| Qaeda claims suicide bombing in south Yemen Posted: 01 Apr 2017 01:40 PM PDT  Al-Qaeda on Friday claimed responsibility for a recent deadly attack on a government building in southern Yemen, which involved a suicide bombing. Al-Qaeda's Ansar al-Shariah arm in a statement identified the suicide bomber as Abu Amer al-Hadrami, saying he had rammed his explosives-laden car into the gate of the local government building in the provincial capital of Lahj on Monday. The online Al Qaeda statement acknowledged the death of three militants "who controlled the building for three hours" before being killed, in addition to Hadrami.
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| Colombia mudslides kill at least 112: president Posted: 01 Apr 2017 01:23 PM PDT  Mudslides have killed 112 people, injured 180 and left up to 200 missing after destroying homes in southern Colombia, the Red Cross and officials said Saturday. The surge swept away houses, bridges, vehicles and trees, leaving piles of wrecked timber and brown mud, army photographs from the town of Mocoa showed. President Juan Manuel Santos visited Mocoa, the capital of Putumayo department, on Saturday to supervise rescue and assistance efforts in the heavily forested region.
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| Woman who drove 3 slain in Oklahoma home invasion speaks out Posted: 01 Apr 2017 01:06 PM PDT  The woman who says she drove three teenagers to an Oklahoma home where they were fatally shot during a midday break-in told television reporters that she feels guilty, but not responsible for their deaths and that she has little compassion for the man who shot them.
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| Former Casey Anthony Attorney Takes New Case Posted: 01 Apr 2017 12:47 PM PDT  Ann Elizabeth Finnell agreed to represent Ronnie Hyde, a psychologist recently arrested for killing a teenager in 1994 and charged with 12 counts of child porn.
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| Venezuela court retreats on bid to boost president Posted: 01 Apr 2017 12:32 PM PDT  Venezuela's Supreme Court on Saturday abandoned measures to tighten President Nicolas Maduro's grip on power, which had drawn international condemnation and raised pressure on him as he clings to office. "Now is the time to obey the orders of your conscience," he said.
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| Trump defends Flynn immunity request amid Russia probe Posted: 01 Apr 2017 11:59 AM PDT  Donald Trump and Michael Flynn speak at a rally in Colorado in October. President Trump weighed in on retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's offer to testify before Congress in exchange for legal immunity, declaring that it's a reasonable request given the current political climate. On Friday morning, Trump accused the Democrats and mainstream media of being out for blood after Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election.
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| Over 100 killed in Colombia landslide Posted: 01 Apr 2017 11:42 AM PDT ![Over 100 killed in Colombia landslide]( "Over 100 killed in Colombia landslide") A landslide in Colombia's southwestern border province of Putumayo sent mud and debris crashing onto houses overnight, killing 112 people and injuring at least 120, officials said on Saturday.
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| Google Releases Android Wear 2.0 Despite Announcing Delay Posted: 01 Apr 2017 11:24 AM PDT  Just a day after announcing that it is delaying the release of Android Wear 2.0, Google is now rolling out the software update to more smartwatches.
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| Rainbow-painted pad on sale Posted: 01 Apr 2017 11:04 AM PDT ![Rainbow-painted pad on sale]( "Rainbow-painted pad on sale") A rainbow home that looks just like a painting has been listed for $499,000. Located at 556 S. Vista Oro in Palm Springs, Calif., the property is unique, to say the least. The eccentric 1937 Spanish home belongs to Carl Tookey and Gregg Featherston, who purchased the property when it was painted plain white.
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| Google, Amazon eye Toshiba's chip unit: report Posted: 01 Apr 2017 10:46 AM PDT  Google and Amazon joined a list of potential buyers eyeing Toshiba's lucrative memory chip business as the Japanese conglomerate seeks bidders to cover huge losses, a newspaper said Saturday. Toshiba has reportedly completed the first round of bidding for its prized memory chip business, seen as key for the cash-strapped company to turn itself around. Some 10 foreign companies and funds, including Google and Amazon, tendered bids, the mass-circulation Yomiuri Shimbun said, quoting unnamed sources.
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| Land Day clash in West Bank and more: March 30 in photos Posted: 01 Apr 2017 10:30 AM PDT ![Land Day clash in West Bank and more: March 30 in photos]( "Land Day clash in West Bank and more: March 30 in photos") A Palestinian demonstrator is detained by Israeli troops during a protest marking Land Day in the West Bank city of Hebron; An Israeli border police officer reacts during clashes with Palestinians at a protest marking Land Day in the West Bank village of Madama; and a peacock spreads its feathers at Dusit zoo in Bangkok.
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| Man Who Crashed Into Church Bus, Killing 13, Was Allegedly On His Phone: 'I'm Sorry. I Was Texting' Posted: 01 Apr 2017 10:12 AM PDT  The man remains hospitalized.
