| Mueller says Michael Flynn provided 'substantial assistance' to the Russia probe and a mysterious separate criminal investigation Posted: 04 Dec 2018 07:28 PM PST  The memo did not divulge any details about a second criminal investigation Mueller is working on, and it hinted about a possible third.
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| Woman with concealed carry permit fatally shoots escaped inmate who broke into her home Posted: 04 Dec 2018 11:54 AM PST  Authorities in South Carolina say a woman with a concealed carry permit
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| Sully The Service Dog Arrives To View Owner George H.W. Bush's Casket Posted: 04 Dec 2018 11:36 AM PST  Former President George H.W. Bush's unfairly maligned service dog, Sully, was
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| In Stunning Power Grab, Wisconsin Republicans Pass Bill Weakening New Governor Posted: 05 Dec 2018 06:42 AM PST  Wisconsin's lame-duck, Republican-controlled state Legislature passed on
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| VW may use Ford's U.S. plants to build cars, deepen alliance Posted: 04 Dec 2018 02:36 PM PST  Ford has unused factory capacity — and then there's the matter of GM
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| U.S. Marine KC-130 Aerial Tanker And F/A-18 Hornet Crash Off Japan Posted: 05 Dec 2018 05:54 PM PST  We have the latest.
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| These Amazing Paleo Recipes Make Eating Low-Carb Incredibly Easy Posted: 05 Dec 2018 02:26 PM PST |
| Family Says Body Found In Costa Rica Is Missing Florida Woman Posted: 05 Dec 2018 07:32 AM PST  A missing Florida woman's family said their worst fears came true Tuesday
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| Full coverage: George H.W. Bush state funeral Posted: 05 Dec 2018 04:12 AM PST  World leaders gathered at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday.
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| George H.W. Bush and his socks Posted: 04 Dec 2018 11:15 AM PST  A look at Bush's history with unique socks.
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| How The Michigan GOP Gutted A Minimum Wage Hike And Paid Sick Leave Posted: 05 Dec 2018 09:30 AM PST  Republican lame-duck state legislators in Michigan voted this week to gut a
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| U.S. Republican campaign emails hacked months before election Posted: 04 Dec 2018 03:59 PM PST  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Email accounts for a campaign group supporting Republicans candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives were hacked before this year's congressional elections, according to a person familiar with the investigation. Hackers used National Republican Congressional Committee credentials to access a "small number" of email accounts at the organisation, which is also known as the NRCC, said the person, who was not authorized to discuss details of the attack. NRCC spokesman Ian Prior confirmed the group was the victim of a cyberattack by an unknown party, but disputed that stolen passwords were used.
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| The Latest: 'Texas 7' inmate executed for officer's killing Posted: 04 Dec 2018 04:56 PM PST  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the execution of a man convicted of killing a Texas police officer in 2000 (all times local):
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| The $56 Asos Dress Meghan Markle Loves Is Back In Stock Posted: 05 Dec 2018 09:49 AM PST  Even though Meghan Markle is a literal royal with some of the world's best
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| Trump, Obama, Clinton and Carter, all in a row at Bush funeral Posted: 05 Dec 2018 09:14 AM PST  President Trump joined all four living former presidents Wednesday at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral.
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| CBS Has Cause To Deny Les Moonves $120 Million After Sexual Misconduct Claims: NYT Posted: 04 Dec 2018 07:11 PM PST  CBS had cause to fire its former chief executive, Les Moonves, over multiple
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| Russia laughs off US navy ship near its Pacific coast amid Black Sea tensions Posted: 06 Dec 2018 06:25 AM PST  Russia has laughed off a US warship's "challenge" to its territorial claims in the Sea of Japan as "unsuccessful" while reacting angrily to reports that US ships could also enter the Black Sea. The US naval activity comes less than two weeks after Russia seized three Ukrainian ships off the coast of Crimea in the Black Sea last month in an escalation of existing tensions there. The guided missile destroyer USS McCampbell "sailed in the vicinity of Peter the Great Bay to challenge Russia's excessive maritime claims" in a demonstrative "freedom of navigation" operation on Wednesday, the navy said. But the Russian defence ministry claimed on Thursday that the McCampbell had not come closer than 100 kilometres (62 miles) to its territorial waters and was currently "demonstrating its bravery" 250 miles from Russian shores. A destroyer and several warplanes nonetheless followed the US ship, which tried to "get away at maximum speed," the ministry said in a sarcastic statement carried on state television. Moscow has since Soviet times maintained that the entire Peter the Great Bay, which includes the home base of its Pacific fleet in Vladivostok, is historically Russian territory. Washington on the other hand argues that Russian waters extend only 12 nautical miles from shore as per international law. In an unrelated incident, five marines were missing after an American fighter jet collided with a tanker plane during refuelling over the Sea of Japan on Thursday. Russia blocked the Kerch Strait with a tanker before seizing Ukrainian navy ships that tried to sail through last month Credit: Pavel Rebrov/Reuters The navy's freedom of navigation operation marked a geographical broadening of tensions between Russia and the US, which has previously focused on challenging Chinese claims in the South China Sea, most recently sailing naval ships near contested areas there last week. The two Cold War foes are also at odds over a landmark arms control treaty that Donald Trump wants to abandon. