| Trump Celebrates Bringing 'Merry Christmas' Back. Twitter Reacts Accordingly. Posted: 24 Dec 2017 08:41 PM PST  President Donald Trump sent out Christmas Eve wishes by praising himself for "leading the charge against the assault" on the phrase "Merry Christmas," in yet another example of the president claiming to have won a dispute that never really existed.
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| GOP Congressman calls for 'purge' of FBI Posted: 25 Dec 2017 11:57 PM PST  GOP Rep. Francis Rooney calls for a 'purge' in the FBI and accuses some in the agency of being a part of the 'deep state.'
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| Merry Christmas from Mar-a-Lago: Tiffany and Ivanka Trump Mocked for Bikini-Clad Video Posted: 26 Dec 2017 05:17 PM PST  In a new Twitter video, first daughters Tiffany and Ivanka Trump blew kisses to followers — but received mostly criticism in return
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| The ultimate post-Christmas sale roundup Posted: 25 Dec 2017 09:00 PM PST  We all know the holiday season always means epic sales and just because Christmas may have to come to an end, doesn't mean the sales have too!
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| Most popular Yahoo News photo galleries of 2017 – The countdown Posted: 26 Dec 2017 05:00 AM PST  The countdown of photo galleries that our Yahoo readers liked the best this year! Check back in as we'll be counting down the top 10 until New Year's Eve.
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| Vietnam braces for typhoon as Philippine toll rises to 230 dead Posted: 25 Dec 2017 01:40 AM PST ![Vietnam braces for typhoon as Philippine toll rises to 230 dead]( "Vietnam braces for typhoon as Philippine toll rises to 230 dead") By Mi Nguyen and Manuel Mogato HANOI/MANILA (Reuters) - Authorities in Vietnam prepared to move a million people from low-lying areas along the south coast on Monday as a typhoon approached after it battered the Philippines with floods and landslides that killed more than 230 people. Typhoon Tembin is expected to slam into Vietnam late on Monday after bringing misery to the predominantly Christian Philippines just before Christmas. Vietnam's disaster prevention committee said 74,000 people had been moved to safety from vulnerable areas, while authorities in 15 provinces and cities were prepared to move more than 1 million.
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| 2017's Rohingya Crisis In Photos Posted: 26 Dec 2017 03:01 AM PST  A violent, ongoing campaign of state-sanctioned persecution has driven more than 655,000 Rohingya Muslims out of Myanmar's Rakhine State in the last four months of 2017.
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| Orrin Hatch Trolls Utah Newspaper That Wants Him To Retire Posted: 26 Dec 2017 11:19 AM PST  Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Monday tweeted out an editorial in The Salt Lake Tribune naming him "Utahn of the Year," declaring that he was "grateful for this Christmas honor."
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| Former US ambassador says Donald Trump is weakening the State Department Posted: 26 Dec 2017 07:18 AM PST  The US State Department is being "weakened and sidelined" under President Donald Trump, a former American diplomat has claimed. Nicholas Burns, who served as a senior diplomat under both Republican and Democratic administrations, told The Los Angeles Times that Mr Trump's foreign policy is "a radical departure from every president since WWII". "Trump is weak on Nato, Russia, trade, climate, diplomacy," said Mr Burns, the former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under President George W Bush.
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| Lots of People Already Crashed Their Brand New Drones This Christmas Posted: 25 Dec 2017 01:12 PM PST  "I owned a drone for bout 5 min before it flew in the lake"
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| Winds scuttle Washington's crossing despite kids' efforts Posted: 25 Dec 2017 01:23 PM PST  WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Despite the best efforts of some Philadelphia schoolchildren, Mother Nature blew in and scuttled the annual re-enactment of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River during the Revolutionary War.
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| Pennsylvania Woman Shocked By $284 Billion Electric Bill Posted: 26 Dec 2017 08:49 AM PST  You can't blame Mary Horomanski for getting a little charged up when she saw her electric bill earlier this month.
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| UAE has information Tunisian women may commit 'terrorist acts', Tunisia says Posted: 25 Dec 2017 05:49 AM PST ![UAE has information Tunisian women may commit 'terrorist acts', Tunisia says]( "UAE has information Tunisian women may commit 'terrorist acts', Tunisia says") The United Arab Emirates has information that Tunisian women or women traveling on Tunisian passports might commit "terrorist acts" in the Gulf country, Tunisia's state news agency TAP said. Tunisia late on Sunday suspended flights from Dubai carrier Emirates to Tunis, with officials saying the airline was refusing to carry female Tunisian travelers. A spokesman for Tunisia's presidency did not elaborate on the security threat in a brief TAP article.
