| Gianforte wins Montana special House election despite being charged with assault Posted: 25 May 2017 09:47 PM PDT  Republican Greg Gianforte claimed a narrow victory in Montana's special election for the state's at-large congressional seat, defeating Democrat Rob Quist one day after being charged with misdemeanor assault.
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| Fitbit Unravels Man’s Story About Wife’s Murder Posted: 26 May 2017 08:41 AM PDT  Richard Dabate appeared in court Friday, pleading not guilty to the charge that he murdered his wife Connie in 2015. He told police that an intruder shot her, but her Fitbit tells a different story.
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| Reported Concealment by Kushner Raises Alarm Posted: 26 May 2017 11:45 AM PDT  Ken Dilanian, NBC News national security reporter, talks with Ari Melber about why the reports that Jared Kushner sought a secret communication channel with the Kremlin is a game-changer in coverage of the Trump-Russia investigation.
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| What we know about the Manchester attacker's bomb Posted: 26 May 2017 08:37 AM PDT  Manchester suicide bomber Salem Abedi used a powerful explosive device that was painstakingly assembled -- likely with assistance -- for his deadly attack on a pop concert, according to officials and experts. The British-born 22-year-old of Libyan descent detonated the blast on Monday evening, killing 22 people outside a packed Manchester Arena after a show by US pop star Ariana Grande. Ten men are now in custody in connection with the attack, including Abedi's brother and father in Libya.
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| Portland attack: Man slits throats of would-be heroes who stepped in to stop Islamophobic abuse on MAX train Posted: 27 May 2017 02:36 AM PDT  Witnesses who saw a triple stabbing on a train in Oregon say it may have been racially motivated, after a man who launched into a racist rant against two Muslim women then attacked passengers when they tried to intervene. The attacker slashed the throats of three people as the Metro Area Express (MAX) train was pulling into a station in the north east corner of Portland – leaving two dead and one injured. Before the stabbing, the assailant on the train was ranting on many topics, using "hate speech or biased language," and then turned his focus on the women, Police Sergeant Pete Simpson said.
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| A day of grief in a city of pain Posted: 27 May 2017 07:06 AM PDT ![A day of grief in a city of pain]( "A day of grief in a city of pain") A native of south side Chicago, Spencer Leak Sr. has watched as his hometown and the neighborhoods where he grew up have been ripped apart by homicides in recent years, the results of an explosion of gun violence police have struggled to contain. Last year, according to the Chicago Tribune, 781 people were killed—a massive jump over 2015 when there were 492 recorded homicides. Leak has more insight into Chicago's violence than most.
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| Lawsuit: Zillow ‘Zestimates’ Are Wrong, Preventing Homes from Selling Posted: 26 May 2017 08:46 AM PDT  Zillow estimates values for 110 million homes across America as "zestimates," but many have questioned the company's accuracy, including one homeowner who claims she can't sell her home because of it.
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| Judge to consider contempt against anti-abortion group head Posted: 25 May 2017 10:10 PM PDT ![Judge to consider contempt against anti-abortion group head]( "Judge to consider contempt against anti-abortion group head") SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge said Thursday he will consider holding the leader of an anti-abortion group in contempt after links to videos that the judge had barred from release appeared on the website of the man's attorneys.
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| Texas teacher laughs as she hands out ‘most likely to become a terrorist’ award to 7th-grader Posted: 26 May 2017 09:22 AM PDT  During an end-of-the-year awards ceremony at Anthony Aguirre Junior High in Channelview, Tex., a teacher gave Lizeth Villanueva an award for "most likely to become a terrorist." The seventh-grade student's mom is going great lengths to make sure the teacher gets fired.
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| Trump exalts ‘great win’ for candidate charged with assault Posted: 26 May 2017 07:44 AM PDT  No other leader at the G-7 meeting mentioned Thursday's GOP victory in Montana, so President Trump praised it himself.
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| Kusher Sought Kremlin Back Channel: Report Posted: 26 May 2017 11:00 AM PDT  Adam Entous, national security reporter for The Washington Post, discusses the new revelation that Donald Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner asked the Russian ambassador to set up a back channel to the Kremlin using Russian facilities.
