| State media say Chinese President Xi to visit North Korea Posted: 17 Jun 2019 06:17 AM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to North Korea this week, state media announced Monday, as U.S. talks with North Korea on its nuclear program are at an apparent standstill. Xi will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during the visit on Thursday and Friday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency also announced the visit, but provided no further details.
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| Saudi crown prince accuses Iran of twin tanker attacks Posted: 15 Jun 2019 03:42 PM PDT  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accused rival Iran of attacks on two oil tankers in a vital Gulf shipping channel, adding he "won't hesitate" to tackle any threats to the kingdom, according to excerpts of an interview published on Sunday. "The Iranian regime did not respect the presence of the Japanese prime minister as a guest in Tehran and responded to his (diplomatic) efforts by attacking two tankers, one of which was Japanese," Prince Mohammed told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat, referring to the attacks in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday. "We do not want a war in the region... But we won't hesitate to deal with any threat to our people, our sovereignty, our territorial integrity and our vital interests," he added.
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| Young bear was fed by humans and had many 'fans.' Officials say they had to kill it Posted: 16 Jun 2019 02:13 PM PDT  A young black bear was shot and killed by Oregon officials after becoming so habituated to humans that people reportedly took selfies with it.
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| Argentina and Uruguay suffer ‘massive’ power outages to millions of homes Posted: 16 Jun 2019 05:46 AM PDT  Argentina and Uruguay were left entirely without electricity on Sunday after the countries' interconnected network failed, according to energy distributors in the region.The failure began shortly after 7am on Sunday, leaving officials scrambling to restore electricity. Much of the network had been restored by Monday morning, as Argentinia's president Mauricio Macri promised a full investigation into what caused the blackout.The power cut crippled public transportation in Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital, and in other major cities.It also cut off the water supply, closed shops and brought down phone and internet communications across the country."A massive failure...in the system left Argentina and Uruguay without power," a spokesperson for energy company Edesur said in a statement. Edesur has 2.5m customers, according to its website."If this had been a weekday, it would've been chaos," said Silvio Ubermann, a Buenos Aires resident."Sometimes there is not light in the summertime as a result of high electricity consumption, but never such a large blackout in the whole country."I have never seen something like this."Edenor, Argentina's largest energy company, also tweeted about the failure, as millions woke to the blackout."Due to a general failure in the interconnection system, Argentina and neighbouring countries are without electricity," the energy distributor said. Several Argentine provinces were forced to temporarily delay local elections due to the blackout.The cause of the outage was still unclear as of Monday morning, but Argentina's energy agency confirmed in a statement it had begun an investigation.EPEC, another energy company, said the outage had affected most of the country, including Córdoba and Santa Fe, as well as Buenos Aires.UTE, Uruguay's electricity body, confirmed that the neighbouring country was affected in a statement published on Twitter."At 7.06 a defect in the Argentine network affected the interconnected system leaving the entire national territory without service," the organisation said.UTE said work was underway to restore power. The company added that electricity had been restored to some cities on Uruguay's coast.More than 48m people live across Argentina and Uruguay.Users on social media, claiming to be resident in the countries, shared photographs of the blackout.Since taking office, Argentina's president Mauricio Macri has said that gradual austerity measures were needed to revive the country's struggling economy.He has cut red tape and tried to reduce the government's budget deficit by ordering job cuts and cutting utility subsidies.A spokesman for Brazil's power system operator (ONS) said the outage had not impacted the country.Additional reporting by agencies
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| Buttigieg: Justice Dept. should decide any Trump charges post-2020 Posted: 15 Jun 2019 11:13 AM PDT ![Buttigieg: Justice Dept. should decide any Trump charges post-2020]( "Buttigieg: Justice Dept. should decide any Trump charges post-2020") Buttigieg did not want the White House dictating the terms of a DOJ investigation.
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| Unruly passenger hits flight attendant, then pukes during Delta flight to Paris Posted: 16 Jun 2019 02:40 PM PDT  A federal complaint says a man struck a flight attendant in the throat and then threw up during a Delta flight to Paris.
