| Trump spooked Pentagon with almost-sent tweet on N.Korea: Woodward Posted: 09 Sep 2018 11:47 AM PDT  US President Donald Trump spooked the Pentagon leadership with a tweet that -- had it been sent -- North Korea would have read as a sign of an imminent US attack, journalist Bob Woodward said in an interview that aired Sunday. Woodward, whose new book "Fear: Trump in the White House" hits book stores on Tuesday, described the incident in the interview with CBS as the most dangerous moment of Trump's nuclear standoff with North Korea. "He drafts a tweet saying 'We are going to pull our dependents from South Korea -- family members of the 28,000 people there,'" Woodward said on "CBS Sunday Morning," referring to families of US troops stationed on the Korean peninsula.
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| Trump tells Apple to make products in US if it does not want to be hurt by his tariffs Posted: 09 Sep 2018 09:45 AM PDT  Donald Trump has told Apple that it should make its products in America if it wants to avoid tariffs set to be placed on imports from China. The US president told the world's most valuable company: "Start building new plants now. "Because all tariffs ultimately show up as a tax on US consumers, they will increase the cost of Apple products that our customers have come to rely on in their daily lives," the company said in a letter to the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
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| Migrant families separated by U.S. are refusing reunification over dangers: ACLU Posted: 09 Sep 2018 08:38 AM PDT  "We've had very difficult conversations with the parents this week," Lee Gelernt of the ACLU told a federal judge in San Diego. Gelernt told the court that he had spent time over the past week in Guatemala trying to locate parents of some of the roughly 300 children in U.S. care and found about two-thirds were refusing to have their child returned to them. Gelernt said parents who refused to be reunited tended to have older children who could be recruited by violent gangs if they returned home.
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| Death toll nears 40 in northern Japan earthquake Posted: 09 Sep 2018 05:13 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — The death toll has hit 39 from a powerful earthquake that struck the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido last week, authorities said Sunday. One person remained missing in the hard-hit town of Atsuma, where multiple landslides triggered by the quake slammed into houses at the foot of steep hills.
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| Alibaba's Jack Ma to unveil succession plan next week, remain chairman Posted: 09 Sep 2018 03:05 AM PDT  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's billionaire co-founder Jack Ma will announce a succession plan on Monday to hand the reins of his sprawling empire to a new generation of leaders but will remain executive chairman for the time being. Ma will announce the plan on his 54th birthday and the handover strategy will stretch over a significant period of time, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) newspaper reported citing a company spokesman. Alibaba declined to comment but pointed towards the SCMP story when asked about Ma's plans.
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| Kellyanne Conway: Trump Believes Op-Ed Writer Is In National Security Posted: 08 Sep 2018 09:51 PM PDT  President Donald Trump believes the author of the anonymous New York Times op-
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| Syrian war documentary wins top Venice prizes Posted: 08 Sep 2018 08:39 PM PDT  A film that follows two friends through four nightmarish years of the Syrian civil war has lifted some of the top prizes at the Venice film festival, which ends Saturday. "Still Recording", a documentary by Ghiath Ayoub and Saeed Al Batal, records what happened to two idealistic art students after they were swept up in the fervour of the Syrian revolution. Friends Saeed and Milad leave Damascus and go to Douma in 2011, a suburb under rebel control, to set up a radio station and recording studio.
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| Susan Collins Receives 3,000 Coat Hangers Ahead Of Kavanaugh Vote Posted: 08 Sep 2018 06:53 PM PDT  As a reminder of what could be at stake if President Donald Trump's latest
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| NOT REAL NEWS: Michael Jordan not selling Air Jordan brand Posted: 08 Sep 2018 04:23 PM PDT  Basketball legend Michael Jordan is not leaving the Nike Inc. board of directors, and his namesake brand, the Air Jordan sneaker, remains with the shoe and apparel company.
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| Serbia's Vucic says long road ahead in talks with Kosovo Posted: 08 Sep 2018 03:47 PM PDT  Expectations of an agreement that would involve a land swap, a proposal floated by both Belgrade and Pristina, dimmed after a face-to-face meeting between Vucic and his Kosovo counterpart, Hashim Thaci, was abruptly canceled on Friday. "I will do my best (to reach the agreement), but it is a long road full of thorns and problems ahead," Vucic told reporters during a visit to the Gazivoda Lake dam, control of which is a hot topic between Belgrade and Pristina. Part of the artificial Gazivoda Lake -- key for supplying water to some Kosovo municipalities including parts of Pristina -- is located in Serbia, where the source of its water lies.
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