2018年12月5日星期三

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Down but not out yet, GOP seeks to hamstring incoming Dem governors

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 12:47 PM PST

Down but not out yet, GOP seeks to hamstring incoming Dem governorsFollowing Democratic successes in the midterm elections, Republican legislatures in Michigan and Wisconsin are looking to limit the power of incoming officials via lame-duck session power grabs.


Bob Dole Rises From Wheelchair In Emotional Salute To George H.W. Bush

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 06:27 PM PST

Bob Dole Rises From Wheelchair In Emotional Salute To George H.W. BushFormer Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) was lifted out of his wheelchair Tuesday to give


Rudy Giuliani Goes Full Conspiracy Theorist Because He Doesn't Understand The Internet

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 03:35 AM PST

Rudy Giuliani Goes Full Conspiracy Theorist Because He Doesn't Understand The InternetRudy Giuliani pushed out a conspiracy theory about Twitter on Tuesday because


Walmart's newest in-store technology will give customers access to millions of more items than before

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 04:41 AM PST

Walmart's newest in-store technology will give customers access to millions of more items than beforePart of the allure of online shopping is not having seemingly infinite choices


Dems threaten to block Republican from taking seat amid election fraud investigation

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 03:38 AM PST

Dems threaten to block Republican from taking seat amid election fraud investigationThe incoming Democratic House Majority Leader said his party may block a North Carolina Republican from taking his seat in Congress amid an election fraud investigation.


The Latest: Inmate moved to death watch as execution looms

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 11:37 AM PST

The Latest: Inmate moved to death watch as execution loomsNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on Thursday's scheduled execution of a Tennessee inmate (all times local):


New Caledonia, Vanuatu order evacuations after powerful quake, but suffer little impact

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 11:08 PM PST

New Caledonia, Vanuatu order evacuations after powerful quake, but suffer little impactNew Caledonia and Vanuatu ordered coastal evacuations on Wednesday after a powerful undersea earthquake triggered tsunami warnings in the South Pacific, but appeared to have suffered little damage. The quake https://tmsnrt.rs/2QdrtkL of magnitude 7.6, which struck east of New Caledonia, was just 10 km (6 miles) deep and about 155 km (95 miles) east-southeast of the Loyalty Islands, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said. "The good news is, we have had no injuries or damage," said Oliver Ciry, a spokesman for New Caledonia's directorate for civil protection and risk management, adding that abnormal movements of the sea off the east coast and around the Loyalty Islands had been spotted earlier.


5.1 million pounds of beef added to nationwide recall due to salmonella outbreak

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 06:58 AM PST

5.1 million pounds of beef added to nationwide recall due to salmonella outbreakOver 12 million pounds of beef products have been recalled due to a massive


Yahoo News Explains: Can Republicans restrict Democratic power in Wisconsin and Michigan?

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 07:48 AM PST

Yahoo News Explains: Can Republicans restrict Democratic power in Wisconsin and Michigan?Democrats won governorships in Wisconsin and Michigan last month, and now Republicans are trying to limit the power of the new governors.


Sully The Service Dog Arrives To View Owner George H.W. Bush's Casket

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 11:36 AM PST

Sully The Service Dog Arrives To View Owner George H.W. Bush's CasketFormer President George H.W. Bush's unfairly maligned service dog, Sully, was


Ocasio-Cortez says climate crisis will be the moon landing, civil rights movement and Great Society of this generation

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 07:09 AM PST

Ocasio-Cortez says climate crisis will be the moon landing, civil rights movement and Great Society of this generationRep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said fighting climate change will require bold action akin to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal or NASA's Apollo program.


26 Gifts Your Coffee-Obsessed Friends Want This Year

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 07:12 AM PST

26 Gifts Your Coffee-Obsessed Friends Want This Year


Death-row inmate awaits court rulings, clemency decision

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 01:07 PM PST

Death-row inmate awaits court rulings, clemency decisionNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate was waiting Wednesday to see whether the U.S. Supreme Court or the governor would halt his Thursday execution in the electric chair.


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Demands 'Living Wage' For Hill Workers

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 02:05 PM PST

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Demands 'Living Wage' For Hill WorkersNew York Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing hard on her demands that Congress pay its staffers and interns a living wage.


PETA ridiculed, criticized for comparing 'speciesism' with racism, homophobia and ableism

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 09:25 AM PST

PETA ridiculed, criticized for comparing 'speciesism' with racism, homophobia and ableismPETA's Twitter call for an end to "anti-animal" language is drawing a combination of ridicule and condemnation.


