| WikiLeaks offers CIA hacking tools to tech companies - Assange Posted: 09 Mar 2017 02:22 PM PST ![WikiLeaks offers CIA hacking tools to tech companies - Assange]( "WikiLeaks offers CIA hacking tools to tech companies - Assange") By Dustin Volz and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wikileaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools that it possesses so they can patch software flaws, founder Julian Assange said on Thursday, presenting Silicon Valley with a potential dilemma on how to deal with the anti-secrecy group. If the offer is legitimate, it would place technology companies in the unusual position of relying on Assange, a man believed by some U.S. officials and lawmakers to be an untrustworthy pawn of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to share cyber vulnerabilities stockpiled by a secretive U.S. spy agency. It was not clear how WikiLeaks intended to cooperate with the companies.
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| ‘It’s a free country’: White House reacts to ‘A Day Without a Woman’ strike Posted: 09 Mar 2017 02:03 PM PST  Press secretary Sean Spicer discussed the White House's reaction to the "A Day Without a Woman" protests taking place around the country at his daily briefing on Wednesday. Organizers said the protests were designed to highlight "the economic power and significance that women have" and raise awareness of "the economic injustices women and gender-nonconforming people continue to face." The organizers encouraged women to go on strike and "refrain from paid and unpaid work" as part of the protests, which were held on International Women's Day. Yahoo News asked Spicer about the protests at the briefing.
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| Here's How To Support Women On International Women's Day Posted: 09 Mar 2017 01:44 PM PST  These charities focused on women and girls around the world accept donations and volunteers for their programs.
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| Windstorm knocks out power to 1 million customers in Michigan Posted: 09 Mar 2017 01:24 PM PST ![Windstorm knocks out power to 1 million customers in Michigan]( "Windstorm knocks out power to 1 million customers in Michigan") (Reuters) - More than 1 million Michigan electric customers, including homes, schools and hospitals, were without power on Thursday after a windstorm caused the biggest outage in state history, utility companies said. Wind gusts of more than 60 miles per hour (97 km per hour) on Wednesday toppled trees and downed more than 4,000 power lines across the state, which has a population of about 10 million people, Detroit-based DTE Energy Co said. "This is a very unusual event ... the most significant weather event that we've had in DTE Energy's 100-year history," DTE Electric President and Chief Operating Officer Trevor Lauer said at a news conference on Thursday.
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| Illinois budget impasse increasingly hurts universities: Moody's Posted: 09 Mar 2017 01:03 PM PST ![Illinois budget impasse increasingly hurts universities: Moody's]( "Illinois budget impasse increasingly hurts universities: Moody's") Illinois' record-breaking budget impasse, which has led to sporadic funding for higher education, is increasingly pressuring the finances and competitiveness of state universities, Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday. The credit rating agency said the lack of complete state funding has forced schools to take "considerable steps," including cutting academic programs and raising tuition, in order to keep operating and preserve financial liquidity. "Material programing reductions and staffing cuts, while necessary to keep the state's public universities operational in the short-term, will further impair the universities' abilities to sustain their strategic competitiveness and attract students for the upcoming fall 2017 class," Moody's said in a report.
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| Florida City Is 'Happiest Community' in US for 2nd Year Posted: 09 Mar 2017 12:41 PM PST  The title of the nation's happiest community once again goes to the city of Naples, Florida, and its surrounding area, according to a new poll. Residents of the Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island metro area, which is on the southwestern coast of Florida, reported the highest scores on a Gallup-Healthways' survey of well-being, conducted in 2015 and 2016. The survey included people in 189 metro areas, and the scores were averaged over a two-year period.
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| Border Patrol 'tunnel rats' plug underground passages Posted: 09 Mar 2017 12:25 PM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — They are known in the U.S. Border Patrol as "tunnel rats" — agents who go in clandestine passages that have proliferated on the U.S.-Mexico border over the past 20 years to smuggle drugs.
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| Biggest Ukraine investor alarmed over coal blockade Posted: 09 Mar 2017 12:09 PM PST  The biggest foreign investor in Ukraine expressed alarm Thursday over a weeks-long blockade of railway lines for transporting coal between the separatist east and the rest of the ex-Soviet state. Global steel giant ArcelorMittal expressed concern over the stoppage and said its operations near the war zone had been affected by the "challenging situation". ArcelorMittal bills itself as the world's largest integrated steel and mining company.
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| Republican health plan clears first hurdles, fate uncertain Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:54 AM PST ![Republican health plan clears first hurdles, fate uncertain]( "Republican health plan clears first hurdles, fate uncertain") The Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system cleared its first hurdles in Congress on Thursday, but its chances for passage looked uncertain and top Republicans scrambled to bring disgruntled conservatives aboard. In the face of opposition by Democrats, healthcare providers and many conservatives, two House of Representatives committees approved the legislation that would undo much of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, moving it closer to a vote before the full House.
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| Syrian force a 'few weeks' from Raqqa, U.S. Marines deploy Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:36 AM PST ![Syrian force a 'few weeks' from Raqqa, U.S. Marines deploy]( "Syrian force a 'few weeks' from Raqqa, U.S. Marines deploy") By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Syrian forces said on Thursday they were closing in on Islamic State-held Raqqa and expected to reach the city outskirts in a few weeks, as a U.S. Marines artillery unit deployed to help the campaign. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a militia alliance including the Kurdish YPG, is the main U.S. partner in the war against Islamic State in Syria. Since November it has been working with the U.S.-led coalition to encircle Raqqa.
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| Scottish leader: 'Common sense' says 2018 independence vote Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:19 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — Scotland's pro-independence leader says the country could make a second bid for independence within 18 months to avoid being dragged out of the European Union with the rest of the United Kingdom.
