| Former CIA Dir. Calls Trump's Words 'Dishonorable Thing to Say' Posted: 08 Jul 2017 11:05 PM PDT  Exclsuively on Meet the Press, Former CIA Director John Brennan tells Chuck Todd that he doesn't think the president "demonstrates good negotiating skills" when it comes to Russia.
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| Wildfires Rage Across 11 Western States Posted: 08 Jul 2017 09:07 AM PDT  The fires are being spurred on by record-breaking temperatures, strong winds and low humidity across much of the West.
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| U.S. isolated on climate at summit of world leaders Posted: 08 Jul 2017 11:53 AM PDT  By Paul Carrel and Noah Barkin HAMBURG (Reuters) - Leaders from the world's leading economies broke with U.S. President Donald Trump on climate policy at a G20 summit on Saturday, in a rare public admission of disagreement and blow to multilateral cooperation. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, keen to show off her skills as a mediator two months before a German election, achieved her primary goal at the meeting in Hamburg, convincing her fellow leaders to support a single communique with pledges on trade, finance, energy and Africa. Last month Trump announced he was pulling the United States out of a landmark international climate accord clinched two years ago in Paris.
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| Stepson Kills Stepfather, Posts Selfie With The Body On Twitter Posted: 09 Jul 2017 05:25 AM PDT  The neighbors said the father and the son had been fighting for about a month and the police had already come to their house before.
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| Distorted aerial photographs offer a unique way to see the vibrancy of New York City Posted: 09 Jul 2017 02:00 AM PDT ![Distorted aerial photographs offer a unique way to see the vibrancy of New York City]( "Distorted aerial photographs offer a unique way to see the vibrancy of New York City") These incredible, mind-bending aerial images offer a completely different way to view the vibrancy of New York City. Shot from above, some of the distorted images make the Big Apple appear like a planet, while others, photographed directly downward, make skyscrapers look like something out of an abstract artwork.
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| Jailed Venezuela opposition leader Lopez given house arrest Posted: 08 Jul 2017 03:24 PM PDT  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was released from prison and placed under house arrest Saturday after more than three years in a military lockup, a shock reversal by the government that fueled hopes for a broader amnesty for dozens of jailed activists in a country sliding ever deeper into political turmoil.
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| Kind 8-Year-Old Prays For Police Officers: 'We Support our Officers' Posted: 09 Jul 2017 08:55 AM PDT  Her mom says it's characteristic of her daughter to do so.
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| Escape by Drone? How Inmates Are Using Cell Phones to Evade Authority Posted: 08 Jul 2017 09:17 AM PDT  Citing recent cases, local officials say escapes where inmates receive cell phone via drones are possible because federal authorities won't let them jam cell phone signals in state prisons.
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| Japan floods death toll rises to 15 Posted: 07 Jul 2017 09:42 PM PDT  The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in southern Japan has risen to 15, a government official said Saturday, as rescuers continued work to evacuate isolated survivors. Raging rivers overflowing with water and mud have devastated swathes of Kyushu -- the southernmost of Japan's four main islands -- after heavy rainfall, sweeping away roads and houses and destroying schools. Thousands of rescuers have been fighting through thick mud and battling rain to search for missing and stranded people, with more than 500 believed to still be cut off, according to public broadcaster NHK.
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| Wildfire in California canyons spreads overnight Posted: 09 Jul 2017 08:53 AM PDT  (Reuters) - A fast-moving wildfire burned overnight through thousands more acres of steep terrain near California's central coast, officials said on Sunday, as high temperatures and parched vegetation fueled dozens of blazes in the U.S. West and Southwest. The Alamo Fire has engulfed about 23,900 acres in the area of the border between San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, a few miles from the city of Santa Maria, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire for short. About 10 percent of the fire had been contained, Cal Fire said.
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| Tense Standoff at Wells Fargo in Georgia Posted: 07 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Authorities say the suspect walked into a Marietta, Georgia bank claiming to have a bomb while two employees were trapped inside.
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| Woman pleads guilty to voting twice for Donald Trump Posted: 07 Jul 2017 11:59 PM PDT  Court records show Terri Lynn Rote entered a plea on 27 June to the felony charge and a district court judge in Des Moines accepted the plea. Rote, who is 56 and lives in Des Moines, told police she turned in two absentee ballots before the November election because she believed Trump's unsubstantiated claims that the election was rigged and that her first ballot would be changed to a vote for Hillary Clinton.
