| Steve Wynn resigns as RNC finance chair amid misconduct allegations Posted: 27 Jan 2018 07:34 AM PST  Steve Wynn, the billionaire casino magnate, resigned as finance chair of the Republican National Committee on Saturday following a report of widespread misconduct allegations, NBC News has confirmed.
|
| 4 Killed In Shooting Rampage At Pennsylvania Car Wash Posted: 28 Jan 2018 10:03 AM PST  At least five people were killed in an overnight shooting at a car wash in Melcroft, Pennsylvania, officials said.
|
| Russian Bots Retweeted Donald Trump 500,000 Times Before Election Posted: 27 Jan 2018 10:41 PM PST  Russian bots retweeted Donald Trump messages close to half-a-million times in the weeks leading up to the presidential election, Twitter officials revealed to the Senate Judiciary Committee, CNN reports.
|
| Manchin: 'Let's see' if Trump goes after Deputy AG Rosenstein Posted: 27 Jan 2018 11:36 PM PST  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) tells Chuck Todd that he doesn't believe there's a need for legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller unless the president starts to target Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein
|
| Kentucky High School Shooting: Preston Cope's Family Made it To School in Time to Say Goodbye Posted: 27 Jan 2018 07:45 AM PST  He'd been shot in the head and hand.
|
| Report: Employees fired after delivering raw meat using shopping carts in San Jose Posted: 27 Jan 2018 06:17 PM PST  Officials launched a health investigation after photos posted on social media showed men delivering unwrapped meat in shopping carts to a market in San Jose.
|
| Thousands in Albania rally, call for government to resign Posted: 27 Jan 2018 11:25 AM PST  TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands supporting Albania's opposition took to the streets for an anti-government protest Saturday, accusing the Cabinet of links to organized crime and calling for its resignation.
|
| 50 years after North Korea captured the USS Pueblo, the ship is still on display Posted: 27 Jan 2018 07:56 AM PST  It's the only Navy ship still commissioned by the United States currently held captive today, and serves as a reminder of the ongoing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.
|
| Steve Wynn Steps Down As RNC Finance Chair Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations Posted: 27 Jan 2018 12:23 PM PST  Billionaire Steve Wynn resigned his post as finance chair for the Republican National Committee on Saturday, one day after The Wall Street Journal reported numerous allegations of him sexually harassing employees at his Las Vegas casinos over several decades.
|
| Motorist shot dead after trying to run over Mississippi police officers Posted: 27 Jan 2018 11:19 PM PST ![Motorist shot dead after trying to run over Mississippi police officers]( "Motorist shot dead after trying to run over Mississippi police officers") The woman, identified by police as 21-year-old Crystaline Barnes, 21, was shot around 7:30 a.m. Saturday after she reportedly forced another motorist off the road, local media including CBS affiliate WJTV reported. When police stopped her, she tried to flee in her car, reversed direction, and then drove at the officers, according to the WJTV report.
|
| Air Force One's New Refrigerators Will Cost Taxpayers Nearly $24 Million Posted: 27 Jan 2018 04:23 PM PST  President Donald Trump will continue to travel in luxury when he gets two new refrigerators for Air Force One that will cost taxpayers nearly $24 million.
|
| McCarthy: Immigration bill will need bipartisan support to pass Posted: 27 Jan 2018 11:34 PM PST  During an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) tells Chuck Todd that the White House immigration proposal shows the president is serious about finding a deal.
|
| Meet the 24-year-old innovator designing cars for Ford Posted: 27 Jan 2018 08:02 AM PST  Victoria Schein has been at Ford for less than two years and already is credited with 40 patents.
|
| Garrison Keillor, Fired For Harassment, Goes After MPR And Accuser In Statement Posted: 27 Jan 2018 04:04 PM PST  Garrison Keillor, a former Minnesota Public Radio host, denounced the head of MPR and called his accuser "was a friend" in a statement denying recent harassment allegations against him.
|
| Brief leave from Iran jail for Iranian-American over health Posted: 28 Jan 2018 10:34 AM PST ![Brief leave from Iran jail for Iranian-American over health]( "Brief leave from Iran jail for Iranian-American over health") DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian-American dual national held in Tehran was granted a brief leave from prison over health concerns, his Washington-based lawyer said Sunday.