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| Putin hosts Netanyahu for talks set to focus on Syria Posted: 09 Mar 2017 11:02 AM PST  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for talks focusing on the situation in Syria and Israeli concerns about the role of Iran and its proxies there.
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| America's political system: Who should check, who should balance? Posted: 09 Mar 2017 10:29 AM PST ![America's political system: Who should check, who should balance?]( "America's political system: Who should check, who should balance?") North Carolina's governor has called it an "ominous" and "partisan" power grab. Before the Democratic governor took office earlier this year, the Republican-led legislature stripped him of an array of powers. There, the executive branch – headed by successive president who have liberally used executive action to get things done and presided over an expanding range of federal agencies – has steadily eroded the power of Congress.
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| Tennessee bus driver indicted in crash that killed six children Posted: 09 Mar 2017 10:08 AM PST ![Tennessee bus driver indicted in crash that killed six children]( "Tennessee bus driver indicted in crash that killed six children") The indictment contained six counts of vehicular homicide against Johnthony Walker along with other criminal counts, according to a copy of the court papers posted on the website of the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Walker, 24, was arrested last year in connection with the Nov. 21 bus crash in Chattanooga. Walker's attorney could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.
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| US Marines deploy artillery battery to Syria Posted: 09 Mar 2017 09:50 AM PST  The United States has sent a Marine Corps artillery battery into Syria to help defeat the Islamic State group in Raqa, the capital of their supposed caliphate, a US official said. The official said troops from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit had deployed a battery of 155mm Howitzers to an outpost in Syria. The move marks a significant step for conventional US forces in Syria.
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| ‘Uh, no’: McConnell says Mexico won’t pay for Trump’s border wall Posted: 09 Mar 2017 09:32 AM PST  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked Thursday whether Mexico will pay for President Trump's planned wall along the United States' southern border — a promise Trump repeated countless times during his 2016 presidential campaign. While McConnell said he is in favor of "border security," the Kentucky Republican also suggested that in some places, a border wall "is probably not the best way to secure the border." Trump has said that due to natural barriers, his wall project would not need to be continuous.
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| Jon Huntsman Reportedly Offered Post as U.S. Ambassador to Russia Posted: 09 Mar 2017 09:10 AM PST  Taking on one of the toughest jobs in diplomacy.
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| Deaf Syrians learn the language of war Posted: 09 Mar 2017 08:50 AM PST  Twice raising the little finger represents "I" and placing a thumb on the index finger and the middle finger makes an "S" to signify ISIS, or the Islamic State jihadist group. At an NGO in Damascus, two young deaf Syrians, Bisher and Ryad, are working to create special sign language characters so thousands of Syrians like them can talk about the war that has ravaged their country for the past six years. To indicate the government, two fingers are placed on the palm, recalling the two stars on Syria's national flag.
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| ‘That energy is still here’: New Yorkers rally for ‘A Day Without a Woman’ strike Posted: 09 Mar 2017 08:35 AM PST  With the Plaza Hotel, which President Trump once owned, as a backdrop, a crowd gathered at the southeast corner of Central Park on Wednesday afternoon as part of the "A Day Without a Woman" strike. Set to coincide with International Women's Day, the protest was organized by the same team behind January's Women's March on Washington, a massive Saturday protest that coincided with many sister marches across the country and ultimately became the largest single-day demonstration in United States history. Wednesday's gathering was promoted as "a show of solidarity and revolutionary love," ahead of another rally in Manhattan's Washington Square Park on Wednesday evening, and the crowd, overwhelmingly female but otherwise diverse, was appropriately buoyant.
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| US review finds deliberate tax fraud at Caterpillar: report Posted: 09 Mar 2017 08:15 AM PST  A US government-commissioned review concluded Caterpillar intentionally committed tax and financial reporting fraud, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Federal agents last week raided the Illinois headquarters of the US industrial giant, which failed to account for $7.9 billion in overseas income for tax purposes, according to a report by Leslie Robinson, an accounting professor at Dartmouth College. Robinson said Caterpillar's actions were "deliberate" and "fraudulent rather than negligent," according to the newspaper.
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| Gatorpalooza: Hundreds of Alligators Photographed Congregating at Watering Hole Posted: 09 Mar 2017 07:59 AM PST  The photographer told InsideEdition.com that he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
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| Neanderthal used 'aspirin' for tooth pain: study Posted: 09 Mar 2017 07:42 AM PST  Nearly 50,000 years before the invention of penicillin, a young Neanderthal tormented by a dental abscess ate greenery containing a natural antibiotic and pain killer, analysis of his teeth revealed Wednesday. The male, who lived in El Sidron in what is now Spain, ate an antibiotic fungus called Penicillium and chewed on bits of poplar tree containing salicylic acid -- the active ingredient of modern-day aspirin, researchers said. The youngster's fossilised jawbone reveals the ravages of an abscess, and his dental plaque contained the remnants of an intestinal parasite that causes acute diarrhoea, "so clearly he was quite sick," they wrote in the journal Nature.
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| Police say terror suspect killed in gunbattle in north India Posted: 09 Mar 2017 07:26 AM PST  LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Police said Wednesday they had killed a man suspected of masterminding the bombing of a passenger train that injured eight people this week in India.
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| Tusk seen gathering 'overwhelming support' for top EU job Posted: 09 Mar 2017 07:06 AM PST  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders overwhelmingly came out in support of Donald Tusk to retain one of the bloc's top jobs Thursday, saying it was unlikely that strong opposition from his native Poland could block his appointment.
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| Tennessee Police Make Arrest In Nurse's Killing Posted: 09 Mar 2017 06:50 AM PST  Christopher Drew McLawhorn was arrested and charged with criminal homicide and especially aggravated burglary, Metro Police said Wednesday night.
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