Clinton’s impeachment and Trump’s impeachment have marked differences, of course. While the first involved the denial of an extramarital affair, Trump’s alleged crime involves an attempt to extort the head of a foreign country in order to gain political dirt on a rival. This distinction, however, has been lost on Trump in recent months —…
Baolian Kuang had recently immigrated from China to Boston’s Chinatown when she found out in 2004 that her rent would be increasing by 25 percent. She didn’t speak English and was five months pregnant with her first child at the time, but that didn’t stop her from knocking on doors in her apartment complex to…
It’s among the most iconic images of the last few decades — a picture of an unknown man standing before a line of tanks during the protests in 1989 in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. In just one shot, the photographer, Jeff Widener, managed to convey a society struggling between the freedoms of individual citizens and the…
The Saudi student who fatally shot three sailors at a U.S. naval base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in the week where he and three others watched videos of mass shootings, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Saturday.Officials investigating the deadly attack were working Saturday to determine whether it was motivated…
In Philadelphia, Eagles fans can watch Baltimore Ravens sensation Lamar Jackson, see if Jimmy Garoppolo is actually as good as the San Francsisco 49ers’ record indicates, and root for an aging Tom Brady to continue his slow descent off the cliff against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. After having called the Dallas Cowboys’…
The announcement came after Kiffin led Florida Atlantic to a win in the Conference USA title game.Lane Kiffin was announced as the next coach at Mississippi the same day he led Florida Atlantic to a win in the Conference USA title game.Credit…Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel, via Associated PressBOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Lane Kiffin is…
Cyber Week 2019 is winding down and everyone’s looking for last-minute deals to score deep discounts on. Lucky for you, we’ve got just the thing. We dug through the best of what’s left, and we came across a bunch of great last-minute deals. We picked out the five hottest Cyber Week deals under $25 and…
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and his allies have predicted the president will see a similar impeachment outcome as former President Bill Clinton did: an acquittal in the Senate, a subsequent spike in popularity, and a backlash against the opposing party in the following elections.Yet, two months into the process, it’s become clear that an expectation…
After a relatively slow Thanksgiving and Black Friday holiday week, rumors came in fast and furious this week. Noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo was on a roll with several reports outlining expectations for new iPhones in 2020 and 2021 as well as Apple’s plans to shift to Mini-LED displays, starting next year with the 12.9-inch iPad…
An opening sketch featured celebrities playing the world leaders who were caught on tape gossiping about President Trump. From left, Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Fallon, Paul Rudd and James Corden in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that imagined the scene at a NATO conference cafeteria.Credit…NBC via YouTubeDec. 8, 2019Updated 4:01 a.m. ETIf there are two things…
Large crowds poured into Hong Kong’s major thoroughfares for a march organized by the Civil Human Rights Front, which in recent months has led large, peaceful protests.Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched on Sunday.Credit…Lam Yik Fei for The New York TimesPublished Dec. 7, 2019Updated Dec. 8, 2019, 7:10 a.m. ETHONG KONG — Tens of…
ATLANTA — No. 2 LSU had a lot on its mind Saturday night inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In addition to ensuring it won the SEC Championship Game to capture its first league crown since 2011, finish the 2019 season undefeated and clinch a spot in the College Football Playoff, the Tigers wanted to make a statement…
Volodymyr Zelensky looked up from his treadmill and addressed the people of Ukraine. “Some say that it’s impossible to have a dialogue with Putin,” he said, “but without dialogue it’s like we’re on a treadmill — we are running forward, but not moving.” Days before his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine’s…
(CNN)Three US Navy sailors were killed when they “didn’t run from danger” after a gunman opened fire at a US Navy base in Florida, US Navy officials said. “When confronted … they ran towards it and saved lives. If not for their actions, and the actions of the Naval Security Force that were the first…
