| Comey Memoir: Hiding Clinton Email News Would've Made Her Presidency 'Illegitimate' Posted: 13 Apr 2018 10:26 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Former FBI Director James Comey ― whom Hillary Clinton blames for
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| Russian presence in Syria a concern as US, UK, France attack Posted: 13 Apr 2018 12:26 PM PDT  Keir Simmons, NBC News foreign correspondent, reports live from Moscow on the Russian concerns in Syria and considerations made of the Russian presence by the joint strike by U.S., Britain, and France.
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| DOJ tinkers with immigration courts to speed deportations Posted: 13 Apr 2018 02:00 AM PDT  The sequence of events that lead to immigration court vary from case to case, especially now, as even broader categories of people — ranging from convicted criminals to recent border crossers seeking asylum, longtime residents and even a few U.S. citizens — are getting caught up in the Trump administration's sweeping enforcement dragnet.
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| Sarah Sanders holds nothing back when asked about James Comey Posted: 13 Apr 2018 01:00 PM PDT  During a press briefing at the White House, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders gave a brutal response when asked about James Comey.
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| Father Seeking Justice For Teen’s Alleged Rape At Hands Of Indian Lawmaker Dies In Custody Posted: 12 Apr 2018 08:11 PM PDT  In a grim development to a sexual assault case involving a state lawmaker in
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| Some Criminals Have A ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ On Google, UK High Court Rules Posted: 13 Apr 2018 03:38 PM PDT  A high court in London ruled Friday that some lawbreakers have a "right to be
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| Four things to know about Telegram messenger Posted: 13 Apr 2018 02:32 AM PDT  The popular messaging app Telegram has been blocked in Russia after refusing to give state security services access to private conversations. Known as Russia's Mark Zuckerberg after the Facebook boss, Pavel Durov has amassed a fortune of $1.7 billion (1.4 billion euros) at 33, according to Forbes magazine.
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| Chemical facilities targeted in Syria strikes Posted: 13 Apr 2018 01:03 PM PDT  Cal Perry, global editor of digital content, shares reports on some of the targets hit inside Syria.
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| Maddow: Trump's personal turmoil taints U.S. military options Posted: 13 Apr 2018 12:12 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow points out that the fact of Donald Trump's chaotic personal circumstances will unavoidably influence how U.S. actions and intentions are perceived around the world.
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| Abuse Survivors Demand Concrete Action After Pope Admits His 'Serious Errors' Posted: 13 Apr 2018 04:05 PM PDT  Advocates say Pope Francis' apology to Chilean sex abuse victims is a good
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| Ocean's Vital Gulf Stream System Weakest In 1,600 Years, Scientists Find Posted: 13 Apr 2018 05:22 AM PDT  A key current in the planet's ocean circulatory system, including the
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| Pensioner charged with shooting lawyer dead after 'accidentally recording himself confessing' Posted: 13 Apr 2018 05:09 AM PDT  Tom Pickert, a 39-year-old lawyer, was shot dead in October 2017 in Kansas City, shortly after walking his children to school. David Jungerman, 80, has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. A court heard how Mr Jungerman implicated himself when he accidentally recorded himself saying he had killed someone.
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| What Moby Doesn’t Understand About Food Stamps Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:08 AM PDT  In an April 9 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, the musical artist Richard
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| Deported veteran becomes US citizen after California pardon Posted: 13 Apr 2018 07:29 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A decorated former U.S. Army paratrooper whose work on behalf of deported veterans drew widespread attention to his cause became a U.S. citizen Friday, giving immigration advocates a rare reason to celebrate.
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| Gun rights activists rally at state capitols nationwide Posted: 14 Apr 2018 02:26 PM PDT ![Gun rights activists rally at state capitols nationwide]( "Gun rights activists rally at state capitols nationwide") Pro-gun supporters wrapped in flags and carrying guns rallied at statehouses across the U.S.
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| Ex-FBI deputy director faulted by Justice Department on media disclosure Posted: 13 Apr 2018 04:29 PM PDT  By Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general released a report on Friday concluding that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe misled investigators about a decision to break with the agency's standard policy and inform a journalist about a probe into the Clinton Foundation in 2016. The highly anticipated report detailed an investigation that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited when he fired McCabe last month, hours before the 21-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was set to retire and receive his full pension. Responding to the inspector general's report, McCabe said he believed repeated calls by President Donald Trump to fire him had prompted a rush to judgment and an unfair probe into his conduct.
