| Former Supreme Court Justice Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment Posted: 27 Mar 2018 06:50 AM PDT  A retired Supreme Court justice believes the March for Our Lives protesters, who want lawmakers to enact limited reforms to the nation's gun laws, are aiming too low.
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| Independents Are Shifting To Climate Denial, According To The Latest Gallup Poll Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:00 AM PDT  In a sign the White House's hard-line stance against climate science may be
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| Woman Arrested After Raunchy Come-On To Easter Bunny Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:47 AM PDT  Trying to make out with the Easter Bunny isn't egg-zactly appropriate behavior
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| New Toyota RAV4 unveiled ahead of New York World debut Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:54 AM PDT  The launch of a new generation of a big-selling vehicle is always an important event for the manufacturer concerned, but when the vehicle in question is the biggest-selling SUV in the world at a time when SUVs are the dominant body style by some considerable margin, it really is a big deal. This new model is based on Toyota's New Global Architecture platform and launches with one petrol and one hybrid powertrain option.
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| Macron hails French resistance spirit of heroic gendarme who swapped himself for hostage Posted: 28 Mar 2018 04:16 AM PDT  President Emmanuel Macron led a national ceremony on Wednesday morning paying tribute to a heroic policeman who died after swapping with a female hostage during a jihadist attack. Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, 44, was was killed along with three others in the shooting spree last Friday in the southwestern towns of Carcassonne and nearby Trebes. "His greatness has stunned France," Mr Macron told family members, hundreds of dignitaries and "brothers in arms" at a solemn ceremony at Paris' Invalides near Napoleon's tomb. "The intolerable can never win the day," said the president. His act was the epitome of France's "spirit of resistance" against Islamist barbarity, he added. Mr Beltrame who had been part of an elite unit, had taken the place of a female employee held as a final hostage in a supermarket by 25-year-old gunman Radouane Lakdim, who pledged allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Emmanuel Macron places his hands on the flag-draped coffin of Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame Credit: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images Mr Macron posthumously made the slain gendarme the commander of the Legion of Honour. The president placed France's highest award on Lt Col Beltrame's coffin draped in the French flag with his military cap laid upon it. France has lost more than 240 lives to jihadists over the past three years, but this attack was the country's worst since Mr Macron became president last May. Earlier, police stations paused for a minute's silence. Soldiers carry the coffin of Lt Col Arnaud Beltrame Credit: AP Photo/Christophe Ena The Islamist assailant had also shot dead the passenger of a car he hijacked in Carcassonne and two people in the supermarket he had besieged in Trebes. Mr Beltrame took the place of the woman Lakdim was using as a human shield, but the Islamist shot the gendarme and slit his throat, leading police to intervene and shoot the attacker dead. Lt Col Arnaud Beltrame offered himself as a hostage in the jihadist attack Credit: LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images According to Le Parisien, it appears Mr Beltrame may have died after trying to disarm the assailant, who may have used his own weapon against him. Mr Macron said the gunman's disregard for human life mirrored that of the murderer of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year old Holocaust survivor found dead in her Paris flat last Friday. Republican Guards and cadets from the joint-army military school carried the coffin Credit: Ludovic Marin/AFP Two men have been charged with her killing, which investigators are treating as anti-Semitic. The pair attacked "an innocent and vulnerable woman because she was Jewish and who thus profaned our sacred values and our memory," said Mr Macron. Police in Rotterdam observe a minute of silence in memory of Lt Col Beltrame Credit: ROBIN UTRECHT/AFP/Getty Images A solemn march will be held this evening in memory, but the event was hit with controversy after France's main Jewish umbrella group, Crif, said far-Left and Right leaders were not welcome. Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon say they will attend regardless, while the victim's son said it was wrong to ban people. Mr Macron's government has meanwhile come under fire from Right-wing opponents who claim that the attack could have been prevented. Lakdim had been on a list of suspected extremists since 2014 and was being monitored. Gendarmes escorted the coffin Credit: LAURENTETIENNE LAURENT/AFP/Getty Images He had been summoned by anti-terror police for questioning earlier this month, but Gérard Collomb, the interior minister confirmed on Wednesday that agents had decided to lower surveillance a notch before the attack. He said "ultimately no one thought that there would be a hasty attack" by Lakdim, a Moroccan-born French resident with dual nationality. How could they know he would act hours after taking a child to school, he asked. The solemn funeral ceremony took in the courtyard of Les Invalides Credit: Chesnot/Getty Images Far-Right leader Marine Le Pen accused the government of exploiting the grief over Beltrame to "escape from its own incompetence and cowardice" in failing to tackle Islamic extremism. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe hit back at the criticism on Tuesday, telling parliament: "Those who say ignorantly that this attack could have been avoided, those who promise people zero risk - I say to them, these people bear a heavy responsibility in speaking so casually."
