Donald Trump (Artwork by Livio Mancini for Yahoo News based on a photo by John Locher/AP) I’ve written a lot of pretty rough things about Donald Trump over the last 18 months. I’ve called him an entertainer and an emotional extremist, a guy with a black
WHAT THE HELL IS IT? General Motors’s balls-to-the-wall, take-on-the-world super sport sedan. WHO IS IT FOR? Patriotic Americans who want one car that can do it all. WHERE DID WE TEST IT? Connecticut, mostly. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE IS: It looks
French police arrested a 47-year-old former soldier on Friday who investigators said was the main suspect in the killing of a female worker at a retirement home for Christian missionaries. The death near the southern city of Montpellier late Thursday set nerves jangling in France after a string of jihadist atrocities, but local prosecutor Christophe Barret said investigators believed it was not "Islamist terrorism". The suspect, who had served in France's parachute regiment, worked at the missionaries' home "some years ago" but was now unemployed, a source in the investigation told AFP.
Students and administrators raised concerns about a Tennessee school bus driver's behavior behind the wheel in the weeks before a crash that killed six children. Police have charged driver Johnthony Walker with vehicular homicide after the Chattanooga crash. Federal authorities said Walker was driving off the designated bus route when he wrecked on a curvy road while carrying 37 children on their way home from Woodmore Elementary School.
A Tennessee football player is charged with the murder of a 16-year-old cheerleader, just hours after professing his love to her on Twitter, cops said. William Riley Gaul, 18, a freshman at Maryville College was arrested after Emma Walker, 16, a student at Central High School in Knoxville, was shot dead in her bedroom as she slept, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook. Following her death, Gaul posted a lengthy tribute to Walker on social media: "To think that every memory we have, every happy special moment we shared, can't ever be relived.
The United States military suffered its first casualty in Syria when a soldier died Thursday of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated, U.S. Central Command said. The soldier’s name has not been disclosed. “I am deeply saddened by the news on this Thanksgiving Day that one of our brave service members has been killed in Syria while protecting us from the evil of ISIL [the Islamic State group , also called ISIS],” Defense Secretary Ash Carter reportedly said. The solider was near Ayn Issa in northern Syria when the device exploded, U.S. authorities said and was part of the Combined Joint Task Force- Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) – the American military operation fighting ISIS in Syria and northern Iraq.
MINI TRUCKS Don’t get it twisted; I grew up on mini trucks. I loved mini trucks. Every month, I bribed my mom with chores in exchange for the latest issue of Mini Truckin’. I would thumb through those pages to the point where they would no longer stay
Ethiopian authorities have detained several foreign pilots, including Americans, who were participating in a trans-Africa air rally, the United States Embassy said Thursday. Embassy officials are working with Ethiopian authorities to secure consular access to see the American pilots, the embassy said in a statement. The Vintage Air Rally billed itself as a "flying rally across Africa, from Crete to Cape Town," for planes built in the early 20th century.
Get your index finger ready, globetrotters. Black Friday travel deals are on.While other shoppers huddle in the cold to door crash electronic and retail stores in the wee morning hours of Black Friday, travel lovers will be able to make their big-ticket
Such shifts have cheered critics concerned about his campaign positions while angering some supporters. The following are some of his changing positions: PROSECUTING HILLARY CLINTON To chants from crowds of "Lock her up," Trump said during the campaign that if he won the election, his administration would prosecute his Democratic rival over her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, and over what he said were abuses of her position with regard to her family's charitable foundation. Asked during a New York Times interview on Nov. 22 about reports that he no longer wanted to prosecute Clinton, Trump said, "I want to move forward, I don’t want to move back.
Sure, we're thankful for the health of our family members, for better angels of our nature, for the general welfare of the world, for the entire pumpkin pie we're about to eat while slowly falling asleep on our living room floor. But really we're thankful
An intensifying hurricane poised to strike Nicaragua and Costa Rica on Thursday with powerful winds and heavy rains that are likely to trigger dangerous floods and mudslides. Packing winds of 175 kilometers (110 miles) per hour, Hurricane Otto was about to make landfall, according to the US National Hurricane Center. Coastal conditions were mostly calm just before, with AFP journalists in Nicaragua and Costa Rica's major cities on the Caribbean coast, Bluefields and Limon, reporting little rain or wind.
