| Donald Trump Heats Up Feud With Iran By Praising Anti-Government Protests Posted: 30 Dec 2017 06:15 PM PST  The Iranian government denounced President Donald Trump on Saturday after he escalated his support for the anti-government protesters who have been holding demonstrations in the country for three days.
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| How do protests in Iran differ from 2009? Posted: 31 Dec 2017 05:06 AM PST  Msnbc's Ayman Mohyeldin discusses how current protest in Iran differ from the protests that arose during the 2009 presidential election.
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| Sheriff's Deputy Killed, 6 Other People Hurt In Colorado Shooting Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:03 AM PST  The Douglas County Sheriff's Office in Colorado says "multiple deputies" were shot as they responded to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment complex south of Denver on Sunday morning.
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| Witnesses: Residents prevented much worse attack in Egypt Posted: 31 Dec 2017 11:06 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — Witnesses to an attack outside a Coptic Christian church in Egypt that left nine people dead said it was residents and worshippers, not police, who kept the death toll from soaring even higher. One man in particular — a 53-year-old resident who pounced on the gunman as he was reloading his automatic rifle — likely saved dozens of lives.
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| A Decorated Soldier Died While Trying to Rescue His Neighbors from the Bronx Apartment Fire Posted: 31 Dec 2017 12:02 PM PST  He reportedly saved multiple people
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| Americans sound off on the 2017 headlines Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:16 AM PST  NBC News talks to Americans across the country to find out which news stories affected them the most this year.
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| New York Family Of 5 Among 12 Killed In Costa Rica Plane Crash Posted: 31 Dec 2017 12:47 PM PST  A plane carrying 10 American tourists, including a family of five from New York, and two Costa Rican pilots crashed in northwestern Costa Rica on Sunday, killing everyone on board, officials said.
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| Incredible New Year's Celebrations Around The World Posted: 31 Dec 2017 06:23 PM PST  From the London Eye to Athens' Acropolis, here are some of the most breathtaking scenes from New Year's celebrations around the world.
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| Trump says 'time for change' in Iran Posted: 01 Jan 2018 05:18 AM PST  US President Donald Trump said Monday it was "time for change" in Iran and that the country's people were "hungry" for freedom, after days of deadly protests against the government in Tehran. "Iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the Obama Administration," Trump tweeted, referring to the nuclear pact sealed under his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted.
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| 4-day week being tested in some Oklahoma schools Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:04 AM PST Facing a budget crisis and a teacher shortage, about 20 percent of schools in Oklahoma are trying a new approach: shorter school weeks, but longer days.
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| Colorado gunman who killed police officer was Iraq veteran who posted anti-police rants online Posted: 01 Jan 2018 02:09 PM PST  A gunman who shot at police officers in Colorado, killing one and wounding four others as they responded to a call, was a US army veteran who had served in Iraq. Matthew Riehl, 37, is thought to have posted online rants railing at local law enforcement in the weeks before the deadly "ambush-style" attack. Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said deputies wounded in a volley of gunfire had fought to save their slain colleague but were forced to give up and crawl to safety.
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| 2018 Is Already Off To A Violent Start Posted: 01 Jan 2018 02:54 PM PST  The cycle of violence in began anew Monday as millions of merrymakers around the country welcomed 2018.
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| Iranian protesters attack police stations, raise stakes in unrest Posted: 01 Jan 2018 02:51 PM PST ![Iranian protesters attack police stations, raise stakes in unrest]( "Iranian protesters attack police stations, raise stakes in unrest") By Michael Georgy DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian protesters attacked police stations late into the night on Monday, news agency and social media reports said, as security forces struggled to contain the boldest challenge to the clerical leadership since unrest in 2009. Videos on social media showed an intense clash in the central town of Qahderijan between security forces and protesters who were trying to occupy a police station, which was partially set ablaze. There were unconfirmed reports of several casualties among demonstrators.