|
| Czech President Zeman re-elected with anti-immigration message Posted: 27 Jan 2018 09:58 AM PST ![Czech President Zeman re-elected with anti-immigration message]( "Czech President Zeman re-elected with anti-immigration message") By Robert Muller and Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech President Milos Zeman won a second term in a presidential election on Saturday, gaining the backing of voters for his tough stance against immigration and his courtship of Russia and China. In the run-off against strongly pro-European Union academic Jiri Drahos, Zeman scored 51.4 percent to 48.6 percent for his challenger. Zeman, 73, is the last prominent figure among active politicians from the country's post-communist transitional period in the 1990s, and has shifted from being a center-left prime minister 16 years ago to being a president with leanings toward the far-right.GRAPHIC: http://tmsnrt.rs/2D3BO8e The vote showed Czech voters' concerns over security despite a period of fast economic growth and rising wages.
|
| More than 600 residents evacuated in Paris as Seine River rises Posted: 27 Jan 2018 07:43 AM PST Forecasters are predicting the Seine will only rise a few more inches, but there are already reports of water seeping into basements -- and more rain is on the way.
|
| World's Oceans Were Hottest On Record In 2017, Study Finds Posted: 27 Jan 2018 07:08 AM PST  The world's oceans in 2017 were the hottest ever recorded, scientists revealed in a new study published on Friday.
|
| Brazil nightclub shooting: 14 people killed in Fortaleza after gunmen storm party Posted: 27 Jan 2018 08:25 AM PST  A "large number of people" have been shot dead in north-western Brazil after gunmen stormed into a party, police said. Local media reported that 14 people had been killed in the shootings at a nightclub in the city of Fortaleza. At least six others, some of them children, were injured, according to the country's National Public Security Force.
|
| Gazan unearths ancient graves in vegetable patch Posted: 27 Jan 2018 02:09 AM PST  When Abdul Karim al-Kafarnah went to check the rainwater gushing down a hole in his garden he was in for quite a shock -- hidden steps led him down to an ancient grave complex. The 24-year-old lives in the Beit Hanoun district of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli border which suffered intensive bombardment during the 2014 conflict between the Israeli army and Palestinian militants. The flash-flooding earlier this week led him to one particular spot, where, on removing a large stone, he found a staircase leading four metres (13 feet) down into an ancient tomb.
|
| Saudi prince freed amid corruption probe veiled in secrecy Posted: 27 Jan 2018 11:23 AM PST  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who had been held in a luxury hotel since November in a wide-reaching anti-corruption probe that has been shrouded in secrecy and intrigue, was released on Saturday, according to three of his associates.
|
| One Year Since Trump's First Travel Ban, Many Refugees Left With Only Hellish Options Posted: 27 Jan 2018 02:46 AM PST  It feels like just yesterday that a collective revolt surged in opposition to the signing of President Donald Trump's first travel ban, enacted one year ago Saturday.
|
| So Here's The 'Lady Bird' Trailer Except Every Line Is Screamed Posted: 27 Jan 2018 08:51 AM PST  Sometimes a thing described to you is no match for experiencing the thing firsthand.
|
| Finns, worried by Russia, hand cautious president huge election win Posted: 28 Jan 2018 02:59 PM PST ![Finns, worried by Russia, hand cautious president huge election win]( "Finns, worried by Russia, hand cautious president huge election win") By Jussi Rosendahl and Tuomas Forsell HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's moderate President Sauli Niinisto cruised to a rare first round election win on Sunday as his delicate balancing of ties with neighbor Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance resonated with voters. The 69-year-old Niinisto, known for cultivating good relations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, won his second six-year term with an overwhelming 62.7 percent of the vote.
|
| Trump’s SOTU will strike a tone of unity, WH Official tells NBC News Posted: 27 Jan 2018 07:40 AM PST According to one senior administration official, the theme of Pres. Trump's State of the Union speech this year is "building a safe, strong and proud America. "
|
| Bodies of three crew members from Sanchi identified Posted: 27 Jan 2018 11:43 AM PST ![Bodies of three crew members from Sanchi identified]( "Bodies of three crew members from Sanchi identified") The bodies of three of the crew of the Sanchi, the tanker involved in the worst oil ship disaster in decades off the coast of China, have been identified, the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported Saturday. The three crew members identified are Milad Aravi, Majid Naqian and Mohammad Kavousi, the agency reported. The semi-official Fars news agency said that the three were Iranian.
