| Sexual Assault Survivor Who Confronted Jeff Flake: 'Women Will Not Be Silenced' Posted: 06 Oct 2018 12:59 PM PDT  One of the women who confronted Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) in an elevator to
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| Amazon Called For Raising The Minimum Wage. Republicans Say It's Fine As It Is, Thanks. Posted: 05 Oct 2018 11:21 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The second-largest employer in the United States thinks it's time
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| Girl scout among 34 dead found in Indonesian quake quagmire Posted: 06 Oct 2018 05:13 AM PDT  President Joko Widodo has said all of the victims of the 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck on Sept. 28 must be found. Most of the dead have been found in the region's main urban center, the small city of Palu. No one knows how many people were dragged to their deaths when the quake triggered soil liquefaction, a phenomenon that turns the ground into a roiling quagmire.
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| How conspiracy theorists have played the press Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Charlie Warzel worries that some of his own reporting on conspiracy theorists has been used by them to expand their reach.
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| Netanyahu undergoes new graft questioning Posted: 05 Oct 2018 06:36 AM PDT  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent a new round of questioning on Friday over one of several graft cases that have threatened to topple him, Israeli media reported. The veteran premier's 12th round of questioning as a suspect in various cases comes two days before his wife Sara appears in court on charges of misusing state funds for catering at their official residence. Netanyahu has not been charged in any of the cases and a spokesman on Friday reasserted the prime minister's innocence.
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| Melania Trump Bumped by Baby Elephant While on Safari During Africa Trip Posted: 05 Oct 2018 11:39 AM PDT  The first lady was pushed back by the creature, but laughed it off.
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| 'You are not alone': your reaction to Christine Blasey Ford's testimony Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before testifying to the Senate judiciary committee in Washington DC. Watching Dr Christine Blasey Ford share her traumatic experiences of sexual assault had a profound impact on women and men across the US and the world. For many, Ford's testimony dredged up painful memories of their own experiences of sexual violence, that had often been privately endured for years.
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| Double murder suspect captured, ending manhunt in Tennessee Posted: 05 Oct 2018 09:28 AM PDT  The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office announced Friday that Kirby Gene Wallace, 53, who was wanted for killing two people, was in custody.
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| Brett Kavanaugh confirmed: Donald Trump says ‘women outraged’ over Supreme Court pick’s treatment Posted: 06 Oct 2018 03:53 PM PDT  Donald Trump has said "women were outraged" at the way his Supreme Court pick was treated during the confirmation process, after senator's approved Brett Kavanaugh's appointment. Mr Trump, speaking to journalists while aboard Air Force One on his way to a political rally in Kansas, also said he was "100 per cent certain" Christine Blasey Ford "named the wrong person" as her alleged assaulter. It was a counterpoint to what Dr Ford said herself during her testimony last month, that she was "100 per cent" certain Mr Kavanaugh was the person in question.
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| South Korea jails former president Lee for 15 years on corruption charges Posted: 04 Oct 2018 11:45 PM PDT  A Seoul court on Friday jailed former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for 15 years for corruption, making him the latest in a string of high-profile political and business leaders ensnared by graft charges. Lee, in office from 2008 to 2013, is the fourth former South Korean president to be jailed, with his successor Park Geun-hye imprisoned for her role in a separate corruption scandal that toppled her from power in early 2017 and also led to jail time for Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee.
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| Pope OKs study of Vatican archives into McCarrick scandal Posted: 06 Oct 2018 12:55 PM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has authorized a "thorough study" of Vatican archives into how a prominent American cardinal advanced through church ranks despite allegations that he slept with seminarians and young priests, the Vatican said Saturday in its first response to explosive allegations of a cover-up that is roiling the papacy.
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| When Will the Next War Erupt in the Middle East? Posted: 05 Oct 2018 04:49 AM PDT  The Middle East is sitting on a powder keg. No one knows when it will blow up. What is certain is that it's likely to do so sooner rather than later.
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| The 10 Best Deals from the Macy's Columbus Day Sale Posted: 05 Oct 2018 11:31 AM PDT |
| Google shows progress in addressing competition concerns, says EU's Vestager Posted: 05 Oct 2018 10:28 AM PDT  Google's proposals to increase competition in online shopping are bearing fruit, Europe's antitrust chief said on Friday, suggesting that the company may be able to avoid further fines. Alphabet Inc's Google last year offered to allow price-comparison rivals to bid for advertising space at the top of a search page, giving them the chance to compete on equal terms, seeking to appease regulators after the European Commission fined it a record 2.4 billion euros ($2.8 billion) for favouring its own service. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said she saw further improvement since Google's first report in June showed some rivals had benefited from the company's action.
