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• 'Pursuit of justice': Sacramento mall shut down as protests continue over Stephon Clark decision

  03-03-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A group's sit-in shut down a Sacramento mall on the 2nd day of protests after prosecutors declined to charge the officers who killed Stephon Clark.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido urges supporters to protest on Monday

  03-03-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opposition leader Juan Guaido is calling for nationwide demonstrations Monday to coincide with his planned return to Venezuela, in a challenge expected to escalate his power struggle with President Nicolas Maduro.
  
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• The India-Pakistan Crisis Is Not Over

  03-03-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  There is a danger that India and Pakistan could get locked into a game of one-upmanship—one that could ultimately lead to their armies mobilizing for a ground war.
  
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• Ex-West Virginia staffer disputes making anti-Muslim comment

  03-03-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former West Virginia Capitol staffer is disputing anti-Muslim comments a lawmaker said she made in response to an Islamophobic display outside the House of Delegates chamber.
  
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• Ebola treatment center in Congo reopens after attack: ministry

  03-03-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ebola treatment center at the epicenter of the current outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has resumed operations after it was closed in response to an attack last week, the Congolese health ministry said on Sunday.The facility in the city of Butembo was one of two centers torched by unknown assailants in the space of a few days, prompting Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to suspend medical activities.Aid workers have faced mistrust in some areas as they work to contain the Ebola o
  
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• Presidential hopeful Booker, in Selma, says U.S. failing its people

  03-03-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Booker, 49, a black second-term senator from New Jersey and former mayor of Newark, also lamented that clean water and affordable healthcare are still unavailable in many communities."We live in a nation that is failing its moral obligations to its children, to its people," Booker said in a short speech at a church near the bridge in Selma, Alabama, where civil rights activists were attacked more than half a century ago.Nearly 600 activists marching for African-American voting rights were met on
  
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• 'Absolute miracle:' Rescuers find missing California sisters

  03-03-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Armed with some outdoor survival training, granola bars and pink rubber boots, 5- and 8-year-old sisters survived 44 hours in rugged Northern California wilderness before they were found dehydrated and cold but in good spirits on Sunday, authorities said.
  
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• U.S. Voters Don’t Want Socialist or Very Old President: Poll

  03-03-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The poll comes as Democrats line up for a chance to take on Trump in the 2020 presidential election.The survey suggests that 41 percent of voters would definitely or probably vote for Trump in 2020, against 48 percent who said they would vote for the Democratic candidate.Early polls have shown that among front-runners for the Democratic nomination are former Vice President Joe Biden, 76, who is still deciding whether to run, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, 77, who has announced another presi
  
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• IS fighters put up fierce resistance to defend last pocket

  03-03-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — Islamic State militants are desperately fighting to hang on to the last tiny piece of territory they hold on the riverside in eastern Syria, deploying snipers, guided missiles and surprise tunnel attacks. The resistance prompted a fierce pounding Sunday by the U.S-led coalition and its ground allies in their final push to end the extremist group's territorial hold.
  
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• Cisco CEO Suggests Fear of Huawei 5G Dominance Is Overblown

  03-03-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  “The current infrastructure around the world is built on a combination of communication suppliers from Europe, from China, from the U.S., everywhere,” Robbins said in a CNN interview on Sunday.The U.S. is seeking to discourage purchases of equipment from Huawei and is pressing European governments to do the same, saying it’s a gateway for Chinese spying.While major western equipment manufacturers specialize in different areas of next-generation mobile gear, Shenzhen-based Huawe
  
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• Estonian Reform Set to Return to Power With Populists Sidelined

  03-03-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The business-friendly Reform Party had 30.7 percent of the vote in an partial count on Sunday.Ratas’s Center party was in second with 20.2 percent and the euroskeptic EKRE party was in third with 17.5 percent.The results were from about 81 percent of ballots counted, based on a Bloomberg calculation from Electoral Commission data.
  
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• US, South Korea end spring military drills to back diplomacy

  03-03-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and the U.S. are eliminating their massive springtime military drills and replacing them with smaller exercises in what they call an effort to support diplomacy aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis.
  
