| The War On Women Is Already Here Posted: 30 Jun 2018 02:45 AM PDT  The Supreme Court has been terrible to women all year ― and that's with
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| North Korea is keeping nuclear program alive, officials say Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:43 AM PDT  After President Trump's historic summit with Kim Jong Un, more than a dozen U.S. intelligence officials tell NBC News that North Korea is pushing ahead with its nuclear program.
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| Capital Gazette Pens Gut-Wrenching Editorial Days After Shooting Posted: 01 Jul 2018 02:44 PM PDT  Staffers at the Capital Gazette published a powerful editorial on Sunday in
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| Full Graham: Mueller investigation ‘not a ground for recusal’ from Supreme Court Posted: 30 Jun 2018 10:50 PM PDT  In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tells Chuck Todd that he believes President Trump's Supreme Court nominee won't have to recuse him or herself if questions of presidential power make their way to the Court.
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| Mexico's national elections, at a glance Posted: 30 Jun 2018 09:03 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans will elect a new president and numerous other officeholders on Sunday. With popular discontent high due to high murder rates and rampant corruption, all four candidates are trying to convince voters that they represent change from the status quo.
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| Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters defiant, but rally turnout hits a low Posted: 01 Jul 2018 05:23 AM PDT  By Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest saw one of the lowest turnouts in history, as thousands braved sweltering heat to protest against Beijing's tightening grip over the city on Sunday, the 21st anniversary of its return to Chinese rule. Hong Kong's opposition has lost much steam in the past year, which saw elected pro-democracy legislators disqualified and some of the most prominent activists jailed. Against the fall of Hong Kong." "Now the government is already siding with the Communist Party.
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| 12-Year-Old Black Kid Has Police Called On Him For Mowing A Lawn Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:05 PM PDT  A 12-year-old child who started his own summer lawn-mowing business had the
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| Jordan army sends aid to southern Syria displaced Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:15 PM PDT  The Jordanian army has sent cross-border deliveries of aid to displaced people in Syria's southern province of Daraa, where Damascus is pressing an offensive to oust rebels, officials said. "The Jordanian armed forces have started sending convoys of humanitarian aid to the Syrian brothers... inside Syria," Jordanian government spokeswoman Jumana Ghanimat told AFP.
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| Heavily armed men in helicopter free notorious French inmate Posted: 01 Jul 2018 10:19 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — A notorious French criminal serving 25 years for murder made an audacious escape from prison Sunday after several heavily armed men landed a helicopter in a courtyard, freed him from a visiting room and carried him away.
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| Temporary housing program for hurricane survivors ends Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:52 AM PDT  The FEMA program that helped Americans impacted by Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey has come to an end. The agency said the program was meant to be a temporary solution, but nearly 2,000 displaced survivors struggle to find permanent housing.
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| Trump Has Lied And Twisted Facts To Justify His Harsh Immigration Policies Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:45 PM PDT  The national outrage against the Trump administration's separation and
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| Plastic a big part of human life and a major source of pollution Posted: 30 Jun 2018 09:02 AM PDT  So many of the items we use are made of plastic, but much of it doesn't get recycled and pollutes the land and seas. Many cities are moving to ban certain products and some families are trying to live plastic-free.
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| 'We Want to Find Them Today.' Thai Authorities Say They're Preparing to Rescue Missing Boys Posted: 30 Jun 2018 10:24 PM PDT  The under-16 soccer team and their coach have been missing for more than a week
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| Investors hopeful Mexico's Lopez Obrador will veer to the center Posted: 29 Jun 2018 07:36 PM PDT  By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mexican assets are poised to strengthen even if leftist front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins Sunday's presidential election, analysts say, on expectations he will govern from the center and as the uncertainty stemming from the race fades. Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor, holds a roughly 20-point lead over his nearest rival ahead of the July 1 vote, according to the latest polls, putting him on track to become the first leftist Mexican president since the 1930s. Strategists at Miami-based Bulltick Capital, however, are among those who believe that Lopez Obrador will pursue centrist policies once in office.
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| French politician Simone Veil honored with Pantheon burial Posted: 01 Jul 2018 12:37 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, who repeatedly broke barriers for women in French politics and spearheaded the fight to legalize abortion, was buried at the Pantheon on Sunday, an honor reserved for French heroes.
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| Regime reclaims more ground in south Syria: monitor Posted: 01 Jul 2018 12:22 PM PDT  A string of rebel-held locations in southern Syria passed into regime control Sunday as the government regained more ground under Russian-brokered deals, a war monitor said. Talks involving rebels, local officials and regime ally Russia saw agreements struck for four villages and a strategic town near the border with Jordan, extending government control to some 60 percent of the southern Daraa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Since June 19, Russia-backed regime forces have ramped up bombardment against opposition fighters in southern Syria as Damascus pushes to retake the area.
