| Beto still trails Cruz in Texas Senate polling Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:42 AM PDT  A new Quinnipiac poll has found that Rep. Beto O'Rourke's long-shot quest to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, which has generated so much enthusiasm and financial support from national Democrats, has stalled well short of success.
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| Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Effort To Bring Jamal Khashoggi Back To Saudi Arabia: Report Posted: 10 Oct 2018 06:11 PM PDT  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered an effort to lure
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| 'It's gone': Mexico Beach, Fla., left in ruins by Hurricane Michael Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:33 AM PDT  CNN's Brooke Baldwin struggled to find the words to describe the sheer devastation left by Hurricane Michael as she flew in a helicopter above Mexico Beach, Fla., on Thursday morning.
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| Washington State's Supreme Court Declares Death Penalty Unconstitutional Posted: 11 Oct 2018 10:00 AM PDT  Washington state's Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is
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| Limo company operator in New York crash pleads not guilty, faces threats Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:08 AM PDT  The operator of a limousine company that owned the vehicle involved in a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York has received threats since pleading not guilty to criminally negligent homicide, his lawyer told local news media on Thursday. Nauman Hussain, 28, was charged with one felony count related to the deadliest U.S. transportation accident in nearly a decade. Hussain was issued written violations by police and the state Department of Transportation that the driver he hired should not have been operating the 2001 Ford Excursion limousine involved in Saturday's crash.
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| Panama City, Florida, deals with major wreckage Posted: 11 Oct 2018 09:22 AM PDT  Emergency response crews help residents affected by Hurricane Michael.
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| Anita Hill: Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Process Was 'A Tragedy' Posted: 11 Oct 2018 09:38 AM PDT  Anita Hill, whose landmark testimony against now-Supreme Court Justice
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| Times are changing for the all-American pickup truck - it's gone electric Posted: 11 Oct 2018 07:42 AM PDT  Before the first model has even gone into production, Bollinger Motors is teasing renderings of its second all-electric pickup truck, the B2. Within the mountains of upstate New York, you'll find Bollinger Motors, a startup created in 2014 that developed the world's first all-electric pickup truck. The Bollinger Motors B2 pickup truck will greatly resemble B1, but more cargo flexibility was the focus of the second model.
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| Judge mulls slashing $290 mn award in Roundup cancer case Posted: 10 Oct 2018 07:40 PM PDT  A judge on Wednesday was mulling whether to gut a jury order that Monsanto pay $290 million in damages for not warning a groundskeeper that its weed killer product Roundup might cause cancer. In motions filed after the historic August verdict, Monsanto urged the judge to strip away the $250 million punitive portion of the damages, arguing that a new trial was justified. Rival attorneys argued before California state Judge Suzanne Bolanos, who did not say when she would rule on the motions.
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| Trump: I could see campaigning with Kanye Posted: 11 Oct 2018 06:10 AM PDT  President Trump lavished praise on Kanye West hours before a meeting at the White House with the rapper who has become one of his most outspoken supporters.
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| The Latest: France's Macron demands answers on Saudi writer Posted: 12 Oct 2018 07:05 AM PDT  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Latest on missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi (all times local):
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| Florida Girl, 4, Weeps as She Recounts How Falling Tree Ruined Her Home During Hurricane Michael Posted: 11 Oct 2018 01:14 PM PDT  The child and her family were staying in a shelter.
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| Michelle Obama Doesn't Think Democrats Should Stop Being Civil Posted: 11 Oct 2018 02:38 PM PDT  Former first lady Michelle Obama says Democrats should not embrace a strategy
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| UK no-deal Brexit paper warns of complications for power imports Posted: 12 Oct 2018 06:26 AM PDT  Companies operating electricity interconnectors, which include Britain's National Grid and French grid operator RTE, should "carry out contingency planning for a 'no deal' scenario", a government paper said. In the event of no deal on Britain's EU exit, European energy law will no longer apply to the UK electricity market. The paper said the government and energy regulator Ofgem were working with interconnector operators "to ensure new access rules are approved in Great Britain and are providing support to interconnectors engaging with EU Member State authorities".
