| Trump Gun Proposal Probably Won't Include Universal Background Checks Posted: 11 Mar 2018 03:22 PM PDT  Less than two weeks ago, at a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers at the White House, Trump expressed support for the idea. White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah shied away from an embrace of that position during an appearance Sunday on ABC's "This Week." His backtracking was consistent with Wall Street Journal reporting from Saturday and what many skeptics had predicted. Host Jon Karl reminded Shah of what Trump had said at the Feb. 28 meeting ― in particular, the president's support for universal background checks.
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| Officer killed in California after pursuit and standoff Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:47 AM PST  A reckless driving suspect barricaded himself inside an apartment complex and shot at two officers through the door, leaving one dead. The suspect is now custody.
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| Steve Bannon: 'Let Them Call You Racist; Wear It As A Badge Of Honor' Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:15 PM PST  Footage of Bannon's remarks shows him predicting "victory after victory" for the far right over the "globalists." The term is one extreme-right groups often use as an anti-Semitic slur, referring to what they see as Jewish control of financial institutions and media around the world. Bannon roused National Front members in Lille, France, to their feet, telling them: "History is on our side.
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| Suspected shooter and three women dead after standoff at veterans home Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:46 AM PST  The community in Yountville, California are remembering the victims of the standoff: three staff members at the nation's largest veterans home, one of whom was seven months pregnant.
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| Shooter had sought healing from California vets center Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:56 AM PDT  When Albert Wong returned from an Army deployment in Afghanistan in 2013, he knew it had affected him. He had trouble adjusting to regular life, couldn't sleep at night and was hyper-vigilant about his surroundings.
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| Suspect in Fatal Shooting of Pomona Police Officer Is Arrested Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:22 AM PST  The suspect remains barricaded inside an apartment
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| Photograph of Joe Biden talking with homeless man in Washington DC goes viral Posted: 11 Mar 2018 02:30 PM PDT  An image of former Vice President Joe Biden speaking with a homeless man in Washington DC has gone viral, being shared more than 100,000 times on Facebook. The photograph was taken by Caleb Baca on Thursday night, according to local television station Fox 5, but was posted into Facebook businessman Paul Equale, with that post being shared 103,000 times since it was posted on Friday - with more than 148,000 people reacting to it. Speaking about Mr Biden, he added that "character is about what you do when no one is watching".
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| Father Of Parkland Victim Creates Powerful Mural Honoring Son And 16 Others Killed Posted: 11 Mar 2018 05:14 PM PDT  In a silent, moving tribute, Manuel Oliver, the father of Parkland school shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, painted a mural on Saturday honoring his son and the 16 other people killed in the Florida massacre last month. The event was captured on a viral video as part of an art exhibit created by artist Evan Pestaina located in an art space in Miami. It was organized by Miami Heat NBA star Dwyane Wade.
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| Full Panel: Is Stormy Daniels About An Affair, or Campaign Finance Rules? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 11:01 PM PST  Andrea Mitchell, Peggy Noonan, Eugene Robinson and Matt Bai respond to the latest news in the Stormy Daniels affair and question whether the issue is moral or legal.
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| Trump To Visit Ground Zero Of The Anti-Trump Resistance: California Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:42 AM PDT  Trump's fraught relationship with California, where he has some of his lowest approval ratings, is sure to cast a shadow on the visit. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said this week he considers the state at war with Trump's government, and has fiercely denounced the president on climate change, marijuana policy, offshore drilling and, lately, immigration. Trump's administration on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against California over its so-called sanctuary laws meant to protect undocumented immigrants.
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| Trump signals trust in North Korea after agreeing to meeting Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:52 AM PST  The president told reporters that he believed the meeting would be "very successful" and that North Korea would keep a promise to put their nuclear tests on hold ahead of historic talks between the two nations.
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| Bono sorry after bullying claims at ONE charity Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:43 PM PST  U2 frontman Bono has apologised after claims emerged Sunday that workers at his ONE charity were subjected to a culture of abuse and bullying. The Irish singer, 57, said he was "deeply sorry" and "furious" about the allegations, which appeared in The Mail on Sunday newspaper, and pledged to meet victims to apologise in person. The British tabloid detailed a string of incidents, including claims from a married woman who said she was demoted after refusing to have sex with a Tanzanian member of parliament.