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| Venus Williams' Car Accident Surveillance Video Posted: 08 Jul 2017 02:05 PM PDT  The tennis star's car accident surveillance video show's her lawfully entering the intersection.
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| President Trump retrieves Marine's hat Posted: 08 Jul 2017 08:44 PM PDT  The president lent a helping hand to a Marine whose hat was blown away by the wind.
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| Man Proposes While Being Arrested, Girlfriend Says Yes Posted: 09 Jul 2017 01:11 PM PDT  It's not clear if he's been released yet.
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| 2 dead in Salisbury shooting; off-duty trooper fires shots Posted: 09 Jul 2017 11:51 AM PDT ![2 dead in Salisbury shooting; off-duty trooper fires shots]( "2 dead in Salisbury shooting; off-duty trooper fires shots") SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — Police say two men are dead after a gunfight in which an off-duty Maryland state trooper intervened and fired shots.
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| Egypt raid kills IS suspects after deadly Sinai attack Posted: 08 Jul 2017 12:16 PM PDT  Egyptian police said they killed 14 alleged Islamic State group members Saturday in a raid on a training camp, a day after the jihadists conducted a deadly attack on soldiers. Funerals were held across the country for at least 21 soldiers killed in Friday's attack in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, one of deadliest against the military in years. The interior ministry said police officers raided a desert training camp in the eastern province of Ismailiya, killing the 14 alleged militants.
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| Western Canada wildfires prompt state of emergency, evacuations Posted: 08 Jul 2017 01:22 PM PDT  By Dennis Owen KAMLOOPS, BRITISH COLUMBIA (Reuters) - Canada's federal government on Saturday offered to help British Columbia in response to fast-spreading wildfires that forced thousands to evacuate their homes as hot, dry weather conditions prevented firefighters from controlling the blazes. Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan said in a Tweet on Saturday that the government was closely monitoring the wildfires in the Western Canadian province. "Fed. government is ready to respond if we receive a request for assistance from the province," Sajjan said some 12 hours after Western Canada's British Columbia declared its first state of emergency in 14 years.
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| Prime Day just started early with an insane deal on the Amazon Echo Posted: 08 Jul 2017 04:00 AM PDT 
Woh, woh, woh... what exactly is going on here, Amazon? Prime Day 2017 isn't supposed to start until 9:00 PM ET on Monday, and yet here we are on Saturday looking at one of the craziest deals we've ever seen! Amazon typically sells refurbished Amazon Echo smart speakers for $135, which is a nice discount compared to the $180 the retailer charges for a new Echo. Then, every once in a while, the price might drop under $130 and that's a great time to grab one. Right now, however, Amazon has an insane deal for Prime subscribers that drops the price of the refurbished Amazon Echo speaker all the way down to $89.99. You read that correctly — $89.99! This price is good on Saturday only, and only while supplies last. Trust us, supplies are not going to last so you'll definitely want to snag one (or several) while you can. If you're not already a Prime member, sign up for a free 30-day trial and snag this deal without paying a penny for Prime. Here's what you need to know from the product page: - A Certified Refurbished Amazon Echo is refurbished, tested, and certified to look and work like new
- Plays all your music from Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and more using just your voice
- Introducing Alexa calling and messaging, a new way to be together with family and friends. Just ask Alexa to call or message anyone with an Echo, Echo Dot, or the Alexa App.
- Fills the room with immersive, 360º omni-directional audio
- Hears you from across the room with far-field voice recognition, even while music is playing
- Answers questions, reads the news, reports traffic and weather, reads audiobooks from Audible, gives info on local businesses, provides sports scores and schedules, and more using the Alexa Voice Service
- Controls lights, fans, switches, thermostats, garage doors, sprinklers, locks, and more with compatible connected devices from WeMo, Philips Hue, Samsung SmartThings, Nest, ecobee, and others
- Always getting smarter and adding new features, plus thousands of skills like Uber, Domino's, DISH, and more
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| Russian official mysteriously deletes tweet picturing Ivanka standing in for her father at G20 Posted: 08 Jul 2017 07:15 AM PDT  A Russian official appears to have deleted an image that showed Ivanka Trump sitting in for her father at a G20 meeting of world leaders - a photograph that led people to accuse the US President of behaving like a dictator. Svetlana Lukash, whose Twitter bio describes her as a "G20 sherpa" tweeted a series of images from the meetings in Hamburg. One of them read: "2nd day of #G20 Hamburg summit starts with Africa, Migration & Health.
