Health care and CNN's rules are among the winners and losers of Tuesday's Democratic debate

The bold progressives -- Sens. Sanders and Warren -- held their own. There was lots of talk about health care. CNN's ground rules seemed to get in the way. And what about Marianne Williamson? from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Yg28e...

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'You're wrong': Sanders, Warren open debate defending health care plan

The two progressives joined forces Tuesday night against more moderate candidates — and the moderators. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YfKAh...

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Dubai ruler's wife seeks UK forced marriage protection order for children

The estranged wife of the ruler of Dubai has applied for a UK forced marriage protection order relating to their children, a London court heard Tuesday. Princess Haya, 45, a wife of 70-year-old United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, has applied for the order, as well as for wardship of their children, and a non-molestation order relating...

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Here are all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who have qualified for the September primary debates

The next round of debates have much more strict criteria for candidates looking to secure a spot on stage. As a result, the field could thin out fast. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2MvyJ8...

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Muslim Virginia lawmaker heckles Trump at Jamestown speech

A heckler who interrupted a speech by President Donald Trump during Tuesday's commemoration of 400 years of American democracy is a new Muslim lawmaker from Virginia angered by the president's race-related rhetoric. After Samirah stood and held up his signs, he was led out of a tent where Trump was speaking at a museum near the site of the original Jamestown colony. from...

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What you need to know about Capital One data breach affecting more than 100 million customers

Consumers find themselves confronted with another data breach, this time involving Capital One. Here's what you need to know to protect yourself. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/330330...

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Relatives gather to identify 57 victims killed Brazil prison riot

Dozens of family members of inmates killed by other detainees during a prison riot in the north of Brazil have gathered outside the local forensic institute, waiting to identify their loved ones from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YAHSD...

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Sanctions-hit Iran to cut zeros and rename plunging currency

The government in sanctions-hit Iran on Wednesday approved a plan to remove zeros from the rial and rename the currency -- something its people have long been doing to simplify transactions. "The cabinet today agreed on a bill to eliminate four zeros from the currency and that 'toman' will be our national currency," government spokesman Ali Rabiei told reporters in Tehran....

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5 key takeaways from the Democratic debate in Detroit

An alliance from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Marianne Williamson shining and Steve Bullock stumbling late highlighted the first of two Democratic debates in Michigan. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KeFiK...

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Inmates behind Brazil deadly prison riot transferred: official

Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed on Monday when fighting broke out between rival drug gang factions in the Altamira Regional Recovery Centre in the northern state of Para. Sixteen were decapitated in the hours-long battle, but most died in a fire...

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Canada police shift manhunt for teen slaying suspects

Canadian police said Tuesday they have pulled out of a remote northern town after an intensive search turned up no sign of two fugitive teenagers suspected of killing three people — a college professor, a North Carolina woman and her Australian boyfriend. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police used dogs and drones, helicopters, boats and even a military Hercules aircraft to scour...

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Italy: Teen's father says son didn't know friend had knife

Fabrizio Natale issued a statement through a lawyer after visiting his son, Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth at a Rome prison, a meeting Natale described as "very tough for both" of them. Prosecutors say Elder has confessed to knifing Cerciello Rega, 35, who was stabbed 11 times and died at a hospital. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Yz32O...

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Fox News Proves Pete Buttigieg Right That All Democrats Will Be Called Socialists

REUTERSDuring Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential primary debate, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg declared that it is time for Democrats to “stop worrying about what the Republicans will say” because no matter what agenda they embrace, “they’re going to say we’re a bunch of crazy socialists.”Following the debate, a number of conservatives and Republicans on Fox airwaves...

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Trump renews attack on black congressman Elijah Cummings and says he should ‘investigate himself’

Donald Trump has attacked a black US congressman about the city of Baltimore for the second time in less than a week.Elijah Cummings, whose congressional district covers approximately half of the Maryland city, should use his role as House Oversight Committee chairman to “investigate himself”, the US president claimed. Billions of dollars sent to tackle crime and boost Baltimore’s...

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'We're in pain': Family remembers Keyla Salazar, teen killed in Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting

Family and friends held a vigil for Keyla Salazar Tuesday evening, lamenting how a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival ended her life at 13. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Yrcwu...

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The 2 Canadian teen fugitives were searched at an alcohol checkpoint the day they were charged with murder, but authorities let them go

Tataskweyak Cree Nation checkpoint guards stopped the pair as they entered an alcohol free county, but let them pass after no contraband was found. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3347tU...

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Escape bids by rebel princesses throw spotlight on UAE rights

Princess Haya, who is battling her husband Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum in a UK court, is the third princess who has sought to escape the Gulf emirate in recent years. Activists say the attempts by Haya and two of Sheikh Mohammed's daughters to escape the United Arab Emirates (UAE) throw a harsh spotlight on the country's rights record, even as it tries...

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Marianne Williamson explains the need for slavery reparations: 'A debt that is owed'

The self-help author helped herself Tuesday with a stirring answer on the question of slavery reparations. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ZmoMO...

