| Police say 2 Chicago officers shot in targeted attack Posted: 03 May 2017 01:05 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Two plain-clothes Chicago police officers were shot and wounded as they sat in an unmarked vehicle in what authorities are describing as a targeted attack on the city's South Side. A manhunt was underway Wednesday.
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| Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on controversial NY Times op-ed on climate change Posted: 03 May 2017 12:34 PM PDT  World-renowned astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke with Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga about the controversial NY Times op-ed calling climate change into question. Tyson said if the Times wants to represent another political view, it should involve political solutions.
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| Hulu with Live TV Offers Good Channels for a High Price Posted: 03 May 2017 12:17 PM PDT  The live TV streaming market just got a little more competitive, as Hulu today announced its own offering: Hulu with Live TV. While that price puts Hulu's Live TV in a tie for the most expensive starting price (both it and PlayStation Vue start at $40 per month), it offers a few more channels than PS Vue ("More than 45") and the recently-announced YouTube TV ($35 per month), which got slammed for what's not in its 40 channel assortment. Unfortunately, Hulu's package has one of the same flaws as YouTube TV's offerings: no Viacom networks (which include Comedy Central, MTV, BET and VH1).
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| Steve Bannon's to-do list revealed in White House photo with rabbi Posted: 03 May 2017 11:44 AM PDT  A rabbi posing with Steve Bannon may have revealed the White House chief strategist's to-do list. Mr Bannon posed for a photo with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach during the religious leader's visit to the White House on Israeli Independence Day. Posting the photograph on Twitter, the rabbi called Mr Bannon a "great, stalwart friend of the Jewish State".
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| Finnish brewery made 1,000-packs of beer and people are actually buying them Posted: 03 May 2017 11:24 AM PDT  Look at this 1,000 pack of beer, ye mighty, and despair: it's only available in Finland. Created by the Finnish brewery Nokian Panimo, this behemoth of a party pack actually contains 1,080 cans of Keisari, made by combining five stacks of beer, each 12 beers wide by 18 beers long according to GrubStreet. SEE ALSO: The world's smartest vending machine will be used to sell weed, of course Karjalan 100-päkki oli menestys, mutta uusi Keisari 1000-PÄKKI on jo tulossa! Ensimmäisille ostajille yksi Keisariämpäri kaupan päälle! #uutuus#keisari#nokianpanimo#olut#tarjous A post shared by Nokian Panimo (@nokianpanimo) on Apr 25, 2017 at 4:01am PDT This behemoth of a package is quite the monument to behold, and it was all constructed in the name of being petty. Rival beer Karjala released a 100-pack of beer last month which, obviously, now pales in comparison to this lifetime supply. A post shared by Nokian Panimo (@nokianpanimo) on Apr 28, 2017 at 12:31am PDT The 1,000 pack is being sold in Finnish supermarkets for €2,150 each, or about $2,345. That's a little more than $2 a beer, about the same bulk discount as your average 6 pack. That being said, the machismo of a 1,000 pack? Priceless. A post shared by Jonas (@jonas.from_hell) on May 2, 2017 at 2:27am PDT These things aren't exactly flying off the shelves (read: they were probably never expected to), presumably because any amount of beer that requires a pallet truck to transport seems like more effort than it's worth. Remarkably, there have been sightings of customers actually purchasing the entire packs. Man seen buying a 1000-pack of #beer in #Finland. https://t.co/FZiXB8UIBM pic.twitter.com/s8QL6euMC0 — Robin Ahlfors (@R0bquake) April 30, 2017 Splitting it three ways seems like the right move, tbh. Three guys bought the 1000-pack of beer pic.twitter.com/0Q6hdoQpDc — Mildly Interesting (@interest_mild) April 29, 2017 Now these beer lovers can be reminded of their love not only through, you know, drinking it but by the constant present of a nearly endless supply of Keisari, a beer we really hope they don't start to hate the taste of after a while. Grocery stores are starting to break down the packs into smaller packs as of May 1. WATCH: Someone staged military rationed food as Michelin-starred plates
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| Putin pushes Syria safe zone plan Posted: 03 May 2017 11:06 AM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday pushed a plan to set up safe zones in Syria that could see planes grounded but details remained hazy as a latest round of Kremlin-backed peace talks on the six-year war floundered. Putin held talks with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Black Sea resort of Sochi as Moscow floated the proposal to set up four "de-escalation zones" in the war-torn country at a fresh round of negotiations involving Syria's regime and rebels in Kazakhstan.
