| Democrat reiterates doubts about Jared Kushner's loyalty to the U.S. Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:00 AM PST  Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said he was "absolutely" impugning Jared Kushner's patriotism when he tweeted Wednesday that "we don't know where his loyalties lie" — whether to America or "bailing out his and his family's debts."
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| Powerful nor’easter slams East Coast with high winds, flooding Posted: 02 Mar 2018 07:40 AM PST  Power is out, planes are grounded and flood waters are rising in many sections of the Northeast tonight, as rain, heavy snow and vicious winds pummel the region.
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| Gun debate roils U.S. Posted: 02 Mar 2018 11:52 AM PST  Nowhere in the world do citizens have access to guns as they do in America. Although the U.S. makes up 4.4 percent of the world's population, it owns nearly half the world's guns.
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| Russia may be helping North Korea skirt sanctions through smuggling Posted: 02 Mar 2018 08:20 AM PST  North Korea made $200 million over nine months through illicit trade—with the country's coal being shipped through Russia in several instances—according to a UN report obtained by NBC News.
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| Pennsylvania Redistricting Leads To Bad Blood Among Some Democrats Forced To Shuffle Electoral Plans Posted: 02 Mar 2018 12:10 PM PST  Democrats rejoiced last month when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court redrew the state's congressional districts, ruling that the GOP had gerrymandered the map unconstitutionally. The court's move made Democrats competitive in several more districts than they would have been under the Republican plan. Democrat Christina Hartman, an establishment favorite running there, announced Wednesday that she would be withdrawing from that race and running in the adjacent 10th District instead.
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| Police arrest Michigan college student suspected of killing parents Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:57 PM PST  (Reuters) - A student at Central Michigan University suspected of shooting to death his parents inside a campus dormitory during a domestic dispute was arrested on Saturday, the school said, after a daylong manhunt. The suspect was seen by a bystander on a train passing through the north end of campus in Mount Pleasant, about 125 miles (200 km) northwest of Detroit, shortly after midnight and taken into custody without incident, said Heather Smith, a university spokeswoman, in a statement. The suspect was identified as James Eric Davis Jr., 19, after the two victims were found inside a residence hall at the university, police said.
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| Nor'easter Grounds Flights, Halts Trains Along East Coast Posted: 01 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST  Airlines canceled thousands of flights, mostly in the Northeast, and Amtrak suspended service along the Northeast Corridor, from Washington to Boston.
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| 5 Avalanche Victims Rescued At California's Squaw Valley Ski Resort Posted: 02 Mar 2018 09:52 PM PST  A powerful avalanche Friday at Squaw Valley Ski Resort above Lake Tahoe in Northern California buried five skiers and snowboarders, injuring two, officials reported. Officials are investigating what may have triggered the avalanche.
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| Regime forces advance in Syria's battered Ghouta Posted: 03 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PST  Government forces seized territory inside Syria's rebel enclave Eastern Ghouta Saturday, intensifying fighting as tens of thousands of civilians in the besieged enclave near Damascus awaited urgently needed aid. On another front in Syria's seven-year civil war, Turkish air strikes killed 36 pro-regime fighters in a Kurdish enclave near the Turkish border. Syria's war has killed more than 340,000 people and spiralled into a complex conflict involving world powers since it started in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.
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| Police: Plot to Rob Armored Bank Car and Kill Drivers Thwarted Posted: 01 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST  Alleged two-year plot ended with a dramatic takedown in Florida.
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| Australia Is Still Waiting for the U.S. to Fulfill Its Pledge to Accept Refugees Posted: 02 Mar 2018 12:21 AM PST  Only 200 refugees have been resettled since Trump agreed to accept 1,250
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| Delta To Georgia Lawmakers: 'Our Values Are Not For Sale' Posted: 02 Mar 2018 12:08 PM PST  The CEO of Delta Air Lines on Friday declared his company's "values are not for sale" after Georgia lawmakers retaliated against the airline for cutting ties with the National Rifle Association in the wake of last month's Florida school shooting. Bastian explained the decision to employees a day after Georgia lawmakers passed a tax bill that effectively punishes the airline for rescinding the discount for NRA members to travel to the group's annual meeting.
