| Bill Clinton Remembers George H.W. Bush As A Rival Who Became A Friend Posted: 30 Nov 2018 11:21 PM PST  Former President Bill Clinton former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
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| PHOTOS: Violent riots in Paris after 2 weeks of nationwide protests over rising taxes Posted: 01 Dec 2018 04:32 PM PST  Rioters ran amok across central Paris on Saturday, clashing with police in the worst unrest in more than a decade, posing a dire challenge to Emmanuel Macron's presidency.
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| Explosives attack at US consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico Posted: 01 Dec 2018 03:21 PM PST  The US consulate in Mexico's second city, Guadalajara, was attacked with explosives hours before a visit to the country by Vice President Mike Pence and first daughter Ivanka Trump, authorities said Saturday. "The investigation has been handed over to federal authorities, who will give information on developments in due time," the prosecutor's office for the western state of Jalisco, where Guadalajara is located, said on Twitter. The attack ocurred just before Pence and President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka flew into Mexico City on Saturday morning at the head of a high-level US delegation attending the inauguration of Mexico's new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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| Rep. Schiff: Cohen revelations 'deeply compromising' for Trump and our country Posted: 02 Dec 2018 03:41 AM PST  The incoming chair of the House Intelligence Committee responds to a significant week of revelations from the investigations into President Trump.
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| Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu 'should be charged' in third corruption case Posted: 02 Dec 2018 06:43 AM PST  Israeli police on Sunday said they had found enough evidence for bribery and fraud charges to be brought against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife in the third and most serious corruption case against the Israeli leader. Police said they had evidence to charge Mr Netanyahu and his wife Sara with accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust in what is known as Case 4000. In this long-running scandal, Mr Netanyahu is suspected of passing regulations favouring the Bezeq telecommunications firm in exchange for favourable coverage on the Walla news website, which is owned by Bezeq's controlling shareholder. Police say Mrs Netanyahu coordinated the coverage. Mr Netanyahu has long framed this investigation as a witch hunt organised by the media and the accusations against him as personal rather than legal in nature. "The police recommendations regarding me and my wife don't surprise anyone," he said in a statement. "These recommendations were decided upon and leaked even before the investigation began." Police say their investigation includes the testimony of at least 60 witnesses and five years'work. They accuse the prime minister and Bezeq boss Shaul Elovitch, who they also recommend be charged, as having shared a "bribe-based relationship" which saw Mr Netanyahu and his associates intervene in news coverage on an almost daily basis. Profile | Benjamin Netanyahu Calls for Mr Netanyahu's resignations came quickly from Israel's opposition, with some calling for the country to go to immediate elections. But even if charged, Mr Netanyahu faces no legal requirement to leave office. His ruling Likud party pulled together a right-leaning coalition after the last election but currently only enjoys a small parliamentary minority, making Israel's government particularly vulnerable to wobbles. This is the third time police have recommended Mr Netanyahu face corruption charges in as many separate investigations. He has so far avoided being charged in either of the other cases, one of which involved accepting gifts from billionaire friends and the other over trading positive media coverage for legislation. Mrs Netanyahu is also embroiled in separate legal troubles of her own, stemming from accusations of a lavish lifestyle fuelled by misspent public funds, including spending more than $100,000 (£78,000) on take-out meals despite the state providing a private chef.
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| Number of missing in California's deadliest wildfire drops to 25 Posted: 02 Dec 2018 12:31 PM PST  The death toll from the Camp Fire that all but obliterated the mountain town community of Paradise in northern California stood unchanged at 88, the Butte County Sheriff Department said late on Saturday in a statement. The roster of those unaccounted for has fluctuated widely since the fire erupted on Nov. 8 and swept through Paradise, a town once home to almost 27,000 people about 175 miles (280 km) north of San Francisco. On Wednesday, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said search and recovery teams had finished going through the ruins of some 18,000 homes and other buildings that were incinerated.