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• Flight data recorder recovered from fatal Texas cargo plane crash

  03-03-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The NTSB also posted two photos on Twitter showing the battered bright orange recorder found in the murky waters of Trinity Bay, near the small city of Anahuac.The Amazon Prime Air cargo plane operated by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings was flying to Houston from Miami when it nosedived into the bay, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport.After the NTSB said on Friday that investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Boeing 767 cargo jetlin
  
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• Upcoming Tactical RPG Blends WW2 With Darkest Dungeon Gameplay

  03-03-2019 21:30
  Publisher: Pixelated MilkDeveloper: Pixelated MilkRelease: 2019 Platform: PlayStation 4, Switch, PCDeveloper Pixelated Milk recently revealed Warsaw, a tactical RPG set during World War 2. With beautiful hand-painted artwork and turn-based combat, it has a strong Darkest Dungeon vibe both aesthetically and gameplay-wise. Warsaw tasks you with recruiting a ragtag group of heroes so you can build an army. Each party member has a certain class, like medic, and unique skills that they can put t
  
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• War horses: Syria's Arabian beauties plod way to recovery

  03-03-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A shadow of her former self after years of war, 11-year-old Arabian mare Karen stands quietly as a Syrian vet gently pushes a syringe into her pale grey neck."Karen used to be the beauty queen of all horses," says the vet, Ahmad Sharida.Weak and withdrawn, Karen is unable to even whinny.
  
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• Fireballs and black smoke billow from final IS holdout in Syria

  03-03-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The rattle of guns, bomb blasts and black smoke -- a deluge of fire is being unleashed on the Islamic State's last Syrian stronghold by Kurdish-led and international forces."Watch out, it's coming!" Kurdish commander Hagit Qamishlo shouts to AFP journalists, from the terrace of a house that overlooks the battlefield some 800 metres away."Well played! That was a jihadist sniper position", Qamishlo relays into his walkie talkie.
  
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• The Latest: 2 young California sisters found alive

  03-03-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on two sisters who went missing from their home Friday (all times local):
  
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• Republican defections on national emergency set up Trump's 1st veto

  03-03-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says he will vote to block President Trump’s national emergency declaration — a move that likely gives the Senate enough votes to pass a resolution that would nullify the declaration.
  
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• Roseanne Barr calls #MeToo accusers 'hoes,' slams Sen. Kamala Harris, Christine Blasey Ford

  03-03-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Roseanne Barr didn't hold back on the #MeToo movement in a new off-the-rails interview, verbally attacking Sen. Kamala Harris and many other women.
  
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• Autoworker upheaval: Families split, children left behind

  03-03-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Hundreds of workers at four General Motors plants slated to close this year are facing a painful choice: Take the company's offer to work at another factory — possibly hundreds of miles away — even if that means leaving behind their families, their homes and everything they've built. Or stay and risk losing their high-paying jobs.
  
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• Guaido calls for mass protests ahead of return to Venezuela Monday

  03-03-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido called for mass protests across the country against President Nicolas Maduro on Monday as he announced his return after a week touring Latin American allies.The 35-year-old political newcomer continued on to Brazil, where he met the new right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, and on Friday traveled to Paraguay and Argentina.
  
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• Community honors Colorado firefighter after battle with brain tumor

  03-03-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Emotional video showed the heart-wrenching procession as Cody Mooney was escorted for an organ donation procedure.
  
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• GOP Rep. Amash says he has a higher loyalty than Trump — to the Constitution

  03-03-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  “The president doesn’t get to decide that he can override Congress simply because Congress doesn’t do what he wants,”Amash said Sunday.
  
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• Analysis: India, Pakistan de-escalate but triggers remain

  03-03-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan have pulled back from the brink of an all-out military confrontation over the contested Kashmir region.
  
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• Islamic State deploys car bombs in defense of last enclave

  03-03-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Capturing the besieged village in eastern Syria will be a milestone in international efforts to roll back the jihadists, whose self-styled "caliphate" covered roughly a third of Syria and Iraq at its height in 2014.The SDF had said it expected a "decisive battle" on Sunday after advancing gradually for 18 hours to avoid landmines sown by Islamic State (IS), whose fighters are also using underground tunnels to stage ambushes and then disappear.A Reuters witness spotted Islamic State militants ins
  
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• Bolton on taking Kim's word on Warmbier death: 'My opinion doesn't matter'

  03-03-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump’s national security adviser says that his opinion about whether Kim Jong Un knew about the torture of Otto Warmbier in North Korea is irrevelant.
  
