| Veterans need Medicaid too — and are speaking out against GOP health care bill Posted: 28 Jun 2017 05:59 PM PDT  For Kelly Gregory, serving in the U.S. military has been a long-standing family tradition. "I want to be the last American that dies because I didn't have access to health care," said Gregory. Gregory, 48, has stage IV breast cancer.
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| Congressman: Healthcare Might Not Be in Trump's 'wheelhouse' Posted: 28 Jun 2017 02:38 AM PDT  Representative Charlie Dent, R-PA, speaks about Republicans attempts to pass Healthcare legislation and he believes that the work should be from the center out.
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| California sheriff deputy mending from gunshot wound to face Posted: 28 Jun 2017 07:00 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Alex Ladwig, a 25-year-old Sacramento County sheriff's deputy, was working an evening rush-hour shift at a transit station when, without warning, he found himself fighting for his life.
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| Prosecutor, governor spar over death penalty in Florida's top court Posted: 28 Jun 2017 11:14 AM PDT  Aramis Ayala, a Democrat who took office in January, sued the Republican governor this spring over his decision to take her off two dozen murder cases. Scott says Florida state attorneys should "prosecute individuals to the fullest extent of the law," including the death penalty.
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| Home Invader Crawls Into Woman's Bed to Ask If He Can Stay the Night: Cops Posted: 29 Jun 2017 10:00 AM PDT  A woman in New Jersey may have been visited by a serial stalker, cops say.
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| NASA finds signs of ancient 'Niagara Falls' of lava on Mars Posted: 28 Jun 2017 03:52 PM PDT  Sure, NASA has found signs of ancient water on Mars multiple times over the years, but now it's time to talk about something that's significantly more badass: molten Martian lava. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has taken photos of a part of the red planet that once played host to huge multi-tiered falls of lava that cascaded into a crater. SEE ALSO: NASA's Curiosity rover has a pet rock on Mars The images even show off the (now dried) circular flow of lava at the base of the falls, where the molten rock fanned outward on the crater's floor, NASA said. "The lava flows and falls are distinct as they are rougher than the original features that are smooth and knobby," NASA said in a statement, referring to the features as the "Niagara Falls of Mars." A 3D view of the lava flow.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona"In a close-up image the rough-textured lava flow to the north has breached the crater wall at a narrow point, where it then cascades downwards, fanning out and draping the steeper slopes of the wall in the process." This isn't the first evidence of lava on Mars. Researchers have also theorized that there were once channels of lava on Mars, and even lava tubes on the red planet, shaping its geology. The MRO has taken thousands of pictures of Mars over the years, revealing features on the surface of the red planet as never before. The orbiter even caught sight of other robots exploring the world below. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of ArizonaNASA and other space agencies are particularly interested in studying Mars because it might hold their best chance of finding signs of past life in our solar system outside of Earth. By studying Mars' past, we may be able to learn a little bit more about our own place in the cosmic neighborhood. WATCH: What it was like to pretend to live on Mars inside a dome for a year
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| Nemtsov trial: jury finds all five accused guilty over murder of Kremlin foe Posted: 29 Jun 2017 07:34 AM PDT  A Russian jury on Thursday found all five defendants guilty of organising and carrying out the contract killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov after a trial his allies say failed to unmask the masterminds. Former deputy prime minister Nemtsov, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down just yards from the Kremlin as he walked home with his girlfriend late on the evening of February 27, 2015. The brazen murder in central Moscow was the most high-profile political killing in Russia since Putin rose to power some 17 years ago.
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| 2017 Ford Mustang Posted: 28 Jun 2017 12:00 PM PDT  Lying low before the new face arrives for 2018.
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| W.Va. Sen. Capito’s difficult journey to ‘no’ Posted: 28 Jun 2017 12:25 PM PDT  Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced Tuesday she was against the current version of the Senate GOP health care bill. In an exchange that was filmed by someone else in the room and later posted on Facebook , where it has been viewed more than 5 million times, Hill showed the senator photos of Amy before and after her diagnoses, when she was in the hospital undergoing treatment.
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| Syria's chemical weapons programme goes 'far beyond one airfield', warns US Defence Secretary James Mattis Posted: 28 Jun 2017 05:56 AM PDT  US Defence Secretary James Mattis has said that Syria's chemical weapons programme goes "far beyond one airfield". The comment appears to be a reference to the Syrian airfield which the United States struck in April, alleging the President Bashar al-Assad had used it to launch a chemical weapons attack on his own people. Mr Mattis said he believes the Syrian regime has now stockpiled chemical weapons in other parts of the country, in violation of international agreements.