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| The Latest: Alabama raced clock to execute inmate Posted: 26 May 2017 11:39 AM PDT  ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on Alabama's execution of inmate Tommy Arthur (all times local):
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| Sponsors abandon Puerto Rican parade in NY after nationalist honored Posted: 26 May 2017 12:51 PM PDT  Oscar Lopez Rivera, 74, was convicted in 1981 of numerous charges, along with other members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), who sought to secure Puerto Rican independence from the United States. Rivera's sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama, and the prisoner was freed this month.
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| Sputnik's White House correspondent quits, claiming they would rather have 'propagandists' than 'real journalists' Posted: 27 May 2017 04:53 AM PDT  Sputnik's White House correspondent, Andrew Feinberg, has quit the Russian-state news organisation, claiming they would rather have "propagandists" than "real journalists". Mr Feinberg, has taken to social media to give full details about his reasoning for resigning and has claimed he was forced to chase stories that were contrary to the facts on the ground. "Seems Sputnik isn't happy with real journalists.
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| Rescue drill turns real as US Coast Guard finds missing Tongans Posted: 25 May 2017 11:40 PM PDT  A search and rescue exercise turned real for a US Coast Guard crew who found six Tongan fishermen missing at sea for a week, New Zealand officials said Friday. New Zealand Rescue Coordination Centre officer Greg Johnston said Tongan police raised the alarm as the US Coast Guard C-130 Hercules was preparing to return to Honolulu following a multi-national rescue drill in Auckland. "The Coast Guard crew spotted the six men in their 12-metre (39-foot) vessel shortly after entering the search area, about 90 kilometres (55 miles) offshore from Tongatapu Island," Johnston said.
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| NOLA Mayor: Monuments ‘Signs of Oppression for 67% of My City' Posted: 26 May 2017 05:42 AM PDT  New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu explains his decision to remove Confederate monuments from the city in an interview to air Sunday on Meet the Press.
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| A look at extremist attacks on Egypt's Coptic Christians Posted: 26 May 2017 09:42 AM PDT  An attack Friday on Egypt's Coptic Christians in which masked militants opened fire on a bus south of Cairo, killing at least 28 people and wounding 22, sent shockwaves through the Copt community, increasingly targeted by the Islamic State group and affiliated militants.
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| Hillary Clinton Speaks to Graduating Students at Her Alma Mater Posted: 25 May 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Clinton spoke to Wellesley College graduates about bouncing back after defeat and rallying the resistance.
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| Jared Kushner discussed creating secret communications channel with Moscow – reports Posted: 26 May 2017 06:12 PM PDT  Trump's son-in-law made the proposal at a meeting in early December at Trump Tower in New York, the Washington Post said. Jared Kushner and Russia's ambassador to Washington allegedly discussed setting up a secret communications channel to cloak contacts between Moscow and Donald Trump's White House transition team, it was reported on Friday.
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| US prisoner executed in eighth date with death Posted: 25 May 2017 11:24 PM PDT  Tommy Arthur was executed late Thursday after his eighth, and final, rendezvous with the US state of Alabama's capital punishment system. The 75-year-old was given a lethal injection after the US Supreme Court allowed the execution to proceed by denying the inmate's stay requests. Arthur's death ends a legal saga spanning more than three decades in which he became known by some as the Houdini of death row, managing to evade his final sentence seven times.
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| Chinese jets intercept U.S surveillance plane: U.S. officials Posted: 26 May 2017 12:28 PM PDT  Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted a U.S. Navy surveillance plane over the South China Sea on Wednesday, with one coming within 200 yards (180 meters) of the American aircraft, U.S. officials told Reuters. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said initial reports showed that the U.S. P-3 Orion surveillance plane was 150 miles (240 km) southeast of Hong Kong in international airspace when the Chinese aircraft carried out the unsafe intercept. One Chinese aircraft flew in front of the American plane, restricting its ability to maneuver.
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| Hunting Big Game: Why People Kill Animals for Fun Posted: 26 May 2017 05:48 AM PDT  Theodore Roosevelt, former U.S. president and renowned big-game hunter, waxed poetic about a massive bull rhinoceros in his 1910 book, "African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist," after glimpsing the rhino during a safari in British East Africa and the Belgian Congo earlier that year.
