| House panel seeks documents on 81 people linked to Trump Posted: 05 Mar 2019 03:09 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats launched a sweeping new probe of President Donald Trump, an aggressive investigation that threatens to shadow the president through the 2020 election season with potentially damaging inquiries into his White House, campaign and family businesses.
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| Grandma goes viral after posing on iceberg and drifting away: 'I thought it was safe' Posted: 05 Mar 2019 09:22 AM PST ![Grandma goes viral after posing on iceberg and drifting away: 'I thought it was safe']( "Grandma goes viral after posing on iceberg and drifting away: 'I thought it was safe'") Judith Streng went viral after dangerously posing on an iceberg that started drifting away from shore during a trip to Iceland.
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| Pakistan vows again to act against militants on its soil as global pressure grows Posted: 04 Mar 2019 03:37 AM PST  Nuclear-armed Pakistan and India both carried out aerial bombing missions last week and on Wednesday fought a brief dogfight in the skies over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, but they stepped back from the brink after Islamabad on Friday handed back a captured Indian pilot as a peace gesture. Britain and the United States welcomed the pilot's return but urged Islamabad to take action against militant groups carrying out attacks on Indian soil. Islamabad denies assisting the groups or using them as proxies in its rivalry with India.
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| Three 'explosive devices' found in London Posted: 05 Mar 2019 10:40 AM PST  British counter terrorism officers are investigating three "small improvised explosive devices" believed capable of starting small fires that were found in separate locations in London on Tuesday. The suspicious packages containing padded envelopes were found at an office block next to Heathrow Airport, the post room at Waterloo station, and at offices near London City Airport in the east of the capital, according to Scotland Yard. "The packages -- all A4-sized white postal bags containing yellow Jiffy bags -- have been assessed by specialist officers to be small improvised explosive devices," London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
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| Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez Just Hired Joanna Gaines to Help with Their New Malibu Home Posted: 04 Mar 2019 12:56 PM PST  Lopez and Rodriguez purchased the impressive three-story mansion in January
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| An Executive Order on Campus Free Speech Posted: 04 Mar 2019 08:10 AM PST  President Donald Trump told a CPAC audience on Saturday that very soon he will unleash an executive order "requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research dollars." If we concede that federal grants should exist and that the agencies themselves should exist (though they should not), what could the order do, and what should it do? It seems valuable to build these ideas from a theory perspective rather than merely react to the language of the order when it comes out.Should the order apply to all institutions, including private religious colleges? What conditions should the order include? How could it be enforced, and how can alleged violations trigger enforcement? Having served in the U.S. Department of Education in 2017 and 2018, and having worked at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for five years, I can provide a basic guide to the legal boundaries and tradeoffs involved.First, to which institutions should the order apply? Consider that federal research grants are for public benefit. The results of publicly funded research, from this perspective, do not even belong to the researcher or the college. Therefore, the government may put restrictions on the research dollars, even at private colleges and universities. (This logic also implies that the data and published papers that result from federal dollars should be free to the public and not fenced by subscription journals. Frederick Hess and Grant Addison of the American Enterprise Institute made a similar argument in 2017.)After all, when conducting federally funded research, colleges often say they want the government to pay for all of the costs involved, including 100 percent of the overhead. In effect, these colleges say: We are only doing this research because you want it done. The public should pay for it all, and we do not even want to pay to keep the lights on. It is not really our research but the public's — we are just hired hands and hired minds.From another perspective, however, the researcher studies what he wants, the university has hired him to get outside funding for it, and the government just happens to be one of the funders. From this perspective, maintaining individual and institutional academic freedom means that the funder should provide the money and then go away. Even a public university should leave its faculty alone to pursue truth as they think best.Accordingly, academic freedom belongs first to the researcher, protecting his work not only from outsiders but also from insiders. But beyond that, institutions deserve academic freedom against outsiders, even when the government is paying.Second, which restrictions on federally funded research would promote the search for truth among institutions as well as individuals, at private as well as public institutions? If any restriction makes sense, it is negative: a condition that binds grantees to academic freedom.Academic freedom complements the First Amendment guarantees of free speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition. The best policy will expand the search for truth by preventing incursions on academic freedom.All other restrictions potentially bias the research. Simply privileging certain research questions over others will change who studies what, distorting the research market. Colleges regularly do so by regulating the size of department faculties.More ominously, a granting agency can bias research by having policy goals that are distinct from the search for truth. For example, the National Science Foundation announced last year that it would