| Key White House official advocated for 'limited use of military force' in North Korea Posted: 06 Jun 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Fred Fleitz, the chief of staff of the White House National Security Council, says top officials are considering "regime change" and the so-called bloody nose strike.
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| DoJ seizes records of NY Times reporter in leak probe: NYT Posted: 07 Jun 2018 11:59 AM PDT  Rachel Maddow shares breaking news from The New York Times that the Justice Deparment seized the records of and surveilled a national security reporter who currently works for The New York Times, in an investigation of leaks of classified material.
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| CrossFit Spokesman Fired After Calling LGBTQ Pride A 'Sin' In Homophobic Twitter Rant Posted: 07 Jun 2018 08:28 AM PDT  A CrossFit spokesman is out of a job after firing off a series of homophobic
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| Your Private Facebook Posts May Have Been Public For Days Posted: 07 Jun 2018 04:33 PM PDT  Facebook has had another privacy mishap, this time announcing a recent bug
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| Arizona chief hires former prosecutor to review use of force Posted: 08 Jun 2018 05:17 PM PDT  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — The beating of a 33-year-old man and the rough treatment of teenager prompted the chief of a suburban Arizona police department to enlist a former prosecutor Friday to investigate the videotaped encounters and report directly to him.
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| The conversation around the Lewinsky affair has evolved – Bill Clinton has not Posted: 08 Jun 2018 04:00 AM PDT  Bill Clinton is currently on a book tour to promote The President is Missing, a thriller he has written with James Patterson. Clinton, 71, has been criticized for responding in a manner many consider to be tone deaf. In an interview Monday on NBC's Today program, Clinton said he doesn't owe Lewinsky a personal apology.
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| Michael Avenatti Calls For 'Absolute Pig' Rudy Giuliani To Be Fired After Comments Posted: 07 Jun 2018 10:29 AM PDT  Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti went after Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday
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| Trump may invite North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to the U.S. Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:09 PM PDT  In a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, President Trump said he could invite North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un to the U.S.
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| Not much intelligent life in Washington. Outer space is another story. Posted: 07 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT  What's the truth behind that strange aircraft spotted off the coast of San Diego in 2004? Go ahead and laugh. But in the age of entertainment, we can no longer differentiate what's entirely superfluous from what seems superfluous but might really matter.
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| The Latest: Earthquake and ash eruption hit Kilauea volcano Posted: 06 Jun 2018 08:08 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano (all times local):
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| Singapore to restrict airspace during U.S.-North Korea summit Posted: 06 Jun 2018 07:35 PM PDT ![Singapore to restrict airspace during U.S.-North Korea summit]( "Singapore to restrict airspace during U.S.-North Korea summit") By Jack Kim and Jamie Freed SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore airspace will be restricted during the planned U.S.-N.Korea summit next week, according to a notice to airmen posted by aviation authorities on Wednesday, which is likely to result in delays at one of Asia's busiest airports. The Southeast Asian city-state is set to host an historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 and has increased security across the island. The notice, published on the websites of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), said airspace over Singapore will be temporarily restricted for parts of June 11, 12 and 13.
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| Protests erupt at G-7 summit in Quebec Posted: 08 Jun 2018 08:31 AM PDT ![Protests erupt at G-7 summit in Quebec]( "Protests erupt at G-7 summit in Quebec") After a tense standoff between police and anti-G7 protesters Friday morning, officers have peacefully cleared demonstrators and re-opened a road leading to the summit site of La Malbaie. Police in riot gear declared the protest illegal a few minutes after it began and encircled about 100 protesters who had blocked a road leading to the small town north of Québec City where G7 leaders are gathering for a two-day summit. Protesters said they achieved their goals of shutting down Québec City after the legislature was closed down on Friday and many businesses decided to shut their doors.
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| Arizona police under scrutiny after beating video surfaces Posted: 07 Jun 2018 07:43 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — The attorneys and a pastor for a suburban Phoenix man seen on video being beaten by police while standing against a wall said Thursday that the officer's claim that their client posed a threat "doesn't pass the smell test."
