| Two Miami police officers shot in ambush-style attack Posted: 29 Mar 2017 01:44 PM PDT  Two plainclothes police detectives in Miami were wounded when a group of men fired dozens of shots into their unmarked car Monday night in an ambush, the Miami-Dade Police Department said. Police apprehended several suspects early Tuesday and charges were pending, police spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta said by phone. The attack on the detectives occurred as they conducted surveillance for gang activity outside an apartment complex in northwestern Miami, police said in a news release.
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| Woman strikes police cruiser near the U.S. Capitol Posted: 29 Mar 2017 01:26 PM PDT ![Woman strikes police cruiser near the U.S. Capitol]( "Woman strikes police cruiser near the U.S. Capitol") A woman described as "erratic and aggressive" drove a vehicle into a U.S. Capitol Police cruiser near the Capitol on Wednesday morning and was taken into custody, police said. As police attempted to stop her, she made a U-turn and fled, nearly striking officers and striking at least one other vehicle, Malecki said.
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| Spicer calls on reporter April Ryan first following harsh exchange Posted: 29 Mar 2017 01:08 PM PDT  Press secretary Sean Spicer told April Ryan to "stop shaking her head" at Tuesday's press briefing. He made a point to call on her first the following day.
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| Trump promises deal on health care will be done 'quickly' and 'easily' Posted: 29 Mar 2017 12:52 PM PDT  Despite the defeat of the American Health Care Act, President Trump told senators Tuesday night that he's "going to make a deal on health care." He promised that it will be done "quickly" and "easily."
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| Trump White House a Poor Source for Facts Posted: 29 Mar 2017 12:37 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow looks at the facility with which the Donald Trump White House lied about their desire to produce a military spectacle as part of the inauguration ceremony.
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| Gorsuch confirmation set for next Friday, filibuster drama likely Posted: 29 Mar 2017 12:20 PM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's latest statement that Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court nomination will be confirmed on Friday, April 7, has set the battle lines for next week's confirmation fight.
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| How to Make Strawberry-Rhubarb Ginger-Chia Jam Posted: 29 Mar 2017 12:02 PM PDT  This recipe takes less than 15 minutes to make, and the final product is a jam perfect to spread on toast, a nut butter sandwich, or healthy muffins.
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| Ex-Christie aides to be sentenced in New Jersey bridge case Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:44 AM PDT  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two former aides to Gov. Chris Christie will be sentenced Wednesday for their roles in the 2013 George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal, the closing chapter of a traffic jam that sank the Republican's presidential aspirations.
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| Brain implant lets paralyzed man feed himself using his thoughts Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:28 AM PDT  By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - A paralyzed man in Cleveland fed himself mashed potatoes for the first time in eight years, aided by a computer-brain interface that reads his thoughts and sends signals to move muscles in his arm, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. The research, published in the journal Lancet, is the latest from BrainGate, a consortium of researchers testing brain-computer interface technology designed to give paralyzed individuals more mobility. Prior tests of the technology allowed paralyzed people to move a robotic arm or a cursor on a keyboard just by using their thoughts.
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| Sean Spicer knocks critics of his ‘spirited back-and-forth’ with April Ryan Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:09 AM PDT  A day after scolding journalist April Ryan during his daily briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said criticism of the now-viral exchange is "demeaning" — to her.
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| Sean Spicer to reporter April Ryan: 'Stop shaking your head' Posted: 29 Mar 2017 10:54 AM PDT  "The View" co-hosts discuss how the president's press secretary responded to a reporter this week at a briefing.
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| Holocaust survivor to ICE director, California sheriff: ‘History is not on your side’ Posted: 29 Mar 2017 10:20 AM PDT  An Auschwitz survivor confronted one of the nation's top immigration officials and a local sheriff at a California town hall Tuesday night. Bernard Marks, 87, addressed Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan and Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones, a supporter of President Trump. Jones had invited Homan to the public forum to discuss address the community's concerns about ICE's collaboration with local law enforcement.
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| US denies loosening rules for avoiding civilian casualties Posted: 29 Mar 2017 10:02 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. airstrikes probably played a role in the deaths of dozens of civilians in Mosul earlier this month, U.S. and Iraqi military officials acknowledged Tuesday, but they denied the rules for avoiding civilian casualties have been loosened despite a recent spike in civilian casualties.