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| First Drive: 2018 Lincoln Navigator Posted: 27 Mar 2018 09:30 AM PDT  Lincoln looks to take the Navigator further than the airport pickup lot.
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| Sacramento protesters demonstrate against police shooting of Stephon Clark Posted: 28 Mar 2018 08:36 AM PDT ![Sacramento protesters demonstrate against police shooting of Stephon Clark]( "Sacramento protesters demonstrate against police shooting of Stephon Clark") Hundreds packed a special city council at Sacramento City Hall to address concerns over the shooting death of Stephon Clark by Sacramento police on Tuesday. Clark's wake is on Wednesday and on Thursday, the Rev. Al Sharpton plans to give the eulogy at Clark's funeral.
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| The Latest: French boo far-right Le Pen at memorial march Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:16 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on anti-Semitism in France (all times local):
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| Parkland student protesters become right-wing targets Posted: 27 Mar 2018 01:38 PM PDT  From inflammatory Photoshopped images to insults from legislators to far-right conspiracy theories, the teens are being smeared for their gun-control activism.
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| Southern Baptist Leader Resigns Over 'Morally Inappropriate Relationship' Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:03 PM PDT  A leading figure in America's largest Protestant denomination has resigned
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| Leaked Memo: EPA Shows Workers How To Downplay Climate Change Posted: 28 Mar 2018 09:53 AM PDT  The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday evening sent employees a list
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| Vladimir Putin faces rare public protests as he blames 'criminal negligence' for deadly mall fire Posted: 27 Mar 2018 12:52 PM PDT  Rare displays of public anger were directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday following a fire over the weekend that killed dozens of children in a Siberian shopping centre. The outpouring of emotion since Sunday's inferno has been stoked by revelations about breaches of safety regulations, including locked fire exits and a faulty alarm system. Russian media have reported that 41 of the 64 dead were children. Two employees of the Zimnaya Vishnya shopping centre in Kemerovo appeared in court to face charges of negligence and compromising security systems on Tuesday afternoon. Nadezhda Suddenok, the manager of the shopping centre, and Alexander Nikitin, the employee responsible for the building's fire fighting and alarm systems, appeared at a hearing in the Siberian city's Zavodsky District Court on Tuesday afternoon. Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to locals and relatives of the victims Credit: Alexei Druzhinin They are among five people who have been detained in connection with failings that led to the tragedy, Alexander Batrykin, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, said. In comments carried on national television, Mr Bastrykin told Mr Putin on Tuesday that the building's fire alarm system had been out of order since March 19 and that a guard had not turned on the public address system to tell people to evacuated. Earlier in the day Mr Putin made an attempt to respond to the outrage by visiting some of the victims and the site of the burnt-out shopping centre in the city of Kemerovo. He vowed to punish those guilty of what he said was "criminal negligence." "This isn't war, it's not an unexpected methane explosion at a coal mine. People came to relax, children. We're talking about demography and losing so many people," Mr Putin said in a televised meeting with local officials. Relatives held up pictures of children who had perished in the fire Credit: TASS/Barcroft Images "The first emotion when hearing about the number of dead and dead children is not to cry but to wail. And when you listen to what has been said here, speaking honestly, other emotions arise." Official pictures of Mr Putin's highly-choreographed visit contrasted with the raw anger on display at an impromptu rally in the city centre where people carried photographs, in black frames, of children who were killed in the fire. There were placards asking: "How many really died?", "Who's really guilty?" and "How much do your closed eyes cost?" At least one sign demanded that Putin and local officials resign, and chants of "resign, resign, resign" were heard from the crowd. An aerial view shows the roof of the shopping centre had collpased Credit: Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations/AP Igor Vostrikov, a father of three whose children, wife and sister died in the blaze was involved in an angry exchange with the region's deputy governor, Sergei Tsivilyov, who got down on his knees in an attempt to quieten the crowd. Many of those present said they believed the number of victims to be much higher than officially acknowledged. The authorities appeared to do everything they could to try and minimize the impact of the furious