| Camp Fire, California's Deadliest In History, Now 100 Percent Contained Posted: 25 Nov 2018 04:55 PM PST  The devastating Camp fire ― a massive blaze that engulfed more than 153,000
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| Here Are Some Of The Stories You Missed Over The Thanksgiving Weekend Posted: 25 Nov 2018 03:17 PM PST  There was plenty of news over the Thanksgiving weekend you may have missed
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| Turkey says Kerch Strait must remain open after Russia-Ukraine standoff Posted: 26 Nov 2018 12:05 AM PST ![Turkey says Kerch Strait must remain open after Russia-Ukraine standoff]( "Turkey says Kerch Strait must remain open after Russia-Ukraine standoff") Turkey said on Monday it was worried by reports that Ukrainian ships had been fired on off the coast of Russia-annexed Crimea and said that shipping in the area should not be obstructed. Russia seized three Ukrainian naval ships in the Black Sea on Sunday after opening fire on them and wounding several sailors, a move that risks igniting a dangerous new crisis between the two countries. The incident took place near the Kerch Strait linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov.
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| Entry Port Along The US-Mexico Border Reopens After Migrants Tried To Breach The Fence, Border Patrol Says Posted: 25 Nov 2018 08:16 PM PST  U.S. border officials decided to reopen the U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana after migrants tried to cross the border. According to a report by ABC News, the entry port at San Ysidro — situated north of Tijuana and south of San Diego — had earlier been closed since about 11:30 a.m. Sunday but the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) reopened the border at about 6 p.m. local time. In a statement, U.S. border patrol said that thousands of migrants from Central America are waiting in Tijuana and surrounding areas to enter the United States and seek asylum.
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| 6.4-magnitude earthquake hits western Iran: Iran institute Posted: 25 Nov 2018 10:45 AM PST  A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit Iran's western province of Kermanshah late Sunday, Iran's institute of geophysics said. The epicentre of the quake was 17 kilometres southwest of the city of Sarpol-e Zahab, according to the institute, which said it struck at a depth of 7 kilometres. At least 115 were injured in Sarpol-e Zahab and the neighbouring Gilan-e Gharb city where the quake was also felt, Kermanshah governor Houshang Bazvand told Fars news agency.
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| Twitter Helps Reunite Two Friends Who Met On A Cruise 12 Years Ago Posted: 25 Nov 2018 01:17 PM PST  On Saturday, Mississippi teen Briana Cry asked Twitter to help locate a friend she met on a Hawaiian dinner cruise with family in 2006 but never kept in touch with afterwards. The tweet soon went viral, and it only took 12 hours for users on the social media site to track down the girl, whom Daily Mail identified as a California artist named Heidi Tran. "Hey twitter, I met this girl on a dinner cruise in Hawaii in 2006.
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| Antigovernment protesters clash with police in Paris Posted: 24 Nov 2018 03:09 PM PST ![Antigovernment protesters clash with police in Paris]( "Antigovernment protesters clash with police in Paris") Antigovernment protesters clashed with French police on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Saturday, leaving the area cloaked in tear gas and smoke from fires on a fresh day of demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron.
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| Asylum Seekers Would Stay In Mexico Under New Deal Cut By Trump: Report Posted: 24 Nov 2018 05:40 PM PST  Asylum seekers hoping to enter the United States will be required to wait in
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| Indian police map area of island where US man was killed Posted: 25 Nov 2018 03:38 AM PST  NEW DELHI (AP) — Police said they have mapped the area of a remote Indian island where tribespeople were seen burying the body of an American adventurer and Christian missionary after allegedly killing him with arrows this month.
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| Russia fires on and seizes Ukrainian ships near annexed Crimea Posted: 25 Nov 2018 08:05 PM PST  Russia's FSB security service said early on Monday its border patrol boats had seized the Ukrainian naval vessels in the Black Sea and used weapons to force them to stop, Russian news agencies reported. The FSB said it had been forced to act because the ships - two small Ukrainian armored artillery vessels and a tug boat - had illegally entered its territorial waters, attempted illegal actions, and ignored warnings to stop while maneuvering dangerously. "Weapons were used with the aim of forcibly stopping the Ukrainian warships," the FSB said in a statement circulated to Russian state media.
