| Trump lashes out after judge bats down another immigration order Posted: 26 Apr 2017 04:26 AM PDT  President Trump lashed out early Wednesday after a federal judge issued a temporary injunction against his "sanctuary cities" executive oder. Trump said he'd take it to the Supreme Court.
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| White House vows to continue funding Obamacare, averting showdown with Democrats Posted: 26 Apr 2017 01:46 PM PDT  The White House has assured Democrats it will continue to fund a key portion of Obamacare, clearing the way for negotiations on a series of spending bills to avoid a government shutdown, according to two sources familiar with the decision. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had demanded that Congress pay for the Affordable Care Act's subsidies — which lower health care costs for 7 million people — as part of the emerging spending bill.
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| Body of missing Joliet toddler found in mother's home Posted: 27 Apr 2017 01:36 PM PDT ![Body of missing Joliet toddler found in mother's home]( "Body of missing Joliet toddler found in mother's home") JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — The body of a 1½-year-old girl was found at a "deplorable" northern Illinois home that she and her mother shared with squatters after her mother reluctantly allowed detectives inside to search and a day after she reported her daughter missing, authorities said Thursday.
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| Press secretary comments on tax plan's effect on middle class Posted: 27 Apr 2017 12:04 PM PDT  ABC News' Cecilia Vega asks Sean Spicer why Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin couldn't guarantee that middle class would not pay more with new tax plan.
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| A Growing -- and Deadly -- Problem on America’s Roads Posted: 26 Apr 2017 09:17 AM PDT  For the first time, drugged driving is to blame for more traffic fatalities involving drivers than drunk driving, a new report reveals.
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| Arkansas set to carry out final execution before drug expires Posted: 27 Apr 2017 12:10 PM PDT  Arkansas was set to execute another inmate on Thursday, the last in a series of lethal injections that the state has squeezed into a compressed timeline, even as the daughter of one of his victims appealed for clemency. Four of the inmates won reprieves, but the state carried out its first execution since 2005 last Thursday, putting convicted murderer Ledell Lee to death at its Cummins Unit, near Varner, Arksansas. Jack Jones and Marcel Williams, convicted separately of rape and murder in the 1990s, were executed on Monday in the nation's first double execution in nearly 17 years.
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| Elizabeth Thomas Having Panic Attacks, Family Says Posted: 25 Apr 2017 09:15 PM PDT  The 15-year-old Tennesssee teen was rescued last week after being allegedly kidnapped by ex-teacher Tad Cummins on March 13.
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| Sobering visualizations reveal how sea level rise could transform cities in your lifetime Posted: 26 Apr 2017 12:46 PM PDT  Until recently, it seemed that we would be able to manage global warming-induced sea level rise through the end of the century. It would be problematic, of course, but manageable, particularly in industrialized nations like the U.S. However, troubling indications from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets show that melting is taking place faster than previously thought and that entire glaciers — if not portions of the ice sheets themselves — are destabilizing. This has scientists increasingly worried that the consensus sea level rise estimates are too conservative. With sea level rise, as with other climate impacts, the uncertainties tend to skew toward the more severe end of the scale. So, it's time to consider some worst-case scenarios. SEE ALSO: Trump White House reveals it's 'not familiar' with well-studied costs of global warming Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) published an extreme high-end sea level rise scenario, showing 10 to 12 feet of sea level rise by 2100 around the U.S., compared to the previously published global average — which is closer to 8 feet — in that time period. The research and journalism group Climate Central took this projection and plotted out the stark ramifications in painstaking, and terrifying, detail. The bottom line finding? "By the end of the century, oceans could submerge land [that's] home to more than 12 million Americans and $2 trillion in property," according to Ben Strauss, who leads the sea level rise program at Climate Central. Here's what major cities would look like with so much sea level rise: New York CityImage: CLIMATE CENTRAL New Orleans: Gone.Image: CLIMATE CENTRAL San Francisco International AirportImage: CLIMATE CENTRAL Bienvenido a Miami.Image: CLIMATE CENTRALIn an online report, Climate Central states that the impacts of such a high amount of sea level rise "would be devastating." For example, Cape Canaveral, which is a crown jewel for NASA and now the private sector space