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| Best photos of the year from Caters News Posted: 01 Jan 2018 10:13 AM PST ![Best photos of the year from Caters News]( "Best photos of the year from Caters News") They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and these striking images of 2017 are no exception. The photo highlights include incredible snapshots of the natural world as well as some awesome animal and human encounters. The vibrant gallery also shows thrill-seekers pushing themselves to the limit with breathtaking stunts captured in perfect clarity. The pictures have been taken by a host of photographers from around the world. (Caters News)
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| Britney Spears Ends Her Vegas Residency with Live New Year's Eve Performance Posted: 01 Jan 2018 08:23 AM PST  An era in Britney Spears' legacy ended with a lively New Year's Eve performance on Sunday night
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| Customers queue as California allows sales of recreational marijuana Posted: 01 Jan 2018 03:09 PM PST  It wasn't exactly reefer madness on Monday as California launched the first legal retail sales of marijuana, but those who could find the drug celebrated the historic day, lining up early for ribbon cuttings, freebies and offerings ranging from joints to gummy bears to weed with names like Red Dragon. Jeff Deakin, 66, his wife Mary and their dog waited in the cold all night to be first in a line of 100 people when Harborside dispensary, a longtime medical pot shop in Oakland, opened at 6 am and offered early customers joints for a penny and free T-shirts that read "Flower to the People — Cannabis for All." "It's been so long since others and myself could walk into a place where you could feel safe and secure and be able to get something that was good without having to go to the back alley," Mr Deakin said. "This is kind of a big deal for everybody." Harborside founder Steve DeAngelo used a giant pair of scissors to cut a green ribbon, declaring, "With these scissors I dub thee free," before ringing up the first customer at a cash register. People waiting in line for the opening of Haborside marijuana dispensary in Oakland, California Credit: Reuters Sales were brisk in the shops lucky to score one of the roughly 100 state licences issued so far, but customers in some of the state's largest cities were out of luck. Los Angeles and San Francisco hadn't authorised shops in time to get state licences and other cities, such as Riverside and Fresno, blocked sales altogether. Licensed shops are concentrated in San Diego, Santa Cruz, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Palm Springs area. California voters in 2016 made it legal for adults 21 and older to grow, possess and use limited quantities of marijuana, but it wasn't legal to sell it for recreational purposes until Monday. The nation's most populous state now joins a growing list of states, and the nation's capital, where so-called recreational marijuana is permitted even though the federal government continues to classify pot as a controlled substance, like heroin and LSD. US state rules on use of cannabis The signs that California was tripping toward legal pot sales were evident well before the stroke of midnight.California highways flashed signs before New Year's Eve that said "Drive high, Get a DUI," reflecting law enforcement concerns about stoned drivers. Weedmaps, the phone app that allows customers to rate shops, delivery services and shows their locations, ran a full-page ad on Sunday in the Los Angeles Times that said, "Smile California. It's Legal." The state banned what it called "loco-weed" in 1913, though it has been easing criminal penalties for use of the drug since the 1970s and was the first state to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes in 1996. Travis Lund, 34, said he'd been looking forward while working the graveyard shift to buy weed legally for the first time since he began smoking pot as a teen. "I'm just stoked that it's finally legal," he said after purchasing an eighth of an ounce of "Mount Zion" and another type of loose leaf marijuana at Northstar Holistic Collective in Sacramento, where the fragrance of pot was strong. "I'm going to home and get high — and enjoy it." Different varieties of marijuana on sale on Monday Credit: AP Mr Lund previously purchased marijuana on the black market through friends and said that may continue, given the high costs of the legal weed, which is heavily taxed. But he said he would indulge in retail pot occasionally because of controls being phased in to ensure a higher-quality product. Shops will be able to sell marijuana harvested without full regulatory controls for six months but will eventually only be able to sell pot tested for potency, pesticides and other contaminants, and products that have been tracked from seed to sale. The Bureau of Cannabis Control was not aware of any problems or complaints about the first day of sales, but it didn't have inspectors in the field, spokesman Alex Traverso said. Employees at the bureau on the holiday continued to process 1,400 pending licence applications for retail sales, distribution and testing facilities. Mr Traverso said they expect a flood of applications from LA and San Francisco after those are approved locally. Because Los Angeles is the biggest market in the state, some of those shops will be approved more quickly than others waiting in line, he said. The status of the Los Angeles shops highlights broad confusion over the new law. Los Angeles officials announced late last month that the city will not begin accepting licence applications until 3 January, and it might take weeks before any licences are issued. That led to widespread concern that long-established businesses would have to shut down during the interim. Lisa Masa shops at the Harborside marijuana dispensary Credit: AP Attorneys advising a group of city dispensaries have concluded those businesses can legally sell medicinal marijuana as "collectives," until they obtain local and state licences under the new system, said Jerred Kiloh of the United Cannabis Business Association, an industry group. It wasn't immediately clear how many of those shops, if any, were open. "My patients are scared, my employees are scared," said Mr Kiloh, who owns a dispensary in the city's San Fernando Valley area. In Orange County, shops in Santa Ana received the green light over the weekend to open and a steady flow showed up at ShowGrow. Ellen St Peter, 61, shopped with her son, Bryce St Peter, 23, both medical marijuana users. She said she smoked pot for years — at times taking great risks to get it — but stopped once she started having kids. "In high school my guy friends would fantasise about shops we could go into and just buy weed," she said. "I couldn't have dreamed of this place."
