| Hedge Fund Exec Swindled by Bernie Madoff Jumps to His Death From NYC Hotel Posted: 28 Mar 2017 02:12 PM PDT  Charles Murphy's hedge fund lost $7 billion to Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
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| Capturing the battle against ISIS in Mosul – photojournalist, Zohra Bensemra Posted: 28 Mar 2017 01:52 PM PDT ![Capturing the battle against ISIS in Mosul – photojournalist, Zohra Bensemra]( "Capturing the battle against ISIS in Mosul – photojournalist, Zohra Bensemra") Algerian photojournalist Zohra Bensemra captured a series of heartbreaking images while covering the Battle of Mosul. From elderly individuals weary from the ongoing warfare in Iraq to children bloodied from early brushes with violence. Her pictures show people holding up a white flag to signal that they are non-combatants and others crying buses found for safer areas. She told Yahoo News she hopes her works shows that 'the human being is the same' regardless of 'nationality or religion.'
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| Spicer says he hopes Sally Yates testifies in Russia probe Posted: 28 Mar 2017 01:34 PM PDT  Press secretary Sean Spicer denied claims that the White House tried to prevent Sally Yates, the former acting attorney general, from testifying before the House intelligence committee on the Trump campaign's relations with Russian officials. He said, "I hope she testifies."
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| Watch Amazing Makeup Transformation of Model With Vitiligo Posted: 28 Mar 2017 01:03 PM PDT  Brooklyn-based beauty influencer Tameeca Dieujuste, better known as Khloe Dosh shared a stunning makeup transformation on Instagram that she did on a model named Carlene John, who has vitiligo.
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| College Costs Concern Applicants Posted: 28 Mar 2017 12:48 PM PDT  In the Princeton Review's College Hopes and Worries Survey, 98 percent of student and parents said they were experiencing some level of anxiety about the application process.
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| 'Unparalleled' number of dinosaur tracks found in Australia Posted: 28 Mar 2017 12:33 PM PDT  An "unprecedented" 21 different types of dinosaur tracks have been found on a stretch of Australia's remote coastline, scientists said Monday, dubbing it the nation's Jurassic Park. Palaeontologists from the University of Queensland and James Cook University said it was the most diverse such discovery in the world, unearthed in rocks up to 140 millions years old in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Steve Salisbury, lead author of a paper on the findings published in the Memoir of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, said the tracks were "globally unparalleled".
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| US Military's 'Gremlin' Program Lets Pilots Launch and Snag Drones in Midair Posted: 28 Mar 2017 12:14 PM PDT  The U.S. military is developing a fairy-tale-inspired "Gremlin" program that aims to launch and retrieve drones in midair. "Gremlins" are a swarm of drones that can be deployed from a manned aircraft, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the U.S. military charged with developing new and innovative technologies for the nation's war fighters. DARPA announced the Gremlin concept in 2015, when the agency called for proof-of-concept designs for the first phase of the project.