|
| Charles Manson's grandson speaks out on legal fight over his remains Posted: 26 Jan 2018 08:39 PM PST  The complicated legal battle over the estate and remains of Charles Manson continued in a Los Angeles court on Friday, as the serial killer's grandson made an impassioned plea to the judge.
|
| Estonia makes 'token' effort to take euro crypto Posted: 27 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST  Estonia is looking to drag the euro into the crypto age -- and tame the volatility plaguing bitcoin and its peers -- by creating a digital token backed by the single European currency. One way to counter this would be to issue digital versions of an existing currency, but an initial proposal by a government agency in eurozone member Estonia was torpedoed by European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi last year.
|
| Did Maisie Williams Just Reveal When ‘Game Of Thrones’ Will Return? Posted: 27 Jan 2018 02:34 AM PST  Arya Stark in HBO's epic fantasy drama ― appears to have inadvertently revealed when the show will return to television screens for its eighth and final season.
|
| Justice Ginsburg signals her intent to work for years more Posted: 27 Jan 2018 07:10 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — In different circumstances, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg might be on a valedictory tour in her final months on the Supreme Court. But in the era of Donald Trump, the 84-year-old Ginsburg is packing her schedule and sending signals she intends to keep her seat on the bench for years.
|
| EPA Chief Under Nixon And Reagan: GOP’s Climate Denial Is 'Killing Everything' Posted: 27 Jan 2018 04:31 AM PST  The nation's first Environmental Protection Agency chief, who returned as administrator in 1983 under President Ronald Reagan, excoriated his own party on Friday, warning that Republicans' ideological opposition to widely-accepted climate science would prove lethal.
|
| Polish rescue team finds French climber on Pakistan's 'Killer Mountain' Posted: 27 Jan 2018 03:51 PM PST ![Polish rescue team finds French climber on Pakistan's 'Killer Mountain']( "Polish rescue team finds French climber on Pakistan's 'Killer Mountain'") By Marcin Goettig WARSAW (Reuters) - After an exhausting night ascent a rescue mission found the French mountaineer Elisabeth Revol on the slopes of Pakistan's treacherous "Killer Mountain", but a Polish climber who had been with her remained missing, Poland's winter climbing team said. Revol and her climbing companion, Tomasz Mackiewicz, had called for help on Friday from about 7,400 meters up Pakistan's second highest peak, the 8,126 meter (26,660 feet) Nanga Parbat. A team of elite Polish climbers, who had been attempting the first winter ascent of the nearby K2 mountain, rushed to try to rescue them.
|
| The Latest: Turkey says 2 soldiers killed in Afrin push Posted: 27 Jan 2018 10:21 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
|
| Four-month-old puppy hanged, beaten and shot in 'worst case of animal abuse officials have seen' Posted: 28 Jan 2018 07:29 AM PST  The city of Sacramento is offering a $12,000 reward for information about the person or people who beat, shot, and hanged a puppy, in what animal control officers are calling the worst case of animal abuse they've ever seen. Chief Animal Control Officer Jase Huggins told KTXL that the puppy had sustained fractures "from nose to tail" before being shot with a BB gun and hanged from her leash. It's probably the worst one I've seen since I've been here working for the city," Mr Huggins said.
|
| Colombia bomb attack kills at least five police, wounds dozens Posted: 27 Jan 2018 02:49 PM PST ![Colombia bomb attack kills at least five police, wounds dozens]( "Colombia bomb attack kills at least five police, wounds dozens") By Nelson Bocanegra and Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - An early morning bomb attack outside a police station in Colombia's coastal city of Barranquilla killed at least five police officers and wounded 42 on Saturday, authorities said. "We think it could be retaliation by these groups who have recently been greatly impacted," metropolitan police commander Brigadier General Mariano de la Cruz Botero said in comments broadcast by Caracol Radio, referring to crime gangs active in the port city.
