| FBI agents approached Steve Bannon to discuss Russia probe subpoena Posted: 17 Jan 2018 07:49 AM PST  FBI agents showed up at Steve Bannon's Washington home last week intent on serving him with a subpoena to appear before a grand jury investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia.
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| Pope Francis Performs Impromptu Wedding Ceremony Aboard Papal Plane Posted: 18 Jan 2018 08:12 AM PST  Two flight attendants on Pope Francis' papal plane were treated to first-class service on Thursday when the pope helped them officially tie the knot.
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| Eric Trump: 'My father sees one color — green' Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:09 AM PST  Eric Trump on Wednesday dismissed the backlash over President Trump's caustic comments on immigration that have led some members of the media to label his father a racist.
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| Alligator And Python Locked In Death Duel On Golf Course Posted: 18 Jan 2018 05:03 AM PST  A Naples, Florida, golf course featured a reptilian smackdown between an alligator and Burmese python last week ― and it was caught on camera.
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| Archaeologists in Mexico Claim to Have Discovered the World's Longest Underwater Cave Posted: 17 Jan 2018 06:12 PM PST  The discovery has revealed a combined cave about 216 miles long
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| Fishermen dive into river moments before motorboat smashes into vessel Posted: 18 Jan 2018 05:31 AM PST  A group of fisherman were forced to dive into a freezing cold river to escape being crushed by a motorboat bearing down on their small vessel. Bryan Maess was fishing with friends near the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon when the motorboat crashed straight into the small boat in August last year. Footage captured on a GoPro mounted inside the fishing boat shows Mr Maess frantically waving at the boat as it approaches to get the driver's attention. He repeatedly shouts 'hey!' as the vessel gets closer, while another on board is heard saying 'oh my god' before the trio dive into the water. Mr Maess has filed a $372,500 (£270k) lawsuit against the driver of the boat, who told police he could not see the fishing party as the dash of his boat was blocking his view, The Oregonian reports. The trip were forced to dive into the water The fisherman suffered injuries to his ankle, leg and arms in the incident and has had vision problems and headaches since, the lawsuit says. Mr Maess claims in the suit that the boat driver, Marlin Lee Larsen, was distracted while using his mobile phone when the incident occurred. However Mr Larsen told local media the allegations were "fake news". The 75-year-old has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges of the reckless operation of a boat, fourth-degree assault and recklessly endangering the lives of others. The case is ongoing. There are no laws prohibiting the use of a mobile phone when driving a boat in Oregon, however there are laws against operating a boat without due care. Investigators say the trio could have been killed or seriously injured if they hadn't jumped into the water.
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| There's A Really Dumb Reason Why Some Teens Are Eating Tide Pods Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:38 AM PST  Health officials are urging the public not to eat laundry detergent packets amid an uptick in intentional exposures and ingestions among teenagers, and we can thank a running online joke for it.
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| China planning to send robot sub to sunken ship Posted: 17 Jan 2018 02:46 AM PST  BEIJING (AP) — China is preparing to send a robot submarine possibly followed by divers to explore and plug holes in a sunken Iranian oil tanker whose 32 crew members are all believed to have died, the Transport Ministry said Wednesday.
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| How to protect your family against the spread of the flu Posted: 17 Jan 2018 07:54 AM PST This year's outbreak is widespread in every state but Hawaii, and has gotten so bad in Alabama that the governor has declared a public health emergency.
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| Senate Democrats Failed Dreamers In December. They Might Do It Again. Posted: 17 Jan 2018 04:27 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Senate Democrats disappointed young undocumented immigrants in December when many of them voted for a government spending bill that left out deportation protections.
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| Fears of serial child killer in infamous Pakistan city Posted: 17 Jan 2018 12:44 AM PST  The rape and murders of a dozen children by a suspected serial killer have terrified parents in central Pakistan, and prompted soul-searching over how the country fails to protect its most vulnerable. The killing of six-year-old Zainab Fatima Ameen became the tipping point last week when her body was found on a rubbish heap near her home in the city of Kasur. Candlelight vigils were held across the country and the hashtag #JusticeForZainab trended on social media, with celebrities, opposition politicians and outraged web users demanding action.