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| Trump's order will unravel America's best defense against climate change Posted: 28 Mar 2017 11:54 AM PDT  Environmentalists, climate advocates and many world leaders have feared this moment ever since President Donald Trump took office. On Tuesday, with the anticipated signing of an Executive Order, the great climate policy dismantling is slated to begin. This will kick off the unwinding of the Obama administration's climate efforts, including the landmark set of regulations known as the Clean Power Plan. This program, administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is America's most comprehensive effort to slash carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and steer the economy away from fossil fuels. Trump, it seems, is determined to turn the wheel back toward those dirty fuels, no matter the environmental costs. SEE ALSO: EPA chief calls historic climate treaty a 'bad deal' because this is our life now The regulations require power plants to reduce total carbon emissions by 32 percent by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. Despite its flaws, the Clean Power Plan is still the country's best defense against human-driven global warming, energy experts say. Absent the policy, U.S. utilities will move far more slowly to curb their appetite for coal and natural gas — even as the rest of the world adopts more renewable energy. The plan is also essential to the U.S. meeting its targets laid out in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Without it, America's word will be less credible on the international stage. Former Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the U.N. signing ceremony for the Paris Climate Agreement in April 2016. Image: spencer platt/Getty Images "It's definitely a little depressing," said Noah Kaufman, a climate economist at the World Resources Institute, said of the expected reversal in Washington. "It's frustrating that the federal government doesn't seem to want to play a more productive role," he said. Still, virtually no one expected the Clean Power Plan to escape the Trump administration unscathed. Trump and many of his top officials, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, have said they are uncertain or outright skeptical of the mainstream scientific consensus that the world is warming, and that human activity is primarily to blame. Adding to environmentalists' gloom, Pruitt, who oversees the Clean Power Plan, is one of its most ardent critics. Scott Pruitt, self-professed "leading advocate against the EPA" (and head of the EPA). Image: Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images As Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt led a nationwide legal battle to dismantle the regulations. The rule, which was designed to go into effect in 2015, was stayed by the Supreme Court in February 2016 until those lawsuits are resolved. "Imagine a rule that raises the cost of electricity, hurts the most poor among us, cuts domestic jobs and results in a dramatic re-shaping of the American electricity system," then-attorney general Pruitt wrote in a 2014 op-ed in The Hill. Image: spencer platt/Getty Images Some large utilities have endorsed the plan and filed legal briefs in its favor. Dominion Resources, a major consumer of coal, said the rule was "challenging but ultimately manageable" in a 2016 brief. The Obama administration estimated the plan would cost states and utilities around $8.4 billion a year. By contrast, public health and climate benefits could add up to around $34 billion to $54 billion per year in 2030 by driving down toxic air pollution, reducing water contamination and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental groups have also criticized the plan. But as they see it, the policy doesn't go far enough to drive the kind of dramatic emissions reductions and renewable energy development that the U.S. needs to meet its long-term climate targets. Under the Paris Climate Agreement, the U.S. has pledged to reduce it greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28 percent by 2025, compared to 2005 levels. "The fact is that even with the Clean Power Plan and all of President Obama's other final and proposed regulations, the U.S. was not on a clear pathway to meeting the Paris target," said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. Without the Clean Power Plan and other programs Trump is expected to target, the U.S. has even less of a shot to get there, he added. Repealing the policy "would seem to make it even less likely that we will see the kind of economy-wide shift away from fossil-fueled power that we need," Burger said. "It stalls progress toward the ultimate goal of net-zero or even negative emissions." Numerous scientific studies show that unless we reach net-zero or negative emissions by 2100, the world will sail past the threshold of dangerous human-caused climate change and stay there, causing prolonged droughts, damaging sea level rise and killer heatwaves, among other impacts. Any delay in cutting emissions, even just for a four year presidential term, could have major climate change consequences given that the U.S. is the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter. Climate experts are taking some solace in the fact that the U.S. is already making substantial progress on clean energy because of market forces. In recent years, coal-fired electricity has become less popular as utilities shift to cheaper natural gas, promote energy efficiency and invest in increasingly affordable wind and solar power. Image: George frey/Getty Images Since 2010, more than 250 U.S. coal plants have retired or committed to retire, driving U.S. coal use down to its lowest level in history, the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign announced earlier this month. "That [clean energy] transition has continued since Trump's election, and we expect that it will continue in the coming years," said John Coequyt, climate policy director for the Sierra Club. However, the Clean Power Plan still represents an important "backstop" to keep America from reversing to its earlier, more carbon-intensive energy system. "If it doesn't exist, emissions reductions will be diminished," Coequyt said. The EPA regulations are also key to maintaining U.S. leadership on climate and clean energy issues. If America lags behind, China, India and other large economies are poised to take over the mantle, experts said. China, for instance, said it will plow about $361 billion into clean energy projects by 2020 as part of its broader effort to shift away from fossil fuels. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has proposed gutting many important federal energy programs that have helped launch the nation's large-scale solar industry and supported companies including Tesla. "China has done a total about-face on climate in the last five to six years, and it's not because China is a goody two-shoes. It's because China sees a strong economic interest in making this transition," said Paul Bodnar, who oversaw international climate issues at the National Security Council during the Obama administration's second term. "It would be good if, instead of arguing about whether or not we want to engage on this issue, we're getting ready to out-compete China in that [clean energy] race," said Bodnar, now managing director of the Rocky Mountain Institute. "It's kind of like arguing about whether the automobile or the horse-and-buggy is the future of transportation, while somebody else is focused on making automobiles," he said. Mashable Science Editor Andrew Freedman contributed reporting. WATCH: Watch how global warming heats up the world from 1880-2016
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| Search For Missing Teen Allegedly Kidnapped By Teacher Continues Posted: 28 Mar 2017 11:37 AM PDT  Law enforcement officials believe 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas' teacher Tad Cummins kidnapped her. A warrant has been issued against him for kidnapping and having sexual contact with her.
