| Trump Uses RNC Funds To Pay For His Russia Defense -- Thanks To Hillary Clinton's Lawyer Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:43 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump, a billionaire, is reportedly using money raised by the Republican National Committee to cover legal fees associated with the Department of Justice investigation into his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has used over $230,000 in money raised by the RNC for his own legal defense, according to Reuters. The president is currently under investigation for potential illegal coordination with Russia ― which is alleged to have hacked the Democratic National Committee and intervened in the election to defeat Hillary Clinton ― and for possible obstruction of justice when he fired James Comey, the former FBI director, in May.
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| Aftermath photos of Mexico earthquake reveal devastating search conditions Posted: 20 Sep 2017 07:05 AM PDT  A magnitude 7.1 earthquake brought central Mexico to its knees on Tuesday when it toppled buildings and left at least 226 dead -- and the photos emerging of the aftermath are devastating.
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| Will Barcelona secede from Spain? Catalan independence is up for a vote — and Russia is stirring the pot Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:21 PM PDT  At issue is a wave of Catalan nationalism culminating in a referendum on secession, scheduled for Oct. 1.
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| Puerto Rico Powerless, Flooded After Storm Posted: 20 Sep 2017 11:35 AM PDT  Luis Rivera Marin, secretary of state of Puerto Rico, talks with Rachel Maddow about the ravaged condition of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and the efforts to rescue and help the storm's victims.
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| Black Cornell Student Allegedly 'Bloodied Up' In Racially Charged Attack Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:20 AM PDT  Less than two weeks after someone chanted "build a wall, build a wall" near the Latino Living Center on Cornell University's campus, a white student was arrested after allegedly assaulting a black student in front of his home and yelling racial slurs at him.
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| 10 Things to Know for Today Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:05 AM PDT  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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| Obama blasts 'aggravating' GOP plans to repeal Obamacare Posted: 20 Sep 2017 11:33 AM PDT  Former President Barack Obama mocked Republicans in a speech on Wednesday for repeated efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, his signature health care law also known as Obamacare.
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| Illinois Father Strangled 2 Sons Before Setting House on Fire and Killing Himself While His Wife Slept Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:20 AM PDT  An Illinois man strangled his two sons to death early Tuesday morning and then set his home on fire before killing himself while his wife slept, PEOPLE confirms
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| Breathtaking shots of king penguins marching in golden sunrise Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:34 AM PDT ![Breathtaking shots of king penguins marching in golden sunrise]( "Breathtaking shots of king penguins marching in golden sunrise") Wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever, 45, visited the Falkland Islands this year to shoot pictures and scout the area for future tours. Wim's breathtaking images show a small group of king penguins before they head out to sea at sunrise. Wim said: "The sunrise created beautiful vibrant colors and amazing reflections.
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| Harrowing Videos Show The Moments An Earthquake Struck Mexico Posted: 20 Sep 2017 04:26 AM PDT  People in neighborhoods across central Mexico watched as homes, businesses, and schools fell apart before their eyes during Tuesday's catastrophic earthquake.
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| Tiffany Trump faces her father's political adversaries, Sally Yates and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in law school career Posted: 21 Sep 2017 09:42 AM PDT  In Tiffany Trump's first few weeks at George Law, she's shared the campus with some of the president's most renowned critics -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
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| Greenpeace boards ship in bid to halt delivery of UK-bound VW diesel cars Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:59 AM PDT  By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists boarded a ship arriving in Britain on Thursday to stop the delivery of more than 1,000 Volkswagen cars from Germany while others sought to immobilise vehicles at a port in anti-diesel protests. VW admitted cheating diesel emissions tests in 2015, triggering political and consumer pressure that has caused a slump in sales of diesel cars in major markets, with governments announcing plans to ban vehicles powered by conventional combustion engines. Greenpeace said its volunteers had boarded the ship in the Thames Estuary in an attempt to stop it unloading at the port of Sheerness in the southeast of England.
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| A Way Forward in the North Korea Crisis Posted: 20 Sep 2017 06:06 PM PDT  There is nothing the US can do to North Korea that will lead to its renunciation of its nuclear weapons program.
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| Virginian Charters Jet To Rescue 300 Pets Stranded On Virgin Islands After Irma Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:25 PM PDT  When Hurricane Maria took aim at the U.S. Virgin Islands last week, Sali Gear knew she had to move fast. Gear, the co-founder of Virginia Beach's Island Dog Rescue, grew up in the islands. To make this happen, Gear initially aimed to fly 20 animals to the continental U.S. every day for one week, according to The Virginian-Pilot.
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| Amazon kayak murder: Leader of gang who killed British tourist Emma Kelty is 'shot dead' Posted: 21 Sep 2017 04:28 AM PDT  The ringleader of a gang of pirates suspected of robbing and murdering a British kayaker in the Amazon has been killed, Brazilian police have said. Evanilson Gomes da Costa – a 24-year-old known as Baia – was one of seven gang members who police believe murdered Emma Kelty, a former headteacher from north London. Da Costa was shot twice in the early hours of Wednesday morning at his home in the remote town of Coari and later died in hospital, police said.