industry, would be swallowed up by the Atlantic. Major universities, including MIT, would be underwater, as would President Trump's "southern White House" of Mar-a-Lago. In the West, San Francisco would be hard-hit, with San Francisco International Airport completely submerged. "More than 99 percent of today's population in 252 coastal towns and cities would have their homes submerged, and property of more than half the population in 479 additional communities would also be underwater," the analysis, which has not been peer-reviewed, found. Image: climate centralIn New York City, the average high tide would be a staggering 2 feet higher than the flood level experienced during Hurricane Sandy. More than 800,000 people would be flooded out of New York City alone. Although the findings pertain to sea level rise through the end of the century, in reality sea levels would keep rising long after that, with a total increase of about 30 feet by 2200 for all coastal states, Climate Central found. As for how likely this extreme scenario really is, here's what the report says: "The extreme scenario is considered unlikely, but it is plausible. NOAA's report and Antarctic research suggest that deep and rapid cuts to heat-trapping pollution would greatly reduce its chances." More specifically, the NOAA projection says this high-end outlook has just a 0.1 percent chance of occurring under a scenario in which we keep emitting greenhouse gases at about the current rate. While a 1-in-1,000 chance outcome might seem nearly impossible to occur, recent events suggest otherwise. For example, Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Mid-Atlantic in 2012 while following a track that was virtually unprecedented in storm history. In addition, California is estimated to have had just a 1 percent chance of climbing out of its deep drought in a one to two-year period, and it did just that this winter. Also, Donald Trump is president, people. Robert Kopp, a sea level rise researcher at Rutgers University, whose projections formed the basis of the NOAA scenarios, said it's difficult to put exact odds on the extreme scenario. "I would say that our knowledge about marine ice-sheet instability is too deeply uncertain for us to answer that question right now," Kopp said in an email. "We can come up with a physically plausible pathway that gets us to 2.5 meters [or 8.2 feet], we know it is more likely under higher emissions, but we don't have a good way of putting a probability on it." A paper published in the journal Nature in March found that if emissions of global warming pollutants peak in the next few years and are then reduced quickly thereafter, then there is a good chance that the melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet would be drastically curtailed. However, with the U.S., which is the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, backing away from making significant cuts under the Paris Climate Agreement, adhering to such an ambitious timetable is looking less realistic. Image: climate centralIn order for NOAA's extreme scenario, and therefore Climate Central's maps, to turn into reality, there would need to be decades more of sustained high emissions of greenhouse gases plus more melting from Antarctica than is currently anticipated. However, recent studies have raised questions about Antarctica's stability, as mild ocean waters eat away at floating ice shelves from below, freeing up glaciers well inland to flow faster into the sea. "What's new is that we used to think 6- to 7 feet was the max *plausible* or *possible* sea level rise this century, and now we've roughly doubled that," Strauss said in an email. "The new Antarctic science says it's plausible." "If you were to survey ice sheet experts today, instead of something like 5 to 10 years ago, I suspect you'd get a significantly higher probability than 0.1 percent," he said. A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change last week found that sea level rise could prompt a wave of internal migration within the U.S., especially as people move from the hardest-hit states such as Florida, Louisiana and New York. It's long been known that Florida is ground zero for sea level rise impacts, but the Climate Central projections are even more pessimistic. The report shows that a whopping 5.6 million Floridians would be at risk before the end of the century under an extreme sea level rise scenario, about double the amount simulated in the study last week. WATCH: Serene underwater footage shows whale's-eye view of Antarctica
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| 2 US soldiers killed fighting Isis in Afghanistan region hit by 'mother of all bombs' Posted: 27 Apr 2017 07:32 AM PDT  Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said that the US personnel were killed overnight in the Nangarhar province, on the border with Pakistan. Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump confirmed to The Independent that the soldiers were killed while fighting Isis-Khorosan, the local affiliate of the terror group. This is the "same general area" - southern Nangarhar province - where the massive ordnance air blast, dubbed the "mother of all bombs" (MOAB) was dropped earlier this month, Mr Stump said.
