| Kusher Sought Kremlin Back Channel: Report Posted: 26 May 2017 11:00 AM PDT  Adam Entous, national security reporter for The Washington Post, discusses the new revelation that Donald Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner asked the Russian ambassador to set up a back channel to the Kremlin using Russian facilities.
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| Fitbit Unravels Man’s Story About Wife’s Murder Posted: 26 May 2017 08:41 AM PDT  Richard Dabate appeared in court Friday, pleading not guilty to the charge that he murdered his wife Connie in 2015. He told police that an intruder shot her, but her Fitbit tells a different story.
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| Hillary Clinton Speaks to Graduating Students at Her Alma Mater Posted: 25 May 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Clinton spoke to Wellesley College graduates about bouncing back after defeat and rallying the resistance.
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| Sputnik's White House correspondent quits, claiming they would rather have 'propagandists' than 'real journalists' Posted: 27 May 2017 04:53 AM PDT  Sputnik's White House correspondent, Andrew Feinberg, has quit the Russian-state news organisation, claiming they would rather have "propagandists" than "real journalists". Mr Feinberg, has taken to social media to give full details about his reasoning for resigning and has claimed he was forced to chase stories that were contrary to the facts on the ground. "Seems Sputnik isn't happy with real journalists.
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| Sponsors abandon Puerto Rican parade in NY after nationalist honored Posted: 26 May 2017 12:51 PM PDT  Oscar Lopez Rivera, 74, was convicted in 1981 of numerous charges, along with other members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), who sought to secure Puerto Rican independence from the United States. Rivera's sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama, and the prisoner was freed this month.
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| Texas teacher laughs as she hands out ‘most likely to become a terrorist’ award to 7th-grader Posted: 26 May 2017 09:22 AM PDT  During an end-of-the-year awards ceremony at Anthony Aguirre Junior High in Channelview, Tex., a teacher gave Lizeth Villanueva an award for "most likely to become a terrorist." The seventh-grade student's mom is going great lengths to make sure the teacher gets fired.
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| Rescue drill turns real as US Coast Guard finds missing Tongans Posted: 25 May 2017 11:40 PM PDT  A search and rescue exercise turned real for a US Coast Guard crew who found six Tongan fishermen missing at sea for a week, New Zealand officials said Friday. New Zealand Rescue Coordination Centre officer Greg Johnston said Tongan police raised the alarm as the US Coast Guard C-130 Hercules was preparing to return to Honolulu following a multi-national rescue drill in Auckland. "The Coast Guard crew spotted the six men in their 12-metre (39-foot) vessel shortly after entering the search area, about 90 kilometres (55 miles) offshore from Tongatapu Island," Johnston said.
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| A day of grief in a city of pain Posted: 27 May 2017 07:06 AM PDT ![A day of grief in a city of pain]( "A day of grief in a city of pain") A native of south side Chicago, Spencer Leak Sr. has watched as his hometown and the neighborhoods where he grew up have been ripped apart by homicides in recent years, the results of an explosion of gun violence police have struggled to contain. Last year, according to the Chicago Tribune, 781 people were killed—a massive jump over 2015 when there were 492 recorded homicides. Leak has more insight into Chicago's violence than most.
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| Did Trump Really Back Macron For French President? Posted: 25 May 2017 11:47 PM PDT  Trump congratulated Macron for his 'tremendous victory' as the two world leaders met for the first time over lunch at the U.S. embassy in Brussels on Thursday.
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| Lawsuit: Zillow ‘Zestimates’ Are Wrong, Preventing Homes from Selling Posted: 26 May 2017 08:46 AM PDT  Zillow estimates values for 110 million homes across America as "zestimates," but many have questioned the company's accuracy, including one homeowner who claims she can't sell her home because of it.
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| The Latest: Alabama raced clock to execute inmate Posted: 26 May 2017 11:39 AM PDT  ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on Alabama's execution of inmate Tommy Arthur (all times local):
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| NOLA Mayor: Monuments ‘Signs of Oppression for 67% of My City' Posted: 26 May 2017 05:42 AM PDT  New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu explains his decision to remove Confederate monuments from the city in an interview to air Sunday on Meet the Press.
