General news

• Mom of London terrorist: 'No words'

  07-06-2017 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  The mother of Youssef Zaghba says she is appalled by her son's participation in last week's deadly terror attack in London and vows to do what she can to stop such violence.
  
  Read more

• How To Meditate With A Mantra

  07-06-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  
  If you’re short on time, you only need a few minutes to calm your mind and boost your mood through meditation. Watch this video for a quick two-minute meditation that will help you de-stress and feel calmer.
  
  Read more

• Elon Musk Oversold Solar Roof To Analysts Long Before Product Was Ready

  07-06-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Did Elon Musk bite off more than he can chew?
  
  Read more

• Mexican prison riot brought under control, 7 dead

  07-06-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — An hours-long rolling gunbattle at a northern Mexico prison left seven dead and 13 injured before control was re-established Wednesday morning, authorities said.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Sound Off: Readers react to Comey statement

  07-06-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  
  In his opening statement for his Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Former FBI Director James Comey says that President Trump repeatedly asked him for loyalty, leading to an"awkward silence." What does that claim says about the Commander in Chief? Readers are divided.
  
  Read more

• What the Qatar crisis is really about

  07-06-2017 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  Let's try to work this out.
  
  Read more

• Visit a volcano that's been asleep for 40 years

  07-06-2017 23:37 via cnn.com
  
  It's considered one of the world's most dangerous active volcanoes.
  
  Read more

• Cosby's accuser stands by her story under cross-examination

  07-06-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  
  NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The woman who accuses Bill Cosby of drugging and violating her more than a decade ago stood by her story at his sex-crimes trial Wednesday, withstanding hours of often tedious cross-examination that didn't produce the stumbles the TV star might have hoped for.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Republican Georgia candidate says she 'does not support a livable wage' during election debate

  07-06-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  
  The district is holding a special runoff election between Ms Handel and Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff to fill the seat left vacant when Republican Tom Price was appointed by Donald Trump to be the Secretary of Health and Human services.The opponents were asked to comment on the minimum wage in Georgia, which is currently $5.15 per hour.According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Living Wage Calculator, people working 40 hours a week in the sixth district should make a minimu
  
  Read more

• Trump offers Iran victims solace, but suggests culpability

  07-06-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday offered solace to the victims of the twin terrorist attacks in Iran while suggesting Tehran bears some culpability, saying "states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote."
  
  Read more

• Fantastic photography of insects and water droplets

  07-06-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Snapping something spectacular can be tricky in the wet but these stunning photos are an exception to the rule.
  
  Read more

• Bill Cosby's Accuser Grilled in Her Second Day of Testimony in Sexual Assault Trial

  07-06-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Andrea Constand, entering her second day of testimony in the highly publicized trial in Pennsylvania, was questioned about inconsistencies in her account.
  
  Read more

• Court Hears Text Messages From Woman Accused of Urging Boyfriend to Kill Himself: 'It's Time, Babe'

  07-06-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  
  Michelle Carter was a 17-year-old high school student when she allegedly encouraged Conrad Roy's suicide.
  
  Read more

• Tesla releases Model Y teaser photo and sheds light on upcoming semi truck

  07-06-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Tesla currently has all hands on deck as it prepares to begin mass production on the Model 3, but Elon Musk and co. certainly aren't resting on their laurels. On the contrary, Tesla is planning to introduce a number of new vehicles in the coming years, including a revamped Roadster and a pickup truck. Also on the docket is a crossover version of the Model 3 dubbed the Model Y. Elon Musk initially confirmed that the Model Y was in the works about two years ago, even hinting that it may feature th
  
  Read more

• Gorilla Gives Birth in Emergency Delivery by Team of Vets at Zoo

  07-06-2017 22:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Kira was in labor for as long as 24 hours.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Trump suggests Iran bears some blame for attacks

  07-06-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on developments in Washington on Iran. (all times local):
  
  Read more

• US-backed force gains ground on IS in Syria's Raqa

  07-06-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  
  US-backed fighters gained ground against the Islamic State group in the streets of Raqa on Wednesday, a day after their months-long offensive finally broke into the jihadists' Syrian bastion.The Syrian Democratic Forces militia has spent seven months advancing on the city, with backing from the US-led coalition bombing IS in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.Captured by the jihadists in 2014, Raqa became synonymous with IS atrocities including beheadings and public displays of bodies, and also emerged
  
  Read more

• Fired FBI chief says Trump demanded loyalty, pressed him to end probe of Flynn's ties to Russia

  07-06-2017 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  Former FBI Director James Comey will say Thursday that President Donald Trump asked him about the former national security adviser Michael Flynn and to "see your way clear to letting this go," according to a copy of his opening remarks posted online.
  
  Read more

• Fired FBI chief says Trump asked him to let go of probe into Flynn's ties to Russia

  07-06-2017 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  Former FBI Director James Comey will say Thursday that President Donald Trump asked him about the former national security adviser Michael Flynn and to "see your way clear to letting this go," according to a copy of his opening remarks posted online.
  
