| Democrats Win Special Election In Missouri District That Went Big For Trump Posted: 06 Feb 2018 07:36 PM PST  Democrats flipped a Missouri state House seat Tuesday, marking the 35th seat that has changed from red to blue since Donald Trump become president.
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| How To Handle A Stock Market Drop When You’re Retired Posted: 07 Feb 2018 09:37 AM PST  There may be no worse feeling in the world for a retiree ― or someone hoping to retire soon ― than when the stock market takes a nosedive as it did this week.
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| A 38-Year-Old Weatherford Teacher Has Died From Flu Complications Posted: 06 Feb 2018 09:25 AM PST  She ultimately died from septic shock in the hospital after being rushed to the emergency room
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| Magnitude 6.4 quake hits Taiwan, causing buildings to collapse Posted: 06 Feb 2018 11:09 AM PST ![Magnitude 6.4 quake hits Taiwan, causing buildings to collapse]( "Magnitude 6.4 quake hits Taiwan, causing buildings to collapse") A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near the coastal city of Hualien in Taiwan late on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, causing buildings including a hotel to collapse and forcing the closure of a nearby highway. The quake struck about 22 kms (14 miles) northeast of Hualien - which is home to about 100,000 people - shortly before midnight, and the epicenter was very shallow at just 1km, the USGS said. There was no immediate confirmation of any deaths or injuries or word of any tsunami warning, but the government confirmed in the early hours of Wednesday that the Marshal Hotel in Hualien had collapsed, trapping three people inside.
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| Dozens dead in regime strikes on Syria rebel enclave Posted: 06 Feb 2018 06:37 PM PST  Fresh regime strikes on a besieged rebel-held enclave near Damascus killed 78 civilians on Tuesday despite mounting Western pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The bloodshed came a day after another 31 civilians were killed in Eastern Ghouta and as the United Nations pleaded for a truce in the seven-year-old war to allow for aid deliveries. Eastern Ghouta and Idlib, a northern province where violence also flared this week, are both so-called de-escalation zones under a deal last year intended to pave the way towards an end to the conflict.
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| Former Pope Benedict XVI says he is increasingly frail and in last phase of his life Posted: 07 Feb 2018 03:52 AM PST  In a rare public statement, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has said that he is becoming increasingly frail but is at peace with the prospect of death. Benedict became the first Pope in 600 years to resign from the Seat of St Peter when he stepped down in February 2013. His papacy was dogged by a series of crises and controversies on issues ranging from the widespread abuse of children by Catholic priests to the Church's attitudes to Islam and homosexuality. The 90-year-old wrote a letter to Corriere della Sera, one of Italy's leading dailies, in response to queries from readers as to his health and state of mind. The letter, marked "urgent, by hand" was delivered to the newspaper's offices in Rome from Benedict's home – "Mater Ecclesiae monastery, V-120, Vatican City." He was deeply moved that "so many readers want to know how I am spending this last period of my life," he wrote in the letter, which the newspaper printed on its front page on Wednesday. Pope Benedict XVI resigned in 2013 - the first Pope to do so in 600 years. Credit: AP "I can only say that with the slow waning of my physical forces, I'm on a pilgrimage towards home. "It is a great gift for me to be surrounded, on this last stretch of this sometimes tiring road, by a degree of love and goodwill that I could never have imagined." He wrote the letter as the fifth anniversary of his historic resignation approaches. Benedict stunned the world, including the Roman Catholic Church and his closest confidantes within the Vatican, when he unexpectedly announced his intention to resign. He made the announcement during a gathering of cardinals in the Vatican, choosing to deliver the bombshell in Latin. Many of the cardinals did not immediately understand what he had said, but the news was picked up by a sharp-eared correspondent from an Italian news agency, who happened to be well versed in Latin and landed herself a worldwide scoop. Since then he has been living in a former monastery within the walls of the Vatican, a few hundred yards from where Pope Francis lives. Benedict has appeared frail and thin during his few public appearances over the last couple of years, although aides say he has lost none of his mental acuity. Pope Francis, his successor, was elected like all popes during a secret conclave of cardinals who gathered in the Sistine Chapel. He is the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years, the first Jesuit Pope and the first from the Americas.