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| Worst-case global warming scenarios not credible: study Posted: 17 Jan 2018 09:51 PM PST  Earth's surface will almost certainly not warm up four or five degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a study released Wednesday which, if correct, voids worst-case UN climate change predictions. A revised calculation of how greenhouse gases drive up the planet's temperature reduces the range of possible end-of-century outcomes by more than half, researchers said in the report, published in the journal Nature. How effectively the world slashes CO2 and methane emissions, improves energy efficiency, and develops technologies to remove CO2 from the air will determine whether climate change remains manageable or unleashes a maelstrom of human misery.
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| India Test-Fires Nuclear-Capable ICBM Posted: 18 Jan 2018 03:22 AM PST  India successfully test-fired a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday in what officials called a "major boost" to the country's strategic defense system.
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| California community reeling over Turpin 'house of horrors': 'I served them pizza while their children were starving?' Posted: 17 Jan 2018 10:34 AM PST  The quiet California community of Perris has been left reeling after the discovery of 13 children found chained and malnourished in squalid conditions in their parents' house. Matthew Alex Padilla, a 20-year-old former Marine, said he was sickened to learn that Louise Turpin, the woman he served pizza to near the Perris property, had a house full of starving children. Mr Padilla has worked at Leonardi's Pizza inside the WinCo supermarket for a year, and told The Telegraph he last saw Mrs Turpin a week or so ago. "Louise was in here every other day," he said. "Sometimes with her husband, and a few times with a little girl, but never more than one. "We knew each other, and would chat – she was normal, if maybe a bit reserved. I had no idea she had 13 children, because she'd only ever order a slice of pepperoni, or a chicken club sandwich with no tomato. David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, were arrested after the discovery of the 13 children Credit: AFP "I've seen her buy food and eat, and yet there were 13 hungry kids at home? That's messed up. They should be sentenced to a long time in jail. To do that to your kids – it's not OK." Louise and her husband David forced their offspring to march around the house, drill formation, at the dead of night, one neighbour claimed. Mike Clifford, a 60-year-old aerospace machinist, lived opposite the family for three years in Murrieta, where the couple rented a six-bedroom home between 2011 and 2014. Described by their family as "deeply religious", the Turpins home-schooled their children and the youngsters were rarely seen in the community. "We thought they were mentally handicapped kids, so they kept them in," said Mr Clifford, who worked late shifts and would catch sight of them in the evenings. "I never saw them play. What we did used to see a lot was on the second floor, the kids would be walking in circles like they were marching for hours at a time. It was military like." He told the Mail Online he would see the Turpins bundling their children into their minivan at least twice a month in the early hours of the morning as he arrived home. Neighbours stand outside the house where the children were found Credit: Los Angeles Times "They would load up the kids at about one in the morning," he said. "The garage doors would just pop open and half a dozen kids would get into the van and then they'd drive off. "My weirdest thought was that they were selling the kids, sexually or whatever." Despite his concerns, Mr Clifford says he never saw anything that would have warranted a call to the police and said the children appeared clean, if "robotic" when spoken to. In 2014 the family moved up the road to Perris, from where the alarm was raised by their 17-year-old daughter on Sunday morning. Inside the house, police found 12 more of the couple's children, aged two to 29, begging for water and food, some shackled to the bed in a stench-filled room. Gabriela Del Toro, manager at the Primos Mexican restaurant in Perris, said that Mrs Turpin would come in several times a week to get takeaway food – but never in family-sized quantities. "She was pleasant enough – there was absolutely nothing out of the ordinary," she said. "It's mad to think that was going on just down the road." The couple posted several pictures from family outings on their Facebook page Mr Turpin's parents were also left reeling by the news. James Turpin, who lives near Princeton, West Virginia, with his wife Betty, told his local newspaper that their son was "a fine person". David Turpin grew up in West Virginia's Green Valley area and studied at Virginia Tech before moving away – first to Texas, then to California. "He did an outstanding job and worked in school, and the last time we were out there was about six years ago," he said. "The kids were fine. They were healthy and nothing was wrong. "I cannot understand. I'm going to talk to the kids as soon as they let me. I'm getting ready to make a call." Their other son, Randy, president of Valor Christian College in Ohio, said he was estranged from his brother and has taken leave to deal with the fallout. Yet on Mrs Turpin's side of the family, a more damaging picture was presented. Elizabeth Jane Flores, her 41-year-old sister, appeared on US breakfast television on Wednesday and said her family tried "for years" to get in touch with her sister - but "she just shut us out of her life" for decades. "I want to reach