| Vladimir Putin And Saudi Crown Prince Pal Around At G20 Summit Posted: 30 Nov 2018 10:13 AM PST  Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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| Striking images from Alaska after earthquake rocks Anchorage Posted: 30 Nov 2018 01:07 PM PST  A powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday shook buildings, collapsed roads and triggered at least nine aftershocks — producing a lot of dramatic photos and footage.
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| Take a number: Migrants, blocked at the border, wait their turn to apply for asylum Posted: 30 Nov 2018 01:08 PM PST  On the ground in Juarez, where migrants seeking asylum are given a number – written on their arms – and sent away to wait.
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| Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman exchange friendly handshake at G-20 Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:25 AM PST  Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greet each other with very friendly handshake as the leaders gather at the G-20 Summit in Argentina
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| GM CEO Plans Meeting With Lawmakers on Plant Cutbacks, Sources Say Posted: 30 Nov 2018 01:49 PM PST ![GM CEO Plans Meeting With Lawmakers on Plant Cutbacks, Sources Say]( "GM CEO Plans Meeting With Lawmakers on Plant Cutbacks, Sources Say") Among the lawmakers planning to meet with GM's Mary Barra are Democratic Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Gary Peters of Michigan, according to the aides who asked not to be identified. Another congressional staffer said Barra planned to meet with representatives states affected by the company's planned cutbacks, which were announced Monday.
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| Marriott says Starwood database hacked Posted: 30 Nov 2018 04:28 AM PST  Marriott said on Friday that a guest reservation database of its Starwood Hotel brand was breached, potentially exposing information on 500 million guests.
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| Mueller's Russia investigation picks up steam, and so do Trump's tweets Posted: 30 Nov 2018 01:21 PM PST  The president's Twitter messages belie a very tough week in the special counsel's investigation into his campaign's ties with Russia.
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| PHOTOS: Aftershocks shake Alaska after back-to-back earthquakes Posted: 01 Dec 2018 01:55 PM PST  Aftershocks on Saturday continued to fray nerves in Alaska. There have been 545 aftershocks, including the 5.7 magnitude shaker that came almost immediately after Friday's big quake measuring 7.0. Eleven have had magnitudes of 4.5 or greater.
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| Women Sleep Better With Dogs Than With Human Partners, Study Says Posted: 30 Nov 2018 10:46 AM PST  For the best sleep of your life, tell your partner to hightail it to the couch
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| 3 dead, 8 injured in immigrant smuggling attempt at border Posted: 30 Nov 2018 07:46 PM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — An attempt to smuggle immigrants into the country illegally ended with three people dead and eight seriously injured in a crash in a remote, rugged area of California near the Mexico border, authorities said.
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| Israel bombs Syria in 'first strike' since air defences were upgraded Posted: 30 Nov 2018 04:21 AM PST  Israel struck several positions south of Damascus in the first strikes since Syrian air defences were upgraded following the accidental downing of a Russian plane in September, a war monitor said Friday. Damascus claimed its air defence systems shot down all "hostile targets" late Thursday. Israel did not confirm carrying out raids but denied any losses. According to the Syria Observatory for Human Rights, the strikes hit two positions in the south of Damascus province, including an area believed to be an Iranian weapons depot near the capital. "Israeli forces bombarded for an hour," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said. Two missiles hit "weapons depots belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah (militant group) as well as Iranian forces" in Kisweh. Another missile hit the area of Harfa, where there is a Syrian military base, the Britain-based monitor said. In Kisweh, "the depots that were targeted are used to temporarily store rockets until they are taken somewhere else," Abdel Rahman said. "It appears the Israelis had intelligence that weapons had arrived there recently," he said. The state news agency said the attack was foiled and did not admit to any losses. "Our air defences fired on hostile targets over the Kisweh area and downed them," SANA said, citing a military source. A military source quoted by the pro-government Al-Watan daily said "the aggression, despite its intensity, was not able to implement any of its goals and all enemy bodies were downed." Initial reports by the Observatory suggested there were no casualties. The Israeli military denied any of its assets were hit but stopped short of denying it had conducted strikes at all. "Reports regarding an IDF (Israeli military) aircraft or an airborne IDF target having been hit are false," it said in an English-language statement. It said a Syrian surface-to-air missile was fired in the direction of an open area of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights but it was unclear if it had hit Israeli-held territory.
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| Saudi prince was in constant touch with Khashoggi hit-squad boss: report Posted: 01 Dec 2018 10:51 AM PST  In the hours leading up to journalist Jamal Khashoggi's brutal killing, Saudi Arabia's crown prince sent at least 11 messages to his closest advisor who was charged with overseeing the murder, the Wall Street Journal said Saturday quoting a CIA assessment. The Journal said it had reviewed excerpts of the highly classified intelligence document, which relied on electronic intercepts and other clandestine information.
