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Dozens Have Died In The California Wildfires. Here Are Some Of Their Stories.

At least 50 people have been killed in the wildfires raging at both ends of

Howard Dean: Republicans will 'have a terrible time because they’re getting older and whiter'

Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean was pleased with the party’s performance in last week’s midterm elections — and not just because it regained control of the House.

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Death Toll Mounts To 48 In Northern California Fire, Deadliest In State History

The death toll in Northern California's Camp fire climbed higher on Tuesday as

Saudi king to resume domestic tour amid Khashoggi fallout

Saudi King Salman will resume an unprecedented domestic tour next week, the royal court said Tuesday, as the kingdom grapples with an international crisis over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The king is now set to visit the "northern regions of the kingdom" next week to "inspect the condition of citizens and inaugurate a number of development projects", the official Saudi Press Agency said citing the royal court. SPA said the king is also set to address the Shura Council, a top advisory body, on Monday, in his first public comments since the murder of insider-turned-critic Khashoggi on October 2 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

10-year-old stops potential kidnapper by asking for family's secret 'code word'

A 10-year-old Arizona girl says she was able to ward off a potential kidnapper

No, This Is NOT the 2020 Ford Bronco (It's the "Baby Bronco" Crossover)

A leaked image from a Ford dealer presentation shows the smaller SUV.

'Never Nancy': Democrats ramp up efforts to sideline Pelosi

A band of House Democrats are determined to oppose House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's speaker bid.

Wisconsin Student Speaks Out On Nazi Salute Prom Photo: 'It Was A Scary Moment'

A Wisconsin high school student who refused to raise his arm in an apparent

Trump rips Macron for denouncing nationalism: 'MAKE FRANCE GREAT AGAIN!'

President Trump lashed out at France on Twitter Tuesday, chastising French President Emmanuel Macron for denouncing nationalism.

Cory Booker says the Georgia election is being 'stolen' from Stacey Abrams

“I think that Stacey Abrams’s election is being stolen from her, using what I think are insidious measures to disenfranchise certain groups of people,” Booker said.

Yahoo News Explains: Is the Vatican doing enough to address sexual abuse in the church?

The Vatican halted a plan by U.S. bishops to address the age-old sexual abuse issues plaguing the Roman Catholic Church.

New York City Politicians Welcomed Amazon In 2017 Letter To Jeff Bezos

The vast majority of elected officials in New York City signed a letter to

Best Bites: Red wine short ribs

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Brexit protests outside Downing Street as UK ministers debate deal

Brexit supporters and opponents rallied near Prime Minister Theresa May's Downing Street office on Wednesday as her cabinet debated the draft divorce deal inside. Pro-Brexit campaigners urged her to scrap the tentative agreement and make a clean break with European Union without paying a penny more into the EU budget. Around 100 demonstrators gathered opposite the Downing Street entrance gates, chanting "Theresa May, don't betray!" and "What do we want?

Woman wears wedding gown after fiance dies in Lion Air crash

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian woman whose fiance died on a Lion Air flight that plunged into the sea was photographed in her wedding dress and professed her love for him on the day they were to have been married.

Ryan Zinke Says California Wildfires Are Getting Worse But Won’t Mention ‘Climate Change’

After Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke visited Northern California communities

Retired Firefighter Sentenced For Shooting At Black Teen Who Sought Directions

A retired white firefighter who fired a shotgun at a black teenager after the

Associate of Trump ally expects Mueller contact soon on plea deal

Jerome Corsi, a right-wing commentator who has promoted political conspiracy theories, told Reuters on Tuesday that his lawyer was told by the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller last week that their next discussion, possibly on Tuesday, would be "about pleas." "So by pleas I assumed their plan was to indict me," Corsi said in a telephone interview, adding he was not given any information about the likely basis for any charge against him. David Gray, Corsi's attorney, also declined to comment. Corsi's remarks come a day after he grabbed headlines with a livestream posted to YouTube, in which he said he expected to be criminally charged after two months of cooperation with Mueller's probe.