leverage its grantmaking to fight sexual harassment on campus. Combined with the extremely well-documented kangaroo-court culture on campus, campus social pressure, and often feckless and spineless university administrators, what could go wrong?University researchers already suffer under the administrative burdens of their own campuses, federally mandated (and unconstitutional) institutional review boards, and a variety of federal restrictions when they take on federal grants. One government form requires more than a dozen assurances that, at minimum, the research and the institution will follow all applicable laws, regulations, policies, and executive orders. Free speech and academic freedom easily fit among such assurances.To review: The most morally defensible executive order would apply to recipients of all federal research dollars and would demand protection of core academic freedom for the researcher while respecting institutional mission.Third, how can government enforce this policy goal?Most commonly, institutions fail to provide academic freedom by maintaining speech codes, which are documented restrictions on speech. Most universities have them. Speech codes, by definition, do not pass constitutional muster at public colleges. They also usually conflict with a university's stated commitments to free speech and academic freedom, whether the university is public or private.Unlike social pressures and the general campus climate, speech codes are the explicit policies that a watchdog can most clearly identify as violating public policy or the Constitution. Most such policies are campus-wide. They apply in the research lab and in conversation among researchers, in person and across all media, internally and externally. They apply to faculty members and to students at all levels who are lab assistants. They apply to students in the dorms when they are discussing their research with other students and online when they are engaging with the real world.Therefore, pretty much every unacceptable part of a speech code, wherever and to whomever it applies, should be subject to a federal policy protecting academic freedom for students and faculty members.In contrast, using the executive branch to fight the merely social pressure of "political correctness," which characterizes Bias Incident Response Teams, could become a cure worse than the disease.President Trump said in his speech: "We reject oppressive speech codes, censorship, political correctness and every other attempt by the hard left to stop people from challenging ridiculous and dangerous ideas." Moral rejection of moral failings is a good idea. The best way to challenge ridiculous or dangerous ideas is with more, better speech (ridicule of the ridiculous is well warranted). But the further an executive order runs from black-letter policies and training documents into amorphous campus practices, the more complicated it would be to punish violators.Fourth, how could violations come to the government's attention? The clearest examples are those where a federal court has told the university that its speech code is unconstitutional or has violated its self-imposed contractual obligations of free speech or academic freedom. It is not unreasonable to hold universities accountable for such abuses. Depending on the severity of the violation, executive-branch penalties can run from warnings to immediate cancellation and return of grants.Additionally, if a court finds in a particular case that the institution has violated free speech or academic freedom, whether or not a speech code is involved, the case clearly counts. This means that some violations would not need to be related to a speech code so long as the federal government, through the courts, has already determined the violation.These cases would provide the safest ground for enforcement. But it is not clear that an executive agency needs to wait for the judicial branch to act. Simply having speech codes on the books could be enough. A researcher might simply alert the relevant agency.To move ahead, no new enforcement offices need be created, though this is certainly an option. Consider civil-rights laws in comparison, and recall that grantees already assure the government that they will not violate existing law. If someone alleges racial discrimination in the running of the grant project, for instance, the executive branch can investigate the possible breach of civil rights. Why not also for constitutional rights? Why not also for a government policy or executive order requiring that even private institutions, at a minimum, uphold their own internal promises of free speech and academic freedom when executing federal-grant funds?I understand the concern about program creep — that future administrations will tie other policy goals to federal dollars. That horse left the barn in 2011 if not before, when the Departments of Education and Justice threatened research funding to institutions found in violation of tendentious interpretations of the Title IX law against discrimination on the basis of sex, and the new National Science Foundation policy shows that the horse is still out there.Besides, the arguments supporting this kind of executive order — a policy that uniquely defends academic freedom by liberating researchers from campus orthodoxies and witch hunts — are hard to apply to policies unrelated to that goal. True enough, the doctrine of repressive tolerance teaches that by silencing strong voices, weaker voices are freed, so it is possible that a repulsive future administration would try to kill academic freedom in the name of saving it. Fortunately, here the federal courts are likely to keep enforcing the Constitution regardless of what progressive critics often want it to say.Also, it seems likely that a future administration, hostile to free speech, would simply dismiss or ignore allegations, use selective enforcement, refuse to enforce assurances and the executive order, distort the truth to find that violations are not actually violations, fail to enforce any real accountability, or just rescind the executive order outright. (Not even all the current senior agency appointees are on board. Further, see some points I raised while an appointee.)But the courts are open when executive agencies are closed. And did I mention the agencies shouldn't exist in the first place?
