| Wolff Revelations About President Ring True With Trump Biographer Posted: 07 Jan 2018 07:12 PM PST  Though Donald Trump has blasted Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury as a "fake book," a Trump biographer wrote Sunday that many of the journalist's stunning revelations ring "true to the man."
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| Wolff defends Trump reporting: 'I didn't say anything to get me thrown out' Posted: 06 Jan 2018 10:34 PM PST  Michael Wolff, author of the new book, "Fire and Fury," joins Meet the Press for an exclusive interview to explain how he gained access to the White House
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| 32 Missing As Tanker Collides With Cargo Ship In Fireball Off China Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:26 AM PST  Search and rescue workers were plying the waters off the east coast of China Saturday in a desperate hunt for 32 missing sailors after an oil tanker collided with a cargo ship.
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| Poverty Lingers in Town Where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Will Wed Posted: 07 Jan 2018 08:20 AM PST  A local leader asked police to remove the homeless from the streets of Windsor in time for the nuptials, a request that sparked outrage -- and a digital petition, with 80,000 signatures demanding police leave them alone.
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| Dozens Killed by Car Bomb in Syria, Activists Say Posted: 07 Jan 2018 11:17 AM PST  It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack
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| A Police Shootout in Troubled Southern Mexico Has Left 11 People Dead Posted: 08 Jan 2018 01:33 AM PST  Violent clashes involving gunmen, a community police force and state police killed 11 people in the troubled southern state of Guerrero on Sunday.
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| 35 Ways To Make Baked Potatoes Even More Amazing Posted: 08 Jan 2018 09:24 AM PST |
| Investors Urge Apple To Tackle ‘Growing’ Evidence Of Device Addiction In Kids Posted: 08 Jan 2018 03:13 PM PST  Two major Apple shareholders are calling on the company to do more to protect children from the potentially harmful side effects of excessive technology use.
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| Report: SEC Probing Kushner Company Role In Visas-For-Money Program Posted: 06 Jan 2018 11:43 PM PST  As Donald Trump battles to build a wall to keep Mexican immigrants out of the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission is probing the real estate company owned by the family of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and its link to a lucrative federal visa program, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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| Full Panel: Marijuana Legalization Might Be The One Thing Americans Agree On Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:57 AM PST  David Brooks, Danielle Pletka, Mark Leibovich and Joy Reid join the Meet the Press panel to talk about the fallout from the decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to enforce marijuana laws
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| In jab at rivals, Rouhani says Iran protests about more than economy Posted: 08 Jan 2018 08:47 AM PST ![In jab at rivals, Rouhani says Iran protests about more than economy]( "In jab at rivals, Rouhani says Iran protests about more than economy") By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) - In a swipe at his hardline rivals, President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday young Iranian protesters were unhappy about far more than just the economy and they would no longer defer to the views and lifestyle of an aging revolutionary elite. The pragmatic cleric, who defeated anti-Western hardliners to win re-election last year, also called for the lifting of curbs on social media used by anti-government protesters in the most sustained challenge to conservative authorities since 2009. "It would be a misrepresentation (of events) and also an insult to Iranian people to say they only had economic demands," Rouhani was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency.
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| The Latest: Rancher Cliven Bundy walks out a free man Posted: 08 Jan 2018 01:58 PM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the federal criminal case against a Nevada rancher accused of leading 2014 armed standoff against U.S. land management agents (all times local):
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| $559 Million Winning Powerball Ticket Sold In New Hampshire Convenience Store Posted: 07 Jan 2018 03:40 AM PST  The winning numbers for Saturday's estimated $570-million Powerball jackpot, the fifth-largest grand prize in the game's history, were 12, 29, 30, 33, 61 and Powerball 26.
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| 2018 Golden Globes strike a serious tone Posted: 07 Jan 2018 07:51 AM PST The Golden Globe Awards are typically a loose and boozy affair, a clubby get-together where the Champagne flows, but this year is different.