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• Invectives old and new fill Trump's marathon speech at CPAC

  03-03-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — In a slashing speech packed with braggadocio and grievance, President Donald Trump denounced Democrats as the party of "the socialist nightmare," relitigated his crowd sizes back to the inauguration and took on "sick," ''lunatic" and "dirty" foes at every turn, earning him the unvarnished adoration of cheering conservatives.
  
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• Democrats target Trump Jr, Weisselberg and more as investigations grow

  03-03-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump hugs an American flag at CPAC.Democrats in the House of Representatives are stepping up investigations into Donald Trump’s potentially impeachable acts of corruption, obstruction of justice and abuse of power.On Monday the House judiciary committee, which is on the front line of renewed Democratic efforts to hold the president accountable, will issue demands for documents from more than 60 people and entities.
  
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• Trumps vows executive order for college 'free speech'

  03-03-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would soon sign an executive order requiring American universities and colleges to maintain "free speech" on campuses and threatened that schools not complying could lose federal research funds. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido says he will return home after Ecuador visit

  03-03-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Guaido has spent the past few days touring between Latin American countries to muster support for his campaign to form a transition government and oust Maduro, whom he denounces as an illegitimate usurper."As for the next steps for Venezuelans, I announce my return home from Ecuador," Guaido told a news conference in the coastal town of Salinas alongside Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno.Guaido did not say when exactly or how he would return to Venezuela.
  
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• SpaceX's Crew Dragon test flight gets through the toughest bit without issue

  03-03-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  SpaceX sent its Crew Dragon capsule skyward on Saturday for a crucial test of its ability to carry human passengers. Now, slightly more than 24 hours later, the next phase of the test has played out. It went well. The Crew Dragon capsule, designated Demo-1, was able to successfully dock with the International Space Station at roughly 3:00 a.m. ET. Although there was no crew aboard this time, SpaceX's reusable capsule is designed to carry up to seven astronauts to and from Earth's orbit.SEE ALSO:
  
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• Jesse Jackson says Trump would probably have been 'with the stormtroopers' on 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma

  03-03-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Jackson was attending the annual Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast, which also hosted several current Democratic presidential candidates.
  
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• Trump investigation: US House panel launches probe into possible obstruction by president

  03-03-2019 17:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The US House Judiciary Committee will launch a probe into possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by Donald Trump.Jerry Nadler, who chairs the committee, told ABC that the panel wanted to obtain documents from more than 60 people and entities as part of the investigation.Documents from Donald Trump Jr, the president’s son and Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, are among those wanted by the panel.
  
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• Adviser says Trump 'gave nothing away' in North Korea talks

  03-03-2019 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House national security adviser on Sunday described President Donald Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a success despite the lack of an agreement providing for the verifiable dismantling of the North's nuclear sites.
  
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• Driver in New Orleans crash that killed 2 believed to be impaired, is son of NOPD cop

  03-03-2019 17:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The driver of a car that slammed into cyclists and pedestrians blocks from a Mardi Gras parade was believed to be impaired, New Orleans police say.
  
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• 'Kim knew': top Republican contradicts Trump over Otto Warmbier's death

  03-03-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Kevin McCarthy contradicted Trump who said he believes North Korean leader knew nothing about treatment of US studentA senior Republican has contradicted Donald Trump about whether Kim Jong-un is to blame for the death of an American citizen, saying: “North Korea murdered Otto [Warmbier] … I think Kim knew what happened, which was wrong.” The House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, spoke on Sunday, a day after Trump, without withdrawing his support for Kim’s denial of kno
  
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• 800 Palestinians allowed to exit Gaza for Mecca pilgrimage

  03-03-2019 17:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Some 800 Palestinians crossed Sunda from the Gaza Strip into Egypt on their initial stage of a pilgrimage to Mecca, the first time since 2014 Egyptian authorities have granted visas for such a trip.The pilgrims left at around dawn and were to be met by buses on the Egyptian side to bring them to Cairo's airport, from where they would fly to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, said a Palestinian official at the Rafah crossing in the Gaza Strip.Fifteen Gazans among the 800 were not authorised to cross, accordi
  