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| British PM, queen mark end of parliament before June vote Posted: 03 May 2017 10:48 AM PDT  British Prime Minister Theresa May visited Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday to mark the dissolution of parliament ahead of next month's surprise election. Lawmakers have already hit the campaign trail after parliamentary business finished on Thursday, but from now on are no longer MPs but candidates. The audience between May and the head of state at Buckingham Palace was purely symbolic.
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| Jordan Edwards: Texas police officer fired for shooting and killing black teenager Posted: 03 May 2017 10:29 AM PDT  The police officer who shot and killed a 15-year-old African American teenager in a car as he was leaving a party has been fired. Officer Roy Oliver shot high school freshman Jordan Edwards with a rifle as he sat in a car with his two brothers and two other teenagers while it drove away from a party on Saturday night. Balch Springs police chief Jonathan Haber said Mr Oliver has been fired for violating department policies in the shooting, but said he could not reveal further details of the policies as the officer can appeal his dismissal.
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| iPhone 8 Delayed Until 2018? Posted: 03 May 2017 10:08 AM PDT  Several reports have come out suggesting that Apple will be delaying the release of iPhone 8, while the iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus are on track to be out by September.
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| More than 50 miners trapped in explosion in Iran, some feared dead Posted: 03 May 2017 09:52 AM PDT  (Reuters) - More than 50 miners were trapped after a huge explosion in a coal mine in northern Iran on Wednesday, and some were feared to have died, state media reported. The reports said more than a dozen injured people had been transferred to hospital after the blast at 12:45 p.m. local time in the Zemestanyurt coal mine in Golestan province. State news agency IRNA quoted a local official as saying some of the trapped miners may have died in the explosion.
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| US tests intercontinental ballistic missile from California Posted: 03 May 2017 09:33 AM PDT  The US Air Force test-launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California early Wednesday, the military said. Air Force Global Strike Command spokesman Joe Thomas told AFP from California that the test was routine and not meant to be a show of force in the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile program. The Minuteman III missile blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 0702 GMT, the strike command said in a statement.
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| Workmen mining sulfur from a live volcano Posted: 03 May 2017 09:13 AM PDT ![Workmen mining sulfur from a live volcano]( "Workmen mining sulfur from a live volcano") Jobs do not get too much more dangerous than pulling sulfur straight out of an active volcano — and all for $5 a day. Photographer Troyce Hoffman, 30, accidentally stumbled upon the sulfur mine on Kawah Ijen, on the Indonesian island of Java, when checking out the active volcano.
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| More rain in the forecast adds to woes in flooded Midwest Posted: 03 May 2017 08:53 AM PDT  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Flooded areas of the Midwest are bracing for another round of heavy rain Wednesday, the last thing they need with rivers in several places at or near record levels.
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| Nigerian president misses cabinet meeting amid health fears Posted: 03 May 2017 08:33 AM PDT  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president missed his weekly cabinet meeting for the third straight time Wednesday as concerns mounted about his health, while his wife took to Twitter to defend him.
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| White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's daily briefing on May 2, 2017 Posted: 03 May 2017 08:24 AM PDT  On Tuesday, May 2, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily briefing with the White House pres corp.
