| Trump warns Russia: Missiles 'will be coming' to Syria Posted: 11 Apr 2018 05:19 AM PDT  President Trump on Wednesday vowed to respond to last week's chemical attack with an air strike but said he would not specify timing publicly.
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| Man Accused Of Raping Teen Who Later Turned Up Dead Now Accused Of Her Murder Posted: 12 Apr 2018 10:58 AM PDT  A Michigan teen, Mujey Dumbuya, was scheduled to testify against her alleged
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| 6 Virunga Park Workers Killed Protecting Endangered Gorillas Posted: 12 Apr 2018 03:32 AM PDT  Five wildlife rangers and a driver were killed in a militant attack on the
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| Zuckerberg tells GOP lawmakers Facebook isn't biased against conservatives Posted: 11 Apr 2018 11:28 AM PDT  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed the suggestion by several Republican lawmakers on Wednesday that the social media network is biased against conservative content — but admitted that he is worried about the issue of censorship on the platform in general.
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| Megachurch Pastor Abruptly Retires After Allegations Of Improper Conduct Go Public Posted: 11 Apr 2018 12:42 PM PDT  A Chicago-area pastor is stepping down from the leadership of one of America's
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| Over 250 people killed in Algerian military plane crash Posted: 12 Apr 2018 08:06 AM PDT ![Over 250 people killed in Algerian military plane crash]( "Over 250 people killed in Algerian military plane crash") More than 250 people including Western Sahara refugees were killed when a military plane crashed near Algeria's capital on Wednesday, state media said, with witnesses saying they saw a wing catch fire shortly after the plane took off.
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| Survey Reveals Gaps in Knowledge of Holocaust History—And That Most Americans Believe It Could Happen Again Posted: 12 Apr 2018 01:00 AM PDT  The results were released in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day
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| Bannon to Trump: DO NOT COOPERATE (also fire Rosenstein): WaPo Posted: 11 Apr 2018 02:51 PM PDT  Steve Bannon is encouraging Donald Trump to fire Rod Rosenstein, stop cooperating with Robert Mueller, and fire his lawyer Ty Cobb as well.
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| Bill Cosby trial: Three more women tell court comedian sexually assaulted them Posted: 11 Apr 2018 07:06 PM PDT  Three women accused Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them in court on Wednesday, as the aging comedian stood trial for the alleged assault of a fourth. Attorneys for Andrea Constand – a 44-year-old woman who says Mr Cosby sexually assaulted her in 2004 – plan to call a total of five alleged victims to the stand in this week's retrial. "It still takes me everything within my being to say the words, 'I was raped',' one of the witnesses, Janice Baker-Kinney, told the courtroom.
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| Laura Ingraham's Sponsors Still Bolting Over Comments About Parkland Survivor Posted: 10 Apr 2018 11:55 PM PDT  Fox News host Laura Ingraham returned to the airwaves on Monday, ready to
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| Climate change runs AMOC with Atlantic currents: studies Posted: 11 Apr 2018 10:00 AM PDT  A system of Atlantic Ocean currents that regulates global weather is at its feeblest in 1,600 years, weakened partly by climate change, said researchers Wednesday, warning of trouble ahead. Two studies in the journal Nature concluded the system, dubbed the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), is in decline -- validating a long-held scientific suspicion. The weakening, agreed the teams, was the result of melting sea ice, glaciers, and ice-shelves gushing freshwater -- less dense than salty ocean water -- into the North Atlantic.
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| Fewer Catholics Of All Ages Are Attending Mass, Gallup Study Finds Posted: 11 Apr 2018 03:16 PM PDT  Weekly church attendance by American Catholics continues its decadeslong
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| US carrier sails in disputed sea as China shows own force Posted: 10 Apr 2018 05:52 PM PDT  ABOARD THE USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT, South China Sea (AP) — — As fighter jets streaked overhead, a U.S. aircraft carrier sailed through the South China Sea on Tuesday in the latest display of America's military might after China built a string of islands with military facilities to assert its claims in the strategic waters, sparking regional alarm.
