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• Amazon finally explained what happened when it accidentally took down the internet
• Mom Gets 50 Years for Giving Son, 5, Fatal Dose of Pills and Setting His Body on Fire
• Caterpillar shares sink on news of federal probe
• Donald Trump Is No Ronald Reagan
• What to do if you're questioned by immigration police
• Iraqi officers find Islamic State members hidden among refugees fleeing Mosul
• Speaker Ryan addresses the controversy around Attorney General Jeff Sessions
• The Latest: Nunes has no evidence of improper Russia links
• Bomb threats are scary and costly to Jewish centers
• House Intel Panel Agrees to Investigate Any Trump-Russia Ties
• Contamination of Lake Titicaca: Lake worshipped by Incans now littered with trash
• Egypt appeals court acquits Mubarak over protester killings
• US drone kills two on motorbike in Pakistan: officials
• Teenager Killed by Car While Trying to Rescue Cat Cat That Was Hit by Car
• Philippines demands proof for rights group's assertion of police 'executions'
• Marine Le Pen loses EU parliament immunity over tweets
• Thermal Imaging Camera Spots Suspect Crawling Through Mud After Fleeing Walmart Fight: Cops
• How to Get the Most Out of Your Home Inspection
• Sessions spoke with Russian envoy in 2016, Justice Dept says
• The Latest: Culture min sees nationalism threat to fashion
• Was Trump tribute to fallen Navy SEAL fitting or calculated?
• US Attorney General Jeff Sessions under fire over Russian contacts
• Land Rover officially lifts the veil on the Velar
• Japan emperor meets Vietnam kin of Tokyo's WWII soldiers
• South Korea's Lotte Duty Free says website crashed after attack from Chinese IPs

Amazon finally explained what happened when it accidentally took down the internet Posted: 02 Mar 2017 01:15 PM PST The Amazon Simple Storage Service and Amazon Web Services, also known as S3 and AWS, happen to power a lot of the internet as you know it. And they're usually quite dependable, meaning that the companies using the solutions can rest assured that their websites will be up no matter what. But no internet service can have a 100% uptime rating, and the same goes for AWS. It was Amazon's AWS that failed on Tuesday, taking plenty of popular services and sites down with it. Now, Amazon has finally explained exactly what happened on Tuesday when it took down much of the web. In lengthy and rather technical note to customers, Amazon explained that an employee entered a command incorrectly and caused a chain of events that ultimately led to parts of the internet going bonkers. Amazon has protocols in place to fix downtime issues like these, but the problem was so ample that not even Amazon could fix it in a timely matter. That's why the outage lasted for several hours — well, technically it wasn't an outage since only subsets of AWS's complex architecture went down. "We build our systems with the assumption that things will occasionally fail, and we rely on the ability to remove and replace capacity as one of our core operational processes," Amazon said. "While this is an operation that we have relied on to maintain our systems since the launch of S3, we have not completely restarted the index subsystem or the placement subsystem in our larger regions for many years." The good news is that Amazon was able to restore order in the universe, and it's now looking to prevent this from ever happening again. If you want to read the entire explanation, check out Amazon's full post here. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Mom Gets 50 Years for Giving Son, 5, Fatal Dose of Pills and Setting His Body on Fire Posted: 02 Mar 2017 12:59 PM PST Narges Shafeirad pleaded guilty last year to feeding her 5-year-old son, Daniel Dana, a fatal dose of antihistamines. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Caterpillar shares sink on news of federal probe Posted: 02 Mar 2017 12:40 PM PST Caterpillar, which is based in Peoria in the midwestern state of Illinois, confirmed the presence of agents, but did not disclose the nature of the probe. "Law enforcement is present in various Peoria-area Caterpillar facilities executing a search warrant," a spokeswoman said. Some of the investigators sported jackets with an Internal Revenue Service logo, while others appeared to be from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Peoria Journal Star reported. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Donald Trump Is No Ronald Reagan Posted: 02 Mar 2017 12:21 PM PST Trump is like Reagan in the same way that a card table is like a racehorse: They have the same number of legs, but after that the similarities are sparse. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