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| 15 Items To Shop Now During Lord & Taylor’s Friends & Family Sale Posted: 01 Dec 2018 09:05 PM PST  To keep the shopping momentum going strong Lord & Taylor is having one of its
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| Researchers say ancient ring may bear Pontius Pilate name Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:12 AM PST  Israeli researchers say an inscription on an ancient ring discovered near Jerusalem may include the name of Pontius Pilate, the Roman official who Biblical accounts say sentenced Jesus to death. It would be a rare example still in existence of an inscription with the name of the man believed to have sent Jesus to his crucifixion. The researchers recently announced their analysis of the inscription on the ring -- which was actually found some 50 years ago -- in Israel Exploration Journal.
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| A Letter That George H.W. Bush Wrote To Bill Clinton Is Going Viral Again Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST  A letter that former President George H.W. Bush penned for his successor Bill
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| Key Democrats Say Cohen Plea Shows Russia ‘Compromised’ Trump Posted: 02 Dec 2018 10:14 AM PST  The relationship between Trump and Russia outlined in a guilty plea last week by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, "is so deeply compromising," said Representative Adam Schiff, who is expected next year to take over the House Intelligence Committee.
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| Migrants at Mexico border face an uncertain future on their own Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:00 AM PST  Migrants wait for a chance to request US asylum, alongside the border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico. Authorities in Tijuana have started to relocate more than 6,000 Central Americans to a new shelter, after the rundown sports centre where they have been camped out for more than two weeks descended into squalor. Torrential rains this week have compounded the migrants' misery, flooding the crowded sports complex where they sleep shoulder-to-shoulder in tents and shelters made from cardboard, garbage bags and blankets.
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| En el G20 de Buenos Aires comparan al Primer Ministro de India con Apu Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:13 PM PST  Una televisora de noticias en Argentina enfrento una reaccion violenta despues
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| Viral Tide: How Russia became the new frontline in the war on HIV/AIDS Posted: 30 Nov 2018 10:00 PM PST  In February this year, Oksana Bobok woke up in a Yekaterinburg hospital to be told her unborn child had been aborted. "I'd been in a coma for a month and a half. It was save me, or save the child. They chose to save me," she said. It was the bitter culmination of an advanced HIV-related infection the 34-year-old former heroin addict had unwittingly been living with for most of adult life. Now wheelchair bound and partially paralysed, Ms Bobok's calamitous fall from health is made all the more tragic by the fact it could have been prevented. It is more than 30 years since HIV/Aids was recognised as a global crisis and, despite a total total death toll of 35.5 million, the response has in many ways been a triumph. Across the world, advances in testing, treatment and, perhaps most important of all, understanding have made HIV a wholly manageable condition. Sex education and safe sex have slashed infection rates, while rapid testing and new antiretrovirals mean those living with HIV can lead full and healthy lives. According to the United Nations, Aids related deaths have fallen 51 percent since their peak in 2004, new HIV infections per year are down 16 percent since 2010, and a record 75 percent of infected people now know their status, with and an estimated 59 percent receiving life saving antiretrovirals. But there is one anomaly - Russia and its former Eastern bloc satellites. Aids deaths in the region have climbed by 38 percent in the past ten years - almost as much as they have fallen elsewhere - and more than half of those with HIV only discover the infection once they develop Aids, according to the latest WHO report. Russia, by far the largest country in the region, now has around a million people thought to be living with HIV. "It's the one region in the world where the rate of new infections is still growing," said Vinay Saldanha, the Moscow-based head of UNAIDS for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. "This is the frontline... What happens here and what governments do in the next two years will determine whether we can actually get the global HIV epidemic [back] on track." Ms Bobok and her husband Piotr, who is