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Mom of slain Navajo girl urges tribes to use Amber Alerts

The mother of a Navajo girl who was kidnapped and killed in 2016 urged tribal officials and children's advocates Tuesday to take advantage of tools and funding under a law that expands access to the nation's Amber Alert system. Pamela Foster spoke during a training at Isleta Pueblo, south of Albuquerque, for tribes seeking to implement the alert system. Despite a 2007 pilot...

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Tim Ryan: Democrats will 'lose 48 states' on a 'Medicare for All' platform

Ryan called the "Medicare for All" proposals a "potential disaster" for the party. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Mu5kf...

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3-year-old Chinese boy falls from six stories, gets saved by blanket-wielding crowd below

A three-year-old boy who fell from the sixth floor of a building on Monday wassaved after a crowd of bystanders used a blanket to catch him, China's CCTVreported from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32ZfdY...

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‘Disgruntled’ Employee Kills Two Co-Workers Inside Mississippi Walmart: Police

Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA “disgruntled employee” at a Mississippi Walmart killed two co-workers and wounded a police officer in a deadly Tuesday shootout inside the superstore, authorities said.Martez Abram, 39, a recently-terminated employee of the Southaven store, was charged with two counts of murder Tuesday afternoon, DeSoto County District Attorney John Champion said....

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Ancestry will let you search online for relatives who were displaced by the Holocaust

Ancestry is digitizing millions of Holocaust persecution records and making them searchable online for free. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KeZEC...

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Gang database made up mostly of young black, Latino men

Boston police are tracking nearly 5,000 people — almost all of them young black and Latino men — through a secretive gang database, newly released data from the department shows. Black people comprise about 25% of all Boston residents, Latinos about 20% and white people more than 50%. The racial disparity is "stark and troublesome," said Adriana Lafaille, a lawyer for the...

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The Latest: Relative identifies 3 of 5 killed in Wisconsin

The father of two of five people found dead in two houses in northwestern Wisconsin has identified two sons and a grandson as among the dead. Authorities say a man shot and killed four people and wounded two others wounded at a home in Lake Hallie on Sunday night and a home in the town of Lafayette on Monday. Ritchie German Sr. of North Prairie, Wisconsin, tells the Star-Tribune...

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Photos of the 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera and 911 Carrera Cabriolet

The cheapest version of the 992-gen 911 costs $98,750 and has 379 horsepower. From Car and Driver from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2K5uXj...

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Democratic Debate Warning: Former Obama Chief of Staff Says to Avoid 1 Thing

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel warned Democratic presidential contenders Monday not to “win the nomination in a way that forecloses a path to victory in the general election.”Emanuel, former President Barack Obama’s ex-chief of staff, criticized the candidates’ performances in the first round of Democratic debates in Miami in June.“There’s a reason [President Donald] Trump...

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Trump 'rodent' tweets ring true at Kushner-owned apartments

Davon Jones doesn't have to look far to see the irony in President Donald Trump's tweets that Baltimore is a "rat and rodent infested mess." His apartment owned by the president's son-in-law has been invaded by mice since he moved in a year ago. Jared Kushner's family real estate firm owns thousands of apartments and townhomes in the Baltimore area, and some have been...

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Inmates behind Brazil deadly prison riot transferred: official

Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed on Monday when fighting broke out between rival drug gang factions in the Altamira Regional Recovery Centre in the northern state of Para. Sixteen were decapitated in the hours-long battle, but most died in a fire...

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How to Stop Iran’s Maritime Misadventures

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- European nations, alarmed by Iran’s capture of a British oil tanker, are mounting a response to protect their commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf. The Royal Navy has started to escort British ships, and a plan for a European naval mission has been endorsed by Denmark, France and Italy.It’s a promising start. But effectively curbing...

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'Passive aggression. It's a lifestyle': Ocasio-Cortez responds to a GOP congressional critic

Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., accused Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of having "deliberately misled the American people" about the treatment of migrants in detention. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2K7xF9...

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Motive for slayings at California festival still unclear two days later

California police on Tuesday were still trying to determine why a teenager went on a shooting rampage over the weekend at a popular food festival south of San Jose, killing a 6-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and a man in his 20s. The police have since obtained search warrants for a home in Gilroy associated with the suspect and the car they believe he drove to the festival,...

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Pelosi, Schumer Stand Firm in Opposing Impeachment

Senator Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that he stands with House speaker Nancy Pelosi in opposition to impeachment proceedings despite pressure from the caucus to move forward.“I believe that . . . Speaker Pelosi is handling this appropriately,” Schumer said in reference to Pelosi's strategy of encouraging Democratic House committee chairmen to continue their probes into President...

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Water meant for Puerto Rican hurricane victims dumped on farmland

Tens of thousands of water bottles destined for desperate Puerto Ricans after devastating back-to-back hurricanes slammed into the US island territory remain unopened on farmland almost two years later, emergency aid officials confirmed Monday. Aerial images captured by AFP show a sea of water bottles, packaged into massive bundles, heaped on what appears to be a private estate...

