| {"text":"Following YouTube gaffe, AT&T, Verizon may pull most of their ads from Google\n\nAfter their ads appeared next to extremist content on YouTube, telecom companies AT&T and Verizon said they were going to pull their ads from the video site. But the fallout may go further than just YouTube.\n\nGoogle's Chief Business Officer Phillip Schindler issued an apology on the company's blog on Monday, saying the practice is unacceptable. \"We know that this is unacceptable to the advertisers and agencies who put their trust in us,\" Schindler wrote in the blog statement."} | |
| {"text":"Millie Bobby Brown taking a 'rest' between appearances and 'Stranger Things' filming\n\nMillie Bobby Brown has been promoting \"Stranger Things\" seemingly nonstop lately and is now taking some time for herself. Brown who plays the mysterious Eleven on the hit Netflix series posted an apology to fans on Instagram after having to cancel an appearance. \"I have had to cancel a Comic Con last minute which is something I've never never done and I'm planning on never doing again Brown said in the video. I just think I've worked too hard and I have to rest as I've had a really long shoot and I'm still filming 'Stranger Things.'\" The 13-year-old has been seen hitting a string of red-carpet and high-profile events often alongside her fellow cast members."} | |
| {"text":" Indian Wells: Roger Federer beats Stan Wawrinka to win BNP Paribas Open\n\nAustralian Open champion Roger Federer beat Stan Wawrinka 6-4 7-5 in an all-Swiss final to win the BNP Paribas Open - his fifth Indian Wells triumph. World number 10 Federer claimed the first set before being broken for the first time at this year's tournament in the first game of the second set. Wawrinka the world number three went 2-0 ahead before Federer won three games in a row on his way to the title. Elena Vesnina beat Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-7 (6-8) 7-5 6-4 in the women's final. Federer becomes the oldest champion in the tournament's history surpassing Jimmy Connors who was 31 when he triumphed in 1984. This was the 23rd meeting between Federer an 18-time Grand Slam winner and Wawrinka. Federer 35 has beaten his compatriot who was in tears at the end 20 times. \"This has been a fairy tale week said Federer. It's a beautiful feeling. Maybe it's not as surprising as Australia but it's still great to back it up by winning in America."} | |
| {"text":"Apple cuts prices on lower-end iPads, releases red iPhones\n\nApple is cutting prices on two iPad models and introducing red iPhones, but the company held back on updating its higher-end iPad Pro tablets.\n\nA much-speculated 10.5-inch iPad Pro didn't materialize, nor did new versions of existing sizes in the Pro lineup, which is aimed at businesses and creative professionals. The new devices are mostly refreshes of existing models. Apple unveiled them through press releases Tuesday rather than a staged event, as it typically does for bigger product releases."} | |
| {"text":"STEM Students Create Winning Invention\n\nSTREAMWOOD, Ill. (AP) -- It's a small generator that could power a small light, but the invention could pay some big dividends for a group of Streamwood High School students.\n\nTheir wind-powered generator idea won the state competition in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest, which encourages teachers and students to solve real-world issues using classroom skills in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. The 16 students will compete this spring for 10 national finalist slots and ultimately a prize of up to $200,000."} | |
| {"text":"Survey Finds College Applications from International Students Down\n\nColleges and universities in the U.S. could see a sharp decline in enrollment of international students if initial figures from a survey are an early indicator of what's to come.\n\nNearly 40 percent of responding U.S. institutions are reporting a drop in international student applications, particularly from students in the Middle East, according to initial findings from a survey of 250 schools. Declines are also reported for students from China and India at both the undergraduate and graduate levels."} | |
| {"text":" Sean Spicer tells reporter to 'stop shaking your head'\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told a reporter to \"stop shaking your head\" during an exchange at his daily press briefing Tuesday. Spicer appeared annoyed by April Ryan Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks when she asked what President Trump's administration would do to revamp its image following reports of its ties to Russia. Spicer objected to the premise saying: \"I appreciate your agenda here. At some point report the facts.\" He said there has been no proven collusion between Trump associates and Russian officials over interference in last year's election quipping that \"if the president put Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight somehow that's a Russian connection.\" Spicer said Ryan appeared \"hell-bent\" on projecting her own image of the White House when she asked what Trump might be doing to repair a relationship with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who did not support his campaign and was meeting with the president later this week. \"Please stop shaking your head again Spicer said to Ryan. He said the president was fulfilling a promise to build bridges with both supporters and opponents."} | |
| {"text":"Supreme Court Expands Rights for Students with Disabilities\n\n\nIn a unanimous decision with major implications for students with disabilities, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that schools must provide higher educational standards for children with special needs.\n\nThe 8-0 ruling in the Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District case states that schools must do more than provide a \"merely more than de minimis\" education for students with disabilities and instead must provide them with an opportunity to make \"appropriately ambitious\" progress in line with the federal education law.\n\n\"When all is said and done,\" wrote Chief Justice John G. Roberts, \"a student offered an education program providing a 'merely more than de minimis' progress from year to year can hardly be said to have been offered an education at all."} | |
