| Holocaust survivor to ICE director, California sheriff: ‘History is not on your side’ Posted: 29 Mar 2017 09:25 AM PDT  An Auschwitz survivor confronted one of the nation's top immigration officials and a local sheriff at a California town hall Tuesday night. Bernard Marks, 87, addressed Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan and Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones, a supporter of President Trump. Jones had invited Homan to the public forum to discuss address the community's concerns about ICE's collaboration with local law enforcement.
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| Democrat Adam Schiff, probing Trump-Putin ties, has gone up against Russia (and Stephen Colbert) before Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:00 AM PDT  WASHINGTON — Congressman Adam Schiff, increasingly the Democratic point man on the investigation into allegations of overly cozy ties between President Trump and Russia, is a soft-spoken former federal prosecutor and a critic of government surveillance who may be the only lawmaker ever to draw blood from comic Stephen Colbert — literally. Now Schiff is locked in a tense, headline-making standoff with the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, over how to proceed with a multi-tiered investigation into Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 election, a probe that the White House sees as a dagger aimed at Trump's legitimacy even though Schiff hasn't drawn blood yet.
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| White House offers muddled message to states considering Medicaid expansion Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:03 PM PDT  The White House didn't have a clear message for states looking to potentially expand Medicaid in the wake of the American Health Care Act's (AHCA) failure, implying that the bill would have saved the program for low-income and disabled Americans by cutting nearly a trillion dollars from its funding. Press secretary Sean Spicer was asked during Tuesday's briefing about possible expansions of Medicaid coverage in Kansas, Georgia and Virginia. The three states are in varying stages of moving toward joining the 31 states that have already opted in to Obamacare's expansion of the decades-old program, which covers 74 million Americans.
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| Pricey New Drug Promises Eczema Relief Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:42 AM PDT  The FDA has approved a new drug to treat serious cases of the skin condition, but the twice-per-month injections come with a big price tag: $37,000 per year for patients.
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| US Supreme Court overturns death sentence for Texas inmate Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:39 PM PDT  The US Supreme Court overturned Tuesday a death sentence for a Texas man, saying he was not properly sentenced because of his mental disability. The five-to-three Supreme Court decision offered a reprieve to Bobby Moore, a 57-year-old prisoner who fatally shot a clerk at a Houston grocery store during a botched holdup in 1980. The Supreme Court said that Texas had violated the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment by using an outdated standard for mental disability.
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| 3 Iraqis living in US accused of hiding ties to kidnapper Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:06 PM PDT ![3 Iraqis living in US accused of hiding ties to kidnapper]( "3 Iraqis living in US accused of hiding ties to kidnapper") ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Adil Hasan and his wife, Enas Ibrahim, came to the U.S. in 2008 as refugees from Iraq, and have been living peacefully in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., ever since.
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| How to make $10,000 traveling the world and staying in luxury homes Posted: 29 Mar 2017 03:37 AM PDT  It's the final stretch for a competition that comes with a $10,000 jackpot and the chance to travel the world and stay in million-dollar luxury vacation homes around the world.
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| Boeing airliner catches fire in Peru, no serious injuries reported Posted: 28 Mar 2017 06:05 PM PDT ![Boeing airliner catches fire in Peru, no serious injuries reported]( "Boeing airliner catches fire in Peru, no serious injuries reported") A Boeing jet operated by Peruvian Airlines caught fire on Tuesday while landing at an airport near the Andean town of Jauja in central Peru after it swerved on the runway, but there were no serious injuries, a government minister said. Peruvian Airlines said in a statement that the Boeing 737-300 jet drove off the runway for unspecified reasons during the scheduled landing, after swerving to the right. Authorities are investigating the incident, which occurred about 4:30 p.m., involving the Boeing 737-300 jet at the high-altitude airport in an agricultural valley some 265 kilometers from Lima, the capital.
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| Daughter of 'Full House' star on growing up in the public eye Posted: 28 Mar 2017 01:27 PM PDT  ABC News' Cameron Jones talks with singer and actress Natasha Bure about her new book, "Let's Be Real," which offers teenagers an honest approach to living life.
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| Female Honor Student Allegedly Plotted School Shooting: Cops Posted: 28 Mar 2017 01:15 PM PDT  Nichole Cevario's father told officials the teen posed a threat to student safety.
