| Women Won The House For Democrats, But Men May End Up Running It Posted: 18 Nov 2018 05:00 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― They ran for office at record levels. They came to the polls in
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| Bucking McConnell, Sens. Graham And Paul Call For Vote On Criminal Justice Bill Posted: 18 Nov 2018 11:03 AM PST  Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) often find themselves on
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| WikiLeaks' Assange faces charges; lawyer says he'd fight Posted: 16 Nov 2018 06:58 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not willingly travel to the United States to face charges filed under seal against him, one of his lawyers said Friday, foreshadowing a possible fight over extradition for a central figure in the U.S. special counsel's Russia-Trump investigation.
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| Argentina Finds Missing Sub One Year Later But Lacks Resources To Surface It Posted: 17 Nov 2018 09:52 AM PST  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The Argentine government acknowledged on
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| Trump administration says no final conclusion on Khashoggi murder Posted: 17 Nov 2018 12:55 PM PST  "Recent reports indicating that the U.S. government has made a final conclusion are inaccurate," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement. "There remain numerous unanswered questions with respect to the murder of Mr. Khashoggi." Nauert said the State Department will continue to seek facts and work with other countries to hold those involved in the journalist's killing accountable "while maintaining the important strategic relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia." Trump, while flying to California on Saturday, discussed the CIA assessment by phone with the agency's director, Gina Haspel, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters. The CIA had briefed other parts of the U.S. government, including Congress, on its assessment, sources told Reuters on Friday, a development that complicates Trump's efforts to preserve ties with the key U.S. ally.
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| This six-mile 2005 Ford GT is a car collector's dream Posted: 17 Nov 2018 09:02 AM PST  This brand-new unregistered 2005 Ford GT is still waiting for its first owner. These cars have appreciated significantly from their original $149,995 price when new
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| Joe Biden Just Adopted An Adorable Shelter Dog Posted: 17 Nov 2018 09:59 AM PST  Joe Biden is welcoming a furry new member to his family.
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| Yemen rebels mobilise to fight ahead of UN envoy visit Posted: 18 Nov 2018 03:19 AM PST  Yemeni rebels have said they are ready to mobilise more fighters to the frontline despite a lull in battleground Hodeida, as the UN envoy prepares to visit the country to boost peace efforts. Dozens of Huthi rebels put on a show of strength on the outskirts of the capital Sanaa on Saturday, apparently getting ready to head towards Hodeida, a Red Sea city home to a vital port. Residents told AFP by telephone on Sunday that relative calm had held in Hodeida city since pro-government forces -- backed by a Saudi-led military coalition -- announced a pause in their offensive last week amid international calls for a ceasefire and UN-led peace efforts.
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| Gil Cisneros Wins House Seat, Capping Democratic Rout In California Posted: 17 Nov 2018 06:47 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Democrat Gil Cisneros captured a Republican-held U.S.
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| The Latest: Israeli PM Netanyahu takes over defense ministry Posted: 18 Nov 2018 10:37 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the political developments in Israel (all times local):
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| Cab Drivers Refuse To Pick Up Racists After Philly Rally With Proud Boys Posted: 17 Nov 2018 03:41 PM PST  Racists in Philadelphia were apparently denied a quick escape Saturday after
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| Florida Sues Walgreens, CVS, Alleging They Added To State's Opioid Crisis Posted: 18 Nov 2018 10:55 AM PST  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida is suing the nation's two largest
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| Trump calls CIA assessment of Khashoggi murder premature but possible Posted: 17 Nov 2018 05:36 PM PST ![Trump calls CIA assessment of Khashoggi murder premature but possible]( "Trump calls CIA assessment of Khashoggi murder premature but possible") Trump, on a trip to California, said the killing "should never have happened." The report on Tuesday will explain who the U.S. government believes killed Khashoggi and what the overall impact of his murder is, Trump said. Trump also said the CIA finding that bin Salman was responsible for the killing was "possible." Trump made the remarks hours after the State Department said the government was still working on determining responsibility for the death of Khashoggi, a U.S.-based Washington Post columnist. "Recent reports indicating that the U.S. government has made a final conclusion are inaccurate," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Blesses New Push To Oust Incumbent Democrats In Primaries Posted: 18 Nov 2018 08:52 AM PST  In a significant escalation of her activism-driven approach to politics,
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| Facebook says steep rise in data requests from Indian gov't Posted: 17 Nov 2018 01:26 AM PST ![Facebook says steep rise in data requests from Indian gov't]( "Facebook says steep rise in data requests from Indian gov't") NEW DELHI (AP) — Facebook says there was a steep rise in data requests from India's government in the first half of this year as compared to the previous two years.