also HIV positive Like so many of the problems facing modern Russia, Ms Bobok's tragedy and the HIV crisis are enmeshed with the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet collapse. The first HIV case in Russia was only reported in 1987 - well into the Aids scare sweeping the West, and a year after Margaret Thatcher's government had authorised a hard-hitting publicity campaign to tackle what was already an epidemic in Britain. Russian infection rates grew slowly - until a flood of heroin hit the country following the Soviet collapse as drug traffickers entered a previously untapped market. In around 1996, doctors began to see HIV cases among drug users. And the subsequent needle-borne epidemic ripped through Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet states with frightening speed. Today, experts say 80 percent of infections can be found in just 20 of Russia's 85 regions - the same relatively rich, industrially developed areas that were hit hardest by the heroin glut two decades ago. But it is not just needle sharing that is spreading HIV in Russia today, with most infections now caused by heterosexual sex, and affecting everyone from urban youth to rural pensioners. In terms of sheer numbers, Russia's epidemic is minuscule compared to the catastrophe in southern and eastern Africa. Denying the virus | Who are Russia's 'HIV Dissidents'? But combined with a conservative government reluctant to embrace basic preventative measures such as sex education in schools, and a subculture of so called "HIV dissidents" who variously hold that HIV is a US plot, a conspiracy by big pharma, or nothing to worry about, it has become one of the fastest growing epidemics in the world. "So HIV came on the back of the heroin epidemic. And then from the vulnerable groups the virus spread into the general population, first via needles, then via sex", says Aleksandar Chebin, a project manager at New Life, a charity in Yekaterinburg founded and run by HIV positive volunteers. "Now it is well adjusted, ordinary people who have a family and a job - they are now the main group where infection is detected. "Go and have a look at yourself in the mirror - that's what the risk group looks like." Nika Ivanova's daughter - Nika contracted HIV at a young age from a boyfriend Nika Ivanova was an early casualty. Then 17 years old, she had been dating an older boyfriend for six months when a routine visit to the gynaecologist resulted in an HIV diagnosis in the early 2000s. Her boyfriend, it turned out, had once been an intravenous drugs user. "I don't blame him, because he didn't know," she says. "He was a just a young man who had experimented with things. "If only I knew about contraception… I was 17 at the time. No one talked to me at home. No one talked about sex, full stop, and especially not about HIV." Now 34, Ms Ivanova is a professional psychologist living a typical Moscow middle class life - she is proof that with modern retroviral treatment, HIV need not be a death sentence. Nika Ivanova and her daughter - Nika contracted HIV at a young age from a boyfriend Unfortunately, many in Russia are not so lucky. Although the state officially distributes anti-retroviral drugs to HIV positive patients for free, in practice only about 380,000 of the roughly one million infected Russians are receiving therapy, according to statistics compiled by the country's Federal HIV centre. "About 60 per cent of people are not getting therapy, and that's why people are still getting Aids," said Vadim Pokrovsky, the head of the centre. The problem, he says, is money. He estimates it would take a tripling of annual HIV spending to about $1.3 billion (£1 billion) in order to make up the difference. Ms Bobok, now a wheelchair user, is one of those for whom anti-retroviral treatment is far from secure. Born in eastern Ukraine and raised in a downtrodden part of Russia's Urals, she got into drugs at an early age, contracted HIV via needle sharing, and only found out months later when she landed in prison, age 19. In prison she received antiretrovirals to suppress the virus. But because she only ever held an old Soviet passport, when she was released in 2015 she was classed as a stateless person and struggled to access the state-supplied medication available to Russian citizens. In less than three years, she developed Aids. "She was pregnant for the second time, and they had stopped issuing pills for her as soon as she gave birth last time, " said her husband Pytor, who is also HIV positive. "Her immune system became really weak, and when she was put on life support, the doctor said that her HIV had progressed into Aids because she had not been getting treatment," he added. The couple's first child died after being born prematurely. Russia's ministry of health says a major "test and treat" campaign has seen Aids deaths begin to stabilise and the rate of new infections