| Reuters World News Summary Posted: 04 May 2019 05:59 AM PDT ![Reuters World News Summary]( "Reuters World News Summary") A Brexit deal could be reached by negotiators from Britain's Conservative and Labour parties within a few days, the leader of Scotland's Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, said. North Korea fired several "unidentified short-range projectiles" into the sea off its east coast on Saturday, prompting South Korea to call on its communist neighbor to "stop acts that escalate military tension on the Korean Peninsula." The South Korean military initially described it as a missile launch, but subsequently gave a more vague description.
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| 'All of a sudden it smashed into something:' Jacksonville, Florida, plane crash survivor recounts chaotic landing Posted: 04 May 2019 02:58 PM PDT  The plane that greeted 143 passengers and crew at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was four hours late and lacked air-conditioning. It got terrifyingly worse at the end.
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| Feast your eyes on this spectacular Hubble photo of a spiral galaxy Posted: 04 May 2019 10:49 AM PDT  The Hubble telescope has captured a dazzling new photograph of a spiral galaxy, NGC 2903. NGC 2903 is part of the constellation Leo, located roughly 30 million light-years from Earth. NASA used the powerful orbital telescope to explore it along with over 100 other disc galaxies in the region.SEE ALSO: SpaceX just blasted a critical NASA instrument into spaceSpiral galaxies comprise the majority of galaxies in space at over 75 percent. Our own Milky Way galaxy was thought to be one until the 1960s, when it was reclassified as a barred spiral (a spiral galaxy with a distinct center bar in addition to spiral arms). Spiral galaxies' arms are full of stars (and solar systems) as well as cosmic dust and gas bursts. NASA has a particular fascination with black holes at the moment, and spiral galaxies often contain singularities -- another word for "black hole" -- somewhere near the center. Hubble's surveys of disc galaxies aim to explore the relationship between these black holes and their local galaxies. WATCH: Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a gigantic 'fart' storm on Neptune
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| Student who charged a campus gunman remembered as a hero Posted: 05 May 2019 04:54 PM PDT  WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Family, hundreds of friends and a military honor guard on Sunday remembered a North Carolina college student credited with saving classmates by rushing a gunman firing inside their lecture hall.
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| Pompeo Says All Venezuela Options Open, Including Military Posted: 05 May 2019 08:20 AM PDT  "We're preparing those for him so that when the situation arises, we're not flat-footed,'' Pompeo said on ABC's "This Week," one of three scheduled appearances on Sunday morning political shows. Pompeo said Sunday that he can't predict when Maduro will be forced out of office -- whether days, weeks or months. "There's enormous poverty, enormous starvation, sick children that can't get medicine," Pompeo said.
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| Nancy Pelosi tries to herd Democrats: Today's Toon Posted: 05 May 2019 01:40 PM PDT  Want to keep up with USA TODAY's editorial cartoons? Bookmark this page. We'll update it frequently.
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| Footage released from fatal shooting of 18-year-old Posted: 05 May 2019 06:38 AM PDT  Raw video: Officials release dashcam footage of the officer involved shooting of Jose Vega Cruz after his death sparked protests from the community.
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| Meet the Iskander: Russia's Latest Navy-Killer Missile? Posted: 05 May 2019 03:30 AM PDT  But also note that the DF-26 has an estimated range of 2,500 miles, much greater than a Kalibr or an Iskander-M. A 300-mile missile may be a useful coastal defense weapon in confined waters like the Baltic or Black Seas, enabling Russia to prevent NATO ships from getting too close to its territory. But it's not a long-range access denial weapon.First, China developed long-range "carrier-killer" ballistic missiles. Now, Russia's Iskander ballistic missile system may have the same mission.(This first appeared late last year.)In late July and early August, Russia conducted two simulated "electronic launches" of the 9K720 Iskander-M (NATO code name, SS-26 Stone) against ships in the Black Sea, according to Russian media."An 'electronic' launch likely means a field combat simulation where the missile unit prepares and performs all procedures for a real-world launch without firing a live missile," explains the Russian Defense Policy blog. But exactly which missile did Russia pretend to launch? The Iskander, developed in the 1970s as a replacement for the Scud, is a road-based mobile launch system that can fire several models of ballistic and cruise missiles. The Iskander-M is a single-stage ballistic missile, armed with a conventional or nuclear warhead, and a range of 500 kilometers (311 miles).
