| Donald Trump Plans on Executing Immigration Plan Through 'Management’ Posted: 23 Aug 2015 09:25 AM PDT  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump today defended his newly released immigration reform plan, which calls for the deportation of millions of undocumented workers in the United States, saying he'll accomplish the objectives through "management."In a plan released earlier this month, Trump called for an end to birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and for the deportation of undocumented workers. He did not offer more specifics as to how undocumented workers would be removed from the country or how much the plan would cost."It's called management," he ...
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| US airman says train attacker 'ready to fight to the end' Posted: 23 Aug 2015 10:12 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — His arm in a sling, U.S. airman Spencer Stone recounted Sunday how he and two other Americans tackled a gunman on a high-speed train in Europe, saying the attacker "seemed like he was ready to fight to the end." But he added: "So were we." |
| Koreas resume crisis talks, South says North deploying subs Posted: 23 Aug 2015 08:56 AM PDT  North and South Korea resumed top-level talks Sunday on avoiding a threatened military clash, even as Seoul accused Pyongyang of undermining the process with provocative naval and land deployments. The South Korean defence ministry said the North had doubled its artillery units at the border and deployed two-thirds of its total submarine fleet -- or around 50 vessels -- outside their bases. "The North is adopting a two-faced stance with the talks going on," said a ministry spokesman who described the scale of the sub movement as "unprecedented".
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| Should Walker's health plan be taken seriously? Posted: 23 Aug 2015 07:27 AM PDT  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Scott Walker's plan for repealing and replacing President Barack Obama's health care law hinges on what many see as a nearly insurmountable obstacle — getting 60 votes in the Senate.
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| Zoo staff help Washington panda with newborn twins Posted: 23 Aug 2015 08:05 AM PDT  National Zoo staff are helping giant panda Mei Xiang adjust to life with her newborn twins by occasionally switching out one cub and keeping it in an incubator, zoo officials said on Sunday. Mei Xiang, a star tourist draw, took staff by surprise on Saturday by giving birth to twins about four-and-a-half hours apart. Giant pandas are among the world's most endangered species and she had been artificially inseminated.
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| Fire hits HollyFrontier's Tulsa refinery: local reporter Posted: 23 Aug 2015 09:49 AM PDT (Reuters) - A fire at HollyFrontier Corp's 125,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is being handled by the company's in-house fire crews, according to a Twitter message by a local journalist. The Tulsa Fire Department told Reuters it had not been notified of a fire that required outside assistance. Oklahoma Highway Patrol also said they had not been contacted. |
| Crowd packs former President Carter's Sunday school after his cancer spreads Posted: 23 Aug 2015 10:12 AM PDT  Larger-than-usual crowds of wellwishers meant former President Jimmy Carter had to teach an extra Bible class at his rural Georgia church on Sunday, after he announced on Thursday cancer had spread to his brain. Carter, 90, a lifelong Baptist and church deacon, has taught Sunday school for decades and the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia is used to a throng. The theme of the lesson was love, Carter told the 300 people who filled the church's sanctuary, after briefly alluding to his health.
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| North, South Korea on alert amid talks in bid to end standoff Posted: 23 Aug 2015 06:12 AM PDT  By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea negotiated into the evening on Sunday after talking through the previous night to try to ease tensions involving an exchange of artillery fire that brought the peninsula to the brink of armed conflict. The rare and unusually long meeting at the Panmunjom truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) began on Saturday evening, shortly after North Korea's deadline for Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts or face military action. The North had deployed twice the usual artillery strength at the border and had more than 50 submarines away from base, the South's defense ministry said.
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| Bernie Sanders takes aim at 'greedy' Koch brothers Posted: 22 Aug 2015 07:33 PM PDT  NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is making the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch the face of a "corrupted" political and economic system that the Vermont senator wants to upend.
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| Clock ticking on Obama's Gitmo promise Posted: 21 Aug 2015 02:56 PM PDT  Lingering on President Obama's to-do list before his term ends is closing the detention facility.
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| At Koch group summit, a restrained enthusiasm for Trump Posted: 22 Aug 2015 11:56 AM PDT  While thousands streamed into a football stadium Friday evening in Mobile, Alabama to see Donald Trump, a much smaller crowd of committed conservatives unwound at a bar and mused over the good, the bad and the unknown of the unlikely Republican presidential front-runner. According to AFP, 3,600 people came to this year's annual Defending the American Dream Summit from around the country Friday and Saturday, taking in appearances by a handful of the 17 Republican presidential candidates. Trump was not invited.
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| France train gunman questioned over Syria links Posted: 22 Aug 2015 07:40 PM PDT  Authorities on Sunday interrogated a suspected jihadist gunman who was overpowered by passengers on a packed Amsterdam-Paris train, as officials say he had visited Syria and was known to intelligence services. The alleged attacker, named as 25-year-old Moroccan national Ayob El Khazzani, opened fire with an assault rifle on Friday evening, but was wrestled to the floor by three American passengers who have been hailed as heroes. The shooting, which underlined the difficulties faced by intelligence services tracking an unprecedented number of potential jihadists, is expected to lead to tighter security for international train services in mainland Europe.
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