| Trump uses terror attack in France to push U.S. border wall Posted: 12 Dec 2018 06:12 AM PST  President Trump on Wednesday offered the deadly shooting at a Christmas market in Strasbourg as evidence the United States needs stronger border security.
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| Michael Flynn's lawyers request no prison time, defend cooperation with Mueller team Posted: 11 Dec 2018 07:17 PM PST  Flynn's lawyers defend cooperation with Robert Mueller; ask for no prison time
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| US military identifies 5 dead in warplanes crash off Japan Posted: 12 Dec 2018 05:59 AM PST  TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. military has identified five Marines who were declared dead after their refueling plane collided with a fighter jet last week off Japan's southern coast.
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| Love Triangle, Not Alligators, Caused Florida Man's Death, Confessed Killer Testifies Posted: 12 Dec 2018 04:52 PM PST  A Florida man testified this week about fatally shooting his best friend ― who
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| At least $9bn in insurance claims from California fires Posted: 12 Dec 2018 05:04 PM PST  Insurance claims from the recent devastating California wildfires that killed at least 89 people and destroyed 19,000 homes and businesses have reached at least $9 billion, the state's insurance commissioner said Wednesday. "The devastating wildfires of 2018 were the deadliest and costliest wildfire catastrophes in California's history," said California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. Most of the insurance payouts -- some $7 billion -- concern the Camp Fire in Northern California, which wiped out the town of Paradise and killed 86 people, making it the deadliest wildfire in recent California history.
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| Chinese state media urges Canada to defy U.S., free Huawei exec Posted: 12 Dec 2018 07:58 PM PST  SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Canada should distance itself from U.S. "hegemonism" and grant unconditional freedom to Meng Wanzhou, a top executive of China's Huawei detained in Vancouver on Washington's request, state-owned tabloid Global Times said in a Thursday editorial. Meng, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, has been accused by U.S. prosecutors of misleading banks about transactions linked to Iran, putting the banks at risk of violating sanctions. The United States needs to make a formal extradition request within 60 days of her arrest, which a Canadian judge will weigh to determine whether the case against Meng is strong enough.
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| Man quits his job with epic rant over the store's PA Posted: 13 Dec 2018 08:58 AM PST  A disgruntled employee at a Canadian Walmart decided that he wasn't going to
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| Trump Says He Never Directed Michael Cohen to Break the Law Posted: 13 Dec 2018 06:20 AM PST  "I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law. It is called 'advice of counsel,' and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made," Trump said Thursday on Twitter. Cohen drew a three-year prison sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty to breaking campaign-finance laws by arranging hush payments to women who alleged affairs with Trump, as well as lying to Congress and banks.
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| At least three dead, 11 wounded in terror attack near famed Christmas market in France Posted: 11 Dec 2018 08:25 PM PST ![At least three dead, 11 wounded in terror attack near famed Christmas market in France]( "At least three dead, 11 wounded in terror attack near famed Christmas market in France") Three people have been killed and 11 wounded in a suspected terrorist attack near a world-famous Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg.
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| Insurance claims for latest California wildfires top $9 billion Posted: 12 Dec 2018 03:39 PM PST  Insurance claims from the recent spate of California wildfires, including one ranked as the most deadly and destructive in state history, have topped $9 billion and are expected to grow, the state insurance commissioner reported on Wednesday. The Camp Fire, which erupted on Nov. 8 and quickly incinerated most of the Sierra foothills town of Paradise, about 175 miles (280 km) north of San Francisco, has accounted for the bulk of the claims, just over $7 billion of the total.
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| Kosovo tests Serbia with vote to build an army Posted: 12 Dec 2018 07:16 PM PST  Kosovo will vote Friday on whether to create its own army, in a heavily symbolic show of independence from Serbia that has inflamed tensions between the former wartime foes. Since breaking away from Belgrade in a guerilla war in the late 1990s, Kosovo has relied on NATO-led forces to guarantee its security. The measure is widely expected to pass as it draws support from all political parties in ethnic Albanian-majority Kosovo, except for a minority of ethnic Serb MPs who have boycotted the sessions.
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| Indian girl seeks father's arrest over broken promise to build lavatory Posted: 12 Dec 2018 04:15 AM PST  Millions of Indians do not have access to sanitation and open defecation is a problem, even in developed, industrial states. The girl, E. Hanifa Zaara, didn't want to go out in the open and won a promise from her father to build a lavatory indoors, said police officer A. Valarmathi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has been pushing a campaign to build 100 million toilets over five years but the drive has not covered large parts of the country.
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| 3 found alive inside West Virginia coal mine Posted: 13 Dec 2018 03:24 AM PST  CLEAR CREEK, W.Va. (AP) — Three people missing since last weekend were found alive Wednesday in an underground coal mine in West Virginia, authorities said.