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| Race segregation ‘sneaking back in’ across US, Biden warns at South Carolina rally Posted: 05 May 2019 07:29 AM PDT  Joe Biden has warned racial segregation is "sneaking back in" across the US as he accused Republicans of making voting more difficult for minorities during his first presidential campaign rally in South Carolina.The former vice president is considered the frontrunner in the state, which will host the South's first presidential primary. Black voters will play a key role there. Criticising Republican efforts to to restrict early voting hours and introduce more stringent identification requirements, Mr Biden told a rally in Columbia: "You've got Jim Crow sneaking back in."As the crowd of 700 people cheered in agreement, he added: "You know what happens when you have an equal right to vote? They lose."Mr Biden was referring to the collection of state and local laws which enforced racial segregation in the South between the late 19th century and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. Jim Crow was the name of a minstrel routine that came to be used as a derogatory term for African Americans.Mr Biden cited a figure that at least 24 states have introduced or enacted at least 70 bills to restrict voting access, and said most of those efforts targeted "people of colour".Mr Biden's frontrunner status in South Carolina is partly due to his popularity among black voters. However, earlier this year he said he regretted supporting the "tough-on crime" drug legislation of the 1990s, criticised for leading to an era of mass incarceration and disproportionally affecting black Americans.Mr Biden also spent much of his speech denouncing Donald Trump, criticising his remarks after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned violent in 2017.In response to the clash that left a counter-protester dead, Mr Trump had said there were "very fine people on both sides.""Think about that," Mr Biden said. "I don't ever recall a president of the United States, Democrat or Republican, ever saying anything like that. Ever."He added: "We have to restore the soul of America. That's not who we are."In his speech, Mr Biden also emphasised his eight year tenure as vice president to Barack Obama."He's a hell of a guy," he said at one point, referring to Mr Obama.Mr Biden played a key role in the Obama administration's relations with China, travelling to the country in 2011 for a series of meetings with then vice president Xi Jinping.In an interview before his rally in South Carolina, he said that US "can defeat China in every way".The remarks came after Mr Biden was criticised for minimising the threat from China after he said the country was "not competition for us" at a campaign stop in Iowa earlier this week.Speaking to WIS-TV, he said: "I never said China's not a threat. I said we can, if we invest the right way, we can defeat China in every way."I'm the guy that told the Chinese that when they set up these air defence zones, we're not going to pay attention."We're gonna fly right through them ... China understands that our problems are negligible compared to what they have to face."Mr Biden will continue his South Carolina trip by visiting a black church in Columbia.Additional reporting by AP
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| These 8 Sci-Fi Movie Cars Make Us Want to Believe Batmobiles and Light Cycles Are Real Posted: 05 May 2019 02:31 PM PDT |
| UPDATE 4-Boeing did not disclose 737 MAX alert issue to FAA for 13 months Posted: 05 May 2019 10:01 AM PDT ![UPDATE 4-Boeing did not disclose 737 MAX alert issue to FAA for 13 months]( "UPDATE 4-Boeing did not disclose 737 MAX alert issue to FAA for 13 months") The U.S. planemaker has been trying for weeks to dispel suggestions that it made airlines pay for safety features after it emerged that an alert designed to show discrepancies in Angle of Attack readings from two sensors was optional on the 737 MAX. Erroneous data from a sensor responsible for measuring the angle at which the wing slices through the air - known as the Angle of Attack - is suspected of triggering a flawed piece of software that pushed the plane downward in two recent crashes. In a statement, Boeing said it only discovered once deliveries of the 737 MAX had begun in 2017 that the so-called AOA Disagree alert was optional instead of standard as it had intended, but added that was not critical safety data.
