| James Alex Fields Jr. Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murder Of Heather Heyer Posted: 11 Dec 2018 09:40 AM PST  Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for
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| Don Lemon Fact-Checks Donald Trump's 'Flat-Out Lie' About Barack Obama's Campaign Posted: 11 Dec 2018 01:51 AM PST  Don Lemon is done with President Donald Trump's claims that campaign finance
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| Greedy Liar or Flawed Family Man? Cohen Fate Rests on Answer Posted: 12 Dec 2018 06:59 AM PST  Cohen confessed nine crimes this year after federal prosecutors said that he had concealed income and evaded taxes, orchestrated a scheme to violate campaign finance laws at the height of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and lied to banks and Congress. Hours before the sentencing began, media trucks lined the street outside the lower Manhattan courthouse, and Michael Avenatti, the Trump agitator and lawyer for one of two women who Cohen helped pay off in the run-up to the election, appeared in court to watch the proceeding.
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| US military declares five missing Marines dead after Japan crash Posted: 11 Dec 2018 03:12 AM PST  The US military said Tuesday five Marines who had been missing since two planes crashed off Japan a week ago were dead. The announcement brings the final toll in the December 6 crash to six, with a seventh crew member rescued after the incident. It prompted a massive search and rescue operation, which the US military said had now been called off.
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| Former Canadian diplomat detained in China amid tensions over arrest of Huawei executive Posted: 11 Dec 2018 10:11 AM PST  A former Canadian diplomat has been arrested in China, amid tensions over the recent detention of a Chinese telecom executive in Vancouver. "We have been in direct contact with the Chinese diplomats and representatives," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. "We are engaged with the file (case), which we take very seriously." Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale on Tuesday confirmed the detention of Michael Kovrig. "We're deeply concerned," he said. "A Canadian is obviously in difficulty in China. We are sparing no effort to do everything we possibly can to look after his safety." The International Crisis Group said on Tuesday it was aware of reports that Mr Kovrig, its North East Asia senior adviser, had been detained. The Brussels-based non-governmental organisation said in a statement that it's doing everything possible to obtain additional information about Mr Kovrig's whereabouts and that it will work to ensure his prompt release. The Globe and Mail in Toronto and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported the arrest, citing unnamed sources. Reports of Mr Kovrig's detention come after China warned Canada of consequences for its December 1 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver's airport. It's unclear if there's any link between the cases. Ms Meng was detained over US allegations she misled banks about Huawei' s control of a firm operating in Iran. Yesterday (Tues), the Washington Post reported that the US government is to take action against China over hacking and economic espionage,using sanctions and indictments. The report could not immediately be confirmed. The International Crisis Group said Mr Kovrig has been one of its full-time experts since February 2017. The organisation's website says Kovrig previously worked as a Canadian diplomat in Beijing and Hong Kong and at the United Nations. Canada's Global Affairs department didn't immediately respond with comment. Former Canadian Liberal leader Bob Rae said it's clear why he's been detained. "It's called repression and retaliation," Mr Rae tweeted.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Paul Ryan Called 'Genius' While I'm 'Fraud' Posted: 11 Dec 2018 07:38 AM PST  Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday attacked what she
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| Charges dropped against mother after police rip 1-year-old son from her arms in video Posted: 11 Dec 2018 12:03 PM PST  Jazmine Headley remained incarcerated as of Tuesday morning, four days after New York City police yanked her infant son from her arms in Brooklyn.
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| Detailed Photos of the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 6.2L Posted: 11 Dec 2018 08:34 AM PST |
| Melania Trump gives gifts at Marine Corps Reserve toy drive Posted: 11 Dec 2018 12:12 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump highlighted the spirit of giving Tuesday by sorting toys and making Christmas cards for an annual toy drive held by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.
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| 'I took action': High school football player kills student over her pregnancy, court documents say Posted: 10 Dec 2018 07:14 PM PST !['I took action': High school football player kills student over her pregnancy, court documents say]( "'I took action': High school football player kills student over her pregnancy, court documents say") Aaron Trejo, 16, was charged Monday in adult court with murder and feticide in connection with Breana Rouhselang's death, prosecutors said.
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| Kremlin calls U.S. criticism of Russian military flights to Venezuela wrong Posted: 11 Dec 2018 12:58 AM PST  The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected U.S. criticism of Russian military flights to Venezuela, saying it had been inappropriate and wrong for U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to condemn the flight of two nuclear-capable strategic bombers to Caracas. Pompeo condemned the deployment on Twitter. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call that Pompeo's comments were undiplomatic and wrong.
