| Toronto Police Find Remains Of At Least 6 People Linked To Suspected Gay Village Killer Posted: 08 Feb 2018 02:24 PM PST  After days of excavation, Toronto police on Thursday said they have recovered the remains of at least six different people on property that was landscaped by suspected serial killer Bruce McArthur, who has been charged with the murder of five men connected to the city's gay village.
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| Syrian Regime's Airstrikes Kill Scores Of Besieged Civilians In Eastern Ghouta Posted: 08 Feb 2018 04:37 PM PST  A renewed onslaught of bombing in Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta enclave has wreaked havoc in the region, killing nearly 200 people in a matter of days and shattering cease-fire negotiations.
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| Married figure skating couple ready to take the ice in PyeongChang Posted: 08 Feb 2018 08:09 AM PST  Chris Knierim and Alexa Scimeca Knierim were married one year after winning their first U.S. pairs title in 2015. Now, the couple has achieved their dream of competing in the Olympics together.
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| The man who hid in a church, and the church that hid him: An immigrant story with an uncertain ending Posted: 08 Feb 2018 12:58 PM PST  He's 47 and has lived in America since 1993, holding a job and raising two children. Harry Pangemanan is also a Christian, who fears deportation to Indonesia, where Christians have been persecuted and even killed by Muslim extremists. He took sanctuary in a church for months, but now his fate is in the hands of a federal judge.
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| Iconic Tongan Olympic flag bearer goes shirtless amid frigid temperatures in Pyeongchang Posted: 09 Feb 2018 07:04 AM PST  Temperatures in Pyeongchang are so frigid right now that Olympians are being forced to throw away their expensive skis after mere practice runs — but that sure as hell didn't stop Tonga's viral flag bearer from going shirtless (again.)
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| California teen who livestreamed crash that killed sister gets 6 years Posted: 08 Feb 2018 07:35 PM PST  Obdulia Sanchez, 19, was sentenced Thursday after being convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter, DUI and child endangerment stemming from the July crash.
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| U.N. says Reuters report on Myanmar massacre 'alarming,' need for investigation Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:49 AM PST ![U.N. says Reuters report on Myanmar massacre 'alarming,' need for investigation]( "U.N. says Reuters report on Myanmar massacre 'alarming,' need for investigation") The United Nations on Friday described the details of a Reuters investigation into the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as "alarming" and said it showed the need for a thorough probe into the violence in the country's Rakhine state. This once more attests to the need for a full and thorough investigation by the authorities of all violence in Rakhine State and attacks on the various communities there," U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters.
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| Markets Right Now: China share benchmark falls 5.5 percent Posted: 08 Feb 2018 07:05 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
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| Police find remains of at least six people in plant plots connected to Canadian 'serial killer' Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:50 AM PST  The remains of at least six people have been recovered from plant pots in the grounds of a property connected to a suspected Canadian serial killer. Police in Toronto made the grisly discovery at the home of Bruce McArthur, who was charged in January with the murder of five men near Toronto's Gay Village. Investigators had previously uncovered the remains of three people in flowers pots on a property where the 66-year-old stored his tools.
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| CNN Host Tells Holocaust-Denying Congress Candidate: 'You'll Go Down In Flames' Posted: 08 Feb 2018 08:10 AM PST  A Republican candidate for an Illinois seat in Congress on Thursday openly denied the Holocaust and said, "You jews media, you've gone absolutely nuts," during an appearance on CNN's "New Day." Arthur Jones, the self-described former leader of the American Nazi Party, called the Holocaust a "scam" and an "extortion racket" as "New Day" host Alisyn Camerota challenged him.
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| Activist Ravi Ragbir Thwarts ICE's Attempt To Deport Him, For Now Posted: 09 Feb 2018 10:30 AM PST  A well-known immigrant rights activist who was on the cusp of being deported this week has filed a lawsuit that allows him to stay in the U.S., for now. Ravi Ragbir, executive director of the immigrant advocacy group New Sanctuary Coalition, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in January during a routine check-in with the agency. Despite his release, Ragbir was still scheduled for deportation for Saturday, Feb. 10.