What to do if you're questioned by immigration police Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:51 AM PST Immigration lawyer Cesar Vargas tells DACA recipients to assert their right to an attorney. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Iraqi officers find Islamic State members hidden among refugees fleeing Mosul Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:32 AM PST By Stephen Kalin SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A few hundred men who had scurried across front lines in a refugee exodus from Mosul sat on the ground in neat rows before an Iraqi intelligence officer who scanned the crowd for hidden militants. The officer pulled a teenager onto a raised platform and asked the group if he belonged to Islamic State (IS). As growing numbers of residents flee fighting between insurgents and Iraqi military forces seeking to recapture the IS-held western half of Iraq's second largest city, security units have been transporting civilians to government-run camps and weeding out IS infiltrators. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Speaker Ryan addresses the controversy around Attorney General Jeff Sessions Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:16 AM PST On Thursday, March 2, 2017, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan addresses the rising accusations against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and calls for the A.G. to resign or, at the very least, recuse himself from all investigations and legal proceedings surrounding Russian and interference in the 2016 election. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Latest: Nunes has no evidence of improper Russia links Posted: 02 Mar 2017 11:01 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Attorney General Jeff Sessions' talks with the Russian ambassador (all times local): This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Bomb threats are scary and costly to Jewish centers Posted: 02 Mar 2017 10:43 AM PST President Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives on Feb. 28. The wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers that President Trump denounced in his joint address to Congress — 100 so far this year, including 31 on Monday — have all been hoaxes. "That is their intended goal, to make it difficult for us to do business as usual," says Betzy Lynch, executive director of the Levite JCC of Birmingham, Ala. Hers is one of several organizations where parents have withdrawn youngsters from preschools after threats — either out of fear that there will eventually be violence or because of the toll taken by repeated evacuations. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

House Intel Panel Agrees to Investigate Any Trump-Russia Ties Posted: 02 Mar 2017 10:26 AM PST Intel committee leaders pledge to leave 'no stone unturned.' This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Contamination of Lake Titicaca: Lake worshipped by Incans now littered with trash Posted: 02 Mar 2017 10:05 AM PST Tucked between snow-capped mountains, Lake Titicaca was once worshipped by the Incas, who proclaimed its deep blue waters the birthplace of the sun. The steady deterioration of the prized tourist destination has caused a rash of health problems among the 1.3 million people in Peru and Bolivia living near Lake Titicaca's polluted banks. "If the frogs could talk they would say, 'This is killing me,'" said Maruja Inquilla, a local environmental activist who recently showed up at the Puno governor's house carrying plastic bags filled with hundreds of dead frogs in protest. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Egypt appeals court acquits Mubarak over protester killings Posted: 02 Mar 2017 09:49 AM PST Egypt's top appeals court on Thursday acquitted Hosni Mubarak of involvement in the killing of protesters during a 2011 revolt, ending the final trial for the strongman who ruled for 30 years. Mubarak had been sentenced to life in 2012 but an appeals court ordered a retrial, which dismissed the charges two years later. The trial was Mubarak's last, after prosecutors levelled various charges against him following his February 2011 resignation. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

US drone kills two on motorbike in Pakistan: officials Posted: 02 Mar 2017 09:31 AM PST A US drone on Thursday killed two men riding a motorbike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, officials said, the first such attack in the country under the administration of new American President Donald Trump. Drone strikes are extremely unpopular among many Pakistanis because they are seen as a violation of the country's sovereignty, although leaked documents have shown that Islamabad and Washington have secretly colluded over some cases in the past. The attack occurred in the Sara Khwa area of Kurram, one of seven so-called tribal districts that lie along the border with Afghanistan, where Pakistan has been battling a homegrown Islamist insurgency for more than a decade and a half. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Teenager Killed by Car While Trying to Rescue Cat Cat That Was Hit by Car Posted: 02 Mar 2017 09:12 AM PST Emily Sanchez, 18 was trying to rescue a wounded cat when she was hit and killed by a car. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Philippines demands proof for rights group's assertion of police 'executions' Posted: 02 Mar 2017 08:54 AM PST The Philippines on Thursday dismissed as "thoughtless and irresponsible" a report by Human Rights Watch that President Rodrigo Duterte had turned a blind eye to murders by police in what the group called a "campaign of extrajudicial execution". Duterte's signature war on drugs was in the best interests of Filipinos and the New York-based group's allegations of systematic police abuse were "hearsay" and not supported by evidence, said presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella. "All these accusations of circumventing police procedures should be proven in a competent court and if found meritorious should result in appropriate sanctions against the perpetrators," Abella said in a statement. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Marine Le Pen loses EU parliament immunity over tweets Posted: 02 Mar 2017 08:22 AM PST By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers lifted the EU parliamentary immunity of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Thursday for tweeting pictures of Islamic State violence. Le Pen, who leads her National Front party in the European legislature, is under investigation in France for posting three graphic images of Islamic State executions on Twitter in December 2015, including the beheading of American journalist James Foley. Le Pen's immunity shielded her from prosecution. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Thermal Imaging Camera Spots Suspect Crawling Through Mud After Fleeing Walmart Fight: Cops Posted: 02 Mar 2017 08:03 AM PST Dustin Arnold was allegedly among a group that sped off from a Florida Walmart in a stolen truck. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

