| White House Says Trump Would Sign House GOP's Immigration 'Compromise' After All Posted: 14 Jun 2018 05:47 PM PDT  President Donald Trump threw House Republicans' immigration compromise into
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| Clapper: 'We had a suspect' in Kremlin-WikiLeaks transfer Posted: 15 Jun 2018 05:41 AM PDT  U.S. intelligence officials last year identified a "suspect" who served as the "cut-out" for Russian intelligence to funnel thousands of DNC emails and documents to WikiLeaks, according to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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| Man Sues Ex-Girlfriend For Sabotaging Music Career So He Wouldn't Move Away Posted: 15 Jun 2018 12:12 PM PDT  People in love do strange things, but sabotaging their partner's career is not
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| Florida roller coaster derailment raises questions about safety regulations Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:53 AM PDT  Just hours before a roller coaster in Daytona Beach went off the rails, state inspectors had given it the "all clear" after it had been shut down last month.
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| Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Indicted On Wire Fraud Charges Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:42 PM PDT  Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and company president Ramesh "Sunny"
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| Boy tells police that driver shot family in road rage run-in Posted: 15 Jun 2018 04:54 PM PDT  DENVER (AP) — A 12-year-old boy told police he saw a driver open fire on his family during a road rage confrontation in Colorado, killing his older brother and critically wounding his mother and younger brother, authorities said Friday.
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| Emmanuel Macron Ordered a Really Fancy Set of China and People Are Angry Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:07 AM PDT  He's facing criticism for his spending habits again
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| Hectic morning on the White House lawn: Trump speaks, and so do the facts Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:55 AM PDT  President Trump took questions from reporters Friday morning on the White House lawn, covering a number of topics on which his comments have at times strayed from the truth. Here are some of his remarks, annotated and checked for accuracy.
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| US drone kills Taliban chief wanted in Malala attack: Ghani Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:25 PM PDT  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani confirmed Friday that Pakistani Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah had been killed in a US drone strike. Fazlullah is believed to have ordered the failed 2012 assassination of Malala Yousafzai, who became a global symbol of the fight for girls' rights to schooling, and who later won the Nobel Peace Prize. US forces targeted Fazlullah in a counterterrorism strike on Thursday in eastern Kunar province, close to the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, US officials said, without confirming his death.
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| 13 Of Our Favorite Small-Space Storage Solutions From Ikea Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:30 PM PDT  Ikea is a mastermind at making those impossible rooms in your home work extra
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| The United States Has A World Cup Team. It's Mexico. Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Sergio Tristan couldn't believe he was alone. His beloved Mexican national
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| Kids deliver a special message in honor of Father’s Day Posted: 15 Jun 2018 09:01 AM PDT  From their sense of humor to pancake recipes, children share what they love about their fathers and grandfathers ahead of Father's Day on Sunday.
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| Americans' Crowdsourced Imagining of God Looks Like A Guy Named Brad Posted: 15 Jun 2018 09:29 AM PDT  Liberals and conservatives, meanwhile, see God slightly differently.
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| Trump clashes with reporters over false claim about separating children at border Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:35 AM PDT  President Trump on Friday repeatedly and falsely defended his administration's policy of separating families at the border by blaming Democrats.
