Animals news

• A tax service turned away a gay couple. Both sides claim discrimination

  18-02-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  This is latest in debate over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act on whether businesses can refuse service based on religious beliefs.
  
  Read more

• Trump Demands End to Maduro Regime in Broad Attack on Socialism

  18-02-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump called on the Venezuelan military to drop its support for Nicolas Maduro in a Miami speech critical of socialists worldwide, previewing attacks he may deploy against Democrats in his re-election campaign.
  
  Read more

• Pence and Biden in Munich: Stark contrast shows how Trump is ruining relations with Europe

  18-02-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Former ambassador: We're safer in NATO than outside it, but Donald Trump doesn't seem to realize that and is separating us from our closest allies.
  
  Read more

• Farrakhan Praises Omar’s Anti-Semitic Remarks: ‘Shake Up That Corrupt House’

  18-02-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Sunday praised Representative Ilhan Omar's (D., Minn.) recent endorsement of an anti-Semitic trope and urged the freshman lawmaker not to bow to pressure from critics.“Ms. Omar from Somalia – she started talking about ‘the Benjamins' and they are trying to make her apologize. Sweetheart, don't do that. Pardon me for calling you sweetheart, but you do have a sweet heart. You sure are using it to shake the government up, but you have noth
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Southwest Airlines under FAA investigation for aircraft weight, balance calculations

  18-02-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The investigation began in February 2018, and there have been no fines nor enforcement action from the investigation to date.
  
  Read more

• Aurora shooting victim sent one last heartbreaking text to wife before dying: 'I love you'

  18-02-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A victim of the shooting in Aurora, Illinois, shooting managed to send one last heartbreaking text message to his wife before becoming one of the latest victims to gun violence in the US.Just a day after Valentine’s Day, Terra Pinkard says she received what would be the last text she ever received from her husband, Josh.“I love you, I’ve been shot at work,” the text read.
  
  Read more

• REI CEO steps down following revelation of outside personal relationship

  18-02-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The CEO of outdoor gear retailer REI is stepping down in the wake of an inquiry into a relationship that appeared to be a conflict of interest.
  
  Read more

• Trial over Delaware prison riot ends with no convictions

  18-02-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The trial for four inmates charged with murder in a 2017 Delaware prison riot ended Monday with no convictions.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• VIDEO: Family warning others to watch out for pets after small dog was snatched by large bird

  18-02-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The owner of a small dog in Nevada is warning others to watch the skies when they take their pets out to play. That's after her dog was almost grabbed by what looked like a hawk.
  
  Read more

• The New Ford Focus ST Looks Awesome and Makes 276 Horsepower

  18-02-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  It's not too late for Ford to change its mind about bringing this hot hatch to America, is it?
  
  Read more

• Isil bride Shamima Begum suggests she is prepared to go to prison if Britain allows her back

  18-02-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The schoolgirl who ran away to join Isil has indicated that she is prepared to go to prison if she gets her wish to return to Britain. Shamima Begum said that she was still determined to come back from Syria despite knowing that UK authorities have the “option” to send her to jail. In an interview with the BBC yesterday, while cradling a newborn baby, the teenager was asked what she thought would happen on her return. “My first priority is my son, obviously,” she replied.
  
  Read more

• Israeli leaders' Nazi comments derail European summit

  18-02-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Poland on Monday withdrew from a European summit in Jerusalem, derailing the meeting and embarrassing its Israeli hosts, to protest claims by Israel's acting foreign minister that Poles collaborated with the Nazis and "suckled anti-Semitism with their mothers' milk."
  
  Read more

• Aurora shooting victim Josh Pinkard texted love to his wife as he lay dying

  18-02-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the victims of a gunman's rampage in Illinois texted love to his wife as he lay dying: "I received a text at 1:24 from my precious husband."
  
  Read more

• PHOTOS: Presidents Day protests decry Trump's emergency declaration

  18-02-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Activists in Washington, Chicago and dozens of other U.S. cities protested on Monday's Presidents Day holiday against President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to secure funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
  
  Read more

• Interval training burns off more pounds than jogging or cycling

  18-02-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  For the current analysis, researchers examined data from 41 smaller studies that compared weight loss results after at least four weeks of either interval training or moderate intensity continuous training programs, such as jogging, cycling or walking at a steady pace."Losing weight is not only about how many calories you burn during exercise, but also how your body reacts during the hours and days after exercise," said senior study author Paulo Gentil of the Federal University of Goias in Brazi
  
  Read more

• Trump news: California attorney general sues White House over national emergency declaration with 12 states expected to join

  18-02-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is being accused of waging a “relentless attack” on the FBI since taking office as the fallout from his decision to declare a national emergency to secure border wall funding continues.The remark comes from former deputy director of the bureau Andrew McCabe - dismissed by ex-attorney general Jeff Sessions in March 2018 after being accused of leaking information to the media - in an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition to promote his new insider account of the burea
  
  Read more

• Great white shark genome decoded

  18-02-2019 21:32
  In a major scientific step to understand the biology of this iconic apex predator and sharks in general, the entire genome of the white shark has now been decoded in detail.
  