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| Wildfires in Arizona, California, Utah force hundreds from their homes Posted: 28 Jun 2017 09:46 AM PDT ![Wildfires in Arizona, California, Utah force hundreds from their homes]( "Wildfires in Arizona, California, Utah force hundreds from their homes") Firefighters in three western states are facing major summer wildfires, one in an area where 19 firefighters were killed four years ago.
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| Girl, 4, Fatally Struck by Houseboat, Father's Legs Severed as He Tried to Save Her: Cops Posted: 29 Jun 2017 09:10 AM PDT  The boat driver has been charged with criminally negligent homicide in connection with the girl's death.
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| An ancient 'skull cult' might've carved up bones to shame their enemies Posted: 28 Jun 2017 12:03 PM PDT  An ancient "skull cult" might've existed thousands of years ago in present-day Turkey. Three deeply carved skulls found at the Göbekli Tepe archaeological site suggest that humans disfigured the bones as part of a ritual, perhaps to venerate the dead or absorb the powers of fallen enemies, a team of German anthropologists reported this week in a new study. SEE ALSO: Cats have been getting humans to do their bidding for 9,000 years Skull cults were common during the Neolithic period, which began around 10,000 B.C. Other digs worldwide have uncovered skulls covered in paint or plaster, or bearing intricate designs. In some modern Pacific Island cultures, skulls still represent a link between the living and the dead. Details of artificial skull modifications. A, C, D: carvings, B: drilled perforation.Image: Julia Gresky, DAIHowever, the ancient bones from Turkey are unique among the Neolithic skull cults. These are the first from their era to display a crude, practical-looking marking, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. The three skulls had multiple deep incisions along their midlines that were likely carved with a flint tool. Scientists ruled out natural causes for the markings, such as an animal gnawing at the bones, by using microscopic techniques. One skull also had a hole drilled into the left parietal bone, which forms the sides and roof of the cranium. Skull fragments with cut marks.Image: German Archaeological Institute Frontal bone fragment of skull 3 with carvings (1) and cut marks (2,3).Image: Julia Gresky, Juliane Haelm, DAI Unlike the more stylized or beautified skulls found at other sites, "Our skulls are not very nicely done. It doesn't look very decorative," Julia Gresky, the study's lead author and an anthropologist from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), said by phone from Berlin. Excavations at Göbekli Tepe began in 1995. Gresky arrived at the dig site in 2009 after multiple human bone fragments were found. She found the last of three skulls in 2014 and began studying the markings closely with colleagues. Anthropomorphic depictions from Göbekli Tepe. (A) Intentionally decapitated human statue. (B) The gift bearer holds in his hands a human head. (C) Pillar 43 with low relief of an ithyphallic headless individual, one arm raised.Image: Dieter Johannes and Klaus Schmidt, Göbekli Tepe Archive, DAIWhile it's impossible to know what really happened at the Neolithic site, she said, the markings indicate the skulls were put on display. Perhaps the midline grooves or drilled hole helped stabilize the skulls. "The skull seems to have been very important for these [Neolithic] people," Gresky said. The lack of artistic flourish also suggests these scratchings were meant to stigmatize the person to whom the skull once belonged — making these trophies of enemies, not altars to ancestors. WATCH: Ancient Swedish herding call seems to put cows in a trance
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| South Korean president lobbies US leaders on North Korea policy Posted: 29 Jun 2017 10:02 AM PDT  South Korea's new President Moon Jae-In lobbied US leaders on Thursday to back his policy of engagement with North Korea, as the Trump administration vowed to increase pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear program. The Trump administration has been trying to isolate the North Korean regime following a series of missile tests, including by persuading China -- Pyongyang's main diplomatic ally -- to help bring Kim Jong-Un into line.
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| Yes he can: Obama returns to Indonesia for family vacation Posted: 28 Jun 2017 10:46 AM PDT  By Jessica Damiana JAKARTA (Reuters) - From white water rafting in Bali to visiting temples on Java, former U.S. President Barack Obama's private family holiday is being closely tracked in Indonesia where he spent four years as a child. Obama was six when he moved to Jakarta after his American mother, Ann Dunham, married an Indonesian man following the end of her marriage to Obama's Kenyan father. "I feel proud that my friend became a president," said Sonni Gondokusumo, 56, a former classmate of Obama at the Menteng 01 state elementary school in Jakarta.