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| Yep, Martin Shkreli's 5,000 Percent Drug Price Hike Is Still In Effect Posted: 09 Mar 2018 05:10 PM PST  In a Brooklyn courtroom during his sentence hearing, Shkreli shed tears and appeared to show remorse for his past. Shkreli, a former hedge fund manager and entrepreneur, earned his unflattering nickname by raising the cost of the drug from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill. After a Bloomberg reporter suggested it cost around $1 to make, Shkreli acknowledged the drug cost "very little money" to make.
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| Massachusetts paper calls on Sen. Warren to take DNA test Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:22 AM PST  Some on the left and right are calling on Senator Elizabeth Warren to take a DNA test to straighten out questions about Native American heritage; radio host Howie Carr weighs in.
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| Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:29 AM PST ![Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks]( "Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks") Khalid Alhammadi photographs Abu Dhabi's tallest landmarks rising high above the mist.
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| Florida school shooting response caught on radio traffic Posted: 09 Mar 2018 07:53 PM PST  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — As deputies began responding to last month's deadly Florida school shooting, the school's armed resource officer radioed that shots were coming from the freshman building, but he advised officers to stay back — a seeming failure to follow widely established guidelines to immediately confront the attacker in active shooter situations.
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| Vladimir Putin suggests Jews and other minorities in Russia could be behind US election meddling Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:42 AM PST  Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested Jews and other minorities in Russia, including Tatars and Ukranians, could be to blame for meddling in the US presidential election. "Maybe they're not even Russians," he told NBC News. Last month, the FBI charged 13 Russians and three companies for running what it claims was a cyber warfare movement based in the Russian city of St Petersburg.
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| Former Trump Aide Sam Nunberg Says Mueller Probe 'Not A Witch Hunt' Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:19 PM PST  The probe by Mueller into whether Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign is "warranted," Nunberg told ABC News. He made the comments after testifying for close to six hours before a grand jury on the Mueller probe. "I don't think it's a witch hunt," Nunberg said.
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| Japan tsunami, nuclear tragedy remembered seven years on Posted: 10 Mar 2018 11:48 PM PST  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led a sombre ceremony Sunday as Japan marked the seventh anniversary of a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated its northeastern coast and left around 18,500 people dead or missing. The killer tsunami also swamped the emergency power supply at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, sending its reactors into meltdown as cooling systems failed in what was the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Abe, lawmakers and family members who lost their loved ones in the disaster bowed their heads in silent prayer at a ceremony in Tokyo at 2:46 pm (0546 GMT) -- the exact moment the quake struck.
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| Impax to pay $35 million to settle part of Solodyn antitrust litigation Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:11 AM PST ![Impax to pay $35 million to settle part of Solodyn antitrust litigation]( "Impax to pay $35 million to settle part of Solodyn antitrust litigation") Impax Laboratories Inc has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve part of litigation over claims it entered into an anticompetitive deal in a patent case to delay releasing a generic version of the acne medication Solodyn. The settlement was disclosed in papers filed in federal court in Boston on Saturday. It resolved part of the antitrust litigation Impax faces over Solodyn related to sales of the drug to direct purchasers such as retailers and wholesalers.
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| Twitter Bans Popular Accounts Accused Of Stealing Jokes And Selling Retweets Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:44 PM PST  Twitter suspended several popular accounts on Friday in a major crackdown on "tweetdeckers," a secret network of accounts that make tweets go viral by retweeting the same content in exchange for money. The company suspended several notably large accounts in Friday's cleanup, including @GirlPosts, @Dory, @CommonWhiteGirl, @SoDamnTrue and @memeprovider. Some of these accounts, which mostly tweeted jokes and memes, had millions of followers.
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| Readers write: Reactions to 'Armed in America' book review Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:00 AM PST ![Readers write: Reactions to 'Armed in America' book review]( "Readers write: Reactions to 'Armed in America' book review") We received a very robust response to our Jan. 26 review of "Armed in America," by Patrick J. Charles, that appeared in the Books section of CSMonitor.com. From the more than 100 reader responses that arrived within a few days of publishing it, we have chosen a few that give some idea of the range of opinion represented.
