| The Latest: Sharpton tells funeral: 'Stop this madness' Posted: 29 Mar 2018 01:01 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Sacramento (all times local):
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| Two pilots flying different planes report seeing a UFO within minutes of each other Posted: 29 Mar 2018 10:51 AM PDT  Two pilots flying different aircraft above Arizona have reported close encounters with an unidentified flying object (UFO). ABC News obtained an audio clip of a conversation between the two pilots and the Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Centre. "OK, something did," says the pilot of the Learjet plane.
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| Teenager photographed hugging policeman during Ferguson protests feared dead after family car crash Posted: 29 Mar 2018 09:37 AM PDT  A teenager who gained international attention when he was photographed hugging an officer during protests against police racism is feared dead after his family's car plunged from a cliff. Authorities believe 15-year-old Devonte Hart was with his parents and four siblings when their vehicle drove off a California road and landed upturned on the rocks below. Friends described married couple Jennifer and Sarah Hart as loving parents, though neighbours recently contacted social services over concerns they were abusing their children.
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| Donald Trump Gets Brutally Mocked Over Latest White House Ousting Posted: 29 Mar 2018 08:41 AM PDT  The White House's revolving door spun once again on Wednesday.
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| Jeb Bush Takes Apparent Swipe At Donald Trump Over His Children's Love Posted: 29 Mar 2018 05:27 AM PDT  Jeb Bush appeared to mock President Donald Trump over his relationship with
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| Family of 8 Believed to Be Inside the SUV That Plunged off a California Cliff Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:22 AM PDT  The family's neighbors reported concerns about the six children last week
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| Massive solar power project will be 100 times larger than any in the world Posted: 29 Mar 2018 12:20 AM PDT  The world's biggest solar power project is coming to Saudi Arabia. And it comes with a high price tag: around $200 billion. The venture, a partnership between Saudi Arabia and Japanese tech giant SoftBank, was revealed Tuesday, according to Bloomberg. SEE ALSO: Tesla's bringing Powerwall batteries to 50,000 homes in Australia Expected to be completed by 2030, the project will reach a colossal capacity of 200 gigawatts, SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son told reporters. At 200 GW, the Saudi project would be approximately 100 times larger than the next proposed project, according to Bloomberg. That'd be Australia's proposed Solar Choice Bulli Creek PV Plant, which will have a capacity of 2GW. Currently, China's Tengger Desert Solar Park is considered the biggest solar farm in the world, with the capacity to produce 1,500 MW. Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud and Masayoshi Son sign a memorandum of understanding in New York on March 28.Image: Bandar Algaloud / Saudi Kingdom Council / Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesIt's a significant move for oil giant Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter of petroleum. This large-scale investment in solar power would reduce Saudi Arabia's reliance on oil, which is part of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 3030 plan to diversify the country's revenue sources. (He's long criticized Saudi Arabia's oil addiction.) According to Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia has a total power capacity of 77 GW (two-thirds natural gas, one third oil), which means 200GW would be way too much solar power for the country to use by itself. Hello, stored power exports. And that $200 billion? Seems a hefty sum, but it'll reportedly cover the solar panels and battery storage, along with a manufacturing plant to make said panels. The first $5 billion 7.2 GW phase will be driven by $1 billion from SoftBank's long-term investment Vision Fund, then the rest by what Son referred to as "project financing." The first of the two solar parks will begin construction this year, and will start rolling out electricity by 2019. WATCH: This artist is building solar lanterns so kids can study and play after dark
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| ‘Time to join the NRA.’ Calls to repeal the Second Amendment set off commenters Posted: 28 Mar 2018 06:52 PM PDT  "Everyone has an opinion, thankfully we have the constitution." "I can think of fewer things that would create a state of open rebellion in the United States." Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens's call for a repeal of the Second Amendment has Newsroom readers up in arms. In a New York Times op-ed piece, Stevens said March for Our Lives protesters asking for gun law reform should ask for more: "They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment." The vast majority of the thousands of Newsroom comments on the Yahoo News report show strong opposition: "I have never owned a gun in my life, but fully understand the importance of the Second Amendment." President Trump, meanwhile, completely dismissed Stevens's call to repeal, tweeting, "The Second Amendment will never be repealed!" The Second Amendment says: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Stevens called for the repeal in order to weaken the National Rifle Association. The NRA answered back with its own statement: "We will unapologetically continue to fight to protect this fundamental freedom." What do you think? Join the conversation in Newsroom.