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| Tennessee Man Wanted for 2 Murders Arrested After 7 Days on the Run: Cops Posted: 05 Oct 2018 12:55 PM PDT  Kirby Wallace was arrested at about 10:15 a.m. Friday.
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| Talking Cars 171: CR Ranks Automated Driving Systems Posted: 05 Oct 2018 12:26 PM PDT   Main themes: This week our panel wades chest-deep into the partially automated driving systems that we're seeing on more of today's new cars. CR for the first time has ranked four of the most com...
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| Christine Blasey Ford’s Attorneys Reveal Statement From Corroborating Witness Posted: 05 Oct 2018 09:39 PM PDT  Christine Blasey Ford's legal team has released a statement from her friend
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| Two Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli army: Gaza ministry Posted: 05 Oct 2018 09:52 AM PDT  Two Palestinians including a 14-year-old boy were killed by Israeli fire on Friday on the Gaza border, as clashes erupted with security forces during protests, the enclave's health ministry said. Fares Hafez al-Sersawi, 14, and 24-year-old Mahmud Akram Mohammed Abu Samane, both died after being shot in the chest during demonstrations east of Gaza City, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
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| AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean Posted: 04 Oct 2018 09:01 PM PDT  This photo gallery highlights some of the top news images made by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean published in the past week.
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| China hits back after Mike Pence claims Beijing wants to kick Trump out of White House Posted: 04 Oct 2018 05:53 PM PDT  China rejected Mike Pence's charge that Beijing was meddling in American elections as "unwarranted" and "ridiculous". The US vice-president accused China of orchestrating a military, economic and political campaign to undermine Donald Trump's administration and bolster Chinese influence in America and worldwide. "China has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence American public opinion, the 2018 [midterm congressional] elections, and the environment leading into the 2020 presidential elections," Mr Pence said on Thursday. "To put it bluntly, President Trump's leadership is working, and China wants a different American president." The comments, made during a highly anticipated speech in Washington, came after Mr Trump used his platform at the United Nations General Assembly last week to allege that China was trying to interfere in November's midterm elections. Neither the president nor his deputy have provided hard evidence of meddling. Hua Chunying, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman, said on Friday that Mr Pence had "slandered" China. "This is nothing but speaking on hearsay evidence, confusing right and wrong and creating something out of thin air. The Chinese side is firmly opposed to it," she said. "It is very ridiculous for the US side to stigmatise its normal exchanges and cooperation with China as China interfering in its internal affairs and elections," Hua said. Jeremy Warner on Trump-China trade war Mr Pence's accusations aggravated an already delicate bilateral relationship given an escalating trade war, and were embarrassing to China coming as it does during the country's week-long celebrations of its founding. The harsh words also follow an incident on Sunday when a Chinese vessel came within 45 yards of a US destroyer conducting freedom-of-navigation operations in the South China Sea, forcing the US ship to quickly change course to avoid a collision. Mr Pence called the confrontation "reckless harassment". "The United States Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows and our national interests demand," he said. Over half an hour, Mr Pence condemned China's growing control at home and abroad, citing examples of religious oppression, human rights abuses, visa delays and denials for scholars, and even intimidation campaigns against Chinese students in the US. He said Beijing used rewards and coercion to influence universities, movie studios, think tanks, journalists and government officials. He also alleged that China threatened to deny a business license to a top US company if it refused to speak against the Trump administration. The raft of allegations levelled at China have raised questions as to whether Mr Trump and his aides are trying to deflect attention from an investigation of his campaign's possible ties to alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and also set up China for the blame if Republicans do poorly in November's election.
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| JBS sued by Kentucky woman over ground beef in salmonella recall Posted: 05 Oct 2018 04:12 PM PDT  The lawsuit comes one day after the U.S. Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that JBS Tolleson Inc was voluntarily pulling 6.5 million pounds of ground beef and other raw beef products that had been shipped to stores across the country. JBS Tolleson is part of JBS USA, the U.S. arm of the world's largest meatpacking company. The meat had been processed through JBS' Arizona plant, the USDA said.
