| Michelle Obama Doesn't Think Democrats Should Stop Being Civil Posted: 11 Oct 2018 02:38 PM PDT  Former first lady Michelle Obama says Democrats should not embrace a strategy
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| These Photos Show The Catastrophic Wind Damage From Hurricane Michael Posted: 11 Oct 2018 10:07 AM PDT  Hurricane Michael brought destruction to northern Florida this week, toppling
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| Beto still trails Cruz in Texas Senate polling Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:42 AM PDT  A new Quinnipiac poll has found that Rep. Beto O'Rourke's long-shot quest to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, which has generated so much enthusiasm and financial support from national Democrats, has stalled well short of success.
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| Kim Jong-un's invitation for Pope Francis to visit North Korea condemned as propaganda stunt Posted: 09 Oct 2018 10:45 PM PDT  A human rights activist has criticised North Korea's invitation for the Pope to visit Pyongyang as an "impure manoeuvre" designed to fool the world into believing that the regime is becoming more open to religious freedoms. South Korea's presidential Blue House announced on Tuesday that Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, extended the invitation during his summit in September in Pyongyang with Moon Jae-in, his South Korean counterpart. Mr Moon, a practising Catholic, will pass the offer on when he meets the Pope at the Vatican next week, part of his upcoming nine-day visit to Europe. Activists say Mr Kim's offer is "propaganda". "There are no religious freedoms in North Korea and the regime does not permit worship of anything other than the Kim family", said Song Young-chae, a member of the Seoul-based Worldwide Coalition to Stop Genocide in North Korea. "The intention behind this impure manoeuvre is clearly to try to convince the rest of the world that they are changing, that they are improving their human rights record and that they can be trusted", he told The Telegraph. "Mr Kim wants a public meeting with the Pope for propaganda reasons". At a glance | North Korea's human rights record Two churches were constructed in Pyongyang in the 1980s, along with a Russian Orthodox church that was completed in 2006, but Mr Song said they are merely for show and that "the church is just a puppet to the Kim family". After interviewing dozens of defectors, the 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded there was "an almost complete denial of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion" in North Korea, while the US State Department's 2017 paper on religious freedoms in the North said the government exacts harsh punishments on those who insist on following their religion, including executions, torture, beatings and arrest. The Catholic church estimated that there were around 55,000 followers of the Catholic religion in North Korea when the Korean War broke out in 1950, but that figure is believed to have dwindled to a maximum of 4,000. Kim Jong-il, the father of the present North Korean leader, invited Pope John Paul II to North Korea in 2000. The trip never materialised, however, reportedly because the Vatican insisted at the time that the Pope would only visit if Catholic priests were permitted to worship in the North. "It's impossible for the Pope to go", said Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo's Waseda University and an authority on the North Korean leadership. "To permit religious freedoms would undermine the cult of personality that has been built up around the Kim family, so this offer is solely designed to deflect criticisms over human rights", he said.
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| Hurricane Michael makes landfall near Panama City Beach, Florida Posted: 10 Oct 2018 12:43 PM PDT  ABC News' Rob Marciano reports from inside the storm as strong winds lash the Gulf Coast.
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| Times are changing for the all-American pickup truck - it's gone electric Posted: 11 Oct 2018 07:42 AM PDT  Before the first model has even gone into production, Bollinger Motors is teasing renderings of its second all-electric pickup truck, the B2. Within the mountains of upstate New York, you'll find Bollinger Motors, a startup created in 2014 that developed the world's first all-electric pickup truck. The Bollinger Motors B2 pickup truck will greatly resemble B1, but more cargo flexibility was the focus of the second model.
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| Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Effort To Bring Jamal Khashoggi Back To Saudi Arabia: Report Posted: 10 Oct 2018 06:11 PM PDT  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered an effort to lure
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| Michelle Obama Reveals What Really Happened During Her Sweet Exchange With George W. Bush Posted: 11 Oct 2018 06:14 AM PDT  Remember the candy George W. Bush gave to Michelle Obama at John McCain's funeral? There's more. She shares the hilarious story.