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| 20 dead in Philippines bus crash on way to Christmas mass Posted: 24 Dec 2017 09:09 PM PST  Twenty pilgrims from the same extended family were killed Monday in a head-on bus collision while travelling to Christmas Day mass in the northern Philippines, police said. A small bus taking the group to a dawn church service crashed into a larger bus in the town of Agoo killing 20 on board, including six children, police said. The nine other occupants of the small bus were injured, as were 17 travelling on the bigger bus, according to an updated tally released by regional police.
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| Trump latest tweetstorm targets FBI, Russia dossier Posted: 25 Dec 2017 10:51 PM PST  In a series of tweets over the weekend, President Trump targeted the FBI, calling it 'tainted.' The tweets come amid rumors that FBI director Andrew McCabe is considering retiring.
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| NBC issues hugging guidelines to staff in wake of Matt Lauer sexual assault scandal Posted: 26 Dec 2017 10:31 AM PST  NBC News has issued new guidelines to staff in the wake of the sexual harassment scandal surrounding Matt Lauer, America's highest-paid television news host. Lauer was fired on November 28 after The New York Times reported allegations from multiple women about sexual harassment. He was the network's highest-paid star, earning $25 million a year. The broadcaster has now reportedly issued new behavioural guidelines, obtained by The New York Post. Employees have been ordered to report any inappropriate relationships in the workplace, according to the paper, and if they fail to do so, they could be fired for covering up for colleagues. Detailed rules also have been issued about conduct in the office, including how to socialise and even how to hug colleagues. "Romantic relationships at work are not exactly unusual, but now NBC says it is taking a zero-tolerance approach," a source told the paper. "Staffers have been told that if they find out about any affairs, romances, inappropriate relationships or behaviour in the office, they have to report it to human resources, their superior or the company anti-harassment phone line. "Staffers are shocked that they are now expected to snitch on their friends." The source added that there are also "a series of ridiculous rules" issued to guide office conduct. "One rule relates to hugging. If you wish to hug a colleague, you have to do a quick hug, then an immediate release, and step away to avoid body contact," the source said. "Also there's strict rules about socialising, including [not] sharing taxis home and [not] taking vegans to steakhouses." NBC News representatives have not commented. Matt Lauer with his co-host, Savannah Guthrie Earlier this month, NBC News said it would require employees to take anti-harassment training and conduct a "culture assessment" of the news division following Lauer's firing. Andy Lack, the chairman of NBC News, said in a staff memo that a review of the "inappropriate sexual conduct" charges that led to Lauer's firing resulted in interviews with at least 40 other employees. Lauer, a married father of three, has apologised for his actions in a statement read on his former show, Today, saying he was "truly sorry". He said that not all of the allegations that have followed are correct, but he admitted that "there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed." He said: "There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry. "As I am writing this I realize the depth of the damage and disappointment I have left behind at home and at NBC." His Dutch model wife, Annette Roque, is reportedly consulting divorce lawyers. The pair met in 1997 and married in 1998. Their first child, Jack, was born in 2001, followed by Romy in 2004 and Thijs in 2006. Ms Roque previously filed for divorce while pregnant with Thijs, but the couple later reconciled. On Saturday they were seen together at their horse farm in Sag Harbour, in The Hamptons, but with Ms Roque not wearing her wedding ring. Lauer was fired in the aftermath of the October 5 report into the behaviour of Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood film producer. He was accused of multiple counts of sexual harassment, assault and rape, which he denied, and his downfall triggered a flood of similar accusations against politicians, media moguls and business titans, with a slew of resignations. Weinstein is currently in rehab in Arizona, and with his estranged wife demanding he pay their child support in advance for fear of him being bankrupted by law suits. Yet he is now a Hollywood pariah: on Christmas Day the rock band TENLo released a dark music video in which a Weinstein lookalike, played by former Saved by the Bell star Dustin Diamond, is stabbed to death.
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| Democrats hope to use tax overhaul as a club against GOP Posted: 25 Dec 2017 12:29 AM PST  ATLANTA (AP) — A Democratic congressional candidate outside Philadelphia calls the Republican tax overhaul a "cynical bill" that will redistribute wealth upward.
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| Attack on Libyan crude pipeline cuts output by up to 100,000 bpd Posted: 26 Dec 2017 10:01 AM PST ![Attack on Libyan crude pipeline cuts output by up to 100,000 bpd]( "Attack on Libyan crude pipeline cuts output by up to 100,000 bpd") Armed men blew up a pipeline pumping crude oil to Es Sider port on Tuesday, cutting Libya's output by up to 100,000 barrels per day (bpd), military and oil sources said. The state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC) said in statement output had been reduced by 70,000-100,000 bpd. The attackers arrived at the site near Marada in two cars and planted explosives on the pipeline, a military source said.