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| Omarosa on Working in the Trump White House: 'I Was Serving my Country, Not Serving Him' Posted: 07 Feb 2018 09:00 PM PST  The former political aide is now appearing on the reality show "Big Brother."
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| 10 More Kids Have Died This Flu Season — And We May Not Have Reached the Peak, CDC Says Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:46 AM PST  'Almost everything we're looking at is bad news'
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| Kremlin critic says top Russian official vacationed with tycoon Posted: 09 Feb 2018 12:02 PM PST  A video published online by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny alleging that an influential Russian deputy prime minister enjoyed lavish hospitality from a billionaire tycoon went viral on Friday, receiving more than 2 million views. The video includes footage that Navalny said was shot by a woman who has written a book about seducing oligarchs. Navalny, who has been barred from running against President Vladimir Putin in next month's election, said the video appears to show Putin's former top foreign policy adviser Sergei Prikhodko vacationing on the yacht of 50-year-old Oleg Deripaska, an aluminium magnate.
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| LA Family's Lawsuit Says Starbucks Served Blood-Stained Frappuccino Posted: 09 Feb 2018 10:30 AM PST  A legal battle is brewing between Starbucks and a California family claiming they were served bloody cups of Frappuccino. Amanda Vice says in a lawsuit against the coffee chain that Frappuccinos she ordered for herself and her toddler daughter from a San Bernardino Starbucks in February 2016 came with a ghastly ingredient not typically found on the menu. "She was licking the whipped cream where it had been sitting on top," Vice told CBS Los Angeles, describing the moment she noticed the drink was corpuscle-enhanced.
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| Captured jihadi 'Beatles' should suffer 'long, painful death', says victim's daughter Posted: 09 Feb 2018 01:00 PM PST  The two captured members of the jihadist execution squad dubbed the Beatles should be subjected to "a long, slow, painful death", according to the grieving daughter of one of their victims. But Bethany Haines, who was just 17 when her father David was murdered in September 2014, accepted it was unlikely the two men would be sentenced to death. Instead she pleaded for them never be freed from jail. The capture of Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh was welcomed by the families of their victims. The men were part of the so-called Beatles, who brutalised hostages and who were executed by Mohammed Emwazi, nicknamed 'Jihadi John'. Emwazi was killed in a drone strike while the fourth member Aine Davis is languishing in a Turkish jail. It is reckoned the gang executed about 25 people, including Mr Haines and Alan Henning, a Manchester taxi driver kidnapped on an aid convoy to Syria. Alexanda Kotey Three Americans were also murdered - journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid worker Peter Kassig - and two Japanese citizens Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto. Members of the Syrian armed forces were also executed. The beheadings of Western hostages shocked the world, the gruesome killings filmed and then broadcast online as propaganda for the so-called Islamic State. Miss Haines, from Scotland, said: "My personal opinion is that they die a long, slow, painful death and a lot of people will understand that they should not be allowed to live. "Realistically that is not going to happen and the best thing that could happen is they are locked up and they throw away the key." El Shafee Elsheikh Nicolas Henin, a French journalist who was held hostage by Islamic State for 10 months, called for the men to be tried in Britain. Mr Henin told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I would like to see them brought back to Britain, just like I would like to see all other European jihadis brought back to their home countries, to be judged fairly in their home country. "Because the worst thing we can do with a terrorist is to deprive him from his right because then you make the terrorist a victim." Mohammed Emwazi Diane Foley, the mother of James Foley, said the men's detention would "hopefully protect others from this kind of crime". She added: "Their crimes are beyond imagination. They really have not done anything good in the world, so I think they need to spend the rest of their life being held."
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| These Veterans Say Trump's Military Parade Would Be A Big Waste Of Time Posted: 08 Feb 2018 04:02 PM PST  WASHINGTON — For the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who would be tasked with making it happen, a military parade like the one President Donald Trump envisions would be a colossal pain in the rear guard.