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| Saudi Prince Slams CIA Assessment Report on Khashoggi Murder Posted: 24 Nov 2018 08:57 PM PST  Several news organizations including the Washington Post and New York Times have reported that the CIA concluded the crown prince ordered the columnist's assassination in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, contradicting Riyadh's version that he wasn't involved. CIA officials have high confidence in their conclusion, which is based on multiple sources of intelligence, the Post reported Nov. 16. "The CIA has been proved wrong before," Prince Turki Al-Faisal, a longtime Saudi intelligence chief, said in an interview in Abu Dhabi Saturday.
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| Trailing Badly In Polls, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko To Impose Martial Law, Likely Canceling Election Posted: 25 Nov 2018 03:48 PM PST  Hours after Russian forces fired on three Ukrainian naval vessels injuring a number of Ukraine troops, as the BBC reported, the country's president Petrov Poroshenko told the Ukraine parliament that he wants approval to declare martial law in the country — a move that could lead to canceling or postponing the presidential election scheduled for March of 2019. Ukraine's Navy said that six of its sailors were wounded in a gun battle with Russian forces, according to information provided via Twitter by journalist Christopher Miller, who covers the region. According to a Twitter post by Ukraine's public broadcaster Hromadske.UA, an imposition of martial law in the country would last through January at least, and would cause the March elections to be postponed.
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| Rain breaks, easing search for remains of California wildfire Posted: 24 Nov 2018 01:26 PM PST  Teams searching for remains from the deadliest wildfire in California history were able to comb through wreckage in dry weather on Saturday, but rains are expected to return next week and officials warned of a threat of mudslides. The so-called Camp Fire all but obliterated the mountain community of Paradise, 175 miles (280 km) northeast of San Francisco, on Nov. 8, killing at least 84 people and destroying nearly 14,000 homes. Some 475 people from Paradise and surrounding communities remain unaccounted for, according to the Butte County Sheriff's Office.
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| Alan Dershowitz Predicts Mueller Report Will Be 'Politically Very Devastating' For Trump Posted: 25 Nov 2018 11:01 AM PST  Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor and frequent defender of President
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| Alabama mall shooting: Family of black man killed by police officer on Thanksgiving hires civil rights lawyer Posted: 25 Nov 2018 09:38 AM PST  The family of a 21-year-old black man who was shot by a police officer at shopping centre in Alabama on Thanksgiving has hired a national civil rights lawyer to represent them. Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr was fatally shot on Thursday night by a police officer who was responding to reports of gunfire at Hoover's Riverchase Galleria near the city of Birmingham. Authorities said a Hoover police officer who was working as security at the shopping mall confronted an armed man running away from the scene and fatally shot him.
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| Russian warplanes strike rebels after alleged gas attack Posted: 25 Nov 2018 09:14 AM PST  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russian warplanes attacked rebel-held areas in northern Syria for the first time in weeks on Sunday, as Syrian officials said more than 100 people were treated at hospitals for a suspected poison gas attack in the northern city of Aleppo that Damascus and Moscow blamed on rebels.
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| Majority of Migrants Arrested at Border Sunday Are Adult Men Posted: 26 Nov 2018 07:18 AM PST  The majority of the 42 migrants arrested Sunday as they attempted to cross the border illegally were adult men, according to the San Diego U.S. Customs and Border Protection chief. The vast majority of those were adult males," sector chief patrol agent Rodney Scott told CNN Monday. "To be completely frank, there were numerous people that actually made it across the border," Scott continued.
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| Ukrainian Parliament to Debate Martial Law After Russian Attack Posted: 25 Nov 2018 02:55 PM PST  Poroshenko suggested taking the measure for 60 days as he spoke in a televised meeting of the Defense and Security Council in Kiev, Ukraine's capital. The emergency session was called after Russian warships fired on Ukrainian vessels in the Kerch Strait, injuring six servicemen. Russia also seized three boats.
