| Nancy Pelosi On North Carolina Election Fraud: We Can Refuse To Seat That Congressman Posted: 06 Dec 2018 10:03 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that
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| Lawyer for undocumented Trump Organization workers seeks investigation Posted: 06 Dec 2018 01:26 PM PST  Anibal Romero says "many of the abuses" his clients received at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., "constitute crimes."
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| Internet Users Are Finding Creative Ways To Mess With Giuliani's Old Tweets Posted: 06 Dec 2018 09:41 AM PST  One day, Rudolph Giuliani will learn to add spaces when he writes sentences on
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| Dow Jones industrial average drops as trade fight, oil price and recession worries mount Posted: 06 Dec 2018 01:44 PM PST  Investors hoping for stability after the Dow Jones industrial average's nearly 800-point fall Tuesday, instead saw the stock gauge plunge further.
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| Six missing after U.S. military aircraft collide off Japan Posted: 05 Dec 2018 07:25 PM PST  Six U.S. Marines were missing following a still-unexplained mishap involving two aircraft, which may have collided during a refueling exercise gone wrong.
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| Amid fraud charges, North Carolina House race may be headed for a do-over Posted: 06 Dec 2018 01:13 PM PST  The state's Board of Elections voted to not certify the results amid the ongoing investigation, and Nancy Pelosi, the favorite to be House speaker next year, said the House could refuse to seat the uncertified Republican.
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| Donald Trump Becomes Butt Of Twitter Jokes With 'Boarder Security' Typo Posted: 06 Dec 2018 11:15 PM PST  President Donald Trump became a Twitter laughingstock late Thursday with yet
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| Russia laughs off US navy ship near its Pacific coast amid Black Sea tensions Posted: 06 Dec 2018 06:25 AM PST  Russia has laughed off a US warship's "challenge" to its territorial claims in the Sea of Japan as "unsuccessful" while reacting angrily to reports that US ships could also enter the Black Sea. The US naval activity comes less than two weeks after Russia seized three Ukrainian ships off the coast of Crimea in the Black Sea last month in an escalation of existing tensions there. The guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell "sailed in the vicinity of Peter the Great Bay to challenge Russia's excessive maritime claims" in a demonstrative "freedom of navigation" operation on Wednesday, the navy said. But the Russian defence ministry claimed on Thursday that the McCampbell had not come closer than 100 kilometres (62 miles) to its territorial waters and was currently "demonstrating its bravery" 250 miles from Russian shores. A destroyer and several warplanes nonetheless followed the US ship, which tried to "get away at maximum speed," the ministry said in a sarcastic statement carried on state television. Moscow has since Soviet times maintained that the entire Peter the Great Bay, which includes the home base of its Pacific fleet in Vladivostok, is historically Russian territory. Washington on the other hand argues that Russian waters extend only 12 nautical miles from shore as per international law. In an unrelated incident, five marines were missing after an American fighter jet collided with a tanker plane during refuelling over the Sea of Japan on Thursday. Russia blocked the Kerch Strait with a tanker before seizing Ukrainian navy ships that tried to sail through last month Credit: Pavel Rebrov/Reuters The navy's freedom of navigation operation marked a geographical broadening of tensions between Russia and the US, which has previously focused on challenging Chinese claims in the South China Sea, most recently sailing naval ships near contested areas there last week. The two Cold War foes are also at odds over a landmark arms control treaty that Donald Trump wants to abandon. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said on Wednesday Russia would develop new missiles if the US withdrew. Meanwhile, CNN reported that the US was notifying Turkey of "possible plans" to sail a warship into the Black Sea in response to the capture of three Ukrainian ships and 24 sailors there on November 25. The ships were headed for Ukrainian ports in the Sea of Azov through the Kerch Strait, which has been controlled by Russia since the 2014 annexation of Crimea. US senator John Barrasso had called on Sunday for American and Nato ships to be sent to the Black Sea in a show of force against Russia. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, who is trailing in the polls before March's election, continues a string of appearances at military bases on Thursday Credit: Mikhail Palinchak/Presidential Press Service via AP The purported plan provoked a blustery response from Russian politicians and pundits on Thursday, with one warning Russia could repeat the incident of February 1988, when a Soviet frigate rammed a US cruiser in the Black Sea. MP Yury Shvytkin vowed that Russia would "respond accordingly" if Russia's waters were violated. "I wouldn't really want our submarines to have to surface off the American coast," he said. Following the seizure of its ships, Kiev has declared martial law and called up reservists in response to claims of a Russian troop buildup on its borders, which Moscow has denied. On Thursday, parliament moved forward on legislation claiming Ukraine's waters extend 24 nautical miles into the Black Sea. In a New York Times editorial on Wednesday, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko told Western leaders to stop "appeasing" Mr Putin and adopt further sanctions on Russia in response to its "unprovoked military attack". The head of the Ukrainian fleet has offered himself in exchange for the 24 captured sailors, who face six years in prison on charges of violating Russia's borders. The Russian foreign ministry retorted that he should resign instead.