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| View Photos of the 2020 BMW X3 M Posted: 16 Jun 2019 03:01 PM PDT |
| 1 killed, 5 injured in graduation party shooting Posted: 17 Jun 2019 02:49 AM PDT  Authorities in Philadelphia say one person has been killed and at least five others have been shot during a graduation party. Police are searching for at least one suspect. (June 17)
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| AOC: ‘Hyde Amendment Is about Income Inequality’ Not Abortion Posted: 17 Jun 2019 05:43 AM PDT  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Sunday praised former vice president Joe Biden for his recently announced opposition to the Hyde amendment and said that her own opposition to the prohibition on the direct federal funding of abortion is rooted in her concern about income inequality."I'm encourage by the fact that he is now against the Hyde Amendment," Ocasio-Cortez told ABC's Jonathan Karl when asked about Biden's recent reversal on the issue.Ocasio-Cortez, who launched a petition over the weekend to build public support for the amendment's repeal, went on to explain that the direct federal funding of abortion is necessary to protect the abortion rights of incarcerated pregnant women."Reproductive health care for incarcerated women should be guaranteed as it is with all women in the United States, so I think it really depends," said the freshman New York lawmaker. More from her remarks:> And that's really what the Hyde amendment is really about. The Hyde amendment isn't about abortion per se. The Hyde amendment is truly about equality of healthcare and healthcare access for low income women and women of color and women that get caught in our mass incarceration system. And so the Hyde amendment is about income inequality and it's about women's healthcare in a system of income inequality. So I think that we need to repeal it.After maintaining support for the Hyde amendment throughout his decades-long career in politics, Biden reversed himself last month in response to pressure from abortion-advocacy groups."If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone's ZIP code," Biden said at a Democratic National Committee gala in Atlanta, citing the restrictive abortion bills recently passed in a number of southern states as the impetus for his reversal.Biden's high-profile reversal on the Hyde amendment prompted an outpouring of public statements from his 2020 Democratic primary opponents about the need to repeal the amendment, which has been added as a rider to federal spending bills in the decades since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
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| Erdogan says drilling off Cyprus to continue despite warning Posted: 16 Jun 2019 08:22 AM PDT  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said Turkey would not back down from gas exploration in Cyprus after southern European leaders urged Ankara to stop. "We continue and will continue to search in those areas that are ours," Erdogan said during a televised speech in Istanbul. You will come off badly if you do so," Erdogan warned, after Cyprus reportedly issued arrests warrants for crew members of Turkey's drilling ship, Fatih, last week.
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| Pompeo again blames Iran for tanker attacks but insists 'we don't want war' Posted: 16 Jun 2019 08:45 AM PDT  'President Trump has done everything he can to avoid war'US secretary of state claims 'lots of evidence' of Iran culpability The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said Washington will guarantee free navigation through vital shipping areas. Photograph: Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images The United States does not want to go to war with Iran, the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said on Sunday, following an attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week. Pompeo reiterated that the US believes it was "unmistakable" that Iran was responsible for the attacks, in an interview with Fox News Sunday. He stressed a need for diplomacy and said American officials are reaching out to their foreign counterparts. "President Trump has done everything he can to avoid war. We don't want war," he added. The president has been accused of beating the drum of war with recent inflammatory statements against Iran. Pompeo said intelligence officials have "lots of data, lots of evidence" tying Iran to alleged attacks on two oil tankers traveling near the Strait of Hormuz, a transit route for Arab oil shipments to Asia. He gave no details. He said that Washington will guarantee free navigation through vital shipping areas. "The United States is going make sure that we take all the actions necessary, diplomatic and otherwise that achieve that outcome," Pompeo said. US-Iran tensions are high following accusations by the Trump administration that Tehran carried out attacks last Thursday on the two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Iran has denied having any role. "The intelligence community has lots of data, lots