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| Hong Kong-style waffles make their way to American weddings Posted: 29 Mar 2017 09:29 AM PDT  ABC News' Charli James discovers a new sweet treat taking weddings and social media by storm.
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| Activists who filmed Planned Parenthood workers charged in California Posted: 29 Mar 2017 09:09 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Two anti-abortion activists were charged in California with filming Planned Parenthood workers without their consent while the pair posed as representatives of a fake company seeking to buy fetal tissue, prosecutors said. David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were charged with 15 felonies on Tuesday on suspicion of illegally filming the healthcare workers in Los Angeles, San Francisco and El Dorado counties from October 2013 to July 2015, State Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement. "The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California's Constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society," Becerra said.
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| 2017 Audi S6 Posted: 29 Mar 2017 08:51 AM PDT  Drama free and wickedly quick.
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| Mobs attack Africans in India after a local boy went missing Posted: 29 Mar 2017 08:32 AM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — Mobs have repeatedly attacked Africans in a New Delhi suburb in recent days after rumors that a local boy had been kidnapped by Nigerians.
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| How to make $10,000 traveling the world and staying in luxury homes Posted: 29 Mar 2017 08:14 AM PDT  It's the final stretch for a competition that comes with a $10,000 jackpot and the chance to travel the world and stay in million-dollar luxury vacation homes around the world.
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| Daimler accelerates electric car program Posted: 29 Mar 2017 07:56 AM PDT  Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler is accelerating its electric car program, it said on Wednesday after announcing that it had failed to cut fleet emissions in Europe for the first time since 2007. Daimler put its emissions numbers down to customers increasing preference for sports utility vehicles (SUVs), which tend to be more polluting than sedans, making it more difficult for carmakers to hit a European target for each new car to produce no more than 95 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer by 2020. The company said it expects Mercedes-Benz Cars to bring more than 10 new electric cars to market by 2022 through 10 billion euros ($10.8 billion) of investment, having previously aimed to achieve the target by 2025.
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| 3 Iraqis living in US accused of hiding ties to kidnapper Posted: 29 Mar 2017 07:38 AM PDT ![3 Iraqis living in US accused of hiding ties to kidnapper]( "3 Iraqis living in US accused of hiding ties to kidnapper") ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Adil Hasan and his wife, Enas Ibrahim, came to the U.S. in 2008 as refugees from Iraq, and have been living peacefully in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., ever since.
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| Toshiba says Westinghouse had $9.8 billion in liabilities as of end Dec Posted: 29 Mar 2017 07:02 AM PDT  Toshiba Corp on Wednesday said its U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse Electric Co filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with $9.8 billion in liabilities as of the end of December. The Japanese conglomerate said Westinghouse would be off its consolidated books as of the end of this month. Toshiba said its own net loss for this fiscal year could reach 1 trillion yen ($9.00 billion), versus its previous estimate of 390 billion yen.
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| Supreme Court nominee to face confirmation vote April 7: Senate leader Posted: 29 Mar 2017 06:46 AM PDT ![Supreme Court nominee to face confirmation vote April 7: Senate leader]( "Supreme Court nominee to face confirmation vote April 7: Senate leader") By Lawrence Hurley and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that the Senate would have a final vote on April 7 on President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, even as more Democrats opposed his confirmation The Gorsuch nomination, McConnell told reporters, will hit the Senate floor next week after the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday approves him. McConnell added that Gorsuch will be "confirmed on Friday" of next week.
