A new Twitter bot that turns President Trump’s freewheeling tweets into official-looking White House statements has become somewhat of a sensation. The bot, @RealPressSecBot, was launched Sunday night by St. Louis-based software engineer Russel Neiss and went viral overnight, with more than 47,000 followers as of Monday morning. The bot scans for tweets from Trump’s account, @realDonaldTrump, every five minutes, then converts them into the format of official White House statements.
After offering the expected condolences, Trump took to Twitter to unleash a tirade against what he called political correctness, saying his travel ban would give U.S. “extra level of safety.”
Heather McGhee, Hugh Hewitt, Stephanie Cutter and Michael Gerson join the MTP Panel to preview former FBI Director James Comey's upcoming testimony on the investigation into Russia.
A record-breaking 39,506 students applied to join the Harvard Class of 2021 this fall. According to the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper, approximately 100 students formed a Facebook group chat to share pop culture memes in December, and the group later splintered into another, more vulgar group where jokes about sexual assault, the Holocaust and child abuse were shared.
A body found Monday at a southern Indiana horse park is believed to be the man suspected of killing three people at a rural home where they all were living, police said. State Police Sgt. Jerry Goodin said investigators are nearly certain that 47-year-old Richard Lee Burton Jr. was found dead in a pickup truck at the Blackwell Horse Camp near Bloomington, Indiana. Goodin said a woman who called Salem, Indiana, police from out of state Sunday evening had asked for a welfare check on the residents of a rural Washington County home about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of Louisville, Kentucky, after speaking to Burton.
Al Gore says President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change was reckless and indefensible, but that Americans are going to take the lead in the fight against global warming without him. “The president made the wrong decision in my view and in the view of most Americans,” Gore said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday. A majority of President Trump’s supporters and voters wanted us to stay in.
In the moments after the terrorist attack in London Saturday evening, the ride-sharing app began charging surge prices to Londoners trying to find safety — provoking intense social media outrage. As soon as we heard about the incident we immediately suspended dynamic pricing all around the area of the attacks - and shortly afterwards across the whole of central London - just as we did following the attacks in Manchester and Westminster. The tone on Twitter Saturday evening had been harsh, as users condemned the ride-sharing service’s initial response.
Harley-Davidson is recalling about 46,000 motorcycles in the U.S. because an oil line can come loose, spewing oil into the path of the rear tire. Harley says a clamp on an engine oil cooler line may not have been installed correctly.
Theunis Wessels mows his lawn at his home in Three Hills, Alberta, as a tornado swirls in the background. A Canadian man’s commitment to lawn care has earned him international fame, after social media lit up with a photo of him mowing the lawn as a large tornado loomed on the horizon. On Friday evening, as dark clouds began to gather near Three Hills, Alberta, Theunis Wessels paid little mind.
Five Arab countries — six if you count one of Libya’s rival governments — suddenly cut diplomatic relations with Qatar, accusing the small Gulf state of backing militant groups including the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, a move that could potentially complicate the U.S.-led coalition against terrorist groups. Egypt, Yemen, Libya’s interim government, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), encouraged by Saudi authorities to do the same, quickly followed suit, preparing to expel diplomats, close off borders, and institute a travel ban on flights to and from the country.
After jihadists turned the roof of his house into a sniper position, Owayid Mohammed and his family fled west Mosul in an escape that made him feel "reborn". Iraqi forces have since retaken all but a handful of areas around Mosul's Old City, but the jihadists are fighting in densely populated areas, and have used civilians as human shields at various points in the battle. The United Nations warned last week that up to 200,000 civilians may still be trapped in IS-held areas, facing shortages of food, water and medicine as well as deadly danger from the battle for the city.
Theunis Wessels was tending to the grass in his Alberta backyard on Friday when he said a large tornado appeared out of nowhere. It was clearly a day that it was hot outside,” Wessels told InsideEdition.com. Wessels’ wife, Cecilia, began snapping photos of the giant twister along with her husband calmly mowing in the foreground and posted the photo to Facebook.
