2018年10月24日星期三

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'Fox & Friends' Has Reporter 'Foil' Migrant Family's Attempt To Cross Border

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 07:46 AM PDT

'Fox & Friends' Has Reporter 'Foil' Migrant Family's Attempt To Cross BorderA bizarre segment on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday morning featured a reporter at


Woman describes prior harassment by man accused of killing Utah student

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 12:04 PM PDT

Woman describes prior harassment by man accused of killing Utah studentAfter University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey was shot and killed by a man


Jeff Flake Tells 'The View' He Doubted Brett Kavanaugh But Voted For Him Anyway

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 03:48 PM PDT

Jeff Flake Tells 'The View' He Doubted Brett Kavanaugh But Voted For Him AnywayArizona Sen. Jeff Flake admits he had doubts about the testimony of newly-


Republican support for marijuana legalization edges up again in poll

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 09:31 AM PDT

Republican support for marijuana legalization edges up again in pollGallup found that a majority of Republicans support legalizing marijuana for recreational use in the United States.


Wormhole? Nazi-Marked Plane Crashes Onto California Freeway, Bursts Into Flames

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 12:32 AM PDT

Wormhole? Nazi-Marked Plane Crashes Onto California Freeway, Bursts Into FlamesA vintage aircraft with some of the markings of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe


How Saudi's Mohammed bin Salman went from promising reformer to tainted heir accused of plotting Khashoggi's murder

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 08:05 AM PDT

How Saudi's Mohammed bin Salman went from promising reformer to tainted heir accused of plotting Khashoggi's murderExactly a year ago, Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, was on top of the world.  Or more specifically, he was on stage at the first "Davos in the Desert" investment summit in Riyadh, happily discussing his plans for a $500 billion (£385 billion) new Saudi mega city.  Western politicians and international business leaders flocked to hear the young prince describe his vision of a reformed Saudi economy and of a gentler society freed from the grip of hardline clerics.   Today, Crown Prince Mohammed at the centre of an international storm over allegations that he ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.  The same global elites who raced to Riyadh last year are nowhere to be seen this year. The conference hall at the Ritz-Carlton hotel remains packed but few of the attendees are from major US or European firms. The fall from international favour is the latest dramatic turn in the life of the 33-year-old heir to the throne, who has gone in a few short years from an unknown royal to one of the Middle East's most powerful men.  Widely known by his initials "MBS", Crown Prince Mohammed is one of the younger sons of the current monarch King Salman and a favourite among his 13 children.  King Salman is 82 and in declining mental health Credit: EPA/MAST IRHAM He has been groomed for leadership ever since King Salman took the throne in 2015, and unlike many of his siblings he was educated in Saudi Arabia not in the West. He was appointed defence minister at the age 29 but his authority has spread to almost all corners of the Saudi government, earning him the nickname "Mr Everything" from some foreign diplomats. His 82-year-old father is declining mentally and has handed his son broad powers over the economy. MBS has also been a driving force behind Saudi Arabia's more aggressive foreign policy, including its disastrous bombing campaign in Yemen and the diplomatic effort to isolate Qatar.  In June last year, King Salman moved dramatically to re-order the Saudi line of succession and shift the direction of the kingdom's future. He removed the serving crown prince, his 58-year-old nephew Mohammed bin Nayaf, and gave the title to MBS instead.  The decision overturned years of tradition in which the Saudi crown is passed sideways from brother-to-brother or cousin-to-cousin and instead set Saudi Arabia on a course where the son would inherit the father's throne.  In 17 months since Crown Prince Mohammed was elevated, he has moved with unbridled aggression both at home and abroad, smashing what had previously been a slow-moving Saudi governing system based on consensus among the elite.   The crown prince imprisoned many of his rivals at the Ritz-Carlton Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst He pushed through high-profile social reforms, like allowing women to drive and re-opening cinemas, although he has done little to ease the guardianship laws which severely restrict the rights of female Saudi citizens.  Unlike his father, Crown Prince Mohammed has only one wife, a princess named Sara bint Mashoor. Little is known about her but the couple are believed to have four children.   In November last year, he announced an "anti-corruption" drive which saw Saudi police arrest many of his fellow princes and some of the kingdom's leading business figures. Analysts saw the move as an effort to consolidate power and crush any potential rivals.  At the same time, Crown Prince Mohammed summoned Saad Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister, and effectively imprisoned him in Saudi Arabia and ordered him to resign his position in protest at Iran's influence in Lebanon.    Mr Hariri was eventually freed and resumed his post after the intervention of France and other Western powers. But the crown prince did not pay any major price for flouting of international norms.  Saad Hariri was imprisoned in Riyadh and forced to resign his post Credit: (Future TV via AP) All the while, Saudi Arabia continued its three-year bombing campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen. While human rights groups criticised the kingdom for the level of civilian casualties and for a devastating blockade that has fueled famine, MBS has retained the backing of the US and UK.  His support from Donald Trump, the US president, and his close relationship with Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, has insulated him from opponents at home and abroad.  One of the key questions of the Khashoggi crisis is whether the White House will rethink the trust it has put in a man it sees as a dynamic reformer, a reliable opponent of Iran, and a potential lynchpin of a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians.    Even if the White House stands by him, his international reputation has certainly been tarnished for the time being.  In the summer of 2018 he embarked on a high-profile tour of the US and met with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and other leading figures from Hollywood and Silicon Valley.  Crown Prince Mohammed was once feted by international business leaders Credit: FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images These same figures are unlikely to agree to another photo opportunity with the crown prince while Mr Khashoggi's murder is fresh in the public mind, although they will likely quietly continue do business with the kingdom.  Crown Prince Mohammed is likely to keep a lower profile for the time being as he licks his wounds and reflects on Western leaders who have not stood by him. Expect the Kremlin to aggressively court the young leader and whisper to him that the US and Europe cannot be relied upon. 