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| Brad Ford Outfits New York's Largest Living Room Posted: 07 Feb 2018 01:12 PM PST |
| Gay Olympian Adam Rippon Reportedly Refused Meeting With Mike Pence Posted: 07 Feb 2018 11:28 AM PST  Openly gay Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon apparently gave Mike Pence the cold shoulder last month when the vice president asked for a meeting.
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| Emails Show FBI Saddened, Stunned By Comey's Firing, Contradicting Trump's Claims Posted: 05 Feb 2018 06:11 PM PST  Over 100 pages of emails written by FBI agents last year, shortly after President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, reveal a stunned and saddened bureau, sharply contrasting with the president's statements that Comey was unpopular with most FBI employees.
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| Black Lives Matter Activist Who Snatched Confederate Flag Killed In New Orleans Posted: 07 Feb 2018 09:37 AM PST  A Black Lives Matter activist who made headlines last year when he leaped through police tape to grab a Confederate flag away from a protester was fatally shot in New Orleans early Tuesday morning.
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| Suspect fired gun in shootout that killed Colorado deputy Posted: 06 Feb 2018 09:20 PM PST  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A man suspected in the killing a Colorado sheriff's deputy fired a semi-automatic handgun during a struggle with multiple officers, authorities said Tuesday.
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| DNA shows first modern Briton had dark skin, blue eyes Posted: 06 Feb 2018 05:13 PM PST  The first modern Briton had dark skin and blue eyes, London scientists said on Wednesday, following groundbreaking DNA analysis of the remains of a man who lived 10,000 years ago. Known as "Cheddar Man" after the area in southwest England where his skeleton was discovered in a cave in 1903, the ancient man has been brought to life through the first ever full DNA analysis of his remains. In a joint project between Britain's Natural History Museum and University College London, scientists drilled a 2mm hole into the skull and extracted bone powder for analysis.
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| Erdogan says U.S. has 'calculations' against Turkey, Iran, Russia in Syria Posted: 06 Feb 2018 02:12 AM PST ![Erdogan says U.S. has 'calculations' against Turkey, Iran, Russia in Syria]( "Erdogan says U.S. has 'calculations' against Turkey, Iran, Russia in Syria") The United States is working against the interests of Turkey, Iran and maybe Russia in northern Syria, where it is sending in military supplies to an area controlled by Kurdish-dominated forces, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. "If the United States says they are sending 5,000 trucks and 2,000 cargo planes of weapons for the fight against Daesh (Islamic State), we don't believe this," Erdogan told members of his ruling AK Party in parliament.
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| Warning of impending tsunami sent out to people along US East Coast turns out to be false alarm Posted: 06 Feb 2018 08:04 AM PST  People on the East Coast of the United States received a push alert on their phones warning about a possible tsunami – only for it to be revealed as a false alarm. A glitch meant some people received what looked like an actual warning, NWS meteorologist Hendricus Lulofs said. He said the National Weather Service is trying to get to the bottom of what happened.
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| College Student Stabbed 13-Year-Old Girl to Death Because He Thought He Got Her Pregnant, Alleged Accomplice Says Posted: 06 Feb 2018 08:24 AM PST  David Eisenhauer, 20, is charged in the 2016 stabbing death of Nicole Lovell
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| House members grill Treasury Secretary Mnuchin about market turmoil Posted: 06 Feb 2018 09:56 AM PST  Steven Mnuchin said he's "not overly concerned" about Monday's Dow point drop and recent market volatility.
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| Teen girl dies in fall from cliff hike at Zion National Park Posted: 06 Feb 2018 04:34 PM PST  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 13-year-old girl fell to her death from a popular narrow trail bordered by steep drops at Zion National Park, officials said Tuesday.
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| Liftoff! SpaceX successfully launched world’s most powerful rocket Posted: 06 Feb 2018 02:32 PM PST  On Tuesday, February 6, Elon Musk's company SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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| Eric Holder: Trump Is Lying About Being Pro-Law Enforcement, And His FBI Attacks Prove It Posted: 07 Feb 2018 11:05 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who Republicans portrayed as anti-law enforcement for discussing police racial bias and investigating troubled police departments, said GOP attacks on the FBI and the Justice Department show the Trump administration's claimed support for law enforcement is hollow.
