NewsYahoo NewsWhite House and CNN clash over Kellyanne Conway’s ‘credibility’Top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway appeared on CNN Tuesday afternoon, hours after the network doubled down on reports that it declined to have her on-air last weekend due to questions about her credibility. CNN’s relationship with the president’s counselor was first called into question by a New York Times report that claimed the network declined to have her as a guest on Sunday, in part due to “serious questions about her credibility.” Conway disputed that account in a Monday tweet in which she said family commitments kept her out of the studios for the Sunday shows. CNN’s communications team fired back with a tweet of its own that said the network’s premier Sunday show, “State of the Union,” “passed” after the White House “offered” Conway as a guest.
BusinessThe DriveHow to Buy the Fastest Drone Motor on The MarketUsing something like a dynamometer for RC motors, MQTB measures motor thrust output in grams (see the graph of X-Foot motor, below). After digging through YouTube videos, joining a private Facebook group, and befriending the manufacturer, we finally got to the last step before purchasing the motor: messaging X-Foot owner, Hans Turpyn. With the X-Foot, Turpyn gambled on a bit higher kV (2600, compared to typical 2300) while sacrificing some torque to produce a higher top end speed—and it worked.
- ScienceYahoo NewsOut of the lab, into the streets: Scientists, feeling threatened, plan an Earth Day march
Scientists are organizing a march on Washington for Earth Day, April 22, to protest an “alarming trend” of discrediting scientific consensus and hampering scientific discovery. Thought up in the aftermath of the Women’s March on Washington, the March for Science has been described as a nonpartisan “celebration of science” that opposes anti-science agendas on both sides of the aisle. Organizers say scientists and their supporters can no longer afford to stay silent while scientific inquiry is denigrated and sidelined.
WorldAFPPutin critic Kara-Murza suffered 'acute poisoning'A Russian opposition politician in a coma with organ failure suffered "acute poisoning" by an unknown substance, his wife said Tuesday, two years after a suspected poisoning nearly killed him. Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has been on a ventilator and undergoing renal dialysis since he was hospitalised after collapsing in Moscow on Thursday. "His condition is critical but stable," his wife Yevgeniya Kara-Murza told AFP.
- NewsChristian Science MonitorWhy is a Muslim cop suing the NYPD?
A Muslim NYPD officer has filed a lawsuit against New York City and its police department, alleging that the department turned a blind eye to years of faith-based harassment from her colleagues. Danielle Alamrani of Brooklyn first joined the New York Police Department in 2006, and converted to Islam one year later. "You do expect police officers to have thicker skin and be able to deal with other people," Alamrani’s attorney, Jesse Rose, told The Washington Post.
NewsAssociated PressCorrection: Chile-Wildfires storyIn a story Jan. 27 about wildfires in Chile, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the acreage burned had been measured since the blazes started in November. CONCEPCION, Chile (AP) — Flames from more than 100 raging wildfires in Chile continued spreading from the mountains to the Pacific coast, destroying forests, livestock and entire towns in a destructive path that is now dangerously close to the city of Concepcion.
- StyleThe DriveThe 2017 BMW M760i xDrive Is a $154,795 Car With A $50 Flaw
The 2017 BMW M7 is an amazing car with an Achilles heel. Its decklid badge doesn’t say M7. What else would you call a $154,795, 2.5 ton, 6.6-liter, twin-turbocharged, 601 horsepower, 12-cylinder ultra-luxury sedan from Munich that will do 0-60 in 3.6
WorldReutersIran scorns Trump, rebuffs U.S. warning on missilesBy Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI (Reuters) - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday dismissed the U.S. decision to put Iran "on notice" over its missile tests and called President Donald Trump the "real face" of American corruption. In his first speech since Trump's inauguration, Iran's supreme leader called Iranians to take part in demonstrations on Friday, the anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, to show they were not frightened of American "threats." "We are thankful to (Trump) for making our life easy as he showed the real face of America," Khamenei told a meeting of military commanders in Tehran, according to his website. Trump responded to a Jan. 29 Iranian missile test by saying "Iran is playing with fire" and imposed fresh sanctions on individuals and entities, some of them linked to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
WorldAFPPhilippines seeks US, China help to combat sea piratesThe Philippines is seeking US and Chinese help to guard a major sea lane as Islamic militants shift attacks to international shipping, officials said Wednesday. Manila does not want the Sibutu Passage between Malaysia's Sabah state and the southern Philippines to turn into a Somalia-style pirate haven, coast guard officials said. The deep-water channel, used by 13,000 vessels each year, offers the fastest route between Australia and the manufacturing powerhouses China, Japan and South Korea, they added.