| {"text":" How a Red State City Fell in Love With Muslim Immigrants\n\nEvery week hosts Dan Moss and Scott Lanman bring you a jargon-free dive into the stories that drive the global economy. Post-industrial Midwestern America helped propel Donald Trump to the nation's top job. You've heard that a hundred times. But did you hear about St Louis? A wave of Bosnian refugees many of them Muslim arrive in the city starting in the mid-1990s. The result: a surge in business and job creation revitalization of the community and help in the transition from a manufacturing to a service economy. Sadik Kukic tells Dan and Michelle about his journey from Balkan concentration camps to a pillar of the local community: He's now president of the Bosnian Chamber of Commerce. What could be more American?"} | |
| {"text":"Yahoo Reveals Massive Breach of Data from 500M Accounts\n\nPopular web portal Yahoo said today that it believes a \"state-sponsored actor\" stole information relating to some 500 million user accounts from its network at the end of 2014.\n\nBut Yahoo only learned about the breach \"in the last few weeks,\" a source familiar with the matter told ABC News.\n\nThe stolen information, according to Yahoo, could include names, email addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers, password information, and possibly the question-answer combinations for security questions, which are often used to reset passwords."} | |
| {"text":"Why Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Doesn't Want Either Clinton or Trump in the White House\n\n\nJill Stein, the presidential candidate for the Green Party, says she would be unhappy with either mainstream party candidate -- Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump -- in the White House.\n\n\"No doubt, I will feel really terrible if Donald Trump becomes president. But I will also feel really terrible if Hillary Clinton becomes president,\" Stein told ABC News Political Director Rick Klein and Deputy Political Director Shushannah Walshe on this week's \"Powerhouse Politics\" podcast.\n\n\"Because, unfortunately, many of the really scary things Donald Trump talks about, Hillary Clinton in fact has already done,\" Stein added, referring to Clinton's positions on Libya and affairs in the Middle East."} | |
| {"text":"Arne Duncan Blasts Trump Administration Over Transgender Guidance\n\nFormer Education Secretary Arne Duncan has blasted the Trump administration's decision to repeal guidance that sought to ensure transgender students have access to a bathroom that matches their gender identity.\n\n\"This week's decision by the Trump administration to withdraw guidance to school communities about how to protect transgender students reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the federal role in protecting the civil rights of students,\" Duncan and Catherine Lhamon, former assistant education secretary for civil rights, wrote in an op-ed in the The Washington Post. \"Worse yet, it confuses states and school districts, and puts real, live children at greater risk of harm."} | |
| {"text":"Frankfurt Is Cheapest Brexit Option for Housing Bankers\n\nBrexit bankers fleeing London take note: Frankfurt is the cheapest major financial center in the European Union to live and work according to property broker Savills Plc. The combined annual cost of renting an apartment and the per-employee office space expense totaled just under 30 000 euros ($33 000) in the German city less than half that of Paris. Frankfurt is emerging as the favored destination for investment banks such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. that need hubs within the EU after Britain withdraws from the bloc."} | |
| {"text":"This Teacher Has Personalized Handshakes For All 40 Of His Students\n\nA 5th grade teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina knows education alone isn't necessarily enough to get his students excited for class. So he's using personalized handshakes instead. \n\nBarry White Jr., an English teacher at Ashley Park PreK-8 School, gives personalized greetings (most of which are intermingled with dance moves) to all 40 of his students. News of his interactions originally went viral in September when the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District posted the video to their Facebook page."} | |
| {"text":"Universities Push Back Against Trump on Immigration\n\n\nColleges and universities are pushing back against President Donald Trump's immigration-limiting executive order, promising to protect students and faculty even as they struggle to fully comprehend what the order means for community members who hail from the seven predominantly Muslim countries to which it specifically applies.\n\n\"We believe this executive order is fundamentally inconsistent with the values that are the bedrock of Boston University and, indeed, of our pluralistic, welcoming society,\" Boston University President Robert Brown said in a statement Sunday."} | |
| {"text":"Are Autonomous Cars Ready to Go It Alone?\n\nTraining wheels for autonomous vehicles come in the shape of a human behind the wheel. But when you remove the safety driver from a robotic car, two tons of metal is let loose.\n\nJust last week, California's Department of Motor Vehicles announced that it plans to allow companies to test autonomous cars on its roads without on-board backup drivers before the end of the year. The cars would be required to have a remote operator capable of keeping an eye on the car, but nevertheless, as the Guardian correctly points out, the news feels like a defining moment for the technology. Has it matured enough to finally let us place our faith in the ability of the robot?"} | |
