| Trump calls on Russia, Syria to stop bombing Idlib province Posted: 02 Jun 2019 06:51 PM PDT  U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Russia and Syrian government forces to stop bombing Syria's Idlib province, following a Friday Kremlin statement that signaled Moscow would continue to back a month-long Syrian government offensive there. "Hearing word that Russia, Syria and, to a lesser extent, Iran, are bombing the hell out of Idlib Province in Syria, and indiscriminately killing many innocent civilians.
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| Captain charged over Budapest boat tragedy Posted: 01 Jun 2019 02:23 PM PDT  The captain of a river cruise ship that collided with a smaller sightseeing vessel was charged Saturday over the accident in Budapest that killed seven South Korean tourists and left 21 missing. The Mermaid carrying mainly South Korean tourists overturned and sank late Wednesday, seconds after colliding with the Viking Sigyn cruise ship on a busy stretch of the Danube in the heart of Budapest. Strong currents have hampered the search for those missing -- 19 South Koreans and two Hungarians -- preventing divers from reaching the submerged boat.
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| China Invokes Abraham Lincoln in Justifying Push to Take Taiwan Posted: 02 Jun 2019 08:41 PM PDT  China's Defense Minister Wei Fenghe on Sunday invoked Lincoln's efforts during the U.S. Civil War to justify Beijing's approach toward Taiwan, which it sees as an integral part of its territory that must be unified by force if necessary. "American friends told me that Abraham Lincoln was the greatest American president because he led the country to victory in the Civil War and prevented the secession of the U.S.," Wei said on Sunday at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a security conference in Singapore.
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| Chris Wallace Scolds Kirsten Gillibrand for ‘Not Very Polite’ Criticism of Fox News Abortion Coverage Posted: 02 Jun 2019 06:02 PM PDT  Carlos Barria/ReutersDuring a Fox News town hall on Sunday featuring New York senator and 2020 contender Kirsten Gillibrand, host Chris Wallace told Gillibrand it wasn't "very polite" of her to criticize Fox News for spreading misinformation on abortions. When Wallace asked the New York senator a question about later abortions, she said the network's role in spreading "infanticide" rhetoric and a "false narrative" surrounding the procedure was "a problem." "Maybe to make your credentials with the Democratic base who are not appearing on Fox News, you want to attack us, but I'm not sure it's frankly very polite," Wallace replied. "OK, I'll do it in a polite way," she responded.Later in the town hall, Wallace asked Gillibrand what she meant when she said "our future is female." The senator responded that she meant bringing the voices of more women to the table. "What about men?" Wallace asked. "They're already there—do you not know?" Gillibrand countered, adding that she meant to be "inclusionary" in her explanation.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Can anybody stop Biden? Challengers make their case to California Dems Posted: 02 Jun 2019 07:22 AM PDT  While 14 top Democratic presidential candidates swarmed the Golden State this weekend for the California Democratic Party's convention and related events, one was conspicuously absent: former vice president and early frontrunner Joe Biden, who decided to skip the festivities in favor of an LGBTQ-rights gala 2,500 miles away in Columbus, Ohio. "Some Democrats in Washington believe the only changes we can get are tweaks and nudges," Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in her convention speech, much of which amounted to a veiled but unmistakable attack on Biden's belief in "middle ground" policies and bipartisan consensus.
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| FAFSA Deadlines You Should Know Posted: 03 Jun 2019 06:00 AM PDT ![FAFSA Deadlines You Should Know]( "FAFSA Deadlines You Should Know") For students seeking federal financial aid to pay for college, the deadline to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, is on June 30 each year. But to maximize their chances of getting aid, every prospective and current college student would ideally promptly submit the FAFSA shortly after the application opens on Oct. 1 of the school year before the aid will be used.
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| UPDATE 5-U.S. prepared to talk to Iran with 'no preconditions', Iran sees 'word-play' Posted: 02 Jun 2019 04:59 AM PDT ![UPDATE 5-U.S. prepared to talk to Iran with 'no preconditions', Iran sees 'word-play']( "UPDATE 5-U.S. prepared to talk to Iran with 'no preconditions', Iran sees 'word-play'") The United States is prepared to engage with Iran without pre-conditions about its nuclear program but needs to see the country behaving like "a normal nation," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. Tension between the two foes has increased sharply in the past month, a year after U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned Iran's 2015 deal with world powers to curb Tehran's nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions.
