| Jeff Flake Threatens To Block Judicial Nominations Over Trump's Tariffs Posted: 24 Jun 2018 10:37 AM PDT  Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) warned Sunday that he's prepared to oppose President
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| Women hit the road after Saudi Arabia’s driving ban comes to an end Posted: 24 Jun 2018 09:02 AM PDT  In a historic change, Saudi Arabia's ban on women drivers has come to an end, meaning women in the country no longer need to rely on drivers or male relatives for transportation.
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| Family startled to find rattlesnakes hiding inside pool noodle Posted: 25 Jun 2018 09:40 AM PDT  An Arizona fire department took to social media on Saturday to share an
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| 15-Year-Old Boy Reportedly Missing From Migrant Shelter In Texas Posted: 25 Jun 2018 02:02 AM PDT  A 15-year-old boy is missing from the nation's largest shelter for migrant
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| Acid pools in Africa that look like a Martian landscape Posted: 25 Jun 2018 04:23 AM PDT ![Acid pools in Africa that look like a Martian landscape]( "Acid pools in Africa that look like a Martian landscape") These stunning images show the beauty and drama of Mother Nature at work. Captured deep in heart of the Danakil Desert in East Africa, the images show the acid pools near the Erta Ale volcano.
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| Teenage girl uses sign language to help deaf and blind man on flight Posted: 24 Jun 2018 09:04 AM PDT  As Tim Cook traveled alone, flight attendants asked if anyone knew American Sign Language to help him. 15-year-old Clara Daly volunteered, signing into his hands, keeping him company and inspiring her fellow passengers along the way.
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| Supreme Court rules for American Express in credit card case Posted: 25 Jun 2018 10:56 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court handed American Express a win Monday in a lawsuit over rules it imposes on merchants who accept its cards.
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| Nearly half of Iowa crude oil spill contained, BNSF says Posted: 24 Jun 2018 01:20 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Workers have contained nearly half of the crude oil spilled near Rock River in northwest Iowa over the weekend following a freight train derailment on Friday, BNSF Railway Co said. About 100,000 gallons had been hemmed off using booms out of the estimated 230,000 gallons spilled, BNSF said in a statement on Saturday. The spill has raised concerns about drinking water downstream.
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| Pair of iguanas hold up traffic as they duel in Florida Starbucks car park Posted: 25 Jun 2018 10:01 AM PDT  A pair of iguanas have been filmed fighting in a Starbucks car park in Florida. The unusual video clip, which was shared on Facebook, shows the two reptiles grappling and attempting to bite one another. The battle was caught on camera by shocked onlooker Shannon Moskoff.
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| Ivanka Trump: We must foster economic opportunity in Latin America Posted: 24 Jun 2018 10:24 AM PDT  Ivanka Trump said she agrees with liberals and conservatives who think it's important to help encourage stability and spark economic growth throughout Central America and South America — as the United States is engaged in a passionate debate over immigration policy.
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| Arrests Made In 15-Year-Old Boy's Stabbing Death On New York City Street Posted: 25 Jun 2018 09:21 AM PDT  Seven men have been arrested in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old who was
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| Walgreens Pharmacist Denies Woman Miscarriage Drug Over Personal Morals Posted: 24 Jun 2018 11:50 AM PDT  After receiving word that her unborn baby no longer had a heartbeat, it was
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| Elizabeth Warren Describes 'Disturbing Picture' After Visiting Immigration Facility in Texas Posted: 24 Jun 2018 09:29 PM PDT  Elizabeth Warren paid a visit Sunday to an immigration facility in McAllen, Texas amid the ongoing crisis over family separations at the Mexican border.
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| Two Officers Have Been Wounded in a Shootout at a San Diego Condominium Posted: 24 Jun 2018 07:14 PM PDT  The two male officers are expected to recover
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| Saudi women take victory lap as driving ban ends Posted: 24 Jun 2018 07:56 AM PDT  By Stephen Kalin and Sarah Dadouch RIYADH (Reuters) - Women in Saudi Arabia hit the roads on Sunday, ushering in the end of the world's last ban on female drivers, long seen as an emblem of women's repression in the deeply conservative Muslim kingdom. "Yesterday we sat there," she added, pointing to the back. The ban's end, ordered last September by King Salman, is part of sweeping reforms pushed by his powerful son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in a bid to transform the economy of the world's top oil exporter and open up its cloistered society. It is only a matter of time for the society to accept it, generally," said Samira al-Ghamdi, a 47-year-old psychologist from Jeddah, as she drove herself to work. The lifting of the prohibition, which for years drew international condemnation and comparisons to the Taliban in Afghanistan, was welcomed by Western allies as proof of a new progressive trend in Saudi Arabia. But it has been accompanied by a crackdown on dissent, including against some of the very activists who previously campaigned against the ban.