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| German chancellor 'optimistic' about forming coalition Posted: 07 Jan 2018 01:40 AM PST  Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced optimism Sunday as she headed into talks with Germany's second biggest party on forming a government, saying that she believed a deal could be forged. The week of meetings between Merkel's CDU, her Bavarian allies CSU and the Social Democrats (SPD) will examine whether both sides have enough common ground to begin formal coalition negotiations towards a new government by March or April. Merkel's Bavarian allies CSU in particular are championing a tougher stance on immigration -- including demands that are unpalatable to the SPD.
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| 8 Affordable Alternatives To Lululemon Posted: 08 Jan 2018 12:35 PM PST  Their cult-like following lives for the brand's gym-to-brunch yoga pants and functional sports bras.
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| 24 Hilariously Relatable Tweets That Describe Married Life To A T Posted: 08 Jan 2018 11:12 AM PST  No one expects every day of married life to be overflowing with wedded bliss ― that's for sure.
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| California Republican Ed Royce not seeking re-election Posted: 08 Jan 2018 04:34 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Ed Royce of California said Monday he will not seek re-election after serving out his 13th term in the House, the latest in a string of committee chairmen who have announced their retirement.
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| U.S. top court turns away challenge to Mississippi LGBT law Posted: 08 Jan 2018 07:50 AM PST ![U.S. top court turns away challenge to Mississippi LGBT law]( "U.S. top court turns away challenge to Mississippi LGBT law") The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ended the first legal challenge to a Republican-backed Mississippi law that permits businesses and government employees to refuse to serve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people because of their religious beliefs. The justices left in place a June ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the plaintiffs - same-sex couples, civil rights advocates including the head of the state NAACP chapter, a church and others - did not have legal standing to bring the lawsuit. The law, passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature and signed by Republican Governor Phillip Bryant with the backing of conservative Christian activists, has not yet been implemented and more legal challenges are expected, according to gay rights lawyers.
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| The Aircraft Carrier: The Weapon that Refuses to 'Sink' Posted: 07 Jan 2018 06:55 AM PST  The aircraft carrier is the weapon whose obituary is constantly being written, but which also refuses to die. Twenty years ago, during the height of the "revolution in military affairs" craze, the aircraft carrier was written off as a dinosaur. China and India are currently the only Asian countries operating large fixed-wing carriers, but they may soon be joined by new players, particularly Japan and South Korea (and perhaps others).
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| US company resumes search for missing flight MH370 Posted: 06 Jan 2018 06:29 PM PST  Malaysia's government said Saturday that it had approved a new attempt by a private company to find the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, nearly four years after its disappearance sparked one of aviation's biggest mysteries. The Texas-based company Ocean Infinity dispatched a search vessel this past week to look in the southern Indian Ocean for debris from the plane, which disappeared March 8, 2014, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members. The governments of Malaysia, China and Australia called off the nearly three-year official search last January. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau's final report on the search conceded that authorities were no closer to knowing the reasons for the Boeing 777's disappearance, or its exact location. "The basis of the offer from Ocean Infinity is based on 'no cure, no fee,"' said Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister, on Saturday, meaning that payment will be made only if the company finds the wreckage. "That means they are willing to search the area of 25,000 square kilometers (9,653 square miles) pointed out by the expert group near the Australian waters," he said. Investigators recovered debris from a Boeing 777 wing on Reunion Island Credit: AP However, he said, "I don't want to give too much hope ... to the (next of kin)." He said his government was committed to continuing with the search. He did not offer other details. Ocean Infinity said in a statement that the search vessel Seabed Constructor, which left the South African port of Durban on Tuesday, was taking advantage of favourable weather to move toward "the vicinity of the possible search zone". MH370 | The theories In the initial search for the plane, a 52-day surface search covered an area of several million square miles in the Indian Ocean west of Australia, before an underwater search mapped 274,000 square miles of seabed at depths of up to 20,000 feet. They were the largest aviation searches of their kind in history, according to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). Despite other methods such as studying satellite imagery and investigating ocean drifts after debris from the plane washed ashore on islands in the eastern Indian Ocean and the east coast of Africa, the 1,046-day search was called off on January 17, 2017. However, the ATSB's report said the understanding of where the plane may be is "better now than it has ever been," partly as a result of studying debris that washed ashore in 2015 and 2016 that showed the plane was "not configured for a ditching at the end-of-flight", meaning it had run out of fuel. All you need to know | MH370 The search team also looked back at satellite imagery that showed objects in the ocean that may have been MH370 debris. The report said this analysis complemented work detailed in a 2016 review and identified an area of less than 10,000 square miles — roughly the size of the US state of Vermont — that "has the highest likelihood of containing MH370". The search was extremely difficult because no transmissions were received from the aircraft after its first 38 minutes of flight. Systems designed to automatically transmit the flight's position failed to work after this point, the report said.