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| Venice cruise ship collides with river boat and dock in busy canal leaving several injured Posted: 02 Jun 2019 03:10 AM PDT  A big cruise ship that was preparing to dock in Venice lost control on Sunday morning, crashing into the wharf and hitting a smaller tourist boat, local authorities said. Four people were wounded in the accident, which happened in Venice's central Giudecca Canal, rescuers and port authorities said. Video footage posted on YouTube and local media showed tourists running away in shock, as the Opera MSC cruise ship scraped along the dockside, before smashing into the River Countess tourist boat. The crash may have happened after a cable used to link the cruise ship to the tugboats that were pulling it into the city's canals broke, a fire fighters' spokesman said. The Opera ship was unable to stop due to its huge weight and the strong currents pulling it towards the dock. "The situation is now under control," the spokesman said. The accident immediately reignited debate over the damages caused by gigantic ship cruises to Venice's historic infrastructure and their huge impact on the fragile lagoon's environment. A cruise ship lost control and crashed against a smaller tourist boat at the San Basilio dock in Venice Credit: REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri Venetians have long dubbed these massive ships "monsters" because they often ruin the lagoon's view, but also because they are held responsible for hurting the foundations of the city's historical buildings with the waves they create. The citizens' biggest complaint is about the traffic of the cruise ships that are currently allowed to pass within a few hundred yards of St Mark's Square and Venice's historic centre on their way to the city's international passenger terminal. A 2017 plan that would force the cruise ships weighing more than 96,000 tons to take a less central route via the industrial area of Marghera is still waiting for the national government's final approval. However, works on the new route -- which would require the dredging of canals and the construction of a new port – could take up to four years. "This is an epochal issue," said Silvio Testa, a member of Venice's activist group Comitato No Grandi Navi (No Big Ships Committee), which has fought against the big ships' traffic for years. "Instead, we are treating the Venetian lagoon like a big potato field, where everything can be done." In an informal referendum organised by the committee in June 2017, nearly 99 per cent of the 18,000 Venetians who took part voted in favour of banning giant cruise ships from the city's lagoon altogether. The high-profile issue has been recently brought into spotlight again by popular street artist Banksy in his "Venice in Oil" installation, showing a large ship floating in the city's Grand Canal, surrounded by the Bridge of Sighs and outraged men steering gondolas.
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| Photos of the Cadillac CT5-V and CT4-V Prototypes Posted: 02 Jun 2019 03:03 PM PDT |
| Four rescued, eight still missing on avalanche-hit Indian peak Posted: 02 Jun 2019 04:17 AM PDT  Four British climbers have been rescued from an avalanche-hit Himalayan mountain range, Indian authorities said Sunday, as a frantic search continued for eight other mountaineers still missing on its treacherous heights. Helicopters airlifted the rescued group to safety after they were spotted early Sunday at a base camp near India's second highest mountain, the 7,826-metre (25,643-foot) Nanda Devi. Authorities said the four rescued were not part of the larger group but were in touch with them until May 26, a day before the avalanche struck the mountain.
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| At least 12 killed in Virginia Beach mass shooting: What we know Posted: 01 Jun 2019 12:11 PM PDT  A shooter opened fire workers at a municipal center in Virginia Beach on Friday, killing 12 people and wounding others. Here's what we know so far.
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| Merkel Coalition Party Leader Quits, Rattling Ruling Bloc Posted: 02 Jun 2019 09:10 AM PDT  Andrea Nahles, head of the Social Democratic Party, said she will resign as chief and parliamentary caucus leader after losing the rank and file's backing. The party suffered a devastating defeat in the European Parliament elections last week. While the future of the administration looks more uncertain than ever, the SPD is still likely to remain put as it would face a resounding defeat in a new nationwide poll, according to Holger Schmieding, London-based chief economist at Berenberg Bank.
