- WorldYahoo NewsTrump defends travel ban amid fierce backlash
President Trump lashed out on Sunday over those challenging his controversial executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. “America is a proud nation of immigrants and we will continue to show compassion to those fleeing oppression, but we will do so while protecting our own citizens and border,” Trump said in a statement issued late Sunday afternoon. “The seven countries named in the executive order are the same countries previously identified by the Obama administration as sources of terror,” Trump continued.
NewsYahoo NewsWhite House calls outrage over omitting Jews in Trump’s statement on Holocaust ‘pathetic’“He’s aware of what people have been saying, but I think by and large he’s been praised for it,” Spicer told reporters at his daily briefing on Monday. “The president recognized the tremendous loss of life that came from the Holocaust,” Spicer said. Spicer became defensive during the briefing when he was again asked about the backlash.
- NewsReutersLos Angeles police solve 1976 murder of singer Bill Medley's ex-wife
Police and prosecutors scheduled a press conference on Monday to announce that they had solved the 1976 murder in Los Angeles of the ex-wife of Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley, saying the killer was identified through familial DNA testing. Karen Klaas, 32, was attacked at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Hermosa Beach on the morning of Jan. 30, 1976. Familial DNA testing involves using a national DNA database to search for people who may be related to the suspect.
- U.S.Yahoo News Photo StaffWildfires ravage central, south Chile
Fires have been raging in central and southern Chile, fanned by strong winds, hot temperatures and a prolonged drought. Emergency services have battled the flames nonstop for days with thousands of firefighters on the ground and helicopters and airplanes
BusinessConsumer Reports2017 Volvo S90 Review: A Diamond Still in the RoughAs it turns out, much of the Volvo’s appeal is only skin-deep. The gruff-sounding engine mars the driving experience, and the ride is stiff and unsettled—with constant vibrations coming through to the cabin. To Volvo’s credit, much of the advanced safety technology is standard.
WorldAssociated PressRecent developments surrounding the South China SeaEDITOR'S NOTE: This is a weekly look at the latest developments in the South China Sea, home to several territorial conflicts that have raised tensions in the region. The new U.S. administration is heating up rhetoric over the South China Sea with a promise to challenge China's occupation of disputed islands. Beijing is responding cautiously, appealing for calm and direct negotiations involving claimants.
- BusinessABC News VideosWalmart Releases New Offer to Compete with Amazon
In today's tech bytes WalMart makes another move into Amazon territory starting today the company will begin offering free two day shipping on more than two million items. At Starbucks is offering voice ordering making it easier to get your hands on a cup of coffee customers can now place their orders through Amazon's echo device.
PoliticsBGR NewsA ‘rogue’ group of staffers is tweeting secrets from the White HouseThere’s no question about it, technology is playing a bigger and bigger role in all aspects of our lives, especially when it comes to the way we consume news. Social media — and especially Twitter — was an important weapon for Donald Trump as he ascended
- ScienceLiveScience.comSecret Room in UK Mansion Tied to King James I Assassination Attempt
Agile scientists equipped with 3D laser scanners have revealed the secrets of a hidden room, known as a "priest hole," in the tower of an English Tudor mansion linked to the failed "Gunpowder Plot" to assassinate King James I in 1605. A new study reveals how the secret double room was constructed in the tower of a gatehouse at Coughton Court in Warwickshire, as a hiding place for priests during the anti-Catholic persecutions of the 16th and 17th centuries. Catholic priests faced execution as traitors under the English laws of the time, and they were often tortured to reveal their accomplices, according to Christopher King, an assistant professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, and one of the lead researchers of the study.
- PoliticsForeign Policy MagazineIf Trump Tries to Make a Deal With Putin, He’s Already Lost
President Donald Trump believes that he can transfer his main professed skill in the private sector — deal-making — to the world of foreign policy. But foreign policy, and the diplomacy that supports it, cannot be reduced to cutting businesslike deals alone. When making short-term deals trumps long-term strategy, America loses. Perhaps nowhere is Trump’s dangerous approach to foreign policy more concerning than in his apparent desire to accommodate Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
- NewsInside EditionSearch for Missing Woman Uncovers a Second Unrelated Body
Friends and family of a missing Missouri woman who are still actively searching for her have found human remains from an unrelated case for the second time in two weeks, authorities said. Relatives of Jessica Runions uncovered the body of an unidentified man in a small embankment while searching fields and brush near South Brighton Avenue at about 11:15 a.m. Saturday, The Kansas City Star reported. “Two bodies two weeks in a row?” John Runions, Jessica’s father, told The Star, which was covering the search when the discovery was made.
ScienceReutersYour oldest ancestor was really weird and had a big mouthBy Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Don't take this the wrong way, but your oldest ancestor was not exactly a beauty. Scientists on Monday said a tiny marine creature from China that wriggled in the seabed mud about 540 million years ago may be the earliest-known animal in the lengthy evolutionary path that eventually led to humans. University of Cambridge paleontologist Simon Conway Morris noted that humans, who appeared a relatively recent 200,000 years ago, have a series of "evolutionarily deeper ancestors" than monkeys and apes.