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| Iran's Guard claims victory against anti-government protests Posted: 07 Jan 2018 10:41 AM PST  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Revolutionary Guard said on Sunday that the nation and its security forces have ended the wave of unrest linked to anti-government protests that erupted last month.
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| Ex-Google engineer fired over gender memo sues for discrimination Posted: 08 Jan 2018 03:20 PM PST ![Ex-Google engineer fired over gender memo sues for discrimination]( "Ex-Google engineer fired over gender memo sues for discrimination") A former Google engineer fired after he asserted in a memo that biological causes were behind tech industry gender inequality sued his former employer on Monday, saying he was discriminated against as a white man with conservative political views. James Damore last year caused an uproar in Silicon Valley and beyond when he wrote the internal memo, which later became public. Google said he had perpetuated gender stereotypes and fired him in August.
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| Haley on North Korea: 'We want to always remind them, we can destroy you, too' Posted: 07 Jan 2018 04:25 AM PST  U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley discusses President Trump's response to North Korea on "This Week."
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| Monday's Morning Email: Oprah's Rousing Golden Globes Speech Sparks Chorus Of Calls For Oprah 2020 Posted: 08 Jan 2018 04:36 AM PST  TOP STORIES (And want to get The Morning Email each weekday?
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| VP Pence to travel to Middle East next week Posted: 08 Jan 2018 09:23 AM PST  US Vice President Mike Pence will leave next week on a high-stakes trip to Egypt, Jordan and Israel, a US official said Monday, moving ahead with a Middle East tour delayed amid anger over Washington's policy shift on Jerusalem. Initially set for late December, the trip was pushed back as the region reeled from deadly protests triggered by President Donald Trump's controversial decision to declare the Holy City as Israel's capital -- in a break with decades of US policy. Pence will arrive in Cairo on January 20 for a meeting with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, heading the following day to Amman for a one-on-one with King Abdullah II.
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| Debra Messing Blasts E! For Wage Inequality During E! Interview Posted: 07 Jan 2018 04:35 PM PST  E! is paying plenty of lip service to both the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements on its pre-Golden Globes red carpet coverage.
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| Man jailed for bigamy after marrying woman then her daughter without first getting divorce Posted: 08 Jan 2018 04:35 AM PST  Christopher I Hauptmann, 44, married Shannon Deitrich in Florida in November 2015. The following September, he tied the knot with her 18-year-old daughter, Kaylee Durovick, without divorcing her mother first. Authorities in Pennsylvania first became suspicious of Hauptmann – who worked as a bail bondsman – after receiving reports he was using an alias and possessed a gun, despite being prohibited from doing so because of a previous drug conviction.
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| The M27: The Automatic Rifle That Will Make the U.S. Marines Even Deadlier Posted: 06 Jan 2018 06:07 PM PST  The beloved M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle may be in more hands sooner than later. The 5.56mm M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle has remained a favorite rifle of the Marine Corps for the better part of this decade. Based on the Heckler & Koch HK416 assault rifle and adopted in 2011 to replace the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, it's widely considered more versatile and accurate over a longer range than the average weapon — so much so that the Corps has even discussed replacing every infantry Marine's M4 carbine with an IAR variant in coming years.
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| The Latest: Man dies in explosion outside Stockholm subway Posted: 07 Jan 2018 06:56 AM PST  HELSINKI (AP) — The Latest on an explosion near a subway in Stockholm (all times local):
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| Nigeria starts large scale evacuation of its citizens from Libya Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:27 AM PST ![Nigeria starts large scale evacuation of its citizens from Libya]( "Nigeria starts large scale evacuation of its citizens from Libya") By Hani Amara TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Nigeria is starting flights to evacuate thousands of its citizens from Libya which will continue until all those wanting to return home have done so, its foreign minister said on Saturday. Nigerians have recently been the largest national group among African migrants travelling to Libya and trying to cross from there to Italy by sea. Since local armed factions and Libya's coastguard began blocking more migrants from leaving in July last year, large numbers have been trapped in Libya, where they often face dire conditions and abuse, including forced labour.