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| Anti-India protests hit Kashmir after top rebel is killed Posted: 27 May 2017 07:28 AM PDT  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — One civilian was killed and dozens of others injured Saturday after massive anti-India protests and clashes erupted in Indian-controlled Kashmir following the killing of a prominent rebel commander and his associate in a gunbattle with government forces in the disputed region.
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| California inmate firefighter killed in line of duty Posted: 25 May 2017 06:00 PM PDT  One of thousands of prison inmate volunteers trained to fight wildfires in California was killed by a falling tree in the far northwestern corner of the state, marking the fourth such fatality in 60 years, state corrections officials said on Thursday. Matthew Beck, 26, who had been serving a six-year sentence for burglary and was due to be paroled in October, was leading a crew in clearing brush to contain a fire in the Hoopa Valley area of Del Norte County on Wednesday. Beck was one of roughly 3,900 specially trained prison inmates, all volunteers and all non-violent offenders, who form the backbone of California's wildfire protection force.
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| Hunting Big Game: Why People Kill Animals for Fun Posted: 26 May 2017 05:48 AM PDT  Theodore Roosevelt, former U.S. president and renowned big-game hunter, waxed poetic about a massive bull rhinoceros in his 1910 book, "African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist," after glimpsing the rhino during a safari in British East Africa and the Belgian Congo earlier that year.
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| Meet the Overly Enthusiastic 'Price is Right' Contestant Who Just Broke the Plinko Record Posted: 26 May 2017 01:34 PM PDT  Ryan Belz even led a chant of his own name while dropping discs for the show's most popular game.
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| Trump Is Playing the International Strategy Game Like a Novice Among Experts Posted: 26 May 2017 08:07 AM PDT  An "America first" policy risks leaving America alone.
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| Putin, Macron to air tough issues at Versailles meet Posted: 27 May 2017 12:24 AM PDT  France's new President Emmanuel Macron will hold delicate talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday with the two countries harbouring longstanding differences over Ukraine and Syria. Coming just three weeks after an election in which the Kremlin was widely seen as backing centrist Macron's far-right rival Marine Le Pen -- with Putin hosting her during a surprise visit to Moscow -- the encounter in Versailles, near Paris, has an added personal edge.
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| Alabama officials raced clock to execute convicted murderer Posted: 26 May 2017 11:48 AM PDT ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's quest to kill an inmate who spent decades on death row for murder became a high-stakes game of beat the clock after the U.S. Supreme Court finally cleared the way for his execution.
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| Judge to consider contempt against anti-abortion group head Posted: 25 May 2017 10:10 PM PDT ![Judge to consider contempt against anti-abortion group head]( "Judge to consider contempt against anti-abortion group head") SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge said Thursday he will consider holding the leader of an anti-abortion group in contempt after links to videos that the judge had barred from release appeared on the website of the man's attorneys.
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| Trump budget 2018: Thousands of wild horses could be sold for slaughter under president's proposal Posted: 26 May 2017 08:11 AM PDT  Donald Trump's latest budget proposal could allow thousands of wild horses to be sold for slaughter by reversing nearly fifty years of protections for an American icon. "The current program is wholly unsustainable and a new approach is needed, particularly when considering the sharp and consistent growth in resource requirements," the budget proposal reads. America's estimated 59,000 mustangs live across about 40,000 square miles (103,600 square kilometres) of land controlled by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
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| Chinese jets intercept U.S surveillance plane: U.S. officials Posted: 26 May 2017 12:28 PM PDT  Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane over the South China Sea on Wednesday, with one coming within 200 yards (180 meters) of the American aircraft, U.S. officials told Reuters. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said initial reports showed that the U.S. P-3 Orion surveillance plane was 150 miles (240 km) southeast of Hong Kong in international airspace when the Chinese aircraft carried out the unsafe intercept. One Chinese aircraft flew in front of the American plane, restricting its ability to maneuver.
