| DOJ: Admitting Existence Of A Sessions Resignation Letter Would Violate His Privacy Posted: 07 Sep 2017 10:48 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The Department of Justice is refusing to confirm or deny the existence of a letter of resignation that Attorney General Jeff Sessions reportedly prepared at the request of President Donald Trump.
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| Irma: Widespread Devastation in Bermuda, Other Caribbean Islands Posted: 07 Sep 2017 08:38 AM PDT  In Bermuda and St. Maarten, the storm destroyed everything in it’s path. In Puerto Rico, the island was spared a direct hit but raging winds tore down power lines and trees.
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| Rush Limbaugh Says Hurricane Irma Is Conspiracy, Evacuates Anyway Posted: 08 Sep 2017 07:16 AM PDT  Rush Limbaugh spent the first part of this week acting as a Hurricane Irma truther, but now it seems he's taking cover.
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| Betsy DeVos to revamp Obama-era campus sexual assault policy Posted: 07 Sep 2017 09:45 AM PDT  U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced on Thursday the Trump administration's plan to overhaul Obama-era policy relative to sexual assault on college campuses.
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| Florida Shopper Gives Away New Generator To Help Stranger In Hour Of Irma Need Posted: 08 Sep 2017 06:16 AM PDT  Ramon Santiago insisted that Pam Brekke take his machine after he saw her burst into tears at a Lowe's store in the Conway area of Orlando on Thursday, per multiple reports. With Hurricane Irma barreling toward the region, Brekke had been frantically trawling the area for a generator that she hoped would secure her father's oxygen supply should his Sanford home lose power. Thankfully, Santiago was on hand to save Brekke's day.
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| Hurricane Harvey: Texas politicians warn against donating to Red Cross in wake of disaster Posted: 08 Sep 2017 04:21 AM PDT  Politicians in the hurricane-hit city of Houston are warning against donating to the American Red Cross. Houston City councillor Dave Martin told a district meeting: "I beg you not to send them a penny" and repeatedly branded the Congress-endorsed charity "the red loss". Speaking two weeks after the devastating hurricane which left at least 70 people dead, Mr Martin claimed that local government had done most of the difficult work in the aftermath of the disaster as well as providing the majority of resources.
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| Some Miami Residents Staying Put, and Braving Hurricane Irma in Concrete-Encased Garage Posted: 08 Sep 2017 01:19 PM PDT  They are defying orders to leave the area as Hurricane Irma approaches.
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| Massive earthquake rocks Mexico Posted: 08 Sep 2017 04:18 AM PDT ![Massive earthquake rocks Mexico]( "Massive earthquake rocks Mexico") One of the most powerful earthquakes ever to strike Mexico has hit off its southern Pacific coast, killing at least 15 people, toppling houses and businesses and sending panicked people into the streets more than 650 miles (1,000 kilometers) away. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake hit off Chiapas state near the Guatemalan border with a magnitude of 8.1 — slightly stronger than the magnitude 8 quake of 1985 that killed thousands and devastated large parts of Mexico City. National civil defense chief Luis Felipe Puente told the Televisa network that at least 15 people had died, 10 of them in Oaxaca, also close to the epicenter.
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| Judge opens door for lawsuit over girl declared brain dead Posted: 07 Sep 2017 05:23 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California judge ruled that a teen girl who was declared brain dead more than three years ago after a tonsillectomy may technically still be alive, allowing a malpractice lawsuit against the hospital to move forward and possibly setting up the family to have her care paid for if they succeed.
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| Steve Bannon: The Catholic Church 'needs illegal aliens' to fill its pews Posted: 07 Sep 2017 06:39 AM PDT  Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon says it's "obvious" why top members of the Catholic Church would be opposed to President Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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| Chocolate Maker Mars Vows To Spend $1 Billion To Fight Climate Change Posted: 07 Sep 2017 05:54 AM PDT  When President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement, American confectionary giant Mars Incorporated was one of several major U.S. companies urging him to reconsider. "Mars has been in business for four generations and intends to be for the next four generations," said CEO Grant F. Reid in a statement announcing the company's new "Sustainable in a Generation" plan. "The only way that will happen is if we do things differently to ensure that the planet is healthy and all people in our extended supply chains have the opportunity to thrive," the statement read.