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| Angela Merkel facing battle to save her coalition as immigration row splits Europe Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:45 AM PDT  Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is to hold last-ditch talks to save her coalition government this weekend amid a major European rift over migrant policy. The German chancellor is facing open rebellion from her interior minister, Horst Seehofer, over his plans to turn away migrants at the German border. Mrs Merkel has blocked the measure but Mr Seehofer is threatening to impose it unilaterally if he doesn't win agreement by Monday - essentially daring the chancellor to sack him. As leader of her Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Mr Seehofer could pull it out of Mrs Merkel's coalition if he is fired, depriving her of a majority in parliament. With both sides refusing to back down, German political commentators on Friday warned that the stand-off could potentially bring down the government, and even mean the end of Mrs Merkel's term as chancellor. On Friday, French president Emmanuel Macron came out in support of Mrs Merkel. "Countries are committed to the paths taken by their heads of state or government," the French president said, speaking at a press conference in Paris alongside Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Mr Macron also spoke out against the proposed hardline "axis" on migration formed this week by the interior ministers of Italy, Germany and Austria. France and Italy rowed this week over the fate of a ship carrying more than 600 migrants that was turned away from Italian ports Credit: Reuters "I don't trust these catchphrases which did not bring us luck in the course of history," he said. But the French president was at also pains to put on a united front with the leader of Italy's new populist government, after a week in which he had clashed over their hardline on immigration Mr Macron and Mr Conte called for the European Union to set up asylum processing centres in African nations which have seen an exodus towards Europe in recent years. The Aquarius, the ship carrying more then 600 migrants that sparked the row between the two after Italy refused it permission to dock, is now on its way to the Spanish port of Valencia. In Germany, Wolfgang Schäuble, the speaker of parliament and Mrs Merkel's former finance minister, is to mediate at talks this weekend in an attempt to find a compromise. "The end of Merkel's chancellorship has never been so close," Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said in an editorial. Mrs Merkel's 2015 decision to throw open Germany's borders to migrants has suddenly and dramatically come back to haunt her. At the heart of the dispute are Mr Seehofer's plans to turn away migrants who have already registered in another European Union country at Germany's borders. Under the EU's Dublin rules, Germany can return migrants to the first EU member state they enter, but only after they apply for asylum in Germany, a time-consuming and expensive process. Mrs Merkel has so far blocked the proposals, arguing it could fatally undermine her efforts to agree a new EU-wide migrant policy at the next European summit in two weeks. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has declared an "axis of the willing" with his hardline counterparts in Italy and Austria Credit: Getty But her opponents say she is more concerned at being seen to close the borders now after keeping them open during the influx of 2015. Mr Seehofer says Germany needs a solution to the migrant issue now and cannot wait. But his critics say he is more concerned with grandstanding ahead of Bavarian elections in October, and fending off a challenge from the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD), which has campaigned on an anti-migrant platform. The issue is complicated by the German political system. Individual ministers have considerable autonomy in their own departments, which means Mrs Merkel can only block Mr Seehofer from introducing the plans by sacking him. That has left the two sides facing off in a dangerous game of brinkmanship in which both have plenty to lose. In a development that could prove decisive, Mrs Merkel reportedly won the backing of her party's MPs at a meeting behind closed doors on Thursday. Mrs Merkel has also won the backing of her main coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), who have denounced Mr Seehofer's plan. Carsten Schneider, the SPD chief whip, warned that the proposals to turn away migrants at the border could lead to the "end of the European Union", while Anke Rehlinger, another SPD politician, said it would mean the return of heavily armed border troops and "the end of free Europe as we know it". But the CSU has rallied as strongly behind Mr Seehofer. "We don't want to risk losing credibility," Markus Söder, the regional prime minister of Bavaria and Mr Seehofer's chief rival within the party said. And sources within the party told the German press on Friday they were ready to go with the "nuclear option" if Mrs Merkel doesn't back down.
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| Starbucks Discriminates Against Older Workers, According To Former Employees Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Andrea spent a recent 13-hour shift at Starbucks, where she works as a
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| NOT REAL NEWS: Walmart not housing immigrants for DHS Posted: 15 Jun 2018 02:05 PM PDT ![NOT REAL NEWS: Walmart not housing immigrants for DHS]( "NOT REAL NEWS: Walmart not housing immigrants for DHS") Walmart is not working with the Department of Homeland Security to create detention centers for migrants despite reports online claiming the two have been working together in recent years.
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| Black hole eats and destroys hapless star which wandered too close Posted: 14 Jun 2018 07:32 PM PDT  Beware of the hungry black hole. Astronomers tracked a supermassive black hole, 20 million times larger than the sun, which ate up and destroyed a star that came too close. SEE ALSO: Three baby planets hanging around a star discovered by astronomers Located nearly 150 million light years away from Earth, scientists theorise the star swirled around the black hole, emitting intense x-rays and visible light, as a jet of material spat out at a quarter of the speed of light. Such an occurrence, called a tidal disruption event (TDE), has been rarely spotted. But scientists think they happen more often. In the case of this stellar death, astronomers used radio and infrared telescopes, such as New Mexico's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), to keep an eye on the event which happened in a pair of colliding galaxies called Arp 299. "Never before have we been able to directly observe the formation and evolution of a jet from one of these events," Miguel Perez-Torres, from the Astrophysical Institute of Andalusia and who published a report in the journal Science, said in a statement online. Artist's rendering of a tidal disruption event (TDE) that happens when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black hole, which reacts by launching a relativistic jet. It zooms out of the central region of its host galaxy, Arp299B, which is undergoing a merging process with Arp299A (the galaxy to the left).Image: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA, STScIPerez-Torrez and Seppo Mattila, of the University of Turku in Finland, got their first indication something was going on in January 2005. Astronomers noticed a bright burst near Arp 299, and kept track of the occurrence over a decade, which revealed a jet of electromagnetic waves going in one direction from the black hole. A black hole is an area of space which has such strong gravitational pull that nothing can escape from it, including light. Although most galaxies have black holes, they're not necessarily out there actively eating everything up. Mattila said the discovery might just be the "tip of the iceberg" for TDEs, with the potential for more discoveries ahead. "By looking for these events with infrared and radio telescopes, we may be able to discover many more, and learn from them," he added. WATCH: These trees have lived for 2,500 years. Now they're suddenly dying
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| Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani Praises Taliban Ceasefire in Eid Holiday Address Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:56 AM PDT  The holiday marks the end of the Ramadan holy month
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| Truck Crash Leaves Hundreds of Whiskey Bottles Scattered Across Arkansas Highway Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:36 AM PDT  Grab a straw!
