| Hillary Clinton says she didn't prepare concession speech because she was convinced she would win Posted: 15 Oct 2017 05:39 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton didn't prepare a concession speech during the US presidential election because she was convinced she would not lose, the former Secretary of State has admitted. Few people in American politics or media had predicted Ms Clinton's loss – Politico even called it "the biggest upset in US history". In fact, Ms Clinton said even Donald Trump sounded shocked when she called him to concede the next day.
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| Hidden Upside-Down Canyon Revealed on Underside of Antarctic Ice Posted: 15 Oct 2017 03:57 AM PDT  A mysterious world of upside-down canyons crisscrosses the underbelly of Antarctica's ice shelves. Now, research finds that some of these crevasses may contribute to both the thinning of the shelves and sea-level rise. A single canyon in the Dotson ice shelf in West Antarctica is responsible for dumping 4.4 billion short tons (4 billion metric tons) of freshwater into the Southern Ocean, according to Noel Gourmelen, a remote-sensing researcher at The University of Edinburgh.
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| 'Hell on Earth': California fire toll rises to 38 Posted: 15 Oct 2017 01:03 AM PDT  The death toll from California's raging wildfires rose to 38 on Saturday, with more than 10,000 firefighters battling 16 large blazes and 100,000 people evacuated, the state's fire service said. Around 335 square miles (864 square kilometers) of residential neighborhoods, forests and other property have been burned since Sunday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). Cal Fire later announced on its Twitter account that the death toll had risen from 35 in the morning to 38, with 20 of the fatalities occurring in Sonoma County alone, where more than 200 people are still missing.
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| Chili cheese dog pizza is the easiest dinner dish Posted: 15 Oct 2017 12:27 AM PDT  This chili cheese dog pizza recipe is the perfect at-home carnival food
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| Trump's Obamacare Sabotage Is Doing Real Damage To American Health Care Posted: 14 Oct 2017 11:16 PM PDT  That was the conclusion many health care industry officials and analysts had reached by week's end, following a pair of blows that President Donald Trump delivered to the Affordable Care Act ― and, indirectly, to the millions of people who buy private health insurance on their own.
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| Kurds, Iraqi forces in standoff as Baghdad sets deadline Posted: 14 Oct 2017 09:47 PM PDT  Thousands of Iraqi troops were locked in an armed standoff with Kurdish forces in the disputed oil-rich province of Kirkuk on Saturday as Washington scrambled to avert fighting between its allies in the war against the Islamic State group. The clock was ticking down to a 2:00 am Sunday (2300 GMT Saturday) deadline that the Kurds say Baghdad has set for their forces to surrender positions they took during the fightback against the jihadists over the past three years. Armoured vehicles bearing the Iraqi national flag were posted on the bank of a river on the southern outskirts of the city of Kirkuk, an AFP photographer reported.
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| Is Iran's Navy a Threat to America? Posted: 14 Oct 2017 09:02 PM PDT  Is Iran's Navy a Threat to America? Iran's naval forces are some of the smallest but most aggressive in the region. Decades of sanctions and embargoes have strangled the navy's attempts to modernize, leaving a smaller than expected naval force whose most intimidating features are homebrewed frigates, coastal missile batteries and swarms of fast, lightly armed fast-attack craft.
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| Police Change Timeline Of Las Vegas Mass Shooting Again Posted: 14 Oct 2017 07:02 PM PDT  The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has once again changed its timeline of the tragic mass shooting carried out by Stephen Paddock from a corner suite at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Oct. 1.
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| Evacuation deal for Syria's Raqa as city's capture nears Posted: 14 Oct 2017 05:14 PM PDT  Foreign and Syrian jihadists from the Islamic State group are to evacuate their former stronghold of Raqa, as US-backed forces near the capture of the city, a senior official said Saturday. Omar Alloush, a senior member of the local Raqa Civil Council, told AFP the deal would see IS fighters either turn themselves in or leave on buses, possibly to neighbouring Deir Ezzor province. The news of an evacuation of IS fighters came shortly after the US-led coalition backing the assault on the city announced a convoy would leave Raqa in a deal to minimise new civilian casualties.
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| Virginia police identify suspect fatally shot by officer Posted: 14 Oct 2017 04:35 PM PDT ![Virginia police identify suspect fatally shot by officer]( "Virginia police identify suspect fatally shot by officer") CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia have identified a man fatally shot by officers while fleeing from police after a reported sexual assault and robbery in the area.
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