| Dutch Court Rules 69-Year-Old Man Can't Legally Declare Himself 20 Years Younger Posted: 03 Dec 2018 09:16 AM PST  A 69-year-old Dutch man has failed in his attempt to legally declare himself
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| Roger Stone: I would never 'bear false witness' against Trump Posted: 02 Dec 2018 09:02 AM PST  Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone said Sunday morning that he would never testify against the president.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tells Mike Huckabee To Leave 'False Statements To Sarah' Posted: 03 Dec 2018 09:51 AM PST  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Mike Huckabee on Twitter on Sunday,
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| Best Bites: Butter pecan cupcakes Posted: 03 Dec 2018 05:00 AM PST  Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
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| The Smashed Face of This Statue Symbolizes the Fury of the Paris Protests Posted: 02 Dec 2018 08:05 PM PST  Protesters raided the world famous Arc de Triomphe over the weekend
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| Russia's Putin escaped critique for Ukraine actions at G20-German conservative Posted: 03 Dec 2018 02:27 AM PST  BERLIN (Reuters) - The G20 summit in Argentina failed to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for his actions with regard to Ukraine, despite significant efforts by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in bilateral meetings, a key Merkel ally said. "President Putin escaped nearly unscathed with his renewed aggression against Ukraine," Juergen Hardt, foreign policy spokesman for Merkel's conservatives in parliament, said in a statement on Monday. ...
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| George H.W. Bush's body headed to lie in state at US Capitol Posted: 03 Dec 2018 08:43 AM PST  A motorcade carries the former president's body to an Air Force base.
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| Suit Dropped Against Egyptian Actress Rania Youssef Over Sheer Red Carpet Dress Posted: 03 Dec 2018 08:43 AM PST  UPDATE: 1:30 p.m. ― The three lawyers who sued actress Rania Youssef with
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| Top US, Mexico diplomats meet in Washington amid migrant crisis Posted: 02 Dec 2018 10:26 PM PST  Mexico's new Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday for what he called a "friendly" meeting amid tensions over the migrant crisis at the border. The talks came one day after Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office as Mexico's new president. "Friendly conversation as a first approach towards a long standing understanding between Mexico and the USA," Ebrard said on Twitter.
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| 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT C Coupe – First Drive Review Posted: 03 Dec 2018 01:40 PM PST |
| Evil Genius Turns Giuliani's Typo-Ridden Tweet Into Hilarious Anti-Trump Message Posted: 03 Dec 2018 01:10 PM PST  An angry tweet that Rudolph Giuliani intended to criticize Robert Mueller
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| Midwestern Republicans Try To Kneecap New Democratic Governors Posted: 03 Dec 2018 04:23 PM PST  Lame-duck Republican legislatures in two Midwestern states where Democrats
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| The Latest: Earthquake doesn't disrupt supply chain of goods Posted: 02 Dec 2018 12:51 PM PST  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on the aftermath of a powerful earthquake striking near Anchorage (all times local):
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| Comey Ends His Subpoena Fight, to Speak Behind Closed Doors Posted: 02 Dec 2018 11:52 AM PST  Comey had sued to block the summons last week, contending that the sealed testimony would be leaked and distorted by Republicans for political purposes. Early on Sunday, two days after Comey's attorney conceded in court that no federal trial judge had ever batted down a House subpoena, the former Federal Bureau of Investigations chief -- who was fired by President Donald Trump in 2017 -- withdrew his request.
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| Merkel protege suggests reducing gas flow through Nord Stream 2 pipeline Posted: 02 Dec 2018 03:16 PM PST  Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a top candidate to replace Chancellor Angela Merkel as leader of the Christian Democrats, told public broadcaster ARD it would be "too radical" to withdraw political support for the project, but Berlin could reduce the amount of gas to flow through the pipeline. Russia is resisting international calls to release three Ukrainian ships seized last weekend in the Kerch Strait near the Crimea region that Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Moscow has accused the 24 sailors of illegally crossing the Russian border, which Ukraine denies.
