an interview. "There've been lots of ups and downs in the project." But advocacy from NASA leaders and congressional support kept OCO-3 alive. Now it's in space. An artist's conception of OCO-3 looking down onto Earth from the space station.Image: nasa / JPL / CaltechOCO-3 will follow in the footsteps of OCO-2 by continuing to precisely monitor the places on Earth (cities and countries) that emit bounties of carbon dioxide, and those areas that suck or absorb CO2 out of the atmosphere (oceans and forests). The growing log of measurements makes OCO-3 especially valuable to scientists, who need long-term data to follow trends and discover novel data."The longer the records grow, the more important they become," said Pontus Olofsson, an associate research professor at Boston University who uses satellites to research Earth's carbon cycle. "It's like an exponential increase in importance."These measurements are all the more salient today, as modern civilization attempts to slash its heat-trapping carbon emissions and curb the planet's accelerating warming trend. As of 2019, the prospect of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above 19th-century levels -- which would avoid the worst consequences of climate change -- looks dismal.OCO-3 will be watching. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?
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| US STOCKS-Strong jobs report sets off broad-based rally on Wall Street Posted: 03 May 2019 10:40 AM PDT ![US STOCKS-Strong jobs report sets off broad-based rally on Wall Street]( "US STOCKS-Strong jobs report sets off broad-based rally on Wall Street") Wall Street's main indexes rose in a broad-based rally on Friday, as job growth surged in April and unemployment rate dropped, pointing to solid expansion in the domestic economy. The Labor Department said employers added 263,000 jobs in April, which blew past expectations, and the unemployment rate dropped to a more than 49-year low of 3.6%. Falling unemployment is expected to put an upward pressure on inflation and supported the Federal Reserve's decision to be patient with interest rate hikes.
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| The Old School Way to Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Posted: 05 May 2019 01:03 AM PDT  Of course, just like the carrier-based ATTDS, the CRAW anti-torpedo torpedo would also require testing to see if they work as well in practice as they do in theory. Nonetheless, the concept of adding an additional close-range layer of protection to submarines has merit given the increasing capability of modern torpedoes, and the sobering reality that a submarine would be lucky to survive even a single torpedo hit.In 2019, an annual report released by the Department of Testing & Evaluation revealed that a potentially revolutionary new torpedo-defense system installed on five American aircraft carriers had proven unsatisfactory and would be withdrawn from service.(This first appeared last month.)The system combined a towed Torpedo Warning System sensor array designed to detect incoming torpedoes with a quick-acting launcher called the Anti-Torpedo Device System (ATTDS) that could spit out a miniature 220-pound Countermeasure Anti-Torpedo (CAT) measuring only 171 millimeters in diameter. The CAT torpedo was designed to home in on the incoming torpedo and blast it short of its target.
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| Kim oversees missile firing drills, tells troops to be alert Posted: 05 May 2019 07:24 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean state media on Sunday showed leader Kim Jong Un observing live-fire drills of long-range multiple rocket launchers and what appeared to be a new short-range ballistic missile, a day after South Korea expressed concern that the launches were a violation of an inter-Korean agreement to cease all hostile acts.
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| 'It was a lot of shots': 911 calls from UNC Charlotte shooting describe campus in chaos Posted: 03 May 2019 02:38 PM PDT  One of the callers told a 911 operator she had escaped from the class where the shooting unfolded. "He was still shooting when we left."
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| ExxonMobil sues Cuban companies for nationalized assets Posted: 03 May 2019 09:57 PM PDT  US giant ExxonMobil has filed a lawsuit against Cuba's state-owned oil company and a major business group for what it called "unlawful trafficking" of its assets after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. The suit, filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, seeks $280 million from Cuba-Petroleo (Cupet) and Cimex, which operates service stations on the island nation. The lawsuit from America's biggest oil producer came as the administration of US President Donald Trump lifted the suspension of Title III of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act.
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| UK's May should announce leaving date after election losses: Duncan Smith Posted: 04 May 2019 06:00 AM PDT  British Prime Minister Theresa May should announce her departure date following poor local election results, former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith said on Saturday, renewing an earlier call for her to go before this month's European elections. Theresa May was now a "caretaker prime minister", Duncan Smith told LBC radio.
