General news

• Why Flooded-Out Cars Are Likely Total Losses

  31-08-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  Auto owners whose vehicles were swept up by Hurricane Harvey are facing two hard facts right now: Their car is almost certainly totaled, if it was swamped, and they'll get no money back if they d...
  
  Read more

• Mom-to-Be Covers Her Baby Bump With Swarm of 20,000 Bees in Buzz-Worthy Photo Shoot

  31-08-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  "I know a lot of people are looking at this video, thinking, 'This lady is crazy,'" Emily Mueller, 33, of South Akron told InsideEdition.com.
  
  Read more

• Prosecutor demands trial for fraternity 'savages' in Penn State hazing death

  31-08-2017 23:37 via yahoo.com
  A prosecutor on Thursday urged a Pennsylvania judge to try 16 fraternity members in the alcohol-fueled hazing death of a 19-year-old aiming to join the club at Pennsylvania State University."They have been acting as out-of-control savages for so long," District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller said in her closing argument at a hearing in Centre County Courthouse on whether there is enough evidence to bring the case to trial."The Gauntlet," a drinking obstacle course in which fraternity pledges consum
  
  Read more

• Amazon Is Now The Boozy Friend Who Can Bring You Alcohol In Less Than Two Hours

  31-08-2017 23:21 via yahoo.com
  Sometimes, you need liquor because you have a party to go to and you need to bring some sort of offering to say, “Thanks for having me, let’s imbibe together!”
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Antidepressants Found In Brains Of 10 Fish Species

  31-08-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  High concentrations of antidepressants were found in the brains of 10 fish species.
  
  Read more

• US orders closure of Russian facilities as relations worsen

  31-08-2017 23:10 via cnn.com
  The US announced Thursday it will shutter the Russian consulate in San Francisco, as well as annexes in Washington and New York, in response to mandated staff cuts at the US mission in Russia.
  
  Read more

• Borussia Dortmund: Jadon Sancho joins German side from Manchester City

  31-08-2017 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Borussia Dortmund sign England Under-17 international Jadon Sancho from Manchester City - and hand him the number seven shirt.
  
  Read more

• Mother Heartbroken After Son is Electrocuted While Trying to Save Sister's Cat During Harvey

  31-08-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  He reportedly ordered his friend not to touch him in one final selfless act.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Before and after photos: Harvey's devastating floods are clearly visible from space

  31-08-2017 22:57 via yahoo.com
  Even from space, the flooding disaster caused by Hurricane Harvey is clear as day.   New images taken by DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 satellite show the catastrophic flooding in Texas left in the wake of Harvey this week. The new photos are particularly striking when compared with earlier images taken from orbit that show green fields instead of brown, flooded land.  SEE ALSO: Tropical Storm Harvey's mind-blowing stats "Since Aug. 19, DigitalGlobe’s constellation of five
  
  Read more

• White House pushes back on reports that Trump has decided to end DACA program

  31-08-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday pushed back on multiple new reports that President Trump has decided to end DACA.
  
  Read more

• Isil convoy that was blocked by US air strikes attempts different route

  31-08-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  An Isil convoy that was blocked by US air strikes on Wednesday attempted a different route to reach territory held by the jihadist group in eastern Syria, despite the coalition warning it would likely strike again. More than 300 lightly armed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) fighters and about 300 family members are being evacuated from Syria's western border with Lebanon under a ceasefire agreement involving the jihadist group, the Syrian army and the Lebanese Shia militia Hizbollah.
  
  Read more

• Heroes On Jet Skis Rescue Trapped Elderly Couple From Texas Floods

  31-08-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  On Monday, an elderly couple in North Houston was rescued from their flooding home by two men on jet skis.
  
  Read more

• A Look At Mecca, Islam's Holiest Site, At The Height Of The Hajj Pilgrimage

  31-08-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  The annual Hajj pilgrimage is one of the world’s largest religious gatherings, as some 2 million people flock to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to participate in one of Islam’s five pillars of faith.
  
  Read more

• All-Female 'Lord of the Flies' Remake Sparks Backlash

  31-08-2017 22:41 via nbcnews.com
  The reported all-female film adaptation of "Lord of the Flies" drew backlash on social media, with some saying the story is linked to toxic masculinity.
  
  Read more

• How to Salvage Your Valuables After Serious Flooding

  31-08-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  Hurricane Harvey pummeled Houston and its environs and parts of Louisiana with rain for days on end. Their lives upended by water, residents are now faced with mucking out their homes, tearing ou...
  
  Read more

• Mueller, New York AG working together on Manafort

  31-08-2017 22:24 via cnn.com
  Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller is comparing notes with the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on the Russia investigation, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN Thursday.
  