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| Lawyer: ICE agent shot unarmed Chicago man as he opened door Posted: 28 Mar 2017 11:21 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Federal immigration officials say an agent shot and wounded a man after he pointed a gun at agents trying to make an arrest in a Chicago home, but the wounded man's attorney said he was unarmed and targeted for no apparent reason.
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| Bill O’Reilly mocks Rep. Maxine Waters’ ‘James Brown wig’ Posted: 28 Mar 2017 11:02 AM PDT  O'Reilly was appearing on "Fox & Friends" when the show aired a clip of Waters denouncing President Trump. "We have suffered discrimination," Waters said in the clip. "Fox & Friends" hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade laughed and joined in on the ribbing.
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| Hidden changes in iOS 10.3 will give your iPhone a speed boost Posted: 28 Mar 2017 10:42 AM PDT 
After releasing a few hundred different beta versions over the past month or so, Apple on Monday finally released iOS 10.3 to the public. Eager iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users rushed to download and install the update, and they were greeted with some nifty new features. In a post on Monday afternoon, we went through the eight best new features in iOS 10.3, including a new Find My AirPods feature, updates to the Maps app, Apple's new file system and more. There was one feature in particular that we listed in the post that deserves more attention though, and not many people realize it's even there. When Apple releases any new iOS software, hardcore Apple fans always rush to download and install it immediately, regardless of what new features Apple adds. This is a good thing for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that new iOS software always includes security updates that are crucial. iOS 10.3 is no different — it's packed full of security fixes that users should be eager to install immediately. Of course, the user-facing features are typically the main draw for new iOS updates, and iOS 10.3 has a few nice additions and changes. One set of changes in particular is worth noting, but it's hiding in plain sight so most iPhone and iPad users won't even notice it's there. Apple engineer Renaud Lienhart tweeted on Monday afternoon about something that we mentioned in passing in our post covering the best new features in iOS 10.3. "iOS 10.3 feels 'snappier,'" he said, "because many animations were slightly tweaked & shortened, for the better." https://twitter.com/NotoriousBUGS/status/846539233305124865 Long story short, Apple has made a number of small adjustments to the animations that are played when the user does things like opening an app, closing an app, or switching from one app to another. Longtime iPhone users may recall that Apple did something similar back in 2014 with iOS 7.1. The speed difference back then was much more dramatic and noticeable, but the improvements in iOS 10.3 are still nothing to scoff at. If you have an iPhone or iPad and haven't yet updated to iOS 10.3, a faster UI should be reason enough to install the update as soon as you can. iOS 10.3 is available to download in iTunes, or as an over the air (OTA) update accessing in the Settings app by navigating to General > Software Update.
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| Scientists Uncover Giant Dino Tracks in 'Australia's Jurassic Park' Posted: 28 Mar 2017 10:23 AM PDT  Scientists working in "Australia's Jurassic Park" have found more than a thousand dinosaur tracks from almost two dozen species.
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| Trump Attacks Clinton On Twitter Posted: 28 Mar 2017 10:05 AM PDT  The president tweeted demanding investigation into the relations between the Clintons and Russia, saying that the "Trump Russia story is hoax."