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| Soweto pays final respects to Winnie Mandela Posted: 13 Apr 2018 10:37 AM PDT  Hundreds of people lined the streets of Soweto on Friday to see the funeral procession of Winnie Mandela ahead of her final send-off this weekend. A black hearse carrying the body of Mandela, one of the most divisive figures in the anti-apartheid struggle, slowly drove to her house led by uniformed men bearing the flag of her African National Congress (ANC) party. Mandela, who died in Johannesburg aged 81 on April 2 after a long illness, was celebrated for keeping her husband Nelson Mandela's dream of a non-racial South Africa alive during his 27-year imprisonment.
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| Front Bench: Theresa May has approval to launch strikes on Syria, but Donald Trump's tweets aren't helping Posted: 13 Apr 2018 12:36 AM PDT  A sample of today's Front Bench morning politics email is below. If you like what you see, sign up here. Don't forget to vote in the poll and leave your reasoning in the comments below. The best responses will feature in this afternoon's Brexit Briefing. The Cabinet yesterday backed Theresa May's decision to join the United States and France in launching military strikes at Syria in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack last Saturday. Military preparations are now fully underway and, while a final decision has not been made, any attack is expected to take place in the next three days. Please stop tweeting This is despite President Trump tweeting "Never said when an attack on Syria would take place. Could be very soon or not so soon at all!". Is the President attempting to make up for giving the game away on Wednesday by tweeting about his plans to fire missiles at Syria? Perhaps. The Times reports that security authorities in the US were "absolutely livid" at Trump telegraphing American plans to Syria. The regime has now shifted much of its air force to Russian bases, likely in the hope that the proximity of Russian men and materiel will deter coalition strikes. If that has you worrying about a third world war interrupting the weekend, fear not. The US has been on "deconfliction" phone to Russia to make sure there are no misunderstandings. Catherine Phil has a good explainer in The Times on why war with Russia isn't on the way. While US officials were wrestling with Trump's Twitter habit and dialing up Moscow, in the UK the debate continued about whether Parliament should have a vote on any action, with calls for one from across the major parties, including the Tory back benches. Jeremy Corbyn was adamant yesterday that it should, saying that "surely the lessons of Iraq, the lessons that came from the Chilcot report, are that there has to be a proper process of consultation". Front Bench has discussed why May doesn't have to go to Parliament already this week. I've now written up a handy constitutional guide to the role of Parliament in taking military decisions and how it has grown significantly since 2003. Answer the question Meanwhile, the PM breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons released its findings on the Skripal poisoning. While the full report is classified, the OPCW made clear that it backed the UK's findings and said that it found the nerve agent to be of a "high purity". That would almost certainly rule out the idea that a non-state actor could be behind the attempted murder. That evidence still wasn't enough for Corbyn, who was confronted by a sixth former at Labour's launch for its under 25's bus pass policy. The student repeatedly asked Corbyn if he believed Vladimir Putin was responsible for the poisoning of the Skripals, but the Labour leader would only say that "an investigation must take place so the finger of blame can be pointed with evidence behind it." Parliamentary recess is over on Monday and the political cycle is already getting back into gear. In the meantime however, we have the strange situation of knowing almost for certain what the biggest event of the next few days is going to be, and yet not knowing exactly when it will happen. When you open the latest edition of Front Bench on Monday morning hundreds of cruise missiles will likely already have reigned down on Syria. What the consequences of that will be is hard to say. Like what you read? Want more? Sign up for the Front Bench newsletter direct to your inbox every weekday morning. It has all the best political analysis like that above and much more. Sign up here
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| Woman's Obituary Helps Agents Catch Her Son, Who Escaped From Prison in 1981 Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:53 AM PDT  Stephen Michael Paris, 58, was arrested in Houston.
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| Laura Ingraham Accidentally Delivered The Best Self-Own Of 2018 Posted: 12 Apr 2018 07:17 PM PDT  Fox News host Laura Ingraham has lost more than two dozen sponsors since
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| UK says Russia monitored daughter of former spy for years Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:54 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Russian intelligence agencies monitored the emails of former spy Sergei Skripal's daughter Yulia for at least five years before the two were poisoned, Britain's national security adviser said in a letter made public Friday.
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| Dartmouth College's Resident Bear Returns With 4 Cubs After Governor Spared Her Life Posted: 13 Apr 2018 11:54 AM PDT  Officials wanted to euthanize the bear last May
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| Trump Promised Senator No Federal Crackdown On Legal Weed, But Who Even Knows Posted: 13 Apr 2018 03:33 PM PDT  President Donald Trump has assured a top Senate Republican that he will allow
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| Philadelphia police investigate arrest of two black men in Starbucks Posted: 14 Apr 2018 10:54 AM PDT ![Philadelphia police investigate arrest of two black men in Starbucks]( "Philadelphia police investigate arrest of two black men in Starbucks") Cellphone footage that onlookers filmed of Thursday's incident shows the two men sitting quietly at a table and talking for several minutes to police officers who have apparently been called to the store. Other customers, including a middle-aged white man, try to intervene. Other customers can be heard agreeing with him.