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| Alabama tornado: rescuers continue search after twister kills 23 Posted: 05 Mar 2019 12:26 PM PST  * At least three children killed as officials say toll could rise * Town of Beauregard wrecked by 170mph, mile-wide twisterRescue workers are continuing to search parts of rural eastern Alabama despite declining hopes of finding any more survivors after six tornadoes ripped across the state killing 23 people, including three children, and leaving hundreds homeless.The destruction of Beauregard, in Lee county, now little more than a tableau of smashed mobile homes, toys, clothes, insulation, water heaters, metal and severed pine trees, showed the strength of a storm that now ranks as the deadliest in six years and which one official compared to "a giant knife scraping the ground".Using dogs and drones to search, rescue efforts continued. Officials warned that the death toll could still rise.Late on Tuesday, the Lee county coroner, Bill Harris, told a news conference the storms' victims included almost entire families and at least three children, ages six, nine and 10. "I'm not going to be surprised if we come up with some more deceased. Hopefully we won't," Harris said.With wind speeds estimated at 170mph and a path of destruction now estimated to be nearly a mile (1.6km) wide, residents have also begun recounting their efforts to survive a twister they described as hitting the community with little warning.The county emergency management director, Kathy Carson, said she was "pretty sure" tornado sirens in Beauregard sounded warnings.Beauregard resident Carol Dean told how she had found her wedding dress and a Father's Day note to her husband among the wreckage, reading: "Daddy, I love you to pieces." Her husband David Wayne Dean had texted friends to warn of the storm's approach but was unable to make it out. His dead body was found in their neighbor's yard."Our son found him," Dean told reporters. "He was done and gone before we got to him. My life is gone. He was the reason I lived, the reason that I got up."Survivor Julie Morrison, who managed to salvage her husband's motorcycle boots and her embossed Bible from the couple's destroyed home, said she and her husband took shelter in the bathtub as the twister lifted their house off its foundations and swept it into the woods."We knew we were flying because it picked the house up," Morrison said. She said she believed the shower's fiberglass enclosure helped them survive.But as the surviving residents sifted through the ruins, questions were being asked why, in an area known as tornado alley, tornadoes routinely cause so much destruction.The US National Weather Service had begun warning of higher tornado activity in the region three days earlier. Government forecasters "were all over it", said University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd.Before Sunday's event, an EF-5 tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, in May 2011 killed 158 people; a month earlier a series of tornadoes had left an estimated 316 people dead, including at least 250 in Alabama.According to tornado researcher Richard Stokoe at the University of South Wales, elevated death tolls in Alabama can largely be ascribed to the density of mobile homes, housing almost 15% of the state's population, the geography of the region and type of coniferous vegetation."Mobile homes are of very poor quality build and they don't have basements, so you can't get to a basement shelter," said Stokoe.And with an average of 15 minutes warning of the approach of a tornado, many residents do not have time to reach a shelter, while some may be reluctant to heed government-generated official warnings, he said.
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| The Latest: Ghosn lawyer says court OKs bail, rejects appeal Posted: 05 Mar 2019 07:36 AM PST  TOKYO (AP) — The Latest on the decision by the Tokyo District Court to approve the release on 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) bail of Nissan's former chairman, Carlos Ghosn (all times local):
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| Mega Millions winner of $1.5B jackpot comes forward: Why they chose the lump sum Posted: 05 Mar 2019 05:51 AM PST  The $1.5B Mega Millions jackpot winner chose to get paid in a lump sum. Here's a breakdown of why that makes sense.
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| The Morgan Plus Six Looks Familiar, in a Reassuring British Sort of Way Posted: 04 Mar 2019 09:01 PM PST  It's an all-new car, with modern conveniences including the first turbocharged engine on a Morgan and even a small digital screen on the dash.
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| US decision to merge Palestinian mission with Israeli embassy sparks anger Posted: 04 Mar 2019 06:30 AM PST  The US has officially closed its consulate in Jerusalem, which served Palestinians, and has folded it into the US embassy to Israel. The consulate functioned as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians for decades, but now that mission will be handled by a Palestinian affairs unit under the command of the embassy.