out to the kids, I want them to know that for years we begged to Skype, we begged to see them, the whole family," she said. The couple are being held on a $9 million bond Credit: Barcroft Media Mrs Flores said she lived with her sister and brother-in-law for a few months when she was at university. At the time, the couple only had four children and the eldest was in elementary school. "I thought they were really strict, but I didn't see any type of abuse," she said of the parents. "Now that I'm an adult, I look back, I see things that I didn't see then." She also said she had "uncomfortable" experiences with her brother-in-law but never told anyone because she was "young" and "scared." "He did things that made me feel uncomfortable," she said. "If I were to get in the shower, he would come in there while I was in there and watch me, and it was like a joke. He never touched me or anything." Mrs Flores said her mother drove for hours to visit the family in Texas at one point, but the Turpins didn't let her inside the house. A few years later, Mrs Flores said, her father bought a flight to see the family but his daughter told him not to come, insisting she would visit them instead – which they never did. Another sister, Teresa Robinette, said that Mrs Turpin did not visit her parents even when they begged, on their death beds, to see her. "She didn't even show up to either of their funerals," she said. "So we have really no connection with Louise in a long, long time since we were young." She said her sister had married Mr Turpin when she was 16. "We always thought she was living the perfect life. She would tell us they went to Disneyland all the time. They would go to Vegas." But, she admits, in hindsight there were signs of neglect. "I always made comments to Louise when I talked to her about: 'Gosh, they're so skinny,'" she told NBC's Today show. "And she would laugh it off: 'Well David's so tall and lanky, they're going to be like him.' "I can't even say the words to you that I would like to say to her — I'm so angry inside."
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| California abuse case sparks calls for home-schooling oversight Posted: 18 Jan 2018 07:07 AM PST ![California abuse case sparks calls for home-schooling oversight]( "California abuse case sparks calls for home-schooling oversight") The number of U.S. children educated at home has doubled to about 1.7 million, or 3 percent of the nation's school-age population, from 1999, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. "We would not say abuse is more common among home-schoolers, but when it does occur, there are fewer safeguards, less to stop it from spinning out of control," said Executive Director Rachel Coleman. The organization has called for requiring annual contacts by outside officials and background checks for parents who run home schools.
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| White House releases report on foreign-born criminals in the U.S. Posted: 17 Jan 2018 12:26 PM PST  During a press briefing at the White House on Wednesday, January 17, The Justice Department's National Security Division released a report on criminals in the U.S. who were foreign-born.
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| What about the memory test Trump aced? It's not for everyone Posted: 17 Jan 2018 02:46 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Drawing a clock. Counting backward by sevens. Rattling off words that begin with "F'' before a minute's up.
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| Judge Calls Larry Nassar 'Delusional' For Saying It's Hard To Face His Victims Posted: 18 Jan 2018 10:45 AM PST  Former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar, who is facing 10 counts of first-degree sexual misconduct after more than 140 women accused him, penned a six-page letter to the court saying it was too difficult to listen to dozens of accusers deliver victim impact statements on how he sexually abused them.
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| Former CIA agent arrested with top secret info Posted: 17 Jan 2018 01:41 AM PST  US authorities said Tuesday they had arrested a former CIA agent, Hong Kong resident Jerry Chun Shing Lee, after discovering he had an unauthorized notebook that had the identities of undercover US spies. Lee, a naturalized US citizen also known as Zhen Cheng Li, was arrested late Monday after he arrived at JFK International Airport in New York. The Department of Justice said Lee, 53, grew up in the United States and served in the US Army before joining the Central Intelligence Agency as a case officer in 1994.
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| Toyota Calls Off EPA Partnership Under Pressure From Environmentalists Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:57 AM PST  Toyota Motor Corp. has ended talks with the Environmental Protection Agency to overhaul internal management practices at the agency, the automaker told HuffPost on Wednesday.
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| 'I Feel Horrible.' Former University of Alabama Student Apologies After Using Racial Slur in Video Posted: 17 Jan 2018 04:55 PM PST  She was also kicked out of the Alpha Phi sorority
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| Woman killed friend hours after posing for Facebook photo with deadly weapon Posted: 18 Jan 2018 01:13 AM PST  Cheyenne Rose Antoine, 21, pleaded guilty on Monday after Brittney Gargol, 18, was found dead near a landfill site in Saskatchewan, Canada, in March 2015. The blue belt with a large buckle was found on the roadside near Gargol's body, according to the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. An autopsy ruled Gargol died of strangulation.
