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Trump’s executive order disappoints religious conservatives

Posted: 04 May 2017 12:43 PM PDT

Trump's executive order disappoints religious conservativesAn executive order by President Trump meant to reward religious conservatives for their support fell short of what many hoped for and drew widespread criticism.


Cory Booker: GOP health care bill ‘will mean death’ if it becomes law

Posted: 04 May 2017 08:06 AM PDT

Cory Booker: GOP health care bill 'will mean death' if it becomes lawDemocrats are lashing out at the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare ahead of Thursday's scheduled House vote.


George Will: Trump Has a 'dangerous Disability'

Posted: 04 May 2017 12:35 PM PDT

George Will: Trump Has a 'dangerous Disability'Conservative Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss Donald Trump's "dangerous" inability "to think and speak clearly" and what Americans must do about it.


California Students Sue School District Over Suspension For 'Liking' Racial Posts

Posted: 05 May 2017 02:44 AM PDT

California Students Sue School District Over Suspension For 'Liking' Racial PostsAfter being suspended from school for racism-related activities on social media, four school students filed a lawsuit against the school Monday.


A Family With Young Children Is Kicked Off a Delta Air Lines Flight

Posted: 03 May 2017 09:00 PM PDT

A Family With Young Children Is Kicked Off a Delta Air Lines FlightOfficial on board allegedly overheard telling the parents they risk jail and loss of children if they refused to cooperate after paying for seats.


The last moments before missing Tenn. teen disappeared with former teacher

Posted: 05 May 2017 11:51 AM PDT

The last moments before missing Tenn. teen disappeared with former teacherThis security camera footage of 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas shows the teen leaving her home before meeting up with Tad Cummins.


The Latest: Man dies after vehicle swept off Missouri road

Posted: 05 May 2017 10:14 AM PDT

The Latest: Man dies after vehicle swept off Missouri roadST. LOUIS (AP) — The Latest on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):


Deadly unrest grips Venezuela as students rally

Posted: 05 May 2017 01:47 AM PDT

Deadly unrest grips Venezuela as students rallyA student leader was shot dead as protests raged on in the streets of Venezuela Thursday in the latest spasm of anger aimed at removing President Nicolas Maduro from power. The leftist Maduro's opponents accuse him of trying to strengthen his grip on power and delay elections by launching legal proceedings to overhaul the constitution. The latest toll provided by prosecutors on Thursday said 35 people have been killed in just over a month of protests against Maduro, whose opponents blame him for Venezuela's dire economic mess.


Putin Has a New Secret Weapon in Syria: Chechens

Posted: 04 May 2017 01:04 PM PDT

Putin Has a New Secret Weapon in Syria: ChechensThe quiet deployment of roughly 1,000 Muslim special forces from Russia's southern regions shows that Moscow is serious about upping its ground game in Syria.


Expect More Cases of Lyme Disease This Summer, Experts Warn

Posted: 04 May 2017 08:47 AM PDT

Expect More Cases of Lyme Disease This Summer, Experts WarnThe CDC estimates that there are about 300,000 cases of Lyme disease every year, and due to a mild winter, scientists are predicting a particularly bad summer ahead.


Obama Reveals Designs For His Presidential Center In Chicago

Posted: 04 May 2017 01:42 AM PDT

Obama Reveals Designs For His Presidential Center In ChicagoThe Obama Presidential Center has been designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and is estimated to cost $500 million.


Family Claims Being Kicked Off Delta Flight Over Child’s Seat

Posted: 04 May 2017 08:36 AM PDT

Family Claims Being Kicked Off Delta Flight Over Child's SeatA family is claiming that Delta agents threatened them with arrest after they refused to give up their toddler's seat on the flight to passengers on the standby list.


