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• American Man Politely Informs Brits He Is Their Next King in Newspaper Ad
• The most shocking thing about WSJ’s iPhone 8 report might have been completely wrong
• Kellyanne Conway Explains Offensive Oval Office Sofa Photo
• Democrats in speech rebuttal say Trump will 'rip' away care
• Laser technique sheds light on pivotal Chinese feathered dinosaur
• Mount Etna lava show lights up Sicilian sky
• Ancient Celtic art uncovered in 'unique' gold hoard
• UK PM May's Brexit plan suffers setback in parliament
• Confidential U.N. Report Details North Korea’s Front Companies in China
• The Latest: Feds drop 5 cases brought by arrested officers
• UC releases details on 113 employee sexual misconduct cases
• U.S. top court backs review of Virginia voting districts in race case
• Partisan discord tainting probes of Russia, Trump, election
• Donald Trump Gives First 'State Of The Union' Address
• Wonder of the Waldorf: Iconic hotel closes its doors — for now
• 3 New Pokémon Go Updates Coming In 2017: Niantic CEO John Hanke
• Victim quits pope's abuse panel, slams 'shameful' Vatican
• New Trump travel order will aim to short circuit legal challenges
• UK PM May faces House of Lords defeat over post-Brexit rights of EU nationals
• Georgia Couple Sentenced For Racist Threats
• Indonesia, Saudi sign deals as King Salman starts landmark visit
• US, Russia set to clash over Syria sanctions
• Puerto Rico fiscal turnaround plan will save $3.8 billion/year: governor
• May set for Lords defeat on Europeans' post-Brexit rights
• Trump Sticks to a Protectionist, Isolationist Script in First Big Speech

American Man Politely Informs Brits He Is Their Next King in Newspaper Ad Posted: 01 Mar 2017 02:06 PM PST The madness of King George just got a sequel. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The most shocking thing about WSJ’s iPhone 8 report might have been completely wrong Posted: 01 Mar 2017 01:47 PM PST A The Wall Street Journal report shell-shocked iPhone fans on Tuesday, providing two clues about the upcoming iPhone 8. According to the paper's sources, the iPhone 8 will have a curved display, a detail mentioned in other reports but something has yet to be confirmed. The more interesting tidbit in the report concerned the iPhone 8's courageous ports. The Journal said the iPhone 8 will "introduce other updates including a USB-C port for the power cord." This detail sparked Lightning vs. USB-C debates around the web, with supporters of either connector having some solid arguments. It turns out there may another way to interpret The Journal's remarks though, and it may negate the entire debate. Lightning is Apple's proprietary port, one in introduced only a few years ago, and the type of tech Apple wouldn't normally give up just yet — especially considering the wireless future we're heading toward. But USB-C fans will tell you that the iPhone 8 adopting the port that Apple pioneered is actually great news, as it could bring fast-charging support to future iPhone batteries. Well-connected Apple blogger John Gruber weighed in on the matter, saying that he doesn't expect Apple to ditch Lighting for USB-C. "My expectation has been that iPhones will never switch to USB-C — that Apple would stick with Lightning until they can do away with external ports entirely," Gruber noted. "I have no inside dope on this, but it rings false to my ears." However, he pointed to a more likely scenario. The iPhone 8's charger cord may have a Lighting connector at one end, and a USB-C connector at the other. "I'd bet that this year's iPhones will ship with USB-C chargers, that use a USB-C to Lightning cable to connect to the phones," he wrote. "That makes sense, given that Apple has dropped USB-A ports from the newest MacBook models." Apple may be the only company that's currently betting big on USB-C ports in new MacBooks, offering no other ports to users, but it's hardly the only company adopting USB-C connectivity. One of the highlights of the future line of Lenovo PCs is Thunderbolt/USB-C connectivity alongside traditional ports. Other Windows device makers also have USB-C-ready computers out there, and Samsung's latest Chromebooks pack USB-C ports as well. It makes perfect sense for Apple's iPhone 8 charger to support USB-C instead of USB-A while retaining the Lightning connector on the end that plugs into the iPhone. After all, not all iPhone users have Macs, and people still connect their iPhones to their computers. As it is now, you can't connect the brand new iPhone 7 (or any other iPhone) to the new MacBook Pro using a single wire. You need at least one dongle, as seen in the image above. The Journal's report seems to indicate that USB-C is meant to replace Lightning. "They said Apple would introduce other updates including a USB-C port for the power cord and other peripheral devices, instead of the company's original Lightning connector," the report says. But maybe something was lost in translation there, and Gruber is correct about Apple's plans for the new iPhones. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Kellyanne Conway Explains Offensive Oval Office Sofa Photo Posted: 01 Mar 2017 01:27 PM PST While President Trump was meeting with the leaders of the countrys historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway was under fire for kneeling on a sofa in the Oval Office. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Democrats in speech rebuttal say Trump will 'rip' away care Posted: 01 Mar 2017 01:06 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear took a populist tenor in the Democrats' formal response to President Donald Trump's speech to Congress, accusing him of planning to "rip affordable health insurance" from Americans and being "Wall Street's champion." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Laser technique sheds light on pivotal Chinese feathered dinosaur Posted: 01 Mar 2017 12:46 PM PST By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A technique using high-powered lasers to reveal hidden soft tissue alongside bones in fossils is giving scientists insight into one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life: small feathered dinosaurs taking flight as birds. Scientists said on Tuesday they used the method on fossils of the chicken-sized, feathered, bird-like dinosaur Anchiornis that lived in China about 160 million years ago, finding it possessed drumstick-shaped legs, arms similar to the wings of some modern gliding and soaring birds, and a long, slender tail. If a person had a chance to see Anchiornis alive, the reaction might be, "That's a weird-looking bird," said University of Hong Kong paleontologist Michael Pittman, who helped lead the study published in the journal Nature Communications. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Mount Etna lava show lights up Sicilian sky Posted: 01 Mar 2017 12:35 PM PST Bright lava lit up the night sky on the Italian island of Sicily on Monday as Mount Etna erupted for the first time this year. The volcano, one of the most active in the world, has been largely dormant for the last two years, but it sprung to life with bright orange lava spewing out high over the Mediterranean Island, eventually easing off by Tuesday morning. Catania airport, situated within 31 miles of the volcano, remained open, but authorities were tracking the movements of the ash cloud. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Ancient Celtic art uncovered in 'unique' gold hoard Posted: 01 Mar 2017 12:11 PM PST Two amateur treasure hunters have uncovered a bracelet decorated with some of the earliest Celtic art ever found in Britain in a trove of gold jewellery revealed on Tuesday. Metal detectorists Mark Hambleton and Joe Kania made the discovery of the three torcs and a bracelet, which may have been made in France or Germany some 2,500 years ago. "This unique find is of international importance," said Julia Farley, curator of British and European Iron Age collections at the British Museum, who assessed the find. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