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| Will GOP's tax reform prove easier than health care? Posted: 27 Mar 2017 11:20 AM PDT ![Will GOP's tax reform prove easier than health care?]( "Will GOP's tax reform prove easier than health care?") The Republican Party couldn't repeal and replace Obamacare like it promised. Still smarting from that setback, the GOP is turning to another daunting issue: tax reform.
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| Democrats pile on Nunes as intrigue swirls around House Russia probe Posted: 28 Mar 2017 07:31 AM PDT  House intelligence committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is resisting growing calls for him to step aside over the revelation he had gone to the White House grounds to receive classified information related to committee's investigation into Russian interference in last year's election. "We've been investigating Russia for many, many years," he said.
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| Video of 13-Year-Old Boy’s ‘Excessive’ Pat Down at Dallas Airport Goes Viral Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:34 AM PDT  The TSA is facing a public backlash on social media after a mother filmed her son being patted down at a security checkpoint at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
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| South Korean media slam government over ferry 'remains' Posted: 29 Mar 2017 01:46 AM PDT  South Korean authorities faced a deluge of criticism Wednesday for announcing that human remains had been found from the sunken Sewol ferry, only to correct itself within hours to say they were animal bones. Newspapers said relatives of the missing had been put through "heaven and hell", and accused the maritime ministry of recklessness. The maritime ministry raised their hopes Tuesday when it said that human remains had been found by workers and were "suspected to be one of the missing victims".
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| Felony charges for 2 who secretly filmed Planned Parenthood Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:37 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California prosecutors on Tuesday charged two anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood with 15 felonies, saying they invaded the privacy of medical providers by filming without consent.
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| Capturing the battle against ISIS in Mosul — photojournalist Zohra Bensemra Posted: 28 Mar 2017 01:28 PM PDT ![Capturing the battle against ISIS in Mosul — photojournalist Zohra Bensemra]( "Capturing the battle against ISIS in Mosul — photojournalist Zohra Bensemra") Algerian photojournalist Zohra Bensemra captured a series of heartbreaking images while covering the battle of Mosul. From elderly individuals weary from the ongoing warfare in Iraq to children bloodied from early brushes with violence. Her pictures show people holding up a white flag to signal that they are noncombatants and others crying on buses bound for safer areas. She told Yahoo News she hopes her works shows that "the human being is the same" regardless of "nationality or religion."
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| Wells Fargo to pay $110 million to settle lawsuit over account abuses Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:38 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co said it agreed in principle to pay $110 million to settle a lawsuit by customers challenging its opening of accounts without their permission, a practice that led to a scandal that cost the bank's chief executive his job. Customers said this saddled them with accounts they did not need or want, and fees they knew nothing about. The lawsuit dates from May 2015, sixteen months before Wells Fargo agreed to pay $185 million in penalties to settle regulatory charges over the sham accounts, estimated to number as many as 2 million.
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| Driver Shoots, Kills Police Officer In Oklahoma Posted: 27 Mar 2017 12:04 PM PDT  Police said the driver fled Officer Justin Terney began checking with dispatchers to see if there were any outstanding warrants.
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| How to Stop ISPs from Selling Your Private Data Posted: 29 Mar 2017 05:15 AM PDT  The Internet may seem like an apolitical entity, but the fact is, the United States government has a great deal of influence over it. On Thursday (Mar. 23), the U.S. Senate voted to overturn an important broadband privacy rule instituted under the Obama administration. Your ISP will continue to be able to collect and sell your online data with reckless abandon, and frankly, unless you're willing to kneecap your own Internet access, you can't do much about it.
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| ‘Stop shaking your head’: Spicer scolds reporter who asked how Trump administration plans to revamp its image Posted: 28 Mar 2017 11:40 AM PDT  Sean Spicer sparred with veteran reporter April Ryan after she asked him how the Trump administration can "revamp" its public image while several controversies swirl around it.
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| Lafarge loses Paris 'beach' deal over support for Trump wall Posted: 28 Mar 2017 11:33 AM PDT  The city of Paris on Tuesday dumped French-Swiss group LafargeHolcim as supplier of sand for the makeshift "Paris Plages" beach over the company's readiness to supply cement for US President Donald Trump's controversial border wall. "We will do without their services," Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo's deputy Bruno Julliard told the city council, citing Lafarge's readiness to "work on the nefarious project" of a wall along the US-Mexico border.