Trump does not think U.S. should copy Australia's health system: White House

Posted: 05 May 2017 01:06 PM PDT

Trump does not think U.S. should copy Australia's health system: White HousePresident Donald Trump was simply saying nice things to an ally when he called Australia's universal healthcare system better than the U.S. system, and he does not think his country should adopt a similar approach, the White House said on Friday. "The president was complimenting a foreign leader on the operations of their healthcare system," White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at a news briefing. "It didn't mean anything more than that." Trump raised eyebrows when he told Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Thursday in New York, "You have better health care than we do." Trump spoke shortly after he led a White House rally with Republicans from the House of Representatives, who had just passed legislation to overturn much of former President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law and move further away from a guarantee of universal coverage.


Cargo plane goes off runway in West Virginia; 2 killed

Posted: 05 May 2017 02:14 PM PDT

Cargo plane goes off runway in West Virginia; 2 killedCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A cargo plane contracted by UPS went off the runway and over a steep, wooded hillside Friday at a West Virginia airport, killing the pilot and co-pilot, an airport official said.


Woman who laughed at Jeff Sessions hearing convicted for being 'disorderly'

Posted: 04 May 2017 09:28 AM PDT

Woman who laughed at Jeff Sessions hearing convicted for being 'disorderly'Desiree Fairooz, an activist with Code Pink, found guilty of 'disorderly or disruptive conduct' with intent to disrupt congressional proceedings Desiree Fairooz confronts Condoleeza Rice in 2007. Fairooz has been convicted after laughing during a confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Photograph: Larry Downing/Reuters


The Hindenburg: A look back – from first flight to blazing inferno

Posted: 05 May 2017 09:49 AM PDT

The Hindenburg: A look back – from first flight to blazing infernoA look back at the German airship Hindenburg from its construction and life aboard to that horrible night when it burst into flames on May 6, 1937.


Nigeria's Buhari seen in public for first time in weeks

Posted: 05 May 2017 06:15 AM PDT

Nigeria's Buhari seen in public for first time in weeksNigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday made his first public appearance in weeks, re-emerging amid mounting concerns about his health. The 74-year-old, who spent nearly two months earlier this year receiving treatment in London for an undisclosed illness, was at Friday prayers at a mosque in the presidential villa in Abuja. Video posted on Twitter by presidential aide Bashir Ahmad showed Buhari dressed in white, shaking hands with fellow worshippers and waving after the service.


North Korea says the US planned biochemical attack to kill supreme leader Kim Jong-Un

Posted: 05 May 2017 05:51 AM PDT

North Korea says the US planned biochemical attack to kill supreme leader Kim Jong-Un

Does the US want to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un? If real, a plan like that would certainly address a bunch of problems for the Trump administration, and for the rest of the world. Or, it would be just the kind of pretext the totalitarian regime north of the wall needs to start a nuclear war.

Well, it turns out North Korea really believes that the US and South Korea have been working together to kill Kim by using biochemical weapons.

According to CNN, North Korean state news agency KCNA uncovered a "hideous" plot by a terrorist group that attempted to kill the supreme leader.

In a 1,800-word report, the agency said that the plot involved a North Korean citizen and the use of "biochemical substances including radioactive substance and nano poisonous substance" to target Kim during a major event such as a military parade. No evidence whatsoever was provided in the report.

This CNN paragraph tells the whole story and reads like a synopsis for an action movie that Hollywood should really consider making.

KCNA laid out the alleged plot in great detail, saying it was hatched in 2014 when the South Korean and US intelligence agencies recruited a North Korean working in the timber industry in eastern Russia. Further contacts were made over subsequent years, and the assassination attempt was to have taken place at a military parade, KCNA said.

The report didn't say when the plot was foiled, but only that it was "uncovered and smashed" recently.

CNN points out that South Korea's plans to kill Kim aren't secret — well not all of them. There is at least one retaliatory plan that includes targeting North Korea's leadership if South Korea feels threatened by nuclear attack.