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| Donald Trump Promoted His Rally With A Photo He May Have Lifted From CNN's Jim Acosta Posted: 11 Oct 2018 12:45 AM PDT  Maybe President Donald Trump doesn't think CNN is such "fake news" after all?
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| Washington state ends capital punishment because it is 'arbitrary and racially biased' Posted: 11 Oct 2018 02:12 PM PDT  The state of Washington has abolished capital punishment - the 20th US state to do so - after its highest court ruled it was carried out in a way that was arbitrary and "racially biased". The state, the last in the nation with a working gallows, has not carried out an execution since its governor imposed a moratorium in 2014. On Thursday, while making no comment about the morality or otherwise of the death penalty, which was reintroduced in 1976 after the end of a federal nationwide moratorium, the state supreme court said it had not been applied in a way that could be considered fair.
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| 'I should have left' - Hurricane Michael terrified those who stayed Posted: 11 Oct 2018 04:58 AM PDT  Andrew Lamonica, 64, a retired power company worker and lifelong Panama City Beach resident, ignored orders to evacuate ahead of one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the United States and waited out the storm in his rented bungalow. In the first fatality related to Wednesday's arrival of Hurricane Michael, local authorities reported a "male subject" was killed by a tree toppling onto his house in the Tallahassee area. Michael inflicted damage to Panama City unevenly, impaling some businesses with sign poles while leaving others virtually unscathed.
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| Twitter Users Mercilessly Mock Melania Trump's 'Most Bullied Person' Comment Posted: 11 Oct 2018 10:23 AM PDT  Melania Trump isn't just an anti-bullying advocate, she says she's a victim,
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| Rocket bound for ISS fails, crew survives emergency landing Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:26 AM PDT  A two-man crew bound for the International Space Station was forced to make an emergency landing when their Soyuz rocket failed shortly after blast-off on Thursday, in a major setback for Russia's beleaguered space industry. US astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin were rescued without injuries in Kazakhstan. The Russian space industry has suffered a series of problems in recent years, including the loss of a number of satellites and other spacecraft.
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| What We Know About The Disappearance Of Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Posted: 10 Oct 2018 05:15 PM PDT  Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist living in self-imposed exile,
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| Michelle Obama Reveals What George W. Bush Gave Her At John McCain's Funeral Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:39 AM PDT  Former first lady Michelle Obama has revealed what former President George W.
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| If there's a 'Kavanaugh bounce' in the midterms, which direction will it go? Posted: 10 Oct 2018 11:01 AM PDT  What we know so far about impact of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court on midterm voters.
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| These 9 Electric Cars Are Set to Rival Tesla Posted: 11 Oct 2018 02:23 PM PDT |
| 6-month sentence for man who sold bank accounts to Russians Posted: 10 Oct 2018 01:30 PM PDT ![6-month sentence for man who sold bank accounts to Russians]( "6-month sentence for man who sold bank accounts to Russians") WASHINGTON (AP) — A California man on Wednesday was sentenced to six months in prison for unwittingly helping the Russian effort to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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| Amazon Pledges to Compensate Its Warehouse Workers More Following Criticism Posted: 10 Oct 2018 01:04 PM PDT  Amazon.com Inc. is sweetening the pay for some of its longtime warehouse workers
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| Jared Kushner Gets Mercilessly Mocked Over Nikki Haley's 'Hidden Genius' Praise Posted: 10 Oct 2018 04:17 AM PDT  Jared Kushner found himself the butt of many Twitter jokes after Nikki Haley,
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| Turkey says heavy arms pullout completed in Syria's Idlib Posted: 10 Oct 2018 08:05 AM PDT  Turkey on Wednesday said a planned buffer zone in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib has been cleared of heavy weapons as part of a deal reached between Moscow and Ankara. "The pullout of heavy weapons from the de-militarised zone was completed on October 10," the Turkish defence ministry said in a statement. Regime ally Russia and rebel supporter Turkey announced an agreement on September 17 to create a demilitarised buffer zone ringing the Idlib region, home to three million people.