WASHINGTON — Previewing potential articles of impeachment, the House Democrats on Saturday issued a lengthy report drawing on history and the Founding Fathers to lay out the legal argument over the case against President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine.The findings from the House Judiciary Committee do not spell out the formal charges against the president,…
CLOSE Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the U.S. is softening its position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. AP DomesticHOLLYWOOD, Fla. – President Donald Trump gave a speech Saturday thanking many people for positive Israeli-American relations, but did not mention one prominent supporter: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Nor did Trump discuss…
Asia Pacific|North Korea Says It Carried Out ‘Very Important Test’ at Missile-Engine SiteThe announcement came as North Korea has escalated a pressure campaign on the United States to make more concessions before a Dec. 31 deadline set by its leader, Kim Jong-un.North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, center, in a photo released by the country’s state…
8:00 PM ETHeather DinichESPN Senior Writer Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana UniversityGRAPEVINE, Texas — This might be the shortest meeting the College Football Playoff selection committee has had to date, as the conference championship game results did the bulk of the work for the committee, whittling the field down…
Ohio State won its third consecutive Big Ten title on Saturday night in Indianapolis, but unlike the last two, this one will send the Buckeyes to the College Football Playoff. No. 1 Ohio State came back from a 21-7 deficit at halftime to beat No. 8 Wisconsin 34-21. The win solidified Ohio State’s playoff position,…
ATLANTA — Joe Burrow collected a shiny award as the game’s MVP.LSU’s fans had another trophy on their minds.”Heisman! Heisman! Heisman!” they chanted.The coronation is likely complete.COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF HAS ‘DOUBLE STANDARD’ WHEN IT COMES TO GROUP OF 5 TEAMS, AAC COMMISH SAYSBurrow turned in another dazzling performance on the big stage, leading No. 1 LSU…
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — President Trump pitched his administration’s record on Israel while slashing into political opponents in front of a packed beachfront ballroom here Saturday night, seeking to convince Jewish voters that they should vote for him in 2020 even if they don’t like him or his tactics.In a 45-minute speech to the Israeli American…
Produced by Paul LaRosa The murder of Exeter Police Officer Daniel Green rocked his California community, leaving behind the family of the beloved policeman struggling with life without him. Green was found dead after he didn’t show up for work. “On the day of the incident Daniel was supposed to come into work right before me,”…
CLOSE Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the U.S. is softening its position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. AP DomesticHOLLYWOOD, Fla. – President Donald Trump gave a speech Saturday thanking many people for positive Israeli-American relations, but did not mention one prominent supporter: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Nor did Trump discuss…
The Knicks fought valiantly, but a last-second free throw miss saw the team fall to the Pacers 104-103 on Saturday. >> Box Score Five things to know from Saturday’s game 1) In Mike Miller’s debut as the team’s interim coach, the Knicks came out of the gates playing well. Marcus Morris and RJ Barrett each scored…
Investigators are still trying to understand the motive of a Saudi trainee who fatally shot three people at Naval Air Station Pensacola.A tribute to the victims of the shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, where a foreign trainee fatally shot three people.Credit…Brendan Farrington/Associated PressPENSACOLA, Fla. — As federal authorities worked on Saturday to piece together…
When certain associates and acquaintances of President Donald Trump get into hot water, he forgets he ever knew them. Various figures from the Russia investigation and the Ukraine matter, as well as a British prince, have fallen out of familiarity with the president in this way. For a few days, the stock market suffered a…
To voters like Carol Wickey, a 78-year-old Cedar Rapids Democrat who is undecided in the race and attended a Biden event in her hometown, the candidate isn’t explaining enough. “He needs to be prepared to answer questions about it. And I don’t think he is. I don’t think he’s come up with an answer,” she…
5:20 PM ETDan RafaelESPN Senior Writer Close2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005 Five years at USA TodayAnthony Joshua spent much of the past six months soul-searching, figuring out what went so wrong in his first encounter with Andy Ruiz Jr. and vowing to be better…
December 7, 2019 3:09PM PT “America’s Got Talent” executive producer Simon Cowell has set his legal representation for an investigation into the NBC competition series, which was announced by the network this week after a lengthy meeting with ousted judge Gabrielle Union. Cowell has hired Larry Stein, a longtime litigator in Hollywood and media spaces,…
