| Women's Group Shines Light On Trump Sexual Assault Allegations Before State Of The Union Posted: 30 Jan 2018 04:04 PM PST  A women's rights group used the occasion of Donald Trump's first State of the Union address to bring renewed attention to allegations of sexual assault against the president.
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| Military blames 'human error' for hidden Afghan war data Posted: 30 Jan 2018 11:17 AM PST  The Defense Department is withholding important figures about how the nation's longest war is going, a watchdog office says. The latest quarterly report omits such data as the size of Afghan forces and the number of districts under Taliban control.
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| FBI officials ask Trump to block Nunes memo Posted: 30 Jan 2018 09:32 AM PST  Devil Barrett, reporter for The Washington Post, talks about new reporting that FBI officials have asked the White House not to allow the release of the Devin Nunes memo.
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| Iranian Women To U.S.: Our Protest Isn’t About The Hijab. It Is About Freedom. Posted: 30 Jan 2018 03:12 PM PST  Protests have swept across Iran in recent weeks, the largest in almost a decade, as Iranians take to the streets to protest abysmal economic conditions and allegations of widespread corruption.
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| Melania Trump's all-white ensemble raises questions at the State of the Union Posted: 30 Jan 2018 06:26 PM PST  Not only did first lady Melania Trump garner attention when she broke with long-standing tradition by arriving to the State of the Union separately from the president on Capitol Hill on Tuesday night, but her outfit also sparked speculation across social media about whether she was quietly making a political statement.
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| Correction: Deadly Car Wash Shooting story Posted: 31 Jan 2018 03:41 PM PST  In a story Jan. 28 about the shooting deaths of four people at a car wash, The Associated Press, relying on information from state police, misspelled the first name of one of the female victims. She was Cortney Snyder, not Courtney.
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| Nearly 80 undocumented immigrants found crammed in truck near US-Mexico border Posted: 30 Jan 2018 06:53 AM PST  Immigration authorities have found nearly 80 people crammed into the back of a truck trying to enter the US without proper documents. The truck was travelling on highway in Laredo, Texas, near the US-Mexico border when the driver was pulled over. At least 13 were found to be unaccompanied children.
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| Hamas official dies three weeks after 'accidental' shooting Posted: 30 Jan 2018 01:09 AM PST  A senior Hamas official has died in Gaza three weeks after shooting himself in the head in what officials described as an accident, the Palestinian Islamist group announced Tuesday. Imad al-Alami, a former member of Hamas's highest political body and its ambassador to Iran, died overnight, a Hamas statement said. Alami was wounded on January 9 while "inspecting his personal weapon in his home" in Gaza, Hamas said at the time.
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| State Officials Fire Employee Who Sent False Missile Alert In Hawaii Posted: 30 Jan 2018 09:03 AM PST  The emergency worker responsible for sending a false missile alert to people in Hawaii earlier this month actually believed there was an incoming ballistic missile, The Washington Post reports.
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| Lawmakers Wear Black To Donald Trump’s State Of The Union Address Posted: 30 Jan 2018 05:35 PM PST  Democratic lawmakers wore black and sported pins in solidarity with victims of sexual harassment and assault on Tuesday as President Donald Trump was set to deliver his first State of the Union address.
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| Trump SOTU Fell Short on Truth Posted: 30 Jan 2018 12:10 PM PST  Senator Kamala Harris shares her reaction to Donald Trump's State of the Union address, with particular criticism of his characterization of the tax bill and Trump's treatment of immigrants.
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| GOP Congressman Calls For Undocumented SOTU Guests To Be Arrested On The Spot Posted: 30 Jan 2018 02:04 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― About 30 young undocumented immigrants are attending the State of the Union on Tuesday as guests of lawmakers ― and one of their colleagues wants to use the opportunity to have those guests arrested.
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| Fact Check: State of the Union's standout lines Posted: 31 Jan 2018 12:44 AM PST  ABC News' MaryAlice Parks investigates some of the statements made during President Trump's first State of the Union address.