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| How did what could be the largest human organ elude us until 2018? Posted: 28 Mar 2018 06:18 PM PDT  Back when he was a young student in medical school some 30 years ago, pathologist Neil Theise wasn't taught much about a common, widespread connective tissue in human bodies. Scientists assumed it was just a typical connective tissue, so they didn't look much further. "You see what you're prepared to see," Theise, now a pathologist at New York University's Langone Medical Center, said in an interview. Now, he knows differently. "It looks like it's connective tissue — but it's not." Theise and his research team published their findings in the journal Scientific Reports on Tuesday, revealing that this thin tissue — when alive — is a lattice-like mesh of fluid-filled bubbles. They've named it the "interstitium." And if this widespread anatomical feature is more widely proven by other scientists, it wouldn't just be one of the larger organs in the human body. According to Theise, it would be the largest. How could the interstitium have escaped notice for so long? These thin tissues surround our major organs, muscles, arteries, and veins. Even when alive and filled with fluid, they aren't easy to see. But new technology allowed Theise — who spends most of his days closely inspecting dead tissue samples on slides — to see this tissue in a new way. "Any time there's a new technology that allows you to look at tissue in a different way, you're gonna see things you didn't see before," said Theise. SEE ALSO: Trump's FDA chief challenges cigarette makers with giant nicotine cut An endoscope — a thin snake-like medical device that allows doctors to view the inside of a body — had been retooled to view tissues on a microscopic level. This enabled doctors to observe the tissues as they exist in actual flesh — not a slide. One day, while using the camera-probe, gastroenterologists inspecting a patient's bile duct for cancer stumbled upon a previously unknown feature: Mesh-like tissue filled with fluid. They showed Theise the curious images, who then put the flesh samples on biopsy slides. But when he looked at the now-dead tissue, the mesh-like patterns had disappeared; instead, he saw cracks in the tissue. "I was taught that these were tears," said Theise, referring to his medical school days. An illustration of the interstitium shown below a thin layer of skin.Image: Illustration by Jill Gregory/Printed with permission from Mount Sinai Health SystemUpon closer inspection, these weren't tears in hardened connective tissue. They were indeed cracks, reminiscent of where the fluid had been before the tissue dried out. When drained, the collapsed tissue now appeared as it had for decades before: As torn, flat, and common connective tissue. It's no wonder it had been overlooked. It couldn't be seen. This discovery of a previously unknown organ, however, doesn't come as a shock to those who research organs. "I'm not surprised," Khalil Bitar, the director of the Gastrointestinal Program at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, said in an interview. Bitar noted that the omentum, a membrane over the gut, had been known about for ages. But last year it had been upgraded to organ status. (It's unclear who gives final word on such a promotion. Even some anatomists scratch their heads on that one, but it's clear that a large consensus of scientists now consider the omentum an organ.) Until then, anatomists didn't fully recognize the importance and complexity of an anatomical feature that might have been easy to overlook. Even after its promotion, Bitar still called it a "flab." Is the interstitium really an organ? "Yes and no," said Bitar. No organ exists on its own, said Bitar. They're connected to each by channels and vessels, and Bitar thinks of the interstitium as one of these vital connections, similar to a major highway connecting important parts of a city. There's no doubt it serves an important purpose, he said, but is hesitant to endow full organ status upon the interstitium. Theise, however, is more certain that it's an organ. "It's everywhere," he said. At minimum, it appears to be a hugely widespread feature of our anatomy, like the nerves of our nervous system or blood vessels of our cardiovascular system. Microscopic images of the interstitium.Image: nature Scientific ReportsOur skin, while not shaped like what we might consider a traditional, vegetable-shaped internal organ, is considered an organ. And the interstitium certainly serves purposes — both known and hypothesized. "We already know that it functions as a shock absorber," said Theise, noting the fluid-filled tissue can absorb impacts. Although more research needs to be done, Theise speculates the interstitium holds around 20 percent of the water in our bodies. It's well known that about two-thirds of our bodies' water lives in our cells. That leaves a third that is extracellular (outside of our cells). Of this extracellular fluid, about a fourth is in our blood and a tiny amount in our spinal fluid. That leaves a lot left over — around 20 percent. "No one knew how to account for it," said Theise. And if all this water truly exists in this cavity-filled tissue, "It would make it the largest organ," said Theise. Why is a pathologist, who studies diseases, interested in the interstitium? These roomy tissues could be an easy place for cancerous tumors to invade, although there's still much research to be done on this potential disease process. "It's a wide open space," said Theise. "They act like a railroad for cells, to allow cells to move easily." Cancer often spreads, or becomes metastatic, by getting into the lymphatic system, where it can then travel around the body. "We could prove that this space flows into lymphatic channels," said Theise. If so, "we might get a therapeutic intervention," to stop the cancer before it can have a devastating effect. Bitar agrees. "If it provides access for cancer it provides access for potential treatments," Bitar said. "We can start tracking cancerous cells. We can develop some technologies for proactive treatment." It could be a good thing, then, that a curious Theise took a closer look at this overlooked tissue. "If you think you know everything, then there's nothing to see," he said. WATCH: MIT created this imposter robot fish to spy on sea creatures
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| Southern Baptist Leader Resigns Over 'Morally Inappropriate Relationship' Posted: 28 Mar 2018 03:12 PM PDT  A leading figure in America's largest Protestant denomination has resigned
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