14 days until the midterm elections: Where things stand

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 11:19 AM PDT

14 days until the midterm elections: Where things standClose contests in Florida and positioning among possible 2020 candidates color the midterm landscape with just two weeks to go until Election Day.


One Ticket Won The $1.6 Billion Mega Millions Lottery Jackpot

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 10:28 PM PDT

One Ticket Won The $1.6 Billion Mega Millions Lottery JackpotIs it you?


Suspect in fatal University of Utah shooting found dead after manhunt

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 04:09 AM PDT

Suspect in fatal University of Utah shooting found dead after manhuntA University of Utah student was fatally shot on campus Monday night, prompting a university lockdown and a citywide manhunt as police scoured the area for clues.


Japan: Man believed to be missing journalist in Syria freed

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 05:32 PM PDT

Japan: Man believed to be missing journalist in Syria freedTOKYO (AP) — A man believed to be a Japanese freelance journalist who disappeared three years ago in Syria has been released and is now in Turkey, a Japanese official said.


New York Attorney Killed While Vacationing In Turks And Caicos

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 10:08 AM PDT

New York Attorney Killed While Vacationing In Turks And CaicosThe Royal Turks and Caicos Islands police are investigating the murder of an


Republicans push ahead with conservative Trump judicial nominees

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 01:19 PM PDT

Republicans push ahead with conservative Trump judicial nomineesDemocrats, who mounted an unsuccessful effort to block Senate confirmation this month of Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, have slammed the president's fellow Republicans for holding the hearings. Only two senators on the 21-member Judiciary Committee, both Republicans, showed up for the hearing in Washington on Wednesday in which four judicial nominees were considered. Democratic Senator Patty Murray, who had asked Republicans to postpone the hearing while the Senate is in recess ahead of the Nov. 6 congressional elections, criticized "the shameful partisan path they have taken on what has always been a bipartisan process." She accused the Republicans of a "mad dash" to secure confirmation.


What tax cut? Here’s what Trump and the GOP want to talk about instead

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 01:34 PM PDT

What tax cut? Here's what Trump and the GOP want to talk about insteadWith less than two weeks until the midterm elections, Republicans from President Trump down are not talking about tax cuts — and have been backing away from that message for months.


These Candidates Could Make History in the 2018 Midterms

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 08:25 AM PDT

These Candidates Could Make History in the 2018 MidtermsIncluding Andrew Gillum, Marsha Blackburn and Michelle Lujan Grisham


Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold in South Carolina: Is This the Luckiest Store in America?

