WorldYahoo NewsTrump uses Berlin attack to argue for Muslim registry: ‘All along, I’ve been proven to be right — 100% correct’President-elect Donald Trump emerged from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday afternoon to briefly address questions from reporters about this week’s deadly attacks in Europe. Trump was asked whether Monday’s violence in Germany and Turkey had caused him to “rethink or reevaluate” his plan to create a Muslim registry or a ban on Muslim immigration. “You know my plans,” Trump replied.
- NewsYahoo NewsBizarre North Pole temperatures cap off year of record-setting warmth
Christmastime conjures up beautiful images of the frozen North Pole, but if warming trends continue unabated, Santa’s home will look very different in years to come. The Global Forecast System, a weather prediction system run by the U.S. National Weather Service, forecasts that the temperature at the North Pole could inch close to the melting point of 32 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday — nearly 50 degrees warmer than normal. Zack Labe, a doctoral student who focuses on the global climate system at the University of California, Irvine, said Wednesday that a series of storm systems — which are moving up through the North Atlantic Ocean and off the east coast of Greenland — are drawing warm and moist air into the Arctic — especially near the North Pole.
- BusinessThe DriveHonda May Join Forces with Waymo for Autonomous Research
Recent news hints that Honda may be parternering up with Waymo to develop autonomous cars for the future. Surprisingly, Honda has been somewhat silent on the subject of driverless cars. Honda needs more knowledge on the subject while Waymo simply needs more cars to test.
- NewsInternational Business TimesMississippi Church Parishioner Charged With Arson
Law enforcement authorities have made an arrest in the case of arson and vandalism of the Greenville Hopewell Baptist Church, a black church in Greenville, Mississippi, that was burnt and spray-painted with the words “Vote Trump,” in early November, before the presidential election. Andrew McClinton of Leland, Mississippi, an African-American parishioner of the church, has been charged with first-degree arson of a place of worship, said Warren Strain, spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, according to CBS news affiliate WJTV. McClinton, 45, remained in custody Wednesday night after being taken to the Washington County Detention Center, according to the Clarion-Ledger.
- BusinessThe DriveVolkswagen’s Self-Driving Electric Minibus Concept Arrives Next Month
Phase two of Volkswagen’s autonomous electric future will kick off next month at the Detroit Auto Show, when the carmaker will reveal the second of its forward-looking vehicles: a battery-powered, all-wheel-drive van with a flat face and an adaptable interior. Volkswagen announced the upcoming debut earlier today in a press release. As with sister brand Audi and its low-key declaration of the upcoming Q8 crossover coupe concept, VW kept its announcement short and sweet, releasing a few paragraphs and a single partial picture of the concept’s front.
WorldAFPIS 'burns Turkish troops alive' after Ankara vows no let-upThe Islamic State jihadist group has released a video purportedly showing two captured Turkish soldiers being burned alive, after Ankara vowed to fight "terror" in Syria in response to 16 of its troops being killed in battle. The 19-minute video, showing two uniformed men being hauled from a cage before being bound and torched, was posted on jihadist websites and was supposedly shot in the IS-declared "Aleppo Province" in northern Syria. Speaking in Turkish, the killer of the two men criticises Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and calls for "destruction to be sowed" in Turkey.
- NewsInside EditionParents Killed in Icy Car Crash on Way to See Son Who Was Seriously Injured in Head-On Collision
A Missouri teen seriously injured in a car crash awoke from a medically induced coma only to learn his parents had died in a head-on collision on their way to the hospital. Chris Hahn, 19, suffered several skull fractures and brain swelling after he struck an oncoming car Friday on an icy stretch of highway, authorities said. “Please help me in putting this man’s life back together,” wrote Alexa Daniel on a GoFundMe page she established to help the teenager, who works with her at an area Walmart.
WorldReutersMexico fireworks market blasts kill at least 31, injure scoresBy Josue Gonzalez TULTEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) - A series of massive explosions destroyed a fireworks market outside the Mexican capital on Tuesday, killing at least 31 people, injuring dozens and leaving the market a charred wasteland. It was the third time in just over a decade that explosions have hit the popular San Pablito marketplace in Tultepec, about 20 miles (32 km) north of Mexico City. "People were crying everywhere and desperately running in all directions," said 20-year-old witness Cesar Carmona.
