Animals news

• DOJ won't charge William Barr, Wilbur Ross after contempt vote

  24-07-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawmakers never expected the Justice Department to prosecute its own leader.
  
  Read more

• Treasury's Mnuchin says Amazon 'destroyed' U.S. retail sector

  24-07-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Mnuchin said he looked forward to hearing the results of a Justice Department probe, announced on Tuesday, into whether big U.S. technology firms engage in anticompetitive practices, the strongest sign yet that the Trump administration is stepping up its scrutiny of Big Tech. "If you look at Amazon, although they're certain benefits to it, they've destroyed the retail industry across the United States," Mnuchin told CNBC.
  
  Read more

• Trump Admin Disses Peter Thiel, Sides With Google Over Treason Claim

  24-07-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Drew AngererTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that he spoke with President Trump and the two found no evidence of threats to national security in Google’s work with China, refuting a baseless claim made by billionaire Facebook board member Peter Thiel last week.In an interview with CNBC, Mnuchin said both he and President Trump looked into the accusations and discussed them directly with Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the White House. Mnuchin said that Google’s parent com
  
  Read more

• U.S. blocks U.N. rebuke of Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes -diplomats

  24-07-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes on the outskirts of Jerusalem, diplomats said.Israel said the 10 apartment buildings demolished on Monday, most of them still under construction, had been built illegally and posed a security risk to Israeli armed forces operating along a barrier that runs through the occupied West Bank.U.N. officials, who had calle
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Trump wants restraining order to keep his New York tax returns away from Democrats

  24-07-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s another volley in the tug-of-war between Trump and Democrats who are bent on getting ahold of his tax returns.
  
  Read more

• Border Patrol boss joined Facebook page to read staff posts

  24-07-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of the U.S. Border Patrol said Wednesday that she joined a Facebook group whose members mocked migrants and lawmakers so she could read what her personnel thought about her, and said she knew little about the group. Chief Carla Provost said during a congressional subcommittee hearing in Washington that she logged on to Facebook very rarely and that she immediately reported her membership in the group to an oversight division of U.S. Customs and Border Protection after she realized she w
  
  Read more

• Report: Truck crossed highway line in crash that killed 8

  24-07-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A crash that killed eight people in Mississippi last month happened after a box truck crossed the center line of a two-lane rural highway and struck a van, according to a federal report issued Wednesday.The National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report confirms what the van driver, Alejandro Estrejo Resendiz, told The Associated Press hours after the June 3 wreck near Scooba — that he swerved but the truck hit the van.The van was owned by Sharp Forestry in Columbus, Mississippi
  
  Read more

• Justice Department will not pursue criminal contempt charges in Census dispute with Congress

  24-07-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Justice Department will not pursue criminal charges against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, after Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to hold them in contempt in a dispute over documents concerning whether to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. "Accordingly, the department will not bring the congressional contempt citations before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the Attorney General or the Secretary," he add
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Animal Babies: First Year on Earth review – maximum adorableness!

  24-07-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  You will find much to swell the heart here, especially if you’re a One Born Every Minute fan. But brace yourself – there are dangers everywhere in the wildGreat white sharks, feral dogs, lions and polluting, germ-carrying humans. And those are just the start of the perils facing the youngest animals in Animal Babies: First Year on Earth (BBC Two). The baby elephant has to contend with an irritated older brother attempting to kick it out of the way; the infant mountain gorilla has to
  
  Read more

• Today, Impeachment Died Another Death

  24-07-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  There was a moment, early in Robert Mueller’s House Judiciary Committee testimony today, that stood at least a some small chance of altering the inexorable momentum against impeachment. It came in the course of questioning by California Democrat Ted Lieu.“I’d like to ask you the reason, again, that you did not indict Donald Trump is because of OLC [Office of Legal Counsel] opinion stating that you cannot indict a sitting president, correct?” Lieu asked Mueller.Mueller res
  
  Read more

• Mueller: Trump's answers were 'generally' untruthful

  24-07-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Former special counsel Robert Mueller told lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday that President Trump’s written answers to his questions were not only incomplete — they were “generally” untruthful.
  
  Read more

• America’s New B-21 Stealth Bomber Is Just Two Years Away

  24-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Air Force’s new B-21 stealth bomber could fly as early as December 2021, Air Force vice chief of staff Gen. Stephen Wilson said at an event in Washington, D.C. on July 24, 2019.Air Force magazine broke the news.Wilson told the audience he in recent weeks visited Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Melbourne, Florida, where he was “looking at the B-21.” Northrop is “moving out on that pretty fast.” Wilson said, adding he has an app on his phone “cou
  
  Read more

• A note left in a Domino's Pizza box led to rescue of a kidnapped woman, police say

  24-07-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who was allegedly bound, gagged and beaten was rescued after leaving a note asking for help at a Domino's Pizza in Anthony, Texas.
  