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| Trump 'worried about impeachment' following Cohen sentencing Posted: 13 Dec 2018 07:51 AM PST  Donald Trump is said to have become increasingly worried about the prospect of being impeached in recent days, as Robert Mueller's Russia investigation inches closer to the president. Despite a public declaration that he is not concerned about the threat of impeachment, the progress of the Mueller probe and federal investigations into his former associates, coupled with Democrats taking over the House of Representatives, has left the president alarmed. The most alarming development, according to sources speaking to NBC News, came on Wednesday when federal prosecutors in New York announced they had reached an agreement with American Media Inc (AMI).
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| Police departments nationwide sent scrambling by flood of e-mailed bomb threats Posted: 13 Dec 2018 03:10 PM PST ![Police departments nationwide sent scrambling by flood of e-mailed bomb threats]( "Police departments nationwide sent scrambling by flood of e-mailed bomb threats") Although no explosive devices were found, New York, San Francisco, Oklahoma City are among the cities forced to check out the threats.
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| Pakistan rejects US rebuke on religious freedoms Posted: 11 Dec 2018 10:22 PM PST  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan on Wednesday condemned a U.S. decision to add it to a list of nations that infringe on religious freedom, calling the move "unilateral and politically motivated."
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| Chérif Chekatt: Everything you need to know about Strasbourg terror suspect Posted: 12 Dec 2018 04:43 AM PST  The gunman suspected of killing three people and injuring 13 near Strasbourg's Christmas Market served several terms in prison for armed robbery and is believed to have been radicalised in prison. 29-year-old Chérif Chekatt has been on France's "S" file terrorist watch list since 2015, and his profile matches that of self-styled "jihadists" who have carried out other attacks in France. Born in Strasbourg, he is a French citizen and has some 27 convictions in France, Germany and Switzerland to his name, according to Strasbourg's public prosecutor Rémy Heitz. In 2016, he was released from prison in Germany and, before the attack on Tuesday night, was wanted in connection with an attempted murder and an armed robbery, according to a source close to the investigation. On Tuesday morning, police raided Mr Chekatt's home and found grenades, a .22 firearm and two hunting knives, but failed to capture him. Five associates were, however, detained. The suspect lived alone in a rundown Strasbourg housing estate. "His family has lived around here for a while, but he lived on his own nearby," Zach, 22, a resident of the Poteries district, told AFP. "He was discreet, not a thug." Strasbourg shooting map "He fell into crime when he was still in his teens," the source said. He was known to police from the age of 10, and received his first conviction at 13. In 2011 he was jailed for six months for assaulting a teenager with a broken bottle, and completed his last prison sentence in France in at the end of 2015, around the same time as the November 13 Paris attacks that left 130 dead. He went on to serve a further jail term in Germany for robbing a dental practice and a pharmacy, and was deported to France last year after completing his sentence. The suspected motive for the shootings on Tuesday night is terrorism. "Terrorism has again struck our soil," said Mr Heitz at a press conference on Wednesday, noting that witnesses heard the gunman shout "Allahu Akbar" during the attack. Laurent Nunez, the junior interior minister, said: "The individual appears to have been radicalised in his religious practices during his prison terms." Specialised anti-terrorist prosecutors are in charge of the investigation. In prison, the suspect became known for violence and repeated attempts to convert fellow-inmates to a radical form of Islam. Before the Strasbourg attack, he was considered to be an extremely high-risk suspect, intelligence sources said. France's DGSI, the domestic intelligence service, placed him under "active" surveillance following his release from a French prison in 2015, Mr Nunez said. As a child in Strasbourg, he grew up alongside six brothers and sisters. Although he worked for local authorities after leaving school, he had not been employed since 2011. Investigators are trying to establish whether Mr Chekatt travelled to Syria or Iraq to join an Islamist group, or whether he was radicalised entirely in France, according to sources close to the case.
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| Plot Thickens for Carlos Ghosn: Financial Charges Filed in Japan, But Renault Declares He Did Nothing Wrong in France Posted: 13 Dec 2018 08:41 AM PST  In Japan, the former Nissan, Renault, and Mitsubishi chief faces as much as 10 years in prison, while Renault keeps him on as chairman and CEO after finding he did not break French finance laws.
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| UK's May survives, weakened and with an exit date Posted: 12 Dec 2018 02:13 PM PST  By seeing off a revolt by her own MPs, British Prime Minister Theresa May has once again proved her ability to survive a political crisis -- but in the process acknowledged her time in office is limited. Since then, May has struggled to contain the various factions of her party, and her Northern Irish allies, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), on who she relies to govern.