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| HIV-Positive Maryland Track Coach Admits Sexually Abusing 42 Boys Posted: 08 Jan 2018 11:02 AM PST  An HIV-positive man who worked at a school and coached track pleaded guilty Friday to sexually abusing 42 underage boys
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| Jennifer Lopez Gives Stirring Support For Time's Up While Working In Puerto Rico Posted: 08 Jan 2018 07:08 AM PST  Jennifer Lopez couldn't attend Sunday night's Golden Globes for a very important reason.
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| A few dozen protesters in cold rain outside the big game Posted: 08 Jan 2018 04:49 PM PST  ATLANTA (AP) — A few dozen protesters took a knee in cold, light rain on a sidewalk near the venue of the College Football Playoff title game Monday evening, shouting slogans against President Donald Trump.
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| Saudi princes arrested for sit-in against having to pay utilities Posted: 07 Jan 2018 03:08 AM PST  Eleven Saudi princes face trial after their arrest at a sit-in protesting having to pay their utility bills, authorities said Sunday, as the monarchy pursues reforms amid hefty debt and high unemployment. Saudi Arabia's attorney general said "no one is above the law" after the princes were detained outside a palace in Riyadh, where they had gathered last week to demonstrate against a government decision to stop paying the water and electricity bills of royals. "A group of 11 princes staged a sit-in at the historic Qasr Al-Hokm palace on Thursday... objecting a recent royal order that halted payments by the state to members of the royal family to cover their electricity and water utility bills," the attorney general said.
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| Russia meddling in Mexican election: White House aide McMaster Posted: 07 Jan 2018 01:22 PM PST ![Russia meddling in Mexican election: White House aide McMaster]( "Russia meddling in Mexican election: White House aide McMaster") By David Alire Garcia and Noe Torres MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Russian government has launched a sophisticated campaign to influence Mexico's 2018 presidential election and stir up division, a senior White House official said in a video clip published by Mexican newspaper Reforma. U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said in a speech last month to the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation that there was already evidence of Russian meddling in Mexican elections set for July.
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| 2018 Ford F-150 Diesel: The Best-Selling Pickup Gets a Power Stroke Posted: 07 Jan 2018 09:01 PM PST  Diesel grunt for the half-ton pickup.
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| Sterling K. Brown Is The First Black Man To Win Golden Globe For Best Actor In Drama TV Series Posted: 07 Jan 2018 06:39 PM PST  Sterling K. Brown made Golden Globes history on Sunday night when he took home the award for Best Actor in a Drama TV series.
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| Israeli company says it has produced tiniest cherry tomato Posted: 08 Jan 2018 04:37 AM PST  MOSHAV IDAN, Israel (AP) — They say bigger is better, but in the succulent world of cherry tomatoes, one Israeli company is going smaller than ever before.
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| Steve Bannon Backpedals On Comments In New Book On Trump Posted: 07 Jan 2018 09:00 AM PST  Steve Bannon expressed "regret" for his comments to journalist Michael Wolff, whose explosive new book sparked a backlash against the former top Donald Trump aide over his comments about a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016.
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| Mom on son's hazing death: Feels like 'cat clawing at heart' Posted: 07 Jan 2018 10:02 AM PST  There are times when Mary Deng thinks her only child is still alive, that he's going to come home, that he didn't die more than four years ago in a brutal fraternity hazing ritual.
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| Thousands march in Honduras to protest president's reelection Posted: 06 Jan 2018 07:52 PM PST  Tens of thousands of people marched Saturday against the reelection of US-backed President Juan Orlando Hernandez, demanding that his rival be recognized as the real winner of the November presidential race. Supporters of the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship rallied and marched in the streets of San Pedro Sula, the country's second-largest city, calling for Salvador Nasralla, 64, to be named the winner and sworn in this month.
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