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| The Latest: Prosecutor says state needs execution drugs Posted: 26 May 2017 10:29 AM PDT  SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — The Latest in the prosecution of a man charged in the deaths of seven people in South Carolina (all times local):
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| US probe finds over 100 civilians killed in Mosul air strike Posted: 26 May 2017 09:05 AM PDT  A Pentagon investigation has concluded that at least 105 civilians died in an anti-IS strike in the Iraqi city of Mosul in March, officials said Thursday, but they blamed the toll on a secondary explosion of jihadist munitions. A US aircraft delivered a single precision-guided bomb into a building in west Mosul on March 17, with the aim of killing a pair of snipers on the second story of the structure in the al-Jadida neighborhood, which at the time was under Islamic State control. "The secondary explosion triggered a rapid failure of the structure which killed the two ISIS snipers, 101 civilians sheltered in the bottom floors of the structure and four civilians in the neighboring structure to the west," said US Air Force Brigadier General Matt Isler, the lead investigator.
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| NASA’s newest photo of Jupiter will blow your mind Posted: 26 May 2017 09:38 AM PDT 
Lately, NASA's Cassini orbiter has been delivering some stunning photos from its trips around Saturn, but that's not the only fancy camera floating around a nearby planet. The agency's Juno spacecraft has been hanging out around Jupiter for nearly a year now, and it just delivered one of the most jaw-dropping glimpses of the gas giant that we've ever seen.
This is Jupiter's south pole, and like most of the rest of the planet, it's absolutely covered in massive storms, electricity, and swirling masses of clouds that stretch for hundreds and hundreds of miles. The image is absolutely stunning, and it took and incredible amount of work to make it happen. What you're seeing is actually a composite of several different photos taken at different times so that the entirety of the south pole was illuminated by daylight. The photos used to make the image were collected during three separate orbits of Juno, each of which takes nearly two months to complete. Juno has already revealed a great deal about Jupiter in its short time in orbit, and some of the information it is telling scientists is leaving them both surprised and amazed. The colossal, Earth-sized storms on its poles are one of the more shocking features that researchers are still trying to figure out. "We're puzzled as to how they could be formed, how stable the configuration is, and why Jupiter's north pole doesn't look like the south pole," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton says. "We're questioning whether this is a dynamic system, and are we seeing just one stage, and over the next year, we're going to watch it disappear, or is this a stable configuration and these storms are circulating around one another?"
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| Elsewhere in Europe, America's dad Barack Obama went golfing Posted: 26 May 2017 02:53 PM PDT  While President Donald Trump stumbled through Europe shoving foreign leaders and showing off his wife's $51,500 coat, former president Barack Obama is off in Scotland enjoying a leisurely round of golf. SEE ALSO: 5 year-old tries to understand 2016 election with hard-hitting, hilarious questions Per The Guardian, America's dad played a round at the Old Course at St. Andrews ahead of a charity dinner in Edinburgh, where he was set to address attendees. Obama arrived in Europe on Thursday, flying into Berlin to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel before heading to Scotland on Friday. He is, almost certainly, having a better time than his successor. Fore! Obama teeing off on the Old Course #Obama @TheHomeofGolf @nytimes @GolfDigest @TheScotsman @Independent @guardiannews @MailOnline pic.twitter.com/oYn0urmLbY — Connoisseur Golf (@connoisseurgolf) May 26, 2017 Image: robert perry/Getty Images Image: Getty Images Image: Getty Images Image: Getty Images WATCH: These worms may solve the plastic waste problem
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| Could a Fidget Spinner Endanger Your Child? The Possible Hidden Hazards of the Popular Toy Posted: 26 May 2017 02:42 PM PDT  A girl nearly died when a piece of a fidget spinner became lodged in her throat.
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| Introducing T-Mobile 'Digits' Posted: 26 May 2017 02:24 AM PDT  Customers are now able to access one phone number on multiple devices or multiple numbers on one device.
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| Texas Governor Greg Abbot sparks criticism for joke about shooting a journalist Posted: 27 May 2017 11:36 AM PDT  A photo of the moment, published by the Texas Tribune, showed the grinning first-term Republican governor pointing to the centre of the paper target, where three rounds had pierced the bull's eye circle. Both said the incident was especially troubling as it came amid increasingly hostile rhetoric directed against the news media by Republican President Donald Trump and his supporters.