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| Protest greets Apple's Champs Elysees launch Posted: 18 Nov 2018 09:00 AM PST  The launch of an Apple store on the Champs Elysees in Paris was greeted Sunday by a protest against the US multinational's controversial fiscal practices. The group had staged a sit-in at Apple's flagship Paris store in December 2017, and in February a French court declined to approve a ban on such actions following a request by the US computer giant. "We have come to celebrate in our own way the inauguration of Apple's Champs Elysees store, to remind people that Apple is one of the biggest tax evaders in the world," Attac spokeswoman Aurelie Trouve told AFP at the protest, which featured a brass band.
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| Trump Insists 'Raking' Will Help Stop Forest Fires; Twitter Reels Posted: 17 Nov 2018 08:26 PM PST  With 76 people dead and nearly 1,300 unaccounted for and feared dead in
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| Details released on Disneyland's planned 'Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge' attractions Posted: 18 Nov 2018 09:01 AM PST  "Star Wars" fans will soon be able to pilot the Millennium Falcon and face off against Kylo Ren in battle.
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| Israel's Netanyahu Struggles to Stave Off Election Pressure Posted: 17 Nov 2018 11:49 AM PST  Netanyahu is set to meet with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, who has urged the prime minister to go for early elections after Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman's departure last week left the government in control of just 61 out of 120 parliamentary seats. It's not possible to govern with such a narrow coalition, which will be subject to constant pressures from its partners, Kahlon said in an interview Saturday on Hadashot News.
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| Melania Trump's Hotel Charges Were $174,000 For A Day Trip To Toronto: Records Posted: 16 Nov 2018 06:36 PM PST  First lady Melania Trump's hotel bills for a day trip to Toronto last year
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| Police called as Asia-Pacific summit tensions boil over in US-China trade spat Posted: 18 Nov 2018 08:11 AM PST  Leaders of Asia-Pacific nations failed to agree a joint communique after a summit for the first time on Sunday after police had to be called when trade tensions between the US and China boiled over in Papua New Guinea. Insiders said the sticking point was US demands to include reference to reforming the World Trade Organisation and "unfair trade practices" - which Beijing took as an unsubtle dig. When Chinese diplomats turned up unannounced to persuade Papua New Guinea's foreign minister to back their wording, things turned ugly. Rimbink Pato refused to meet them. "Police were posted outside the minister's office after they tried to barge in," one source privy to summit negotiations told the AFP news agency, requesting anonymity. Instead of a leaders' declaration backed by the 21 members of the the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec), Peter O'Neill, prime minister of Papua New Guinea, said he would issue a chairman's statement. It marks the first time in Apec's 29-year history that its members have not been able to agree. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and the US Vice President Mike Pence arrive for a "family photo" Credit: Saeed Khan/AFP "You know the two big giants in the room," Mr O'Neill said diplomatically when asked which nations could not agree. East-West tensions were on display from the outset of the summit, with the two blocs manoeuvring for influence. Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, was feted by PNG officials when he arrived on Thursday to pitch his Belt and Road initiative to Pacific island nations. The programme offers investment in infrastructure to less developed countries. In response, Mike Pence, US vice president, warned smaller countries not to be seduced by Chinese money that comes with strings. The US and its allies, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, countered with a $1.7 billion (£1.3 billion) plan to deliver reliable electricity and the internet to PNG. China came away with at least one success. A Tongan official said it had signed up to the initiative and had been given a five-year deferral on loan repayments, as Chinese officials insisted they did not add to the burden on small countries.
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| UK Labour leader Corbyn: second Brexit referendum is for future, not today Posted: 18 Nov 2018 01:51 AM PST  Britain's opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Sunday that a second Brexit referendum was an option for the future rather than today. Labour has said it will not support Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit agreement in an upcoming vote in parliament, and some in the party have backed calls for a referendum on the deal. What's the question going to be?" Corbyn told Sky News.
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| Cygnus cargo ship launches to ISS Posted: 17 Nov 2018 01:36 AM PST  Wallops Flight Facility (United States) (AFP) - An unmanned Cygnus cargo ship blasted off Saturday toward the International Space Station, marking the second supply mission in 24 hours destined to carry food and supplies to the astronauts living in space.