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| 10 Warm Winter Coats That Aren't Puffers Posted: 06 Dec 2018 10:26 AM PST  Winter is around the corner and while you might have already refreshed your
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| Police officer shot in face, fires back at suspect Posted: 06 Dec 2018 10:21 AM PST  A veteran Georgia police officer was shot in the face Thursday morning and has been hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said.
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| Buyout Firms Tell U.K.: No-Deal Brexit Means No Deals Posted: 06 Dec 2018 11:05 AM PST  U.K. Trade Secretary Liam Fox urged the buyout firms -- part of an industry that's sitting on more than $1 trillion in investment firepower -- to support Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, the people said, declining to be identified because the conversation was private. British takeovers would become more risky due to rising economic uncertainty if the U.K. doesn't leave the European Union in an orderly fashion, they said.
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| Judge: Pipeline owners trespassed, but work can continue Posted: 06 Dec 2018 02:22 PM PST ![Judge: Pipeline owners trespassed, but work can continue]( "Judge: Pipeline owners trespassed, but work can continue") NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana judge ruled Thursday that a company building an oil pipeline through south Louisiana trespassed on the land of three people opposed to the project, but he allowed the work to continue while awarding the three only $150 apiece in compensation and damages.
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| Lone Wisconsin Republican Who Opposed Stealing Democrats’ Power Explains Why Posted: 06 Dec 2018 10:59 AM PST  The vote by the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature to strip power
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| Coal booster joins energy regulator, dealing setback to green movement Posted: 06 Dec 2018 03:28 PM PST  Bernard L. McNamee, who is now one of the nation's top energy regulators, took the opportunity last Earth Day to praise oil and coal.
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| Is this Chevrolet Camaro the ultimate Christmas decoration? Posted: 07 Dec 2018 04:33 AM PST  Want to win the battle of the Christmas lights in your neighborhood? Check out this working Chevy Camaro complete with 1500 illuminations!
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| Dollar Stores Sell More Food Than Whole Foods Posted: 07 Dec 2018 12:00 PM PST  They technically aren't even grocery businesses, but dollar stores are feeding
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| Moose uses doorbell to awaken a couple in Alaska Posted: 07 Dec 2018 12:20 PM PST  Video from a home security camera in Anchorage, Alaska, captured the moment a moose rang a doorbell, then calmly walked away.
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| USA Gymnastics, reeling from abuse claims, files for bankruptcy Posted: 05 Dec 2018 10:21 PM PST  The organization's chairwoman, Kathryn Carson, cited the lawsuits in the decision to seek protection from creditors in federal bankruptcy court in Indianapolis. "Our organization is a financially solid going concern but for the hundred lawsuits that we do have out there," Carson said on a conference call with reporters. Nassar was sentenced to up to 300 years in prison in two different trials in Michigan last February after more than 350 women testified about abuse at his hands, including Olympic champions Aly Raisman and Jordyn Wieber.
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| 10 IKEA Buys That Will Make the Holidays So Much Easier Posted: 07 Dec 2018 11:54 AM PST |
| France’s Gas Tax Debacle Bolsters The Case For Green New Deal-Style Climate Policies Posted: 06 Dec 2018 04:15 PM PST  French President Emmanuel Macron reversed course on his controversial gas tax
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| 35 Tweets About The Struggle Of Getting Kids Dressed For Cold Weather Posted: 06 Dec 2018 02:45 AM PST  Cold weather means time for hot chocolate, snowball fights and cozy nights at
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| Caretaker of neglected, bone-strewn cemetery is arrested Posted: 06 Dec 2018 02:07 PM PST  A fuller picture of a cemetery in ghastly disarray emerged Thursday as the longtime caretaker of a graveyard in Connecticut's largest city was arrested and officials described in new detail shocking discoveries that included human bones and casket pieces scattered about.