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| Airlines want joint lifting of 737 MAX ban, but EU cautious Posted: 01 Jun 2019 07:21 PM PDT  Airlines urged regulators on Sunday to coordinate on software changes to the Boeing 737 MAX in a bid to avoid damaging splits over safety seen when the aircraft was grounded in March. The International Air Transport Association (IATA), whose 290 carriers account for 80 percent of world flying, said trust in the certification system had been damaged by a wave of separate decisions to ground the jet, with the U.S. last to act. Boeing's best-selling jet was grounded after two crashes, in Indonesia and Ethiopia, over five months killed a total of 346 people.
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| Taiwan lashes back at Chinese defense minister's threats Posted: 02 Jun 2019 10:20 PM PDT  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan lashed out at the Chinese defense minister's renewed threat to use force to assert China's claim to the island, accusing Beijing of creating unease in the region and seeking to "expand its hegemony."
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| Qantas expects final purchase proposals for Sydney-London jets from Airbus, Boeing by Aug Posted: 02 Jun 2019 07:43 PM PDT  Qantas Airways Ltd has asked Airbus SE and Boeing Co to present their "best and final offer" for planes capable of flying 21-hours non-stop from Sydney to London by August, the airline's chief executive said on Monday. "Hopefully by the end of the year ... we will come to a conclusion one way or another," Qantas CEO Alan Joyce told reporters on the sidelines of an airline industry conference in Seoul. Qantas is aiming for the planes to be delivered from late 2022, with the first Sydney-London flights likely in 2023, he said.
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| The Porsche Boxster Bergspyder Is an Awesome One-Seater That Was Almost Built for Real Posted: 03 Jun 2019 08:40 AM PDT  The one-off prototype is being shown in public for the first time since 2015.
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| Joe Biden dubs Trump's White House 'bully pulpit', speaks out against anti-LGBTQ law Posted: 02 Jun 2019 06:19 PM PDT  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden bashes Trump administration for setting a poor example on human rights.
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| Here’s a state-by-state look at the fastest mobile network speeds in the US Posted: 02 Jun 2019 06:02 AM PDT  Opensignal has released a new report today about mobile network speeds in the US, offering an overview of how smartphone download speeds haven't improved all that much from this time last year. The report goes into greater detail about that, in addition to ranking each state and the top 50 US cities with the fastest speeds.Among the key findings of the report, tech hub cities surprisingly don't excel when compared to the 50 largest cities. For example, San Francisco, Seattle, and Austin are all ranked in the bottom half of that list of 50 when measuring download and upload speeds, plus overall video experience.Across all 50 states, the report continues, smartphone users experienced download speeds that range from 12.1 Mbps in Mississippi to 32.9 Mbps in New Jersey. States with the fastest speeds are mostly concentrated in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions, while the two fastest cities are Cleveland and Minneapolis, according to the report. There's also a wide divergence in speeds between the top and bottom of that list of 50 cities, with the fastest cities offering speeds that are almost twice as fast as Oklahoma City, which ranks at the bottom.High upload speeds in New York and Salt Lake City mean you'll have the best experience there when sharing smartphone photos and videos. Interestingly, Los Angeles (the home of Hollywood) comes in at a middling 30th place when ranked for mobile video experience.5G offers significant promise in these areas, but, of course, it will still be a while longer before most ordinary customers get to experience that level of connectivity. "In even the lowest-scoring US city for 4G availability," Opensignal notes in the report, "smartphone users spend 94.7% of the time connected to 4G rather than older technologies such as 3G. Opensignal expects it will be years before smartphone users spend as much time connected to 5G networks as they do 4G networks and hence measures of 4G mobile experience such as 4G availability will continue to be important."