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| U.S. dismisses fears of wider war after deadly Syria clashes Posted: 08 Feb 2018 03:17 PM PST ![U.S. dismisses fears of wider war after deadly Syria clashes]( "U.S. dismisses fears of wider war after deadly Syria clashes") By Phil Stewart and Lisa Barrington WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis dismissed concerns on Thursday that the United States was being dragged into a broader conflict in Syria, after a major clash with pro-Syrian government forces overnight that may have left 100 or more of them dead. The U.S.-led coalition said it repelled an unprovoked attack near the Euphrates River by hundreds of troops aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who were backed by artillery, tanks, multiple-launch rocket systems and mortars. The incident underscored the potential for further conflict in Syria's oil-rich east, where the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias holds swathes of land after its offensive against Islamic State.
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| Hungry Dog Snatches Pancakes From Stove, Accidentally Setting Fire in Home Posted: 08 Feb 2018 07:35 AM PST  Canines causing fires inside a home is more common than you might think.
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| Russians held for 'mining bitcoin' at top nuclear lab Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:19 AM PST  Engineers at Russia's top nuclear research facility have been detained after they attempted to mine bitcoin on its computers, Russian news agencies reported Friday. Several employees at the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre in the city of Sarov have been detained after making "an attempt to use the work computing facilities for personal ends, including for so-called mining," a spokeswoman for the centre, Tatiana Zalesskaya told Interfax news agency. The centre is overseen by Rosatom, the Russian nuclear agency, and works on developing nuclear weapons.
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| Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) Expects a Big Earnings Number Posted: 09 Feb 2018 04:57 AM PST ![Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) Expects a Big Earnings Number]( "Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) Expects a Big Earnings Number") Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) investors are hoping to get some love from Cisco this Valentine's Day if the company can repeat last quarter's impressive earnings beat on Feb. 14. Wall Street analysts are expecting Cisco to get a huge boost from tax reform and demonstrate that its transition to a more software-centric business model is starting to make a meaningful impact on its growth numbers. Analysts are projecting Cisco will report earnings per share of 59 cents on revenue of $11.8 billion.
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| Ex-Virginia Tech student pleads no contest in girl's killing Posted: 09 Feb 2018 02:12 PM PST  CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — After listening to days of damaging testimony from prosecution witnesses, a former Virginia Tech student pleaded no contest Friday to killing a 13-year-old girl he met through social media.
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| U.S. Men's Skating Favorite Nathan Chen Is Off to a Rough Start at the Olympics Posted: 08 Feb 2018 10:18 PM PST  Nathan Chen had a disastrous debut on Olympic ice, but he wasn't the only one struggling
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:23 AM PST  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways.
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| Amazon tests delivery in Los Angeles, shipping shares sink Posted: 09 Feb 2018 12:47 PM PST  Amazon is running "Shipping with Amazon" in Los Angeles and possibly other locations, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on condition of anonymity. FedEx Corp and United Parcel Service Inc shares were down more than 4 percent in afternoon trading. FedEx, UPS and analysts played down the idea that a trial poses a near-term threat to the couriers' businesses.
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| China says new stealth fighter put into combat service Posted: 09 Feb 2018 10:25 AM PST  China has put into combat service its new generation J-20 stealth fighter, a warplane it hopes will narrow the military gap with the United States, the Chinese air force said on Friday, making it operationally ready.
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| Pebbles, the 'emotional support' hamster flushed down the toilet Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:44 AM PST  Washington (AFP) - First it was Dexter the Peacock. Now it's Pebbles the Hamster.
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| Barb From 'Stranger Things' Received The Best Coffee Cup Message From A Barista Posted: 09 Feb 2018 06:32 AM PST  Barb's tragic disappearance from the "Stranger Things" universe is still a sore point for Canadian barista Abigail Bahnman.
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| Police say Texas officer's killer likely gunned down 2nd man Posted: 08 Feb 2018 01:02 PM PST  DALLAS (AP) — A gunman who mortally wounded a suburban Dallas police officer likely killed a second man before barricading himself in an apartment and randomly firing his weapon during the standoff, authorities said Thursday.
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| Olympic Swimmer Says Former USA Swimming Coach Sexually Abused Her For Years Posted: 08 Feb 2018 07:00 AM PST  Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors says former U.S. Olympic swimming coach Sean Hutchison began sexually abusing her when she was 16.