|
| US senator fires top aide over 'improper relations' with staff Posted: 28 Jan 2018 01:29 AM PST  A prominent US senator on Saturday fired his chief of staff for improper relations with subordinates, as US lawmakers increasingly grapple with the issue of sexual harassment. This led Rubio to return Saturday to Washington from his home state of Florida to fire his top aide, he said in a statement. Rubio's office confirmed the identity of the dismissed staffer as Clint Reed, but there were no details on the nature of the improper relations.
|
| Tweeters Lose It After Sean Hannity's Account Mysteriously Goes Down Posted: 27 Jan 2018 01:21 AM PST  Fox News host Sean Hannity's Twitter account disappeared on Friday night, and sent fellow tweeters into a mini-meltdown.
|
| Trump's state of the union speech aims to present him as a great unifier Posted: 27 Jan 2018 11:00 AM PST  The White House could not specify whether Trump would acknowledge female members of Congress planning to wear black to support the #MeToo movement. Donald Trump will reach across the aisle with a tone of "bipartisanship" when he delivers his first state of the union address to Congress on Tuesday, the White House said.
|
| Ranking The Best New Shows On Netflix You Can Stream Right Now Posted: 27 Jan 2018 06:00 AM PST  For the weekend of Jan. 27, Streamline recommends "Black Mirror" in the top Netflix spot for the fourth time.
|
| ATM makers warn of 'jackpotting' hacks on U.S. machines Posted: 27 Jan 2018 06:36 PM PST ![ATM makers warn of 'jackpotting' hacks on U.S. machines]( "ATM makers warn of 'jackpotting' hacks on U.S. machines") The two ATM makers did not identify any victims or say how much money had been lost. The attacks were reported earlier on Saturday by the security news website Krebs on Security, which said they had begun last year in Mexico. It said its equipment had not been targeted in the recent attacks, but that it was still a concern for the entire ATM industry.
|
| Man Rescues Abandoned Dogs and Makes Them His Travel Buddies on Epic Road Trip Posted: 28 Jan 2018 09:02 AM PST  They've traveled more than 35,000 miles together.
|
| US calls for release of missing Chinese bookseller Posted: 28 Jan 2018 01:46 AM PST  BEIJING (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration has joined European governments in urging China to release a Swedish citizen who sold gossipy books about Chinese leaders.
|
| Michigan St athletic director retires over Nassar sex abuse Posted: 26 Jan 2018 08:51 PM PST  EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University's athletic director retired Friday, two days after the university president resigned over the school's handling of sexual abuse allegations against its disgraced former sports doctor, Larry Nassar.
|
| California wants 5 million 'green' cars on roads by 2030 Posted: 26 Jan 2018 11:28 PM PST  California Governor Jerry Brown Friday signed an executive order detailing aims to have five million electric cars on the state's roads by 2030 -- by accelerating the production of such vehicles using financial incentives and rebates. The $2.5 billion, eight-year plan also involves the installation of 250,000 electric vehicle charging stations and 200 hydrogen fueling stations by 2025. "To continue to meet California's climate goals and clean air standards, California must go even further to accelerate the market for zero-emission vehicles," the governor's office said in a statement.
|
| U.N. Syria mediator to attend peace conference in Russia Posted: 27 Jan 2018 06:10 AM PST ![U.N. Syria mediator to attend peace conference in Russia]( "U.N. Syria mediator to attend peace conference in Russia") United Nations Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura will attend a peace conference in Russia next week, the United Nations said on Saturday. "The Secretary-General is confident that the Congress in Sochi will be an important contribution to a revived intra-Syrian talks process under the auspices of the United Nations in Geneva," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement. Western powers and some Arab states believe the conference in Sochi is an attempt to create a separate peace process that would undermine the United Nations' efforts and lay the groundwork for a solution more suitable to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Russia and Iran.
|
| Industrial strikes loom as talks with German union collapse Posted: 27 Jan 2018 07:02 AM PST  Germany's metalworkers' union said Saturday that it will intensify its campaign for better pay and conditions, threatening 24-hour "warning strikes" after talks with industry representatives fell apart. The main sticking point remains the powerful IG Metall union's demands for workers to have the option of a 28-hour week, with employers making up some of the salary loss. "Obviously employers do not understand any language other than pressure," said Roman Zitzelsberger, the chief negotiator for IG Metall, which represents more than 3.9 million workers.
|
