| Air-sea search intensifies for missing EgyptAir plane Posted: 19 May 2016 03:44 PM PDT  A massive search was under way Thursday for the wreckage of an EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board, in what the Egyptian authorities said may have been an act of terrorism. Egypt's aviation minister said that while it was too soon to say why the Airbus A320 flying from Paris to Cairo had vanished from radar screens, a "terrorist" attack would be a more likely scenario than a technical failure. The tragedy raised fears of a repeat of the bombing of a Russian passenger jet by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group over Egypt last October that killed all 224 people on board.
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| Former Sec. of Defense Bob Gates: I don’t trust Donald Trump with nukes Posted: 19 May 2016 12:18 PM PDT  Robert Gates, the U.S. Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011, said Thursday that he would not be comfortable if Donald Trump had control over the launch codes for nuclear weapons. Gates sounded off on the presumptive Republican presidential candidate during a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric in New York. "Would you feel comfortable with his proverbial finger on the nuclear button?" Couric asked.
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| Hillary Clinton: ‘I will be the nominee’ Posted: 19 May 2016 11:58 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that the outcome of the Democratic presidential nomination is certain and that she will prevail. "I will be the nominee for my party," she said during an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has pledged he will continue to challenge Clinton for the nomination, though the math requires him to secure increasingly improbable landslides in the remaining contests to overtake the former secretary of state among pledged delegates.
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| CBS newsman Morley Safer dead at age 84, retired days ago Posted: 19 May 2016 10:28 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Television journalist Morley Safer, who made his reputation as a Vietnam War correspondent for CBS and then became a mainstay on the network's "60 Minutes" show for 46 years, died at age 84 on Thursday, a few days after his retirement, the network announced. "60 Minutes" had paid tribute to his work on Sunday's show. In a final posting on Twitter on Sunday Safer wrote, "It's been a wonderful run, and I want to thank the millions of people who have been loyal to our @60Minutes broadcast.
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| The argument Clinton shouldn’t make Posted: 19 May 2016 02:00 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton embraces her husband, Bill, on the night of the Pennsylvania primary. In case you were wondering what Bill Clinton's pet cause might be in his wife's administration — the way recent first spouses have spoken out against addiction, or read books to kids, or gone on TV to promote healthy eating — Hillary spelled it out while campaigning last weekend. In response to the uproar over this comment, Clinton's campaign fired off an email to reporters detailing all the instances over the last several months when the candidate has made pretty much this same statement.
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| After conservative meet, Zuckerberg says Facebook open to 'all ideas' Posted: 18 May 2016 06:33 PM PDT  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says conservatives are an important part of the social network after a meeting aimed at defusing concerns it is politically biased. "We've built Facebook to be a platform for all ideas," Zuckerberg said on his Facebook page after a meeting at the company's California headquarters to discuss allegations in a news article that Facebook was suppressing conservative voices in its "trending" news stories. Zuckerberg called the meeting after technology news outlet Gizmodo last week reported allegations that Facebook was deliberately omitting articles with conservative viewpoints from a sidebar that lists popular stories.
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| Bob Graham: 9/11 support goes to the top of Saudi government Posted: 18 May 2016 09:33 AM PDT On Wednesday, former Florida Sen. Bob Graham joined Yahoo Guest Anchor Stephanie Sy to discuss the 28 pages of the 9/11 Commission report he believes should be declassified. |
| China rejects US claim of 'unsafe' spy plane intercept Posted: 19 May 2016 03:10 AM PDT  Beijing on Thursday rejected Pentagon accusations that a Chinese aircraft made an "unsafe" intercept of a spy plane in international air space, as tensions rise in the strategically vital South China Sea. Rivalry between China and the United States is mounting in the disputed waterway, an important shipping route thought to be home to vast energy deposits, and which Beijing claims almost in its entirety. The US Department of Defense (DoD) told reporters Wednesday that two Chinese tactical aircraft intercepted an American reconnaissance plane in an "unsafe" manner, without giving details.
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| Terrorism suspected in crash of Egyptian plane; 66 missing Posted: 19 May 2016 12:42 PM PDT  An EgyptAir jetliner en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard swerved wildly in flight and crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday, authorities said. EgyptAir Flight 804, an Airbus A320 with 56 passengers and 10 crew members, went down about halfway between the Greek island of Crete and Egypt's coastline, or around 175 miles offshore, after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport, authorities said.
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| Zimmerman closes gun auction, doesn't identify winning bid Posted: 18 May 2016 04:51 PM PDT  George Zimmerman says he's vetting bids after closing an auction for the pistol he used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin during an altercation. The former neighborhood watch volunteer — who ...
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| 'Sleeping giant' glacier may lift seas two metres: study Posted: 18 May 2016 04:17 PM PDT  A rapidly melting glacier atop East Antarctica is on track to lift oceans at least two metres, and could soon pass a "tipping point" of no return, researchers said Wednesday. To date, scientists have mostly worried about the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets as dangerous drivers of sea level rise. "I predict that before the end of the century the great global cities of our planet near the sea will have two- or three-metre (6.5 - 10 feet) high sea defences all around them," said Martin Siegert, co-director of the Grantham Institute and Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, and the study's senior author.
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