UK PM May's Brexit plan suffers setback in parliament Posted: 01 Mar 2017 11:54 AM PST Britain's upper house of parliament defeated Prime Minister Theresa May's government on Wednesday, voting in favor of a change to her Brexit plan that says she can only trigger exit talks if she promises to protect the rights of EU citizens. The House of Lords voted 358 to 256 to make an amendment to the "European Union (Notification of Withdrawal Bill)" -- legislation that will give May the power to trigger the legal process of leaving the EU. The change requires the government to publish proposals on how to protect EU citizens currently living in Britain -- including their residency rights -- within three months of triggering exit negotiations. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Confidential U.N. Report Details North Korea’s Front Companies in China Posted: 01 Mar 2017 11:42 AM PST A maze of shadowy businesses allows Kim Jong-un to evade sanctions and experts say there's no way Beijing doesn't know. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Latest: Feds drop 5 cases brought by arrested officers Posted: 01 Mar 2017 11:20 AM PST BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on seven Baltimore police officers charged with racketeering conspiracy (all times local): This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

UC releases details on 113 employee sexual misconduct cases Posted: 01 Mar 2017 11:05 AM PST BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The University of California said it investigated 113 cases of sexual misconduct involving staff and faculty at its 10 campuses over a recent three-year period, according to hundreds of pages of internal documents released Tuesday. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

U.S. top court backs review of Virginia voting districts in race case Posted: 01 Mar 2017 10:46 AM PST The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday told a lower court in a voting rights case to reassess whether Virginia's Republican-led legislature unlawfully tried to dilute the clout of black voters when it drew a series of state legislative districts. A group of voters who filed the legal challenge said the lawmakers improperly considered race as a factor when mapping boundaries of state House of Delegates voting districts. A federal district court in 2015 upheld 12 districts, but the justices directed a three-judge panel of the lower court to take a fresh look at the propriety of 11 of those. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Partisan discord tainting probes of Russia, Trump, election Posted: 01 Mar 2017 09:49 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Partisan discord is seeping into House and Senate intelligence committee investigations of the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether President Donald Trump has ties to Russia. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Donald Trump Gives First 'State Of The Union' Address Posted: 01 Mar 2017 09:34 AM PST Trump, who has spent just over a month in office so far, was scheduled to lead a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill at 9 p.m. EST. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Wonder of the Waldorf: Iconic hotel closes its doors — for now Posted: 01 Mar 2017 09:18 AM PST The word "grand" matched few hotels in the world better than New York City's Waldorf Astoria, but this bastion of gilded splendor is now closing for two to three years for a transformative makeover. The last guests were checking out by noon Wednesday after enjoying the rich Art Deco style of the old Waldorf one last time. When the building reopens, it will still have a hotel, but hundreds of its 1,400 guest rooms will have been converted into privately owned condominiums, according to a spokesman for the Anbang Insurance Group, the Chinese company that bought the storied hotel for nearly $2 billion in 2015. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