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| Norfolk Southern pushing for 'more stable' rail service in 2018: CEO Posted: 18 Jan 2018 09:32 AM PST ![Norfolk Southern pushing for 'more stable' rail service in 2018: CEO]( "Norfolk Southern pushing for 'more stable' rail service in 2018: CEO") Norfolk Southern Corp is working toward a "more stable, resilient" network for 2018 following service issues in recent months, the No. 4 U.S. railroad's top executive said on Thursday. Norfolk's rail network, which spans 22 states across the eastern United States, grappled with a storm in the Southeast earlier this month and struggled with other service issues such as periodic crew shortages in 2017.
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| Passenger plane skids off runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport Posted: 18 Jan 2018 05:00 AM PST ![Passenger plane skids off runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport]( "Passenger plane skids off runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport") Turkish authorities are using a large crane to lift a passenger plane that skidded off a runway in northern Turkey and stopped on the side of a slope just meters away from the Black Sea. The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800, with 168 people on board, overshot the runway while landing at Trabzon Airport on Jan. 13.
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| Mother-daughter polio team shot dead in Pakistan: police Posted: 18 Jan 2018 01:43 AM PST  A mother and daughter polio vaccination team were gunned down Thursday in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta as they were immunizing children, police said, the latest deaths in the country's long campaign against the disease. The duo were killed in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city, capital of restive Balochistan, Pakistan's largest and poorest province. "Sakina Bibi, 38 and her daughter Rizwana Bibi, 16, were killed by unknown assailants while they were administering polio drops to children," senior police official Aitzaz Ahmed Goraya told AFP.
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| Pence Plan to Target Aid for Christians in Iraq Sparks Concern Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:24 AM PST  Aid experts fear the Trump administration's focus on Christians and other religious minorities could do more harm than good.
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| Interior official blasts resignation of parks advisory board Posted: 17 Jan 2018 05:00 PM PST  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A U.S. Interior Department official on Wednesday blasted the resignation of most members of a board that advises it on national parks, suggesting the move was politically motivated and their work was flawed.
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| The Best Instant Pot Recipes To Make With The Pressure Cooker Feature Posted: 18 Jan 2018 02:46 AM PST  No matter how hard you fight it, an Instant Pot is almost certainly going to weasel its way into your life at some point.
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| Chris Christie Didn't Break a Leg While Governor of New Jersey. Here's Why That's a Big Deal Posted: 17 Jan 2018 12:01 PM PST  Republican Chris Christie left the New Jersey governor's office with his popularity in tatters, but at least he didn't break a leg
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| Authorities: Deputy fatally shoots teen in Ohio courtroom Posted: 17 Jan 2018 02:33 PM PST ![Authorities: Deputy fatally shoots teen in Ohio courtroom]( "Authorities: Deputy fatally shoots teen in Ohio courtroom") COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A deputy fatally shot a 16-year-old boy in an Ohio courtroom when a fight broke out involving the boy, his family and the officer on Wednesday, a sheriff's office investigator said.
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| Donald Trump's medical reveals serious heart disease concerns, say doctors Posted: 18 Jan 2018 02:17 AM PST  Doctors have expressed concerns about the condition of Donald Trump's heart, contradicting the White House physician who said the US President was in "excellent" cardiac health. White House doctor Dr Ronny L Jackson gave the positive medical assessment of Mr Trump despite his LDL cholesterol level being 143, well above the ideal score of 100 or less. Cardiologists said Mr Trump was at risk of having a stroke or a heart attack, particularly since he is overweight and has a sedentary lifestyle.
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| Amazon Narrows Down Second Headquarters List To 20 Possibilities Posted: 18 Jan 2018 09:45 AM PST  On Thursday, Amazon released the short list of cities and other localities that are still in the running to host the online retail giant's second headquarters, which it's calling HQ2.
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| Barry Allen Displays a New Power in "Trial of The Flash" Posted: 16 Jan 2018 06:35 PM PST  He's got some conviction.