| {"text":" Channel 4 'could move out of London'\n\nProposals on whether to move Channel 4 out of London will be considered as part of a government consultation. Plans to privatise the TV company have been shelved but where it spends its money is also under review Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has announced. She said the government wants \"the benefits of this national asset to be spread far and wide not just in London\". Channel 4 said a \"substantial relocation would be highly damaging\". The government carried out an 18-month review of the publicly-owned channel which has more than 800 staff but fewer than 30 based outside central London. Ms Bradley will outline the consultation plans at the Nations and Regions Media Conference in Salford on Wednesday."} | |
| {"text":"DWTS': First couple eliminated is...\n\nThe first celeb booted from \"Dancing With the Stars\" was criticized for being \"so stiff.\" Unfortunately Chris Kattan can't help that because of a crippling injury in his past. The former \"SNL\" star shared in a video on the show Monday night that he had broken his neck 14 years ago and has had multiple surgeries since then which affect his range of motion. \"Part of what I used to do was physical comedy but now I can't Kattan said with tears in his eyes. It's really sad when somebody says 'I miss the old Chris.' That sucks to hear.\" His dance partner Witney Carson was also moved to tears after Kattan showed her an x-ray of his back with all the surgical pins he has. \"It's crazy that somebody can have that happen to them and then be brave enough to try something like this she said."} | |
| {"text":" NYC apartment featuring David Bowie's piano on the market for $6.5 million\n\nThe chance to play the late David Bowie's piano while enjoying unobstructed views of Central Park in a New York City apartment could be yours for $6.495 million. A three-bedroom two-and-a-half-bath apartment once owned by Bowie and his wife Iman went on the market on Monday. The couple sold the apartment located in the Essex House on Central Park South in 2002 10 years after they wed. Bowie's Yamaha piano was included in the 2002 sale and has remained in the apartment ever since. The current sellers who did not buy the apartment from Bowie and Iman are keeping the tradition alive by including the piano in the listing price. \"I would imagine it is hard to move but I think it's really a great catch for buyers the apartment's exclusive agent, Bernice Leventhal of the Corcoran Group, told ABC News. The 1,877-square-foot home is used as a pied-à-terre by its current owners. It features a limestone foyer, walk-in closet, two master-sized bedrooms and a master bath with a rain shower and heated floors."} | |
| {"text":" Olivia Newton-John hints at possible reunion with John Travolta for 40th anniversary of 'Grease'\n\nGood news for fans hopelessly devoted to \"Grease\" stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Newtwon-John told Britain's The Mirror that a reunion could be in the works next year to mark the 1978 film's 40th anniversary. The Australian actress and singer 68 confirmed that she and Travolta have been discussing ideas for a reunion but she didn't divulge any details. Speaking ahead of the Fame Awards at Hard Rock Live in Las Vegas where she was receiving the Icon Award Newton-John told The Mirror \"We are thinking up ways. Nothing to announce yet.\" \"Forty years anniversary of 'Grease ' which I can't believe she continued. Time goes so fast. It is so exciting.\" Marking the 40th anniversary could be one of Newton-John's last performances before she retires from 50 years in show business. \"As time goes on I think of doing less and having more time off she said. But it wouldn't be the first time the thought has crossed her mind. Every year for the last 20 years I thought I was retiring and then somebody would say 'How about this?' and it's like 'Oh that looks fun ' or 'How about this?'\" Newton-John admitted. \"Things that I would never think about.\""} | |
| {"text":" Shailene Woodley reaches deal to avoid jail over pipeline protest\n\nUS actress Shailene Woodley has reached a plea deal over her involvement in the protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Woodley star of the Divergent series was one of 27 people arrested at the site last October. She has now signed a document agreeing to plead guilty to misdemeanour disorderly conduct which would mean she would avoid jail. The pipeline project has been highly controversial and drawn huge protests. Native Americans say it will desecrate sacred land and damage the environment."} | |
| {"text":"Trump calls Democrats 'losers' after GOP health bill failure\n\n\nPresident Donald Trump spoke out Friday afternoon after Republicans pulled the Obamacare overhaul he had endorsed, criticizing Democratic opposition to the bill and passing off the responsibility for its failure.\n\n\"I've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let Obamacare explode,\" said Trump, who supported the plan and spent much of the past week personally lobbying for its success.\n\nThe American Health Care Act was pulled from an anticipated vote Friday afternoon after it became apparent the bill did not have enough votes to pass."} | |
| {"text":"Texas Must Broaden Death-Penalty Exemption, High Court Says\n\n\nA divided U.S. Supreme Court said Texas must broaden its death-penalty exemption for people who are intellectually disabled, ruling that the state was violating the Constitution by using outdated medical standards.\n\nThe 5-3 ruling could mean a new sentencing hearing for Bobby James Moore, 57, who was convicted of fatally shooting James McCarble during a 1980 grocery store robbery in Houston.\n\nWriting for the majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that, while states have some flexibility to determine who's ineligible for the death penalty, they can't completely disregard current medical standards."} | |