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| Fireworks Barge Explodes In Australia, Forcing Beach Evacuation Posted: 31 Dec 2017 05:25 PM PST  Glad the two men are ok #Terrigal fireworks, was great up until.
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| Months Before Fatal Shooting of Deputy, University Had Warned Students About Suspect Posted: 01 Jan 2018 10:47 AM PST  A man fatally shot after reportedly firing on deputies in suburban Denver was the subject of a warning to University of Wyoming students
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| Merkel sees Germany split over pace of social change Posted: 30 Dec 2017 07:59 PM PST  BERLIN (AP) — Germans have rarely been so divided about the changes taking place in their society, the country's long-time leader Angela Merkel said Sunday, adding in her New Year's address that she is committed to helping tackle the challenges of the future by swiftly forming a new government.
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| Iran's Rouhani rejects violence but vows 'space for criticism' Posted: 31 Dec 2017 10:08 AM PST  Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that government bodies must provide "space for criticism" as he sought to head off days of unrest, but warned protesters that violence was unacceptable. "Criticism is different to violence and destroying public property," he said in a cabinet meeting, according to the state broadcaster. "Government bodies should provide space for legal criticism and protest," Rouhani said in his first public comments since the protests began on Thursday.
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| Video captures emotional moment a teenager asks her stepfather to adopt her for Christmas Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:07 AM PST  A father has shared footage of the moment his 18-year-old stepdaughter asked him to adopt her on Christmas Eve. Makayla Dabney made the decision to ask her stepfather Stephen, the man who raised her for 14 years, to become one of her legal guardians as his Christmas present. The college student from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was inspired by a dream in which she asked him to adopt her.
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| Exclusive: Pakistan plans takeover of charities run by Islamist figure U.S. has targeted Posted: 01 Jan 2018 09:16 AM PST ![Exclusive: Pakistan plans takeover of charities run by Islamist figure U.S. has targeted]( "Exclusive: Pakistan plans takeover of charities run by Islamist figure U.S. has targeted") By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's government plans to seize control of charities and financial assets linked to Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed, who Washington has designated a terrorist, according to officials and documents reviewed by Reuters. Pakistan's civilian government detailed its plans in a secret order to various provincial and federal government departments on Dec. 19, three officials who attended one of several high-level meeting discussing the crackdown told Reuters. Marked "secret", a Dec. 19 document from the finance ministry directed law enforcement and governments in Pakistan's five provinces to submit an action plan by Dec. 28 for a "takeover" of Saeed's two charities, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation. The United States has labeled JuD and FIF "terrorist fronts" for Lashkar-e-Taiba ("Army of the Pure" or LeT), a group Saeed founded in 1987 and which Washington and India blame for the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people.
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| 12-Year-Old Girl Charged With Criminal Homicide After Killing Teen, Police Say Posted: 01 Jan 2018 08:03 AM PST  The victim was a 16-year-old girl
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| Remember Don Lemon's Drunken NYE Rant Last Year? Turns Out There's A Happy Ending. Posted: 01 Jan 2018 02:05 AM PST  CNN audiences may remember that host Don Lemon had quite the time celebrating New Year's Eve last year.
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| UN Secretary-General Puts World On 'Red Alert' In Somber New Year's Eve Address Posted: 01 Jan 2018 12:37 AM PST  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres issued a grim warning as 2017 drew to a close.
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| Bangladesh prosecutors seek death for opposition leader's son Posted: 01 Jan 2018 05:10 AM PST  Bangladesh prosecutors on Monday demanded the death sentence for the son of opposition leader Khaleda Zia for his alleged role in a deadly 2004 grenade attack in which current prime minister Sheikh Hasina was injured. More than 20 people were killed in the assault on a rally led by Hasina when she was in opposition and Zia was in power. Zia's son Tarique Rahman, who lives in exile in London, says the criminal conspiracy case against him is part of a political witch-hunt.
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| Ohio's move to toss inactive voters from rolls goes to court Posted: 31 Dec 2017 11:26 AM PST  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joseph Helle was expecting a different sort of reception when he returned home from Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and showed up to vote in his small Ohio town near Lake Erie.
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| Sheriff: Denver deputy killed in ambush-style attack Posted: 31 Dec 2017 01:34 PM PST  Officials release information about the deadly shooting.
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| Iran protesters rally again, defying warning of crackdown Posted: 31 Dec 2017 03:40 PM PST ![Iran protesters rally again, defying warning of crackdown]( "Iran protesters rally again, defying warning of crackdown") Giving his first public reaction to the protests, President Hassan Rouhani appealed for calm, saying Iranians had the right to protest and criticize the authorities. Police in the center of Tehran fired water cannon to try to disperse demonstrators, according to pictures on social media. Demonstrations turned violent in Shahin Shahr in central Iran.