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| Nikki Haley Contradicts Trump On Russia Posted: 08 Jul 2017 02:14 PM PDT  "Everybody knows that Russia meddled in our elections," the U.N ambassador said.
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| 35 migrants feared drowned off Libya: coastguard Posted: 08 Jul 2017 06:26 AM PDT  Thirty-five migrants, including seven children, were feared drowned after their inflatable boat sank on Saturday off the Libyan coast, the coastguard said. Eighty-five migrants, including 18 women, were rescued with the help of fishermen who alerted the coastguard, said Issa al-Zarrouk, a coastguard official in Garabulli, 60 kilometres (40 miles) east of Tripoli. Navy spokesman Ayoub Kacem said the boat sank six nautical miles northwest of Garabulli, and 10 fishing boats took part in the rescue.
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| 'Oh My God, It Is Obama.' Baby Snags Presidential Selfie Posted: 09 Jul 2017 08:55 AM PDT  An Alaska mother is cherishing cellphone photos she snapped of her wide-eyed 6-month-old baby in the arms of former President Barack Obama
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| Priest Arrested For Allegedly Pulling Out Gun During Road Rage Incident Posted: 08 Jul 2017 01:07 PM PDT  No one was injured.
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| Spain's running of the bulls: No gorings on Day 3 Posted: 09 Jul 2017 01:49 AM PDT  PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — After five gorings on the first two days of this year's San Fermin festival, officials in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona said Sunday's third running of the bulls was quick and resulted in only minor injuries.
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| Germany's G20 street chaos puts political heat on Merkel Posted: 08 Jul 2017 08:45 AM PDT  Raging street battles that marred Germany's G20 summit have sparked a political fight over how Hamburg could descend into "mob rule" and why Chancellor Angela Merkel chose a hotbed of leftist militancy as the venue. Germany's top-selling Bild daily was withering in its condemnation of the chaos that saw far-left and anarchist radicals torch rows of cars, loot shops and hurl rocks and bottles from burning barricades at riot police. Sadly, it applies in Hamburg," the newspaper thundered Saturday, slamming the summit as a "debacle".
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| Zimbabwe's Mugabe in Singapore for medical treatment- paper Posted: 09 Jul 2017 02:23 AM PDT  Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for medical treatment, in his third such visit this year, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Africa's oldest ruler at 93, Mugabe was last in Singapore in May for what his spokesman George Charamba said then was treatment for eye problems. The Standard said he had left again for Singapore on Friday for more medical treatment.
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| Teens Help Rescue Baby Girl After Coming Across Car Crash That Killed Her Mother Posted: 09 Jul 2017 01:42 PM PDT  Hunter Hasenjaeger, 16, and Collin Barry, 17, were on their way home from a friend's house when they came upon a devastating collision.
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| Egyptian, Palestinian leaders meet amid likely Gaza shakeup Posted: 09 Jul 2017 09:29 AM PDT ![Egyptian, Palestinian leaders meet amid likely Gaza shakeup]( "Egyptian, Palestinian leaders meet amid likely Gaza shakeup") CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian and Palestinian leaders met in Cairo on Sunday amid signs of a rapprochement between Cairo and the Islamic militant Hamas group that could shake up Gaza's political landscape and sideline the Palestinian president.