| {"text":"How does nutrition affect children's school performance?\n\n\nAs politicians debate spending and cuts in President Donald Trump's proposed budget, there have been questions about the effects of nutrition programs for kids.\n\nFrom before birth and through the school years, there are decades-old food programs designed to make sure children won't go hungry. Experts agree that the nutrition provided to millions of children through school meal programs is invaluable for their health."} | |
| {"text":"White House attacks Clintons in pushback against Manafort allegations\n\n\nWhite House press secretary Sean Spicer attacked former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in response to a report raising concerns about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's connections to Russia.\n\n\"So an individual...who worked with a Russian entity a decade ago is subject to rampant media speculation all day long, even though the Clintons had more extensive ties,\" Spicer said, as he attempted to characterize a double standard."} | |
| {"text":" Alec Baldwin says he nearly passed on playing Donald Trump on 'SNL'\n\nAlec Baldwin has revealed that he almost passed on playing Donald Trump on \"Saturday Night Live.\" The actor told Vanity Fair for its April cover story that he originally passed on \"SNL\" producer Lorne Michaels' offer to play Trump but changed his mind after a film role fell through. \"I was supposed to do a film. And the people who were doing the film were supposed to escrow money to guarantee that I would get paid he said in a video accompanying the cover story. And they didn't put the money in escrow. And that's when I hung up and said I'm not going to go do the movie and I'm going to go do the thing with Lorne. And I think to myself 'What if I hadn't done that?' ... It's turned out to be this incredible opportunity.\" Baldwin's impression has been so popular that he has parlayed it into an upcoming satirical book and made his record 17th appearance as host of \"SNL\" earlier this year. He talks about playing Trump working with \"SNL\" stars Kate McKinnon and Tina Fey and starring in the best role of his life in his new memoir \"Nevertheless due out next month. Vanity Fair published an exclusive excerpt."} | |
| {"text":"The Teacher Shortage Crisis Is Here\n\n\nAs students headed back to school this year in and around Tampa, Florida, thousands of teacher positions had yet to be filled. It followed a year in which tens of thousands of teachers were hired on emergency or temporary credentials to help fill empty slots around the country - 900 of them in Oklahoma alone. And in Arizona, which has one of the highest teacher turnover rates in the country, school districts routinely report having unfilled teaching positions three months into the school year.\n\nThe teacher shortage crisis is here, at least according to a new report from the Learning Policy Institute, and it stands to get worse."} | |
| {"text":" Former IndyCar and Nascar driver David Steele killed during Florida race\n\nSprint car veteran David Steele has died during a race in Florida. Desoto Speedway officials said in a Facebook post on Saturday night that track owners and staff were saddened by the crash. The statement says Steele was trying to win his 100th race in Florida. \"Desoto Speedway owners and staff are saddened by tonight's passing of David Steele in the Sprint car feature the post read. Thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends who were all in attendance to see him try to win his 100th Florida race.\" A Manatee County Sheriff's Office report says Steele was driving a sprint car when his vehicle's left front wheel struck the right rear wheel of another car causing Steele's vehicle to go up in the air spin 180 degrees and hit the retaining wall. Medics attempted to treat him but he was pronounced dead. He was 42."} | |
| {"text":"Amazon has more budget phones to sell you\n\nTake a handful of budget phones. Cut their price even more. Voila -- you've got another hit on Amazon.\n\nThe online retailer said Thursday that it's building on the popularity of its discounted phones program, called Prime Exclusive Phones, by adding two more devices to the lineup. Prime customers in the US can now preorder the Motorola Moto G5 Plus starting at $185, at least $45 below full retail price, or the Alcatel A30 for $60, at $40 off, Amazon said. These discounted prices, available only to Prime members, come thanks to ads Amazon slaps on the devices' lock screens."} | |
| {"text":"Healthier Cereals Snare a Spot on New York School Menus\n\n\nThe New York City public school system has quietly replaced breakfast cereals made by the Kellogg Company, the titan whose name is virtually synonymous with cereal, with those from a small California upstart called Back to the Roots.\n\nThe switch, which follows a student taste test that began last spring, adds menu options that are lower in sugar and sodium and higher in whole grains. Coming in the nation's largest school system, and potentially spreading to other large districts that collaborate with New York in bulk purchases, it is one of the biggest signs to date of the inroads that small food companies are making into the mainstream."} | |