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| New Rental Law Forces Airbnb To Cancel Thousands Of Reservations In Japan Posted: 08 Jun 2018 09:02 AM PDT  Airbnb said on Thursday it's been forced to cancel thousands of bookings in
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| Kate Spade Death: Husband Andy Spade Releases First Statement Since Designer's Suicide Posted: 07 Jun 2018 05:48 AM PDT  Andy Spade says his wife was seeing a doctor for depression for the last five years.
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| Could China Turn Russia Into an Aircraft Carrier Superpower? Posted: 07 Jun 2018 06:25 AM PDT  The only downside for China would be that a Russian carrier would take up space and industrial capacity in Chinese yards, but this is a small price to pay. The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov has entered what is expected to be a substantial refit.
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| What Will House Republicans Do If Trump Pardons Himself? We Asked Them. Posted: 07 Jun 2018 03:00 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Four days before Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, the Justice
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| Queen Maxima of the Netherlands' Sister, 33, Found Dead in Her Home of Apparent Suicide Posted: 07 Jun 2018 08:00 AM PDT  Queen Maxima of the Netherlands' sister was found dead of an apparent suicide at her apartment in Buenos Aires on Wednesday night, according to reports, including the BBC
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| US man sentenced to death for torture killing of 8-year-old Posted: 07 Jun 2018 12:44 PM PDT  A US man was sentenced to death on Thursday for the torture killing of his girlfriend's eight-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and forced to sleep in a closet until his death in 2013. The boy's mother, Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, was sentenced to life in prison for her role in the death of her son, Gabriel. The pair were arrested in 2013 after paramedics were called to a home in Palmdale, northeast of downtown Los Angeles, and found Gabriel unconscious and with a broken skull as well as broken ribs and BB pellets lodged in his groin.
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| With nuclear deal under threat, Iran shows off centrifuges Posted: 07 Jun 2018 04:43 AM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The star of a live television interview in Iran's new nuclear workshop wasn't the head of the country's atomic agency, but three centrifuges labeled in English in the background, advanced devices Tehran is prohibited from using by the nuclear deal with world powers.
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| MIT Creates Psychopath AI By Making It Look At A Reddit Forum Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:27 PM PDT  Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have truly created a
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| But How Feasible Is The 'Ocean's 8' Heist Really? A Blow-By-Blow Examination Posted: 08 Jun 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Warning: This article contains spoilers. So many spoilers. Highly detailed,
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| Kamiyah Mobley Case: Gloria Williams Gets 18 Years for Kidnapping Newborn from Hospital, Raising Baby As Her Own Posted: 08 Jun 2018 11:06 AM PDT  Gloria Williams had pleaded guilty to kidnapping a baby girl from a Florida hospital.
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| Regrets For Sarah Sanders? Not On The Trump Letter Question, She Says Posted: 07 Jun 2018 12:45 AM PDT  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Chris Cuomo of CNN
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| Trump's Immigration Policies Are Making It Harder for Foreign Doctors to Work in the U.S. — And That Could Hurt Patients Posted: 08 Jun 2018 12:23 PM PDT  It's only the latest threat to foreign medical graduates
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| Palestinian protester hit in face by tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldier in Gaza protests Posted: 08 Jun 2018 06:16 AM PDT  A Palestinian was on life support in a Gaza hospital on Friday after being struck in the face by a tear-gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier. Israel says it uses tear gas as a non-lethal measure against Gaza border protests. But the projectile, launched by a soldier on the Israeli side of the frontier, hit Haitham Abu Sabla in the face as he watched Palestinian stone-throwers taking part in demonstrations east of Khan Younis town, witnesses said. As seen in the picture above, the 23-year-old staggered back with the gas-spewing canister embedded in his cheek, his shirt bloodied, before collapsing. A Gaza hospital official said Abu Sabla was placed on life support after the canister was surgically removed. A Palestinian demonstrator uses a sling to hurl stones at Israeli troops during a protest marking al-Quds Day, (Jerusalem Day), at the Israel-Gaza border Credit: Reuters Reuters photographer Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, who took the picture, said: "An Israeli soldier came out of a military jeep and fired tear gas bombs ... and demonstrators began to run. They began to run further back and there was one of them who had gas coming out of his face. He ran before me directly. "I started taking photos of him as he ran, before he fell to the ground and medics rushed to help him. It looked scary, a man with smoke and gas coming from inside his face," he said. An Israeli army spokesman had no immediate comment on Abu Sabla's injury. He referred instead to an earlier statement that said troops were using what force was required to prevent around 10,000 Palestinians from posing an armed infiltration threat. Abu Sabla's older brother, Mahmoud, said they were both regulars at the protests against Israel launched on March 30 and in which the army has killed at least 123 Palestinians, according to Gaza medics. "It was a must-go for us. We've never missed a Friday," he said. Four Palestinians died in the protests on Friday, including a 15-year-old boy, and hundreds were injured - among them an Agence France Presse photographer - by tear gas or live fire fired by Israel soldiers at the Gaza border. Israel said militants had attacked its forces with guns and grenades. Palestinian demonstrators run for cover from tear gas fired by Israeli troops Credit: Reuters Over 115 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire during the near-weekly demonstrations that have been happening since March 30. Protests led by the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza are fueled by frustration over a decade-old Israel-Egyptian blockade, imposed after Hamas seized control there. Organisers had urged Gaza residents to head to the perimeter fence with Israel for the latest in a series of protests. The call was issued through mosques and loudspeakers mounted on cars that toured Gaza neighborhoods on Friday.
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| China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post Posted: 08 Jun 2018 03:48 PM PDT ![China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post]( "China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post") Chinese government hackers compromised the computers of a U.S. Navy contractor and stole a large amount of highly sensitive data on undersea warfare, including plans for a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing unnamed U.S. officials. The breaches took place in January and February, the officials told the Post, speaking on condition of anonymity about an ongoing investigation led by the Navy and assisted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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| NASA Finds Concentrated Batch Of Organic Molecules On Mars Posted: 07 Jun 2018 04:00 PM PDT  If Mars were a fruit in the produce aisle (and, let's be honest, it would make
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| Police: 2-year-old, father believed dead in murder-suicide Posted: 06 Jun 2018 07:54 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A 2-year-old Long Island boy and the father suspected of abducting him during a bitter custody fight are believed to be dead in Virginia, each with a gunshot wound in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Wednesday. It was a tragic development in a case where authorities declined to issue an Amber Alert and waited more than six hours to ask the public for help.
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| France's Emmanuel Macron Throws Down Trump Twitter Gauntlet: G7 Can Be G6 Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:15 PM PDT  From international pal to Twitter challenger, French President Emmanuel Macron
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| Twitter Mourns Anthony Bourdain With Memories Of Adventures He Inspired Posted: 08 Jun 2018 10:42 AM PDT  Fans of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain took to Twitter to mourn his death on
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| What Is the Sound of an Electric Porsche? Posted: 08 Jun 2018 08:58 AM PDT  Porsche doesn't want its electric performance car to be silent.
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| More U.S. Government Workers Are Being Evacuated From China After Mysterious Medical Symptoms Posted: 06 Jun 2018 09:44 PM PDT  Testing revealed they might have been affected by unexplained health incidents similar to those in Cuba
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| Pulse nightclub shooting survivors sue Orlando, its police Posted: 07 Jun 2018 11:44 AM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Almost two years after a massacre at an Orlando nightclub left 49 people dead and 53 injured, some of the surviving victims were filing a lawsuit in federal court Thursday saying the city and police didn't do enough to try to stop the shooter.
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| 'Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya Posted: 08 Jun 2018 10:59 AM PDT !['Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya]( "'Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya") One of Japan's emerging stars in the field of marine life photography, Toru Kasuya was the recent Grand Prize Winner of the 6th annual Nikkei National Geographic Photo Prize, whose mission is to raise the profile of promising Japanese photographers globally.