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| Venezuela to withdraw from OAS, denounces campaign by Washington Posted: 26 Apr 2017 04:43 PM PDT  Venezuela said on Wednesday it was withdrawing from the Organization of American States, deepening the diplomatic isolation of the socialist-run nation that is already out of step with Latin America's steady shift to the right. Critics of President Nicolas Maduro have said Venezuela could be expelled from the group, accusing his government of eroding the country's democracy by delaying elections and refusing to respect the opposition-led Congress. Venezuela said the move was a response to a Washington-backed campaign against the ruling Socialist Party that is meant to trample on the sovereignty of Venezuela, the United States' principal ideological adversary in the region.
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| Slain trooper's young sons in court as killer gets death Posted: 27 Apr 2017 02:05 PM PDT  MILFORD, Pa. (AP) — With his victim's two young sons in court for the first time, a gunman who shot and killed a Pennsylvania trooper was formally sentenced to death Thursday, one day after a jury determined he should receive a lethal injection for the ambush at a state police barracks.
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| U.S. Probes Into Trump’s Russia Links, Kremlin Meddling Gain Two Heavyweights Posted: 26 Apr 2017 10:16 AM PDT  The Senate investigation gains a former NSA lawyer. The FBI probe gets a veteran prosecutor.
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| Boy, 17, Arrested In Shooting Death Of His 13-Year-Old Sister: Cops Posted: 27 Apr 2017 06:13 AM PDT  The Florida brother told authorities it was an accident.
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| Please let this iPhone wireless charging feature actually exist Posted: 27 Apr 2017 12:16 PM PDT 
It may not happen with this year's iPhone 8, but Apple dreams of charging its future products with the help of conventional Wi-Fi routers or even other Apple products. The technology would not only offer a way for various devices to potentially be used as wireless chargers but would also fix the most annoying thing about wireless charging nowadays: You still have to place a device in the proximity of a charging mat or device.
Early iPhone 8 rumors suggested the iPhone will feature wireless charging powers unlike anything currently seen on mobile devices. That's long-range wireless charging support that would allow an iPhone owner to keep using a device while the battery would recharge wirelessly. Multiple reports have shot down that rumor, and more recent leaks do not mention anything about long-range support, although the iPhone 8 is still expected to feature wireless charging. 
The US Patent & Trademark Office, meanwhile, published on Thursday an Apple patent application titled Wireless Charging and Communications Systems With Dual-Frequency Patch Antennas that describes antenna technology that would support simultaneous wireless charging and Wi-Fi support on a device. First discovered by Apple Insider, the patent doesn't specifically mention the iPhone, iPad, or MacBook. And the drawings do not show anything resembling any of these devices. But the patent's wording indicates that the wireless charging technology described herein can apply to a variety of Apple gadgets, not just the iPhone. Apple's choice of words practically covers any device currently made by Apple, but also future gadgets that are yet to be unveiled: Device 10A and/or device 10B may be a computing device such as a laptop computer, a computer monitor containing an embedded computer, a tablet computer, a cellular telephone, a media player, or other handheld or portable electronic device, a smaller device such as a wrist-watch device, a pendant device, a headphone or earpiece device, a device embedded in eyeglasses or other equipment worn on a user's head, or other wearable or miniature device, a television, a computer display that does not contain an embedded computer, a gaming device, a navigation device, an embedded system such as a system in which electronic equipment with a display is mounted in a kiosk or automobile, equipment that implements the functionality of two or more of these devices, or other electronic equipment.
What's interesting about this type of ambiguous language is that it also seem to indicate that Apple may be thinking about peer-to-peer wireless charging. For example, a MacBook connected to a power source might recharge an iPhone in the future. The technology might even allow iPhone owners to share battery power in the future. The patent explains that the devices may communicate wirelessly over Wi-Fi or cellular connection and that the same frequencies used for getting online or connecting to a carrier's network might also be used for wirelessly charging a battery or providing energy to a device. The patent describes dual-frequency dual-polarization patch antennas that "may be used in beam steering arrays" and which may be used for "wireless power transfer at microwave frequencies or other frequencies and may be used to support millimeter wave communications." 
