| Interactive map: Where weed is legal in the U.S. Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:50 AM PDT  Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have now legalized medical marijuana. And eight states — including Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska — plus D.C. have passed laws legalizing recreational marijuana.
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| McCain: 'China Is the Key' to Solving North Korea Problem Posted: 15 Apr 2017 11:07 PM PDT  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) tells Chuck Todd that President Trump's shift on calling China a currency manipulator is tied to their role in defusing North Korea's aggressive posture.
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| After 7 years in prison, a small-time pot grower will reunite with his daughter Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:39 AM PDT  Corinna Fields, a second-grader, sent former President Barack Obama a letter last year outlining all the things she wanted to do with her dad if he got out of prison. On his last day in the White House, the president granted Corinna her wish, including her father, Paul, among the 310 drug offenders who received clemency as he prepared to leave office. In his two terms, Obama pardoned or commuted the sentences of nearly 2,000 people, mainly nonviolent drug offenders, who he believed were serving sentences that were overly harsh.
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| Cleveland Murder Broadcast On Facebook Live Posted: 16 Apr 2017 09:36 PM PDT  A man named Steve Stephens allegedly killed an elderly man in Cleveland, Ohio. A massive manhunt is underway.
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| Pictured: Boy, 5, Killed After Freak Accident at Rotating Restaurant Posted: 17 Apr 2017 07:10 AM PDT  His head reportedly became stuck.
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| Trump family hosts its 1st White House Easter Egg Roll Posted: 17 Apr 2017 08:34 AM PDT  ABC News' Katherine Faulders reports from the White House South Lawn on the 139th annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
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| Golan Druze march for Syrian independence day Posted: 17 Apr 2017 08:02 AM PDT  Hundreds of Druze on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights marched Monday for Syrian independence day, carrying portraits of President Bashar al-Assad and chanting anti-Israel slogans. "God save Syria!" they shouted as they rallied in the town of Masada. Israeli officials say there are about 20,000 Druze on the strategic plateau seized by the Jewish state from neighbouring Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.
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| Entrepreneurial Couple Sees Selling Weed as Social Justice Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:58 AM PDT  When Wanda James' brother Rick was 19, he was arrested for possession of 4.5 ounces of marijuana – and sentenced to 10 years in prison. According to Wanda, the Texas prison system used him as slave labor, compelling him to pick cotton in order to buy his freedom, while the profits of his work went to corporate interests. Since then, Wanda and her husband, Scott Durrah, have been on a mission to reframe the conversation by capitalizing on the same drug that put her brother away.
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| For African-American families hit hard by the war on drugs, pot comes out of the shadows, but slowly Posted: 17 Apr 2017 04:21 AM PDT  Jesce Horton is the owner of Panacea Valley Gardens, a cultivation center and boutique edibles line serving cannabis patients in Portland, OR. Jesce Horton still remembers the advice his father often imparted to him while he was growing up. Marijuana, said the 34-year-old Horton, was always a big part of those conversations.
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| United Airlines Allegedly Removes Couple Flying To Costa Rica Posted: 16 Apr 2017 11:12 PM PDT  United Airlines, which is already under scanner for forcefully dragging a man out from an overbooked flight, has again run into trouble.
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| Tense Turkey braces for crunch referendum on Erdogan powers Posted: 15 Apr 2017 07:33 PM PDT  Turkey on Sunday votes in a referendum on expanding the powers of the head of state under President Tayyip Erdogan that will determine its future political destiny but whose outcome remains in doubt after a bitterly-contested campaign. Over 55.3 million Turks are able to vote in the referendum on sweeping changes to the president's role which, if agreed, would grant Erdogan more power than any leader of Turkey since its founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and his successor Ismet Inonu. Opinion polls, always treated with caution in Turkey, predicted wildly divergent scenarios with analysts saying the outcome remains too close to call despite the clear advantage in resources and airtime enjoyed by the 'Yes' campaign.
