| The Real Drama In Russia’s Election Comes After The Vote Posted: 17 Mar 2018 04:01 AM PDT  Russia's election on Sunday is a mere formality, lacking any serious
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| Man Killed by a 35-pound Boulder While Driving Down a California Freeway Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  The California Highway Patrol stated that the boulder was purposely moved and thrown from the overpass.
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| Donald Trump Hails Andrew McCabe's Firing As 'A Great Day For Democracy' Posted: 17 Mar 2018 12:06 AM PDT  President Donald Trump wrote a celebratory tweet hours after former FBI deputy
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| White House is Trying to Tamp Down Reports of an Imminent Cabinet Shakeup Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  The president recently fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a tweet and hinted at more changes to come.
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| Miami bridge collapse: Rescuers continue desperate search for survivors as first victim named Posted: 16 Mar 2018 06:40 AM PDT  Rescue teams continued the desperate search for survivors after a pedestrian bridge collapsed in Florida, as the first victim was named as Alexa Duran. Orlando Duran said his daughter Alexa was among the dead. The 18-year-old student at Florida International University was described by her friends as "an awesome person".
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| Lawyers call US gun charges for Mexican man 'vindictive' Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:48 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Attorneys for a Mexican man acquitted of murder in a San Francisco shooting that helped fuel the U.S. immigration debate are pressing for documents to help them argue that his U.S. gun charges are vindictive.
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| California Student Says He Was Forced to Participate in Walkout Posted: 16 Mar 2018 11:34 AM PDT  A California high school student says a teacher denied students the option to not participate in a walkout to protest gun violence.
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| Court Just Found Black Victim Of White Supremacist Assault Not Guilty Of... Assault Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:58 PM PDT  Anti-racist protester DeAndre Harris, who was brutally beaten by a group of
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| Uber’s Biggest Rival Is Experimenting With All-You-Can-Ride Monthly Subscriptions Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:00 AM PDT  For all-you-can-ride access to the car-hailing service
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| U.S. officials: Russia behind cyber attacks on power plants Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:38 AM PDT  U.S. officials discuss Russia's role behind the cyber attacks on power plants, and how they have been targeting U.S. networks since 2016.
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| Trailblazing US congresswoman Louise Slaughter dead at 88 Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:11 AM PDT  Louise Slaughter, a pioneering Democratic US lawmaker who rose to become the first female chair of the House Rules Committee, died Friday after suffering a concussion in a fall, her office announced. First elected to Congress in 1986 in western New York, Slaughter was the oldest sitting member in the House of Representatives, a tough-as-nails legislator and an influential voice within her party. "Her strong example inspired countless young women to know their power, and seek their rightful place at the head of the decision-making table," said top Democrat Nancy Pelosi, herself a political trailblazer who served as the first female speaker of the House.
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| Miami bridge collapse: engineer's answerphone message about crack not heard Posted: 17 Mar 2018 03:55 AM PDT  Homicide detectives opened an investigation on Friday into the collapse of a new footbridge that killed at least six people at Miami's Florida International University (FIU), as questions began to swirl about the companies behind the structure's controversial design and construction. Juan Perez, the director of Miami-Dade police department, said criminal charges were possible once exhaustive inquiries by his detectives and state and federal authorities were complete.
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| Teachers should not be armed because most are women, Republican politician argues Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:38 AM PDT  A Republican politician argued teachers should not be armed in the wake of the Florida high school shooting - because most of them are women. Alabama state representative Harry Shiver claimed that women "are scared of guns" and don't want to learn how to shoot. Mr Shiver told AL.com he would probably abstain from voting on a bill that would allow trained teachers to carry guns on school campuses.
