| Trump Leaves GOP Leaders Out To Dry On Immigration Posted: 22 Jun 2018 11:53 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and other Republican leaders thought
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| Migrant Children Report Physical, Verbal Abuse In At Least 3 Federal Detention Centers Posted: 21 Jun 2018 02:51 PM PDT  Migrant children as young as 11 years old have reported suffering physical and
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| Multiple States Sue Trump Admin to Stop Family Separation Policy Posted: 21 Jun 2018 03:48 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow reports on a lawsuit filed by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and joined by several other states to stop Donald Trump's migrant family separation policy.
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| Corey Lewandowski Dropped By Speakers Bureau After Family Separation Remark Posted: 21 Jun 2018 10:41 AM PDT  Corey Lewandowski has been dropped by a top speakers bureau after he made a
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| The Latest: Hundreds attend funeral for designer Kate Spade Posted: 21 Jun 2018 03:55 PM PDT  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on funeral services for fashion designer Kate Spade (all times local):
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| No Narcotics In Anthony Bourdain's System When He Died: Report Posted: 22 Jun 2018 12:57 PM PDT  Anthony Bourdain had no narcotics in his system when he killed himself this
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| Immigration rally in N.Y.C. to mark World Refugee Day Posted: 21 Jun 2018 06:05 AM PDT ![Immigration rally in N.Y.C. to mark World Refugee Day]( "Immigration rally in N.Y.C. to mark World Refugee Day") Hundreds of New Yorkers from refugee, immigrant, religious and advocacy communities held a march in observance of World Refugee Day. Marchers laid out 85 pairs of shoes to represent 85,000 refugees who were not allowed into the U.S. in 2018, carried orange rafts symbolizing refugee ocean crossings and read the names of refugees who died in transit.
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| Disturbing Video Shows California Police Officer Dragging Woman Out of Car Posted: 21 Jun 2018 10:33 AM PDT  The woman, Samantha Luna, claims she did nothing to elicit such a reaction from the police officer.
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| First Lady Melania Trump Visits Texas to See Migrant Children Separated from Parents Posted: 20 Jun 2018 09:00 PM PDT  The visit came after President Trump signed an executive order halting the policy that has resulted in the separation of children from their parents who illegally crossed the U.S. southern border.
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| Five Charity Workers Were Kidnapped and Gang-Raped in East India Posted: 22 Jun 2018 06:56 AM PDT  Five women were kidnapped and gang-raped at gunpoint while doing charity work in a remote part of India.
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| Fox News Pundit Charles Krauthammer Dead At 68 Posted: 21 Jun 2018 03:10 PM PDT  Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer has died, The Washington
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| Italy to pick up migrants, impound German charity ship Posted: 21 Jun 2018 10:55 AM PDT  By Steve Scherer and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Italy appeared to relent on Thursday after at first refusing to accept 226 migrants on board a German charity rescue ship, saying later in the day it would take them in but would impound the vessel. Anti-immigrant interior minister Matteo Salvini initially said the Dutch-flagged ship Lifeline should take the people it plucked from the Mediterranean to the Netherlands and not Italy. "We will assume the humanitarian generosity and responsibility to save these people and take them onto Italian coastguard ships," Toninelli said in a video posted on Facebook.
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| Koreas to hold reunions for war-separated families in August Posted: 22 Jun 2018 04:10 AM PDT  North and South Korea agreed Friday to resume reunions for families separated by the Korean War in August -- the first such meetings since 2015 and the latest step in a remarkable diplomatic thaw on the peninsula. The resumption of the reunions was among the agreements reached between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South's president Moon Jae-in at their landmark summit in April. Officials from both sides met at the North's scenic Mount Kumgang resort on Friday and set a date for late August.
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| Portion of Kentucky bourbon warehouse collapses Posted: 22 Jun 2018 12:28 PM PDT  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Thousands of bourbon barrels were piled in a massive heap Friday after a large section of a whiskey storage warehouse collapsed at a distillery in the heart of Kentucky bourbon country.