WorldAssociated PressPutin: Russia's military is stronger than any potential foeRussia's military today can overpower any potential foe but should strengthen its nuclear arsenal, President Vladimir Putin told an annual end-of-year meeting Thursday with defense chiefs. Tensions between Russia and the West have been souring ever since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and surreptitious support of separatists in eastern Ukraine. Relations dipped further after Russia last year launched an air offensive in Syria to support President Bashar Assad.
- PoliticsYahoo NewsBill O’Reilly says ‘the left wants power taken away from the white establishment’
Bill O’Reilly used the “Talking Points” segment on his Fox News show Tuesday night to weigh in on the ongoing debate over the Electoral College, claiming those who’d like to see the system abolished are motivated by race. “This is all about race,” O’Reilly said. “The left sees white privilege in America as an oppressive force that must be done away with.
BusinessThe DriveTesla Tops Consumer Reports Owners Satisfaction SurveyIn news that should drive Tesla short sellers nuts, Tesla has topped Consumer Reports’ Owner Satisfaction Survey, beating out Porsche, Audi and Subaru for 1st place, with 91% of owners stating they would buy another. This follows the Tesla Model S winning “Most Loved Model” in the United States earlier this year, and the Model X winning the Golden Steering Wheel award. How is it possible Tesla can persist despite the combined might of the world’s car industry and a concerted and surreptitious public relations effort by the petroleum lobby?
LifestyleElle VideosNo Place in the World Does Christmas as Well as LondonIf you've never seen what London looks like at Christmas, prepare to have your mind blown.
- WorldYahoo News Photo StaffAnis Amri, suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack
Authorities across Europe scrambled Thursday to track down a Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, as one of his brothers urged him to surrender. Nearly three days after the deadly attack that killed 12 people and injured 48 others, the market in the center of the German capital reopened, with concrete blocks in place at the roadside to provide extra security.
- NewsInternational Business TimesCruise Ship Passenger 'Intentionally' Went Overboard
The United States Coast Guard was called in to search for a man who went overboard from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship off the coast of the Florida Keys Thursday morning. “A Coast Guard Air Station Miami MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew, an Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew, a Station Islamorada boat crew and the Cutter Margaret Norvell crew are assisting in the search,” the Coast Guard said in a news release. Royal Caribbean confirmed the Independence of the Seas cruise ship was finishing a four-night trip and was on its way back to port in Florida when the incident occurred.
WorldAFPIran completes huge deal for 100 Airbus planesIran's national carrier Iran Air on Thursday completed an order for 100 Airbus planes with a list price of around $20 billion (19 billion euros) as the Islamic Republic opens up to the West. The order follows a commitment inked in January when President Hassan Rouhani visited Paris in the wake of a deal between Western powers and Iran over its nuclear programme. The jets will bolster Iran's ageing passenger fleet with the addition of 46 A320 planes for medium-haul routes, 38 long-haul A330s and 16 A350s, the European aircraft maker said in a statement.
- NewsInside EditionPolice Officer Ties Tie for College Student He Pulled Over for Speeding - Instead of Giving Him Ticket
Maybe it was the fashion police who pulled him over. When stopped for speeding, University of Wisconsin-Stout student Trevor Keeney told Officer Martin Folczyk he was running late for an important presentation and could not tie his tie. Read: Cops ID
WorldReutersTrauma of Islamic State rule follows Iraqi women out of MosulBy Stephen Kalin KHAZIR, Iraq (Reuters) - One wrong word to an Islamic State fighter in Mosul last year was all it took to set in motion a harrowing chain of events for an Iraqi woman who became so traumatized that she trembled in fear even after escaping the group's control. "I made the mistake of telling them my husband had been a victim of terrorism," she said in an interview on Tuesday at a government-run camp in Khazir, east of Mosul. Islamic State, which is putting up fierce resistance to a U.S.-backed offensive to retake Mosul, the group's last major stronghold in Iraq, has been accused of massacre, enslavement and rape since it swept across large swathes of the country's north and west in 2014.