begin to slow in the past two years. About 30 million Russians, or 30 percent of the population, were tested last year. It has also unveiled a new national strategy for fighting the spread of the disease. Drafted by the country's top HIV doctors, it includes provision for harm reduction measures such as needle exchange programs, and has been welcomed by the UN as a major step forward. But the most fundamental challenge remains political. Ideas such as needle exchange programs, methadone substitution, and sex education in schools have set alarm bells ringing among the Kremlin's conservative base. "We're not prudes - we're opposed to this because there is a big question mark about whether it really works," said Zhanna Tachmamedova, a spokeswoman for the All Russian Parents Resistance, a pressure group that has successfully lobbied for the closure of HIV education programmes in schools in several parts of the country. Oksana Babok and senior foreign correspondent Roland Oliphant in Russia Russian school children have not had any sex education since 1997. Ms Tachmamedova, a St Petersburg-based child psychologist, argues introducing it would be counterproductive. Teach teenagers about sex, she worries, and the rate of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancies will increase. Such attitudes dismay educators worried about about the risks teenagers face. "Statistics show that you have less infections, less premature pregnancies, fewer underage abortions, where there is sex education," said Daria Rakhmaninova, a Moscow high school teacher who has launched voluntary seminars for parents and families interested in sex education outside school. There is one part of the country where progressive policies have been tried - with startling success. St Petersburg is the first major Russian city to see a consistent decline in rates of new infections. In 2017, there were about 1750 new diagnoses in the city, down from nearly 2200 in 2015 - a fall of 20 percent in two years. It is a remarkable achievement, which experts put down to the way the city government has harnessed the help of NGOs, businesses and HIV-positive citizens to deliver the WHO's recommended 'test and treat' strategy as well as other harm reduction initiatives like condom and syringe distribution. This month, the Federal Ministry of Health gave the St Petersburg HIV Centre a prize for the best public awareness campaign. And there are signs that other regions may follow suit. Alexander Vysokinsky, the mayor of Yekaterinburg, this month announced the industrial megapolis would be the first Russian city to sign up the UN's Paris declaration - a pledge to get the HIV crisis under control by 2020. It is a hopeful sign, says Ms Ivanova, as she watches her daughter on the playground outside her Moscow apartment block. "The worst thing about this epidemic is that it is not just an HIV epidemic. It is an epidemic of stigma," she said. 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| Pompeo condemns Iran missile test Posted: 01 Dec 2018 02:56 PM PST  Amid tension between Washington and Tehran over ballistic missiles, Pompeo warned in a statement released on Twitter that Iran is increasing its "testing and proliferation" of missiles and called on the Islamic Republic to "cease these activities." President Donald Trump pulled out of an international nuclear agreement in May and reimposed sanctions on Tehran, criticizing the deal for not including curbs on Iran's development of ballistic missiles or its support for proxies in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq. Iran says its missile program is purely defensive but has threatened to disrupt oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf, if the United States tries to strangle Iranian oil exports.
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| Man drops engagement ring down drain moments after proposing in New York's Times Square Posted: 02 Dec 2018 07:15 AM PST  Police in New York City are searching for a man and woman who lost an engagement ring down a drain during a proposal that took a disastrous turn. The couple's engagement was caught on camera after the man got down on one knee in Times Square on Friday evening. According to the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the woman said yes.
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| Murdered British radio host laid to rest in Lebanon Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:27 AM PST  British radio presenter Gavin Ford was laid to rest Sunday near Beirut in a ceremony that brought together dozens of fans, friends and family members days after his murder. Ford's lifeless body was discovered Tuesday at his home in Beit Meri, a mountain town east of the capital where his employer Radio One is also based. Ford had worked since the 1990s at the station, where hosted one of Lebanon's most popular shows.