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| Harley-Davidson To Shift Some Production Overseas Due To Trade War Posted: 25 Jun 2018 08:28 AM PDT  Harley-Davidson Inc. announced it is shifting production of some of its
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| Brendan Dassey's Murder Conviction Appeal Denied By Supreme Court Posted: 25 Jun 2018 07:03 AM PDT  The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to not hear the appeal of Brendan
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| Full Panel: Abolishing ICE new litmus test for Democrats? Posted: 24 Jun 2018 12:50 AM PDT  Kasie Hunt, Erick Erickson, Heather McGhee, and Stephen Hayes join the Meet the Press roundtable to discuss the President's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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| Crash: US House candidate who beat Sanford undergoes surgery Posted: 24 Jun 2018 05:14 PM PDT  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina lawmaker who's running for Congress underwent two major surgeries Sunday after being seriously injured in a recent road accident and they went "extremely well" with a full recovery expected, her spokesman said.
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| How To Make Ragu, According To Three Real Italian Nonnas Posted: 25 Jun 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Long before ragu was a ubiquitous brand of spaghetti sauce in a jar, it was
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| China says United States domestic opioid market the crux of crisis Posted: 24 Jun 2018 10:18 PM PDT  China's drug control agency on Monday said the United States should do more to cut its demand for opioids to tackle the use of synthetic drug fentanyl, but it vowed to step up cooperation after Chinese production of the substance had been blamed for fuelling the U.S. opioid crisis. U.S. President Donald Trump said in November on a state visit to Beijing that China and the United States would do more to stem what he called a "flood of cheap and deadly" fentanyl "manufactured in China" from entering the United States.
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| The politics of immigration and civility Posted: 25 Jun 2018 07:18 AM PDT  Steve Kornacki breaks down the latest polling on the Trump administration's immigration policies. Charlie Cook, Matt Schlapp and Neera Tanden debate the role of civility in politics after Sarah Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant over the weekend.
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| Police Say He Cut Off His Pregnant Wife's Arm. He Was Caught Before He Could Swim to Canada Posted: 25 Jun 2018 01:18 PM PDT  Yong Lu had a lifejacket with him when he was arrested
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| Entire police force detained in Mexico town where mayoral candidate killed Posted: 24 Jun 2018 03:22 PM PDT  The whole police force in a Mexican town of Ocampo where a mayoral candidate was slain this week has been detained for an internal investigation, authorities said Sunday. "All of them are being interviewed to proceed as due under law in the event anyone has taken part in acts that violate the town's codes," said the security secretariat in Michoacan state, where the town of about 20,000 people is located. Mayoral candidate Fernando Angeles was shot dead last Thursday when he was preparing for campaign events.
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| 12 Fresh Tomato Recipes to Make All Summer Long Posted: 25 Jun 2018 12:00 PM PDT |
| Kamala Harris Says Congress Needs To Change ICE, Perhaps 'Start From Scratch' Posted: 24 Jun 2018 09:45 AM PDT  Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said Congress should reconsider the nation's
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| Outraged By Kids In Cages? Look At Our Entire Juvenile Justice System. Posted: 24 Jun 2018 09:05 AM PDT  Last week, the nation witnessed an abrupt reversal from the White House. After
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| Zsa Zsa, the English bulldog, wins World's Ugliest Dog title Posted: 24 Jun 2018 12:44 AM PDT  PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) — A 9-year-old English bulldog was named the winner of the 2018 World's Ugliest Dog contest in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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| 'Pawn Stars' 'Old Man' Richard Harrison Dead At 77 Posted: 25 Jun 2018 10:41 AM PDT  Richard Harrison, who starred on the popular History Channel reality show
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| 'Deeply Unfortunate Killings' Have Left Dozens of Farmers and Herders Dead in Nigeria Posted: 24 Jun 2018 09:02 PM PDT  Nigeria's presidency late Sunday announced a "deeply unfortunate killings across a number of communities" in central Plateau State as one report cited police as saying 86 people were dead in clashes between mostly Muslim herders and Christian farmers
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| U.S. approves first marijuana plant-derived drug for epilepsy Posted: 25 Jun 2018 01:06 PM PDT  The U.S. health regulator approved GW Pharmaceuticals Plc's epilepsy treatment on Monday, making it the first cannabis-based drug to win approval in the country and opening floodgates for more research into the medicinal properties of cannabis. The drug's approval permits its use in patients aged two years and older with Dravet Syndrome (DS) and Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), rare childhood-onset forms of epilepsy that are among the most resistant to treatment. "This approval serves as a reminder that advancing sound development programs that properly evaluate active ingredients contained in marijuana can lead to important medical therapies," said Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
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| Saudi women in driver's seat as longstanding ban is lifted Posted: 24 Jun 2018 10:33 AM PDT  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi women steered their way through busy city streets on Sunday, driving to work, running errands and relishing a new era in which they are allowed to drive and no longer need to rely on men to move around.
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| New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Leaves Hospital 3 Days After Giving Birth Posted: 24 Jun 2018 08:38 AM PDT  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made her first public appearance since giving birth to her daughter
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| Pakistan's Khan kicks off election campaign, pledges sweeping changes Posted: 24 Jun 2018 10:17 AM PDT  Pakistani cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan on Sunday kicked off his election campaign by staging a major rally and promising sweeping changes in the country if his party wins. Pakistan will hold a general election on July 25 and Khan is hoping to achieve a years-long dream of becoming prime minister. The polls will bring to a head political tensions that have been mounting since former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted by the Supreme Court on corruption charges last July and later barred from politics for life.