Officials warn of floodwater risks in soaked Midwest states

Posted: 04 May 2017 03:17 PM PDT

Officials warn of floodwater risks in soaked Midwest statesST. LOUIS (AP) — Joseph Fiorilli is ready to go home, even though most everything he left behind when the flooded Meramec River inundated his eastern Missouri home will be a soggy, stinky mess.


Barack Obama Unveils Bold Plans for His Presidential Library in Chicago

Posted: 04 May 2017 07:32 AM PDT

Barack Obama Unveils Bold Plans for His Presidential Library in ChicagoThe former president and first lady Michelle Obama showed their design, which incorporates substantial amounts of indoor and outdoor space for the public to enjoy within Chicago's Jackson Park


Bernie Sanders laughs as Donald Trump admits universal healthcare is better

Posted: 05 May 2017 06:06 AM PDT

Bernie Sanders laughs as Donald Trump admits universal healthcare is betterSenator Bernie Sanders could hardly contain his laughter after Donald Trump admitted Australia's universal healthcare was better than the US system. Speaking with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull the same day the US House of Representatives narrowly passed a healthcare bill aimed at undoing Obamacare, the US President claimed healthcare was failing and that Australia's publicly-funded system was better.


Elizabeth Thomas Kidnapping Case To Feature On 20/20 Show

Posted: 05 May 2017 05:28 AM PDT

Elizabeth Thomas Kidnapping Case To Feature On 20/20 ShowThe show will focus on Cummins' months on the run and what will happen next to the 50-year-old, who was arrested mid-April.


Iraqi forces gain foothold in northwest Mosul after surprise new push

Posted: 05 May 2017 05:41 AM PDT

Iraqi forces gain foothold in northwest Mosul after surprise new pushBy Isabel Coles HULAYLA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces pushed further into Mosul from the north on the second day of a new push to speed up the nearly seven-month attempt to dislodge Islamic State, commanders said on Friday. Islamic State tried to block the troops' northerly advance into their de facto Iraqi capital with suicide car bombs and sniper fire, Brigadier General Walid Khalifa, deputy commander of the 9th brigade, told Reuters in Hulayla, west of Musherfa. U.S. air support has proved vital for spotting suicide car bombs and for avoiding targets where civilians are trapped.


Royals Announce That Prince Philip, 95, Will Retire

Posted: 04 May 2017 08:42 AM PDT

Royals Announce That Prince Philip, 95, Will RetireThe Duke of Edinburgh has been standing beside the Queen for seven decades, but the palace is announcing that he'll retire from joining many official occasions in September.


White House Press Secretary daily briefing on May 5, 2017

Posted: 05 May 2017 11:21 AM PDT

White House Press Secretary daily briefing on May 5, 2017On Friday, May 5, 2017, White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds the daily briefing with the White House press corp.


Legendary Swiss climber cremated near Everest

Posted: 04 May 2017 04:43 AM PDT

Legendary Swiss climber cremated near EverestThe body of legendary Swiss climber Ueli Steck, who died on Mount Everest, was cremated on Thursday at a Buddhist monastery that lies in the shadow of the world's highest peak. The adventurer's body was flown by helicopter on Thursday to the Tengboche Monastery that lies on the trail to the peaks that claimed his life. A number of climbers were expected to trek down from Everest base camp -- some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Tengboche -- to attend the cremation, according to Nimesh Karki of Seven Summits, a trekking company that helped Steck organise his Everest attempt.


The Best Way To Cook an Egg For Weight Loss

Posted: 04 May 2017 03:23 PM PDT

The Best Way To Cook an Egg For Weight LossNutritionally speaking, eggs really can be all they're cracked up to be—that is, as long as you cook them like this.


These new iPhone 8 renders are awful, but they still bring good news

Posted: 05 May 2017 10:49 AM PDT

These new iPhone 8 renders are awful, but they still bring good news

We see new iPhone 8 leaks and rumors on an almost daily basis, which is crazy considering it's only early May. There are still more than four months to go until Apple unveils this thing, and then we may end up waiting up to two extra months to actually use it. But not all leaks are the same. Some deliver potential bad news, while others bring us the kind of good news we want to see.