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| Hannity: Koppel interview is example of 'edited fake news' Posted: 28 Mar 2017 09:47 AM PDT  Sean calls on CBS News to release the unedited footage of the entire interview
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| Clashes in Kashmir: Civilians killed in protests against Indian rule Posted: 28 Mar 2017 09:28 AM PDT ![Clashes in Kashmir: Civilians killed in protests against Indian rule]( "Clashes in Kashmir: Civilians killed in protests against Indian rule") Three civilians were killed and 28 other people were injured in anti-India protests that erupted Tuesday following a gunbattle between rebels and government forces that killed a rebel in disputed Kashmir, police and witnesses said.
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| Nunes won't leave Russia probe; Ryan says no need to Posted: 28 Mar 2017 09:12 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — House intelligence chairman Devin Nunes rebuffed calls to step aside from the Russia investigation Tuesday as demands grew for him to recuse himself as head of that probe.
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| How to Build Your Budget in Retirement Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:53 AM PDT ![How to Build Your Budget in Retirement]( "How to Build Your Budget in Retirement") The earlier you look at how much you will need during retirement, the more time you will have to adjust your current routine. Conventional wisdom is your spending will go down in retirement. For most, spending stays the same or increases, especially at the start of retirement, says Thomas J. O'Connell, president of International Financial Advisory Group in Parsippany, New Jersey.
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| Will GOP's tax reform prove easier than health care? Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:14 AM PDT ![Will GOP's tax reform prove easier than health care?]( "Will GOP's tax reform prove easier than health care?") The Republican Party couldn't repeal and replace Obamacare like it promised. Still smarting from that setback, the GOP is turning to another daunting issue: tax reform.
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| South Africa's Gordhan ordered home from London ahead of Gupta court case Posted: 28 Mar 2017 07:58 AM PDT  Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is set to return to South Africa early on Tuesday after being ordered home from London by President Jacob Zuma, hours before a court hearing over the closure of accounts belonging to friends of the president. Zuma's order on Monday that Gordhan return "immediately" from a roadshow for investors in Britain and the United States has revived talk of a cabinet reshuffle and unnerved investors who see Gordhan as an emblem of stability. In December, Gordhan asked the High Court to rule he was not allowed to interfere with decisions by South Africa's major banks to close business accounts of Oakbay Investments, owned by brothers Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta and with interests stretching from technology to media to mining.
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| On the brink of famine: Worst humanitarian crisis hits as Trump slashes foreign aid Posted: 28 Mar 2017 07:37 AM PDT ![On the brink of famine: Worst humanitarian crisis hits as Trump slashes foreign aid]( "On the brink of famine: Worst humanitarian crisis hits as Trump slashes foreign aid") The world's largest humanitarian crisis in 70 years has been declared in three African countries on the brink of famine, just as President Donald Trump's proposed foreign aid cuts threaten to pull the United States from its historic role as the world's top emergency donor. The conflict-fueled hunger crises in Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan have culminated in a trio of potential famines hitting almost simultaneously. "We are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations," Stephen O'Brien, the U.N. humanitarian chief, told the U.N. Security Council after a visit this month to Somalia and South Sudan.
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| iOS 10.3 Release: New Features, Updates To Apps Posted: 28 Mar 2017 07:18 AM PDT  The newest iOS, iOS 10.3, includes features to find your iPods, a new apple file system (apfs) and the ability to block some review popups.
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| 2 Homicide Detectives Shot in Their Car in 'Ambush-Style' Attack: Cops Posted: 28 Mar 2017 07:00 AM PDT  The two officers were conducting surveillance in an unmarked car when they were targeted, officials say.
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| Ivanka Trump And Jared Kushner Are Not Neighborhood Fans Posted: 28 Mar 2017 06:28 AM PDT  The family's Washington, D.C. neighborhood has complained about lingering trash, lack of parking availability and tight security.
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| S. Korea: bones found near ferry wreckage were from animals Posted: 28 Mar 2017 06:08 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Bones found near the wreckage of a South Korean ferry belonged to animals, not missing passengers from the ship's 2014 sinking in which 304 people died, the government announced Tuesday.
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