- PoliticsYahoo NewsWhite House: President has ‘every right’ to stand up for Ivanka and attack Nordstrom
White House press secretary Sean Spicer defended President Trump’s Wednesday tweet lashing out at Nordstrom after the department store announcement that it would no longer carry his daughter Ivanka Trump’s clothing line. “Terrible!” Trump exclaimed. As many critics noted, it appeared that Trump was using his presidential office to boost his daughter’s company — raising yet another potential conflict of interest in an administration that has blurred the lines between government and Trump family business projects.
- NewsInside EditionRemains Found in Shallow Grave Identified as Those of Missing 22-Year-Old College Student
Skeletal remains found in a shallow Texas grave have been identified as those of a missing 22-year-old college student, authorities said. Investigators have been searching for Zuzu Verk, a biology student at Sul Ross State University, since she vanished October 11 after going to the movies with her boyfriend, Robert Fabian. Police have considered him a person of interest in Verk’s disappearance, but he has refused to cooperate with detectives, authorities said.
NewsAssociated PressWallendas among 5 tightrope walkers injured in fallFive circus performers were seriously injured in a fall Wednesday when a pyramid stunt involving famed tightrope walker Nik Wallenda went awry. The accident also involved several of his family members, but Nik Wallenda wasn't among the injured, authorities said. "He caught himself," said county spokeswoman Ashley Lusby.
- PoliticsInternational Business TimesMost Americans Oppose Trump’s Immigration Ban, Poll Shows
Donald Trump’s executive order halting immigration from seven-Muslim majority nations has met with negative response from over half of voters who participated in a Quinnipiac University survey, whose results were released Tuesday. Quinnipiac University polled 1,155 voters nationwide through cellphone and telephone interviews between Feb. 2 and Feb. 6. Fifty-one percent of voters disapproved Trump’s immigration ban, while 70 percent opposed his move to suspend Syrian refugees from entering the country indefinitely, the survey showed.
LifestyleBGR NewsBystander sees Tesla owner loading kids into trunk seats, immediately reports abductionIt must be pretty rough owning a Tesla Model S owner these days. Every day it’s a chorus of “Is that a Tesla?” “How fast is it really?” and “Why are you kidnapping that child?!” Okay so that last one is a bit odd, but it’s exactly what one Tesla driver in California had to endure when a bystander saw him loading a youngster into the trunk of his speedy green machine and promptly alerted authorities. The Model S actually has quite a bit of room for passengers, seating the driver and four others comfortable, but a pair of rear-facing seats in the back hatch allow for an additional pair of kids or smallish adults to come along for the ride, too.
LifestyleYahoo News VideoYou're probably cooking rice incorrectly, and it might be poisoning youRice contains a worrying amount of arsenic, a harmful chemical that can cause heart disease, diabetes and cancer, and the common cooking method does little to lower the risk according to new research.
- WorldAssociated PressUN: 120,000 Nigerians likely face Boko Haram-created famine
More than 120,000 Nigerians likely will suffer "catastrophic" famine-like conditions caused by Boko Haram's Islamic uprising, among 11 million confronting severe food shortages this year, according to a new U.N. report. The report from the Food and Agriculture Organization predicts that Africa's biggest humanitarian crisis likely will deteriorate during the "lean" food season between June and August in northeast Nigeria. Despite the crisis, Nigeria's cereal production went up by about 5 percent in 2016, the report said, even though the Boko Haram uprising has forced hundreds of thousands of farmers off their land.