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| Grim tidings from science on climate change Posted: 02 Dec 2018 01:35 AM PST  Scientists monitoring the Earth's climate and environment have delivered a cascade of grim news this year, adding a sense of urgency to UN talks starting Sunday in Poland on how best to draw down the greenhouse gases that drive global warming. The 2015 Paris Agreement calls on humanity to block the rise in Earth's temperature at "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) compared to preindustrial levels, and 1.5C if possible. Earth's average surface temperature from January to October 2018 was one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 1850-1900 baseline.
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| Airstrike kills 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan Posted: 02 Dec 2018 06:26 AM PST ![Airstrike kills 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan]( "Airstrike kills 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan") KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least ten civilians were killed following an airstrike in the eastern Paktia province bordering Pakistan, Afghan officials said Sunday.
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| Angry Democrats look to settle score in Georgia after 'voter suppression denied Stacey Abrams victory' Posted: 02 Dec 2018 11:15 AM PST  On a day when it felt the rain would never stop, John Barrow was rallying his team for the final days of battle. In a campaign office 20 miles north-east of Atlanta, he was talking like a high school American football coach in the movies, urging his team to believe in themselves. Mr Barrow, a Democrat running to be Georgia's secretary of state, is desperate to win.
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| Saudi Crown Prince to visit Algeria after G20 summit Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:02 PM PST  Before the G20 summit the heir to the throne of the world's top oil exporter visited the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Tunisia. It is his first trip abroad since the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which has strained Saudi Arabia's ties with the West and battered the prince's image abroad. Saudi Arabia has said the prince had no prior knowledge ofthe murder.
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| Is America's Harpoon Missile Hopelessly Obsolete? Posted: 02 Dec 2018 02:00 AM PST  Washington should fight smarter not harder.
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| Fix Facebook, whether it wants to or not: whistleblower Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:06 PM PST  Eight months after revealing the links between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (CA), whistleblower Christopher Wylie is pushing for the internet giant to be regulated -- whether it wants to or not. "Facebook knew about what happened with Cambridge Analytica, well before the Trump election, well before Brexit, it did nothing about it," Wylie told AFP. Last March, Wylie revealed that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica took millions of Facebook users' data to build psychological profiles of users.
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| NASA's Martian quake sensor InSight lands at slight angle Posted: 30 Nov 2018 05:40 PM PST  NASA's unmanned Martian quake sensor, InSight, has landed at a slight angle on the Red Planet, and experts are hopeful the spacecraft will work as planned, the US space agency said Friday. The $993 million lander arrived Monday at its target, a lava plain named Elysium Planitia, for a two-year mission aimed at better understanding how Earth's neighboring planet formed. "The vehicle sits slightly tilted (about 4 degrees) in a shallow dust- and sand-filled impact crater known as a 'hollow,'" NASA said in a statement.
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| Massive earthquake hits Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:59 PM PST  Large earthquake rocks Anchorage, Alaska, causing 'major infrastructure damage'
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| Donald Trump, Xi Jinping Agree To Trade Truce At G-20 Summit Posted: 02 Dec 2018 12:49 AM PST  U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have pressed pause
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| Trump administration vows to target migrants in future Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:10 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration officials vowed Friday to address some of issues that forced them to decide against criminally prosecuting any of the 42 members of a Central American migrant caravan arrested last weekend who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally during a chaotic clash with Border Patrol agents.
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| Macron tells PM to hold talks after worst unrest in Paris for decades Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:33 AM PST  Riot police on Saturday were overwhelmed as protesters ran amok in Paris's wealthiest neighborhoods, torching dozens of cars, looting boutiques and smashing up luxury private homes and cafes in the worst disturbances the capital has seen since 1968. After a meeting with members of his government on Sunday, the French presidency said in a statement that the president had asked his interior minister to prepare security forces for future protests and his prime minister to hold talks with political party leaders and representatives of the protesters. A French presidential source said Macron would not speak to the nation on Sunday despite calls for him to offer immediate concessions to demonstrators, and said the idea of imposing a state of emergency had not been discussed.
