| Trump should follow the Bill Clinton scandal playbook Posted: 19 May 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Trump has an unlikely model for how to survive an existential threat to his presidency: Bill Clinton.
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| Times Square Crash: Surveillance Video Shows Horrific Scene Posted: 19 May 2017 08:38 AM PDT  Richard Rojas allegedly drove his car onto a Times Square sidewalk, killing one person and injuring 22 others. He was charged with murder, attempted murder and aggravated vehicular homicide.
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| Video: Erdogan watches security guards beat protesters in Washington Posted: 19 May 2017 09:31 AM PDT  New footage surfaced showing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looking on stoically as members of his security detail beat civilians.
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| Black leaders to Tulsa: Act on pledges of racial harmony Posted: 18 May 2017 05:43 PM PDT  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa community leaders say the acquittal of a white Oklahoma police officer who killed an unarmed black man ripped open a long-festering wound.
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| 4th-grader apologizes to governor for horrible crime of stealing a pen and a hazelnut Posted: 19 May 2017 11:36 AM PDT  Sometimes the guilt of a crime is just too much to bear, and the perpetrator has to come clean or risk bearing the weight of his transgression for a lifetime. For an Oregon fourth-grader, that crime was theft. The theft of a pen. Oh, and also a single hazelnut, from an undisclosed mixed nut bowl perhaps. Oregon governor Kate Brown received a letter from Samuel, a fourth-grader who had recently visited the Capitol building, apologizing for a theft that had somehow gone unnoticed. SEE ALSO: Kraft ad teaches moms how to swear in front of their 'monkey-flunking' kids Samuel explained what he did and apologized, writing "these things were not mine and it was wrong for me to take them I'm very sorry." He included the pen as well as a single dollar to reimburse the cost of the hazelnut. It is one of the more luxurious nuts, after all. Samuel asked for the forgiveness of both the governor and the people of Oregon and generously, Brown granted him that peace in a handwritten note. WATCH: This toddler monitor is helping parents track their roaming kids
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| Like most things in politics today, Montana House race is a referendum on Donald Trump Posted: 19 May 2017 10:18 AM PDT  Many in Montana still think Gianforte could have pulled off a party sweep had he cozied up to Trump a little more. And Gianforte now evidently agrees.
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| The End of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Posted: 19 May 2017 08:57 AM PDT  After nearly 150 years, the show will not go on for the iconic Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which is performing its final act Sunday.
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| The Latest: Report: In 2012, NYC driver wanted to kill cops Posted: 19 May 2017 11:26 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the driver in a Times Square crashed that killed one person and injuring 22 others (all times local):
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| Sweden drops rape investigation of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange Posted: 19 May 2017 08:12 AM PDT  Sweden has dropped a rape investigation of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012. If Assange leaves the embassy, London authorities can still arrest him for jumping bail in 2012.
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| Fate Of Late Roger Ailes' Sexual Harassment Cases Posted: 18 May 2017 11:48 PM PDT  The sexual harassment cases filed against Roger Ailes by Andrea Tantaros and Julie Roginsky may get caught up in complications following an old New York law.
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| Lola Wasn't Alone Posted: 19 May 2017 10:23 AM PDT ![Lola Wasn't Alone]( "Lola Wasn't Alone") There are few subjects more painful than slavery. The word itself conjures images of the most shameful and ugly parts of humanity and our past, histories most would prefer to distance themselves from. This may in part be why, in just two short days, The Atlantic's article "My Family's Slave," by the journalist Alex Tizon about his family's enslavement of a woman named Eudocia "Lola" Tomas Pulido, has caught the attention of and moved thousands of readers. The title itself is shocking in its admission of slavery tucked right into a modern American home.
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| Syria says US airstrike killed several soldiers near Jordan Posted: 19 May 2017 10:44 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian military official said Friday that an aerial "aggression" by the U.S.-led coalition on a government military position near the border with Jordan the day before killed several soldiers and caused material damage.
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| Look Back at Trump's Remarks On Muslims, Saudi Arabia Posted: 19 May 2017 11:36 AM PDT  From involvement in the Sept. 11th attacks to surveillance of certain mosques, Donald Trump has made controversial remarks about Muslims and Saudi Arabia. Here's a look back at those comments.
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| ScootinAmerica - Eight Veterans to Receive Free Harleys Posted: 19 May 2017 09:25 AM PDT  ScootinAmerica - Eight Veterans to Receive Free Harleys Harley-Davidson has joined Adam Sandoval, founder of ScootinAmerica , an initiative that focuses on giving back to our military members, to launch MISSION: "THANK YOU". The project began this morning at
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| New Orleans removing last of four statues linked to pro-slavery era Posted: 19 May 2017 03:42 PM PDT  Crews in New Orleans on Friday fastened straps around a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as the city worked to remove the last of four monuments its leaders see as racially offensive. As the blue straps encircled the bronze figure of Lee with crossed arms atop a 60-foot marble column in the center of a busy traffic circle, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu was half a mile away speaking to an audience that included civil rights leaders, city officials and activists. Landrieu said the four monuments were out of step with a modern city that embraces people of all races while acknowledging that New Orleans was also once one of the biggest slave markets in America.
