| The 'bloody-nose option'? Trump eyes action on North Korea in 2018 Posted: 22 Dec 2017 02:00 AM PST  A year of erratic U.S. rhetoric and steadily escalating diplomatic and economic pressure has failed to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, leaving the frustrated Trump administration to reconsider its options going into 2018 as the world wonders whether it's on the edge of war. "We're not committed to a peaceful resolution — we're committed to a resolution," President Trump's national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, told BBC News this week. "We want the resolution to be peaceful, but as the president said, all options are on the table. And we have to be prepared, if necessary, to compel the denuclearization of North Korea without the cooperation of that regime," McMaster said.
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| Homelessness, up in 2017, doesn't take a break for Christmas Posted: 21 Dec 2017 12:33 PM PST  New York City is experiencing its greatest homelessness crisis since the Great Depression, mostly in shelters. Homelessness has also been on the rise in major west-coast cities like Los Angeles. Those dedicated to fighting homelessness hope the outpouring of compassion around Christmastime will stick around into 2018.
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| Climate Change Could Trigger More Volcanic Eruptions, Study Finds Posted: 22 Dec 2017 01:42 PM PST  WASHINGTON — Climate change fueled by human activity could boost the frequency and severity of volcanic eruptions, a recent scientific study has found.
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| Groom in rare cross-border wedding is a drug smuggler Posted: 21 Dec 2017 07:36 PM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — It was a heartwarming scene: A U.S. citizen, forbidden to enter Mexico, wed the love of his life in a brief moment when the gate separating the two countries was opened.
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| US govt to review Obama administration handling of Hezbollah drug initiative Posted: 22 Dec 2017 06:42 PM PST  US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday ordered an investigation into allegations that the Obama administration undermined efforts to target Hezbollah drug trafficking. The announcement comes after Politico reported that Project Cassandra, a program targeting trafficking by Iran-backed Hezbollah that could have undermined the push for a nuclear deal with Tehran, was "derailed" by the administration of former president Barack Obama.
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| Trump tweets 'thank you' to head of group accused of illegal political activity, racial bias Posted: 22 Dec 2017 09:20 AM PST  Trump's commendation of Charlie Kirk comes on the heels of the New Yorker report which suggests that the nonprofit Turning Points may have violated campaign finance laws with its involvement in political activity during the 2016 presidential election and has been accused of creating a racially biased work environment.
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| Parents Give Teachers Gift Suggesting Son Drives Them To Drink Posted: 22 Dec 2017 12:06 PM PST  Instead of whining about their son's teachers, Ohio parents Mary and Paul Sommers decided to wine them for Christmas instead.
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| Pope prays for merciful final judgement for Cardinal Law Posted: 21 Dec 2017 10:53 AM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis prayed Thursday for a merciful final judgment for Cardinal Bernard Law, presiding over the funeral rites for a man who epitomized the Catholic Church's failure to protect children from pedophile priests and its arrogance in safeguarding its own reputation at all costs.
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| 5-year-old boy shot for second time in two years in Chicago Posted: 21 Dec 2017 12:07 PM PST  A 5-year-old boy in Chicago has undergone emergency surgery after being shot for the second time in two years. Kavan Collins of Chicago, Illinois accidentally shot himself in the hand while playing with his younger brother in his family home, according to local news reports. A year and a half ago, the young boy was hit by a stray bullet while walking with his family in Chicago's South Side.
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| The World’s Largest Lottery Has Just Drawn Its Winners Posted: 22 Dec 2017 03:33 PM PST  The lucky winners of Spain's Christmas lottery celebrated on Friday as they eagerly awaited receiving their share of the 2.4 billion euro, or $2.8 billion, prize.
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| 5 ways Donald Trump has failed to 'drain the swamp' Posted: 22 Dec 2017 02:00 AM PST  One year into his first term, however, Trump's pledge to root out Washington corruption has not exactly yielded the quick and easy results his slogan promised. Perhaps as a result, a new poll finds a sharp jump over the past 12 months in the number (44 percent) of Americans who think that most or all of the officials in the current administration are corrupt. A man holds up a "Drain the Swamp in Washington DC" sign as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a campaign event at the airport in Kinston, N.C., Oct. 26, 2016.
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| L.A. Goes Bonkers Over Breathtaking 'UFO' Lighting Up The Sky Posted: 22 Dec 2017 07:20 PM PST  unexpected #spacexlaunch sighting A post shared by stephanie clary (@sclary) on Dec 22, 2017 at 5:43pm PST Angelenos thought the end was finally here when they looked up Friday evening to see something that appeared to be an iridescent alien ship exploding across the sky.
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| Judge questions whether Gates fundraiser broke gag order Posted: 22 Dec 2017 01:36 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former presidential adviser Rick Gates, on house arrest in the federal Russia probe, didn't even have to leave his home this week to provoke the judge handling his case.