  Read more

• AP PHOTOS: Searching for survivors in Harvey-swamped homes

  31-08-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Rescuers pounded on doors and shouted for survivors as they did a block-by-block search Thursday of tens of thousands of Houston homes deluged by Harvey.
  
  Read more

• How Houston's layout may have led to mass flooding

  31-08-2017 21:59 via cnn.com
  Tropical Storm Harvey, which has flooded thousands of Houston-area homes, is serving up a hard lesson for city planners in Texas.
  
  Read more

• Danger in the Water: High Levels of Unsafe Bacteria Found in Harvey Floodwaters

  31-08-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  Microbiologists have found that the bacteria levels in the water are 125 times higher than what is considered safe for swimming.
  
  Read more

• Thailand seizes 136 smuggled live pangolins

  31-08-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  Thai customs have confiscated 136 live pangolins, the world's most poached animal, and 450 kg (992 lb) of pangolin scales worth 2.5 million baht ($75,000), officials said on Thursday.Authorities managed to intercept the smuggled pangolins which entered Thailand from Malaysia late on Wednesday after a tip-off.Director-general of Thai Customs Department, Kulit Sombatsiri, said the market value and demand of the animals and their body parts remained high, which drove smuggling.
  
  Read more

• PSG signs 'most promising player in the world'

  31-08-2017 21:43 via cnn.com
  Not content with making Neymar soccer's most expensive player, French club Paris Saint-Germain has signed Kylian Mbappé -- regarded as of one of the world's most promising teenagers -- from Monaco.
  
  Read more

• If Trump pulls trigger on NAFTA withdrawal, Mexico will walk away

  31-08-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said on Wednesday that Mexico will leave the negotiating table if U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead with a threat to start the process of withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
  
  Read more

• Texas Policeman Receives Touching Note From Daughter Before Helping Hurricane Victims

  31-08-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  As Hurricane Harvey ravages parts of Texas and Louisiana, volunteers have traveled from near and far to conduct rescues and offer aid to victims.
  
  Read more

• Stranded Houston Father Crashes Daughter's Grad School Class, Takes The Most Dad Selfie

  31-08-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  One Houston dad who was helping his daughter move to college is making the best out of not being able to return to Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
  
  Read more

• Immigrants and advocates rally in support of DACA

  31-08-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  Trump had pledged on the election campaign trail to scrap all of former President Barack Obama's executive orders on immigration, including the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or "Dreamers," program.
  
  Read more

• Immigrant Advocates for DACA Keep Up the Pressure on Trump

  31-08-2017 21:06 via nbcnews.com
  Rallies are being held and statements and letters written as President Donald Trump considers how to respond to a Sept. 5 deadline to end the DACA program.
  
  Read more

• Three-Mile Asteroid Is About to Buzz the Earth

  31-08-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  Asteroid Florence is one of the biggest ones to come close to our planet since we started keeping records.
  
  Read more

• Experts: How to safely return home after Harvey

  31-08-2017 20:57 via abcnews.go.com
  Do not enter a home until authorities say it safe to do so.
  
  Read more

• Mattis begins sending additional troops to Afghanistan

  31-08-2017 20:56 via abcnews.go.com
  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says he has signed orders to begin deploying additional troops to Afghanistan to carry out President Donald Trump's new war strategy
  
  Read more

• More than 1 million public school students estimated to be affected by Harvey

  31-08-2017 20:51 via abcnews.go.com
  Hurricane Harvey has left schools inaccessible and damaged by water and wind.
  
  Read more

• Key US gasoline pipeline aims to carry more fuel by Sunday

  31-08-2017 20:47 via abcnews.go.com
  A major gasoline pipeline estimates it can resume carrying fuel through Texas by Sunday _ a hopeful sign the key artery might avoid a lengthy shutdown that would intensify gasoline shortages.
  
  Read more

• Bipartisan Group of Governors Propose Obamacare Fixes, Beg Congress To Consider

  31-08-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  A bipartisan group of eight governors on Thursday handed Congress a proposal for shoring up the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, which in many states remain extremely fragile enterprises.
  
  Read more

• Giant asteroid will make (relatively) close call with Earth

  31-08-2017 20:27 via cnn.com
  A huge asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, but don't worry, this isn't "Armageddon."
  
  Read more

• Colorado Construction Crew Finds 66-Million-Year-Old Triceratops Fossil

  31-08-2017 20:22 via yahoo.com
  A Colorado scientist says he’s “over the moon” after a construction crew in the city of Thornton reportedly stumbled upon a triceratops fossil last week.
  
  Read more

• Hezbollah chief, who lives in hiding, says met Assad in Damascus

  31-08-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  The head of Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, who has lived in hiding for the past decade, said Thursday he travelled to Damascus to seek the Syrian president's approval of a jihadist evacuation deal."I personally went to Damascus" to see President Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Nasrallah told thousands of his supporters in a televised speech.Nasrallah, 57, has only made rare public appearances since the 2006 war against his arch-foe Israel.
  