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| U.S. senator launches probe into five top opioid drugmakers Posted: 28 Mar 2017 03:11 PM PDT  (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill sought on Tuesday details from the nation's top opioid drugmakers on their sales and marketing practices, as lawmakers step up efforts to tackle the country's deadly opioid crisis. The Missouri senator's investigation comes amid an epidemic of opioid addiction, with 91 Americans dying everyday as a result of overdose, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "This epidemic is the direct result of a calculated sales and marketing strategy major opioid manufacturers have allegedly pursued over the past 20 years to expand their market share," McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote in a letter to the drugmakers.
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| 'Carlos the Jackal' sentenced to life for 1974 attack Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:34 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — A French court on Tuesday convicted the man known as "Carlos the Jackal," once the world's most-wanted fugitive, of a deadly 1974 attack on a Paris shopping arcade and sentenced him to life in prison for the third time.
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| Scientists just found the largest dinosaur footprint ever Posted: 27 Mar 2017 08:58 PM PDT  Dinosaur discovery news doesn't find its way to the mainstream all that often these days, simply because it's hard for scientists to sell each individual fossil find as unique or notable. But when researchers in Australia discovered an ancient footprint larger than anything humanity has ever seen, well, that's a whole other matter entirely. The find, which is detailed in a newly published paper by Dr. David Salisbury, is one of many discoveries made by the research team working in an area of Australia dubbed "Jurassic Park." The scientists, which were comprised of paleontologists from The University of Queensland's School of Biological Sciences, as well as the James Cook University's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, were able to uncover evidence of 21 different dinosaur species during their expedition. The search was conducted on Australia's Dampier Peninsula, which has been lovingly nicknamed "Australia's Jurassic Park" thanks to its abundance of dinosaur remains. The tracks are believed to be between 127 million and 140 million years old. As for the record-breaking footprint, the team measured it at a whopping 1.75 meters in length, which is about five feet, nine inches long. It's definitely an intimidating sight, but with a foot of that size it's extremely unlikely that the creature that created it would have had little interest in eating anything but plants. The scientists believe the print was made by some kind of long-necked sauropod, meaning that it could have easily crushed a human in a single stomp, but wouldn't have actually had an appetite to munch on the remains.
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| Venezuela seeks to stymie OAS meeting, vows 'severe' response Posted: 27 Mar 2017 01:24 PM PDT ![Venezuela seeks to stymie OAS meeting, vows 'severe' response]( "Venezuela seeks to stymie OAS meeting, vows 'severe' response") By Diego Oré and Lesley Wroughton CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Venezuela called on Monday for the suspension of an Organization of American States meeting intended to air regional concerns over the OPEC nation's economic crisis and democratic standards. The Washington-based OAS is due to debate Venezuela on Tuesday after its secretary-general, Luis Almagro, said the country should be suspended from the regional bloc if it does not hold elections. Last week, 14 nations urged elections and freedom of jailed opponents of President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government, turning up the pressure after authorities thwarted a referendum on him last year and postponed local polls.
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| Special Ed Teacher Arrested Over Alleged Relationship With Student at All-Boys Middle School: Cops Posted: 28 Mar 2017 10:50 AM PDT  Rebecca Goerdel, 28, was arrested Friday for the alleged relationship with an unnamed boy.
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| How Long Can Devin Nunes Hang On? Posted: 28 Mar 2017 07:47 AM PDT  Democrats want the chair of the committee looking into collusion between the Trump administration and Russia to recuse himself, and hearings have ground to a halt for the moment.
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| Toshiba's US nuclear unit files for bankruptcy protection Posted: 29 Mar 2017 01:50 AM PDT  Toshiba's loss-hit US nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Company has filed for bankruptcy protection, the companies said Wednesday, as the troubled division wrestles with huge losses and accounting fraud claims. Westinghouse technology is at the core of about half of the world's nuclear reactors. "Westinghouse Electric.... and certain of its subsidiaries and affiliates, today filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code," the US firm said in a statement.
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| North Korea Compares Trump To Obama Posted: 27 Mar 2017 11:57 AM PDT  Both U.S. presidential administrations have referenced "strategic patience" when dealing with Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
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| Slain Oklahoma officer was new recruit, aspiring canine cop Posted: 27 Mar 2017 04:47 PM PDT  TECUMSEH, Okla. (AP) — A 22-year-old officer and new recruit died Monday after a shootout with a man who fled a traffic stop in central Oklahoma, police said.