  Read more

• Illinois man known for white crosses makes 5 for hometown

  18-02-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  AURORA, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man who has delivered more than 26,000 white crosses to sites around the U.S., largely to remember victims of gun violence, now finds himself doing the same in his hometown.
  
  Read more

• Airlines begin waiving change fees for new winter storm

  18-02-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Southwest Airlines had already started waiving rebooking fees ahead of the new storm. It’s likely that others would do the same as forecasts solidified.
  
  Read more

• Trump administration dares Maduro regime to prevent US aid from entering Venezuela

  18-02-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. humanitarian aid sits in Colombia at the border with Venezuela; reaction and analysis from Brett Bruen, former director of global engagement in the Obama White House.
  
  Read more

• Florida inmates use criminal skills to rescue baby from car

  18-02-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A group of prisoners in Florida put their criminal skills to good use on Valentine’s Day – breaking into a car, to free a baby locked inside. The prisoners, on work-release, were repairing parking meters in Pasco County, north of Tampa, when they spotted the family in distress. The one-year-old child was trapped inside the car, with the keys inside. The family was unable to afford a locksmith and so, in the 56 degree Fahrenheit heat, the father was preparing to break the window. That
  
  Read more

• Presidents Day protests decry Trump's emergency declaration

  18-02-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Calling Trump's declaration an abuse of power and usurpation of Congress, organizers with the nonprofit advocacy group MoveOn.org and other participants said it was important to let the outrage over the move be heard.“We disagree with the state of emergency declared by the president and stand with our immigrant colleagues and friends,” said Darcy Regan, executive director of Indivisible Chicago, which co-hosted the protest there.Trump invoked the emergency powers on Friday after Cong
  
  Read more

• Amazon announces plans to make half of shipments carbon neutral by 2030

  18-02-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Online retail giant Amazon has announced plans to make alf if its shipments carbon neutral by the year 2030.The company, which ships millions of packages a year to shoppers, said that it will achieve that goal by switching to renewable energy sources and by asking suppliers to reimagine their packaging.“It won’t be easy to achieve this goal, but it’s worth being focused and stubborn on this vision and we’re committed to seeing it through,” Dave Clark, Amazon senior
  
  Read more

• What Kim Jong Un Really Wants, and How America Should Respond

  18-02-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  "Kim’s young age nearly forces him to make quick and ambitious achievements, but it also encourages him to think long-term about boosting the economy and improving his country’s place in the world, which will entail economic reform and geopolitical repositioning among the great powers and regional states."
  
  Read more

• Florida student faces misdemeanor charges after refusing to stand for Pledge of Allegiance

  18-02-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  An 11-year-old student in Florida refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and was arrested for a resulting confrontation with a teacher and police officer.
  
  Read more

• Maduro Goes After Richard Branson With Own Concert

  18-02-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The concert organized by the Venezuelan government will take place this weekend on the Simon Bolivar bridge connecting the two countries, Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said.The government will provide medical attention and give away 20,000 packages through its food-delivery program.
  
  Read more

• Las Vegas snow: Up to 2 inches of snow falls on strip for 1st time in decade

  18-02-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Wild weather in Nevada! Parts of Las Vegas, including the strip, are waking up to as much as 2 inches of snow.
  
  Read more

• Tom Ricketts apologizes for distraction of father's emails

  18-02-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Chicago Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts apologized to the team's players and coaching staff at spring training on Monday for any distraction caused by offensive racist emails written by his father.
  