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| Endangered Hawaiian monk seals baffle scientists by getting eels stuck in their noses Posted: 07 Dec 2018 10:25 AM PST  The behaviour of the endangered Hawaiian monk seal has researchers confused - after multiple incidents involving the creatures getting eels stuck up their noses. "Mondays… it might not have been a good one for you but it had to be better than an eel in your nose," the HMSRP captioned the photo. The unlucky situation led many to raise questions on Facebook, where the photo has been shared more than 1,200 times.
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| Chip Gaines details 'Fixer Upper' nightmare: 'I felt caged, trapped' Posted: 06 Dec 2018 11:18 AM PST  "The more staged something becomes, or the more required something becomes, it boxes me up..." Chip Gaines said of his final seasons on "Fixer Upper."
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| Technical glitch sees Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon rocket crash land in sea Posted: 06 Dec 2018 03:05 AM PST  A Christmas turkey rocketed toward the International Space Station on Wednesday, along with cranberry sauce, candied yams and the obligatory fruitcake. The SpaceX booster missed its landing zone on the ground after liftoff, however, and ended up in the sea just a couple of miles offshore. Groans filled SpaceX Mission Control in Hawthorne, California, as live video showed the first-stage rocket booster spinning out of control, still high above Cape Canaveral. It was the company's first missed ground landing, although it has overshot floating barges plenty of times in the past, a tougher feat to pull off. A SpaceX commentator called it a "bummer," but noted it was secondary to the Falcon 9 rocket's main mission of getting the Dragon capsule to orbit. SpaceX chief Elon Musk said the booster appeared to be undamaged. The hydraulic pump for the landing fins apparently stalled, but the engines stabilised the approximately 160-foot-tall booster just in time, allowing for "an intact landing in water!" Musk noted via Twitter. "Ships en route to rescue Falcon," he tweeted. SpaceX's 12 previous ground landings - dating back to 2015 - all were successful. Altogether, the company has recovered 32 boosters following liftoff - 33 once this one is towed back, said Hans Koenigsmann, a SpaceX vice president. He did not know if it could be reused. Koenigsmann said the booster deliberately avoided land after sensing a problem, a built-in safety feature, and even managed to touch down upright in the Atlantic, atop its landing legs. "Public safety was well protected here," he told reporters. The disappointment was offset by the successful flight of the Dragon capsule and its 5,600 pounds (2,500 kilograms) of cargo. It should reach the space station Saturday. "What a great day for a launch," said Kennedy Space Center director Bob Cabana. Twenty years ago this week, Cabana commanded the shuttle mission that carried up the first U.S. part of the space station . Besides smoked turkey breast and all the other fixings for Christmas dinner, the delivery includes 40 mice and 36,000 worms for ageing and muscle studies. Video block text
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| Autistic Student Dies After Being Restrained Face-Down By Staff At California School For Close To An Hour Posted: 06 Dec 2018 10:42 PM PST  The incident took place at the Guiding Hands School in El Dorado Hills, California, where authorities say the 13-year-old was put in what was known as a "prone restraint" for close to an hour. As the Sacramento Bee reported, the boy stopped breathing at some point while he was restrained. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office said the student, who was severely autistic, became violent and had to be placed in the restraint after attacking staff members.
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| Heavy rains cause mudslides in areas in CA still recovering from wildfires Posted: 07 Dec 2018 09:29 AM PST  State of emergency declared after rain jammed traffic and loosened hillsides that have been affected by wildfires last month.
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| Trump picks former Attorney General Barr to return to head Justice Department Posted: 07 Dec 2018 07:20 AM PST  If confirmed by the Senate, Barr would take over from Matthew Whitaker, who has been serving in an acting capacity since Trump forced out Jeffrey Sessions a month ago. Whitaker had been Sessions' chief of staff. Barr was "my first choice from day one," and "a terrific man, a terrific person, a brilliant man," Trump said, speaking to reporters outside the White House.
