| John Kasich Hints That He May Need To Leave The GOP Posted: 01 Oct 2017 10:25 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Ohio governor John Kasich, a top Republican leader and former candidate for the party's presidential nomination, on Sunday said the GOP may be on a trajectory to lose supporters like him.
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| One Photo Stands Out After Trump Says Puerto Rico Wants 'Everything Done For Them' Posted: 30 Sep 2017 07:10 PM PDT  When President Donald Trump went after local officials in Puerto Rico, accusing them of wanting "everything to be done for them," one TV writer had the perfect response.
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| Philippines' Duterte says will snub graft probe Posted: 30 Sep 2017 09:25 PM PDT  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he would not cooperate with a special anti-corruption prosecutor's investigation into allegations he acquired ill-gotten wealth, vowing he would "not submit" to its authority. The ombudsman said last week it was investigating claims Duterte's bank accounts had hundreds of millions of pesos (millions of dollars) which he failed to disclose as required by law. Duterte responded by lashing out at the ombudsman, calling the agency "lousy" and saying allegations against him were "lies based on baseless" information.
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| Mom Leaves Kids Behind for Trip To Germany, Arrested Upon Return Posted: 30 Sep 2017 10:40 AM PDT  An Iowa mother left four children under 13 years old home alone.
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| Dunkirk-style evacuation as Vanuatu volcano pollutes drinking water Posted: 01 Oct 2017 02:37 AM PDT  By Alison Bevege SYDNEY (Reuters) - Vanuatu has launched a Dunkirk-style evacuation on the northern island of Ambae as a flotilla of boats rescues islanders from an erupting volcano. The eruption has polluted many of the island's water sources leaving thousands of people in need of safe drinking water, Red Cross delegate Joe Cropp told Reuters by phone on Sunday. "It's important to get on top of it right away." The Manaro Voui volcano, the nation's largest, was seen hurling steam and rocks into the air by New Zealand vulcanologist Brad Scott who flew over the volcano on Saturday.
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| Jennifer Garner Posts Makeup-Free Photo After Surviving Her Kids' 'Yes Day' Posted: 29 Sep 2017 06:03 PM PDT  Jennifer Garner survived "Yes Day" — with a little help from her good friend coffee
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| Man Proves His Innocence With Baseball Game Footage in New Netflix Documentary Posted: 30 Sep 2017 09:15 AM PDT  A man arrested for the murder of a 16-year-old girl proved his innocence through raw footage captured during the filming of HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" that show him at an LA Dodgers game and not at the scene of a shooting.
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| Paul Ryan On Trump And Race: 'His Heart's In The Right Place' Posted: 01 Oct 2017 08:19 AM PDT  defended President Donald Trump's approach to race relations amid accusations that the president has fueled discord with his attacks on peacefully protesting football players and officials trying to help the millions of Puerto Ricans affected by Hurricane Maria.
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| Questions Over The Trump Administration's Travel Spending Won't End With Tom Price Posted: 29 Sep 2017 05:43 PM PDT  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is being investigated by the Treasury Department's inspector general for opting to use a government jet to commute from New York to D.C. after an August news conference in Trump Tower, ABC reported last week.
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| NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week Posted: 01 Oct 2017 01:12 PM PDT  A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts:
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| Police Give All-Clear Over Active Shooter Reports At U.S. Air Force Academy Posted: 29 Sep 2017 11:18 PM PDT  The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado is on lockdown following reports of an active shooter on its grounds.
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| Teacher admits sexually assaulting depressed 11-year-old boy she 'wanted to make happy' Posted: 01 Oct 2017 04:57 AM PDT  A primary school teacher has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old pupil because she wanted to make the "chronically depressed" boy "happy". Katherine Gonzalez, 25, from Wisconsin in the US, was arrested on 5 March and charged with one count of first-degree sexual assault of a child under the age of 13. Ms Gonzalez, who worked as a fifth-grade teacher at Atlas Preparatory Academy, reportedly told police she wanted the child to see that someone cared.
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| Meghan Markle and Prince Harry caught cozying up at the Invictus Games closing ceremony Posted: 01 Oct 2017 08:13 AM PDT  Meghan Markle and Prince Harry continue to flaunt their relationship!