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• On brink of Syria defeat, Islamic State unleashes car bombs

  03-03-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Capturing the village in eastern Syria will be a milestone in international efforts to roll back the jihadists, whose self-styled "caliphate" covered roughly one third of Syria and Iraq at its height in 2014.The SDF had said it expected a "decisive battle" on Sunday after advancing gradually for 18 hours to avoid land mines sown by Islamic State (IS), whose fighters are also using underground tunnels to stage ambushes and then disappear.By midday, however, there was no sign of the battle being o
  
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• U.S. House panel begins probe of possible Trump obstruction

  03-03-2019 16:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Sunday the panel would seek documents from more than 60 people and entities
  
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• 10 years after stocks hit bottom, what we learned and what we didn't during bull market

  03-03-2019 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  People who left the stock market around March 2009 and never re-entered paid a huge price in terms of missed opportunities. The rebound has been huge.
  
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• Arrest made in Florida hit-and-run that left 19-year-old in critical condition

  03-03-2019 16:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The driver faces two felony charges after turning into oncoming traffic and fleeing the scene.
  
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• Washington wants to know if Pakistan used U.S.-built jets to down Indian warplane

  03-03-2019 16:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan and India both carried out aerial bombing missions this week, including a clash on Wednesday that saw an Indian pilot shot down over the disputed region of Kashmir in an incident that alarmed global powers and sparked fears of a war.A Pakistan military spokesman on Wednesday denied Indian claims that Pakistan used F-16 jets.Pakistan returned the captured Indian pilot on Friday in a high-profile handover Islamabad touted as a "peace gesture", which appeared to significantly dial down ten
  
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• March madness: Heavy snow, bitter cold roll across nation as winter storm descends

  03-03-2019 16:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A wave of harsh winter weather was driving heavy snow from California's Sierra Nevada Mountains to New England and triggering bone-chilling temps.
  
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• Amazon has a $120 Logitech Harmony universal remote for just $35

  03-03-2019 15:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The Logitech Harmony 665 10-Device Universal Remote is one of the most popular Logitech Harmony models around. It has all the great features you want without overcomplicated bells and whistles like touchscreens, so it makes sense that it's so popular. It also costs about $120 new though, so it's out of reach for many people... unless of course you follow the BGR Deals team, because we just found refurbs on Amazon for $35 each!Here are the key details from the product page:* For easy control over
  
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• Warning, graphic content: NYPD search for men who attacked homeless man in Brooklyn, stole money

  03-03-2019 15:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Raw video: Police are searching for a group of men caught on security footage beating up a homeless man in Brooklyn.
  
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• White House security chief defends Trump-Kim summit

  03-03-2019 15:41 via news.yahoo.com
  US national security advisor John Bolton denied Sunday that last week's nuclear summit with North Korea was a failure, despite President Donald Trump coming home empty-handed.A high-stakes second meeting to strike a nuclear disarmament deal between the North's leader Kim Jong Un and Trump broke up in disarray Thursday, without even a joint statement.
  
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• Conservative attacked on Berkeley campus joins Trump onstage at CPAC

  03-03-2019 14:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Hayden Williams on receiving praise from the president.
  
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• Russia-Israel team to eye foreign forces' pullout from Syria

  03-03-2019 14:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel and Russia are to form a joint team to examine the withdrawal of foreign forces from Syria.Israel is seeking the removal of Iranian forces and has vowed to keep its main enemy from entrenching itself militarily in the neighbouring country.Netanyahu met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow to discuss Iran's presence in Syria.
  
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• Blair Sticks With Labour But Sees More Joining U.K. Rebel Group

  03-03-2019 14:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Tony Blair insisted he has no plans to quit the U.K. Labour Party as he praised the newly formed Independent Group of breakaway members of Parliament.The former prime minister said he had sympathy for the eight Labour lawmakers and three Conservatives who resigned from their parties last month, some citing disagreements over Brexit.
  
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• 17-year-old pedestrian killed after hit and run in New Caney

  03-03-2019 14:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Deputies say he could have been walking home from a party, when a driver struck and killed him.
  
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