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| Top ACLU Voting Rights Lawyer Rips Into Trump Expert's Evidence Of Kansas Voter Fraud Posted: 09 Mar 2018 07:47 PM PST  The ACLU's top voting rights lawyer faced down one of President Donald Trump's voter fraud commissioners in court on Friday, getting him to concede that he had shaky evidence of significant voter fraud in Kansas. The exchange came on the fourth day of a trial over a Kansas law that requires residents to prove they are U.S. citizens when they register to vote. Several residents who were not allowed to vote in the 2016 election are being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union in the suit against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R). Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's voting rights project, questioned Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official and member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, who is one of the most prominent people arguing that noncitizen voter registration is a substantial issue.
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| Jonathan Karl: Trump's unpredictable, risky move on North Korea may prove successful Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:37 AM PDT  President Donald Trump turned the usual "strategic patience" practice upside down by accepting a meeting with North Korea.
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| All 11 People On Board Dead After Turkish Private Plane Crashes in Iran, Authorities Say Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:49 AM PDT  The plane was flying from the U.A.E. to Istanbul
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| Study: Cholesterol drug lowers risk of death, heart attack Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:41 AM PST  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A newer cholesterol drug, used with older statin medicines, modestly lowered heart risks and deaths in a big study of heart attack survivors that might persuade insurers to cover the pricey treatment more often.
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| AP FACT CHECK: Trump on trade, guns, White House morale Posted: 10 Mar 2018 11:28 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite grappling with unparalleled staff departures, President Donald Trump painted a rosy picture of a smoothly functioning administration getting things done, pushing along gun restrictions and bringing jobs to the United States. It made for another series of grandiose claims this past week.
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| Srebrenica award to Bosnian Serb leader angers victims' families Posted: 11 Mar 2018 11:34 AM PDT  Authorities in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica angered relatives of the 1995 massacre there by handing its top municipal award on Sunday to the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, local media reported. The town's city hall under its Serb mayor Mladen Grujicic awarded the distinction, the Golden Plaque of Srebrenica, to Milorad Dodik, president of the Serb entity of Bosnia, Republika Srpska, the N1 television channel said. Dodik declines to describe the Srebrenica massacre as genocide.
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| Norway's Hydro says Brazil plant made unauthorized spills Posted: 11 Mar 2018 11:20 AM PDT  Norwegian aluminum maker Norsk Hydro's Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil made unauthorized spills of waste water last month, the company said on Sunday, more than two weeks after local authorities first began to raise questions. Authorities in late February ordered the plant, the world's largest alumina refinery, to cut output in half until it addressed concerns, leading Hydro to declare force majeure with no time set to restart production. A Brazilian government-backed research institute on Friday told Reuters it will soon publish evidence of a waste leak from Alunorte, located in the northern state of Para.
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| Waymo self-driving rigs to haul Google cargo Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:13 AM PST  Google-owned Waymo on Friday said that its self-driving trucks will haul cargo bound for the internet giant's data centers in Georgia. Rival Uber made a similar announcement on Tuesday, saying it is using self-driving semi trucks to augment human-driven rigs in its on-demand trucking service in the US state of Arizona. Waymo driverless trucks will go to work in the Atlanta area Monday as part of a pilot program intended to help integrate autonomous big rigs with the operations of shippers, ports, terminals, factories, and distribution centers, according to the company.
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| Marco Rubio Still Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Buy Guns Posted: 09 Mar 2018 05:11 PM PST  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is really trying to thread that gun control needle. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a bill into law on Friday that enacts several restrictions on gun purchases, including a three-day waiting period for long gun purchases, an age requirement of 21 for all firearm sales and some regulation of bump stocks, the after-market accessories that make a semiautomatic rifle fire more like an automatic. Although the National Rifle Association was against the bill, Rubio supported it, which made sense considering he said he backed raising the legal age for purchasing a rifle at a town hall event hosted by CNN last month in the wake of a massacre at a Florida high school.