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| Syria congress begins in Russia but key players absent Posted: 29 Jan 2018 08:42 PM PST  Russia's showpiece congress aimed at bringing Syria's seven-year war closer to an end will go ahead on Tuesday, despite the country's main opposition group and Kurdish minority saying they would boycott the event. Regime-backer Moscow has invited 1,600 delegates to the meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi as part of a broader push to consolidate its influence in the Middle East and start hammering out a political solution to the conflict. The main aim of the talks starting at 10:00 am (0700 GMT) will be to establish a committee to create a post-war constitution for Syria with UN-backing, according to a draft statement seen by AFP.
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| Second Person Of Interest Related To Las Vegas Massacre Admits Selling Gunman Ammo Posted: 31 Jan 2018 11:15 AM PST  A second person of interest related to last year's mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival was identified as an ammunition dealer who sold to gunman Stephen Paddock, according to newly unsealed court documents.
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| Bucking tradition, Melania arrives separately from President Trump to State of the Union Posted: 30 Jan 2018 10:12 AM PST  At President Trump's first State of the Union address, First Lady Melania Trump opted to arrive on Capitol Hill with her invited guests instead of the her husband. The situation was different one year ago.
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| FEMA criticized for plan to end storm aid in Puerto Rico Posted: 30 Jan 2018 02:56 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Plans by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to halt hurricane relief supplies to Puerto Rico drew criticism Tuesday from members of Congress and the mayor of the island's largest city.
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| Russia's Putin: U.S. 'oligarch list' is an unfriendly act Posted: 30 Jan 2018 04:41 AM PST  President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday the release of a U.S. list of Russian businessmen close to the Kremlin was an unfriendly act, but Moscow did not currently plan to retaliate. The U.S. Treasury Department named major Russian businessmen in a so-called "oligarchs' list" which was released earlier on Tuesday. It will complicate the difficult situation Russian-American relations are already in, and of course harm international relations as a whole," Putin said.
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| Top Republican Admits Gerrymandering Could Help GOP Keep Control Of The House Posted: 30 Jan 2018 01:08 PM PST  The congressman running the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm of the House GOP, just said openly that partisan gerrymandering could help his party retain control of the House in November.
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| Lockheed Martin Has Delivered 265 F-35s (And the Profits are Pouring In) Posted: 30 Jan 2018 05:08 PM PST  The future is looking bright for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which is set for massive growth as the program finally reaches maturity and enters into full rate production. "Our F-35 program, during the fourth quarter we met our joint government and industry commitment by delivering the 66 aircraft in 2017," Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin, told investors. Lockheed Martin expects that the program will continue to expand in 2018.
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| Second Hong Kong WW2 bomb in a week sparks evacuation Posted: 31 Jan 2018 07:03 AM PST  A second wartime bomb was discovered at a construction site in the heart of Hong Kong within a week, prompting thousands of people to evacuate on Wednesday and stores to shutter. Police sealed off parts of the busy Wan Chai district and ferry services crossing the Victoria Harbour were suspended as experts worked to unearth the explosive, an operation that would likely continue overnight. The bomb was found at the same construction site along the harbour front as a 450-kilogram explosive that was successfully defused on Saturday.
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| Breathtaking Photos Show The 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Around The World Posted: 31 Jan 2018 10:04 AM PST  A rare "super blue blood moon" had space enthusiasts across the world in awe Wednesday.
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| Joe Kennedy III carries the Kennedy legacy into the fight against Trump Posted: 30 Jan 2018 02:00 AM PST  Rep. Joe Kennedy III, Bobby Kennedy's grandson, who will deliver the Democratic response to President Trump's State of the Union, has the burden of living up to his family's legacy without seeming to trade on it.
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| Correction: Ex-Stanford Swimmer Rape story Posted: 30 Jan 2018 08:55 AM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a story Jan. 29 about a sexual assault victim deciding not to participate in the creation of a plaque marking where she was attacked on the Stanford University campus, The Associated Press reported erroneously when her assaulter was sentenced. Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Brock Turner in June 2016, not in January 2016.
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| New attractions coming to Disney Parks Posted: 30 Jan 2018 02:52 PM PST  Toy Story Land, Marvel Land, and Star Wars Land are all coming to Disney Parks.
