| Fox News' Chris Wallace Grills John Bolton Over Trump's Attacks On Media Posted: 05 Aug 2018 12:08 PM PDT  National Security Adviser John Bolton dodged questions from Fox News' Chris
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| Violent Proto-Fascists Came To Portland. The Police Went After The Anti-Fascists. Posted: 05 Aug 2018 07:00 AM PDT  PORTLAND, Ore. ― Police did a good job on Saturday preventing what could have
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| Death Toll in California's Carr Wildfire Raises to 7 as Utility Worker Dies Posted: 05 Aug 2018 12:40 PM PDT  Jairus Ayeta died working in 'dangerous terrain' of Carr fire
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| Israel intercepts second Gaza-bound activist boat Posted: 04 Aug 2018 12:29 AM PDT  The Israeli navy intercepted a Swedish-flagged activist boat bent on breaching its more than decade-long blockade of Gaza, the second in less than a week, the military said on Saturday. "The ship was monitored and was intercepted in accordance with international law," the military said in a statement, before the vessel, named Freedom for Gaza and carrying 12 people, was taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod. "The (military) clarified to the ship's passengers that they are violating the legal naval blockade and that any humanitarian merchandise can be transferred to Gaza through the Port of Ashdod," the statement said.
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| 7 Puppies Rescued From Remote Island Are Named After Gilligan and Friends Posted: 04 Aug 2018 12:43 PM PDT  No one knows how these brothers and sisters were lost.
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| 8 wounded in Gresham shooting; More than 30 shot in Chicago Sunday Posted: 05 Aug 2018 11:18 AM PDT  Dozens of people were wounded in shootings across Chicago Sunday, police said.
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| Iran Air to receive 5 ATR planes before US sanctions Posted: 03 Aug 2018 11:42 PM PDT  Iran Air said Saturday it was set to take delivery of five new planes from Franco-Italian firm ATR just before renewed US sanctions go into effect. "Based on existing agreements, five new ATR aircraft will land at Mehrabad Airport at 9 am (0430 GMT) tomorrow (Sunday)," the national carrier said on its Telegram channel. The new ATR-72600 planes are part of a deal for 20 new aircraft that Iran Air agreed to buy in April 2017, of which eight have been delivered so far.
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| Thailand's rescued cave boys end stay at Buddhist temple Posted: 04 Aug 2018 12:28 AM PDT  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — With their heads bowed and wearing orange robes, the members of the boys' soccer team rescued from almost three weeks trapped in a cave in northern Thailand on Saturday completed their time as novice Buddhist monks.
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| Melania Trump Gets Trolled By Statue Of Liberty Protester For ‘I Don’t Care’ Jacket Posted: 03 Aug 2018 05:53 PM PDT  A Statue of Liberty protester who demonstrated against the Trump
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| ‘We Are Not A Number’: Black Activists Protest At Progressive Convention Posted: 05 Aug 2018 08:54 AM PDT  NEW ORLEANS ― A group of black activists took the stage at the Netroots Nation
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| Hurricane Hector heading towards Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano Posted: 04 Aug 2018 04:16 PM PDT  A major hurricane is cutting a path towards an active Hawaiian volcano where months of non-stop eruptions have already caused thousands to flee their homes. Scientists speculated that low-atmospheric pressure from Hurricane Hector could re-start major eruptions at the Kilauea Volcano, if it maintains its course over the southern edge of Hawaii's Big Island. Its current trajectory puts it on collision course with the volcano which is in the midst of a three-month-long eruption that has seen lava vents open under homes on its eastern flank while its summit crater collapses.
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| Woman Becomes First Person in Denmark Fined for Wearing a Face Veil Posted: 04 Aug 2018 10:27 AM PDT  The 28-year-old woman was asked to either remove the veil or leave the premises
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| Pompeo urges release of Reuters reporters in meeting with Myanmar minister Posted: 03 Aug 2018 11:05 PM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for the immediate release of two Reuters reporters detained in Myanmar when he met Myanmar Foreign Minister Kyaw Tin on Saturday on the sidelines of a regional conference in Singapore, the State Department said. "Secretary Pompeo raised the issue of two detained Reuters reporters with the Burmese foreign minister," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.