  Read more

• Newborn found on doorstep at apartment complex where another baby was left 2 years ago

  24-07-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Orlando Police found a 1-day-old infant wrapped only in a T-shirt on front doorstep.
  
  Read more

• Mouse, not just tick: New genome heralds change in Lyme disease fight

  24-07-2019 22:11
  As Lyme disease increases, researchers have taken a significant step toward finding new ways to prevent its transmission. The experts, who include a pioneer in Lyme disease discovery, have sequenced the genome of the animal carrying the bacteria that causes the illness. The advance provides a launching pad for fresh approaches to stopping Lyme disease from infecting people.
  
  Read more

• Mueller Tells Congress: FBI ‘Currently’ Looking Into Issues of Trump Team Blackmail

  24-07-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSTowards the end of Robert Mueller’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, the former special counsel indicated that the FBI is currently investigating matters of blackmail and compromise involving those who were in President Donald Trump’s orbit.During his allotted time, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) noted that because it was outside the Mueller investigation’s purview, the final report did not reach any counterintelligence conclusions regardi
  
  Read more

• Governor acknowledges Native Hawaiian plight on Mauna Kea

  24-07-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  After a week of tension and dozens of arrests, Hawaii's governor is vowing to find a peaceful resolution to the ongoing stalemate with Native Hawaiian activists who are trying to prevent the construction of another telescope atop a Big Island volcano.Gov. David Ige visited the protest site Tuesday evening after acknowledging that their grievances were not just about the new observatory but also the treatment of Native Hawaiians going back more than a century.Activists welcomed Ige with a nose-to
  
  Read more

• Mom arrested after bringing dead daughter to hospital claiming her neck was injured in wreck

  24-07-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Police arrested the mother of a 5-year-old girl who her brought to an Alexandria hospital said the girl's neck was injured in an auto accident.
  
  Read more

• Democrats ask Mueller if Trump could avoid criminal charges if he serves a 2nd term

  24-07-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  After testifying that the president could be charged with obstruction of justice after he leaves office, former special counsel Robert Mueller is asked about the statute of limitations.
  
  Read more

• Charlottesville statue of Robert E. Lee vandalized with anti-Trump graffiti

  24-07-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A statue of Robert E. Lee that was at the center of violent protests in 2017 at a Charlottesville, Virginia, park, was vandalized early Wednesday.
  
  Read more

• GOP lawmaker takes out textbook, tells Mueller he doesn't have 'power to exonerate'

  24-07-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, blasted Mueller for saying that his report did not exonerate President Donald Trump, bringing out a legal textbook.
  
  Read more

• Toddler injured after jumping on baggage belt, falling in luggage room at Atlanta airport

  24-07-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A 2-year-old boy was hurt after jumping on a baggage conveyor belt at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He landed in a luggage room.
  
  Read more

• Temperature records broke in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands today

  24-07-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  It's back. After a June heat wave smashed national temperature records in France and broke historic June records across Europe, a mass of hot air has returned to the continent. On Wednesday, the Netherlands Meteorological Institute reported that the nation's all-time temperature record, which stood for the last 75 years, fell as temperatures hit 101.8 degrees Fahrenheit (38.8 C).Belgium broke its national heat record too, as temperatures reached 103.8 F (39.9 C), reported David Dehenau
  
  Read more

• Sudan's army chief among several arrested in new coup plot

  24-07-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Sudan's army chief was among several people arrested in a coup plot, the country's military said Wednesday, shortly after reports emerged of at least a dozen high-ranking army officers and Islamists being taken into custody in the conspiracy.This was the second coup plot reported this month in Sudan, where talks between the military and the country's pro-democracy movement have dragged out over the final and crucial part of a power-sharing deal for the nation's transitional period.Earlier in Jul
  
  Read more

• Europe's heatwave: Eurostar trains breaks down as records tumble in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany

  24-07-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Eurostar trains broke down, tigers in zoos were fed chicken ice cubes, and France warned that Notre-Dame was at the risk of collapse on Wednesday, as Europe sweltered under a record-breaking heatwave. For the second time in a month, a high pressure system drew scorching air from the Sahara desert, breaking heat records for Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, while France risked doing the same. In the Netherlands, the temperature reached 39.1C, breaking the previous record of 38.6C set in Augus
  
  Read more

• Home Depot Employee Dies After Dry Wall Falls on Him

  24-07-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A 60-year-old man died overnight following an accident at the Missouri Home Depot where he worked.
  