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| Thinking the unthinkable in China: Abandoning North Korea Posted: 30 Sep 2017 08:35 PM PDT  North Korea's nuclear antics have rattled its alliance with China to the point that Beijing is allowing the previously unthinkable to be discussed: Is it time to prepare for the renegade regime's collapse? While China's official goal is to bring Washington and Pyongyang to the negotiating table, it is also permitting once taboo debate on contingencies in case war breaks out in the isolated nation across its northeast border. Observers say the public debate might be a tactic to try and coerce Pyongyang into cooling its weapons programme, with its nuclear and missile tests visibly angering Beijing, which has backed tough new United Nations sanctions on the country.
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| 'A Declining World.' Mormon Leader Reaffirms Religion's Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage Posted: 30 Sep 2017 10:27 AM PDT  'A declining world'
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| Syrian army, allies seize more of Jordanian frontier: report Posted: 30 Sep 2017 01:22 PM PDT ![Syrian army, allies seize more of Jordanian frontier: report]( "Syrian army, allies seize more of Jordanian frontier: report") The Syrian army and its allies seized control of nine positions at Syria's border with Jordan, expanding their control at the southern frontier, a military news outlet run by the Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Saturday. The captured border positions were located to the southeast of Damascus, the report said, adding that militants had been killed and wounded during the attack. It did not identify the insurgents, or say when the positions had been captured.
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| Attorney: 'No doubt' OJ Simpson goes to Florida after prison Posted: 29 Sep 2017 07:14 PM PDT  OJ Simpson will live in Florida after he is released on parole from a Nevada prison where he has been held for the past nine years for a robbery conviction, his lawyer said Friday. Attorney Malcolm LaVergne didn't specify where the former sport and film star would live, although Tom Scotto, a close friend who lives in Naples, Florida, has offered his home. Scotto didn't respond to messages seeking comment. "He's going to Florida," LaVergne said. "There's no doubt he's going to Florida." However, the state attorney general doesn't want Simpson to come back. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter Friday to the Florida Department of Corrections, urging it to tell Nevada officials that Florida objects to Simpson serving his parole in the southern state. OJ Simpson walks out of prison after nine years 00:17 "Floridians are well aware of Mr. Simpson's background, his wanton disregard for the lives of others, and of his scofflaw attitude with respect to the heinous acts for which he has been found civilly liable," Bondi said in the letter. "Our state should not become a country club for this convicted criminal." Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles. But he was found liable for their deaths in a civil case in 1997 and ordered to pay the victims' families $33.5 million. Florida corrections officials have said in the past that they must accept the transfer if Nevada's request meets the established criteria. A Florida corrections spokeswoman, Ashley Cook, said her agency has not received a transfer request or documents about Simpson. OJ timeline He becomes eligible for release Sunday, but LaVergne said he doesn't know where or when it will happen. He expects to learn more when Simpson notifies him that he is being moved from Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada. Release plans are in motion but need to be finalized for Simpson to be freed, perhaps as early as Monday in Las Vegas, Nevada prisons official Brooke Keast said. Citing safety concerns, she said the plans were not being made public. Simpson's attorney said he will begin pressing for answers if his client is not free by Oct. 8. LaVergne said he spoke with Simpson by telephone Thursday and that he is excited about his pending freedom. "He's really looking forward to the simple pleasures," LaVergne said. "Seeing his family on the outside, spending time with them, eating food that's not packaged." Simpson wants to eat steak and seafood and get a new iPhone, LaVergne told ABC's "Good Morning America." Simpson won parole in July after serving nine years of a possible 33-year sentence for his 2008 conviction on armed robbery, kidnapping and other charges.
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| Trump scoffs at 'politically motivated ingrates' after Maria Posted: 01 Oct 2017 04:18 PM PDT  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday scoffed at "politically motivated ingrates" who had questioned his administration's commitment to rebuilding Puerto Rico after a pulverizing hurricane and said the federal government had done "a great job with the almost impossible situation."
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| The Navy Just Took Delivery Of Its Most Powerful Nuclear Attack Submarine Ever Posted: 01 Oct 2017 04:08 AM PDT  Earlier this month, the U.S. Navy took delivery of its newest Virginia-class attack submarine—the future USS Colorado (SSN-788). The new nuclear-powered submarine is the fifteenth Virginia–class vessel to be completed. Colorado will be formally commissioned into service early next year in the spring.