  Read more

• Iran attack: Revolutionary guards slam Saudis

  07-06-2017 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  There has been a shooting inside the Iranian parliament in Tehran, according to state media.
  
  Read more

• READ: James Comey's prepared testimony

  07-06-2017 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  Statement for the Record
  
  Read more

• Child found in Illinois garage may have been killed in 2013

  07-06-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in Illinois believe the remains of a child found in the garage of a vacant home had been there four years and are investigating the death as a homicide.
  
  Read more

• Trump calls Qatar emir as efforts build to end crisis

  07-06-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump called Qatar's emir Wednesday and offered US help as efforts grew to resolve a damaging feud between the emirate and its Gulf neighbours.Trump's call to Qatari ruler Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, a key US ally, came as a senior Emirati official told AFP that Gulf Arab states were not seeking regime change in Doha."The president offered to help the parties resolve their differences, including through a meeting at the White House if necessary," Trump's office said af
  
  Read more

• Hezbollah threatens to strike US in Syria over 'red lines'

  07-06-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government's allies will strike at American positions inside Syria if it crosses any "red lines," Hezbollah warned on Wednesday.
  
  Read more

• The year that rocked British politics

  07-06-2017 21:34 via cnn.com
  
  From the passing of Brexit, to the rise of Theresa May, to the call for an early election, CNN looks back at the whirlwind year in British politics.
  
  Read more

• WATCH: U.S. Army brother surprises sister at her graduation

  07-06-2017 21:27
  
  Teen jumps for joy as her brother, who is currently serving in the U.S. Army, surprises her at her high school graduation.
  
  Read more

• Appeals court expresses concern over woman's jail stay

  07-06-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Judges on a federal appeals court said Wednesday that they were concerned a Mississippi woman had been jailed for 96 days without seeing a judge or having a chance to make bail.
  
  Read more

• Putin Doesn’t Care If You Think He Was Rude to Megyn Kelly

  07-06-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  The Russian president's recent Western media blitz is aimed at winning over an audience of one: Donald Trump.
  
  Read more

• Maine's most mysterious catch

  07-06-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  At 1 a.m., Julie Keene tucked her red hair under a baseball cap, pulled waders over her cammies, and invaded the Union River to see if she had caught elvers.Adam Boutin, her partner of 23 years and a fellow fisherman, loped easily over the rocks and got to the net first.Keene is a veteran elver fisher, one of only 425 Mainers, aside from native tribes, who can legally harvest the mysterious juvenile eels.
  
  Read more

• Trump Quick to Spin Comey Senate Statement

  07-06-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  
  Matt Miller, former chief spokesman for the Justice Department, talks with Rachel Maddow about how James Comey's opening statement to the Senate does not vindicate Donald Trump despite Trump's lawyer's claim to the contrary.
  
  Read more

• Who is Christopher Wray, Trump's pick to replace Comey as FBI director?

  07-06-2017 20:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Former agents describe the justice department veteran as qualified and uncontroversial, but he’s likely to face questioning over his independenceTrump taps former justice department official Christopher Wray to lead FBI
  After Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of the FBI director, James Comey, last month, former agents said the bureau’s rank-and-file wanted one thing: a fiercely independent replacement who would restore the bureau’s reputation for staying apolitical.Christopher
  
  Read more

• WATCH: Man jumps on car hood, kicks in windshield

  07-06-2017 20:32
  
  Police searching for man who is seen on dashcam video jumping onto the hood of a woman's car, kicking in her windshield.
  
  Read more

• Four Key Points in Comey's Opening Statement

  07-06-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Rachel Maddow reviews some of the key points in former FBI Director James Comey's opening statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee before his testimony Thursday.
  
  Read more

• The 'obsession' that changed human history

  07-06-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  An "obsession" with the lower jaw of a long-dead human, unearthed in the 1960s at a prehistoric Moroccan campsite, led palaeoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin to the discovery of a lifetime.It was in 1961 that mining activity at the site called Jebel Irhoud, not far from Marrakesh, first brought an ancient human skull to the surface, followed by more fragments over subsequent years of excavation.At the time, the notion that humans originated in Africa did not exist, so the remains were not in t
  
  Read more

• Djokovic down and out in Paris

  07-06-2017 20:08 via cnn.com
  
  Rafael Nadal was the favorite heading into the French Open -- and he will be well rested for the business end of the clay-court major.
  