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| Barack Obama Shares His Favorite Books And Songs From 2017 Posted: 01 Jan 2018 12:59 AM PST  Former U.S. President Barack Obama has been closing out 2017 by trying to lift Americans' spirits.
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| Virginia Man With Suspected Ties to ISIS Arrested for Destroying Evidence Posted: 31 Dec 2017 01:43 PM PST  He may have been interested in a U.S. attack
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| Three big US cities saw homicides decline last year Posted: 01 Jan 2018 12:26 PM PST  New York, Chicago and Washington all experienced significant declines in homicides in 2017, though the murder rate rose in Baltimore, Maryland amid drug problems and lingering racial tensions. The homicide decline was dramatic in New York, which experienced 2,245 killings as recently as 1990 but just 286 in 2017 as of December 27, according to the New York Times. Chicago, which in 2016 suffered through its deadliest year in two decades with 754 killings, saw its murder total drop last year to 650, the largest year-to-year decline since 2004, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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| The F-15 Eagle: The Amazing Fighter Jet No Air Force Can Shootdown? Posted: 01 Jan 2018 05:01 AM PST  According to official releases from Boeing and the U.S. Air Force, the F-15 Eagle has a clear-cut win-to-loss ratio of 104 to zero. Iraqi sources claimed that on Jan. 4, 1991 – 13 days before the U.S.-led coalition launched Operation Desert Storm — Iraqi fighters intercepted a formation of Israeli F-15s over western Iraq and shot down one of the Eagles near the H-3 air base complex. Sadik added that some other pieces of wreckage were sent to Iraqi air force intelligence in Baghdad.
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| Angry at Trump, North Carolina Democrats hope for 2018 gains Posted: 31 Dec 2017 10:29 AM PST  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democrats say they are beginning 2018 energized and intent on regaining their historical control of the state's General Assembly, harnessing anger over Republican Donald Trump's presidency and buoyed by Democratic victories elsewhere.
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| A Prominent British Businessman and His Family Were Killed in a Seaplane Crash in Australia Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:04 PM PST  Police have not yet determined the cause of the crash
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| Bernie Sanders Holds Up New York City Mayor As Model For The Trump Opposition Posted: 01 Jan 2018 01:19 PM PST  NEW YORK ― At a ceremony to swear in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for his second term, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) held up his hometown as a bastion of progress and a template for what Americans should strive for in the face of the Trump administration's policies.
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| U.S. Politicians Can Afford To Grow A Spine On Saudi Arabia Posted: 01 Jan 2018 04:00 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― On the morning of Sept. 10, 2016, aircraft bombed a remote area in western Yemen where workers were drilling a well for a nearby village.
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| China tightens rules on oversea cash withdrawals Posted: 30 Dec 2017 05:37 PM PST  China has tightened rules on how much cash cardholders can withdraw overseas in a bid to clamp down on money laundering, terrorist financing and tax evasion, authorities said Saturday. The new rules will "prevent law breakers from withdrawing a large amount of cash with different cards from different banks," the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said according to state news agency Xinhua.
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| American teenager after family shot dead on New Year's Eve Posted: 01 Jan 2018 02:10 PM PST  A 16-year-old New Jersey boy has been arrested after his parents, sister and a family friend inside were shot dead on New Year's Eve inside the home where they lived, authorities have said. Monmouth County prosecutor Chris Gramiccioni said the teen will be charged with four counts of murder and a weapons offence stemming from the shooting that occurred less than 20 minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve, in the shore town of Long Branch. A possible motive for the shooting has not been disclosed. The rifle used in the shooting was legally registered to a resident of the house, Mr Gramiccioni said. The teen's name has not been disclosed and it was not known on Monday if he has retained a lawyer. MCPO running an ongoing homicide investigation with 4 dead in Long Branch. No threat to the public as it is believed to be an isolated domestic incident. More to follow stay tuned.— Monmouth Prosecutor (@MonCoProsecutor) January 1, 2018 The victims were identified as the boy's parents Steven Kologi, 44, and Linda Kologi, 42; his 18-year-old sister Brittany and 70-year-old Mary Schultz, who lived with the family. Mr Gramiccioni said police responded to a 911 call of shots fired at the home just after 11.30pm on Sunday. He described the shooting as an isolated domestic incident and said the teen was taken into custody without issue. The teen's grandfather and brother were not targeted and left the home unharmed. "It's a terribly tragic incident," Mr Gramiccioni said. He said the teen was expected to make an initial court appearance on Tuesday.
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| Iran's Revolutionary Guard Vows to Crush Anti-Government Protests Posted: 31 Dec 2017 07:20 AM PST  Days of conflict have turned deadly
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