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| Cassini captured mysterious 'glitch' on Saturn's rings before death dive Posted: 21 Sep 2017 12:12 PM PDT  Cassini sent home one last batch of photos from Saturn before plunging to its death Friday and among them was an attempt to record a mysterious object embedded in the planet's rings, otherwise known as "Peggy."
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| George W. Bush's Ethics Chief: This 'May Be What Puts An End To This White House' Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:35 PM PDT  If it turns out it was to block the Russia investigation, that would be obstruction, Painter said on MSNBC on Wednesday. "The president once again has the right to fire the FBI director," Painter said on MSNBC.
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| 8 Wellness Travel Destinations You Shouldn’t Miss Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT |
| Trudeau confronts Canada's failure of indigenous people in U.N. speech Posted: 21 Sep 2017 01:33 PM PDT  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday admitted Canada had failed its indigenous people and told the United Nations his government would do better to improve the lives of aboriginals and achieve reconciliation. Trudeau used his speech to the U.N. General Assembly to frankly acknowledge the dark history of Canada's colonization as one of "humiliation, neglect and abuse" and promised to do more to help the nation's 1.4 million indigenous people. "We have been working hard ... to correct past injustices and bring about a better quality of life for indigenous peoples in Canada," he said.
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| Hurricane Maria Batters Puerto Rico Posted: 20 Sep 2017 02:35 PM PDT  Watch as Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico, with commentary from locals.
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| How North Korea Plans to Survive a U.S. Attack Posted: 20 Sep 2017 04:59 PM PDT  A so-called preventive military strike would not only fail to resolve the threat to U.S. personnel and U.S. allies, but worsen it. Last Friday National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster emphatically told reporters that despite what many have said to the contrary, "there is a military option" for North Korea. Tuesday afternoon at the United Nations, President Trump went even further, saying that if he felt certain conditions warranted it, then he would have no choice "but to totally destroy North Korea." The president and his national security advisor, however, are wrong.
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| Entire towns in Mexico flattened as scale of earthquake damage emerges Posted: 21 Sep 2017 11:17 AM PDT  Hopes that rescuers will find more survivors trapped beneath collapsed buildings in central Mexico were fading on Thursday, as the scale of the devastation wreaked by the country's deadliest earthquake for a generation started to become clear. At least 250 people died and 1,900 were injured in the 7.1 magnitude quake which struck Mexico on Tuesday – 32 years to the day after the country's deadliest earthquake killed thousands and laid waste to the capital city.
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| Melania Trump stuns in pink Delpozo dress at United Nations luncheon Posted: 20 Sep 2017 12:49 PM PDT  The first lady delivered her first speech at the United Nations on Wednesday in a statement-making Delpozo coat dress.
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| Powerball Winner Charged With Repeatedly Sexually Assaulting a Child Posted: 20 Sep 2017 04:35 PM PDT  Pedro Quezada won $338 million in 2013
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| The Hepatitis Outbreak Has Hit Los Angeles, a Week After the Disease Sickened Hundreds in San Diego Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:35 AM PDT  Here's how this highly contagious infection is transmitted and what you can do to avoid getting it.
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| Student's Twitter Plea For Free Birthday Drinks Quickly Spirals Out Of Control Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:12 AM PDT  A student in northern England appealed to strangers over Twitter to send free birthday drinks for his friend on Wednesday afternoon.
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| Presidential paranoia: Does Mueller have a mole in the White House? Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:37 AM PDT  President Trump has long spoken in conspiratorial terms about a range of topics. It appears this is partly responsible for fostering a culture of distrust and paranoia in the White House.
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| Pope candidly admits Church 'arrived late' in confronting abuse Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:25 AM PDT  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in some of his most candid and personal comments on the sexual abuse of children by priests, said on Thursday that the Catholic Church had "arrived late" in dealing with the problem. Francis, speaking in unscripted remarks to a commission advising him on how to root out sexual abuse, also acknowledged that early in his papacy he had made one bad call in being too lenient with an Italian priest who later went on to abuse again. Francis surprised members of the commission by putting aside his entire prepared speech and chatting to them.
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| Take 5: Coconut Shrimp Curry Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:20 AM PDT  Fast, easy and delicious recipes straight from the People Food test kitchen
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| The Victory Speech Hillary Clinton Never Gave Is Devastating Posted: 19 Sep 2017 09:18 PM PDT  Throughout the book, Clinton discusses the ins-and-outs of her stunning loss to Donald Trump, but arguably no detail captures the above sentiment more than a passage from the victory speech she planned to give on election night.
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| 27 Ways To Reinvent Your Mashed Potatoes Posted: 21 Sep 2017 01:39 PM PDT |
| Former Arkansas Teacher Accused Of Having Sex With Students Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:40 AM PDT  A former art teacher at an Arkansas high school is accused of having sexual relationships with four students and reportedly slept with two of them at her apartment on the same day.