The House Judiciary Committee concluded the first week of its public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump by releasing a report summarizing its findings so far on Saturday. The 52 page report, authored by staffers of the Democratic members of the committee, is a condensed version of the testimony of four legal…
Mt. Vernon, Iowa (CNN)He may not be on the Democratic ballot, but the 2020 presidential candidate wielding the most influence over the party’s remarkably unsettled primary fight is President Donald Trump.As the race for the next occupant of the White House enters the final weeks of 2019, awash in a surprising degree of uncertainty, Democratic…
With the publication this week of its first safety transparency report, Uber offers the clearest look yet into the dangers of its platform. But it also establishes a baseline from which the ride-hailing giant must improve.Uber‘s long-awaited safety disclosure took the form of an 84-page report, which reveals that in 2017 and 2018 there were…
Samsung phones have a long history of using Qualcomm’s latest chips. Angela Lang/CNET Samsung is months away from announcing the Galaxy S11, its first flagship phone for 2020, but we already have an idea of some of the features we could see inside. Earlier this week, Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 865 chipset for premium phones. This…
Just before 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning 78 years ago, Lauren Bruner was preparing for church services and a date that would follow with a girl he’d met outside his Navy base.The 21-year-old sailor was stationed as a fire controlman aboard the U.S. battleship Arizona, overseeing the vessel’s .50-caliber guns.Then alarms rang out. A…
Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links … Doug Pederson trying to keep his grip on Eagles’ locker room – Inquirer“There was no leadership council meeting. There was no talking about that [stuff] today,” guard Brandon Brooks said. “It was just going to be pads, and that’s what it was going to be. There was…
A Crew Dragon spacecraft is seen on top of a Falcon 9 rocket earlier this year standing on pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida before launch on an unpiloted test flight to the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceXFive-and-a-half years ago, SpaceX founder Elon Musk revealed SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, a sleek-looking human-rated…
Police stand watch as protesters gather in front of the Supreme Court as it hears arguments on LGBTQ workplace discrimination on October 08, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Slate Debate: Biden or Buttigieg? On Telling the Truth When the Powerful Have Stopped Listening Why Is Duncan Hunter Still in Congress? Why the Trudeau…
AVQ&AWelcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences.As part of our best of 2019 coverage, this week we’re asking:What’s the best live show you saw in…
KYIV, Ukraine—The witnesses stand, with their right hands raised, as if being sworn in for, well, an impeachment hearing. Only this is not in Congress. The cast of obscure Ukrainians—a group seen at home as odious and discredited—are appearing in a television show with President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, in what he casts…
Sen. Chris MurphyChristopher (Chris) Scott MurphyDemocratic senator says he knows ‘handful’ of GOP colleagues considering vote to remove Trump Both sides have reason to want speedy Trump impeachment trial Overnight Defense: Trump clashes with Macron at NATO summit | House impeachment report says Trump abused power | Top Dem scolds military leaders on Trump intervention…
Black Friday 2019 might be behind us and Cyber Week 2019 might be officially over, but you can expect deep discounts on popular products all month long as we approach the holidays. Highlights from today’s roundup include blowout prices on Samsung microSD cards starting at just $16.99 for a 128GB card, super popular wireless noise…
This photo provided by the U.S. State Department, U.S. special representative for Iran, Brian Hook stands with Xiyue Wang in Zurich, Switzerland on Saturday. AP hide caption toggle caption AP This photo provided by the U.S. State Department, U.S. special representative for Iran, Brian Hook stands with Xiyue Wang in Zurich, Switzerland on Saturday. AP…
More than 3,000 people were sexually assaulted during Uber rides last year. The disturbing numbers, released by the company on Thursday, have many concerned about the safety of using Uber and other rideshare apps — especially since the data came out the same week that 19 women sued Lyft, saying drivers for the company sexually…