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| Tennessee executes man on death row for 36 years Posted: 06 Dec 2018 06:34 PM PST  Tennessee on Thursday electrocuted a convicted murder who had been on death row for 36 years, in a case that renewed debate on use of the death penalty so long after a crime. David Earl Miller, 61, was put to death at 7:25 pm (0125 GMT) at a high security prison in Nashville, authorities said, over the beating and stabbing death of a young woman with a mental disability. Miller was physically and sexually abused as a child and living as a drifter in the early 1980s when a Tennessee pastor gave him shelter in exchange for sex.
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| Detailed Photos of the 2018 Mercedes-AMG GLC63 Posted: 07 Dec 2018 12:13 PM PST |
| U.S. Marine KC-130 Aerial Tanker And F/A-18 Hornet Crash Off Japan Posted: 05 Dec 2018 05:54 PM PST  We have the latest.
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| You can get All-Clad cookware at amazing prices this weekend Posted: 07 Dec 2018 12:19 PM PST  All-Clad's 48-hour VIP sale is on this weekend--get your gifts while you can
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| More Than A Thousand Ballots May Have Been Destroyed In Potential North Carolina Election Fraud Posted: 05 Dec 2018 06:47 PM PST  In the race for North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, new evidence shows that more than a thousand absentee ballots from mostly Democratic voters may have been destroyed as part of potential election fraud in the state. Republican Mark Harris ran against Democrat Dan McCready in North Carolina. Since the election, numerous voters have claimed that their uncompleted ballots were collected and turned over to North Carolina politician Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. One worker came forward, saying that she had been hired to pick up ballots for McCrae Dowless and that those ballots were never mailed.
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| Pantone's 2019 Color Of The Year Holiday Gifts Posted: 07 Dec 2018 01:17 PM PST  Earlier this week, the Pantone Color Institute announced its 2019 color of the
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| Fox News' Tucker Carlson Loses Patience With Donald Trump: 'I Don't Think He's Capable' Posted: 07 Dec 2018 01:27 AM PST  Tucker Carlson is usually quick to go after critics of President Donald Trump
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| No leader, lots of anger: can France's 'yellow vests' become a political force? Posted: 06 Dec 2018 06:53 AM PST ![No leader, lots of anger: can France's 'yellow vests' become a political force?]( "No leader, lots of anger: can France's 'yellow vests' become a political force?") One of its originators, a 51-year-old accordionist from Brittany called Jacline Mouraud who also works in hypnotherapy and makes YouTube videos, received death threats after suggesting the movement should talk to the government. Anyone who has a "gilet jaune" -- and most people in France suddenly seem to -- can put it on and become part of the movement, meaning it brings together people of hugely different ages, social classes, occupations and views. The government does not know who to engage with, even though the movement has drawn hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets, closing roads and fuel depots, and spurring riots and violence in the capital Paris on successive weekends.
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| Grace Millane: Police increasingly concerned over British backpacker missing in New Zealand Posted: 06 Dec 2018 01:23 AM PST  Police say they are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a British tourist who has gone missing in New Zealand. Detectives are investigating the disappearance of 22-year-old Grace Millane, who was last seen in Auckland on Saturday night. The backpacker, reported to be from Essex, has not been in contact with her family for several days, including on her 22nd birthday on Sunday. Detective Inspector Scott Beard, of Auckland City Police, said Ms Millane's father was on his way to New Zealand, and said her family were understandably "distraught". "Clearly this is a very stressful time for Grace's family and the longer she remains missing, the more our concern grows for her safety and wellbeing," he said. CCTV image issued by Auckland City Police shows Grace Millane at Auckland's Sky City entertainment complex Credit: Auckland City Police Ms Millane is said to have been in New Zealand for about two weeks, and was staying at a backpackers' hostel in Auckland city centre. Police have released a CCTV image of the last known sighting of her at 7.15pm on Saturday at entertainment complex Sky City. A number of unconfirmed sightings have been reported to detectives. Members of Ms Millane's family have shared appeals for information on Facebook, and Mr Beard said more than 20 staff were working on the case. A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "We are providing consular support to the family in the UK, and working with the New Zealand Police in relation to reports of a missing British national in New Zealand."
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| The New 2020 Chevrolet Silverado HD Looks Way Different Than the 1500 Posted: 06 Dec 2018 07:34 AM PST  And in this case, way different means way better.
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