  Read more

• Anti-Muslim crimes spike in London after attack: mayor

  07-06-2017 19:45 via yahoo.com
  
  Anti-Muslim crimes in the British capital have increased fivefold since the London Bridge terror attack, Mayor Sadiq Khan said Wednesday, warning that police would take a "zero-tolerance approach"."Provisional statistics for 6 June show a 40 percent increase in racist incidents, compared to the daily average this year, and a fivefold increase in the number of Islamophobic incidents," the mayor's office said in a statement.It said 54 racist incidents were recorded on Tuesday, compared to a daily
  
  Read more

• NYC subway riders will get their dogs on board no matter what anyone says

  07-06-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  
  A new NYC transit rule went into effect last October, which bans dogs from riding the subway — unless they fit inside a "container." What the powers that be didn't realize, though, is just how many dogs fit inside containers. In fact, judging by these photos ... it seems likemost dogs fit inside bags. SEE ALSO: Dogs, rankedhere's my dog-in-bag on subway photo pic.twitter.com/yXPfPPk6iu — Hanksy (@HanksyNYC) June 7, 2017 Not just a dog-in-a-bag. It's a pibble-in-a-bag. Not an easy fea
  
  Read more

• Oldest Homo sapiens fossils discovered

  07-06-2017 19:41 via cnn.com
  
  The oldest fossil remains of Homo sapiens, dating back to 300,000 years ago, have been found at a site in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. This is 100,000 years older than previously discovered fossils of Homo sapiens. The discovery was presented in a study in the journal Nature on Wednesday.
  
  Read more

• Turkey lawmakers back sending troops to Qatar base: officials

  07-06-2017 19:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Turkey's parliament on Wednesday approved deploying troops to a Turkish base in Qatar amid a widening crisis between Doha and its rivals in the Gulf.The move is seen as a sign of Turkish support to Qatar after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain, among other states, cut diplomatic ties and major transport links with the gas-rich emirate.The agreement does not contain any specific number of troops to be stationed in the base, or when.
  
  Read more

• What the UK election result could mean for Brexit

  07-06-2017 19:35 via cnn.com
  
  British people are voting in the general election Thursday, and while the terrorist attacks in Manchester and London have dominated the closing stages of the campaign, the result will have a direct impact on Brexit. Here's what the different outcomes could mean for Britain's future relationship with Europe:
  
  Read more

• Boxed in: Trump felt no choice but to keep Sessions

  07-06-2017 19:34 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump remains livid with Jeff Sessions but understands that accepting the attorney general's resignation would ignite yet another firestorm around his beleaguered administration, a person close to him said Wednesday.
  
  Read more

• 'Common Sense' with Matt Dowd: Turning point for Trump and the GOP

  07-06-2017 19:30 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News chief political analyst Matthew Dowd on what it would take for the GOP to turn on Trump.
  
  Read more

• Climber scales El Capitan without ropes

  07-06-2017 19:28 via cnn.com
  
  Rock climber, Alex Honnold, became the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's iconic El Capitan.
  
  Read more

• Courtney Love on raising Frances Bean

  07-06-2017 19:21 via cnn.com
  
  There's a reason why Frances Bean Cobain is not your typical child of a celebrity.
  
  Read more

• WARNING: More Than 22,000 Pounds Of Beef Have Been Recalled

  07-06-2017 19:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Check your fridge ASAP.
  
  Read more

• Oliver Stone’s ‘Putin Interviews’ Will Teach You Little About Putin, and Even Less About Russia

  07-06-2017 19:04 via yahoo.com
  
  The Hollywood director gives Russia’s president a platform to talk about women’s “natural cycles” and machismo.
  
  Read more

• French Open: Halep stages huge comeback

  07-06-2017 19:01 via cnn.com
  
  In tennis, the feeling is that players who win a grand slam title usually have to get through at least one difficult match during the fortnight.
  
  Read more

• Scientists Have Found the Oldest Known Human Fossils

  07-06-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of years ago, around 62 miles west of what would eventually become Marrakesh, a group of people lived in a cave overlooking a lush Moroccan landscape. They rested there, building fires to keep themselves warm. They hunted there, sharpening stone tools to bring down animals. And they died there, leaving their bones behind in the dirt. At the time, there would have been nothing particularly notable about these cave-dwellers. They were yet more Homo sapiens, members of a nasce
  
  Read more

• Morocco fossils push back the timeline on human origins

  07-06-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Fossilized remains found in Morocco might belong to our 300,000-year-old ancestors. The skulls and bones could represent the earliest known fossils ofHomo sapiens, the human species to which we all belong, scientists said in two new studies published Wednesday. If true, the findings would mean that our species originated at least 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. The results could also bring more clarity to our still-fuzzy understanding of how, where, and when humans evolved in Afri
  
  Read more

• Consequences of attacks in Tehran will be felt around the world | Simon Tisdall

  07-06-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  
  In targeting the Iranian parliament and the tomb of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the terrorists who went on a lethal rampage in Tehran on Wednesday chose the two most potent symbols of the 1979 revolution.The apparently coordinated assaults have been blamed by Iran’s hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Saudi Arabia and, whatever the truth of the allegation, they are likely to have a big political impact far beyond Iran, stoking tension
  
  Read more

Follow @newslock_news on Twitter!