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| Here's a Good Deal on NOCO Jump Starters for Cyber Monday Posted: 26 Nov 2018 04:42 AM PST  Good news: They're 30 percent off today only.
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| Ariana Grande Goes Sweet When Sour Troll Accuses Her Of 'Milkin' Mac Miller's Death Posted: 26 Nov 2018 07:53 AM PST  Just because Ariana Grande can destroy any old troll with a "thank you, next"
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| Republican senators split with Trump over murdered Saudi journalist Posted: 25 Nov 2018 09:55 AM PST  Trump vowed last week to remain a "steadfast partner" of Saudi Arabia and said it was not clear whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knew about the plan to kill Khashoggi last month at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The president cast doubt on the CIA assessment that Crown Prince Mohammed ordered Khashoggi's killing, telling reporters that the agency had not formed a definitive conclusion. It's inconsistent with the intelligence I've seen," which implicates the crown prince, Republican Senator Mike Lee said on NBC's "Meet the Press." He cited the Khashoggi killing as another reason why he has pushed against helping Saudi Arabia's war effort in Yemen.
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| Dems tried negotiating on immigration, Trump 'won't take yes for an answer': Senator Posted: 25 Nov 2018 03:30 AM PST  Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is interviewed on "This Week" about the special counsel investigation, immigration and whether she'll consider a 2020 presidential bid.
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| Syria regime accuses armed groups of 'toxic gas' attack Posted: 25 Nov 2018 08:59 AM PST  Syria's regime has accused armed groups of carrying out a "toxic gas" attack that left dozens of people struggling to breathe and prompted government ally Russia to launch retaliatory air strikes on Sunday. Around 100 Syrians were hospitalised with breathing difficulties after the alleged chemical attack in the regime-held city of Aleppo on Saturday, state media and a monitor said. Russia accused "terrorist groups" of being behind the alleged chlorine attack, and carried out the first air raids in months on the outskirts of a major rebel bastion west of the city.
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| Black Friday Beginning To Merge With Cyber Monday, According To New Data Posted: 25 Nov 2018 09:17 AM PST  Amid reports of relatively sparse crowds in many retail outlets on Black Friday, the venerated kickoff to the holiday shopping season still remains the king for U.S. retail profits, thanks to a strong performance in online sales. Black Friday saw a 13 percent increase in sales from last year, suggesting that it will remain the top digital shopping day of the holiday season, according to a report by Sales Force. Black Friday saw the highest conversion rate (4.9 percent) of the entire year.
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| The 31 Ugliest Skyscrapers in the World Posted: 26 Nov 2018 05:00 AM PST |
| Padma Lakshmi: I'm More Than The 'Girl From That Cooking Show Who Was Raped' Posted: 26 Nov 2018 08:52 AM PST  "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi on Monday opened up about being sexually
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| PM May says UK will always stand by Gibraltar Posted: 24 Nov 2018 10:06 AM PST  British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Saturday the United Kingdom would "always stand by Gibraltar" after Spain got enough assurances over the peninsula to unblock the European Union's Brexit deal with London. "We will always negotiate on behalf of the whole UK family, including Gibraltar," May said on arriving for talks in Brussels with Donald Tusk, the chairman of EU leaders' summit that is due to approve the Brexit deal on Sunday. "We have worked through the withdrawal issues for Gibraltar in a constructive and sensible way," she said.
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| White House Lashed For 'Burying' Bombshell Climate Report With Holiday Release Posted: 24 Nov 2018 07:06 PM PST  Critics are slamming the Trump administration's cunning timing for releasing a
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| Best Cyber Monday Deals on Instant Pot and Other Small Appliances Posted: 25 Nov 2018 03:50 PM PST  Forget the doorbusters and having to desert your family at dessert to grab an early Black Friday deal. Cyber Monday is all about convenience. And deals and discounts, of course. We took a look at...
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| Taiwan voters embrace China-friendly opposition Posted: 25 Nov 2018 11:05 PM PST  Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang party gained ground in local elections over the weekend. It's a major blow for the DPP - Taiwan's pro-independence ruling party. Beijing blames the election results on President Tsai Ing-wen's 'separatist' stance. Eve Johnson reports.
