| The War On Women Is Already Here Posted: 30 Jun 2018 02:45 AM PDT  The Supreme Court has been terrible to women all year ― and that's with
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| North Korea is keeping nuclear program alive, officials say Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:43 AM PDT  After President Trump's historic summit with Kim Jong Un, more than a dozen U.S. intelligence officials tell NBC News that North Korea is pushing ahead with its nuclear program.
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| Full Graham: Mueller investigation ‘not a ground for recusal’ from Supreme Court Posted: 30 Jun 2018 10:50 PM PDT  In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tells Chuck Todd that he believes President Trump's Supreme Court nominee won't have to recuse him or herself if questions of presidential power make their way to the Court.
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| Regime reclaims more ground in south Syria: monitor Posted: 01 Jul 2018 12:22 PM PDT  A string of rebel-held locations in southern Syria passed into regime control Sunday as the government regained more ground under Russian-brokered deals, a war monitor said. Talks involving rebels, local officials and regime ally Russia saw agreements struck for four villages and a strategic town near the border with Jordan, extending government control to some 60 percent of the southern Daraa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Since June 19, Russia-backed regime forces have ramped up bombardment against opposition fighters in southern Syria as Damascus pushes to retake the area.
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| Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters defiant, but rally turnout hits a low Posted: 01 Jul 2018 05:23 AM PDT  By Venus Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's annual pro-democracy protest saw one of the lowest turnouts in history, as thousands braved sweltering heat to protest against Beijing's tightening grip over the city on Sunday, the 21st anniversary of its return to Chinese rule. Hong Kong's opposition has lost much steam in the past year, which saw elected pro-democracy legislators disqualified and some of the most prominent activists jailed. Against the fall of Hong Kong." "Now the government is already siding with the Communist Party.
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| 12-Year-Old Black Kid Has Police Called On Him For Mowing A Lawn Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:05 PM PDT  A 12-year-old child who started his own summer lawn-mowing business had the
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| Manhunt underway after notorious French gangster Redoine Faid breaks free from jail in dramatic helicopter escape Posted: 01 Jul 2018 10:08 AM PDT  France's most famous gangster on Sunday made a spectacular jailbreak with the help of three heavily-armed accomplices who landed in his jail in a helicopter and flew out with him on board. Redoine Faid was being visited by his brother in Réau prison in the Paris region when the men burst into the room on Sunday morning and extracted him. A third man waited in the helicopter in the prison courtyard to watch over the pilot, a flying instructor whose aircraft the men hijacked in a nearby airfield and whom they forced to take part in the dramatic operation. It was the second time Faid, 46, has pulled off a spectacular jailbreak. In 2013 he became the country's most-wanted criminal after he blasted his way out of another prison using dynamite. He briefly took four wardens hostage before being recaptured six weeks later in a cheap hotel room. Faid, who has said he was inspired by US films such as "Scarface" and "Heat", was serving 25 years in Réau prison for his part in a botched 2010 cash-transport van robbery that he masterminded. The helicopter that extracted him on Sunday flew right across the Paris region from the jail southeast of the capital, before being dumped not far from Charles de Gaulle airport to the northeast of the city. The international 'wanted person' notice for French rober Redoine Faid Credit: AFP/Getty Images The aircraft was then set alight but was only partly damaged and the fire was extinguished when police found it a short time later. Media reports said the pilot had been released and was not injured. The prison courtyard it landed in was the only one not fitted with anti-helicopter nets as it is used by inmates only when they are being admitted or released from the jail. Spectacular helicopter jailbreaks became a regular embarrassment for French penal authorities until the late 2000s, but have petered out since prisoner exercise yards in most jails were equipped with nets to prevent choppers from landing. After the helicopter that flew Faid out of jail was torched, its occupants fled by car in a black Renault Megane which they later dumped in the underground car park of a shopping centre near the airport. They switched to a white van with the company name Enedis marked on the vehicle. A huge manhunt has been launched to track them down. All police and gendarme units across Paris were put on alert and ordered to set up checkpoints that "take into account the dangerousness of the fugitive and his possible accomplices." Faid's brother, who was visiting him at the jail, has been taken into custody for questioning. A union representative at Reau told BFM television that "two men dressed in black, wearing balaclavas and police armbands" entered the prison to look for Faid and used a grinding machine to cut open the door that directly leads to the visiting room. Faid was serving a prison sentence for his role in the 2010 hold-up of a cash-transport van in the Paris area, in which a 26-year-old policewoman was killed. She was shot as the gang fled and used kalashnikov assault rifles to fire at police cars pursuing them along the busy A4 motorway. The helicopter, Alouette II, abandoned by French armed robber Redoine Faid after his escape from prison Credit: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images Two members of the gang are currently serving lengthy jail sentences for her murder. Faid has made several television appearances and co-authored two books about his delinquent youth and rise as a criminal in the Paris suburbs. In one of those published in 2010 he claimed he had given up his life of crime. Prior to the 2010 robbery, he had been released from a previous stint of a decade behind bars after convincing parole officials that he regretted his criminal past and was determined to start afresh.
