- U.S.The DriveThis 356 Speedster "Barn Find" Just Sold For $605,000
On Saturday evening in Hilton Head, South Carolina, this 356 Speedster was sold at auction. Nobody in the room could have imagined what price it might bring, and certainly nobody expected the bidding to increase that number to nearly three times as much
- PoliticsAssociated PressThe Latest: Trump raps McAuliffe for restoring voting rights
Donald Trump is accusing Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe of acting "illegally" to return voting rights to convicted felons who've served their sentences. Pence says New Hampshire voters can make sure Clinton will never be president.
- U.S.Inside EditionMan, Who Allegedly Chained Woman in Container, Confesses to 2003 Quadruple Murder: Cops
The South Carolina kidnapping suspect who allegedly chained a woman in a storage container for two months has reportedly confessed to a 2003 quadruple murder and may have killed three others, according to police. Officials arrested Todd Kohlhepp, 45, for kidnapping on Thursday after finding 30-year-old Kala Brown chained by the neck and ankle in a storage container on his property. Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said Kohlhepp told detectives details of the four murders that only the killer would have known.
- BusinessThe DriveThere’s a 700-hp Mercedes G63 AMG 6x6 For Sale In America
Mercedes-Benz calls the G63 AMG 6x6 the “automotive declaration of independence.” Seems about right. The only thing keeping the G63 AMG 6x6 from being perfect is that Mercedes never officially sold it in the United States. See: This 2014 Mercedes-Benz G63 6x6, with all of 3,000 miles on the odometer, just listed on Dupont Registry.
WorldAFPBasque separatist group leader nabbed in FranceThe most senior ETA leader still at large was arrested Saturday in southwest France, Spanish authorities said, dealing another major blow to the embattled Basque separatist group. Mikel Irastorza, 41, was found in a home in the French town of Ascain, in the Pyrenees region bordering Spain, the interior ministry said in a statement. On Friday French authorities opened a preliminary investigation into alleged criminal association with a terrorist organisation.
- PoliticsABC News VideosHow Kids Would Pick the President
ABC News caught up with some of America's youngest "voters" during the children's mock election at Madame Tussauds in Washington, DC. New tagline. There he. I came here to talk about fast. Native over. So genuine and I don't remember land and the fire
WorldReutersEU's Juncker shocked by 'liberal' German commissioner's remarksEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he was shocked by remarks by Germany's European commissioner that offended China, gay people and French-speaking Belgians this week, but was convinced they do not represent his true views. Juncker was commenting in his first interview on the matter since Guenther Oettinger last week called Chinese people "slit-eyes", joked about "compulsory gay marriage" and railed at a Belgian region's efforts to block an EU-Canada trade deal. "A Commissioner cannot hold such views.
- BusinessThe DriveMcDonald’s Drive-Thru Goes Digital
McDonald’s has more than 36,000 locations worldwide. More and more, McDonald’s is looking like a towering (if slowly eroding) twentieth-century monolith. McDonald’s plans to roll out the new smartphone pay-and-pickup technology next year, both in the U.S. market and other leading world economies, namely Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and France.
BusinessAFPGerman prosecutors extend 'dieselgate' probe to VW chairmanGerman prosecutors probing whether Volkswagen executives manipulated the markets in the wake of the "dieselgate" scandal have widened their investigation to include the group's supervisory board chief, the embattled auto giant said Sunday. VW said the probe had now also ensnared board chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch, who was only appointed last year, and would focus on his previous role as the group's chief financial officer. The announcement is a fresh blow to VW's efforts to move on from the worst crisis in its history, which erupted after the group admitted in September 2015 to installing software in 11 million diesel engines worldwide that could dupe emissions tests to make the cars seem less polluting than they were.
- WorldYahoo News Photo StaffReviving a medieval Italian village
A village that lived for centuries off agriculture and wool, Santo Stefano di Sessanio has just 108 inhabitants, less than a tenth of its pre-World War I population, according to its mayor. Decades later, its untouched architecture caught the attention of Swedish-Italian entrepreneur Daniele Kihlgren, who came across it on a 1999 motorcycle trip. The project has drawn tourists and injected life back into the village, according to locals.
PoliticsAssociated Press'Bridgegate' again interrupts Christie's political plansNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie planned to make his return to the campaign trail for Donald Trump, appearing in public for the Republican presidential nominee for the first time in months to rally voters in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania on the final weekend before Election Day. Then Bridgegate interrupted his plans — again. While Trump's campaign had announced before the verdict that Christie would stump for him on Saturday, they said later Friday that he would not be on the trail Saturday.
- EntertainmentUPROXXLeBron James Introduced Hillary Clinton At A Rally In Ohio With Some Help From J.R. Smith
It’s hard to say if he changed any minds, but it’s nonetheless a big deal that LeBron James endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Now that the campaign is on its home stretch, LeBron is doing more than supporting Hillary with words – he’s getting out there on the campaign trail together with her.
- U.S.Inside EditionDad Kills His Two Young Sons And Then Turns Gun On Himself During Amber Alert: Cops
A father killed his two young sons before turning the gun on himself in St. Louis on Saturday night. The man, who police identified as Christopher Cadenbach, had a $100,000 bond issued for his arrest in connection with a previous domestic violence dispute, but on Saturday afternoon when he met with this mom and two sons at the park, he said “he wasn’t going to be taken alive,” according to reports. Police said Cadenbach left the park in his mom’s car with the two boys, 5-year-old Ethan and 4-year-old Owen, and then she called police.