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| Three storm cashers killed in car crash in Texas Posted: 29 Mar 2017 06:26 AM PDT  Cars collided as the men were tracking a powerful storm system
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| Trump's climate order puts 'China first' in clean energy Posted: 29 Mar 2017 06:09 AM PDT  President Donald Trump is vowing to put "America First" — just not when it comes to the global clean energy race. The president on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order that experts say could leave the United States lagging behind China and other nations as manufacturers and investors throw trillions of dollars into renewable energy projects. The order will start unraveling the Obama administration's key efforts to address climate change. Flanked by coal miners and cabinet officials, Trump vowed to revamp fossil fuel production and erase "job-killing" restrictions on power plants and pipelines. SEE ALSO: Looking for hope on climate change under Trump? Cities are where the action is. "Together we are going to start a new energy revolution," Trump said, after outlining his plan that favors centuries-old fuel sources: coal, oil and natural gas. He declined to mention any type of renewable energy, or acknowledge the existence of human-driven global warming. President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence (left) and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. Image: ron sach-pool/Getty Images "We will create millions of good American jobs, so many energy jobs, and really lead to unbelievable prosperity all throughout our country," the president claimed. Trump's executive order kicks off a lengthy process to undo the Clean Power Plan, which curbs carbon emissions from the electricity sector. It also lifts a moratorium on the sale of new coal leases on federally owned land, and it scraps mandates for reducing leaks of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — at oil and gas well sites. While the U.S. chases fossil fuels, however, China is aggressively rolling out solar plants, wind farms, electric vehicles and other low-carbon technologies. As the world's most populous nation — and the No. 1 emitter of greenhouse gases — China is particularly poised to fill the leadership vacuum that Trump created this week, energy experts said. Image: REN21 "China sees a strong economic interest in making this transition with regards to air pollution, but also it wants to build an industrial base for clean energy technologies that can dominate the world market," said Paul Bodnar, who oversaw international climate issues at the National Security Council during the Obama administration's second term. "Chinese leadership is pretty confident this is a long-term, irreversible trajectory toward clean energy, and it creates a big market opportunity that they want to capture," he said. China's energy agency in January said it would invest 2.5 trillion yuan, or $361 billion, in clean electricity projects by 2020 as part of a broader effort to shift away from coal-fired power plants. A technician from Yingli Solar prepares solar cells in Hebei Province, China. Image: kevin frayer/Getty Images Although coal has helped drive China's manufacturing growth in the past decade, the facilities have also created a slew of public health crises, including dangerous smog and toxic water pollution. China is now shuttering coal plants near Beijing and has scrapped plans for new ones. China's National Energy Administration said about half the country's new electricity generation will come from installed solar, wind, hydropower and nuclear projects by 2020 — an effort that should create more than 13 million jobs in the sector. The United States has also made substantial strides on clean energy, thanks to a wide mix of federal and state policies, private sector investment, and broader market forces — namely the plunging price of natural gas and falling technology costs for solar and wind power. China is doubling down on clean energy, while the Trump administration is eyeing coal. Image: kevin frayer/Getty Images In 2015, the U.S. public and private sectors together committed $44.1 billion to the sector. Only China invested more in clean energy, committing $103 billion to renewables that year, according to annual global estimates. U.S. clean energy jobs have also ticked up. Last year, the nation's solar power workforce grew by 25 percent, to about 374,000 people, compared to 2015, the Department of Energy reported in January. Wind industry employment rose by 32 percent, to 102,000 jobs. Overall, "low carbon emission" sectors employed about 800,000 workers last year, while 1.1 million people worked in the traditional coal, oil and natural gas industries, the department said. Image: U.S. Energy information administration This clean energy progress can still continue under the Trump administration. But the pace could be substantially slower — particularly when compared to renewables-hungry nations like China. "The U.S. power sector is getting cleaner every year, thanks partly to state and federal policies, but largely to market forces that the Clean Power Plan is designed to accelerate," Bob Perciasepe, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, via email. "Withdrawing federal leadership will only jeopardize this promising clean energy transition and the jobs that go with it." WATCH: China's big, beautiful, green 'vertical forests' will suck up toxic smog
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| Toshiba approves bankruptcy for US atomic unit: report Posted: 29 Mar 2017 05:35 AM PDT  Toshiba has approved a plan to place its US nuclear unit in bankruptcy protection, a report said Wednesday, as the troubled division wrestles with multi-billion-losses and accounting fraud claims. Japan's Nikkei business daily said Toshiba's board gave Westinghouse Electric the green light to make a Chapter 11 filing in a US court, which temporarily shelters struggling firms as they try to restructure their affairs and outstanding debts. Toshiba, a pillar of corporate Japan and one of its best-known brands overseas, declined to comment on the report.
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