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said on Wednesday Russia would develop new missiles if the US withdrew. Meanwhile, CNN reported that the US was notifying Turkey of "possible plans" to sail a warship into the Black Sea in response to the capture of three Ukrainian ships and 24 sailors there on November 25. The ships were headed for Ukrainian ports in the Sea of Azov through the Kerch Strait, which has been controlled by Russia since the 2014 annexation of Crimea. US senator John Barrasso had called on Sunday for American and Nato ships to be sent to the Black Sea in a show of force against Russia. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, who is trailing in the polls before March's election, continues a string of appearances at military bases on Thursday Credit: Mikhail Palinchak/Presidential Press Service via AP The purported plan provoked a blustery response from Russian politicians and pundits on Thursday, with one warning Russia could repeat the incident of February 1988, when a Soviet frigate rammed a US cruiser in the Black Sea. MP Yury Shvytkin vowed that Russia would "respond accordingly" if Russia's waters were violated. "I wouldn't really want our submarines to have to surface off the American coast," he said. Following the seizure of its ships, Kiev has declared martial law and called up reservists in response to claims of a Russian troop buildup on its borders, which Moscow has denied. On Thursday, parliament moved forward on legislation claiming Ukraine's waters extend 24 nautical miles into the Black Sea. In a New York Times editorial on Wednesday, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko told Western leaders to stop "appeasing" Mr Putin and adopt further sanctions on Russia in response to its "unprovoked military attack". The head of the Ukrainian fleet has offered himself in exchange for the 24 captured sailors, who face six years in prison on charges of violating Russia's borders. The Russian foreign ministry retorted that he should resign instead.
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| USA Gymnastics, reeling from abuse claims, files for bankruptcy Posted: 05 Dec 2018 10:21 PM PST  The organization's chairwoman, Kathryn Carson, cited the lawsuits in the decision to seek protection from creditors in federal bankruptcy court in Indianapolis. "Our organization is a financially solid going concern but for the hundred lawsuits that we do have out there," Carson said on a conference call with reporters. Nassar was sentenced to up to 300 years in prison in two different trials in Michigan last February after more than 350 women testified about abuse at his hands, including Olympic champions Aly Raisman and Jordyn Wieber.
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| Mike Flynn Sings! Posted: 05 Dec 2018 07:41 AM PST  Special counsel Robert Mueller says President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn has cooperated extensively with his investigation.
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| Member of 'Texas 7' gang executed for officer's killing Posted: 04 Dec 2018 05:16 PM PST HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A member of the notorious "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners was executed Tuesday evening for the fatal shooting of a suburban Dallas police officer during a Christmas Eve robbery nearly 18 years ago.
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| Saudi ambassador, brother of crown prince, returns to Washington Posted: 05 Dec 2018 03:09 PM PST  The Saudi ambassador to the United States Khalid bin Salman, brother of the powerful crown prince, has returned to Washington after leaving the US capital in the wake of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an official said Wednesday. "His Royal Highness the Ambassador is in Washington" embassy spokeswoman Fatimah Baeshen told AFP. At the time, the US State Department said it would seek information from him regarding the incident upon his return.
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| Animal Shelter Says Starved Great Dane Ate Its Own Foot To Survive Posted: 05 Dec 2018 03:31 PM PST  A severely starved dog chewed off his own foot to survive, a South Carolina
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| How to Fit a Christmas Tree Into Your Tiny Living Room Posted: 04 Dec 2018 11:17 AM PST  Hang your Christmas tree from your ceiling this year
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| Photos: State funeral for former President George H.W. Bush held in Washington, D.C. Posted: 05 Dec 2018 11:56 AM PST  The nation bade farewell Wednesday to the man who was America's 41st president and the last president to fight for the U.S. in wartime.
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| Michelle Obama Was Just As Boy Crazy As The Rest Of Us In High School Posted: 04 Dec 2018 02:25 PM PST  Before she was the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama was just
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| Trump Kept Praising Michael Flynn, Only Now Robert Mueller Is Praising Him Too Posted: 05 Dec 2018 03:07 PM PST  WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's repeated praise for his first national
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| Tennessee to execute man on death row for 36 years Posted: 06 Dec 2018 07:03 AM PST  Tennessee was scheduled Thursday to electrocute a convicted murder who has been on death row for 36 years, renewing debate on use of the death penalty so long after a crime. David Earl Miller, 61, was scheduled to be put to death at 7:00 pm (0100 GMT) at a high security prison in Nashville over the beating and stabbing death of a young woman with a mental disability. Miller was physically and sexually abused as a child and living as a drifter in the early 1980s when a Tennessee pastor gave him shelter in exchange for sex.
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| Lebanon says Israel offered no proof of border tunnels Posted: 05 Dec 2018 02:26 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Parliament speaker said Wednesday that Israel has presented no evidence to prove its claims that a network of attack tunnels has been built by Hezbollah across the countries' shared borders, as Israel's prime minister pressed for international condemnation of the militant group.