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| Venezuela talks off in row over fugitive ex-policeman's death Posted: 18 Jan 2018 09:46 AM PST ![Venezuela talks off in row over fugitive ex-policeman's death]( "Venezuela talks off in row over fugitive ex-policeman's death") Talks between Venezuela's government and the opposition coalition foundered on Thursday after the opposition denied providing information that led to the death of a rogue former policeman and six other anti-government militants. Oscar Perez, a photogenic former pilot who once starred in an action film, was killed on Monday along with six others in a police raid on a remote house. Last year he used a hijacked helicopter to attack government buildings and stole weapons from a military base in what he called a rebellion against President Nicolas Maduro.
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| The Difference Between Dating And Marriage, As Told In Tweets Posted: 18 Jan 2018 09:01 AM PST  Early on in a relationship, both partners put their best foot forward, showing off the most pleasant, polished versions of themselves.
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| Colorado man's body found encased in concrete in crawl space Posted: 17 Jan 2018 03:46 PM PST  DENVER (AP) — Prosecutors charged a Colorado woman with her father's murder this week after police investigating his disappearance found the 69-year-old's body encased in concrete in the crawl space under his home.
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| This Guy's Response To His Girlfriend's Selfie Is Extra AF Posted: 17 Jan 2018 03:10 PM PST  Being a little bit extra paid off big for one boyfriend.
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| America and Russia May Find Themselves in a Nuclear Arms Race Once Again Posted: 17 Jan 2018 12:16 PM PST  Despite the Trump administration's decision to treat it as an afterthought, arms control is not dead. Upon entering office last January, President Donald Trump asked Secretary of Defense James Mattis to prepare a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that would lay out the Trump administration's nuclear strategy. The document will soon be released, and while claiming to seek a world where nuclear weapons use is less likely, the review's recommendations would actually expand the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons.
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| CA authorities detail torture and abuse children faced at the hands of their parents Posted: 18 Jan 2018 01:41 PM PST  On Thursday, January 18, California DA Michael Hestrin outlined the torture and abuse 13 children faced at the hands of their parents David and Louise Turpin.
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| What Is A 'Sunshine Baby'? Posted: 17 Jan 2018 10:11 AM PST  Over the years, some of this vocabulary has gained wider currency, like the term "rainbow baby," which refers to a child born after a miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death or other early loss of a child.
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| Passenger plane lifted away from cliff edge after Turkey runway incident Posted: 18 Jan 2018 06:27 AM PST  A passenger plane that skidded off a Turkish airport runway has been lifted away from its precarious position on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Black Sea. Two enormous cranes were used to hoist the Pegasus Airlines plane which ran into trouble moments after landing at Trabzon Airport on Turkey's northeast coastline on 13 January. The 162 passengers on board the Boeing 737-800 miraculously escaped without any serious injuries after the out-of-control plane suddenly veered off an icy runway and hurtled down the side of the cliff. Cranes are used to lift a passenger plane that skidded off a runway in Turkey's Trabzon Airport Credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty It stopped just a few metres short of the sea below after the plane's wheels became stuck in the mud on the cliff. Passengers were evacuated following an anxious 20-minute wait for emergency crews to arrive. The pilot and co-pilot, who both passed breathalyser tests after an investigation into the incident was launched, reported a sudden 'engine surge' after landing. An investigation into what caused the incident has been launched Credit: Seyit Ahmet Eksik /Anadolu Agency / Getty "When we were going to make our usual manoeuvre towards the right from the seaside by reducing our speed, the right engine suddenly gained speed for a reason we do now know," a pilot told Trabzon prosecutors, the Dogan news agency reports. "Due to this speed, the plane got out of our control and suddenly swung to the left and got stuck into the mud in the cliff." People work on the Pegasus Airlines recovery operation Credit: AP Photo /Lefteris Pitarakis Turkey's civil aviation authority will now examine the plane's black box to try and establish what caused it to veer so dramatically off course. Terrified passenger Fatma Gördü told Turkish media the plane began suddenly shaking on the runway. A Pegasus plane skidded off the runway and got stuck in some mud on the side of a cliff Credit: Hakan Burak Altunoz/Anadolu Agency/Getty "We tilted to the side, the front was down while the plane's rear was up. There was panic. People shouting, screaming," she said. Pegasus Airlines said in a statement that Flight PC 8622 "had a runway excursion incident during landing". Another passenger, Yüksel Gördü, said it was "a miracle" that they survived the ordeal.
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