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A 33-year-old woman who used to work for Amazon is the suspect in the massive Capital One hack — meet Paige Thompson

Thompson is accused of stealing data from millions of Capital One customers, including Social Security numbers and linked bank accounts. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GFsfj...

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Whither Evangelical Purity Culture? Thoughts on the Legacy of a Lost Pastor

If you don’t live in Evangelical-world, you probably missed this news. An influential Evangelical author and pastor named Joshua Harris announced on Saturday that he was in the process of “deconstruction.” His statement was clear. “By all the measurements I have for defining a Christian,” he said, “I am not a Christian.” He apologized to the LGBT community for not affirming...

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California has strict gun laws. Here's how the Gilroy gunman evaded them

US lawmakers renew calls for federal gun reform after shooter purchased weapon legally in NevadaPolice officers escort people from Christmas Hill Park following the shooting. Photograph: Noah Berger/APCalifornia has some of the most stringent gun laws in the country, including a ban on the type of rifle that a shooter used to kill three and wound 15 at the garlic food festival...

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Death toll in Brazil prison massacre rises to 57 with over a dozen decapitated

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A bloody clash between two prison gangs on Monday left at least 57 inmates dead with 16 of them decapitated, authorities in the state of Para said, the latest deadly clash as Brazil's government struggles to control the country's overcrowded jails. Prisoners belonging to the Comando Classe A gang set fire to a cell containing inmates from...

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Police investigate after man says he found baby in freezer

A St. Louis man says a box that had been in his mother's freezer for decades contained the mummified remains of a newborn baby, which he discovered while cleaning out her home after she died. Adam Smith told St. Louis media outlets that he opened the cardboard box Sunday expecting to find something like the top of his mother's first wedding cake or money because she never...

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Andrew Yang's campaign blasted the DNC for not allowing him to use 2 polls from same source for fall Democratic debates

The Yang campaign was unhappy the DNC only let them use either an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll or an NBC/SurveyMonkey poll but not both. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yB0O6...

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'Stay inside and lock your doors': Tiny Canadian village on lockdown as teenage murder spree suspects spotted scavenging for food

A massive police manhunt has been launched in a remote part of northern Canada for a pair of teenager double murder suspects.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been chasing Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, for weeks since the pair were connected to two separate killings in British Columbia earlier this month.The teenagers have been tracked in a series of...

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Afghan soldier killed two US troops: official

An Afghan soldier was responsible for the killing of two American troops a day earlier, an official told AFP Tuesday, in what appears to be the latest example of an insider attack. The US military on Monday said two of its troops had been killed in action in Afghanistan, but did not provide any additional details, pending notification of next of kin. Mohammad Qasam, a deputy...

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Joint Chiefs nominee denies assault allegations, enlists key support

Sen. Martha McSally — a retired Air Force pilot who revealed this year that she was raped by a superior officer — came out with a staunch defense of Air Force Gen. John Hyten. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Yve2z...

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The president is right about Baltimore. Are Democrats really prepared to defend failure?

Baltimore is one of the least livable, most dangerous cities in America. It's not racist to point that out. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Ooyv5...

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3 dead, including 2 children, and at least 12 hurt: What we know about Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting

A gunman opened fire at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday killing three people and injuring at least 12 others. Here's what we know. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32ZySX...

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Ben Carson says President Trump would be happy to work with Elijah Cummings to bring relief to Baltimore

HUD Secretary Ben Carson praises Trump administration efforts to rehabilitate America's distressed areas. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/315Ouq...

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UPDATE 1-Canadian air force joins search for fugitive murder suspects in remote area

Canada's air force has been called in to a tiny community in northern Manitoba, where two teens suspected of three murders were thought to have been last seen, police said on Monday, as the chase entered a second week. Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, were believed to have been seen on Sunday outside York Landing, a First Nations community of less than 500 people,...

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Police: 1998 Arkansas school shooter killed in crash

A man who was 11 years old in 1998 when he and a friend fatally shot four students and a teacher at their Arkansas middle school has died in a crash on a northeastern Arkansas highway, the State Police said. Drew Grant, 33, who had legally changed his name from Andrew Golden and had been living in Jackson, Missouri, died at around 9 p.m. Saturday, television station KAIT reported....

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Two-year-old boy missing after both parents found dead in apparent 'murder-suicide'

Authorities are looking for an Oregon toddler who remains missing after his parents died in what is believed to be a murder suicide. The Medford Police Department and the FBI are searching for Aiden Salcido, aged two, whose parents Daniel Salcido and Hannah Janiak died after fleeing from police. The couple, who had felony burglary warrants for their arrest, were found dead...

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Tennessee woman finds snake in hotel bed

A Tennessee woman got the kind of wake-up call no one ever wants during a recent hotel stay. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2K0Tbw...

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