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| 6 Kids Attending Birthday Party Among 9 Stabbed At Apartment Complex Posted: 01 Jul 2018 09:23 AM PDT  Six children were attending a birthday party when they were violently stabbed
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| Delta Apologizes to Busy Philipps for Rerouting Her Daughter on Separate Flight Posted: 01 Jul 2018 11:41 AM PDT  The company refunded her money after the mix-up.
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| Lara Trump on Democrats' push to abolish ICE Posted: 30 Jun 2018 06:28 PM PDT  President Trump's daughter-in-law discusses border control and immigration reform with Judge Jeanine Pirro.
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| Maxine Waters Responds To Death Threats: 'You'd Better Shoot Straight' Posted: 30 Jun 2018 05:02 PM PDT  Days after she was forced to cancel events because of a "very serious" death
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| Net Neutrality Supporter Threatened to Murder FCC Chairman's Children, DOJ Says Posted: 30 Jun 2018 07:11 AM PDT  Markara Man, 33, threatened to kill Pai's family in December 2017, officials say
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| Exclusive: Tesla hits Model 3 manufacturing milestone, hours after deadline - factory sources Posted: 01 Jul 2018 10:28 AM PDT  Tesla Inc nearly produced 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans in the last week of its second quarter, with the final car rolling off the assembly line on Sunday morning, several hours after the midnight goal set by Chief Executive Elon Musk, two workers at the factory told Reuters. It was not clear if Tesla could maintain that level of production for a longer period of time. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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| Newspaper shooting suspect's grievances began with classmate Posted: 29 Jun 2018 06:29 PM PDT  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Before he developed a long-running grudge against The Capital Gazette, the man who police say opened fire and killed five newspaper staffers directed his anger at a female high school classmate he barely knew.
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| N. Korea's Kim asked China's Xi to help lift sanctions: report Posted: 01 Jul 2018 01:07 AM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has appealed to China's Xi Jinping to help end sanctions against Pyongyang following his landmark summit with US President Donald Trump, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday, citing multiple unnamed sources in the two countries. Kim made the request during his third meeting with Xi in Beijing last month, and the Chinese president promised to do his "utmost" to satisfy it, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said. "We are feeling great pain due to economic sanctions.
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| Bear Cub with Burned Feet Rescued From Colorado Fire Posted: 01 Jul 2018 01:24 PM PDT  She will eventually return to the wild.
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| Angela Merkel in showdown over migration deal as interior minister Seehofer announces he will resign Posted: 01 Jul 2018 04:32 PM PDT  Germany's interior minister dramatically announced plans to resign on Sunday night, after a heated showdown with chancellor Angela Merkel over migration. Horst Seehofer, Germany's Interior Minister and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), said on Sunday evening that he wanted to resign from all offices, after hours of heated talks with his party. Mr Seehofer said the conflict with Mrs Merkel over migration was affecting the "credibility" of his role as party leader. He also slammed the migration deal Mrs Merkel secured with her EU counterparts last week as "ineffective". Mr Seehofer has been a fierce critic of Mrs Merkel and in particular her decision to open Germany's doors to over 1 million migrants in 2015. With that in mind his resignation may be welcome news to the chancellor. However it is yet to be seen who his replacement would be and many in his party share his tough stance on immigration. Two weeks ago Mr Seehofer gave Mrs Merkel an ultimatum to find a European solution to irregular migration by this Sunday, or he would defy her by turning migrants back at the border against her wishes. Merkel's migration tensions | Read more After a two-day summit with EU leaders in Brussels last week, Mrs Merkel believed she had struck such a deal. However, Mr Seehofer apparently does not agree. After an "ineffective" two-hour meeting on Saturday night between Mrs Merkel and Mr Seehofer, the two leaders met with their respective parties for separate meetings in Munich and Berlin on Sunday night. During the talks, Mr Seehofer reportedly considered three options: compromise with the chancellor's Christian Democrats (CDU), remain firm on his threat to defy her and risk the breakup of the union, or resign. According to information from the German press agency, Mrs Merkel has spoken to her executive committee of a "very serious" situation. Mrs Merkel on Sunday afternoon firmly reiterated her desire for a solution that is "not unilateral" and "not to the detriment of third parties," in an interview with German ZDF television. CDU Secretary General