| Democrat On Trump Voter Fraud Probe Slams Voting Restriction Efforts Posted: 09 Sep 2017 11:41 AM PDT  A Democratic member of President Donald Trump's commission to investigate voter fraud issued some of the strongest criticism yet from within the panel on efforts to make it more difficult to vote.
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| Ahead of 9/11, top Trump aide says U.S. not vulnerable to terrorists Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:31 PM PDT  "There is no current, credible actionable threat, terrorist threat, against the homeland," Tom Bossert, President Trump's homeland security adviser, told reporters just days before the 9/11 anniversary.
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| Irma: South Florida Residents Race Against Time to Prepare for Storm Posted: 08 Sep 2017 08:32 AM PDT  As South Florida residents rush to escape Hurricane Irma's wrath, some can't get out while an estimated half million people have headed to shelters.
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| Country artist Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry dies in helicopter crash Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:54 PM PDT  Country artist Troy Gentry has died at 50 in a helicopter crash, according to reports out of his Kentucky hometown.
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| Does Betsy DeVos care more about those accused of rape than its victims? | Lucia Graves Posted: 08 Sep 2017 06:29 AM PDT  Protesters at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where Betsy DeVos delivered a policy address on sexual harassment, rape and assault on 7 September. As she announced the rollback of Obama-era rules on campus sexual assault, education secretary Betsy DeVos seemed at times less like the head of the Department of Education than the department of rape apologists.
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| Houston residents confront officials over decision to flood neighborhoods Posted: 09 Sep 2017 04:03 PM PDT  By Emily Flitter HOUSTON (Reuters) - Angry Houston residents shouted at city officials on Saturday over decisions to intentionally flood certain neighborhoods during Hurricane Harvey, as they returned to homes that may have been contaminated by overflowing sewers. A town hall grew heated after City Council member Greg Travis, who represents parts of western Houston, told about 250 people that an Army Corps of Engineers official told him that certain gauges measuring water levels at the Buffalo Bayou - the city's main waterway - failed due to a decision to release water from two municipal reservoirs to avoid an overflow.
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| Venezuela's Maduro seeks debt negotiations after U.S. sanctions Posted: 08 Sep 2017 02:24 PM PDT  President Nicolas Maduro has invited bondholders to unspecified "negotiations" over Venezuela's foreign debt in coming days in response to recent U.S. financial sanctions.
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| Mueller's Russia Investigation Targets Trump Inner Circle Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:30 PM PDT  A new report says Robert Mueller wants to interview at least 6 current and former White House aides including a Trump confidant in the investigation into possible campaign collusion with Russia. Ali Velshi discusses with Betsy Woodruff & Jill Wine-Banks.
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| Key Obamacare Architect Who Shunned Single-Payer Now Backs It Posted: 08 Sep 2017 01:53 PM PDT  Former Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), a fiscal moderate who, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, presided over the passage of the Affordable Care Act, expressed his support on Thursday for the creation of a single-payer health care system.
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| What we know about hurricanes Irma and Jose: facts, figures, forecast Posted: 09 Sep 2017 01:44 PM PDT  Hurricane Irma has pounded the Caribbean, leaving at least 25 people dead, destroying thousands of homes and triggering a mass evacuation in the US state of Florida. After making landfall in Cuba's Camaguey archipelago late Friday, Irma is now bearing down on Florida, where authorities have ordered 6.3 million people to evacuate. Irma, previously a top-rated Category Five storm, weakened Saturday to Category Four and then to a Category Three, packing 125 mile-an-hour winds (205 kilometer per hour).
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| Poll: Majority oppose deporting DACA recipients Posted: 08 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT  According to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey, a majority of Americans think that immigrants who benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), often called Dreamers, should not be forced to leave the country.
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| Man And Dog Denied Flight Out Of Irma Over Not Having A Pet Carrier Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:26 AM PDT  The difficulty of evacuating with pets is one of many reasons that people don't always "just leave" when a hurricane hits.