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| The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who 'Discovered America' Posted: 05 Oct 2018 12:18 PM PDT  Leif Erikson Day's history is connected to nativist backlash against immigration to the United States
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| Here Are The People The FBI Didn't Ask About Brett Kavanaugh Posted: 04 Oct 2018 05:44 PM PDT  The FBI on Wednesday wrapped up its supplemental background investigation into
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| Nadia Murad: from jihadist slave to Nobel laureate Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:54 AM PDT  Nadia Murad survived the worst cruelties inflicted on her people, the Yazidis of Iraq, before becoming a global champion of their cause and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. On Friday, Murad and Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the prize for their "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war," Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said in unveiling the winners in Oslo. The 25-year-old Murad, her thin, pale face framed by her long brown hair, becomes the first Iraqi to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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| India quietly seals missile deal with Russia despite U.S. warning Posted: 05 Oct 2018 05:14 AM PDT  India agreed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 surface to air missile systems on Friday, the two sides said, as New Delhi disregarded U.S. warnings that such a purchase could trigger sanctions under U.S. law. Although there was no public signing, the deal was sealed during President Vladimir Putin's ongoing visit to New Delhi for an annual summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The United States has said countries trading with Russia's defence and intelligence sectors would face automatic sanctions under a sweeping legislation called Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).
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| Chi Chi, Golden Retriever With 4 Amputated Legs, Wins American Hero Dog Award Posted: 05 Oct 2018 10:00 AM PDT  Chi Chi has four specially fitted prostheses that allow her to walk despite having amputated legs.
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| Kavanaugh says he was 'too emotional' during testimony Posted: 05 Oct 2018 03:14 AM PDT  Senators took turns looking through the FBI's report of sexual misconduct allegations, and some remain uncertain. ABC News' Emily Rau reports.
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| How to Save on Car Transport Posted: 06 Oct 2018 03:01 AM PDT  Saving on car transport is like saving on airline tickets, says Tobie Stanger, senior money editor. Popular car transport routes tend to be less pricey on a dollar-per-mile basis. Reserving car t...
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| French police probe Interpol chief's disappearance on China trip Posted: 06 Oct 2018 07:16 AM PDT ![French police probe Interpol chief's disappearance on China trip]( "French police probe Interpol chief's disappearance on China trip") Meng's wife contacted police in Lyon, the French city where the international police agency is based, after not hearing from him since Sept. 25, and after receiving threats by phone and on social media, France's interior ministry said. A person familiar with the investigation said the initial working assumption was that Meng had antagonized Chinese authorities in some way and had been detained as a result. "France is puzzled about the situation of Interpol's president and concerned about the threats made to his wife," the ministry said, adding that it was in contact with China.
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| Social media contributed to my stroke, says Norman Lamb Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:06 PM PDT  A former health minister has said that "addictive" social media contributed to his stroke, as he warned that websites such as Twitter and Facebook could have a "distorting" effect. Norman Lamb, the Lib Dem MP, suffered a minor stroke in March that was at the time attributed to his high workload. He told The Daily Telegraph that his overuse of technology and social media was one of the causes. "I have addictive tendencies," he said. "I use social media late at night, sometimes lying in bed. It's the first thing I look at in the morning. Twitter is very addictive." Mr Lamb, 61, the MP for North Norfolk and chairman of the Commons science and technology committee that is conducting an inquiry into the effects of social media on young people, served as health minister until 2015. He said technology had increased the "pressure" on MPs, who received "instant feedback" and a "stream of tweets" after public appearances. "You get constituency case work via Facebook, Twitter, Messenger, text messages, emails, phone calls, people turning up at the office," Mr Lamb said. "There's an assumption you'll respond to an email quickly. When you leave it for a few days, there's a pressure of 'Why have you not responded?' "When I had a health shock before Easter, when I discovered I'd had a stroke, I realised I was on a treadmill. I was just struggling to keep on top of it. So I immediately said, 'Someone else can manage my email account'." Mr Lamb's committee's inquiry has heard evidence from young people who spend "all the time on social media". He is sympathetic. "Most people are capable of this drift into obsession," he said. "It's commonplace for teenagers to message each other at two in the morning... You never escape it." Mr Lamb spoke in support of The Daily Telegraph campaign calling for social media companies to have a duty of care towards their users. He said: "These are very powerful organisations making a lot of money, and they have a real moral obligation to safeguard the health and well-being of these generations growing up." However, he urged caution when it comes to regulation. "We mustn't throw the baby out with the bath water – we must be smart and intelligent in how we do this, and work from the basis of evidence," he said. Read more | Social media addiction Mr Lamb also highlighted the positive aspects of social media, which were not available when his son, Archie, was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder in his teens. "The fact that young people can access help, support, guidance on mental health issues and on how you navigate your way through challenges can be of enormous value," Mr Lamb said. "Archie is now thriving and successful in the music business but I remember the moment he was diagnosed with OCD and said 'Dad, why am I the only person going mad?'" "Since nobody else is talking about it, you think you're the only one who is experiencing this. Now, you can go to your room and type in 'OCD', and you realise that actually lots of people are."