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| Russia-Ukraine tensions soar after confrontation at sea Posted: 26 Nov 2018 09:44 AM PST  Kiev and Moscow faced their worst crisis in years on Monday as Ukraine and its Western allies demanded the release of three ships fired on and seized by Russia near Crimea. Russian forces boarded and captured the ships on Sunday, with Moscow accusing the vessels of illegally entering Russian waters off the coast of Crimea in the Sea of Azov.
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| French police clash violently with protesters on Champs Elysees over petrol costs Posted: 24 Nov 2018 11:49 AM PST  As night fell, the famed Champs-Elysees avenue, where fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld switched on the red lights of Christmas just a few days ago, was still aglow with fires lit by protesters. President Emmanuel Macron thanked police forces for their" courage and professionalism" in dealing with demonstrators as calm progressively returned to the Champs Elysees. "Shame on those who attacked them ... There is no room for this violence in the Republic," Macron said on Twitter.
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| Cyber Monday Scams That You Should Avoid Posted: 24 Nov 2018 04:43 PM PST  On Cyber Monday, millions of people will be searching online for the best deals on the hottest new products. Last year, consumers spent nearly $20 billion in online sales on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. With so many people all around the world surfing the net and using their credit cards and other personal information to buy products, there is tremendous opportunity for scammers to take advantage of eager shoppers hunting for bargains.
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| Aerin's Newest Williams Sonoma Collaboration and Other Great New Products Posted: 26 Nov 2018 08:51 AM PST |
| Police search Saudi's villa in northwest Turkey for 'Khashoggi remains' Posted: 26 Nov 2018 06:56 AM PST  Turkish police on Monday were searching the villa of a Saudi citizen in a northwestern province for the remains of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The officers began searching a two-storey building in Termal district in Yalova with the help of sniffer dogs and drones before the investigation widened to the adjacent villa, state news agency Anadolu said. Khashoggi, a contributor for The Washington Post, was killed by Saudi officials on October 2 during a visit to the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul for paperwork before his wedding.
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| Retro police cars lead Christmas classic car auction Posted: 26 Nov 2018 04:42 AM PST  Barons is holding an auction just in time for some last minute automotive Christmas shopping. Make sure there's space in your garage
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| Mexico’s New Government Says No Deal With U.S. on Asylum Seekers Posted: 25 Nov 2018 04:34 PM PST  U.S. border officials temporarily closed the San Ysidro port of entry between Tijuana and San Diego, one of the busiest border crossings in the world, "to ensure public safety." U.S. agents shot several rounds of tear gas at migrants after some tried to breach a fence, leaving children screaming and coughing, the Associated Press reported. An estimated 8,200 migrants from the so-called caravans heading to the U.S. from Central America are now in Mexico, authorities say.
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| Elon Musk believes he has a 70% likelihood of flying to Mars despite 'good chance of death' Posted: 25 Nov 2018 10:55 AM PST  Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has claimed there is a 70 per cent likelihood he will make it to Mars on one of his spacecraft – despite there being "a good chance of death". "I know exactly what to do," Mr Musk told Axios on HBO. Mr Musk, who is also involved in a project to build a high-speed mass transit system underneath the streets of Los Angeles, is known for making remarks that frequently secure him both striking headlines and mocking derision.
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| Leading medical supply maker reportedly linked to many breaches Posted: 25 Nov 2018 02:50 PM PST  A world leader in medical technology, the American firm Medtronic, may be linked to as many as 9,300 deaths and 292,000 injuries in the US alone, according to an analysis published Sunday by an international journalists' group. Reports submitted to US regulators last year indicate that one in five medical implants using Medtronic products proved problematic, twice the rate of any competing firm, according to a wide-reaching analysis by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The ICIJ inquiry, titled "Implant Files" and drawing on contributions from reporters in 36 countries, found that authorities in Japan, Norway and Australia had also identified Medtronic products as the source of the largest numbers of complaints over the past five years.
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