| White House says Trump won’t release his 2016 taxes, either Posted: 17 Apr 2017 01:20 PM PDT  White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday afternoon that President Trump does not plan to release his 2016 tax returns.
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| Democrat Has Trump Worried in Georgia Special Election Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:50 PM PDT  Hours before voters go to the polls in Georgia's 6th district, Trump attacked Jon Ossoff, who could possibly flip the long-time red seat blue. The Daily Kos' David Nir, who helped Ossoff raise $1 million of the $8.3M fueling his campaign.
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| Trump Team's Mixed Messages On North Korea Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:32 PM PDT Mike Pence sends a new message to North Korea not to "test President Trump's resolve" and "all options are on the table," but NSC advisor H.R. McMaster seems to have a different idea about defusing tensions with Pyongyang.
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| Colorado’s Governor John Hickenlooper warily learns to live with pot Posted: 17 Apr 2017 04:23 AM PDT  When the people of Colorado voted in 2012 to legalize recreational marijuana, they instantly transformed their governor, John Hickenlooper, into America's most reluctant pot pioneer. "If it was up to me, I wouldn't have done it," Hickenlooper admitted. "We were worried about everything," Hickenlooper tells Yahoo News.
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| Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher's Marriage Is Basically a Real-Life Fairytale Posted: 17 Apr 2017 11:52 AM PDT  The adorable couple have been married for five-and-a-half years.
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| The Latest: Facebook: Killing uploaded, not broadcast live Posted: 16 Apr 2017 09:37 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — The Latest on a suspect who shot and killed a man while livestreaming on Facebook (all times local):
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| Egypt discovers 3,000-year-old tomb of nobleman Posted: 18 Apr 2017 08:55 AM PDT ![Egypt discovers 3,000-year-old tomb of nobleman]( "Egypt discovers 3,000-year-old tomb of nobleman") Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a nobleman from more than 3,000 years ago, the latest in a series of major discoveries of ancient relics that Egypt hopes will revive a tourist business that has been hit by political instability. The find near the Nile city of Luxor, is the tomb of Userhat, a judge from the New Kingdom. In March, Egypt unearthed an eight-meter statue in a Cairo slum that is believed to be King Psammetich 1, who ruled from 664 to 610 BC. Hisham El Demery, chief of Egypt's Tourism Development Authority, said tourism was picking up and discoveries like the one at Luxor would encourage the sector.
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| Thousands of 'No' supporters protest Turkey vote in Istanbul Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:07 PM PDT  Thousands of supporters of the 'No' campaign in the referendum on granting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greater powers took to the streets of Istanbul late Monday to protest alleged poll violations. At least 1,000 protesters thronged Besiktas on the European side of the city while on the Asian side around 2,000 demonstrators marched through Kadikoy, another staunchly secular and anti-Erdogan neighbourhood, AFP correspondents said. The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said they would challenge the results from most ballot boxes due to alleged violations.
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| Trump Faces New Resistance and Low Poll Numbers Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:02 PM PDT President Trump is breaking more promises and still refusing to release his tax returns, which is galvanizing his Democratic opposition. Thousands marched against him and are challenging his GOP supporters in Congress.
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| History of the White House Easter Egg Roll Posted: 17 Apr 2017 07:07 AM PDT ![History of the White House Easter Egg Roll]( "History of the White House Easter Egg Roll") A visual history of the White House Easter Egg Roll, with images going back more than a century.
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| Trump: I won’t say whether we sabotaged North Korea missile test Posted: 18 Apr 2017 06:33 AM PDT  In an interview with "Fox & Friends," the president would not comment on Pyongyang's failed weekend launch of ballistic missile. Trump also appeared to conflate supreme leader Kim Jong Un with Un's late father, Kim Jong Il.
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| Democrat Jon Ossoff leads in Georgia House race — a ripple, or the start of a wave? Posted: 18 Apr 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Polls suggest that Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff is within range of getting 50 percent of the vote against a large field of Republicans, winning the seat outright and avoiding a runoff.
