| GOP Congressman calls for 'purge' of FBI Posted: 25 Dec 2017 11:57 PM PST  GOP Rep. Francis Rooney calls for a 'purge' in the FBI and accuses some in the agency of being a part of the 'deep state.'
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| The ultimate post-Christmas sale roundup Posted: 25 Dec 2017 09:00 PM PST  We all know the holiday season always means epic sales and just because Christmas may have to come to an end, doesn't mean the sales have too!
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| Most popular Yahoo News photo galleries of 2017 – The countdown Posted: 26 Dec 2017 05:00 AM PST  The countdown of photo galleries that our Yahoo readers liked the best this year! Check back in as we'll be counting down the top 10 until New Year's Eve.
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| Philippines storm death toll climbs to 240, scores missing Posted: 24 Dec 2017 11:24 PM PST  The death toll from a storm that unleashed landslides and floods across the southern Philippines has climbed to 240 with scores of others still missing, officials said Monday. Tropical Storm Tembin on Friday struck the country's main southern island of Mindanao, which often escapes the 20 or so storms that batter the rest of the archipelago nation each year. Civil defence officials said the number of confirmed deaths from Tembin on Mindanao's Zamboanga peninsula had risen to 78, while the death toll in Lanao del Sur province on the island went up to 27.
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| 2017's Rohingya Crisis In Photos Posted: 26 Dec 2017 03:01 AM PST  A violent, ongoing campaign of state-sanctioned persecution has driven more than 655,000 Rohingya Muslims out of Myanmar's Rakhine State in the last four months of 2017.
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| Democrats hope to use tax overhaul as a club against GOP Posted: 25 Dec 2017 12:29 AM PST  ATLANTA (AP) — A Democratic congressional candidate outside Philadelphia calls the Republican tax overhaul a "cynical bill" that will redistribute wealth upward.
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| Lots of People Already Crashed Their Brand New Drones This Christmas Posted: 25 Dec 2017 01:12 PM PST  "I owned a drone for bout 5 min before it flew in the lake"
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| Orrin Hatch Trolls Utah Newspaper That Wants Him To Retire Posted: 26 Dec 2017 11:19 AM PST  Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Monday tweeted out an editorial in The Salt Lake Tribune naming him "Utahn of the Year," declaring that he was "grateful for this Christmas honor."
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| Pennsylvania Woman Shocked By $284 Billion Electric Bill Posted: 26 Dec 2017 08:49 AM PST  You can't blame Mary Horomanski for getting a little charged up when she saw her electric bill earlier this month.
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| UAE has information Tunisian women may commit 'terrorist acts', Tunisia says Posted: 25 Dec 2017 05:49 AM PST ![UAE has information Tunisian women may commit 'terrorist acts', Tunisia says]( "UAE has information Tunisian women may commit 'terrorist acts', Tunisia says") The United Arab Emirates has information that Tunisian women or women traveling on Tunisian passports might commit "terrorist acts" in the Gulf country, Tunisia's state news agency TAP said. Tunisia late on Sunday suspended flights from Dubai carrier Emirates to Tunis, with officials saying the airline was refusing to carry female Tunisian travelers. A spokesman for Tunisia's presidency did not elaborate on the security threat in a brief TAP article.
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| Trump latest tweetstorm targets FBI, Russia dossier Posted: 25 Dec 2017 10:51 PM PST  In a series of tweets over the weekend, President Trump targeted the FBI, calling it 'tainted.' The tweets come amid rumors that FBI director Andrew McCabe is considering retiring.
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| Winds scuttle Washington's crossing despite kids' efforts Posted: 25 Dec 2017 01:23 PM PST  WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Despite the best efforts of some Philadelphia schoolchildren, Mother Nature blew in and scuttled the annual re-enactment of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River during the Revolutionary War.
