| Interior Whistleblower Quits, Lambastes Ryan Zinke's 'Resume Of Failure' Posted: 04 Oct 2017 02:50 PM PDT  Joel Clement — a federal scientist who blew the whistle on the Trump administration, claiming he was reassigned for warning about the dangers of climate change to Alaska natives — has resigned from his post at the Interior Department.
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| Las Vegas casino workers recognize Stephen Paddock: 'I wish I had never seen his face' Posted: 04 Oct 2017 06:24 AM PDT  The name sounded familiar, but when a worker at the Tropicana Casino and Resort saw the first public photo of Stephen Paddock, she recognized the man who police say shot and killed at least 58 people and injured more than 489 at a concert here Sunday night.
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| Prosecutors to Pursue Death Penalty Against Woman in 'Clown Killer' Case Posted: 04 Oct 2017 03:02 PM PDT  Sheila Keen Warren, the woman arrested in the 'clown killer' case, could face execution.
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| North Korean workers prepare seafood going to US stores Posted: 04 Oct 2017 05:45 PM PDT  HUNCHUN, China (AP) — Americans buying seafood for dinner may inadvertently have subsidized the North Korean government as it builds its nuclear weapons program, an Associated Press investigation has found. Their purchases may also have supported forced labor.
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| Ivanka Trump Gets Schooled After Trying To Make A Point About Education Posted: 05 Oct 2017 12:44 AM PDT  Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump and a White House adviser, wrote an op-ed for the New York Post about introducing tech education as early as kindergarten.
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| Russian strike kills 38 fleeing civilians in east Syria: monitor Posted: 04 Oct 2017 08:59 AM PDT  A Russian air strike killed 38 civilians on Wednesday as they tried to cross the Euphrates river to escape fighting in eastern Syria's Deir Ezzor province, a monitor said. Deir Ezzor borders Iraq and civilians have fled into the province to escape the battles against IS in their own country. Two campaigns are being fought against IS in east Deir Ezzor, with one on the western side of the Euphrates river that slices diagonally across the province led by Syrian troops and backed by ally Russia.
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| Las Vegas shooting: Mother and son caught up in horror of massacre continue to oppose gun control Posted: 04 Oct 2017 06:13 AM PDT  A mother and son hailed as heroes for saving the lives of people wounded in the Las Vegas shooting have spoken out against gun control, saying it could not have prevented the massacre. Owen Searcy and Dana Rushing were backed by a senior US firearms lobbyist who claimed the futility of strict gun laws was 'proved' by their failure to stop IRA terrorists smuggling rifles into the UK. Mr Searcy, 32, and Ms Rushing, 57, a nurse, were praised for saving lives by shepherding fellow country music fans to shelter and giving first aid after Stephen Paddock opened fire, killing at least 59 people.
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| Virginia Republican Goes Full Willie Horton In New Ad About MS-13 ‘Sex Slaves’ Posted: 04 Oct 2017 03:11 PM PDT  Ed Gillespie, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Virginia, is airing a misleading new radio advertisement that ties Democrat Ralph Northam to murders and heinous sex crimes committed by the notorious gang MS-13.
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| Trump Administration Asks Court To Dismiss Lawsuit Against Transgender Military Ban Posted: 05 Oct 2017 07:11 AM PDT  President Donald Trump's lawyers asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit against his ban on transgender individuals serving in the military.
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| Supreme Court says Alabama execution can proceed Posted: 04 Oct 2017 03:08 PM PDT  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled Alabama can proceed with the execution of a man convicted of killing his estranged wife and father-in-law in 1993.
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| Chip Gaines's Mom Sheds Light On Why 'Fixer Upper' Is Ending Posted: 04 Oct 2017 01:01 PM PDT  Chip and Joanna Gaines offered their own reasons why "Fixer Upper" is ending after five seasons, and now Chip's mom Gayle Gaines has some more intel.
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| EU pauses inquiry into Bayer-Monsanto takeover Posted: 05 Oct 2017 07:41 AM PDT  The EU said Thursday it had "stopped the clock" on its probe into German chemical firm Bayer's proposed mega-takeover of US agri-giant Monsanto while it waits for the companies to provide information. Brussels launched an in-depth investigation in August into the $66 billion (56-billion-euro) deal, which would create the world's largest integrated pesticides and seeds company. The European Commission, which serves as the powerful anti-trust regulator for the 28-nation European Union, cited concerns it could reduce competition in key products for farmers.