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| Turns Out That Carrie Fisher Wrote Some Of Her Best Lines In 'The Last Jedi' Posted: 23 Dec 2017 09:19 AM PST  Help us make "Star Wars" funnier, Carrie Fisher, you're our only hope.
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| Older Couple Caught With 60 Pounds Of Pot Said It Was For Holiday Gifts: Police Posted: 22 Dec 2017 03:24 PM PST  A routine traffic stop in York County, Nebraska, on Tuesday turned out to be anything but routine.
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| Ukraine's Poroshenko vows to work for quick exchange of prisoners: Germany Posted: 22 Dec 2017 12:35 PM PST ![Ukraine's Poroshenko vows to work for quick exchange of prisoners: Germany]( "Ukraine's Poroshenko vows to work for quick exchange of prisoners: Germany") Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday that he would work to implement a rapid exchange of prisoners held on both sides of the line of conflict in eastern Ukraine, a spokesman for Merkel said on Friday. Merkel spoke by telephone with Poroshenko on Friday, a day after she spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Merkel's deputy spokesman Georg Streiter. Merkel and Poroshenko welcomed a decision by the parties to recommit to a ceasefire agreement signed in 2015 ahead of the Christmas holiday, and both agreed it should lead to a longer-term improvement of the security situation in the region.
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| White House aide says Trump hired all the right people, even the ones he fired Posted: 21 Dec 2017 03:10 PM PST  Despite the numerous firings and resignations in Donald Trump's first year in office, a White House aide denies there were any mistakes in hiring.
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| How to cook the perfect Christmas dinner – the definitive step-by-step guide Posted: 23 Dec 2017 12:40 AM PST  Juggling all the components that go into having the Christmas dinner all laid out on the dinner table can seem like having to deliver six billion presents all over the world in one evening. And with just four hobs (or seven reindeers in Santa's case) too. Everything has to be piping hot and on the dinner table at the same time, on time (quite like the presents under the tree). And while this may seem like mission impossible, you can do it. Really. You just need a little help. That's why, with the kind help of Leiths Cookery School, we have put together this definitive interactive guide to cooking the perfect Christmas dinner on this most stressful of days. Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith founded the school in 1975, and their teachers have been helping home cooks master the seemingly dark arts of cookery ever since. With this guide you can follow their expert timings and instructions, making a breeze of the (roughly) five hour cooking process. Just hit start on the graphic and follow the step-by-step guide. Checklist | What you need to make our perfect Christmas dinner The guide works on the basis that you are working with a conventional home oven and four hobs. It's a done-in-one-go instruction manual; there's no need to do anything the day or the week before (although you do need to make sure your turkey is fully defrosted by the time you wake up on Christmas morning). And if you fall behind at any point, don't worry too much: Leiths say they'd always allow for an hour's contingency when cooking a meal as large as this. Simply click the link at the bottom of the graphic to reveal the step-by-step process in full. Good luck and have a Merry Christmas! Christmas roast interactive timer Celebrate Christmas with Leiths with their festive gift guide How to make the perfect gravy | Source: Leiths cookery School
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| Turtle Found by U.S. Coast Guard with $53 million Worth of Cocaine Attached to It Posted: 22 Dec 2017 02:20 PM PST  A Sea Turtle was rescued after it became trapped in bundles of cocaine worth over $53-Million dollars
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| Mosul's morgue men bear witness to Islamic State atrocities Posted: 23 Dec 2017 07:03 AM PST  MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — The young man ended up on the morgue's examining table in two parts.
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| There Is Now Weed Named After Monica Lewinsky Posted: 22 Dec 2017 10:58 AM PST  A Washington-state based cannabis producer called Sugarleaf created a strain of weed named "Monica Lewinsky," and the woman behind that namesake has discovered it.
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| Major powers seek to hold Syria peace congress in late January Posted: 22 Dec 2017 08:17 AM PST  Major powerbrokers agreed Friday to hold a peace congress for Syria in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi in late January after previous attempts to hold the conference collapsed. Sochi will host the "Congress of National Dialogue" on Syria on January 29 and 30, said a joint statement released after two days of talks spearheaded by Russia and Iran, both key backers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and rebel-aligned Turkey.
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| 2018: Living with a nuclear North Korea Posted: 22 Dec 2017 02:00 AM PST  A year of erratic U.S. rhetoric and steadily escalating diplomatic and economic pressure has failed to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, leaving the frustrated Trump administration to reconsider its options going into 2018 as the world wonders whether it's on the edge of war. Watch Yahoo News Chief Washington Correspondent Olivier Knox discuss the possible paths forward to preventing or learning to live with a nuclear North Korea.