Annegrete Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Angela Merkel and minister Julia Kloeckner met on Sunday Credit: Michele Tantussi/Getty Images However she also said on her way into the discussions with her party in Berlin on Sunday afternoon that she had taken the CSU's issue into account. "I want the CDU and CSU to work together, because we are a success story for our country," she said. Tensions were high in Berlin on Sunday as party talks ran into the night. Michael Theurer, of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) said: "The mutual trust of CDU and CSU is more or less destroyed... and the government chaos produced harms Germany and its citizens." However the effectiveness of the migration deal struck by Mrs Merkel and other EU leaders this week was also questioned. Mrs Merkel circulated a document to her coalition partners after the summit saying that 14 countries had agreed "on a political level" to take back some migrants who had passed through other EU countries on their way to Germany. But the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary later said they had not signed the agreement. A protestor holds a placard reading "Merkel must go" outside the CDU headquarters Credit: REUTERS/Axel Schmidt Leaders agreed to set up "voluntary" control centres within the EU to process migrants. However Austria, France, Germany and Italy did not commit to any immediate plans to open secure centres on their own soil. Following the summit Mrs Merkel admitted there was still "a lot of work to do to bridge the different views". Donald Tusk, the European Council president, said it was a "sort of" political breakthrough, but also added it was "too early" to call it a success. However Emmanuel Macron, the French President, hailed the agreement as an example of "European cooperation". Germany's coalition government has been plagued by tensions since it was formed in February, four months after the German federal election last November. Mr Seehofer blamed his party losing seats to the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) during the last election on Mrs Merkel's open-door refugee policy. With the Bavarian state elections due in October, Mr Seehofer had feared the CSU could now lose its outright majority to the AfD. He has previously reportedly said of Mrs Merkel "I cannot work with this woman anymore".
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| U.S. Ambassador To Estonia Resigns Over Trump's European Union Comments Posted: 30 Jun 2018 05:50 PM PDT  The U.S. ambassador to Estonia has announced his resignation, saying he is
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| The Latest: College stabbing, police shooting leave 2 dead Posted: 30 Jun 2018 03:13 AM PDT  POMONA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a stabbing and police shooting at a Southern California college (all times local):
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| Original Bullitt Mustang To Make International Debut At Goodwood Posted: 01 Jul 2018 03:00 AM PDT  The iconic car emerged earlier this year after years out of the spotlight.
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| Iran calls for calm after water protests, clashes Posted: 01 Jul 2018 06:41 AM PDT  Iran called for calm on Sunday after protests in a southern city over water shortages turned violent overnight with reports of police shooting at demonstrators who attacked banks and public buildings. "No one has been killed in the unrest and just one person has been wounded in a shooting," said Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, quoted by the state news agency IRNA. "Our effort is to bring these protests to an end as soon as possible with restraint from police and the cooperation of authorities, but if the opposite happens, the judiciary and law enforcement forces will carry out their duties," Rahmani Fazli was quoted as saying.
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| Kaley Cuoco Marries Equestrian Karl Cook In Romantic Ceremony Posted: 01 Jul 2018 12:43 PM PDT  Actress Kaley Cuoco and fiance Karl Cook, a professional equestrian, tied the
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| Crews rescue deaf puppy stuck in hole for 30 hours in Alabama Posted: 30 Jun 2018 03:52 PM PDT  After 30 hours of effort, volunteers were able to rescue a 7-week-old deaf puppy that fell down a 50-foot (15-meter) crevice behind a house in Alabama.
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| Rebels, Russia pursue talks over battered south Syria: monitor Posted: 01 Jul 2018 06:14 AM PDT Syrian rebels and local officials pursued talks with regime ally Russia on Sunday over the fate of a key southern region facing a government offensive, a Britain-based monitor said. The Jordan-backed talks came as a tentative calm reigned over most fronts in the southern province of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. A "ceasefire has largely held since Saturday at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) to facilitate the ongoing negotiations," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
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| 12-Year-Old Boy Mowing Lawn Has Police Called on Him: 'Who Does That?' Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:50 AM PDT  He accidentally mowed a piece of a neighbor's lawn.
