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Horrified mom discovers suicide instructions on YouTube Kids

Warning: This article features disturbing content and mentions of suicide.  Video promoting self-harm tips -- spliced between clips of a popular video game -- has surfaced at least twice on YouTube and YouTube Kids since July, according to a pediatrician…

Lily & Madeleine on finding their "third voice"

Sisters Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz got their start singing cover songs and posting them online. When their videos caught the interest of a music producer, their recording and performing career was borne. "Did you have to negotiate this all at…

Mueller files redacted Paul Manafort sentencing memo

Special counsel Robert Mueller has filed a redacted memo on sentencing recommendations for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Friday had been the deadline for the filing, although that process appears to have been slowed by the redaction process. The…

Judge sets $1 million bond for R. Kelly

A Cook County, Illinois, judge set a $1 million bond for R. Kelly, a day after he was charged with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse. The R&B singer turned himself in to Chicago police late Friday. Kelly is accused…

An artist with cerebral palsy, and without limitations

Artist Ellen Kane's vibrant paintings have gained notoriety for their unique combination of shapes and textures, but what makes them even more unique is that Kane lives with cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that affects muscular dexterity. Kane has limited…

Trump vows to veto move to block emergency declaration

16 states sue over Trump's national emergency President Trump is pledging a veto if Congress passes a resolution blocking his use of a national emergency declaration to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Mr. Trump told reporters at the…

Peter Frampton reveals he has rare muscular disease

Peter Frampton, the legendary guitarist whose 1976 record, "Frampton Comes Alive," is still one of the best-selling live albums of all time, has revealed that he will stop touring because of a rare degenerative muscular disease. The musician announced on…

Microsoft workers protest use of HoloLens headsets for war

A group of Microsoft workers is demanding the company cancel a contract supplying the U.S. Army with HoloLens headsets that they say would turn real-world battlefields into a video game. Microsoft's head-mounted HoloLens displays use augmented reality, which means viewers…

NASA, SpaceX set for critical test flight

NASA managers held a flight readiness review Friday and cleared SpaceX to press ahead with work to ready a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon commercial ferry ship for launch March 2 on an unpiloted test flight to the International…

American, Singapore Airlines have cameras in seat backs

Now there's one more place where you could be watched — 30,000 feet in the air. Newer seat-back entertainment systems on some airplanes operated by American Airlines and Singapore Airlines have cameras, and it's likely they are also on planes…

Kraft Heinz sees $16 billion in market value vanish

The maker of Jell-O, Oscar Mayer hot dogs and Kraft macaroni and cheese may need to switch up its menu. Kraft Heinz sideswiped Wall Street with an assortment of bad news on Thursday, starting with a huge loss from the…

Feinstein's heated exchange with students goes viral

Sen. Dianne Feinstein had a heated exchange with a group of middle and high school students who asked her to sign the Green New Deal in a clip that went viral Friday. Activists from the Sunrise Movement, a youth climate-change…

Calif. governor orders more DNA testing in 1983 murders

Sacramento, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered additional DNA testing Friday on evidence that a death-row inmate says will prove his innocence in a 35-year-old murder case that has drawn national attention.  Former Gov. Jerry Brown previously ordered testing…

50 mph winds, possible "bomb cyclone" to hit Michigan

Michigan will be hit this weekend with a low-pressure system that has the potential to turn into a "bomb cyclone," meteorologists said Friday. Strong wind gusts in excess of 50 mph are possible Sunday, the National Weather Service. The severe…

Airmen killed during WWII crash honored with flyover

London — American and British military aircraft flew together on Friday over Endcliffe Park in Sheffield, honoring the American crew of the B-17 named Mi Amigo. Thousands cheered the planes, and 82-year-old Tony Foulds. When he was just 8, Foulds…

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