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| Is Equifax Data Being Sold on Black Market? Posted: 08 Sep 2017 11:17 AM PDT  "The Equifax breach has potentially exposed sensitive personal information of nearly everyone with a credit report."
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| Nauseating trash heaps in India spark citizen cleanup drives Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:37 PM PDT  MUMBAI, India (AP) — Lawyer Afroz Shah moved to Mumbai with a dream of looking out at the wild, blue Arabian Sea. What he saw instead was nauseating — waves churning with plastic shopping bags and empty chip packets, beaches covered so thick with soda bottles and snack wrappers he could no longer see the sand.
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| Five roaming lions raise alarm in South Africa Posted: 09 Sep 2017 05:54 AM PDT  By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Five lions are on the loose in a rural area about 35 miles (60 km) west of South Africa's commercial capital of Johannesburg, police and conservationists said on Saturday as they launched operations to capture them. There have been a spate of such incidents this year in South Africa, which unlike most African countries keeps large, dangerous wildlife in enclosed reserves to prevent conflict with people and livestock. The area where the animals have been sighted near the town of Fochville is a patchwork of cattle farms, open countryside, crowded squatter camps and gold mining communities.
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| President Trump, Melania Trump to host Cabinet members, spouses over hurricane weekend Posted: 08 Sep 2017 10:46 AM PDT  As Hurricane Irma and Jose barrel toward Florida, President Trump and first lady Melania Trump are set to host Cabinet members and their wives over the stormy weekend.
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| Egypt dig unearths goldsmith's tomb, mummies Posted: 08 Sep 2017 05:49 PM PDT  Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of a goldsmith dedicated to the god Amun and the mummies of a woman and her two children, the antiquities ministry said on Saturday. The finds, dating back to the New Kingdom (16th to 11th centuries BC), were made in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor, famed for its temples and burial grounds. A burial shaft in the tomb led to a chamber where the archaeologists discovered mummies, funerary statues and masks, the ministry said.
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| Newlywed, 32, Diagnosed with Dementia Months After Wedding: ‘There Is Nothing Behind Her Eyes,’ Says Sister Posted: 08 Sep 2017 01:19 PM PDT  Becky Barletta had it all. The beautiful 32-year-old — who was a successful ski instructor and photographer — met her husband on the slopes in Verbier, Switzerland, and had a fairytale wedding in October 2015
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| UPDATE: Mexico Earthquake Death Toll Rises Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:13 AM PDT  Seismologists say the earthquake would have been felt by over 500,000 people as tsunami threat looms.
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| Bill Maher: It's An 'Inconvenient Truth' That Climate Change Deniers' Homes Are In Irma's Path Posted: 08 Sep 2017 11:46 PM PDT  "Real Time" host Bill Maher has noted how Hurricane Irma looks likely to destroy the vacation homes of several high-profile climate change deniers.
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| Grandmother accused of keeping 9-year-old girl in kennel Posted: 08 Sep 2017 10:38 AM PDT ![Grandmother accused of keeping 9-year-old girl in kennel]( "Grandmother accused of keeping 9-year-old girl in kennel") TOWN OF NORWAY, Wis. (AP) — A grandmother and a man are accused of keeping her 9-year-old granddaughter padlocked inside a wire dog kennel in the basement of a house in southeastern Wisconsin.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 08 Sep 2017 06:59 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways. So each week, we round up the most hilarious 140-character quips from moms and dads to spread the joy. Scroll down to read the latest batch and follow @HuffPostParents on Twitter for more!Most of parenting is unsuccessfully attempting to sit down.— Jennifer S. White (@yenniwhite) September 4, 2017The problem with a household with a stay at home parent is that both parents think Saturday is their day off, and both parents are wrong. ...