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| SpaceX just blasted a critical NASA instrument into space Posted: 04 May 2019 06:38 AM PDT  NASA's carbon-detecting sleuth has left Earth.SpaceX launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) to the International Space Station (ISS) at 2:48 a.m. ET on Saturday morning aboard the company's dependable Falcon 9 rocket. After NASA's cargo load arrives at the ISS, astronauts will use a long robotic arm to attach the refrigerator-sized instrument to the side of the earth-orbiting station. OCO-3 will peer down on Earth, keeping tabs on the planet's amassing carbon dioxide emissions, which are now at their highest levels in millions of years. "Carbon dioxide is the most important gas humans are emitting into the atmosphere," Annmarie Eldering, the project scientist for OCO-3 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Mashable in February. "Understanding how it will play out in the future is critical."> Liftoff! https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/IaHMvakoX7> > -- SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 4, 2019After the SpaceX rocket lifted into space, the booster -- the bottom portion of the rocket containing nine powerful engines -- returned to Earth. It successfully landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX now regularly lands its rockets on both drone ships and land. It's a fundamental part of the spaceflight company's business model -- reusing expensive rockets rather than letting them crash into the ocean. Earlier this month, SpaceX impressively landed three boosters after its massive Falcon Heavy rocket (which consists of three rockets strapped together) launched an Arab communications satellite into Earth's orbit.SEE ALSO: We're probably not going to hit the world's most important climate goalNASA had slated the launch for late April, but asked SpaceX to delay it until the space agency could fix a power distribution problem on the ISS -- which is currently home to six astronauts and cosmonauts. OCO-3 -- which can detect carbon dioxide concentrations on Earth within 1 part per million -- almost didn't make it into space. In both 2017 and 2018 the Trump administration (which is candidly opposed to climate science) sought to eliminate the earth-monitoring instruments. "We heard OCO-3 was not going to go," Britton Stephens, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who works on the OCO-3 science team, said in an interview. "There've been lots of ups and downs in the project." But advocacy from NASA leaders and congressional support kept OCO-3 alive. Now it's in space. An artist's conception of OCO-3 looking down onto Earth from the space station.Image: nasa / JPL / CaltechOCO-3 will follow in the footsteps of OCO-2 by continuing to precisely monitor the places on Earth (cities and countries) that emit bounties of carbon dioxide, and those areas that suck or absorb CO2 out of the atmosphere (oceans and forests). The growing log of measurements makes OCO-3 especially valuable to scientists, who need long-term data to follow trends and discover novel data."The longer the records grow, the more important they become," said Pontus Olofsson, an associate research professor at Boston University who uses satellites to research Earth's carbon cycle. "It's like an exponential increase in importance."These measurements are all the more salient today, as modern civilization attempts to slash its heat-trapping carbon emissions and curb the planet's accelerating warming trend. As of 2019, the prospect of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above 19th-century levels -- which would avoid the worst consequences of climate change -- looks dismal.OCO-3 will be watching. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?
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| Turkey Begins Offensive on Kurdish Militias After Attacks Posted: 04 May 2019 12:26 PM PDT ![Turkey Begins Offensive on Kurdish Militias After Attacks]( "Turkey Begins Offensive on Kurdish Militias After Attacks") Turkish forces killed 28 Kurdish militants after they carried out two separate attacks from hideouts in Syria and Iraq that left four Turkish troops dead, the state news agency Anadolu reported. Saturday's cross-border offensive marked one of the deadliest days recently for the Turkish military, which conducted the attack along with the Free Syrian Army, a rebel group supported by Turkey.
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| 'I will never hesitate' to fly in a 737 MAX, Warren Buffett declares Posted: 04 May 2019 12:00 PM PDT  Billionaire Warren Buffett, one of the world's most influential businessmen, said Saturday that he would not hesitate to fly in a Boeing 737 Max airplane, despite the grounding of the planes after two fatal crashes. "I will never hesitate even for a second to fly on a 737 MAX," he said in response to a question from AFP on the sidelines of the annual shareholder meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway empire in Omaha. While Buffett, the world's third-richest man, owns stakes in several of the most prestigious American companies -- from Coca-Cola to JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs to Apple and, recently, Amazon -- he holds no shares in Boeing, though he has invested in airlines.
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| Taliban say gap narrowing in talks with US Posted: 04 May 2019 11:30 AM PDT  ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Saturday said the gap is narrowing in talks with Washington's special peace envoy over a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The two sides are continuing to meet in Qatar, where the insurgent movement maintains a political office.
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| The Old School Way to Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Posted: 05 May 2019 01:03 AM PDT  Of course, just like the carrier-based ATTDS, the CRAW anti-torpedo torpedo would also require testing to see if they work as well in practice as they do in theory. Nonetheless, the concept of adding an additional close-range layer of protection to submarines has merit given the increasing capability of modern torpedoes, and the sobering reality that a submarine would be lucky to survive even a single torpedo hit.In 2019, an annual report released by the Department of Testing & Evaluation revealed that a potentially revolutionary new torpedo-defense system installed on five American aircraft carriers had proven unsatisfactory and would be withdrawn from service.(This first appeared last month.)The system combined a towed Torpedo Warning System sensor array designed to detect incoming torpedoes with a quick-acting launcher called the Anti-Torpedo Device System (ATTDS) that could spit out a miniature 220-pound Countermeasure Anti-Torpedo (CAT) measuring only 171 millimeters in diameter. The CAT torpedo was designed to home in on the incoming torpedo and blast it short of its target.