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| Florida Nanny and Mother of 2 Found Dead in Apparently ‘Random’ Attack as Police Launch a Statewide Manhunt Posted: 01 Oct 2017 12:11 PM PDT  Jennifer Lynn Fulford, a nanny for a wealthy family and mother of two, disappeared in Florida and found dead three days later
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| Iran, Iraq plan joint drills over Kurdish independence vote Posted: 29 Sep 2017 05:58 PM PDT  Iran will hold a joint military exercise with Iraq in response to the Iraqi Kurdistan region's "illegitimate" independence referendum, an Iranian military official announced on Saturday. Iran, which borders Iraq and the autonomous Kurdish region, strongly opposed the vote held Monday, fearing it would provoke separatists among its own Kurdish population. Iraq's central government has demanded the annulment of the referendum, which resulted in a huge "yes" for independence.
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| U.S. directly communicating with North Korea, seeks dialogue Posted: 01 Oct 2017 04:57 AM PDT ![U.S. directly communicating with North Korea, seeks dialogue]( "U.S. directly communicating with North Korea, seeks dialogue") By Phil Stewart and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States said on Saturday it was directly communicating with North Korea on its nuclear and missile programs but Pyongyang had shown no interest in dialogue. The disclosure by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a trip to China represented the first time he has spoken to such an extent about U.S. outreach to North Korea over its pursuit of a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile.
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| Here's How Jews Observe Yom Kippur Posted: 30 Sep 2017 05:25 AM PDT  Jews observe the day by fasting, no food or drinks are consumed for 25 hours, and some people also wear white as a symbol of purity.
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| Stephen Colbert Finally Changes Jerry Seinfeld's Mind On Bill Cosby Posted: 30 Sep 2017 11:12 AM PDT  Plenty of words have been spent trying to reconcile Bill Cosby the wholesome entertainer and Bill Cosby the alleged sexual predator.
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| Donald Trump sparks outrage after lashing out at Puerto Rico mayor over Hurricane Maria relief efforts Posted: 30 Sep 2017 03:45 PM PDT  First came the desperate appeal for more help. Carmen Yulin Cruz, mayor of Puerto Rico's main city San Juan, made it clear with a T-shirt slogan that read: "Help Us, We Are Dying." In interviews she pleaded for more federal aid for an island battered by Hurricane Maria, where she said people had no choice but to drink from creeks. And then she addressed her message directly to the President. "I keep saying it: SOS. If anyone can hear us; if Mr. Trump can hear us, let's just get it over with and get the ball rolling," she told CNN. Hurricane Maria pummels the Caribbean, in pictures Donald Trump heard her but was not impressed. As he has done so many times before he used Twitter to hit back at what he took to be personal criticism, accusing Ms Cruz of poor leadership. San Juan mayor focussed on 'saving lives' not Trump row 01:05 The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017 ...Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017 ...want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017 The military and first responders, despite no electric, roads, phones etc., have done an amazing job. Puerto Rico was totally destroyed.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017 His remarks sparked outrage on social media. Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and original star of "Hamilton", said the president was "going straight to hell". You're going straight to hell, @realDonaldTrump. No long lines for you. Someone will say, "Right this way, sir." They'll clear a path. https://t.co/xXfJH0KJmw— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) September 30, 2017 I this it's clear where the 'poor leadership' lies @realDonaldTrump Puerto Rico is part of the United States. This is our responsibility.— xoxo, Gaga (@ladygaga) September 30, 2017 The definition of "poor leadership" is sitting at your golf club while millions of US citizens beg for your help, @realDonaldTrump.— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) September 30, 2017 Don't let anyone make you feel alone. We are with you and Puerto Rico. https://t.co/CxI1eRXJ8L— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 30, 2017 After winning praise for his response to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which stormed through Texas and Florida respectively, Mr Trump has been accused of neglecting Puerto Rico, home to 3.4 million Americans. He spent last weekend addressing supporters in Alabama and igniting a row over American footballers and their attitude to the American flag and anthem, a dispute that appeared to preoccupy the President for days. At least 16 people died on the island when the hurricane barrelled ashore. It took until Thursday, more than a week after Maria struck, for the administration to waive a law that banned foreign ships from delivering goods to Puerto Rico. Almost half the population remains without potable water and no-one knows when the island's electricity grid will be back online. He later resumed the defence of his handling of the crisis in a series of tweets. To the people of Puerto Rico: Do not believe the #FakeNews!#PRStrong����— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017 My Administration, Governor @RicardoRossello, and many others are working together to help the people of Puerto Rico in every way...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017 ......#FakeNews critics are working overtime, but we're getting great marks from the people that truly matter! #PRStrong����— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017 For her part, Ms Cruz avoided engaging in a tit-for-tat battle, instead calling for a united focus on the people who need help as she posted a collage of images showing her aiding residents. In one photograph she is up to her waste in water. The goal is one: saving lives. This is the time to show our "true colors". We cannot be distracted by anything else. pic.twitter.com/7PAINk19xM— Carmen Yulín Cruz (@CarmenYulinCruz) September 30, 2017 "I have only one goal, and it is saving lives," Ms Cruz, mayor of Puerto Rico's largest city, said in an interview with Bloomberg. "I will say whatever needs to be said or done to be able to do that. There should be no distractions. There's no time for anything else." In an interview on MSNBC, she said: "I was asking for help. I wasn't saying anything nasty about the president." Mr Trump is expected to visit Puerto Rico on Tuesday and was scheduled to have a one-hour telephone briefing on Saturday with Brock Long, Federal Emergency Management Agency head, Puerto Rico's governor, Ricardo Rossello, and other local officials.