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| Unarmed Hotel Security Guard Who Found Las Vegas Shooter Hailed As Hero Posted: 05 Oct 2017 05:38 AM PDT  An unarmed security guard at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino was hailed as a hero for pinpointing the Las Vegas shooter's location, despite a withering barrage of gunfire that wounded him in the leg.
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| Mohammed Dahlan speaks about Palestinian unity and his back-room role Posted: 04 Oct 2017 07:38 AM PDT  By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Mohammad Dahlan, who played a key backroom role in a major new effort for Palestinian unity, has said a two-state peace agreement with Israel was impossible and healing wounds from a civil war that split Palestine was now a priority. Once of the fiercest foes of Hamas, the Islamist group that seized the Gaza Strip in a civil war in 2007, Dahlan, a member of the rival mainstream Fatah party, spoke to Reuters after a unity cabinet held its first meeting in the enclave in three years. "The internal Palestinian situation is more sacred, is more important and is more useful now than the so-called negotiation," the veteran politician said of talks with Israel that collapsed in 2014 over issues such as Israeli settlement-building in occupied territory and Fatah-Hamas reconciliation.
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| Ford Reveals Its Electrification Plans Posted: 03 Oct 2017 07:09 PM PDT  Ford became the latest automaker to announce a big push toward electrifying its lineup, announcing Tuesday that it would bring 13 new electrified models to market globally over the next five year...
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| Former prison guard admits sexually assaulting inmates Posted: 04 Oct 2017 02:16 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — A former Georgia prison guard has pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually assaulting three female inmates and then coercing them into helping him cover up the assaults.
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| Rex Tillerson Joins Long Line Of Officials Forced To Publicly Praise Trump Posted: 04 Oct 2017 08:59 AM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held a press conference Wednesday just so he could tell people he thinks the president is "smart," becoming the latest in a string of officials who appeared to find it necessary to publicly praise the leader.
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| Indonesian man kills 23-foot python after it bit his arm Posted: 04 Oct 2017 03:45 AM PDT  A security guard has killed a huge python which was blocking traffic as it crossed a road in Indonesia, wrestling with the 23-foot reptile which savaged his arm. Robert Nababan was driving on a moped in Riau Province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra when he came upon the snake blocking traffic as it tried to edge across a road, according to local media. Nababan and two other passers-by tried to move the huge predator off the road. The details of the encounter remain unclear, but Nababan ended up in hospital after the python sunk its razor sharp teeth into his arm while trying, as pythons do, to coil around the 37 year old. Speaking from his hospital bed, Nababan told Indonesian TV reporters that : "I tried to catch it. It bit my arm, and we wrestled for a while." But the massive snake came out second-best, and is now strung up by thick rope from two pillars in a yard near where the deadly tussle took place. Slash and burn land and forest clearances - usually to ready land for palm oil plantations - are common in the region where the snake was killed. The snake came out second-best and is now strung up in a village Nababan has been described as a palm oil plantation worker, so either he or one or more of the passers-by were likely carrying some sort of heavy blade that could have been used to kill the snake. The snake was likely a reticulated python, the world's longest reptile measuring up to 23 feet and capable of eating fully grown pigs, and occasionally, humans. Snake attacks | How common are snake attacks in the UK? On March 27 the body of Akbar Salubiro, a 25-year-old farmer in Sulawesi, a large island in eastern Indonesia, was found inside the stomach of a 23 feet long reticulated python.
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| 5-Year-Old Reunites With Family After Vegas Shooting Thanks To Help From Kind Strangers Posted: 04 Oct 2017 06:02 PM PDT  In the aftermath of the horrific shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday, many survivors have shared stories of kind and heroic strangers who stepped up to help people in need.
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| Amnesty condemns 'forced' returns of Afghan asylum seekers Posted: 04 Oct 2017 05:16 PM PDT  A surge of failed Afghan asylum seekers "forcibly" returned from Europe are at risk of torture, kidnapping and death in war-torn Afghanistan, Amnesty International said Thursday. Almost 9,500 Afghans went back to their homeland in 2016 after their applications for asylum in Europe were rejected, compared with nearly 3,300 a year earlier, the human rights group said. The figure covers asylum seekers who were detained and then deported from European countries, and those who "ostensibly voluntarily" returned with financial assistance, Amnesty said.
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| How The Las Vegas Massacre Unfolded Posted: 03 Oct 2017 11:47 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS ― It was just after 9:40 p.m. when Donny Lee, his wife and some friends watched country superstar Jason Aldean take the stage to close out the Route 91 Harvest festival, a three-day country music celebration that drew fans from around the country to the famed Las Vegas Strip.