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| Irma devastated Barbuda but it didn't 'wipe the island off the map' Posted: 07 Sep 2017 01:14 PM PDT  The syntax and language we use during natural disasters can have a huge impact, from communicating the severity of an approaching storm to post-disaster relief efforts, and the island of Barbuda is the latest example. SEE ALSO: With Hurricane Irma, Miami could be facing its nightmare storm scenario First, make no mistake: What Irma did to Barbuda was absolutely devastating. The tiny island that makes up part of the single nation of Antigua and Barbuda was slammed head-on by Hurricane Irma at its strongest, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph and gusts that at times reached over 200 mph. The hit was so direct, Irma so big, and Barbuda so small — at around 62 square miles — that the island fit completely in Irma's eye. The huge eye of Category 5 Hurricane #Irma completely engulfed the island of Barbuda last night, captured by the Suomi NPP #VIIRS overpass. pic.twitter.com/BKNFgx8r4V — UW-Madison CIMSS (@UWCIMSS) September 6, 2017 The last 24 hours of Category-5 Major Hurricane #Irma via microwave imagery. Four islands have been engulfed by the "eye" of #Irma. pic.twitter.com/NNbygSXxeV — Michael Ventrice (@MJVentrice) September 6, 2017 Prime Minister Gaston Browne has already surveyed the damage, saying that roughly 95 percent of buildings on the island suffered damage, many being destroyed. Speaking to local media, Browne said, "The extent of damage in Barbuda is unprecedented." And the human devastation is still unknown: how many have died, how many have been hurt, making sure there are resources like clean water and food, medical supplies, etc. According to Browne, half of the island's 1,800 residents are now homeless. The full carnage is still being surveyed and Browne is talking about evacuating residents to Antigua ahead of Hurricane Jose, which may strike the island Saturday. As of Thursday afternoon, there was just one confirmed fatality with the number expected to rise. But, Thursday morning, a few hyperbolic headlines managed to do the unthinkable in over-estimating the damage to the island. Particularly, the New York Post, whose headline screamed, "Hurricane Irma wipes tiny Caribbean island off the map." Barbuda still very much exists, though. Battered, bruised, and with long rebuilding ahead of it, but the suggestion that an entire island has been wiped away carries with it the implicit suggestion it's done, there's nothing to rebuild. In a time when climate change is making very real changes to the globe's landscapes, though, it's important to make these differences clear. Not just for the sake of accuracy but to make sure that the general perception that's passed around isn't that this island — and its people — have ceased to exist. If anything, these people will need the help and support of the international community now more than ever and that includes making sure the world is aware of their plight and recovery. Misleading hyperbole that so easily seeps into our brains from skimming social media and word-of-mouth is just another obstacle for Barbuda and unnecessary one at that. Barbuda has been through hell and faces another test this week in Hurricane Jose. But they've survived before and will again. Just as New Orleans and Houston have and it's going to take keeping the same attention — and accuracy — on point to fully help. WATCH: Catastrophic floods turn Texas highway into a large body of water with intense waves
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| Country artist Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry dies in helicopter crash Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:54 PM PDT  Country artist Troy Gentry has died at 50 in a helicopter crash, according to reports out of his Kentucky hometown.
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| Equifax Is Trying To Make Money Off Its Massive Security Failure Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:13 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The credit monitoring company that let criminals steal personal information pertaining to nearly half the U.S. population is offering free credit monitoring to those affected ― but there's a catch.
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| Mexico earthquake triggers mysterious bright lights to flash across the country Posted: 08 Sep 2017 04:36 AM PDT  Strange, unexplained flashes have been seen amid a massive earthquake in Mexico. The flashes – which resemble lightning – lit up the sky after the tremor hit Mexico City and elsewhere. Este fenómeno se llama Earthquake Lights.
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| Pelosi says Trump would sign DREAM Act protecting immigrants Posted: 07 Sep 2017 07:48 AM PDT  Nancy Pelosi says she asked President Trump to reassure young unauthorized immigrants spooked by his decision to revoke the DACA program.
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| 'Lips and teeth' no more as China's ties with North Korea fray Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:12 PM PDT  When Kim Jong Un inherited power in North Korea in late 2011, then-Chinese president Hu Jintao was outwardly supportive of the untested young leader, predicting that "traditional friendly cooperation" between the countries would strengthen.
