NewsYahoo NewsTrump rips appeals court and says even ‘a bad student in high school’ would support his travel banPresident Trump attacked what he described as the “disgraceful” hearing on his refugee and travel ban in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Speaking Wednesday to the winter conference of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, a group of police chiefs and sheriffs, Trump expressed dismay that the court case is “going on for so long” and argued that even people without knowledge of the law can see that his ban is legal. If you were a good student in high school, or a bad student in high school, you can understand this,” he said.
- PoliticsYahoo NewsThe origins of Rule 19: How a 1902 fistfight silenced Elizabeth Warren in 2017
Republicans invoked an obscure Senate rule to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., while she was delivering a scathing critique of her colleague Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. Warren quoted a letter by the late Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., opposing Sessions’ nomination to a federal judgeship in 1986. King had said that Sessions used his power as an acting federal prosecutor in Alabama to “chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens,” and Kennedy had called him a “disgrace to the Justice Department.” Sessions’ nomination was voted down in committee.
WorldReutersOver 100 dead in Brazil state amid anarchy spurred by police strikeBy Paulo Whitaker VITORIA, Brazil (Reuters) - More than 100 people have been reported killed, with schools and businesses closed and public transportation at a standstill, as a six-day strike by police in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo showed no signs of abating on Thursday. Chaos and anarchy spurred by the strike continued in the coastal state to the north of Rio de Janeiro, despite the deployment of 1,200 army soldiers and federal police and the promise that more help was on its way. Most of the violence was centered in the state capital Vitoria, a wealthy port city ringed by golden beaches, where mining and petroleum industries have a strong base.
- U.S.Yahoo News Photo StaffTornadoes touch down in southern Louisiana
Tornadoes touched down in southern Louisiana, wiping houses from their foundations and downing power lines as severe weather moved across the region. At least three tornadoes have touched down — one in the eastern part of New Orleans, another near the town of Donaldsonville and another in the town of Killian, said Danielle Manning, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. Local media showed images of some severely damaged buildings in eastern New Orleans and power lines strewn across the road.
WorldAFPDeath toll in strikes on Syria ex-Qaeda hits 46: monitorThe death toll in air strikes against Al-Qaeda's former affiliate in Syria in the northwest of the country has risen to 46, including 24 civilians, a monitor said on Wednesday. The dead included 10 children and 11 women, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that the toll could rise further because of the number of wounded with serious injuries. The raids hit the headquarters of former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham in Idlib and several adjacent neighbourhoods of the city at dawn on Tuesday.
NewsAssociated PressCorrection: Chile-Wildfires storyIn a story Jan. 27 about wildfires in Chile, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the acreage burned had been measured since the blazes started in November. CONCEPCION, Chile (AP) — Flames from more than 100 raging wildfires in Chile continued spreading from the mountains to the Pacific coast, destroying forests, livestock and entire towns in a destructive path that is now dangerously close to the city of Concepcion.
- NewsInside EditionMom Outraged After Day Care Worker Allegedly Caught on Camera Breastfeeding Her Lactose Intolerant Son
A North Carolina mother is speaking out after she says a day care worker breastfed her child after being told not to, telling InsideEdition.com she wants police to press charges against the woman she believes has no business caring for children. Kaycee Oxendine, 27, brought her 3-month-old son to day care at the Children’s Early School in Carrboro on Friday, where the infant is minded while she works as a pre-kindergarten teacher for a different organization in the building, she said. When one of her son’s teachers said the baby seemed constipated, another woman working in the day care offered to breastfeed the child to see if it helped, Oxendine said.
- ScienceYahoo NewsOut of the lab, into the streets: Scientists, feeling threatened, plan an Earth Day march
Scientists are organizing a march on Washington for Earth Day, April 22, to protest an “alarming trend” of discrediting scientific consensus and hampering scientific discovery. Thought up in the aftermath of the Women’s March on Washington, the March for Science has been described as a nonpartisan “celebration of science” that opposes anti-science agendas on both sides of the aisle. Organizers say scientists and their supporters can no longer afford to stay silent while scientific inquiry is denigrated and sidelined.
