| Andrew Gillum Concedes Florida Gubernatorial Race To Ron DeSantis Posted: 17 Nov 2018 02:43 PM PST  Andrew Gillum, the Democratic mayor of Tallahassee running for governor of
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| List of retailers that will be closed on Thanksgiving 2018 Posted: 16 Nov 2018 11:13 AM PST  While many stores push the limits of Black Friday and offer store hours on
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| Argentina Finds Missing Sub One Year Later But Lacks Resources To Surface It Posted: 17 Nov 2018 09:52 AM PST  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- The Argentine government acknowledged on
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| Cab Drivers Refuse To Pick Up Racists After Philly Rally With Proud Boys Posted: 17 Nov 2018 03:41 PM PST  Racists in Philadelphia were apparently denied a quick escape Saturday after
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| Khashoggi family receives condolences after Riyadh proffers murder culprits Posted: 16 Nov 2018 12:35 PM PST  Two of Khashoggi's brothers and one of his sons received a few hundred men in the coastal city of Jeddah a day after the Saudi public prosecutor said it would seek the death penalty for five unnamed suspects in the killing inside the country's Istanbul consulate on Oct. 2. Earlier on Friday, tens of thousands of worshippers prayed for the deceased in Mecca and Medina, Khashoggi's hometown, though the imams did not name him. Friends eulogized the 59-year-old royal insider-turned-critic, and politicians who knew him denounced Riyadh's investigation as biased.
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| The Latest: CVS says Florida's opioid claim 'without merit' Posted: 17 Nov 2018 10:47 AM PST ![The Latest: CVS says Florida's opioid claim 'without merit']( "The Latest: CVS says Florida's opioid claim 'without merit'") FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on Florida's lawsuit accusing CVS and Walgreens of illegal opioid sales (all times local):
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Blesses New Push To Oust Incumbent Democrats In Primaries Posted: 18 Nov 2018 08:52 AM PST  In a significant escalation of her activism-driven approach to politics,
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| Is Amazon about to turn into Lockheed Martin? What the company's move to Crystal City says about its future Posted: 16 Nov 2018 11:28 AM PST  Amazon will doubtlessly change Crystal City beyond recognition. But perhaps not before Crystal City, with its proximity to the Pentagon and the Capitol, exercises its own influence on Amazon.
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| Trump Calls Report That He’s Questioning Pence Loyalty ‘Phony’ Posted: 17 Nov 2018 09:25 AM PST  "I can't imagine any President having a better or closer relationship with their Vice President," he said in a tweet Saturday. The New York Times report on Friday cited unidentified sources who said Trump was repeatedly asking aides and advisers about whether Pence was loyal. "The New York Times did a phony story, as usual, about my relationship with @VP Mike Pence.
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| Stacey Abrams Acknowledges Loss In Georgia Governor's Race Posted: 16 Nov 2018 02:44 PM PST  In a speech to her supporters on Friday night, Democrat Stacey Abrams
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| Joe Biden Just Adopted An Adorable Shelter Dog Posted: 17 Nov 2018 09:59 AM PST  Joe Biden is welcoming a furry new member to his family.
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| This six-mile 2005 Ford GT is a car collector's dream Posted: 17 Nov 2018 09:02 AM PST  This brand-new unregistered 2005 Ford GT is still waiting for its first owner. These cars have appreciated significantly from their original $149,995 price when new
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| Butte County sheriff on status of California's Camp Fire Posted: 18 Nov 2018 05:49 AM PST  Sheriff Kory Honea of Butte County, Calif. is interviewed on "This Week" about the status of the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state's history.