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| The 2019 Honda Pilot Is the Vehicle of Choice for HGTV's Dream Home Giveaway Posted: 05 Dec 2018 02:06 PM PST |
| I called George Bush a ‘wimp’ on the cover of Newsweek. Why I was wrong. Posted: 05 Dec 2018 02:00 AM PST  In October 1987, when George H.W. Bush announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States, Newsweek magazine ran a cover story titled "Fighting the 'Wimp Factor.'" The article did not quite come out and declare that Bush was a weakling, and it noted that Bush's own advisers were worried about the "wimp" label. As the 41st president, Bush was anything but a wimp. In 1991, he had the courage to abandon his own "read my lips" vow and instead raise taxes in the cause of restoring fiscal sanity to the federal budget, left badly out of whack by his predecessor, Ronald Reagan.
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| What Washington Post Employees Actually Think About Amazon Posted: 04 Dec 2018 01:03 PM PST  A little over five years ago, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos bought The
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| Macron scraps fuel tax increase as panicked Elysée warns of thousands of yellow vest protesters coming to 'smash and kill'' Posted: 05 Dec 2018 02:22 AM PST  President Emmanuel Macron of France is to totally scrap fuel tax rises that sparked three weeks of unrest and the worst riots seen in Paris for half a century, as the Elysée last night warned that "several thousand" hardened protesters were bent on descending on Paris on Saturday "to smash and kill". However, in a decision that risked further fuelling the "yellow vest" revolt, Mr Macron ruled out reversing a landmark decision to scrap a wealth tax that has seen him dubbed by critics "the president of the rich". In a sign of rising panic at the pinnacle of the French state, the presidency issued a hasty evening announcement that the government would scrap a "green tax" on diesel and petrol due to be imposed in the 2019 budget. The move came just 24 hours after Edouard Philippe, the prime minister, said the tax rise would merely be "suspended" for six months. That clearly failed to dispel protesters' desire to occupy roads and roundabouts, nor the determination of many "gilets jaunes" to return to Paris next Saturday despite the government's increasingly plaintive pleas for people to stay away. Yellow vest protesters clash with police in France, in pictures An Elabe poll suggested 78 per cent of French believed that the concessions did not meet the expectations of the "yellow vests". Some 72 percent continue to support the movement. In comments to France Info radio, the president's office said it had received "extremely worrying" information that "a hard core of several thousand people" were intent on coming to Paris next Saturday, the fourth weekend in a row that has seen demonstrations in the French capital. This time, it said, it expected "extremely violent" protests after receiving intelligence that their aim was to "smash and kill". In another worrying development for the embattled centrist president, whose popularity has slumped to 23 per cent after three weeks of unrest, truck drivers pledged to launch a rolling strike starting Sunday while farmers said they would join nationwide protests next week. Meanwhile, dozens of lycées were blocked as students set fires outside high schools to protest against a new university application system. Two were seriously injured by flash ball rubber bullets. Retirees also marched to vent ire against new levies on their pensions. In signs that the Macron administration was unravelling, two ministers had suggested yesterday that France could reinstate the wealth tax that the president partially abolished. Last year, Mr Macron scrapped France's contentious wealth tax on everything except property assets - in effect cutting the tax by 70 per cent. The number of people paying it has dropped from 360,000 to 120,000 this year. The tax cut was part of a concerted move by the Macron administration to woo bankers to France in the wake of Brexit. On Wednesday morning, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said that cut could be reassessed in the autumn of 2019. "If a measure that we have taken, which is costing the public money, turns out not to be working, if it's not going well, we're not stupid - we would change it," he told RTL radio. But hours later, the Elysée totally quashed that suggestion, telling French media that Mr Macron had upbraided the two ministers who had hinted at restoring the wealth tax, saying: "We will unpick nothing that has been done over the past 18 months." Yellow vest protesters say they can longer make ends meet due to a raft of taxes and charges. Their complaint came as France overtook Denmark as the most taxed of OECD countries last year. Prominent yellow vest "spokesman" Christophe Chalencon called on Mr Macron to speak out, otherwise "there will be chaos," with risks of more deaths. The president needed to "admit he made a mistake, with simple words ... that touch the guts and heart of the French," he told AP.
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| Boy hits target, convinces town to scrap snowball fight ban Posted: 04 Dec 2018 04:03 PM PST  SEVERANCE, Colo. (AP) — A 9-year-old boy has convinced the leaders of a small northern Colorado town to overturn a nearly century-old ban on snowball fights, and he already knows who his first target will be — his little brother.
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| The Mercedes-Benz S-class Concours Edition Is a Subtle Way to Celebrate a Successful Year Posted: 04 Dec 2018 02:04 PM PST  A special interior with lavish floor mats lines this limited-edition Benz.
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| Lame-Duck Republicans Stick It To The Poor In Wisconsin Posted: 05 Dec 2018 10:40 AM PST  Wisconsin Republicans are about to lose a governor who supports their policies
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