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| National Enquirer Consulted Cohen, Trump on 2016 Stories: WaPo Posted: 21 Jun 2018 03:49 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow shares reporting from the Washington Post that the National Enquirer sent stories about Donald Trump to Michael Cohen for approval before publishing and took suggestions for stories about Hillary Clinton from Trump.
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| Protesters Outside Kirstjen Nielsen’s House Play Audio Of Detained Migrant Children Posted: 22 Jun 2018 06:40 AM PDT  ALEXANDRIA, Va. ― Protesters gathered outside Homeland Security Secretary
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| Antwon Rose Police Shooting Sparks Second Night Of Pittsburgh Protests Posted: 22 Jun 2018 08:30 AM PDT  Hundreds of protesters enraged over an East Pittsburgh police officer's fatal
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| In 2015, a Russian-Built Submarine Might Have 'Sunk' a Navy Nuclear Sub Posted: 22 Jun 2018 04:49 AM PDT  The Virginia-class is orders of magnitude quieter and offers far better sensors and carries more weapons. The newer vessels are far more effective against threats like the Kilo than their Los Angeles-class predecessors. Buying as many Virginias as possible becomes especially important as more and more potential adversaries procure advanced diesel-electric boats like the Kilo or the even more capable Russian-built Amur.
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| Israel says Gaza baby's family paid to blame army for death Posted: 21 Jun 2018 10:55 AM PDT  Israel said Thursday it has evidence the family of a baby who died near the Gaza border was paid by Hamas to accuse Israel's army over her death, an account the family rejected. Gaza's health ministry and family members said eight-month-old Leila al-Ghandour had died after inhaling tear gas along the border during a day of clashes in May, in which at least 61 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire.
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| Asian stocks mostly up despite underlying US-China tension Posted: 20 Jun 2018 10:45 PM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — Asian stock markets mostly rose Thursday as concern fades over the trade tensions between the U.S. and China. Uncertainty remains, but the original tariff threats made earlier in the week were not followed by material action.
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| Melania Trump Visits Texas Shelter For Undocumented Children Posted: 21 Jun 2018 11:13 AM PDT  First lady Melania Trump arrived in McAllen, Texas, on Thursday to visit a
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| Malaysia reopens probe into Mongolian model's murder as pressure builds on former premier Najib Razak Posted: 21 Jun 2018 05:57 AM PDT  The Malaysian police are set to reopen an investigation into the murder of a Mongolian model in 2006, in a politically charged case that could add to the woes of Najib Razak, the beleaguered former prime minister. Altantuya Shaariibuu, 28, was killed and blown up with military grade explosives in a forest near the capital, Kuala Lumpur, after being kidnapped late at night outside the home of her alleged lover Abdul Razak Baginda - a defence analyst who advised Mr Najib between 2000 and 2008. Two former police officers, Sirul Azhar Umar and Azilah Hadri, were sentenced to death for the crime but reports have alleged that they served as bodyguards for Mr Najib, who was deputy prime minister at the time of her gruesome death. Sirul fled to Australia to seek asylum and is currently being held at a detention centre in Sydney. Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad meets Dr Shaariibuu Setev, father of Altantuya Shaariibuu on Wednesday Credit: Malaysian PM The police confirmed to The Star newspaper that they were reopening their investigations after Shaaribuu's father flew to Malaysia from Mongolia to file a fresh statement. Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's prime minister, who ousted Mr Najib in a shock election result in May, pledged his support for Setev Shaaribuu's case "if there is new evidence", after meeting with him on Wednesday evening, reported Channel News Asia. Mr Shaaribuu has alleged that the former government tried to block the truth from emerging, and that the true plot behind his daughter's murder was covered up. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor are facing a corruption probe Credit: Mohd Rasfan/AFP In his statement to the police, he named a former aide to Mr Najib as a "crucial witness." Mr Najib himself has always denied knowing the victim. However, the timing of the case could spell more trouble for the ousted leader, who is currently banned from leaving the country amid another investigation into an alleged multi-billion dollar corruption scandal involving the 1Malaysia Development Berhad state fund, that he earlier founded. In claims made to Reuters on Tuesday Dr Mahathir said that the authorities have "an almost perfect case" against Mr Najib on charges of embezzlement, misappropriation and bribery linked to 1MDB. Mr Najib responded in his first interview since his stunning