| Everything You Need To Know About The Russian Cyberattacks On The U.S. Electricity Grid Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:22 AM PDT  ## TOP STORIES
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| Man Killed by a 35-pound Boulder While Driving Down a California Freeway Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  The California Highway Patrol stated that the boulder was purposely moved and thrown from the overpass.
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| Court Just Found Black Victim Of White Supremacist Assault Not Guilty Of... Assault Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:58 PM PDT  Anti-racist protester DeAndre Harris, who was brutally beaten by a group of
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| Missing teen may have flown to Cancun with 45-year-old man Posted: 16 Mar 2018 01:58 PM PDT  Police say a 16-year-old Pennsylvania teen, who went missing after she was signed out of school by a 45-year-old man, may have flown to Cancun with him. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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| White House is Trying to Tamp Down Reports of an Imminent Cabinet Shakeup Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  The president recently fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a tweet and hinted at more changes to come.
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| As fighting rages, can Russia forge a peace in Syria? Posted: 16 Mar 2018 01:01 PM PDT  Nearly two and a half years after the Russian military began an intensive bombing campaign in Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia is struggling to engineer a political solution in the war-ravaged country, analysts say. The Kremlin has presented its landmark Syria operation as a success, shrugging off western criticism over the killing of civilians while claiming to have withdrawn a significant part of its forces. "During the battle against the Islamic State group (IS), it was easier for the various parties (Russia, Turkey, Iran, US) to find common ground.
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| Senators want CIA to lift veil on nominee's black site past Posted: 16 Mar 2018 01:43 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Gina Haspel's long spy career is so shrouded in mystery that senators want documents declassified so they can decide if her role at a CIA black site should prevent her from directing the agency.
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| Republicans Got Greedy With Gerrymandering. Now It's Coming Back To Haunt Them. Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:33 AM PDT  When Thomas Hofeller travelled across the country at the beginning of the
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| Teachers should not be armed because most are women, Republican politician argues Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:38 AM PDT  A Republican politician argued teachers should not be armed in the wake of the Florida high school shooting - because most of them are women. Alabama state representative Harry Shiver claimed that women "are scared of guns" and don't want to learn how to shoot. Mr Shiver told AL.com he would probably abstain from voting on a bill that would allow trained teachers to carry guns on school campuses.
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| Georgia Ski Lift Malfunction Hurls People Into Air, Injuring 11 Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:49 PM PDT  A chairlift at a ski resort in the country of Georgia malfunctioned on Friday,
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| Graphic Videos of Pulse Nightclub Shooting Played for Jury Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:34 AM PDT  The video showed him reloading as people near him tried to crawl to safety
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| Shepard Smith Says Fox News Opinion Personalities 'Don't Really Have Rules' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 06:41 PM PDT  Shepard Smith derided the journalistic rigor of Fox News opinion programming
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| Mueller latest subpoena could cross Trump's 'red line' Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:14 AM PDT  President Trump once said looking into his personal finances would cross a "red line." MSNBC legal analyst Ben Wittes says Robert Mueller's latest subpoena could be the kind of thing that Trump would think of as an "escalation."
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| Chopper flights with open doors, tight restraints grounded Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:17 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators, spurred by a deadly helicopter crash into a river, ordered a temporary nationwide ban on open-door flights that have tight seat restraints that could trap people during emergencies.
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| Turkish fire on Syria's Afrin kills 18 civilians: monitor Posted: 16 Mar 2018 01:29 AM PDT  Turkish artillery fire on the Kurdish-majority enclave of Afrin in northern Syria killed at least 18 civilians on Friday, a monitor said. "Since midnight (2200 GMT Thursday), 18 civilians, including five children, were killed by Turkish artillery fire on the city of Afrin," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. On January 20, Turkey and Syrian Arab rebel proxies launched an air and ground offensive on the Afrin region, which is controlled by the US-backed Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
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| Republican Food Stamp Plan In Disarray Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― A Republican plan to shrink food stamp enrollment is in some
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| Counter-terror police launch murder investigation after confirming Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov strangled Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:34 PM PDT  A fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, who was found dead at his south London home earlier this week, was murdered, police have said, amid fears of a second Russia-sponsored attack on British soil. Businessman, Nikolai Glushkov, 68, who was granted asylum in the UK after fleeing Moscow in 2006, was strangled to death, Scotland Yard has confirmed. The former right-hand man of deceased oligarch, Boris Berezovsky, his death came just over a week after Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned by a nerve agent in Salisbury. The former boss of the state airline Aeroflot, Mr Glushkov had told friends he feared he was on a Kremlin hit-list. Wish suspicion falling again on Moscow, police have reportedly started contacting a number of Russian exiles to discuss their safety. Police and the security services have now reassessed their view that exiles are at a low risk, the BBC reported. A former bodyguard, who worked for Mr Berezovsky, and knew Mr Glushkov well, said his death had all the hallmarks of a state-sponsored assassination. A murder investigation was launched in New Malden The France-based security expert, who asked to be identified only by his initials, RG, said: "I'm not at all surprised [that a murder investigation has been opened]. "You can easily choke someone in 10 seconds so that they fall into a comatose state and you can then continue strangling them without leaving any other marks on the body. It's a technique they [the Russians] know well." Mr Berezovsky was found hanged in the bathroom of his Surrey home in 2013, with the cause of death being put down to suicide. But suspicion has always surrounded the circumstances of his death, with many believing he was one of a number of Putin critics who were deliberately silenced. Another of their close associates, Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, died at his Surrey home in 2008, following an apparent heart attack. 