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| U.S.-backed forces, Syrian army advance separately on Islamic State in Deir al-Zor Posted: 09 Sep 2017 08:34 AM PDT  By John Davison and Rodi Said BEIRUT/AL SHADADI, Syria (Reuters) - U.S.-backed militias and the Syrian army advanced in separate offensives against Islamic State in eastern Syria on Saturday, piling pressure on shrinking territory the group still holds in oil-rich areas near the Iraqi border. Syrian government forces fought their way to an air base on the outskirts of Deir al-Zor city that had been besieged for years by the jihadists, said a commander in the military alliance fighting in support of President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed alliance of mostly Arab and Kurdish fighters, meanwhile launched attacks against Islamic State in the north of Deir al-Zor province in an operation to capture areas east of the Euphrates river.
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| Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort Ordered to Evacuate Ahead of Hurricane Irma Posted: 08 Sep 2017 06:08 AM PDT  And the surrounding areas
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| China's Xi asks Macron for French help easing N. Korea tensions Posted: 08 Sep 2017 06:46 AM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping called on France to help ease the situation in North Korea during a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, state media said Friday, days after Pyongyang's largest ever nuclear test. The conversation came one day after statements from China supporting stronger sanctions against Pyongyang and "necessary measures" at the UN Security Council, where China and France both hold vetoes.
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| DNA Proves Viking Warriors Were Women Too Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:32 AM PDT  Scientists had assumed this famous Viking warrior was a man, but DNA proves that she was a high-ranking female officer.
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| Homecoming: Massive Sea Turtle Returns to the Ocean After Stint in Rehab Posted: 08 Sep 2017 08:52 AM PDT  Gabriel the sea turtle spent two months in the rehab facility.
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| Chelsea Handler Exposes The Most Sinister Part Of Trump's DACA Repeal Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:21 AM PDT  In one swift sentence, Chelsea Handler summed up her moral outrage over President Donald Trump announcing his decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in six months.
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| Police: Officer arrested nurse after being told to let it go Posted: 09 Sep 2017 08:44 AM PDT  A Utah police officer whose rough arrest of a hospital nurse has drawn condemnation put the woman in handcuffs even after investigators told him not to worry about getting a blood sample he was seeking from a patient, the chief whose department asked for it said Friday.
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| 4 killed in medical helicopter crash in North Carolina Posted: 08 Sep 2017 01:26 PM PDT  BELVIDERE, N.C. (AP) — A medical helicopter crashed Friday in North Carolina, killing four people, the Highway Patrol said.
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| Teen marijuana use falls to 20-year low defying legalisation opponents' predictions Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:34 AM PDT  In 2016, rates of marijuana use among the nation's 12- to 17-year-olds dropped to their lowest level in more than two decades, according to federal survey data released this week. Last year, 6.5 per cent of adolescents used marijuana on a monthly basis, according to the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The last time monthly teen marijuana use was this low was 1994, according to the survey.