- NewsPopular MechanicsF-35 Dominates the Air at This Year's Red Flag War Games
Exercise Red Flag at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada is considered one of the most realistic and challenging aviation warfare exercises, and pilots from this year's event say the Air Force's F-35A exceeded expectations by dominating the air space and improving the lethality of other legacy aircraft. Running from January 23 to February 10, this year's Red Flag involves more threats to pilots than ever before, including surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), radar jamming equipment, and an increased number of red air, or mock enemy aircraft. Against the ramped-up threats, the F-35A only lost one aircraft for every 15 aggressors killed, according to Aviation Week.
LifestyleYahoo News VideoYou're probably cooking rice incorrectly, and it might be poisoning youRice contains a worrying amount of arsenic, a harmful chemical that can cause heart disease, diabetes and cancer, and the common cooking method does little to lower the risk according to new research.
PoliticsYahoo News#LetLizSpeak and #ShePersisted: Dems protest GOP silencing of Elizabeth WarrenShortly after Senate Republicans voted to stop Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., from reading a 1986 letter by Martin Luther King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, during Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing Tuesday, the Internet exploded in protest — as the
WorldReutersColombia president's campaign allegedly took Odebrecht cash: officialColombian President Juan Manuel Santos's 2014 election campaign allegedly received as much as $1 million from Brazil's Odebrecht SA, the country's attorney general said on Tuesday, as fallout from a massive corruption scandal continued. A portion of some $4.6 billion allegedly paid by engineering company Odebrecht to Otto Bula Bula, a former Liberal Party senator, was designated for the Santos reelection campaign, Colombia's Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez said in a statement.
- WorldForeign Policy MagazineTrump Should Praise Vladimir Kara-Murza — Not Vladimir Putin
As America gathered around its televisions to take in the Super Bowl on Sunday, a Russian patriot and democrat named Vladimir Kara-Murza spent the same hours clinging to life in a Moscow hospital. The vast majority of Americans have never heard of Kara-Murza, but he represents much that the United States holds dear. An outspoken advocate for government transparency and citizens’ rights, he and an ever-dwindling group of Russians like him present a challenge — one that the Kremlin intends to stamp out — to the rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
WorldAFPPhilippines seeks US, China help to combat sea piratesThe Philippines is seeking US and Chinese help to guard a major sea lane as Islamic militants shift attacks to international shipping, officials said Wednesday. Manila does not want the Sibutu Passage between Malaysia's Sabah state and the southern Philippines to turn into a Somalia-style pirate haven, coast guard officials said. The deep-water channel, used by 13,000 vessels each year, offers the fastest route between Australia and the manufacturing powerhouses China, Japan and South Korea, they added.
NewsAssociated PressWallendas among 5 tightrope walkers injured in fallFive circus performers were seriously injured in a fall Wednesday when a pyramid stunt involving famed tightrope walker Nik Wallenda went awry. The accident also involved several of his family members, but Nik Wallenda wasn't among the injured, authorities said. "He caught himself," said county spokeswoman Ashley Lusby.
- NewsInside EditionForbidden Fruit: Border Patrol Finds More than 3,000 Pounds of Marijuana Disguised as Limes
Things went sour for whoever tried to ship nearly 4,000 pounds of weed to the U.S. that were made to look like limes. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents discovered 3,947 pounds of alleged marijuana within a commercial shipment of key limes on January
- NewsChristian Science MonitorWhy is a Muslim cop suing the NYPD?
A Muslim NYPD officer has filed a lawsuit against New York City and its police department, alleging that the department turned a blind eye to years of faith-based harassment from her colleagues. Danielle Alamrani of Brooklyn first joined the New York Police Department in 2006, and converted to Islam one year later. "You do expect police officers to have thicker skin and be able to deal with other people," Alamrani’s attorney, Jesse Rose, told The Washington Post.