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| Video Shows U.S. Agents Trying To Force Man Who ‘Looks’ Mexican Across Border Posted: 11 Apr 2018 05:41 PM PDT  Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in California attempted to force
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| U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees Posted: 12 Apr 2018 11:17 AM PDT  U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson on Wednesday said San Francisco-based Uber does not exert enough control over drivers for its limo service, UberBLACK, to be considered their employer under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The drivers work when they want to and are free to nap, run personal errands, or smoke cigarettes in between rides, Baylson said.
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| Syrian flag flying over onetime rebel stronghold Douma as Russians announce victory in Eastern Ghouta Posted: 12 Apr 2018 12:37 AM PDT  The Syrian flag of President Bashar al-Assad once again flew over the town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, which had been in rebel hands for more than half a decade. Russia, which backs the regime, said Syrian government forces were now in full control of the onetime opposition enclave and that Russian troops were patrolling the area. The reported fall of Douma, the last town under opposition control in the Damascus suburb, marked the end of the rebellion against Assad there and one of the biggest defeats to date. "Today a significant event in the history of Syria took place. The raising of a regime flag over a building in the town of Douma signified control over this town and consequently over Eastern Ghouta as a whole," Major General Yury Yevtushenko, head of the Russian military's centre for reconciliation in Syria. Syrian Army soldiers gathering in an area on the eastern outskirts of Douma, Credit: AFP Russian television showed footage of the Syrian government's red, white and black flag with two green stars hanging over the town's central mosque, while cheering crowds waved flags in among shell-damaged buildings. But a dispute erupted, shots were fired and the flag was quickly taken down, residents said. "From today, units of the Russian armed forces' military police are working in the town of Douma. They are a guarantee of the observance of law and order in the town," the defence ministry said in a statement. The Russian military said the situation in Douma was "normalising" and a total of 166,644 people had been evacuated from the city through a humanitarian corridor. The Russian's presence in Douma raises questions as to whether the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), whose inspectors are expected to carry out tests in the next few days, will be able to work without interference. Russian forces have already been to the site of the gas attack, and to the hospital patients were treated, but said they found no evidence such a strike too place. The Syrian regime, backed by Russian air strikes and troops on the ground, fought a merciless months-long campaign in Eastern Ghouta which left more than 1,700 dead. Within weeks they managed to cut the enclave, which had been home to almost 400,000 people, into three. Rebels in the other two pockets quickly agreed to evacuation deals, under pressure from civilians would could no longer withstand the fierce aerial assault. Those in Douma held out, with Islamist elements refusing to leave. Saturday's chemical attack brought them back to the negotiating table and a deal was agreed the next day. A senior member of Jaish al-Islam admitted on Thursday that his faction only agreed to abandon its battered enclave outside Damascus because of the chemical attack. "Of course, the chemical attack is what pushed us to agree," said Yasser Dalwan. Some 8,000 rebels and their family members are being sent by bus to areas in northern Syria close to the Turkish border and under the control of Ankara-backed rebels. Meanwhile Russia claimed some 60,000 who had fled Eastern Ghouta before the government's blockade in 2013 had returned. The fall of Eastern Ghouta marks a major loss for the opposition, which controls only two other main strongholds in the north in Idlib and Deraa, in the south. Residents in both areas fear the government will soon turn its attention to them.
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| Paul Ryan’s legacy looks a lot like Donald Trump’s Posted: 11 Apr 2018 09:54 AM PDT  When Speaker Paul Ryan announced Wednesday that he would not seek reelection this fall, some on both the left and the anti-Trump right expressed hope that Ryan would now be free to stand up against President Trump.
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| Cold Case Murder Victim Identified After 37 Years Posted: 12 Apr 2018 05:24 AM PDT  Once known only as 'Buckskin Girl' or Jane Doe, the Miami County, Ohio, murder victim now has a name.
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| GOP Senator To Mark Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks' Posted: 10 Apr 2018 06:21 PM PDT  Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced hours of questioning Tuesday
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| Florida school shooter wants to donate inheritance to survivors Posted: 11 Apr 2018 05:33 PM PDT  Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz wants to donate his inheritance -- which could run to hundreds of thousands of dollars or more -- to the bereaved families and survivors of his attack, his lawyers said Wednesday. Cruz walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the south Florida city of Parkland on February 14 and opened fire at students and staff with an AR-15-style semi-automatic weapon. At a court hearing on Wednesday, Broward County Judge Elizabeth Scherer sought to determine whether Cruz -- who has so far been represented by public defenders -- is able to pay for his own defense.