What's interesting about these patch antennas is that they would be flat components placed over a flat metal surface inside a device. Earlier this week, a leaked iPhone 8 schematic showed what seemed to be the location of the phone's future wireless charging coil — see that big patch under the Apple logo in the image above? Again, there's nothing to suggest the iPhone 8 will sport such wireless charging tech. Even if the iPhone 8 would support it, you'd still need a second device to sport the same time of hardware so that long-range wireless charging would actually work.
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| Thai man broadcasts baby daughter's murder live on Facebook Posted: 25 Apr 2017 07:46 PM PDT  People could access the videos of the child's murder on her father's Facebook page for roughly 24 hours, until they were taken down around 5 p.m. in Bangkok on Tuesday, or about a day after being uploaded. "This is an appalling incident and our hearts go out to the family of the victim," a Singapore-based Facebook spokesman said in an email to Reuters. "There is absolutely no place for content of this kind on Facebook and it has now been removed." Murders, suicides and sexual assault have plagued Facebook despite making up a small percentage of videos.
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| Syria accuses Israel of strike near Damascus airport Posted: 27 Apr 2017 12:29 PM PDT  Syria accused Israel of firing several missiles Thursday at a military position near Damascus airport, triggering a huge explosion and prompting a call from regime ally Russia for restraint. The Israeli military later said it shot down "a target" over the occupied Golan Heights neighbouring Syria, although it was unclear whether the two incidents were linked. Israel has carried out multiple air strikes in Syria since the country's civil war erupted in 2011, most of which it has said targeted arms convoys or warehouses of its Lebanese arch-foe Hezbollah, which is a key supporter of the Syrian regime.
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| The BMW M550d xDrive Touring Is the Quad-Turbo Diesel Wagon of Your Dreams Posted: 27 Apr 2017 11:15 AM PDT  And no, it's probably not coming to America.
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| Army veteran and boyfriend ‘film themselves tying service dog to tree and shooting it five times’ Posted: 26 Apr 2017 05:02 AM PDT  An army veteran and her boyfriend have been arrested on animal cruelty charges after a video of the pair emerged apparently showing them tying a service dog to a tree and shooting it five times. Marinna Rollins, 23, was arrested on Tuesday in North Carolina. Rollins and Heng apparently filmed themselves as they tied up a pitbull named Camboui in a wooded area in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and allegedly shot it at close range five times with a rifle.
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| National monuments at risk under Trump’s executive order Posted: 27 Apr 2017 07:09 AM PDT ![National monuments at risk under Trump's executive order]( "National monuments at risk under Trump's executive order") Federal areas that may lose their status as monuments are in places ranging from New Mexico and Arizona to Hawaii and Midway atoll.
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| Erin Moran’s Husband Steven Fleishmann Pens Open Letter Posted: 27 Apr 2017 03:54 AM PDT  On Tuesday, In Touch Weekly published a photo, believed to be one of the last photos of the "Happy Days" star, taken moths before she died Saturday.
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| Attorney: Hernandez hinted at suicide weeks before his death Posted: 26 Apr 2017 02:39 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Aaron Hernandez hinted about suicide weeks before he was found hanging by a bedsheet in prison last week, according to a jailhouse friend who once sought to share a cell with the former NFL star.
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| Leak offers a first look at one of the few phones that will rival the Galaxy S8 Posted: 26 Apr 2017 07:58 AM PDT 
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus will launch its fourth-generation flagship this year, the OnePlus 5 — don't be fooled by that "5," the number four just isn't lucky in China. The company is yet to announce a press event for the handset, but the first rumors have already started to pop up on gadget blogs. And now, a leak may have just given us our first look at the upcoming new OnePlus handset.
Assuming India Today Tech's source had access to genuine information, the following image offers us the first details about the OnePlus 5's design. 