crowds. At one point hundreds of riot police were deployed to stop people from storming a local government building. Thousands turned out for the impromptu protests Credit: Sergei Gavrilenko/ AP While Putin's visit was reported in detail by state-owned television, there was little coverage of protests. Aman Tuleev, the governor of Kemerovo Region, told the Russian president in a televised meeting that those demonstrating were "speculating on the grief of strangers." Shrines of flowers and candles have sprung up in cities across Russia in memory of those killed during what was Russia's deadliest fire in a decade. Vladimir Putin visits victims of the shopping centre blaze at a hospital in Kemerovo Credit: Alexei Druzhinin /TASS/Getty The Kremlin has declared Wednesday an official day of mourning. Several Russian cities held rallies of mourning on Tuesday evening as anger and grief swept the country. In Moscow, several thousand people gathered in silence to lay flowers and light candles at an improvised memorial on Pushkin Square, not far from the Kremlin. A chant of "Fire Putin" was briefly taken up by some members of the meeting, but petered out.
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| Rick Santorum tries to correct his 'CPR' gaffe by digging an even deeper hole Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:38 AM PDT  Sentient mayonnaise blob Rick Santorum was back on CNN on Wednesday trying to walk back some controversial comments he made about the Parkland shooting survivor teens and still somehow wound up doubling down on his original comments. Santorum faced backlash after, over the weekend, he said students taking part in the March For Our Lives would be better off "maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that." Speaking to CNN's Chris Cuomo on Wednesday, Santorum said, "I did misspeak in using the term CPR." But that was the extent to which Santorum made any sense. Here is more from Santorum's line of thinking: Right, okay, Rick, you just described the organizations behind March For Our Lives, so I'm not sure I see where you're going. Or like March For Our Lives? But go on. You mean the huge rallies across the country in support of bringing an end to gun violence are avoiding the issue of gun violence in schools and not unifying? Rick. Your sweater vest is too tight. After Cuomo called out Santorum and his ilk for "going after these kids, who are survivors, in the interest of political expediency," Santorum tried to wriggle free from everything he had previously said through several minutes of sparring with Cuomo. But he stood by his point that there were better ways for the students to help prevent school violence. Like take CPR, I guess? WATCH: In the farms of the future, tractors will no longer require human drivers
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| Alabama settles with inmate after botched execution attempt Posted: 27 Mar 2018 02:09 PM PDT  The agreement was reached in a civil lawsuit brought by convicted murderer Doyle Hamm against the state, court papers filed on Monday showed. Officials from the Alabama Department of Corrections and the attorney general's office have not responded to numerous requests to discuss the case. The botched execution prompted a federal court review of Alabama's death chamber protocols.
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| Cuban immigrant who was focus of deportation fight is free Posted: 26 Mar 2018 06:36 PM PDT  AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A Cuban immigrant's long quest for freedom appears over.
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| The 'Roseanne' Revival Catches Up To Our Thorny Political Mood, For Better And Worse Posted: 27 Mar 2018 08:29 AM PDT  The "Roseanne" that existed two decades ago didn't have to remind us that it
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| Arizona Police Department Equip Patrol Bikes with AR-15s Posted: 27 Mar 2018 11:12 AM PDT  Arizona Police Department Equip Patrol Bikes with AR-15s Despite the hot-button issues associated with the high-powered rifles in today's political climate, Tempe, Arizona police officials opt to mount AR-15s on half of the departments patrol bikes Assault
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| The Latest: 6 kids believed to be in SUV that went off cliff Posted: 28 Mar 2018 04:57 PM PDT  MENDOCINO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a family who died when their SUV plunged off a cliff in California (all times local):
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| Israel detains armed Palestinians from Gaza: army Posted: 27 Mar 2018 08:38 AM PDT  Israeli soldiers on Tuesday detained three Palestinians who slipped across the border with the Gaza Strip in possession of knives and grenades, officials said, as tensions rise along the volatile frontier. The military said the trio were apprehended some 20 kilometres (12 miles) inside Israel near an army base, while police distributed pictures of hand grenades, knives and wire cutters found on them. Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, on an inspection tour of southern Israel near the Gaza border, said he had ordered a probe and expected the results on Thursday.