| {"text":"Melania Trump hires communications director\n\n\n(CNN)First lady Melania Trump is tapping a key member of the White House communications staff for her East Wing team -- deputy press secretary Stephanie Grisham will serve as the first lady's communications director, the White House announced Monday.\n\nGrisham was the director of traveling press during President Donald Trump's campaign, responsible for securing and running the campaign's press plane, which traveled independently in a separate plane from the candidate. She was one of the early members of the campaign's press operation, working Trump events around the country during the beginning stages of the campaign before leaving her job in Arizona to join Trump's team full-time. She was known fondly by reporters on the campaign trail for her no-nonsense approach to working with the press."} | |
| {"text":"Biden: Trump should apologize for Obama wiretap claim\n\n\nJoe Biden said President Donald Trump should apologize to former President Barack Obama for his accusation that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower.\n\n\"Any gentleman would,\" the former vice president said.\n\nObama, via a spokesperson, denied that he wiretapped Trump Tower after the current president tweeted the accusation. FBI Director James Comey this week also testified that there's no evidence the Obama administration surveilled Trump during the leadup to the e2016 election"} | |
| {"text":"Hillary Clinton's Team to Join Wisconsin Recount Pushed by Jill Stein\n\n\nWASHINGTON - Nearly three weeks after Election Day, Hillary Clinton's campaign said on Saturday that it would participate in a recount process in Wisconsin incited by a third-party candidate and would join any potential recounts in two other closely contested states, Pennsylvania and Michigan.\n\nThe Clinton campaign held out little hope of success in any of the three states, and said it had seen no \"actionable evidence\" of vote hacking that might taint the results or otherwise provide new grounds for challenging Donald J. Trump's victory. But it suggested it was going along with the recount effort to assure supporters that it was doing everything possible to verify that hacking by Russia or other irregularities had not affected the results."} | |
| {"text":"Walking Dead' star Lauren Cohan on season 7 finale: 'It's heartbreaking'\n\nLauren Cohan who has played farm girl-turned-fighter Maggie since season 2 of \"The Walking Dead isn't giving away any spoilers for the season 7 finale. But she does acknowledge that it will be heartbreaking.\" \"You're certainly in for a lot of emotion she told HarpersBazaar.com in a new interview. [It's] incredibly bittersweet beautiful and heartbreaking.\" As any fan of the show knows AMC's zombie apocalypse drama has always been heartbreaking -- evidenced in this season's premiere when two of the show's beloved cast members fell victim to Negan played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. As always the cast held a traditional sendoff or so called \"death dinner for their fallen cast members. It's funny when I stop to think about calling them death dinners. It's such a frequent part of our lingo that I forget how absurd it is like spying on your own funeral Cohan explained. We've had some of our best nights together at them. There's always a lot of tears but we also have bonfires and play games and get to tell the family member leaving how much we love them -- and you know completely embarrass them.\""} | |
| {"text":" Real Madrid may not be willing to pay £100m for Eden Hazard\n\nsays Ramon Calderon \"Real Madrid are in a \"very good situation\" financially but may not be willing to pay £100m to sign Chelsea's Eden Hazard says former president Ramon Calderon. The Spanish giants want to sign Hazard according to Sky sources but talks between the clubs have not taken place and the forward is under contract until June 2020. A report in Spanish newspaper Marca on Tuesday morning claimed Chelsea would be willing to sell the forward to Real. The Blues do not comment on what they regard as media speculation and rumour and declined to offer a response to that report. However Calderon claims any potential move would depend on the wishes of the Belgian and says that would be key if the Champions League holders were to take the 26-year-old to the Bernabeu. When asked if Real would break the transfer record Calderon told Sky Sports News HQ: \"I don't know but I guess if Chelsea are going to let him go they will have to ask for a lot of money."} | |
| {"text":"How Companies and Colleges Can Get the U.S. Back to Work\n\n\nLast Friday, the Labor Department announced that the U.S. economy had enjoyed a record 76 consecutive months with job gains. Yet at the same time, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports that 5.6 million jobs remain unfilled because of a pernicious \"skills gap\" -- or mismatch between employers' needs and workers' abilities. In a Business Roundtable survey, 45 percent of C-suite executives say hiring is particularly difficult in so-called STEM fields, those requiring expertise in science, technology, engineering and math. \n\nCollege graduates themselves are no less concerned: A national survey commissioned by Northeastern University found that just 14 percent of recent college graduates believe their education prepared them to work with artificial intelligence and robotics -- innovations poised to transform the American workplace."} | |
| {"text":"Emma Thompson felt 'too fat' to live in LA\n\nBritish actress Emma Thompson has said she never moved to Los Angeles because she felt she was deemed \"too fat\" when she visited. \"It is a strange place and I couldn't live there she told Swedish chat show Skavlan. The Oscar winner also condemned the pressure on actresses to be thin. The anorexia - there are so many kids girls and boys now and actresses who are very very thin who are into their 30s [and] simply don't eat she said. The star also revealed she threatened to quit working on 2008 film Brideshead Revisited in reaction to a co-star who had been told to shed the pounds. She said: The producers said to her 'Will you lose some weight?'. She was absolutely exquisite. \"I said to them 'If you speak to her about this again on any level I will leave this picture. You are never to do that'."} | |