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| Can Russia Really Shoot Down U.S. Missiles in Syria? Posted: 11 Apr 2018 08:24 AM PDT  The Trump administration appears to have officially come to a conclusion on whether to respond to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, with the US president suggesting Wednesday that a missile strike is eminent. "Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria," Trump wrote on Twitter. Russia's foreign ministry responded to the warning by accusing the US of attempting to destroy evidence of the reported chemical weapons attack, which Russia and the Syrian government have denied ever occurred.
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| Missouri Governor Claims 'Witch Hunt' Before State House Releases Its Report Posted: 11 Apr 2018 02:25 PM PDT  Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens announced Wednesday that he's the target of a
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| Pope acknowledges his 'grave mistakes' in Chile sex abuse crisis Posted: 11 Apr 2018 03:27 PM PDT  By Fabian Cambero and Philip Pullella SANTIAGO/VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis acknowledged on Wednesday that he had made "grave mistakes" in the handling of a sexual abuse crisis in Chile, saying he felt shame and inviting victims he had once doubted to Rome to seek their forgiveness personally. "I have made grave mistakes in the assessment and my perception of the situation, due in particular to a lack of truthful and balanced information," he wrote in an extraordinary letter to Chilean bishops. The letter followed a visit to Chile by one of the Vatican's most experienced sexual abuse investigators, Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta.
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| Chevy Colorado ZR2 Bison allegedly coming with extra off-road goodies Posted: 11 Apr 2018 12:00 PM PDT  Chevrolet reportedly has plans for another off-road-focused pickup in the near future, and it will more than likely wear the Colorado ZR2 Bison name. Off-Road.com reported on Tuesday that it had uncovered a patent filed by Chevrolet earlier this month for the Colorado ZR2 Bison name. The publication expects it will arrive this year as a 2018 model with plenty of influence from the Colorado ZR2 AEV concept.
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| Trump's Legal Defenders Are Arguing For Autocracy Posted: 12 Apr 2018 08:02 AM PDT  Enraged by an FBI search of his lawyer's offices, President Donald Trump
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| 10 Things to Know for Thursday Posted: 11 Apr 2018 04:37 PM PDT  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday:
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| Margaret Atwood Said 9/11 Terrorists 'Got The Idea' From 'Star Wars' Posted: 11 Apr 2018 03:32 PM PDT  There's no denying that "Star Wars" has been tremendously influential. It's
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| ‘Roseanne’ star Emma Kenney seeks treatment: 'I need a mental sanity break' Posted: 12 Apr 2018 08:04 AM PDT  Roseanne star, who plays Harris Conner-Healy on the ABC revival, says she's "going to be seeking treatment for my battles," she told In Touch. She did not specify which type of treatment she is seeking.
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| 'Don't test Israel's resolve', PM warns Iran on Holocaust Day Posted: 11 Apr 2018 12:11 PM PDT  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday warned Iran not to test Israel's resolve, in a speech marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. Speaking at a ceremony at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, the Israeli premier spoke of the murderous Nazi aggression that was not sufficiently challenged by Western powers. "Today, too, there's an extremist regime that's threatening us, threatening the peace of the entire world," Netanyahu said of Iran.
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| American Warplanes Are Falling From the Sky Posted: 12 Apr 2018 04:23 AM PDT  Two of the crashes involved U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft, underscoring concerns that the naval aviation fleet is overworked, undertrained and poorly-maintained. The spate of crashes began on March 14, when a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter plunged into the sea near Naval Air Station Key West in Florida. On March 15, an Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter struck the ground in western Iraq, killing all seven airmen aboard.
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| 2018 Toyota Camry XSE Review: Getting Better All The Time Posted: 11 Apr 2018 06:00 AM PDT  A big engine, bold looks, and expansive interior should keep the all-new Camry selling.