election defeat, telling the news agency that he knew nothing about money from the state fund appearing in his personal bank account. He claimed his advisors and the management and board of 1MDB had wrongly kept the embezzlement of funds a secret from him. Public anger over the scandal, which US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has described as "kleptocracy at its worst", was a significant factor in his election defeat. Malaysian police seize a huge haul of handbags belonging to Najib Razak's wife Credit: Ariffin Jamar/AFP Mr Najib insisted in the interview that he did not know if hundreds of millions of dollars that moved through his personal account was from 1MDB, and if money from the fund was eventually laundered to acquire assets globally, including yachts, paintings and jewellery. He did shed some light, however, on the origin of dozens of luxury bags that were recently seized by the police from properties linked to his family. The handbags were gifts and wedding presents to his wife and daughter, and had nothing to do with 1MDB, he said. "These were gifts, particularly with my daughter's they were tagged, they were actually labelled: when, by whom," he said. He added that his son-in-law, Daniyar Nazarbayev, the nephew of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakh president, also gifted many bags to Rosmah Mansor, Mr Najib's wife. "People might find it hard to understand, but my son-in-law for example, he gets Birkin from his source, five or six at one go," he said. "His family has got some means, so it has nothing to do with 1MDB if it comes from Kazakhstan."
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| House Passes Symbolic Food Stamp Cuts Posted: 21 Jun 2018 01:21 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― More poor people would have to get jobs in order to keep food
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| The Trauma Of Family Separation Will Haunt Children For Decades Posted: 22 Jun 2018 05:52 AM PDT  On Wednesday, the Trump administration, under swelling public pressure,
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| This Is What a 200-MPH Volkswagen Jetta Looks Like Posted: 22 Jun 2018 06:59 AM PDT |
| U.S. appeals court calls D.C. sniper's life sentences illegal Posted: 21 Jun 2018 01:30 PM PDT  The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied an appeal by prosecutors who said Lee Boyd Malvo need not be resentenced over his role in the D.C. sniper case, which left 10 people dead over three weeks in Washington, Maryland and Virginia. It cited recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles were unconstitutional, and that this rule applied retroactively. "We make this ruling not with any satisfaction, but to sustain the law," Circuit Judge Paul Niemeyer wrote for a three-judge panel of the Richmond, Virginia-based appeals court.
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| 'Time' slams Trump's family separation policy in a cover for the ages Posted: 21 Jun 2018 06:27 AM PDT  The debate over the Trump administration's immigration policy is still simmering, and the blowback continues to hit Trump — this time in the form of yet another Time magazine cover. The new cover combines a photo of the president with the now-iconic image taken by Getty Images' John Moore of a little girl sobbing while her mother is searched by border agents, something of a symbol of the pushback against the separation of children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. TIME's new cover: A reckoning after Trump's border separation policy: What kind of country are we? https://t.co/U4Uf8bffoR pic.twitter.com/sBCMdHuPGc — TIME (@TIME) June 21, 2018 Driving home the point: the image of Trump they chose for the face-off is one that seems to display the callous indifference that he and his supporters have shown thus far in the debate. Likewise, the cover story, "A Reckoning After Trump's Border Separation Policy: What Kind of Country Are We?" by Karl Vick, doesn't mince words about what it sees as the eroding of our traditional norms and values by the current president. Even though Trump has now signed an executive order that should, for the time being, prevent such separations, there are still serious issues that remain, including reuniting families already separated by the heinous policy as well as what the Trump administration's long game is. Still, we know how much Trump loves his Time covers and this one is certainly worthy of our current president. WATCH: Sarah Huckabee Sanders' most ludicrous moments as press secretary
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| ABC Pulls 'The Proposal' Episode After Woman Says Contestant Was Involved In Sexual Assault Posted: 22 Jun 2018 09:56 AM PDT  ABC has only aired one episode of the new reality series "The Proposal" ―
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| Italy's interior minister says Malta should take rescue boat Posted: 22 Jun 2018 06:52 AM PDT  MILAN (AP) — Italy's populist, anti-migrant interior minister said Friday that Malta should allow a Dutch-flagged rescue ship carrying hundreds of migrants rescued from rubber dinghies off the Libyan coast to make port there because the ship is now in Maltese waters.