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| Shepard Smith Says Fox News Opinion Personalities 'Don't Really Have Rules' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 06:41 PM PDT  Shepard Smith derided the journalistic rigor of Fox News opinion programming
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| New Zealand puts aside Russia trade plans after nerve attack Posted: 16 Mar 2018 01:01 AM PDT ![New Zealand puts aside Russia trade plans after nerve attack]( "New Zealand puts aside Russia trade plans after nerve attack") WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand on Friday put aside plans to pursue a free-trade deal with Russia and joined other nations in condemning the country following the poisoning of a former spy in Britain.
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| Saudi crown prince on Kushner, Jerusalem embassy move Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:21 AM PDT  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will meet Tuesday with President Trump at the White House. For this Sunday's "60 Minutes," "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell asked the 32-year-old crown prince about that visit, Jared Kushner and the president's plan to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
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| FIU student Alexa Duran identified as victim of Florida bridge collapse Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:51 AM PDT  Alexa Duran was driving from a doctor's appointment with her best friend Richard next to her in the passenger's seat, when the bridge collapsed on top of them. Her best friend Richard speaks out about his amazing story of survival.
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| North Korea foreign minister meets Swedish PM Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:12 AM PDT  North Korea's foreign minister held talks in Stockholm with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven on Friday amid reports Sweden could play a role in setting up a proposed summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. Ri held talks late Thursday and early Friday with his Swedish counterpart Margot Wallstrom, discussions which according to Swedish officials were to focus on the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and a possible Trump-Kim summit.
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| Companies That Built Collapsed FIU Bridge Had Been Fined for Safety Violations Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:53 AM PDT  MCM has been fined more than $50,000 for 11 violations
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| Timeline - The rise of Chinese leader Xi Jinping Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:09 AM PDT  By John Ruwitch SHANGHAI (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, will be re-elected to a second five-year term as president on Saturday by the rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress. The son of Communist Party revolutionary and one-time deputy prime minister Xi Zhongxun, the younger Xi spent decades working his way up party and government ranks, but his consolidation of power since becoming head of the party in 2012 has been unprecedented. Xi's ascent culminated last week in parliament's passing of a constitutional amendment that eliminated term limits for the presidency, discarding a rule that had helped keep leaders in check and underpinned collective decision-making for 35 years.
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| California couple gets $2.5 million settlement after city called kidnapping a hoax Posted: 16 Mar 2018 11:19 AM PDT  Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn filed a defamation lawsuit against the city of Vallejo after officials there dismissed Mr Quinn's description of a home intruder kidnapping and raping Ms Huskins as a fabrication that had wasted police resources. Vindicating the couple, a man named Matthew Muller was later convicted of kidnapping Ms Quinn and sentenced to 40 years in prison after he was arrested and had his home searched during an unrelated investigation. It alleges police officers reacted to Mr Quinn reporting the crime by treating him as if he had "already been convicted of murdering" Ms Huskins.
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| Republicans Got Greedy With Gerrymandering. Now It's Coming Back To Haunt Them. Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:33 AM PDT  When Thomas Hofeller travelled across the country at the beginning of the
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| 'Dogs Must Think We're Magical When We Rub The Wall And The Room Gets Bright' Posted: 16 Mar 2018 04:18 AM PDT  The shower isn't just a place to sing. Separated from our cellphones, standing
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| ProPublica leads media into correction of murky CIA story Posted: 16 Mar 2018 06:45 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The news organization ProPublica issued a detailed correction of a story about Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's choice for the next CIA director, and the waterboarding of a detainee the year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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| Counter-terror police launch murder investigation after confirming Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov strangled Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:34 PM PDT  A fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, who was found dead at his south London home earlier this week, was murdered, police have said, amid fears of a second Russia-sponsored