Michelle Obama Was Just As Boy Crazy As The Rest Of Us In High School

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 02:25 PM PST

Michelle Obama Was Just As Boy Crazy As The Rest Of Us In High SchoolBefore she was the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama was just


Fifteen migrants die in boat off Libya, Egyptian survivor says

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 06:59 AM PST

Fifteen migrants die in boat off Libya, Egyptian survivor saysFifteen migrants have died in a boat off the Libyan coast after spending 12 days at sea without food or water, an Egyptian survivor said on Tuesday. Only 10 migrants from the capsized boat survived, all of whom were suffering from severe dehydration, Othman Belbeisi, head of the U.N. migration agency IOM in Libya, said on Twitter. The owner of a beach chalet found the migrants washing up on the shore near the city of Misrata and called authorities, who brought them to the Red Crescent relief service and hospitals, residents said.


In Stunning Power Grab, Wisconsin Republicans Pass Bill Weakening New Governor

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 06:42 AM PST

In Stunning Power Grab, Wisconsin Republicans Pass Bill Weakening New GovernorWisconsin's lame-duck, Republican-controlled state Legislature passed on


Before He Was President, George HW Bush Was The Man Who Fixed The CIA

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 10:07 AM PST

Before He Was President, George HW Bush Was The Man Who Fixed The CIABefore George H.W. Bush found himself seated in the Oval Office, he was appointed by former President Gerald Ford to be director of the then scandal-ridden CIA. As reported by the Daily Beast, it wasn't exactly Bush's first choice, given that he had been on the shortlist to be Ford's vice-president. The climate at the agency at the time didn't appeal to Bush either, and he felt that Ford was trying to kill his political career with the unexpected appointment.


Save US-Russia nuclear treaty, EU urges

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 08:23 AM PST

Save US-Russia nuclear treaty, EU urgesEU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini on Wednesday urged Russia and the US to save a Cold War arms control treaty after Washington issued a 60-day ultimatum to Moscow. The United States said it would pull out of the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty unless Moscow withdraws a new cruise missile system that has threatened to trigger a new arms race. Mogherini pleaded for the treaty to be saved, warning that Europe did not want to become a battlefield for global powers once again, as it had been during the Cold War.


Honduras mother waits 8 years for lost migrant son to return

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 04:42 AM PST

Honduras mother waits 8 years for lost migrant son to returnSAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — Haydee Posadas had waited eight years for her son to come home. On the last night of her long vigil, she was too agitated to sleep.


The Longest-Serving Congressman In History Wants To Abolish The Senate

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 08:18 AM PST

The Longest-Serving Congressman In History Wants To Abolish The SenateA man who served Congress for more than 59 years says he could fix its broken


Female homeowner a 'hero' after killing prison escapee, sheriff says

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 10:27 AM PST

Female homeowner a 'hero' after killing prison escapee, sheriff saysPickens County Sheriff Rick Clark said the victim "saved her life and stopped the bad guy."


Medtronic to pay $51 million to resolve U.S. medical device probes

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 03:55 PM PST

Medtronic to pay $51 million to resolve U.S. medical device probesMedtronic Plc said on Tuesday it would pay $50.9 million to resolve U.S. Justice Department probes into how companies it later acquired marketed medical devices, including one meant to treat a vascular defect in the brain. As part of the accord, ev3 Inc, which Medtronic now owns, will pay $17.9 million and plead guilty to a charge related to its marketing of a neurovascular medical device for unproven and potentially dangerous uses, federal prosecutors in Boston said. The misdemeanor charge relates to the Onyx Liquid Embolic System, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2005 approved for the limited use of blocking blood flow to arteriovenous malformations in the brain.


George W. Bush and Michelle Obama share in sweet tradition at late George H.W. Bush's funeral

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 09:38 AM PST

George W. Bush and Michelle Obama share in sweet tradition at late George H.W. Bush's funeralFormer President George W. Bush and former first lady Michelle Obama shared a


These Amazing Paleo Recipes Make Eating Low-Carb Incredibly Easy

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 02:26 PM PST

These Amazing Paleo Recipes Make Eating Low-Carb Incredibly Easy


Animal Shelter Says Starved Great Dane Ate Its Own Foot To Survive

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 03:31 PM PST

Animal Shelter Says Starved Great Dane Ate Its Own Foot To SurviveA severely starved dog chewed off his own foot to survive, a South Carolina


What Washington Post Employees Actually Think About Amazon

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 01:03 PM PST

What Washington Post Employees Actually Think About AmazonA little over five years ago, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos bought The


Detailed Photos of an Aston Martin DB6 Electric Conversion

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 12:00 PM PST

Detailed Photos of an Aston Martin DB6 Electric Conversion


Union: Chicago teachers stage 1st US charter school strike

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 12:50 PM PST

Union: Chicago teachers stage 1st US charter school strikeCHICAGO (AP) — Teachers employed by a Chicago charter school network took to the picket lines Tuesday in what their union described as the first strike at any of the privately run, taxpayer-funded schools in the U.S.