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| Cleveland police seek man they say broadcast killing on Facebook Posted: 16 Apr 2017 04:36 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Cleveland police urged a suspect who they said broadcast video of himself on Facebook killing an elderly man on Sunday to turn himself in to authorities. Officials in the Ohio city said they were looking for Steve Stephens in connection with the one confirmed killing but had found no evidence to support what police said was a claim he made in the video of having killed more than a dozen other people. "Everybody is out there looking for Steve," Calvin Williams, the Cleveland police chief, told a news conference, where he joined Mayor Frank Jackson in asking Stephens to turn himself in.
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| 3 Reasons Not to Fear Retirement Posted: 17 Apr 2017 06:45 AM PDT ![3 Reasons Not to Fear Retirement]( "3 Reasons Not to Fear Retirement") Many people are scared of retirement and worry about what life will be like without a paycheck. Preparing for retirement can at times seem like a daunting task. If you've managed to find and keep a job, get married and raise a couple of kids or buy and maintain a house for 40 years, then retirement should not seem like the impossible goal that some people believe it is.
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| What happened today in France's presidential race Posted: 16 Apr 2017 10:43 AM PDT  A week before France's presidential election, President Francois Hollande warned the candidates against scapegoating Europe, and self-styled revolutionary Jean-Luc Melenchon tore into scandal-hit conservative Francois Fillon. Commemorating the World War I battle of Chemin des Dames in northern France, Hollande credited Europe with "having protected us against war".
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| Cannabis Gives 4-Year-Old a Shot at Life After Family's Cross-Country Move Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:51 AM PDT  Maggie Selmeski, 4, and her family are "medical marijuana refugees," as they came to Colorado from Tennessee in pursuit of pot. It is the only effective treatment for Maggie's epilepsy, which can cause 500 seizures a day.
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| A look back at the Virginia Tech shootings: 10 years after shooting that killed 32 Posted: 16 Apr 2017 11:17 AM PDT ![A look back at the Virginia Tech shootings: 10 years after shooting that killed 32]( "A look back at the Virginia Tech shootings: 10 years after shooting that killed 32") In one of America's worst school attacks, a mentally ill student fatally shot 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life, April 16, 2007. College senior Seung-Hui Cho opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom building across campus. The shooting at Virginia Tech was, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
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| The Latest: Pope decries 'vile' attack on Syrians in address Posted: 16 Apr 2017 05:21 PM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on Pope Francis' Easter message. (all times local):
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| This Is Your Teenager's Brain on Pot Posted: 17 Apr 2017 03:04 AM PDT  A series of studies point out that vulnerable, still-developing adolescent brains don't mix so well with marijuana, but definitive research is elusive.
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| Erdogan Wins Referendum On Changing Turkish Government Posted: 16 Apr 2017 03:06 PM PDT  Turkey's president claimed a narrow victory in a bid to concentrate power in his hands.
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| United Airlines Boots Couple en Route to Their Wedding off Flight Posted: 17 Apr 2017 10:23 AM PDT  A couple en route to their wedding was kicked off a United Airlines flight after confusion with seating.
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| The Latest: Vigil held for Facebook video shooting victim Posted: 17 Apr 2017 04:39 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting captured on video and later shared on Facebook (all times local):
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| Army declares loyalty to Maduro as Venezuela braces for giant demo Posted: 17 Apr 2017 03:23 PM PDT  Venezuela's defense minister on Monday declared the army's loyalty to President Nicolas Maduro, who ordered troops into the streets ahead of a major protest by opponents trying to oust him. Venezuela is bracing for what Maduro's opponents vow will be the "mother of all protests" Wednesday, after two weeks of clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against moves by the leftist leader and his allies to tighten their grip on power. The center-right opposition has called on the military -- a pillar of Maduro's power -- to turn on the president amid an economic and political crisis that has triggered severe food shortages, riots and looting.
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| China's Tianjin port cracks down on coal in Beijing's war on smog: notice Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:57 AM PDT  China's Tianjin Port Co Ltd will impose measures to curb the trucking and storage of coal months earlier than expected, as one of the nation's busiest ports complies with government orders in its war on smog, a customer notice shows. In March, Beijing called for a ban on transporting coal in Hebei, China's top steel producing province, and the city of Tianjin by the end of September, forcing consumers, miners and traders to use the railroad. A Tianjin based trader estimated that a couple million tonnes of coal has been sitting at logistic facilities at Tianjin port.