12 uk deaths with suspected Russian involvement A close personal friend of the three men, who asked not to be named, said he was in little doubt their murders were linked. He said: "All of them were in no doubt that Boris was killed. It is perhaps inevitable that they would be assassinated themselves. "It is a very horrible thing to happen, he was a lovely man, a very funny man with a great sense of humour. It sounds like somebody has a vendetta against them." Boris Berezovsky was found dead at his Surrey home five years ago Counter terror officers continued to probe the nerve gas attack on Mr Skirpal, whose attempted murder led to the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats from London. Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, escalated the war of words with Russia, when he accused Vladimir Putin of personally ordering the nerve agent attack. He said it was "overwhelmingly likely" that the Russian President was behind the attempted murder, a claim that was described as "unpardonable" by Mr Putin's spokesman. News of this latest murder investigation will further stoke fears that critics or enemies of Russia and its leader, are no longer safe on British soil. Downing Street said the Prime Minister had been "kept informed" of developments but stressed that Mr Glushkov's death was a police matter and that no link had been made with the Salisbury poisoning case. But Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, said the murder of Mr Glushkov appeared to "fit into a pattern" of violent deaths of enemies of Mr Putin. The police investigation is continuing in Salisbury He said: "If there is a link between Mr Glushkov's death and the Kremlin it will be further proof that we are dealing with essentially a rogue state which refuses to abide by international rules and has violated UN laws. "What has been going on is a deliberate attempt to settle Russian scores in the UK." Boris Johnson has laid the blame at Putin's door But a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has suggested moderate Labour MPs who blame Russia for spy poisoning are "enemies" who should be deselected. Chris Williamson, the Labour MP for Derby North, said Labour MPs who had decided Moscow was "unequivocally" to blame were "baying for blood" and he suggested they face de-selection. And the Kremlin also ramped up its language, launching a withering response to Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, who had suggested Russia should "go away and shut up". Major-General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman at Russia's defence ministry, accused Mr Williamson of engaging in "market wench talk", adding that it reflected his "intellectual impotency".
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| Khloe Kardashian's Good American launches maternity denim Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:17 AM PDT  Good American, an all-inclusive size denim line founded by Khloe Kardashian
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| California Student Says He Was Forced to Participate in Walkout Posted: 16 Mar 2018 11:34 AM PDT  A California high school student says a teacher denied students the option to not participate in a walkout to protest gun violence.
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| 'Dogs Must Think We're Magical When We Rub The Wall And The Room Gets Bright' Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:18 AM PDT  The shower isn't just a place to sing. Separated from our cellphones, standing
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| Trump's 'Bowling Ball Test' for U.S. Cars Is Just A Goofy Ad Posted: 16 Mar 2018 03:55 AM PDT  President Donald Trump had people scratching their heads when he referred --
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| Lawyers call US gun charges for Mexican man 'vindictive' Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:48 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Attorneys for a Mexican man acquitted of murder in a San Francisco shooting that helped fuel the U.S. immigration debate are pressing for documents to help them argue that his U.S. gun charges are vindictive.
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| An Immigrant Couple Has Died in a Car Crash While Fleeing From Federal Agents Posted: 15 Mar 2018 07:11 PM PDT  They left behind six children
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| British Labour leader warns of rushing into new Cold War without full evidence Posted: 16 Mar 2018 01:07 AM PDT  British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn warned on Friday against rushing into a new Cold War with Russia before full evidence of Moscow's culpability in a military-grade nerve toxin attack on a former double agent is proven. Prime Minister Theresa May said Russia was behind the Novichok nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence who betrayed dozens of Russian agents to Britain. After the first known offensive use of such a weapon on European soil since World War Two, May gave 23 Russians who she said were spies working under diplomatic cover at the London embassy a week to leave.
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| California couple gets $2.5 million settlement after city called kidnapping a hoax Posted: 16 Mar 2018 11:19 AM PDT  Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn filed a defamation lawsuit against the city of Vallejo after officials there dismissed Mr Quinn's description of a home intruder kidnapping and raping Ms Huskins as a fabrication that had wasted police resources. Vindicating the couple, a man named Matthew Muller was later convicted of kidnapping Ms Quinn and sentenced to 40 years in prison after he was arrested and had his home searched during an unrelated investigation. It alleges police officers reacted to Mr Quinn reporting the crime by treating him as if he had "already been convicted of murdering" Ms Huskins.