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| 'Very unfair!': Trump tweets cap another tumultuous week Posted: 15 Jun 2018 12:33 PM PDT  The president's tweets on Friday echo a familiar frustration that he's not getting enough credit.
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| AMC Networks: Hardwick's talk show on hold amid allegations Posted: 16 Jun 2018 03:54 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Hardwick's cable talk show is on hold and he has withdrawn as moderator of AMC and BBC America's Comic-Con panels, AMC Networks said Saturday.
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| Attorney General Sessions hits out at Philadelphia over 'sanctuary' status Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:32 PM PDT  U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a speech at a local college on Friday, criticized Philadelphia and its mayor over the city's 'sanctuary' status, one that limits its cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities. Sessions accused the city of coddling dangerous criminals and refusing to turn them over to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials when requested. "Philadelphia is not giving sanctuary to Americans but to foreign criminals," he said.
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| A Law to Ban Upskirting in the U.K. Was Blocked Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:23 PM PDT  An attempt to make upskirting a criminal offense in the United Kingdom, punishable by up to two years in prison, has been blocked by a lawmaker in the ruling Conservative Party.
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| 10 Supercars Inspired By Cars That Ran The 24 Hours Of Le Mans Posted: 15 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT |
| Banning Bikinis Won't Fix Miss America Posted: 15 Jun 2018 06:00 AM PDT  In 1922, Margaret Gorman, who had won the Miss America pageant's very first
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| Parkland School Guard Who Didn't Stop Shooter Had Harassed One of the Victims, Family Says Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:47 AM PDT  The guard was allegedly suspended for sexually harassing two female students
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| Toy guns banished as Iraqis celebrate peaceful Eid in Mosul Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:00 AM PDT  It has long been a tradition in Iraq's second city Mosul for young boys to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday by running riot with firecrackers or toy guys -- scaring their sisters and grandparents. "Weapons have destroyed our city and wounded our children," she told AFP. "It's not a good idea (to buy toy guns) and anyway I haven't found one in my neighbourhood this year", he said.
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| Experts say Trump's Russia policy is at odds with itself Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:00 AM PDT  At a meeting of the Helsinki Commission, experts said President Trump obfuscates his administration's policy toward the Kremlin by making pronouncements that contradict the positions of the U.S. intelligence community and diplomatic corps.
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| Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani Praises Taliban Ceasefire in Eid Holiday Address Posted: 15 Jun 2018 01:53 AM PDT  Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Friday touted a three-day cease-fire with the Taliban in an address to the nation heralding the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
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| Former guerrilla Petro fights to become Colombia's first leftist president Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:46 AM PDT  By Helen Murphy and Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Gustavo Petro, a former insurgent turned rabble-rousing mayor, is fighting to become Colombia's first leftist president, turning his humble beginnings and revolutionary past into a rallying cry for millions of the nation's youth and poor. The 58-year-old economist is about 20 points behind right-wing candidate Ivan Duque to replace President Juan Manuel Santos, but his presence in the second round has worried many in the traditionally conservative nation, where the right has kept a vice-like grip on power. Proposals from Petro to change the nation's economic model by piling taxes on unproductive landowners and abandoning oil and coal for clean energy have spooked investors.
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| Elon Musk's Tesla Plans to Build Pods for The Boring Company’s Loop Posted: 15 Jun 2018 08:13 AM PDT  The two firms are giving each other a helping hand.
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| BMW M850i xDrive Finally Breaks Cover: Here’s What We Know Posted: 15 Jun 2018 10:30 AM PDT  BMW's latest coupe, the 8-series, which replaces the 6-series, brings back memories-not all of them fond-of a similar switch that took place in the late 1980s. Back then, BMW replaced the E24 6-series with the 850i. Now BMW is finally letting us see the undisguised production model and is openly discussing details about what's coming, just as the racing variant takes to the track at Le Mans.