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| GM to cut more than 1,000 US jobs tied to small cars Posted: 13 Apr 2018 05:01 PM PDT  General Motors will cut more than 1,000 jobs in the US tied to production of sedans that are in low demand, the automaker said Friday. The cuts will affect GM's factory in Lordstown, Ohio, where the biggest US automaker produces the Chevrolet Cruze. Sales of the vehicle have dropped 32 percent in the last four years, the company said, part of a broader trend in the US that has seen consumers ignore small cars in favor of sports utility vehicles and larger "crossover" cars amid low gasoline prices and a recovering economy.
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| 'Bombs won't save lives' in Syria, opposition leader Corbyn tells UK PM May Posted: 14 Apr 2018 01:27 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - British opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Saturday that Prime Minister Theresa May should have sought approval from parliament before ordering cruise missile strikes against Syria. "Bombs won't save lives or bring about peace. This legally questionable action risks escalating further," Corbyn, a veteran anti-war campaigner, said. "Britain should be playing a leadership role to bring about a ceasefire in the conflict, not taking instructions from Washington and putting British military personnel in harm's way. ...
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| Kentucky teachers march on state capitol Posted: 14 Apr 2018 12:35 PM PDT ![Kentucky teachers march on state capitol]( "Kentucky teachers march on state capitol") Thousands of teachers rallied inside and outside Kentucky's capitol on Friday. The rally took on a festival-like atmosphere as some teachers sat in lawn chairs or sprawled out on blankets.
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| Police: Woman who drove SUV with family off cliff was drunk Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:32 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A woman was drunk when she drove her large family off a Northern California cliff last month and her wife and several children had large amounts of a drug in their systems that can cause drowsiness, authorities said Friday.
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| Scott Pruitt Uses Multiple 'Secret' Email Accounts, Senators Say Posted: 13 Apr 2018 03:23 AM PDT  Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has used four government
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| Disabled People Don't Belong In Music Venues, Apparently Posted: 13 Apr 2018 07:30 AM PDT  I used to see live music at least once a week, where I'd bathe in the colorful
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| Xi Jinping plans live-fire drills in Taiwan Strait after biggest naval exercises in China's history Posted: 13 Apr 2018 11:08 AM PDT  China is set to hold live-fire drills in the Taiwan Strait next week in a move certain to ratchet tensions with Taipei, after Chinese president Xi Jinping oversaw the biggest naval exercises in the country's history. The new drills, which are planned for Wednesday, come as tensions between Beijing and Taiwan simmer over increased American support for the government of the self-ruled island. Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's president, on Friday presided over her first military drills since she took office in 2016, but those exercises did not involve live fire. Tensions between Beijing and Taipei have escalated in recent weeks amid speculation of a visit to Taiwan by new US national security adviser John Bolton and Washington's backing of Taiwan's plans to build an indigenous submarine force. Chinese media said a decision by Donald Trump's administration to give the go ahead for US defence contractors to help Taiwan build the submarine fleet has made war between Taiwan and China "more probable". China's drills next week will be the first in the Strait since just before the 2015 presidential election, which saw Mrs Tsai, the candidate for the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), sweep to power. Beijing has viewed the Taiwanese president with suspicion and believes she is preparing to move Taiwan towards formal independence - a move that would represent a red line for China. Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech as he reviews a military display of Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy in the South China Sea Credit: Li Gang/Xinhua via REUTERS China views Taiwan as a renegade province which will one day be reunited with the mainland - by force if necessary. On Thursday President Xi presided over huge exercises in the South China Sea in an unmistakable show of force to Beijing's regional rivals. The drills involved 48 ships, among them China's sole operating aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, along with 76 helicopters, fighter jets and bombers, and more than 10,000 personnel. Chinese media said it was the largest of its kind. "The mission of building a mighty people's navy has never been more urgent than it is today," Mr Xi, dressed in army fatigues, said in remarks on the helicopter deck of one of China's most advanced destroyers. "Strive to make the people's navy a first-rate world navy." The nationalist Global Times newspaper warned in a commentary on Taiwan's drills that the island's leaders were making a gamble they couldn't afford to lose. The Liaoning aircraft carrier is accompanied by navy frigates and submarines Credit: Li Gang/Xinhua via AP "The mainland has abundant capability to take back the Taiwan authorities' bargaining chips one at a time until it deals a decisive blow to 'Taiwan independence'," the state-run newspaper said. China's state television broadcaster cited China's Taiwan Affairs Office as saying that Beijing had firm will and the ability to "thwart any kind of Taiwan independence separatist plot and action, and safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity". Beijing has claimed Taiwan since defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island in 1949 after losing the civil war with Mao Tse-tung's Communists. China has become increasingly assertive on the world stage since Mr Xi assumed power five years ago. The Chinese president has also oversaw the rapid modernisation of China's military - which is the world's largest. China's increasing power has caused concern among its neighbours in the South China Sea. Beijing claims nearly all of the strategic waters, despite partial counter-claims from Taiwan and several south-east Asian nations including the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The US Navy has been confronting China in the region with 'freedom of navigation' exercises. The US aircraft carriers Theodore Roosevelt and Carl Vinson have sailed through the South China Sea in recent months, angering Beijing.