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| U.S. Allies Threaten Retaliation Over Trump's Tariffs Announcement Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:48 AM PST  Many of America's top trade partners bristled at the news that President Donald Trump plans to impose tariffs of 10 percent on aluminum and 25 percent on steel imports next week. Trump announced the new measures during a meeting with industry executives at the White House Thursday. Canada called the tariffs "unacceptable" and "inappropriate," saying it hoped to receive an exemption from the policy, though the president plans to offer zero exemptions, according to The New York Times.
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| Manhunt underway after shooting leaves two dead at Central Michigan University Posted: 02 Mar 2018 08:47 AM PST  Authorities are searching for James Eric Davis Jr., a 19-year-old student, after his parents were killed on Friday morning.
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| Champagne and bribery: the cases ensnaring Israel's Netanyahu Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:00 AM PST  From granting favours for fine champagne to attempting to bribe a judge -- a series of allegations have entangled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent months. Netanyahu was questioned for an eighth time by police Friday over fresh allegations, but protests his innocence and accuses the media and police of a witch-hunt. On February 13 Israeli police recommended Netanyahu be indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of public trust in two cases known as 1000 and 2000.
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| Massive Anti-Gun Rally Bumped From National Mall For Talent Show Posted: 02 Mar 2018 03:24 AM PST  The National Park Service has refused a permit for the March for Our Lives anti-gun rally at the National Mall in Washington so that part of the space can be used instead for a student talent show. Organizers of the March 24 protest are now seeking a permit to use Pennsylvania Avenue on a route that would take them from the Capitol to Trump International Hotel, NBC-4 reported. The massive anti-gun rally, spearheaded by survivors of the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people, is expected to draw 500,000 marchers.
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| Cryptocurrency gave young South Koreans a glimmer of hope, now dashed Posted: 02 Mar 2018 04:00 AM PST  For Juwon Park, cryptocurrency investment represented a 'life raft' to escape drowning in debt and one day move out of her parents' home. But she wasn't counting on the South Korean government's plans to regulate the market.
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| Paul Teutel Sr. Slapped with Fraud Lawsuit Posted: 02 Mar 2018 11:15 AM PST  Paul Teutel Sr. Slapped with Fraud Lawsuit Paul Sr.'s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decade continues With reality TV star Paul Teutul already scheduled to appear in court later this month due to the foreclosure of his multi-million dollar New York
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| Scott Pruitt Just Gutted Rules To Fight The Nation’s ‘Second Biggest Toxic Pollution Threat’ Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:58 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans Thursday to scrap Obama-era rules tightening restrictions on disposal of coal ash, the toxic byproduct from coal-fired power plants that has caused major water contamination problems across the country. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt billed the new proposal as a bid to give states more independence over coal ash disposal, though he moved to reconsider the 2015 regulation in September at the request of fossil fuel utilities. The EPA's announcement makes no mention of the risks coal ash poses to human health and the environment.
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| New TV Ad Demands Trump Drop His Ban On Transgender Troops Posted: 01 Mar 2018 10:10 PM PST  The Human Rights Campaign and other LGBTQ advocacy groups are launching a television ad campaign across the nation Friday demanding that "impulsive president" Donald Trump drop his attempt to ban transgender service members in the military. The total ban on transgender troops demanded by Trump last summer is currently blocked by federal court rulings and has been criticized by military leaders. "An impulsive president tweets that transgender Americans won't be allowed to serve," the ad says.
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| Are Kushner's businesses tied to Trump policies? Posted: 02 Mar 2018 12:07 PM PST  NBC News reports that Mueller is looking at whether Kushner's foreign business ties affected White House policy. Ari Melber discusses with Maya Wiley and Natasha Bertrand how any unusual influence could result in criminal charges.