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| Parents Of Teen Whose Murderer Took A ‘Selfie’ With Victim Break Silence Posted: 28 Jun 2017 11:33 AM PDT  The parents of a Pennsylvania teen who had his murder captured in a 'selfie' spoke out for the first time since their son's death Wednesday.
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| French air force commander under investigation for allegedly using fighter jet to fly to Provence home Posted: 28 Jun 2017 09:15 AM PDT  French air force commander under investigation for allegedly using fighter jet to fly to Provence home
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| Appeals court ruling opens door to Ohio resuming executions Posted: 28 Jun 2017 04:03 PM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — Ohio moved a step closer to resuming executions as a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in the state's favor in a case over its lethal injection process.
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| Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE: First Drive Posted: 29 Jun 2017 07:44 AM PDT  It's serious so you can have all the fun.
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| Internet tax is real and I have been paying it for years, by Jeff Bezos Posted: 29 Jun 2017 09:16 AM PDT  Hello, this is the CEO of Amazon/owner of The Washington Post Jeff Bezos. At around 9:00 a.m. on June 28, President Trump tweeted the following: The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2017 Aside from the obvious inaccuracies in the president's tweet — Amazon doesn't own The Washington Post (I do), the Post isn't "the guardian of Amazon," and it isn't fake news — there's one massive, glaring issue that I take with the message. Contrary to what Mr. Trump says, I do pay internet tax, and I have done so for several years. SEE ALSO: I have drawn the Trump administration as Sonic the Hedgehog and I am ready to answer for it For as long as I can remember, I have been paying my annual internet tax in the form of a personal check written out to the IRS. Each calendar year, I pull out my checkbook, write out a check for however many millions of dollars in internet tax I owe, put "tax for internet" in the memo and ship it first class in an envelope that says "government" on the front. Read it and weep, idiot.Image: mashable composite; shutterstockThat's right, Mr. Trump. The joke is on you, because I have been sending internet tax to the federal government for YEARS. I do my part to help this country. Can you say the same? You may be thinking, "Jeff, what is internet tax and how do you calculate how much you owe?" A good question, with a simple answer. Internet tax is a tax for the internet — a contribution people make to continue using the world wide web. I learned about it on a weight lifting forum in 1999, back before anyone realized you could lie online. Internet tax is calculated pretty easily: each time you click the button on the mouse, you owe one dollar. Being a pretty prolific internet user, I pay an assistant $150,000 a year to live with me and count my clicks, and then I write out a check to the tax man. As you can see above, this year I clicked the mouse 28 million times. Yikes! Put it here like this so they'll see.Image: mashable composite; shutterstockMake no mistake: Internet tax is not the same thing as your internet bill. One is a bill, the other is a tax. They are different things. That being said, I would like to make it abundantly clear that if you have not been paying internet tax for as long as you have had the internet, you are breaking the law and will be arrested. Of course, if internet tax were as simple as I've made it out to be, we wouldn't all groan every time tax season rolls around, ha ha. Another more complicated part of the internet tax is that each year, about three weeks after sending the IRS your check, you will receive a call from the government informing you that they cannot accept your payment. They will tell you that you, "Do not owe this money," and there "Is not a tax on using the internet, it doesn't even make sense," and to "Please stop wasting government time by sending these enormous sums of money to our office." Whenever that happens, I simply continue sending checks to the IRS until they cash them. Merely another element in the cat and mouse game of internet tax. You know, sometimes, when I'm walking around in the big Amazon warehouse where I live with my whole extended family, I start to wonder if it's all worth it. Spending so much of my money, each and every year, on internet tax — is the internet worth the trouble? Then, I open my computer and log onto Twitter dot com, and see another insanely bad tweet from the 45th President of the United States. And I think to myself: yes. It's all worth it. Thanks for reading Mashable Humor: original comedy every day. Or most days. We're people, just like you, and we're trying our best.
