| Indiana church locks Holy Family in 'ICE detention' to protest separations at border Posted: 03 Jul 2018 09:49 AM PDT  An Indianapolis, Ind., church made a bold statement about Trump's "zero
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| In rebuke to Trump, key Senate panel endorses finding that Russia attacked 2016 election Posted: 03 Jul 2018 02:01 PM PDT  The Senate Intelligence Committee, rejecting doubts conveyed by President Trump as recently as last week, has become the latest body to officially conclude that the Russian government conducted a wide-ranging campaign — including cyberattacks — to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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| DoJ loses senior leader who handled 'all the hottest potatoes' Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:56 PM PDT  Leon Neyfakh, reporter for Slate.com, talks with Rachel Maddow about the surprise resignation of Scott Schools, an associate deputy attorney general and the senior career official at the Department of Justice.
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| Trump Orders Flags To Half-Staff In Honor Of Capital Gazette Shooting Victims Posted: 03 Jul 2018 06:53 AM PDT  President Donald Trump ordered flags flown at half-staff at federal buildings
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| Members of a Youth Soccer Team Trapped in a Thai Cave Are in Stable Health Condition Posted: 02 Jul 2018 11:46 PM PDT  12 boys and their coach were trapped for over nine days with no outside contact
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| Trump administration to rescind Obama-era guidance on race in college admissions Posted: 03 Jul 2018 08:52 AM PDT  In a new memo released Tuesday, the Department of Justice called the guidance "unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper."
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| Jim Jordan Says He Would've 'Done Something' If He Knew About Ohio State Abuse Claims Posted: 04 Jul 2018 01:28 AM PDT  Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan denied allegations that he ignored reports of sexual
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| Vintage postcards celebrate the 4th of July Posted: 03 Jul 2018 10:53 AM PDT ![Vintage postcards celebrate the 4th of July]( "Vintage postcards celebrate the 4th of July") Vintage illustrated color postcards celebrate the Fourth of July with patriotic colors and symbols of American independence.
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| AP Explains: Getting soccer players out of Thai cave, safely Posted: 03 Jul 2018 03:09 AM PDT  BANGKOK (AP) — Now that the missing Thai soccer team has been found, the next step is determining how to get the boys and the coach safely out of a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand. A look at the options and why extracting the 12 boys and the coach could take some time:
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| MAPS: A look at the 'County Fire' burning in Yolo County Posted: 03 Jul 2018 08:51 AM PDT  The County Fire burning in Yolo County has consumed at least 70,000 acres, roughly the size of Fremont. It's just 5 percent contained, according to Cal Fire.
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| Trump brashly declares: 'If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!' Posted: 03 Jul 2018 06:23 AM PDT  President Trump on Tuesday brushed aside questions over whether his assertion that he "solved" the crisis with North Korea was premature amid reports leader Kim Jong Un is trying to conceal parts of his country's nuclear weapons program.
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| Senate Intel Cmte: Russia wanted to help Trump Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:07 PM PDT  The Senate Intelligence Committee today released a bipartisan report that said Russia meddled in the 2016 election at the direction of Vladimir Putin, to help Trump and hurt Clinton.
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| Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Denies Claim He Groped a Reporter 18 Years Ago Posted: 02 Jul 2018 05:44 PM PDT  Multiple people confirmed the young woman told them what allegedly happened at the time
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| Survivors of Bahamas Boat Explosion Speak Out Posted: 02 Jul 2018 09:00 PM PDT  Passengers who survived the fatal Bahamas boat explosion on Saturday talk about their experience for the first time.
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| Rochester School Won’t Let Its First Black Valedictorian Speak, So Mayor Does Posted: 04 Jul 2018 03:14 PM PDT  Jaisaan Lovett of Rochester, New York, became the first black valedictorian in
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| Mexico's president-elect shuns guards, asks 'people' for protection Posted: 03 Jul 2018 06:24 PM PDT  By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador left the country's national palace on Tuesday in the front passenger seat of a white Volkswagen Jetta, swarmed by hundreds of jubilant supporters including one waving a live rooster. Since claiming victory on Sunday, the leftist politician has promised transformative change for Mexico. Lopez Obrador's approach to security is one of the first signs of how he is breaking from the mold of the typical Mexican presidency.
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| The Latest: Thai authorities weigh cave extraction options Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:42 PM PDT  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The Latest on the search for 12 boys and their soccer coach in a cave in northern Thailand (all times local):
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| AT&T Raises Prices After Saying Merger Would Make Things Cheaper For Consumers Posted: 04 Jul 2018 01:58 AM PDT  AT&T, which recently acquired Time Warner in a landmark merger, is hiking up
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| Hundreds mourn at vigil for victims of birthday party attack Posted: 02 Jul 2018 10:12 PM PDT  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A 3-year-old Idaho girl who was stabbed at her birthday party died Monday, two days after a man invaded the celebration and attacked nine people with a knife, authorities said.
