| Poll: Americans oppose Republican tax plan by 17-point margin Posted: 04 Nov 2017 03:00 AM PDT  President Donald Trump has been extolling the virtues of the Republican tax plan, but according to a new poll, the American public doesn't love the plan.
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| Neighbor Arrested After Rand Paul Is Assaulted At His Kentucky Home Posted: 04 Nov 2017 06:48 PM PDT  A neighbor was arrested after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was attacked at his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Friday afternoon, according to a police report.
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| Jared Kushner Keeps Failing To Disclose Connections With Russians Posted: 05 Nov 2017 12:42 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, failed to disclose business ties to a Russian oligarch whose deep pockets helped Russian government institutions invest in Facebook and Twitter.
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| NYC attack took toll on Belgian family; mom lost both legs Posted: 04 Nov 2017 07:44 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Marion Van Reeth biked hundreds of miles through rugged parts of the world on charity excursions. It was a family vacation cycling outing in New York that left the Belgian airline executive with the most severe injuries of anyone who survived this week's terrorist truck attack — her legs so badly mangled they had to be amputated.
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| Man who believes current air quality is 'too clean' named to US Environmental Protection Agency advisory board Posted: 04 Nov 2017 02:46 PM PDT  A man who once claimed that the air in America was "a little too clean for optimum health", has been appointed to an advisory board of America's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Robert Phalen once claimed that children's lungs need to breathe irritants so their bodies can learn to fight them. The former director of the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory at the University of California Irvine was appointed to the agency's critical Scientific Advisory Board by EPA Director Scott Pruitt.
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| United Airlines Flight Turns Around After Passenger ‘Initiated an Altercation’ with Flight Crew Posted: 05 Nov 2017 12:32 PM PST  A United Airlines flight heading to Washington, D.C. from Beijing was turned around during the flight after an altercation occurred between a passenger and a member of the flight crew, PEOPLE can confirm.
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| Deadly mass shooting at Sutherland Springs, Texas, church Posted: 05 Nov 2017 12:55 PM PST ![Deadly mass shooting at Sutherland Springs, Texas, church]( "Deadly mass shooting at Sutherland Springs, Texas, church") At least 26 people were killed and 30 injured in a Texas church shooting Sunday morning, law enforcement sources told ABC News. The alleged shooter is dead, and it appears there is no longer an active threat at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, about 40 miles southeast of San Antonio, police told ABC News. A person who said she works at a gas station across the street from the church told ABC News she heard rapid gunfire at around 11:15 a.m., leading congregants from the church as well as customers at the station to run inside for cover.
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| Florida Woman Arrested For Allegedly Riding A Horse While Drunk Posted: 04 Nov 2017 07:39 AM PDT  Police in Florida arrested a 53-year-old woman on Thursday afternoon for allegedly riding a horse while drunk.
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| UK Queen's private estate invested in offshore funds: leaks Posted: 05 Nov 2017 01:55 PM PST  Millions of pounds from the private estate of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II have been invested in offshore tax haven funds, a huge new leak of financial documents revealed on Sunday. Around £10 million ($13 million, ⠬11.3 million) of the Queen's private money was placed in funds held in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda, according to the leaked papers, which were first reported in Britain by the BBC and the Guardian newspaper. The investments, which were entirely legal, were made through the Duchy of Lancaster, which provides the monarch with an income and handles investments of her vast estate and remain current, the media outlets said.
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| Iran displays missile, calls Trump 'crazy' in marking 1979 U.S. embassy takeover Posted: 04 Nov 2017 05:18 AM PDT  By Babak Dehghanpisheh BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran put a ballistic missile on display as thousands marched on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy, with a senior official accusing President Donald Trump of a "crazy" return to confrontation with Tehran. Turnout for the annual Iranian street rallies commemorating the embassy takeover, a pivotal event of the Islamic Revolution, appeared higher than in recent years when Trump's predecessor Barack Obama pursued detente with Tehran. Last month, Trump broke ranks with European allies, Russia and China by refusing to re-certify Iran's compliance with its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, reached during Obama's tenure.
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| Under Trump, Obamacare Shopping Is Even More Confusing. We're Here To Help. Posted: 04 Nov 2017 06:43 PM PDT  Choosing health insurance can be a hassle under the best of circumstances.
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| Experts Urge Trump: 'Stick To The Script' In Asia, Don't Provoke North Korea Posted: 04 Nov 2017 03:00 AM PDT  As President Donald Trump makes his journey to Asia for a 12-day, five-country trip, international security experts are urging him to "stick to the script" and avoid making incendiary comments while discussing North Korea.
