General news

• Sterling rises to occasion,keeps Manchester City in title mix

  13-02-2017 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A goal from Raheem Sterling and an own goal from Tyrone Mings gave Manchester City a 2-0 win against Bournemouth and lifted them from sixth to second place in the Premier League on a blustery Monday night at the Vitality Stadium. Pep Guardiola’s side closed the gap on Chelsea to eight points and kept alive their hopes of the title, despite their Spanish manager ruling out the possibility following his team’s 4-0 defeat at Everton last month.
  
  Read more

• Playboy magazine reverses position, brings back naked women

  13-02-2017 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Naked women are back in Playboy magazine, ending a year-old ban on the nudity that made the magazine famous. Playboy celebrated the reversal on Twitter and Facebook with the hashtag #NakedIsNormal. The ...
  
  Read more

• Michigan State suspends coach linked to abuse complaints

  13-02-2017 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State has suspended its women's gymnastics coach, two weeks after she was accused in a lawsuit of downplaying complaints about sexual abuse by a sports doctor.
  
  Read more

• The Trump presidency on Feb. 13 at 5:50 P.M. EST

  13-02-2017 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Highlights of the day for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Monday: CANADA Trump says the United States will be "tweaking" its trade relationship with Canada, stopping short of calling for a major realignment in a development likely to please visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. FLYNN CONTROVERSY Trump is evaluating the situation surrounding U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn over his Russian contacts, Trump's spokesman said on Monday, pointedly de
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• The Latest: Governor has no imminent plans to visit dam site

  13-02-2017 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on problems with an emergency spillway at the nation's tallest dam (all times local):
  
  Read more

• UN chief condemns NKorea test; UK says council will, too

  13-02-2017 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch and Britain's U.N. ambassador said ahead of an urgent meeting of the Security Council on Monday ...
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Trump 'evaluating' Flynn-Russia situation

  13-02-2017 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on developments in President Donald Trump's administration (all times EST):
  
  Read more

• Why did Adele beat Beyoncé?

  13-02-2017 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  Even Adele thinks Beyoncé should have won the album of the year Grammy over her.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• UN Security Council unanimously condemns N.Korea missile launch

  13-02-2017 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously condemned North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch and threatened to "take further significant measures" against Pyongyang. The United States, Japan and South Korea requested the urgent meeting after North Korea announced it had successfully tested a new missile on Sunday, the first launch since US President Donald Trump took office.
  
  Read more

• Is racism why Adele beat Beyoncé at the Grammys?

  13-02-2017 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  Even Adele thinks Beyoncé should have won the album of the year Grammy over her.
  
  Read more

• Is racism why Adele beat Beyoncé?

  13-02-2017 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  Even Adele thinks Beyoncé should have won the album of the year Grammy over her.
  
  Read more

• Trump is evaluating situation around adviser Flynn: White House

  13-02-2017 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is evaluating the situation surrounding U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn over his Russian contacts, Trump's spokesman said on Monday, pointedly declining to make a public show of support for his embattled aide. A statement from White House press secretary Sean Spicer, read to reporters crowded around his office, suggested that the review into Flynn's activities stretched beyond the conversations he ha
  
  Read more

• Trump hosts Trudeau: we still cool? | The politics minute

  13-02-2017 23:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Got a minute? US-Canadian relations appear intact in first bilateral meeting… Trump aide voices ‘full confidence’ in Flynn... and everything else today in US politics. By Tom McCarthy 10.43pm GMTIn a joint press conference with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump said of bilateral trade relations, “We have a very outstanding trade relationship with Canada. We’ll be tweakin’ it.”The Trump-NRA love affair 10.43pm GMTIs the US-Canada borde
  
  Read more

• Ex-Penn State coach Sandusky's son charged with child sex abuse

  13-02-2017 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - A 41-year-old adopted son of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State University assistant football coach convicted in 2012 of sexually abusing young boys, was charged in Pennsylvania on Monday with sexually abusing two teenage sisters. Pennsylvania State Police arrested Jeffrey Sandusky on Monday on charges that he solicited oral sex and naked photographs from the teenage daughters of a woman he was dating, police said.
  