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| Priyanka Chopra Lost Movie Role Because 'They Wanted Someone Who's Not Brown' Posted: 12 Apr 2018 09:06 AM PDT  "Quantico" star Priyanka Chopra has made it big in Hollywood, but the Indian
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| University of Alabama Punter Praises Trump After He Prays With Team: 'He Was Very Thankful' Posted: 11 Apr 2018 12:15 PM PDT  It was a spontaneous moment initiated by the team's punter, JK Scott.
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| Lawsuit alleges US illegally separates immigrant families Posted: 11 Apr 2018 11:53 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — The Trump administration is illegally detaining and trying to deport immigrants pursuing lawful immigration status who are married to U.S. citizens, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.
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| Eve Says Janet Jackson Took Care Of Her After Her Drink Got Drugged At A Party Posted: 11 Apr 2018 06:30 AM PDT  The first time Eve met Janet Jackson was less than ideal.
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| Russia says 'immediate priority is to avert the danger of war' Posted: 12 Apr 2018 11:55 AM PDT ![Russia says 'immediate priority is to avert the danger of war']( "Russia says 'immediate priority is to avert the danger of war'") Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia urged the United States and its allies on Thursday to refrain from military action against Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack and said the "immediate priority is to avert the danger of war." Asked if he was referring to a war between the United States and Russia, he told reporters: "We cannot exclude any possibilities unfortunately because we saw messages that are coming from Washington.
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| You Can Now Get Those Trendy ‘Bleeding’ Veggie Burgers at White Castle Posted: 12 Apr 2018 07:11 AM PDT  For White Castle fans craving a meatless burger
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| Xi makes surprise visit to fleet in South China Sea drill Posted: 12 Apr 2018 06:08 AM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday stressed the "urgent" need to build a powerful navy during a surprise visit to observe naval exercises in the disputed South China Sea, state media reported as the country prepares for live-fire drills in the Taiwan Strait. The region has become a potential flashpoint, with the US saying China's activities in the area pose a threat to freedom of navigation in the strategically vital waterway, where Beijing has built an archipelago of artificial islands capable of hosting military equipment. Footage of Xi's visit on state broadcaster CCTV showed the president watching jets taking off from China's sole aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, and joining sailors for a meal.
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| Westminster votes to support federal lawsuit against California over sanctuary law Posted: 12 Apr 2018 06:14 AM PDT  Another Orange County city has joined the fight against California's so-called sanctuary state law.
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| What's Your Favorite Oddball Car? Posted: 11 Apr 2018 08:30 AM PDT  There are tons of weird, wacky cars out there. Which do you like most?
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| 10 Super-Typical Mother's Day Gifts, Clever-ized Posted: 12 Apr 2018 02:21 PM PDT |
| Trump's Deputy National Security Adviser To Leave White House Posted: 12 Apr 2018 08:34 AM PDT  President Donald Trump's deputy national security adviser is leaving the White
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| Russia-US tensions: Cabinet gives May the go-ahead for Syria strike 'to deter further use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime' Posted: 12 Apr 2018 04:23 PM PDT  Theresa May's cabinet has agreed on the need to "take action" to deter use of chemical weapons following an emergency meeting at Downing Street. President Donald Trump had warned Russia of imminent military action in Syria, declaring missiles "will be coming" and denouncing Moscow for standing by Syria's president, but on Thursday night the White House said that "no final decision" had been made about what Washington will do. Mr Trump, Ms May and French President Emmanuel Macron have been in regular contact as they plot a course of action, with Mr Macron saying France has "proof" the Syrian government carried out the chemical attack which killed potentially doxens.
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| Israeli military kills two as Gaza border simmers: Palestinians Posted: 12 Apr 2018 10:44 AM PDT  An Israeli air strike on Thursday killed a Hamas gunman and wounded another and troops later shot dead a man close to the border, Palestinian medical officials said, as tensions across the Gaza Strip border simmered. Israel said the air strike was launched in response to a bomb attack on a military vehicle on the Gaza border on Wednesday, in which there were no casualties. When gunmen shot at the aircraft, they were fired upon, the Israeli army said.
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