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| Watch These Flight Attendants Stun Travelers With Beautiful Christmas Tunes Posted: 25 Dec 2017 08:32 PM PST  From America to Australia, flight attendants around the world helped holiday travelers reach their destinations.
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| A 76-Year-Old Man Has Died in a New York High-Rise Apartment Building Fire Posted: 25 Dec 2017 06:57 PM PST  Two firefighters also were injured in the fire
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| Russia Demands To Know Why Chechen Leader's Instagram Account Was Blocked Posted: 26 Dec 2017 10:13 AM PST  Russia's internet watchdog agency is demanding to know why Instagram and Facebook have blocked the social media accounts of Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed dictator.
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| An order from the Chinese emperor: find immortality Posted: 25 Dec 2017 03:57 AM PST  New archeological research has shed fresh light on China's first emperor -- creator of the world-famous terracotta army -- and his quest for eternal life, state media reported. A set of wooden slips found in the central province of Hunan contain an executive order from emperor Qin Shihuang for a nationwide search for the elixir of life, along with replies from local governments, according to Xinhua news agency on Sunday.
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| A U.K. Woman Tried to Bring Painkillers Into Egypt. She Was Sentenced to 3 Years Posted: 26 Dec 2017 01:43 PM PST  A woman from the United Kingdom was sentenced to three years in jail for bringing potent painkillers into Egypt.
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| Archbishop of Canterbury decries deceitfulness of populist leaders Posted: 25 Dec 2017 08:13 AM PST  The Archbishop of Canterbury has used his Christmas Day sermon to reflect on the deceitfulness of populist leaders and a year of terrorist atrocities. The Most Rev Justin Welby told the congregation at Canterbury Cathedral of the contrast between the humility of the Nativity story and many of the world's leaders. He spoke as the Roman Catholic Church's most senior cleric used his own address to call on people to move away from "radical individualism" in society, which is demonstrated by conflict on social media. Cardinal Vincent Nichols told the BBC: "In social media there's a barrage of views and once a statement or claim is made there's immediately a counterclaim, and the mode of exchange is conflict." In remarks that are likely to be interpreted by some as a jibe at Donald Trump, the Archbishop of Canterbury made pointed comments about the weaknesses of current world leaders. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby arriving for the Christmas Day service at Canterbury Cathedral. Credit: Gareth Fuller/PA He told his congregation: "The nature of those who have power is to seek to hold on to it. "In 2017 we have seen around the world tyrannical leaders that enslave their peoples, populist leaders that deceive them, corrupt leaders that rob them, even simply democratic, well-intentioned leaders of many parties and countries who are normal, fallible human beings. "We have experienced across our country terrorism that kills the innocent, claiming that it is the path to freedom in God. "The nature of God who has all power, and from whom all power comes, is to lay it aside for love's sake and thus without fear, force or manipulation to offer true freedom for every human being." The Archbishop this year publicly spoke out against Mr Trumpwhen the US President shared videos from far-right group Britain First via Twitter. He said at the time: "It is deeply disturbing that the president of the United States has chosen to amplify the voice of far-right extremists." Earlier on Monday morning the Church of England's most senior cleric had given his Christmas message a modern twist by publishing extracts in a Twitter thread, complete with a hashtag. Across the globe, the Pope put the migrant crisis at the heart of his festive reflections, saying that the story of the holy birth had particular relevance as millions of people were "driven from their land". The Archbishop of Canterbury has used his Christmas Day sermon to reflect on the deceitfulness of populist leaders and a year of terrorist atrocities. The Most Rev Justin Welby told the congregation at Canterbury Cathedral of the contrast between the humility of the Nativity story and many of the world's leaders. He spoke as the Roman Catholic Church's most senior cleric used his own address to call on people to move away from "radical individualism" in society, which is demonstrated by conflict on social media. Cardinal Vincent Nichols told the BBC: "In social media there's a barrage of views and once a statement or claim is made there's immediately a counterclaim, and the mode of exchange is conflict." In remarks that are likely to be interpreted by some as a jibe at Donald Trump, the Archbishop of Canterbury made pointed comments about the weaknesses of current world leaders. He told his congregation: "The nature of those who have power is to