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| Hillary, Naval Academy, Trump & more — it happened today: May 26 in pictures Posted: 26 May 2017 11:57 AM PDT ![Hillary, Naval Academy, Trump & more — it happened today: May 26 in pictures]( "Hillary, Naval Academy, Trump & more — it happened today: May 26 in pictures") Hillary Clinton delivers a commencement address, President Trump attends the G-7 summit and more of today's news from around the world in pictures.
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| China arrests Taiwanese activist for "subversion" Posted: 26 May 2017 08:38 PM PDT  China has arrested a visiting Taiwanese rights activist on suspicion of subverting state power, according to reports. Lee Ming-che, a 42-year-old NGO worker, had been unreachable since March 19 after he entered the southeastern Chinese city of Zhuhai from Macau, according to Taiwan's government. On Friday China's official state news agency Xinhua reported that he was in detention and had "confessed" following interrogation.
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| Defiant Congress Sparks Showdown With Trump Over Saudi Arms Deal Posted: 26 May 2017 11:40 AM PDT  Though the opposition may be largely symbolic, lawmakers are clearly growing tired of unconditional support for the Gulf kingdom.
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| A Solar Eclipse In Space Looks Pretty Cool, Photos Captured By NASA Craft Show Posted: 26 May 2017 08:57 AM PDT  A NASA craft that studies the sun captured a partial solar eclipse on Thursday.
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| The BMW 8-Series Is the Return of the Big BMW Posted: 26 May 2017 08:39 AM PDT  The coupe is still alive. Long live the coupe.
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| Victims of the bombing: Parents, children, couple, friends Posted: 26 May 2017 06:38 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The bombing at a Manchester concert on Monday night claimed the lives of 22 people, many of them teenagers and their parents. They include a teenage couple who died together and two mothers picking up their daughters. All left behind many fond memories for their friends and family.
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| Texas governor draws criticism for joke about shooting journalists Posted: 26 May 2017 07:51 PM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott joked about shooting journalists while visiting a gun range on Friday to sign a bill lowering the cost of a handgun license, drawing criticism from gun-safety and free-press advocates who called his remarks "dangerous." Abbott signed the bill at an indoor gun range in Austin, the state capital, then demonstrated his own shooting skills at an upstairs firing gallery before holding up his bullet-pocked target and quipping, "I'm gonna carry this around in case I see any reporters. ...
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| Judge: No Confederate flag T-shirt in officer's retrial Posted: 26 May 2017 12:39 PM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — The jury in the murder retrial of a white Ohio police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist will not see the officer's undershirt depicting a Confederate battle flag, because a judge ruled Friday that the garment is too prejudicial.
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| Ramadan begins for world's Muslims, violently for some Posted: 27 May 2017 07:41 AM PDT  The world's 1.5 billion Muslims began observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan on Saturday, blighted by conflict and bloodshed in countries ranging from Afghanistan to Libya. Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam during which Muslims are supposed to devote themselves to praying, giving to charity and fasting from dawn to dusk. Although for many Ramadan is a time for families to gather and break the fast with an iftar meal at sunset and socialise, this year it has been marked by violence.
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| Sweet Therapy: Chocolate May Help Prevent Irregular Heartbeat Posted: 26 May 2017 07:50 AM PDT  Eating chocolate has been linked with a reduced risk of heart disease and stroke, and now a new study from Denmark suggests that regular consumption of the treat may help to prevent the development of atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat. Researchers found that adults in the study who ate chocolate at least once a month — or more frequently than that — had rates of atrial fibrillation that were 10 to 20 percent lower than those who ate chocolate less than once a month, according to the findings published today (May 23) in the journal Heart. Atrial fibrillation is a condition in which the heart's two upper chambers, known as the atria, do not beat at the same pace as the heart's two lower chambers, resulting in an irregular heartbeat.