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| Iranian opposition cleric accuses Khamenei of abuse of power Posted: 30 Jan 2018 05:09 AM PST ![Iranian opposition cleric accuses Khamenei of abuse of power]( "Iranian opposition cleric accuses Khamenei of abuse of power") By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) - Instead of blaming others Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should take responsibility for Iran's economic and political shortcomings, an opposition leader under house arrest said in a letter published on Tuesday. In rare public criticism of Khamenei, Mehdi Karroubi accused Iran's hardline top authority of abusing power and urged him to change the way he runs the Islamic Republic before it is too late. "You have been Iran's top leader for three decades, but still speak like an opposition," Karroubi said in an open letter to Khamenei published on Saham News, the official website of his reformist political party.
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| Internet Burns Washington Post Over Its Front Page On Trump's Speech Posted: 31 Jan 2018 02:01 AM PST  The Washington Post's first edition headline covering President Donald Trump's State of the Union address didn't go over well on social media.
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| Louvre displays art looted by Nazis, hopes to find owners Posted: 30 Jan 2018 05:27 AM PST  PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum is putting 31 paintings on permanent display in an effort to find the rightful owners of those and other works of art looted by Nazis during World War II.
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| Kentucky Mother Dragged Out of Court After Lunging at Laughing Defendant Accused of Killing Her Sons Posted: 30 Jan 2018 03:12 PM PST  The mother said she "just flipped out" at seeing the man charged with killing her sons.
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| Kenyan opposition leader 'sworn in' as event called treason Posted: 30 Jan 2018 05:56 AM PST  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a ceremony that Kenya's government warned would be treason, opposition leader Raila Odinga on Tuesday was sworn in as "the people's president" during a mock inauguration protesting President Uhuru Kenyatta's new term after months of deadly election turmoil.
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| Mom of guilty teen in 'Slender Man' case on hearing daughter admit to stabbing Posted: 30 Jan 2018 04:46 PM PST  Morgan Geyser's mother Angie Geyser told ABC's David Muir that her daughter's police interrogation tape "is very difficult to watch... I couldn't believe what I was hearing."
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| U.S. defends role of Lebanon army as Israel threatens to attack it Posted: 31 Jan 2018 08:20 AM PST ![U.S. defends role of Lebanon army as Israel threatens to attack it]( "U.S. defends role of Lebanon army as Israel threatens to attack it") By Dan Williams TEL AVIV (Reuters) - The United States pledged continued support for Lebanon's military on Wednesday, calling it a potential counterweight to Iranian-backed Hezbollah, even as Israel said the two forces were indistinguishable and fair game in any future war. The Lebanese Armed Forces took no part in the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. It has received more than $1.5 billion in U.S. military assistance since then and, in the last seven years, training and support from U.S. special forces too.
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| BP discovers North Sea oil and gas Posted: 31 Jan 2018 07:35 AM PST  British energy major BP on Wednesday announced oil and gas discoveries in the North Sea, in a boost for the company and local industry. The discoveries were made in Capercaillie in the central North Sea, and in Achmelvich, west of Shetland, the company said in a statement. BP fully owns the Capercaillie well, while the Achmelvich well is a partnership between operator BP (52.6 percent), Royal Dutch Shell (28 percent) and US peer Chevron (19.4 percent).
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| Joe Kennedy: Trump Is ‘Turning American Life Into A Zero-Sum Game’ Posted: 30 Jan 2018 07:56 PM PST  In the official Democratic response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, Rep.
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| 2019 Jeep Cherokee Posted: 31 Jan 2018 07:50 AM PST  Easier on the eyes, even easier to drive.
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| Warsaw official moves to ban anti-Israeli demonstration Posted: 31 Jan 2018 06:45 AM PST  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Warsaw governor took steps Wednesday to prevent a far-right protest outside the Israeli Embassy by banning traffic in the area, citing security concerns.
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| Pope sends sex crimes expert to Chile to investigate bishop Posted: 30 Jan 2018 02:05 PM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) — After coming under excoriating public criticism, Pope Francis decided Tuesday to send the Vatican's most respected sex crimes expert to Chile to investigate a bishop accused by victims of covering up for the country's most notorious pedophile priest.
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