seek to hold on to it. "In 2017 we have seen around the world tyrannical leaders that enslave their peoples, populist leaders that deceive them, corrupt leaders that rob them, even simply democratic, well-intentioned leaders of many parties and countries who are normal, fallible human beings. "We have experienced across our country terrorism that kills the innocent, claiming that it is the path to freedom in God. "The nature of God who has all power, and from whom all power comes, is to lay it aside for love's sake and thus without fear, force or manipulation to offer true freedom for every human being." The Archbishop this year publicly spoke out against Mr Trump when the US President shared videos from far-right group Britain First via Twitter. He said at the time: "It is deeply disturbing that the president of the United States has chosen to amplify the voice of far-right extremists." Earlier on Monday morning the Church of England's most senior cleric had given his Christmas message a modern twist by publishing extracts in a Twitter thread, complete with a hashtag. Across the globe, the Pope put the migrant crisis at the heart of his festive reflections, saying that the story of the holy birth had particular relevance as millions of people were "driven from their land". The Archbishop struck a similar note during his sermon, saying: "We are drawn to stories of freedom and purpose. "In Star Wars an abandoned orphan on a desert planet turns into a knight leading the struggle for freedom. "Platform nine and three quarters takes Harry Potter into a world of magic and purpose. "Not so in the gospel stories, even those of Christmas. Yes, the shepherds see angels. Yes, Mary and Joseph have dreams and are chosen as special people. "Yet after the moments of miracles life goes on almost as before - the shepherds return to their sheep, Joseph settles back as a carpenter, Mary raises children. "They flee as refugees, like over 60 million people today. "Yet their story is the beginning of ours, it is an invitation to lives of freedom, found through God's freely offered love."
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| Why Iran Could Be a Bigger Problem than North Korea Posted: 25 Dec 2017 05:09 PM PST  The Middle East is in a shambles, as Iranian proxy wars and other wars dominate Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Mali and Egypt. Iran is on the march in the Middle East following the P5 + 1 nuclear agreement that brought billions in sanctions relief, which means the Iranian regime is now the biggest threat to regional stability. Iranian proxies, which include Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Houthis in Yemen, allow the Iranian regime to project force on an unprecedented scale in the Middle East and emboldens other bad actors on the world stage.
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| Oman opens sprawling oryx reserve to ecotourists Posted: 26 Dec 2017 06:05 AM PST  The Gulf sultanate of Oman is looking to carve itself a new niche in ecotourism by opening up a sanctuary for one of the desert's most fabled creatures -- the Arabian oryx. Once extinct in the wild, the rare member of the antelope family famed for its elegant horns has been dragged back from the precipice in a sprawling reserve fenced off for decades from the public. On a recent outing, wildlife rangers in SUVs patrolled the sandy plains of the reserve in central Oman's Haima province, spotting groups of grazing oryx and other indigenous species.
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| Netflix Will Once Again Help Parents Get Kids To Bed On New Year’s Eve Posted: 26 Dec 2017 06:01 AM PST  For the fourth year in a row, Netflix will have parents' backs on New Year's Eve.
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| Colombia records lowest murder rate in four decades Posted: 26 Dec 2017 09:51 AM PST  Colombia recorded its lowest murder rate in four decades this year in the wake of a peace deal with the leftwing FARC rebel group, the government said Tuesday. There were "a little over 11,000 homicides" in 2017, Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said, equating to a rate of 23 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. The government's Forensic Medicine Institute has not yet released its data on recorded deaths for 2017.
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| 'RHONY' Star Luann de Lesseps Apologizes After Battery Arrest Posted: 25 Dec 2017 10:30 PM PST  "Real Housewives of New York City" star Luann de Lesseps has apologized after she was arrested in Florida and charged with multiple offenses, including disorderly intoxication and felony battery of a police officer, according to arrest records.
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| Minneapolis police remove memorial left by hate group Posted: 25 Dec 2017 10:42 AM PST ![Minneapolis police remove memorial left by hate group]( "Minneapolis police remove memorial left by hate group") MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police have removed a memorial that a white nationalist group created to honor an Australian woman killed by a Somali officer last summer.