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 10:54 AM PDT

Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold in South Carolina: Is This the Luckiest Store in America?One lucky winner purchased the $1.6 billion-winning ticket in Simpsonville, South Carolina.


New Jersey Woman Claims Her Dunkin' Donuts Sandwich Was Crawling With Bugs

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 10:03 AM PDT

New Jersey Woman Claims Her Dunkin' Donuts Sandwich Was Crawling With BugsNew Jersey mom Krystle Platzer was seriously bugged by the breakfast sandwich


Trail-blazing retired U.S. Justice O'Connor says she has dementia

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 08:05 AM PDT

Trail-blazing retired U.S. Justice O'Connor says she has dementia"Some time ago, doctors diagnosed me with the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease," O'Connor, 88, said in a letter issued by the court.


Taco Bell is giving free tacos to everyone in America, thanks to the Boston Red Sox

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 06:52 AM PDT

Taco Bell is giving free tacos to everyone in America, thanks to the Boston Red SoxYou know how it goes -- one person steals something, everyone gets something


15 Ways To Put A Little Pumpkin In Your Pasta This Fall

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 02:15 PM PDT

15 Ways To Put A Little Pumpkin In Your Pasta This Fall


Trump supporters in Texas feel migrant caravans coming from Mexico are 'invading the country'

Posted: 22 Oct 2018 11:19 PM PDT

Trump supporters in Texas feel migrant caravans coming from Mexico are 'invading the country'Ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, President Trump has made the issue of immigration a top priority once again. But this time, he's focusing on migrant caravans making their way to the U.S. and many of his supporters in Texas say they need to enter the country "the right way."


Mother of Slain Utah College Student Was on Phone With Daughter When She Was Attacked: I Heard Her Yell, 'No, No, No!'

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 03:21 PM PDT

Mother of Slain Utah College Student Was on Phone With Daughter When She Was Attacked: I Heard Her Yell, 'No, No, No!'The mother of a slain Utah college student was on the phone with her daughter and heard her yell, "No! No! No!"


Ron DeSantis Tells Jewish Voters Andrew Gillum Would Hurt Israel As Florida Governor

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 05:11 PM PDT

Ron DeSantis Tells Jewish Voters Andrew Gillum Would Hurt Israel As Florida GovernorAVENTURA, Fla. ― Ron DeSantis took his campaign for Florida governor to a


Megyn Kelly's Long History Of Racial Insensitivity

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 01:51 PM PDT

Megyn Kelly's Long History Of Racial InsensitivityMegyn Kelly on Wednesday apologized for suggesting the day before that


Prince Harry highlights daily threat of climate change on visit to Fiji

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 09:08 AM PDT

Prince Harry highlights daily threat of climate change on visit to FijiBy Kate Ashton SYDNEY (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry said on Wednesday climate change was a daily threat for the people of Fiji, and announced scholarships to study the problem, as he toured, with his wife Meghan, the South Pacific nation on the front line of global warming. The royal couple was mobbed by crowds waving British and Fiji flags on the second day of their visit to the former British colony of some 300 islands, where villages have been moved to higher ground to seek safety from rising seas. ...


Winning Mega Millions lottery tickets sold in North Carolina

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 09:29 AM PDT

Winning Mega Millions lottery tickets sold in North CarolinaThe $1.6 billion Mega Millions ticket was not sold in North Carolina, but two $1 million tickets were!


For Honduran migrants in caravan, the journey is personal

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 05:15 PM PDT

For Honduran migrants in caravan, the journey is personalHUIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — A deportee from the United States trying to get back to the life he spent more than a decade building. A woman whose soldier husband already is in the U.S. with their 4-year-old son. A teenager desperate to earn money to support his diabetic mother back home.


'Everybody Has to Do More.' How Chef José Andrés Is Serving Millions of People Displaced By Hurricanes

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 11:51 AM PDT

'Everybody Has to Do More.' How Chef José Andrés Is Serving Millions of People Displaced By HurricanesJose Andres discussed what needs to happen next to end hunger throughout the world in a TIME 100 x WeWork Speaker series event.


Cold War II: Trump threat to pull out of INF Treaty could set off new arms race

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 09:23 AM PDT

Cold War II: Trump threat to pull out of INF Treaty could set off new arms raceThe Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty banning medium-range missiles in Europe is far from perfect, and Russia clearly was cheating on it – but experts say it serves a purpose.