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| Merry Christmas from Mar-a-Lago: Tiffany and Ivanka Trump Mocked for Bikini-Clad Video Posted: 26 Dec 2017 05:17 PM PST  In a new Twitter video, first daughters Tiffany and Ivanka Trump blew kisses to followers — but received mostly criticism in return
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| 20 dead in Philippines bus crash on way to Christmas mass Posted: 24 Dec 2017 09:09 PM PST  Twenty pilgrims from the same extended family were killed Monday in a head-on bus collision while travelling to Christmas Day mass in the northern Philippines, police said. A small bus taking the group to a dawn church service crashed into a larger bus in the town of Agoo killing 20 on board, including six children, police said. The nine other occupants of the small bus were injured, as were 17 travelling on the bigger bus, according to an updated tally released by regional police.
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| China Would "Pay a Very High Price" If It Invades, Taiwan Warns Posted: 25 Dec 2017 05:32 AM PST  Taiwan's mainland affairs minister, also called on the United States not to use the self-governed island as a bargaining chip in negotiations with China. A senior Taiwanese minister has declared that China would "pay a very very high price" if it invaded Taiwan. Chang Hsiao-Yueh, Taiwan's mainland affairs minister, also called on the United States not to use the self-governed island as a bargaining chip in negotiations with China.
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| Russia Demands To Know Why Chechen Leader's Instagram Account Was Blocked Posted: 26 Dec 2017 10:13 AM PST  Russia's internet watchdog agency is demanding to know why Instagram and Facebook have blocked the social media accounts of Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed dictator.
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| Attack on Libyan crude pipeline cuts output by up to 100,000 bpd Posted: 26 Dec 2017 10:01 AM PST ![Attack on Libyan crude pipeline cuts output by up to 100,000 bpd]( "Attack on Libyan crude pipeline cuts output by up to 100,000 bpd") Armed men blew up a pipeline pumping crude oil to Es Sider port on Tuesday, cutting Libya's output by up to 100,000 barrels per day (bpd), military and oil sources said. The state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC) said in statement output had been reduced by 70,000-100,000 bpd. The attackers arrived at the site near Marada in two cars and planted explosives on the pipeline, a military source said.
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| How Trump Created and Won His Own War on Christmas in 72 Days Posted: 25 Dec 2017 09:26 AM PST  We can all rest easy now!
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| A U.K. Woman Tried to Bring Painkillers Into Egypt. She Was Sentenced to 3 Years Posted: 26 Dec 2017 01:43 PM PST  A woman from the United Kingdom was sentenced to three years in jail for bringing potent painkillers into Egypt.
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| A 76-Year-Old Man Has Died in a New York High-Rise Apartment Building Fire Posted: 25 Dec 2017 06:57 PM PST  Two firefighters also were injured in the fire
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| Watch These Flight Attendants Stun Travelers With Beautiful Christmas Tunes Posted: 25 Dec 2017 08:32 PM PST  From America to Australia, flight attendants around the world helped holiday travelers reach their destinations.
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| Oman opens sprawling oryx reserve to ecotourists Posted: 26 Dec 2017 06:05 AM PST  The Gulf sultanate of Oman is looking to carve itself a new niche in ecotourism by opening up a sanctuary for one of the desert's most fabled creatures -- the Arabian oryx. Once extinct in the wild, the rare member of the antelope family famed for its elegant horns has been dragged back from the precipice in a sprawling reserve fenced off for decades from the public. On a recent outing, wildlife rangers in SUVs patrolled the sandy plains of the reserve in central Oman's Haima province, spotting groups of grazing oryx and other indigenous species.
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| Colombia records lowest murder rate in four decades Posted: 26 Dec 2017 09:51 AM PST  Colombia recorded its lowest murder rate in four decades this year in the wake of a peace deal with the leftwing FARC rebel group, the government said Tuesday. There were "a little over 11,000 homicides" in 2017, Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said, equating to a rate of 23 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. The government's Forensic Medicine Institute has not yet released its data on recorded deaths for 2017.
