| Shepard Smith: Mueller Indictments Prove Russian Probe Is 'Opposite Of A Hoax' Posted: 16 Feb 2018 05:31 PM PST  Fox News host Shepard Smith said Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller's string of indictments against Russian operatives for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is a stark demonstration that the probe into Kremlin election interference is "the opposite of a hoax."
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| Here are the victims of the Florida school shooting Posted: 16 Feb 2018 02:33 AM PST  17 people were killed after a gunman stormed into Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Here are their names.
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| Lawmakers Will Work To Demolish Site Of Horrific Florida Shooting Posted: 16 Feb 2018 03:36 PM PST  Florida lawmakers are hoping the students and teachers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will never again have to set foot in the building where a gunman killed 17 of their own.
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| American Airlines agent saves 2 teenage girls from human trafficking scheme Posted: 16 Feb 2018 07:35 AM PST  Law enforcement officials say that a quick-thinking airline employee, aptly named Denice Miracle, likely saved two teenage girls from a human trafficking plot.
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| Money trail key to tracking Russian troll operation Posted: 16 Feb 2018 01:01 PM PST  Clint Watts, former FBI special agent, talks with Rachel Maddow about his early description of the Russian campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election that has now been borne out by Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians.
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| Bulletproof backpacks for children reflect a new reality in America Posted: 16 Feb 2018 11:20 AM PST  In the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people were murdered, parents are taking additional measures to keep their children safe. One of these safety measures, which reflect a new reality in America, are bulletproof backpacks created for children, which can hold school supplies as well as stop a bullet. According to Sarah Pampillonia, a mum and fifth-grade teacher, who spoke to The Cut, she considered buying one for her four-year-old after seeing a Facebook ad for the backpacks.
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| Parkland Could've Been Worse. Vegas Could've Been Worse. They Can Always Be Worse. Posted: 17 Feb 2018 05:00 AM PST  You'll find little in the way of silver linings in Parkland, Florida, this week, where a gunman killed 17 people and injured 15 more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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| Needed in Syria: Disengagement Posted: 17 Feb 2018 09:40 AM PST ![Needed in Syria: Disengagement]( "Needed in Syria: Disengagement") One is the outbreak of another war between Israel and its neighbors. A reminder of this danger has come from events that began when Israel said it shot down an Iranian drone that had entered its airspace. Israeli F-16s then attacked a command center in Syria, during which Syrian air defenses downed one of the Israeli warplanes (a rare event for Israel). Israel subsequently launched a much more widespread set of aerial attacks within Syria. The Israelis have conducted scores of attacks in Syria over the last five years, but this most recent assault may have been the largest Israeli attack there since the 1980s. A new war involving Israel would surely also involve Lebanese Hezbollah. There is no indication that Hezbollah seeks such a war. The group has incurred significant costs by participating in fighting within Syria and has many wounds to lick. Its leaders still have regrets about the brinksmanship that last got Hezbollah entangled in a war with Israel. Even though it could get in some hits with cross-border rocket fire, the group's leaders know that in a new clash it would get badly bloodied by its militarily more capable foe.
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| Mother of 14-year-old Florida shooting victim to President Trump: 'These kids need safety now' Posted: 16 Feb 2018 08:25 AM PST  The mother of a girl who was killed during Wednesday's mass shooting at a Florida high school is demanding change from President Donald Trump in wake of her daughter's tragic death.
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| Shepard Smith Is Fed Up After Florida Shooting: 'Forget Your Political Arguments' Posted: 15 Feb 2018 05:42 PM PST  Shepard Smith showed his frustration Thursday on Fox News when he discussed the mass shooting at a Florida high school on Wednesday that left 17 students and adults dead.