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| Hezbollah leader warns Israel as Shiites mark Ashoura Posted: 01 Oct 2017 10:57 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of the Shiite Lebanese militant group Hezbollah warned Israel against pushing the region into war on Sunday as supporters and other Shiite Muslims marked the Ashoura holiday with rallies, prayers, and self-flagellation.
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| Protesters March in D.C. to Demand Racial Justice Posted: 30 Sep 2017 03:54 PM PDT  The March for Racial Justice and the March for Black Women came together to protest injustices in the black community.
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| Mom-of-Two Charged With Murdering Boyfriend After Flagging Down Police Posted: 30 Sep 2017 01:13 PM PDT  The pair have two young children together.
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| Rumors of Secret Warplanes Preceded Mach 6 SR-72 Spyplane Reveal Posted: 01 Oct 2017 04:16 AM PDT  Has the SR-72—or something like it—been flying all along? Lockheed Martin's 2013 announcement of a proposed SR-72 reconnaissance and strike drone comes against a backdrop of decades of rumor about a replacement for America's high-speed SR-71 spy plane. The SR-72 reportedly appeared for the first time in plain view in July 2017.
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| Tight security as Cameroon awaits symbolic anglophone 'independence' Posted: 01 Oct 2017 08:48 AM PDT  Police patrolled empty streets in Cameroon's restive anglophone belt as a separatist group made a symbolic proclamation of independence on Sunday, a day after a young man was shot dead by security forces. In Buea, the main city in the English-speaking southwest, the streets were mostly deserted as security forces patrolled the streets including the area where the separatists were expected to gather, an AFP correspondent reported. "I can't go out, they asked us to stay home," said one city resident who identified herself just as Nancy.
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| Seahawks Take On Trump's Attacks On NFL By Launching Charity For Equality Posted: 29 Sep 2017 08:03 PM PDT  While President Donald Trump continues to criticize the displays of protest and unity during the national anthem at NFL games, the Seattle Seahawks have decided to go one step further to promote equality for all. The team announced Friday that it is launching a charity fund that will benefit education and leadership programs that fight inequality and promote justice, according to its official announcement. The Seahawks announced its fund one week after the team skipped the national anthem, following the lead set by former San Fransisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who took a knee during the anthem in 2016 in response to the spike in police shootings of black people.
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| Parolee Who Stabbed Man 90 Times Over Football Smiled and Said Victim Had It Coming Posted: 30 Sep 2017 09:09 AM PDT  If he "wasn't an (expletive), he'd still be alive"
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| Puerto Rico's governor isn't "paying attention to social media" Posted: 30 Sep 2017 07:56 PM PDT  Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello tries to distance himself from a Twitter spat between U.S. President Donald Trump and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz in a Reuters interview ahead of the president's visit this week. No reporter narration.