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| Oil prices surge on output cut pledge, US-China deal Posted: 03 Dec 2018 12:38 AM PST  Oil prices soared on Monday after Russia and Saudi Arabia renewed a pact to cap output, while the US agreed to halt raising tariffs on Chinese imports, stalling a trade row that many feared could hit demand for the commodity. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman "have agreed to extend our agreement" to limit production as prices slump on global markets. An existing deal committing OPEC and non-members to cuts expires this year.
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| Michelle Obama Cancels Two Book Tour Events To Attend George H.W. Bush's Funeral Posted: 02 Dec 2018 05:27 PM PST  Former first lady Michelle Obama canceled a pair of events for her book tour
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| Mexico's new president takes aim at violence during first day in office Posted: 02 Dec 2018 11:51 AM PST  In a Sunday morning speech, Mexico's first leftist president in decades continued to pivot from an emphasis during the campaign on peaceful reconciliation and even amnesty for some involved in the country's grueling drug war to a more traditional approach defined by more soldiers and police. "We must adjust to a new era," he said, flanked by generals at a military base in the capital, while emphasizing that his security policy will also respect human rights. In the first phase of his plan, a 60,000-strong national guard force made up of army, navy and other federal police will battle crime while a constitutional reform will be pursued to cement the new strategy.
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| The 25 Best Gifts for the Car Lover in Your Life Posted: 03 Dec 2018 09:15 AM PST |
| The Latest: Paris police chief says 112 cars torched in riot Posted: 02 Dec 2018 03:24 PM PST  PARIS (AP) — The latest on French protests against higher taxes (all times local):
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| Death of 4-year-old girl at South LA home investigated as homicide; victim's father arrested Posted: 03 Dec 2018 05:36 PM PST  A man was arrested in connection to the death of his four-year-old daughter after she was found with some type of trauma at her South LA home.
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| Kamala Harris To Decide On 2020 White House Run 'Over The Holiday' Posted: 02 Dec 2018 12:45 PM PST  Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said Saturday she'll decide whether to launch a
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| The Flats Meghan Markle Made Famous Are Now At Nordstrom Posted: 03 Dec 2018 02:39 PM PST  When Meghan Markle wears something, it's safe to say the internet goes on a
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| Mexico’s Leader Sells Off ‘Too Lavish’ Presidential Boeing 787 Posted: 03 Dec 2018 08:47 AM PST  The 787-8 aircraft is headed Monday to a facility in California where Boeing can help maintain the presidential jet until a buyer is found, Finance Minister Carlos Urzua and Banobras development bank director Jorge Mendoza said in a message to reporters in Mexico City. Lopez Obrador has criticized the plane, which cost more than $200 million, as ostentatious -- more luxurious than Air Force One, which flies U.S. presidents around the world, and too lavish for the leader of Mexico.
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| Michelle Obama revisits London school that inspired education drive Posted: 03 Dec 2018 10:23 AM PST ![Michelle Obama revisits London school that inspired education drive]( "Michelle Obama revisits London school that inspired education drive") Michelle Obama returned on Monday to the London girls' school that inspired her global education initiative when she was U.S. First Lady, nine years after her first visit as part of a tour to promote her memoir. Obama urged students to believe they could do anything if they were prepared to work hard enough and called on colleges and universities to do more to attract less privileged pupils. The ethnically diverse school, which Obama visited in 2009 on her first official trip to Britain, has around 60 languages spoken among its 900 female pupils.
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| Portugal, Peru and Armani-designed hotel big winners at 'Oscars' of travel world Posted: 03 Dec 2018 02:36 AM PST  The Oscar for world's best hotel 2018 goes to a five-star hotel in Dubai designed by Armani, while the Oscar equivalent for best destination this year has gone to Portugal, one of the most trending holiday destinations of 2018.
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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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| Kate O’Beirne, Christ, and the Catholic Church Posted: 02 Dec 2018 03:30 AM PST  On Thursday night at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., Mary Rice Hasson hosted the inaugural Kate O'Beirne Event, in honor of our late National Review and National Review Institute colleague. The event was entitled "The Future of the Church: Synod, Scandal, and Solace," sponsored by the Catholic Women's Forum, a program of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. There's so much I can and want to say about Kate O'Beirne, but I hope these brief remarks help us all a little.