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| The Latest: Troopers checked casino for Cleveland suspect Posted: 18 Apr 2017 02:05 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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| People Are Blaming the Parents After a Child Was Crushed to Death at a Rotating Restaurant Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:26 AM PDT  And I totally understand why.
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| 'River piracy' is the latest weird thing to come out of climate change Posted: 17 Apr 2017 03:01 PM PDT  A pirate is lurking in northern Canada, and global warming is only making it stronger. The Alsek River recently stole water flowing into the Slims River and took it for itself, a phenomenon known as "river piracy" — which scientists blame on a massive retreating glacier distributing water in new ways. The development is the first known case of river piracy in the modern era, and it's the first to be pinned in part on climate change, researchers wrote in a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. It also points to an unexpected consequence of human-caused global warming. SEE ALSO: NASA photos capture a strange new crack in a massive Greenland glacier and we might be doomed "So far, a lot of the scientific work surrounding glaciers and climate change has been focused on sea-level rise," Dan Shugar, the study's lead author and a geoscientist at the University of Washington, Tacoma, said in a news release. "Our study shows there may be other under-appreciated, unanticipated effects of glacial retreat." A Sept. 2, 2016, photo shows the meltwater stream along the toe of Kaskawulsh Glacier, on the left, that is diverting fresh water from one river to the other.Image: Dan Shugar/University of Washington TacomaThe river piracy began last year at the edge of the massive Kaskawulsh Glacier, which spans some 15,000 square miles across Canada's Yukon territory. For hundreds of years, the glacier poured meltwater into river basins of the Slims, which ends in the Bering Sea, and the Kaskawulsh, which empties into the Gulf of Alaska. Researchers found that a new, 100-foot canyon in the glacier's toe had abruptly rerouted meltwater away from a glacial lake that feeds the Slims River and instead delivered that water to the Kaskawulsh River, which feeds the Alsek River. As a result, the Alsek River — a popular whitewater rafting destination — ran higher than normal last summer, bloated with stolen water. The Slims River, meanwhile, was rapidly reduced to a trickle. Kluane Lake, which is fed by the river, was so low that residents struggled to launch their boats. Dust swirled in the parched valley, making it hard to fly on certain days, Yukon News reported last June. Satellite images in 2015 and 2016 show a dramatic drop in the Slims River's flow. The receding toe of Kaskawulsh Glacier is seen at the bottom. Kluane Lake isseen at the top of the 2016 image.Image: European space agencyShugar and his co-authors, including Jim Best at the University of Illinois and John Clague at Canada's Simon Fraser University, had originally planned to study the Slims River in August 2016. Instead, they found "a long, skinny lake," Shugar said. Gauges showed that the river, once 10 feet deep, had dropped suddenly from May 26 to 29, not long after the canyon was formed in the glacier. "Day by day we could see the water level dropping," he said. Scientists said there are two main reasons why the Kaskawulsh Glacier has retreated by about mile over the last century. After expanding during a cold period centuries ago, known as the Little Ice Age, the glacier is naturally readjusting its size in these warmer times. But it's also melting in part because of greenhouse gases. The team found only a tiny probability — 0.5 percent — that the glacier's retreat could have happened in a "constant climate," meaning there's a 99.5 percent probability that the glacier is responding to modern climate change. The ice fields of Ellesmere Island, Canada, are retreating due to warming temperatures.Image: Mario Tama/Getty Images"I always point out to climate-change skeptics that Earth's glaciers are becoming markedly smaller, and that can only happen in a warming climate," Clague, one of the co-authors, said in the news release. Canadian scientists who observed this river piracy last year were more ambivalent about the role of human-driven global warming in the glacier's retreat. "Would this particular event have happened without anthropogenic climate change? Probably," Kristen Kennedy, a geologist with the Yukon Geological Survey, told the Yukon News last summer. "It's neat to see. It's really just an interesting natural phenomenon that's happening right before our eyes, and not very many people get to see something like this," she said. But outside scientists praised Monday's study and said it was significant. Richard Alley, a glacier expert at Pennsylvania State University who wasn't part of the study, told the Associated Press that the findings reconfirm "that climate change has large, widespread and sometimes surprising impacts." WATCH: NASA timelapse shows just how quickly our Arctic sea ice is disappearing
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| Egypt arrests church bombings suspect Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:17 AM PDT  Egyptian police on Tuesday arrested a man wanted for alleged involvement in twin church bombings this month claimed by the Islamic State group, an official said. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Ali Mahmoud Mohamed Hassan, one of 19 suspects whose names police made public after the Palm Sunday explosions, the official said. Two suicide bombers attacked two churches in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria on April 9, killing 45 people in the deadliest attack on Coptic Christians in recent memory.