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| Netanyahu heads into cabinet showdown as allies demand early Israeli elections Posted: 17 Nov 2018 09:48 AM PST  Benjamin Netanyahu faces a showdown with his coalition government partners on Sunday as he tries to stop them from forcing early elections in the wake of his unpopular decision to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas. Three of the smaller parties in the Israeli prime minister's coalition have demanded elections as soon as possible and want to use today's cabinet meeting to formally agree on a date for the vote. However, Mr Netanyahu said he wants to keep the government together and is eager to push the date of the elections off for several more months. "Prime Minister Netanyahu stressed that it is important to make every effort to preserve the Right-wing government," said a spokesman for his Likud party. Mr Netanyahu on Saturday said he wanted his government to see out the end of its term, blaming the centre-Right Kulanu party for the turmoil. "If the Kulanu faction doesn't bring the government down - there is a government," he said on Twitter. "All Likud members want to keep serving the country for another whole year until the end of the term in November 2019." Education Minister Naftali Bennett demanded to be given the defence portfolio, threatening to withdraw his eight seats from Mr Netanyahu's governing coalition Credit: MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images He is hoping a delayed election will leave more time for the Right-wing voters of his base to forget about last week's ceasefire agreement with Hamas to stop fighting in Gaza. Many Israelis on the Right wanted to see Israeli forces move more aggressively against the Islamist militants, who fired around 460 rockets and mortars into southern Israel during the fighting. Mr Netanyahu's defence minister resigned over the ceasefire and civilians in the southern city of Sderot, which is regularly targeted by Hamas rockets, burned tyres and blocked streets in protest. If the prime minister holds his ground and refuses to grant elections then coalition party leaders face a choice: they can stay in the government and allow Mr Netanyahu to limp on or leave the government and bring the coalition crashing down. The smaller parties may be loathe to bring down the government because it will allow Mr Netanyahu to present himself as a responsible leader who tried to maintain Israel's stability while other parties clamored for elections. Profile | Benjamin Netanyahu The two sides may reach a compromise where Mr Netanyahu agrees to elections but on a longer timetable, possibly with elections in late March, which favours his own political interests. Mr Netanyahu goes into the cabinet facing off against three of his own ministers. His main irritant is Naftali Bennett, the 46-year-old education minister and leader of the Right-wing Jewish Home party. Mr Bennet, who was once Mr Netanyahu's chief of staff, is trying chip away Right-wing voters from the Likud by promising a tougher line against Hamas. The two men have a frosty personal relationship, with Mr Netanyahu's allies accusing Mr Bennett of leaking material from cabinet meetings to undermine the prime minister. Despite the chaos in the coalition and the corruption scandal swirling around him and his wife, Mr Netanyahu appears well placed to win an election and form a new Right-wing government. A poll for Israel's Channel 2 found that Mr Netanyahu's Likud would win 29 seats in an election, making it by far the biggest party. The centrist Yesh Atid party would take 18 seats while the centre-Left Zionist Union would win only 11. Mr Netanyahu has been prime minister since 2009 and served a brief three-year stint as prime minister in the late 1990s. If he is still prime minister in July next year, he will have overtaken David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, as the longest-serving leader of Israel. The current government could continue serving until November 2019 but Israel's coalition governments rarely serve out their full four-year terms. The current coalition has 61 seats in the 120 parliament, known as the Knesset. One of Mr Netanyahu's Likud MPs, Oren Hazan, was suspended for six weeks this week after insulting a defence ministry official. Mr Hazan, who previously embarrassed the prime minister by taking a selfie with Donald Trump, can still vote but is barred from any other parliamentary activity. His suspension gives Mr Netanyahu's weakened government even less room for manoeuvre.
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| North Korea deports American even as it boasts of new weapon Posted: 16 Nov 2018 12:32 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea on Friday deported an American citizen it says it detained for illegal entry, a U.S. official said, an apparent concession that came even as the reclusive nation announced the test of a newly developed but unspecified "ultramodern" weapon that will be seen as a pressuring tactic by Washington.
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| 10 of the Most Tranquil Outdoor Showers in the World Posted: 16 Nov 2018 03:04 PM PST |
| Fire Deaths Rise To 71 With More Than 1,000 Missing Posted: 16 Nov 2018 08:35 PM PST  CHICO, Calif. (AP) -- With the confirmed death toll at 71 and the list of
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| Hanging Chads Long Gone, Florida Has Another Election Nightmare Posted: 16 Nov 2018 02:49 PM PST  Nearly two decades after the world learned about hanging chads, Florida is
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| Pence pulls U-turn, will stay overnight in Papua New Guinea Posted: 16 Nov 2018 10:44 PM PST  In a last-minute U-turn, US Vice President Mike Pence will spend the night in Papua New Guinea where he is attending a regional summit, changing plans to fly in and out of Australia which had led to complaints of a lack of committment. Pence had originally been due to shuttle to the APEC talks from the northern Australian city of Cairns rather than stay overnight in Port Moresby, which is hosting the gathering for the first time. The port city is effectively on lockdown with a heavy police presence and warships from the US, Australia and New Zealand patrolling offshore.
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| President Trump insists his lawyers did not write his answers to Mueller Posted: 16 Nov 2018 10:55 AM PST  President Trump told the press that he, not his lawyers, wrote the answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller.
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| Women Won The House For Democrats, But Men May End Up Running It Posted: 18 Nov 2018 05:00 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― They ran for office at record levels. They came to the polls in
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| Lamborghini Supercars Exist Because of a 10-Lira Tractor Clutch Posted: 16 Nov 2018 11:12 AM PST  The founder's feud with Enzo Ferrari inspired the first Lamborghini sports car.
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| North Korea's Deadly Artillery Has the “Potential to Affect Millions of South Korean Citizens” Posted: 18 Nov 2018 06:22 AM PST  About that "ultramodern" weapon from last week: it could have been some fancy new artillery.