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| Google CEO Argues for Company's China Return in Congress Posted: 11 Dec 2018 09:00 AM PST  Pichai has been under pressure from politicians, activists and staff to stop building a censored search engine for China. Late on Monday, a coalition of human rights groups asked Google to commit to not working with the Chinese government on censorship and surveillance.
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| Texas fraternity president spared jail following rape accusation plea deal Posted: 11 Dec 2018 12:32 PM PST  The former president of a fraternity at a private Christian university in Texas has been spared jail time after being accused of raping a fellow student at a party, in a decision which has devastated the victim and her family. Jacob Anderson, 23, was accused of repeatedly raping a woman at a party in 2016, after she was plied with drink. A Texas judge on Monday accepted a plea bargain, allowing the former Baylor university student to walk free and serve only community service. The woman, who was 19 at the time, attacked Anderson and the district attorneys in her victim impact statement – expressing her fury that they did not show up in court for Monday's decision. "If I had the courage to come back to Waco and face my rapist and testify, you could at least have had enough respect for me to show up today," she said. "You both will have to live with this decision to let a rapist run free in society without any warning to future victims." Jacob Anderson, in a photo released by McLennan County sheriffs office Turning to the man she accused of repeatedly raping her, she said: "It must be horrible to be you. To know what you did to me. To know you are a rapist. To know that you almost killed me. To know that you ruined my life, stole my virginity and stole many other things from me." She told police she woke up choking on her own vomit. "By the grace of God I am alive today to fight this injustice," she wrote. "One breath either way and Jacob Walter Anderson would be on trial for murder." Anderson had been indicted on sexual assault charges and the deal allowed him to plead no contest to a lesser charge of unlawful restraint. A no contest plea means a person does not admit guilt, but will offer no defence. He was expelled from Baylor after a university investigation, and be placed on deferred probation. Anderson, the ex-Phi Delta Theta fraternity president, also agreed to seek counselling and pay a $400 fine. He will not be forced to register as a sex offender. Abel Reyna, McLennan County district attorney, defended the plea deal in October. "This office stands by the plea offered and believes we have achieved the best result possible with the evidence at hand," he said, adding that evidence did not support the allegation that the victim may have been drugged. Judge Strother said on Monday that in making the decision he had the benefit of arguments filed by attorneys on both sides, and a background report assembled by a probation department. He said much of the comments he saw on social media or in emails were "not fully informed, misinformed or totally uninformed." Yet the decision was not the first time that the judge has sentenced men accused of sex crimes to probation. Last year, he sentenced a man to deferred probation after he pleaded guilty in the 2013 rape of a former Baylor student. The judge ordered the man to pay for the woman's counselling. The man told police the woman had been drunk, according to an affidavit. And earlier this year he sentenced a man to felony probation for the sexual assault of a former Baylor student, a punishment that came with 30 days in jail. The man, who was a student at the time and told authorities the sex was consensual, was allowed to serve the jail time on the weekends. The Anderson case bore strong parallels to that of Brock Turner, the Stanford university swimmer who was convicted in 2016 of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman outside a fraternity party. A judge in that case rejected a prosecutor's demand for a lengthy prison term and instead sentenced Turner to six months in jail. He was released from jail in September 2016 after serving three months.
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| Sanctions Will Harm Only the Iranian Regime, Not the Iranian People Posted: 12 Dec 2018 11:41 AM PST  That is why Washington must maintain them.
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| Alaska moose poacher fined $100,000, sentenced to jail Posted: 11 Dec 2018 03:18 PM PST  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man who poached three moose and left most of the meat to rot has been sentenced to nine months in jail and fined more than $100,000.
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| Introducing the 2019 AD100 Posted: 12 Dec 2018 03:30 AM PST |
| U.N. seeks withdrawal of warring parties from Yemen's Hodeidah: sources Posted: 11 Dec 2018 06:25 AM PST ![U.N. seeks withdrawal of warring parties from Yemen's Hodeidah: sources]( "U.N. seeks withdrawal of warring parties from Yemen's Hodeidah: sources") The United Nations is proposing that all armed forces from Yemen's warring parties withdraw from the port city of Hodeidah and that an interim entity be set up to run the city, a lifeline for millions of people in the country's war, sources said. The proposal is still being discussed at U.N.-sponsored peace talks between the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government in Sweden. The sources familiar with the talks said the U.N. proposal envisions a "joint committee or independent entity" to manage the city and port after both sides withdraw and the possibility of deploying U.N. monitors.