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| Here's What's New on Amazon Prime in December 2018 Posted: 01 Dec 2018 03:00 AM PST  Here are the TV shows and movies coming to Amazon Prime in December 2018, including The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 2 and Iron Man 2.
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| U.S. House race in limbo after North Carolina voter fraud claims Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:27 PM PST  North Carolina's board of elections declined to certify Republican Mark Harris' apparent victory in a U.S. House of Representatives race.
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| What To Watch On Netflix That’s New This Week Posted: 01 Dec 2018 08:39 AM PST  Streamline recommends "F is for Family" as the thing to watch on Netflix this
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| Why the Marine Corps and Navy Will Miss the EA-6B Prowler Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:00 AM PST  The end of an era.
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| Royal Mail delivers: Postman, can you take this to heaven? Posted: 01 Dec 2018 06:18 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — A 7-year-old Scottish boy who sent a birthday card to his father in heaven has received a heart-warming reply.
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| Alarm sounded, nations urged to act at UN climate talks Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:36 PM PST  With the direst warnings yet of impending environmental disaster still ringing in their ears, representatives from nearly 200 nations gather Sunday in Poland to firm up their plan to prevent catastrophic climate change. The UN climate summit comes at a crucial juncture in mankind's response to planetary warming. The smaller, poorer nations that will bare its devastating brunt are pushing for richer states to make good on the promises they made in the 2015 Paris agreement.
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| G-20 backed trade body reform ahead of Trump, Xi talks Posted: 01 Dec 2018 11:18 AM PST  BUENOS AIRES (Reuters).- Global leaders backed an overhaul of the world body that regulates international trade disputes at a summit on Saturday, delegates said, ahead of high-stakes talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping aimed at defusing a trade war. A consensus appeared to be emerging at the two-day gathering of the Group of 20 industrialized economies for a joint statement that would back reforms to the crisis-stricken World Trade Organization amid growing global trade tensions, according to officials from the European Union and summit host Argentina. "We reiterate that the multilateral trading system is the framework in which we are all working and committed," an EU official said, referring to the language of a draft statement.
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| Michelle Obama tells Meghan Markle: 'Don't be in a hurry' to launch ambitious projects Posted: 02 Dec 2018 04:01 PM PST  It is surprisingly prescient advice given the slew of recent allegations made about the Duchess of Sussex's forthright demeanor and demands. And if there is any truth in the anecdotes that have been tumbling forth from behind palace walls detailing "ghastly" rows with her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge, temper tantrums over tiara choices and staff reduced to tears, she may well take note. Michelle Obama, the former American First Lady and a long-term friend of her husband, the Duke of Sussex, has suggested that the Duchess take her foot off the gas, slow down and remember she is in it for the long haul. Asked if she had any advice for the newlywed royal, Mrs Obama drew on her own experience of having every move subjected to public scrutiny. "Like me, Meghan probably never dreamt that she'd have a life like this, and the pressure you feel – from yourself and from others – can sometimes feel like a lot," she told Good Housekeeping magazine. "So my biggest pieces of advice would be to take some time and don't be in a hurry to do anything. I spent the first few months in the White House mainly worrying about my daughters, making sure they were off to a good start at school and making new friends before I launched into any more ambitious work. Michelle Obama Credit: Good Housekeeping "I think it's okay – it's good, even – to do that…. What I'd say is that there's so much opportunity to do good with a platform like that – and I think Meghan