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| Dutch soldiers deployed against St Martin looting in wake of Hurricane Irma Posted: 08 Sep 2017 01:33 PM PDT  Dutch troops were fanning out across part of the hurricane-hit island of St Martin on Friday as shots were heard and officials admitted there had been some looting. "The situation is serious," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said when asked about looting, adding authorities were being hampered in their efforts to deal with it as communications were cut off when Hurricane Irma roared through on Wednesday. Shots had been heard on the island, a top marine official revealed, but said it was unclear where they had come from. Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Caribbean, in pictures "Shots have been fired, but not in a structured fashion," Major General Richard Oppelaar, the commander of the Marine Corps, told reporters in The Hague. "I can't deny there are some weapons around," he said, adding in some areas the situation remained "grim" and the atmosphere was tense. "The supermarkets are empty, so people are out searching," Oppelaar said, adding in principle security was under control with soldiers trying "to be as visible" as possible. Hurricane Irma: shocking devastation caught on camera 01:31 About 200 Dutch soldiers have now arrived on the island, which is divided between France and The Netherlands, to help deliver aid and restore order, he added. The badly damaged airport and port have now "been opened for military purposes," Rutte told reporters, adding "we are doing everything possible to get aid to the area." He said food, water and security were the priorities on the island, known in Dutch as Sint Maarten. "There are people on the streets armed with revolvers and machetes," one witness told the Dutch daily newspaper AD on Friday. Hurricane Irma | Key articles "The situation is very serious. No one is in charge." "We will not abandon Sint Maarten," Rutte vowed, adding officials were also sending medicines, tents, tarpaulins, building materials and hygiene kits as fast as possible to the Caribbean. "The military has two tasks after arriving there. Firstly to ensure that there is food and water, but also to ensure security," Rutte said. British soldiers board a Royal Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, before they are flown to help out in the areas affected by Hurricane Irma as winds of up to 175mph left death and destruction in the Atlantic Credit: PA Dutch officials have confirmed that two people were killed, and 43 wounded, 11 of them seriously, on the Dutch part of St Martin by the Category Five storm, before it was downgraded Friday to a four as it barrelled towards Cuba and Florida. King Willem-Alexander is to visit Curacao on Sunday from where the Dutch aid operation is being coordinated, and may then travel on to Sint Maarten. A fund launched by the Dutch Red Cross in the hours after the storm pummelled the island as already raised some 850,000 euros for the Dutch territory. Hurricane Irma | Advice for travellers
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| Republicans Boo White House Officials Over Trump's Debt Deal With Democrats Posted: 08 Sep 2017 11:41 AM PDT  Mick Mulvaney and Steven Mnuchin pitched the deal Trump made with Democrats
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| Saudi suspends dialogue after Qatar outreach Posted: 08 Sep 2017 07:06 PM PDT  Saudi Arabia on Saturday suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of distorting facts soon after a phone call between the rulers of both countries offered hope of a breakthrough in the three-month-old Gulf crisis. Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, spoke to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to express interest in talks, state media from both sides said, in the first public engagement between the leaders after the US president offered to mediate in the crisis. Saudi Arabia led the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain in cutting ties with Qatar in June, accusing it of bankrolling Islamist extremist groups and of being too close to regional rival Iran.
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| The Sun Has Gone Wrong and Scientists Don't Know Why Posted: 08 Sep 2017 04:19 AM PDT  The sun just produced its biggest solar flare for 12 years—despite supposedly being in one of its quietest phases.
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| Teen Girl Who's Been Missing for a Month Swims Across Lake to Escape Captors: Cops Posted: 08 Sep 2017 10:46 AM PDT  The girl was a victim of sexual assault and three suspects have been arrested, cops say.
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| Candidate For Illinois Governor Divests Himself Of Running Mate Over Israel Criticism Posted: 07 Sep 2017 06:09 PM PDT  Daniel Biss, an Illinois state senator seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, dropped Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa as his running mate on Wednesday over Ramirez-Rosa's criticism of Israel and affiliation with a group that supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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| Rihanna Doesn't Care About Dark Circles, And Neither Should You Posted: 08 Sep 2017 07:04 AM PDT  Turns out Rihanna cares as much about dark under-eye circles as she does body shamers: Not one bit.
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| Deer killed in tony California neighborhood, neighbors upset Posted: 08 Sep 2017 02:46 PM PDT  TIBURON, Calif. (AP) — A resident of an exclusive San Francisco Bay neighborhood is the target of online outrage and may face criminal charges for shooting to death a doe and its fawn that were eating newly installed landscaping.
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| Miami hospitals prepare for surge in births during Hurricane Irma Posted: 08 Sep 2017 03:41 PM PDT  While many Miami hospitals are shutting down as Hurricane Irma bears down on Florida, some are offering shelter to their pregnant patients, bracing for the increase in births that often accompanies these large storms. At least three of the city's hospitals have plans in place to care for women with advanced or high-risk pregnancies. When Houston was hit by Hurricane Harvey, the number of women who gave birth spiked.
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