A series of 3D renders posted on Weibo by a source that's been providing plenty of mobile leaks over the years deliver the good news that we've been hoping for.

Specifically, these images posted by user KK show an all-screen iPhone 8 design that features a vertical dual camera and absolutely no Touch ID button. There isn't one on the back or on the front of the handset.

If these are based on accurate information, the renders offer us a preview of what the iPhone will look like. And thankfully, there's no annoying fingerprint sensor on the back, which would be a terrible choice for Apple regardless of how difficult it is to embed a Touch ID sensor in the display's complex layer structure.

After using Touch ID on the iPhone for so long, I can't even imagine a scenario where I'd be comfortable unlocking a phone by blindly fishing for a fingerprint sensor on the back. Don't even get me started on the Galaxy S8's fingerprint sensor location. Samsung confirmed that it knows the sensor's position is awkward by including a software feature that reminds you to clean the camera from time to time. You know, because you'll often touch it while reaching for that sensor, inevitably covering it with grease and dirt.

Wishful thinking aside, we'll point out the fact that it's still an unconfirmed leak. Even if it's genuine, it may showcase just one iPhone 8 design out of the various concepts Apple has reportedly been considering.


Mexican-Americans torn about Cinco de Mayo in Trump era

Posted: 04 May 2017 05:25 PM PDT

Mexican-Americans torn about Cinco de Mayo in Trump eraALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — For years, Yazmin Irazoqui Ruiz saw Cinco de Mayo as a reason to eat tacos and listen to Mexican music.


Theft Was Not The Motive In Murder Of Retired Marine and Girlfriend, Belize Cops Say

Posted: 05 May 2017 06:07 AM PDT

Theft Was Not The Motive In Murder Of Retired Marine and Girlfriend, Belize Cops SayAuthorities in the tiny Central American country have ruled the deaths of Drew DeVoursney and Francesca Matus as murders, but have no motive.


Obamacare v the revised Republican healthcare bill: the key differences

Posted: 04 May 2017 08:25 AM PDT

Obamacare v the revised Republican healthcare bill: the key differencesHouse Republicans voted on Thursday to repeal and replace Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. House Republicans are planning a vote on Thursday on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted that if the ACA continued, the number of uninsured Americans – currently 28 million – would remain stable for the next decade.


Humpbacks Block Killer Whale Feeding Frenzy in Wild Video

Posted: 05 May 2017 10:41 AM PDT

Humpbacks Block Killer Whale Feeding Frenzy in Wild VideoA pod of killer whales is stalking baby grey whales off Monterey Bay in California, but a patrolling group of humpback whales is doing everything in its power to foil the killer whales' attacks. A bounty of young, harmless grey whale calves is an irresistible lure for the top ocean-predators. Killer whales (or orcas) can always be found in the area off Monterey, but this year has been particularly grim for the killer whales' prey.


Venezuela president headed for fall, top opponent tells AFP

Posted: 04 May 2017 04:13 PM PDT

Venezuela president headed for fall, top opponent tells AFPVenezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles insisted President Nicolas Maduro's government will fall if it rams through contested constitutional reforms, in an interview with AFP after weeks of deadly unrest. Tired and hoarse after more than a month protesting in choking tear gas, the leader of the center-right Justice First party, 44, vowed to keep marching and boycott Maduro's reform plans. "Venezuela is heading towards an outcome.


‘Married at First Sight’ Season 5 Couple Consummates Marriage

Posted: 04 May 2017 07:20 PM PDT

'Married at First Sight' Season 5 Couple Consummates MarriageAt least one couple had sex on their honeymoon in "Married at First Sight" Season 5, episode 4.