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| Twitter Users Baffled By Trump's 'Great Climate' Promise During Wildfire Tour Posted: 18 Nov 2018 06:42 AM PST  President Donald Trump vowed to make the Earth's climate great again as he
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| California's DIY firefighters battle alone as the richest hire private teams Posted: 16 Nov 2018 11:00 PM PST  As officials battled blazes elsewhere, residents of Cornell, California, chose to take on the fires rather than flee Roger Kelton searches through the remains of his mother-in-law's home leveled by the Woolsey Fire, in Agoura Hills, near Cornell, California. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP
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| The Latest: DeSantis: No reaction to race he declared 'over' Posted: 17 Nov 2018 08:14 PM PST  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on Florida's U.S. Senate and gubernatorial recounts (all times local):
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| Mark Hamill Confirms Crazy Pitch He Once Made For Infamous 'Star Wars' Character Posted: 18 Nov 2018 03:34 PM PST  Actor Mark Hamill, aka Luke Skywalker, confirmed an off-the-wall idea he had
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| Rohingya refugees say they would 'rather die' than be sent back to Burma, as repatriation plans are 'stalled until 2019' Posted: 18 Nov 2018 09:19 AM PST  Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said on Sunday that they would "rather die" than go back to Burma under current conditions, as it was revealed plans to repatriate them have been stalled until next year. "We will not return without being given our rights as citizens," said Mohamad Saddiq Hossain, a local community leader in Kutupalong extension camp, "we would rather die here than be taken back there." Mr Hossain's feelings were shared by many of the camp's Rohingya residents, who have spent the past week fearing they could be forced back to the country that more than 720,000 were forced to flee in 2017 after a sweeping army crackdown in Rakhine state. Last Tuesday Bangladesh's government was due to send the first batch of 2,200 refugees back to Burma from the south of Bangladesh, but the process was stalled amid protests. Many of those on the list approved by the Burma government fled from their shelters and hid in other camps or in the forest. None of them agreed to return if their demands for justice, citizenship and the ability to go back to their original villages and lands were not met. Abul Kalam, Bangladesh's refugee relief and repatriation commissioner, told Reuters on Sunday that "a new course of action" needed to be adopted on repatriation that took into account refugees' demands. Hundreds of Rohingya refugees shout slogans as they protest against their repatriation at the Unchiprang camp Credit: MOHAMMAD PONIR HOSSAIN/ REUTERS "I don't think anyone's agreeing to go back without these," he said. Rahin Ullah, a Rohingya refugee believed to be about 50 years old (he is unsure of his exact age) who fled Myanmar last August for the third time, said he wanted to go home but would not do so until there was an end to discrimination against his people. "We are here just to save our lives for the sake of our children," he said. "[Burma] is my homeland, my father was born there, my grandfather was born there and, as far as I know, his father before him." Highlighting the still volatile conditions in Burma, four Rohingya were shot in a raid by immigration authorities on an internal displacement camp outside the city of Sittwee on Sunday. The 20 police officers who entered the camp were looking for men accused of people smuggling after a boat was stopped off the coast on Saturday with 106 Rohingya on board, believed to be on their way to Malaysia. With Bangladesh set to go to the polls on Dec. 30, any decision either to repatriate people, or relocate refugees from the crowded camps to Bangladesh's Bhasan Char island will not proceed until 2019, Mr Kalam said. Bangladesh has vowed not to force anyone to return. But the Rohingya's presence has become particularly contentious ahead of the elections. Many Bangladeshis feel their small, overpopulated country should not be bearing the burden of an extra million people in one of its poorest regions. Rohingya like Mr Hossain have little choice. "Here in Bangladesh we have nothing," he says, "but it is better than returning."
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| Bavarian premier Soeder to run for CSU party leadership Posted: 18 Nov 2018 10:32 AM PST  Bavarian premier Markus Soeder said on Sunday he would run to succeed Interior Minister Horst Seehofer as leader of the Bavarian CSU conservative party. "After careful consideration and in accordance with the desire of many members, I am ready to serve my party," Soeder said in a posting on Facebook. "That is why I am running for the post of CSU party leader." Soeder, whose decision was first reported by the German news agency DPA, said his goal was to further develop and renew the party.
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| Police called on diplomats as APEC summit tensions boil over Posted: 18 Nov 2018 12:44 AM PST  Police were called when Chinese officials attempted to "barge" into the office of Papua New Guinea's foreign minister, it emerged Sunday, as APEC summit tensions boiled over. The Chinese delegates "tried to barge in" to Rimbink Pato's Port Moresby office Saturday, in an eleventh-hour bid to influence a summit draft communique, but were denied entry, three sources with knowledge of the situation told AFP. "Police were posted outside the minister's office after they tried to barge in," one source privy to summit negotiations told AFP, requesting anonymity.