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| Five dead after bus ploughs into Moscow underpass Posted: 25 Dec 2017 06:35 AM PST  Five people were killed when a city bus ploughed into a pedestrian underpass in western Moscow on Monday, traffic police said. It was not immediately clear what caused the accident as authorities said they were looking into several possibilities, including a technical malfunction. "A bus drove into a pedestrian underpass," a traffic police spokesman, Artyom Kolesnikov, told AFP. "According to preliminary information, five people died." Footage broadcast on national television showed a bus driving onto the pavement and then down the stairs of the underpass, running over several pedestrians before coming to a stop. Rescuers worked to pull the bus out Credit: AFP Moscow police said in a statement they were looking into two possible causes of the accident - the driver losing control of the vehicle and a technical problem with the bus. "The driver of the bus began movement and then changed his trajectory, which resulted in the bus going down into the pedestrian underpass," the statement said. "The driver has been detained. Police employees are working with him," the statement said. Three people have been hospitalised, the statement added. The accident happened around 3 pm (1200 GMT) near Moscow's Slavyansky Boulevard metro station, a prestigious residential area near one of the capital's main avenues. The accident occurred in a busy residential area Credit: Reuters Sirens were blaring around the metro station, with authorities preparing to pull the bus out of the underpass with a cable, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. The underpass and surrounding area were cordoned off by police, and several black body bags could be seen on the pavement, partially covered with falling snow. The emergencies ministry said two helicopters had been dispatched to the scene to help evacuate the victims. "There are dead and wounded," tweeted Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin. "We are providing emergency aid," he said, offering condolences to families of the victims. Sobyanin himself arrived at the scene, telling journalists he had ordered a full inspection of the entire Moscow bus fleet.
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| Fujimori family pulls Peru back into political turmoil Posted: 25 Dec 2017 02:51 PM PST ![Fujimori family pulls Peru back into political turmoil]( "Fujimori family pulls Peru back into political turmoil") Nearly two decades since Alberto Fujimori and his family occupied Peru's presidential palace and gripped the Andean nation's attention during one of its most turbulent chapters, they are once more at the center of political upheaval. Now an ailing and grey-haired 79-year-old, Fujimori became a free man on Christmas Eve thanks to a pardon from President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, clearing him of graft and rights convictions less than halfway into a 25-year jail sentence. The decision, stunning Peruvians as they sat readied their holiday feasts, triggered clashes between police and protesters and could reshape Peruvian politics for years.
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| Netflix Will Once Again Help Parents Get Kids To Bed On New Year’s Eve Posted: 26 Dec 2017 06:01 AM PST  For the fourth year in a row, Netflix will have parents' backs on New Year's Eve.
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| 'Dotard’ vs. 'Rocketman': The Nuclear Standoff That Rattled 2017 Posted: 26 Dec 2017 05:18 AM PST  Days after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, he received a stark warning from America's outgoing leader.
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| Pardoned by Christie, woman pushes for change to US gun laws Posted: 25 Dec 2017 06:12 AM PST  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The handgun that Shaneen Allen was carrying when she was pulled over on a New Jersey highway could have sent her to prison for years if not for a pardon from Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
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| Russia's New Husky-Class Submarine: Everything We Know (And Want to Know) Posted: 26 Dec 2017 06:44 AM PST  If the Russians realize their vision for the Husky, the new boat should provide Moscow with a design the Kremlin can build in large quantities and replace the Soviet-era vessels that still comprise the bulk of their fleet. The Russian Navy is taking a page out of the United States Navy's playbook as it develops its family of next generation nuclear submarines. Tentatively called Project Husky, the new submarines will be built in three variants—a basic attack submarine model, an expanded guided-missile submarine (SSGN) version and an enlarged ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) variant writes Ilya Kramnik, a defense reporter with Lenta.ru.
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| An order from the Chinese emperor: find immortality Posted: 25 Dec 2017 03:57 AM PST  New archeological research has shed fresh light on China's first emperor -- creator of the world-famous terracotta army -- and his quest for eternal life, state media reported. A set of wooden slips found in the central province of Hunan contain an executive order from emperor Qin Shihuang for a nationwide search for the elixir of life, along with replies from local governments, according to Xinhua news agency on Sunday.
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| A pastoral lost: the withering of Russia's old Soviet farms and villages Posted: 26 Dec 2017 06:45 AM PST ![A pastoral lost: the withering of Russia's old Soviet farms and villages]( "A pastoral lost: the withering of Russia's old Soviet farms and villages") Strewn with abandoned buildings, ruined grain silos, and muddy streets lined with empty, tumbledown Russian-style cottages, this community is mostly a ghost town. Pyotr Volkov and his wife Natasha are already pensioners, yet they are the youngest inhabitants here. Perhaps due to a bureaucratic error, Komsomolskoye still has a functioning post office.