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| Trump claims he’s ‘not concerned’ about impeachment because there would be a ‘revolt’ Posted: 12 Dec 2018 02:01 AM PST  Donald Trump has insisted he is "not concerned" about the threat of impeachment because "the people would revolt if that happened". The president, who has been implicated in campaign finance violations admitted by his former personal lawyer, claimed it would be "hard to impeach somebody who hasn't done anything wrong". Federal prosecutors said last week that Mr Trump had directed Michael Cohen to make six-figure payments to two women to stop them speaking about alleged affairs with the Republican candidate ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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| China warns against 'bullying' of its citizens Posted: 11 Dec 2018 01:13 AM PST  China's foreign minister warned Tuesday against the "bullying" of any Chinese citizen, amid a diplomatic fracas over the arrest of a Huawei executive on a US warrant in Canada. Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of telecommunications behemoth Huawei, was on December 1 arrested in Vancouver on US fraud charges related to sanctions-breaking dealings with Iran, infuriating China. "The safety and security of Chinese compatriots are our priority, China will never sit idly by and ignore any bullying that violates the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens," Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a speech in Beijing, without directly referring to the Huawei case.
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| Trade Bear David Woo Hasn't Been This Nervous Since 2008 Posted: 10 Dec 2018 10:21 PM PST  The Bank of America strategist is the most worried about volatility in global markets -- particularly in the developing world -- since the 2008 financial crisis. "We'll have a $1 trillion budget deficit, a big fight over the debt ceiling, gridlock and the U.S. economy will be slowing at the same time," Woo said from New York.
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| Palestinians offer new details of Israel's botched Gaza raid Posted: 12 Dec 2018 05:38 AM PST  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The small town of Abassan in the Gaza Strip is a tough place to infiltrate — everyone knows everyone else and outsiders passing through quickly attract attention. So when strangers drove through town, suspicious Hamas security men stopped the van and questioned those inside.
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| Fiance Of Missing Colorado Mom Is Cooperating With Police, Lawyer Says Posted: 12 Dec 2018 11:41 AM PST  The fiance of a Colorado mother missing since Thanksgiving is praying for her
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| The Sources of Iranian Conduct Posted: 12 Dec 2018 10:36 AM PST  Iranian policy remains the same despite the Trump administration's "maximum pressure."
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| Khashoggi, other persecuted journalists named Time 'Person of the Year' Posted: 11 Dec 2018 06:33 AM PST  Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October at his country's Istanbul consulate, was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" Tuesday, an honor he shared with other persecuted journalists dubbed as "guardians" of the truth. Among those named with Khashoggi were Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo -- currently imprisoned in Myanmar -- and the staff of the Capital Gazette in the US city of Annapolis, including five members killed in a June shooting. US President Donald Trump, the 2016 "Person of the Year," was the bookmakers' favorite this year but in the end was runner-up.
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| Two nuns accused of stealing thousands of dollars, gambling in Las Vegas Posted: 11 Dec 2018 07:51 AM PST  The Archdiocese of Los Angeles said two nuns allegedly stole thousands of dollars from a Catholic school to fund trips to Las Vegas.
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| President Trump meets with Pelosi, Schumer Posted: 11 Dec 2018 08:38 AM PST  Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer meet with the president before a crucial government funding deadline.
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| No evidence for Trump claim on 'terrorists': government sources Posted: 11 Dec 2018 05:30 PM PST  President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that U.S. authorities had "caught 10 terrorists," citing it as a reason for why the United States should build a wall on its Mexican border, but four government sources said there was no recent evidence of terrorism suspects being caught along the border. Three national security officials agreed with that view, saying they knew of no recent border-related arrests. In a contentious White House meeting on Tuesday with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, Trump demanded $5 billion in taxpayer funding for his wall, threatening a federal shutdown if he did not get the money.