The image was sourced from "people who have seen the phone and have possibly worked on the OnePlus 5," according to the report, and India Today Tech says it can confirm the phone will have a vertical dual lens camera. The latest iPhone 8 rumors and renders suggest Apple will use a vertical arrangement for the dual lens rear camera. The OnePlus 5 is expected to have a metal housing made of brushed aluminum just like the OnePlus 3T, but it won't retain its predecessor's antenna lines. What's also interesting is that there's no fingerprint sensor on the back of the handset. The report notes that the sensor might be placed under the screen. But a previous OnePlus 5 leak suggested the handset will have an all-screen design, with the fingerprint sensor found on the back of the phone. It's unclear at this time whether OnePlus has the resources to pursue a different type of fingerprint sensor technology, the kind that Apple is supposedly developing for the iPhone 8. Apple wants to place the sensor beneath the display, a challenging feat that could delay the iPhone 8's release. Other details about the OnePlus 5 aren't available at this time, but the company will probably unveil the handset soon enough.
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| Sheryl Sandberg's mother-in-law stuns her by encouraging her to remarry Posted: 27 Apr 2017 11:22 AM PDT  While Sheryl Sandberg and her mother-in-law, Paula Goldberg, were cleaning out Dave Goldberg's closet after he passed away, Goldberg said something that stunned Sandberg. "You are not only going to live, but you are going to get remarried one day — and I am going to be there to celebrate with you," she said.
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| Abbas turns screw on Hamas by cutting Gaza's electricity Posted: 27 Apr 2017 05:33 AM PDT  By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - With the prospect looming of a Middle East peace initiative by a new U.S. administration more sympathetic to Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to turn the screw on the Hamas group that has kept Gaza out of his control for a decade. Abbas's Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday told Israel it would no longer pay for the electricity Israel supplies to Gaza, a move that could lead to a complete power shutdown in the territory, whose 2 million people already endure blackouts for much of the day.
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| Prosecutor will not charge officers who shot man 19 times Posted: 26 Apr 2017 01:25 PM PDT  SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — Three police officers who shot a black man 19 times were cleared of charges Wednesday because the man had a gun when he was killed, a prosecutor said.
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| The Latest: Police say woman in pit had reported harassment Posted: 26 Apr 2017 02:10 PM PDT  BLANCHESTER, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on a woman found in a pit in her neighbor's shed (all times local):
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| People are getting bored of the same old iPhone, new report suggests Posted: 27 Apr 2017 02:04 PM PDT 
As massive of a hit as the iPhone 7 was at launch, new data from CIRP shows that sales of Apple's latest flagship phone hasn't been able to match the performance of the iPhone 6s in same quarter last year. In other words, where the 6s was picking up steam at the same point in 2016, the 7 is losing it.
"iPhone buyers chose 7 and 7 Plus models in slightly lower proportions than the 6S and 6S Plus in the same quarter a year ago," said CIRP co-founder Josh Lowitz. "Despite upgraded features like each new flagship iPhone release, the legacy models accounted for almost a third of iPhones sold in the quarter, the highest percentage since Apple started releasing two new phones each fall in 2014." While CIRP doesn't make any guesses as to why this is the case, it seems clear that the lack of major design changes is finally taking a toll on iPhone sales. But it's not all bad news for the company: "Sales of iPhone 7 and 7 Plus were about equal, which is good news for Apple," said CIRP co-founder Mike Levin. "The large-format Plus models accounted for 41% of total sales, a steady increase since the launch of the original Plus model in 2015. Consumers have signaled a willingness to not only purchase a more expense, larger model, which also helps Apple's iPhone average selling price (ASP)." In addition to these insights, CIRP also found that fewer Android phone owners are switching to the iPhone 7 than have switched during previous upgrade cycles. iPhone owners are still incredibly loyal to the brand, but the latest iPhone hasn't attracted as many Android deserters. Based on the conclusions of this report, it's easy to see why the iPhone 8 is such an important next step for Apple to take. Consumers are expecting Apple to bring something new to the table (as Samsung did earlier this month), so the pressure is on for Apple to deliver its most exciting iPhone yet.