12 Family Members Sign Op-Ed Opposing Republican Adam Laxalt For Nevada Governor

Posted: 22 Oct 2018 10:30 PM PDT

12 Family Members Sign Op-Ed Opposing Republican Adam Laxalt For Nevada GovernorTwelve relatives have signed a scathing op-ed in a Reno newspaper opposing


Scientists Discovered the World's Oldest Intact Shipwreck. It's 2,400 Years Old

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 12:45 PM PDT

Scientists Discovered the World's Oldest Intact Shipwreck. It's 2,400 Years OldScientists Discovered the World's Oldest Intact Shipwreck. It's 2,400 Years Old


Turkish police granted permission to search well in consul's residence: NTV

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 06:38 AM PDT

Turkish police granted permission to search well in consul's residence: NTVTurkey's investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Oct.2 has been at times delayed by Saudi officials, who have appeared reluctant to grant authorities permission to search places considered Saudi territory. The state-run Anadolu news agency initially said Saudi officials had refused to allow police to search the well in the garden of the consul's residence. Since Khashoggi's disappearance more than three weeks ago, Turkish and Saudi authorities have carried out multiple searches at the consulate and consul general's residence in Istanbul.


50 Caramel And Apple Recipes That Will Give You Fall Fever

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 01:44 PM PDT

50 Caramel And Apple Recipes That Will Give You Fall Fever


Woman Busted for Allegedly Stealing Vehicle Drives Off While Handcuffed — in Cop Car

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 11:39 AM PDT

Woman Busted for Allegedly Stealing Vehicle Drives Off While Handcuffed — in Cop CarShe reached speeds of 90 mph, with police in hot pursuit.


Marco Rubio says US aid 'helps us more than them’ as Trump threatens cuts over migrant caravan

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 05:58 PM PDT

Marco Rubio says US aid 'helps us more than them' as Trump threatens cuts over migrant caravanSenator Marco Rubio has said that aid to Central American countries "help us more than them" in response to Donald Trump's threat to cut off foreign aid to countries unable to stop undocumented immigrants making their way to the US. The Republican from Florida tweeted "Our aid to #Honduras & #Guatemala isn't charity. Both men were talking about a caravan of approximately 7,000 refugees and migrants travelling north towards the US-Mexico border having gone through Honduras and Guatemala.


Apple chief pushes for US privacy law to stop 'weaponizing' data

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 05:15 PM PDT

Apple chief pushes for US privacy law to stop 'weaponizing' dataApple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday said the United States needed a federal privacy law because personal information was being "weaponized" against internet users. "We at Apple are in full support of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States," Cook told a conference in Brussels. Gossip, he said, had become a lucrative trade for the Internet giants.


Senate race in Indiana tests 'Hoosier' independence from Trump

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 02:05 PM PDT

Senate race in Indiana tests 'Hoosier' independence from TrumpIncumbent Democrat Joe Donnelly and his Republican challenger, Mike Braun, are suddenly locked in a tight Senate race.


The 2019 Chevrolet Camaro Turbo 1LE Is Anything but Entry-Level

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 08:55 AM PDT

The 2019 Chevrolet Camaro Turbo 1LE Is Anything but Entry-LevelChassis upgrades make a go-fast bargain out of the four-cylinder sports coupe.


Sheriff feels 'outpouring of support' in missing girl case

Posted: 23 Oct 2018 09:04 PM PDT

Sheriff feels 'outpouring of support' in missing girl caseBARRON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin sheriff thanked volunteer searchers who helped canvass the area surrounding the home of a 13-year-old girl who is believed to have been abducted and whose parents were killed.


Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince discuss steps to bring transparency to Khashoggi killing: source

Posted: 24 Oct 2018 07:46 AM PDT

Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince discuss steps to bring transparency to Khashoggi killing: sourceANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke to Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Wednesday, and the two discussed the steps needed to bring to light all aspects of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a presidential source said. Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and a U.S. resident, disappeared three weeks ago after a visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Riyadh, which initially denied knowledge of his whereabouts, has since said he died in a "fistfight". It later blamed Khashoggi's death on a "rogue operation". ...


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