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| Best Air Fryers of 2019 Posted: 04 May 2019 03:00 AM PDT  Crispy fries without all the oil? That's the golden promise of air fryers, and it probably explains why, in the U.S., about 4 million were sold in just a year. That represents a tenfold increase ...
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| The Iconic Sci-Fi Cars at This Museum Make Us Wish Batmobiles and Light Cycles Were Real Posted: 05 May 2019 06:00 AM PDT |
| At least 13 killed after Russian passenger plane catches fire mid-air: news agencies Posted: 05 May 2019 12:02 PM PDT  Television footage showed the Sukhoi Superjet-100 making an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport with much of the rear part of the plane engulfed in flames. Many passengers then escaped via the plane's emergency slides that inflated after the hard landing. Medical workers told the TASS news agency at least 13 people had been killed and that others remained unaccounted for.
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| ExxonMobil sues Cuban companies for nationalized assets Posted: 03 May 2019 09:57 PM PDT  US giant ExxonMobil has filed a lawsuit against Cuba's state-owned oil company and a major business group for what it called "unlawful trafficking" of its assets after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. The suit, filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, seeks $280 million from Cuba-Petroleo (Cupet) and Cimex, which operates service stations on the island nation. The lawsuit from America's biggest oil producer came as the administration of US President Donald Trump lifted the suspension of Title III of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act.
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| Biden: Trump, Republicans allowing Jim Crow to return Posted: 04 May 2019 05:48 PM PDT  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden charged Saturday that Jim Crow is "sneaking back in" as he emphasized voting rights at his first presidential campaign stop in South Carolina, where black voters play a key role in the South's first presidential primary.
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| Pro-life rally features live 4-D ultrasound in Times Square as message to Cuomo: 'Here we are' Posted: 05 May 2019 05:10 AM PDT  Former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson and abortion survivor Claire Culwell talk about the pro-life event in New York City.
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| Black hole may have swallowed neutron star, astronomers believe Posted: 04 May 2019 02:27 AM PDT  A black hole may have been detected swallowing a neutron star for the first time ever, astronomers have said. Vast gravitational waves – which scientists think could have been caused by such a merger – have been seen ripping across space.Astronomers working on the twin Ligo and Virgo observatories, based in the US and Italy respectively, spotted them. If proven, it could help understanding of what exactly happens when black holes eat stars, and if the star itself passes through into oblivion intact or is ripped apart during the encounter.Astronomers across the world are now focusing their observations on the patch of space – some 1.3bn light years away – where it is believed the clash roughly happened in a bid to gather more evidence."The universe is keeping us on our toes," Patrick Brady, spokesperson for Ligo and a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, said in a statement. "Unfortunately, the signal is rather weak. It's like listening to somebody whisper a word in a busy café; it can be difficult to make out the word or even to be sure that the person whispered at all. It will take some time to reach a conclusion about this candidate."Ligo and Virgo were switched on again after a period of upgrades on 1 April.They work by picking up tiny ripples in the fabric of space that are fired out across the universe when two massive objects collide.The new detection, on 26 April, came just a day after the system had identified a cataclysmic merger of two neutron stars about 500m light years from earth.Giovanni Prodi, data analysis coordinator with Virgo and a professor at the University of Trento, described the two incidents as making the period an "incomparable scientific month".
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| Forget F-22 and F-35s: Japan Is Going Big Time (As in a 6th Generation Fighter) Posted: 05 May 2019 12:52 AM PDT  The above technologies check off many characteristics of conceptual sixth-generation fighter jets—(though optional-manning and drone-control have yet to be mentioned), and are individually pretty impressive. However, integrating them into a capable flying platform poses a much greater challenge, as does mass-producing them in a cost-efficient manner. The U.S. F-35, for example, suffered many delays and cost overruns due to difficulties integrating its many new technologies under concurrent development. Thus Japanese engineers have their work cut out for them as they seek to realize the fifteen-year development goal.Japan's 2019 Mid-Term Defense review quietly revealed that after years of hesitation, Tokyo has decided to press ahead with development of its own domestically designed sixth-generation Mitsubishi F-3 air-superiority stealth fighter, rather than purchasing an additional foreign stealth design to supplement its growing fleet of F-35s.(This first appeared last month.)In February 2019, the Japanese Ministry of Defense explicitly confirmed these intentions to Jane's. Reportedly, F-3 performance requirements are set to be released in the 2020 budget, with development officially beginning in 2021 and a first flight targeted for 2030.