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| Supreme Court rejects Tennessee death row inmate efforts Posted: 11 Oct 2018 06:45 PM PDT  The Supreme Court rejected two last-ditch efforts to save the life of Edmund Zagorski, apparently clearing the way for his execution.
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| Russia probes ISS rocket failure Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:06 PM PDT  Russian investigators have launched a probe into why a Soyuz rocket failed shortly after blast-off, in a major setback for Russia's beleaguered space industry. US astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin were forced to make an emergency landing after the incident on Thursday, but were rescued without injury in Kazakhstan. Russian officials said they were launching a criminal investigation into the accident, the first such incident on a manned flight in the country's post-Soviet history.
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| Georgia Knew Its Voter Roll Practice Was Discriminatory. It Stuck With It Anyway. Posted: 10 Oct 2018 08:10 PM PDT  A Georgia process for verifying voters' information has left the applications
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| Hurricane Michael makes landfall Posted: 10 Oct 2018 11:41 AM PDT  Monster storm is the third-strongest on record to ever hit the U.S.
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| Macron says disappearance of Saudi journalist 'very serious' Posted: 12 Oct 2018 07:07 AM PDT  French President Emmanuel Macron said the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was "very serious", calling for an investigation to yield "complete clarity" on what happened to him. Macron said that he had not spoken to Saudi King Salman or his son Crown Prince Mohammed about Khashoggi, who has not been seen since he walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. Some commentators in France have criticised the lack of response by the government, which like other Western allies of Saudi Arabia have recently embraced Crown Prince Mohammed as a reformer of his kingdom.
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| FBI's Former Top Lawyer Says Rosenstein Was Dead Serious About Secretly Taping Trump: Reports Posted: 11 Oct 2018 02:34 AM PDT  The FBI's former top lawyer reportedly told congressional officials in closed-
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| Trump wary of halting Saudi weapons sales over missing journalist Posted: 11 Oct 2018 06:19 PM PDT ![Trump wary of halting Saudi weapons sales over missing journalist]( "Trump wary of halting Saudi weapons sales over missing journalist") Trump also said the United States may be closer to finding out what happened to Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Saudi policies who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. Turkish sources have said they believe Khashoggi was killed inside the building and his body removed, allegations that Riyadh dismisses as baseless. In a sign Turkey and Saudi Arabia might be looking for a way forward, Turkey accepted a Saudi proposal to form a joint working group to investigate the case, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency quoted presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin as saying.
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| Stock market drop spreads, Wall Street set to fall again Posted: 11 Oct 2018 04:07 AM PDT  SINGAPORE (AP) — World stock markets sank Thursday, extending losses from Wall Street, as investors worried that higher interest rates will dent company earnings and a trade war will crimp global business.
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| F-22 Raptor vs. the Mythical YF-23: Why the F-23 Never Happened Posted: 11 Oct 2018 01:00 AM PDT  Ultimately, the Air Force selected Lockheed's YF-22 design, which was also an exceptional aircraft, for its ATF requirement. The YF-22 would eventually evolve into today's F-22A Raptor, which became operational in late 2005 and remains the single best air superiority fighter ever built. However, in many ways, the YF-23 was a superior design that was well ahead of its time.
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| Toyota Recalls 975,000 Cars for Stalling and Airbag Defects Posted: 11 Oct 2018 11:04 AM PDT  The problem is (again) the Prius, but Tundra, Sequoia, and Avalon models are also involved.
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| Eric Holder Revises Michelle Obama’s Famed Quote: 'When They Go Low, We Kick Them' Posted: 10 Oct 2018 05:45 PM PDT  Eric Holder, the former U.S. attorney general who served in the Obama
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| Murdered gay student to be interred in Washington 20 years on Posted: 11 Oct 2018 05:04 PM PDT  The remains of a gay US college student whose murder became a symbol of homophobic violence will be interred at Washington National Cathedral 20 years after his death, the church has confirmed. Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, robbed and beaten in 1998, then left to die strapped to a ranch fence in Laramie, Wyoming. "Join the cathedral as we host a service of thanksgiving and remembrance for Matthew Shepard, whose brutal death in 1998 shocked the world, grieved the church and mobilized the LGBTQ movement," the cathedral, a neo-gothic icon of Washington's skyline, said on its website.