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| Gun Owners Are Passionate About Glock: 3 Ways to Make Them Better Posted: 01 Jun 2019 06:00 PM PDT  A better Glock trigger will take a seasoned shooter and do a few things for you. Someone who's mastered the stock Glock trigger knows they are only chasing fractions of an inch and fractions of a second. First it will make you shrink your groups, you'll gain that fraction of an inch through a better trigger.Since then the Glock has gone on to become an insanely popular handgun. Part of that popularity is modularity. Glock pistols in general have three different frame sizes, the standard, the larger, and the single stack. By frame size I don't mean length and width, I mean compatibility.For example, the Glock 26 and Glock 17 are the same standard frame. There are differences in overall size, but they can accept the same magazines and the same internals. This makes it very easy to find upgradeable parts for any Glock.Today, we are looking and talking about the most popular Glock upgrade out there, the trigger. The compatibility we mentioned is important, because you have to be selective about your trigger, and ensure it fits your Glock frame.HOW THE GLOCK TRIGGER WORKS
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| U.S. regulators say some Boeing 737 MAX planes may have faulty parts Posted: 02 Jun 2019 12:20 PM PDT  The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday disclosed a new problem involving Boeing Co's grounded 737 MAX, saying that more than 300 of that troubled plane and the prior generation 737 may contain improperly manufactured parts and that the agency will require these parts to be quickly replaced. The FAA said up to 148 of the part known as a leading-edge slat track that were manufactured by a Boeing supplier are affected, covering 179 MAX and 133 NG aircraft worldwide. The 737 MAX, Chicago-based Boeing's best-selling jet, was grounded globally in March following a fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash after a similar Lion Air disaster in Indonesia in October.
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| Official: Gunman's resignation email had no sign of shooting Posted: 03 Jun 2019 09:18 AM PDT  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — The resignation email the gunman sent hours before the shooting at a municipal building was brief, unremarkable and didn't contain anything that foreshadowed the bloody rampage to come, a city official told The Associated Press on Monday.
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| Eleven wounded in Sudan by gunfire near sit-in -opposition committee Posted: 01 Jun 2019 02:53 PM PDT ![Eleven wounded in Sudan by gunfire near sit-in -opposition committee]( "Eleven wounded in Sudan by gunfire near sit-in -opposition committee") Sudan's main protest group blamed the violence on the Transitional Military Council (TMC), saying that it is part of a plan to violently clear the protests. "The killing and intimidation on Nile Street is just a prelude to committing a massacre to end the sit-in by force," Sudanese Professionals' Association (SPA) said in a statement late on Saturday. Tensions are mounting between the TMC and an alliance of protest and opposition groups who want a quick handover of power to civilians.
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| Clearing up confusion on payments: If a retailer takes Apple Pay, it also takes Google Pay Posted: 02 Jun 2019 10:04 AM PDT  As New York City's MTA adopts contactless payments on some transit lines, people are still confused about who takes Apple, Google and Samsung Pay.
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| Google server trouble snarls YouTube, Snapchat Posted: 02 Jun 2019 04:58 PM PDT  Congested Google servers in the eastern United States caused problems for users of Snapchat and YouTube on Sunday, with complaints on social media that the popular apps weren't accessible. Is the internet melting?" asked one Twitter post.
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| Larry Hogan Won't Challenge Trump in 2020, Wash Post Reports Posted: 01 Jun 2019 11:51 AM PDT  "I'm not going to be a candidate for president in 2020," Hogan told the newspaper in an interview. Former Ohio Governor John Kasich, who ended his 2016 quest for the nomination three months before the convention, hasn't ruled out another run, tweeting on Friday that "while the path looks tough, all of my options are on the table." He tweeted after saying on CNN "there is no path right now for me. Former Massachusetts Republican Governor William Weld has already announced his bid to challenge Trump.
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| 5 injured in Venice as cruise ship slams into tourist boat Posted: 02 Jun 2019 08:57 PM PDT  Italian officials say a cruise ship has slammed into a dock and a tourist riverboat on a busy Venice canal, injuring five people.