WorldAFPUS forces say airstrikes 'very likely' caused Afghan casualtiesUS forces conceded Saturday that its air strikes "very likely" resulted in civilian casualties in Afghanistan's volatile Kunduz province, pledging a full investigation into the incident which triggered angry protests. "The president of Afghanistan has sent a special delegation to Kunduz to investigate the incident. US military spokesman Charles Cleveland said an initial probe showed the attack "very likely resulted in civilian casualties".
BusinessReutersCanada oil spill program hit by cheap crude, lacks applicantsThe two-year oil price crash has hurt a Canadian government program that funds research on oil spill cleanups, resulting in fewer applicants than expected, a senior federal official said. As a result, the government will expand the scope of its Oil Spill Response Science Program and open a second call for applications this month, Marc Wickham, Natural Resources Canada's director of energy science and technology programs, said in an interview late last week. The program funds research that improves cleanup methods for marine oil spills.
- WorldReutersPentagon identifies three Army trainers killed in Jordan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department on Sunday identified three U.S. Army trainers killed on Friday when their convoy came under fire as it entered a military base in Jordan. The Pentagon said the three were members part of
PoliticsAssociated PressRichmond mayor race: Sex scandals, comebacks, party clashesMix a heaping of Anthony Weiner-like sex scandals, a dash of a Donald Trump-like clash with the establishment, and a sprinkling of Marion Barry-style political comebacks and you get the potential next mayor of Virginia's capital. Joe Morrissey made national news last year when he won re-election to the General Assembly while spending his nights in jail because of a sex scandal involving a teenager he later married. Like disgraced former Rep. Weiner, sending sexually charged texts has gotten Morrissey in trouble.
WorldAFPSyria's last weavers abandon looms without threadWith the deftness of decades of experience, Abu Mohammad wove thick green thread with a wooden loom in northwest Syria, creating a vibrant geometric pattern renowned among Arabic textiles. It was the last day before the weaver in his 50s would be forced to close the workshop, leaving the last five remaining looms in his hometown of Ariha in Idlib province to gather dust. Weaving has been devastated by Syria's five-year civil war, with thread becoming too difficult to procure from Aleppo -- once the country's artisanal hub but now ravaged by fighting and bombardment.
- ScienceMashableThese scientific breakthroughs could help address the world's water crisis
Satellite data that helps fight cholera. Models that predict how shifting rivers can affect drinking water. The bi-annual prize, established by the late Saudi prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz in 2002, recognizes researchers who are creatively addressing problems of water scarcity, an issue that's top of mind to the desert Saudi kingdom.
- SportsYahoo News Photo Staff2016 New York City Marathon
Eritrean world champion Ghirmay Ghebreslassie and Kenyan Mary Keitany powered to dominant victories in the New York City Marathon on Sunday. Keitany became the first woman in three decades to win three consecutive New York marathons with a runaway performance. Ghebreslassie’s victory ended a string of four victories in a row by Kenyan men in the race and denied the African nation a fourth consecutive sweep of New York men’s and women’s titles.
PoliticsAssociated PressHeavy turnout in Nevada after long push to drive Latino voteIt was more than two hours after early voting was scheduled to end at a Mexican grocery store in Las Vegas and the last voters were still trickling out of the sliding glass doors, fresh from casting their ballots next to mounds of dried chiles, rows of piñatas and a horchata stand. Isabel Garcia and her two young children stood firm for about two hours in a line that at one point snaked back and forth several times over in front of the supermarket in this heavily Hispanic neighborhood. Democratic operatives joked on Twitter that Donald Trump was finally getting his wall — a crush of Nevadans like Garcia who were determined to vote against him.
- U.S.Inside EditionTeen Allegedly Beats Grandmother to Death Out of Anger That She Hid His Beer
A Florida teen was arrested after allegedly beating his grandmother to death because she hid his beer, police said. Dylan Brougham, 18, is charged with the murder of his 69-year-old grandmother Joyce Courson. Police responded to the Jacksonville residence on a call of a domestic disturbance in early October and discovered Courson on the floor bleeding from her face, police said.
WorldAFPTurkish court jails nine staff of opposition dailyAn Istanbul court on Saturday remanded in custody nine staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in an intensifying crackdown a day after the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish party were also jailed. Nine MPs from the opposition pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), including its co-leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, were also detained pending a trial on terror charges expected to begin Friday. Istanbul police used tear gas, water cannon and plastic bullets to break up a protest by hundreds of people against the arrest of the deputies, AFP correspondents said.
- StyleABC News VideosBreaking Down the Electoral Map Two Days Ahead of Election Day
ABC's Jonathan Karl maps each candidate's path to victory on Election Day. Now let's bring in Jon Karl we take a deeper dive that the electoral map you have our latest ratings and ABC news that's right and as it has been throughout this campaign to maps still favors Hillary Clinton all of the battleground has expanded over the past week. The red states are states that we have rated a Danish trump blue advantage Hillary Clinton grayer the toss ups and if you look at it right now George Hillary Clinton.
- BusinessReutersGE alerts airlines about engine part after American Airlines fire
On Oct. 28, American Airlines Flight 383 from Chicago to Miami aborted takeoff following an "uncontained" engine failure, a rare event in which components spew from an engine and can tear through the aircraft cabin or rupture fuel tanks in the wings. An American Airlines spokesman said none of the company's aircraft in operation had the additional parts that GE referred to in the letter.