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| Small pot farmers in California fear Trump — but Big Business could be a bigger threat Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:15 AM PDT  Brad bends down to inspect one of his medical marijuana plants on the farm. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — Brad and Katherine live a simple life on 120 acres with two dogs, three cats, a goat, some chickens, three alpacas — and just under 2,000 square feet of marijuana plants. Katherine, 31, never smokes pot — though she does bake medical marijuana dog treats for the arthritic family dog, Jake.
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| The family that smokes together Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:42 AM PDT  It was Thanksgiving afternoon in Madison, Conn., four years ago, and the Cecchi family was getting ready for dinner. Just before the turkey was served, Paige Cecchi, then an 18-year-old college freshman, gave her older sister, Lauren, "the look," Paige remembers. "Then we realized Dad had caught 'the look,'" she says of her father, Mike, who is now 66.
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| The Latest: Turkish leader gets call from Trump after vote Posted: 17 Apr 2017 03:43 PM PDT  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Latest on Turkey's referendum on presidential powers (all times local):
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| The 8 inmates Arkansas was planning to execute this month Posted: 16 Apr 2017 09:09 AM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Despite several court rulings that put its plans in jeopardy, Arkansas hopes to go ahead with the executions of six men between Monday and April 27, which would be a pace exceeded only by Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorized the death penalty in 1976.
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| Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails launch hunger strike Posted: 17 Apr 2017 10:52 AM PDT  Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails launched a hunger strike Monday following a call from leader and prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, a movement that could mark a serious challenge to Israeli authorities if sustained. The hunger strike was called in connection with Palestinian Prisoners Day, observed annually, but also ahead of commemorations this summer marking 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War and the start of Israel's occupation. Israel Prisons Service spokesman Assaf Librati said that hunger strikers would be disciplined and later added that Barghouti had been transferred from Hadarim prison to Jalami prison, near Haifa, 48 kilometres (30 miles) to the north.
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| Jakarta election exposes deep political, religious divide Posted: 16 Apr 2017 02:42 AM PDT  By Tom Allard and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Jakarta voters head to the polls on Wednesday to elect a governor for Indonesia's teeming capital after a campaign that incited political and religious tensions in the world's most-populous Muslim country. Surveys have shown the race tightening to a statistical dead heat, with incumbent Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese Christian, closing in on rival Anies Baswedan, a former education minister. Purnama is standing trial on blasphemy charges stemming from the divisive campaign that also featured mass rallies led by Islamist hardliners and alleged plots to overthrow President Joko Widodo, who is popularly known as Jokowi.
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| Buying weed for Grandpa Posted: 17 Apr 2017 04:20 AM PDT  Somewhere in a suburban New York basement there is a small, unused bag of marijuana, a last attempt to help an elderly father in his final days. One day last spring, in one of his series of hospital rooms, his family — a wife and four grown children — argued over what straws they might grasp to build his strength. Pot could help with that, said his son.
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| Will Tesla Do to Cars What Apple Did to Smartphones? Posted: 17 Apr 2017 07:50 AM PDT  The company's fate rides on the answers to three unresolved questions about the auto industry's future: driven or self-driving? Electric or gas? Private or shared?
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| BP says crews brought leaking Alaskan well under control Posted: 17 Apr 2017 11:26 AM PDT  BP Plc said workers on Alaska's North Slope had brought under control a company-operated well that spewed oil and gas over the weekend. The leak was discovered on Friday and a team from BP, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and local government was brought in to coordinate efforts. A BP spokesman said details of what caused the loss of control were not available.