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| Assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Posted: 05 Aug 2018 09:00 AM PDT ![Assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro]( "Assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro") Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dodged an apparent assassination attempt when drones armed with explosives detonated while he was delivering a speech to hundreds of soldiers being broadcast live on television, officials said. Caught by surprise mid-speech, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, looked up at the sky and winced Saturday after hearing the sound of an explosion pierce the air. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said the incident took place shortly after 5:30 p.m. as Maduro was celebrating the National Guard's 81st anniversary.
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| 11 Children Rescued From 'Filthy' New Mexico Compound With Barely Any Food, Cops Say Posted: 05 Aug 2018 06:02 AM PDT  The kids ranged in age from 1 to 15.
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| Russia: 18 killed in Siberian oil worker helicopter crash Posted: 04 Aug 2018 07:21 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday in Siberia, killing all 18 people aboard, mostly oil workers, authorities said.
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| Kellyanne Conway Says Journalists Not ‘Enemy Of The People' But Defends Trump's Attacks Posted: 05 Aug 2018 09:21 AM PDT  Top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway on Sunday offered a tepid rebuke of
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| 'Avengers: Infinity War' Star Has Us Thinking One 'Dead' Character Is Returning Posted: 05 Aug 2018 10:07 AM PDT  Warning! "Avengers: Infinity War" spoilers below!
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| Romania police probe anti-semitic graffiti at Elie Wiesel home Posted: 04 Aug 2018 11:27 AM PDT  Romanian police on Saturday announced a probe into anti-semitic graffiti found on the walls of the house where Nobel Peace prize winner Elie Wiesel was born. "An enquiry is underway to identify those responsible," police spokeswoman Florina Metes said, adding that officers were studying footage from surveillance cameras in the northern town of Sighetu Marmatiei, hometown of Holocaust survivor Wiesel who died in New York in 2016. "This grotesque act represents an attack not only on the memory of Elie Wiesel but on all the victims of the Holocaust," said the national institute for Holocaust studies, which is named after Wiesel.
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| Thousands more evacuated from California's largest wildfire Posted: 03 Aug 2018 08:32 PM PDT ![Thousands more evacuated from California's largest wildfire]( "Thousands more evacuated from California's largest wildfire") (Reuters) - Thousands more mountain residents were evacuated from the path of California's biggest wildfire on Friday as fatigued firefighters battled gusting winds driving one of the state's worst fire seasons in a decade. The Mendocino Complex Fire grew to 157,450 acres (63,700 hectares) late Friday, about half the size of Los Angeles, forcing nearly 16,000 homeowners to flee a blaze that has destroyed 88 structures about 93 miles (150 km) north of San Francisco, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire). Its size overtook the deadly Carr Fire, about 100 miles (160 km) to the northeast, which is among 17 major blazes burning in tinder-dry forests and woodland peppered with dead trees from the state's 2011-2017 drought.
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| US progress in reuniting migrant families 'disappointing', says judge Posted: 04 Aug 2018 08:58 AM PDT  The federal judge overseeing the reunification of more than 2,500 migrant families separated by Donald Trump's administration said the government's efforts were "disappointing" – and it was its responsibility to unite them. Hundreds of families remain separated a week after the court's reunification deadline because the parents are no longer in the US or have been deemed ineligible for reunification by the government. "The reality is that for every parent who is not located there will be a permanently orphaned child and that is 100% the responsibility of the administration," said the US district judge Dana Sabraw in his San Diego court on Friday.
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| Elizabeth Warren Calls Criminal Justice System 'Racist' While Speaking at Dillard University Posted: 04 Aug 2018 08:23 AM PDT  The potential Democratic presidential candidate spoke about 'the hard truth'
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| The Latest: Vegas shooting survivor says she lacks closure Posted: 03 Aug 2018 06:02 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the final report into the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 people (all times local):
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| Israeli Druze hold mass rally to protest Jewish nation law Posted: 04 Aug 2018 02:05 PM PDT  Tens of thousands of Israeli Druze and their supporters rallied in central Tel Aviv Saturday to protest a new law they say makes them second-class citizens. The law, which passed last month and is part of Israel's so-called basic laws, a de facto constitution, proclaims the country the nation state of the Jewish people. It makes no mention of equality or democracy, implying the country's Jewish character takes precedence, and speaks of Israel as the historic homeland of the Jews, who have a "unique" right to self-determination within its borders.