ScienceAFPArchaeologists discover new Dead Sea Scrolls caveArchaeologists have uncovered a new cave that once housed Dead Sea Scrolls, in a discovery described as one of the "most important" in 60 years. The Hebrew University in Jerusalem said the scrolls were missing from the cave, though, but hopes to find others. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, date from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD.
NewsAssociated PressGorsuch would be 8th man to hold 'Justice Scalia's seat'On the night Judge Neil Gorsuch was nominated to fill Justice Antonin Scalia's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, he was thinking about history. "The towering judges that have served in this particular seat on the Supreme Court, including Antonin Scalia and Robert Jackson, are much in my mind at this moment," Gorsuch said in the East Room of the White House following his nomination by President Donald Trump. In the year since Scalia's death last February, the court's empty spot has often been referred to as "Justice Scalia's seat." But as Gorsuch suggested, the seat's history actually goes back more than 150 years.
PoliticsBGR NewsFacebook turns Elizabeth Warren into a hero after republicans tried to silence herHad the Republicans allowed Sen. Elizabeth Warren to finish her reading of Coretta Scott King’s 1986 letter, it’s likely that few people would have actually watched it all go down on C-SPAN. Warren wanted to read King’s 30-year-old letter to highlight some of Sen. Jeff Sessions’s qualities back in 1986 when he was nominated for a federal judgeship. “Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge,” Warren said while reading the letter, at which point she was interrupted.
WorldReutersIran scorns Trump, rebuffs U.S. warning on missilesBy Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI (Reuters) - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday dismissed the U.S. decision to put Iran "on notice" over its missile tests and called President Donald Trump the "real face" of American corruption. In his first speech since Trump's inauguration, Iran's supreme leader called Iranians to take part in demonstrations on Friday, the anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, to show they were not frightened of American "threats." "We are thankful to (Trump) for making our life easy as he showed the real face of America," Khamenei told a meeting of military commanders in Tehran, according to his website. Trump responded to a Jan. 29 Iranian missile test by saying "Iran is playing with fire" and imposed fresh sanctions on individuals and entities, some of them linked to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
- EntertainmentRoad & TrackBugatti Only Has 20 People Building the Chiron
Last month we told you the full story of the astonishing Bugatti Chiron's development. Now, Bugatti has released all sorts of detailed info and photos of its assembly line. As you'd expect, the build process for the Chiron is quite special. So special
- WorldForeign Policy MagazineNSA Contractor Could Face 200 Years in Prison for Massive Breach
U.S. prosecutors unveiled an indictment Wednesday detailing what may amount to the largest data breach in the history of the National Security Agency — an archive of classified material that may total more than 500 million pages. The incident is a black eye on the secretive spy agency’s attempt to crack down on so-called insider threats and may have exposed some of the NSA’s most sensitive spy tools. Prosecutors allege Harold T. Martin III stole a huge trove of classified documents, which he stored at his home in Maryland, while working as a contractor to the NSA and other intelligence agencies.
- PoliticsInternational Business TimesBernie Sanders And Ted Cruz Debate Obamacare
If the beginning of President Donald Trump's term has you missing Bernie Sanders, make sure to turn on your TV Tuesday. The Independent Vermont senator will face off against Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, for a 90-minute debate at 9 p.m. EST Tuesday on CNN. The runner-up Democratic and Republican nominees will focus on the future of the Affordable Care Act, nicknamed Obamacare.
- NewsInside EditionRemains Found in Shallow Grave Identified as Those of Missing 22-Year-Old College Student
Skeletal remains found in a shallow Texas grave have been identified as those of a missing 22-year-old college student, authorities said. Investigators have been searching for Zuzu Verk, a biology student at Sul Ross State University, since she vanished October 11 after going to the movies with her boyfriend, Robert Fabian. Police have considered him a person of interest in Verk’s disappearance, but he has refused to cooperate with detectives, authorities said.