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| US Congress rolls back family planning funding protections Posted: 01 Apr 2017 09:36 AM PDT  US Republican lawmakers on Thursday successfully rolled back Obama-era rules protecting funding to clinics that offer abortion services, as Vice President Mike Pence broke a Senate tie on the contentious measure. The rules had prevented states from withholding certain federal money -- distributed under a "Title X" program that funds family planning clinics used in large measure by low-income Americans -- to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress, for years have sought to defund Planned Parenthood and other clinics that provide abortion.
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| China Southern profit soars as currency woes hit rivals Posted: 01 Apr 2017 08:59 AM PDT  Asia's biggest carrier China Southern Airlines on Friday posted a 35 percent leap in profit in 2016, but the slumping Chinese currency dented earnings for the rest of the country's "big three" carriers. Increasing demand is expected to propel China to overtake the United States within a few years as the world's biggest market for air travel in coming years. China Southern turned a profit of 5.04 billion yuan ($731 million) in the year, up 35.0 percent, capitalising on a continued boom in both domestic and overseas trips by Chinese travellers as the country's middle class swells.
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| Protester dies during clashes over Paraguay re-election Posted: 01 Apr 2017 08:41 AM PDT  By Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) - A protester was killed in Paraguay after a secret Senate vote for a constitutional amendment that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election sparked violent clashes and the country's Congress was stormed and set alight. Rodrigo Quintana, 25, was killed by a rubber bullet fired by police in the headquarters of the liberal youth activist group, the Paraguayan opposition said. On Saturday activists were arriving in Paraguay's capital Asuncion from the landlocked country's interior in a sign the violent protests that resulted in a fire in the first floor of Congress on Friday could continue.
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| Why Apple’s iPhone 8 might not be as sleek as the Galaxy S8 Posted: 01 Apr 2017 08:08 AM PDT 
The iPhone 8 will get its chance to shine soon enough, but the tech news cycle this past week was completely dominated by Samsung. This past Wednesday, the Korean-based tech giant officially unveiled the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus, two stunning devices that may actually give Apple's vaunted design team a run for its money. Both the S8 and S8 Plus boast impressive specs, but we can't help but focus on the eye-catching displays Samsung managed to engineer. Design wise, both devices feature minimal bezels which wrap around a curved and immersive Super AMOLED display. Appropriately, Samsung refers to the design as an "Infinity Display." In effect, Samsung managed to incorporate an incredible amount of screen real estate into a relatively compact form factor. As a point of reference, the S8 display is about 18% larger than the S7 display.
On the other end of the smartphone spectrum, Apple is expected to launch a brand new redesign of its own later this year with the iPhone 8. Apple's next-gen smartphone is said to feature an edge to edge OLED display, but one analyst believes that it still won't be able to match what Samsung managed to pull off with its S8 lineup. In a newly published research note (via The Street), JPMorgan analyst Rod Hall writes that while Apple's iPhone 8 design might closely resemble Samsung's S8 design, the display itself will be slightly less curved. "While Apple's new OLED form factor looks similar," Hall writes, "current indications are for less use of curved OLED which may result in a slightly less 'infinity' screen form factor." Notably, Hall's assessment aligns perfectly with a number of other reports we've seen spring up from the Apple rumor mill recently. Just two weeks ago, for example, the Nikkei Asian Review published a report claiming that the display on the iPhone 8 will feature a 'gentler curve' compared to Samsung's smartphone lineup. Having said that, the iPhone 8 may very well be the sleekest iPhone model we've seen yet, but it may not be able to match the "Infinity Display" Samsung wowed us with this week. Still, don't expect that to hamper iPhone 8 sales in the slightest. Remember that Apple hasn't changed the iPhone form factor in nearly three years, which is to say that the iPhone 8 will likely trigger the largest iPhone refresh cycle in history.
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| A 911 Call Log Offers Insight Into Sherri Papini's Past Posted: 01 Apr 2017 07:48 AM PDT  Despite the calls placed by Papini's family to police regarding their daughter in the early aughts, the calls don't provide leads in the California mom's case.
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| FBI releases 9/11 Pentagon photos Posted: 01 Apr 2017 07:33 AM PDT  Never-seen photographs from the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon released by the FBI this week show the massive devastation that faced first responders. Twenty-seven pictures from that day depict the crushed walls, blazing fires and eviscerated interiors of the seat of the US Department of Defense. The American Airlines jet that struck the Pentagon was one of four airliners hijacked by Al-Qaeda teams and used as weapons in the deadliest terror attack ever on US soil.
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| Hillary Clinton gives perhaps her most political speech since the election Posted: 01 Apr 2017 07:13 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton continued her return to public life with an appearance at Georgetown University's annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards for Advancing Women in Peace and Security. In her speech, she addressed women's vital role in international politics and peace-building efforts and even threw in a couple jabs toward our current administration.