WorldAssociated PressWinds may finally clear 'scary' pollution from China's skiesThe dense smog that has smothered much of China for five days may finally soon clear, forecasters and state media said Wednesday, giving relief to hundreds of millions of people breathing dangerously polluted air and struggling under the government's emergency measures. The national weather authority forecast that nighttime winds will push out much of the pollution that has left Beijing and dozens of other cities under a five-day "red alert," the highest level in China's four-tiered warning system. Schools were closed, flights canceled and factories and highways shut down in attempts to improve the air quality.
- PoliticsYahoo NewsTrump’s ‘very famous doctor’ speaks: 8 bizarre quotes from Dr. Harold Bornstein
Bornstein’s profile exploded, in part because he shared his patient’s penchant for excessive verbiage (his letter also paid homage to Trump’s “astonishingly excellent” lab test results and “extraordinary” strength and stamina) and his kooky appearance: shoulder-length hair, round tortoise-shell glasses and a rotation of black turtlenecks that would put most beatniks to shame. In a new interview with STAT News — his first since the election — Bornstein lived up to his eccentric reputation, sounding off on everything from the virility of the president-elect to the fate that awaits his interviewer. “If something happens to him [Trump], then it happens to him.
- BusinessThe DriveThe Porsche 911 Turbo S Is the Powered Exoskeleton Drivers Need Now
You’re at the wheel of the 2017 Porsche 911 Turbo S. A few laps around a racetrack and there it is: the feeling that Porsche engineers, with all their actuators and algorithms, have been edging us closer and closer to machinery that’s less a car than a man-machine interface. A devastating performer with the numbers to match: Zero to 60 in under three seconds, standing quarter-mile in just over 10 seconds, and a lap around the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:18, as Porsche estimated earlier this year (when Nürburgring officials barred unrestricted laps). Porsche Turbos have always been sexy in the way a 14-cylinder, 100,000-hp Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C diesel engine is.
- WorldThe AtlanticCan Trump Reverse Obama's Arctic-Drilling Ban?
In the autumn of 1948, President Harry Truman made an important declaration about who controlled the huge seams of oil and gas hidden beneath the seafloor around the coast of the United States. The Supreme Court had set the stage for Truman’s proclamation a year earlier when it ruled the federal government, and not coastal states, owned the seabed. Under that law, the president can sell leases for the right to mine federal oil reserves in the “outer continental shelf,” a legally defined area that begins three miles from shore and extends to the 200-mile international-waters boundary.
- WorldYahoo News Photo StaffDeadly blast destroys Mexican fireworks market
A powerful chain-reaction explosion ripped through Mexico’s best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital Tuesday, killing at least 29 people, injuring scores more and sending a huge plume of charcoal-gray smoke billowing into the
- LifestyleABC News VideosFor Christmas, Duck on Duck on Duck
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WorldAFPPope tells Vatican to put women, lay experts into top jobsPope Francis on Thursday told Vatican officials to start appointing women and lay people to top jobs in the Curia, the Holy See bureaucracy that he is seeking to shake-up. In his latest broadside against resistance to change in the Catholic Church's corridors of power, the 80-year-old pontiff warned that the reform process he launched in 2013 had to lead to more than a cosmetic "face-lift" or plastic surgery to remove wrinkles. "Dear brothers, it's not the wrinkles in the church that you should fear, but the stains!" Francis said in his Christmas speech to senior Curia officials.
- LifestyleInside EditionTeen Dies in Snowmobiling Accident Days After His Family's Christmas Presents Were Stolen
Logan Billman, 14, was off from school when he suggested to his 15-year-old cousin and best friend, Wyatt Billman, that they go on a snowmobile ride behind their homes in the foothills of Idaho Falls Monday. “They take off for the water tower... and you’ve got to go through some dips and ravines — they don’t normally go to this spot [in the winter],” James Billman, Wyatt’s father and Logan’s uncle, told InsideEdition.com. Wyatt, who had been driving, jumped off the machine as it fell and yelled at Logan to do the same.
