| Trump Mentions 'Rocket Man' Kim Jong Un As White House Tries To Be Unified On North Korea Posted: 17 Sep 2017 10:12 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump on Sunday affirmed in a tweet that he was conferring with world leaders on North Korea's growing nuclear program, appearing to refer to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as "Rocket Man."
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| Nearly a Week After Irma, Florida Keys Residents Begin Returning Home Posted: 16 Sep 2017 09:06 AM PDT  Hurricane Irma devastated the Florida Keys, overturning boats and toppling hundreds of homes. On Saturday, some residents were allowed to return home to see the damage.
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| Teacher Accused Of Assaulting Student For Sitting During Pledge Of Allegiance Posted: 16 Sep 2017 05:43 PM PDT  A school in eastern Michigan has placed a teacher on leave and launched an investigation after she allegedly "snatched" an 11-year-old student who sat during the Pledge of Allegiance.
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| Kevin Hart publicly apologizes to wife and children after woman threatens to release 'sexually suggestive' video Posted: 17 Sep 2017 10:13 AM PDT  Kevin Hart issued a very public apology on Saturday to his pregnant wife and kids after news broke that the actor is involved in a multimillion-dollar extortion attempt.
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| Murder of 2 Black Men May Be 'Racially Motivated,' Police Say Posted: 17 Sep 2017 10:43 AM PDT  There's a suspect in custody
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| 'Natalee Holloway's Skull Burned In Aruba Cave In 2010' Posted: 17 Sep 2017 12:16 AM PDT  Holloway went missing in Aruba, a Dutch Carribean island off Venezuela. on May 30, 2005. She was officially declared dead in 2012.
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| British journalist in Sri Lanka croc attack 'drowned' Posted: 16 Sep 2017 04:53 AM PDT  A British journalist believed to have been attacked by a crocodile in Sri Lanka died of drowning, police said Saturday following a post-mortem examination. The body of 24-year-old Paul McClean, who worked for the Financial Times, was found Friday in a coastal village lagoon a day after he went missing. British media reports said McClean was holidaying in Sri Lanka with friends.
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| Full Interview: Tom Brokaw Speaks to Team Behind 'Vietnam War' Documentary Posted: 16 Sep 2017 08:38 AM PDT  Tom Brokaw sat down with "The Vietnam War" co-directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, two critically aclaimed documentary filmmakers whose films he said "tell us who we are as Americans."
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| United Nations has 'exhausted' options on North Korea, says top US diplomat Posted: 17 Sep 2017 02:15 PM PDT  The UN has run out of options for confronting an increasingly belligerent North Korea, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has said, presenting a unified front with Trump administration officials who continue to float a military option ahead of this week's summit in New York. "We have pretty much exhausted all the things that we can do at the Security Council at this point," Haley told CNN, adding that she had "no problem kicking to" Jim Mattis, the US defence secretary. By claiming that the UN had failed to alter North Korea's militaristic course, Ms Haley hinted at the limits of diplomacy as the world prepares to gather next week for the first UN General Assembly of Donald Trump's presidency.
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| More Florida Keys residents return home to survey Irma's destruction Posted: 16 Sep 2017 03:01 PM PDT  By Carlo Allegri KEY LARGO, Fla. (Reuters) - More residents who had fled the Florida Keys ahead of Hurricane Irma were allowed to return to their homes on Saturday, as authorities prepared to reopen Key West at the end of the devastated archipelago on Sunday. As Florida struggled to return to normal after the powerful storm struck this week, Governor Rick Scott ordered all nursing homes in the state to obtain emergency generators. The order followed the deaths of eight elderly people this week at a sweltering nursing home north of Miami that lost power.
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| Aunt V, The World's Oldest Person, Dies In Jamaica At 117 Posted: 15 Sep 2017 07:27 PM PDT  Violet Mosse-Brown, the Jamaican woman believed to be the oldest person in the world, died Friday.
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| President Trump Greets Wife Melania With A Handshake Posted: 17 Sep 2017 10:59 AM PDT  At a Friday night event held at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Melania gave a speech introducing her husband, after which the president thanked her by firmly shaking her hand
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| Wiener Werkstätte's Designs Are on Display at New York’s Neue Galerie Posted: 17 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT |
| California Close To Banning Pet Shop Sales Of Non-Rescue Cats, Dogs And Rabbits Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:37 PM PDT  California will become the first state to ban pet stores from selling cats, dogs or rabbits that don't come from a shelter or rescue group if Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signs the bill sent to him this week.