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| Pope visit to North Korea feasible if well prepared, South Korean bishop says Posted: 11 Oct 2018 07:46 AM PDT  The bishop, Lazarus You Heung-sik of Daejeon, spoke ahead of a meeting next week in the Vatican between Francis and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who will be carrying an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Pyongyang. "If the pope goes there, it will be a gigantic step, a qualitative step for the Korean peninsula, for its pacification," said You, who was in Rome for a meeting of bishops from around the world known as a synod. "North Korea could enter the world community as a normal country.
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| US, Russian astronauts land safely after rocket failure Posted: 11 Oct 2018 12:42 PM PDT  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — The problem came two minutes into the flight: The rocket carrying an American and a Russian to the International Space Station failed Thursday, triggering an emergency that sent their capsule into a steep, harrowing fall back to Earth.
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| Limo company operator in New York crash charged with homicide Posted: 10 Oct 2018 01:32 PM PDT  The operator of a limousine company that owned the vehicle involved in a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York was charged on Wednesday with criminally negligent homicide, New York State Police said. Nauman Hussain, 28, was charged with one felony count related to the deadliest U.S. transportation accident in nearly a decade. Hussain was issued written violations by police and the state Department of Transportation that the driver he hired should not have been operating the 2001 Ford Excursion limousine involved in Saturday's crash.
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| F-22 Raptor vs. the Mythical YF-23: Why the F-23 Never Happened Posted: 11 Oct 2018 01:00 AM PDT  Ultimately, the Air Force selected Lockheed's YF-22 design, which was also an exceptional aircraft, for its ATF requirement. The YF-22 would eventually evolve into today's F-22A Raptor, which became operational in late 2005 and remains the single best air superiority fighter ever built. However, in many ways, the YF-23 was a superior design that was well ahead of its time.
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| When Neil Armstrong Went to the Moon, He Brought Souvenirs of the Wright Brothers' Flight. Now They're for Sale Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:19 AM PDT  Armstrong described himself as a "devotee" of the Wright Brothers
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| New York Man Built 200-Pound Bomb To Detonate On Election Day: Feds Posted: 11 Oct 2018 04:11 AM PDT  A New York state man built a 200-pound bomb in his basement and planned to
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| CN Traveler readers have voted for the world's best cruises lines 2018 Posted: 10 Oct 2018 04:30 AM PDT  In the market for a cruise holiday soon? You might want to take the recommendations of Condé Nast Traveler readers, who cast their votes for the best cruise lines of 2018. Winners are grouped by size, mega, large, medium and small ships, so that cruises rank on level playing fields.
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| FBI Director Wray says Kavanaugh background investigation was ‘limited in scope’ Posted: 10 Oct 2018 11:59 AM PDT  When asked by Sen. Kamala Harris, FBI Director Christopher Wray tells a Senate committee that the background investigation into sexual assault claims against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was "limited in scope" as directed by the White House, but that limit was "consistent with the standard process for such investigations."
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| Trump Says He Doesn't 'Like' Jamal Khashoggi Disappearance, Won't Stop Saudi Arms Sales Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:58 AM PDT  President Donald Trump doesn't "like" that Saudi Arabia may be involved in the
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| Georgia Knew Its Voter Roll Practice Was Discriminatory. It Stuck With It Anyway. Posted: 10 Oct 2018 08:10 PM PDT  A Georgia process for verifying voters' information has left the applications
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| California judge mulls new trial in $289M Roundup award Posted: 10 Oct 2018 07:25 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco judge said Wednesday she is considering tossing out the lion's share of the $289 million judgment against agribusiness giant Monsanto and ordering a new trial over whether the company's weed-killer caused a groundskeeper's cancer.