  Read more

• No Easy Way Out for Trump on Obstruction Case

  31-08-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talks with Joy-Ann Reid about the strength of the obstruction of justice case against Donald Trump and why it's about more than the firing of James Comey.
  
  Read more

• Vice President Mike Pence tours Harvey damage, meets with victims

  31-08-2017 20:09 via abcnews.go.com
  Pence applauded the resilience of residents of Rockport, Texas, in a visit.
  
  Read more

• Iraq announces another major victory over IS jihadists

  31-08-2017 20:08 via yahoo.com
  Iraq declared on Thursday that its forces had retaken the northern city of Tal Afar and the surrounding region, in another major victory over Islamic State group jihadists.IS, which seized nearly a third of Iraq in 2014 in a humiliating defeat for the army and police, now controls barely 10 percent of the country, according to the US-led international coalition ranged against the jihadists.The fall of Tal Afar, located in the northern province of Nineveh, deprives IS of what was once a key suppl
  
  Read more

• Basketball Guru's Daily Grind Guides Youth to College

  31-08-2017 20:06 via nbcnews.com
  In Brooklyn, volunteer coach Mike Senior has spent over 30 years drilling local youths in basketball andempowering them to earn college degrees.
  
  Read more

• Forecasters Nailed Harvey's Massive Rain Dump, but Who Listened?

  31-08-2017 20:04 via nbcnews.com
  Weather forecasters have sharpened their tools in recent years and knew Hurricane Harvey would dump record amounts of rain. But did the public get the message?
  
  Read more

• U.S. forces Russia to close three diplomatic offices ‘in the spirit of parity’

  31-08-2017 19:39 via yahoo.com
  Last month, the United States was ordered to cut in half its diplomatic and technical staff in Russia. Now Russia is being asked to close its consulate in San Francisco and annex buildings in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
  
  Read more

• U.S. Shuts Down Russia's Consulate in San Francisco

  31-08-2017 19:28 via yahoo.com
  The move is in retaliation to a diplomatic staff cut in Moscow
  
  Read more

• Donald Trump's pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio may not be upheld by a US court

  31-08-2017 19:23 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump's controversial pardon of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio may not go through due to a US district court judge.Judge Susan Bolton of the US District Court handling Mr Arpaio's case has cancelled a sentencing hearing for the former Maricopa County sheriff but stopped short of throwing out his conviction.Instead, Ms Bolton said that because a presidential pardon carries an implication of guilt she wants both Mr Arpaio's lawyers and the US Department of Justice to submit briefs on why she sh
  
  Read more

• Russian activist Navalny launches new attack on Putin with claim of 'secret mansion'

  31-08-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com
  Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has been linked to ownership of a villa complex on a scenic island near the Finnish border where a Soviet version of Sherlock Holmes was filmed, according to two investigations. It is claimed in a YouTube video, which got more than 1.8 million views in 24 hours, that Mr Putin is the owner of the Sellgren Villa on Lodochny Island in the Bay of Vyborg, a red-brick home built in 1913 and recently expanded, according to separate in
  
  Read more

• 'Metal tipped' arrow fired onto cricket field

  31-08-2017 19:08 via cnn.com
  A "metal tipped" arrow was fired onto the field of play during a professional English cricket game in London, British police said Thursday.
  
  Read more

• Twitter Burns Joe Walsh For Claiming Charlie Hebdo Never Attacks Muslims

  31-08-2017 19:02 via yahoo.com
  After the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo came out with an inflammatory cover suggesting the victims of the Houston floods were Nazi sympathizers, one right-wing talk show host came out guns-a-blazing.
  
  Read more

• Spate of unexpected disasters plagues Texas cities

  31-08-2017 19:01 via cnn.com
  The heavy rain is over, but the devastation that Harvey unleashed in Texas has left unprecedented flooding and thousands of people vulnerable.
  
  Read more

• Mumbai building collapses after torrential rain

  31-08-2017 18:53 via yahoo.com
  An 117-year-old condemned building collapsed in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai on Thursday after torrential rains this week, killing at least 22 people, with about 10 other people feared trapped, police and fire official said.
  
  Read more

• Congress eyes vote next week on Harvey aid

  31-08-2017 18:53 via abcnews.go.com
  Congress eyes vote next week on Harvey aid
  
  Read more

• What awaits Hurricane Harvey evacuees after they leave shelters

  31-08-2017 18:52 via abcnews.go.com
  In the wake of Hurricane Harvey's devastating path through southeastern Texas, FEMA Administrator Brock Long said his agency is operating more than 200 shelters.
  
  Read more

Follow @newslock_news on Twitter!