attack on British soil. Businessman, Nikolai Glushkov, 68, who was granted asylum in the UK after fleeing Moscow in 2006, was strangled to death, Scotland Yard has confirmed. The former right-hand man of deceased oligarch, Boris Berezovsky, his death came just over a week after Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned by a nerve agent in Salisbury. The former boss of the state airline Aeroflot, Mr Glushkov had told friends he feared he was on a Kremlin hit-list. Wish suspicion falling again on Moscow, police have reportedly started contacting a number of Russian exiles to discuss their safety. Police and the security services have now reassessed their view that exiles are at a low risk, the BBC reported. A former bodyguard, who worked for Mr Berezovsky, and knew Mr Glushkov well, said his death had all the hallmarks of a state-sponsored assassination. A murder investigation was launched in New Malden The France-based security expert, who asked to be identified only by his initials, RG, said: "I'm not at all surprised [that a murder investigation has been opened]. "You can easily choke someone in 10 seconds so that they fall into a comatose state and you can then continue strangling them without leaving any other marks on the body. It's a technique they [the Russians] know well." Mr Berezovsky was found hanged in the bathroom of his Surrey home in 2013, with the cause of death being put down to suicide. But suspicion has always surrounded the circumstances of his death, with many believing he was one of a number of Putin critics who were deliberately silenced. Another of their close associates, Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, died at his Surrey home in 2008, following an apparent heart attack. 12 uk deaths with suspected Russian involvement A close personal friend of the three men, who asked not to be named, said he was in little doubt their murders were linked. He said: "All of them were in no doubt that Boris was killed. It is perhaps inevitable that they would be assassinated themselves. "It is a very horrible thing to happen, he was a lovely man, a very funny man with a great sense of humour. It sounds like somebody has a vendetta against them." Boris Berezovsky was found dead at his Surrey home five years ago Counter terror officers continued to probe the nerve gas attack on Mr Skirpal, whose attempted murder led to the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats from London. Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, escalated the war of words with Russia, when he accused Vladimir Putin of personally ordering the nerve agent attack. He said it was "overwhelmingly likely" that the Russian President was behind the attempted murder, a claim that was described as "unpardonable" by Mr Putin's spokesman. News of this latest murder investigation will further stoke fears that critics or enemies of Russia and its leader, are no longer safe on British soil. Downing Street said the Prime Minister had been "kept informed" of developments but stressed that Mr Glushkov's death was a police matter and that no link had been made with the Salisbury poisoning case. But Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, said the murder of Mr Glushkov appeared to "fit into a pattern" of violent deaths of enemies of Mr Putin. The police investigation is continuing in Salisbury He said: "If there is a link between Mr Glushkov's death and the Kremlin it will be further proof that we are dealing with essentially a rogue state which refuses to abide by international rules and has violated UN laws. "What has been going on is a deliberate attempt to settle Russian scores in the UK." Boris Johnson has laid the blame at Putin's door But a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has suggested moderate Labour MPs who blame Russia for spy poisoning are "enemies" who should be deselected. Chris Williamson, the Labour MP for Derby North, said Labour MPs who had decided Moscow was "unequivocally" to blame were "baying for blood" and he suggested they face de-selection. And the Kremlin also ramped up its language, launching a withering response to Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, who had suggested Russia should "go away and shut up". Major-General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman at Russia's defence ministry, accused Mr Williamson of engaging in "market wench talk", adding that it reflected his "intellectual impotency".
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| Academy 'launches sexual harassment investigation into its president John Bailey' days after the Oscars Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PDT  The head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is reportedly under investigation for sexual harassment. The academy, which oversees the Oscars, is responding to multiple allegations against president John Bailey, according to reports in the Hollywood Reporter and Variety. In a statement, the Academy said it "treats any complaints confidentially to protect all parties".
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| Hillary Clinton fractures hand on India trip Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:34 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton has fractured her hand during a tour of India, reportedly slipping in a bathtub at a luxury hotel in a former palace. A doctor at the private Goyal Hospital told AFP Friday that Clinton had undergone screening after suffering pain in her right hand following a fall. Local and international media quoted unnamed sources as saying Clinton had slipped in the bath in an accident that comes just five months after she broke her toe in London.
