| White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's daily briefing on March 24,2017 Posted: 24 Mar 2017 01:56 PM PDT  On Friday, March 24, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer hosts the daily press briefing with the White House press corp.
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| Jihadist-led offensive in Syria's Hama advances: monitor Posted: 24 Mar 2017 01:35 PM PDT  Jihadists and allied rebels claimed more ground against Syrian government forces in central Hama province on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The Britain-based group said the jihadists and allied fighters have taken 15 towns and villages from government troops since they began the surprise offensive on Tuesday. Despite the bombing campaign, rebel groups seized four new towns in the afternoon in "a new advance" in Hama, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
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| Exclusive: Venezuela increased fuel exports to allies even as supply crunch loomed Posted: 24 Mar 2017 01:15 PM PDT  By Marianna Parraga and Alexandra Ulmer HOUSTON/CARACAS (Reuters) - A gasoline shortage in OPEC member Venezuela was exacerbated by an increase in fuel exports to foreign allies such as Cuba and Nicaragua and an exodus of crucial personnel from state-run energy company PDVSA, according to internal PDVSA documents and sources familiar with its operations. Leftist-run Venezuela sells its citizens the world's cheapest gasoline. Fuel supplies have continued flowing despite a domestic oil industry in turmoil and a deepening economic crisis under President Nicolas Maduro that has left the South American country with scant supplies of many basic necessities.
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| Democrat Joe Manchin cautions against Gorsuch filibuster: ‘What goes around comes around’ Posted: 24 Mar 2017 12:41 PM PDT  Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Thursday that he would not join a Democratic filibuster of President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, arguing that the integrity of the Senate needs to be preserved. Manchin, a conservative Democrat and key vote, told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric that Senate decorum needs to be preserved and that it started to fall apart in 2013 when then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid instituted the so-called nuclear option.
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| Trump Meets With Congressional Black Caucus Posted: 24 Mar 2017 12:24 PM PDT ![Trump Meets With Congressional Black Caucus]( "Trump Meets With Congressional Black Caucus") Multiple CBC members arrived to the White House equipped with books entitled, "We Have a Lot To Lose."
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| Belgium falls silent one year after Brussels attacks Posted: 24 Mar 2017 12:06 PM PDT  Belgium fell silent Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the Islamic State suicide attacks in Brussels that killed 32 people, on a day of emotional ceremonies aimed at showing the heart of Europe is still beating. A sombre King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, along with Prime Minister Charles Michel, led ceremonies at Zavantem airport and Maalbeek metro station to commemorate the victims at the exact moments the bombers struck.
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| Tim Kaine on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election Posted: 24 Mar 2017 11:49 AM PDT  On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Senator Tim Kaine speaks with Yahoo News Global Anchor Katie Couric about the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election as well as the revelations from Rep. Devin Nunes about alleged communications collection of President Trump prior to the inauguration.
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| White man who wanted to harm blacks arrested in New York stabbing: police Posted: 24 Mar 2017 11:12 AM PDT ![White man who wanted to harm blacks arrested in New York stabbing: police]( "White man who wanted to harm blacks arrested in New York stabbing: police") A white man who police said traveled to New York City to harm black people turned himself in with knives in his pocket at a Manhattan police station on Wednesday, a day after authorities say he fatally stabbed a black man on a city sidewalk. James Harris Jackson, 28, told police he left his home in Baltimore on Friday and took the bus to New York "because it is the media capital of the world and he wanted to make a statement," Bill Aubrey, a deputy chief at the New York Police Department, told reporters. On Monday night, Jackson crossed paths with Timothy Caughman, a black man who was rummaging through garbage on a sidewalk in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, according to police.
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| Exclusive: U.S. embassies ordered to identify population groups for tougher visa screening Posted: 24 Mar 2017 10:56 AM PDT ![Exclusive: U.S. embassies ordered to identify population groups for tougher visa screening]( "Exclusive: U.S. embassies ordered to identify population groups for tougher visa screening") WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has directed U.S. diplomatic missions to identify "populations warranting increased scrutiny" and toughen screening for visa applicants in those groups, according to diplomatic cables seen by Reuters. Social media screening is now done fairly rarely by consular officials, one of the former officials said.
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| Amber Alert issued after car stolen w/ 2 boys inside in Cathedral City Posted: 24 Mar 2017 10:21 AM PDT  An Amber Alert was issued Thursday for two boys - ages 1 and 2 - who were inside a car that was stolen by a suspect in Cathedral City.
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| GOP Sen. Roberts: I ‘deeply regret’ quip about insurance coverage for mammograms Posted: 24 Mar 2017 09:27 AM PDT  Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., speaks at Secretary of Agriculture nominee Sonny Perdue's confirmation hearing. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., expressed remorse Thursday for making a sarcastic comment implying that coverage for mammograms shouldn't be a requirement for the GOP's insurance plan. Mammograms are essential to women's health & I never intended to indicate otherwise," he tweeted.
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| White House ‘confident’ about health care vote despite delay Posted: 24 Mar 2017 09:13 AM PDT  The White House said a House floor vote on the GOP health care bill was postponed simply for scheduling reasons on Thursday and officials remain "confident" it will pass. Shortly after news of the delay broke, White House principal deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters the vote was put off to avoid holding it in the wee hours of Friday morning. "We are going to start the debate tonight on the vote as planned," Sanders said.
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| Take that! Pyongyang lambastes Trump as too much like Obama Posted: 24 Mar 2017 08:41 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — North Korea has a criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump he probably wasn't expecting: He's too much like Barack Obama.