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| Temporary housing program for hurricane survivors ends Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:52 AM PDT  The FEMA program that helped Americans impacted by Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey has come to an end. The agency said the program was meant to be a temporary solution, but nearly 2,000 displaced survivors struggle to find permanent housing.
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| Thailand Clings to Hope as the Search for a Missing Soccer Team Enters Its Seventh Day Posted: 30 Jun 2018 01:53 AM PDT  It's been a week since an under-16 soccer team disappeared into a cave
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| Plastic a big part of human life and a major source of pollution Posted: 30 Jun 2018 09:02 AM PDT  So many of the items we use are made of plastic, but much of it doesn't get recycled and pollutes the land and seas. Many cities are moving to ban certain products and some families are trying to live plastic-free.
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| Palestinians call for 'revenge' at funeral of boy killed by Israeli fire Posted: 30 Jun 2018 06:44 AM PDT  Thousands of Palestinians on Saturday attended the funeral of the 11-year-old son of a Hamas military commander killed by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip, with mourners demanding "revenge". Yasser Abu al-Naja, whose father is a member of Hamas's military wing, was shot in the head on Friday in border clashes near the southern city of Khan Yunis. Senior members of Hamas, which rules the blockaded Gaza Strip, and commanders of its Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades attended the funeral.
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| Exclusive: Tesla hits Model 3 manufacturing milestone, hours after deadline - factory sources Posted: 01 Jul 2018 10:28 AM PDT  Tesla Inc nearly produced 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans in the last week of its second quarter, with the final car rolling off the assembly line on Sunday morning, several hours after the midnight goal set by Chief Executive Elon Musk, two workers at the factory told Reuters. It was not clear if Tesla could maintain that level of production for a longer period of time. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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| Grateful neighbors return home after Concord grass fire prompted evacuations Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:06 AM PDT  Fire watch crews will be on scene all night in Concord following a brush fire that threatened hundreds of homes. The fire is now 85 percent contained and residents who were evacuated are now allowed to return home.
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| Mourners remember 5 people slain at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md. Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:34 AM PDT ![Mourners remember 5 people slain at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md.]( "Mourners remember 5 people slain at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md.") Hundreds of people gathered on Friday evening to remember the five people gunned down at a community newspaper office in Annapolis, Md., one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in U.S. history.
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| 6 Kids Attending Birthday Party Among 9 Stabbed At Apartment Complex Posted: 01 Jul 2018 09:23 AM PDT  Six children were attending a birthday party when they were violently stabbed
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| North Korea Boosting Nuclear Fuel Production At Secret Sites: Report Posted: 29 Jun 2018 06:06 PM PDT  North Korea has been secretly increasing production of enriched uranium for
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| The supreme court has taken a sledgehammer to the New Deal Posted: 30 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT  Of the three decisions the US supreme court handed down this week, the gay wedding cake case and travel ban cases were the latest battles in the culture wars that Republicans long have waged. The Janus decision declaring that public sector employees cannot be required to pay fees to the unions that represent them went beyond culture to the very meaning of the American government and how Republicans define it. Since the 1930s, when then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised to break the hold of moneyed men on the government and broker "a new deal for the American people", a cabal of reactionaries resolved to destroy the new government Democrats created.
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| French politician Simone Veil honored with Pantheon burial Posted: 01 Jul 2018 12:37 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, who repeatedly broke barriers for women in French politics and spearheaded the fight to legalize abortion, was buried at the Pantheon on Sunday, an honor reserved for French heroes.
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| Delta Apologizes to Busy Philipps for Rerouting Her Daughter on Separate Flight Posted: 01 Jul 2018 11:41 AM PDT  The company refunded her money after the mix-up.