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| Don Lemon Gives Blistering Review Of Donald Trump's G20 Performance: 'Weak, Weak, Weak' Posted: 01 Dec 2018 01:01 AM PST  CNN's Don Lemon has examined why President Donald Trump seemed unwilling to
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| Laura Loomer: Alt-right commentator chains herself to Twitter HQ after being banned but gives up after two hours Posted: 30 Nov 2018 01:49 AM PST  Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist and activist, handcuffed herself to the front door of Twitter's headquarters in New York City on Thursday, after she was banned from the platform for hate speech. The 25-year-old was permanently banned from the social media platform on 21 November after she posted a tweet attacking Ilhan Omar, an incoming congresswoman who is Muslim. Ms Loomer's tweet, which accused the politician of being "anti Jewish" and supporting sharia law, was deemed by Twitter to have violated the company's rules against hateful conduct.
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| Friday Rewind: Chaos at the southern border Posted: 30 Nov 2018 05:31 AM PST  Border Patrol officers fire tear gas as dozens of migrants rush a border fence.
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| Louisiana gets $11M settlement in interest rate manipulation Posted: 01 Dec 2018 11:23 AM PST ![Louisiana gets $11M settlement in interest rate manipulation]( "Louisiana gets $11M settlement in interest rate manipulation") BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is receiving $11 million as its share of a multistate settlement with Deutsche Bank over the manipulation of a key benchmark involving global interest rates.
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| Trump's 'Remain In Mexico' Border Deal Has Serious Legal Problems Posted: 30 Nov 2018 02:45 AM PST  President Donald Trump's plan to make Central American asylum-seekers wait in
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| Here’s The Excruciating Audio Of Mic’s Co-founder Telling Everyone It’s Over Posted: 30 Nov 2018 05:59 AM PST  At an all-hands meeting in New York on Thursday morning, Chris Altchek stood
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| Pompeo: no intelligence directly links Saudi prince to Khashoggi killing Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:00 PM PST  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday he has seen all the intelligence possessed by the United States on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and repeated that no direct evidence links Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the incident. "I have read every piece of intelligence that is in the possession of United States government," Pompeo said in an interview with broadcaster CNN in Buenos Aires on the sidelines of the G20 summit. "When it is done, when you complete that analysis, there's no direct evidence linking him to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
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| YouPorn bans Starbucks products from its offices after the cafe chain bans porn Posted: 01 Dec 2018 07:54 AM PST  Starbucks doesn't want customers using each cafe's free WiFi to look at porn. Now, YouPorn has apparently responded with a blanket ban on Starbucks products in its offices. The coffee company confirmed on Thursday that a plan is in motion to prevent customers from accessing online pornography over in-store WiFi. "We have identified a solution to prevent this content from being viewed within our stores and we will begin introducing it to our U.S. locations in 2019," a spokesperson said. SEE ALSO: Deaf and hard-of-hearing customers in the U.S. celebrate Starbucks' first 'Signing Store' That's probably a smart move for a family-friendly business like Starbucks, but YouPorn had a little fun with the news. In an internal memo obtained by Forbes, YouPorn vice president Charlie Hughes imposed a blanket ban on Starbucks products in the company's offices, effective Jan. 1, 2019. "In light of the news that Starbucks has blocked customers from searching and viewing adult content within their establishments, Starbucks products will officially be banned from the YouPorn offices," Hughes wrote. (A YouPorn spokesperson later confirmed to Forbes the authenticity of the memo.) It's hard to imagine an employer actually taking disciplinary action against one of its workers over their coffee brand preference. Maybe Hughes is serious, but the more likely explanation is this memo "leak" is just a clever public relations move aimed at getting YouPorn into a few headlines. In which case, job well done. In the dumpster fire that is our current 24-hour news cycle, YouPorn's silly, hopefully non-serious clapback at this sensible move from Starbucks amounts to a welcome break. WATCH: Join us in ogling these Starbucks holiday drinks from around the world
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| The Latest: Officer's lawyer says indictment not surprising Posted: 30 Nov 2018 04:10 PM PST  DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on a former Dallas police officer indicted for fatally shooting an unarmed black man in his apartment (all times local):
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| U.S.-backed Syrian fighters say they hold Islamic State leader's assistant Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:19 AM PST ![U.S.-backed Syrian fighters say they hold Islamic State leader's assistant]( "U.S.-backed Syrian fighters say they hold Islamic State leader's assistant") U.S.-backed fighters in Syria have captured a senior Islamic State leader who served as an assistant to the group's self-declared "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they said on Friday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia alliance that holds the quarter of Syria east of the Euphrates, detained Osama al-Awaid last week, it said in a statement. SDF fighters have been attempting to take Islamic State's last Syrian pocket of territory on the banks of the Euphrates near Iraq for weeks, in an offensive backed by U.S.-led air strikes.
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| FAA says 3 believed aboard when jet crashed in Indiana woods Posted: 30 Nov 2018 04:49 PM PST  MEMPHIS, Ind. (AP) — A Chicago-bound jet crashed in southern Indiana shortly after taking off from a local airport Friday, and investigators believe everyone on board the small twin-engine plane was killed, according to police.