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| London Police Arrest Second Suspect in Subway Attack as Terror Threat Remains 'Critical' Posted: 17 Sep 2017 06:42 AM PDT  Britain's terror threat level remains "critical"
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| Blood Leaks Onto Road From Funeral Home Like A Scene From A Horror Movie Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:55 AM PDT  Residents spotted the disturbing sight of blood seeping out onto a road from a Louisiana undertaker business on Thursday afternoon.
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| Hillary Clinton: there's a 'game that keeps women in their place' Posted: 16 Sep 2017 09:40 AM PDT  While promoting her newly released memoir, Hillary Clinton has placed blame on several factors for her loss to Donald Trump last November – from her own mistakes, to Russian interference in the US election, and the late intervention by then-FBI director James Comey. In an interview with the New York Times published Saturday, Clinton spoke further about how misogyny is used as a tool to hold women back.
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| Stowaway Koala Survives 10-Mile Ride Hidden Behind Car's Wheel Posted: 17 Sep 2017 10:36 AM PDT  A koala is alive after a driver unknowingly drove for about 10 miles while the animal clung to the inside of his car's wheel arch, animal officials said.
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| Iran's Khamenei warns U.S. against 'wrong move' on nuclear deal Posted: 17 Sep 2017 12:42 PM PDT  Iran will not be bullied by the United States and will react strongly to any "wrong move" by Washington on Tehran's nuclear deal, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran was violating "the spirit" of the 2015 deal under which it got sanctions relief in return for curbing its nuclear program. State television quoted Khamenei as saying Iran was standing firm "and any wrong move by the domineering regime regarding the (nuclear accord) will face the reaction of the Islamic Republic." Washington extended some sanctions relief for Iran on Thursday under the nuclear deal with world powers, but said it had yet to decide whether to maintain the agreement.
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| Armed and masked men declare war on France’s bears Posted: 16 Sep 2017 07:21 AM PDT  A group of armed and masked men have issued a video in which they vow to start hunting bears in France's Pyrenees mountains following attacks on sheep. Brown bears, a protected species, were blamed for the deaths of about 450 sheep who tumbled over cliffs while being chased by bears in two separate incidents this summer. The threat to hunt them marks an escalation of a bitter dispute between farmers and conservationists over the predators. They were re-introduced into south-western France from Slovenia in the 1990s after hunters had all but wiped out native Pyrenean bears. The video, filmed outdoors at night and sent to news organisations, shows about 30 men holding shotguns or hunting rifles, their faces hidden by balaclavas. Brown bears are a protected species Credit: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich A deliberately distorted voiceover says: "By introducing Slovenian bears and establishing a nursery allowing them to multiply, the French state is implementing land management policies that are gradually restricting access by men and women of the mountains and their freedom to work." The voiceover adds: "The state has remained deaf to the requests of our elected representatives, our citizens' and trade organisations. We have decided to reopen bear hunting in Ariège [the local area] and to conduct active resistance against agents of the state." The video, which concludes with shots fired in the air, comes three weeks after farmers were accused of firing about 50 rounds to intimidate wildlife officials visiting the area to assess how many sheep the bears had killed. The government pays compensation for livestock killed, but many farmers say they can no longer co-exist with a bear population estimated at 39. A local group is campaigning for many of the beasts to be returned to Slovenia, with others restricted to a reserve so that livestock could graze in a "no-bear zone" without fear of attack. The authorities are taking the video seriously and prosecutors have opened an investigation. The local Préfecture described the threat to resume bear hunting as a "pathetic drift into violence and illegality." It added in a statement: "Play-acting as a terrorist organisation is not a joke. It harms all those who defend the development of rural and mountain territories."