  Read more

• Syrian father scrambles to reach his children after airstrike in Idlib

  24-07-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Intense bombing in the Syrian province of Idlib left a father scrambling to rescue his children while his baby daughter dangled off the edge of a destroyed building.  The widely circulated photograph showed the aftermath of a Russian or Assad regime strike on the town of Ariha in western Idlib, the last rebel-held bastion in Syria.  The man, Amjad al-Abdullah, looks on in horror as he tries to reach his children. His infant daughter, Rawan, is held up by a scrap of clothing while two o
  
  Read more

• Mueller refuses to answer questions on 'Steele dossier'

  24-07-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Former special counsel Robert Mueller steered clear of answering questions on the document commissioned by former British spy Christopher Steele.
  
  Read more

• How does the Mueller testimony impact Trump’s chances of being impeached?

  24-07-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Special counsel Robert Mueller has finally testified on Capitol Hill, something long-sought by Democrats seeking to impeach Donald Trump, who has opposed the proceedings.In testimony to two committees of the House of Representatives – the judiciary committee and the intelligence committee – the 74-year-old stuck largely to details already contained in the 448-page report that was released by the department of justice in April.He did confirm that the president had asked his special co
  
  Read more

• 'Free from this nightmare': Prisoner released after rape victim's startling revelation

  24-07-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  James Clay had begun serving a 25 - 50 year prison sentence for rape based on DNA. He was released following a Free Press investigation into his case.
  
  Read more

• Mueller's testimony on Trump and Russia: the biggest takeaways

  24-07-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The former special counsel explained Trump was not exonerated and warned of continuing election interference by Russia* Mueller testifies at hearings – live updatesIn highly anticipated testimony before the US Congress, the former special counsel Robert Mueller submitted to seven hours of questioning in back-to-back appearances before the House judiciary and intelligence committees.His testimony comes four months after he concluded the two-year investigation into Russian interference in th
  
  Read more

• Abandoned Siberian factory could cause Chernobyl-style disaster, warns official

  24-07-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A Russian state official warned on Wednesday that an abandoned chemicals factory in Siberia could cause an environmental disaster akin to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident unless urgent action is taken to tackle it.The Usolyekhimprom plant, which produced chlorine and other chemicals in the Irkutsk region, was abandoned due to bankruptcy in 2017, according to Russian news agencies.The official, Svetlana Radionova, said she had recently visited the facility and, among other things, discovered w
  
  Read more

• With a Bang, Israel’s Explosive Politics Move Into Palestinian Territory

  24-07-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Anadolu Agency/GettyDARSALAH, West Bank—The bulldozers came early to Wadi Hummus, the whimsically named hamlet in Sur Baher, a neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem. They rumbled in slowly Monday at 6 a.m., and immediately their maws began to carve huge chunks out of buildings, most of them partially built. The din of the de-construction was heard far and wide, and activists embedded on-site to protest the demolition activity said that two hours earlier they’d seen soldier
  
  Read more

• Video shows bison tossing nine-year-old girl in air at Yellowstone national park

  24-07-2019 19:05 via theguardian.com
  Witness says bull animal charged after visitors stood too closeGirl treated and released from park clinicA nine-year-old girl has been tossed into the air by a bison at Yellowstone national park after the bull charged at a group of about 50 visitors who were standing too close to the wild animals. Related: Make environmental damage a war crime, say scientistsContinue reading...
  
  Read more

• Florida girl, 9, attacked by bison at Yellowstone National Park

  24-07-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A nine-year-old girl was thrown into the air by a bison at YellowstoneNational Park on Monday
  
  Read more

• Onward To Mars: What Our Journey To the Red Planet Might Look Like

  24-07-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The moon landing was a historic achievement, but landing on Mars will be an even greater challenge.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Iran diplomat warns Brazil over 2 stranded ships

  24-07-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's ambassador says Tehran will reconsider imports from Brazil if it continues to refuse to refuel two Iranian vessels stranded there.Seyed Ali Saqqayian was quoted by Iran's semi-official Fars news agency as saying Wednesday Iran could easily find new suppliers of corn, soybeans and meat.Iran's Foreign Ministry hasn't commented on the issue of the two Iranian vessels, one reportedly loaded with corn, stranded at a Brazilian port due tolack of fuel.
  
  Read more

• Lightning storm kills 39 in eastern India

  24-07-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Lightning has killed at least 39 people during thunderstorms and heavy rains lashing eastern India where thousands of people are stranded on high ground, an official said Wednesday.Disaster Management official Amod Kumar Sharan said the deaths occurred on Tuesday, raising the overall death toll in Bihar state to 123 from lightning and flooding since the monsoon season started in June.As rain stopped in some areas on Wednesday, helicopters dropped food packets for the villagers.
  