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| The Brett Kavanaugh Vote Was A Test Of Machismo, Not Politics Posted: 05 Oct 2018 04:17 PM PDT  In the wake of professor Christine Blasey Ford's account of how Supreme Court
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| Cambodia to raise minimum wage for garment workers by $12 Posted: 05 Oct 2018 09:12 AM PDT  Cambodia hiked the monthly minimum wage for garment workers by $12 Friday from the current $170 following a election promise by premier Hun Sen. The country's $7 billion apparel industry is fuelled by more than 740,000 garment workers, who strongman Hun Sen attempted to woo before July's widely-criticised elections. Union representatives stopped short of welcoming the wage increase, which they say is not enough to address rising inflation and living expenses.
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| Car blast kills four in Turkey-backed Syrian town: reports Posted: 06 Oct 2018 02:44 PM PDT ![Car blast kills four in Turkey-backed Syrian town: reports]( "Car blast kills four in Turkey-backed Syrian town: reports") A car blast in a town controlled by Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups near the Turkish border killed at least four people on Saturday, a war monitor and local media reports said. The town of Azaz lies in a part of northern Syria that Turkey's army helped rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad to capture in 2016. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the explosion happened in an industrial area of Azaz.
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| The 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio Thinks It's a Sports Sedan Posted: 05 Oct 2018 01:45 PM PDT  Practicality comes second for this wolf in Italian overalls.
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| Congolese doctor, Yazidi activist, champions in fight against rape in war, win Nobel Peace Prize Posted: 05 Oct 2018 08:41 AM PDT  Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
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| How Trump's language led to a temporary halt to ending TPS Posted: 04 Oct 2018 06:30 PM PDT ![How Trump's language led to a temporary halt to ending TPS]( "How Trump's language led to a temporary halt to ending TPS") Judge cites claims that Trump exhibited bias in comments about nonwhite immigrants
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| First SpaceX mission with Nasa astronauts set for June 2019 Posted: 05 Oct 2018 03:39 PM PDT  Nasa has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019. It will be the first manned US launch to the orbiting research laboratory since the space shuttle program was retired in 2011, forcing US astronauts to hitch costly rides aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft. A flight on Boeing spacecraft is set to follow in August 2019. The timetable for both launches has already been postponed several times, but Nasa said on Thursday it would now be providing monthly updates on deadlines. "This new process for reporting our schedule is better; nevertheless, launch dates will still have some uncertainty, and we anticipate they may change as we get closer to launch," said Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight development at Nasa headquarters. "These are new spacecraft, and the engineering teams have a lot of work to do before the systems will be ready to fly." SpaceX Crew Dragon simulator used to train NASA astronauts who will travel to the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP Both missions are considered tests: the two astronauts transported in each flight will spend two weeks aboard the orbiting ISS before returning to Earth. In the long term, Nasa will use SpaceX and Boeing to take astronauts to the ISS for regular missions, which last about six months. SpaceX will carry out an uncrewed test in January 2019, and Boeing in March 2019. SpaceX will use its Falcon 9 rocket for its launch with a Crew Dragon capsule attached on top. Boeing's Starliner ship will be propelled into space by an Atlas V rocket made by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture with Lockheed Martin. Nasa is depending on the success of both missions as its contract with the Russian space agency expires in November 2019.
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| Sen. Mazie Hirono Calls FBI Investigation 'A Sham' As Kavanaugh Vote Nears Posted: 05 Oct 2018 06:59 AM PDT  Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) expressed strong opposition to Supreme Court
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| Ford to cut global workforce Posted: 05 Oct 2018 06:24 PM PDT  Ford unveiled plans to reduce its workforce worldwide, without specifying the extent of the plan.
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| Turkey will not leave Syria until Syrian people have an election, Erdogan says Posted: 04 Oct 2018 06:30 PM PDT  Turkey will not leave Syria until the Syrian people hold an election, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. "Whenever the Syrian people hold an election, we will leave Syria to its owners after they hold their elections," Erdogan said at a forum in Istanbul. Erdogan agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month to set up a demilitarized zone between rebel and government fighters in northern Syria.
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| Punchy Fabrics from Soane and Sunbrella and Other Great New Products This Week Posted: 05 Oct 2018 08:49 AM PDT |