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| 'RHONY' Star Luann de Lesseps Apologizes After Battery Arrest Posted: 25 Dec 2017 10:30 PM PST  "Real Housewives of New York City" star Luann de Lesseps has apologized after she was arrested in Florida and charged with multiple offenses, including disorderly intoxication and felony battery of a police officer, according to arrest records.
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| Archbishop of Canterbury decries deceitfulness of populist leaders Posted: 25 Dec 2017 08:13 AM PST  The Archbishop of Canterbury has used his Christmas Day sermon to reflect on the deceitfulness of populist leaders and a year of terrorist atrocities. The Most Rev Justin Welby told the congregation at Canterbury Cathedral of the contrast between the humility of the Nativity story and many of the world's leaders. He spoke as the Roman Catholic Church's most senior cleric used his own address to call on people to move away from "radical individualism" in society, which is demonstrated by conflict on social media. Cardinal Vincent Nichols told the BBC: "In social media there's a barrage of views and once a statement or claim is made there's immediately a counterclaim, and the mode of exchange is conflict." In remarks that are likely to be interpreted by some as a jibe at Donald Trump, the Archbishop of Canterbury made pointed comments about the weaknesses of current world leaders. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby arriving for the Christmas Day service at Canterbury Cathedral. Credit: Gareth Fuller/PA He told his congregation: "The nature of those who have power is to seek to hold on to it. "In 2017 we have seen around the world tyrannical leaders that enslave their peoples, populist leaders that deceive them, corrupt leaders that rob them, even simply democratic, well-intentioned leaders of many parties and countries who are normal, fallible human beings. "We have experienced across our country terrorism that kills the innocent, claiming that it is the path to freedom in God. "The nature of God who has all power, and from whom all power comes, is to lay it aside for love's sake and thus without fear, force or manipulation to offer true freedom for every human being." The Archbishop this year publicly spoke out against Mr Trumpwhen the US President shared videos from far-right group Britain First via Twitter. He said at the time: "It is deeply disturbing that the president of the United States has chosen to amplify the voice of far-right extremists." Earlier on Monday morning the Church of England's most senior cleric had given his Christmas message a modern twist by publishing extracts in a Twitter thread, complete with a hashtag. Across the globe, the Pope put the migrant crisis at the heart of his festive reflections, saying that the story of the holy birth had particular relevance as millions of people were "driven from their land". The Archbishop of Canterbury has used his Christmas Day sermon to reflect on the deceitfulness of populist leaders and a year of terrorist atrocities. The Most Rev Justin Welby told the congregation at Canterbury Cathedral of the contrast between the humility of the Nativity story and many of the world's leaders. He spoke as the Roman Catholic Church's most senior cleric used his own address to call on people to move away from "radical individualism" in society, which is demonstrated by conflict on social media. Cardinal Vincent Nichols told the BBC: "In social media there's a barrage of views and once a statement or claim is made there's immediately a counterclaim, and the mode of exchange is conflict." In remarks that are likely to be interpreted by some as a jibe at Donald Trump, the Archbishop of Canterbury made pointed comments about the weaknesses of current world leaders. He told his congregation: "The nature of those who have power is to seek to hold on to it. "In 2017 we have seen around the world tyrannical leaders that enslave their peoples, populist leaders that deceive them, corrupt leaders that rob them, even simply democratic, well-intentioned leaders of many parties and countries who are normal, fallible human beings. "We have experienced across our country terrorism that kills the innocent, claiming that it is the path to freedom in God. "The nature of God who has all power, and from whom all power comes, is to lay it aside for love's sake and thus without fear, force or manipulation to offer true freedom for every human being." The Archbishop this year publicly spoke out against Mr Trump when the US President shared videos from far-right group Britain First via Twitter. He said at the time: "It is deeply disturbing that the president of the United States has chosen to amplify the voice of far-right extremists." Earlier on Monday morning the Church of England's most senior cleric had given his Christmas message a modern twist by publishing extracts in a Twitter thread, complete with a hashtag. Across the globe, the Pope put the migrant crisis at the heart of his festive reflections, saying that the story of the holy birth had particular relevance as millions of people were "driven from their land". The Archbishop struck a similar note during his sermon, saying: "We are drawn to stories of freedom and purpose. "In Star Wars an abandoned orphan on a desert planet turns into a knight leading the struggle for freedom. "Platform nine and three quarters takes Harry Potter into a world of magic and purpose. "Not so in the gospel stories, even those of Christmas. Yes, the shepherds see angels. Yes, Mary and Joseph have dreams and are chosen as special people. "Yet after the moments of miracles life goes on almost as before - the shepherds return to their sheep, Joseph settles back as a carpenter, Mary raises children. "They flee as refugees, like over 60 million people today. "Yet their story is the beginning of ours, it is an invitation to lives of freedom, found through God's freely offered love."