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| British soldier's sentence for killing injured Taliban cut Posted: 28 Mar 2017 03:22 AM PDT  A British court on Tuesday cut a soldier's sentence for killing an injured Taliban fighter to seven years after his murder conviction was reduced to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Veterans hugged, cheered and waved flags bearing former Royal Marine Alexander Blackman's image outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London after the ruling, which means he could be released within weeks. Blackman was sentenced in 2013 for shooting the fighter at close range in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on September 15, 2011, after the man was seriously injured by fire from an Apache helicopter.
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| Lamborghini won't target Nürburgring SUV record with Urus Posted: 28 Mar 2017 01:00 PM PDT  It's been a long time coming, but the Lamborghini Urus SUV is nearly a reality. Motoring reports Lamborghini doesn't have much interest in proving the Urus around the Nürburgring, as the Italian brand did with the Huracán Performante which just set the lap record at the German track. In fact, the Urus will house a completely different set of objectives than the brand's super cars.
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| Sean Spicer to journalist April Ryan: ‘stop shaking your head’ Posted: 28 Mar 2017 12:09 PM PDT  During the daily White House press briefing Tuesday, press secretary Sean Spicer got into a heated exchange with April Ryan, a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks. Ryan asked Spicer about the investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, to which Spicer said, "At some point, April, you're going to have to take no for an answer."
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| Central European leaders vow not to be blackmailed by EU on migration Posted: 28 Mar 2017 10:06 AM PDT  By Pawel Sobczak WARSAW (Reuters) - The leaders of four Central European countries vowed on Tuesday not to be blackmailed by threats of financial punishment from Brussels if they don't join in the relocation of thousands of Middle Eastern and African refugees. Austria also said it will seek an exemption from having to accept more asylum-seekers, arguing that it has already taken in its fair share during Europe's migration crisis. The prime ministers of the Visegrad Group (V4) -- Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic -- said they have a sovereign right to decide how to deal with the migrants who have flooded into the continent mainly from the war in Syria.
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| Mom Outraged at TSA, Claims They Treated Her Young Son and Family 'Like Dogs' Posted: 28 Mar 2017 09:22 AM PDT  The incident happened Sunday in Dallas.
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| Trump Is The Least-Approved New President In History Posted: 27 Mar 2017 12:00 PM PDT  The majority of those betting on Trump's presidency say he'll be kicked out before the end of his first term.
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| Watch a Twin-Turbo Ford GT Go From Zero to Nearly 300 MPH in One Mile Posted: 28 Mar 2017 09:34 AM PDT  This heavily-modified 2005 Ford GT just shattered the standing mile world record, hitting 293.6 mph from a dead stop.
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| What happened today in France's presidential race Posted: 27 Mar 2017 11:58 AM PDT  Hollande, visiting Singapore, said his final mission before he steps down in May would be to ensure that "populism, nationalism and extremism cannot prevail, including in my own country". The National Front's Marine Le Pen is seen as one of the leading candidates to replace him in the election, which follows Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the election of the populist Donald Trump in the United States.
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| Uber diversity: low on women, like other tech companies Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:34 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Uber's first report on employee diversity shows low numbers for women, especially in technical positions. In that regard, the company is similar to other Silicon Valley giants such as Google, Facebook and Apple.
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| African woman targeted in fresh mob violence in India Posted: 29 Mar 2017 09:20 AM PDT  A Kenyan woman was attacked Wednesday, Indian police said, in the same northern city where a mob had assaulted African students following the death of a local teenager from a suspected drug overdose. The woman was allegedly dragged out of a taxi and repeatedly slapped and kicked by unknown assailants as she returned to her home in Greater Noida, a satellite city outside India's capital New Delhi. The incident came as police stepped up security in the city's sprawling suburbs where mobs on Monday attacked a group of Africans with sticks and metal chairs.
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| Verizon wins another wireless speed test thanks to its last real advantage Posted: 28 Mar 2017 11:16 AM PDT 
Verizon has long had a reputation for the best service in America, with prices to match. Things are changing these days: other networks are catching up, and Verizon even has a reasonably-priced unlimited plan, which is something I thought I'd never live to see. But some things never change, and the latest Tom's Guide network test of all the cell carriers shows why Verizon is likely to remain in first place.