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| Facebook says steep rise in data requests from Indian gov't Posted: 17 Nov 2018 01:26 AM PST ![Facebook says steep rise in data requests from Indian gov't]( "Facebook says steep rise in data requests from Indian gov't") NEW DELHI (AP) — Facebook says there was a steep rise in data requests from India's government in the first half of this year as compared to the previous two years.
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| California wildfire death toll reaches 71 as number missing rises to 1000 Posted: 16 Nov 2018 09:20 PM PST  The death toll in California's wildfires climbed to 71 on Friday as the number of missing people surpassed 1000, while authorities continued the search for survivors and victims. However, Kory Honea, Butte sheriff, said the list of missing people was dynamic, and could contain the names of people who did not realise they had been reported missing. "We are still receiving calls, we're still reviewing emails," he said. President Donald Trump is expected to visit the area on Saturday to see for himself the grief and damage caused by California's most deadly wildfires. But he may face anger from locals for comments suggesting the fires could have been prevented or contained with better forest management. In an interview recorded on Friday and scheduled for broadcast on Fox News Sunday, Mr Trump said he was surprised to see images of firefighters removing dried brush near a fire. "This should have been all raked out," he said. Meanwhile, deputies found eight more bodies on Friday, bringing the death toll to 71. Authorities are trying to reassure an anxious public that the long list of missing names - jumping from 600 a day earlier - may simply reflect the difficulty in trying to account for everyone thought to be in the area. Some on the list have been confirmed as dead by family and friends on social media. Others have been located and are safe, but authorities have not yet marked them as found. An exhausted llama lays in a partially burned field in Paradise, California Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP Tamara Conry said she should never have been on the list. "My husband and I are not missing and never were," she wrote Thursday night on Facebook. "We have no family looking for us. ... I called and left a message to take our names off." Authorities compiled the list by going back to listen to all the dispatch calls they received since the fire started, to make sure they didn't miss anyone. In last year's catastrophic wildfires in California wine country, Sonoma County authorities at one point listed more than 2,000 people as missing. But they slowly whittled down the number. In the end, 44 people died in several counties. Firefighters search a burned-out building in Paradise, California Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomber The wildfire this time all but razed the town of Paradise, population 27,000, and heavily damaged the outlying communities of Magalia and Concow on November 8, destroying 9,700 houses and 144 apartment buildings, authorities said. Firefighters were gaining ground against the blaze, which blackened 222 square miles (575 square kilometers). It was 45 percent contained and posed no immediate threat to populated areas. Crews managed to stop it from spreading toward Oroville, population 19,000. This patch of California, a former Gold Rush region in the Sierra Nevada foothills, is to some extent Trump country. The the Republican candidate beat Hillary Clinton in Butte County by 4 percentage points in 2016. But some survivors resent that Mr Trump took to Twitter two days after the disaster to blame the wildfires on poor forest mismanagement. He threatened to withhold federal payments from California. "If you insult people, then you go visit them, how do you think you're going to be accepted? You're not going to have a parade," Maggie Crowder of Magalia said Thursday outside an informal shelter at a Walmart parking lot in Chico.
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| Republican DeSantis secures Florida governor's seat after rival Gillum concedes Posted: 17 Nov 2018 03:47 PM PST  Gillum, the 39-year-old liberal mayor of Tallahassee, had initially conceded the race on the night of the Nov. 6 election to DeSantis, a conservative former congressman. This fight for Florida continues." DeSantis, 40, said on Saturday on Twitter, "This was a hard-fought campaign. Now it's time to bring Florida together." After a machine recount ended on Thursday, official results showed DeSantis with a lead of 33,683, or 0.41 percent.
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| Planning My Wedding Is Making Me Feel Like I've Stepped Back 50 Years Posted: 17 Nov 2018 05:30 AM PST  When I got engaged last year, I expected wedding planning to be fun, if a
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| Israel's Netanyahu to hold 'decisive' meeting on coalition Posted: 17 Nov 2018 10:48 AM PST  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced he will hold a "decisive" meeting Sunday with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon in a final bid to avert early elections. Netanyahu's ruling coalition was left with a single seat majority in parliament after a walkout Wednesday by defence minister Avigdor Lieberman and his hawkish Yisrael Beitenu party. Lieberman quit over a Gaza ceasefire deal, which on Tuesday ended the worst flare-up between Israel and the territory's Islamist rulers Hamas since a 2014 war.
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| Bill Maher Trashes Fans Mourning Stan Lee And Adults Who Read Comics Posted: 17 Nov 2018 06:25 PM PST  Comedian Bill Maher is getting the ire of the comic book world this weekend
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| Bulgarian Prime Minister Accepts Deputy’s Resignation Over Protest Posted: 16 Nov 2018 11:41 AM PST  Simeonov, deputy premier in charge of economic and demographic policy, personally took the decision to step down on Friday over "his reluctance to cause tension in the government," the cabinet in Sofia said in an email. Borissov is heading his third cabinet since 2009 in the European Union's poorest nation, with goals including adopting the euro.