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| What It Means to Be a 'Good' Father in America Has Changed. Here's How Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:30 AM PDT  "I think the key change for the invention of the modern father is in the 1920s," says historian Robert L. Griswold
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| Photographer François Halard Walks AD PRO Through His Design Miami/ Basel Exhibition Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:25 AM PDT |
| Trump Calls Female Reporter 'So Obnoxious,' Tells Her To Be Quiet Posted: 15 Jun 2018 10:08 AM PDT  Are you looking for more substance to President Donald Trump's vague claim
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| Boy dies, his brother, mom critical after Colorado shooting Posted: 14 Jun 2018 10:15 PM PDT  WESTMINSTER, Colo. (AP) — One boy died and his brother and mom were in critical condition Thursday following a shooting in a suburban Denver parking lot, according to police.
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| UN envoy in Yemen for emergency talks on Hodeida Posted: 16 Jun 2018 03:08 AM PDT  The UN envoy for Yemen arrived in the rebel-held capital Sanaa on Saturday for talks on the key aid port of Hodeida where rebel fighters are battling a regional coalition. Martin Griffiths is expected to propose to rebel leaders that they cede control of the Red Sea port to a UN-supervised committee to avoid further fighting with advancing government troops which are backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. More than 70 percent of Yemeni imports pass through Hodeida's docks and the fighting has raised UN fears of humanitarian catastrophe in a country already teetering on the brink of famine.
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| The Dangers Posed by the Bird Scooter Craze Catching On Across America Posted: 15 Jun 2018 11:46 AM PDT  Riders of the scooters have often been seen without helmets, a violation of the law.
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| Vladimir Putin accused of using World Cup to bury bad news after raising pension age on opening night Posted: 15 Jun 2018 04:26 AM PDT  Vladimir Putin's government has been criticised for using the World Cup to bury bad news after it announced a rise in the pension age in the wake of Russia's first victory of the tournament. The announcement, which came immediately after Russia's 5-0 victory over Saudi Arabia on Thursday evening, is likely to prove widely unpopular among the Russian public, who opinion polls show are deeply opposed to adjustments to the welfare state. Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister, said the proposed adjustments to the law would see the pension age for men raised from 60 to 65 and for women from 55 to 63. There will also be an two percent increase on VAT from 18 to 20 percent. Alexei Kudrin, a former finance minister widely seen as a leader of the liberal economic camp in the Kremlin elite, welcomed the news. Пенсионная реформа назрела давно. Наконец, решение принято. Это выгодное для граждан решение, оно позволит повысить пенсии— Алексей Кудрин (@Aleksei_Kudrin) June 14, 2018 "Pension reform is long overdue. Finally, the decision has been made. This is an advantageous solution for our citizens, it will increase pensions," he wrote on Twitter. But the announcement drew a critical reception from some Russian papers, with some columnists suggesting the whole point of the World Cup was to distract the public while the government launched painful economic policies. Moskovsky Komsomolets, a pro-Kremlin tabloid, noted that the plans had been announced without prior discussion, despite previous promises that such an unpopular move would be the subject of public debate. The announcement came as millions of Russians were watching the World Cup opening ceremony Credit: MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP Maxim Topilin, the minister of labour, said the measures would be discussed with trade unions and employers. Opposition figures mocked the way Mr Medvedev made the announcement while Mr Putin presided over a footballing victory, in an apparent bid to distance the president from unpopular measures. "Putin is actually in favour of lowering the retirement age. And increasing pensions. And cutting the price of petrol. But Medvedv and Kudrin have conspired and are plotting," wrote Leonid Volkov, an advisor to the opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Economists have been urging Mr Putin to launch far-reaching but painful economic reforms for nearly a decade, but he has previously resisted such advice because of the danger of a public backlash. A recent opinion poll published by state media showed that 92 percent of Russians oppose pension reform. Mr Putin built much of his political brand on a social contract which guaranteed jobs and pension security for much of the population. Millions of pensioners rely on Russia's welfare state Credit: Stanislav Krasilnikov/Tass Mr Medvedev said actual pension ages would be raised gradually at a rate of 6 months per year, meaning the retirement age of 65 for men will be reached in 2028 and 63 for women in 2034. The state-owned Gazprombank said in a note to clients that the reform is one of the most gradual scenarios the government had considered and that it might only bring in 25 to 30 percent of the savings it is theoretically meant to achieve. Russia's state pension fund is running a deficit equivalent to around 3.1 percent of GDP.
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