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• 'Squat Your Dog Challenge': Can You Really Lose Pounds With Your Hound?
• Donald Trump accuses Qatar of funding terrorism 'at very high level'
• The Latest: Defense rests in Minnesota officer's trial
• Japan enacts law allowing Emperor Akihito, 83, to abdicate
• Journal entry before bus crash: 'God has called me here'
• Teen who took life in texting case studied suicide methods
• Arab states in row with Qatar laud Trump's supportive stance
• US forces back Philippine troops in Islamist held city
• US spy planes help Philippine troops quell siege
• Elon Musk goes full Trump to defend Tesla’s fake founding myth
• WTO says US failed to fully comply in Boeing subsidies dispute

'Squat Your Dog Challenge': Can You Really Lose Pounds With Your Hound? Posted: 10 Jun 2017 01:45 PM PDT It's a workout that has gone to the dogs. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Donald Trump accuses Qatar of funding terrorism 'at very high level' Posted: 10 Jun 2017 01:27 PM PDT Donald Trump has accused Qatar of funding terrorism at a "very high level", and says that the world wants the small country to rejoin "the unity of responsible nations" in bringing about "the beginning of the end" of the global threat. Several countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia, have imposed a diplomatic blockade on Qatar, and have said that the nation needs to meet several demands – including ending alleged support for terrorism – before it can restart diplomatic ties. "The nation of Qatar has unfortunately been a funder of terrorism, and at a very high level", Mr Trump said during an appearance alongside the President of Romania – Klaus Iohannis – at the White House. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Latest: Defense rests in Minnesota officer's trial Posted: 10 Jun 2017 01:10 PM PDT ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Latest in the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black motorist during a traffic stop (all times local): This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Japan enacts law allowing Emperor Akihito, 83, to abdicate Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:52 PM PDT TOKYO (AP) — Japan's parliament on Friday passed a law allowing Emperor Akihito to become the country's first monarch to abdicate in 200 years, but put off a debate over how to tackle the shrinking royal population and whether to allow women to ascend the throne. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Journal entry before bus crash: 'God has called me here' Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:18 PM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — Hours before a 17-year-old Alabama girl was killed in a bus crash, she wrote a final journal entry about her mission trip to Africa: "God has called me here and he's done so for a reason." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Teen who took life in texting case studied suicide methods Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:01 PM PDT TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts teenager prosecutors say was coaxed by text messages from his girlfriend into killing himself had researched suicide online, a defense witness testified Friday. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Arab states in row with Qatar laud Trump's supportive stance Posted: 10 Jun 2017 11:27 AM PDT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Arab states that have laid virtual siege on Qatar praised U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday for enthusiastically supporting their stance when he called on the Gulf state to stop "the funding of terrorism." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

US forces back Philippine troops in Islamist held city Posted: 10 Jun 2017 10:54 AM PDT United States special forces are providing support to the Philippine military battling to dislodge Islamist militants in a southern city, the US embassy said Saturday, as 13 Filipino marines were killed in fresh fighting. Philippine troops are struggling to defeat hundreds of fighters, who rampaged through Marawi on May 23 flying black flags of the Islamic State group, and have used bomb-proof tunnels, anti-tank weapons and civilians as human shields to fortify their positions. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

US spy planes help Philippine troops quell siege Posted: 10 Jun 2017 10:18 AM PDT ILIGAN, Philippines (AP) — American spy planes are helping Filipino troops quell a nearly three-week siege by Muslim militants in a southern city where 13 Philippine marines were killed in the biggest single-day loss for government forces, officials said Saturday. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Elon Musk goes full Trump to defend Tesla’s fake founding myth Posted: 09 Jun 2017 01:56 PM PDT With Tesla doing so well these days, it's sometimes difficult to remember where the company was at 10 years ago. Elon Musk and Tesla have become as one in the minds of the public, but the quiet truth is that Musk wasn't a founder of Tesla in a technical sense. Malcolm Smith and Martin Eberhard were the two Silicon Valley engineers who first came up with the idea of building an electric car that didn't suck. They came up with the name, the car concept, and founded the company. Musk came on board as an early investor and eventually took over in 2008 as CEO, but that's not the story that Musk wants to be remembered. In a seemingly unprompted move, Musk took to Twitter today to rehash Tesla's origins story: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/873117697420034048 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/873121068172460035 What Musk is talking about is GM's failed EV-1 program. In the early 2000s, GM made an all-electric car with the battery tech available at the time -- basically high-performance versions of regular 12V car batteries. The cars worked but barely sold, and GM quickly realized that it didn't want to maintain the complicated vehicles long-term. The cars were only ever leased, not sold, which meant that GM could (and did) repossess the cars from buyers. It's a nice story, but it also doesn't have much to do with Tesla. The inspiration for the founding of Tesla and the development of the Roadster, as told by the co-founders of Tesla in an interview years ago, was the desire to build a non-sucky electric car based on technology developed by a startup called AC Propulsions. Smith and Eberhard started Tesla, and intended to take the tech from AC Propulsions (which had a working prototype of the drivetrain and battery systems necessary to build the Roadster), marry it with a chassis and body based on the Lotus Elise, and sell it for $100,000. Musk liked the idea and came on board as the lead investor, but according to every record apart from Musk's Twitter, GM wasn't the inspiration, and Musk wasn't a founder. Eberhard's departure from Tesla, eventually to be replaced by Musk, is a well-documented and bitter fight that ended in lawsuits. Details about exactly what happened are still murky, but there's enough evidence on the public record -- including a bunch of documents that list Musk as the Chairman, rather than Co-Founder -- that it's weird that Musk feels the need to re-litigate the issue on Twitter with a bunch of false claims. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

WTO says US failed to fully comply in Boeing subsidies dispute Posted: 09 Jun 2017 01:39 PM PDT The World Trade Organization said Friday the United States had not fully complied with a 2012 ruling ordering it to halt subsidies to Boeing, in a partial victory for rival aircraft maker Airbus and the EU. The ruling from a WTO panel was the latest blow in the decade-long clash between the titans of the civil aircraft industry, which has seen both Airbus and Boeing score points along the way. The WTO ruled in March 2012 that billions of dollars of subsidies to Boeing were illegal and notified the United States to bring them to an end. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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