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| G20 summit shows Trump took U.S. from first to worst on climate change in under a year Posted: 08 Jul 2017 03:52 PM PDT  At the 2016 G-20 summit, in Hangzhou, China, world leaders united in a common determination to implement the Paris Climate Agreement before the end of the year. The U.S., led by then-President Barack Obama, was a key player in rounding up support for the agreement. It was difficult to imagine then that the U.S. would ever turn away from this agreement, widely regarded as the world's last, best chance to rein in global warming, that it had worked so hard to forge. Then President Donald Trump came along. Fast forward one year later, and the U.S., now under President Donald Trump, has become such a pariah on climate change that leaders of 19 of the 20 largest economies in the world signed onto a climate and energy agenda that demotes the U.S. to a mere footprint — literally — on one of its pages. SEE ALSO: How clean energy is transforming the world, in 5 charts In addition, America's major contribution to the climate change portion of the G-20's summary document, known as the G-20 communiqué, was to call for helping countries more easily obtain fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, whose use is causing global warming in the first place. The G-20 communiqué issued Saturday by all the leaders struck a compromise that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had sought, by declaring that "the Paris Agreement is irreversible" while taking note of Trump's widely criticized June 1 decision to withdraw from the agreement. The communiqué, which also addresses a host of other contentious issues including trade, reveals the rift that has opened up between the U.S. and the rest of the world when it comes to climate and energy priorities. Take this language the U.S. inserted into the document: "The United States of America states it will endeavor to work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently and help deploy renewable and other clean energy sources..." In other words, let's ship countries more oil and gas to burn, and also some renewable energy too. Meanwhile, the climate and energy action plan discusses the need to devise plans to make deep cuts to greenhouse gases by the middle of this century, something climate scientists say is necessary in order to avert the worst consequences of global warming, but which the Trump administration is not devoting any time or resources to thinking about. "The direction of travel toward clean energy is loud and clear. The question remains how quickly the world will surge forward and how far behind the Trump administration will let the United States fall," said Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the World Resources Institute, in light of the communiqué and the climate and energy action plan. Leaders of environmental groups praised the heads of the 19 nations that stood up to Trump on climate change. "The other 19 leaders of the world's largest economies stood shoulder to shoulder in unified support for the Paris Agreement," said Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune, in a statement. "Given the choice between following Trump or standing strong for climate action, not a single world leader decided to back him," Brune said. "That's unprecedented, and it shows how deeply unpopular and misguided Trump's attack on the Paris Agreement has been, and how much damage it has done to U.S. credibility and standing in the world." WATCH: Trump is getting crushed at his own handshake game
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| Can You Record The Police In Public? Posted: 08 Jul 2017 03:20 AM PDT  The matter has taken center stage as an increasing number of video clips of police encounters with unarmed black men and women have begun to circulate rapidly on social media. The initiation of the Black Lives Matter movement can also be attributed to this increasing role of technology in law enforcement by the police.
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| Shepherds mauled in Romania bear attack Posted: 08 Jul 2017 01:02 PM PDT  Two shepherds were seriously injured in a bear attack Saturday in Romania's remote Carpathian mountains, reigniting debate over a government decision to suspend an annual culling programme. Romania is home to around 60 percent of Europe's brown bears -- some 6,000, a quarter of which roam the mountains around Harghita. There have been seven bear attacks there in 2017 alone, prompting anger among locals.
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| Delta Air Lines: Flight attendant breaks two wine bottles on man's head as he fights to open hatch, court documents reveal Posted: 08 Jul 2017 01:04 AM PDT  A flight attendant was forced to break two wine bottles over the head of a passenger who tried to open the plane's exit door thousands of feet over the ocean, court documents have revealed. The steward broke the first bottle over the head of Joseph Daniel Hudek IV, 23, who had lunged for the door and fought with other passengers during a Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Beijing.
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| Putin plane makes detour avoiding Poland, Baltics on way to G20: flight tracker Posted: 08 Jul 2017 03:37 AM PDT ![Putin plane makes detour avoiding Poland, Baltics on way to G20: flight tracker]( "Putin plane makes detour avoiding Poland, Baltics on way to G20: flight tracker") By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - A plane carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Germany made a detour of about 500 km (300 miles) to avoid flying over NATO members Poland or the Baltic states, data from a flight tracker showed. According to the FlightRadar24 website, a Russian government jet flying from Moscow to Hamburg on Thursday deviated from the direct route over Belarus and Poland, which was once a Soviet bloc state but joined the Western military alliance after the fall of communism.
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| Eritrea's capital added to UNESCO World Heritage list Posted: 08 Jul 2017 10:04 AM PDT  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Eritrean officials on Saturday claimed "victory" after the U.N. cultural agency unanimously decided to put the African nation's capital city of Asmara on the UNESCO World Heritage list — the result of years of lobbying by one of the world's most reclusive governments.
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| G20 leaders' statement on climate change highlights rift with US Posted: 08 Jul 2017 07:42 AM PDT  World leaders have made clear the US's isolated stance on climate change, with 19 of the G20 countries affirming their commitment to the "irreversible" Paris climate agreement. After lengthy negotiations that stretched well into Saturday, the final joint statement from the meeting in Hamburg notes Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris deal while stating that the world's other major economies all still support the international effort to slow dangerous global warming.