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| Iraq sees end to 'caliphate' as Mosul mosque retaken Posted: 29 Jun 2017 12:51 PM PDT  Iraq declared the Islamic State group's "caliphate" was coming to an end after it recaptured Mosul's iconic Nuri mosque Thursday, three years to the day after it was proclaimed by the jihadists. The jihadist group announced its self-styled "caliphate" on June 29, 2014, encompassing swathes of territory its fighters overran in Iraq and neighbouring Syria. "Counter-Terrorism Service forces control the Nuri mosque and Al-Hadba (minaret)," said Iraq's Joint Operations Command.
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| 2020 deadline to avert climate catastrophe: experts Posted: 28 Jun 2017 11:54 AM PDT  Humanity must put carbon dioxide emissions on a downward slope by 2020 to have a realistic shot at capping global warming at well under two degrees Celsius, the bedrock goal of the Paris climate accord, experts said Wednesday. With 1.0 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming so far, ice sheets that could lift oceans by a dozen metres are melting more quickly, coral reefs are dying from heat stress, and ever more damaging storm surges are hammering coastal communities. The transition to cleaner energy sources is well underway and is backed by broad consensus on the need to beat back the threat of climate change -- with the notable exception of the United States under President Donald Trump.
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| Protests held across India after attacks against Muslims Posted: 28 Jun 2017 10:39 AM PDT  By Tommy Wilkes and Roli Srivastava NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Protests were held in cities across India on Wednesday against a wave of attacks on Muslims by mobs that accuse them of killing cows or eating beef. The protests follow the stabbing to death last week of a 16-year-old boy accused of possessing beef on a train. On Tuesday, a man was beaten and his house set on fire by a mob that accused him of slaughtering a cow in eastern Jharkhand state.
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| Through darkness to light: Photographs along the Underground Railroad Posted: 29 Jun 2017 11:08 AM PDT ![Through darkness to light: Photographs along the Underground Railroad]( "Through darkness to light: Photographs along the Underground Railroad") Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad," a traveling exhibition by photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images taken in the dead of night that reveal historical sites, cities and places that freedom-seekers passed through, including homes of abolitionists who offered them sanctuary.
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| Tillerson Lashes Out At White House Aide Johnny DeStefano: Report Posted: 29 Jun 2017 01:43 AM PDT  The episode left other officials stunned and prompted senior White House aide Jared Kushner to call the outburst unprofessional, the report added.
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| Taking Too Much of This Vitamin Can Cause Serious Health Issues Posted: 28 Jun 2017 10:39 AM PDT  Within the past two decades, there has been an increase in research pointing to the health benefits of vitamin D, and as a result more people than ever are taking supplements. However, a study published in the June 2017 issue of JAMA says that some people are taking way more than they need too. Researchers found that 18.2 percent of Americans ingest more than 1000 IU – which is 400 IU more than the recommended daily amount (RDA) for people ...
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| NASA created glowing, artificial auroras that looked a whole lot like UFOs Posted: 29 Jun 2017 08:16 AM PDT  After many delays that disappointed space fans around the U.S., NASA finally managed to launch its mission early Thursday to, for the first time, create ephemeral, glowing clouds. In other words, NASA created human-caused auroras, of sorts. The suborbital sounding rocket took flight at 4:25 a.m. ET Thursday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and released its payload — which consisted of 10 vapor-filled canisters — shortly afterwards. SEE ALSO: Here's why NASA keeps postponing its really cool mission to make glowing clouds Once at altitude, those canisters produced green-blue and red artificial clouds that should allow scientists to learn more about how particles move through space. The wait is over! The Terrier-Improved Malemute launched this morning, June 29, at 4:25 a.m. An early Independence Day fireworks display!! pic.twitter.com/Y5x6Oz2hu8 — NASA Wallops (@NASA_Wallops) June 29, 2017 The artificial auroras were seen by skywatchers up and down the East Coast of the United States. "Wallops received nearly 2,000 reports and photos of the cloud sightings from areas as far north as New York, south to North Carolina, and inland throughout Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and points in-between," NASA said in a statement. If you were out for an early morning stroll and happened to look up as the artificial clouds were created, you could probably be forgiven for thinking that you actually spotted a UFO. The bright clouds created by this mission look somewhat eerie in video footage. The blinking auroras started off as a bright blue-green color and then fade to a deeper hue of blue in the sky. It took NASA 11 launch attempts to get this mission off the ground, in part because of strict weather requirements. Mission controllers needed totally clear skies for this launch in order to be assured that they would see the colorful vapor when it was released from the canisters. And luckily, they got it on Thursday. Finally. WATCH: NASA just made a very important step toward getting humans to Mars
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| S. Korea to offer North treaty for denuclearisation: minister Posted: 29 Jun 2017 01:17 AM PDT  South Korea's new government will seek to sign a peace treaty with the North if it abandons its nuclear weapons, a minister said Thursday. Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-Sung's comments came hours before South Korea's new leader Moon Jae-In -- who backs engagement with Pyongyang -- was set to hold his first summit with US President Donald Trump, with the North's growing nuclear and missile threats casting a long shadow.