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| Narcos Location Scout Carlos Muñoz Portal Found Dead in Mexico Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:30 PM PDT  Carlos Muñoz Portal was found dead on Monday in a rural area of Mexico known for gang-related drug violence while scouting for locations for the upcoming fourth season of Netflix's hit show Narcos
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| Awash in protests — Trump supporters, counterprotesters and rap-group fans descend on Washington Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:22 PM PDT ![Awash in protests — Trump supporters, counterprotesters and rap-group fans descend on Washington]( "Awash in protests — Trump supporters, counterprotesters and rap-group fans descend on Washington") President Donald Trump skipped town for the weekend, but that didn't stop demonstrators from making him the focus of competing rallies in the nation's capital.
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| Fatal Baton Rouge Shootings Investigated As Racially Motivated: Police Posted: 17 Sep 2017 12:44 PM PDT  A 23-year-old Louisiana man is reportedly being held as a person of interest in the separate slayings of two black men who police say were gunned down last week in potentially racially motivated attacks.
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| 'You Could Hear the Screaming.' Erratic Porsche Plows Into Crowd at Car Show, Injuring 11 Posted: 17 Sep 2017 06:15 AM PDT  At least 11 people were injured
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| Russia strike wounds US-backed Syria forces, coalition says Posted: 16 Sep 2017 02:19 PM PDT  The US-led coalition said Saturday that Russian forces had bombed American-backed fighters battling the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, wounding several, despite denials from Moscow. The unprecedented strike was initially reported by the Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters supported by Washington. The SDF accused Russian warplanes of bombing its fighters for the first time in the complex war, though Russia's military spokesman denied targeting the group.
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| 'Red flag' calls signaled post-Irma deaths at nursing home Posted: 16 Sep 2017 12:54 PM PDT  HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — The first 911 call from the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills didn't sound ominous: A nursing home patient had an abnormal heartbeat.
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| New Twitter Theories Emerge After Kenneka Jenkins’ Mysterious Death Posted: 16 Sep 2017 04:17 AM PDT  While the autopsy and toxicology test results are still awaited, Twitter has been flooded with conspiracy theories as users speculate about how the teen died.
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| Hamas says ready to hand Gaza to a Palestinian unity government Posted: 17 Sep 2017 09:32 AM PDT  By Mohamed el Sherif and Ali Sawafta CAIRO/RAMALLAH (Reuters) - Hamas has agreed to dissolve the administration that runs Gaza, it said on Sunday, a major step towards handing control of the enclave to a Palestinian unity government after a decade of bitter rivalry with President Mahmoud Abbas. The Islamist group, which has ruled Gaza since a brief Palestinian civil war in 2007, said it had taken "a courageous, serious and patriotic decision to dissolve the administrative committee" that runs the territory of 2 million people, and hand power to some form of unity government. Reunification a decade after Hamas and Abbas's secular Fatah movement battled for control of Gaza may hinge on whether complex issues related to power-sharing - which stymied reconciliation bids in the past - can be resolved.
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| Watch What Happened When These Two Men Swapped Grindr Profiles Posted: 17 Sep 2017 05:57 AM PDT  Popular dating app Grindr is using its new web series as a social experiment to take an honest, if lighthearted, look at how racism, ageism and other forms of discrimination play out in the queer community.
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| How your morning cup of coffee can help save the world Posted: 17 Sep 2017 03:57 PM PDT  Editor's note : Bambi Semroc is a senior strategic adviser in Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business. In this role, she leads the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, an industry-wide effort to make coffee the first sustainable agricultural product in the world. By 2050, the area suitable for growing coffee around the world is projected to be cut in half. I don't even drink coffee, but this is enough to keep me awake at night. Coffee trees are picky, growing only in parts of the tropics with the right mix of temperatures, rainfall, and soil. As such, they're extremely vulnerable to climate change. Rising average temperatures and erratic rainfall will mean that coffee won't be able to thrive in many of the places it now grows, and coffee farmers will need to move their farms to new areas — mostly to higher altitudes, clearing tropical forests as they go — or switch to other crops to earn a living. The end result: There could be less coffee overall, and the coffee that is available will likely taste different (and not necessarily good). SEE ALSO: The cleanest cup of coffee: Sustainable farming meets low emissions shipping This affects a lot of people. There are more coffee lovers than ever: More than 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day, and global demand for coffee is expected to rise by up to 150 percent rise by 2050. Shrinking supplies, more demand: There is, quite literally, no time to lose to protect the coffee that you drink, the climate and ecosystems that coffee needs, and the tens of millions of small-scale farmers who make their living growing the crop. I came to work in conservation through