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| Canada teen scores lottery win of $1,000, every week, for life Posted: 28 Mar 2018 04:20 PM PDT  Turning 18 is the moment when most teenagers begin to wonder how they will pay their way in the world, but for one lucky Canadian woman, paying the bills will never be a problem. Charlie Lagarde never dreamed she'd strike lucky when she hit the legal age to buy a lottery ticket in Canada by spending C$4 on a winning scratch card. The Quebec teenager wound up winning a lifetime of weekly payments of $1000. Ms Lagarde was given the choice of receiving either C$1m (£550,000) in one go or in weekly installments of $1000 - meaning should could be paid up to $4m if she reaches the average Canada life expectancy for a woman of 83. After consulting with a financial adviser, Ms Lagarde opted for weekly payments so as to avoid tax. Patrice Lavoie, a spokesman for the lottery corporation, told the Canadian Press: "It's without taxes so it's equivalent to a salary of more than $100,000 a year, so it's a great start in life for that young lady." "That was her first lottery ticket ever and she fell upon a winning ticket." Ms Lagarde claimed her prize on Monday at the lottery corporation's head office in Montreal, surrounded by friends and family. She said she wants to use the money to travel and her studies. "I want to study photography. One of my dreams would be to work for National Geographic," she told the lottery officials.
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| Man Uses Live Alligator For His Baby’s Gender Reveal Party Posted: 28 Mar 2018 08:47 AM PDT  A Louisiana couple decided to announce the sex of their unborn baby in a
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| Mazda Teaser Suggests Something Big Coming For New York Auto Show Posted: 27 Mar 2018 05:05 PM PDT  We don't know what, but all will be revealed on March 28.
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| Taiwan activist's wife vows to keep fighting for his release Posted: 28 Mar 2018 04:35 AM PDT  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The wife of a Taiwanese human rights activist jailed in China vowed Wednesday to keep fighting for his release after Beijing allowed her to visit him in prison.
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| Kim Jong Un Met With Xi Jinping, China Confirms Posted: 27 Mar 2018 04:54 PM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in secret with China's Xi Jinping this
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| Planes Captured on Video After Collision at Israeli Airport Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:20 PM PDT  No one was injured as they planes hit each other while on the ground at Ben Gurion Airport.
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| GOP Food Stamp Plan Would Shift Some Funds From Benefits To Training Posted: 27 Mar 2018 02:36 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― A long-awaited Republican food stamp plan would partially shift
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| Satellite Images Aided the Discovery of an Ancient Civilization Buried in the Amazon Posted: 27 Mar 2018 11:01 PM PDT  Satellite images revealed pre-Colombian settlements dating to 1250?1500 A.D.
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| Will Omarosa bow down to Trump after criticizing him? Posted: 28 Mar 2018 07:04 AM PDT  Omarosa Manigault Newman once predicted that "every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to President Trump." Now the question for the former White House aide and "Apprentice" contestant is whether that counts for her too.
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| Stephon Clark's Brother Shuts Down City Hall Meeting As Protests Continue Posted: 27 Mar 2018 10:33 PM PDT  Protesters took over parts of Sacramento, California, on Tuesday, still
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| Lincoln Aviator Concept Posted: 26 Mar 2018 09:01 PM PDT  Just as it was: a junior Navigator, rear-drive and all.
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| Students rally against gun violence in Paul Ryan's town Posted: 28 Mar 2018 03:54 PM PDT  JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Some Wisconsin students who took their demonstration against gun violence on the road reached their destination Wednesday — House Speaker Paul Ryan's home turf.