  Read more

• DHS arrested 680 immigrants in week-long roundup

  13-02-2017 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department said Monday that 680 people were arrested in roundups last week targeting immigrants living illegally in the United States. The figure is far below the totals of similar raids conducted under the Obama administration.
  
  Read more

• U.S. House tax committee will not seek Trump tax returns

  13-02-2017 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional tax oversight committee will not seek U.S. President Donald Trump's tax returns despite calls from Democrats for a review to determine possible business ties to foreign countries including Russia, the panel's Republican chairman said on Monday. "If Congress begins to use its powers to rummage around in the tax returns of the president, what prevents Congress from doing the same to average Americans?" House of Representatives Ways and Means C
  
  Read more

• Officials ignored warnings a decade ago

  13-02-2017 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  Environmental groups warned 12 years ago that the nation's tallest dam in California was an imminent disaster.
  
  Read more

• Proenza Schouler show celebrates New York and protests

  13-02-2017 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US womenswear label Proenza Schouler channeled the energy of New York and its recent political protests at its final runway show in the Big Apple on Monday before relocating to Paris. "For us it was a celebration of everything we love about New York. It was our idea of New York really, the energy," said Lazaro Hernandez, who co-founded the label with fellow Parsons School of Design classmate Jack McCollough.
  
  Read more

• US heavyweight boxer wins court case in unanimous decision

  13-02-2017 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — In a unanimous court decision, U.S. heavyweight boxer Deontay Wilder has won his latest fight.
  
  Read more

• Scrapping Dubs refugee scheme 'truly shameful', stars tell Theresa May

  13-02-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Keira Knightley, Gary Lineker, Mark Rylance, Coldplay and others ask PM not to ‘slam door’ on unaccompanied childrenMore than 200 high-profile public figures including Ralph Fiennes, Keira Knightley, Michael Morpurgo and the band Coldplay have written to Theresa May calling on the government not to close a scheme to bring unaccompanied child refugees from Europe to Britain.In an open letter addressed to the prime minister, the signatories describe the decision to admit no more than 3
  
  Read more

• Trump evaluating national security adviser Flynn's situation: White House

  13-02-2017 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is evaluating the situation surrounding U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn and is speaking to Vice President Mike Pence about it, White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters on Monday. Spicer's statement, read to reporters, left Flynn's status in doubt. Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway had said an hour earlier that Flynn had the full confidence of the president. (Reporting By Emily Stephenson and Steve Holland)
  
  Read more

• Treasury nominee heading for confirmation despite criticism

  13-02-2017 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary headed toward Senate confirmation on Monday despite strong objections by Democrats that the former banker made much of his fortune by foreclosing on ...
  
  Read more

• Trump expects only 'tweaking' of trade relationship with Canada

  13-02-2017 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States would be "tweaking" its trade relationship with Canada, stopping short of calling for a major realignment in a development likely to please visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trump has pledged to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) linking the economies of the United States, Mexico and Canada to make the terms more favorable to Americans. At a joint news conference with Trudeau after White House talks, T
  
  Read more

• Trump and Trudeau remain diplomatic in first meeting – video

  13-02-2017 23:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Donald Trump and his Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, gave a relatively subdued press conference on Monday following a meeting at the White House. The two leaders largely avoided discussion of any major policy differences, with Trudeau saying it was not his place to come down to the US and ‘lecture another country’. Trump spoke generally about working with Canada and touched on border security and trade Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Sandusky's son faces sex abuse charges

  13-02-2017 23:19 via cnn.com
  
  Jeffrey Sandusky, the son of convicted sex abuser and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor child sexual abuse charges, according to court documents from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
  
  Read more

• Trump's patio situation room raises security questions

  13-02-2017 23:18 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's patio strategy session at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday evening is drawing scrutiny for its open-air nature, including aides' use of cell phone flashlights to illuminate potentially sensitive documents.
  