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| Jordan army sends aid to southern Syria displaced Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:15 PM PDT  The Jordanian army has sent cross-border deliveries of aid to displaced people in Syria's southern province of Daraa, where Damascus is pressing an offensive to oust rebels, officials said. "The Jordanian armed forces have started sending convoys of humanitarian aid to the Syrian brothers... inside Syria," Jordanian government spokeswoman Jumana Ghanimat told AFP.
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| Net Neutrality Supporter Threatened to Murder FCC Chairman's Children, DOJ Says Posted: 30 Jun 2018 07:11 AM PDT  Markara Man, 33, threatened to kill Pai's family in December 2017, officials say
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| Chrissy Teigen spoke passionately at the Families Belong Together march, baby Miles in hand Posted: 01 Jul 2018 09:46 AM PDT  "We love that the American story is filled with people who come from all over the world to have a better life here." Chrissy Teigen spoke from the heart on Saturday during an appearance at the Families Belong Together march in Los Angeles. Although she couldn't resist peppering in a few Trump burns — who can? — she spent most of her time at the podium preaching the virtues of America's immigrant population. SEE ALSO: The best signs from the Families Belong Together marches "Making America great doesn't mean building walls to keep people out; it means continuing to embrace the dreams of immigrants who add to our culture, our economy, and our humanity," she said, clutching her newborn son Miles in her arms. "Making America greater most definitely doesn't mean turning asylum-seekers away or kidnapping their kids to turn them away from coming here." Chrissy Teigen at the Families Belong Together March: "I'm incredibly proud to be a daughter of an immigrant." https://t.co/Q0HTxGqLaQ pic.twitter.com/2oS1JhDcYj — Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 30, 2018 Teigen later let her Instagram followers know that for Miles, Families Belong Together was "baby's first rally." She was also joined at the L.A. march by husband John Legend, who used his musical gifts to address the crowd. Legend played a number of songs, including Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" and a newer, original song "Preach," which he said "feels right for this moment." The lyrics encourage listeners to channel their angers and frustrations into action, rather than disengaging. "Can't see the use in me crying if I'm not even trying to make the change I want to see," he sang. Privileged to hear @johnlegend sing new song called #Preach with its beautiful, powerful message at #FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch in #LA. "We can't all just sit at home..." We didn't, John. And we won't stop, @waltshaub. Here's a bit of the performance. pic.twitter.com/nYl3sr6qqy — Randy (@RandyRNB) June 30, 2018 Families Belong Together marches played out all across the United States — and in other parts of the world — on Saturday. The movement sprung up earlier in June as a response to the Donald Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy. WATCH: Sarah Huckabee Sanders' most ludicrous moments as press secretary
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| LeBron James returns to LA hours before free agency opens Posted: 01 Jul 2018 06:14 AM PDT  LeBron James was spotted by AIR7 HD landing at Van Nuys Airport on Saturday after a long flight from the Caribbean. He could be in Southern California longer than usual.
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| Maxine Waters Responds To Death Threats: 'You'd Better Shoot Straight' Posted: 30 Jun 2018 05:02 PM PDT  Days after she was forced to cancel events because of a "very serious" death
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| The Latest: College stabbing, police shooting leave 2 dead Posted: 30 Jun 2018 03:13 AM PDT  POMONA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a stabbing and police shooting at a Southern California college (all times local):
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| Bear Cub with Burned Feet Rescued From Colorado Fire Posted: 01 Jul 2018 01:24 PM PDT  She will eventually return to the wild.
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| Eight south Syria towns return to regime control under deals: monitor Posted: 30 Jun 2018 06:10 AM PDT  At least eight battered rebel-held towns in southern Syria on Saturday returned to regime control under Russian-brokered deals after nearly two weeks of bombardment, a Britain-based monitor said. Since June 19, the Damascus regime has pressed a deadly bombardment campaign in southern Syria in a bid to retake the strategic area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The agreements for the eight towns were reached even as regime air strikes on Saturday pounded other opposition holdouts in the wider southern province of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
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| Original Bullitt Mustang To Make International Debut At Goodwood Posted: 01 Jul 2018 03:00 AM PDT  The iconic car emerged earlier this year after years out of the spotlight.
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| Mexico's national elections, at a glance Posted: 30 Jun 2018 09:03 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans will elect a new president and numerous other officeholders on Sunday. With popular discontent high due to high murder rates and rampant corruption, all four candidates are trying to convince voters that they represent change from the status quo.