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| 'We’re Gonna Do What International Law Says We Can Do.' Aboard the USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea Posted: 02 Mar 2018 01:11 AM PST  TIME tours one of America's biggest warships as it prepares for a historic Vietnam port call
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| The Latest: Chief: Deaths of officer, wife "tragic" Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:39 PM PST  MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at Central Michigan University (all times local):
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| US shrinks its Cuba mission after mystery 'attacks' Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:08 PM PST  The United States is to permanently scale back its mission to Cuba after what it alleges were series of mystery "attacks" on the health diplomats, the State Department said Friday. The Havana embassy had already been operating with a reduced staff since September 2017, when diplomats and family members were evacuated after suffering brain injuries. Cuba's communist government has angrily denied that it had anything to do with any attack on US personnel, and US officials have been unable to determine the cause of the injuries.
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| Saudi Crown Prince to make three-day Egypt visit Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:17 AM PST ![Saudi Crown Prince to make three-day Egypt visit]( "Saudi Crown Prince to make three-day Egypt visit") Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman is to visit Egypt on Sunday to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in his first public foreign trip since becoming crown prince last year, Sisi's office said on Friday. The three-day visit will start on March 4, with the Saudi crown prince then traveling to London on March 7 and the United States, Riyadh's closest Western ally, on March 19. Egypt and Saudi Arabia have strengthened ties since Sisi took power after ousting the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013.
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| Silicon Valley police use decoy bus to hunt people shooting BB gun at coaches carrying Apple and Google workers Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:46 AM PST  California police are using decoy "bait buses" to try to catch attackers who have been firing BB guns at coaches taking Google, Apple and other tech company workers from their San Francisco homes to their Silicon Valley offices. The motive for the attacks is unclear, but previously the luxury coaches – known by the catch-all term 'Google buses' - have been the target of peaceful protests by those who blame the influx of thousands of tech workers on gentrification and unaffordable rents in San Francisco. On January 16 alone, five buses were hit as they carried Apple and Google employees along the Interstate 280 highway between the city and San Francisco Bay area's Silicon Valley.
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| Missing snowboarder found dead at Squaw Valley Ski Resort Posted: 03 Mar 2018 02:36 PM PST  A spokesperson for the California resort says search and rescue crews were able to locate Wenyu Zhang because he was using the resort's app.
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| Tucker Carlson Turns On Trump: 'Imagine If Barack Obama Had Said That' Posted: 02 Mar 2018 01:50 AM PST  "Imagine if Barack Obama had said that," Carlson said. Carlson said Obama would've been "denounced as a dictator" for making such a comment. "We would have denounced him first, trust me," Carlson said. "Congress would be talking impeachment right now.
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| The 20 Funniest Tweets From Women This Week Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:47 AM PST  The ladies of Twitter never fail to brighten our days with their brilliant ― but succinct ― wisdom. Each week, HuffPost Women rounds up hilarious 280-character musings. For this week's great tweets from women, scroll through the list below. Then visit our Funniest Tweets From Women page for our past collections.
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| Ben Carson Cancels $31,000 Furniture Order Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:17 PM PST  The HUD won't be decorated with designs by Alexa Hampton, David Phoenix, and more
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| Joshua Tree couple arrested after 3 kids found living in box for years, authorities say Posted: 01 Mar 2018 07:09 PM PST  A couple were arrested after deputies found their three children had been living in a large box for years.
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| Mennonite investigator remains jailed after court ruling Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:44 PM PST  DENVER (AP) — A Colorado criminal defense investigator who refused to testify for the prosecution in a death penalty case because she says it's against her Mennonite faith will remain jailed after an appeals court on Friday ruled against her request to testify under alternative conditions.