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| 'There is no violation': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denies illegal campaign finance allegations Posted: 05 Mar 2019 10:08 AM PST  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is questioned by Fox News after a FEC complaint alleges the Democrat lawmaker and her chief of staff illegally moved $885,000 in campaign contributions 'off the books.'
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| Syria force evacuates 'human shields' in push to crush IS remnant Posted: 04 Mar 2019 10:31 AM PST  Kurdish-led forces supported by air strikes from an international coalition evacuated civilians held as "human shields" Monday after smashing their way into the jihadists' last scrap of territory in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces and its allies from the US-led coalition unleashed a deluge of fire on the village of Baghouz at the weekend to break the defences of Islamic State group fighters in the final sliver of their "caliphate".
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| Roger Stone Lawyers Failed to Tell Judge About His Book Ahead of Gag Order Ruling Posted: 04 Mar 2019 03:40 PM PST ![Roger Stone Lawyers Failed to Tell Judge About His Book Ahead of Gag Order Ruling]( "Roger Stone Lawyers Failed to Tell Judge About His Book Ahead of Gag Order Ruling") Stone's legal team responded Monday to U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson's demand for an explanation as to why she had not been told about the political operative's latest polemic, while she was considering whether to curb his public commentary to avoid tainting the jury pool before trial. Stone's four lawyers wrote that "it did not occur to counsel" to tell the judge about their client's prior writings. Stone's book -- The Myth of Russian Collusion -- had gone to the printer in late January, they said.
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| Trump: didn't discuss military drills in meetings with North Korea's Kim Posted: 04 Mar 2019 12:21 PM PST  President Donald Trump on Monday shot down the idea that he discussed curbing joint military drills with South Korea with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a decision he said could save the United States millions of dollars and has suggested would reduce tensions with North Korea. "The military drills, or war games as I call them, were never even discussed in my mtg w/ Kim Jong Un of NK," Trump tweeted days after he met with Kim in Vietnam in an attempt to reach a denuclearization agreement.
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| Alabama tornado victims revealed; area braces for weekend storms – and possible severe weather Posted: 05 Mar 2019 02:17 PM PST  Authorities released the names of the 23 people killed in Sunday's tornado while forecasters warned more severe weather may be coming.
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| The Vatican Will Unseal Records About Holocaust-Era Pope Pius XII. Here's What We Already Know About His Controversial Legacy Posted: 04 Mar 2019 07:00 PM PST  The Vatican will unseal the records years ahead before they were expected
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| Autoworker upheaval: Families split, children left behind Posted: 03 Mar 2019 06:05 PM PST  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Hundreds of workers at four General Motors plants slated to close by January are facing a painful choice: Take the company's offer to work at another factory — possibly hundreds of miles away — even if that means leaving behind their families, their homes and everything they've built. Or stay and risk losing their high-paying jobs.
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| 5 rescued after vehicle goes over cliff in Angeles National Forest Posted: 04 Mar 2019 11:52 AM PST  Los Angeles County firefighters rescued five patients after a vehicle went over a cliff in the Angeles National Forest above La Cañada Flintridge.
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| Was Luke Perry too young to have a fatal stroke? Not really Posted: 05 Mar 2019 04:26 PM PST  The risk of stroke increases with age. But it can be particularly dangerous for adults in middle age (like actor Luke Perry, who was 52) and younger.
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| Mega Millions: Anonymous winner of $1.5bn jackpot comes forward months after draw Posted: 05 Mar 2019 08:21 AM PST  The sole winner of the Mega Millions $1.5bn jackpot last year has finally came forward to claim his cash prize, according to South Carolina's lottery commission. On Monday, officials said the anonymous winner—whom the commission has only described as "South Carolinian"– chose to collect a record-breaking cash sum of more than $877 million. The winning ticket for the Quick Pick Mega Millions drawing on October 23, 2018 was purchased at KC Mart, a convenience store, in Simpsonville, South Carolina.
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| Why Did India Send Old MiG-21s To Take on Pakistan's F-16s? Posted: 04 Mar 2019 07:00 PM PST  New Delhi claims they aren't that old after all.