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| 8 Portable Camping Kitchens for the Wilderness or the Tailgate Party Posted: 02 Jun 2019 01:00 PM PDT |
| NASA astronaut captures breathtaking time-lapse of Earth from space Posted: 02 Jun 2019 11:08 AM PDT  Here on Earth, we see the Sun rise and set once in any given 24-hour period. If you want to see the sunrise or sunset you need to set your watch so you don't miss it, or you'll be left waiting another day for the opportunity. Things are a whole lot different on the International Space Station. Travelers spending time aboard the orbiting laboratory don't just have to deal with the lack of gravity and somewhat cramped quarters, they also have to wrestle with the fact that normal "days" don't really exist when you're speeding around the Earth over a dozen times per day. Astronaut Nick Hague, who is currently on board the ISS, decided to use that to his advantage and filmed a gorgeous time-lapse of Earth from the eyes of an ISS resident. The video, which is just under a minute long, is pure eye candy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75BvlfSbkEA&feature=youtu.be&linkId=68266947 "This time-lapse video taken by NASA astronaut Nick Hague squeezes a 30-minute International Space Station trip over a cloudy Earth into 60 seconds, covering the Pacific to the Atlantic," NASA explains. The International Space Station completes a full orbit of Earth in just around 90 minutes. At that rate, astronauts aboard the spacecraft get to see around 16 sunsets every 24 hours. Those aboard the space station keep to strict schedules to ensure they remain in a rhythm similar to their counterparts on Earth. NASA routinely provides live streaming views of Earth and space from the International Space Station, but it's undeniably cool to see a high-quality timelapse like this that was shot by one of NASA's own astronauts. Hague, who arrived at the space station earlier this year, will remain aboard the spacecraft for Expedition 60 which is slated to begin in July of this year.
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| Goldman lowers U.S. growth view, sees higher rate cut chances on 'trade war' Posted: 02 Jun 2019 06:06 PM PDT ![Goldman lowers U.S. growth view, sees higher rate cut chances on 'trade war']( "Goldman lowers U.S. growth view, sees higher rate cut chances on 'trade war'") Goldman Sachs Group Inc analysts on Sunday downgraded their second-quarter economic growth forecasts for the United States because of risks stemming from trade conflicts with Mexico and China. The analysts also said they saw a rising probability of the U.S. Federal Reserve cutting rates but not enough of a chance to pencil such a cut into its baseline forecast. "With the scale and scope of the trade war increasing further over the last week, we revised our inflation and growth forecasts, and adjusted our Fed probabilities," the analysts said in a research note.
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| UPDATE 3-China says war with US would be a disaster as tensions mount Posted: 01 Jun 2019 06:46 PM PDT ![UPDATE 3-China says war with US would be a disaster as tensions mount]( "UPDATE 3-China says war with US would be a disaster as tensions mount") China's Defence Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday that a war with the United States would be a disaster for the world while issuing a warning to Washington not to meddle in security disputes over Taiwan and the South China Sea. China has been incensed by recent moves by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to increase support for self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, including U.S. Navy sailings through the Taiwan Strait that separates the island from mainland China.
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| More part-time, small business workers could build retirement savings accounts under bill Posted: 02 Jun 2019 10:45 AM PDT ![More part-time, small business workers could build retirement savings accounts under bill]( "More part-time, small business workers could build retirement savings accounts under bill") The legislation would let more small employers to band together to create collective 401(k)s. Part-timers also would get more access to plans.
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| Virginia Beach shooting victims identified Posted: 01 Jun 2019 01:35 PM PDT  12 people were killed in a shooting Friday at a Virginia Beach municipal building. On Saturday, city officials named them, and showed their photos. (June 1)
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| Netanyahu fires two key ministers ahead of Israeli polls: official Posted: 02 Jun 2019 07:34 AM PDT  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired two prominent ministers Sunday ahead of general elections set for September, the second time the country will go to the polls this year, an official said. An official from Netanyahu's office confirmed on condition of anonymity that Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked had been fired, without providing further details. Both are right-wing rivals to Netanyahu and had broken off from his Likud party years earlier.