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| Tucker Carlson Had A Witch On His Show. It Did Not Go As Planned Posted: 19 Sep 2017 10:47 PM PDT  While the interview was generally good-natured in spirit, Carlson wanted to focus on witch stereotypes while his guest ― witch and self-described "Oracle of Los Angeles" Amanda Yates Garcia ― wanted to talk about real issues. "I think the real problem is not whether or not eye of newt is an actual ingredient," Garcia said. "The real problem is we're about to have some kind of big nuclear extravaganza with North Korea. The real problem is that we're punishing immigrant children.
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| Hurricane Maria left over 15 dead in Dominica: prime minister Posted: 21 Sep 2017 12:00 PM PDT  Hurricane Maria left more than 15 people dead in hard-hit Dominica, the small Caribbean island's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced on Thursday. The toll from Dominica brings the overall number of confirmed deaths caused by Hurricane Maria to 18, including two in Guadeloupe and one in Puerto Rico. "So far, we would have buried in excess of 15 people," Skerrit told a television network of Antigua and Barbuda, a neighboring country.
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| Trump's trashing of Iran deal poses problems for NK strategy Posted: 20 Sep 2017 11:38 AM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump's threat before the world to obliterate North Korea left no doubt about his determination to stop the communist country's nuclear weapons buildup. His disparagement of the Iran nuclear deal in the same speech offered Pyongyang little hope of a negotiated solution.
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| Oil up 2 percent despite U.S. crude build; set for best third quarter since 2004 Posted: 20 Sep 2017 04:50 PM PDT  By Julia Simon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices settled up 2 percent on Wednesday despite a rise in U.S. crude inventories, with the market heading for its largest third-quarter gain in 13 years after the Iraqi oil minister said OPEC and its partners were considering extending or deepening output cuts. Brent crude futures rose $1.06, or 1.9 percent, to $56.20 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained 93 cents, or 1.9 percent, to $50.41. U.S. crude oil stockpiles jumped last week as imports and production increased, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said, as operations resumed from the impact of Hurricane Harvey which hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 25.
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| Watch moment Russian helicopter 'accidentally fires rockets at bystanders' Posted: 19 Sep 2017 10:37 PM PDT  Dramatic video footage has emerged of a helicopter accidentally firing a rocket at bystanders watching Russia's military drills. At least two bystanders were injured and two cars burnt down in the incident that occurred during the Zapad 2017 military exercises, the 66.ru news website reported Tuesday, citing an unidentified source familiar with the situation. According to the Yekaterinburg regional news website 66.ru that first broke the story and published a video of the incident, two military helicopters were chasing a target when one of them accidentally fired air-to-ground rockets at bystanders. The video of the incident, published by 66.ru, depicts a helicopter firing a shot at a man walking near three cars. "[The helicopters] were 500 meters away from the target. They activated the weapon chain, but something malfunctioned, and rockets went down [earlier]," the source told 66.ru and added that two people – "most likely journalists" – were hospitalised with serious injuries. The incident was reported to have taken place at the Luzhski range right outside of St. Petersburg. It remains unclear when it happened, but the 66.ru report suggests that it wasn't long before Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the range on Monday. Later on Tuesday the RBC news outlet reported that the incident happened on September 16, citing an anonymous source close to Russia's Defence Ministry. The source claimed three people got injured in the incident, and none of them were civilians. RBC published another video of the incident, showing the helicopter firing rockets at a military truck parked near three apparent civilian cars. The Defence Ministry refuted claims that the shot was fired at bystanders who were watching the Zapad exercise. The video posted by 66.ru depicts an incident that happened "at a different period of time," during another army aviation exercise, the Ministry spokespeople told RBC. They confirmed the fact that a helicopter accidentally fired a rocket at a parking lot, and said that an empty military truck was damaged as a result. Information about "many people heavily injured" is either "deliberate provocation," or "someone's personal silliness," the Ministry officials said. Zapad 2017 is a large-scale joint military exercise of Russia and Belarus that raised concerns in neighboring European countries as a potential threat to regional security. 12,700 troops are officially said to be participating, together with some 140 tanks, up to 150 artillery and air defence units and more than 40 planes and helicopters.
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| Utah detective who arrested nurse for refusing to take blood from unconscious patient now wants to apologise Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:07 AM PDT  The police officer who dragged a screaming nurse to jail after she refused to take blood from an unconscious patient has said he wants to apologise to her, according to his lawyer. Shocking video surfaced earlier this month showing Utah nurse Alex Wubbels calmly stating hospital policy that prevented her from drawing a blood sample without a warrant—before Detective Jeff Payne lost his patience and arrested her.
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| Woman in Kevin Hart Sex Tape Comes Forward, Claims She Didn't Try to Extort Him Posted: 20 Sep 2017 02:15 PM PDT  Hart's heavily pregnant wife, Eniko, says "there is absolutely no divorce talk."
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| Lawrence O'Donnell Lost His Mind Over A Malfunctioning Earpiece Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:47 PM PDT  On Wednesday, Mediaite published a full eight minutes of outtakes from the MSNBC host's Aug. 29 broadcast of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." Apparently O'Donnell's earpiece was acting up that night, a malfunction he repeatedly sounded off about between segments. This has been updated with O'Donnell's comments on Twitter.
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