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| How a discarded restaurant napkin led to an arrest in the 32-year-old cold case of a murdered US schoolgirl Posted: 24 Jun 2018 07:17 AM PDT  For over three decades the disappearance and vicious murder of Michella Welch had left police at a loss. The 12-year-old had disappeared in March 1986 from a park in the city of Tacoma, in Washington State. At the time, she had been babysitting her two younger sisters in Puget Park and had rode off on her bike to pick up some sandwiches. When she returned her sisters were in a nearby business using the lavatory, and Michella is believed to have gone looking for them. When Michella's sisters returned they found her bike and the sandwiches by a table in the park, but their sister was gone. A police dog discovered her body later that evening down a ravine. She had been raped and murdered. At the time DNA was taken from the scene and placed into evidence, yet the investigation struggled and was eventually filed as an unresolved cold case. However advances in DNA technology over the following decades prompted detectives to take another look at the case. In 2006 police scientists managed to reconstruct a DNA imprint from items collected at the crime scene, although no link was found to any known offender in the United States. Twelve years later progress came due to the growth of genetic genealogy, with its vast databases and archives, including from people researching their family history using DNA testing kits from companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com. "Genetic genealogy uses DNA technology to identify subjects by matching the unknown profile to a family member," Tacoma Police Chief Don Ramsdell told reporters. "Traditional genealogy is then used to build a family tree from publicly available websites," he said. The technology led police to two brothers, whose age and place of residence in 1986 eventually made them suspects. They were placed under surveillance as police waited for a chance to verify their genetic profiles. Earlier this month one of them, Gary Hartman, ate breakfast at a restaurant with a co-worker, oblivious to the undercover investigator sitting at a neighboring table. Gary Charles Hartman appearing in court charged with the rape and murder of Michella Welch When Hartman left the investigator collected the napkin he used to wipe his mouth and sent it to a lab for analysis. The tests discovered that the DNA matched that found on Michella Welch's body. Police arrested Hartman without incident at a set of traffic lights and on Friday prosecutors charged the 66-year-old with first-degree murder and first-degree rape. He is currently being held in custody in lieu of $5 million (£3.7 million) bail and is due to appear back in court on Monday. "This case does truly represent the crossroads of good old-fashioned police work combined with improvements in technology," Ramsdell said. Pierce County prosecutor Mark Lindquist had a warning to criminals. "Today we are at a point where, if you are a criminal and you left your DNA at the scene, you might as well turn yourself in now. We will catch you," he said.
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| Maxine Waters Warns Trump Cabinet: Steel Yourself For More Public Confrontations Posted: 24 Jun 2018 09:48 PM PDT  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) warned members of Donald Trump's Cabinet to be
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| Bentley Bentayga Becomes Fastest SUV at Pikes Peak Posted: 25 Jun 2018 07:41 AM PDT  The turbo 12-cylinder SUV set a 10:49.9 time with Pikes Peak pro Rhys Millen behind the wheel.
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| Singapore says Malaysia must abide by water deal Posted: 25 Jun 2018 04:22 AM PDT ![Singapore says Malaysia must abide by water deal]( "Singapore says Malaysia must abide by water deal") Singapore urged Malaysia on Monday to fully comply with a water-sharing agreement struck in 1962, after Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he was looking to renegotiate it. Mahathir, in an interview with Bloomberg, criticized the agreement in which Singapore can draw up to nearly 60 percent of its water needs from Malaysia at a fixed price, as being "too costly", adding that it was an issue "we need to settle" with Singapore. A spokesperson for Singapore's foreign ministry responded in an emailed statement, saying: "The 1962 Water Agreement is a fundamental agreement that was guaranteed by both governments in the 1965 Separation Agreement which was registered with the UN.
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| 37 American Habits That Visitors Find Confusing Posted: 25 Jun 2018 10:55 AM PDT |
| Queen Elizabeth Banned Meghan Markle From Eating This in Public Posted: 25 Jun 2018 11:33 AM PDT  Can she live?
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| The Latest: Sicily town gets OK to take ship with migrants Posted: 25 Jun 2018 12:56 PM PDT  BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local):
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| Roseanne Barr Breaks Down In First Interview Since Scandal Posted: 24 Jun 2018 10:15 PM PDT  Roseanne Barr said she's "lost everything" after posting a racist tweet about
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| Ethiopia arrests 30 over deadly grenade attack at leader's rally Posted: 24 Jun 2018 12:10 PM PDT  The death toll from a grenade attack on a pro-government rally in Ethiopia's capital climbed to two on Sunday, a cabinet minister said, as state media reported 30 arrests over the blast including several police officers. The attack occurred in a packed public square in Addis Ababa as new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was wrapping up a speech before tens of thousands of people. Initially, one person was reported to have died, but Abiy himself emerged safe and sound.
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| Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet Spied Waving Its Big Wing At The 'Ring Posted: 25 Jun 2018 08:09 AM PDT  The turbocharged droptop looks mighty speedy at the Nurburgring.
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