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| Trump Had 'Informal' Conversation With Putin At G-20 Summit Posted: 02 Dec 2018 09:00 AM PST  Donald Trump had an "informal" conversation with Vladimir Putin at the G-20
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| Here's How Amazon Prime Members Spent Their Time And Money In 2018 Posted: 03 Dec 2018 11:19 AM PST  You want it when you want it. That's according to just-released data from
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| India Stocks Fluctuate as Oil, Polls Offset Trade Truce Cheer Posted: 03 Dec 2018 02:34 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Indian stocks were volatile on Monday as as the biggest surge in oil prices in two years and uncertainty around the outcome of state elections offset cheer from a U.S.-China trade truce.
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| Macron tells PM to hold talks after worst unrest in Paris for decades Posted: 03 Dec 2018 02:10 AM PST ![Macron tells PM to hold talks after worst unrest in Paris for decades]( "Macron tells PM to hold talks after worst unrest in Paris for decades") 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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| Astronauts blast off for space station on Russian rocket after October crash Posted: 03 Dec 2018 03:05 AM PST  A Russian, an American and a Canadian astronaut have taken off for the international space station in the first manned launch of a Soyuz rocket since a harrowing crash in October. Monday's launch of the MS-11 ship was a closely watched test for Russia's space industry, which has suffered several high-profile failures in recent years but remains the only reliable way to deliver crew to the orbiting station. A source of national pride for both the Soviet Union and Russia under Vladimir Putin, missions into the cosmos are virtually the only area of cooperation left between Russia and the United States after the Ukraine crisis. Space station veteran and mission commander Oleg Kononenko, 54, Quebec family doctor David Saint-Jacques, 48, and Anne McClain, 39, a US army helicopter pilot who earned masters degrees from the University of Bath and Bristol in the UK, lifted off in a cloud of flame and smoke from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on Monday afternoon. From bottom, Oleg Kononenko, Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques board their Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft in Kazakhstan on Monday Credit: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters In the course of an eight-minute flight through the atmosphere, the craft first jettisoned its boosters and then its second stage rocket to successfully deliver the spacecraft into orbit. The trio were scheduled to dock with the space station six hours later to relieve the current crew, which will return home on December 20. On Tuesday, Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to launch from Cape Canaveral a long-delayed reusable Falcon 9 rocket with 5,600 pounds of research equipment and supplies including holiday food for the space station. The MS-11 mission was moved up after the same kind of Soyuz spacecraft and FG rocket booster crashed at Baikonur in October, risking the lives of Russian commander Alexei Ovchinin and Nasa astronaut Nick Hague. One of the four boosters caught on the second stage as they detached, sending the rocket careening toward the ground a little more than two minutes after takeoff. The capsule automatically aborted the mission and parachuted the two men to safety about 250 miles away on the plains of Kazakhstan. Soyuz MS-10 takes off from Baikonur before its crash in October Credit: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Russia blamed the crash on a sensor in the booster separation system that was damaged during installation in what the space agency head could have been an act of sabotage. Having taken apart two rockets during an investigation, its specialists have now fixed the problem, a special commission said. Arianespace launched a European weather satellite into orbit on an unmanned Soyuz rocket last month. Monday's mission follows a scare at the space station in August when a drop in pressure was traced to a small hole in a panel in a Soyuz MS-09 module, which had docked with the station in June. Russia's space czar at one point suggested the hole could have been drilled by the German or American crew member on the station. MS-11 crew member Anne McClain said she had absolute confidence in the Soyuz despite the crash, telling CBS News she "would have gotten on a rocket the day after that happened". But crashes of unmanned Russian spacecraft in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 have called into doubt the viability of the country's space industry, where low wages have reportedly hurt operations. In the most egregious incident, an unmanned Soyuz rocket carrying 19 international satellites crashed in November 2017 after it was programmed with the coordinates for the wrong launch site. A Russian Orthodox priests blesses the MS-11 spaceship with holy water on Sunday Credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Monday's mission started from the same launchpad that Yuri Gagarin did when he became the first man in space in 1961. Russian Orthodox priests flicked holy water on the rocket, launch team and assembled journalists during a blessing the day before. On Friday, Russia launched three communications satellites into space and an unidentified fourth object that some think could be a new spy satellite.