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| Maybe Tim Cook should blame the iPhone 7’s three-year-old design for declining sales Posted: 03 May 2017 07:56 AM PDT 
Apple on Tuesday afternoon reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that were largely in line with expectations. Revenue climbed to $52.9 billion from $50.2 billion in the year-ago quarter, and net profit came in at $11 billion. Second-quarter guidance that missed analysts' consensus estimate was largely responsible for driving Apple shares down in after-hours trading, but another troubling line item offered some cause for concern: Sales of the iPhone, Apple's chief moneymaker, dropped to 50.76 million units from 51.2 million units in the same quarter last year. Chief executive Tim Cook was quick to blame the rumor mill for the continued slow-down in iPhone sales. Of course, there is no question that rumors of a completely redesigned iPhone 8 played a role in convincing some people to hold off on upgrading old iPhones. But there's also no question that something else is responsible in part for slowing iPhone sales, and we all know that something else is the iPhone 7. A narrative formed on gadget blogs ahead of Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus unveiling last September. Because the new iPhones featured a design that looked just like the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s, many bloggers labeled the phones "boring." Once the new phones were released, anyone who actually picked up a new iPhone 7 or 7 Plus and used it instantly knew it wasn't boring at all. But there's little question that people continued to judge these books by their covers following their launch. Apple took a chance when it decided to recycle the same iPhone design for a second year. Since the launch of the iPhone 3GS in 2009, Apple has trained its user base to expect a fresh new iPhone design every other year. Since 2015 was an "S" year, 2016's iPhone 7 should have offered users a new look and feel in addition to all the new features and upgrades. Instead, we got the same iPhone for a third consecutive year, but with a fresh coat of paint. Well, it turns out that a fresh coat of paint wasn't enough for some customers. "In general, what we are seeing, we're seeing what we believe to be a pause in purchases on iPhone, which we believe are due to the earlier and much more frequent reports about future iPhones," Cook said on Tuesday's earnings call. "And so that part is clearly going on and it could be what's behind the data. I don't know but we are seeing that in full transparency." Again, there is absolutely no question that the rumor mill shares the blame for the continued decline in Apple's iPhone business. The same can be said each and every year. The iPhone is the most beloved consumer electronics device in the world, and people want to know what's coming next. Details begin to leak more than a year before each new iPhone launches, and the iPhone 8 was no different. This time around, however, the details that have leaked so far paint a picture of an exciting new iPhone design made of glass and stainless steel with an OLED display, ultra-thin bezels, and a Touch ID fingerprint scanner embedded in the screen itself. Meanwhile, the latest iPhones sitting on store shelves look just like the iPhones from 2015, which look just like the iPhones from 2014. 50.76 million iPhones is a whole lot of iPhones. Apple earned $11 billion in profit last quarter. The company's cash stockpile grew to $256.8 billion — that's more than a quarter of a trillion dollars. It was a massive, massive quarter. But if you're going to attempt to explain away the continued slide in iPhone sales, not mentioning Apple's three-year-old iPhone 7 design is oblivious at best and disingenuous at worst.
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| Nigeria's Buhari fails to arrive for start of weekly cabinet meeting Posted: 03 May 2017 07:38 AM PDT ![Nigeria's Buhari fails to arrive for start of weekly cabinet meeting]( "Nigeria's Buhari fails to arrive for start of weekly cabinet meeting") Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to arrive for a weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday, a Reuters reporter at the start of the session said, his third consecutive absence. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo chaired the start of the session, which was open to the media, which had to leave after prayers were said and the national anthem played. Buhari has been resting after treatment of an unspecific illness.
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| Hillary Clinton blames FBI for defeat, but says she's coming back as 'part of the resistance' Posted: 03 May 2017 07:20 AM PDT  In the months following the election, Hillary Clinton was seen in forests, bookstores, and Broadway theaters — anywhere but in front of the microphone. On Tuesday, Clinton emerged to speak with CNN's Christiane Amanpour at a Women For Women International charity event in New York to give one of her most honest post-election interviews yet. She discussed her anxieties for the future (there are a lot of them) as well as her membership in "the resistance." SEE ALSO: Hillary Clinton reveals her favorite meme on the internet "I can't be anything other than who I am. I spent decades learning about what it would take to move our country forward, including for people who clearly didn't vote for me...I'm now back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance," Clinton said. Clinton said she took absolute "personal responsibility" for her flaws as a candidate. She acknowledged it wasn't a "perfect campaign" while simultaneously blaming James Comey and WikiLeaks for the electoral upset. "But I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey's letter on Oct. 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off," Clinton said. "And the evidence for that intervening event is, I think, compelling, persuasive." Clinton said her upcoming book will include a "request for absolution" as well as an admission of mistakes she made. "And remember," Clinton said. "I did win more than 3 million votes than my opponent." WATCH: This night light goes inside your toilet bowl because why not
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| Former U.S. ambassador to Syria recalls encounter with Assad Posted: 03 May 2017 07:03 AM PDT  Robert Ford, who has had diplomatic posts in Syria and Iraq, recalls surviving several violent attacks on embassies and a hostile encounter with Syrian leader Bashar Assad.
