May 2018 ~ The Best New Google

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Bernie Sanders 'is considering another run for the presidency,' former campaign manager says

Jeff Weaver, who managed Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential bid, says the Vermont independent “is considering another run” in 2020.

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IUhOf9
via IFTTT

Mom Blasts Southwest Airlines For Asking To 'Prove' Biracial Son Was Hers

A Southwest Airlines employee asked a college basketball coach over the

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2kA8yhG
via IFTTT

Televangelist Claims He Needs $54 Million Private Jet To Spread The Gospel

A Louisiana televangelist is convinced that God wants him to own a fourth

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2siVRfM
via IFTTT

Mattis says U.S. to continue operations in South China Sea

By Idrees Ali ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday that the United States would continue to confront what Washington sees as China's militarization of islands in the South China Sea, despite drawing condemnation from Beijing for an operation in the region over the weekend. Reuters first reported that two U.S. Navy warships sailed near South China Sea islands claimed by China on Sunday, even as President Donald Trump seeks Chinese cooperation on North Korea. The operation, known as "freedom of navigation," was the latest attempt to counter what Washington sees as Beijing's efforts to limit freedom of navigation in the strategic waters, where Chinese, Japanese and some Southeast Asian navies operate.

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2sqt0oG
via IFTTT

Two Belgian policewomen shot dead: What we know

A gunman killed two female police officers and a man in a parked car in the eastern Belgian city of Liege, before he was shot dead by police. The assailant is suspected of being radicalised in prison by Islamist militants. - At around 10:30 am (0830 GMT), a man followed two female police officers in Liege, stabbed them several times, then grabbed their firearms and shot them both dead.

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xrmAM7
via IFTTT

What Medical Schools Are Doing to Reduce Student Debt

The rising cost of higher education makes affording medical school tough for the vast majority of students. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, 75 percent of medical students who graduated in 2017 borrowed student loans to pay for school. Among U.S. medical school graduates who borrowed, those who attended public institutions finished their degrees with nearly $170,000 on average in student loans, according to data submitted to U.S. News by 52 ranked schools in an annual survey.

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J3AIME
via IFTTT

The Latest: US seeks urgent UN meeting on Gaza rocket attack

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the violence along the Israel-Gaza border (all times local):

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2sigo41
via IFTTT

Murder of anti-Kremlin war reporter shocks Russians

Russia's embattled liberal community was reeling Wednesday from the murder of fiercely anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko who was gunned down in Ukraine after leaving Moscow following a campaign of harassment. A prominent Russian war correspondent, Babchenko, 41, was murdered on Tuesday evening in a contract-style killing in the stairwell of his building in the Ukrainian capital Kiev where he moved last year. The journalist was killed less than a month after President Vladimir Putin was inaugurated for his fourth Kremlin term and as Russia gears up to host the World Cup later this month.

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xpI4c1
via IFTTT

'Deadliest Catch' Star Blake Painter Found Dead At Age 38

Another early death has struck "Deadliest Catch."

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IVPGIB
via IFTTT

Mexican President Sends Trump A Blunt Message About Paying For The Wall

President Donald Trump called out Mexico on Tuesday, vowing yet again that the

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2H03oVb
via IFTTT

New Jersey police investigated after punching woman in the head during arrest

Police officers have been reassigned to administrative duty amid an investigation into a video posted online showing an officer punching a woman on a beach in New Jersey. Wildwood police said on their Facebook page that 20-year-old Emily Weinman, of Philadelphia, faces several charges, including two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Video of Saturday's incident shows an officer striking the woman's head twice as she's down on the sand. Voices are heard yelling "stop resisting," though it's unclear who was talking. The video doesn't show what led to the confrontation. Wildwood Police Chief Robert Regalbuto said he finds the video "alarming" but doesn't want to "rush to any judgment" until the investigation is complete. Wildwood Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the episode was a "shame," but said police would soon release body camera footage showing officers being insulted and spat upon. Weinman is also charged with spitting at an officer. The police officer was filmed on New Jersey beach Credit: @HewittLexy "It wasn't just that this officer decided to beat her up," he said. "That wasn't the case." Troiano declined comment on the use of force, saying he didn't know the whole story, but added: "We don't like to see anyone get hit, period. But then again, when you have someone who's aggressively attacking you or spitting at you . I wasn't there. I don't know." He also expressed frustration at the amount of underage drinking, saying no one is allowed to drink in public or on the beach in Wildwood unless they are attending an event that has received a permit to allow drinking. Wildwood police asked anyone who was present and has video of the altercation to come forward to help their internal affairs investigation, in which Cape May County officers will also be assisting. A listed phone number for Weinman wasn't immediately found.

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2shyK58
via IFTTT

Japanese whaling programme slaughtered 122 pregnant minke whales on ‘barbaric and illegal’ hunt