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| Taiwan conducting war games simulating repelling Chinese attack amid heighted tensions Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:18 AM PDT  Fighter jets, helicopters and thousands of troops in Taiwan fought back a simulated Chinese invasion Thursday as the self-ruled island faces increasing military and diplomatic pressure from Beijing. Relations between Taipei and Beijing have deteriorated since President Tsai Ing-wen was elected in 2016, as her government refuses to acknowledge that Taiwan is part of "one China". Live-fire drills began Monday with troops simulating surprise air and coastal assaults to reflect increased military threats from China, which sees Taiwan as a renegade province to be brought back into the fold - by force if necessary. Tsai watched Thursday's session of the ongoing "Han Kuang" (Han Glory) exercise involving 4,100 soldiers, attack helicopters and fighter jets from an air base in Taichung. Thursday's scenario simulated the enemy bombing of an airfield and a paratrooper attack, with air and ground troops deployed to take back the base. A C-130 Hercules aircraft drops supplies during Han Kuang military drill simulating the China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) invading the island Credit: TYRONE SIU/REUTERS An F-16 fighter flew overhead and deployed flares in a defensive move against heat-seeking missiles. Special operations troops were seen moving to secure a building. "I have seen our troops' capabilities and I have faith that our troops can achieve the goal of 'solid defence and multiple deterrence'," Tsai said. China held its own live-fire drills in April in the Taiwan Strait - the narrow waterway separating the Chinese mainland from Taiwan - following weeks of air and naval manoeuvres in the area. Beijing has also stepped up diplomatic pressure on Taipei, luring four countries to switch allegiance from Taiwan to China since Tsai took office. China has been incensed by a recent warming in relations between Taiwan and the United States, which remains the island's most powerful ally and arms supplier even though it has no official diplomatic ties. President Donald Trump recently signed a symbolic bill paving the way for mutual visits by high-level officials and Washington gave long-awaited approval for a licence necessary to sell submarine technology to Taiwan. A defence spending bill currently before congress in Washington calls on the US military to participate in Taiwan's drills, including the annual Han Kuang exercise. "We are optimistic about all exchanges with the US as long as it's about national security, and regional peace and stability," defence ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi said when asked to comment on American participation in Taiwan's drills. On Monday, the pilot of an F-16 jet involved in the drills was killed after crashing into a mountain in northern Taiwan. The cause of the incident was under investigation.
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| Texas man nearly died after being bitten by venomous snake he decapitated, wife says Posted: 07 Jun 2018 07:37 AM PDT  Jennifer Sutcliffe said she and her husband were doing yard work on Memorial Day weekend – in preparation for a family barbecue – when she spotted a 4-foot long Western diamondback rattlesnake slithering through her flowerbed. Ms Sutcliffe screamed, she told the Washington Post, altering her husband to the snake's presence.
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| Immigrant Faces Deportation After Delivering Pizza To New York Army Base Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:30 AM PDT  A New York City pizza deliverer who brought a pie to an Army base in Brooklyn
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| Trump-Kim creations on the menu as Singapore chefs mark summit Posted: 08 Jun 2018 01:50 AM PDT  From "El Trumpo" and "Rocket Man" tacos to the "Bromance" cocktail, restaurants and bars in food-crazy Singapore are rolling out weird and wonderful creations to mark the approaching US-North Korea summit. The affluent city-state prides itself on its buzzing culinary scene, and every type of outlet imaginable is jumping on the bandwagon ahead of Tuesday's meeting between US President Donald Trump and the North's Kim Jong Un. At Mexican restaurant Lucha Loco, customers can get stuck into an El Trumpo, a version of a taco that includes a beef patty and pickles.
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| Student From Iowa Killed 3 Weeks After ICE Sent Him Back To Mexico Posted: 08 Jun 2018 02:06 AM PDT  An Iowa high school student who was sent back to Mexico by immigration
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| China looks to bolster militancy fight at security summit Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:39 AM PDT  By Ben Blanchard and Christian Shepherd BEIJING (Reuters) - China will seek to bolster the fight against extremism at a regional security summit this weekend with some of its closest diplomatic allies, including Russian President Vladimir Putin. Jointly led by Russia and China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was launched in 2001 to combat radical Islam and other security concerns in their own countries and across Central Asia. It added two new members, India and Pakistan, last year and Iran has been knocking at the door.
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