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| Taiwan quake kills 4, tilts buildings; over 140 missing Posted: 06 Feb 2018 07:40 PM PST  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Rescuers were working Wednesday to reach five people trapped and more than 140 people unaccounted for in several buildings damaged by a strong earthquake near Taiwan's eastern coast.
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| Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai critically ill in South Africa -party source Posted: 06 Feb 2018 06:01 AM PST ![Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai critically ill in South Africa -party source]( "Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai critically ill in South Africa -party source") Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, is critically ill in a South African hospital and his supporters should "brace for the worst", a party source with knowledge of his condition said on Tuesday. Without its founder at the helm, Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is likely to face immediate instability and could even split, handing a gift to new President Emmerson Mnangagwa in an election expected in the next six months. Mnangagwa came to power in November after a de facto military coup against 93-year-old Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla leader who had run Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980.
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| 11-Year-Old 'Hero' Dies Saving His Friend Who Fell Through a Frozen Pond Posted: 07 Feb 2018 05:11 AM PST  The child managed to pull his friend from the water but eventually fell through himself
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| Trump's evangelical adviser claims 'Jesus himself gave us the flu shot' Posted: 06 Feb 2018 08:16 AM PST  One of President Donald Trump's evangelical advisers turned heads this week after suggesting that believers do not need to get vaccinated against the flu because "Jesus himself gave us the" shot.
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| How America Could Accidentally Push Russia into a Nuclear War Posted: 06 Feb 2018 04:55 PM PST  America runs the risk of misunderstanding the context within which the Russian government would use its nuclear weapons. The Trump administration's Nuclear Posture Review calls for expanding nuclear options to include low-yield nuclear weapons. While there may be any number of good reasons for these force-structure adjustments, the proximate cause appears to be a desire to deter the Russian government from what many in Washington believe to be a lowered nuclear threshold.
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| The History Of The Baby Name 'Stormi' Posted: 06 Feb 2018 03:54 PM PST  Kylie Jenner announced on Tuesday that she has named her new baby girl Stormi.
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| GlaxoSmithKline profits soar despite US tax change Posted: 07 Feb 2018 08:43 AM PST  British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday that net profits jumped 70 percent last year on bumper sales, despite a fourth-quarter loss that was partly sparked by US tax changes. The annual performance was lifted by sales growth across its three main businesses, which comprise pharmaceuticals, vaccines and consumer healthcare. Revenues rose eight percent to £30.2 billion over the course of 2017.
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| 14 Blueberry Cobblers You Can't Make It Through Summer Without Posted: 07 Feb 2018 11:39 AM PST |
| End game looms for South Africa's Zuma Posted: 07 Feb 2018 01:26 AM PST ![End game looms for South Africa's Zuma]( "End game looms for South Africa's Zuma") By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - African National Congress leader Cyril Ramaphosa will outline "progress" on the question of President Jacob Zuma's future on Wednesday, South Africa's parliament speaker said, amid persistent speculation a deal is in the works for him to resign. Zuma, in power since 2009 and beset by corruption allegations, has been in a weakened position since Deputy President Ramaphosa replaced him as ANC leader in December. The 75-year-old has been South Africa's most controversial president since the end of white-minority rule in 1994, overseeing a tumultuous nine years marked by economic decline and numerous allegations of corruption.
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| John Kelly: Trump Plan Would Help Dreamers 'Too Afraid' Or 'Too Lazy' To Apply For DACA Posted: 06 Feb 2018 11:00 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― White House chief of staff John Kelly said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's offer to save undocumented young people ― though only if he can build a border wall and slash legal immigration ― is generous because it would help immigrants who may have previously been "too lazy" to seek protections.