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| Post-Columbine generation demands action on guns: 'We don't deserve this' Posted: 17 Feb 2018 01:00 PM PST  Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school attend a memorial following the attack that killed 17 students and teachers. Unsure whether he would be a victim or survivor of the mass shooting taking place outside his Florida classroom, 14-year-old Aidan Minoff sent an eight-word tweet. "I am in a school shooting right now ... " Aidan said, before the world knew the day would end with 17 students and teachers dead.
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| New Manafort fraud allegation could be product of flipped witness Posted: 16 Feb 2018 11:58 AM PST  Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about the possibility of new allegations of bank fraud against Paul Manafort could be a sign of cooperation by Rick Gates or Robert Mueller.
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| S. Korea's Moon says 'too early' for Pyongyang summit Posted: 17 Feb 2018 02:14 AM PST  South Korea's President Moon Jae-in on Saturday said it was too early to think about a summit with North Korea despite the Olympic-driven rapprochement with its nuclear-armed neighbour. Moon last week received an invitation from the North's leader Kim Jong Un for a summit in Pyongyang. The invitation was extended by his younger sister Kim Yo Jong, who visited as part of a high-level delegation to attend the Winter Games in the South.
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| Inmates who clapped for cop death suspect may face reprisals Posted: 16 Feb 2018 02:02 PM PST ![Inmates who clapped for cop death suspect may face reprisals]( "Inmates who clapped for cop death suspect may face reprisals") CHICAGO (AP) — Five Cook County Jail inmates who applauded as the man charged with the fatal shooting of a Chicago police commander was led by their cell could face reprisals for their actions, a jail official said Friday.
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| EPA Says Scott Pruitt Flies First Class Because Angry People Yell At Him Too Much Posted: 15 Feb 2018 08:55 PM PST  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt frequently flies in first and business class because he's regularly confronted by angry members of the public during his travels, according to a report in Politico on Thursday.
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| Jimmy Kimmel Shreds Trump For Doing ‘Worse Than Nothing’ To Stop Gun Violence Posted: 16 Feb 2018 12:16 AM PST  Jimmy Kimmel pleaded with President Donald Trump to take action on gun control after Wednesday's mass shooting at a Florida high school.
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| The Flu Shot Doesn’t Live Up To Expectations — And That Keeps Many People Away Posted: 16 Feb 2018 11:30 AM PST  More people are dying of the flu than medical professionals would expect at this time of the year.
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| Paul Ryan's 3 Years Of Arguing Against 'Knee-Jerk' Reactions To Shootings Posted: 15 Feb 2018 08:12 PM PST  has been arguing against what he calls a "knee-jerk" political response to American mass shootings for years.
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| South Carolina teen who fatally shot two charged as adult Posted: 16 Feb 2018 03:12 PM PST  A 15-year-old accused of killing his father and driving to a South Carolina elementary school playground in 2016 where he opened fire and fatally wounded a 6-year-old student, will be tried as an adult, a South Carolina judge ruled on Friday. Jesse Osborne faces from 30 years to life in prison if he is convicted on charges that include murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors said Osborne, then 14, killed his father Jeffrey Osborne, 47, in September 2016 in their home in Townville, South Carolina, about 40 miles (64.4 km) from Greenville.
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| How woman convicted in fiance's kayak death looks to rebuild her life: Part 6 Posted: 16 Feb 2018 04:04 PM PST  In her first interview since release, Graswald talks about the kayak incident and her future.
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| Russian mercenaries, a discrete weapon in Syria Posted: 17 Feb 2018 02:39 AM PST  The death of Russian citizens in Syria from a US coalition strike last week, which has been played down by both Moscow and Washington, has exposed the role of Russian mercenaries in the multi-front conflict. The incident followed a steady trickle of reports about Russians dying in battle in Syria while employed as guns for hire in a privately-owned outfit whose role may be securing oilfields for President Bashar al-Assad. Russia on Thursday has finally recognised that five Russian citizens, not officially affiliated with the Russian military, were likely killed in the strikes in eastern Syria, in the first admission of non-military combat casualties.