- EntertainmentRoad & TrackBugatti Only Has 20 People Building the Chiron
Last month we told you the full story of the astonishing Bugatti Chiron's development. Now, Bugatti has released all sorts of detailed info and photos of its assembly line. As you'd expect, the build process for the Chiron is quite special. So special
WorldReutersChina "mending its ways" on unethical organ transplants, official saysBy Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Beijing's top official on transplants said on Tuesday Beijing was "mending its ways" from a murky past when organs were taken from detained or executed prisoners. Dr Huang Jiefu also told a Vatican conference bringing together nearly 80 doctors, law enforcement officials and representatives of health and non-government organisations that his participation, which medical ethics groups have criticised, was not an attempt to whitewash the past. "China is mending its ways and constantly improving its national organ donation and transplantation systems," said Huang, a former deputy health minister who is director of Beijing's transplant programme.
WorldAFPAmnesty accuses Syria of mass hangings in infamous jailAmnesty International on Tuesday accused Syria's government of hanging up to 13,000 people at a notorious prison over five years in a "policy of extermination", two weeks before planned peace talks. The damning report, titled "Human Slaughterhouse: Mass hanging and extermination at Saydnaya prison" near Damascus, details the gruesome ritual of mass hangings between 2011 and 2015. Most victims were civilians believed to be opposed to President Bashar al-Assad's government.
- NewsInside EditionCouple Sentenced for Roles in Son's Fatal Beating by Church Group
An upstate New York couple has been sentenced for their roles in the fatal beating of one of their teenage sons and for seriously injuring another son during a violent church "counseling session," authorities said. Bruce Leonard was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while his wife, Deborah Leonard, was given five years for participating in the October 2015 attack that left their 19-year-old son Lucas dead and their 17-year-old son Christopher fighting for his life, officials said. “The session turned physical,” New Hartford Police Chief Michael Inserra said during an October press conference.
- BusinessMashableThe well-paying job of the future will be solar-powered
The Trump administration may be trying to revive the moribund coal sector in the U.S., but new figures released Tuesday show that it will be hard to catch up to the galloping solar sector. The annual National Solar Jobs Census, published by the nonprofit
WorldAssociated PressCourt bars Russian opposition leader from presidential raceRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted Wednesday in a retrial of a 2013 fraud case and given a suspended sentence, a ruling that bars him from running for president next year and appears to reflect the Kremlin's reluctance to let President Vladimir Putin's most charismatic foe into the field. "What we have just seen is a telegram of sorts from the Kremlin, saying that they consider me, my team and people whose views I represent too dangerous to be allowed into the election campaign," he said. Navalny was the driving force behind massive protests of Putin's rule in 2011-2012 in Moscow, electrifying crowds with chants of "We are the power!" and saying at one point that the protesters were numerous enough to take the Kremlin.
WorldAFPSomalia's ex-PM elected presidentFormer Somali prime minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who holds joint American citizenship, was elected president on Wednesday, vowing to crack down on corruption and Al-Shabaab militants. The 55-year-old former premier, whose hails from the Darod clan and who goes by the nickname "Farmajo", won after incumbent president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud acknowledged defeat in a second round of voting by lawmakers. "This is the beginning of unity for the Somali nation, the beginning of the fight against Shabaab and corruption", a triumphant Farmajo said after being declared the winner in a long, drawn-out election process in the conflict-wracked nation.
- NewsPopular MechanicsF-35 Dominates the Air at This Year's Red Flag War Games
Exercise Red Flag at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada is considered one of the most realistic and challenging aviation warfare exercises, and pilots from this year's event say the Air Force's F-35A exceeded expectations by dominating the air space and improving the lethality of other legacy aircraft. Running from January 23 to February 10, this year's Red Flag involves more threats to pilots than ever before, including surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), radar jamming equipment, and an increased number of red air, or mock enemy aircraft. Against the ramped-up threats, the F-35A only lost one aircraft for every 15 aggressors killed, according to Aviation Week.
PoliticsAssociated PressAP FACT CHECK: Trump botches murder ratePresident Donald Trump's dark view of violent crime in America rests largely on a bogus claim: that the murder rate is higher than it's been in nearly half a century. Actually, the murder rate is down sharply in that time, despite a recent spike. On Tuesday, he told a meeting of sheriffs: "The murder rate in our country is the highest it's been in 47 years, right?