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| North Korea appeals to China for economic help as it reopens radio channel with the South Posted: 01 Jul 2018 04:29 AM PDT  North and South Korea reopened a maritime communication channel on Sunday, with vessels from the two countries making radio contact for the first time in a decade, South Korea's Defence Ministry said in a statement. A North Korean patrol boat responded immediately when the South Korean Navy contacted it via an international radio channel at 9 am Sunday in the western sea, normalizing the maritime communication channel for the first time in 10 years, according to the ministry. The move showed the two Koreas were "taking practical steps" to uphold agreements made on April 27 when their leaders decided to defuse military tensions in a gradual manner, an official from the ministry said. It was also on Sunday reported that Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has appealed to China's Xi Jinping to help end sanctions against Pyongyang following his landmark summit with US President Donald Trump. Kim made the request during his third meeting with Mr Xi in Beijing last month, and the Chinese president promised to do his "utmost" to satisfy it, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said. "We are feeling great pain due to economic sanctions. Now that we have concluded the US-North Korea summit in success, I want (China) to work toward early lifting of the sanctions," Kim reportedly told Mr Xi, according to the newspaper. Kim chose Beijing - his main economic patron and diplomatic protector - for his first official foreign trip in March and met Mr Xi again in May in the northeastern port city of Dalian. Timeline of Kim Jong-un in Beijing In recent months the Cold War-era allies have sought to repair ties strained by Pyongyang's nuclear tests and Beijing's support of subsequent UN sanctions. Kim asked Mr Xi to help ease the sanctions that have crippled North Korea's economy, and urged China to back Pyongyang in its denuclearisation talks with Washington, the report said. Mr Xi in turn told Kim he "actively supports North Korea's reform and opening-up and will proactively cooperate with issues associated with the efforts", according to the Yomiuri. He also urged North Korea to "continue (its) consultations with China" as it negotiates with the United States, the report said.
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| White House Backs Off Trump Tweet Claiming Saudi Agreement To Produce More Oil Posted: 30 Jun 2018 10:11 PM PDT  The White House late Saturday issued a statement backing down from President
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| University police shoot, kill man during Oregon bar fight Posted: 29 Jun 2018 06:05 PM PDT  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland State University police shot and killed a man while responding to a bar fight near campus, and a witness said the victim had been trying to stop the melee early Friday.
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| Weakened Merkel to face judgment of her Bavarian allies Posted: 30 Jun 2018 03:03 PM PDT  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's political future rests in the hands of the Christian Social Union (CSU) on Sunday, when the Bavarian party's leadership meets to decide whether to accept migration deals she brought back from Brussels. Nine months after elections that saw her lose votes to the far right, a weakened Merkel was forced to turn to European Union neighbors to help resolve a conflict with her allies after they rebelled against her immigration policy. The party's leader, interior minister Horst Seehofer, threatened to turn migrants back from the Bavarian border, a move that would almost certainly precipitate a government collapse.
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| Great white spotted off Spain in decades first: marine group Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:08 PM PDT  A great white shark was spotted in waters off Spain's Balearic Islands this week in what is the first such sighting by scientists in at least 30 years, a marine conservation group said Saturday. The Alnitak group captured footage of the shark, which it said was five metres (16 feet) long, on Thursday in the seas off Cabrera island and followed it for over an hour, it said on its Facebook page, posting a picture. "In the past years there have been possible unconfirmed sightings and various rumours, but this is the first scientific verification of the presence of a Carcharodon (great white shark) in Spanish waters in at least 30 years," it wrote.
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| Calm Verstappen wins Austrian GP on bleak day for Mercedes Posted: 01 Jul 2018 09:35 AM PDT  SPIELBERG, Austria (AP) — Often criticized for taking his aggressive race style too far, Max Verstappen kept himself and his Red Bull perfectly in check to win the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday, taking full advantage of a bleak day for pre-race favorite Mercedes.
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| Palestinians call for 'revenge' at funeral of boy killed by Israeli fire Posted: 30 Jun 2018 06:44 AM PDT  Thousands of Palestinians on Saturday attended the funeral of the 11-year-old son of a Hamas military commander killed by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip, with mourners demanding "revenge". Yasser Abu al-Naja, whose father is a member of Hamas's military wing, was shot in the head on Friday in border clashes near the southern city of Khan Yunis. Senior members of Hamas, which rules the blockaded Gaza Strip, and commanders of its Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades attended the funeral.
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| Is Taiwan Ready for an Aggressive China? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:11 PM PDT  Taipei has been lucky, having to contend with a regime in Beijing that is distracted. But that luck could run out--and soon.
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| Eleven members of same family found dead in house in India Posted: 01 Jul 2018 07:07 AM PDT  By Suvashree Choudhury and Nigam Prusti MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Eleven members of a family were found dead in India's capital on Sunday, most of them hanging from the ceiling of their home, blindfolded, gagged and with hands tied behind the back, with police unable to offer any concrete explanation about what happened. A police statement said some handwritten notes were found in the house "which point towards observance of some definite spiritual/mystical practices by the whole family". The home of those who died is above a grocery store the family owned in the Burari district in a northern part of Delhi.
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| North Korea Boosting Nuclear Fuel Production At Secret Sites: Report Posted: 29 Jun 2018 06:06 PM PDT  North Korea has been secretly increasing production of enriched uranium for
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| Teen's police killing tests long-frustrated black Pittsburgh Posted: 01 Jul 2018 11:48 AM PDT  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The day after Antwon Rose Jr. was shot through the cheek and elbow and in the back, killing the 17-year-old honors student, young black people swarmed the East Pittsburgh police station.
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