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| The Truth, the Trial and the North Korean Trojan Horse Posted: 16 Mar 2018 06:38 PM PDT  North Korea's charm offensives have a track record of being diplomatic traps. The past week saw new developments on the Korean Peninsula. The meeting last week between Kim Jong-un and the South Korean delegation led by National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong and Chief of the National Intelligence Service Suh Hoon resulted in plans for an inter-Korean summit to be held in late April and a U.S.-North Korea summit to be held by May.
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| This Russian Plane Was Carrying So Much Gold That Its Cargo Door Burst Open Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:56 PM PDT  Littering the runway with precious metals
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| Republican Food Stamp Plan In Disarray Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― A Republican plan to shrink food stamp enrollment is in some
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| UK opposition leader: Don't rush to blame Moscow in spy case Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:45 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The United States and other allies have united behind the U.K. government in blaming Russia for the nerve-agent poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. But Britain's main opposition party is split over how firmly to point the finger at Moscow.
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| Where is Amy Yu? Police Say 16-Year-Old May Have Flown to Cancun With 45-Year-Old Man Posted: 17 Mar 2018 07:46 AM PDT  She has been missing since the beginning of March.
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| Audi to build four-door electric sports car in 2020 Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:27 AM PDT  Audi has just confirmed it will be launching a fully-electric four-door GT model in 2020 to rival the Tesla Model S, which will be a gran turismo sibling of the e-tron SUV that arrives later this year. At its recent annual press conference, the manufacturer announced it will launch no fewer than five of those models by as soon as 2021, so we will soon have a Q3-sized EV crossover, the e-tron, e-tron Sportback and the e-tron GT. Perhaps what's most interesting about Audi's conversion to the electric cause is a focus on what will be special "Audi Sport" performance models.
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| Pakistan doing 'bare minimum' to help US: official Posted: 16 Mar 2018 12:10 PM PDT  Pakistan is doing the "bare minimum" to squeeze the Taliban and terror groups, a senior US administration official said Friday, despite Washington's threat to freeze two billion dollars' worth of aid. The official's comments also come as Pakistan is trying to avoid being put on a global watch list over terrorism financing that could hamper its ability to receive foreign investment. "They have done the bare minimum to appear responsive to our requests," the official added, citing the need to prod the Taliban toward the negotiating table and round-up militants.
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| Khloe Kardashian's Good American launches maternity denim Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:17 AM PDT  Good American, an all-inclusive size denim line founded by Khloe Kardashian
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| German interior minister declares 'Islam does not belong' in the country Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:31 AM PDT  Angela Merkel's new government got off to a rocky start on Friday as the chancellor and her interior minister clashed publicly over the role of Islam in Germany society. Horst Seehofer, who became interior minister this week under a coalition deal, used his first interview since taking office to declare "Islam does not belong in Germany". Mrs Merkel lost no time in slapping down the minister, telling a press conference: "Muslims are also part of Germany, and so their religion is just as much a part of Germany". Mr Seehofer's controversial remarks echoed last year's election slogans from the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD), which campaigned on an anti-Muslim platform. But they were most clearly aimed as a broadside against Mrs Merkel, who famously declared "Islam belongs in Germany" in a 2015 press conference after opening the country's borders to over 1 million asylum-seekers. "Islam does not belong in Germany," Mr Seehofer told Bild newspaper. "Germany is shaped by Christianity. That means not working on Sundays and celebrating religious holidays such as Easter, Pentecost and Christmas. Horst Seehofer talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the German parliament in Berlin Credit: AP Photo/Markus Schreiber "Of course the Muslims who live with us belong in Germany. But that doesn't mean we should give up our national traditions and customs." The leader of Mrs Merkel's Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Mr Seehofer was the leading opponent of her refugee policy and the dispute almost ended the longstanding alliance between the two parties. But they patched up their differences ahead of last year's election and Mr Seehofer was