How The Michigan GOP Gutted A Minimum Wage Hike And Paid Sick Leave

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 09:30 AM PST

How The Michigan GOP Gutted A Minimum Wage Hike And Paid Sick LeaveRepublican lame-duck state legislators in Michigan voted this week to gut a


Iran wants to expand missile range despite U.S. opposition

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 06:45 AM PST

Iran wants to expand missile range despite U.S. oppositionIran wants to increase its missiles' range, a senior military official was quoted as saying on Tuesday, a move that would irk the United States which views Tehran's weapons program as a regional security threat. U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of an international nuclear agreement in May and reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic, criticizing the deal for not including curbs on Iran's development of ballistic missiles. "One of our most important programs is increasing the range of missiles and ammunition," said the head of the Iranian air force, Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.


Turkey seeks arrest of Saudi crown prince aides over Khashoggi

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 11:39 AM PST

Turkey seeks arrest of Saudi crown prince aides over KhashoggiA Turkish court issued arrest warrants Wednesday for two suspects close to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, increasing pressure on the kingdom's de facto leader. The chief prosecutor's office in Istanbul filed an application on Tuesday to obtain the warrants for Ahmad al-Assiri and Saud al-Qahtani, described in court documents as being "among the planners" of Khashoggi's grisly killing. Then on Wednesday, an Istanbul court issued the arrest warrants for Assiri and Qahtani on the charge of "deliberately killing (someone) with monstrous feeling or causing torment", according to state news agency Anadolu.


Cruise Critic editors reveal their picks for the top cruises of 2018

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 03:20 AM PST

Cruise Critic editors reveal their picks for the top cruises of 2018A luxury liner that features the cuisine of triple Michelin-starred chef Thomas Keller and a newly christened ship that takes guests on a "magic carpet" ride are some of the big winners of the Cruise Critic Editors' Pick Awards for 2018. 


Sully's new mission

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 01:37 AM PST

Sully's new missionMany are wondering what's next for George H.W. Bush's loyal service dog after spending the last months of the former president's life by his side. ABC News' Terrell Brown reports.


Size-Inclusive Lingerie Brands To Support If You're Over Victoria's Secret

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 03:02 PM PST

Size-Inclusive Lingerie Brands To Support If You're Over Victoria's SecretFor more than 20 years the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show has filled


5 Holiday Party Ideas That Have Nothing To Do With Ugly Sweaters

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 02:49 PM PST

5 Holiday Party Ideas That Have Nothing To Do With Ugly SweatersThe holidays are here, and so are the fun parties.


Most popular dog names 2018: Expect to hear Cardi B and "Black Panther" at the dog park

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 05:00 AM PST

Most popular dog names 2018: Expect to hear Cardi B and "Black Panther" at the dog parkDogs named after the "Bodak Yellow" artist rose by 1,000 percent.


Climate talks shift to nitty-gritty details of Paris accord

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 11:50 AM PST

Climate talks shift to nitty-gritty details of Paris accordKATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Negotiators at the U.N. climate talks got down to the nitty-gritty task Tuesday of finalizing the rules for the Paris accord, a landmark agreement by countries three years ago to curb global warming.


Ukraine Leader Renews Plea to West After Muted Response on Russia

Posted: 05 Dec 2018 02:21 AM PST

Ukraine Leader Renews Plea to West After Muted Response on RussiaWith initial talk of tighter sanctions now fading and Russia so far paying little cost for firing on Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait last month, President Petro Poroshenko reiterated calls for action from the West. "While Western partners make strong statements, Putin acts," Poroshenko told Bloomberg Television on Tuesday in an interview, urging better cooperation among Ukraine's partners.


U.S. Republican campaign emails hacked months before election

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 03:59 PM PST

U.S. Republican campaign emails hacked months before electionWASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Email accounts for a campaign group supporting Republicans candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives were hacked before this year's congressional elections, according to a person familiar with the investigation. Hackers used National Republican Congressional Committee credentials to access a "small number" of email accounts at the organisation, which is also known as the NRCC, said the person, who was not authorized to discuss details of the attack. NRCC spokesman Ian Prior confirmed the group was the victim of a cyberattack by an unknown party, but disputed that stolen passwords were used.


Roger Stone Refuses To Provide Documents, Interview With Judiciary Committee: Lawyer

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 03:12 PM PST

Roger Stone Refuses To Provide Documents, Interview With Judiciary Committee: LawyerRoger Stone, a longtime associate and friend of President Donald Trump, said


Everything We Know about the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500

Posted: 04 Dec 2018 10:31 AM PST

Everything We Know about the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500The new supercharged super Stang packs more than 700 horsepower, looks mean, and arrives soon.


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