Pete Buttigieg’s rise in the polls has been accompanied by increased scrutiny on his work at consultancy McKinsey and his campaign’s high-dollar fundraisers. And he doesn’t have many good answers on either front. Buttigieg has been a bit of a surprise breakout in the 2020 Democratic primary. He’s 37, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana,…
The private-equity industry has been extracting wealth from the US economy for investors at the expense of the American economy for too long.The private-equity industry is too secretive, loads takeover targets with too much debt, and pushes companies to lay off too many workers.Given the problems with private equity, Congress is right to try to…
White House MemoThe president appears to love nothing more than injecting himself into governor’s races, though once in office, the governors don’t seem to feel they owe him much.Governors like Brian Kemp of Georgia, whom President Trump campaigned to elect in 2018, have defied his wishes once in office.Credit…Audra Melton for The New York TimesDec.…
The Trump administration on Saturday announced the release of Xiyue Wang, a Chinese American graduate student detained in Iran since 2016, as part of a prisoner exchange with Tehran.”After more than three years of being held prisoner in Iran, Xiyue Wang is returning to the United States,” President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he will ‘temporarily…
An American scholar held for three years on espionage charges in Iran has been released from prison and was flown out of the country in exchange for an Iranian biologist imprisoned in the United States, officials said early Saturday.Xiyue Wang, a Princeton University graduate student, was conducting research in Iran when he was arrested in…
The construction of a private border wall partially funded by rightwing allies of Donald Trump continued with vigor in south Texas this week, seemingly in blatant violation of a court injunction ordering work to be suspended. On Thursday and Friday, within three days of a temporary restraining order being issued, the Guardian found construction crews…
The CollegeFootballNews.com bowl projections, picks and predictions for the College Football Playoff after the Utah loss in the Pac-12 Championship. – Contact/Follow @ColFootballNews & @PeteFiutak – Future College Football Playoff Sites & Dates And now everything changes after Utah’s Pac-12 Championship loss to Oregon. When it comes to these bowl projections, the call is that LSU…
“This has been a devastating week for our @USNavy family,” U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Michael Gilday wrote on Twitter. “Our hearts break for those who lost their lives in Pensacola and the wrenching pain it causes their loved ones. When tragedy hits, as it did today, and Wednesday in Pearl Harbor, it is felt…
ATLANTA, Ga. — The 2019 SEC Championship is upon us. No. 4 Georgia will take on No. 2 LSU today at 4 p.m. ET on CBS with a lot on the line. For the Bulldogs, it’ll determine whether or not they get in the College Football Playoff. Win and they’re in. Lose and they’re almost…
Not all that long ago, tech pundits were convinced that by 2020 the personal computer as we know it would be extinct. You can even mark the date and time of the PC’s death: January 27, 2010, at 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time, when Steve Jobs stepped onto a San Francisco stage to unveil the iPad.…
Eight months after his shocking upset of unbeaten Anthony Joshua in New York’s Madison Square Garden, Andy Ruiz Jr. will enter Diriyah Arena in Saudi Arabia on Saturday as the defending unified heavyweight champion (DAZN, noon ET). It’s a notion that didn’t appear likely when Ruiz (33-1, 22 KOs), a 30-year-old native of Imperial, California, accepted…
Impeachable offenses were listed on a monitor as the House Judiciary Committee listened to testimony by constitutional scholars earlier this week. Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Pool/Getty Images Impeachable offenses were listed on a monitor as the House Judiciary Committee listened to testimony by constitutional scholars earlier this week. Pool/Getty Images House Speaker Nancy…
Out ThereThis weekend an ice cube from beyond our solar system will make its closest approach to the sun, trailing mystery and dust.VideoA time-lapse sequence of the comet 2I/Borisov over a seven-hour period. It is the second known interstellar object to enter our solar system, passing through at 110,000 miles per hour. NASA, Images by…
Uber provided many numbers this week when it released its first-ever safety report, tallying thousands of incidents of sexual assault and death among its drivers and passengers.Now come the questions the 84-page report didn’t answer.Chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi sat down with me in Uber’s San Francisco headquarters to follow up on an interview last year…
Xiyue Wang was a graduate student at Princeton who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison on two charges of espionage that U.S. officials have called groundless.Xiyue Wang, a Princeton doctoral student, in 2015. He traveled to Iran a year later to study Farsi and conduct archival research for his dissertation.Credit…Hua Qu, via Associated…