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| Hezbollah: Lebanon PM forced to resign by Saudi Arabia Posted: 05 Nov 2017 12:44 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — The head of Lebanon's powerful militant group Hezbollah accused Saudi Arabia Sunday of forcing the country's prime minister to resign after less than a year in his post, as Bahrain ordered its citizens in Lebanon to "leave immediately" and banned travel there.
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| FSU Fraternity Suspended After Student Dies at Off-Campus Party Posted: 04 Nov 2017 06:43 AM PDT  He was found unresponsive after an off-campus party
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| Man Allegedly Used Ice Cream Truck To Lure And Sexually Assault Children: Police Posted: 05 Nov 2017 10:18 AM PST  He is being held on $1 million bond.
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| The U.S. Army Wants to Put Big Guns on Small Tanks Posted: 04 Nov 2017 05:42 AM PDT  The Pentagon hopes to get a new lightweight armored combat vehicle. Recently, the U.S. Army has been putting forth a requirement for a new lightweight armored combat vehicle, under the project name of Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF).
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| Netanyahu associates grilled in German submarine graft probe: report Posted: 05 Nov 2017 03:36 AM PST  Two lawyers close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were questioned Sunday over their roles in suspected corruption around the purchase of German submarines, media reports and police said. Police said they had detained "two senior lawyers for questioning as part of the (submarine) affair," refusing however to confirm their identity at this stage. Israeli media identified both as being close to Netanyahu, naming one as David Shimron, a relative of Netanyahu and his family lawyer who also represented German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp in Israel.
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| Islamic State on verge of defeat after fresh losses in Syria, Iraq Posted: 04 Nov 2017 03:42 AM PDT ![Islamic State on verge of defeat after fresh losses in Syria, Iraq]( "Islamic State on verge of defeat after fresh losses in Syria, Iraq") By Angus McDowall and Raya Jalabi BEIRUT/ERBIL (Reuters) - Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate was on the verge of final defeat on Friday, with Syrian government forces capturing its last major city on one side of the border and Iraqi forces taking its last substantial town on the other. The losses on either side of the frontier appear to reduce the caliphate that once ruled over millions of people to a single Syrian border town, a village on a bank of the Euphrates in Iraq and some patches of nearby desert. Iraq's Prime Minister Haidar Abadi announced that government forces had captured al-Qaim, the border town where the Euphrates spills from Syria into Iraq.
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| Trump Kicks Off Native American Heritage Month By Reviving 'Pocahontas' Slur Posted: 03 Nov 2017 06:24 PM PDT  WASHINGTON — The president of the United States proved unable to make it a full 56 hours into Native American Heritage Month without insulting a U.S. senator for her claimed Native American heritage.
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| Report: 6 Florida Women Accuse State Senator Of Sexual Harassment Posted: 03 Nov 2017 06:55 PM PDT  Florida Sen. Jack Latvala (R-Clearwater) is facing allegations of sexual misconduct from six women, Politico reports.
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| Smog blankets Pakistan, India, causing accidents, illness Posted: 05 Nov 2017 01:59 AM PDT  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Smog has enveloped much of Pakistan and neighboring India, causing highway accidents and respiratory problems, and forcing many residents to stay home, officials said Saturday.
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| At Least 26 Dead In Shooting At Texas Baptist Church Posted: 05 Nov 2017 11:28 AM PST  Authorities reportedly responded to a shooting at a church outside of San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday that left several people wounded and a gunman dead.
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| Man Meets Biological Sister For First Time After She Was Switched At Birth 39 Years Ago Posted: 05 Nov 2017 09:41 AM PST  The family could not believe the rumors they'd heard all these years had been true.
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| Hurricane Maria death toll 'much higher than officially reported', mayor in Puerto Rico says Posted: 04 Nov 2017 06:55 AM PDT  The mayor of the Puerto Rican capital San Juan has warned the death toll from Hurricane Maria is far higher than the official figure. Carmen Yulín Cruz said the true number of deaths following the disaster could be as high as 500 rather than the official toll of just 54. Hurricane Maria made landfall on the island on the morning of 20 September and caused devastation to the country's already fragile infrastructure.
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| Melania Trump visits Mikimoto, Japan's famed pearl retailer Posted: 04 Nov 2017 11:04 PM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — While her husband chased golf balls with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Japan's premier course, U.S. first lady Melania Trump focused on a more iridescent sort of orb: pearls.
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| U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan: U.S. military Posted: 04 Nov 2017 12:25 PM PDT ![U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan: U.S. military]( "U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan: U.S. military") A U.S. service member was killed in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, the military said, without giving details of his identity or the circumstances of his death, which occurred as American forces have stepped up operations against the Taliban. A statement from U.S. Forces Afghanistan Command in Kabul said the service member had died of wounds sustained during operations in Logar, the eastern province where another service member was killed last week after a helicopter crash. "Despite this tragic event, we remain steadfast in our commitment to the Afghan people and to support them in our mutual fight against terrorism," Gen. John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said in the statement.