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| Why Americans Started Buying Military-Style Weapons Like the One Used in the Florida Shooting Posted: 16 Feb 2018 01:59 PM PST  This is how the weapon used in the Parkland school shooting went from something used in the military to something almost anyone could buy
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| Puerto Rico to reduce power generation amid cash shortfall Posted: 16 Feb 2018 03:22 PM PST  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's electricity utility said Friday it will dial down the power generation starting this weekend as a federal control board urgently seeks a $300 million loan for the troubled utility after a judge rejected a previous $1 billion loan request.
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| Florida shooting: Mother makes impassioned plea for 'action' from Donald Trump as funerals for victims begin - as it happened Posted: 16 Feb 2018 05:53 AM PST  New details are emerging about Nikolas Cruz, 19, the teenager suspected of carrying out America's latest deadly mass shooting as the country once more finds itself reeling in horror from another eruption of gun violence.
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| Chloe Kim Is Proof There’s No Definable Way To Be Asian-American Posted: 16 Feb 2018 03:09 PM PST  A gold medalist and now everyone's golden girl to boot, Korean-American Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim has, all at once, become a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
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| NRA contributions: how much money is spent on lawmakers? Posted: 16 Feb 2018 07:16 AM PST  A protester holds a sign that reads, 'NRA Stop Killing Our Kids', outside the court-room where Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was having a bond hearing. In the minutes and hours after a teenage gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, politicians began what has become something of a grim ritual following mass shootings: they offered "thoughts and prayers" to the victims and their families.
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| Pakistan child killer handed four death sentences Posted: 17 Feb 2018 05:33 AM PST  A Pakistani court Saturday handed four death sentences to a man charged with raping and murdering a six-year-old girl, in a case that shocked the country and sparked major riots in his home district. Imran Ali, 24, was on trial for killing Zainab Fatima Ameen in the eastern city of Kasur last month. Ali was handed four separate death sentences after being convicted of the rape and murder of Zainab, as well as terrorism charges, prosecutor general of Punjab province Ihtesham Qadir said after a special anti-terrorism court passed its judgement.
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| Zimbabwe arrest over Grace Mugabe's 'fake' PhD Posted: 16 Feb 2018 11:25 AM PST  Zimbabwean anti-corruption investigators said Friday they had arrested a university professor over the suspected fraudulent awarding of a doctorate to former first lady Grace Mugabe. Levi Nyagura, the vice chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe, was arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission following an investigation into the PhD. It emerged that Grace was awarded the degree by the university in 2014 after just months of study.
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| Exposed: Why China Would Lose a War against America Posted: 16 Feb 2018 07:07 AM PST  When it comes to a war with the U.S. how well would Beijing be able to use all that stuff? The real question seems pretty simple: yes, China is certainly developing all the military and technology goodies to field a potent force. Sure, Beijing is certainly developing a world-class military, but can its soldiers operate all that equipment competently?
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| Israel slams Polish PM for WWII 'Jewish perpetrators' remark Posted: 17 Feb 2018 01:45 PM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli politicians accused Poland's prime minister of anti-Semitism Saturday for equating the Polish perpetrators in the Holocaust to its supposed "Jewish perpetrators," setting off a new chapter in an angry dispute over Poland's new bill criminalizing the mention of Polish complicity in the Nazi-led genocide.
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| Lindsey Jacobellis Suffers Winter Olympics Heartbreak -- Again Posted: 16 Feb 2018 05:23 AM PST  Team USA snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis on Friday just barely missed the chance to take a place at the podium during her fourth Winter Olympics.
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| 'Incontrovertible' Meddling to U.S. Is 'Just Blabber' to Russia Posted: 17 Feb 2018 06:00 AM PST  Russian and U.S. officials exchanged barbs over the indictment of 13 Russians accused of a plot to disrupt the 2016 presidential election
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| Anchor Invites Her 4-Year-Old 'Mini Me' On Show To Celebrate Natural Hair Posted: 16 Feb 2018 04:07 PM PST  North Texas traffic anchor Demetria Obilor gets up in the early hours of the morning to deliver a traffic report for WFAA-TV, rocking her gorgeous natural hair all the while.