CLOSE House Speaker Pelosi said that Congress had to act in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump because of his failure to faithfully execute the law. USA TODAYWASHINGTON – No American president had been impeached since Andrew Johnson a century earlier when the House launched formal impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon in the fall of…
(CNN)The Defense Department will review measures for screening foreign students after a deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida on Friday.The gunman was a second lieutenant in the Saudi Arabian military involved in flight training at the station, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Friday. Three people were killed in the shooting…
In France, train drivers can retire at 52, public utility workers at 57 and ballet dancers at 42. President Macron calls the tangle outdated and unsustainable. A million French protesters disagree.Protesters on Thursday set a fire and confronted riot police near the Place de la République in Paris.Credit…Kiran Ridley/Getty ImagesPARIS — Stéphane Vardon has worked as a…
Amazon’s true wireless earbuds get many things right, but lacks the refinement of its best competitors. Jason Cross/IDG Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by Macworld’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors Table of Contents Show More They sound pretty good. They have active noise reduction. They let you summon a digital…
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn clashed Friday night in the last head-to-head debate before a general election in six days — an underpowered showdown that saw both men stick to well-worn phrases and promises about their plans for Brexit and Britain’s future.Johnson, a Conservative who supports…
A version of this story appears in CNN’s Impeachment Watch newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. (CNN)White House (still) won’t cooperate — Shocking exactly zero people, White House counsel Pat Cipollone fired off a strongly worded letter declining to participate in future House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings. “House Democrats…
When the delayed resignation of a felon counts as good news. Duncan Hunter, United States representative and felon, at the U.S. Capitol in January 2017 Joe Raedle/Getty Images Slate Debate: Biden or Buttigieg? Is It Good for Sales When Donald Trump Trashes Your Book on Twitter? On Telling the Truth When the Powerful Have Stopped…
CLOSEQueen Elizabeth II with Prince Charles, Prince of Wales on the Sovereign’s throne to deliver the Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament in in London on Oct. 14, 2019. (Photo: VICTORIA JONES, POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Despite decades of assurances that Queen Elizabeth II intends to stay “on the job” until the end, suddenly the…
The Pac-12 entered conference championship weekend with a lead on the Big 12 in the College Football Playoff race. Those hopes have now been dashed for the third year in a row. With a 37-15 win over No. 5 Utah, No. 13 Oregon has all but officially eliminated the Pac-12 from the playoff race. The…
The agreement could help tens of thousands of residents rebuild while helping to resolve the utility’s bankruptcy. Power lines near Paradise, Calif., during the Camp Fire, which was ignited last year by Pacific Gas & Electric equipment.Credit…Jim Wilson/The New York TimesAfter months of tense negotiations, Pacific Gas & Electric and lawyers for victims of wildfires…
CLOSE Reports of an active shooter on the base came in Friday morning. Nate Chute, USA Today NetworkPENSACOLA, Fla. – On Friday morning, the national anthem did not play over the Naval Air Station Pensacola loud speaker system – an anomaly to neighbors and Navy officials alike.Residents in Navy Point and in the neighborhoods up…
A long exposure photo shows Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifting off on the company’s 10th mission.Sam Toms | Rocket LabRocket Lab launched seven spacecraft early Friday as the builder of small rockets completed its main task, but the mission also came with a significant additional achievement.After launching from New Zealand, the company successfully returned the…
Authorities were trying to determine whether the shooting that killed three and injured eight others was an act of terrorism.A shooting at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida left three dead and eight injured on Friday.Credit…Tony Giberson/Pensacola News Journal, via Associated PressPublished Dec. 6, 2019Updated Dec. 7, 2019, 12:20 a.m. ETPENSACOLA, Fla. — A…
As investors balked, some bankers and Saudi officials still hoped to achieve the crown prince’s target price of $2 trillion. They wound up settling for less.Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in 2016 that Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, would have a $2 trillion valuation.Credit…Tasneem Alsultan for The New York TimesEarly on Oct. 15,…
Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiBiden gets in testy exchange in Iowa: ‘You’re a damn liar’ Trump claims he asked Ukraine to do US a ‘favor,’ not him The Hill’s Morning Report – Dem dilemma on articles of impeachment MORE, the president’s personal attorney, traveled to Ukraine this week even as an impeachment process focused in part on his involvement…
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, the two candidates vying to be United Kingdom prime minister after next week’s general election, have traded barbs in their final televised debate before voters go to the polls on December 12. Both men relied on attack lines which have been tried and tested in the long weeks of the…
(CNN)On Sunday, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule will dock at the International Space Station, bringing supplies, experiments including “mighty mice” — oh, and a friendly robot to keep the astronauts company for the next three years. CIMON-2 is the next generation of the Crew Interactive Mobile Companion. The robot was built by Airbus at the German Aerospace…
Rocket Lab’s 55-foot-tall (17-meter) Electron launcher lifted off from Launch Complex 1 at Mahia Peninsula on New Zealand’s North Island at 3:18 a.m. EST (0818 GMT) Friday. Credit: Rocket LabRocket Lab closed out its 2019 launch schedule Friday with the 10th flight of the company’s Electron small satellite launcher, successfully deploying seven payloads in orbit…
Netflix didn’t have plans to release numbers for The Irishman when asked by The Verge earlier this week, but ratings firm Nielsen beat the streamer to the punch. Nielsen reports that “an average minute audience of nearly 13.2 million viewers with a reach of over 17.1 million unique U.S. viewers” watched The Irishman within the…
View photosJustin Timberlake and Jessica Biel at the Louis Vuitton Womenswear Spring/Summer 2020 on Oct. 1 — before his hand-holding night out with his Palmer co-stars led to him making a very public apology to his wife. (Photo: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images)Justin Timberlake was spotted for the first time since he publicly apologized to wife Jessica Biel…
The Winter Meetings start on Sunday in San Diego and many of us are hoping the Dodgers can make some improvements. The Dodgers, as currently constituted, are already a very good team. However, we all saw them lose in game 5 of the National League Division Series (NLDS) to the Nationals. We then saw the…
This band structure map for a single crystal of iron selenide is akin to a road map that describes how traffic rules change for electrons as the material cools and the crystal lattice changes shape, becoming elongated in one direction. The same data are represented in the top and bottom panels. The blue areas (top)…
A video shows the boy in severe distress. He was discovered by his cellmate, not immigration officials, as they originally claimed.Rigoberta Vasquez holding a photo of her 16-year-old son Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, who died at a Customs and Border Protection facility in May.Credit…Esteban Biba/EPA, via ShutterstockCarlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez collapsed onto the concrete floor…
Before Star Wars belonged to Disney, it belonged to Kathleen Kennedy. George Lucas himself picked the legendary producer to run his beloved namesake, Lucasfilm, before Mickey Mouse swooped in and bought it all up. And at that time the plan was always this: A new trilogy of films, which ends later this month in Star…
Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews Ramo. Photo by Hannah McKay/Pool/AFP via Getty Image Republicans Drag Barron Trump Into Politics Why the Trudeau Video Was Such a Big Deal Kamala Harris Got No Momentum From a Strong-Looking Start It’s Not About Corruption. It’s About Revenge. It’s the last week before the election that will resolve everything…
Home News Spaceflight (Image credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA) In 2019, NASA practiced ways to extract astronauts from SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s Starliner space capsules. See photos of those very different emergency services here.Up first was SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, a capsule designed to to launch astronauts into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket and then…
The expanding measles outbreak in Samoa that has so far killed at least 63 people comes amid a global surge in new cases, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week.According to estimates, more than 140,000 people worldwide died of the disease last year — an “unacceptable…