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| For Sale: 1993 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR, Never Driven Posted: 27 Apr 2017 11:15 AM PDT  The race-ready 911 RSR is one of the rarest 964 variants in existence. This example has only driven six miles since new.
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| This Mom's Viral Facebook Post Explains Why She Doesn't Teach Her Son to Share Posted: 26 Apr 2017 10:43 AM PDT  "MY CHILD IS NOT REQUIRED TO SHARE WITH YOURS."
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| Campus free speech battle erupts in Berkeley Posted: 27 Apr 2017 01:54 AM PDT  ABC's Maggie Rulli reports on Ann Coulter and UC Berkeley engaging in the latest battle over free speech on U.S. college campuses.
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| Police arrest nine more democracy activists in Hong Kong Posted: 27 Apr 2017 02:25 AM PDT  Nine democracy protesters were arrested in Hong Kong Thursday over an anti-Beijing rally in the latest swoop by police as activists say they are being persecuted. Concerns are growing that the semi-autonomous city's freedoms are under threat from Beijing, fuelling calls from some groups for greater autonomy or even a complete split from China. Pro-independence activists Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung were arrested and charged Wednesday over causing chaos in the legislature after being barred from taking up their seats as lawmakers last year.
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| Hungary's Orban fights back after EU case over Soros university Posted: 26 Apr 2017 09:52 AM PDT  By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union opened a legal case against Hungary on Wednesday over a threat to close a Budapest university founded by the liberal U.S. financier George Soros, an accusation the country's leader rejected as unfounded. The EU's executive Commission sent Budapest a formal notice, saying a new Hungarian higher education law violated academic freedom and democratic values, and gave it a month to respond. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gave an initial response shortly afterwards, rejecting accusations Budapest was threatening the Central European University (CEU) and dismissing the Hungarian-born Soros as a "financial speculator".
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| Extravagant Travel Expenses Of 5 US Presidents Posted: 26 Apr 2017 04:29 AM PDT  President Donald trump and his predecessors have spent extravagant amounts of taxpayer's money to fund their travels. However, the exact amount of the travel expenditure of a president is not made public.
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| Here are some good cats and dogs who are working their summer haircuts Posted: 26 Apr 2017 10:12 AM PDT  It's that time of year again. Temperatures are rising, the sun is spending a little more time outside, and pets everywhere are making the world more glamorous with their summer haircuts. Now, not all pets need a summer cut. Many shed naturally in the summer anyway, and a multi-layered coat often serves as insulation to help them stay cool. But in some cases, a trim helps — with the added bonus of being extremely cute. SEE ALSO: Dogs, ranked Enjoy: A post shared by Wilson Fields (@wiiilsonthegolden) on Apr 25, 2017 at 11:49am PDT A post shared by Pita (@livinlapitaloca) on Apr 24, 2017 at 3:28pm PDT A post shared by Pawmyheart Mobilepetspa (@pawmyheart_petspa) on Apr 21, 2017 at 4:24pm PDT A post shared by Tofu and Gertrude (@tofuandgertrude) on Apr 10, 2017 at 9:47am PDT A post shared by Mochi The Havapoo (@mochiliciouspoo) on Apr 16, 2017 at 10:47am PDT A post shared by Werekit Ouwt (@glennbetter) on Apr 22, 2017 at 6:42am PDT Decided to take a few extra inches off today ✂️ #freshdoodsdo yea or nay!? ☀️ A post shared by Samson The Goldendoodle (f1b) (@samsonthedood) on Apr 18, 2017 at 11:22am PDT Please stay tuned for more. WATCH: Sensitive dog refuses to get up until street performer's song is finished
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| Man whose body was in concrete may have been missing months Posted: 26 Apr 2017 03:21 PM PDT ![Man whose body was in concrete may have been missing months]( "Man whose body was in concrete may have been missing months") KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man whose body authorities believe is the one found in a crate encased in concrete in a dumpster might have been missing for months before the group home where he lived reported that he was gone, a sheriff said Wednesday.
