| The 10 Best Netflix Original Shows Of 2017 Posted: 06 Dec 2017 08:06 AM PST  Netflix debuted over 1,000 hours of original content in 2017.
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| US to study legality of bump stocks used in Las Vegas massacre Posted: 06 Dec 2017 07:28 AM PST  The US Justice Department announced Tuesday that it is reviewing the legality of "bump stocks," two months after a man shot down 58 concert-goers from a Las Vegas hotel window using the devices. The Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives -- which regulates firearms but not gun accessories -- will determine whether the devices, which make a semi-automatic weapon perform like an automatic weapon, are illegal. "Possessing firearm parts that are used exclusively in converting a weapon into a machine gun is illegal, except for certain limited circumstances," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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| U.N. pushing sharp increase in migrant returns from Libya Posted: 06 Dec 2017 06:09 AM PST  By Aidan Lewis TUNIS (Reuters) - The United Nations migration agency is stepping up the rate at which it flies migrants home from Libya, aiming to evacuate up to 15,000 in the final month of the year. The acceleration of returns is an attempt to ease severe overcrowding in detention centers, where numbers swelled after boat departures for Italy from the smuggling hub of Sabratha were largely blocked this year. It also followed a CNN report showing migrants being sold for slave labor in Libya, sparking an international outcry and calls for migrants to be given safe passage from the country.
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| Woman Suspected of DUI Dances on Car, Tries to Flee on Kid's Scooter: Police Posted: 06 Dec 2017 04:39 AM PST  The driver, identified as 27-year-old Sabra Bewley, was acting erratically and dancing atop her SUV before trying to make a getaway on a kid's scooter, police said.
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| Seattle police chief to step down after guiding reforms Posted: 06 Dec 2017 02:23 AM PST  SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole, who helped reform the department after federal officials found officers were too quick to use force against minorities, will step down at the end of the year, the mayor said Monday.
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| The Latest: California wildfire hops highway, nears ocean Posted: 06 Dec 2017 12:18 AM PST  SANTA PAULA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires in Southern California (all times local):
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| Mike Pence's wife Karen 'finds Donald Trump totally vile' Posted: 05 Dec 2017 10:15 PM PST  Vice President Mike Pence's wife, Karen, thinks Donald Trump is "totally vile," a former campaign aide has claimed. Ms Pence revealed her true feelings about Mr Trump just after the Access Hollywood tape was released, the Atlantic reports. The bombshell video, released one month before election day, showed Mr Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women before an appearance on the NBC TV show.
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| Trump shuns warnings, vows to move embassy to Jerusalem Posted: 05 Dec 2017 08:28 PM PST  President Donald Trump faced down warnings of widespread Middle East unrest and untold damage to the peace process Tuesday, telling anxious Arab leaders he still intends to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. Amid a frantic round of telephone diplomacy, Trump told Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah that the deeply controversial move was coming, but crucially did not give a timeframe. Trump "informed the president (Abbas) on his intention to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem," the Palestinian leader's office said in a statement that was echoed in Amman.
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| Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in Afghanistan: officials Posted: 05 Dec 2017 07:14 PM PST  A senior Al-Qaeda leader on the Indian subcontinent and the head of the Taliban's "special forces" in southern Helmand have been killed in recent days in Afghanistan, Afghan and US forces said Tuesday. According to Afghan intelligence services, and a spokesman for US forces in Kabul, "Omar Khetab, number two in the al-Qaeda network for the Indian subcontinent" was killed on Monday. "He was directly involved in fighting against the Afghan government and foreign troops and had a role in advising in the use of heavy weapons such as rockets, mortars and training for Taliban night attacks," the US command's statement added.
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| Lawyers sue California because too many children can't read Posted: 05 Dec 2017 06:41 PM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A group of prominent lawyers representing teachers and students from poor performing schools sued California on Tuesday, arguing that the state has done nothing about a high number of schoolchildren who do not know how to read.
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