A video of the final hours of a Guatemalan teenager inside a Customs and Border Protection cell shows him collapsing to the floor and later dying next to a toilet where he was discovered by another teen the next morning.Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, who was called “Goyito” by family members, died May 20, eight days…
PENSACOLA, Fla. — A Saudi Arabian military pilot training in the United States opened fire Friday morning at Naval Air Station Pensacola, leaving three people dead and several others wounded before Florida sheriff’s deputies shot and killed him. It was the second deadly shooting at U.S. naval base this week.Federal and state officials confirmed that…
BILLUND, Denmark — How many rounds of antibiotics does it take to raise a Danish pig?If it is one of the 35,000 piglets raised each year on Soren Sondergaard’s sprawling farm, odds are the animal will get just a single course before it goes to slaughter.At times, a quarter or more of his swine arrive…
On Pro FootballThey have lost two of their last four games, and much of their 10-2 record was built against weak teams. But fears, and anticipation, of their decline seem misplaced.Tom Brady, No. 12, and the Patriots ran up an 8-0 start against some weak teams.Credit…Steven Senne/Associated PressDec. 6, 2019, 8:31 a.m. ETFOXBOROUGH, Mass. —…
These images show the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu: Nightingale, Kingfisher, Osprey and Sandpiper. One of these four sites will ultimately be the location on which NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will touch down to collect a sample. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is just days away from selecting the site where…
1. Why Doug Flutie has fond memories of his days in BuffaloFormer Bills quarterback Doug Flutie will be back in Buffalo this weekend for the Ravens game. Flutie has been back for golf tournaments and charity events, but this will be his first time back at a game in about 20 years. Flutie was on…
Follow Yahoo Finance here for up-to-the-minute briefings on the financial markets, breaking news and other topics of interest to investors and traders. Please check back for continuing coverage.1:00 p.m. ET: ‘Wild’ jobs report pushes back Fed expectations.Economists — once they picked their jaws up off the floor — had high praise for November’s monster jobs…
Editor’s note: We welcome editor Bernd Buchmasser of Pats Pulpit — our sister site covering the New England Patriots— for Five Questions with the Enemy as we head into the Week 14 game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Patriots this Sunday. 1) It’s happening again. There is buzz the sky is falling for…
In his first TV interview as a presidential candidate, Mr. Bloomberg said other Democrats “had a chance to go out and make a lot of money” themselves, and then use it to fund their campaigns.Michael R. Bloomberg in an interview with Gayle King of CBS that aired Friday.Credit…Lazarus Jean-Baptiste/CBS NewsDec. 6, 2019Updated 12:36 p.m. ETMichael…
Stressing that it was “a German death camp, run by Germans,” Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke of the threat posed by revisionist history and rising hatred.Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, center, with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland, second from right, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in southern Poland on Friday.Credit…Janek Skarzynski/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesDec.…
Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg (left) and Bernie Sanders have taken differing positions on how comprehensive free college plans should be, which gets at a philosophical difference over the role of government assistance. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg (left) and Bernie Sanders have taken differing…
Samoan authorities have arrested an anti-vaxxer amid a measles crisis that has killed at least 63 people on the Pacific island.Edwin Tamasese allegedly told health authorities – who have launched a mass immunisation drive – to ‘enjoy your killing spree’.He has now been charged with incitement against a government order, as officials have warned fellow…
(CNN)Nancy Pelosi’s place in the history books is already secure. She will always be the first woman ever to serve as speaker of the House — and the first woman to do so twice. She helped usher the first major overhaul of the US health care system in decades through the House. She led the…
See who could come off the board in April in our way-too-early seven-round mock draft Dec 6, 2019 at 8:40 am ET • 10 min read Rivalry Week is in the books, there’s less than a month left in the NFL regular season, and the actual draft is less than five months away. And while…
(CNN)President Donald Trump has made his contempt for judges known. But when it comes to his fights with the Democratic members of Congress, the courts and the unhurried wheels of justice have been his ally.Trump has been able to stall moves against him through multiple lawsuits, including as he refuses to turn over financial documents…