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| JPMorgan Ends Financing of Private Prisons After Criticism Posted: 05 Mar 2019 11:28 AM PST ![JPMorgan Ends Financing of Private Prisons After Criticism]( "JPMorgan Ends Financing of Private Prisons After Criticism") "JPMorgan Chase has a robust and well-established process to evaluate the sectors that we serve," spokesman Andrew Gray said in an emailed statement. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been criticized for lending to Geo Group Inc. and CoreCivic Inc., which run facilities that have held immigrant families. As part of the change, JPMorgan won't extend new financing to the industry and wants to get rid of its credit exposure as soon as possible, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
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| Iran's Khamenei doubted Europe could help Tehran against U.S. sanctions Posted: 04 Mar 2019 01:08 PM PST  A closed-door speech last year by Iran's Supreme Leader voicing doubt about the Iranian government's diplomatic overtures to Europe was released on Monday in a sign of feuding over foreign policy that led to a short-lived resignation by the foreign minister. The address by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in mid-2018 appeared to forecast difficulties European countries would have in honoring pledges to protect trade with Iran from new U.S. sanctions after Washington abandoned a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
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| Democrats launch sweeping probe targeting dozens in Trump orbit Posted: 04 Mar 2019 07:29 PM PST  US Democratic lawmakers launched Monday their most ambitious investigation yet into alleged obstruction of justice and abuse of office by Donald Trump, targeting dozens of individuals in the president's inner circle. With controversies swirling around Trump, the powerful House Judiciary Committee's chairman sent strongly worded letters to family members of the president -- including sons Don Jr and Eric -- as well as political confidantes and related entities. Son-in-law Jared Kushner and the Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, were among the 81 people and organizations -- such as the National Rifle Association -- receiving letters from the panel's Democratic chairman Jerry Nadler.
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| Police: Man who said Baltimore panhandler killed his wife concocted the story Posted: 05 Mar 2019 04:37 AM PST  It was a story that struck a chord of sympathy and outrage across the nation: A woman was murdered by a Baltimore panhandler. But it was fake.
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| Aftermath: Alabama's tornado dead range in age from 6 to 89 Posted: 05 Mar 2019 04:39 PM PST  BEAUREGARD, Ala. (AP) — The youngest victim was 6, the oldest 89. Relatives said one extended family lost 10 members.
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| View Photos of the Bentley Continental GT Number 9 Edition Posted: 05 Mar 2019 06:24 AM PST |
| 'London Patient' Appears to Become the Second Person Ever Cured of AIDS Posted: 04 Mar 2019 07:37 PM PST  The man, who had a bone marrow transplant in 2016 and stopped taking antiretroviral drugs 18 months ago, shows no signs of the infection
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| These are all of the routes U.S. airlines fly to Hawaii Posted: 05 Mar 2019 07:12 AM PST  Southwest's expansion to the high-profile leisure market is certain to set off a competitive scrum with rival U.S. airlines that already fly to Hawaii.
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| Suspect arrested in hit-and-run that killed 17-year-old in New Caney Posted: 03 Mar 2019 06:12 PM PST  Investigators say the suspect may have been going the wrong way when they struck the teen, but kept driving.
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| Whitaker, former acting U.S. attorney general, leaves Justice Department Posted: 04 Mar 2019 10:20 AM PST  Whitaker's last day at the department was on Saturday, the spokeswoman said, adding she did not know where he might be headed next. In mid-February, Attorney General William Barr was sworn in and Whitaker stepped down from the top post to become a senior counselor in the office of the associate attorney general. In one of his final acts as acting attorney general, Whitaker testified before the House Judiciary Committee where combative Democratic lawmakers pressed him on whether he had tried to interfere with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia.
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| The Latest: Pakistan arrests key suspects in Kashmir attack Posted: 05 Mar 2019 04:23 AM PST  ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Latest on the latest escalation between Pakistan and India (all times local):
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| First lady Melania Trump hits the road to promote her 'Be Best' campaign Posted: 04 Mar 2019 04:34 PM PST  First lady Melania Trump hit the road for a two-day, three-state trip to promote kindness, online safety and fighting opioid abuse.