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| The 2019 Volvo V60 Wagon Has a Nice Price but Is Special-Order-Only Posted: 03 Dec 2018 06:58 AM PST  Styling, powertrains, and tech mimic its big brother.
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| Scott Stearney, Top U.S. Naval Commander In Middle East, Found Dead In Bahrain Posted: 02 Dec 2018 05:25 AM PST  Vice-admiral Scott Stearney, the head of U.S. Navy operations in the Middle
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| Saudi crown prince arrives in Algeria Posted: 02 Dec 2018 01:23 PM PST  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in the Algerian capital on Sunday night as part of a tour overshadowed by the murder of a dissident journalist. The powerful prince and his large delegation were seen being greeted on a red carpet at Algiers airport by Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and members of his government. Prince Mohammed set off last week on his first foreign tour since the grisly murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's Istanbul consulate on October 2.
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| 6 Dash Cams for Recording Your Every Move, And Some of Them That Can Do Much More Posted: 03 Dec 2018 08:22 AM PST |
| For a classic meatballs in marinara, turn to the multicooker Posted: 03 Dec 2018 08:05 AM PST  It's hard to find anyone who doesn't love a bowl of spaghetti topped with meatballs and marinara, but stovetop versions are often messy (between the spattering oil from frying the meatballs and the sputtering tomato sauce), and the sauce requires a long simmering time to develop rich, deep flavor.
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| Iran missile tests may breach UN resolution, France and UK warn Posted: 03 Dec 2018 11:01 AM PST  France and the UK have echoed warnings by Donald Trump's administration that Iran may be in breach of United Nations obligations by testing medium-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying multiple warheads. The remarks from Paris and London will be seen by the US government as the first sign that its key European partners may yet be persuaded to view Iran's broader behaviour as so dangerous that their support for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal can no longer be justified. The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, criticised Iran's missile programme at the weekend and will be at a Nato foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels over the next two days to underline his message about the threat to Middle East stability posed by Iran.
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| 21-year-old shoplifting suspect fatally shot by security guard at Hollywood Walgreens Posted: 03 Dec 2018 11:13 AM PST  Police are investigating a fatal shooting after a security guard shot a shoplifting suspect at a Walgreens store in Hollywood.
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| California wildfire survivors face new challenge: rebuilding Posted: 02 Dec 2018 03:16 AM PST  At least 88 people were killed in the Camp Fire and nearly 200 others are still listed as missing, making the wildfire the deadliest in state history. Christopher Gregg, whose home in Paradise was a total loss, said he's not getting answers to the question of when he will be compensated by his insurance company. Insurance teams began gathering in Chico in the early days of the fire that erupted on Nov. 8 and rapidly engulfed Paradise about 20 minutes away and surrounding communities.
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| Mexico, Canada Diverge in Tariff Relief Hopes After Trade Deal Posted: 02 Dec 2018 09:01 PM PST  The three countries signed their new deal Friday in Buenos Aires to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement despite U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports remaining in place, along with counter-tariffs from Canada and Mexico. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said talks would continue this week and be split into two tracks: one with Canada, which sells much more of both metals to the U.S., and another with Mexico.
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| See Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas' Amazing Pre-Wedding Sangeet Posted: 03 Dec 2018 01:40 PM PST  Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas have officially tied the knot, and it looks
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| Popular scientist Tyson rejects misconduct allegations Posted: 02 Dec 2018 02:13 PM PST  Well-known author and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Sunday denied allegations by three women of sexual misconduct spanning several decades. Tyson, 60, who has built a successful career on television and in his books explaining and popularizing science, had remained largely silent as three different women lodged complaints dating as far back as 1984. In the first case, a woman alleged that Tyson drugged and raped her when both were graduate students at the University of Texas in 1984.
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