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| Order to hide USS John McCain from Trump not 'unreasonable' – chief of staff Posted: 02 Jun 2019 12:12 PM PDT  'We all know how the president feels about the former senator'Trump confirms USS John McCain was hidden from his view Donald Trump on order to hide the USS John McCain: 'Somebody did it because they thought I didn't like him, OK? And they were well-meaning, I will say.' Photograph: Ahmad Masood/Reuters An order to have a ship named for the late Senator John McCain hidden from view during Donald Trump's recent visit to Japan was "not an unreasonable thing to ask", the president's chief of staff said on Sunday. Mick Mulvaney made the startling claim even as it was reported that the Pentagon has told the White House to stop politicizing the military. The US navy has confirmed reports about an internal email that said the White House military office wanted the USS John McCain kept "out of sight" when Trump was in Japan. The email was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. McCain died last year at 81, from brain cancer. The 2008 Republican presidential nominee remained fiercely at odds with Trump over his military service in Vietnam and Trump's absence from that war, and over political matters including a healthcare overhaul that sunk on his vote in the Senate. Since McCain's death, Trump has continued his attacks. Trump said this week he knew nothing about the request to hide the ship named after McCain. But he also said: "Somebody did it because they thought I didn't like him, OK? And they were well-meaning, I will say." On Sunday, Mulvaney told NBC's Meet the Press: "The fact some 23- or 24-year-old person went to that site and said, 'Oh my goodness, there's the John McCain, we all know how the president feels about the former senator, that's not the best backdrop, can somebody look into moving it?' "That's not an unreasonable thing to ask." Press interest in the story, Mulvaney claimed, was "outrageous". In South Korea, acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters he was not planning to seek an investigation by the Pentagon's internal watchdog, "because there was nothing carried out" by the navy. But he also said he needed to gather more information about what happened. "How did the people receiving the information – how did they treat it," Shanahan said. "That would give me an understanding on the next steps." Mulvaney said it would be "silly" if anyone was fired over the email. "The president's feeling towards the former senator are well known," he said. "They are well known throughout the office, they are well known in the media." Shanahan also said he had spoken to McCain's wife, Cindy, though he did not reveal what was said. McCain's daughter Meghan, a television pundit, said this week: "It's impossible to go through the grief process when my father, who's been dead 10 months, is constantly in the news cycle because the president is so obsessed with the fact that he's never going to be a great man like he was." The McCain incident has dogged Shanahan through his trip to Asia, in which he has tried to deal with national security issues involving China and North Korea. Shanahan is yet to be formally nominated. The McCain issue is sure to come up at any Senate confirmation hearing. A spokesman for Shanahan, Lt Col Joseph Buccino, told the Associated Press the secretary told his chief of staff on Friday to speak to the White House military office "and reaffirm his mandate that the Department of Defense will not be politicized". Shanahan told reporters he was told that despite the White House request, the navy did not move the USS John McCain and that a barge in front of it was moved before Trump arrived to visit the USS Wasp. He said a tarpaulin that had been draped over the ship's name was removed, having been put there for maintenance reasons only. Asked if his senior staff were aware of the White House request, Shanahan said he had been told they were not. He has also said he was not aware of the request and would not have authorized it. It is not known who at the Pentagon may have known about the request to hide the USS John McCain. It is also not clear whether navy leaders deliberately chose its crew to be on leave during Trump's visit, or if other measures were taken to ensure that the ship was not visible from where the president stood on the Wasp. The warship was commissioned in 1994 and named for the senator's father and grandfather, both navy admirals named John Sidney McCain. Last year, the navy rededicated the ship to honor the senator too.
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| App Store in crosshairs as Apple courts developers Posted: 02 Jun 2019 12:59 PM PDT  Apple is set to court software savants at its annual developers conference beginning Monday while contending with criticism that the iPhone maker has made its App Store a walled garden. The App Store is the lone shop for content for Apple devices, with the technology giant deciding which software creations to accept and taking a 30 percent cut of financial transactions. "We only collect a commission from developers when a digital good or service is delivered through an app," Apple said in a page recently established in defense of the App Store.
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| 10 deals you don’t want to miss on Sunday: Anker Bluetooth speakers, $9 wireless charger, $169 ecobee4, more Posted: 02 Jun 2019 04:33 AM PDT ![10 deals you don't want to miss on Sunday: Anker Bluetooth speakers, $9 wireless charger, $169 ecobee4, more]( "10 deals you don't want to miss on Sunday: Anker Bluetooth speakers, $9 wireless charger, $169 ecobee4, more") We hope you're up bright and early on Sunday, because we've got a heck of a daily deals roundup for you to check out. Highlights include a 4.2-star-rated fast wireless charging stand for just $8.99, best-selling true wireless earbuds for $28.49 after you clip the coupon code on the product page, all-time low prices on shockingly good portable Bluetooth speakers from Anker, a best-selling Wi-Fi range extender for $16.99, the lowest price ever on the Apple Watch Series 3, an awesome Chromebook that's water-resistant and ruggedized for $230, $10 off the best Nintendo Switch game ever, a 64GB SanDisk microSD card for $12.41, the lowest price ever on an ecobee4 smart thermostat, and more. See all of Sunday's best bargains below.