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| Watch: Justin Trudeau urges woman who uses ‘mankind’ to say ‘peoplekind’ instead Posted: 06 Feb 2018 12:54 PM PST  Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, interrupted a woman who said the phrase "mankind" and suggested "peoplekind" should be used instead. The comment came as Mr Trudeau took questions during a visit to the Ewan University in Edmonton, Canada, on Thursday. A young woman from the World Mission Society Church of God, a controversial feminist church founded in South Korea, asked a question from the audience. She said: "We have received the Queen's Award in the UK, we have received many awards. "We have received many awards, however, unfortunately in Canada, our volunteering as a religious charitable organization is extremely difficult. "We came here today to ask you to also look into the policies that religious charitable organizations have in our legislations so that it can also be changed because maternal love is the love that's going to change the future of mankind." Mr Trudeau interrupted to say: "We like to say peoplekind, not necessarily mankind 'cause it's more inclusive." The comment triggered mockery on social media as users accused Mr Trudeau of "mansplaining" - condescendingly explaining something to a woman. It comes days after Canadian politicians voted to make its national anthem gender neutral after a lengthy campaign from equality activists. The line "in all thy sons command" will become "in all of us command" in the English-language version of its national song, O Canada.
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| Sarah Jessica Parker Sends Condolences To Kim Cattrall After Brother Dies Posted: 07 Feb 2018 07:33 AM PST  Sarah Jessica Parker didn't let an apparent feud with "Sex and the City" costar Kim Cattrall get in the way of sending sympathy after Cattrall's brother was found dead on Sunday.
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| Markets Right Now: Asian markets recouping losses early Posted: 06 Feb 2018 05:29 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
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| Syria raids kill nearly 30, as war of words escalates over chlorine use Posted: 05 Feb 2018 08:18 PM PST Regime bombardment killed nearly 30 people in a rebel enclave near Damascus on Monday, as Syria's seven-year conflict left civilians paying a heavy price. The United States on Monday said there was "obvious evidence" of multiple chlorine gas attacks in recent weeks, including in the opposition-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus. On Monday, dozens of air strikes and artillery fire battered Eastern Ghouta, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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| Correction: Backyard Body-Tennessee story Posted: 06 Feb 2018 08:55 AM PST ![Correction: Backyard Body-Tennessee story]( "Correction: Backyard Body-Tennessee story") WINCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) — In a story Feb. 5 about six people being charged in connection to the death of a Tennessee man, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by police, reported erroneously that Kisha Anderson was taken into custody in Thornton, Colorado. Police said Tuesday that Anderson is making arrangements to turn herself in.
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| 2018 Mercedes-Benz S450 RWD / S450 4Matic Posted: 07 Feb 2018 10:05 AM PST  Why settle for less?
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| Scale and complexity of terror threat to Southeast Asia growing: ASEAN Posted: 06 Feb 2018 03:43 AM PST ![Scale and complexity of terror threat to Southeast Asia growing: ASEAN]( "Scale and complexity of terror threat to Southeast Asia growing: ASEAN") The terrorist threat facing Southeast Asia is growing as foreign fighters return to the region, Southeast Asian defense ministers said in a joint statement on Tuesday in which they pledged to improve cooperation to tackle militancy. Six Southeast Asian nations launched an intelligence pact last month aimed at combating Islamist militants and improving co-operation on security threats, overcoming what analysts described as a high level of distrust. "We, the Defence Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), note with grave concern the rise of terrorism in our region, perpetrated by individuals and groups with increasingly sophisticated and deadly tactics and weapons," they said at the conclusion of their two-day meeting in Singapore.
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| Donald Trump Uses Football Player's Death As Push For Immigration Crackdown Posted: 06 Feb 2018 06:36 AM PST  President Donald Trump conflated the death of Indianapolis Colts player Edwin Jackson with a need for more stringent measures against illegal immigration. Authorities determined Monday that the driver responsible for the fatal incident that killed Jackson and his Uber driver, Jeffrey Monroe, as they were pulled over on the side of an interstate early Sunday is Manuel Orrego-Savala, a Guatemalan citizen who was using the alias Alex Cabrera Gonsales. Orrego-Savala is living in the U.S. illegally and has previously been deported twice.
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| McDonald's Is Giving Away a Diamond-Encrusted Burger Ring Because Love Is in the Air Posted: 07 Feb 2018 09:53 AM PST  The 18K gold Bling Mac could be yours
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| Sheryl Sandberg Discusses Equal Partnership at Work and at Home Posted: 06 Feb 2018 07:39 PM PST  Sheryl Sandberg discusses the importance of having equal partnership in the home, mentioning that children with active fathers do better both academically and in life.
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