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| Grand jury doesn't indict officer for fatally shooting teen Posted: 19 May 2017 05:06 PM PDT  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A grand jury voted on Friday not to indict a white Columbus police officer in the fatal shooting of a black 13-year-old boy after a suspected robbery last year.
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| 8 hurt after jet collides with truck on service road at Los Angeles International Airport Posted: 20 May 2017 04:19 PM PDT  A single-aisle commercial passenger jet collided with a supply truck that overturned Saturday afternoon on a service road at Los Angeles Airport, authorities said.
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| Times Square, protests, Weiner and more — it happened today: May 19 in pictures Posted: 19 May 2017 11:43 AM PDT ![Times Square, protests, Weiner and more — it happened today: May 19 in pictures]( "Times Square, protests, Weiner and more — it happened today: May 19 in pictures") Times Square driver and Anthony Weiner appear in court, and more of today's news from around the world in pictures.
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| Yale University Dean Suspended Over Yelp Reviews Posted: 18 May 2017 09:07 PM PDT  June Chu has written many racist reviews on Yelp, even calling a restaurant "white trash." She was suspended on Thursday, following her "reprehensible posts."
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| Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes dies at age 77 Posted: 18 May 2017 10:01 PM PDT  Roger Ailes, the US media mogul who co-founded Fox News and helped redraw conservative American politics, died Thursday less than a year after he was forced out by a sexual harassment scandal. A longtime confidant of media titan Rupert Murdoch, Ailes was a central figure in conservative US politics for decades. Ailes denied all the allegations.
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| Venezuela opposition vows biggest demo yet on Saturday Posted: 19 May 2017 02:38 PM PDT  Venezuela's opposition vowed to stage its biggest protests yet on Saturday in its drive for elections to remove President Nicolas Maduro from power in a deadly political crisis. Clashes at street demos have left 47 people dead since the protests erupted on April 1, according to prosecutors, who on Friday updated an earlier toll of 43. "On day 50 of the resistance we will make the biggest show of strength so far in this period," said Juan Andres Mejia, one of a group of lawmakers leading the demonstrations, of Saturday's planned demonstrations.
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| James Comey 'tried to hide from Donald Trump by blending in with curtains' Posted: 19 May 2017 12:33 AM PDT  James Comey once tried to blend in with a pair of White House curtains in the hope Donald Trump would not see him, it has been claimed. According to Benjamin Wittes, a friend of Mr Comey's and a fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank: "He thought he had gotten through and not been noticed or singled out and that he was going to get away without an individual interaction. "Comey said that as he was walking across the room he was determined that there wasn't going to be a hug.
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| US-Iran Relations Depends On 2017 Iranian Elections Posted: 19 May 2017 04:51 AM PDT  The new president of Iran, appointed after the ongoing 2017 elections, could make or break diplomatic relations with the United States.
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| Puerto Rico retirees will get bankruptcy committee: U.S. Trustee Posted: 19 May 2017 01:10 PM PDT  By Nick Brown NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog said on Friday it plans to appoint a committee of retirees in Puerto Rico's bankruptcy to negotiate for pensioners facing benefit cuts as part of the island's debt restructuring. Puerto Rico, carrying some $50 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, "clearly needs a retiree committee and sooner rather than later," the office of the U.S. Trustee said in a filing in federal court in San Juan. Puerto Rico filed the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history earlier this month.
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| 'I blew him away': Retiree charged in Amtrak shooting Posted: 19 May 2017 03:07 PM PDT  WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A retired federal law enforcement officer from Wisconsin told investigators he shot and seriously injured an Amtrak train conductor because he wasn't allowed to de-board early at a suburban Chicago stop, prosecutors said Friday.
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| This Health Insurance Company Is Hiring 300+ Work-From-Home Employees Posted: 19 May 2017 11:04 AM PDT  With full benefits!
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| Mom Tries - and Fails - to Wake Teen Who Fell Asleep Inside Locked Car Posted: 19 May 2017 02:22 PM PDT  Even the sound of a car horn wouldn't wake her.
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| Mission unaccomplished: Uganda halts hunt for LRA warlord Posted: 19 May 2017 09:08 PM PDT  Sweat soaks into the bright red neckerchiefs of the soldiers slouching to attention on a steamy parade ground deep in the inaccessible forests of Central African Republic (CAR). The military display marked the end of a failed years-long hunt for Joseph Kony, leader of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group that has its origins in 1980s Uganda. Lieutenant Hubert Zinja, spokesman for Central African troops in the town of Obo -- until this week the nerve centre of the US-backed, Ugandan-led hunt for Kony -- insisted they were up to the job.