| {"text":"Brazil qualify for 2018 World Cup after Coutinho and Neymar down Paraguay\n\nBrazil have become the first team to qualify for the 2018 World Cup maintaining their proud record as the tournament's only ever-present side with a little help from Lionel Messi's foul mouth and lightly regarded Peru. The five-times champions beat Paraguay 3-0 on Tuesday for their eighth successive win in the South American qualifying competition. That in itself was not enough to confirm their participation in Russia but Peru's surprise 2-1 win over Uruguay in a later game guaranteed Brazil a top-four finish."} | |
| {"text":"Cristiano Ronaldo into all-time top 10 international goalscorers\n\nCristiano Ronaldo's 71st goal for Portugal took him into the all-time top 10 in international history. The Portuguese star netted the opener in their 3-2 friendly defeat against Sweden on Tuesday on his 138th appearance taking him to joint-ninth in the standings level with Majed Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Kiatisuk Senamuang of Thailand and Miroslav Klose of Germany. He still has some way to go to catch all-time leader Ali Daei however who netted 109 times for Iran in 149 caps. Ronaldo's goal also took him to joint-third with Klose in the European list behind the legendary Hungarian pair of Ferenc Puskas (84) and Sandor Kocsis (75)."} | |
| {"text":"Betsy DeVos's Education Hearing Erupts Into Partisan Debate\n\n\nWASHINGTON - At her confirmation hearing on Tuesday to be education secretary, Betsy DeVos vigorously defended her work steering taxpayer dollars from traditional public schools, arguing that it was time to move away from a \"one size fits all\" system and toward newer models for students from preschool to college.\n\nThe hearing quickly became a heated and partisan debate that reflected the nation's political divide on how best to spend public money in education."} | |
| {"text":" Jake Gyllenhaal opens up about 'Life' and his friendship with Ryan Reynolds\n\nThe Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal opened up about his role in the new sci-fi thriller \"Life\" in an interview with \"Good Morning America\" anchor Michael Strahan that aired today and also spoke out about his friendship with co-star Ryan Reynolds. In \"Life Gyllenhaal plays Dr. David Jordan, who is leading a crew on a mission to discover life on Mars. He said his character looked at humanity ... and was a real cynic.\" \"He'd seen a lot of tough stuff as a doctor. I think he worked in war-torn areas and stuff Gyllenhaal said of his character, adding that he maybe hoped that space would be as we all hope the new frontier.\" \"It was interesting to play a character like that because I feel the same way sometimes about things that are going on down here he said. But I think being here and staying here particularly in this country you know now and in the world is the most important thing.\" Gyllenhaal added that he would not go into outer space even if he could saying \"I'd like my feet on the ground you know.\""} | |
| {"text":"We all know why the right is angry at Tomi Lahren\n\nConservative darling-turned-pariah Tomi Lahren is getting a crash course on what the right thinks of women. Lahren a 24-year-old known for her video monologues delivered in a brash self-aggrandizing tone rose to quick prominence within right-wing media. She's young blond opinionated and conservative and unafraid to use sex appeal as a cudgel. \"It seems feminists are all about freedom of expression so long as the females are overweight or transgender she says in one video. Being a young, attractive, conservative woman also gave her cover to make the kind of startlingly cruel comments that would have sunk other careers -- suggesting, for example, that Syrian refugees fleeing for their lives (and the lives of their children) were cowards who wouldn't stay to defend their country. Americans stand up and fight for faith family and freedom reads the text overlaid on an image of herself, which she tweeted. Syrians run away.\""} | |
| {"text":"Scientists Bristle at Trump Budget's Cuts to Research\n\n\nBefore he became president, Donald J. Trump called climate change a hoax, questioned the safety of vaccines and mocked renewable energy as a plaything of \"tree-huggers.\"\n\nSo perhaps it is no surprise that Mr. Trump's first budget took direct aim at basic scientific and medical research.\n\nStill, the extent of the cuts in the proposed budget unveiled early Thursday shocked scientists, researchers and program administrators. The reductions include $5.8 billion, or 18 percent, from the National Institutes of Health, which fund thousands of researchers working on cancer and other diseases, and $900 million, or a little less than 20 percent, from the Department of Energy's Office of Science, which funds the national laboratories, considered among the crown jewels of basic research in the world."} | |
| {"text":"NASA Finds Water on Mars\n\nIn a groundbreaking discovery, NASA astronomers announced today they have found strong evidence that water flows on the surface of Mars. The finding makes it much more likely that life may exist or could have existed on the planet.\n\n\"We see features that look like gullies formed by flowing water and the deposits of soil and rocks transported by these flows,\" said Michael Malin, principal investigator for the Mars Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyer spacecraft at Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. Malin and co-author Ken Edgett conclude in their study, to be published next week in the journal Science, that the streaks must have been formed by seeping water."} | |