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| Fox News, North Korean State TV Mashup Shows Scary Similarities In Coverage Posted: 22 Jun 2018 07:06 AM PDT  "The Daily Show" posted a mashup on Twitter Thursday that compared the
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| Ericsson needs industries to embrace 5G to underpin its recovery Posted: 21 Jun 2018 06:48 AM PDT  STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Ericsson needs a range of industries to embrace 5G network services if the equipment maker is to get a long-term boost that would allow it to progress from cost-cutting to expansion. For now, the Swedish company is focusing on a cost-savings plan running until 2020 to shore up profitability, hoping that growth will then return as the pace of 5G network upgrades picks up early in the following decade. Having struggled with flagging revenue since 4G sales peaked in the middle of the decade, Ericsson is pinning its hopes for revived growth on the emergence of new mobile businesses in 10 broad sectors such as manufacturing, energy and public safety.
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| China's Xi denounces 'protectionism, isolationism and populism' Posted: 21 Jun 2018 08:28 AM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday lambasted "protectionism, isolationism and populism" and again vowed to open up Asia's largest economy, as Beijing faces an escalating trade dispute with the United States. Xi told a gathering of foreign business executives that after "signs of stability and improvement in the world economy" last year, "we must also stay vigilant because ... we have seen a surge of trade protectionism, isolationism and populism".
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| GOP Senators Accuse National Science Foundation Of Funding Climate 'Propaganda' Posted: 21 Jun 2018 01:10 PM PDT  Four Republican senators this week demanded an investigation of the National
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| 2018 Buick Regal GS Tested: Grand Sport or Bland Sport? Posted: 21 Jun 2018 01:28 PM PDT  Keep your expectations in check and the handsome Regal GS delivers.
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| Carbon Dioxide Shortage Causing Beer Crisis in Britain Amid World Cup Posted: 21 Jun 2018 07:51 AM PDT  There is also a beer shortage in Russia, which is hosting the tournament.
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| EU leaders set to prolong Russia sanctions again Posted: 22 Jun 2018 03:33 AM PDT  By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will next week extend until the end of January economic sanctions against Russia over its intervention in Ukraine, diplomats and officials said. The curbs on Russia's energy, defense and financial sectors have been prolonged every six months since first being slapped mid-2014 after Moscow annexed the peninsula of Crimea from Kiev and backed rebels fighting government troops in east Ukraine. EU leaders meeting in Brussels on June 28-29 will agree another six-month extension of the curbs on doing business with Russia currently in place until the end of July.
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| Democrat Ted Lieu Plays Audio Of Migrant Kids Crying On House Floor Posted: 22 Jun 2018 11:45 AM PDT  On the House floor Friday, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) played the infamous audio
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| Hyundai i30 N-Line Captured Completely Uncovered On The 'Ring Posted: 21 Jun 2018 07:11 AM PDT  The warmed-over hatchback shares a few sporty cues with its more powerful N sibling.
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| Trump Says North Korea Sent Remains Of 200 Soldiers Back Posted: 20 Jun 2018 08:24 PM PDT  Trump Says North Korea Sent Remains Of 200 Soldiers Back
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| 'Star Wars' Spinoffs Suspended After Tepid 'Solo' Box Office: Report Posted: 21 Jun 2018 07:08 AM PDT  The "Star Wars" galaxy just shrank.
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| GOP senator defends EPA chief, calls ethics allegations lies Posted: 20 Jun 2018 06:30 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator who had expressed concerns about Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt mounted an outspoken defense of him Wednesday after a face-to-face meeting, calling ethics allegations against Pruitt "outrageous lies."
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