  Read more

• U.S. Senate expected to confirm Mnuchin as Treasury secretary

  13-02-2017 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate is expected to confirm former banker and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary on Monday, installing the Trump administration's top official on tax reform, financial regulation and economic diplomacy. Confirmation would put a Goldman Sachs veteran in charge of the Treasury for the first time since the financial crisis pushed Wall Street out of favor in top Washington policy circles eight years ago.
  
  Read more

• Cavaliers star Love seeks second opinion on knee injury

  13-02-2017 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cleveland Cavaliers star Kevin Love is to seek a second opinion on his left knee after undergoing a scan at the weekend, coach Tyronn Lue said Monday. The four-time NBA All-Star had already been ruled out of Tuesday's road game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. "Always concerned when guys are going down," Lue said.
  
  Read more

• Suso sizzler ends Milan losing streak at Lazio

  13-02-2017 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A late equaliser from Suso secured a share of the points as AC Milan relaunched their Europa League bid with a precious 1-1 draw at Lazio on Monday. Lazio, fighting for a top three finish in a tightly-contested Serie A, looked to be heading for a second successive win after their 6-2 romp at Pescara after Lucas Biglia put the hosts ahead on the stroke of half-time.
  
  Read more

• White House: Trump is 'evaluating the situation' regarding national security adviser Michael Flynn

  13-02-2017 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: Trump is 'evaluating the situation' regarding national security adviser Michael Flynn .
  
  Read more

• Syrian government forces used chemical weapons in Aleppo: rights group

  13-02-2017 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Syrian government forces used chemical weapons in opposition-controlled parts of Aleppo during battles to retake the city late last year, Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Monday. The findings add to mounting evidence of the use of banned chemical weapons in the six-year-old Syrian civil war and could strengthen calls by Britain, France and the United States for sanctions against Syrian officials. Government helicopters dropped chlorine bom
  
  Read more

• Q&A: Wet winter and damage to dam combine to threaten cities

  13-02-2017 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tens of thousands of people below the tallest U.S. dam evacuated after its damaged emergency spillway threatened to give way and cause massive flooding.
  
  Read more

• Boris Johnson in new row over 'siphoning off' from foreign aid budget

  13-02-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Foreign secretary criticised for diverting new £700m ‘empowerment fund’ away from countries in Africa and Middle EastBoris Johnson has been criticised for “siphoning off” from the UK’s foreign aid budget to fund diplomacy in former Soviet states and the Middle East via a new £700m “pro-democracy” fund.The row came as the foreign secretary embarked on a two-day visit to the Gambia and Ghana, where he will announce that the Gambia is to rejoin
  
  Read more

• Trump's railing against Bowe Bergdahl called 'disturbing' by military judge

  13-02-2017 22:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Questions raised about fairness of trial due to Trump repeatedly calling the soldier, held captive by the Taliban after walking off his post, a ‘no-good traitor’A military judge called Donald Trump’s scathing campaign-trail criticism of army Sgt Bowe Bergdahl “disturbing” on Monday and questioned whether it would make the public think the soldier could not get a fair trial for walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.During a pretrial hearing, defense attorneys p
  
  Read more

• Delicate dance: Not my place to lecture Trump, says Canadian PM

  13-02-2017 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump will meet for the first time Monday with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, an ideological opposite who nonetheless hopes to avoid clashing with his new US counterpart.
  
  Read more

• Canada's PM: Not my place to lecture Trump

  13-02-2017 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump will meet for the first time Monday with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, an ideological opposite who nonetheless hopes to avoid clashing with his new US counterpart.
  