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| EXPLAINER-The Fed wants ideas on how to target inflation Posted: 02 Jun 2019 03:00 PM PDT ![EXPLAINER-The Fed wants ideas on how to target inflation]( "EXPLAINER-The Fed wants ideas on how to target inflation") The Federal Reserve is convening experts to discuss overhauling how the world's most powerful central bank manages the U.S. economy. Fed policymakers and economists meeting in Chicago for a June 4-5 research conference will weigh options on how to best target inflation, part of a year-long review of the central bank's policy framework. The Fed announced a 2% inflation target in January 2012 but since then inflation has almost always been lower.
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| Turkey, Russia face conflicts over Syria's push into Idlib Posted: 01 Jun 2019 12:20 PM PDT  ISTANBUL (AP) — Ankara and Moscow are again facing an escalation of violence in Syria's last rebel-held territory, a development that puts their cooperation to the test even as they support opposing sides in the eight-year war that has devastated Syria.
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| America Was Terrified of China's Nuclear Weapons. This Mach 3 Drone Spied on Them. Posted: 02 Jun 2019 04:30 AM PDT  McLucas noted that new spy satellites were spending more time in orbit. In 1971, Corona, Gambit and Hexagon spy sats would rack up a combined 181 days in orbit, McLucas reported. He projected days-on-orbit would grow to 279 by 1974.Between 1969 and 1971, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office deployed super-fast spy drones over China in an abortive attempt to spy on Beijing's nuclear program.The NRO on March 21, 2019 declassified scores of five-decade-old records documenting the development, deployment and termination of the "Tagboard" drone system.(This first appeared two months ago.)Tagboard's air vehicle was the Lockheed-made D-21 drone. It was an impressive example of brute-force, mid-century engineering.Made of titanium and weighing 12 tons, the 19-feet-wingspan D-21 in its early forms launched from atop a special variant of the A-12, the CIA's version of the Mach-3 SR-71. The A-12, in essence, was the booster for the drone, climbing to 80,000 feet of altitude and accelerating to Mach 3.3 before separating from the pilotless vehicle.The D-21's ramjet engine took over, allowing it to cruise at three times the speed of sound for as far as 3,000 miles. A 300-pound Hycon HR 335 camera peering through the drone's lower fuselage could capture 5,600 exposures covering an area 16 miles wide and 3,900 miles long.
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| U.S. regulators divide scrutiny of Amazon and Google -Washington Post Posted: 01 Jun 2019 09:34 PM PDT ![U.S. regulators divide scrutiny of Amazon and Google -Washington Post]( "U.S. regulators divide scrutiny of Amazon and Google -Washington Post") U.S. antitrust regulators have divided oversight of Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google, putting Amazon under the watch of the Federal Trade Commission and Google under the Justice Department, the Washington Post said on Saturday. Amazon could face heightened antitrust scrutiny under a new agreement between U.S. regulators which puts the e-commerce giant under the watch of the trade commission, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The development is the result of the FTC and Justice department quietly dividing up competition oversight on both of the American tech giants, Amazon and Google, the newspaper said https://wapo.st/2WewV9Y adding that the FTC's plans for Amazon and the Justice Department's interest in Google were not immediately clear.
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| President says Iran will not be 'bullied' into US talks Posted: 01 Jun 2019 01:17 PM PDT  Iran's President Hassan Rouhani stressed Saturday that Tehran will not be "bullied" into negotiations with the United States and laid down the Islamic republic's conditions. "We are men of reason and negotiation ... if one sits at the negotiating table with total respect and in the framework of international law," Rouhani said, quoted by the government's website. Rouhani has repeatedly ruled out negotiations unless Washington lifts sanctions against the Islamic republic and returns to the 2015 nuclear deal signed by Tehran and world powers.
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