3 New Pokémon Go Updates Coming In 2017: Niantic CEO John Hanke Posted: 01 Mar 2017 08:58 AM PST Niantic CEO John Hanke said at the Mobile World Congress that the Gen 2 Update was the first of the three major updates planned for 2017. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Victim quits pope's abuse panel, slams 'shameful' Vatican Posted: 01 Mar 2017 08:36 AM PST Marie Collins, an Irish survivor of clerical sex abuse, resigned Wednesday from Pope Francis's child protection panel, accusing senior Vatican officials of "shameful" blocking of reforms approved by the pontiff. The 70-year-old, who was raped by a hospital chaplain at 13, explained her decision in an article for the National Catholic Reporter (NCR). Collins's departure leaves the Pontifical Commission on the Protection of Minors with no abuse survivors working for it. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

New Trump travel order will aim to short circuit legal challenges Posted: 01 Mar 2017 08:19 AM PST In formulating a new executive order limiting travel to the United States, President Donald Trump has promised to make the directive harder to fight successfully in court than the one he issued in January. One way the administration will likely try to do that, legal experts say, is to shape the order more narrowly to undercut the opportunity for states and other opponents to sue by showing courts they have "standing," or the ability to argue the president's order causes them harm. More than two dozen lawsuits were filed in U.S. courts against the initial travel ban, which temporarily barred travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

UK PM May faces House of Lords defeat over post-Brexit rights of EU nationals Posted: 01 Mar 2017 07:42 AM PST By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May faces her first defeat over her plan to trigger Britain's exit from the European Union, with parliament's upper house set to vote on Wednesday in favor of forcing her to guarantee the future rights of EU nationals. Opposition parties in the Lords, where May's Conservatives do not have a majority, say they have enough support to pass an amendment to the legislation to include a guarantee on the post-Brexit rights of EU citizens currently living in Britain. Any changes made in the Lords would need to be approved by the lower house, the House of Commons, which last month passed the legislation without attaching any conditions, something that may prolong a process May has she wants completed quickly. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Georgia Couple Sentenced For Racist Threats Posted: 01 Mar 2017 07:22 AM PST The duo apparently drove up to a birthday party in trucks, waving the American, military and Confederate flags in the air. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Indonesia, Saudi sign deals as King Salman starts landmark visit Posted: 01 Mar 2017 07:04 AM PST Indonesia and Saudi Arabia Wednesday signed agreements in areas ranging from trade to aviation as the kingdom's monarch visited the world's most populous Muslim-majority country for the first time in almost half a century. King Salman was treated to an elaborate official welcome as he arrived in Jakarta, his latest stop on an Asian tour seeking investment opportunities, at the head of a 1,000-strong delegation including princes and ministers. After disembarking from his plane, he was met by President Joko Widodo before travelling past cheering crowds in pouring rain to a presidential palace at Bogor south of Jakarta, where he was greeted by a marching band, a mounted honour guard and a 21-gun salute. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

US, Russia set to clash over Syria sanctions Posted: 01 Mar 2017 06:46 AM PST Russia and the United States were headed for a clash at the UN Security Council on Tuesday as Moscow prepared to veto a draft resolution that would impose sanctions on Syria. The council will vote on a text drafted by the United States, Britain and France that would put 11 Syrians and 10 entities linked to chemical attacks in 2014 and 2015 on a UN blacklist. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Puerto Rico fiscal turnaround plan will save $3.8 billion/year: governor Posted: 01 Mar 2017 06:11 AM PST The turnaround plan, a requirement of the federal Puerto Rico rescue law known as PROMESA, will serve as a 10-year blueprint for the island's ascent out of fiscal crisis. The plan will serve as a baseline for debt restructuring talks between Puerto Rico and creditors holding nearly $70 billion in bonds. In a speech to Puerto Rico's legislature on Tuesday, Rossello said the plan would save $1.6 billion in government spending - but without laying off public workers - by eliminating some tax incentives and cutting subsidies to municipalities. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

May set for Lords defeat on Europeans' post-Brexit rights Posted: 01 Mar 2017 05:54 AM PST The House of Lords looks set Wednesday to defy Prime Minister Theresa May by demanding guarantees for EU nationals living in Britain, delaying a bill she needs to start Brexit negotiations. The opposition Labour party is hopeful it can push through an amendment to legislation empowering May to trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, which begins two years of divorce talks. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also this week warned she may be forced to call for a new independence referendum to defend Scotland's rights. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Trump Sticks to a Protectionist, Isolationist Script in First Big Speech Posted: 01 Mar 2017 05:36 AM PST The president toned down his customary bombast in his first address to Congress, but his divisive stance remained unchanged on immigration, trade, and terrorism. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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