my love of trees. But in the past few years, it's the coffee tree — yes, a tree that produces a beverage I don't even drink — that has taken up much of my time and effort. I'm happy to report, then, that the coffee industry is waking up to the new climate reality, and is now taking serious steps to make coffee sustainable. That's where the Sustainable Coffee Challenge comes in. The Challenge was born two years ago to bring together players from throughout the coffee sector, big and small, to make coffee the world's first sustainable agricultural product. It's eminently achievable — already, fully 48 percent of all coffee is being produced under some sustainability standard. From growers to roasters to retailers — and even governments of countries where coffee is grown — the Sustainable Coffee Challenge has been gaining members and momentum since 2015, and retailers and public-facing campaigns are mobilizing to educate billions of coffee-drinking customers on why sustainability matters (as if the prospect of a poorer-tasting brew wasn't reason enough). But just as efforts were brewing to head off the coffee-pocalypse, the Challenge ran into some big questions: Where to begin? What coffee-producing regions of the world are most likely to feel the burn in a changing climate? And where are tropical forests — the same forests that regulate global climate — most at risk from coffee farmers who have to shift their crops to higher ground? Fortunately, we're finding answers to these questions with science. New research is helping us map and monitor coffee and the forests where they grow — and identify specific places where climate change is causing a shift in coffee production, and how best to manage it. A recent study by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) found that coffee grown at lower altitudes already requires adaptation today. (It also found that in the future, coffee grown in the areas it studied wouldn't taste as good). Another new study by one of my colleagues at Conservation International, Lee Hannah, showed that nearly 90 percent of the land suitable for growing coffee in Latin America is under threat from climate change by 2050. But it's not all bad: Authors of both studies noted that smart management of coffee trees — as well as the surrounding forests and bees that the trees require — can help farmers, and coffee trees, to adapt. Faced with the imperative to adapt, the industry is taking action, collectively investing some $350 million a year to tackle these issues through research, farmer support, sustainable sourcing and other programs. For example, organizations such as The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) are providing retailers with tools for measuring supplier performance on the most important issues, like deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. Through its Commodity Mapping Project, TSC is helping companies get a better grasp of critical issues facing coffee supply chains, including the role of coffee in deforestation, and where we should focus our conservation efforts to minimize the impact on the farms and forests. The impact on people is no less important. At the heart of the coffee trade are 25 million small-scale farmers who produce 90 percent of the global coffee supply. These farmers and the workers they employ rely on the revenue from coffee sales to support their families. Coffee is one of Timor-Leste's most important crops, bringing much-needed revenue to the country. Magdalena Salsinha, holding coffee beans, has been picking coffee since she was 15 years old. Now 55, she lives near Ermera and is married with six children.Image: UNMIT/Martine PerretSo, what can you do? You can start by paying attention and asking questions: Find out if your favorite coffee shops and retailers are committed to sustainability and what they're doing to ensure the long-term availability of your favorite coffee. Remember that sustainability is about more than being earth-friendly — it's also about people's livelihoods and fair labor practices, so learn more about what it really takes to make a crop sustainable at sustaincoffee.org. Finally, use your buying power to support companies that are doing the right thing, and tell us about it with #SustainCoffee. We're heading into a critical time. What the coffee industry and the Sustainable Coffee Challenge achieve in the next few years will determine the future of a crop that billions of people enjoy, a crop that has huge implications for the health of Earth's tropical forests, a crop that supports entire economies. Whether you like coffee or not, this affects you. It's time to demand sustainability. About Social Good Summit The intersection of technology and new media has redefined our understanding of human progress. In the midst of this rapidly changing world, the Social Good Summit focuses on where we're headed. Held annually during the United Nations General Assembly week, the Summit unites a lively community of global citizens and progressive thought leaders around a common theme: #2030NOW. A dynamic exploration of the world we want to live in by 2030, the Social Good Summit will focus on how we can unlock technology's potential to make the world a better place. This year's summit is brought to you by Mashable, the United Nations Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme, and the 92nd Street Y. For complete event details, visit socialgoodsummit.com. WATCH: Enjoy your sustainable java in this cup made out of coffee
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| The Powerful Reason Why This Artist Has Been Saving His Urine For The Last 200 Days Posted: 16 Sep 2017 05:07 AM PDT  Cassils spent a good chunk of this week trying to ensure that the 200-gallon tank of urine he was installing at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts didn't leak through the floor and destroy all of the priceless art that currently might be stored in the gallery's basement.