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| G7 summit: Leaders pressure Donald Trump on climate change pact - but President makes no promises Posted: 26 May 2017 01:54 PM PDT  World leaders have pushed Donald Trump to join the rest of the world in combating climate change - but the President has made no promises despite the White House insisting his views are "evolving". G7 nations had hoped the US leader, who has previously described climate change as a "hoax", would publicly back the Paris Agreement and the commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, told The Independent that the mood at the meeting was "tense" around climate and migration discussions in particular.
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| How to Maintain and Repair Your Gas Grill Posted: 26 May 2017 06:25 AM PDT  Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. Whether you've been using it all year or haven't touched it in months, you should give your grill the once-over before t...
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| 3 Homemade Summer Sauces to Put on Everything Posted: 26 May 2017 11:51 AM PDT  This article, 3 Homemade Summer Sauces to Put on Everything, originally appeared on Chowhound.Chowhound
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| Chris Cornell’s Wife Knew Something Was Wrong: Report Posted: 26 May 2017 01:43 PM PDT  "I need to know what you took tonight. You don't sound right, sweetheart," Karayiannis said.
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| The Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron bromance is in full bloom, and we are swooning Posted: 26 May 2017 07:20 AM PDT  Spring is here and we're happy to report that a hot new bromance is in full bloom. The newly appointed president of France, Emmanuel Macron, is hitting it off with everyone's favorite Canadian heartthrob, Prime Minister Justin Truedeau, and the world may not be ready for this. SEE ALSO: People are hilariously confusing Emmanuel Macron for a beloved French cookie Footage of the two leaders meeting at the G7 summit in Sicily, Italy found its way to our hearts on Friday. In the video, Trudeau, 45, and Macron, 39, take a long bromantic stroll through beautiful, lush, flower-filled shrubbery. They walked along stone paths side-by-side, chatting about the challenges faced by our generation in French. Macron even picked a freaking flower. After Macron defeated President Trump during their highly-anticipated handshake battle at their Thursday meeting, it seemed as though the internet's love for him couldn't possibly grow any stronger. But then Macron graced us with this video. Twitter users were immediately smitten by the dreamy political duo and readily hopped onboard this bromance train. Many began dissecting the relationship and crafting the most beautiful rom-com plots. Justin Trudeau looks like The Bachelor and Macron has just stolen him away for a second. pic.twitter.com/tXLdSrD02j — Hanna Flint (@HannaFlint) May 26, 2017 Macron and Trudeau's summery stroll in Sicily looks insanely romantic pic.twitter.com/9RZsi7OIJM — Tara Mulholland (@tara_mulholland) May 26, 2017 Get a man who looks at you like Macron & Trudeau look at each other. (You'd probably also settle for a man who looks like Macron or Trudeau) pic.twitter.com/omDa1pjf8A — Tara Mulholland (@tara_mulholland) May 26, 2017 Apparently Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron flew to Sicily for their wedding photoshoot. pic.twitter.com/7trjOsXlfi — tessa (@sherlockify) May 26, 2017 can't believe Justin has proposed already pic.twitter.com/r1kovkdeV5 — Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) May 26, 2017 @youngvulgarian omfg I thought Macron picked a flower off the wall to give to Trudeau at the end there — Finn Darby (@FinnTD) May 26, 2017 Let's get an UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN reboot with Trudeau and Macron asap thx pic.twitter.com/p4se5jfHDR — Slade Sohmer (@Slade) May 26, 2017 Macron x Trudeau, the fanfiction pic.twitter.com/jfwXPXzxTQ — Chloé Woitier (@W_Chloe) May 26, 2017 The Macron Trudeau bromance is giving me serious tween giggles and all the feelz... — Ginnette (@caffeinehusky) May 26, 2017 ATTENTION EVERYONE. The first Macron/Trudeau picture has landed. I repeat: the first Macron/Trudeau picture has landed. pic.twitter.com/mQDSuWSI3K — Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) May 26, 2017 I mean just look at them! Are they not the cutest??! And if you're watching, Donald Trump, take a gander at that friendly AF handshake they're sharing ... Image: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images Image: sTEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty ImagessI'm so sorry, Obama. Your bromance with Trudeau will forever remain in our hearts and diaries, but WE. SHIP. THIS. SO. HARD. WATCH: Obama brought Joe Biden to tears, surprising him America's highest civilian honor
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