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| Apple is working on a service that could compete with Venmo Posted: 27 Apr 2017 07:52 AM PDT 
Apple's plan to build its own cash transfer service in the vein of Venmo appears to be back on track. According to a report from Recode, Apple has recently held discussions with partners in the payments industry about a service that would allow iPhone owners to send money to other iPhone owners.
One source tells Recode that the service could be introduced by the end of 2017, while another remains unconvinced that Apple has set the timing for either an announcement or an official release. In addition to the payment service, Recode has also learned that Apple talking to Visa about creating pre-paid cards that would run on Visa's debit network. These cards would be tied to the service, giving iPhone owners a physical product as well as a digital one. With the card, someone could spend money sent to them on the service without having to wait for the bank to clear it. Plus, this would give Apple the opportunity to tie its new service in with Apple Pay, as users would be able to add the pre-paid cards to their digital wallets and use them like they would a standard credit card. The cards would also have their own numbers so that they could be used for online purchases. Whether or not any of these plans come to fruition is still up in the air, but sources inside major US banks tell Recode that Apple has been underwhelmed by the usage of Apple Pay over the past two and a half years. Launching a peer-to-peer payment service and offering a debit card could turn Apple's luck around... providing the banks don't step in to stop Apple from competing with them. "Banks spent heavily in insuring their cards were top of wallet when they all built and rolled out Apple Pay," Cherian Abraham, a digital payments executive at Experian, told Recode. "So it's justifiable to be concerned that Apple will have its own card and could potentially be top of wallet. If you are top of wallet, you are top of mind."
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| Fossilised Mastodon bones could rewrite story of how humans colonised the world Posted: 27 Apr 2017 03:31 AM PDT  The discovery of the fossilised remains of an elephant-like animal on a construction site in San Diego appears to have entirely rewritten the story of humans' colonisation of the world. For the 130,000-year-old mastodon bones had been smashed in a way that suggests people had used stones to break into the nutritious marrow inside – even though humans were not supposed to have arrived on the continent for another 115,000 years. Homo sapiens are thought to have still been in Africa at this time and the researchers said the type of human involved was "unidentified".
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| US test launches unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile Posted: 26 Apr 2017 02:24 PM PDT  VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from California early Wednesday in a test of the weapon system that is part of the U.S. nuclear force.
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| 4 Ways to Improve Sibling Relationships in Your Family Posted: 27 Apr 2017 03:00 AM PDT ![4 Ways to Improve Sibling Relationships in Your Family]( "4 Ways to Improve Sibling Relationships in Your Family") If you're a parent of more than one child, chances are good that part of your day involves managing the squabbles between your children. If you worry about your children's relationship, wondering if it will forever be acrimonious, you're not alone. Teach your children how to resolve differences on their own.
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| Thai Red Bull heir threatened with arrest after latest no-show Posted: 27 Apr 2017 04:09 AM PDT  Thai prosecutors vowed Thursday to seek the first arrest warrant for the heir to the Red Bull fortune after he dodged the latest summons to hear charges over a 2012 hit-and-run in his Ferrari that left a policeman dead. The threat comes after years of public anger over the lack of progress in a case that critics say highlights the impunity enjoyed by Thailand's wealthy and well-connected. Worayuth Yoovidhya, whose nickname is "Boss", was 27 when he allegedly smashed his Ferrari into a police officer in the early hours of the morning, dragging the body for several hundred metres before fleeing the scene of the crash.
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| 21 Recipes for a Picture-Perfect Mother's Day Brunch Posted: 27 Apr 2017 02:00 PM PDT |
| Trump administration to review dozens of U.S. national monuments Posted: 25 Apr 2017 06:22 PM PDT  By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday will order a review of national monuments created over the past 20 years with an aim toward rescinding or resizing some of them - part of a broader push to reopen areas to drilling, mining and other development. The move comes as Trump seeks to reverse a slew of environmental protections ushered in by former President Barack Obama that he said were hobbling economic growth - an agenda that is cheering industry but enraging conservationists. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told reporters on Tuesday Trump's executive order would require him to conduct the review of around 30 national monuments and recommend which designations should be lifted or resized over the coming months.
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