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| Exclusive: Trump says he is looking at 10 or 12 candidates for chief of staff job Posted: 11 Dec 2018 06:34 PM PST  Trump's current chief of staff, retired General John Kelly, is leaving at the beginning of the new year. Smiling broadly, Kelly trailed Trump into the Oval Office briefly as the president began a half-hour interview with Reuters. While some potential candidates like Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have offered polite no-thank-yous, Trump said he was having no trouble recruiting people for one of the most powerful jobs in Washington.
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| Former Baylor fraternity president accused of rape is banned from graduation, University of Texas campus Posted: 13 Dec 2018 03:32 AM PST  Jacob Anderson, accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old student, has been banned from University of Texas at Dallas, but will receive a degree.
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| Jailed former Venezuela oil minister dies in state custody Posted: 12 Dec 2018 05:10 PM PST  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nelson Martinez, the jailed former head of Venezuela's state-run oil giant PDVSA who was arrested last year as part of anti-corruption purge, died in state custody Wednesday, authorities said.
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| Stephen King Has Explicit Suggestion For What Donald Trump Can Do With His Border Wall Posted: 13 Dec 2018 04:18 AM PST  Stephen King suggested Wednesday exactly what President Donald Trump should do
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| Modi's Terrible 24 Hours Boosts India Opponents Before 2019 Vote Posted: 11 Dec 2018 07:34 PM PST  First came the abrupt resignation on Monday night of Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel, which sent stock, bond and currency markets tumbling when they reopened on Tuesday. Then Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party faced defeat in three key states that he carried in his 2014 national victory, in what amounts to his biggest political setback since taking office. "The results reveal the declining political stock of Narendra Modi going into the national elections," said Katharine Adeney, director of University of Nottingham's Asia Research Institute.
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| Fiance of Missing Colorado Mom is Cooperating with Investigation, Lawyer Says Posted: 12 Dec 2018 04:44 PM PST  Business owners in Woodland Park are posting up missing person posters of Kelsey Berreth as the missing mom`s fiance has hired an attorney.
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| AD and LIFEWTR Celebrate the Opening of The Haas Brothers: Ferngully at The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Posted: 13 Dec 2018 01:54 PM PST |
| The Latest: Israeli PM vows to 'settle the score' of attacks Posted: 13 Dec 2018 09:05 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (all times local):
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| Pope removes two cardinals linked to sex abuse allegations from his inner circle Posted: 12 Dec 2018 08:15 AM PST  Two leading cardinals allegedly linked to sexual abuse have been dismissed from Pope Francis' inner circle. Australian Cardinal George Pell and Chilean Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz have been removed from the so-called C9 Council of Cardinals, an advisory body set up by Francis, the Vatican said on Wednesday. Cardinal Pell, appointed head of the Vatican's economic secretariat by the pope in 2014, has taken a leave of absence to fight allegations of historic sexual misconduct in Australia. He is still officially in charge of Vatican finances, a position considered one of the most powerful in the Catholic hierarchy. Francisco Errazuriz Ossa has been accused of covering up allegations against abusive priests in Chile. Congolese Laurent Monsengwo, 79, who retired as archbishop of Kinshasa in November, is also leaving the advisory council. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke announced the changes on Wednesday, saying Francis had written to the three prelates individually in October, "thanking them for the work they have done for the past five years." In a statement Mr Burke said the Pope had reflected on "the work, structure and composition" of the council after meeting council members in September. Chile's Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa has also been removed Credit: AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File At its latest meeting this week the advisory body discussed a variety of issues from Vatican spending constraints to the special conference on the protection of minors to be held at the Vatican at the end of February next year. The Catholic Church has been hit by a series of child abuse scandals in recent years in countries including the US, Ireland, Chile and Ireland, with widespread allegations of cover-ups against clergy, including the pope himself. Mr Errazuriz, long considered a close papal ally, was archbishop of Santiago from 1998-2010. He has come under fire in recent months amid claims that he hid the crimes of Chile's allegedly abusive priests including Fernando Karadima, who has been accused of a string of child sex offenses going back to 1984. Profile | Pope Francis Mr Pell, former archbishop of Sydney, has consistently denied allegations of sexual abuse made against him. Specific details of the accusations have been suppressed by a court order and Australian law strictly limits reporting on proceedings. Mr Burke declined to comment on court proceedings against 77-year-old Mr Pell saying: "The Holy See has the utmost respect for Australian judicial authorities. We are aware that there is a suppression order in place by the court and we respect that order." The Pope created the council of cardinals after his election in 2013, tasking the group with helping him reform the Vatican bureaucracy known as the Roman Curia. Mr Burke said the three cardinals would not be replaced immediately, leaving the council temporarily with six members.