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| UK police identify over 200 witnesses in nerve agent attack: minister Posted: 10 Mar 2018 02:33 PM PST  By Peter Nicholls SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - British police have identified more than 200 witnesses and are looking at more than 240 pieces of evidence in their investigation into a nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy and his daughter, interior minister Amber Rudd said on Saturday. Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital in a critical condition since Sunday, when they were found unconscious on a bench in the southern English cathedral city of Salisbury. "The two victims remain in hospital and they're critical but stable," Rudd told reporters after chairing a meeting of the government's Cobra security committee.
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| Zoos are rating animals online and it's too good Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:09 PM PST  Zoos are giving animals Amazon-esque species ratings, and it's honestly kind of great. The trend started Friday with the Oregon Zoo in a tweet hashtagged #rateaspecies. Other animal conservancies got in on the fun – including aquariums – providing informative ratings for people looking to, er, buy the products. SEE ALSO: We're calling 'fake news' on the report that 'Black Panther' caused a surge in black cat adoptions ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ FIRST IMPRESSIONSOverall very good first impressions. Sturdy built, totally winter-ready and waterproof. Only comes in brown but that's actually a plus for me. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/IK99ODsTPT — Oregon Zoo (@OregonZoo) March 9, 2018 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ otter be 4 stars butok first of all i'm very satisfied much improved over river edition. extremely warm insulation which adds buoyancy. if u like kelp the UrchinCrusher+ is a must on coastal trips. minus one star because it's actually a weasel lol?! #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/oCGV3aGlZ0 — Monterey Bay Aquarium (@MontereyAq) March 9, 2018 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ A+ VINTAGE ROADSTERDespite few major design updates since the Ice Age, a worthy investment for current and future aficionados. Oxygen-processing and sustained land speed unparalleled. Extremely rare, though hopefully not for long.#rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/Dqa0Gp7Q7m — Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens (@LAZoo) March 9, 2018 ⭐ very unsatisfied with the shipping. I ordered a frog and what I got was this big melted pile. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/6pj9D2HcED — Slartibartfast (@shtoopy) March 9, 2018 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ POUNCE ON THIS ONEStarted out small but got stretched out over time. Still, even after heavy use in all weather, very tough, very hardy. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/lPCLxIfCYi — Woodland Park Zoo (@woodlandparkzoo) March 9, 2018 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Pleasantly surprised. Thought I had ordered a Roomba, but this did an excellent job of cleaning up my ecosystem. Only downside is the projectile vomiting. Overall 5 stars, would drunkenly purchase again. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/5fDfHiaWNq — Katherine O'Reilly (@DrKatfish) March 9, 2018 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ VERY HAPPYNot to be confused with a smiling leaf. Very bouncy and keeps cricket population under control. Offers eye antennas for improved smile signal. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/qz4frTnoqL — Josh's Frogs (@JoshsFrogs) March 9, 2018 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THESE FISH ARE NOT BROKENAnyone who says otherwise didn't read the instructions. A+ globiform, not supposed to swim well just look cute, does as promised. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/86q4PFhM83 — CA AcademyOfSciences (@calacademy) March 9, 2018 WATCH: We could see a decline in King Penguins thanks to — you guessed it — climate change
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| Hong Kong election gauges city's stomach for defying Beijing Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:43 AM PDT  HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong residents voted Sunday in by-elections that give opposition supporters the chance to recapture lost ground in a contest measuring voters' appetite for democracy in the semiautonomous Chinese city.
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| German energy giant EON to buy RWE subsidiary Innogy Posted: 11 Mar 2018 04:17 AM PDT  German energy giant EON plans to take over Innogy, the renewables subsidiary of competitor RWE, in a complex deal valued at around 20 billion euros ($25 billion), both companies said Sunday. The in-principle agreement involving asset swaps is part of a major restructuring of Germany's energy market as Europe's top economy switches from conventional to renewable power. The aim is for EON to focus on the retail, energy networks and customer solutions business, while RWE would take over the renewables power generation of both companies.