  Read more

• US-backed Syria force demands IS jihadists surrender

  18-02-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Islamic State group jihadists defending their last scrap of territory in Syria have no choice but to surrender, a Kurdish-led force said on Monday, ahead of a victory declaration expected within days.The warning by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) came as European nations reacted coolly to a US call to repatriate their nationals from Syria, which Germany said would be "extremely difficult".From an SDF position hundreds of metres (yards) away, an AFP reporter spotted people moving bet
  
  Read more

• Jussie Smollett case: New questions over initial reaction from top Democrats

  18-02-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Maxine Watters, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker immediately condemned the alleged attack as a hate crime.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Unsealed ballots collected in US House race

  18-02-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on an evidentiary hearing outlining a ballot fraud investigation in an undeclared North Carolina congressional race for which a winner hasn't been finalized (all times local):
  
  Read more

• Mysterious 'witches marks' discovered in ancient cave in Creswell Crags, England

  18-02-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Mysterious 'witches marks' discovered in an ancient cave in Creswell Crags, England and the discovery highlights the importance of the Crags for researchers in England.
  
  Read more

• Jussie Smollett attack: Police seek to re-interview 'Empire' star; brothers tell police he paid them to stage attack, sources say

  18-02-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago police want to re-interview "Empire" star Jussie Smollett about the alleged attack, and that could happen Monday.
  
  Read more

• Trump says Venezuela's military will 'lose everything they have' if they continue to support Maduro

  18-02-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has issued his most blunt threat yet to Venezuela’s military – stop supporting President Nicolas Maduro or risk “losing everything”.In a speech in which he claimed “the evils” of socialism were also being turned back in Cuba and Nicaragua and that the US would never be a socialist country – comments that were almost certainly made with the 2020 presidential election in mind – the president spoke directly to military officials who have
  
  Read more

• Europeans reject Trump's call to repatriate Syria jihadists

  18-02-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  European officials on Monday gave a cold shoulder to a call by US President Donald Trump to take back citizens captured in the fight against Islamic State jihadists in Syria for prosecution back home.Concerns rose about the fate of European nationals now being held by Kurdish forces after Trump shocked his coalition allies in December by announcing the withdrawal of American troops from Syria.Officials worry the Kurds will no longer be able to ensure the captives' detention, especially if their
  
  Read more

• Pope's credibility 'on the line' as Vatican convenes global meeting on combating child abuse by clergy

  18-02-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Victims of clerical sex abuse have warned Pope Francis that his credibility is on the line as he confronts the biggest challenge of his papacy with a landmark conference on protecting children from rape and molestation. Nearly 200 bishops, archbishops, patriarchs and other senior Catholic figures from around the world will convene in Rome on Thursday for an unprecedented four-day conference that is supposed to tackle the scourge of child abuse by clergy. It is the biggest effort so far to addres
  
  Read more

• The Latest: NC official says US House race saw ballot scheme

  18-02-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on an evidentiary hearing outlining a ballot fraud investigation in an undeclared North Carolina congressional race for which a winner hasn't been finalized (all times local):
  
  Read more

• Israel's first lunar mission to launch this week

  18-02-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel is to launch its first moon mission this week, sending an unmanned spacecraft to collect data to be shared with NASA, organisers said Monday.The 585-kilogram (1,290-pound) Beresheet (Genesis) spacecraft is to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida at around 0145 GMT on Friday.Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and technology NGO SpaceIL announced the date at a press conference.
  
  Read more

• Facebook 'digital gangsters' who spread fake news: British MPs

  18-02-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A scathing British parliamentary report on Monday branded Facebook "digital gangsters" who failed to fight the spread of fake news and violated data privacy.Lawmakers' 18-month investigation into technology companies and disinformation also accused the world's largest social media platform of trying to hide the extent of Russian interference in foreign elections.Facebook is coming under attack over its response to Russia's suspected use of misleading stories and targeted ads to sway the 2016 US
  
  Read more

• Trump to say Venezuela's military at risk for supporting Maduro

  18-02-2019 17:08 via news.yahoo.com
  "The United States knows where military officials and their families have money hidden throughout the world," the White House said in describing what Trump planned to say.The White House issued points from a speech Trump was to deliver in the Miami area later in the day, saying the president will say the Venezuelan military should let humanitarian aid into the country.Trump will offer strong support for National Assembly President Juan Guaido, who the United States views as the legitimate presid
  
  Read more

• Trump calls discussions about removing him "treasonous"

  18-02-2019 17:08 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump said Monday a top Justice official's reported discussions about invoking the Constitution to remove him from office were part of an "illegal and treasonous" push against him.Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein raised the possibility of removing the president in 2017 after Trump fired FBI director James Comey, according to Andrew McCabe, who replaced Comey as the bureau's acting director.McCabe and Rosenstein "look like they were planning a very illegal act, and got c
  