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| Johnson & Johnson unit exits insulin pump business amid rising competition Posted: 05 Oct 2017 07:54 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson's diabetes care unit, which makes insulin pumps, said on Thursday it would shut its business in United States and Canada amid increased competition and after failing to find a buyer. Animas Corp has selected rival Medtronic Plc as its partner for the device and nearly 90,000 patients using its pumps will be offered the option to transfer to pumps made by Medtronic. J&J has been reviewing strategic options, including a potential sale of its diabetes care division, which includes LifeScan Inc, Animas Corp and Calibra Medical Inc. The division reported sales of $421 million in the second quarter, down 10.6 percent from a year earlier.
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| 60 Years Ago, Russia Launched Sputnik (And It Can Teach Us A lot about North Korea) Posted: 04 Oct 2017 07:04 AM PDT  While Sputnik itself was a rudimentary satellite that was by no means a weapon, it represented an uncomfortable truth—that the Soviet Union could reach out and potentially threaten the American homeland. While the situations are not identical, the current standoff between the United States and North Korea bears some resemblance to the early days of the Cold War. Indeed, the current crisis—which was sparked by North Korea test launching an ICBM—bears some resemblance to the developments of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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| Florida set to execute man for 2 decades-old murders Posted: 05 Oct 2017 01:27 AM PDT  STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is scheduled to execute a man Thursday who was convicted of murdering two people decades ago after a long night of drinking.
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| Europe’s governments look to bypass Trump to save Iranian nuclear deal Posted: 03 Oct 2017 11:15 PM PDT  A multilateral meeting at the UN offered little chance of personal chemistry between the US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif. European governments fear a concerted effort to persuade Donald Trump to continue to certify the Iran nuclear deal may have failed and are now looking for other ways to try to salvage the two year-old agreement.
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| Thai mourners pay last-minute respects to late king Posted: 05 Oct 2017 03:19 AM PDT  BANGKOK (AP) — Tens of thousands of mourners have been rushing to Bangkok's Grand Palace to pay their respects to the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, as a period of nearly a year for his body to lie in state ends ahead of his cremation on Oct. 26.
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| Some Poor Sap Just Got Totally Owned On Twitter... By Hamburger Helper Posted: 05 Oct 2017 02:28 AM PDT  The Helper glove has no love for misogynistic tweets.
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| Once an obscure device, 'bump stocks' are in the spotlight Posted: 04 Oct 2017 01:23 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — The Las Vegas gunman possessed a little-known device called a "bump stock" that was not widely sold — until now.
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| The U.S. Air Force Is Giving the F-22 a New Job: Sniper Posted: 04 Oct 2017 04:44 PM PDT  Three years ago, four F-22 Raptors taking part in the second-wave of the U.S.-led coalition's opening airstrikes on Islamic State in Syria dropped their bombs. Fast forward to today, and F-22 Raptors are still flying over Iraq and Syria and have shifted almost fully into that latter role, according to Air Force Magazine. Air superiority is what Lockheed Martin and the Air Force designed the F-22 to do.
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| US 'deeply disturbed' by arrest of Istanbul consulate staffer Posted: 05 Oct 2017 08:20 AM PDT  The United States on Thursday said it was "deeply disturbed" over the arrest by Turkish authorities of a local staffer working at its consulate in Istanbul, saying the charges against him were baseless. The employee was remanded in custody by an Istanbul court late Wednesday on accusations of links to the group of US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for last year's failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state-run Anadolu news agency said. The man has been formally charged with espionage and seeking to overthrow the Turkish government, it added.
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| Julianne Hough's secret to her amazing body is right on her wrist Posted: 04 Oct 2017 09:21 AM PDT  We finally know the secret to Julianne Hough's incredible body -- and it's right on her wrist.