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| Meet the Overly Enthusiastic 'Price is Right' Contestant Who Just Broke the Plinko Record Posted: 26 May 2017 01:34 PM PDT  Ryan Belz even led a chant of his own name while dropping discs for the show's most popular game.
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| The Latest: Prosecutor says state needs execution drugs Posted: 26 May 2017 10:29 AM PDT  SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — The Latest in the prosecution of a man charged in the deaths of seven people in South Carolina (all times local):
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| Introducing T-Mobile 'Digits' Posted: 26 May 2017 02:24 AM PDT  Customers are now able to access one phone number on multiple devices or multiple numbers on one device.
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| Ramadan 2017: Donald Trump issues statement mentioning terrorism in almost every sentence Posted: 26 May 2017 10:26 AM PDT  Donald Trump has issued his first statement commemorating Ramadan as president, and fit mentions of terrorism into nearly half of it. Mr Bush at that time wrote of the diversity in Muslim communities, and of the teachings of Islam to be charitable, extend mercy, and search for peace.
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| Palestinians end mass hunger strike in Israel jails Posted: 27 May 2017 04:36 AM PDT  Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike since April 17 have ended their mass protest after Israel agreed a deal following weeks of refusing to negotiate, sources on both sides said on Saturday. Some 30 of the more than 800 hunger strikers had been hospitalised in recent days, raising fears of an escalation of clashes with Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank. Palestinians hailed the deal as a victory for the hunger strikers after Israeli authorities repeatedly vowed not to negotiate with convicted "terrorists".
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| NASA’s newest photo of Jupiter will blow your mind Posted: 26 May 2017 09:38 AM PDT 
Lately, NASA's Cassini orbiter has been delivering some stunning photos from its trips around Saturn, but that's not the only fancy camera floating around a nearby planet. The agency's Juno spacecraft has been hanging out around Jupiter for nearly a year now, and it just delivered one of the most jaw-dropping glimpses of the gas giant that we've ever seen.
This is Jupiter's south pole, and like most of the rest of the planet, it's absolutely covered in massive storms, electricity, and swirling masses of clouds that stretch for hundreds and hundreds of miles. The image is absolutely stunning, and it took and incredible amount of work to make it happen. What you're seeing is actually a composite of several different photos taken at different times so that the entirety of the south pole was illuminated by daylight. The photos used to make the image were collected during three separate orbits of Juno, each of which takes nearly two months to complete. Juno has already revealed a great deal about Jupiter in its short time in orbit, and some of the information it is telling scientists is leaving them both surprised and amazed. The colossal, Earth-sized storms on its poles are one of the more shocking features that researchers are still trying to figure out. "We're puzzled as to how they could be formed, how stable the configuration is, and why Jupiter's north pole doesn't look like the south pole," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton says. "We're questioning whether this is a dynamic system, and are we seeing just one stage, and over the next year, we're going to watch it disappear, or is this a stable configuration and these storms are circulating around one another?"
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| The Latest: Democrat concedes to Gianforte in Montana race Posted: 25 May 2017 10:48 PM PDT  BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on the misdemeanor assault case against Greg Gianforte, a Republican candidate for a Montana congressional seat in a special election Thursday. (all times local):
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| The BMW 8-Series Is the Return of the Big BMW Posted: 26 May 2017 08:39 AM PDT  The coupe is still alive. Long live the coupe.
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| Could a Fidget Spinner Endanger Your Child? The Possible Hidden Hazards of the Popular Toy Posted: 26 May 2017 02:42 PM PDT  A girl nearly died when a piece of a fidget spinner became lodged in her throat.
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| Sweet Therapy: Chocolate May Help Prevent Irregular Heartbeat Posted: 26 May 2017 07:50 AM PDT  Eating chocolate has been linked with a reduced risk of heart disease and stroke, and now a new study from Denmark suggests that regular consumption of the treat may help to prevent the development of atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat. Researchers found that adults in the study who ate chocolate at least once a month — or more frequently than that — had rates of atrial fibrillation that were 10 to 20 percent lower than those who ate chocolate less than once a month, according to the findings published today (May 23) in the journal Heart. Atrial fibrillation is a condition in which the heart's two upper chambers, known as the atria, do not beat at the same pace as the heart's two lower chambers, resulting in an irregular heartbeat.