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| Twitter Inc (TWTR) Stock Headed For New All-Time Lows Posted: 17 Apr 2017 03:00 AM PDT ![Twitter Inc (TWTR) Stock Headed For New All-Time Lows]( "Twitter Inc (TWTR) Stock Headed For New All-Time Lows") Twitter Inc (ticker: TWTR) may have delivered some much-needed user growth in the first quarter, but the stock remains a risky bet for long-term investors. According to a new report by Aegis Capital analyst Victor Anthony, Twitter's road to success is getting narrower by the day in the face of growing competition from Facebook ( FB) Alphabet ( GOOG, GOOGL) and Snap ( SNAP). Twitter's growth struggles are common knowledge among investors, but Aegis' user growth checks suggest Twitter will report incrementally positive growth user in the most recent quarter.
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| Trump salutes the Easter Bunny and more: April 17 in photos Posted: 17 Apr 2017 10:08 AM PDT ![Trump salutes the Easter Bunny and more: April 17 in photos]( "Trump salutes the Easter Bunny and more: April 17 in photos") President Trump salutes a member of the military who sang the national anthem as he stands with a performer in an Easter Bunny costume at the White House Easter Egg Roll; Geoffrey Kirui of Kenya crosses the finish line to win the men's division of the 121st Boston Marathon; an elderly North Korean man is silhouetted against a model of the Unha-3, a space launch vehicle, displayed at the Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Reuters)
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| Prosecutor: Suspect in Washington mall shooting found dead Posted: 17 Apr 2017 03:48 PM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — A man charged with killing five people at a mall in Washington state last year was found dead in his jail cell in an apparent suicide, authorities said Monday.
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| IS attacked Iraq forces with chemical weapons: military Posted: 16 Apr 2017 09:54 AM PDT  The Islamic State group used chemical weapons against Iraqi forces taking part in the operation to recapture Mosul, injuring some security personnel, the military said on Sunday. IS has periodically carried out attacks using chemical weapons, but both the toll and the impact on military operations has been minimal and the jihadists' bombs and bullets are far deadlier. "The Daesh terrorist gangs tried to block the advance of our forces by using shells filled with toxic chemical material, but the effect was limited," Iraq's Joint Operations Command said in a statement, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
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| China's economy grows 6.9% in first quarter of 2017: gov't Posted: 16 Apr 2017 08:19 PM PDT  China's economy grew 6.9 percent in the first quarter of 2017, government data showed Monday, beating expectations in the latest sign of stabilisation in the world's second-largest economy. "The national economy in the first quarter has maintained the momentum of steady and sound development," the National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement.
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| The Latest: Migrants held hostage spurs arrests in Greece Posted: 16 Apr 2017 02:13 PM PDT  ROME (AP) — The Latest on Europe's response to the unusually large number of migrants trying to reach the continent: (all times local):
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| Your Home Décor: How to Tricks for Making an Old Room Feel New without Spending a Lot Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:21 PM PDT ![Your Home Décor: How to Tricks for Making an Old Room Feel New without Spending a Lot]( "Your Home Décor: How to Tricks for Making an Old Room Feel New without Spending a Lot") Planning to improve your décor in a affordable and simple method? Paint stripes, provide an accent wall, paint furnishings pieces, pots for plants, image frames, anything you can come up with that will include a little excitement. If you've made your own drapes or pillows and your material is still in store then you're lucky, go purchase fabrics in the same loved ones and provide some interest in matching but contrasting materials.
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| Cairo court acquits Egyptian-American of human trafficking charges Posted: 16 Apr 2017 06:52 AM PDT  By Amina Ismail CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court acquitted on Sunday an Egyptian-American woman and seven others who worked with street children and had been detained for nearly three years on human trafficking charges, in a case that had raised concerns in Washington. Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian who holds U.S. citizenship, founded Belady, an NGO that promotes a better life for street children. Dressed in a white prison uniform, Hijazi stood in the courtroom cage with her husband and Belady co-founder Mohamed Hassanein.
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| Here’s what the driverless semi trucks of the future will look like Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:44 PM PDT 
While Google, Ford, Apple, and others slug it out to see who the future king of driverless transportation will be, shipping companies are patiently waiting for their own revolution. Einride is one of the companies that thinks it might have an answer, at least when it comes to replacing modern semi trucks with a greener, and potentially even safer solution that a traditional driver.