Animal rights activists have expressed outrage after a report on Japan’s “scientific whaling” programme showed that more than two-thirds of the female minke whales harpooned in the Southern Ocean earlier this year were pregnant females. The report, submitted to a meeting of the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission in Slovenia earlier this month, also showed that 53 of the 333 whales slaughtered were juvenile animals. “The killing of 122 pregnant whales is a shocking statistic and sad indictment on the cruelty of Japan’s whale hunt”, said Alexia Wellbelove, of the Australia branch of Humane Society International. “It is further demonstration, if needed, of the truly gruesome and unnecessary nature of whaling operations, especially when non-lethal surveys have been shown to be sufficient for scientific needs”, she said. Activists accuse Tokyo of ignoring a ruling in 2014 by the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, that Japan’s whaling was a commercial exercise rather than a scientific research programme and that it had to halt. Japanese whaling vessel the Nisshin Maru returns to the Shimonoseki port in southwestern Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo on March 31, 2017, after it and two other vessels hunted 333 minke whales in the Antarctic Ocean Tokyo, which provides large subsidies to keep its domestic whaling industry afloat, responded by adding new research procedures and resuming operations in 2015 with a quota of 333 minke whales. To protect itself from further legal challenges, Japan also withdrew its recognition of the International Court of Justice as an arbiter of disputes over whales. Whale meat used to be an important source of nutrition for the Japanese but little is consumed by the general public today. Instead, whale meat is served in school meals and a handful of specialist restaurants, with the rest frozen or used as pet food. A spokesman for the environmental group Sea Shepherd said it appeared that the Japanese whaling fleet had been “targeting pregnant females, for some reason”. Bob Brown, the former head of the Australian Green Party and founder of an environmental foundation, told The Telegraph that the harpooning of pregnant whales was “barbaric and illegal”. “These are the most gentle of whales and people go to the Great Barrier Reef just to rub noses with these creatures”, he said. “Then they fall pregnant, go to the Southern Ocean and get harpooned by the Japanese while the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the US and everywhere else sit on their hands and say this criminal behaviour is okay because the Japanese government is funding it. “The leaders who are today failing to take action have the blood of these innocent whales on their hands,” he said. “This is an international disgrace and an environmental crime”.

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J4bEoL
via IFTTT

Spiderman's French fairy tale sparks migrant pride and envy

At the French migrant workers' hostel where "Spiderman" Mamoudou Gassama was sleeping on a floor before becoming a folk hero for saving a child, his exploits have triggered a wave of pride tinged with envy. This week television crews swarmed the centre in the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil to find out more about the 22-year-old Malian who was captured on video scaling an apartment block to bring a child hanging from a balcony to safety. Many residents were unaware the shy youth was living at the hostel and happy to see him hailed for his bravery by President Emmanuel Macron and being placed on a fast track to French citizenship.

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2shrSVh
via IFTTT

2,000 People Evacuated in North Carolina After Alberto Triggers Mudslides and Flooding

Mudslides triggered by the soggy remnants of Alberto forced evacuations below a dam and closed an interstate highway in the western mountains of North Carolina on Wednesday

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2L7G7mt
via IFTTT

Ethiopian govt and opposition start talks on amending anti-terrorism law

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling coalition started talks with opposition groups on Wednesday on amending provisions of an anti-terrorism law that critics say has criminalised dissent, state-affiliated media said. Watchdog groups say the 2009 law's broad definitions have been used indiscriminately against anyone who opposes government policy. The discussions follow the release on Tuesday of opposition leader Andargachew Tsige, who was sentenced to death under the law in 2009 over his role in the opposition group Ginbot 7, which the government has labelled a terrorist organisation.

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xtrlVd
via IFTTT

Fans Want 'Roseanne' To Continue -- Just Without Roseanne

The success of the rebooted version of "Roseanne" on ABC may not have been due

from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2L549yy
via IFTTT

YouTube stars' fury over algorithm tests

The website says it has been manipulating the subscription feed for some viewers.

from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2sgLqt6
via IFTTT

Tomorrow's cities: Google's Toronto city built 'from the internet up'

A disused waterfront in Toronto is being transformed by a firm owned by Google's parent company.

from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2xwLREK
via IFTTT

YouTube deletes half of 'violent' music videos

YouTube says it has deleted more than half of the 'violent' music videos which the country's most senior police officer asked it to take down.

from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2J0Wj8D
via IFTTT

Dixons Carphone to close 92 stores as profits slide

Shares in the retailer sink almost 21% as it announces closures and says profits will fall sharply this year.

from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2LJMZrl
via IFTTT

Busking goes cashless with 'a world first' for London

London introduces a contactless payment scheme for buskers that allows tap-to-pay donations.

from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2xrOnfn
via IFTTT

Bulgarians tweeting in Cyrillic confused for Russian bots

The use of the Cyrillic alphabet is one way Twitter tries to identify Russian automated accounts.

from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2LGJNgp
via IFTTT

Two French teenagers charged over Despacito YouTube hack

Two 18-year-olds are charged over a hack that targeted the Latin hit and other pop songs on YouTube.

from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2xsPGuk
via IFTTT

Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws

Complaints against the web giants are filed on the first day of the EU's new data protection law.

from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2xnTM6U
via IFTTT

YouTube star John 'TotalBiscuit' Bain dies aged 33

Game critic John Bain - known as TotalBiscuit and the Cynical Brit - dies of cancer.

from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2s7AVIt
via IFTTT

Call of Duty Kansas 'swatting' death: Two more charged

A man renting a gamer's home was shot dead by police responding to a hoax call.

from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2J1UfNw
via IFTTT

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Suspect charged in death of Tennessee sheriff's deputy

05/30/18 11:21 PM

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Harvey Weinstein indicted by NY grand jury on rape, criminal sexual act charges, DA says

05/30/18 5:44 PM

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

President Trump signs 'Right to Try' bill into law

05/30/18 12:56 PM

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Tennessee sheriff's deputy shot and killed, reports say

05/30/18 10:55 AM

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Anti-Kremlin journalist’s death faked to thwart murder plot, officials say

05/30/18 10:52 AM

U.S., North Korea enter second day of nuclear talks

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and high-ranking North Korean official Kim Yong Chol enter a second day of meetings in New York on Thursday as they try to settle nuclear weapons disagreements and set the stage for an historic summit between their two leaders.

from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2sjE5Zx
via IFTTT

Thursday, May 31, 2018

About Me