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| Google compensates 'underpaid' male employees Posted: 04 Mar 2019 01:21 PM PST  Google has compensated many of its male workers after finding they received comparatively fewer bonuses and pay rises than women last year. The company, which has faced many accusations of failing its female employees, said it had automatically topped up men's pay to address a gender gap within its ranks of software developers. An analysis of pay across the company revealed that more women software engineers at a certain level had been handed bonuses or raises from managers throughout the year. Google said it paid $9.7m (£7.4m) to 10,667 employees to address last year's pay disparities. It did not disclose how much was spent topping up male software engineer salaries. The company uses algorithms to define an employee's compensation based on the market rate, location, level and performance rating, but managers are given an extra budget which they can use for raises and bonuses if they believe a particular employee has excelled. The company's review found at a particular lower-level software engineering position - these had been disproportionately handed out to women, although it did not find a reason why. Google has repeatedly faced accusations of an unfair work environment. In 2017 it fired an employee who had written a viral "anti-diversity" memo arguing that a lack of women in senior positions was partially due to biological reasons. Former employees have sued the company claiming a pay bias against women, while a separate lawsuit claims its video website YouTube stopped hiring white men. Last year thousands of employees protested the company's alleged failures to deal with sexual harassment. To keep tabs on salaries, Google has conducted yearly pay equity reviews since 2012. If it finds any discrepancies, it will automatically pay adjustments. It said that it would be undertaking "a comprehensive review" of the system based on last years' results. Lauren Barbato, Google's human resources analytics chief said: "Our pay equity analysis ensures that compensation is fair for employees in the same job, at the same level, location and performance. But we know that's only part of the story. "Because leveling, performance ratings, and promotion impact pay, this year, we are undertaking a comprehensive review of these processes to make sure the outcomes are fair and equitable for all employees." Liz Fong-Jones, a former Google employee who recently quit the company, said the analysis "failed to control for under-promoting and under-levelling women". "If you have a group of women who are outperforming at level, of course they'll get given more manager discretion. This is not 'sexism against men'," Fong-Jones added.
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| See Photos of Alfa Romeo's New Tonale Concept Posted: 05 Mar 2019 02:51 AM PST |
| School prays for strength after fourth-grader dies in Alabama tornado Posted: 05 Mar 2019 08:30 AM PST  Parents and students gather at Lee-Scott Academy for prayer service for Taylor Thornton, 10, who was among the 23 people killed in tornado.
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| Bernie Sanders on 'The Breakfast Club' is a 'no' on slavery reparations Posted: 04 Mar 2019 12:10 PM PST  The Vermont senator has spent the first few weeks of his Democratic presidential campaign trying to connect with African-American voters, something he largely failed to do in 2016.
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| Second HIV remission patient rekindles cure hope Posted: 05 Mar 2019 03:12 PM PST  For just the second time ever an HIV patient is in sustained remission from the virus in what was hailed by experts Tuesday as proof that the AIDS-causing condition could one day be curable. Both patients underwent bone marrow transplants to treat blood cancers, receiving stem cells from donors with a genetic mutation present in less than one percent of Europeans that prevents HIV from taking hold. After 10 years of not being able to replicate (the first case), people were wondering if this was a fluke," said lead author Ravindra Gupta, a professor at the University of Cambridge.
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| Police Detain 85 at Sacramento Protest Over Stephon Clark Shooting Posted: 05 Mar 2019 07:51 AM PST  Police detained 85 at a protest against the Sacramento county D.A.'s decision not to charge officers who shot the unarmed 22 year-old.
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| Eli Lilly seeks to quell drug price anger with cheaper insulin Posted: 04 Mar 2019 11:26 AM PST  Major drugmakers including Lilly, a leading producer of insulin, have come under fire from patients and lawmakers over the rising cost of the life-saving medication used to treat diabetes. Lilly's rebranded product will be called Insulin Lispro, while Humalog, which makes $3 billion in annual sales, will remain available for those wishing to access it through existing insurance plans. The cost of insulin for treating type 1 diabetes in the United States has nearly doubled over a five-year period, leading some patients to put their own health at risk by rationing the medication.
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| The Latest: McConnell calls anti-Israel attitudes disturbing Posted: 05 Mar 2019 12:08 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the fallout from Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's most recent comments on Israel (all times local):
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| The 2019 Pritzker Prize Is Awarded to Arata Isozaki Posted: 05 Mar 2019 07:00 AM PST  The highest honor in architecture has been presented to a Japanese-born architect who has spent his career pushing the boundaries of solid geometric forms
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