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| Islamic State says leader's son died in Syria Posted: 03 Jul 2018 03:23 PM PDT  Hudhayfah al-Badri, son of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed during an attack by the jihadists in the central Syrian province of Homs, the IS propaganda agency Amaq announced Tuesday. Al-Badri was killed in an "operation against the Nussayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power station in Homs," the group said in a statement alongside a photo of a young man holding an assault rifle. IS declared a cross-border "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq in 2014, seizing a third of Iraq during a sweeping offensive.
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| This Woman Brilliantly Documented 2 Strangers (Possibly) Falling In Love On Her Flight Posted: 04 Jul 2018 01:15 PM PDT  Two strangers may have fallen in love on a flight and the hero woman who set
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| Family of Oakland teen Jahi McMath speaks in San Francisco Posted: 03 Jul 2018 05:00 PM PDT  The mother of Jahi McMath, the Oakland girl at the center of the medical and religious debate over brain death, held a press conference in San Francisco. Nailah Winkfield said Thursday that the teen died after surgery.
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| Stunning photos show dive beneath giant iceberg Posted: 03 Jul 2018 07:39 AM PDT ![Stunning photos show dive beneath giant iceberg]( "Stunning photos show dive beneath giant iceberg") These absolutely incredible shots show the stunning formations of an iceberg beneath the surface of the ocean. Taken in Tasiilaq, Greenland, by Franco Banfi, the underwater photography captures the beauty of these ice mountains beneath the ocean's surface.
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| First lady on secret trip to visit injured service members Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:12 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump made another secret trip Tuesday, though she stayed a little closer to home.
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| Boys, coach in stable health after 10 days lost in Thai cave Posted: 02 Jul 2018 07:33 PM PDT  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The 12 boys and soccer coach found in a partially flooded cave in northern Thailand after 10 days are mostly in stable medical condition and have received high-protein liquid food, officials said Tuesday, though it is not known when they will be able to go home.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Driving New Energy And Money To Progressive Candidates Posted: 04 Jul 2018 05:01 AM PDT  At a Democratic gubernatorial candidate forum in Detroit on Monday,
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| Wikipedia down in several countries in EU law protest Posted: 04 Jul 2018 11:22 AM PDT  Wikipedia went down in at least three countries Wednesday in a protest at an upcoming European Parliament vote on a highly disputed law that could make online platforms legally liable for copyrighted material put on the web by users. In Spain, Italy and Poland, an explanatory protest statement about the upcoming vote came up when the online encyclopedia was consulted. "The directive would threaten online freedom and would impose new filters, barriers and restrictions to access the web," Wikipedia Spain said in its statement.
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| Five Killed in Latest Mob Attack After Rumors on Social Media. Here’s What to Know About India's WhatsApp Murders Posted: 03 Jul 2018 01:22 AM PDT  At least 27 people have been killed by vigilante mobs across the country since May
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| UK healthcare worker arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies Posted: 03 Jul 2018 03:13 AM PDT  A British female healthcare worker has been arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies and trying to murder six others after an investigation into deaths at a neonatal unit in northern England, police said on Tuesday. The arrest came after an inquiry into the deaths of 17 babies and 15 "non-fatal collapses" between March 2015 and July 2016 at The Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit. "This is a highly complex and very sensitive investigation and, as you can appreciate, we need to ensure we do everything we possibly can to try to establish in detail what has led to these baby deaths and collapses," said Detective Inspector Paul Hughes in a statement.
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| Trump makes unfounded claim that Obama gave citizenship to 2,500 Iranians Posted: 03 Jul 2018 09:28 AM PDT  Trump linked the citizenship claim to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, that he recently walked away from. Donald Trump has tweeted an unsubstantiated claim from an hardline Iranian cleric and circulated by a news agency linked to the country's Revolutionary Guard, that thousands of Iranians were granted US citizenship as part of the 2015 nuclear deal. In his 8am tweet, the US president said: "Just out that the Obama administration granted citizenship, during the terrible Iran Deal negotiation, to 2,500 Iranians, including to [sic] government officials.