of evidence. The world will come to see much of it," said Pompeo, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency before becoming secretary of state. Pompeo said he did not want to discuss possible next steps the United State might take in response to last week's developments. "Iran will not get a nuke weapon. That's the goal," he said when asked about the possibility of Trump sending more US troops and military hardware to the region. "I made a number of calls to colleagues around the world yesterday. I am confident that we will have partners that understand this threat," Pompeo said. Pompeo's comments came after the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, spoke publicly for the first time since a second attack on Saudi oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, blaming its arch-rival Iran and vowing that Saudi Arabia "won't hesitate to deal with any threat" to the kingdom's interests. According to an interview for the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat, published on Sunday, Prince Mohammed said: "We do not want a war in the region … But we won't hesitate to deal with any threat to our people, our sovereignty, our territorial integrity and our vital interests." The UK foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said on Sunday Britain was "almost certain" Iran was behind the oil tanker attacks, adding that London did not believe anyone else could have done it. Hunt said: "The great risk of the situation we are in is both sides in this dispute think the other would not want a war." The Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg criticized the Trump administration's statements on Iran on Sunday. "What we see out of the White House is something disturbingly reminiscent of the kind of accelerating drumbeat that got us into the war in Iraq," he said on NBC's Meet the Press. Buttigieg also said on CBS's Face the Nation that while " there is certainly concern that this is consistent with a pattern of malignant behavior by Iran", he worried "this appears to be part of an escalation where this administration might be leading us on a path to war that could get away from this White House very quickly. "Look, it – it is nothing new for Iran to be acting in destabilized, destabilizing ways in their region," Buttigieg said. "We see it quite a bit. The question is what are we going to do to make things more stable before the situation becomes uncontrollable."
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| Japan protests Chinese activity near disputed islands Posted: 17 Jun 2019 04:54 AM PDT ![Japan protests Chinese activity near disputed islands]( "Japan protests Chinese activity near disputed islands") Japan has protested what is says was an unauthorized Chinese maritime survey within its economic waters near disputed East China Sea islands, officials said Monday. Japan's Foreign Ministry said it lodged a protest with Beijing after a Chinese maritime research ship was seen dropping a wire-like object into the water off the northwestern coast of Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands on Sunday. China also claims the islands, which it calls Diaoyu.
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| United Airlines plane skids off runway after tyres burst on landing at New York airport Posted: 15 Jun 2019 01:48 PM PDT  A United Airlines plane skidded off the runway after its tyres burst as it landed at an airport near New York.Some passengers suffered minor injuries when Flight 627 slid off the tarmac at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Saturday afternoon.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the Boeing 757-200's left main landing gear was "stuck in a grassy area" following the incident at 1pm."The aircraft will be towed off the airfield after passengers leave the aircraft via stairs," it added in a statement.No injuries were reported to the FAA but United said some passengers had refused treatment for minor injuries. The airline did not say how many people were hurt.The pilot told those on board the plane had blown two tyres as it landed, according to passenger Caroline Craddock. She said at least one person hit their head and another suffered an elbow injury.Arrivals and departures were suspended at Newark following the incident. Flights resumed after passengers were "safely deplaned", the airport tweeted.The FAA said it was sending officials to the airport to begin an investigation.
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| Vatican formally opens debate on married priests in Amazon Posted: 17 Jun 2019 03:38 AM PDT  The Vatican formally opened debate Monday on letting married men be ordained as priests in remote parts of the Amazon where priests are so few that Catholics can go weeks or months without attending a Mass. The call for study on the proposal was contained in the working document, released Monday, for an October meeting of South American bishops on the Amazon. The document, prepared by the Vatican based on input from the region, affirmed that celibacy is a gift for the Catholic Church.