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| Jeff Sessions Needs To Be 'Precise,' 'Accurate' About Trump's Campaign And Russia: Feinstein Posted: 05 Nov 2017 07:43 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said on Sunday she wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to testify again before the panel to clarify past claims that he was unaware of any communication between members of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russian officials.
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| Off-Duty Police Officer Fatally Shot While Sitting in Parked Car Posted: 04 Nov 2017 05:23 PM PDT  A woman with him was injured
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| Asia Argento Tells Uma Thurman ‘We Need’ Your Voice After Her Response to Weinstein Goes Viral Posted: 05 Nov 2017 08:42 AM PST  She's shared credits with him in seven movies, but when it comes to the flood of sexual misconduct allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, Uma Thurman is staying mum… for now.
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| Typhoon kills 27, leaves 22 missing along Vietnam coast Posted: 04 Nov 2017 09:59 PM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A powerful typhoon battering Vietnam has killed at least 27 people and left 22 others missing amid extensive damage along the south-central coast, officials said Sunday.
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| Terminally ill woman gives daughter life advice in poignant farewell letter Posted: 04 Nov 2017 05:32 AM PDT  An emotional letter that a mother wrote to her daughter before she died from terminal cancer has been shared by thousands online. Margaret Peggy Summers, 55, had been diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer in June 2016 before passing away in October of the same year. Hannah, 18, a nursing student in Indiana, US, told how being in receipt of the letter so soon after her parent's death felt like a connection was still there.
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| Tampa area high school segregates students at lunch Posted: 04 Nov 2017 07:02 AM PDT  Controversial policy separates students by grades and attendance.
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| Missile from Yemen intercepted over Saudi capital Posted: 04 Nov 2017 05:24 PM PDT  Saudi Arabia on Saturday intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile over Riyadh after it was launched from conflict-torn Yemen, with debris landing inside the capital's international airport, officials said. The missile attack claimed by Iran-backed Shiite Huthi rebels was the first aimed at the heart of the Saudi capital, underscoring the growing threat posed by the raging conflict in Yemen. Residents in Riyadh reported a loud explosion near the King Khalid International Airport just north of the city after the missile was shot down, but authorities reported no major damage or loss of life. "This evening a ballistic missile was fired from Yemeni territory towards the kingdom," the Saudi Press Agency quoted coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki as saying late Saturday. "The missile was launched indiscriminately to target the civilian and populated areas. Shattered fragments from the intercepted missile landed in an uninhabited area of the airport and there were no injuries," he added. Huthi rebels, who fired the missile from Yemeni territory more than 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) from Riyadh, said they were targeting the airport, according to the Huthis' Al-Masirah television channel. Civil aviation authorities said the airport was functioning normally and that flights were operating as scheduled, though residents said security vehicles had closed off some roads. Who rules Saudi Arabia? Saudi forces have shot down Huthi missiles before with Patriot surface-to-air missiles purchased from the United States, but few have come so close to a major population centre. In July, a ballistic missile fired from Yemen was shot down close to Mecca, a month before the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site. The attacks highlight how the war in Yemen is increasingly spilling across the border since a Saudi-led coalition began its military intervention in 2015. Saudi Arabia led the intervention to prop up the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi after the Huthi rebels forced him into exile. But two years later, the kingdom appears to be in a quagmire. Hoping for a quick victory against what it saw as Iranian expansionism in its back yard, Riyadh has so far been unable to remove the Huthis from Yemeni capital Sanaa. At a glance | Yemen Aside from occasional missiles, Saudi territory has also been hit repeatedly by the rebels' cross-border incursions, raising fears the conflict could drag out yet further. In the frontier provinces of Jizan and Najran, thousands of mortar rounds and crude rockets have hit schools, mosques and homes. Thousands of residents have been evacuated from border towns across the southwest to create a buffer zone. Saudi Arabia does not officially disclose military fatalities, but state media has frequently featured funeral notices for "martyred" soldiers. United Nations-backed talks have failed to broker a political settlement to end the fighting in Yemen, which has left more than 8,600 people dead since the coalition intervened. A cholera outbreak has claimed more than 2,100 lives in Yemen since April as hospitals struggle to secure supplies amid a coalition air and sea blockade. The UN has warned that Yemen now stands on the brink of famine.
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| George H.W. Bush Called Trump A 'Blowhard' And Said, 'I Don't Like Him' Posted: 04 Nov 2017 09:15 AM PDT  An upcoming book shows that former President George H.W. Bush did not mince words when asked about President Donald Trump, back before Trump had won the election.