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| Trump administration reportedly drafting rules to target immigrants who use food stamps Posted: 08 Feb 2018 01:53 PM PST  A new proposal being drafted by the Trump administration would reportedly allow immigration officials to consider an immigrants' use of government programmes when deciding whether or not to grant them permanent status. The draft rule, seen by Reuters, is a sharp departure from current US law, which prevents immigration officials from taking immigrants' use of public benefits like food assistance and health insurance subsidies into account when reviewing their application. The rule would not apply to permanent residents seeking citizenship, but would affect the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who apply for permanent status in the US each year.
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| Volatile Stocks Causing Investor Worry: Here Are 5 Moves If You've Lost Faith in Bull Market Posted: 06 Feb 2018 07:48 AM PST  After rising for years, the stock market has become increasingly volatile. The question on the mind of many investors is whether the recent turbulence is simply a healthy pullback or the start of...
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| Catt Sadler Says She Left E! To Avoid 'Collaborating With An Evil System' Posted: 09 Feb 2018 11:47 AM PST  Catt Sadler says she left E! in December for bigger reasons than getting only half the salary of her male co-star.
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| Philippines says Canada helicopters 'not for attack' Posted: 08 Feb 2018 02:10 PM PST  The Philippine military on Thursday denied it planned to use 16 Bell helicopters bought from Canada as attack aircraft against local insurgents, following reports Ottawa was reviewing the deal. Canadian media had reported that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government was reconsidering the sale over fears the aircraft would be used in internal security operations, just hours after both governments had announced the deal. President Rodrigo Duterte's spokesman warned Manila may walk away from the deal in light of the controversy.
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| Teaching Kids About Gender Identity Might Be Banned in This State Posted: 08 Feb 2018 12:02 PM PST  "I think we need to be focusing on reading, writing and arithmetic"
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| India's Modi heads to Palestinian territories to balance warming ties with Israel Posted: 09 Feb 2018 01:49 AM PST ![India's Modi heads to Palestinian territories to balance warming ties with Israel]( "India's Modi heads to Palestinian territories to balance warming ties with Israel") By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - After a public embrace of Israel as a strategic partner, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is heading to the Palestinian territories and the Gulf on Friday to bolster long-standing political and economic ties. India was one of the earliest champions of the Palestinian cause but in recent years turned to Israel for high-tech military equipment and anti-terrorism cooperation. Under Modi, whose nationalist party sees Israel as a natural ally against Islamist extremism, ties have flourished.
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| Donald Trump Jr.'s Valentine's Day Gift Ideas Are 'Grounds For Divorce' Posted: 08 Feb 2018 01:25 AM PST  Donald Trump Jr. played the role of romance consultant on Wednesday when he offered Valentine's Day advice on Twitter.
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| Mexico arrests Zetas drug cartel boss wanted in US Posted: 09 Feb 2018 03:10 PM PST  Mexican marines have captured a kingpin in the violent Zetas drug cartel who had a $5-million reward on his head in the United States, authorities said Friday. Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, alias "Z43," was arrested Thursday in the upscale Mexico City neighborhood of La Roma "without the use of force," the head of the National Security Commission, Renato Sales, announced in a press conference. "He is believed to be responsible for trafficking drugs from South America to the United States, and was one of the main drivers of violence in the states of southeastern Mexico," said Sales.
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| Child dies, others hurt after Georgia school bus crash Posted: 30 Jan 2018 08:16 AM PST ![Child dies, others hurt after Georgia school bus crash]( "Child dies, others hurt after Georgia school bus crash") WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a 6-year-old girl has died after a school bus she was riding in overturned in Georgia.
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| 27 Realistic Marriage Vows You Didn't Think To Make At Your Wedding Posted: 09 Feb 2018 10:16 AM PST  Newlyweds are often idealistic on their wedding day, blissfully unaware of all the annoyances, frustrations and less romantic moments of married life that lie ahead.
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| $2K goes missing from couple's bank account, but it wasn't a thief Posted: 08 Feb 2018 03:29 PM PST  When the couple found almost $2,000 missing from their checking account, they thought they were bank fraud victims. The real shock was who really took their money.
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| Scott Baio Facing New Allegations From Another 'Charles In Charge' Costar Posted: 08 Feb 2018 02:19 AM PST  A second cast member of the 1980s sitcom "Charles in Charge" has accused actor Scott Baio of abusive behavior.
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