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| The Army's Old Beretta M9: Just How Good Is It? Posted: 15 Jun 2019 09:00 PM PDT  Now that the Beretta M9 9mm service pistol is in the process of being phased out in favor of the SIG Sauer M17 pistol (AKA the P320) one can't help but ask: does the Beretta M9/92 pistol in general still have a place in the 21st Century?The Beretta is indeed an aged pistol. It's an aluminum framed, double action single action auto in an era where polymer framed striker fired pistols rule the roost. And the fact that the military has decided to part ways with the M9 may seem like an ominous sign to many that the time of the Beretta 92 is sunsetting.But here's the truth: the Beretta M9 is not a bad pistol. On the contrary, it's just the opposite! And just because the DA/SA metal pistol may be out of fashion with a lot of folks doesn't mean it has to be for you as well.HISTORY OF THE M9Here's a fun fact: Beretta is the oldest firearms manufacturer still making guns today. Originally located in Val Trompia, an iron mine located in Italy, the first documented transaction from Beretta was in 1526.
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| Woman who was arrested over killing of former Arkansas senator worked on campaign, officials say Posted: 15 Jun 2019 02:04 PM PDT  A woman has been arrested in connection with the killing of a former Arkansas state senator. Rebecca Lynn O'Donnell, 48, was detained on Friday night by Randolph County sheriff's deputies in connection with the death of Linda Collins-Smith. Officials said criminal charges were pending.The 57-year-old former politician was found dead outsider her home in Pocahantas, Arkansas on 4 June. Ken Yang, a former communications director for Ms Collins-Smith, said Ms O'Donnell had worked on the former lawmaker's most recent campaign and that the two were friends. Mr Yang said the family did not have an immediate comment on the arrest but may issue a statement.Ms Collins-Smith served one term in the state House and was originally elected as a Democrat in 2010. But she switched parties and became a Republican in 2011, the year before the GOP won control of both chambers of the legislature. She was elected to the state senate in 2014 and was one of the most conservative lawmakers in the majority-GOP chamber. She lost re-election in the Republican primary last year. Ms Collins-Smith and her husband, retired Circuit Judge Philip Smith, divorced last year and were in the middle of a legal fight over their properties, including a motel.Authorities have released few details about Ms Collins-Smith's killing and have not said how or when the former lawmaker was killed. A judge last week granted a request by prosecutors to seal documents and statements obtained by police during the investigation. Ms Collins-Smith was active on social media but her last tweet was posted in late May.AP contributed to this report
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| 24 Cool Classic Cars That Are Perfect for a Collector on a Budget Posted: 17 Jun 2019 05:00 AM PDT |
| Ex-Tehran mayor to face trial over wife's killing Posted: 16 Jun 2019 10:55 AM PDT  Former Tehran mayor and prominent reformist Mohammad Ali Najafi will stand trial next month on charges of murdering his wife, the government-run Iran newspaper said Sunday. Najafi, 67, turned himself in and confessed to shooting his second wife Mitra Ostad on May 28 at their home in northern Tehran, according to Iranian media. "On July 1, the first trial session of Mohammad Ali Najafi, former Tehran mayor, will be held at Tehran's Criminal Court," the Iran daily reported.
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| JD.com may list logistics unit in future but no plan currently: exec Posted: 17 Jun 2019 02:04 AM PDT ![JD.com may list logistics unit in future but no plan currently: exec]( "JD.com may list logistics unit in future but no plan currently: exec") Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc may list its logistics unit in the future but it currently has no clear plan, a senior company executive said on Monday. Bing Fu, head of planning and development at JD Logistics, made the comments to reporters on the sidelines of a media tour.
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| 600 people on Monsanto 'watch lists' in Germany, France: Bayer Posted: 17 Jun 2019 06:12 AM PDT  US seeds and pesticides maker Monsanto kept lists of around 600 key pro- and anti-pesticides figures in Germany and France alone, its German parent company Bayer said Monday amid a widening probe. Bayer has admitted the lists covered politicians, journalists and others across seven European countries and in Brussels. "Update on Monsanto stakeholder lists: until the end of last week, the firm hired by Bayer contacted all the people on the German and French lists," Bayer's press department tweeted.
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| Burglary suspect caught, had machete wound inflicted by boy Posted: 16 Jun 2019 01:59 PM PDT  A North Carolina burglary suspect who was fought off by an 11-year-old boy with a machete was caught Sunday, nearly two days after he slipped away from the hospital where he was treated for a head wound. Sgt. Shane Brown of the Burlington Police Department said Jataveon Dashawn Hall was arrested in an apartment there Sunday afternoon. Hall, 19, was returned to Orange County, where the sheriff's office said he faces charges including breaking and entering and assault.