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| 5-Year-Old Cries as He Watches His Mom Walk Down The Aisle Posted: 17 Mar 2018 08:39 AM PDT  It was a an unforgettable moment.
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| Audi to build four-door electric sports car in 2020 Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:27 AM PDT  Audi has just confirmed it will be launching a fully-electric four-door GT model in 2020 to rival the Tesla Model S, which will be a gran turismo sibling of the e-tron SUV that arrives later this year. At its recent annual press conference, the manufacturer announced it will launch no fewer than five of those models by as soon as 2021, so we will soon have a Q3-sized EV crossover, the e-tron, e-tron Sportback and the e-tron GT. Perhaps what's most interesting about Audi's conversion to the electric cause is a focus on what will be special "Audi Sport" performance models.
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| Ivanka Trump to meet South Korean minister in light of Tillerson firing Posted: 16 Mar 2018 07:30 AM PDT  Senior White House adviser and first family member Ivanka Trump is scheduled
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| Authorities investigating claims teacher fed puppy to turtle Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:09 PM PDT ![Authorities investigating claims teacher fed puppy to turtle]( "Authorities investigating claims teacher fed puppy to turtle") PRESTON, Idaho (AP) — Authorities are investigating reports a teacher fed a sick puppy to a snapping turtle in a rural Idaho town that was the setting for the teenage cult classic film "Napoleon Dynamite."
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| Minister raises ire with Islam 'not part of Germany' broadside Posted: 16 Mar 2018 07:42 AM PDT  Chancellor Angela Merkel's hardline new interior minister declared that Islam is "not part of Germany" in an interview published Friday, setting off a political storm two days into her fourth term. Asked by the top-selling Bild daily whether the influx of Muslim migrants and asylum seekers to Europe's top economy over the past several decades meant that Islam now belonged to the fabric of the nation, Horst Seehofer replied "no". "Islam is not part of Germany.
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| Uber’s Biggest Rival Is Experimenting With All-You-Can-Ride Monthly Subscriptions Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:00 AM PDT  For all-you-can-ride access to the car-hailing service
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| Palestinian ramming attack kills 2 Israeli soldiers in West Bank: military Posted: 16 Mar 2018 11:56 AM PDT  By Ali Samudi JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian motorist rammed and killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded two others in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Israeli military said. The army said the driver was a "terrorist" who ran over soldiers who were securing routes near the Jewish settlement of Mevo Dotan, west of the Palestinian town of Jenin. Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, said on Twitter that an "officer and soldier were killed and two soldiers were injured in a car-ramming attack," and that the attack was "deliberate".
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| Academy 'launches sexual harassment investigation into its president John Bailey' days after the Oscars Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PDT  The head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is reportedly under investigation for sexual harassment. The academy, which oversees the Oscars, is responding to multiple allegations against president John Bailey, according to reports in the Hollywood Reporter and Variety. In a statement, the Academy said it "treats any complaints confidentially to protect all parties".
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| No. 16 UMBC Defeats No. 1 Virginia In Biggest Upset In Men's NCAA Tournament History Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:36 PM PDT  For the first time in the history of the men's NCAA tournament, a No. 16 seed
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| Iran 'mucking around' in Iraq elections: Mattis Posted: 15 Mar 2018 06:55 PM PDT  US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis lambasted Iran on Thursday for "mucking around" in Iraq's upcoming elections in a bid to sway votes towards pro-Tehran candidates. Speaking to reporters as he returned from a trip to Oman, Afghanistan and Bahrain, Mattis said officials he met with had expressed frequent concerns about Iranian behavior. "One thing that came through loud and clear is the suspicion of Iran and the evidence of Iranian destabilizing efforts," said Mattis, a longtime Iran hawk.
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| Trump’s Legal Team Says It Can Sue Stormy Daniels For $20 Million Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:07 PM PDT  President Donald Trump has jumped into the lawsuit filed against him by an
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| Stephen Hawking Was Very Particular About His Tea Posted: 16 Mar 2018 07:59 AM PDT ![Stephen Hawking Was Very Particular About His Tea]( "Stephen Hawking Was Very Particular About His Tea") As a theoretical physicist who specializes in cosmology and gravitation, I naturally had many opportunities to interact with Stephen Hawking before his death. We attended the same physics conferences, where he was always rightfully celebrated as one of the world's great scientists. He regularly visited the California Institute of Technology, where I work as a researcher. And, in perhaps my greatest contribution to world culture, I helped arrange Stephen's cameo appearance on The Big Bang Theory.
