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'Today' Show Gets First Female Executive Producer During Key Hours
Blessing of the animals on St. Anthony's Day
McCain rips Trump over threatened 'Fake News Awards': 'Stop attacking the press'
Man Deported After 30 Years In America: It Wasn't My Choice To Come
‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Director James Gunn Offers $100,000 If Trump Will Step On A Scale
Glowing red lava causes more to flee from Philippine volcano
Bannon testifies before House committee probing Russia campaign links
Hackers Messaged Donald Trump With Former Fox News Hosts' Twitter Accounts
Zinke Pushes Two-Thirds Of National Park Service Advisory Panel To Resign
Mormon Church Confirms New Leader In Live Broadcast

'Today' Show Gets First Female Executive Producer During Key Hours

Posted: 17 Jan 2018 11:53 AM PST

In the wake of Matt Lauer's ouster from the "Today" show, it appears women are taking over.

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Blessing of the animals on St. Anthony's Day

Posted: 17 Jan 2018 11:02 AM PST

The feast of St. Anthony, Spain's patron saint of animals, is celebrated each year. On the eve of St. Anthony's Day, riders guide their horses through a bonfire in the village of San Bartolome de Pinares as part of the Luminarias ritual in honor of St. Anthony the Abbot.

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McCain rips Trump over threatened 'Fake News Awards': 'Stop attacking the press'

Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:21 AM PST

U.S. Senator John McCain wants President Trump to stop attacking the American free press.

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Man Deported After 30 Years In America: It Wasn't My Choice To Come

Posted: 17 Jan 2018 07:14 AM PST

Jorge Garcia, the man who had lived in the U.S. for 30 years and was deported to Mexico this week despite having no criminal record, wishes the Trump administration was willing to look at immigration cases individually.

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‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Director James Gunn Offers $100,000 If Trump Will Step On A Scale

Posted: 17 Jan 2018 05:49 AM PST

Gunn's unusual proposition came hours after White House doctor Ronny Jackson said on Tuesday that the president was 6′3″ and weighed 239 pounds, or one pound shy of the level that would be considered obese. The filmmaker and other Trump critics didn't buy it. Mocking Trump's involvement in the debunked "birther" conspiracy theory that claimed President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, Twitter users created the #Girther hashtag to question Jackson's claims.

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Glowing red lava causes more to flee from Philippine volcano

Posted: 17 Jan 2018 03:25 AM PST

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Glowing-red lava spurted in a fountain and flowed down the Philippines' most active volcano on Tuesday in a stunning display of its fury that has sent more than 34,000 villagers fleeing to safety and prompted police to set up checkpoints to stop tourists from getting too close.

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Bannon testifies before House committee probing Russia campaign links

Posted: 17 Jan 2018 02:36 AM PST

Steve Bannon faced a marathon grilling Tuesday by a congressional committee probing Donald Trump's campaign links to Russia, as it emerged the former top aide has also been subpoenaed by the special prosecutor investigating the issue. Bannon was quizzed behind closed doors by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, the first time he has testified in the probe investigating whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in its bid to influence the 2016 US elections.

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Hackers Messaged Donald Trump With Former Fox News Hosts' Twitter Accounts

Posted: 16 Jan 2018 11:07 PM PST

The Twitter accounts of two former Fox News hosts were hacked on Tuesday, resulting in both of their feeds being filled with Turkish propaganda supporting the country's controversial president.

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Zinke Pushes Two-Thirds Of National Park Service Advisory Panel To Resign

Posted: 16 Jan 2018 09:42 PM PST

Most of the members of the National Park Service Advisory Board have tendered their resignation over frustrations with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, The Washington Post reports.