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| What's next for Hong Kong? Controversial extradition bill suspended, not scrapped Posted: 15 Jun 2019 01:31 PM PDT  After almost a week of massive street protests, Hong Kong's chief executive said Saturday that she has suspended a controversial extradition bill.
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| Trapped teenager rescued from mountainside after mother used Find My Friends app to locate her Posted: 15 Jun 2019 09:57 AM PDT  A teenager left trapped underneath her car for seven hours after crashing down a mountainside was rescued after her mother used the Find My Friends app to find her. Catrina Cramer Alexander said she used the feature on her mobile phone when her 17-year-old daughter, Macy Smith, uncharacteristically missed a curfew and didn't respond to texts or calls. "The lack of response was out of character for her," Ms Alexander told North Carolina's TV channel WFMY. When she looked on the app it showed her daughter had been in the same location for "far too long", she said. "I can't explain watching the GPS on my phone with my dot for my phone getting close to hers and then suddenly seeing the tire tracks," Ms Alexander said. She found Macy pinned underneath her car down a 25-foot embankment in Pilot Mountain."I will never forget the sound of my family calling out my name when they found me," Macy said in a Facebook post. "I hydroplaned at 4.00pm and ran in between two trees down an embankment, flipped my car three times, and landed in my back seat with my arm pinned in between the car and the ground."I searched for my phone to call for help but the only thing in sight was my bible. I held on to my bible and prayed harder than I had ever prayed before."Paramedics arrived to rush Macy to hospital. The 17-year-old said she fractured her neck and suffered severe nerve damage in her left arm. "We are celebrating every minute and every milestone," Macy said.
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| 10 deals you don’t want to miss on Sunday: $7 smart plugs, $9 wireless charger, $13 LED smart bulbs, more Posted: 16 Jun 2019 04:31 AM PDT ![10 deals you don't want to miss on Sunday: $7 smart plugs, $9 wireless charger, $13 LED smart bulbs, more]( "10 deals you don't want to miss on Sunday: $7 smart plugs, $9 wireless charger, $13 LED smart bulbs, more") Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there! You're obviously going to get some great gifts from your family today, but you should also treat yourself to a gift you know you'll love. Highlights from today's daily deals roundup include Alexa and Google enabled smart plugs for just $6.64 a piece when you buy a 4 pack and clip the 8% coupon, $21 multi-color LED smart bulbs for $12.99 a piece, a fast wireless charging stand for just $8.99, TP-Link's best-selling Wi-Fi range extender for only $14.99, a year of PlayStation Plus membership for $39.99 instead of $60, a Fire TV Stick 4K for the price of an entry-level Fire TV Stick, Anker's newest and most powerful robot vacuum for $199.99 instead of $270, a Ring Video Doorbell 2 for just $159 (WITH A FREE ECHO DOT!), and plenty more. See all of today's top deals below.
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| AOC on Trump's willingness to accept political 'dirt' on rivals: 'The pressure to impeach grows' Posted: 16 Jun 2019 08:58 AM PDT  Days after President Trump asserted he would take damaging information on his political rivals from a foreign power, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said "the pressure to impeach grows."
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| New Zealand cancels tsunami alert after powerful quake Posted: 15 Jun 2019 10:50 PM PDT  After initially forecasting "a threat to beach, harbour, estuary and small boat activities", New Zealand's Civil Defence organisation gave the all-clear eight minutes later. The earthquake was give a preliminary magnitude of 7.4, but later downgraded to 7.2 by the US Geological Survey. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center also lifted its tsunami warning for parts of the South Pacific but said "minor sea level fluctuations may occur in some coastal areas near the earthquake".
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| An 8th person is dead in the Dominican Republic after suffering a heart attack Posted: 16 Jun 2019 05:16 AM PDT  Will Cox says he was told a toxicology test could not be done during his mother's autopsy because the machines are broken.
