| McConnell defends all-male health care working group: ‘Everybody’s at the table’ Posted: 09 May 2017 02:54 PM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a media briefing on Capitol Hill. WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that "nobody" is being excluded from his conference's meetings on health care after Democrats and even some members of his own party criticized him for assembling a working group on the issue consisting of 13 men and no women. "Well the working group that counts is all 52 of us, and we're having extensive meetings … every day," McConnell told reporters Tuesday, referencing the 52 Republicans in the Senate.
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| Trump: Comey ‘Wasn't Doing a Good Job' Posted: 10 May 2017 01:42 AM PDT  Donald Trump addressed the press about the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Citing that Comey 'was not doing a good job'.
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| Suspect in doctors' slayings once worked at their posh condo Posted: 09 May 2017 02:55 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — The man suspected of killing two engaged doctors in their luxury penthouse condominium once held a job there.
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| After the White House, Obama 'captive to selfies' Posted: 09 May 2017 09:42 AM PDT  Former US president Barack Obama shared Tuesday his relief at no longer being leader of the Free World -- but joked he is now "captive to selfies" whenever he is out. "The hardest thing about being the president of the US is it is unique in its isolation," he told an audience of 3,000 who had paid 650-850 euros ($700-925) to see him Milan, Italy. Wearing a navy blue suit and shirt without a tie, Obama took questions in a relaxed session led by Sam Kass, his former White House chef and senior advisor on nutrition policy.
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| Mystery Solved: Toddler Girl Buried in 1800s Casket Under Home Is Now Identified Posted: 09 May 2017 06:26 PM PDT  The little girl's name was Edith Howard Cook. She was born on Oct. 13, 1876, and died at age 2.
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| Uninvited Taiwan says going to U.N. health meeting, warns China on ties Posted: 09 May 2017 03:46 AM PDT ![Uninvited Taiwan says going to U.N. health meeting, warns China on ties]( "Uninvited Taiwan says going to U.N. health meeting, warns China on ties") By J.R. Wu TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will send a delegation to a U.N. health meeting even though it does not have an invitation, the government said on Tuesday, warning China that attempts to exclude it could irreversibly damage ties. Self-ruled Taiwan has accused Beijing of obstructing its efforts to attend the May 22-31 annual meeting in Geneva of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO). China views democratic Taiwan as a renegade province to be retaken with the use of force if necessary, and says other countries and international organizations should not recognize it or treat as a separate country.
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| Abby Lee Miller Has Broken Her Silence After Being Sentenced to a Year In Prison Posted: 10 May 2017 10:58 AM PDT  The "Dance Moms" star revealed what she wants to do while behind bars.
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| Spicer calls Sally Yates a ‘political opponent of the president’ Posted: 09 May 2017 12:58 PM PDT  During Tuesday's daily briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer explained that the White House did not act immediately on Sally Yates' warning about Gen. Michael Flynn because they didn't want to "jump the gun and go take an action" based on concerns raised by a person considered a "political opponent of the president."
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| 11 Year Old Girl Dies On Water Ride At British Theme Park Posted: 10 May 2017 03:41 AM PDT  The "Splash Canyon Ride" at the Drayton Manor Theme Park was first opened in 1993 and includes about 21 boats, each having the capacity to carry six people.
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| Commentators mostly agree: Firing Comey was positively Nixonian Posted: 09 May 2017 06:48 PM PDT  For many, the news that President Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey evoked memories of former President Richard Nixon.
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| Teen arrested in recorded death of Utah girl Posted: 09 May 2017 12:56 PM PDT ![Teen arrested in recorded death of Utah girl]( "Teen arrested in recorded death of Utah girl") SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah teenager was arrested for investigation of murder after using cellphone video to record the death of a 16-year-old girl found hanged from a tree, authorities said Tuesday.
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| Attorney General who helped block Muslim ban says Trump 'doesn't understand the power of the presidency' Posted: 09 May 2017 02:15 PM PDT  Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin isn't mad, just disappointed. The Stanford-educated lawyer who successfully brought about a block on Donald Trump's so-called "Muslim ban" says the Trump administration's attacks on the judiciary are cause for concern. "I think what makes it more discouraging [is] when you have people at the highest levels of government making those statements," Mr Chin told The Independent.