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| Maduro rallies military as Venezuela opposition appeals to troops Posted: 04 May 2019 09:36 PM PDT  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged his troops Saturday to be "ready" for potential US military action, as a limited number of opposition supporters marched on military barracks in a bid to win the armed forces' support. The small turnout for the Saturday marches -- with participants in the hundreds, not the thousands -- is another setback for opposition leader Juan Guaido, following a failed military uprising earlier in the week. Underscoring the continued military support for his socialist regime, Maduro delivered his televised address from a base in northwestern Cojedes state -- where he appeared alongside his defense minister, Vladimir Padrino, and in the presence of more than 5,000 troops.
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| Cyprus police find fifth victim of suspected serial killer Posted: 05 May 2019 07:59 AM PDT ![Cyprus police find fifth victim of suspected serial killer]( "Cyprus police find fifth victim of suspected serial killer") Police in Cyprus found a body in a lake on Sunday that they believe to be the fifth victim of a suspected serial killer who preyed on foreign women for almost three years without detection. It is not identifiable and is being taken to the mortuary now for further inquiries," a police official said. A 35-year-old career army captain has been in custody since late April on suspicion of killing five adult women and the young daughters of two of the victims.
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| 'The flames were huge': At least 41 dead in fiery Moscow jet landing caught on video Posted: 05 May 2019 02:44 PM PDT  A Russian Aeroflot jet landed in Moscow engulfed in flames and billowing smoke Sunday, which was captured on video.
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| Berkshire swings to big profit; Buffett laments Kraft Heinz Posted: 04 May 2019 09:14 AM PDT  Berkshire also said it repurchased $1.7 billion of its stock in the quarter, reflecting Buffett's troubles to find better uses for the Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate's cash hoard, which now totals $114.2 billion. Results were released as Buffett, 88, and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, 95, prepared to answer more than five hours of questions from shareholders and analysts at Berkshire's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, which draws tens of thousands of people. Berkshire had $15.1 billion of these gains in the first quarter.
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| 10 deals you don’t want to miss on Sunday: Kindle sale, $40 Fire 7 tablet, smart LED bulbs from $11, more Posted: 05 May 2019 04:48 AM PDT ![10 deals you don't want to miss on Sunday: Kindle sale, $40 Fire 7 tablet, smart LED bulbs from $11, more]( "10 deals you don't want to miss on Sunday: Kindle sale, $40 Fire 7 tablet, smart LED bulbs from $11, more") We've got another great roundup of daily deals for you to check out on Sunday. Highlights include all-time low pricing of just $11.15 on multicolor smart LED light bulbs that are just as good as $50 Philips Hue color bulbs, a rare sale that drops Apple Watch Series 4 models to their lowest prices ever, a popular 10W fast wireless charger for $9.99, Philips Hue while smart LED light bulbs for $10.75 a piece when you buy a 4-pack, the lowest price ever on Amazon's 3rd Gen Echo Dot, $20 off Kindles, $40 off waterproof Kindle Paperwhites, the awesome Fire 7 Tablet for only $39.99, up to $50 off one of the newest Ring Video Doorbells, and more. See all of today's top deals below.
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| Trump Says Don't Do It as Mueller Testimony Tentatively Set Posted: 05 May 2019 02:56 PM PDT ![Trump Says Don't Do It as Mueller Testimony Tentatively Set]( "Trump Says Don't Do It as Mueller Testimony Tentatively Set") The president's comment, in a pair of Twitter postings on Sunday, came hours after a Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee said that a "tentative date" of May 15 had been set for testimony by the former FBI director to discuss his investigation into the 2016 election. Democrats have been eager for Mueller to testify at least since last month, when his report on Russian election interference and Trump's subsequent actions to squelch the investigation became public.
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| Dodge Challenger Points the Way Posted: 04 May 2019 11:00 AM PDT  Retro-styled and a dozen years old, Dodge's pseudo-pony Challenger tells us much about the future.