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| Pakistan allows wife, mother to visit Indian man sentenced to death Posted: 25 Dec 2017 03:42 AM PST ![Pakistan allows wife, mother to visit Indian man sentenced to death]( "Pakistan allows wife, mother to visit Indian man sentenced to death") By Saad Sayeed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan allowed the wife and mother of an Indian man convicted of spying to visit him on Monday in Islamabad, eight months after he was sentenced to death by a military court. Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, a former officer in the Indian navy, was arrested in March 2016 in the Pakistan province of Baluchistan, where there has been a long-running conflict between national security forces and militant separatists. Pakistan released a picture of Jadhav's mother, Avanti, and wife, Chetankul, seated at a desk and speaking to him from behind a glass window.
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| Elon Musk's Australian Battery Bounced Back From Crisis in Record Time Posted: 25 Dec 2017 10:52 AM PST  Not too shabby!
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| China Just Added An "Enormous Dragon" to Its Military Arsenal Posted: 25 Dec 2017 05:38 AM PST  Known as "enormous dragon", the AG600 is the world's largest amphibious aircraft in production after finally taking off on its maiden flight during the Christmas holidays. "Its successful maiden flight makes China among the world's few countries capable of developing a large amphibious aircraft," Huang Lingcai, the chief designer at Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC), told the government-controled Xinhua news agency.
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| California salmon lose way after ride downstream in drought Posted: 26 Dec 2017 11:01 AM PST  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A desperate decision to truck California's native baby salmon toward the Pacific Ocean during the state's drought may have resulted in generations of lost young salmon now hard-pressed to find their way back to their reproductive grounds.
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| Philippines' Duterte vows to get to truth of deadly mall blaze Posted: 26 Dec 2017 12:45 AM PST  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed Tuesday to get to the truth about a blaze in his home city that killed 37 call centre workers. "I assured them... that the truth will -- let the truth come out," Duterte said. The justice and labour departments have ordered separate investigations into Saturday's blaze.
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| Sen. Hatch 'Grateful' for Being Named Newspaper’s 'Utahn of the Year.' But the Article Was Scathing Posted: 26 Dec 2017 11:03 AM PST  The Salt Lake Tribune named Senator Orrin Hatch "Utahn of the Year," but he got the honor for all the wrong reasons.
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| Chinese report says South China Sea islands expanded 'reasonably' Posted: 24 Dec 2017 06:12 PM PST ![Chinese report says South China Sea islands expanded 'reasonably']( "Chinese report says South China Sea islands expanded 'reasonably'") China has "reasonably" expanded its islands in the disputed South China Sea and this year construction projects there including radar facilities covered about 290,000 square meters (72 acres), according to a new government report. China has conducted extensive land reclamation work on some of the islands and reefs it controls in the South China Sea, including building airports, alarming its neighbors and Washington. Beijing says the work is help provide international services such as search-and-rescue but admits there is a military purpose too.
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| Anderson Cooper And Andy Cohen Met On A Set-Up Gone Wrong Posted: 25 Dec 2017 07:55 PM PST  Famous friends Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen met when they were set-up on a blind date, the duo revealed on "The Tonight Show" late last week.
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