Donald Trump Thinks You Need ID To Buy Cereal

President Donald Trump expressed the extent of his knowledge on voter ID laws

Civilians in Israel, Gaza feel helpless amid new fighting

ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Loren Amar was watching TV with her father around midnight when an air-raid siren warning of incoming rocket fire blared through their working-class neighborhood in southern Israel.

Amazon HQ Move Criticized by New York City Council, U.S. Senator

About 250 people huddled against the cold wind in Long Island City Wednesday, near the East River site where Amazon plans to move in. U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand later used a Twitter posting to join the chorus of critics. The gathering in Queens included dozens of elected officials, including City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, who represents the district that includes Long Island City and who said he’d been shut out of any negotiations and only learned the deal had been consummated by reading about it in the newspaper.

12 Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes That Don't Sacrifice Flavor

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Duterte defends need to 'power nap' after summit no-shows

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday made light of his penchant for daytime dozes after his office said "power naps" had caused the gruff leader to miss a number of key meetings at a Singapore summit. Duterte is attending the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting alongside a string of world leaders including Russia's Vladimir Putin, Japan's Shinzo Abe, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and US Vice-President Mike Pence.

Here's What Smoke From the Deadly California Wildfires Looks Like From Space

Images show thick plumes of wildfire smoke rising above California

X-ray images show tools Khashoggi killers brought to Istanbul, Turkish paper claims

The 15-strong Saudi kill team responsible for the murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi carried luggage containing scissors, syringes and a stun gun, a pro-government Turkish paper has claimed. Sabah, a daily newspaper headquartered in Istanbul, published images on Tuesday purported to be airport X-ray scans of the team's bags as they left Istanbul for Riyadh on October 2, the day of Mr Khashoggi’s murder.  A number of tools and pieces of equipment can be seen, including walkie-talkies, a signal jammer and a pair of scissors.  The bags were loaded onto two private jets but police were not able to open them due to diplomatic immunity, according to the report. The paper, which is close to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), is one of a number of outlets that has published a steady stream of leaks providing lurid details of Khashoggi’s death, a tactic seemingly designed to keep pressure on Riyadh and its allies. How the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi unfolded Mr Khashoggi, a regular contributor to the Washington Post, was killed in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate while attempting to secure paperwork that would allow him to remarry.  According to Istanbul’s chief prosecutor, he was strangled and his body dismembered soon after entering the building.  Saudi officials initially denied all involvement but in the face of mounting international outrage admitted that the columnist had been killed as part of a “rogue” operation. The X-ray images were published as the New York Times reported that in an audio recording of the killing, one of the team responsible can be heard instructing a superior to "tell your boss" after the murder takes place, a suspected reference to Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince.  Khashoggi was once close to the royal family but went into self-imposed exile last year and had since been critical of the Crown Prince in his writing. Mr Erdogan described the tape as a “calamity” this week and said it shocked even a Saudi intelligence officer who listened to it, according to local media. The Turkish president added that orders for the killing came from the highest levels of the kingdom.

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Georgia Legislator, Arrested At Work, Says She Was ‘Singled Out As A Black Female Senator'

Georgia state Sen. Nikema Williams (D-Atlanta) was arrested along with more

The Latest: Group says strikes damaged dozens of Gaza homes

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the cease-fire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers (all times local):

Ocasio-Cortez Claims New Yorkers Are ‘Outraged’ Over Opening of New Amazon Headquarters

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the democratic socialist who unseated Rep. Joe Crowley in a shocking upset earlier this year, expressed “outrage” on behalf of her constituents over the opening of a new Amazon headquarters in Long Island City, Queens. Amazon is a billion-dollar company. The tweets were sent just hours after the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon plans to open two new east coast locations, one in in Crystal City, Va. and another Long Island City, creating a total 25,000 jobs in the process.

Fast food manager attacked by woman over ketchup

Police say they are searching for a McDonald's customer caught on surveillance video attacking two employees last month at a restaurant in Santa Ana, California.