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| Nearly A Dozen Sharks Found Swimming In New York Home's Basement Posted: 07 Sep 2017 06:22 PM PDT  A recent search of a New York home's basement led to the discovery of more than half a dozen sharks swimming inside of an above ground pool, conservation authorities announced Wednesday. In all, seven live sandbar sharks, as well as two dead leopard sharks and one dead hammerhead shark, were found inside of the Lagrangeville property on Aug. 23. The home, roughly 75 miles north of New York City, was suspected of harboring illegal wildlife, the state's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) said.
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| Sinead O'Connor details abuse by her mother on 'Dr. Phil': 'She ran a torture chamber' Posted: 07 Sep 2017 09:43 AM PDT  A bombshell interview between Dr. Phil and Sinead O'Connor is shedding light on the singer's lifelong battles with depression, suicide attempts and other severe mental issues that led to her online breakdown earlier this year.
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| Protesters rally in solidarity with Rohingya Muslims Posted: 08 Sep 2017 01:50 PM PDT ![Protesters rally in solidarity with Rohingya Muslims]( "Protesters rally in solidarity with Rohingya Muslims") Protests against Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims were held in several countries, including Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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| The Latest: Death toll in Mexico earthquake rises to 58 Posted: 08 Sep 2017 01:19 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on the Mexico earthquake (all times local):
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| Conservative media defends Trump's deal with the Democrats Posted: 08 Sep 2017 11:53 AM PDT  Many Republicans in Congress were reeling after President Trump's unexpected deal with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to raise the national debt limit and keep the federal government funded in exchange for Hurricane Harvey relief. With his collaboration with "Chuck and Nancy," as Trump labeled them, the president snubbed the congressional GOP leadership's plans while handing Democrats leverage to push their own big agenda items, such as passing a law to grant legal status to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as young children.
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| These Ivanka Trump Halloween Wigs Are Just Too Good Posted: 08 Sep 2017 07:52 AM PDT  It's not even fall yet, but retailers on eBay are already selling blond Ivanka Trump-style wigs for Halloween.
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| US gun makers battle 'Trump slump' as sales fall compared to 2016 Posted: 08 Sep 2017 08:51 AM PDT  For one of America's largest gun manufacturers, the "Trump slump" in sales has meant a nearly $100m fall in firearms revenue compared with the same quarter last year. American Outdoor Brands, the rebranded name of historic gun company Smith & Wesson, reported a 48.5% decrease in firearms revenue compared with the same quarter last year, when many Americans believed Hillary Clinton, a supporter of gun control, would be elected president.
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| Former US presidents raising money for hurricane relief Posted: 07 Sep 2017 06:38 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The five living former U.S. presidents said Thursday they would team up to create the "One America Appeal" to raise money for storm recovery as Texas and Louisiana seek to regroup from Harvey and Florida and the Atlantic coast brace for Hurricane Irma.
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| High School Students Disciplined After Wearing KKK Hoods, Burning Cross Posted: 07 Sep 2017 01:57 PM PDT  A group of students from an Iowa high school were disciplined Wednesday after a photo of them wearing white hoods, waving a Confederate flag and burning a cross began circulating on social media, according to The Associated Press.
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| Man And Dog Denied Flight Out Of Irma Over Not Having A Pet Carrier Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:26 AM PDT  The difficulty of evacuating with pets is one of many reasons that people don't always "just leave" when a hurricane hits.
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| Head Of Trump 'Election Integrity' Probe Pens Wildly Misleading Op-Ed About Voter Fraud Posted: 08 Sep 2017 08:48 AM PDT  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), the de facto leader of President Donald Trump's effort to investigate voter fraud, wrote a wildly misleading op-ed Thursday claiming to have proof illegal votes swayed the outcome of past elections in New Hampshire.
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| Teen Brings Community Together to Surprise Homeless Families With Place of Their Own Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:05 AM PDT  The Caleb White Project came together with the Detroit Rescue Mission and the Lowe's Heroes program in August to renovate a duplex from top to bottom.