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| Trump argues tariffs with Xi after tense G20 summit Posted: 01 Dec 2018 02:48 PM PST  US President Donald Trump sat down for a tariffs showdown over dinner with China's leader Saturday after upending another international forum by snubbing G20 action on trade disputes and climate change. Trump and President Xi Jinping met in Buenos Aires, shortly after the annual summit of the world's leading economic powers concluded with a watered-down statement described by one G20 expert as the "lowest common denominator" of international diplomacy. "The relationship is very special -- the relationship that I have with President Xi -- and I think that is going to be a very primary reason why we will probably end up getting something that will be good for China and the United States," Trump said at the start of the dinner.
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| Jim Parsons Spoils Kaley Cuoco's Birthday Cake Surprise In Sitcom-Like Flub Posted: 30 Nov 2018 11:07 AM PST  Jim Parsons may be a wonderful co-star for Kaley Cuoco on "The Big Bang
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| California mudslide concerns Posted: 30 Nov 2018 05:41 AM PST  Heavy rains in areas left barren by wildfires cause flashfloods throughout the state. ABC News' Janai Norman reports.
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| EU will extend Russia sanctions in December: Tusk Posted: 30 Nov 2018 05:08 AM PST ![EU will extend Russia sanctions in December: Tusk]( "EU will extend Russia sanctions in December: Tusk") The European Union will extend its existing economic sanctions on Russia next month, a top official with the bloc said on Friday after Moscow's action against Ukraine's navy in the Sea of Azov. European Council President Donald Tusk will chair a summit of EU leaders on Dec. 13-14, which is due to roll over for another year the bloc's measures against Russia's defense, energy and banking sectors, punishment for Moscow's role in the turmoil in Ukraine.
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| Mall shooting suspects agrees on return to Alabama Posted: 30 Nov 2018 12:29 PM PST  ATLANTA (AP) — A man suspected in an Alabama mall shooting that resulted in police killing another black man on Thanksgiving agreed Friday to return home from Georgia to face charges.
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| Your Taco Tuesday Partner-In-Crime Needs This Hilarious Doormat Posted: 30 Nov 2018 12:03 PM PST |
| Immigrant deported after seeking refuge in N Carolina church Posted: 29 Nov 2018 07:46 PM PST  DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A Mexican immigrant who sought refuge in a North Carolina church for nearly a year was deported Thursday, federal authorities said.
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| Trump Meets MBS, Family Fights, Ukraine Statement: G20 Update Posted: 30 Nov 2018 03:29 PM PST  The highlight promises to be a highly anticipated dinner between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday, when the two men will discuss de-escalating their battle over trade. The two-day meeting in Buenos Aires is being closely watched for its unscripted moments, particularly how leaders interact with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman amid the global outcry over the murder of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi.
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| Leftist Lopez Obrador sworn in as Mexico president Posted: 01 Dec 2018 02:01 PM PST  Anti-establishment leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed a "deep and radical" change in Mexico as he swore in as the country's president Saturday, after winning a landslide election victory. The leader, widely known by his initials as "AMLO," took the oath of office and donned the presidential sash before Congress -- where the coalition led by the upstart party he founded four years ago, Morena, now has strong majorities in both houses. Ending 89 years of government by the same two parties, Lopez Obrador surged to victory promising a new approach to issues fueling widespread outrage among Mexican voters: crime, poverty and corruption.
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| How To Mourn The Death Of An Ex Posted: 30 Nov 2018 04:06 PM PST  Last week, a Twitter user accused Ariana Grande of "milking" her ex Mac
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| The 2019 Volvo V60 Starts at $39,895 Posted: 30 Nov 2018 12:27 PM PST  Styling, powertrains, and tech mimic its big brother.
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| Airline apologises for staff who mocked five-year-old Abcde's name Posted: 29 Nov 2018 06:36 PM PST  An American airline has apologised after a member of staff was accused of ridiculing five-year-old Abcde Redford's name. Traci Redmond was travelling with her daughter, who pronounces her name "ab-si-dee", when she said a Southwest Airlines boarding gate employee at at California's John Wayne Airport began laughing and took a photograph of the child's boarding pass, before posting it online. "The gate agent started laughing, pointing at me and my daughter, talking to other employees. So I turned around and said, 'Hey if I can hear you, my daughter can hear you, so I'd appreciate if you'd just stop,'" she told ABC7 News. They were travelling to their home in El Paso, Texas, and were boarding early as Abcde has epilepsy. "While I was sitting there, she took a picture of my boarding pass and chose to post it on social media, mocking my daughter," said Ms Redmond. The boarding pass posted online "It was actually brought to my attention by somebody who had seen it on Facebook and reported it to Southwest Airlines. And after two weeks of doing a formal complaint, Southwest hadn't done anything." The airline apologised to the family in a statement. "We take great pride in extending our Southwest Hospitality to all of our Customers, which includes living by the Golden Rule and treating every individual with respect, in person or online. The post is not indicative of the care, respect, and civility we expect from all of our employees," it said, although it declined to say what action it had taken against its member of staff. The name Abcde may be rare but it is not unique. In 2014, seven-year-old Abcde Santos, who has autism, made headlines when she was turned away from a shopping centre Santa's grotto because of the pit bull service dog
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