  Read more

• UPDATE 2-Mother of senior aide to Mexico's ex-president arrested in Germany

  24-07-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The mother of Emilio Lozoya, the former chief executive of Mexican state oil company Pemex and a close confidant to ex-President Enrique Pena Nieto, has been arrested in Germany, Lozoya's lawyer said on Wednesday.Lozoya and several of his family members have been accused of involvement in a wide-ranging bribery and money laundering probe involving Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht, part of a corruption case now being pursued by the government of Pena Nieto's successor, President Andres Manue
  
  Read more

• Trump news: Mueller testimony says president could face criminal charges as Trump rails against 'disaster' hearing

  24-07-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller, the former US special counsel who investigated the Russian interference into the 2016 presidential campaign and Donald Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, has testified on Capital Hill, where he was asked to explain the conclusions he reached in his report released earlier this year.The whole world was watching, and Democrats skilfully laid out the various ways in which Mr Mueller's report shows the president obstructed justice by trying to end the Mueller report.They said the
  
  Read more

• Top Khamenei aide says no talks with U.S. under any circumstances

  24-07-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  GENEVA/DUBAI (Reuters) - The top military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Tehran would not negotiate with the United States under any circumstances, an apparent hardening of its position as the Gulf tanker crisis escalates.The Swedish operator of a British-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran in the Gulf last week said it had been able to speak to crew members and all 23 of them were safe.The company said it had no evidence that the ship had been invol
  
  Read more

• Ole Miss student from Texas arrested after allegedly killing classmate

  24-07-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Brandon Theesfeld is charged with the murder of 21-year-old Alexandria Kostial, whose body was found near a lake about 30 miles from campus.
  
  Read more

• Russia denies apologising to South Korea as tensions continue over aerial showdown

  24-07-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Moscow has denied that it apologised to Seoul as tensions continue to rise after South Korean fighter jets fired hundreds of warning shots at a Russian military plane.  On Wednesday a South Korean presidential spokesman said a Russian official had expressed “deep regret” that an A-50 observation plane had violated its airspace the day before near the disputed Dokdo islands. The aircraft had been accompanying four strategic bombers in Russia and China's first ever joint bomber fl
  
  Read more

• Rep. Tlaib Compares BDS Movement Against Israel To U.S. Boycotting Nazi Germany

  24-07-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib compared the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel to Americans’ boycott of Nazi Germany during a Tuesday floor speech.The Michigan congresswoman was speaking against a House resolution passed Wednesday that opposes the movement because it “does not favor a two-state solution and that seeks to exclude the State of Israel and the Israeli people from the economic, cultural, and academic life
  
  Read more

• Oklahoma City teens chase, attack family of undocumented immigrants with BB guns

  24-07-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A family of undocumented immigrants was injured Monday after teens wielding BBguns allegedly chased them around an Oklahoma City neighborhood
  
  Read more

• 13-year-old Honduran girl dies after attempting suicide amid separation from her father

  24-07-2019 17:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A 13-year-old Honduran immigrant was taken off life support after sheattempted suicide while being separated from her father, according to CNN
  
  Read more

• Swedish owner of tanker seized by Iran says crew 'safe'

  24-07-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The Swedish company that owns the UK-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran said Wednesday it had finally been able to contact its crew being held on board and they declared themselves "safe".Stena Bulk said in a statement that the ship's captain "advised that everyone was safe with good cooperation with the Iranian personnel onboard".Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized control of the Stena Impero tanker last Friday as it was navigating through an international passage in the middle of th
  
  Read more

• Jim Jordan pushes Mueller on investigating 'how the false accusations started'

  24-07-2019 17:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Jim Jordan questions Robert Mueller on why he did not investigate Clinton campaign: 'how the false accusations started' against President Trump.
  
  Read more

• Light pollution may be increasing West Nile virus spillover from wild birds

  24-07-2019 17:11
  House sparrows infected with West Nile virus (WNV) that live in light polluted conditions remain infectious for two days longer than those who do not, increasing the potential for a WNV outbreak by about 41%.
  
  Read more

• How boring your state is, based on its favorite ice cream flavor

  24-07-2019 17:10 via news.yahoo.com
  July is National Ice Cream Month, which means it's time to beat the heat by eating too much ice cream, then feeling kind of sick afterward. When it's time to order, though, you face a harrowing choice: What flavor should you get?To assist you in the most important choice of your summer, the mobile payment company Square collected data from their vendors to determine the most popular ice cream flavor in each state.Image: Bob Al-Greene / MashableSEE ALSO: Some stores are 'protecting' their ice cre
  
  Read more

Follow @newsloc_animals on Twitter!