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| A Man Survived After Caustic Beer Burned Up His Organs. He Just Got $750,000 Posted: 16 Sep 2017 07:15 AM PDT  He just got $750,000
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| Philippine army captures key pro-IS base in besieged city Posted: 17 Sep 2017 02:33 AM PDT  The Philippine military said Sunday it had captured the command centre of Islamic State group supporters who have besieged a southern city for nearly four months. Security forces have engaged in ferocious street-to-street combat and launched airstrikes in their efforts to expel the fighters from Marawi, in a battle that has left 800 dead and raised fears that IS is looking to establish a Southeast Asian base in the Philippines. The military said it had captured the militants' control centre in a deadly operation that began Saturday against a mosque and another building.
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| Carnival worker falls from malfunctioning Ferris wheel Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:19 PM PDT  A carnival worker fell from a malfunctioning ride in North Carolina on Friday night.
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| Sanders’ Single-Payer Proposal May Impact 'Healthy California Act' Posted: 16 Sep 2017 02:21 PM PDT  The Vermont senator wants to replace America's health-care system with a public system that doesn't include co-payments — a plan that could directly influence California's system.
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| Duterte to Human Rights Chief: 'Are You a Pedophile?' Posted: 16 Sep 2017 08:46 AM PDT  Duterte had been challenged over the killing of teenagers in the country's anti-drugs campaign.
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| Jury: Wisconsin girl mentally ill in stabbing of classmate Posted: 16 Sep 2017 05:09 AM PDT  WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin girl who admitted to participating in the stabbing of a classmate to please horror character Slender Man will avoid prison after a jury determined that she was mentally ill at the time of the attack.
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| Rising River Threatens Florida Residents Still Picking Up the Pieces After Hurricane Irma Posted: 16 Sep 2017 12:15 PM PDT  The new evacuations come as people pick up the pieces after Hurricane Irma
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| Donald Trump To Campaign For Luther Strange In Alabama Posted: 17 Sep 2017 08:58 AM PDT  President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he plans to campaign next week for Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.),
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| Will Sharing a Bed With Your Dogs Come Back to Bite You? Investigation Finds What's Lurking Under Your Pup's Paws Posted: 16 Sep 2017 06:26 AM PDT  It could be a dangerous case of "look what the dog dragged in."
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| Google disables offensive ad keywords found by BuzzFeed Posted: 15 Sep 2017 08:29 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google said it had disabled a "majority" of the offensive keywords that BuzzFeed found could be used by advertisers to target people searching for racist and anti-Semitic topics. Google, the world's biggest advertising platform, not only allowed advertisers to target searches such as "Why do Jews ruin everything" but also suggested the user to run ads next to searches such as "the evil jew" and "jewish control of banks", a campaign by BuzzFeed discovered.
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| Don't Look Now, But Full Obamacare Repeal Is Back On The Table Posted: 16 Sep 2017 05:07 PM PDT  Repeal of the Affordable Care Act is back on the agenda, with Republicans suddenly talking about a bill that, until recently, few people in either party had taken all that seriously.
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| Pot shampoo to cannabis sommeliers: Inside one of America's biggest marijuana business conventions Posted: 17 Sep 2017 07:22 AM PDT  Entrepreneurs looking to cash in on California's new marijuana gold rush flocked to Los Angeles this week for the city's Fourth Annual Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition, taking in advice and pitches from venture capitalists to a marijuana "sommelier". Workshops were conducted, business cards were swapped with more than 200 bustling booths – exhibiting everything from pot paper, to shampoo and even suppositories – at the LA Convention Centre. It was a spirited free-for-all that anticipated one thing: 1 January 2018 – a date that puts dollar signs in many a Californian's eyes.
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| Official: Woman vanished in Mexico ride-sharing app is dead Posted: 15 Sep 2017 06:57 PM PDT ![Official: Woman vanished in Mexico ride-sharing app is dead]( "Official: Woman vanished in Mexico ride-sharing app is dead") MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials said Friday that a young woman who was last seen entering a ride-sharing app car has been found dead.
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