| {"text":"Exchange students say U.S. high schools easier and puzzle over all the sports\n\n\nA funny thing happened on the way to making U.S. high schools harder: The rest of the industrialized world made theirs even harder.\n\nA new survey of foreign exchange students who spent time in U.S. high schools last year finds that nine in 10 of them think school back home is more challenging. And the percentage who think so has grown.\n\nThat's according to a new study out Wednesday from the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy. Researcher Tom Loveless in 2001 surveyed foreign exchange students, then revisited the questions in 2016. He found that the new crop of students believe more strongly that school here is easier than in their native country - and that students here don't work as hard."} | |
| {"text":" LeBron James tried to wear silly-looking sunglasses against Wizards\n\nLeBron James who suffered a scratched cornea against the Charlotte Hornets on Friday nearly made a bold - and apparently illegal - decision ahead of Saturday's matchup with the Washington Wizards. To protect his eye which was reportedly sensitive to light the Cleveland Cavaliers star tried to don a pair of ridiculous-looking sunglasses in the game. However as the 32-year-old was modeling them ahead of the game for teammate Richard Jefferson's Snapchat the NBA reportedly put the kibosh on James's highly questionable choice. According to CSN's Chris Miller the league \"did not approve\" of the shades which look an awful lot like a standard pair of Oakleys."} | |
| {"text":"Back Channel to Trump: Loyal Aide in Trump Tower Acts as Gatekeeper\n\n\nIn business, as a candidate and now as president, Mr. Trump has valued loyalty as the defining attribute in family, aides or Republicans in Congress. He does not always get it, as the defection of the Freedom Caucus last week on the health bill he was trying to pass made abundantly clear.\n\nBut Mr. Trump can always count on Ms. Graff's allegiance, and that has made Ms. Graff, from her office in Trump Tower, a major figure in the operations of the White House for a simple reason: She is believed to have a direct line to the president.\n\nWith her deep Queens accent and unerring deference to her boss (she has always referred to him as Mr. Trump or, usually, as Mr. T), Ms. Graff, 64, is a familiar voice to New York's business leaders, the nation's political reporters and now old associates hoping to circumvent the normal channels of communication to reach Mr. Trump."} | |
| {"text":" Wells Fargo profits hit by legal costs\n\nUS bank Wells Fargo has reported a fall in quarterly profits after setting aside funds for potential costs related to its fake accounts scandal. Third quarter profit fell 2% to $5.64bn (£4.6bn) from $5.8bn the year before. The scandal saw bank employees open as many as two million accounts without customers' knowledge or permission in order to meet aggressive sales targets. In September the bank was fined $185m over the illegal accounts and this week Wells Fargo boss John Stumpf resigned. Wells Fargo has fired about 5 300 employees in connection with the scandal. The bank which faces numerous federal and state investigations said expenses rose in part due to anticipated litigation costs. Third-quarter fixed costs increased to $13.3bn from $12.9bn in the previous quarter."} | |
| {"text":"AT&T pulls ads from YouTube, other Google sites\n\nAT&T doesn't want its name showing up next to videos promoting intolerance and hate. As a result, the carrier on Wednesday said it's pulling ads from YouTube and other Google \"non-search platforms.\"\n\n\"We are deeply concerned that our ads may have appeared alongside YouTube content promoting terrorism and hate,\" the company said in an email. \"Until Google can ensure this won't happen again, we are removing our ads from Google's non-search platforms.\"\n\nRival Verizon told USA Today that it has also pulled its ads."} | |
| {"text":"Chrissy Teigen\n\nPatricia Arquette and more react to United Airlines leggings incident \"After United Airlines barred two girls from boarding a flight this weekend because they were wearing leggings which the company said is part of their policy for relatives and friends of employees who travel for free on standby actors and activists have taken to social media to criticize the airline's choices in the incident. Activist Shannon Watts first tweeted the incident early Sunday writing \"A @united gate agent isn't letting girls in leggings get on flight from Denver to Minneapolis because spandex is not allowed?\" Watts is a mother of five and the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. After major news outlets picked up reports of the incident in Denver a spokesman for the airline confirmed the report to ABC News adding that two teens weren't allowed on the flight because leggings are \"not in compliance with dress code policy for company benefit travel a program that lets the airline's workers and their families travel for free, but within certain guidelines. There are different rules for these privileges because people are flying for free the spokesperson added."} | |
| {"text":" The House just voted to wipe away the FCC's landmark Internet privacy protections\n\nCongress sent proposed legislation to President Trump on Tuesday that wipes away landmark online privacy protections the first salvo in what is likely to become a significant reworking of the rules governing Internet access in an era of Republican dominance. In a party-line vote House Republicans freed Internet service providers such as Verizon AT&T and Comcast of protections approved just last year that had sought to limit what companies could do with information such as customer browsing habits app usage history location data and Social Security numbers. The rules also had required providers to strengthen safeguards for customer data against hackers and thieves."} | |
| {"text":"Shanghai Shenhua: Fire erupts at big-spending Chinese club's stadium\n\nA blaze has ripped through part of big-spending Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua's home stadium. Black smoke billowed from the Hongkou Stadium Tuesday as fire tore through one end of the 33 000-seater arena. No injuries were reported by local media and no explanation given as to the cause of the fire which started at 08.30am local time."} | |