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| Supporters rally for Jakarta's jailed Christian governor Posted: 09 May 2017 08:40 PM PDT  Supporters of Jakarta's Christian governor staged a colourful rally outside city hall Wednesday a day after he was jailed for blasphemy, in a case that has damaged Indonesia's image as a bastion of tolerant Islam. "Let's fight for justice," said acting governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat, who was Purnama's deputy and has taken over his powers, to cheers from the crowd. Purnama was jailed Tuesday for two years after being found guilty of blasphemy against Islam, a shock decision after prosecutors recommended only probation.
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| Foul play not suspected in 2 deaths in Central Park waters Posted: 10 May 2017 01:50 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The bodies of two men have been discovered over two days in Central Park, each floating in a lake, but investigators don't believe either was the victim of a crime, police said Wednesday.
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| Hummer H1 back from the dead Posted: 09 May 2017 08:47 AM PDT  If you've been ruing the day the legendary Hummer H1 went out of production back in 2006 and you wish you could still buy one new, your wish appears to be coming true. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, albeit a very big and heavy one, the Hummer H1 is back, it's brand new, and it's coming straight out of Detroit too. Although Hummer as a retail brand was killed off by GM in 2010, its contract manufacturer for the vehicle, AM General, has continued to build military versions now referred to as the HMMWV (High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle) for US and foreign armed forces.
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| For one Chinese city, new 'Silk Road' leaves old problems unsolved Posted: 09 May 2017 04:08 PM PDT  By Sue-Lin Wong HUNCHUN, China (Reuters) - In August, 2014, planners in the northeastern Chinese city of Hunchun argued in state media that it should be included in the "One Belt, One Road" project, Beijing's vision laid out the previous year of a new Silk Road across Asia to Europe. In 2015, the official Xinhua news agency ran stories about how Hunchun was accelerating its "OBOR" plans, and early in 2016, China's cabinet released a list of Chinese cities included in "OBOR": Hunchun was on the map. The challenge of defining exactly what OBOR means will come to the fore later this month, when heads of state and senior officials from around the world gather in Beijing for the first major summit dedicated to the project.
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| Icon A5 Amphibious Plane Crashes, Killing 2 Company Engineers Posted: 10 May 2017 10:58 AM PDT  The plane meant to be a vision of the flying future suffers a fatal accident.
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| Donald Trump's firing of James Comey may not be a cover-up – but it is a complete political disaster Posted: 10 May 2017 08:44 AM PDT  Finished with the last meeting of the day in New York, Joe Crowley, the fourth most senior Democrat in the House of Representatives, was headed to an intimate fundraiser in a private home on the Upper West Side when the news, and his jaw, dropped: Trump fires Comey. "I can't figure out what this White House is up to half the time," he said. Television pundits writhed in pain, their bloviatory bladders threatening to explode if they were not allowed to say Trump and Nixon in the same sentence.
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| Chaos erupts at Florida airport after Spirit Airlines cancels nine flights Posted: 09 May 2017 10:52 AM PDT  Chaos erupted at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Monday night when nine Spirit Airlines flights were canceled, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded. Frustrated travelers clashed with police and Spirit employees, and three unruly passengers were detained by sheriff's deputies.
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| Abbas says ready to meet Israel PM as part of Trump peace efforts Posted: 09 May 2017 08:03 AM PDT  Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Tuesday he was ready to meet Israel's prime minister as part of peace efforts by Donald Trump, who is expected to visit the Palestinian territories "soon". The US president is expected in Israel later this month as part of his first foreign trip and Abbas said "we are looking forward to his visit soon to Bethlehem" in the occupied West Bank, with speculation it will occur on May 23.
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| Bear vs. Dog: Who Comes Out on Top in This 'David and Goliath' Battle? Posted: 10 May 2017 02:31 PM PDT  Ba Bao was protecting his turf and did not want the curious bear interfering, leaving the wild animal to retreat back to its home in the woods.
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| Nigeria spokesman says 1 Nigeria Chibok girl refused release Posted: 09 May 2017 02:04 PM PDT  ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — One of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 and who had the opportunity to be released on Saturday chose to stay with her husband, the spokesman for Nigeria's president said Tuesday.