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| French suspect held for planning attack with Belgian pair Posted: 09 Jul 2017 03:34 AM PDT  A 42-year-old French national appeared in court Sunday on suspicion of plotting an attack with multiple weapons alongside two Belgian brothers who were charged in Brussels this week, judicial sources said. The suspect is believed to be connected to Akim and Khalid Saouti, two brothers who were charged in Brussels on Wednesday with belonging to a "terrorist group" and were believed to be planning an attack with a large stash of weapons including Kalashnikov rifles. The pair, who were arrested the previous night in the Brussels suburb of Anderlecht, are brothers of convicted jihadist Said Saouti, a member of the Kamikaze Riders, a notorious bikers' club based in Brussels.
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| Why Children From Low-Income Families Develop Earlier Posted: 08 Jul 2017 02:10 PM PDT  Kids from low-income families more likely to develop earlier, which could have long-lasting health effects.
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| The Best Products at Trader Joe's (According to the Employees Who Know Them Best) Posted: 08 Jul 2017 07:00 AM PDT  This article, The Best Products at Trader Joe's (According to the Employees Who Know Them Best), originally appeared on Chowhound. Before I had witnessed its majesty firsthand, I couldn't understand the intense enthusiasm surrounding Trader Joe's.
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| More than 200,000 children married in US over the last 15 years Posted: 08 Jul 2017 01:47 AM PDT  More than 200,000 children were married in the US over the past 15 years, new figures have revealed. The minimum age for marriage across most of the US is 18, but every state has exemptions – such as parental consent or pregnancy – which allow younger children to tie the knot. In May, the high-profile Republican governor for New Jersey declined to sign into law a measure that would have made his state the first to ban child marriage without exception.
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| How You Can Feel Younger Right Now Posted: 09 Jul 2017 05:05 PM PDT  Do you ever wonder why some people just look better than others? The Doctors are joined by dermatologist Dr. Ava Shamban to explain why. "It is true that aging is inevitable, but we can control the rate at which we age," Dr. Shamban tells urologist Dr. Jennifer Berman. Can one skincare product added to your daily routine make a difference?
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| Kenya interior minister dies in hospital Posted: 08 Jul 2017 12:44 AM PDT  Kenya's interior minister has died in hospital, the government said on Saturday, a month before the country is due to hold national elections. "It is with deep sorrow and shock that we announce the sudden passing on of Interior CS Retired General Joseph Nkaissery," Joseph Kinyua, the chief of staff and head of the public service, said in a statement. President Uhuru Kenyatta is running against his long-time rival, veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga.
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| Venezuela marks 100 days of unrest, at a glance Posted: 08 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Anti-government protests in Venezuela hit the symbolic mark of 100 days on Sunday with a grim record of at least 92 dead and more than 1,500 injured. The decision Saturday to release opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez from prison and place him under house arrest has once again stirred hopes that socialist President Nicolas Maduro and his opponents could sit down for talks aimed at ending the bloodshed.
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| Jihadists battle Libya forces in 'liberated' Benghazi Posted: 09 Jul 2017 01:21 PM PDT  Jihadists are still battling Libyan forces in Benghazi days after strongman Khalifa Haftar and his self-styled army declared victory in the eastern city, his forces said Sunday. Colonel Miloud Zwei, spokesman for Haftar's Libyan National Army, said the fighting persisted in the district of Soug al-Jarid, located between the central neighbourhoods of Soug al-Hout and Al-Sabri, the jihadists' last strongholds. Zwei said 20 LNA soldiers have been killed by "terrorists" who had been hiding in houses since Haftar on Wednesday announced the "total liberation" of Benghazi.
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| The Latest: Trump ready to move ahead working with Russia Posted: 09 Jul 2017 04:52 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and Russia (all times local):
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| Four people shot as gunman opens fire in Oslo bar Posted: 09 Jul 2017 04:05 AM PDT ![Four people shot as gunman opens fire in Oslo bar]( "Four people shot as gunman opens fire in Oslo bar") Four men were shot and injured at a nightclub in Oslo around midnight on Sunday, police said in a press release, adding that one suspect has been arrested. The Blue nightclub, where the shooting took place, is in an old industrial building in the eastern part of the city. The victims were taken to hospital and did not have serious injuries, according to Grete Metlid, police inspector.
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