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| Trump supporter: My husband is being deported Friday Posted: 24 Mar 2017 08:21 AM PDT  As a popular Indiana restaurant owner faces deportation under President Trump's immigration directives, his family becomes the latest in a series of Trump supporters to find campaign promises affecting their lives. According to a report from Indiana Public Radio, Roberto Beristain's family said he's expected to be deported on Friday and has already been moved from the detention facility in Wisconsin where they had been visiting him. Beristain is the owner of Eddie's Steak Shed in Granger, Ind., which he purchased from his sister-in-law earlier this month after eight years of working at the restaurant.
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| Emboldened Taliban capture key southern district Posted: 24 Mar 2017 07:47 AM PDT  Taliban fighters captured the strategic southern district of Sangin on Thursday, officials said, another setback for Afghan forces in opium-rich Helmand province ahead of the spring fighting season. The capture of Sangin, where US and British forces suffered heavy casualties until it was handed over to Afghan personnel, marks the culmination of the Taliban's year-long offensive to seize the district and underscores their growing strength. Most of Helmand is already estimated to be under Taliban control, with the capital Lashkar Gah -- one of the last government-held enclaves -- also at the risk of falling to the Taliban's repeated ferocious assaults.
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| The Mud Day in Israel Posted: 24 Mar 2017 07:31 AM PDT ![The Mud Day in Israel]( "The Mud Day in Israel") The Mud Day, an international sports event is produced by a leading French sports organization – A.S.O, that is well known for its leading productions, Le Tour de France and the Dakar Rally. More than 150,000 in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain already participated in the Mud Day, a 13 km course run with 22 obstacles to go through, all in mud. (The Mud Day Israel)
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| Bernie Sanders Voting Against Gorsuch Nomination Posted: 24 Mar 2017 07:14 AM PDT  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., discusses the health care debate and says President Trump "doesn't always tell the truth." Sanders also talks about the Russia investigation and Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court.
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| Queueing to survive: Long lines and short on supplies in Venezuela Posted: 24 Mar 2017 06:59 AM PDT ![Queueing to survive: Long lines and short on supplies in Venezuela]( "Queueing to survive: Long lines and short on supplies in Venezuela") Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's hours-long televised visits to clinics and schools are meant to soften his image, but foes say they instead highlight his disconnect from a national economic crisis in which millions of people are missing meals.
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| Spicer scolds wary GOP over ‘free votes’ to repeal Obamacare Posted: 24 Mar 2017 06:40 AM PDT  Shortly before Republican leaders postponed a vote on repealing and replacing Obamacare, the White House on Thursday scolded Republicans who took "free votes" to roll back the law while President Barack Obama was in office, but who now balk at supporting President Trump's health care plan. "You've taken a bunch of these free votes when it didn't matter, because you didn't have a Republican president. "Well, this is a live ball now, and this is for real, and we're going to do what we pledged to the American people — and keep our word," Spicer told reporters at his daily briefing.
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| Secret Service Asks For Additional $60M In 2018 Fiscal Budget Posted: 24 Mar 2017 06:23 AM PDT  The U.S. Secret Service has requested for additional $60 million in its budget for next year to incur increasing expenses of the Trump family's lifestyle.
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| Intel chair Nunes admits mishandling Trump wiretap claim Posted: 24 Mar 2017 06:05 AM PDT  House intelligence committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., apologized to members of the panel today for his public claims about intelligence community surveillance of President Trump's transition team amid charges from Democrats that his unilateral announcement on the White House lawn had "betrayed" the panel's bipartisan investigation of Russian cyberattacks on the 2016 election. "At this point, the committee's independence is on life support," Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., told Yahoo News after a closed-door meeting of the committee Thursday. "Not since Sept. 11 has this committee been charged with such an important responsibility," Swalwell added, referring to the panel's Russia probe.
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| Police still seeking one assailant in London attack: report Posted: 24 Mar 2017 05:29 AM PDT ![Police still seeking one assailant in London attack: report]( "Police still seeking one assailant in London attack: report") LONDON (Reuters) - Police are still searching for one of the two people believed to have launched Wednesday's attack outside the British parliament building, assistant editor of the Daily Telegraph newspaper Christopher Hope tweeted, citing senior government sources. A BBC journalist said two assailants were believed to have been in a vehicle involved in the attack. "BBC understands from multiple sources two assailants in vehicle on Westminster Bridge," BBC correspondent Dominic Casciani said on Twitter. (Reporting by Alistair Smout; editing by Stephen Addison)
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| British police name London attacker as Khalid Masood, 52 Posted: 24 Mar 2017 05:11 AM PDT  British police named the man who killed three people near parliament before being shot dead as Khalid Masood, saying he had a string of criminal convictions but none for terrorism-related offences. Masood, 52, was born in Kent to the southeast of London and had been most recently living in central England, London police said. "Masood was not the subject of any current investigations and there was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack," they said in a statement.
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| Time magazine presses Trump on his slew of evidence-free and false claims Posted: 24 Mar 2017 04:53 AM PDT  President Trump says he doesn't necessarily need facts before making such evidence-free claims as, say, former President Barack Obama's wiretapping the phones at Trump Tower, because they've later been proved right. "I'm a very instinctual person," Trump told Time magazine's Michael Scherer in a phone interview from the Oval Office on Wednesday. The president offered a list things he says he "predicted" would happen, including Brexit, Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal, Bernie Sanders' loss in the Democratic primary — even his false suggestion that a terror attack had occurred in Sweden the night before.
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| ‘America is stronger’: Obama defends Affordable Care Act ahead of GOP House vote Posted: 24 Mar 2017 04:36 AM PDT  President Barack Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington seven years ago. Former President Barack Obama released a statement on the seventh anniversary of having signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law — providing an impassioned defense of his landmark health care bill as it's under fierce attack. The statement from the Office of Barack and Michelle Obama was sent out Thursday morning, ahead of an expected House Republicans vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which would essentially repeal and replace the 2010 law commonly known as Obamacare.
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