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| The Scientology Cruise Ship Quarantined for Measles Has Set Sail. Here's How the Next Port Plans to Handle It Posted: 03 May 2019 02:02 PM PDT  The Scientology cruise ship that was quarantined in St. Lucia is now sailing for the Dutch Caribbean island Curaçao.
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| 10 deals you don’t want to miss on Sunday: Kindle sale, $40 Fire 7 tablet, smart LED bulbs from $11, more Posted: 05 May 2019 04:48 AM PDT ![10 deals you don't want to miss on Sunday: Kindle sale, $40 Fire 7 tablet, smart LED bulbs from $11, more]( "10 deals you don't want to miss on Sunday: Kindle sale, $40 Fire 7 tablet, smart LED bulbs from $11, more") We've got another great roundup of daily deals for you to check out on Sunday. Highlights include all-time low pricing of just $11.15 on multicolor smart LED light bulbs that are just as good as $50 Philips Hue color bulbs, a rare sale that drops Apple Watch Series 4 models to their lowest prices ever, a popular 10W fast wireless charger for $9.99, Philips Hue while smart LED light bulbs for $10.75 a piece when you buy a 4-pack, the lowest price ever on Amazon's 3rd Gen Echo Dot, $20 off Kindles, $40 off waterproof Kindle Paperwhites, the awesome Fire 7 Tablet for only $39.99, up to $50 off one of the newest Ring Video Doorbells, and more. See all of today's top deals below.
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| Taliban say gap narrowing in talks with US Posted: 04 May 2019 11:30 AM PDT  ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Saturday said the gap is narrowing in talks with Washington's special peace envoy over a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The two sides are continuing to meet in Qatar, where the insurgent movement maintains a political office.
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| Russia Says Trump Initiated Friday's 1.5-Hour Call With Putin Posted: 04 May 2019 10:38 AM PDT ![Russia Says Trump Initiated Friday's 1.5-Hour Call With Putin]( "Russia Says Trump Initiated Friday's 1.5-Hour Call With Putin") The leaders' call lasted for 1.5 hours, according to a post on the embassy's Facebook page, and the pair discussed a "shared commitment to step up dialogue in various areas, including on issues of strategic stability." White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday the leaders spoke for more than an hour. On Friday, Trump told reporters at the White House that Putin had assured him Moscow isn't seeking to "get involved" in the crisis in Venezuela, despite assertions by the U.S. president's top national security advisers that the Kremlin is offering critical support to Nicolas Maduro's regime.
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| Family of girl injured in Poway synagogue shooting: We fled violence in Israel. We thought it was safe here Posted: 04 May 2019 11:18 AM PDT  Eden Dahan — mother of Chabad of Poway shooting victim Noya Dahan — says her family left Israel's violence seeking a better life in America.
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| Baltimore shifts to new political era after mayor resigns Posted: 03 May 2019 02:42 PM PDT  BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore's new mayor has vowed to clean up the city after being thrust into office by his predecessor's resignation amid corruption investigations, but he inherits serious, longstanding problems that have plagued previous administrations.
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| Pressure grows on Attorney General Barr over Mueller Posted: 03 May 2019 06:55 PM PDT  Trump said it will be up to Barr to decide whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller, author of the report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, will testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which wants to hear from him. Earlier in the day, House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler set a new deadline of Monday at 9 a.m. for Barr to comply with a subpoena seeking an unredacted version of the report before moving to hold Barr in contempt of Congress. The two developments ensured that Barr, Mueller and his report will remain in sharp focus next week in Washington, where Congress and Trump are on a collision course over investigations being led by Nadler and other committee leaders.