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| NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week Posted: 16 Nov 2018 11:58 AM PST  A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out. Here are the real facts:
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| Britain to push U.N. Security Council to back humanitarian truce in Yemen Posted: 16 Nov 2018 01:57 PM PST ![Britain to push U.N. Security Council to back humanitarian truce in Yemen]( "Britain to push U.N. Security Council to back humanitarian truce in Yemen") British U.N. Ambassador Karen Pierce said she would give the 15-member council a draft resolution on Monday that would enshrine five requests made by U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock, one of which was for a truce around infrastructure and facilities on which the aid operation and commercial importers rely. Pierce said the aim of the resolution would be to put Lowcock's call "into practice." She gave no timeline for when the draft resolution could be put to a vote. The remaining four requests were for protection of the supply of food and essential goods, a larger, faster injection of foreign exchange into the economy through the central bank, increased humanitarian funding and support, and for the warring parties to engage in peace talks.
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| New York–Inspired Paint Colors, Mythological Rugs, and More Great New Products to Source Now Posted: 16 Nov 2018 02:02 PM PST |
| Democrats Are Planning To Target The Arms Sales Trump Loves Posted: 18 Nov 2018 02:45 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― Top Democrats are discussing how to use their upcoming control of
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| Florida official Brenda Snipes: racism 'probably' a factor in attacks against me Posted: 17 Nov 2018 07:32 AM PST  A top elections official in Florida who endured national humiliation after missing a midterms recount deadline by two minutes has told the Guardian that racism is "probably" a factor in the backlash against her. Brenda Snipes, elections supervisor of Broward county, was condemned by Republicans and Democrats after failing to submit tallies in the US Senate race between Rick Scott and Bill Nelson on schedule.
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| Adopting Life: A Symposium Posted: 17 Nov 2018 03:30 AM PST  November is National Adoption Month and the Saturday before Thanksgiving National Adoption Day. Adopting and fostering children is a great public service and something that should be encouraged and incentivized in public policy and in law.
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| A mother's decision to donate son's face: How doctors approach, support families Posted: 16 Nov 2018 12:50 PM PST  Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, a renowned reconstructive surgeon at NYU Langone Health who performs face transplant surgeries, shares how 3-D printing of the donor's face is used to help the family cope.
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| Facebook's Top Brass Say They Knew Nothing About Definers. Don't Believe Them. Posted: 16 Nov 2018 01:41 PM PST  Sweet, wide-eyed Mark Zuckerberg swears he didn't know anything.
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| Police called on diplomats as APEC summit tensions boil over Posted: 18 Nov 2018 12:44 AM PST  Police were called when Chinese officials attempted to "barge" into the office of Papua New Guinea's foreign minister, it emerged Sunday, as APEC summit tensions boiled over. The Chinese delegates "tried to barge in" to Rimbink Pato's Port Moresby office Saturday, in an eleventh-hour bid to influence a summit draft communique, but were denied entry, three sources with knowledge of the situation told AFP. "Police were posted outside the minister's office after they tried to barge in," one source privy to summit negotiations told AFP, requesting anonymity.
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| A look at Americans who have been detained in North Korea Posted: 16 Nov 2018 06:09 PM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it is expelling American Bruce Byron Lowrance after he slipped unlawfully into the police state known for its anti-U.S. fervor.
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| PG&E shares surge 40 percent on report regulator wants to avoid bankruptcy from wildfire Posted: 16 Nov 2018 02:52 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - PG&E Corp shares soared 40 percent in after-hours trade on Thursday following a report that a regulatory official told investors the agency does not want the utility to go into bankruptcy should it be found responsible for this month's deadly wildfire in northern California. Bloomberg reported the comment by a California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) official on a call hosted by Bank of America Corp, citing a person familiar with the matter. A CPUC spokesman said he could not confirm the remarks and Bank of America declined to comment.
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| The 2020 Toyota Corolla Sedan Will Be the First Corolla Hybrid in the U.S. Posted: 16 Nov 2018 11:00 AM PST  It's based on the all-new Corolla sedan.
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| Trump Hammered On Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker By Conservative Group Posted: 17 Nov 2018 10:15 PM PST  As Chris Wallace's interview with Donald Trump airs Sunday on Fox News, the
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| Democrat concedes to Republican in Florida governor race Posted: 17 Nov 2018 03:07 PM PST  Democrat Andrew Gillum announced Saturday he was conceding his hard-fought race for Florida governor to his Republican rival, Ron DeSantis, vowing to keep fighting until he wins an election. Gillum, who was aiming to become the state's first black chief executive, had vowed to keep in the race until every single vote was counted. The race had gone to a recount, with results due by a Sunday deadline, as has a narrow Senate race between outgoing governor Rick Scott and incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson.
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