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| BlackBerry, Qualcomm decide on final amount to resolve royalty dispute Posted: 26 May 2017 05:56 AM PDT  Canada's BlackBerry Ltd said on Friday that U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc has agreed to pay the software maker $940 million, including interest and legal fees, to settle a royalty dispute. Qualcomm had said in April that it would have to refund BlackBerry $814.9 million, plus interest and attorneys' fees, in an arbitration over royalties for certain past sales. The dispute between the two companies started in 2016 following Qualcomm's agreement to cap certain royalties applied to payments made by BlackBerry under a licensing deal.
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| Trump Is Playing the International Strategy Game Like a Novice Among Experts Posted: 26 May 2017 08:07 AM PDT  An "America first" policy risks leaving America alone.
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| US-led Syria strikes kills scores of relatives of IS fighters Posted: 26 May 2017 12:22 PM PDT  Dozens of relatives of Islamic State group fighters were killed Friday in Syria in US-led strikes, regime or Russian raids, after the UN urged nations striking the jihadists to protect civilians. Raids by the US-led coalition have pounded IS positions across Iraq and Syria since the jihadist group claimed responsibility for the devastating bombing of a concert in Manchester on Monday. Scores of civilians, many of them families of IS members, have been killed in bombing raids in recent days on the eastern Syrian town of Mayadeen, held by IS since 2014.
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| Texas Governor Greg Abbot sparks criticism for joke about shooting a journalist Posted: 27 May 2017 11:36 AM PDT  A photo of the moment, published by the Texas Tribune, showed the grinning first-term Republican governor pointing to the centre of the paper target, where three rounds had pierced the bull's eye circle. Both said the incident was especially troubling as it came amid increasingly hostile rhetoric directed against the news media by Republican President Donald Trump and his supporters.
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| A Solar Eclipse In Space Looks Pretty Cool, Photos Captured By NASA Craft Show Posted: 26 May 2017 08:57 AM PDT  A NASA craft that studies the sun captured a partial solar eclipse on Thursday.
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| US immigration agents eat, arrest 3 at Michigan restaurant Posted: 25 May 2017 06:25 PM PDT  ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a Michigan restaurant said U.S. immigration agents who were conducting enforcement at the business ate breakfast — and complimented the chef — before arresting three workers, according to media reports on Thursday.
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| Turkish NBA star tweets 'you can't catch me' at arrest warrant report Posted: 26 May 2017 11:28 AM PDT  ANKARA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Enes Kanter, the Turkish NBA star whose home country has revoked his passport, on Friday expressed disdain on social media at reports that Turkey's government had issued a warrant for his arrest. Kanter's agent, the National Basketball Association player's union and representatives for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Kanter's team, did not respond to requests for comment. Kanter, a vocal critic of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, was detained in Romania on May 20 when authorities learned his Turkish passport had been revoked.
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| Defiant Congress Sparks Showdown With Trump Over Saudi Arms Deal Posted: 26 May 2017 11:40 AM PDT  Though the opposition may be largely symbolic, lawmakers are clearly growing tired of unconditional support for the Gulf kingdom.
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| Troubled Philippine south burns again: What we know Posted: 27 May 2017 01:11 AM PDT  Militants fighting under the black flag of the Islamic State group have turned a southern city into a battleground, and triggered warnings by President Rodrigo Duterte of a potential IS caliphate. The violence is the latest in four decades of conflict across the southern third of the mostly Catholic Philippines, where a Muslim separatist rebellion has claimed more than 120,000 lives. - Who are the militants?
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| Judge dismisses lawsuit against Clinton by Benghazi families Posted: 27 May 2017 04:56 PM PDT ![Judge dismisses lawsuit against Clinton by Benghazi families]( "Judge dismisses lawsuit against Clinton by Benghazi families") WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge threw out a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton by the parents of two Americans killed in the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, ruling the former secretary of state didn't defame them when disputing allegations that she had lied.
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