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| Safety concerns for one in three US drugs Posted: 09 May 2017 12:54 PM PDT  Almost one in three newly approved drugs in the United States turns out to have a safety issue after it is allowed on the market, US researchers said Tuesday. While these issues are rarely serious enough to get the drug pulled from the marketplace, researchers said new drugs should be monitored for years after they are released to the public. Cutting-edge therapies known as biologics, psychiatric drugs, and medicines that were fast-tracked by the US Food and Drug Administration were most likely to require additional safety warnings after approval, said the report in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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| Phoenix police say they caught man who killed nine in serial shootings Posted: 08 May 2017 06:26 PM PDT ![Phoenix police say they caught man who killed nine in serial shootings]( "Phoenix police say they caught man who killed nine in serial shootings") A 23-year-old man suspected of killing eight people over seven months in a string of serial shootings in Phoenix in 2016 is already behind bars on a murder charge for another slaying the year before, the city's police chief said on Monday. Aaron Saucedo of Phoenix was arrested in April and later charged with murder in connection with the first of the killings, which occurred in August 2015, Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams told reporters at a news conference.
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| The Latest: SKorean conservative describes election as 'war' Posted: 08 May 2017 06:54 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on the presidential election in South Korea (all times local):
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| Barack Obama on the hardest thing about being US President Posted: 09 May 2017 06:21 PM PDT  Former President Barack Obama says that taking selfies with fans when he goes out is almost as bad as the isolation of living in the White House, which he said was kind of like a nice prison. Mr Obama, when asked what he doesn't miss about being president, chuckled before saying that the security apparatus around an American president makes it difficult to live any semblance of a normal life. "The burdens of leadership are true in any country but in part because of the security apparatus around a US president, you live in what is called a bubble.
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| The Fidget Spinner Is The Toy Every Kid Wants: Where To Buy, Who Made It And More Posted: 09 May 2017 09:36 AM PDT  The fidget spinner is a toy that claims to help with anxiety and ADHD, but does it? Where to get one, how to use one and who made the first fidget spinner.
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| 5 Tip-Offs to Mechanic Rip-Offs Posted: 09 May 2017 07:30 AM PDT  Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. Unless you're a car mechanic yourself, dealing with a repair shop may require a leap of faith. But if you pay attention ...
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| Philippines' Duterte rails against corrupt police Posted: 09 May 2017 05:00 PM PDT  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday launched another tirade against corrupt police who are the frontline troops in his deadly drug war, after four more officers were accused of kidnapping and extortion. The arrest of the four from Manila's financial district of Makati was the latest in a series of scandals involving police that have raised concerns about their suitability to prosecute the drug war. The 160,000-member police force is the main enforcer of Duterte's 10-month-old drugs crackdown that has claimed thousands of lives and led to warnings he may be orchestrating a crime against humanity.
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| Turkey warns U.S. of blowback from decision to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria Posted: 10 May 2017 09:45 AM PDT  By Tulay Karadeniz and Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey warned the United States on Wednesday that a decision to arm Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State in Syria could end up hurting Washington, and accused its NATO ally of siding with terrorists. The rebuke came a week before President Tayyip Erdogan is due in Washington for his first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, who approved the arms supply to support a campaign to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State.
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| London's dark river and its secrets Posted: 10 May 2017 10:24 AM PDT ![London's dark river and its secrets]( "London's dark river and its secrets") Over three months, photographer Stefan Wermuth walked along the banks of the Thames, photographing the river and the abandoned objects exposed by the receding tide.
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| Saturn's moon Titan looks like a pretty chill place in new photos Posted: 10 May 2017 02:40 PM PDT  Titan, Saturn's largest moon, captures the imagination. The distant world plays host to lakes of liquid methane and ethane that look like they could be a nice spot for an alien yachting expedition, dunes of hydrocarbons, and clouds that sometimes rain methane down onto the surface of the world, feeding its lakes. Long story short, Titan is everything you could wish for in an alien world, and new photos taken by the Saturn-exploring Cassini spacecraft put that on stark display. SEE ALSO: NASA just schooled actor Milo Ventimiglia about space because Twitter The new images — snapped by Cassini on May 7 — show bright, fluffy streaks of methane clouds in the world's atmosphere. Titan seen by Cassini.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThis isn't the first time these types of clouds have been seen by Cassini. Scientists have been keeping an eye on these types of features for about a year, though these new images are particularly gorgeous. Titan is actually thought to be one of the best places in the solar system to hunt for alien life. Scientists think it's possible that Titan actually has a huge subsurface ocean beneath its crust which might be perfect for microbes to thrive. Titan's atmosphere.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThe May 7 photos were taken from Cassini's new orbit around Saturn that brings it through the 1,500-mile-wide gap between the huge planet and its plane of rings. During this ring dive orbit, Cassini also took some images of the huge planet and its rings looking moody in black and white. Saturn and its rings.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteCassini spacecraft has been exploring Saturn and its many moons on humanity's behalf for more than 10 years, but its mission will come to an end in September when the spacecraft makes its planned death plunge into Saturn's thick atmosphere. Mission controllers working with Cassini decided to force it to fall into Saturn's atmosphere in order to protect the planet's moons like Titan and Enceladus, which also seems to have a subsurface ocean, from contamination. WATCH: Watch clouds move above Saturn's largest moon in new NASA video
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| Raucous, angry crowd grills Virginia Rep. Brat at town hall Posted: 09 May 2017 08:00 PM PDT  MIDLOTHIAN, Va. (AP) — Critics of Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Brat and the House health care bill he voted for packed a raucous town hall meeting in his Virginia district Tuesday night, booing and shouting down the congressman from start to finish.