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| Indian IT firm Wipro touts U.S. jobs amid visa uncertainty Posted: 28 Jun 2017 09:31 AM PDT  Wipro Ltd , India's third-largest software services exporter, said on Wednesday that more than half its workforce in the United States consists of locals after it hired more than 1,600 people in the last six months. The statement comes as U.S. President Donald Trump has asked federal agencies to review a visa program that Indian IT firms such as Wipro use to fly engineers to the United States to service clients. Wipro rival Infosys Ltd last month said it planned to hire 10,000 U.S. workers in the next two years and open four technology centers in the United States.
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| Starbucks Worker Mysteriously Vanishes While Taking a Break Posted: 28 Jun 2017 02:40 PM PDT  Allison Cope, 24, a Starbucks supervisor, took her scheduled break at about 3 p.m. She hasn't been seen or heard from since.
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| Sharks Caught On Video Swimming Up To Florida Tourists Posted: 28 Jun 2017 01:41 PM PDT  The woman who took the video said there were at least seven sharks in the shallow water.
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| A look at key moments on the road to Mosul Posted: 28 Jun 2017 12:17 PM PDT  MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — The Islamic State group's hold on Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, has shrunk to just two square kilometers (about one square mile). After more than eight months of some of the most intense fighting against the extremist group, Iraq's Prime Minister has pledged that victory is near.
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| 2019 Ram 1500: More Mega Cab? Posted: 29 Jun 2017 09:00 AM PDT  More space, more refinement.
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| 'Good Samaritan' Trying to Help Lost Toddler Attacked by Child's Father: Cops Posted: 27 Jun 2017 05:58 PM PDT  A Florida man was trying to find the parents of a lost toddler when the child's dad punched him repeatedly, authorities said.
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| Britain's Big New Warship Still Runs Windows XP Posted: 28 Jun 2017 12:42 PM PDT  HMS Queen Elizabeth is impressive. Her software is not.
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| After lynchings, India's Modi condemns violence in name of cow worship Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:54 AM PDT  By Tommy Wilkes and Malini Menon NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday broke his silence over a wave of attacks on people accused of eating beef or slaughtering cows, saying that killing in the name of an animal sacred to majority Hindus was wrong. Modi was speaking a week after a 16-year old Muslim boy was stabbed to death on a train on suspicion of possessing beef, the latest of an estimated 28 people killed in cow-related violence since 2010. Most of the victims were killed after Modi and his Hindu nationalist party won elections three years ago.
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| Tiny Bhutan protests to China over border road Posted: 29 Jun 2017 03:17 AM PDT  The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has protested to its mighty neighbour China over road building in disputed territory that set off new frictions between Beijing and the Indian government on Thursday. China made a new demand on Thursday that Indian troops return to their side of the border between India's Sikkim state and Tibet on the Chinese side. Highlighting the widening tensions over the remote mountain zone, Bhutan's ambassador to New Delhi, Vetsop Namgyel, said his government had called on China's People's Liberation Army to stop building the road near where the Bhutan, Indian and Chinese borders meet.
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| Man Catches Shark With Bare Hands Posted: 29 Jun 2017 09:35 AM PDT  He is shown jumping into the water, grabbing the shark with his bare hands and throwing it onto the dock.
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| Trump trashes media, cheers wins at $10 million fundraiser Posted: 29 Jun 2017 02:30 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican donors paid $35,000 apiece to hear familiar a message from President Donald Trump: The media, particularly CNN, keep trying to take him down, and yet Republicans just keep on winning elections. He noted with pride that his party had won four special elections this year.
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| Would-Be Robber Scared Away By Quick-Thinking Store Clerk Who Scares Him With Pipe Posted: 29 Jun 2017 12:41 PM PDT  Police are searching for a would-be robber who met his match when he tried to hold up a store clerk in Texas.
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