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| Amazon Pledges to Compensate Its Warehouse Workers More Following Criticism Posted: 10 Oct 2018 01:04 PM PDT  Amazon.com Inc. is sweetening the pay for some of its longtime warehouse workers
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| 24 Halloween Snacks That Will Make You Forget Adults Don't Trick-or-Treat Posted: 11 Oct 2018 01:54 PM PDT |
| Michael Avenatti 'Seriously Considering' 2020 Run Against Trump Posted: 11 Oct 2018 09:13 AM PDT  Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti said Wednesday that he is "seriously
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| Media companies, executives drop out of Saudi event over missing journalist Posted: 11 Oct 2018 07:55 PM PDT ![Media companies, executives drop out of Saudi event over missing journalist]( "Media companies, executives drop out of Saudi event over missing journalist") Economist Editor-In-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes will not participate in the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, spokeswoman Lauren Hackett said in an email. Andrew Ross Sorkin, a CNBC anchor and New York Times business journalist, tweeted that he was not attending the conference, saying he was "terribly distressed by the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and reports of his murder." Pressure has mounted on Saudi Arabia since Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi policies, went missing.
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| We Still Don't Know What Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Means For The Midterms Posted: 11 Oct 2018 06:03 PM PDT  A wave of new polls followed Brett Kavanaugh's ascension to the Supreme Court
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| Former Nigerian Leader Obasanjo Backs Abubakar for President Posted: 12 Oct 2018 12:41 AM PDT  Obasanjo, an influential politician and former military ruler of Africa's top oil producer, decided to support Abubakar "because the alternative is unthinkable," he said Thursday by phone from the southwestern city of Abeokuta, where the two men met earlier in the day. "Politically it is a significant endorsement for Atiku," Clement Nwankwo, executive director of the Abuja-based Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, said by phone. Abubakar, 71, easily won the presidential nomination of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Oct. 7.
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| Tennessee Woman Stabs Friend at Haunted House With Knife She Thought Was a Prop: Cops Posted: 11 Oct 2018 07:12 AM PDT  Police are investigating the incident.
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| Hurricane Michael: An aerial view of destruction Posted: 11 Oct 2018 06:21 AM PDT  Footage capture by drone shows the damage in Panama City Beach, Florida.
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| Pentagon grounds global fleet of F-35s after crash Posted: 11 Oct 2018 12:44 PM PDT  The Pentagon grounded the global fleet of F-35 stealth fighters so engineers could conduct urgent inspections.
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| These 9 Electric Cars Are Set to Rival Tesla Posted: 11 Oct 2018 02:23 PM PDT |
| Trump Accuses NYT Of Writing Anonymous Resistance Op-Ed: 'I Wouldn't Be Surprised' Posted: 11 Oct 2018 07:17 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Thursday took aim at The New York Times once again ―
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| Global business leaders suspend ties with Saudi Arabia Posted: 12 Oct 2018 09:39 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Global business leaders are reassessing their ties with Saudi Arabia, stoking pressure on the Gulf kingdom to explain what happened to a dissident writer who disappeared after visiting its consulate in Istanbul.
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| ‘Beautiful Boy’ Is A Cathartic Gift For Families Like Mine Posted: 12 Oct 2018 02:45 AM PDT  In 2014, I found out my younger sister was addicted to methamphetamine.
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| FT says Murdoch in line for Tesla chair. Musk reply - incorrect Posted: 10 Oct 2018 09:58 PM PDT  Tesla has until Nov. 13 to appoint an independent chairman of the board, part of settlements reached last month between Tesla, Musk and U.S. regulators in the wake of Musk tweeting in August that he had secured funding to take the electric car maker private. The SEC settlement capped months of debate and some investor calls for stronger oversight of Musk, whose recent erratic public behaviour raised concerns about his ability to steer the money-losing company through a rocky phase of growth.
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| ‘The Mother of All Scams’: Roubini Slams Crypto in Senate Hearing Posted: 11 Oct 2018 07:21 AM PDT  In a scathing prepared testimony for a hearing on crypto and blockchain Thursday, Roubini read Bitcoin believers the riot act, calling virtual currencies "the mother of all scams and (now busted) bubbles." He also fired shots at the technology behind digital tokens, which many believe is what holds the real promise. "Blockchain is the most over-hyped technology ever," wrote the New York University professor, who is also chairman at Roubini Macro Associates.