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| What Would You Choose?: Sig Sauer's P320 Gun or Glock's 21? Posted: 03 May 2019 07:00 PM PDT  Nothing's worse than having to open a can of worms. We've all done it at least once in our lives and we never liked the outcome. Sometimes it's just better to keep mum about certain touchy topics concerning politics, religion and sex, among others.But here at Gun News Daily, we pride ourselves in tackling touchy gun-related issues the average Joe wouldn't even dare try. That's just who we are and what we do.Over the past several months I have been comparing different types of handguns — mostly two different model Glock pistols at a time — to try and give our readers a different perspective, maybe help them decide which one to purchase if they're new to the world of firearms.While I did look at other pistols not manufactured by Glock — namely the two Cobra models (the FS 380 and the CA 380) and the two SIG Sauer models (the SIG P226 and the SIG P229) I compared in Rounds 5 and 6 of this series of our Handgun Showdowns respectively, I never compared two pistols from different manufacturers in this series.
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| Militants kill politician ahead of new round of India vote Posted: 05 May 2019 12:53 AM PDT  Suspected militants shot dead a local leader of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party in disputed Kashmir ahead of the latest round of polling, highlighting bloodshed that has marred India's mega-election. The killing in Anantnag district of India's only Muslim-majority state is the latest in a string of attacks to have marred the election which began last month. The militants opened fire on Gul Mohammad Mir, who belonged to a local unit of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), at his house in south Kashmir on Saturday night.
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| UK's Vectura wins patent infringement case against GlaxoSmithKline in U.S Posted: 04 May 2019 09:38 AM PDT ![UK's Vectura wins patent infringement case against GlaxoSmithKline in U.S]( "UK's Vectura wins patent infringement case against GlaxoSmithKline in U.S") British drugmaker Vectura Group Plc said on Saturday that it won a patent infringement litigation case against GlaxoSmithKline Plc in the United States and has been awarded $89.7 million in damages for the period from August 2016 through December 2018. A jury trial in a Delaware district court on Friday found that one of Vectura's U.S. patents was infringed by sales of three of GSK's Ellipta products in the United States, Vectura said. The jury found that GSK, which is also a UK-based pharmaceutical company, willfully infringed the patent, which Vectura said gives it the right to seek enhanced damages.
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| Where to get free tacos, $1 margaritas and other deals for Cinco de Mayo Posted: 05 May 2019 04:25 AM PDT ![Where to get free tacos, $1 margaritas and other deals for Cinco de Mayo]( "Where to get free tacos, $1 margaritas and other deals for Cinco de Mayo") Applebee's, Chili's, Del Taco, Hungry Howie's, Moe's Southwest Grill and Bahama Breeze are celebrating Cinco de Mayo Sunday with specials.
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| U.S. court rules in favor of Dutch ASML in IP theft case against Xtal Posted: 04 May 2019 04:33 AM PDT ![U.S. court rules in favor of Dutch ASML in IP theft case against Xtal]( "U.S. court rules in favor of Dutch ASML in IP theft case against Xtal") Dutch chip equipment maker ASML Holding NV said on Saturday a U.S. court had issued its final judgment in favor of ASML in an intellectual property theft case against U.S. software maker Xtal. The Santa Clara County Superior Court in California awarded ASML $845 million along with an injunction, ASML said. The Netherlands-based company said the judgment would be uncollectible as Xtal is in bankruptcy, but under a settlement arrangement ASML will end up owning most or all of Xtal's intellectual property through the bankruptcy process.