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| Trump Is Remaking The Courts In His Image: White, Male and Straight Posted: 11 Mar 2018 06:08 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― More than a year into his presidency, Donald Trump is making the nation's courts look a lot more like him: white, male and straight. To date, Trump has nominated 87 people to be judges with lifetime tenure on U.S. district courts, circuit courts or the Supreme Court. Eighty of them are white, or nearly 92 percent.
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| Ford Gives the Transit a Facelift Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:30 AM PDT  It also gets a diesel engine option.
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| The Navy's Biggest Problem in World War II Wasn't Enemy Submarines (but Bad Torpedoes) Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:07 AM PST  The reason was that until late 1943, the U.S. Navy did not have a reliable torpedo. Throughout 1942 and 1943, submarine commanders fired scores of the new Mk 14 torpedo at enemy targets without recording any hits. Lt. Cmdr. Frederick B. "Fearless Freddie" Warder was one captain who had his share of torpedo trouble.
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| Hundreds urged to wash clothes after UK nerve agent attack Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:34 AM PDT  By Henry Nicholls and Alex Fraser SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - Hundreds of people who visited the Zizzi restaurant or the Mill pub in the English city of Salisbury were told on Sunday to wash their clothes after traces of nerve agent used to attack a former Russian spy last week were found at both sites. Public Health England said there was no immediate health risk to anyone who may have been in either the restaurant or the pub, but their was a small chance that any of the agent that had come into contact with clothing or belongings could still be present in minute amounts and contaminate skin. Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital in a critical condition since March 4, when they were found unconscious on a bench in the southern English cathedral city of Salisbury.
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| Clinton warns of 'diplomatic danger' in N. Korea talks Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:03 AM PST  Hillary Clinton has warned that the Trump administration "was not recognising the danger" in discussing nuclear disarmament with Pyongyang, and said Washington lacked experienced diplomats to handle the talks. "If you want to talk to Kim Jong Un about his nuclear weapons you need experienced diplomats," Clinton was quoted as telling Dutch tabloid Algemeen Dagblad in an interview published Saturday. "These are people familiar with the dossiers and who know the North Koreans and their language," Trump's presidential rival said in an interview conducted in Amsterdam and published in Dutch.
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| Teen Mom Arrested After Her Baby Was Found Crawling on a Busy Road Posted: 10 Mar 2018 01:30 PM PST  The nine-month-old baby was found crawling in a busy roadway
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| Israel's Netanyahu in emergency talks amid coalition crisis Posted: 11 Mar 2018 12:05 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister held emergency negotiations with key coalition partners on Sunday in hopes of averting a crisis that has threatened to plunge the country into early elections.
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| Couple Hilariously Shoots Engagement Photos at Target Because They Love it so Much Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:51 PM PST  Going to the store had become a tradition for them.
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| US narrows travel alert for Mexico's Playa del Carmen Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:32 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has narrowed its travel warning for the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen amid what it calls an unspecified "ongoing security threat" just as the spring holiday season is kicking into high gear.
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| Trump to make first trip as president to defiant California Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:08 PM PST  US President Donald Trump is heading to California, a state at the forefront of resistance to his anti-immigration agenda, for what is almost certain to be a contentious trip. Trump's first trip to California as president, on Tuesday, comes at a time of high tensions between his Republican administration and the Democratic-leaning most populous US state, especially on immigration issues. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has accused the state of deliberately obstructing enforcement of federal law by offering undocumented immigrants sanctuary protections.
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| Regeneron/Sanofi heart drug succeeds in major trial; Will insurers pay? Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:31 AM PST  A potent, expensive cholesterol drug sold by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi significantly reduced major adverse heart events in a huge study presented on Saturday but it remains to be seen whether the new data will prompt insurers to pay for increased use of the medicine. The drug, Praluent, also led to fewer deaths among high-risk patients, which could be the strongest argument for insurers to finally remove barriers that have severely constrained sales and frustrated physicians trying to get the medicine to patients. Insurers have balked at paying for Praluent and a rival Amgen drug, which dramatically lower "bad" LDL cholesterol but carry list prices of more than $14,000 a year before discounts, over fear of the cost of use over many years by millions of patients.
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