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| Google Appoints New Chief to Oversee Tumultuous China Region Posted: 16 Jun 2019 10:16 PM PDT  Stanley Chen will become managing director of Greater China sales, the company said Monday, taking up a post Scott Beaumont vacated after he was appointed Google's Asia-Pacific president in March. The incoming executive, who will be based in Shanghai, had been general manager of its Taiwan business for eight years. Google takes in about 15% of its annual revenue from the Asia Pacific even though it pulled its search engine from the world's No. 2 economy around 2010, citing censorship.
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| 17 Famous Authors’ Houses Worth Seeing Posted: 17 Jun 2019 05:00 AM PDT |
| Belgian dad pleas for help to find son missing in Australia Posted: 17 Jun 2019 12:04 AM PDT  An encrypted phone message sent by a missing Belgian tourist could hold a clue to the 18-year-old's disappearance from an Australian coastal town, his father said on Monday. Theo Hayez was last seen leaving a Byron Bay nightclub late on May 31. Hayez on Monday made a public appeal for help to access his son's encrypted WhatsApp account.
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| UPDATE 2-Syria state TV says wildfires spark explosion in army ammo depot west of Damascus Posted: 15 Jun 2019 01:08 PM PDT ![UPDATE 2-Syria state TV says wildfires spark explosion in army ammo depot west of Damascus]( "UPDATE 2-Syria state TV says wildfires spark explosion in army ammo depot west of Damascus") An explosion on Saturday in a Syrian ammunition depot in a military zone west of the capital was caused by wildfires, state television reported. Israel, which sees Iran as a threat to its existence, has said it had carried out hundreds of attacks in Syria on Iranian targets, including those of allied militia such as Lebanon's Hezbollah, in the past several years. Israel is trying to counter the influence carved out in Syria by Iran, which has supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the war that erupted in 2011.
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| The Scary Way a Stealth Fighter Could Be Shot Down Posted: 15 Jun 2019 06:00 PM PDT  There is a famous series of videos showing experimentation with "selective attention." Selective attention suggests we focus on certain elements in our environment while other elements disappear into the background. This is the case with the stealth bomber; it disappears into the background of other, higher levels of electronic stimulus. Simply put, the phenomenon of selective attention demonstrates the power of a stealth bomber to delay detection in the current strategic environment.The entire kill chain for bringing down an invading aircraft is not as easy as the horrific shoot down of flight MH-17 might suggest.Seventy years ago today, Col. Paul Tibbets flew the Enola Gay on a mission that would change the course of world history and set the stage for the development of nuclear deterrence. The mission itself was straightforward, but the enormous scientific and industrial activity leading up to it was not. The atomic weapon, "Little Boy," involved a massive industrial effort that is only slightly less difficult today. The development of the B-29 bomber that delivered the bomb was no simple matter either. It required an aircraft that flew higher and faster than any other aircraft could at the time.(This article originally appeared in 2015.)
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| 'We don't take it lightly': What we know about oil tanker blasts and Donald Trump's escalating rhetoric on Iran Posted: 16 Jun 2019 05:39 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's comments come amid concerns attack on oil tankers could further escalate ongoing tensions between Iran and the U.S.
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| Today’s best deals: $7 Alexa smart plugs, $13 color smart lights, $25 Fire TV Stick, $15 Wi-Fi extender, more Posted: 17 Jun 2019 07:35 AM PDT  We're kicking off the new week with a phenomenal roundup of the best daily deals we could find. Highlights include top-rated Alexa and Google enabled smart plugs for just over $7 a piece when you buy a 4-pack and clip the $3 coupon, renewed Fire TV Sticks for $24.99, the best-selling TP-Link Wi-Fi range extender on Amazon for just $14.99, brand new iPads at their lowest prices of all time, the Apple Watch Series 3 in both sizes at all-time low prices, $13 color LED smart light bulbs that are just as good as $50 Philips Hue bulbs, a 10W fast wireless charging stand for only $8.99, $70 Nintendo Switch Pro Controllers for just $49.99 a piece, the best-selling Instant Pot at its lowest price of 2019, 12 months of PlayStation Plus for $39.99 instead of $60, and more. Check out all of today's best deals below.