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| Austria's ‘burka ban’ comes into force, prohibiting face veils in public places Posted: 01 Oct 2017 03:07 AM PDT  A ban on full-face coverings, which includes Muslim veils such as those worn in burkas, comes into force in Austria today as anti-immigration parties look poised to win national elections later this month. The new law states that faces must be visible from hairline to chin in public places and includes off-slope ski masks and surgical masks outside of hospitals. Austrian police are allowed to use force to make people show their face and can impose fines of €150 (£132). Austria's ban comes after France and Belgium bans in 2011 and the Dutch parliament also debating a similar law. Map: Which countries have banned the veil? Muslim groups have condemned the law saying only a tiny minority of women in the country wear full-face veils. Carla Amina Bhagajati of the Islamic Religious Community in Austria said the "handful" of fully veiled women she knows of in Vienna "now are criminalized" and "restricted to their homes". "This open society is, in a hypocritical way, endangering its own values," she added. However, there has been strong support for the law reflecting growing anti-immigrant sentiment in the predominantly Catholic country. "It's not right that those living here don't show their faces," said Emma Schwaiger, who expressed support for the ban in a straw poll on the streets of Vienna. History of the Burka Parties campaigning on an anti-immigration message are on course win elections on October 15 that could see them form a coalition government. Polling this week showed the hardline People's Party and Freedom Party on 34 per cent and 25 per cent, with the centrist Social Democrats, who are the majority party in the current coalition government, struggling on 27 per cent. The People's Party, which is poised to be the largest party after the election, has been resurgent under their new leader, a telegenic 31-year-old called Sebastian Kurz. Austrian Foreign Minister and leader of the People's Party, Sebastian Kurz Credit: EPA Under his leadership the party has tacked right on immigration, although it has stopped short of using the xenophobic language of the Freedom Party. As foreign minister, Kurz, whose People's Party is the minority coalition partner, shut down the West Balkans route into the EU heartland for migrants and is calling for zero illegal immigration. He has also said the face veil ban will be rigorously enforced if his party is the largest after the election.
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| Myanmar refugee exodus tops 500,000 as more Rohingya flee Posted: 29 Sep 2017 08:31 PM PDT  TEKNAF, Bangladesh (AP) — He trekked to Bangladesh as part of an exodus of a half million people from Myanmar, the largest refugee crisis to hit Asia in decades. But after climbing out of a boat on a creek on Friday, Mohamed Rafiq could go no further.
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| ICE Arrests Nearly 500 Immigrants Posted: 30 Sep 2017 09:03 AM PDT  The individuals are from 42 different countries.
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| Police dog accidentally fires gun as officers investigate car park fight Posted: 30 Sep 2017 06:26 AM PDT  A police dog in Canada accidentally fired a handgun when its handlers were investigation a fight outside a shop. Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers were called to a supermarket in Chestermere, Alberta, when witnessed reported two men assaulting another man with a handgun. The police dog was tracking the suspects who had fled the scene when it uncovered a gun in a bushy area near the store.
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| 5 Reasons Why a 2nd Korean War Won't Be Like the First (and Much Worse) Posted: 30 Sep 2017 06:20 PM PDT  If a Second Korean War were to erupt tomorrow, there is one thing we can be sure of. It won't be like the First Korean War of 1950-53. France lost in 1940 because they assumed World War II would be fought in the trenches like World War I. Israel almost lost in 1973 because they assumed the Arab armies would collapse as they did in 1967.
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| Nigeria president denounces Biafran separatists Posted: 01 Oct 2017 10:29 AM PDT  President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday railed against separatists seeking Nigeria's "dismemberment" and called for "proper" dialogue after clashes between pro-Biafra activists and security forces in the restive southeast. Speaking as Nigeria marked its 1960 independence from Britain, Buhari also said that corruption remained the African oil giant's "number one enemy". The 74-year-old former general later flew out of the capital for a lightning surprise visit to Maiduguri, the city in northeastern Nigeria that is the epicentre of the bloody insurgency by Boko Haram Islamists.
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| Country All-Stars To Stage Benefit For People Affected By 4 Hurricanes Posted: 30 Sep 2017 09:27 AM PDT  After a terrible hurricane season, country stars are turning out to lend a hand.
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| Failure To Identify These Common Smells Could Lead To Dementia Posted: 30 Sep 2017 12:44 PM PDT  People who fail to identify common smells could be at risk for dementia, study says.
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| California starts tackling huge affordable housing shortage Posted: 29 Sep 2017 07:08 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown put his signature Friday on bills aimed at tackling the affordable housing crisis in California, which needs an estimated 1.5 million more homes and apartments to satisfy demand from those priced out of the soaring market.
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| Model's Eye Tattoo Could Now Leave Her Blind: 'I Don't Want This To Happen To Anyone Else' Posted: 30 Sep 2017 06:57 AM PDT  She got the white of her eye tattooed purple.
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