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| Opposition UK lawmakers call for second Brexit referendum preparations Posted: 11 Dec 2018 07:16 AM PST  Less than four months until the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union on March 29, Brexit was plunged into chaos on Monday when May accepted that British lawmakers would not accept her deal and withdrew a key vote on it. The ultimate outcome of Brexit is now uncertain. "The UK is in the middle of a constitutional crisis, which is unparalleled in modern history," said Ian Blackford, the leader of the Scottish National Party in Westminster.
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| U.S., China Executives Grow Wary on Travel After Huawei Arrest Posted: 10 Dec 2018 07:45 PM PST  The Dec. 1 arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., has Chinese business people worried they could be next while Americans are growing concerned about retaliation. Meng has been detained at the request of the U.S. on charges of bank fraud related to violations of American sanctions on Iran, and a bail hearing is ongoing.
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| Eyes in the sky capture carbon, other climate culprits Posted: 12 Dec 2018 02:52 AM PST  KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — A growing fleet of satellites is monitoring man-made greenhouse gas emissions from space, spurred by the need to track down major sources of climate changing gases such as methane and carbon dioxide.
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| Attack at Christmas market in French city kills 3, wounds 12 Posted: 11 Dec 2018 09:30 PM PST  STRASBOURG, France (AP) — A man who had been flagged as a possible extremist sprayed gunfire near the famous Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg Tuesday, killing three people, wounding up to a dozen and sparking a massive manhunt when he got away. France immediately raised its terror alert level.
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| 5 Democrats Bail Out Paul Ryan And Protect Saudi Arabia Posted: 12 Dec 2018 01:56 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Five Democrats saved House Republicans from an embarrassing floor
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| US presses Cuba with prisoner list Posted: 11 Dec 2018 09:59 AM PST  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has pressed Cuba in an open letter to explain the detention of eight people who Washington says are political prisoners, saying that Havana has ignored diplomatic efforts to seek answers. In a letter released Tuesday by the State Department, Pompeo asked Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez to provide a "substantive explanation" on the detention of eight listed prisoners.
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| 'I can't breathe': Transcript of recording details Khashoggi's final moments before murder Posted: 10 Dec 2018 07:03 PM PST !['I can't breathe': Transcript of recording details Khashoggi's final moments before murder]( "'I can't breathe': Transcript of recording details Khashoggi's final moments before murder") Journalist Jamal Khashoggi repeatedly said, "I can't breathe'' in his final moments as he was attacked at the Saudi consulate in Turkey, CNN reported.
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| Michael Cohen Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Crimes Committed As Trump’s Lawyer Posted: 12 Dec 2018 09:05 AM PST  A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced President Donald Trump's former
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| Reluctant U.S. Supreme Court on collision course with Trump Posted: 11 Dec 2018 02:05 AM PST  The court's 5-4 conservative majority includes Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. While Trump has suffered a series of setbacks in lower federal courts since taking office last year, he has collected major victories at the Supreme Court. Most notably, the court in June upheld in a 5-4 ruling Trump's travel ban targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries, with Gorsuch casting a pivotal vote, after lower courts had blocked the policy.
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| Is China's AIIB Developing Asia, Or Just Propping Up China's State-Owned Banks with Extra Cash? Posted: 11 Dec 2018 01:15 PM PST  The AIIB was supposed to lend $30 to $40 billion in its first three years. It has disbursed just $1 billion. Something doesn't add up.
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| Texas executes man convicted of 1993 murder Posted: 12 Dec 2018 04:43 AM PST  Alvin Braziel, 43, was pronounced dead at 7:19 p.m. local time, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Asked by the warden if he had any last words before he was put to death, Braziel expressed thanks to "all those overseas, Italy and France, for their support for death row prisoners. Braziel was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for attacking Douglas and Lora White at gunpoint while they were on a walk along a jogging trail at Eastfield College, a Dallas-area community college, on Sept. 21, 1993, according to court documents.
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| Beyonce! Hillary! India revels in a very big wedding Posted: 12 Dec 2018 10:34 AM PST  NEW DELHI (AP) — In a season of big Indian weddings, the Wednesday marriage of the scions of two billionaire families might be the biggest of them all.
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| Gilets Jaunes Come to Brexit Britain’s Rescue Posted: 11 Dec 2018 03:40 AM PST  The gilets jaunes' protests in France have caused a pretty stunning volte face from President Emmanuel Macron, with more than 10 billion euros ($11.4 billion) of minimum wage and pension tax changes proposed this week. Alongside France's already-announced reversal of a fuel tax rise, this could increase France's deficit by as much as 0.6 percentage points to about 3.4 percent of gross domestic product. "Le spread" of 10-year French government bonds to German bunds has widened by 10 basis points in December, creating the biggest gap since Macron was elected in May 2017.