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| Prince Harry Close to ‘Complete Breakdown’ After Mother’s Death Posted: 17 Apr 2017 08:52 AM PDT  20 years after Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris, her youngest son recalled the toll it took on him, and how his brother pushed him to get help.
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| Top Trump Aides Who Have Alleged Links With Russia Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:03 AM PDT  As reports of President Donald Trump taking money from Russia surfaces, we take a look at some of the top aides of the president who have alleged ties with Moscow.
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| Pence reassures Japan of U.S. resolve on North Korea, to work with China Posted: 18 Apr 2017 04:33 AM PDT ![Pence reassures Japan of U.S. resolve on North Korea, to work with China]( "Pence reassures Japan of U.S. resolve on North Korea, to work with China") By Roberta Rampton TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence reassured Japan of American commitment to reining in North Korea's nuclear and missile ambitions on Tuesday, after warning that U.S. strikes in Syria and Afghanistan showed the strength of its resolve. Pence arrived in Tokyo from South Korea, where he assured leaders of an "iron-clad" alliance with the United States in the face of the reclusive North, which has conducted a series of missile and nuclear tests in defiance of U.N. sanctions. "The era of strategic patience is over and while all options are on the table, President (Donald) Trump is determined to work closely with Japan, with South Korea, with all our allies in the region and with China to achieve a peaceable resolution and the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula," Pence said in Tokyo before lunch with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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| Scene of Trump and giant bunny sends Twitter hopping Posted: 17 Apr 2017 08:20 AM PDT  Kicking off the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, President's Trump welcomed a most distinguished dignitary: the Easter Bunny.
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| Arkansas judge who joined protest barred from execution case Posted: 18 Apr 2017 12:09 AM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A judge who lay on a cot as though he were a death row inmate on a gurney after issuing an order halting Arkansas' multiple execution plan was barred from taking up any capital punishment-related cases and referred to a disciplinary panel.
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| Dude's hack for walking on hot sand is clever, if odd Posted: 18 Apr 2017 12:45 AM PDT  Walking on a searing hot beach is the worst. Especially if you hate sand. You have to choices: Either tip-toe and face the consequences, or experience the dread of getting sand in your precious shoes. But never fear: There's another way. SEE ALSO: People are kissing a car on Facebook Live for a chance to win it, and yes, it's dark A now-viral video posted on Brown Cardigan shows an enterprising young man using a plastic bag to navigate the hot, hot sands of Bondi Beach, Australia. A post shared by browncardigan.com (@browncardigan) on Apr 15, 2017 at 10:14pm PDT Of course the method doesn't lend well for mobility, but for fellow sand-hating people everywhere, it's better than touching the stuff. For added mobility, put a "have a nice day" plastic shopping bag on each foot. Because sand sucks. *shudders* WATCH: This mini scuba gear lets everyone dive like a pro
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| Takeaways from Arkansas town hall Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:40 PM PDT  ABC News' Josh Haskell and MaryAlice Parks provide a debrief of Sen. Tom Cotton's town hall.
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| Trump targets Democrat Ossoff ahead of key Georgia election Posted: 17 Apr 2017 08:22 AM PDT  The president is weighing in on the special House elections, accusing the media of downplaying last week's Republican victory in Kansas while disparaging the Democrat leading the polls in Georgia.