An official in Flint, Michigan, has been forced to resign after a recording of him using a racial slur to describe residents of the city surfaced. Phil Stair, a longtime employee of the Genesee County Land Bank, resigned after water activist and independent journalist Chelsea Lyons released the tape. Mr Stair, a white man, had made the comments while Ms Lyons was with him driving to a restaurant, according to Truth Against the Machine, an organisation where Ms Lyons is a reporter.
In 2016, 33 lions freed from circuses in Peru and Colombia were transported to South Africa to live out their days in a wildlife refuge. Last week, poachers broke into the sanctuary, killing two of the big cats. The killing of the male lions named José and Liso occurred at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary, which had portrayed the lion airlift as a compassionate gesture that alleviated the suffering of animals held in cages and subjected to beatings and other mistreatment.
By Ayesha Rascoe and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI Director James Comey will be grilled on whether President Donald Trump tried to get him to back off an investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, key U.S. senators said on Sunday ahead of Comey's testimony this week on Capitol Hill. Comey, who was leading the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe into alleged Russian meddling in last year's U.S. presidential election, was fired by Trump last month, four years into his 10-year term.
Cash Freeman, an Oklahoma man shot and killed his neighbor Leland Foster who tried to drown his 3-month-old twins in a bathtub at his home, police said Sunday. Lisa Bratcher, a spokeswoman for Ada police, told NBC News on Sunday the babies were “doing great” after being released from the hospital. Foster, who lived in Poteau, about 130 miles east of Ada, Oklahoma, entered his house Friday where his estranged wife Michelle Forrells had been staying with their twin babies, Bratcher said.
More than two decades after it was discovered at the bottom of Lake Champlain, a Revolutionary War gunboat may see the light of day under a museum plan to raise, preserve and put the vessel on display. The Spitfire, a 54-foot boat that's part of a fleet built by Benedict Arnold before he turned traitor, sank a day after the 1776 Battle of Valcour Island, helping delay a British advance down the lake. "At the end of the day, the obligation to try to preserve the Spitfire for future generations and be able to utilize it as a connection to the formative years of this nation proved to be the overwhelming value that drove us," said Art Cohn, co-founder of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, which is planning the work.
An elementary class used a 3D printer to create a prosthetic hand for a classmate missing a hand; the hand was designed with a Spider-Man theme.
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Top US and Australian officials warned on Monday that battle-hardened and angry foreign fighters may return to Southeast Asia from the Middle East and take up arms in their own countries. The warning follows the weekend terror attacks in London, which were claimed by the Islamic State group, and comes amid a growing jihadist threat in the Philippines. IS fighters will "come back with battlefield skills, they'll come back with hardened ideology, they'll come back angry, frustrated, and we need to be very aware of that," Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne said.
A Missouri girl attracted much more than the usual neighborhood crowd when she put on a police uniform to sell lemonade. Kansas City police officers flooded 3-year-old Hannah Pasley’s lemonade stand after they heard she was having a little trouble getting her business off the ground. Sierra Moore, a friend of the family, posted about the scene to Facebook, explaining that police officers, deputies, K9 units, mounted patrol, and even a police helicopter showed up at the lemonade stand, all to support a young girl who aspires to be a cop herself.
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on an incident on London Bridge (all times local):8:37 a.m.London's Ambulance Service says more than 30 people have been taken to hospitals for treatment around the capital following the London Bridge attacks.A number of other
By Noah Browning DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed their ties with Qatar on Monday, accusing it of supporting terrorism and opening up the worst rift in years among some of the most powerful states in the Arab world. Iran -- long at odds with Saudi Arabia and a behind-the-scenes target of the move -- immediately blamed U.S. President Donald Trump for setting the stage during his recent trip to Riyadh. Gulf Arab states and Egypt have already long resented Qatar's support for Islamists, especially the Muslim Brotherhood which they regard as a dangerous political enemy.
Attorney Rebekah Brown-Wiseman says, “The courts, unfortunately, see it very differently than the average person. “So, if the mother and her husband object to the biological father basically being a parent to his own biological child, they’re going to allow it,” she explains, telling The Doctors that in the state of Florida these cases are difficult to resolve due to this archaic law. Rebekah tells The Doctors that she is making a constitutional argument under equal protection grounds on behalf of her client because she believes the law is sexist and unfair.