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It’d be great if reporters stopped handing President Trump ammunition for his attacks on the press. Reuters’ Joseph Menn, for example, discovered prior to the 2018 midterm races that former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, was a member of the infamous Cult of the Dead Cow hacking group in the 1980s. As a contributor to the group, the former congressman penned a whole lot of deeply weird and poorly aged fiction…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a lower court ruling that found that the owner of a Hawaii bed and breakfast violated a state anti-discrimination law by turning away a lesbian couple, citing Christian beliefs. The justices refused to hear an appeal by Phyllis Young, who runs the three-room Aloha Bed & Breakfast in Honolulu, of the ruling that she ran afoul of Hawaii’s…

A safety analysis of a new software program that was installed on Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft reportedly had crucial flaws. Boeing is facing scrutiny over the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), a software program that was created to help its new planes avoid stalling in mid-air. The 737 MAX was developed to be more fuel efficient and compete with a popular model released by Airbus, but its bigger engines gave…

Shibani Mahtani March 18 at 6:58 AM WELLINGTON, New Zealand —  Some rushed to their trusted online dealers and stores to stock up on semiautomatic assault-style rifles. Others unlocked their secure cabinets, picked up their firearms and turned them in to police stations, no questions asked.  The estimated quarter of a million gun owners across this largely quiet, peaceful South Pacific country, many of them dedicated hunters, are bracing for…

Video The violent deaths of multiple Ferguson activists lead some to believe something sinister is at play The violent deaths of multiple Ferguson activists lead some to believe something sinister is at play, while police say the deaths have nothing to do with the 2014 protests. The sometimes-violent deaths of a half-dozen men linked to the 2014 protests that rocked Ferguson, Mo., including two found in burning cars and three who…

If former Vice President Joe Biden runs in 2020, his newfound wealth could give his Democratic and GOP opponents an opening to attack him as disingenuous, or at least less than advertised. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images 2020 Elections The former VP on the brink of a likely presidential campaign has done quite well financially since leaving office in 2017. By HOLLY OTTERBEIN and MARC CAPUTO 03/18/2019 05:01 AM EDT “Middle-Class…

Nick Sifuentes was stuck in traffic. “Driving into the most transit dense area in the U.S., that’s a choice people make. I made that choice today and I’m regretting it,” the executive director of the Tri-State Transit Commission (TSTC) told NBC News as he made his way into the New York City last week. But Sifuentes takes his remorse one step further than average commuter. “I should pay for my…

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President Donald Trump spent the early part of his St. Patrick’s Day making waves on Twitter, taking aim at a number of people and issues that he had also sounded off on the day before. Trump started the morning by slamming “Saturday Night Live” for its repeated jokes about his presidency, even calling for federal regulation of the comedy show in a pair of tweets. The show had aired a…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Airlines The U.S. Department of Transportation is investigating whether there were lapses in the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval of Boeing planes involved in two recent fatal crashes, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The DOT probe was launched after a new Boeing 737 Max 8 operated by Indonesia’s Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea in October last year, according to the Journal, which…

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FERGUSON, Mo. — Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose. Six deaths, all involving men with connections to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, drew attention on social media and speculation in the activist community that something sinister was at play. Police say there is no evidence the deaths have anything to do with…

Christchurch residents have paid tribute to victims of the mosque attacks as families waited for authorities to release the bodies for burials on Sunday. The death toll in the New Zealand mosque shootings rose to 50 after police found another body in one of the mosques. An overwhelmed hospital was forced to delay surgeries as it struggled to cope with the sheer number of wounded. Thirty-four…

(Reuters) – Boeing Co said on Sunday it was finalizing the development of a software upgrade and a revision of pilot training for its 737 MAX, the plane that has suffered two fatal crashes in the last five months. The updates are intended to address how the aircraft’s flight control system – MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) – responds to erroneous sensor inputs, the planemaker said here in a statement….

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NASHVILLE — A Nash County man wanted in connection with the slaying of his wife was arrested Sunday just outside Tucson, Ariz., after state police there halted him in a traffic stop, authorities said. Lynn Keel, 57, was alone and driving a pickup truck in the Grand Canyon State when Nash County Communications received a tip about him being sighted on Interstate 10, Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone said Sunday at a news…

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Christchurch, New Zealand – In a quiet corner of Memorial Park Cemetery, the graves dug out for the dozens of Muslim worshippers murdered in the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s modern history stretch out, row upon row, in every direction. Around them sit mounds of excavated soil, waiting to fill in the gaping holes carefully carved out of the earth. Elsewhere, grieving mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers,…