How to Get the Most Out of Your Home Inspection Posted: 02 Mar 2017 07:45 AM PST According to data from the National Association of Realtors, in 2016, approximately 700,000 of the 6.1 million homes sold were new. A good way for homebuyers to be aware of potential problems with a home -- and gauge the potential costs -- is to have a home inspection. A home inspection by a certified professional provides a bit of assurance regarding the home's quality and the effectiveness of its key systems like air conditioning, heating, roof and more. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Sessions spoke with Russian envoy in 2016, Justice Dept says Posted: 02 Mar 2017 07:30 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions talked twice with Russia's ambassador to the United States during the presidential campaign, the Justice Department confirmed, a seeming contradiction to sworn statements he gave to Congress. The revelation spurred growing calls in Congress in both parties for him to recuse himself from an investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Latest: Culture min sees nationalism threat to fashion Posted: 02 Mar 2017 07:14 AM PST PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French presidential election campaign (all times local): This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Was Trump tribute to fallen Navy SEAL fitting or calculated? Posted: 02 Mar 2017 06:53 AM PST CHICAGO (AP) — The televised moment moved a nation: A grief-stricken widow clasping her hands and looking skyward, tears streaming down her face as the nation's lawmakers and president delivered a deafening standing ovation in honor of her fallen husband. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions under fire over Russian contacts Posted: 02 Mar 2017 06:36 AM PST US Attorney General Jeff Sessions was under fire Thursday after it was revealed he met twice last year with Russia's ambassador to Washington, seemingly contradicting statements he made in Senate confirmation hearings. The revelation cast a fresh cloud over President Donald Trump's administration, which has repeatedly denied any suspected ties between members of his election team and Russia -- which US intelligence says interfered in the 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton. The White House quickly labeled the report an attack by partisan Democrats, confirming the meetings but arguing Sessions did nothing wrong. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Land Rover officially lifts the veil on the Velar Posted: 02 Mar 2017 06:17 AM PST The fourth member of the Range Rover luxury SUV family, the Velar, is the closest the company has ever come to building a crossover. The vehicle's program director David Doody said that the goal was to make it "a lot more sporty" than a traditional Range Rover. At launch it will come with all of the cutting-edge Terrain Response technology found on the full-size Range Rover. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Japan emperor meets Vietnam kin of Tokyo's WWII soldiers Posted: 02 Mar 2017 05:57 AM PST Japan's royal couple on Thursday listened to the tearful stories of Vietnamese children who were abandoned by their Japanese soldier fathers after WWII, a symbolic meeting in Hanoi aimed at healing wounds between the former war foes. The 83-year-old Japanese emperor Akihito and his wife, Michiko, are on their first visit to Vietnam, the latest in a series of trips to former battlegrounds. The elderly couple shook hands and comforted more than a dozen children of the some 700 Japanese military men who decided to stay in Vietnam for a decade after their country's defeat in the second world war. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

South Korea's Lotte Duty Free says website crashed after attack from Chinese IPs Posted: 02 Mar 2017 05:38 AM PST By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) - Lotte Duty Free on Thursday said a cyber attack using Chinese internet protocol (IP) addresses has crashed its website, the latest report of irregularity from a South Korean firm in China since Seoul decided to deploy a U.S. missile defense system. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which overloads servers with requests, began slowing all four language versions of the website at 11:00 a.m. (0200 GMT) and crashed them all around 12:00 p.m., Lotte Duty Free said in a statement. The attack comes after affiliate Lotte International Co Ltd on Monday approved a land swap to allow the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system on what was once its property, in response to the North Korean missile threat. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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