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| The best-selling Chromebook on Amazon is rugged, spill-proof, and only $219 Posted: 05 May 2019 07:30 AM PDT  If you're in search of a great compact Chrome OS laptop that really does check every box, we've got just the thing. The ASUS Chromebook C202SA-YS02 features an 11.6-inch anti-glare display with HD resolution, and a 2.48GHz Intel Celeron N3060 processor. It also offers up to 10 hours of battery life per charge, which is quite impressive for a laptop this size. But the icing on the cake has to be the ruggedized case that can withstand drops as well as liquid spills thanks to water-resistance. It can take a licking and keep on ticking, and it's currently the best-selling model on Amazon.Here are the important details from the product page: * Ready for drops and spills with rugged construction with reinforced rubber guards, easy grip handles, and a spill resistant keyboard * Lightweight 2.65 pound body and rugged construction that can be dropped from 3.9 feet* so you can take it anywhere without disruption * 11.6 inches HD 1366x768 Anti-Glare Display, with 180 degree hinge for easy viewing * Powered by the Intel Celeron N3060 Processor (2M Cache, up to 2.48 GHz) for fast and snappy performance * Chromebook runs on Chrome OS - an operating system by Google that is built for the way we live today. It comes with built-in virus protection, updates automatically*, boots up in seconds and continues to stay fast over time * All the Google apps you know and love come standard on every Chromebook, which means you can edit, download, and convert Microsoft Office files in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides * With the Google Play Store, you can access a rich library of apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines, and more, all from your Chromebook * Chromebooks come with built-in storage for offline access to your most important files and an additional 100GB of Google Drive space to ensure that all of your files are backed up automatically
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| GOP thwarts governor's push to expand Medicaid in Kansas Posted: 04 May 2019 10:17 PM PDT  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's effort to expand Medicaid in Kansas this year died Saturday when enough moderate Republicans bowed to the wishes of the GOP-controlled Legislature's conservative leaders and ended an impasse that had tied up the state budget.
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| North Carolina K-9 police officer fatally shot during traffic stop; suspect kills himself, police say Posted: 05 May 2019 09:27 AM PDT  Details of why the suspect was pulled over or why they opened fire have not been released.
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| China, climate, Russia to dominate Pompeo Europe tour Posted: 05 May 2019 12:00 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is energizing its campaign to counter China's growing global influence as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads to Europe this week on a four-nation trip that will also highlight disputes with Russia over Venezuela and elsewhere as well as deep U.S. isolation on the cause and impact of climate change.
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| SUVs are hot sellers and that means you'll find sweet deals on sedans Posted: 05 May 2019 02:29 PM PDT  SUVs are hot, and that means there are good deals on some terrific cars, like the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, Ford Focus, VW Jetta and Chevy Malibu.
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| The U.S. Air Force Destroyed North Korea (And It Terrifies Kim Jong Un) Posted: 03 May 2019 07:30 PM PDT  Can the United States and North Korea arrive at a deal—any deal—on denuclearization, normalization of relations, or at the very least a nuclear freeze? Given the holding pattern in nuclear diplomacy since the second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, the prospects don't appear particularly bright.The hold-up in the talks, however, is not simply the product of personality clashes, maximalist negotiating positions, and incongruent objectives between Washington and Pyongyang. History also has a lot to do with it.While the Korean War may have ended in an armistice sixty-six years ago this July, memories from that extremely bloody conflict are never far from the minds of North Koreans. While the three-year-war for control of the Korean Peninsula doesn't get sufficient attention in the United States, it is literally the seminal moment in North Korea's young history as a state. It was a merciless campaign on all sides, with tens of thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands of Chinese, and millions of Koreans killed in three short years of stalemated fighting. Americans have since regarded the war as a noble attempt to save South Korea from being usurped by communism. The Kim regime's interpretation, drilled into the minds of the North Korean population, is far more sinister: a violent, criminal attempt by an imperialist American aggressor that sought to turn the Korean Peninsula into a colony.
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| Who will succeed billionaire Warren Buffett? Posted: 03 May 2019 07:07 PM PDT  As the annual shareholder meeting of Berkshire Hathaway gets underway on Saturday, a key question hangs over the gathering: who will take the reins of the empire built by 88-year-old billionaire Warren Buffett? "Warren Buffett is irreplaceable," said Macrae Sykes, a research analysts at Gabelli & Company. "Berkshire Hathaway can certainly survive without Warren Buffett," he said.
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| The Right Way to Use Spray Sunscreen Posted: 05 May 2019 03:00 AM PDT  If you prefer spray sunscreens, you're not alone. Their popularity is on the rise, with sales inching nearer to top-selling lotions, according to a 2018 study published in the Journal of the Amer...
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| Islamic State claims it killed 10 soldiers in northeastern Nigeria Posted: 04 May 2019 12:40 PM PDT ![Islamic State claims it killed 10 soldiers in northeastern Nigeria]( "Islamic State claims it killed 10 soldiers in northeastern Nigeria") It published pictures of burned barracks and dead bodies it claimed belonged to the soldiers. Several sources in Nigeria, including one military source, confirmed the claim. Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has carried out a string of attacks in Nigeria in recent months. The group split in 2016 from Nigeria-based Boko Haram, which has waged a decade-long insurgency in northeast Nigeria that has killed some 30,000 people and displaced a further 2 million.
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