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| UN rights council postpones vote on Syria resolution Posted: 02 Mar 2018 09:30 AM PST  The UN Human Rights Council on Friday postponed voting on a British resolution condemning the crisis in Syria's besieged rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta, after members-states failed to agree on a final text. The British draft introduced at an emergency council session calls for immediate humanitarian access to the area, where a controversial truce unilaterally declared by Damascus-ally Russia has been unable to produce a breakthrough. The draft also instructs war crimes investigators from the UN-backed Commission of Inquiry for Syria to conduct an investigation into alleged atrocities in the area, battered by a Russia-backed regime assault that began February 18.
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| Ukraine says weapons decision heralds new era of cooperation with U.S. Posted: 02 Mar 2018 08:21 AM PST  By Alessandra Prentice and Sergiy Karazy KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak on Friday said the decision by the United States to approve the supply of anti-tank missiles opened the door for closer military cooperation in the face of Russian aggression. On Thursday, the Pentagon announced that the sale of Javelin missiles and launch units to Ukraine had been approved - a move the United States has been mulling since early 2015 to help Ukraine in its standoff with Russia-backed separatists. "Unfortunately the issue of giving lethal weapons was under consideration for a long time," Poltorak said in an interview with Reuters.
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| 'The Internet Is The Only Place We Simultaneously Desire Fame And Anonymity' Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:17 AM PST  The shower isn't just a place to sing. Separated from our cellphones, standing under running water often allows people's minds to run free.
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| What's killing more pedestrians: smartphones or legal weed? Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:00 AM PST  There were roughly 6,000 pedestrians killed in car accidents in the U.S. in 2017. That's the same high level of pedestrian fatalities as was recorded in 2016, up from about 5,400 in 2015. In fact the number has been climbing since 2009, with only the smallest of dips in 2013. Now, it doesn't take a genius to see the main change in our society since 2009. Just look out of your window and you're likely to see a zombified walker staring at her smartphone, or maybe a driver sneaking an illegal look at a black rectangle. SEE ALSO: Put your smartphone away, you're missing the entire history of you Some 80 percent of us now own smartphones, compared to a mere 17 percent in 2009. It's a sea change in society and we're still grappling with the implications. But that didn't stop the Governors Highway Safety Association from sneaking another possible cause into its latest pedestrian deaths report: the fact that seven states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for recreational use. The report was careful to say that it wasn't "making a direct correlation or claiming a definitive link" between legal weed and pedestrian deaths. Nevertheless, the New York Times was on it. The Grey Lady conjured up a headline that managed to look both schoolmarmish and clickbait-ish: "When pedestrian deaths are up, is marijuana to blame?" Hey, I'm just asking. Even Fox News managed to avoid the anti-marijuana clickbait approach in its headline on the report. But the Times — home to self-hating former stoner David Brooks and Maureen Dowd, who wrote a widely derided column about gobbling up marijuana edibles in Colorado without asking about proper dose levels — has a disturbing tendency to grasp for any reefer madness angle it can find. SEE ALSO: Vermont just legalized marijuana. Here's why that's so important. Yes, pedestrian deaths are increasing at a slightly faster rate in the eight legalized states (Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California, Colorado, Alaska, Maine, Massachusetts) plus Washington, D.C. But further down the Times piece, we discover that we're not really dealing with statistically significant numbers: there are almost no pedestrian deaths in weed-legal Alaska or Maine, and a mere four extra in Colorado. We also discover that in the first half of 2017, the states with the most pedestrian fatalities per 100,000 people were Arizona, New Mexico, Delaware, Louisiana, and Florida. None of those states have legalized marijuana for recreational purposes. Which means that you could just as easily make a pro-pot argument from these numbers. When pedestrian deaths are up, should more states allow recreational marijuana? After all, plenty of pot users will tell you they get more aware of their surroundings when high — not to mention jumpy, paranoid, and more likely to think a car is heading in their direction when it isn't. Other important questions that both the Times and the GHSA failed to ask: Is the rate of smartphone adoption growing faster than average in those eight legalized states, which are generally wealthier than the average? Could that account for the difference, perhaps? And is there a significantly higher number of pot smokers in legal states, rather than just people transitioning from getting America's No. 1 cash crop illegally? And at a time when the U.S. Attorney General is threatening to roll back the Obama administration's tolerant approach to state-level legalization, is this kind of scare headline irresponsible in the extreme? Dig into the report and you'll find another interesting and largely ignored explanation: There are simply more pedestrians in our streets. More of us are discovering the joys (and the health benefits) of walking to work. And yet the infrastructure itself has hardly changed. There's no great national public works effort afoot to widen our sidewalks or strengthen our curbs or build more structures, such as parklets, that put some space between walkers and drivers. Or, y'know, more street lamps, since 75 percent of all pedestrian deaths take place at night. It isn't just democracy that dies in darkness. Perhaps the New York Times should worry more about lights and less about lighting up.