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| President Trump's Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Likes Flying on Military Planes. It Hasn't Been Cheap Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:00 AM PDT  U.S. taxpayers have paid just shy of $1 million to fund Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin's flights aboard military aircraft.
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| Former Qualcomm chairman Jacobs to exit board of directors Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:39 PM PDT  The board decision comes just days after U.S. President Donald Trump blocked a $117 billion hostile bid from Singapore-based rival Broadcom Ltd to acquire Qualcomm, citing national security concerns. Jacobs supported Qualcomm's resistance to Broadcom's bid, but he increasingly clashed with other members of the San Diego-based company's board, including Chief Executive Steve Mollenkopf, over how Qualcomm defended itself, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| German interior minister declares 'Islam does not belong' in the country Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:31 AM PDT  Angela Merkel's new government got off to a rocky start on Friday as the chancellor and her interior minister clashed publicly over the role of Islam in Germany society. Horst Seehofer, who became interior minister this week under a coalition deal, used his first interview since taking office to declare "Islam does not belong in Germany". Mrs Merkel lost no time in slapping down the minister, telling a press conference: "Muslims are also part of Germany, and so their religion is just as much a part of Germany". Mr Seehofer's controversial remarks echoed last year's election slogans from the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD), which campaigned on an anti-Muslim platform. But they were most clearly aimed as a broadside against Mrs Merkel, who famously declared "Islam belongs in Germany" in a 2015 press conference after opening the country's borders to over 1 million asylum-seekers. "Islam does not belong in Germany," Mr Seehofer told Bild newspaper. "Germany is shaped by Christianity. That means not working on Sundays and celebrating religious holidays such as Easter, Pentecost and Christmas. Horst Seehofer talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the German parliament in Berlin Credit: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber "Of course the Muslims who live with us belong in Germany. But that doesn't mean we should give up our national traditions and customs." The leader of Mrs Merkel's Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Mr Seehofer was the leading opponent of her refugee policy and the dispute almost ended the longstanding alliance between the two parties. But they patched up their differences ahead of last year's election and Mr Seehofer was given control of migration and asylum policy as interior minister under the new coalition deal. His remarks on Friday suggest he is ready to reopen the feud in government. Mrs Merkel responded angrily to Mr Seehofer's comments. "We want an Islam based on the constitution and compliant with constitutional law," she said on a visit to Paris. "I think we must do everything we can to allow religions to live together in peace." Mr Seehofer also came under attack from Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the chairman of Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrat party (CDU) who is widely seen as her chosen successor. Profile | Angela Merkel "Freedom of religion undoubtedly belongs in Germany, just as the Muslims in Germany, together with their faith, belong in our country," Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer said. More than 4 million Muslims live in Germany, 1.9 million of whom are German citizens. More than 60 per cent are of Turkish heritage and were living in Germany long before Mrs Merkel's decision to open the borders to asylum-seekers. Mr Seehofer later sought to clarify his remarks. "Our country Germany has been shaped by Christianity for centuries. That's why it's wrong to say Islam belongs in Germany, " he said. "Of course we have tolerance and respect for other religious communities. And of course the Muslims living in Germany belong in Germany." It was Wolfgang Schäuble, the former finance minister and current speaker of the German parliament, who first declared in 2006 that "Islam is part of Germany and Europe". The phrase at the centre of the dispute,"Islam belongs in Germany" was first coined in 2010 by Christian Wulff, the Germna president at the time, and later taken up by Mrs Merkel.
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| Rep. Wenstrup on Sessions' decision to fire Andrew McCabe Posted: 17 Mar 2018 07:38 AM PDT  House Intelligence Committee member reacts after the former FBI deputy director is fired.
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| Engineer warned of cracking in US bridge before deadly collapse Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:47 PM PDT  The chief engineer of a Florida bridge project warned authorities of cracking in the structure days before it collapsed, killing at least six people, the southern US state's department of transportation said Friday. Chief engineer Denney Pate left a voicemail on a Florida Department of Transportation employee's landline on March 13, two days before the pedestrian walkway came crashing down on the major road beneath, the department said in a statement. There was "some cracking that's been observed on the north end of the span," Pate said, according to a transcript of the call.
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| Dead man walking: Court rejects Romanian's claim he's alive Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:22 AM PDT  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Constantin Reliu learned in January that he was dead.
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| Donald Trump Hails Andrew McCabe's Firing As 'A Great Day For Democracy' Posted: 17 Mar 2018 12:06 AM PDT  President Donald Trump wrote a celebratory tweet hours after former FBI deputy
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| Prosecutor: Police justified in shooting of homeless man Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:04 AM PDT ![Prosecutor: Police justified in shooting of homeless man]( "Prosecutor: Police justified in shooting of homeless man") LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky prosecutor says police were justified in fatally shooting a homeless man they found in a vacant, boarded-up home last year.
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