  Read more

• Justin Trudeau says it's not Canada's duty to 'lecture' Trump on immigration

  13-02-2017 22:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Canada’s prime minister holds a joint press conference with Donald Trump and avoids making a statement on travel ban despite his previous tweets about itJustin Trudeau said at a joint press conference in Washington with Donald Trump on Monday that it was not his place to come down to the US and “lecture another country”.At a surprisingly placid joint press conference at the White House, the Canadian prime minister went out of his way to avoid any incidents with a US president,
  
  Read more

• Martin Rowson on Kim Jong-un, Trump and nuclear weapons – cartoon

  13-02-2017 22:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Small percentage of people spread most Ebola cases: study

  13-02-2017 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Most of the people infected with Ebola in the West Africa epidemic that began in 2014 got sick through contact with a small number of "superspreaders" with the disease, researchers said Monday. The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows such "superspreaders" can be extremely dangerous when it comes to infectious disease outbreaks. The West African Ebola epidemic was the largest in history and killed more than 11,300 people, with many of the cases involving people infe
  
  Read more

• Former Spain central bank chief investigated for failed IPO

  13-02-2017 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADRID (AP) — Spain's National Court is summoning the former heads of Spain's central bank and the stock market watchdog to be questioned for failing to stop the disastrous flotation of a savings bank that had to be bailed out.
  
  Read more

• Slain Missouri KKK leader's wife, stepson charged

  13-02-2017 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LEADWOOD, Mo. (AP) — The wife and stepson of a Ku Klux Klan leader found fatally shot next to a river in eastern Missouri were charged in his death Monday.
  
  Read more

• For a fourth day, Trump makes no comment on Flynn's future

  13-02-2017 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For a fourth straight day, President Donald Trump left his embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn twisting in the political winds Monday, offering no public support for Flynn following reports that he misled top administration officials about his contacts with a Russian ambassador before the inauguration.
  
  Read more

• Braves' Rodriguez to have shoulder surgery, may miss season

  13-02-2017 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Braves general manager John Coppolella said Monday he isn't sure whether it is realistic to hope for a return this season of infielder Sean Rodriguez, who will have shoulder surgery.
  
  Read more

• Senate expected to confirm Mnuchin as Treasury secretary

  13-02-2017 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate is expected to confirm former banker and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary on Monday, installing the Trump administration's top official on tax reform, financial regulation and economic diplomacy. Confirmation would put a Goldman Sachs veteran in charge of the Treasury for the first time since the financial crisis pushed Wall Street out of favor in top Washington policy circles eight years ago.
  
  Read more

• Q&A: Wet winter, damage to dam combine to threaten cities

  13-02-2017 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tens of thousands of people below the tallest U.S. dam evacuated after its damaged emergency spillway threatened to give way and cause massive flooding.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Sheriff: Evacuation may not end until fixes made

  13-02-2017 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on problems with an emergency spillway at the nation's tallest dam (all times local):
  
  Read more

• Trump, Trudeau grapple with differences on refugees, trade

  13-02-2017 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau failed to paper over differences on the treatment of refugees during a joint public appearance Monday, but appeared to tone down harsh trade rhetoric. The two leaders avoided directly criticizing each other after a meeting in the White House, but made it clear they did not see eye-to-eye on Trump's efforts to ban refugees and travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations. Trump defended his controversial immigration decree as "c
  
  Read more

• Russia and Syria 'deliberately targeted civilian areas of Aleppo in attack'

  13-02-2017 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  A new report suggests that Russia and Syria deliberately targeted civilian-populated areas of Aleppo, including hospitals, in their joint aerial bombing campaign.
  
  Read more

• Russia and Syria 'deliberately targeted civilian areas'

  13-02-2017 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  A new report suggests that Russia and Syria deliberately targeted civilian-populated areas of Aleppo, including hospitals, in their joint aerial bombing campaign.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Activist not deterred by judge's pipeline ruling

  13-02-2017 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Latest on the four-state, $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline (all times local):
  
  Read more

Follow @newslock_news on Twitter!