| Bathroom bill supporters police public restrooms Posted: 17 May 2016 03:22 PM PDT A video of a woman's tirade against Target's inclusive bathroom policy went viral Tuesday, highlighting recent protests by supporters of restrictive bathroom laws. |
| Travelers sound off on nightmarish lines at Chicago airports Posted: 17 May 2016 02:30 PM PDT Over the past few days, hundreds of travelers have missed flights out of the Windy City, as security is proving inadequate to handle the volume of passengers. |
| Prince’s best friend could be key in death investigation Posted: 17 May 2016 01:35 PM PDT  According to a search warrant, detectives interviewed Kirk A. Johnson — a former Prince drummer and current manager of the singer's Paisley Park estate — following the performer's unexpected death last month. The court document, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, discloses that police seized Prince Rogers Nelson's medical records from a Minneapolis-area hospital in early May. Investigators were particularly interested in files involving a family-medicine doctor who had treated Prince in the weeks before the singer was found dead April 21 in a Paisley Park elevator.
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| Donald Trump, dismissive of campaign pollsters, hired his own Posted: 17 May 2016 12:59 PM PDT  Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who long dismissed the usefulness of campaign pollsters, has hired pollster Tony Fabrizio. Fabrizio's hiring is part of a broader Trump campaign effort to professionalize its operations in order to prepare for a general election campaign against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. During the Republican primary, the poll-obsessed Trump boasted that he doesn't "want to waste money on pollsters" to determine his campaign message.
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| Exclusive: Trump willing to talk to North Korea's Kim, wants to renegotiate climate accord Posted: 17 May 2016 04:43 PM PDT  By Steve Holland and Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program, proposing a major shift in U.S. policy toward the isolated nation. In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters, Trump also called for a renegotiation of the Paris climate accord, said he disapproved of Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in eastern Ukraine, and said he would seek to dismantle most of the U.S. Dodd-Frank financial regulations if he is elected president. The presumptive Republican nominee declined to share details of his plans to deal with North Korea, but said he was open to talking to its leader.
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| Sanders issues defiant statement under pressure over ruckus Posted: 17 May 2016 02:32 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Under pressure from Democratic Party leaders to denounce ugly tactics by his supporters, Sen. Bernie Sanders instead struck back with a defiant statement Tuesday that dismissed complaints from Nevada Democrats as "nonsense" and asserted that his backers were not being treated with "fairness and respect."
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| Mexican president proposes legalizing gay marriage Posted: 17 May 2016 04:15 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed to legalize same-sex marriage in Mexico on Tuesday, a move that would enshrine on a national level a Supreme Court ruling last year that it was unconstitutional for states to bar such couples from wedding.
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| GOP blocks provision to require women to register for draft Posted: 17 May 2016 12:07 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Buckling under conservative pressure, House Republicans pulled a legislative sleight of hand Tuesday and stripped a provision from the annual defense policy bill that would have required young women to sign up for a military draft.
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| Oregon and Kentucky contests put pressure on Clinton Posted: 17 May 2016 06:07 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton is under pressure to do well in Democratic nominating contests in Kentucky and Oregon on Tuesday so she can turn her attention to the general election and the mounting attacks on her by Republican candidate Donald Trump. The continued presence in the race of Bernie Sanders – who remains a long-shot to upset Clinton and win the Democratic nomination – is prompting concerns among Clinton allies that he will damage her ability to take on Trump and hurt the Democrat in the fall.
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| Senate passes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia Posted: 17 May 2016 01:05 PM PDT  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia's government for damages, setting up a potential showdown with the White House, which has threatened a veto. The Saudis, who deny responsibility for the 2001 attacks, strongly object to the bill. The "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act," or JASTA, passed the Senate by unanimous voice vote.
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| Trump fumes after pro-Clinton super-PAC uses his own words against him Posted: 17 May 2016 07:20 AM PDT  "The pathetic new hit ad against me misrepresents the final line. 'You can tell them to go BLANK themselves' was about China, NOT WOMEN!" Donald Trump said.
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| NASA releases time-lapse footage of Mercury’s rare transit of the sun Posted: 17 May 2016 10:16 AM PDT The smallest planet in the solar system appeared as a small black dot with Earth's nearest star as its backdrop. |
| Radio traffic likely distracted Amtrak engineer in 2015 crash - U.S. agency Posted: 17 May 2016 12:43 PM PDT  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The engineer driving a speeding Amtrak passenger train that crashed in Philadelphia in 2015, killing eight passengers, was likely distracted by radio traffic, U.S. safety officials said on Tuesday after a year-long investigation. The incident could have been prevented if the track had been fitted with positive train control, a safety system, the agency's report concluded. "We will delve into the most complicated and unpredictable part of the transportation system - the human being," he told NTSB board members at a hearing into the probable cause of the accident.
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| IOC says 31 athletes could miss Rio after positive Beijing drugs re-tests Posted: 17 May 2016 07:47 AM PDT  By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Thirty one athletes from six sports could be banned from this year's Rio Olympics after failing dope tests when 454 samples were reexamined from the 2008 Beijing Games, the International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday. The IOC also said it would start re-testing Sochi 2014 winter Games samples after allegations of tarnished samples were made last week by Russia's former top anti-doping scientist. Some 250 samples from the London Games will also be reexamined.
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| Wave of bombings in Baghdad kill 69 Posted: 17 May 2016 01:43 PM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of bombings struck outdoor markets and a restaurant in Shiite-dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, officials said — the latest in a string of attacks in and around the Iraqi capital that have left more than 200 dead in the past week.
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| Will Bernie Sanders do the right thing? And what is that, anyway? Posted: 17 May 2016 02:00 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton lost last week's West Virginia primary by nearly 16 points. Sanders is in a hole — the kind of hole from which people cannot be rescued. The question now is, What kind of a loser will Bernie Sanders be?
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| Marco Rubio goes on Twitter rant against the media Posted: 17 May 2016 05:46 AM PDT  In tweet after tweet, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio ripped media outlets for quoting sources, described as close to him, who he said don't know what they're talking about.
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| Westbrook leads comeback as Thunder stun Warriors to take Game 1 Posted: 16 May 2016 10:35 PM PDT  OKC looked at a clear disadvantaged in the first half but made more big plays down the stretch thanks to a terrific second half from their star point guard.
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