| {"text":" Bruno: Convicted of murdering ex-girlfriend\n\ngoalkeeper makes controversial return to soccer After serving seven years in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend and feeding her to dogs Brazilian goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza is controversially back in the game signed by Boa Esporte for two years. Fans and sponsors of the Brazilian second-division side quickly denounced the move but so far Boa Esporte isn't backing down. In a lengthy post on its Facebook page Boa Esporte's president Rone Moraes da Costa says the team isn't committing any crimes by signing the 32-year-old who formerly played for one of Brazil's most famous clubs -- Flamengo -- and was tipped to line up for the national team at the 2014 World Cup on home soil."} | |
| {"text":"President Trump climbs into an 18-wheeler and pretends to be a trucker\n\n\nThat's the role the president briefly assumed Thursday when he climbed into the drivers seat of a Mack 18-wheeler parked on the South Lawn of the White House.\n\nTrump, who wore an \"I Love Trucks\" button on his lapel, tried his best to emulate a truck driver: He enthusiastically pumped his fists, made a series of facial expressions that lit up the Twittersphere, and excitedly tooted the big rig's horn at least six times.\n\nAnd Trump clearly didn't run out of gas: following his spirited session of trucker role play, he met with truckers and CEOs from the American Trucking Association to discuss healthcare."} | |
| {"text":"Girls Who Code Closing Computer Science Gender Gap\n\n\nIt's time to close the gender gap. One of the largest gaps is in one of the most high-demand and well-paid careers: computer science. Girls Who Code is a club dedicated to evening out the playing field and now it is coming to Coos Bay.\n\n\"Currently women pose only 18 percent of the computer science field,\" said Cayce Hill, youth liaison for Southwestern Oregon Workforce Investment Board, and also a senior at Marshfield High School. \"By 2020 there will be 1.4 million job openings and women will only fill 3 percent of that demand. That's worse than it was in the 1980s, and that gap is growing larger."} | |
| {"text":"School Choice Fails to Make a Difference\n\nThis is the kind of news that school-choice advocates and skeptics alike need to pay attention to: The Economist magazine reports that a team of academic economists found that students who won a lottery in Louisiana to receive vouchers to go to the public or private school of their choice did worse than students who didn't win the lottery.\n\nThis outcome flies in the face of the predictions of many economists, who often tout school choice as a way to improve the U.S. educational system while also increasing equality of opportunity. Economists typically assume that people are rational and well-informed, and will make decisions that benefit them. If giving students and their parents more school choice hurts the students academically, then something is seriously wrong with the theory."} | |
| {"text":"6-year-old got gun at LA-area school; families kept in dark\n\nRANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - Authorities learned a 6-year-old brought a gun to an elementary school outside Los Angeles, but parents of other students didn't learn about it for nearly two weeks.\n\nThe student's grandmother found the firearm in his backpack earlier in March. The Sun newspaper reported (goo.gl/3spf8z) that the child said he received it from another student in the Cucamonga School District, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Los Angeles."} | |
| {"text":"_Impossible Foods to supersize production of lab-grown burger\n\nIt's not easy to sink your teeth into one of Impossible Foods' lab-grown meatless hamburgers. After all, you can only get them at eight US restaurants.\n\nOn Wednesday, though, the company said it will bring its Impossible Burger to 1,000 eateries by year's end. To make that happen, the firm is opening a factory the size of a city block. The goal is to make at least 1 million pounds of faux burger meat every month.\n\n\"You can think of this as the birthplace of a whole new industry that's going to transform the food system,\" said Pat Brown, the former Stanford biochemistry professor who founded Impossible Foods in 2011 and serves as CEO."} | |
| {"text":"A Google computer victorious over the world's 'Go' champion\n\nOn Saturday, a Google computer clocked its third consecutive victory over Lee Se-dol, the long-reigning global champion of the world's most complex board game. That win makes the machine the clear winner in a best-of-five series.\n\nThe achievements of the Google DeepMind computer, AlphaGo, are considered a significant advancement in artificial intelligence.\n\n\"To be honest, we are a bit stunned,\" said Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, after AlphaGo's third win. \"We came here to challenge Lee Se-dol, as we wanted to learn from him and see what AlphaGo was capable of."} | |
| {"text":"Samsung Galaxy Note 7 banned on all U.S. flights due to fire hazard\n\nSamsung Galaxy Note 7 phones will be banned from all airline flights after nearly 100 incidents of the devices overheating and sometimes injuring owners, the Transportation Department announced Friday.\n\nThe Federal Aviation Administration previously urged travelers not to turn on the phones, pack them in checked luggage or charge them during a flight. The new ban is effective at noon Saturday, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.\n\n\"We recognize that banning these phones from airlines will inconvenience some passengers, but the safety of all those aboard an aircraft must take priority,\" Foxx said."} | |