The Tom's Guide test used so-called drive testing to compare average download speeds across six major US cities and nine wireless carriers. That means the testers took identical smartphones (in this case, a Galaxy S7) on each network to different locations within each city, ran side-by-side download tests, and compared the results. Those results had Verizon comfortably in first place, and it sounds like one particular feature of Verizon's network put it there: indoor performance. "We split the locations we tested between indoor and outdoor locations to see how being indoors affected carrier performance. Generally speaking, speeds slowed down for most carriers when we tested at indoor locations — dramatically, in some cases. The lone exception was Verizon, whose average download speeds improved during indoor testing in four of our six test cities."
It makes sense that performance takes a hit when you go indoors. Mobile data relies on your cellphone talking to a cell tower that's normally at least a couple hundred yards away. The more stuff the cell signal has to go through, the weaker the signal will be, and the slower things will download. But not all cell signals are equal. 4G radios work on tens of different "bands," specific frequencies that each wireless carrier owns the right to use. Lower frequencies are much better at penetrating obstacles (like buildings), and also have superior range. Verizon owns more low-frequency spectrum than other wireless carriers (particularly T-Mobile and Sprint), and has owned it for longer, allowing it to build out the cell towers to actually use the lower frequency. This explains Verizon's place on top of the Tom's Guide ranking. Times are a-changing, however. T-Mobile purchased some low-frequency 700MHz spectrum two years ago, and the government is currently in the process of auctioning off old TV spectrum in the 600MHz range to the wireless carriers. Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile are all expected to spend billions of dollars arming themselves with spectrum for the coming years, and a big upset there could fundamentally shake up the status quo.
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| Company: Oil in pipeline under Missouri River reservoir Posted: 27 Mar 2017 09:05 PM PDT  The Dakota Access pipeline developer said Monday that it has placed oil in the pipeline under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota and that it's preparing to put the pipeline into service.
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| Photos of the day - March 28, 2017 Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:42 PM PDT ![Photos of the day - March 28, 2017]( "Photos of the day - March 28, 2017") An Indian girl wearing a traditional clothe takes part in the procession to celebrate the Gudi Padwa, Maharashtrian's New Year in Mumbai, India; Dust and smoke billows out from a residential house which was blown up during a gunfight between militants and Indian soldiers in Durbagh village of Chadoora, 15 km from Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir; and, Tourists view cherry blossoms at Yuyuantan Park in Beijing, China.
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| EU court lifts EU sanctions on Libyan dictator's daughter Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:48 AM PDT  Europe's second-highest court on Tuesday lifted sanctions on the daughter of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, arguing the changed situation in Libya no longer justified the measures. As part of sanctions imposed in 2011 over serious human rights violations in Libya, Aisha Muammer Mohamed El-Gaddafi was included on a list of people subjected by EU governments to a travel ban and a freeze on their financial assets. At the time, the European Union's General Court, only lower than the Court of Justice, approved the sanctions based on "closeness of association with (the) regime." Oman granted asylum to some of Gaddafi's family in 2013, including Aisha and her brother Hannibal who were both wanted by Interpol.
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| White House Blasts Sally Yates Washington Post Story Posted: 28 Mar 2017 12:15 PM PDT  The president has made no secret of his disdain for many print news outlets, but what exactly does he like to read?
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| 2017 Audi S6 Posted: 28 Mar 2017 03:18 PM PDT  Drama free and wickedly quick.
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The tower would be in eccentric geosynchronous orbit, and would "travel" between hemispheres on a regular daily schedule, and in a figure eight pattern. The architects say the tower would spend much of its time over New York City thanks to its planned trajectory. The building could remain completely disconnected from the surface indefinitely by drawing power from solar panels situated above cloud level. Water would be filtered within the structure in a semi-closed loop, but the tower could also capture its own water while in-flight. 
As far as traveling to and from the tower, the concept suggests that people could just parachute down to Earth whenever they needed to leave. As for getting back home, the company doesn't seem to have nailed down exactly how that will work, but by the time the tower is actually built we'll probably have teleportation pads, too.
While such a design may make sense in a world where cars are fully autonomous, the reality is that many drivers today not only want, but need quick and easy access to pertinent information like range, speed and more. Addressing this, Musk took to Twitter once again where he explained that the final Model 3 design will display such information on the center console. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/847178475970547712 