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| Turkey says Russia postpones Syria peace conference Posted: 05 Nov 2017 06:53 AM PST  Turkey on Sunday said Russia had decided to postpone a planned Syria peace conference this month that had met with a cool reception from Ankara and its Western allies. There was no confirmation by Russia of the announcement by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin, who added that Turkey was not planning to attend the event.
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| Man Found Guilty of Murdering 16-Year-Old Who Identified as Both Male and Female Posted: 04 Nov 2017 10:21 AM PDT  Investigators say bleach had been poured on the bullet-riddled body in an apparent attempt to destroy DNA evidence
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| No joke: China's war on pollution roils world's top pig farming sector Posted: 04 Nov 2017 06:08 PM PDT ![No joke: China's war on pollution roils world's top pig farming sector]( "No joke: China's war on pollution roils world's top pig farming sector") By Hallie Gu and Josephine Mason ZHOUCUN, China (Reuters) - When Zhang Faqing received a letter from the government last December ordering him to close his pig farm on the outskirts of Beijing with just two weeks notice, he thought it was a joke. Almost one year later, he is still waiting for millions of yuan in compensation promised by the government, more than a dozen pig pens that used to house his 15,000 hogs stand empty and he is still at a loss about what to do. China's Ministry of Agriculture declined to comment for this article.
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| This Wisconsin Bill Would Let Toddlers Hunt With Guns Posted: 04 Nov 2017 01:06 PM PDT  Wisconsin's GOP-controlled state Assembly has passed a bill that would get rid of minimum age restrictions on hunting as long as a child is accompanied by an adult who follows certain rules, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
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| 1 family has survived 5 generations of Houston storms: Mine Posted: 05 Nov 2017 05:29 AM PST  HOUSTON (AP) — I returned to the city of my birth a few weeks ago, to a place that had drowned after a monster storm brought more than a year's worth of rain and sent its bayous and reservoirs overflowing. Hurricane Harvey had long left Houston, but its legacy lived on — in the ashy floors of Aunt Christine's home and the mold of Cousin Esther's house and the buckets that still sat scattered across the living room at Mom and Dad's to catch leaks.
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| Koenigsegg's Top Speed Was 285 MPH on a Highway Posted: 05 Nov 2017 04:38 AM PST  That's 457 km/h, while the Agera RS also bested its own 0-400-0 record with a new one at 33.29 seconds. Using a single set of Michelins the entire day.
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| Richard Dreyfuss' Son Says Kevin Spacey Groped Him As A Teen Posted: 05 Nov 2017 11:50 AM PST  Actor Harry Dreyfuss, the son of Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, says that actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted him as a teen, adding his name to a growing list of accusers.
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| US special forces 'fought Niger ambush alone after local troops fled' Posted: 04 Nov 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Johnson and three other US soldiers were killed in Niger on 4 October. The US special forces detachment ambushed in the Niger last month fought alone for hours after the local Nigerien forces they were accompanying fled in the first minutes of the engagement, retired and serving special forces officers with knowledge of events have said. Four US Green Berets and five Nigerien troops died in the incident, which has been the focus of an intense debate in Washington over the executive branch's extensive powers to use military force abroad without congressional approval and with little oversight.
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| Donald Trump's mother asked: 'What kind of son have I created?' Posted: 04 Nov 2017 03:52 AM PDT  Donald Trump's mother once reportedly asked his first wife "what sort of son have I created". Born as the 10th child of the MacLeod family on the Outer Hebridean Isle of Lewis in 1912, Ms Trump was raised in a strict Presbyterian, Gaelic speaking household.
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| Qaeda suspects hit Yemen security in twin suicide attacks Posted: 05 Nov 2017 01:05 AM PST  Suspected Al-Qaeda militants staged twin suicide bombings and took hostages Sunday in Aden, officials said, striking at the heart of the Yemeni government after suffering a string of setbacks. Six security officers were killed in the attacks on the security headquarters and criminal investigations unit in the central district of Khor Maksar in Aden, where the internationally recognised government is based. A high-ranking official with the state security forces said an explosives-rigged car driven by an Al-Qaeda operative blew up outside the security headquarters, killing the six officers along with the driver.
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| Kansas woman 5th to be charged in killings of 3 people Posted: 04 Nov 2017 12:34 PM PDT ![Kansas woman 5th to be charged in killings of 3 people]( "Kansas woman 5th to be charged in killings of 3 people") TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A grand jury indicted a Kansas woman on first-degree murder and other charges for her alleged involvement in the killing of three people earlier this year, Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay said Saturday.
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