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| Five dead after bus ploughs into Moscow underpass Posted: 25 Dec 2017 06:35 AM PST  Five people were killed when a city bus ploughed into a pedestrian underpass in western Moscow on Monday, traffic police said. It was not immediately clear what caused the accident as authorities said they were looking into several possibilities, including a technical malfunction. "A bus drove into a pedestrian underpass," a traffic police spokesman, Artyom Kolesnikov, told AFP. "According to preliminary information, five people died." Footage broadcast on national television showed a bus driving onto the pavement and then down the stairs of the underpass, running over several pedestrians before coming to a stop. Rescuers worked to pull the bus out Credit: AFP Moscow police said in a statement they were looking into two possible causes of the accident - the driver losing control of the vehicle and a technical problem with the bus. "The driver of the bus began movement and then changed his trajectory, which resulted in the bus going down into the pedestrian underpass," the statement said. "The driver has been detained. Police employees are working with him," the statement said. Three people have been hospitalised, the statement added. The accident happened around 3 pm (1200 GMT) near Moscow's Slavyansky Boulevard metro station, a prestigious residential area near one of the capital's main avenues. The accident occurred in a busy residential area Credit: Reuters Sirens were blaring around the metro station, with authorities preparing to pull the bus out of the underpass with a cable, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. The underpass and surrounding area were cordoned off by police, and several black body bags could be seen on the pavement, partially covered with falling snow. The emergencies ministry said two helicopters had been dispatched to the scene to help evacuate the victims. "There are dead and wounded," tweeted Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin. "We are providing emergency aid," he said, offering condolences to families of the victims. Sobyanin himself arrived at the scene, telling journalists he had ordered a full inspection of the entire Moscow bus fleet.
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| Kanye West Gifts Kim Kardashian More Than $200,000 Worth of Stocks for Christmas Posted: 26 Dec 2017 03:27 PM PST  The media mogul was surprised by her husband, Kanye West, with several lucrative investments to some of today's wealthiest companies — including The Walt Disney Company, Netflix, Amazon, Apple and Adidas
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| China Would "Pay a Very High Price" If It Invades, Taiwan Warns Posted: 25 Dec 2017 05:32 AM PST  Taiwan's mainland affairs minister, also called on the United States not to use the self-governed island as a bargaining chip in negotiations with China. A senior Taiwanese minister has declared that China would "pay a very very high price" if it invaded Taiwan. Chang Hsiao-Yueh, Taiwan's mainland affairs minister, also called on the United States not to use the self-governed island as a bargaining chip in negotiations with China.
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| How Trump Created and Won His Own War on Christmas in 72 Days Posted: 25 Dec 2017 09:26 AM PST  We can all rest easy now!
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| 'Forgive me' ex-Peru leader Fujimori says after pardon protests Posted: 26 Dec 2017 06:14 AM PST  Peru's ailing former leader Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday asked the public for forgiveness, two days after receiving a presidential pardon that sparked street protests. "I am aware that the results of my government were well received on one side, but I admit that I have let down other compatriots, and I ask them to forgive me with all my heart," Fujimori said in a Facebook video filmed from his hospital bed. President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ordered the pardon of Fujimori and seven other prisoners Sunday on humanitarian grounds, placing himself in the middle of a political crisis just days after he avoided impeachment.
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| Anderson Cooper And Andy Cohen Met On A Set-Up Gone Wrong Posted: 25 Dec 2017 07:55 PM PST  Famous friends Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen met when they were set-up on a blind date, the duo revealed on "The Tonight Show" late last week.
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| Got tips? Hurry! They're still worth $10M to robbed museum Posted: 25 Dec 2017 09:15 PM PST  BOSTON (AP) — A hot tip could still earn you a cool $10 million from a Boston museum desperate to recover a trove of missing masterpieces. But you'd better hurry.
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| A pastoral lost: the withering of Russia's old Soviet farms and villages Posted: 26 Dec 2017 06:45 AM PST ![A pastoral lost: the withering of Russia's old Soviet farms and villages]( "A pastoral lost: the withering of Russia's old Soviet farms and villages") Strewn with abandoned buildings, ruined grain silos, and muddy streets lined with empty, tumbledown Russian-style cottages, this community is mostly a ghost town. Pyotr Volkov and his wife Natasha are already pensioners, yet they are the youngest inhabitants here. Perhaps due to a bureaucratic error, Komsomolskoye still has a functioning post office.
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| Do Extroverts Get a Bad Rap at Work? Posted: 26 Dec 2017 07:59 AM PST ![Do Extroverts Get a Bad Rap at Work?]( "Do Extroverts Get a Bad Rap at Work?") Fueled by Susan Cain's bestseller "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" and her TedTalk, which has pulled in more than 18 million views, "introvert" is no longer a dirty word or a personality type to try to conceal behind a facade of office chatter. While extroverts do need to be aware of whether they are monopolizing too much air time, their talent for thinking on the fly isn't a bad thing, particularly not in a business setting.
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| China Just Added An "Enormous Dragon" to Its Military Arsenal Posted: 25 Dec 2017 05:38 AM PST  Known as "enormous dragon", the AG600 is the world's largest amphibious aircraft in production after finally taking off on its maiden flight during the Christmas holidays. "Its successful maiden flight makes China among the world's few countries capable of developing a large amphibious aircraft," Huang Lingcai, the chief designer at Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC), told the government-controled Xinhua news agency.
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