can maximise her impact for others, as well her own happiness, if she's doing something that resonates with her personally." Mrs Obama is in the UK today on a whistlestop tour to promote her new memoir, Becoming, and will meet children at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in Islington before speaking at the Royal Festival Hall, London. She and her husband enjoy such a close relationship with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that they were rumoured to be joining the royal couple for a dinner hosted by George and Amal Clooney at their riverside mansion in Berkshire on Tuesday night. But Palace sources suggested that tales of the star-studded dinner party were wide of the mark. And Mrs Obama announced on Sunday that she was cutting short her European tour in order to return to the US for the funeral of former President George HW Bush on Wednesday. Michelle Obama chats to Prince Harry at a Wounded Warriors wheelchair basketball game in 2015 Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images Mrs Obama admits in the interview how she struggled to keep up with life in the White House. "Thankfully I get more (and more regular) sleep these days," she said. "But it probably won't come as a surprise to anyone that sometimes it was a real challenge to keep up with the pace." She said she, her husband and daughters, Sasha, 17, and Malia, 20, had a wonderful life in the White House but added that she was grateful they all "came out of those eight years in one piece". Mrs Obama ruffled feathers at an event on Saturday in Brooklyn when she claimed that a prominent piece of feminist self-help championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, was "s---" that "doesn't work." She told the sold-out crowd that women cannot experience equality in both their professional and personal lives "at the same time," calling the idea a "lie" and arguing that "marriage still ain't equal, y'all." She added: "And it's not always enough to 'lean in', because that s--- doesn't work all the time" before quickly adding: "I forgot where I was for a moment." Sandberg promoted the "lean in" concept in her 2013 book, "Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead," which urges women to be more proactive at seizing career opportunities. Mrs Obama admitted that she thought in many ways, things were harder for young women today but said that they were not held back by "societal belief that girls and boys can't do the same thing" as her generation was. "They're charging forwards in sports and maths and science and technology," she told Good Housekeeping. "They're speaking up and speaking out, not just in classrooms but in the public arena at a young age. I find great hope in this generation of young women." The full interview appears in the January issue of Good Housekeeping, on sale December 3
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| Netanyahu's legal troubles mount as police seek new bribery charges Posted: 02 Dec 2018 09:04 AM PST  Israeli police on Sunday said they had found enough evidence for bribery and fraud charges to be brought against the leader and his wife.
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| UN: Aid mission driver wounded by gunfire in eastern Syria Posted: 01 Dec 2018 06:01 AM PST ![UN: Aid mission driver wounded by gunfire in eastern Syria]( "UN: Aid mission driver wounded by gunfire in eastern Syria") BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen opened fire at the convoy of a joint humanitarian assessment mission in eastern Syria, the United Nations said Saturday, wounding a local driver in one of the country's most remote areas where fighting against Islamic State militants has displaced thousands.
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| Trump offers condolences to family of George H.W. Bush Posted: 01 Dec 2018 04:12 PM PST  Before a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G-20 conference, President Trump offered condolences to the Bush family after George H.W. Bush's death. Major Garrett reports.
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| Macron and Abe seek to avert messy Renault-Nissan breakup Posted: 01 Dec 2018 09:35 AM PST  Abe said 'the future of the alliance is up to private-sector shareholders.'
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| Slow-starting Man U launches latest fightback in EPL draw Posted: 01 Dec 2018 02:03 PM PST  It seemingly needs a sleepy start to a game to jolt Manchester United's players into action these days.