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| Qatar to distribute new Gaza aid funds: official Posted: 17 Jun 2019 07:34 AM PDT  Gulf state Qatar is set to distribute more than $10 million in aid to thousands of cash-strapped Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, a Qatari official said on Monday. The money was brought into the Hamas-controlled enclave Sunday evening by the Qatari ambassador to Gaza and is expected to be distributed Monday or Tuesday, the official said on condition of anonymity. Another $15 million would be provided for infrastructure and cash-for-work projects, the official said.
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| QUIZ: Could You Still Pass a Basic Driver's-Ed Test? Posted: 16 Jun 2019 09:01 AM PDT  Some people could use a little refresher. Share it with someone you love.
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| Pfizer acquires Array Biopharma, valued at $11.4 billion Posted: 17 Jun 2019 06:15 AM PDT  US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Monday announced the acquisition of Array BioPharma, a biotechnology firm that specializes in cancer drugs, the latest in a long list of biotech mergers in recent years. In a statement, Pfizer said it offered $48 per share in cash for Array, putting an $11.4 billion value on the company. "The board of directors of both companies have approved the merger," Pfizer said.
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| Yankees get slugger Encarnación in trade with Mariners Posted: 16 Jun 2019 07:15 AM PDT  The New York Yankees acquired AL home run leader Edwin Encarnación in a trade with the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night, adding another feared slugger to what could be baseball's most powerful lineup when Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton return from injuries. Seattle is sending the Yankees $8,397,849, leaving New York to pay $8 million of remaining $16,397,849 Encarnación is guaranteed. New York is sending 19-year-old minor league pitcher Juan Then to Seattle.
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| Democrat Buttigieg cancels campaign events after South Bend shooting Posted: 17 Jun 2019 08:15 AM PDT  Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, canceled campaign events on Monday to return to his city after a fatal shooting by a police officer, his campaign said. One of two dozen Democrats running for the 2020 nomination, Buttigieg had been scheduled to appear at events in New York including an LGBTQ gala hosted by the Democratic National Committee. A campaign aide said he canceled his appearances and returned to South Bend on Sunday.
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| Gun Fact: The Glock 18 Fires 1,200 Bullets Per Minute Posted: 16 Jun 2019 08:00 AM PDT  The Glock 18 accepts typical Glock magazines, from ten to seventeen rounds, but a handgun with a rate of fire of 1,200 rounds a minute can empty a standard pistol magazine in a blink of an eye. In order to help feed the Glock 18's voracious appetite the company released thirty-three round magazines. These longer magazines extend far past the magazine well, making the gun difficult to conceal but double available firepower.In December 2003, soldiers of the U.S. Special Operations Command captured the Ace of Spades himself, Saddam Hussein. The former Iraqi president, on the run since the capture of Baghdad, had appeared in a deck of playing cards with the profiles of other fugitive war criminals and naturally was the top card. Hussein, bedraggled and bereft, was armed with one of the rarest of handguns: the Glock 18, the full auto Glock.(This first appeared several months ago.)In February 1980 the Austrian Army issued a requirement for a new handgun. Gaston Glock, a knifemaker who made knives and bayonets for the army, decided to try his hand at the gun manufacturing business. After buying and trying many types of existing handguns, consulting with firearm specialists to see what they would like in a handgun, and a presumably a great deal of trial and error, Glock's first pistol, the Glock 17, won the army contract for twenty thousand pistols.
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| June deals: How, where to get free food – doughnuts, tacos and more – and discounts Posted: 17 Jun 2019 03:00 AM PDT  Krispy Kreme has announced a new Original Filled doughnut and a way to try it for free Saturday as part of its National Donut Day challenge.
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| 8-year-old child from Northeast Philadelphia found safe Posted: 15 Jun 2019 08:34 PM PDT  Philadelphia police say the missing 8-year-old child has been found safe.
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