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| How many nukes are in the world and what could they destroy? Posted: 05 Oct 2017 03:28 AM PDT  Tensions over nuclear weapons have been raised further after North Korea claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. This latest move comes amid increasing concern over North Korea's military capabilities, with the new US administration upping its rhetoric in response. While the Pyongyang regime increases the frequency with which it is conducting missile tests, Donald Trump's defence secretary Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis has previously warned North Korea of an "effective and overwhelming" response if Pyongyang used nuclear weapons. North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test. Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017 Elsewhere, rhetoric hints at a return of the expansion of nuclear arsenals across the world. In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a meeting of defence chiefs that strengthening nuclear capability should be a key objective for 2017. Donald Trump then took to Twitter to respond, vowing to do the same. Such rhetoric has led to concerns about the world's nuclear capacity and the unpredictability of those in charge of the warheads. It seems the world is a long way from "coming to its senses" - with millions of kilotons already in military service around the world. Between them, the world's nuclear-armed states have around 15,000 warheads - the majority of which belong to the US and Russia. It is estimated that just under 10,000 of these are in military service, with the rest awaiting dismantlement, according to the Arms Control Association. Putin says Russia should strengthen its nuclear arsenal 00:51 Which countries have nuclear weapons? There are five nuclear-weapon states in the world: China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States. These are officially recognised as possessing such weapons by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This treaty acknowledges and legitimises their arsenals, but they are not supposed to build or maintain them forever. Indeed, they have committed to eliminate them. There are also four other countries that have nuclear weapons: Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea. These countries didn't sign the Treaty, and together possess an estimated 340 nuclear weapons. But it's Russia and the US that have by far the most in the world - dominating all other countries by collectively sharing 88 per cent of the world's arsenal of stockpiled nukes. This figure increases to 93 per cent when we consider retired nukes. How the world's 15,000 nukes are divided How deadly could these nuclear weapons be? The world's current collection of 14,900 nuclear weapons possesses enough power to kill millions of people and flatten dozens of cities. According to Telegraph research, it is estimated that the US and Russian arsenals combined have power equating to 6,600 megatons. This is a tenth of the total solar energy received by Earth every minute. According to the NukeMap website, the dropping of the B-83, the largest bomb in the current US arsenal, would kill 1.4m people in the first 24 hours. A further 3.7m people would be injured, as the thermal radiation radius reached 13.km. Likewise, the "Tsar Bomba" is the largest USSR bomb tested. If this bomb was dropped on New York, it is estimated that it could kill 7.6m people and injure 4.2m more. The nuclear fallout could reach an approximate area of 7,880km on a 15mph wind, impacting millions more people. Both America and Russia's arsenals are regulated by several treaties that place limits on the numbers and kinds of warheads and delivery systems they have. If either country were to expand their nuclear capacity even further, as Trump and Putin have hinted at, it could shatter these agreements and plunge the world into a new Cold War. North Korean missile ranges Our figures on nuclear weapons, based on statistics from the Arms Control Association, are mainly estimates because of the secretive nature with which most governments treat information about their arsenals.
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| Bain hoping to settle with Western Digital on Toshiba deal Posted: 05 Oct 2017 01:31 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — The investment fund heading the consortium that plans to buy Toshiba Corp.'s memory chip business said Thursday it will try to reach a speedy settlement with Western Digital, the U.S. joint venture partner of Toshiba that is opposing the sale.
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| Colin Kaepernick's Jersey Hangs In The Same Museum As 'Starry Night' Posted: 04 Oct 2017 05:50 AM PDT  One of the most recent additions to the halls of New York's Museum of Modern Art is a red San Francisco 49ers jersey.
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| 2019 Range Rover Sport P400e: The Start of Land Rover's Electrified Future Posted: 04 Oct 2017 09:05 AM PDT  A plug-in vehicle that'll take you places you'll never find a plug.
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| Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend returns to US as police reveal details of his planning Posted: 04 Oct 2017 02:06 AM PDT  Authorities investigating the Las Vegas mass shooting, the deadliest in modern US history, are preparing to question the girlfriend of gunman Stephen Paddock, who has flown back to America after being named a "person of interest" in the criminal case. As fresh details of the meticulous planning of the massacre were revealed by investigators, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of Clark County told a press conference that detectives were in contact with Marilou Danley, who had been travelling in the Philippines at the time of the killings.
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| Luann de Lesseps Finalizes Divorce from Tom D'Agostino: 'Even Though We Decided That, It's Sad' Posted: 04 Oct 2017 10:32 AM PDT  According to documents obtained by The Blast, de Lesseps and D'Agostino settled their divorce out of court, finalizing it on Sept 18
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| Russia says its airstrikes wounded al-Qaida leader in Syria Posted: 04 Oct 2017 12:29 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia said Wednesday it carried out airstrikes in Syria this week that critically wounded the leader of an al-Qaida-linked group and killed 12 other militant commanders, a report that was categorically denied by the militants.
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| China’s Giant New Cruiser Matches America’s Naval Firepower Posted: 05 Oct 2017 04:21 AM PDT  Chinese state television has broadcast the first clear, overhead view of the Chinese navy's first Type 055 cruiser. The Type 055 — which is an estimate 590 feet long and displaces at least 10,000 tons — represents a new class of warship for the Chinese navy.
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