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| Russia Names Actor Steven Seagal Goodwill Ambassador To U.S. As Twitter Weeps Posted: 04 Aug 2018 11:05 PM PDT  In the ever stranger world of politics, Russia's Foreign Ministry has
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| How Long Does It Take To Hit 191 MPH In Porsche Cayenne Turbo? Posted: 05 Aug 2018 09:00 AM PDT  It even surpassed its top speed on paper.
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| Twenty dead in WWII vintage plane crash in Switzerland Posted: 04 Aug 2018 05:35 PM PDT  Twenty people died after a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside at the weekend, police said Sunday. "The police have the sad certainty that the 20 people aboard perished," police spokeswoman Anita Senti told a news conference. The 20 Minutes newspaper quoted a witness who was on the mountainside at the time of the crash.
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| Israel's 'loyal' Druze Arabs push for changes after Jewish state law Posted: 04 Aug 2018 05:10 AM PDT ![Israel's 'loyal' Druze Arabs push for changes after Jewish state law]( "Israel's 'loyal' Druze Arabs push for changes after Jewish state law") By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's new "nation-state" law has provoked anger among members of its most integrated minority, the Druze, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek corrective legislation. Netanyahu has defended the law, which declares that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country, from fierce criticism at home and abroad. In a further effort to calm tensions, Netanyahu convened a meeting with Druze community leaders in Tel Aviv late on Thursday but it was cut short because one of the participants, a retired senior military officer, had harshly criticized the legislation, Israeli media reported.
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| California Bank Employees Win Record $543 Jackpot After Buying Mega Millions Ticket on a Whim Posted: 04 Aug 2018 07:08 AM PDT  The 11 Wells Fargo workers will each take home $29 million before taxes.
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| Report: Blast kills Syrian arms program researcher Posted: 05 Aug 2018 10:38 AM PDT ![Report: Blast kills Syrian arms program researcher]( "Report: Blast kills Syrian arms program researcher") BEIRUT (AP) — A research director at a military agency linked to Syria's chemical weapons program was assassinated, a newspaper close to the Syrian government reported Sunday.
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| Maduro unharmed after drone 'attack' with explosives: Venezuela government Posted: 04 Aug 2018 05:35 PM PDT  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro escaped an "attack" Saturday when multiple drones carrying explosives detonated near him as he gave a speech at a military ceremony Saturday, his government said, adding seven soldiers were wounded. "This is an attack against President Nicolas Maduro," Communication Minister Jorge Rodriguez said following the incident that was caught during a live broadcast. State television images showed Maduro looking up in confusion mid-speech as a bang is heard, then uniformed members of Venezuela's National Guard lined up in a parade suddenly breaking ranks and scattering.
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| Ferguson Fire moves into Yosemite, jumps Highway 41 Posted: 04 Aug 2018 08:33 AM PDT  Fueled by a changing weather pattern, a wildfire burning near Yosemite has been acting more erratically and has exploded in size.
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| Trump's NYC Hotel Revenue Jumped Thanks To Trip By Saudi Prince: Report Posted: 03 Aug 2018 09:05 PM PDT  Donald Trump's New York hotel enjoyed a nice bounce in revenue this year
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| The 1 Problem with the Navy's New Columbia-Class Ballistic Missile Submarine Posted: 04 Aug 2018 07:00 AM PDT  It does not exactly make a lot of $$$ for the people who build it.
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| 'My life was in danger': much-loved Nicaraguan singer and Ortega critic forced to flee Posted: 04 Aug 2018 01:00 AM PDT  One of Nicaragua's best-loved musicians – a former Sandinista troubadour who became one of president Daniel Ortega's fiercest critics – has fled the crisis-stricken Central American nation claiming he feared being killed. "I had to leave Nicaragua because my life was in danger," the veteran singer-songwriter Carlos Mejía Godoy told the opposition newspaper La Prensa. During the 70s and 80s, Mejía was Sandinismo's pre-eminent bard, with stirring pro-revolution anthems such as Nicaragua Nicaragüita, Las mujeres del Cuá and the Sandinista hymn La Consigna.