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| Fyre Festival organiser jailed for six years after pleading guilty to fraud over disastrous event Posted: 12 Oct 2018 06:23 AM PDT  The entrepreneur behind a luxury music festival in the Bahamas that collapsed in chaos in 2017 was sentenced to six years in prison by a US judge on Thursday after admitting fraud. Billy McFarland, 26, was the force behind the Fyre Festival, which billed itself as the ultimate upscale getaway amid a fast-growing market for music events. Hundreds of partygoers headed to the Bahamas, some paying more than $100,000 each, but instead found tents that wouldn't have looked out of place in relief camps and cuisine that was just rudimentary sandwiches. "Today, McFarland found out the hard way that empty promises don't lead to jet-setting, champagne and extravagant parties - they lead to federal prison," said US Attorney for Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman. The New Yorker admitted wire fraud, bank fraud and making false statements in a two-pronged plea in March and July. Had he gone to trial and been convicted, he could have faced 20 years in prison. In addition to his jail time, he was ordered to forfeit $26 million. Prosecutors said McFarland repeatedly misrepresented himself to build his Fyre Media tech company and the ill-fated festival. Tents and mattresses being set up for the festival Credit: Jake Strang He falsified statements to show investors that his company earned millions of dollars from April 2016 and February 2017 through talent bookings, which in reality has grossed just $57,443, prosecutors said. The US Attorney's office said that at least 80 investors fell victim to his scheme, losing more than $24 million. McFarland also falsely boasted about Magnises, a credit card and private club geared at millennials, prosecutors said. He told investors that he sold Magnises for $40 million while in truth no sale had taken place, they said. In the first damages awarded, a judge in North Carolina earlier this year handed two fans each $1.5 million in compensation, plus $1 million each in punitive damages, far more than the minimum sought. Seth Crossno and Mark Thompson said that they shelled out $13,000 with a promise of exclusive accommodation on a private island but instead wound up in a relief camp-style tent and left when they felt unsafe. Numerous festival-goers posted pictures on social media of shambolic scenes, leading to online mockery of the high prices many had paid. The dinner that @fyrefestival promised us was catered by Steven Starr is literally bread, cheese, and salad with dressing. #fyrefestivalpic.twitter.com/I8d0UlSNbd— Tr3vor (@trev4president) April 28, 2017 The Fyre Festival was abruptly canceled and attendees evacuated, leading to online mockery of many of the young fans who had bought into the advertising of the event as a uniquely high-end music party. The government of the Bahamas, a country of more than 700 islands where tourism is the largest industry, apologized and assisted in evacuations - but stressed it was not involved directly in the event.
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| These are the best haunted houses in America Posted: 12 Oct 2018 03:13 AM PDT  A new list of America's most terrifying haunted houses in the US has been released, featuring names like "Field of Screams" and "Terror in the Corn."
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| Elite soldiers protest over pay at Ethiopia PM's office Posted: 11 Oct 2018 04:10 AM PDT  Dozens of Ethiopian soldiers marched on the prime minister's office to demand better pay, triggering an internet blackout in Addis Ababa that was lifted Thursday. In an unusual break with discipline, a group of "disgruntled" elite soldiers, who had been sent to quell bloody ethnic clashes on the capital's outskirts, marched on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office Wednesday to protest low salaries, state-run Ethiopia News Agency (ENA) reported. "Members of the army claimed that officers at various levels could not address their grievances about the low allowances and benefits they receive," ENA said, adding they had gone "to appeal to Abiy Ahmed" directly.
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| Limo company operator in New York crash charged with homicide Posted: 10 Oct 2018 01:32 PM PDT  The operator of a limousine company that owned the vehicle involved in a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York was charged on Wednesday with criminally negligent homicide, New York State Police said. Nauman Hussain, 28, was charged with one felony count related to the deadliest U.S. transportation accident in nearly a decade. Hussain was issued written violations by police and the state Department of Transportation that the driver he hired should not have been operating the 2001 Ford Excursion limousine involved in Saturday's crash.
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