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| Kaley Cuoco Marries Equestrian Karl Cook In Romantic Ceremony Posted: 01 Jul 2018 12:43 PM PDT  Actress Kaley Cuoco and fiance Karl Cook, a professional equestrian, tied the
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| U.S. Ambassador To Estonia Resigns Over Trump's European Union Comments Posted: 30 Jun 2018 05:50 PM PDT  The U.S. ambassador to Estonia has announced his resignation, saying he is
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| University police shoot, kill man during Oregon bar fight Posted: 29 Jun 2018 06:05 PM PDT  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland State University police shot and killed a man while responding to a bar fight near campus, and a witness said the victim had been trying to stop the melee early Friday.
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| Afghan president orders troops to resume operations against Taliban Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:00 AM PDT  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani declared a formal end to his government's ceasefire with the Taliban on Saturday but called on the insurgents to agree to full peace talks following a three-day truce during this month's Eid holiday. "It is now the Taliban's decision, whether they want to keep killing or join the peace process," Ghani told a news conference in Kabul where he repeated an appeal for comprehensive peace talks.
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| Great white spotted off Spain in decades first: marine group Posted: 30 Jun 2018 12:08 PM PDT  A great white shark was spotted in waters off Spain's Balearic Islands this week in what is the first such sighting by scientists in at least 30 years, a marine conservation group said Saturday. The Alnitak group captured footage of the shark, which it said was five metres (16 feet) long, on Thursday in the seas off Cabrera island and followed it for over an hour, it said on its Facebook page, posting a picture. "In the past years there have been possible unconfirmed sightings and various rumours, but this is the first scientific verification of the presence of a Carcharodon (great white shark) in Spanish waters in at least 30 years," it wrote.
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| Is Taiwan Ready for an Aggressive China? Posted: 30 Jun 2018 08:11 PM PDT  Taipei has been lucky, having to contend with a regime in Beijing that is distracted. But that luck could run out--and soon.
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| The Week's Most Important Car Numbers Posted: 30 Jun 2018 06:00 AM PDT  From a new Volvo to an adorable Audi, these are the most important numbers of the week.
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| Crews rescue deaf puppy stuck in hole for 30 hours in Alabama Posted: 30 Jun 2018 03:52 PM PDT  After 30 hours of effort, volunteers were able to rescue a 7-week-old deaf puppy that fell down a 50-foot (15-meter) crevice behind a house in Alabama.
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| 11 bodies, 10 of them hanging, found at New Delhi home Posted: 01 Jul 2018 07:54 AM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India's capital said they found 11 bodies at a home under mysterious circumstances on Sunday, including 10 that were blindfolded and hanging.
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| Rebels, Russia pursue talks over battered south Syria: monitor Posted: 01 Jul 2018 06:14 AM PDT Syrian rebels and local officials pursued talks with regime ally Russia on Sunday over the fate of a key southern region facing a government offensive, a Britain-based monitor said. The Jordan-backed talks came as a tentative calm reigned over most fronts in the southern province of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. A "ceasefire has largely held since Saturday at 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) to facilitate the ongoing negotiations," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
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| White House Backs Off Trump Tweet Claiming Saudi Agreement To Produce More Oil Posted: 30 Jun 2018 10:11 PM PDT  The White House late Saturday issued a statement backing down from President
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| Teen's police killing tests long-frustrated black Pittsburgh Posted: 01 Jul 2018 11:48 AM PDT  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The day after Antwon Rose Jr. was shot through the cheek and elbow and in the back, killing the 17-year-old honors student, young black people swarmed the East Pittsburgh police station.
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| Turkish military kills eight Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey Posted: 01 Jul 2018 12:31 AM PDT ![Turkish military kills eight Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey]( "Turkish military kills eight Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey") The Turkish military killed eight Kurdish militants in air strikes in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey at the weekend, it said on Sunday. The air strikes were carried out on northern Iraq's Zap region and Turkey's southeastern provinces of Sirnak and Van, the military tweeted. Turkey has stepped up strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq, especially its stronghold in the Qandil mountains.
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| Embattled Merkel draws up new measures to tackle migration Posted: 30 Jun 2018 01:12 PM PDT  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has drawn up a raft of measures to tighten controls on the influx of migrants, according to a document submitted to her coalition partners Saturday as she battles for political survival. Two of the countries mentioned -- Hungary and the Czech Republic -- denied that any such deal had been reached. Merkel's move came after the European Union's 28 members hammered out a hard-fought deal Friday to tackle migration and avert a crisis that has threatened the very fabric of the bloc.
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