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| The Latest: Hundreds at vigil mourn school shooting victims Posted: 15 Feb 2018 08:13 PM PST  PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on a deadly school shooting at a Florida high school (all times local):
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| ‘Lost’ ancient Mexican city had as many buildings as Manhattan, laser map shows Posted: 16 Feb 2018 02:00 PM PST  A "lost" Mexican city built by rivals to the Aztecs has as many buildings as Manhattan and was home to around 100,000 people, according to new research. The sprawling urban centre of Angamuco which was part of the Purépecha empire that peaked in the 16th century was detected by an aerial laser mapping technique called the Lidar system. An aircraft beamed out laser pulses and experts later examined the signals that bounced back from the ground, which helped them pull together a 3D map of the city near modern day Morelia in the state of Michoacan in western Mexico.
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| French serial killer 'admits' cold case murder of British girl Posted: 16 Feb 2018 01:18 PM PST  Serial killer Michel Fourniret has finally "confessed" to murdering British language student Joanna Parrish in France nearly three decades ago, the family lawyer told AFP on Friday. "It's a new development, a resolution of the affair, it seems, in a remarkable way," he added.
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| Mike Pence's Beliefs Are Clear: Same-Sex Marriage Leads To 'Societal Collapse' Posted: 16 Feb 2018 12:09 PM PST  A debate has again ensued in recent days over whether or not Vice President Mike Pence supports conversion therapy ― something that's come up time and again in the past.
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| Tesla now makes almost 1,000 Model 3s a week, Bloomberg tracker estimates Posted: 16 Feb 2018 05:00 AM PST  Production numbers for Tesla electric cars have always been slightly murky. The Tesla Model 3 has endured a long, painful, and somewhat public "production hell" as the company struggles to get it into steady, automated, high-volume production at the necessary levels of quality. DON'T MISS: Tesla Model 3 choke point: automated battery line equipment still in Germany?
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| Tillerson to N.Korea on talks: 'I'm listening' Posted: 17 Feb 2018 10:17 AM PST  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in an interview to air Sunday that he is "listening" for signs that North Korea is ready to engage in direct talks. An Olympic-driven thaw in relations between Kim Jong Un's nuclear armed North Korean regime and South Korea has raised speculation that direct talks between Washington and Pyongyang could be on the horizon after months of sharp tension and heated rhetoric.
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| Trump Visits Shooting Victims, Local Police En Route To Mar-a-Lago For Long Weekend Posted: 16 Feb 2018 05:22 PM PST  President Donald Trump said he called on victims of Wednesday's high school shooting in Florida, which left 17 dead, on a hospital visit Friday evening.
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| GOP Votes To Roll Back The Americans With Disabilities Act Posted: 16 Feb 2018 12:53 PM PST  Disability advocates, some in wheelchairs, were dragged from the Capitol Building after a bill that would roll back the ADA was passed in the House.
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| Teen to be tried as adult in South Carolina school shooting Posted: 16 Feb 2018 12:58 PM PST  ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — A boy who was 14 when he was charged in the shooting death of his father at their home and a first-grader on a South Carolina elementary school playground will be tried as an adult, a judge ruled Friday.
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| Novartis readies to auction U.S. generic pills business: sources Posted: 16 Feb 2018 09:10 AM PST  Switzerland's Novartis AG is preparing to auction its U.S. generic pill business, looking to shed a unit that has struggled amid fierce price competition, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The move illustrates how the unit has diverged from the fortunes of the rest of Novartis' $10 billion Sandoz generics and biosimilars division. The company has fared better in manufacturing hard-to-make generic drugs, such as injectables and inhalables, than it has with easier to produce pills.
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