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| Get A Glimpse Of Ryan Korban's Glamorous Home Posted: 05 Aug 2018 05:00 AM PDT |
| Thai cave boys leave Buddhist monastery after honouring dead rescuer Posted: 03 Aug 2018 11:09 PM PDT  The Thai boys freed from a flooded cave in a rescue bid that gripped the world left a Buddhist monastery Saturday, 11 days after ordaining as novice monks to honour a diver who died during the mission to save them. The ordeal of the "Wild Boars" football team dominated global headlines as divers worked round the clock to extract the group from the flooded chambers and twisted, narrow passages of the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Eleven of the boys and their coach ordained to "make merit" according to Buddhist ritual for "Sergeant Sam", as the diver is now affectionately known across Thailand.
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| Third Lynk & Co Model Revealed Posted: 04 Aug 2018 10:40 PM PDT  The 03 is the Chinese brand's first sedan.
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| The Latest: Portland police say 4 were arrested in protests Posted: 05 Aug 2018 03:23 AM PDT  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on protests in Portland, Oregon (all times local):
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| Zimbabwe president calls for unity as opposition cries foul Posted: 03 Aug 2018 09:03 PM PDT  Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for unity in the wake of allegations his election victory was tainted by fraud, hailing the vote as a fresh start for the country after the repressive rule of Robert Mugabe. As defeated opposition leader Nelson Chamisa decried the official results as a sham, Mnangagwa, a former Mugabe ally, defended the vote. "With the eyes of the world on us we delivered a free, fair and credible election," Mnangagwa told reporters on Friday.
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| Ex-I. Coast leader on trial at ICC, named head of party's dissident wing Posted: 04 Aug 2018 02:04 PM PDT  Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, currently on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity, has been chosen to head the dissident wing of the Ivorian People's Party (FPI), the party he created. Gbagbo, 73, was the only candidate for the position and won 97.5 percent of 5,325 votes cast, said Franck Anderson Kouassi, spokesman for the pro-Gbagbo wing of the opposition FPI party.
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| Judge orders DACA programme fully restored despite Trump administration protests Posted: 04 Aug 2018 01:44 PM PDT  A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, potentially opening the door for more young, undocumented immigrants to apply for legal protections as early as the end of this month. Upholding his April order requiring the reinstatement of the Obama-era programme, which President Donald Trump attempted to end late last year, US District Judge John Bates had earlier given the current administration 90 days to "to better explain its view that DACA is unlawful". A memo from Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in June offered "nothing even remotely approaching a considered legal assessment that this court could subject to judicial review", he wrote.
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| Hardline U.S. 'gundamentalists' pressure NRA from within Posted: 05 Aug 2018 03:10 AM PDT  About 100 protesters, many wearing T-shirts emblazoned with "NRA = Not Real Activists," marched through the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Dallas in May to slam the powerful gun lobby as too conciliatory on gun rights and rally for their candidate for the board. Adam Kraut, a gun rights lawyer, fell about 4,000 votes short of the 71,000 needed for election, but earned 5,000 more than the previous year, a sign of the growth of the Second Amendment purists within the NRA known to many as "gundamentalists." With opinion polls showing U.S. public support for more gun control growing in the wake of mass shootings in recent years, the NRA is facing internal pressure from this little-known force that is demanding that the leadership concede zero ground to gun-control advocates.
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| Patrick Stewart to reprise 'Star Trek' role in new series Posted: 05 Aug 2018 04:54 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick Stewart is boldly going where he's been before — "Star Trek."
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| Goodwood Revival to be screened live at Bicester Heritage Posted: 04 Aug 2018 07:01 AM PDT  The action from the famous historic race meeting is to be screened live at a free all-day event hosted by Hagerty at Bicester Heritage on the Revival's Sunday
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| Aluminum tariffs tap out Canada craft brewers Posted: 04 Aug 2018 06:19 PM PDT  Canadian craft brewers are facing a sudden aluminum can shortage and are blaming the supply disruptions on aluminum tariffs, making these small businesses among the first casualties of the Canada-US trade spat. "It's a terrible time for brewers," Luke Harford, president of industry association Beer Canada, told AFP, noting that Canadian tax hikes on beer and new competition from the soon-to-be-legal recreational-use cannabis in October will compound brewers' tariff woes. Canada is the world's third largest aluminum producer, but still imports more than 2 billion cans annually, mostly from the United States, according to the government statistical agency.
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