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| This Was a Crazy Week for the White House Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:19 AM PST  Donald Trump's White House has seen no shortage of tumult and turnover in its first year, but this week was even more tumultuous than usual.
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| BlackRock: Investment giant threatens to pull funds from gunmakers after Florida high school shooting Posted: 03 Mar 2018 05:55 AM PST  BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, will offer its clients the ability to opt out of investing in gun manufacturers in the wake of the deadly Florida high school shooting. The firm, which manages close to $6 trillion (£4.3 trillion) in assets, said on Friday the attack had "driven home the terrible toll from gun violence in America". BlackRock said its clients will also be offered the opportunity to avoid investing in gun makers.
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| Equifax breach could be most costly in corporate history Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:57 PM PST  NEW YORK/TORONTO (Reuters) - Equifax Inc said it expects costs related to its massive 2017 data breach to surge by $275 million this year, suggesting the incident at the credit reporting bureau could turn out to be the most costly hack in corporate history. "It looks like this will be the most expensive data breach in history," said Larry Ponemon, chairman of Ponemon Institute, a research group that tracks costs of cyber attacks. Equifax on Thursday reported fourth-quarter profit that topped Wall Street forecasts and disclosed that it uncovered an additional 2.4 million people whose data was stolen in the attack.
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| DA: Woman, 3 young children found dead in Massachusetts home Posted: 01 Mar 2018 08:28 PM PST  WEST BROOKFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A woman and three young children were found dead Thursday in the upstairs bedroom of a Massachusetts home, according to a district attorney who called their deaths suspicious.
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| Fractured Ethiopia parliament endorses emergency decree Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:28 PM PST  Ethiopia's parliament approved a nationwide state of emergency on Friday despite unusual opposition from some lawmakers, in the latest sign of fractures within the all-powerful ruling coalition. The council of ministers made the emergency declaration last month, one day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's surprise resignation amid a growing political crisis and divisions in the ruling party. The six-month decree, which required approval from two-thirds of lawmakers, has been condemned by several of Ethiopia's allies including the United States and the European Union.
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| US and Russia clash over blame for Syria chemical attacks Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:12 AM PST  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Russia are again clashing over an expert body to determine responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria, with Washington circulating a new draft U.N. resolution and Moscow moving toward a vote on its own proposal.
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| Cat Given CPR After Dramatic Rescue From Apartment Fire Posted: 02 Mar 2018 08:30 AM PST  The cat appeared to be suffering from smoke inhalation.
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| Start of trial on AT&T, Time Warner merger may be delayed by one day Posted: 02 Mar 2018 01:18 PM PST  The start date for the trial over whether wireless and pay TV provider AT&T Inc can buy Time Warner Inc may be delayed by a day to March 20, Judge Richard Leon said on Friday. Leon, who is on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said March 19 may be needed to hear final pre-trial motions so the trial start may be pushed back. The Justice Department's Craig Conrath said he opposed any delay because witnesses travelling to Washington for the trial could be inconvenienced.
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