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| The 10 Weirdest Starbucks Frappuccinos That Have Ever Existed Posted: 17 Apr 2017 09:54 AM PDT |
| AI Could Help Predict Heart Attacks Posted: 17 Apr 2017 01:39 AM PDT  The machine learning algorithm beats the American Heart Association guidelines practiced by doctors by 7.6 percent.
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| Bank of America Continues Bank Earnings Momentum Posted: 18 Apr 2017 08:03 AM PDT ![Bank of America Continues Bank Earnings Momentum]( "Bank of America Continues Bank Earnings Momentum") Bank of America Corp. (ticker: BAC) is making the most of an improving environment for big U.S. banks. On Tuesday morning, the company reported first-quarter earnings and revenue that topped consensus Wall Street expectations. Bank of America reported revenue of $22.2 billion compared to consensus analyst expectations for $21.6 billion.
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| Small plane crashes next to Lisbon-area supermarket; 5 dead Posted: 17 Apr 2017 09:58 AM PDT  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A small plane crashed Monday beside a supermarket near Lisbon, killing four people on board the aircraft and one on the ground. Four people were slightly injured, emergency services said.
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| North Korea accuses US of creating situation for nuclear war Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:06 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea's deputy U.N. ambassador accused the United States on Monday of turning the Korean Peninsula into "the world's biggest hotspot" and creating "a dangerous situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment."
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| Russian bombers intercepted off coast of Alaska Posted: 18 Apr 2017 10:29 AM PDT  U.S. Air Force scrambled F-22 stealth fighters; Jennifer Griffin reports from the Pentagon
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| Russia metro bombing suspect says he was unwitting accomplice Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:16 AM PDT ![Russia metro bombing suspect says he was unwitting accomplice]( "Russia metro bombing suspect says he was unwitting accomplice") By Polina Nikolskaya and Hulkar Isamova MOSCOW/JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - The man Russian investigators say orchestrated a suicide bombing on the St Petersburg metro told a court on Tuesday he was an unwitting accomplice in the attack, in which 14 people were killed and scores injured. Russian investigators said that before the April 3 attack, the suspected suicide bomber, Akbarzhon Jalilov, had spoken by telephone with Abror Azimov, who the investigators said was helping mastermind the attack from a Moscow suburb. At a preliminary court hearing in Moscow, the suspect, Azimov, said he had participated in the preparation of the attack but only indirectly.
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| Boeing to cut hundreds of engineering jobs Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:46 PM PDT  Boeing plans to cut hundreds of additional jobs in its civil aviation business due to slowing sales, a spokesman said Monday. "In an ongoing effort to increase overall competitiveness and invest in our future, we are reducing costs and matching employment levels to business and market requirements," Boeing spokesman Doug Alder said. Boeing is the biggest private employer in the Northwest US state, with more than 70,000 workers.
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| Some Tesla Models Go On Sale While Others Get Price Hike Posted: 17 Apr 2017 11:56 AM PDT  The Model S is now the least expensive Tesla you can buy.
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| Police: Woman wearing pajama bottoms robs 6 Utah banks Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:30 PM PDT  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman has been arrested after she was identified as the pajama-wearing robber in at least six bank robberies in the Salt Lake City area, including five in less than two hours on Saturday morning, police said Monday.
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| Calexit backers drop 1 California secession bid, try again Posted: 17 Apr 2017 05:59 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Supporters of one long-shot bid to make California an independent nation ended their effort on Monday, while another group said it will launch a new campaign for a statewide vote next year.
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| 25 killed as Philippine bus plunges into ravine Posted: 18 Apr 2017 01:52 AM PDT  At least 25 people were killed and 22 injured when a passenger bus crashed into a deep ravine in the mountainous northern Philippines on Tuesday, authorities said. The bus plunged about 24 metres (80 feet) in the upland province of Nueva Ecija before noon after its brakes failed while travelling on a windy road, police and local officials said. "The vehicle is totally wrecked," said senior inspector Robert De Guzman, police chief of the town of Carranglan where the accident occurred.