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| There and back: Elon Musk's SpaceX makes history with epic rocket launch and landing Posted: 01 Apr 2017 06:56 AM PDT  SpaceX did it. For the first time in its history, the Elon Musk-founded spaceflight company has relaunched a previously flown Falcon 9 booster. Oh, and they landed it back on Earth again. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk's SpaceX is betting big on its rocket launch this week This rocket, which flew a payload to orbit in April 2016 for its first flight, launched at 6:27 p.m. ET, coming back in for its second landing on a drone ship in the ocean about 8.5 minutes later. This was the ninth successful rocket landing for SpaceX. "We just had an incredible day today," Musk said during a live broadcast of the launch. "The first reflight of an orbital class booster did its mission perfectly, dropped off the second stage, came back and landed on the drone ship, right in the bullseye. It is an amazing day I think for space as a whole for the space industry. It means you can fly and refly an orbit-class booster, which is the most expensive part of the rocket." And just to put the cherry on top of the rocket sundae, SpaceX also managed to recover the fairing housing the satellite after it was successfully deployed. This launch and landing marks a huge moment for SpaceX's business model and the private spaceflight industry as a whole. All of the company's plans for the future — including its big ambitions to fly humans to Mars one day — depend on driving down the cost of spaceflight by reusing rocket boosters for multiple launches. "If they're successful, it proves that they are able to reuse a rocket which is going to significantly lower their cost, which will allow them to be even more competitive than they are now," Bill Ostrove, an aerospace and defense industry analyst at Forecast International, said in an interview before launch. Falcon 9 first stage has landed on Of Course I Still Love You — world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket. — SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 30, 2017 Traditionally, rocket bodies are discarded after one use, but SpaceX has figured out a way to bring them back to Earth and refurbish them to fly multiple missions. By flying these rockets multiple times — and eventually only paying to refuel the boosters — Musk thinks his company can greatly drive down the cost of launching payloads and one day people to orbit. The rocket stage standing on the drone ship. Image: spacex A Falcon 9 rocket costs about $62 million total, but fuel is just a relatively small portion of that. "If one can figure out how to effectively reuse rockets just like airplanes, the cost of access to space will be reduced by as much as a factor of a hundred," Musk has said. "A fully reusable vehicle has never been done before. That really is the fundamental breakthrough needed to revolutionize access to space." In the time since this rocket's first flight in April 2016, SpaceX has refurbished and tested the booster, making sure that it was okay to fly another mission. This nearly year-long turnaround time isn't ideal. Eventually, SpaceX wants to figure out a quick way of turning boosters around and flying them again without much time sitting on the ground. Other companies are also aiming for reusability. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has landed its suborbital New Shepard rocket five times after five launches, and it plans to make its not-yet-built heavy lift rockets reusable in the future as well. UPDATE: March 30, 2017, 7:58 p.m. EDT This story was updated to include information about the payload fairing and its successful recovery. WATCH: Relive SpaceX's incredible daytime rocket landing with this video
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| British 'implacable' in support for Gibraltar: foreign minister Posted: 01 Apr 2017 06:24 AM PDT  British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said the United Kingdom would remain "implacable and rock-like" in its support for Gibraltar after the European Union offered Spain a right of veto over the territory's future relationship with the bloc. Often referred to as "The Rock", Gibraltar is a British overseas territory on the southern tip of Spain. Gibraltar's status after Britain leaves the EU is set to be one of the most contentious issues in complex exit talks expected to last years.
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| White House sounded out on Chicago’s federal funds to fight violence Posted: 01 Apr 2017 05:52 AM PDT  During the daily White House press briefing Friday, press secretary Sean Spicer responds to a question about whether, given Chicago's "sanctuary city" status President Trump would consider cutting the federal funds the city receives to help fight violence.
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| Comcast says it will not sell customer browsing histories Posted: 01 Apr 2017 05:00 AM PDT ![Comcast says it will not sell customer browsing histories]( "Comcast says it will not sell customer browsing histories") By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Comcast Corp said Friday it would not sell customers' individual internet browsing information, days after the U.S. Congress approved legislation reversing Obama administration era internet privacy rules. The bill would repeal regulations adopted in October by the Federal Communications Commission under the Obama administration requiring internet service providers to do more to protect customers' privacy than websites like Alphabet Inc's Google or Facebook Inc. The easing of restrictions has sparked growing anger on social media sites. "We do not sell our broadband customers' individual web browsing history. We did not do it before the FCC's rules were adopted, and we have no plans to do so," said Gerard Lewis, Comcast's chief privacy officer.
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| What happened before woman was stranded in desert near Grand Canyon: Part 1 Posted: 01 Apr 2017 04:07 AM PDT  For spring break, Amber VanHecke planned a trip alone to Carlsbad Caverns and then to Grand Canyon National Park.
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| Paraguayan rioters storm Congress over constitutional reform bill Posted: 01 Apr 2017 03:14 AM PDT  Furious protesters stormed Paraguay's legislature, ransacked lawmakers' offices and set fires after senators approved a law allowing the country's president to be re-elected. The unrest late on Friday left about 30 people injured, including three lawmakers, according to firefighters and an opposition senator. Right-wing President Horacio Cartes is seeking to reform the constitution to let him run for office again in an election in 2018 after his current term ends.
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