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| Germany disputes size of Russian wargames, predicts 100,000 troops Posted: 07 Sep 2017 09:13 AM PDT  By Robin Emmott TALLINN (Reuters) - Germany said on Thursday that Russia was planning to send more than 100,000 troops to war games on NATO's eastern flank this month, disputing Moscow's version that only 13,000 Russian and Belarussian servicemen would participate. The Sept. 14-20 exercises known as Zapad, or "West" in Belarus, the Baltic Sea, western Russia and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, are stirring unease in NATO despite Moscow's assurances troops would rehearse a purely defensive scenario. "It is undisputed that we are seeing a demonstration of capabilities and power of the Russians," German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen told reporters at an EU defense ministers' meeting in Tallinn.
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| The Latest: FEMA orders 4,500 trailers for Harvey Posted: 07 Sep 2017 05:12 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on the aftermath of Harvey in Texas (all times local):
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| Newborn Rescued During Harvey Poses For Photos On Boat That Saved Her Family Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:43 AM PDT  Hope Chimeno was only 10 days old when she and her family were rescued from their home in Orange, Texas during Hurricane Harvey.
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| Massive Oregon wildfire started by teen with fireworks, police say Posted: 06 Sep 2017 06:22 PM PDT  A fire burning over 30,000 acres in the Columbia river gorge just outside Portland was started by a teenager setting off fireworks on a forest trail last Saturday, police say. Oregon state police spokesman Bill Fugate said that the suspect under investigation by police was a 15-year old-male from Vancouver, Washington. Charges have not yet been laid, but could range from arson to reckless burning.
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| What Prince George’s Classmates Will Call Him at School — and the Last Name He’ll Use Posted: 07 Sep 2017 04:22 PM PDT  What's in a name? Well, for Prince George, quite a bit, actually!
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| Fox News Is Now Attacking Republicans Posted: 07 Sep 2017 09:01 AM PDT  Fox News and the Democratic Party finally agree on something.
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| Syria opposition slams 'shocking' UN envoy statement Posted: 07 Sep 2017 10:03 AM PDT  Syria's opposition on Thursday criticised the UN's Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura after he urged it to be "realistic" and said it had not won the country's six-year war. "These statements are, to say the very least, shocking and disappointing," said Nasr al-Hariri, head of the opposition's negotiations delegation, at a press conference in Istanbul. De Mistura on Tuesday urged the still-fractured Syrian opposition to form a unified delegation ahead of a next round of peace talks tentatively scheduled to take place in Geneva next month.
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| Dad Confesses Feeling 'Jealous' Of His Wife In Emotional Facebook Post Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:35 PM PDT  A South African dad opened up about his experience with jealousy as a parent in a touchin Facebook post.
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| Rescue mission underway for rare wine collections menaced by Irma Posted: 07 Sep 2017 09:20 AM PDT  Swooping in ahead of Hurricane Irma's feared weekend arrival, an emergency response team is rescuing rare treasures - some of them survivors of world wars and all of them liquid - from harm's way in Florida and Louisiana. Wine collections worth millions of dollars are being stashed out of reach of the Category 5 hurricane, moved from homes to local bunker-like storage units or shuttled to temperature-controlled warehouses as far away as New Jersey. Many are owned by philanthropists aging the wine to perfection before donating it to a charity auction, often to raise disaster relief funds, said Adam Gungle, chief executive officer of Xpeditr, a high-end wine transporter based in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Toronto.
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| Deer killed in tony California neighborhood, neighbors upset Posted: 08 Sep 2017 02:46 PM PDT  TIBURON, Calif. (AP) — A resident of an exclusive San Francisco Bay neighborhood is the target of online outrage and may face criminal charges for shooting to death a doe and its fawn that were eating newly installed landscaping.
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| 9/11: Then and now - 16 years later Posted: 08 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT ![9/11: Then and now - 16 years later]( "9/11: Then and now - 16 years later")
Yahoo News photographer Gordon Donovan recently returned to the scenes of many memorable images taken in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Donovan photographed the same areas to show what has changed since the terrorist attacks 16 years ago. New obstacles have arisen, requiring some adjustments in camera angles to align with the original images. This is the sixth time Donovan has revisited the New York skyline; each year presents new challenges as the New York City landscape changes. (Yahoo News) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Twitter and Tumblr.
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