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| Nancy Pelosi Is An Asset, Not A Liability, For Democrats In Midterms Posted: 27 Mar 2018 02:16 PM PDT  "Conor Lamb's success could provide a blueprint for other Democrats in tough
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| Urban Residents Demand Recognition in Gun Debate Posted: 27 Mar 2018 09:19 AM PDT  Gun violence is coming under intense scrutiny as teenage survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School push for stricter gun laws. But for many in urban neighborhoods, deadly violence has come in punishing daily gunshots. (March 26)
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| Iraq will prevent militant Kurdish attacks on Turkey: PM Abadi Posted: 27 Mar 2018 07:39 AM PDT  Iraqi armed forces will prevent Kurdish militants based in northern Iraq from staging cross-border attacks against Turkey, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday. Abadi's pledge, made during a phone call with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, came a day after Ankara threatened to intervene directly if the Iraqi operation against the militants based in the Sinjar region failed. Turkey has long complained that fighters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) are being given free rein to operate out of Sinjar against Turkish targets.
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| Helen Hunt Gives Promising Update On ‘Mad About You’ Reboot Posted: 28 Mar 2018 06:50 AM PDT  Mad about sitcom revivals? Well, Helen Hunt has some promising news for you.
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| Mama Chihuahua Breaks World Record After Giving Birth to 11 Puppies Posted: 27 Mar 2018 12:28 PM PDT  Guinness World Records has not yet confirmed whether Laugh Out Loud is the new record holder.
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| 2 officers in black man's fatal shooting won't be charged Posted: 27 Mar 2018 04:33 PM PDT  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's attorney general ruled out criminal charges Tuesday against two white Baton Rouge police officers in the shooting of a black man whose death led to widespread protests nearly two years ago.
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| China and Russia accused of waging 'war on human rights' at UN Posted: 27 Mar 2018 10:31 AM PDT  The UN Human Rights Up Front initiative was established in 2014, after a series of UN failures in preventing or sounding the alarm over atrocities. China and Russia are leading a stealthy and increasingly successful effort at the United Nations to weaken UN efforts to protect human rights around the world, according to diplomats and activists. The two countries have used the UN budget panel, known as the fifth committee, to cut funding for human rights monitors and for a senior post in the secretary general's office which is supposed to ensure that human rights – one of three pillars of the UN's function – are not forgotten in its day-to-day work.
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| 2019 Ford Fusion Gets Minor Facelift, More Standard Safety Tech Posted: 28 Mar 2018 06:41 AM PDT  You can see it in person at the New York Auto Show.
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| The Do's and Don'ts of Taking Furniture Off the Street Posted: 28 Mar 2018 04:30 AM PDT  So you don't get caught in a thought spiral
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| Democrats setting aside differences as US elections approach Posted: 28 Mar 2018 09:06 AM PDT  They're Democrats who oppose abortion, defend gun rights and work with President Donald Trump. Intent on retaking Congress from the Republicans in midterm elections in November, different factions of the Democratic Party -- from moderates to far left -- are setting aside their differences for now and staying together. "The Democratic Party elites, they just want to get the majority.
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| Zachary Quinto Uses Fake Name At Starbucks. Customer Gets Steamed. Posted: 27 Mar 2018 05:47 AM PDT  Zachary Quinto needs a latte more work to stay anonymous in public.
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| Facing internal splits and popular unrest, Ethiopia’s ruling coalition appoints new PM Posted: 28 Mar 2018 06:32 AM PDT  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling coalition voted in Abiye Ahmed as new prime minister on Tuesday following the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn last month, the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said. The state-run channel said the 180-member council of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) chose Abiye to succeed Hailemariam as the chairperson of the coalition, meaning he automatically became premier. "In today's session, the council held a vote and elected Abiye Ahmed as chairperson," said the EBC presenter, without giving further details.
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| Death penalty recommended for man who killed deputies Posted: 27 Mar 2018 08:47 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Jurors recommend the death penalty Tuesday for a man who repeatedly entered the United States illegally before killing two Northern California deputies in a case that fueled the national immigration debate.
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