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| Syrian envoy slams U.S. airfield attack 'message' to North Korea Posted: 17 Apr 2017 09:14 AM PDT  By Sue-Lin Wong PYONGYANG (Reuters) - Syria's ambassador to North Korea denounced what he called U.S. aggression and its "history of interventions" on Monday and said that it sending a "message" to North Korea with an attack on a Syrian airfield was irresponsible. North Korea has conducted several missile and nuclear tests in defiance of U.N. sanctions and has said it has developed a missile that can strike the U.S. mainland. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence warned North Korea on Monday that recent U.S. strikes in Syria, one of North Korea's few close allies, and Afghanistan showed that the resolve of President Donald Trump should not be tested.
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| Top UN court to rule on Ukraine's case against Russia Posted: 16 Apr 2017 08:03 PM PDT  In a key moment for the Ukrainian crisis, the UN's highest court will rule Wednesday on a bid by Kiev to stop Russia allegedly pumping money, arms and troops into the country's war-torn east. Three years into a bloody conflict that has claimed more than 10,000 lives, Ukraine is urging the International Court of Justice to help bring stability to its volatile east. Kiev is also calling on The Hague-based court to order Moscow to halt what it calls "racial discrimination" against minority groups in the Russian-occupied Crimea peninsula, particularly against its Tatar population.
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| April the Giraffe Meets Fellow Internet Sensation 'Giraffe Mom' Posted: 18 Apr 2017 12:56 PM PDT  Erin Dietrich became an internet star in her own right after donning a giraffe mask to lampoon April in the last months of her pregnancy.
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| Galaxy S8 vs. iPhone 7 Plus and every top Android phone: The ultimate speed test Posted: 17 Apr 2017 09:13 AM PDT  What's the fastest smartphone you can buy right now? Is it the brand new Galaxy S8 or LG G6? Is it Apple's iPhone 7 Plus that was released last year? Or is it one of the best Android phones of 2016, such as Google's Pixel or the OnePlus 3T? A thorough speed test compares all five handsets, but the conclusions are hardly surprising. After pitting the Galaxy S8 against the iPhone 7 Plus in a recent speed test, YouTube channel EverythingApplePro added the LG G6, the Pixel, and the OnePlus 3T. Unsurprisingly, iPhone 7 Plus is still the fastest smartphone in the world, outperforming all devices in most tests. The Galaxy S8, with its Snapdragon 835 processor, comes in second and is significantly faster than the LG G6, which was released less than a month ahead of Samsung's new phone. It's interesting to note that all Android phones in the test aside from the Galaxy S8 have Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 chips inside. But the LG G6 still appears to trail behind both the Pixel and the OnePlus 3T in this test. The OnePlus 3T, with its 6GB of RAM, is faster than any Android phone when it comes to reloading apps from memory. The iPhone 7 Plus is also quite fast at retrieving apps from memory. In benchmark tests, the iPhone significantly outscores the competition. In other words, there's nothing surprising about this new speed test video. The iPhone 7 is still better and faster than phones that were launched almost half a year after its release. Qualcomm hasn't caught up to Apple's A-series chips yet, and Android device makers simply can't optimize Android like Apple does with iOS. Now, speed test comparisons like this that keep popping up on YouTube are completely unscientific, and they aren't always objective. But channels like EverythingApplePro and others have come up with "standard" procedures which are meant to offer speed tests that are relevant for real-life use. Finally, if you're already using one of these five phones, chances are you're getting a great mobile experience. After all, they are all flagship handsets. You won't notice any differences in performance unless you switch to a different flagship.
On the other hand, if you're looking to buy a brand new device and speed is the deciding factor, it's videos like this one that should help settle the matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX4JucpvbJM
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| 15 DIY Mother's Day Bouquet Ideas That Won't Break the Bank Posted: 17 Apr 2017 10:11 AM PDT |