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| 401(k): How does the stock market drop affect my retirement savings? Posted: 12 Dec 2018 09:13 AM PST  401(k) retirement plans are taking a hit from the stock market drop. Declines are steeper for all-stock portfolios.
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| Beto O'Rourke tops new poll as possible Democratic nominee for 2020 Presidential run Posted: 12 Dec 2018 09:05 PM PST  According to the poll, the Texas Congressman beat out Sen. Bernie Sanders by less than one percent.
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| Middle School Student Dumps Trump From His Name After Relentless Bullying Posted: 12 Dec 2018 09:58 PM PST  A middle school student in Delaware has been allowed to change his surname
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| Trump says trade deal pays for border wall, Democrats scoff Posted: 13 Dec 2018 09:34 AM PST  The Republican president vowed during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign to build a wall along the border with Mexico to slow the flow of illegal immigration, and he has long pledged that Mexico - not U.S. taxpayers - would fund it. In a Twitter post early on Thursday, Trump said that unspecified savings for the United States as a result of the renegotiated trade deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada would pay for the wall. "Just by the money we save, MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL!," he wrote.
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| GOP chairman: Vote tally sharing would warrant new election Posted: 11 Dec 2018 06:48 PM PST  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Republican Party chairman said Tuesday that the state should order a new election in an unresolved congressional race if an affidavit alleging some early voting totals were improperly shared before Election Day is accurate.
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| Lawmaker arrested for child cruelty says he spanked daughter Posted: 12 Dec 2018 07:10 PM PST  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker arrested on suspicion of child cruelty said Wednesday the allegation stemmed from spanking his 7-year-old daughter.
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| Irish police home in on classic car scam with four arrests Posted: 12 Dec 2018 04:20 AM PST  Four men were arrested during a Garda operation that targeted sellers of classic cars in County Limerick, Ireland – after evidence of deception was uncovered
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| Holiday tipping: Here's who you should include and how much you should give them Posted: 12 Dec 2018 03:01 AM PST  How much should you tip your doorman, hairstylist and babysitter this holiday season? Here's a tipping guide.
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| China says detained Canadian may have violated NGO law Posted: 12 Dec 2018 12:44 AM PST  Beijing said Wednesday a detained former Canadian diplomat may have violated Chinese laws if he carried out work in the country because his employer is not legally registered in China. Michael Kovrig, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group (ICG) think tank, was detained by Chinese state security in Beijing on Monday night, according to ICG.
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| Google CEO Had To Explain To Congress Why Googling 'Idiot' Shows Donald Trump Posted: 12 Dec 2018 03:32 AM PST  Search for the term "idiot" on Google and several photographs of President
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| OPEC offsets Iran oil loss, sees lower 2019 demand Posted: 12 Dec 2018 05:10 AM PST ![OPEC offsets Iran oil loss, sees lower 2019 demand]( "OPEC offsets Iran oil loss, sees lower 2019 demand") In a monthly report, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said 2019 demand for its crude would fall to 31.44 million barrels per day, 100,000 bpd less than predicted last month and 1.53 million less than it currently produces. Worried by a drop in oil prices and rising supplies, OPEC and its allies including Russia last week agreed to return to supply cuts next year. OPEC expects global oil demand to slow next year and sees little support from the economic backdrop.
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| Italy's far-right minister visits Israel, drawing criticism Posted: 11 Dec 2018 09:40 PM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — One of Europe's most divisive political figures, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, opened his visit to Israel Tuesday with warm words of support for his hosts, condemning Hezbollah as a "terrorist" organization and denouncing rising waves of anti-Semitism in Europe.
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| 'Pegan' diets and foil pack dinners to trend in 2019: Pinterest Posted: 12 Dec 2018 02:59 AM PST  In 2019, families will be baking their own bread and smearing it with batches of homemade jam. Searches for "homemade jam" rose +829 percent: A search for "homemade jam" on Pinterest yields row after row of mason jars filled with berry, stone fruit jams and jellies. Foil pack dinner +759 percent: Who needs plates anymore when you can cook an entire meal in envelopes of aluminum foil?
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| Huawei's Washington Presence Dwindles Amid Legal Brawl With U.S. Posted: 13 Dec 2018 01:00 AM PST  The company now keeps a three-person skeleton staff at its office on 15th Street, a few blocks from the White House, according to a person familiar with its operations. Huawei depleted its ranks in the nation's capital months before facing what could be the legal fight of its life: a U.S. extradition request to Canada, which on Dec. 1 arrested Huawei's finance chief over charges she conspired to evade sanctions against Iran. As the legal brawl risked spilling over into efforts by the U.S. and China to ease their trade tensions, President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday in an interview with Reuters that he'd intervene in the case if he thought it would help him get a trade deal with China.
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