Apple isn’t as rich as it seems

Posted: 04 May 2017 03:13 PM PDT

Apple isn't as rich as it seems

As part of its earnings announcement this week, Apple revealed that it's sitting on $258 billion of cash, mostly overseas. That's more than the GDP of some small countries, and one of the easiest ways to understand just how rich Apple is.

But that $250 billion figure is actually a little more impressive than it should be. Apple's money is held overseas, but it still needs to spend cash in the US. To get around paying tax, Apple has been borrowing money, and it's currently sitting on nearly $100 billion in debt.

As the WSJ notes, Apple raised an eye-watering $11 billion in debt last quarter, bringing the total to around $100 billion. That number is set to increase: Apple is ramping up its share buyback program, and the new $1 billion investment fund it announced last night will be funded by debt. Apple opened up orders for its latest bond program this afternoon, and is said to already have raised $22 billion more.

This doesn't mean Apple is doomed, or that its cash fund is underwhelming: $150 billion in net assets is still nothing to sneeze at, and is bigger than the market cap of most other companies.

But it's worth bearing in mind in the context of Apple's ballooning stock price. A lot of that interest has been generated by rumors of a one-off overseas earnings tax break, which would allow companies like Apple to repatriate cash at a 10% rate or so, rather than the usual 35%. Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook have talked before, possibly about a one-off tax break, but plans can't be that far advanced if Apple is raising another $22 billion in the US.


Trumpcare: At least three Republicans didn't read bill that passed House by one extra vote

Posted: 05 May 2017 08:21 AM PDT

Trumpcare: At least three Republicans didn't read bill that passed House by one extra voteAt least three House Republicans say they did not read the entire American Health Care Act (AHCA) before voting for it. "I will fully admit, Wolf, I did not," Representative Mark Sanford told CNN's Wolf Blitzer when asked if he had read the whole bill. The bill – Republicans' latest plan to repeal and replace Obamacare – was finalised at 8pm the night before a House of Representatives vote.


Inside Marvel: The legacy of Captain America

Posted: 05 May 2017 02:16 AM PDT

Inside Marvel: The legacy of Captain America"Secret Empire" writer Nick Spencer and Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso discuss Captain America as a symbol in the Marvel universe.


Vertical Limit! Incredible pictures of Hong Kong from a never-seen-before angle

Posted: 05 May 2017 02:00 AM PDT

Vertical Limit! Incredible pictures of Hong Kong from a never-seen-before angleImages from Hong Kong by Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze present the city's towering buildings as geometric and kaleidoscopic forms.


India calls satellite 'gift to South Asia', Pakistan says no thanks

Posted: 05 May 2017 06:57 AM PDT

India calls satellite 'gift to South Asia', Pakistan says no thanksIndia launched a communications satellite on Friday for its smaller neighbors to share, part of its efforts to build goodwill in the region and counter Chinese influence, but arch-rival Pakistan said it would stay away from the project. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who came to office promising to strengthen ties with neighbors such as Sri Lanka, Nepal and even Pakistan, has called the satellite a gift to south Asia. "The successful launch of South Asia Satellite is a historic moment.


Flames, fatality at Venezuela demo over leader's crisis maneuver

Posted: 03 May 2017 08:52 PM PDT

Flames, fatality at Venezuela demo over leader's crisis maneuverVenezuelan police fired tear gas and hooded protesters hurled Molotov cocktails as thousands rallied in anger at President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution. Flames erupted in the latest of more than a month of clashes that prosecutors say have killed 32 people in the oil-rich nation, stricken by food shortages. Government forces used tear gas against demonstrators in las Mercedes, on Caracas' east end, the prosecutor's office said.


Cat Chased Up a Tree by Dog, Rescued 3 Days Later

Posted: 04 May 2017 03:04 PM PDT

Cat Chased Up a Tree by Dog, Rescued 3 Days LaterThe 15-year-old cat was too afraid to come down.


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