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| Porsche 911 Turbo S By Mansory Is Surprisingly Restrained Posted: 12 Apr 2018 10:08 PM PDT  It's all about the carbon fiber.
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| Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? Posted: 13 Apr 2018 07:36 AM PDT ![Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?]( "Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?") It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. One day last year, I came to GISS with a far-out proposal. In my work as an astrophysicist, I'd begun researching global warming from an "astrobiological perspective." That meant asking whether any industrial civilization that rises on any planet will, through their own activity, trigger their own version of a climate shift. I was visiting GISS that day hoping to gain some climate science insights and, perhaps, collaborators. That's how I ended up in Gavin's office.
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| U.S., British and French forces launch airstrikes on Syria Posted: 14 Apr 2018 08:02 AM PDT ![U.S., British and French forces launch airstrikes on Syria]( "U.S., British and French forces launch airstrikes on Syria") U.S., British and French forces struck Syria with more than 100 missiles on Saturday in the first coordinated Western strikes against the Damascus government, targeting what they said were chemical weapons sites in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack.
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| UN Security Council holds emergency meeting on Syria Posted: 14 Apr 2018 08:21 AM PDT  Russia expected to introduce a draft resolution condemning the U.S., U.K, and France joint attack on Syria; Laura Ingle reports.
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| Prosecutors: DNA ties suspected killer clown to getaway car Posted: 12 Apr 2018 06:13 PM PDT ![Prosecutors: DNA ties suspected killer clown to getaway car]( "Prosecutors: DNA ties suspected killer clown to getaway car") WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Two nights before a clown fatally shot a woman at her front door, a customer showed up at a nearby costume shop and begged to be let in at closing.
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| Most rockets in Western attacks on Syria were intercepted: Russia Posted: 13 Apr 2018 10:35 PM PDT ![Most rockets in Western attacks on Syria were intercepted: Russia]( "Most rockets in Western attacks on Syria were intercepted: Russia") MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's defense ministry said on Saturday that the majority of missiles fired during the overnight attack on Syria by U.S., British and French forces were intercepted by Syrian government air defense systems, TASS news agency reported. Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has responded angrily to the strikes, while Syrian state media called them a "flagrant violation of international law." More than 100 missiles were fired from ships and manned aircraft, and the allies struck three of Syria's main chemical weapons facilities, U.S. ...
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| Bike of the Week: TGS Motorcycles’ “Kamikaze” H2 Posted: 13 Apr 2018 08:17 AM PDT  Bike of the Week: TGS Motorcycles' "Kamikaze" H2 TGS Motorcycles' H2-powered, H1-framed, GSXR-suspended retro masterpiece Customizing a beloved classic motorcycle can be a bit of a minefield. While there's a big difference between modifying an original
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| Pakistan supreme court hands former PM Sharif lifetime ban Posted: 13 Apr 2018 01:03 AM PDT  Pakistan's supreme court Friday banned former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from participating in elections for life, as his embattled ruling party prepares for nationwide polls due later this year. The ruling was the latest in a series of blows to Sharif who was ousted from the premiership over graft allegations last July. Supreme Court Justice Umar Ata Bandial described the ban on Sharif as "permanent" in a judgement read to the court, clarifying the length of an earlier ruling that disqualified the former premier from office.
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| 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt Spied On The Street [UPDATE] Posted: 12 Apr 2018 10:28 PM PDT ![2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt Spied On The Street [UPDATE]](http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/q_GdG6YEgwPXHakosoBMYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/motor1_us_477/d0882e38782a3de96c13980d6d8834a2 "2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt Spied On The Street [UPDATE]") This shade is the choice for folks who like the Bullitt's dressed down look but prefer a color other than green.
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| Romaine Lettuce Caused An Ongoing E. Coil Outbreak, CDC Says Posted: 13 Apr 2018 03:48 PM PDT  It's advising shoppers to discard their lettuce
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| Donald Trump's Hometown Newspaper Just Burned Him With A Savage Nickname Posted: 12 Apr 2018 08:34 PM PDT  New York's "hometown newspaper" is taking on President Donald Trump yet again
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