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| 8 ways you, a plebe, can celebrate Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas' wedding Posted: 01 Dec 2018 08:01 AM PST  It's been a weird year for Hollywood celebrity couples (R.I.P. Peteiana but long live "thank u, next"), but a great one in Bollywood. Now it's time for us to share the joy: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are marrying their cultures, their industries, and two whole countries (to say nothing of massive global fan bases), and while we can't attend, we sure can celebrate. Here are the best ways for you to celebrate the Jo-pra wedding on a budget. SEE ALSO: Ariana Grande's 'thank you, next' just broke YouTube 1. Read this adorable profile Image: vogueWe've got whiplash from how fast this love story snuck up on us. It turns out, though, that it's been in the works for years, but that both parties are private people (can't blame 'em!). In a cover story for Vogue, Chopra and Jonas open up about the history of their courtship, and it couldn't be clearer that they're both thrilled to embark on the next step. 2. Form a task force The only way you're going to stay in the loop about this wedding is if you make your interest known to everyone in your life so that they see something, say something and text you the moment they see a photo, tweet, or any news about the nuptials. Talk to your friends, know who you can trust, promise to keep each other informed! 3. Watch this Bollywood song This isn't an exact representation of what's going down at the Hindu wedding (like taking over all of London), but there will be some overlap, including Jonas entering on a horse for his baraat. If this song isn't in the playlist, someone needs to get fired. 4. Obsess over these photos View this post on Instagram One of the most special things that our relationship has given us is a merging of families who love and respect each other's faiths and cultures. And so planning our wedding with an amalgamation of both was so so amazing. An important part for the girl in an Indian wedding is the Mehendi. Once again we made it our own and it was an afternoon that kicked off the celebrations in the way we both dreamed. @nickjonas A post shared by Priyanka Chopra (@priyankachopra) on Dec 1, 2018 at 7:31am PST I'm not saying I found them within 13 seconds of posting but having a task force pays off! Be smart about how you check Google, Twitter, and Instagram – constant vigilance! 4. Listen to this mixtape This wedding was foretold...by ART. The mashup of Jonas' "Chains" and Chopra's "Tujhe Bhula Diya" (she featured in the film it's from but didn't sing it) starts around 16:27. 5. Get Indian food If you're really committed, get it in Nick's home state of New Jersey. Rep 'em both! 6. Watch this GIF on a loop Vogue wyd!! 7. Meet DeepVeer View this post on Instagram ❤️ A post shared by Deepika Padukone (@deepikapadukone) on Nov 15, 2018 at 6:36am PST Priyanka's Bollywood peers Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh married less than a month ago, and though it's not a competition, you can't avoid direct comparison (also, Deepika tweeted these photos about 10 minutes after Priyanka's emotional wedding Insta post). Neither member of the couple has spoken a word about it since then, but instead opted for social media dumps of insanely beautiful photos. Priyanka and Nick might be on the same path... 8. Listen to your favorite Jonas brothers songs This whole thing is a whirlwind, and it's okay to feel emotional about the loss of what could have been! Take some you time, visit the past, and take a breath to appreciate the journey millions of former teens and their teen heartthrob took up to this weekend. WATCH: Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner revealed their engagement through matching Instagram posts
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| No. 10 Washington beats No. 17 Utah 10-3 for Pac-12 title Posted: 30 Nov 2018 09:44 PM PST  SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — On a night when neither offense could do much of anything, it was only fitting that a pass that bounced off a receiver's hands and leg turned into the winning play.
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| Mexico's AMLO Takes Office With Attack on Energy Overhaul Posted: 01 Dec 2018 02:16 PM PST  Speaking at the lower house of Congress after taking the oath of office for a six-year term on Saturday, AMLO, as the leftist is known, said the oil market opening engineered by Enrique Pena Nieto had failed to attract significant foreign and private investment. "Neoliberal economic policies have been a disaster," Lopez Obrador said. The 65-year-old former mayor of Mexico City frequently uses the term neoliberal to describe policies that he sees as favoring markets and investors over the best interests of Mexico's roughly 131 million people.
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| Michelle Obama Shades Donald Trump While Talking About White House Morals Posted: 30 Nov 2018 11:32 PM PST  Former first lady Michelle Obama noted the important role that morals played
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| Trump says hopes to meet N.Korea's Kim in January or February Posted: 01 Dec 2018 08:58 PM PST  US President Donald Trump said Saturday he hoped to organize a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in early 2019, perhaps as soon as January or February. Trump told reporters traveling home to Washington with him aboard Air Force One from Argentina that "three sites" were in consideration for the meeting, a follow-up to their historic summit in Singapore in June. Trump had been in Buenos Aires for the Group of 20 summit.
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