  Read more

• Man awarded £120m in compensation from Ford after being paralysed in car accident

  18-02-2019 17:02 via news.yahoo.com
  An Alabama jury has awarded $151.8m (£117.4m) to a young man paralyzed in a 2015 rollover accident involving a Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle, Ford and lawyers in the case said on Sunday.The jury awarded $100m in punitive damages and the rest in compensatory damages after finding that the 1998 Ford Explorer did not meet the company’s own safety guidelines, according to a court document seen by Reuters and lawyers for plaintiff Travaris “Tre” Smith.The document, relea
  
  Read more

• Seven lawmakers quit UK Labour Party citing Brexit 'betrayal', anti-Semitism

  18-02-2019 16:57 via news.yahoo.com
  In a direct challenge to Corbyn, the seven centrist MPs said they were courting others from across parliament to join their group, saying "enough is enough" in keeping silent over their doubts about the Labour leader's fitness for office.United by a desire for a second referendum on Britain's decision to leave the European Union, they acknowledged that their resignations would not change the arithmetic in parliament, where there is as yet no majority for such a vote.With only 39 days until Brita
  
  Read more

• GMC Acadia souped up with new engine, trim, and tech

  18-02-2019 16:53 via news.yahoo.com
  GMC has unveiled the refreshed Acadia for the 2020 model year complete with a new trim, a fresh look, and the latest GMC infotainment system.GMC announced on Monday that the Acadia has gotten its midcycle refresh, and now, the lineup looks more like a group of Sierra pickups from the front than mid-size SUVs.In addition to its new exterior styling, the Acadia has a new powertrain option and an assortment of new technologies including an enhanced infotainment system and heads-up display
  
  Read more

• McCabe and 60 Minutes Avoid Discussing Why Russia Factored in Comey’s Firing

  18-02-2019 16:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Andrew McCabe is a good witness and he made a favorable impression, at least on me, in his 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley. Pelley and his editors did a great job highlighting McCabe’s down-to-earth likability. Unlike Jim Comey, a career prosecutor and corporate lawyer before he became FBI director, former deputy director McCabe is a career agent; his relation of events smacks of the Bureau’s “just the facts, ma’am” ethos. And McCabe’s account of Trump
  
  Read more

• Many Indians rally behind Modi after Kashmir attack

  18-02-2019 16:48 via news.yahoo.com
  As emotions run high following the deadliest attack on security forces in decades, Modi, who faces a general election by May, said he had given a free hand to security forces to avenge the killings in Kashmir, the region disputed with arch-foe Pakistan.Tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals have ratcheted up and shouts of "down with Pakistan" and "blood for blood" have reverberated at funerals of the victims.The attack has been claimed by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group but
  
  Read more

• EU vows 'swift' riposte to threatened US auto tariffs

  18-02-2019 16:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The EU promised a quick and effective response if the United States imposes import duties on European autos, a spokesman for the European Commission said on Monday.Brussels issued the threat after the US Commerce Department filed a report that empowers President Donald Trump to apply car duties within the next 90 days.German Chancellor Angela Merkel has labelled as "frightening" the prospect that this report could label European car imports as a national security threat to the United States, ena
  
  Read more

• Seven MPs Resign from Labour Party

  18-02-2019 16:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Seven members of British Parliament -- Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Gavin Shuker, Angela Smith, Chris Leslie, Mike Gapes, and Ann Coffey -- resigned from the Labour party Monday over concerns about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, forming their own contingent, the Independent Group.Berger, Labour's most high-profile Jewish member, called the party “institutionally anti-Semitic” and accused it of “a culture of bullying, bigotry and, intimidation," sayin
  
  Read more

• Poland shuns Israel summit amid Holocaust row

  18-02-2019 16:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Warsaw (AFP) - Poland's prime minister on Monday cancelled Warsaw's participation in a Jerusalem summit, accusing an Israeli minister of "racist" comments about the actions of Poles during the Holocaust, further souring relations between the two nations.
  
  Read more

• Venezuela state internet provider blocks volunteer aid page

  18-02-2019 16:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's state internet provider CANTV has blocked a webpage where volunteers sign up to answer National Assembly president Juan Guaido's call to help bring in desperately needed humanitarian aid, the opposition said on Monday.Guaido says he wants one million volunteers by Saturday, the deadline day he has set to bring in the aid piling up at the border with Colombia and aiming to alleviate food and medicine shortages.Last week the opposition hit out at CANTV for redirecting the volunteers we
  
  Read more

Follow @newsloc_animals on Twitter!