Einride's concept is to swap out an on-board human truck driver with a control system that allows the vehicle to both pilot itself as well as be controlled remotely by a trained operator. The idea is that when a truck is making a long haul and cruising along the highway it will, for the most part, navigate itself to its destination, with a remote "driver" keeping an eye on many of the trucks at the same time, only stepping in an issue arises. 
Once the truck approach their final stop, a driver keeps a much closer eye on the action and helps the vehicle find its way through city streets and more challenging roadways. Einride's vehicles, which it calls "T-pods," are fully battery powered, with the ability to cruise for 124 miles on a single charge. Early concepts of the trucks look like a cross between a traditional semi and an alien space ship. Each T-pod can haul 20 tons of cargo on its 23-foot-long frame, and Einride wants to have at least 200 of the vehicles on the road in Sweden by 2020, with an early test fleet hitting the pavement next year.
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| Choose Between SAT Essay and ACT Writing Posted: 17 Apr 2017 06:00 AM PDT ![Choose Between SAT Essay and ACT Writing]( "Choose Between SAT Essay and ACT Writing") The essay portion of the SAT and ACT is technically optional, but that doesn't mean you should write it off. Many colleges require applicants to provide their essay results from one of the exams, while other schools will consider the SAT essay or ACT writing during the admissions process. Here are three aspects that distinguish the SAT essay and ACT writing section.
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| Sweet dad cheers up embarrassed daughter with an 'accident' of his own Posted: 17 Apr 2017 09:53 AM PDT  Dads can be so embarrassing sometimes, but they can also make you feel better about your own embarrassments. When kindergartener Valerie had an 'accident' last week, she was embarrassed and asked to go home early. But when her dad showed up to take her home, he made her feel better by revealing a secret of his own. My little sis had an accident today at kindergarten & this is how my dad left to pick her up so she wouldn't feel so sad/embarrassed ❤️ pic.twitter.com/veHMFO4QHr — Lucinda Sowards (@LucindaSowards) April 14, 2017 Before leaving the house, he splashed water on himself to make it look like he'd had accident, as well, so she wouldn't feel so self conscious about it. Valerie's older sister Lucinda told Mashable that, "when he arrived to pick her up, he told her 'honey I need to use your back pack to cover up my accident if we are gonna get out of here.'" SEE ALSO: Best father ever creates unbelievable cardboard armor for his son Valerie, laughing, handed over her backpack and they "snuck out" of the school. Lucinda said that Valerie felt like she got away with it, and the stunt helped her, "learn to laugh about it." Luckily, Valerie's accident happened at the beginning of recess, so none of the other kids noticed. With her dad making light of the situation too, there was nothing left to be embarrassed about. Valerie's family also fosters children regularly, Lucinda considers herself a "foster advocate." In fact, the family adopted four foster children on Monday. Based off this story, it seems safe to say they're an ideal family to be taking in these kids, and the internet seems to agree: people on Twitter adored this story, calling him "dad of the year." It's gained more than 200k likes since being posted last week. @LucindaSowards @woahkennedy That's called being a great father. I did the same thing, before. — The MFC Truth (@mfc_truth) April 15, 2017 Others pointed out the similarity to a classic scene from Billy Madison. @LucindaSowards pic.twitter.com/kqHb8PdI32 — Trevor Latta (@LattaTrevor) April 15, 2017 Some people seemed to think it was even more embarrassing. @LucindaSowards @mzneath That's just double the embarrassment! — TheGM ⚡️Westbrook!⚡️ (@Jamigreen23) April 15, 2017 Based off what Lucinda had to say, as long as he's dad of the year in their house, it was a success. WATCH: These awkward shirt suspenders are the garter belts for dads
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| Weed and The American Family: Wanda & Scott Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Wanda James and her husband, Scott Durrah, have been on a mission to change the conversation about marijuana after her brother was arrested for possession of 4.5 ounces of pot – and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In 2009, they became the first African-Americans in Colorado to be licensed to operate a medical marijuana dispensary.
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