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| 'I will never hesitate' to fly in a 737 MAX, Warren Buffett declares Posted: 04 May 2019 12:00 PM PDT  Billionaire Warren Buffett, one of the world's most influential businessmen, said Saturday that he would not hesitate to fly in a Boeing 737 Max airplane, despite the grounding of the planes after two fatal crashes. "I will never hesitate even for a second to fly on a 737 MAX," he said in response to a question from AFP on the sidelines of the annual shareholder meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway empire in Omaha. While Buffett, the world's third-richest man, owns stakes in several of the most prestigious American companies -- from Coca-Cola to JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs to Apple and, recently, Amazon -- he holds no shares in Boeing, though he has invested in airlines.
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| AJ Freund was forced to take cold shower before death because he lied about soiling underwear: court records Posted: 03 May 2019 12:36 PM PDT  AJ Freund, the 5-year-old Illinois boy found dead last month, was punished before he died, records show. He died of blunt force head trauma.
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| Best and Worst Cars for Tall and Short Drivers Posted: 03 May 2019 12:15 PM PDT  Buying a car is an expensive, long-term commitment. Once you've narrowed your shopping list down to a few good cars, it's critical to make sure you find them comfortable to drive. To help member...
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| Forget F-22 and F-35s: Japan Is Going Big Time (As in a 6th Generation Fighter) Posted: 05 May 2019 12:52 AM PDT  The above technologies check off many characteristics of conceptual sixth-generation fighter jets—(though optional-manning and drone-control have yet to be mentioned), and are individually pretty impressive. However, integrating them into a capable flying platform poses a much greater challenge, as does mass-producing them in a cost-efficient manner. The U.S. F-35, for example, suffered many delays and cost overruns due to difficulties integrating its many new technologies under concurrent development. Thus Japanese engineers have their work cut out for them as they seek to realize the fifteen-year development goal.Japan's 2019 Mid-Term Defense review quietly revealed that after years of hesitation, Tokyo has decided to press ahead with development of its own domestically designed sixth-generation Mitsubishi F-3 air-superiority stealth fighter, rather than purchasing an additional foreign stealth design to supplement its growing fleet of F-35s.(This first appeared last month.)In February 2019, the Japanese Ministry of Defense explicitly confirmed these intentions to Jane's. Reportedly, F-3 performance requirements are set to be released in the 2020 budget, with development officially beginning in 2021 and a first flight targeted for 2030.
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| Turkey Begins Offensive on Kurdish Militias After Attacks Posted: 04 May 2019 12:26 PM PDT ![Turkey Begins Offensive on Kurdish Militias After Attacks]( "Turkey Begins Offensive on Kurdish Militias After Attacks") Turkish forces killed 28 Kurdish militants after they carried out two separate attacks from hideouts in Syria and Iraq that left four Turkish troops dead, the state news agency Anadolu reported. Saturday's cross-border offensive marked one of the deadliest days recently for the Turkish military, which conducted the attack along with the Free Syrian Army, a rebel group supported by Turkey.
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| The Quick Read About… Venezuela’s Faltering Revolution Posted: 03 May 2019 02:34 PM PDT  This week Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido tried to oust President Maduro from office but seems to have failed. What happens next?
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| AJ Freund: Crystal Lake boy's public visitation held Friday; father Andrew Freund Sr. appears in court Posted: 03 May 2019 01:15 PM PDT  People have their chance to say goodbye to AJ Freund, the Crystal Lake boy whose body was found in a shallow grave in Woodstock.
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| Trump picks Morgan, backer of border wall, to head U.S. immigration agency Posted: 05 May 2019 10:00 AM PDT  Morgan, who headed U.S Border Patrol for six months after a career at the FBI, came out in support of Trump's border wall in January, urging Trump in an interview with legal news website Law & Crime to "stay the course." "I am pleased to inform all of those that believe in a strong, fair and sound Immigration Policy that Mark Morgan will be joining the Trump Administration as the head of our hard working men and women of ICE," Trump wrote on Twitter. When Trump took office in January 2017, Morgan was ousted from his post as head of the border patrol.
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| These pictures show the devastation of the Hawaii volcano eruption one year later Posted: 04 May 2019 09:45 AM PDT  These pictures show how Mount Kilauea's lava flows destroyed an estimated 700 buildings, covered roads and reshaped the Big Island's coastline.