We've come a long way in treating infectious diseases over the last century, but in recent decades, the rates of death from some infectious diseases have actually increased, according to a new study. The researchers analyzed information on deaths from infectious diseases in the United States from 1900 to 2014. Overall, the death rate from infectious diseases dropped from about 800 deaths per 100,000 people in 1900 to 46 deaths per 100,000 people in 2014, the study found.
Tens of thousands of Israelis fled raging bushfires in the northern city of Haifa Thursday, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said any proof of arson would be treated as "terror". Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said up to half of a spate of fires had been "arson terror", while another minister appeared to point a finger at the country's Arab minority -- drawing fierce rebukes from Arab Israeli leaders. Some residents were trapped in their homes as the army called up reservists to support firefighters struggling to cope with a third day of blazes.
A car bomb tore through a gas station on Thursday, killing and wounding scores of people, including 20 Iranians Shiite pilgrims, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group in Hilla, Iraq.The officials say the target of the attack appears to have
Residents of Cerezales del Condado, a tiny village in the northwestern Spanish province of Leon were in for a life-changing surprise when the founder of Corona beer left each of them with almost $2.5 million each in his will. Antonino Fernández, former Chairman of the Grupo Modelo group in Mexico, died at the age of 99 in August this year. Born in 1917, Fernández was forced to leave school at the age of 14 as his parents could not afford the fees.
A California mother of two who vanished nearly a month ago was found safe and in stable condition, Shasta County sheriff's officials reported Thursday without disclosing further details about what happened to her.
Thousands of Bangladeshis marched in the capital's streets Friday to protest the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, one of several similar rallies in the region. Chanting "Stop killing Rohingya Muslims," they marched in Dhaka as violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state escalated, forcing thousands to leave their homes. The protesters from several Islamic groups burned an effigy of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a flag of Myanmar.
It's not every day you get offered a Black Friday deal by the president-elect. On Friday, Donald Trump's campaign blasted an email to all its subscribers offering exactly that: a 30 percent discount on Trump memorabilia. If the anxiety of Black Friday sales is too much, perhaps sitting on your couch and buying a Trump collectable Christmas ornament in the shape of a hat for a bargain $149 will help ease your pain?
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board began a probe on Wednesday into a large fire the day before at Exxon Mobil Corp's Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refinery that critically injured four people, the agency said in a statement. A total of six people were injured in the blaze on the alkylation unit at the 502,500 barrel per day (bpd) refinery, the CSB said. An Exxon spokeswoman said the company is working closely with agencies probing the blaze.
Nearly 60 people taking part in a vintage air rally from Europe to South Africa were released on Thursday after being detained by authorities in Ethiopia, organisers of the journey said. Pilots of a dozen biplanes and their teams were allowed to leave the airport in Gambella, two days after arriving at the outpost in western Ethiopia, close to the border with South Sudan. The reason for their detention at the airport was unclear and the organisers were not expected to give more detail before the planes were air-bound and out of the country.
Experts are forecasting an 11 percent increase in online shopping from last year, with sales topping off at over $90 billion. There today sect bites it's Black Friday. It's exactly what kind of bargains are they looking for a new survey says the most coveted deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday are TV or entertainment systems.
Wayne State University says it is accepting donations in the memory of a campus police officer who was killed in the line of duty. Officer Collin Rose was shot in the head Tuesday while investigating possible thefts of navigation systems from vehicles near the Wayne State campus on Detroit's west side.
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police arrested 13 people on Friday on suspicion of arson, authorities said, after massive wildfires tore through central and northern Israel, a conflagration that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu branded as "terrorism". Arson appeared to be behind some of the blazes, Netanyahu said. Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan told reporters 13 people were arrested.
The United Nations on Thursday dismissed rumours that its special envoy for the Syrian conflict, Staffan de Mistura, had resigned. "Media reports that Special Envoy de Mistura is resigning his post are not accurate. Arabic media had reported earlier Thursday that de Mistura had handed in his resignation for personal reasons.