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| 21 Popsicles You Have To See To Believe Posted: 21 Dec 2017 06:15 PM PST |
| All I want for Christmas are these photos of Elon Musk's car preparing to fly to space Posted: 22 Dec 2017 11:29 AM PST  Do you know what every space nerd wanted for this holiday season? A little gift from Elon Musk and SpaceX. And we've got it. Musk, the founder of the private spaceflight company, just posted photos of his midnight cherry Tesla Roadster getting ready to fly to space aboard the first flight of the company's Falcon Heavy rocket in January. SEE ALSO: Yes, it's true: SpaceX is sending a Tesla Roadster to Mars aboard the Falcon Heavy "Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring," Musk said in an Instagram post. A Red Car for the Red Planet Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring. Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel. The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit. A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Dec 22, 2017 at 10:47am PST "Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel. The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit." Musk did hint at the fact that photos of the car-turned-rocket-payload were forthcoming earlier in the week, but the billionaire entrepreneur didn't mention exactly when the photos of the car would be revealed. Let's just call this a Christmas miracle. Some folks on Reddit appear to have gotten a little bit jumpy ahead of time, with someone posting what appears to be a photo of the Roadster, though SpaceX hasn't confirmed the validity of that image. Pics soon — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 21, 2017 The Falcon Heavy is designed to bring larger payloads to orbit than the company's Falcon 9 rocket. Effectively, the Heavy acts as three Falcon 9s strapped together, allowing it to launch larger payloads and even people to space in the future ... not just cars. This whole Roadster thing is, admittedly, ludicrous. The fact that we're even talking about a car literally launching into space on the first flight of a brand-new rocket does sound like something out of a comic book, but hey, now that we're here, let's get into the Christmas spirit. Thank you for this Christmas present, Mr. Musk. It'll be a nice cap on a very weird and mostly bad 2017. WATCH: Tesla unveils their latest roadster and it's beautiful
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| Police: Texas woman killed mother, abducted her newborn girl Posted: 21 Dec 2017 12:01 PM PST ![Police: Texas woman killed mother, abducted her newborn girl]( "Police: Texas woman killed mother, abducted her newborn girl") DALLAS (AP) — A woman who was hiding a recent miscarriage from her family fatally stabbed a mother and abducted her infant daughter, Houston police said Thursday.
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| Sean Hannity Appears To Bash CNN, NBC While Sharing NBC Story Posted: 21 Dec 2017 10:56 AM PST  Fox News host Sean Hannity appeared to criticize CNN and NBC News on Twitter on Thursday, calling them "fake news" and "conspiracy TV," but then included an article published by NBC News.
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| Weinstein hit with $10mn sexual harassment suit in NY Posted: 21 Dec 2017 11:34 AM PST  Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and his ex-production company have been hit with a $10 million New York lawsuit by a former associate producer on Netflix show "Marco Polo". The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Alexandra Canosa in the New York Supreme Court on Wednesday accuses the 65-year-old father of five of violations that include sexual harassment, assault, battery and emotional distress.
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| Ram Recalls Pickup Trucks Over Gear-Shifter Issue Posted: 22 Dec 2017 03:03 PM PST  Ram is recalling about 1.5 million pickup trucks in the U.S.—mostly heavy-duty models—because of problems with the steering-wheel mounted gear shifter. The automaker said the shifter can be moved...
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| U.S. Sanctions Myanmar General Accused of Carrying Out Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against Rohingya Posted: 21 Dec 2017 06:37 PM PST  12 other "serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors" were also sanctioned
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| Mindy Kaling's Friends Throw Her A Nora Ephron-Themed Party Celebrating New Baby Posted: 22 Dec 2017 11:41 AM PST  Actress and self-avowed romcom fan Mindy Kaling gave birth to her first child last week, and her friends aptly threw her a "You've Got Mail"-themed holiday party to celebrate.
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| Survivors of Mexico bus crash heading home, 2 victims ID'd Posted: 21 Dec 2017 01:57 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Injured survivors of a tour bus crash that killed 11 foreigners in southeastern Mexico began leaving hospitals and heading home Thursday as two of the dead were identified as long-time educators from Washington state.
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| South Sudan government, rebel groups sign ceasefire Posted: 21 Dec 2017 11:19 PM PST ![South Sudan government, rebel groups sign ceasefire]( "South Sudan government, rebel groups sign ceasefire") By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - South Sudan's government and rebel groups signed a ceasefire on Thursday in the latest attempt to end a four-year civil war and allow humanitarian groups access to civilians caught in the fighting. The ceasefire aims to revive a 2015 peace deal that collapsed last year after heavy fighting broke out in South Sudan's capital Juba. It was agreed after talks in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa convened by regional bloc IGAD.
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| Houston woman accused of killing friend, taking baby as her own Posted: 21 Dec 2017 12:34 PM PST ![Houston woman accused of killing friend, taking baby as her own]( "Houston woman accused of killing friend, taking baby as her own") A Houston woman who police said stabbed her friend to death, stole the mother's six-week-old baby girl and tried to pass the infant off as her own was arrested on Thursday, the same day authorities said they had found the missing child alive. Erika Miranda-Alvarez, 28, apparently took the baby to hide from her boyfriend and family that she had a miscarriage, police said. Due to deliver in January, she came home on Tuesday with the stolen infant, telling family that she delivered early.
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