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| What next for Brexit as May wins leadership battle? Posted: 12 Dec 2018 01:42 PM PST  What happens to the Brexit process now Prime Minister Theresa May has defeated Wednesday's challenge to her leadership? May's 200 to 117 win over her rebel Conservative MPs was closer than expected, but means she cannot face another no-confidence challenge from within her party for 12 months, giving her some breathing space as she attempts to tweak her deal and get it through parliament. The British leader has said she still plans to bring her Brexit deal to a parliamentary vote some time before January 21, but Wednesday's result shows the daunting task which lies ahead.
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| BJP set for defeat in two key state elections, in blow to Modi ahead of national vote Posted: 11 Dec 2018 05:45 AM PST  India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday lost three key state elections to the opposition Congress party, in a blow to the momentum of prime minister Narendra Modi ahead of a national poll in the spring. The opposition Congress Party is now set to succeed BJP governments in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and the crucial state of Madhya Pradesh, in the biggest defeat for Mr Modi since taking office in 2014. The three rural heartland states powered Mr Modi to a landslide victory in that years general election, in which the BJP singlehandedly secured a parliamentary majority for the first time in 30 years, bringing an era of coalition governments to a close. "We accept the people's mandate with humility," Mr Modi wrote on Twitter. "Victory and defeat are an integral part of life. Today's results will further our resolve to serve people and work even harder for the development of India." Analysts said the BJP's dissatisfying performance would galvanise the secularist Congress and other regional parties in the run-up to general elections that must be held by next May. "The electoral outcome in these three states could seriously dent the BJP's political fortunes in the upcoming general elections," said political analyst Seema Mustafa of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. Profile | Narendra Modi The results indicate that voters have not been wholly convinced that Mr Modi has fulfilled ambitious promises on taking office of economic security, employment and improved social services. Millions of farmers were the worst hit section of voters in all states where polling took place for several weeks till 7 December. "Agrarian distress was the BJP's bane in these polls," said Milind Dero of the Congress Party. Around 12,000 farmers have committed suicide each year since 2013 - or around 33 per day- because of debt, declining crop procurement prices, rising fertiliser and fuel costs and corruption. Farmers in all three states that went to the polls were also adversely affected by the demonetisation of high value currency notes that Modi abruptly imposed in November 2016, leading to widespread hardship. It forced farmers, almost entirely dependent on a cash-based rural system to take on further debt, which in turn, prompted scores to take their lives largely by consuming pesticide. The Congress Party wins were also a major boost for the political credibility and standing of Rahul Gandhi, the fourth generation 48-year old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, who took charge of his party from mother Sonia exactly a year ago. Many analysts and Congress Party insiders had previously dismissed Mr Gandhi as a "light weight" politician, mocking his many public gaffes, but today's state election outcome is leading to a reassessment. "Rahul Gandhi should get full credit," said Congress Party leader Shashi Tharoor, who campaigned against the party's leader, adding that Mr Gandhi's hard-fought campaigning had won him over. State-level elections are not perfect indicators of the national mood, analysts noted, but the BJP setbacks are a reversal of the trend that has seen it increase the number of states it controls since 2014. In Rajasthan, initial results showed the Congress Party with 99 seats to the BJP's 73 - 89 fewer than in the last election. And in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, politically the most vital of all states that went to the polls, Congress had taken 113 seats to the BJP's 111, out of 230. In Chhattisgarh the Congress Party was ahead in 68 constituencies in a 90-member assembly with the BJP on just 16. Responding to the tallies, a BJP member of India's upper house, Sanjay Kakade, said: "I am of the opinion the BJP should stick to the development agenda and not to caste, changing names of cities, or temples. We need to revert to the track of development." The Election Commission will formally declare the final results today (Weds).
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| Lalanne Chairs, a Frank Lloyd Wright Urn, and a $2 Million Tiffany Lamp: The Best of This Week's Design Auctions Posted: 11 Dec 2018 05:44 PM PST |
| 'The Guardians' For Truth Named Time Magazine's 2018 Person Of The Year Posted: 11 Dec 2018 04:51 AM PST  Time magazine on Tuesday announced a group of journalists it called "The
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