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| Pope compares having an abortion to 'hiring a hit man' Posted: 10 Oct 2018 04:35 AM PDT ![Pope compares having an abortion to 'hiring a hit man']( "Pope compares having an abortion to 'hiring a hit man'") Abortion is a raging political battle in a number of countries, including the United States, where many conservatives hope the Supreme Court will eventually overturn the landmark 1973 ruling known as Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion. Francis made his off-the-cuff comments on abortion, some of his toughest to date, in an address to tens of thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square for his weekly general audience. "I ask you: 'Is it right to 'take out' a human life to solve a problem?
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| Toyota Recalls 975,000 Cars for Stalling and Airbag Defects Posted: 11 Oct 2018 11:04 AM PDT  The problem is (again) the Prius, but Tundra, Sequoia, and Avalon models are also involved.
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| Sears Could File for Bankruptcy As Soon As This Weekend Posted: 10 Oct 2018 07:58 AM PDT  The company is in talks for financing that would fund operations
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| Kim Jong-un's new Rolls-Royce shows North Korean sanctions are 'a bit of a joke' Posted: 11 Oct 2018 03:30 AM PDT  Kim Jong-un attended his recent meeting with Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, in what appeared to be a new Rolls-Royce, in defiance of international sanctions as world powers fracture over restrictions against nuclear-armed North Korea. Images of Kim arriving show a jet black Rolls-Royce with darkened windows and a distinctive logo on its wheel hubs. It is unclear how the vehicle would have been transported to Pyongyang given United Nations sanctions that ban items including luxury automobiles and motor vehicles. "The sanctions regime has become a bit of a joke," said Robert Dujarric, a professor of international relations at the Japan campus of Temple University. China and Russia have become increasingly vocal about loosening sanctions, splitting with the US on the issue. At three-way talks in Moscow, vice foreign ministers from North Korea, China and Russia agreed "it is necessary to consider adjusting sanctions...at an appropriate time," according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement. China and Russia first made the call to ease sanctions at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York late September. China argued they should be relaxed in view of the "positive development of the past few months", while Russia said the start of negotiations needed to be followed by lifting of restrictions. South Korea this week also said it was considering easing sanctions, but backed off the proposal after the US rejected the idea. The US has held strong on its views that sanctions should only disappear once North Korea has irreversibly denuclearised. Inside North Korea: fascinating images of the world's most secretive state North Korea, sanctioned under multiple UN Security Council resolutions for its nuclear weapons programme, has repeatedly called for them to be rolled back after it halted nuclear and missile tests. Pyongyang has also agreed to allow international inspectors into those sites once US and North Korea officials agreen on logistics. Even with sanctions in place Mr Dujarric said getting around them for some items could be fairly simple. For instance, a North Korean operative could could easily buy a car from Rolls-Royce in London and ship it to China, where it could be trucked over the land border, said Mr Dujarric. The Phantom, which starts at £318,120, is not military-grade technology and would not have raised eyebrows. "The Chinese authorities are not going to make a fuss over a car, even if they know it is going to Mr Kim himself", Mr Dujarric told The Telegraph. China is North Korea's main ally. "In any case, it is quite clear that the sanctions are beginning to fade and neither China nor Russia are doing the US any favours on that front for their own reasons," he added.
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| Trump Supporters Chant ‘Lock Her Up’ As President Mocks Dianne Feinstein At Iowa Rally Posted: 09 Oct 2018 06:07 PM PDT  The audience at President Donald Trump's rally in Iowa on Tuesday night
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| Judge won't extend Florida voter registration deadline Posted: 11 Oct 2018 12:49 PM PDT ![Judge won't extend Florida voter registration deadline]( "Judge won't extend Florida voter registration deadline") TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge late Wednesday rejected a push to extend Florida's voter registration deadline by a week because of Hurricane Michael.
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