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| The Latest: Nevada switches drug to be used in execution Posted: 03 Jul 2018 02:54 PM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on Nevada's plan for its first execution since 2006 (all times local):
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| Aston Martin DBS Superleggera Imagined In 5 Stunning Iterations Posted: 04 Jul 2018 02:57 AM PDT |
| Macron says migrant centres will only work if African nations take lead as EU immigration crisis deepens Posted: 04 Jul 2018 12:38 PM PDT  Emmanuel Macron acknowledged on Wednesday that EU plans to open migrant processing centres in North Africa can only work if the host countries lead the process. Speaking to the BBC during a visit to Nigeria, the French president said many African countries were concerned that such centres would act as a magnet for greater numbers of migrants. No African country has so far agreed to host the centres, planned as part of a compromise deal on the migration crisis during a tense EU summit earlier this month. Mr Macron said the idea "can fly, just if some African countries decide to organise it." Mr Macron said migration would pose problems for Europe for decades because of unplanned population growth in African countries. It is a view he has previously expressed, leading to criticism that he is voicing colonial rhetoric. He was speaking after France agreed to take about 80 migrants from the Aquarius rescue ship that was at the centre of a bitter European dispute over migration last month. French President Emmanuel Macron performs at the Shrine Africa in Lagos Credit: LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images Spain's government came under growing pressure over its handling of the migration crisis as Barcelona's mayor called for help over the arrival of busloads of migrants and critics claimed "permissive" policies were creating a magnet effect. Ada Colau, the mayor of Barcelona, issued an urgent call for resources after 500 migrants arrived in the city by bus in 15 days and an NGO ship docked with 60 rescued people turned away by Italy. Ms Colau welcomed yesterday's arrival of the Proactiva Open Arms, granted safe harbour in Barcelona after it was denied permission to dock by Italy's new populist government. But she accused Spain's government of turning a blind eye to the growing problem of migration along its own southern shores, where thousands of arrivals in recent weeks have left reception centres overflowing and forced transfers across the country. "Let's be clear, dozens of boats in the form of coaches are arriving with us. And as they arrive by coach, the state does not recognise them and they stay invisible," Ms Colau told Catalunya Radio. A member of SOS-Mediterranee checks life vests aboard the Aquarius rescue vessel Credit: PAU BARRENA/AFP/Getty Images In June, almost 6,800 migrants arrived in Spain by sea, outstripping the total number of arrivals in Greece, Italy and Malta combined. The Andalusia regional government has joined calls for a more coordinated European response, cautioning against a "policy of patches". The Open Arms is the second NGO ship to travel to Spain with migrants rescued in the Central Mediterranean; the first, the Aquarius, was granted safe harbour in Valencia in June after being stranded at sea for days with 629 people on board. While the move by Pedro Sanchez, the new prime minister, has been largely welcomed, he has also been accused of making political gestures while failing to address fundamental issues. Yesterday, his government promised an overhaul of asylum processing and air and sea reinforcements for the Spanish coastguard. Mediterranean migration But NGOs have warned that with the Spanish asylum system effectively collapsed, far greater resources are needed. Conservatives and anti-immigrant groups have meanwhile accused Spain's new Left-wing government of creating a "calling effect" with its offers of safe harbour. Vox, a small but vocal hard-Right party, claimed that just as Germany was "closing its borders to illegal immigration", Mr Sanchez's "permissiveness" was causing thousands of migrants to "direct their gazes towards Spain". The German interior minister is to fly to Vienna Thursday for talks with the Austrian government to defuse a row over his plans to set up transit camps for migrants on the border between the two countries. Horst Seehofer will meet with Sebastian Kurz, the Austrian chancellor, amid fears the plans could set off a domino effect that could threaten the future of the European Union's border-free Schengen Area. Merkel's migration tensions | Read more "The migration question will decide whether Europe can survive," Angela Merkel told German MPs on Wednesday as she defended the planned camps. Mr Seehofer won her backing for the transit centres in a last-minute compromise to avert a German political crisis on Monday after he threatened to resign and pull his Chrisian Social Union party (CSU) out of her coalition government. But the deal has left him with the difficult task of talking Germany's reluctant EU allies into accepting the migrants it turns away — after Mrs Merkel failed to persuade them at last week's EU summit. Austria reacted furiously to the announcement of the planned transit centres on Tuesday, warning it would impose its own controls on its southern borders with Italy and Slovenia. Mr Seehofer is also scheduled to hold talks on migrants with Matteo Salvini, the Italian interior minister, on a deal next week. But he played down hopes for a breakthrough at his talks in Vienna. "It's about initial talks on how to find an agreement," his spokesman said.
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| Philippine mayor killed a day after another was gunned down Posted: 03 Jul 2018 06:42 AM PDT  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Another Philippine mayor was shot and killed Tuesday by an unidentified man in a road attack a day after a city mayor was gunned down in brazen back-to-back killings that prompted an opposition senator to call the country the "murder capital of Asia."
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| Grieving mom lived with dead daughter’s body Posted: 03 Jul 2018 06:38 AM PDT  Police in Detroit say a distraught mother who couldn't part with her daughter after she died kept the woman's body in her house for months. Linda So reports.
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| China blocks Micron sales amid U.S. trade tensions, chip battle Posted: 04 Jul 2018 01:55 AM PDT  TAIPEI/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese court has temporarily barred Micron Technology Inc from selling its main semiconductor products in the world's biggest memory chip market, citing violation of patents held by Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp (UMC). The ruling, which was disclosed by UMC and its state-backed Chinese partner, slammed shares of Idaho-based chipmaker Micron, which gets half of its revenue from China. The ban comes amid an escalating trade spat between Washington and Beijing that is spurring China to accelerate its goal of developing its own domestic chipmakers to curb the heavy reliance on U.S. firms like Micron and Qualcomm Inc.
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| Anti-Abortion Movie About Roe v. Wade Is Pushed By Nick Loeb Posted: 03 Jul 2018 04:09 PM PDT  Roe v. Wade may be coming to a theater near you, at least if Nick Loeb has
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| Trade War Likely To Hit Trump States Hard: U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Posted: 03 Jul 2018 12:30 AM PDT  Several states that voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election are
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| Changing coach breathed life into Japan's World Cup campaign Posted: 03 Jul 2018 05:58 AM PDT  KAZAN, Russia (AP) — Changing coaches on the eve of the World Cup can be fraught with danger. Just look at Spain.
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