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| Nigeria's Buhari absent again from cabinet meeting Posted: 03 May 2017 06:27 AM PDT  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari failed to show up for a weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday, despite assurances from his wife that his health was not a cause for concern. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo chaired the meeting in the absence of the 74-year-old Buhari, who has now missed the last three gatherings of senior ministers and advisors. Buhari has been under growing pressure to disclose his state of health since he returned from the British capital in early March after nearly two months away.
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| World's 'oldest person' dies in Indonesia at 146: relatives Posted: 03 May 2017 06:09 AM PDT  An Indonesian man reported to be the world's oldest person died at the age of 146 this week, family members said on Tuesday. Sodimejo, who was known locally as Mbah Gotho, was born in December 1870, according to a government-issued ID card that media reports said had been verified by local officials in the Central Java town of Sragen. Indonesian media reported that Sodimejo was the world's oldest person, citing his identity papers.
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| Al-Qaeda claims it is ‘fighting alongside’ US-backed coalition forces in Yemen Posted: 03 May 2017 05:49 AM PDT  The leader of al-Qaeda's forces in Yemen has said his fighters have worked with government-allied factions in the civil war towards their common goal of ousting Houthi rebels. Qasim al-Rimi, who has led the branch of the global jihadist movement known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap) since his predecessor was killed in 2015, told the group's media arm al-Malahem on Sunday that his followers were de facto aligned with an array of forces in the complex conflict. While al-Rimi did not elaborate on what he meant by "alongside", many Sunni tribal militias, as well as the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood movement and conservative Salafis, are allied to the exiled Yemeni government fighting against Shia rebels known as Houthis who seized control of the capital Sanaa in 2014.
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| As U.S. and China find common ground on North Korea, is Russia the wild card? Posted: 03 May 2017 05:29 AM PDT  By James Pearson and Alexei Chernyshev SEOUL/VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent Lunar New Year greetings this year, the first card went to Russian President Vladimir Putin, ahead of leaders from China and other allies of the isolated country, according to its official news agency. Some academics who study North Korea argue Kim could be looking for Russia to ease any pain if China, which accounts for about 90 percent of North Korea's trade, steps up sanctions against the isolated country as part of moves to deter its nuclear and missile programs. U.S. President Donald Trump lavished praise on Chinese President Xi Jinping last week for Beijing's assistance in trying to rein in Pyongyang.
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| Apple's dilemma: what to do with $256 bn cash pile Posted: 03 May 2017 05:11 AM PDT  It is a sign of Apple's success but also a thorny problem: its cash stockpile has hit a staggering $256.8 billion, sparking debate on what do with such massive reserves. Apple's quarterly report on Tuesday showed its cash holdings -- the vast majority held overseas -- jumped to a sum that tops the entire economic output of Chile. Proposals by President Donald Trump and lawmakers could lower the tax rate for repatriated earnings, an incentive for Apple and others to put the money to work in the United States.
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| Russian election hacking 'wildly successful' in creating discord: former U.S. lawmaker Posted: 03 May 2017 04:50 AM PDT  Russia succeeded in its goals of sowing discord in U.S. politics by meddling in the 2016 presidential election, which will likely inspire similar future efforts, two top former U.S. voices on intelligence said on Tuesday. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers agreed at a panel at Harvard University that Russia likely believed it had achieved its goals and could attempt to repeat its performance in elections in other countries.
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