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| Democrat loses Omaha race that was caught in abortion debate Posted: 09 May 2017 09:08 PM PDT  OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) — Democrat Heath Mello lost his race for Omaha mayor Tuesday in a setback for supporters who argued that the Democratic National Committee and abortion rights groups were wrong to attack the anti-abortion former state senator.
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| 2017 Mazda 3 2.0L Automatic Sedan Posted: 09 May 2017 12:35 PM PDT  Not even our favorite 3 . . . and still good.
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| Donald Trump hires lawyers to help defend him over Russia allegations Posted: 10 May 2017 10:43 AM PDT  Donald Trump has hired a legal team to help defend him against allegations over his links with Russia, the White House has announced. The US leader has asked the unnamed Washington law firm to send a letter to a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee making clear he has no connections to the Kremlin, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said. The admission came after Senator Lindsey Graham, who ran against Mr Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, said he wanted to investigate whether the US leader had any commercial dealings with Moscow.
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| Taiwan's Foxconn to begin construction on U.S. plant in second half of 2017 - source Posted: 10 May 2017 12:36 AM PDT ![Taiwan's Foxconn to begin construction on U.S. plant in second half of 2017 - source]( "Taiwan's Foxconn to begin construction on U.S. plant in second half of 2017 - source") TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and major Apple Inc supplier, will begin construction on a U.S. plant in the second half of this year, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. No other details were provided. When contacted about the matter, Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, declined to comment. Foxconn chairman Terry Gou has said the company was considering investing in the United States In late April, he had meetings at the White House about "capital-intensive" investment plans. ...
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| Police kill burglary suspect in shootout at LA home Posted: 08 May 2017 05:57 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who broke into a Los Angeles home on Monday and repeatedly exchanged gunfire with police while barricading himself inside was shot and killed by officers after the standoff that lasted more than six hours, authorities said.
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| Photos: Rue La Rue Café Posted: 09 May 2017 08:22 AM PDT ![Photos: Rue La Rue Café]( "Photos: Rue La Rue Café") Located in New York City, Rue La Rue Café opened in February and pays homage to the hit 1980s sitcom "The Golden Girls" and one of its stars — Rue McClanahan, the late actress who starred as Blanche Devereaux.
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| Yemen strongman Saleh open to negotiations with Saudi Posted: 10 May 2017 03:40 AM PDT  Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is open to negotiations with rival Saudi Arabia, two years into a deadly war between Saleh's Huthi rebel allies and the Saudi-backed government. "We have no choice but dialogue," Saleh said at a meeting of his General People's Congress party in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday. "We are ready to go to Riyadh, Khamis Mushit, Muscat or elsewhere to start dialogue and to reach an understanding," Saleh said, referring to cities in Saudi Arabia and neighbouring Oman.
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| Name sought for rare albino orangutan rescued in Indonesia Posted: 09 May 2017 10:35 PM PDT  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A conservation group is asking the public to name a rare albino orangutan that was rescued from villagers on Borneo island last month, hoping it will become a symbol of efforts to save the critically endangered species.
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| Hungary, Slovakia challenge quotas on asylum-seekers at top EU court Posted: 10 May 2017 08:00 AM PDT  By Gabriela Baczynska LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Hungary and Slovakia told the European Union's top court on Wednesday that sharing out asylum-seekers among member states under a quota system was unlawful, clashing with Germany, France and others in a dispute that threatens to tear the bloc apart. Some 1.6 million migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean and entered the EU since in 2014, mostly fleeing conflicts or poverty in the Middle East and Africa. The EU proposed in 2015 redistributing just 120,000 of them to help relieve pressure on frontline states Italy and Greece but ran into fierce resistance from ex-communist countries.
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