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| North Korea's Deadly Artillery Has the “Potential to Affect Millions of South Korean Citizens” Posted: 18 Nov 2018 06:22 AM PST  About that "ultramodern" weapon from last week: it could have been some fancy new artillery.
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| Bill Maher Trashes Fans Mourning Stan Lee And Adults Who Read Comics Posted: 17 Nov 2018 06:25 PM PST  Comedian Bill Maher is getting the ire of the comic book world this weekend
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| Finland's president rakes memory for source of Trump remark Posted: 18 Nov 2018 09:39 AM PST  HELSINKI (AP) — Finland's president isn't sure where U.S. President Donald Trump got the idea that raking is part of his country's routine for managing its substantial forests.
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| Car bomb blast kills five in Iraq's Tikrit: police, medics Posted: 18 Nov 2018 07:17 AM PST ![Car bomb blast kills five in Iraq's Tikrit: police, medics]( "Car bomb blast kills five in Iraq's Tikrit: police, medics") A car bomb blast killed at least five people and wounded 16 others in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Sunday, police and medical sources said. The blast set nearly a dozen vehicles on fire, the police sources said. Security forces have closed most of the city streets and deployed in case of any other incidents.
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| DeVos wants to change campus rules on sexual misconduct Posted: 16 Nov 2018 11:16 PM PST  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has proposed a major overhaul to the way colleges and universities handle sexual misconduct complaints, adding protections for students accused of assault and harassment and narrowing which cases schools would be required to investigate.
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| Diddy Pays Tribute To 'Soulmate' Kim Porter After Her Sudden Death Posted: 18 Nov 2018 12:43 PM PST  Rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs posted a touching tribute to his ex-girlfriend
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| Facebook asked to protect users in simmering Sri Lanka Posted: 16 Nov 2018 10:33 PM PST  Sri Lanka's largest political party Saturday asked Facebook to protect the identity of its supporters, fearing a crackdown by what it called the "illegal" government. It began on October 26 when President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Ranil Wickremesinghe as premier and replaced him with former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse. In chaotic scenes in parliament this week, Rajapakse lost two votes of no confidence but he is refusing to go and Sirisena has yet to acknowledge the motions.
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| UK's May sees 'no alternative' to her Brexit plan Posted: 17 Nov 2018 04:12 PM PST  British Prime Minister Theresa May says she sees no alternative to the Brexit deal she presented earlier this week, amid reports that some of her senior ministers want her to renegotiate the draft agreement before meeting EU leaders next weekend. Just hours after announcing on Wednesday that her senior ministers had collectively backed her divorce deal, May was thrust into her premiership's most perilous crisis when Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab resigned on Thursday to oppose the agreement. Brexit supporters say the transitional deal risks leaving Britain subject to EU rules for an indefinite period.
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| APEC leaders divided after US, China spat Posted: 18 Nov 2018 01:22 AM PST  Asia-Pacific leaders failed Sunday to bridge gaping divisions over trade at a summit dominated by a war of words between the US and China as they vie for regional influence. For the first time, APEC leaders were unable to agree on a formal written declaration amid sharp differences between the world's top two economies over the rules of global trade. What can I say?" said host and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, conceding defeat.
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| Michelle Obama on running for political office: 'It's not something I would ever do' Posted: 17 Nov 2018 07:41 AM PST  Michelle Obama has an unyielding answer for anyone trying to persuade her to run for political office: she's not interested. The former first lady discussed her newly published memoir Becoming with television host Jimmy Kimmel in his eponymous show on Thursday night when he asked her about people goading her to pursue a political career. "I know you said – repeatedly – you will not run for office," Mr Kimmel said, "but has anyone ever really, like, seriously approached you and tried to convince you to run for office?
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| What To Watch On Netflix That’s New This Week Posted: 17 Nov 2018 06:59 AM PST  Streamline recommends "Narcos: Mexico" as the thing to watch on Netflix this
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| Video of Violent Murder inside Missouri Prison Highlights Danger to Inmates, Officers Posted: 17 Nov 2018 03:07 PM PST  Inmates at Crossroads Correctional Facility have sent dozens of letters to a local news station describing how the prison is teetering on the brink of disaster.
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