| #OscarsSoWhite creator says will not watch Oscars Posted: 27 Feb 2016 01:30 PM PST  By Gina Cherelus NEW YORK (Reuters) - The creator of the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag on Twitter on Saturday said she will watch and tweet about a 1999 coming-of-age movie featuring three black actors rather than Sunday night's showing of the Academy Awards, joining a growing list of activists and entertainers snubbing the event for its lack of diversity. April Reign, managing editor of BroadwayBlack.com, said she will watch "The Wood," starring Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs on Netflix on Sunday night as the Oscars show airs on ABC. "What I'm doing is attempting to amplify the discussion," Reign said at Saturday's conference, hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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| Trump wants to weaken libel laws amid feuds with reporters Posted: 27 Feb 2016 05:05 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is threatening to weaken First Amendment protections for reporters as president, making it easier for him to sue them.
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| Syria guns mostly silent as truce takes hold Posted: 27 Feb 2016 04:13 AM PST  The ceasefire is seen as a crucial but fragile step toward ending a war that has claimed 270,000 lives and displaced more than half the population.
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| Michigan governor's aides urged switch away from Flint River Posted: 27 Feb 2016 02:26 AM PST  By Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) - Quality problems prompted two of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's top lawyers to urge that Flint be moved back to the Detroit water system just months after a decision to draw water supply from the Flint River, according to emails released on Friday. Flint switched its water supply from Detroit to the Flint River in April 2014 in a bid to cut costs when the city was under a state-appointed emergency manager. While the city switched its water source back to Detroit in October 2015, corrosive water from the river had already leached lead from city pipes, posing a serious threat to public health.
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| Mexicans back ex-President Fox in vulgar spat with Trump Posted: 27 Feb 2016 12:21 AM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans backed former President Vicente Fox in his verbal spat with Donald Trump on Friday, after Fox called the Republican front-runner "crazy" and a "false prophet" and Trump replied that he ought to be "ashamed of himself" for using a profanity.
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| Syria ceasefire begins under U.S.-Russia deal Posted: 26 Feb 2016 10:05 PM PST  Guns fell silent across Syria on Saturday after a landmark UN-backed ceasefire came into effect, as a special task force led by rivals Moscow and Washington prepared to begin monitoring the fledgling truce. Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was quiet in the north of Latakia province and in the central provinces of Homs and Hama. The nationwide cessation of hostilities is the first pause in five years of a civil war that has claimed more than 270,000 lives.
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| Kansas mass shooting suspect had been served protection order Posted: 26 Feb 2016 03:40 PM PST  The man suspected of killing three people at the Kansas lawnmower factory where he worked had been served a protection order 90 minutes before his shooting spree, which also wounded 14 people, authorities said on Friday. The first police officer to reach the scene, Hesston Police Chief Doug Schroeder, killed Ford in an exchange of gunfire, said police secretary Jeannine Hoheisel. "The man was not going to stop shooting," Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said on Friday, noting that there were up to 300 people in the Excel Industries factory where the worst of the rampage took place.
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| Syria ceasefire takes effect under U.S.-Russia deal Posted: 26 Feb 2016 03:23 PM PST  A landmark UN-backed ceasefire came into effect at midnight in Syria on Friday -- the first major truce in five years of civil war that have claimed more than 270,000 lives. On the stroke of midnight, guns fell silent in the Damascus suburbs and the devastated northern city of Aleppo, AFP correspondents said, after a day of intense Russian air strikes on rebel bastions across the country. Russia and the United States, the sponsors of the ceasefire deal, have warned that applying it will be difficult in a country that has been torn apart by a conflict that broke out in March 2011.
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