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| Donald Trump told Russian officials that firing 'nut job' Comey 'eased pressure from investigation' Posted: 19 May 2017 01:06 PM PDT  Donald Trump told Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting that firing former FBI Director James Comey eased pressure caused by an investigation into Russia's influence in the 2016 campaign, the New York Times reports. "I faced great pressure because of Russia. The President also reiterated that he was not personally under investigation.
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| Chris Cornell Police Report Reveals New Details About Musician's Suicide Posted: 19 May 2017 01:34 PM PDT  A police report revealed new details surrounding the death of Audioslave and Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell.
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| 'Doomsday' seed vault entrance repaired after thaw of Arctic ice Posted: 20 May 2017 09:12 AM PDT  By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Norway is repairing the entrance of a "doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island after an unexpected thaw of permafrost let water into a building meant as a deep freeze to safeguard the world's food supplies. The water, limited to the 15 meter (50 ft) entrance hall in the melt late last year, had no impact on millions of seeds of crops including rice, maize, potatoes and wheat that are stored more than 110 meters inside the mountainside. It seeks to safeguard seeds from cataclysms such as nuclear war or disease in natural permafrost.
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| The Latest: Teen tells police that another suspect shot boy Posted: 19 May 2017 04:17 PM PDT  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on the death of a 6-year-old boy who was in a car that was stolen in Mississippi (all times local):
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| Luis Fonsi On Justin Bieber's Spanish, 'Despacito' Hitting No. 1 Posted: 19 May 2017 04:53 AM PDT  Luis Fonsi joined NBC Latino to discuss his hit song "Despacito," Justin Bieber's Spanish, and what words he has for abuelas listening to his music.
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| Insanely Easy Weeknight Dinners To Try This Week Posted: 19 May 2017 10:35 AM PDT  Every week, we're delivering five easy-to-make, insanely delicious dinners, so you can put that takeout habit on hold.
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| President Trump's first trip abroad Posted: 20 May 2017 12:32 PM PDT ![President Trump's first trip abroad]( "President Trump's first trip abroad") President Trump's first foreign voyage will be an astonishingly ambitious adventure — Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, a NATO summit in Brussels, and a Group of Seven (i.e.: rich country) gathering in Sicily. He's coming with a packed agenda of the weightiest issues in global affairs, like defeating ISIS, containing Iran, convincing the Muslim world to confront extremism, overhauling relations with crucial allies in Europe and Asia, and forging Middle East peace.
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| China killed or jailed up to 20 US spies in 2010-12: report Posted: 20 May 2017 05:30 PM PDT  Beijing systematically dismantled CIA spying efforts in China beginning in 2010, killing or jailing more than a dozen covert sources, in a deep setback to US intelligence there, The New York Times reported Sunday. The Times, quoting 10 current and former American officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the intelligence breach as one of the worst in decades. It said that even now intelligence officials are unsure whether the US was betrayed by a mole within the CIA or whether the Chinese hacked a covert system used by the CIA to communicate with foreign sources.
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| Israeli Intelligence Furious Over Trump’s Loose Lips Posted: 19 May 2017 12:32 PM PDT  As the U.S. president heads to Israel for a show of unity, the country's spies are alarmed at his disclosures to the Russians.
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| Ancient Aboriginal Australians Left Behind Artifacts From 51,000 Years Ago Posted: 19 May 2017 02:08 PM PDT  Artifacts left behind by Australia's first human settlers show they got to the area as early as 51,000 years ago and were able to adapt to a changing coastal environment.
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| OPEC panel looking at deepening, extending oil cuts: sources Posted: 19 May 2017 10:22 AM PDT  By Alex Lawler and Rania El Gamal VIENNA (Reuters) - An OPEC panel reviewing scenarios for the oil producer group's meeting next week is looking at the option of deepening and extending a deal to reduce crude output, OPEC sources said on Friday, in an attempt to drain inventories and support prices. Saudi Arabia and non-OPEC Russia, the world's top two oil producers, have agreed on the need to prolong the current cuts until March 2018, although Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said extended curbs would be on the same terms.
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| Judge haunted by release of man in deadly Ohio shootings Posted: 20 May 2017 01:11 PM PDT ![Judge haunted by release of man in deadly Ohio shootings]( "Judge haunted by release of man in deadly Ohio shootings") NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio judge says he will be haunted forever by his decision to grant early release to a domestic violence offender who authorities say killed his ex-girlfriend, her co-worker and a police chief.
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| Parents see son for the first time since he unplugged from technology: Part 5 Posted: 19 May 2017 08:39 PM PDT  "I didn't really notice that video games were destroying me mentally," Josh said of his video game use.
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