WorldAFPWeapons seized from Gambia ex-leader's home: generalThe west African force deployed in The Gambia to secure the nation's presidential transition said Monday it had recovered weapons from the former leader's home, and arrested a high-ranking Gambian general. Senegalese General Francois Ndiaye, who leads military forces sent by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), said the arms and ammunition were found at ex-president Yahya Jammeh's private residence in his home village of Kanilai. Jammeh left the country after refusing for weeks to recognise his electoral defeat to Adama Barrow, who returned to The Gambia as president from Senegal this week.
NewsReutersU.S. school shootings linked to unemployment: university studySchool shootings in the United States rise as the economy slows and unemployment increases, according to a university study published on Monday. Over the past 25 years there have been two periods of increased gun violence in U.S. schools and "the timing of these periods significantly correlates with increased economic insecurity," said researchers from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
NewsAssociated PressMissouri death row inmate appeals to US Supreme CourtA Missouri man convicted of killing a woman and her two children almost 20 years ago asked the U.S. Supreme Court to spare his life on Monday, a day before his scheduled execution. Mark Christeson, 37, is set for lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state prison in Bonne Terre. Investigators said he raped and killed Susan Brouk, and killed her 12-year-old daughter and her 9-year-old son near their rural south-central Missouri home in 1998.
TechnologyLaptop MagWindows 10 Cloud May Be Microsoft's Chrome OS KillerAccording to a report from ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, Windows watchers discovered the name of this supposedly new software within recent test builds of Windows 10. According to the report, Windows 10 Cloud is designed to be a simplified version of Windows 10 that will run only Universal Windows apps from the Windows Store. MORE: Chromebooks vs. Windows 10 Laptops: What Should You Buy?
TechnologyBGR NewsSamsung is reportedly going for bigger batteries for the Galaxy S8Samsung blamed the Galaxy Note 7 fires on two independent battery issues that turned the phablet into an explosive device. Samsung said it’s taking a new approach to ensure the battery quality of its upcoming smartphones, revealing an eight-point testing program. The Galaxy S8 will be the first flagship device that will benefit from that program, and Samsung certainly can’t afford any more mistakes.
- NewsConsumer ReportsUpdated 2017 Toyota Sienna Gains Power and Gears
Try to talk new parents into considering a minivan as their primary family mobile and you’ll likely be greeted with cold, dead stares. This is a good year for minivan buyers, with the impressive Chrysler Pacifica, upcoming next-generation Honda Odyssey, and the current Toyota Sienna to choose from. Facing renewed competition, Toyota has freshened the Sienna for 2017.
- PoliticsForeign Policy MagazineThe Coming Chaos: What to Expect From Trump’s National Security Team
No one knows with any degree of certainty what type of foreign policy approach President Donald Trump and his team might pursue. The most likely scenario is an incoherent and dysfunctional policy process led by an ideological and hardline National Security Council and White House, an independent and reasonable Pentagon, a weak State Department, and an intelligence community leaking like a sieve to counter the White House. What is clear from the confirmation hearings for James Mattis, Rex Tillerson, and Mike Pompeo — Trump’s respective picks for secretary of defense, secretary of state, and CIA director — is that the views of Trump’s foreign policy team are all over the map and do not align with his own.
- NewsInside EditionEx-Caregiver Who Lived in Family's Home After Patient's Death Finally Moves Out After a Year
Cheryl Sherrell, 71, moved into the San Diego, California, house a year ago to take care of the elderly homeowners, Alan and Fran Breslauer. When Alan died at age 92 last January, she was reportedly asked to leave but allegedly refused to go and the 90-year-old widow moved out, leaving Sherrell in the home. Sherrell is a notorious hoarder.
- ScienceInternational Business TimesThe Universe Is Actually Flat, Scientists Say
"Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field," said study co-author Kostas Skenderis of the U.K.'s University of Southampton. "The idea is similar to that of ordinary holograms where a three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional surface, such as in the hologram on a credit card.
WorldAFPBritish lawmakers take first step to starting BrexitBritain takes a key step towards leaving the European Union on Tuesday as lawmakers begin debating whether to empower Prime Minister Theresa May to embark on the historic divorce. MPs will hold their first discussion on legislation giving the government the power to trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, opening two years of negotiations on leaving the bloc. While the bill is expected to pass the House of Commons, it could be delayed in the upper House of Lords as May's Conservative Party does not have a majority there.
- WorldReutersTwo killed in attack on Saudi warship off Yemen
Houthi militants attacked a Saudi warship with three boats off the western coast of Yemen on Monday, causing an explosion that killed two crew members and injured three others, Saudi state news agency SPA reported. "A Saudi frigate on patrol west of Hodeidah port came under attack from three suicide boats belonging to the Houthi militias," the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said in a statement on SPA. The Iran-allied Houthi group that controls Yemen's capital claimed responsibility for the attack, the third carried out on ships off the coast of Yemen in the last six months.
WorldAssociated PressPomsel, former secretary of Nazi propagandist, dies at 106Brunhilde Pomsel, a former secretary of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, has died. Pomsel lived most of her life in relative obscurity until a German newspaper published an interview with her in 2011, prompting a flurry of interest in one of the last surviving people who had access to the Nazi leadership's inner circle. Kroenes said Pomsel had been lucid when he last spoke to her on her birthday Jan. 11.