given control of migration and asylum policy as interior minister under the new coalition deal. His remarks on Friday suggest he is ready to reopen the feud in government. Mrs Merkel responded angrily to Mr Seehofer's comments. "We want an Islam based on the constitution and compliant with constitutional law," she said on a visit to Paris. "I think we must do everything we can to allow religions to live together in peace." Mr Seehofer also came under attack from Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the chairman of Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrat party (CDU) who is widely seen as her chosen successor. Profile | Angela Merkel "Freedom of religion undoubtedly belongs in Germany, just as the Muslims in Germany, together with their faith, belong in our country," Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer said. More than 4 million Muslims live in Germany, 1.9 million of whom are German citizens. More than 60 per cent are of Turkish heritage and were living in Germany long before Mrs Merkel's decision to open the borders to asylum-seekers. Mr Seehofer later sought to clarify his remarks. "Our country Germany has been shaped by Christianity for centuries. That's why it's wrong to say Islam belongs in Germany, " he said. "Of course we have tolerance and respect for other religious communities. And of course the Muslims living in Germany belong in Germany." It was Wolfgang Schäuble, the former finance minister and current speaker of the German parliament, who first declared in 2006 that "Islam is part of Germany and Europe". The phrase at the centre of the dispute,"Islam belongs in Germany" was first coined in 2010 by Christian Wulff, the Germna president at the time, and later taken up by Mrs Merkel.
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| Husband of Suburban Mom Who Lived Double Life on the Internet Is Charged With Her Murder Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:45 AM PDT  A court document filed Thursday shows 44-year-old William Jeffrey West is charged with murder in the slaying of Kathleen Dawn West
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| The Hilarious Way John Cleese Treats Donald Trump Supporters Who Walk Out Of His Show Posted: 16 Mar 2018 03:11 AM PDT  "Monty Python" star John Cleese is no fan of President Donald Trump.
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| No. 16 UMBC Defeats No. 1 Virginia In Biggest Upset In Men's NCAA Tournament History Posted: 16 Mar 2018 08:36 PM PDT  For the first time in the history of the men's NCAA tournament, a No. 16 seed
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| Immigration agency's latest California focus hits San Diego Posted: 16 Mar 2018 05:58 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal immigration officers arrested 115 people during a three-day operation in the San Diego area amid heightened tensions between the Trump administration and the state of California over immigration enforcement.
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| 5-Year-Old Cries as He Watches His Mom Walk Down The Aisle Posted: 17 Mar 2018 08:39 AM PDT  It was a an unforgettable moment.
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| Engineer warned of cracking in US bridge before deadly collapse Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:47 PM PDT  The chief engineer of a Florida bridge project warned authorities of cracking in the structure days before it collapsed, killing at least six people, the southern US state's department of transportation said Friday. Chief engineer Denney Pate left a voicemail on a Florida Department of Transportation employee's landline on March 13, two days before the pedestrian walkway came crashing down on the major road beneath, the department said in a statement. There was "some cracking that's been observed on the north end of the span," Pate said, according to a transcript of the call.
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| Fallen bridge: 'Stress test' preceded collapse that killed 6 Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:37 AM PDT  An innovative pedestrian bridge being built at Florida International University was put to a "stress test" before it collapsed over traffic, killing six people and sending 10 to a hospital, authorities said.
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| Indonesia pushes for Southeast Asian patrols of disputed waters Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:46 PM PDT  By Fergus Jensen SYDNEY (Reuters) - Indonesia has lobbied Southeast Asian countries to carry out maritime patrols in the disputed South China Sea, claimed in most part by China, to improve security, Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu said on Friday. Indonesia says it's a non-claimant state in the South China Sea dispute but has clashed with China over fishing rights around the Natuna Islands and expanded its military presence there, and also renamed the northern reaches of its exclusive economic zone, asserting its own maritime claim. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Defence Minister Marise Payne held talks with their Indonesian counterparts Retno Marsudi and Ryacudu in Sydney, ahead of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit.
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