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| The Latest: Lawyer: Family got 'transformational' settlement Posted: 03 May 2019 01:04 PM PDT  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the city of Minneapolis paying a $20 million settlement to the family of an unarmed woman shot and killed by a police officer in 2017 (all times local):
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| These Wireless Earbuds Cost Way Less Than Beats Posted: 03 May 2019 01:54 PM PDT  Now on sale for over 60 percent off.
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| The Latest: Sanders unveiling plan on agriculture reform Posted: 05 May 2019 10:13 AM PDT  NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the Democratic presidential campaign (all times local):
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| EU and Britain condemn U.S. oil and nuclear sanctions on Iran Posted: 04 May 2019 08:17 AM PDT ![EU and Britain condemn U.S. oil and nuclear sanctions on Iran]( "EU and Britain condemn U.S. oil and nuclear sanctions on Iran") The United States' allies in Europe have criticized its recent decisions to restrict oil trade with Iran and to limit the extension of waivers for nuclear non-proliferation projects. "We ... take note with regret and concern of the decision by the United States not to extend waivers with regards to trade in oil with Iran," Britain's foreign office said in a joint statement with its German and French counterparts and the European Union.
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| Where teachers can get free food and discounts for Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-10 Posted: 04 May 2019 04:45 PM PDT  Teacher Appreciation Week starts Monday, May 6 and businesses across the nation are showering educators with freebies and special discounts.
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| The Best-Designed Building in Every U.S. State Posted: 03 May 2019 12:06 PM PDT |
| Feast your eyes on this spectacular Hubble photo of a spiral galaxy Posted: 04 May 2019 10:49 AM PDT  The Hubble telescope has captured a dazzling new photograph of a spiral galaxy, NGC 2903. NGC 2903 is part of the constellation Leo, located roughly 30 million light-years from Earth. NASA used the powerful orbital telescope to explore it along with over 100 other disc galaxies in the region.SEE ALSO: SpaceX just blasted a critical NASA instrument into spaceSpiral galaxies comprise the majority of galaxies in space at over 75 percent. Our own Milky Way galaxy was thought to be one until the 1960s, when it was reclassified as a barred spiral (a spiral galaxy with a distinct center bar in addition to spiral arms). Spiral galaxies' arms are full of stars (and solar systems) as well as cosmic dust and gas bursts. NASA has a particular fascination with black holes at the moment, and spiral galaxies often contain singularities -- another word for "black hole" -- somewhere near the center. Hubble's surveys of disc galaxies aim to explore the relationship between these black holes and their local galaxies. WATCH: Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a gigantic 'fart' storm on Neptune
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| Nine killed by regime, Russian strikes in Syria's Idblib: war monitor Posted: 04 May 2019 11:51 AM PDT  At least nine civilians, including two children, were killed Saturday in air strikes by Syria's government and its ally Russia in the northwest of the country, a war monitor said. Syria's military and Russia carried out more than 100 air raids in Idlib, Hama and Aleppo provinces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement. The Observatory said dozens of barrel bombs were dropped by Syrian military helicopters.
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| Berkshire swings to big profit; Buffett laments Kraft Heinz Posted: 04 May 2019 09:14 AM PDT  Berkshire also said it repurchased $1.7 billion of its stock in the quarter, reflecting Buffett's troubles to find better uses for the Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate's cash hoard, which now totals $114.2 billion. Results were released as Buffett, 88, and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, 95, prepared to answer more than five hours of questions from shareholders and analysts at Berkshire's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, which draws tens of thousands of people. Berkshire had $15.1 billion of these gains in the first quarter.
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| The Latest: No Medicaid plan as Kansas lawmakers adjourn Posted: 05 May 2019 01:17 AM PDT  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on an impasse in Kansas over the state budget and Medicaid expansion (all times local):
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| Can T-Mobile's TVision Home Replace Your Cable TV? Posted: 03 May 2019 01:45 PM PDT  T-Mobile's TVision Home Can Replace Your Cable TV, but It's Not Cheap Over the past 18 months, a growing number of streaming services have really been shaking up the TV business, giving consumer...
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