Michelle Obama Says She And Barack Are 'Finding Each Other Again' In Post-White House Romance

Michelle Obama is getting candid about her relationship with her husband of

Watch California's powerful, relentless winds stoke the state's fires

It's the time of year when winds really kick up in California, and firefighters on Tuesday night captured footage of relentless gusts driving a new blaze over the parched terrain.  Firefighters in San Bernardino County — an arid region east of Los Angeles — spent the night combatting the newly-born Sierra Fire amid potent seasonal winds, known as Santa Anas. Though this particular fire (147 acres and well-contained), is quite small compared to the expansive Camp and Woolsey fires, it shows how persistent 50 mph gusts can whip fire over the land — land that has been parched by a confluence of dry winds and a long, scorching summer.  #SierraFire: Footage from earlier this evening. In #SantaAnaWinds, Dozers can often engage where it’s too dangerous for handcrews. A decisive force multiplier in tonight’s firefight. ^eas pic.twitter.com/gtqmJB5pk6 — SB County Fire (@SBCOUNTYFIRE) November 14, 2018 In the video, a bulldozer, which had been clearing vegetation to limit the spread of fire into an adjacent community, can be seen working while the winds blow smoke through the air and stoke brush fires in the background. Santa Ana winds are notorious for stoking fall fires in California. These dry winds, traveling east from the great U.S. deserts, pick up in the fall and eventually peak in December, Sasha Gershunov, a research meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said in an interview.  But typically by mid-November — and certainly December — some rains will wet the dry California vegetation.  The winds will always blow, but these days they're increasingly gusting over dried-out terrain. This makes for perfect fire conditions.  SEE ALSO: When will this terrible wildfire season in California end? "Now we’re in our traditional fire season, but the fuels are untraditionally dry this late into the season," said Gershunov. "This seems to be getting more common as the climate changes," he added. Some of the most destructive, deadliest wildfires occur in Southern California, a place not defined by pine forests, but shrubs and grasslands.  Here, a confluence of Santa Ana winds, development in fire-prone areas, and climate change have boosted the state's growing wildfire woes. Overall, the amount of land burned in the United States has more than doubled over the last 30 years, and predictably, these fires have been enhanced by a warming globe. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?

Iran's president: U.S. chose wrong path on sanctions, will be defeated

The United States has chosen the wrong path in reimposing sanctions on Iran and will be defeated, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday, according to the Tasnim news agency. Washington reinstated sanctions targeting Iran's oil industry on Nov. 5 as it seeks to force the Islamic Republic to accept tougher curbs on its nuclear program, halt its development of ballistic missiles as well as its support for proxy forces in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. The path they have chosen is wrong and incorrect," Rouhani said.

Deadly wildfires continue to burn in California

Deadly wildfires are continuing to burn in Northern and Southern California. The Camp Fire in Northern California is now the deadliest fire in the state's history, having killed at least 42 people. The Woolsey Fire and Hill Fire continue to burn in Southern California. All three fires began on Thursday.

Family charged with murders of eight people on marijuana farm

Four members of one family have been arrested in connection the massacre of another family on an Ohio marijuana farm. The eight victims, who ranged in age from 16 to 44, were found dead in four separate homes on their farm in Pike County in 2016. Parents George “Billy” Wagner III, 47, and Angela Wagner, 48, were arrested alongside their two sons George Wagner IV, 27, and Edward “Jake” Wagner, 26.

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Trump Picks Retired General To Fill Vacancy As Ambassador To Saudi Arabia

President Donald Trump has nominated retired Army Gen. John Abizaid to fill

New Amazon HQ split between New York, Washington suburbs

Amazon's "second headquarters" is being split between New York City and the Washington suburbs, the US tech giant announced Tuesday, capping a yearlong contest that saw dozens of cities fight it out for a promised $5 billion investment and 50,000 expected jobs. The chosen locations are Long Island City neighborhood in the New York borough of Queens, across the East River from Manhattan, and the Crystal City section of Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac from the US capital. Both districts offered a variety of tax and infrastructure incentives to lure the huge corporate prize, but Amazon said one important element was access to a qualified workforce.

Senate Candidate's Unbothered Dog Is the True Star of This Concession Video

He's a very good dog, no matter his politics

Some Of The First Migrants From Caravan To Reach U.S. Border Are LGBTQ Asylum Seekers

Several hundred members of the migrant caravan moving through Central America

The California Fire That Killed 48 People Is the Deadliest U.S. Wildfire in a Century

"California has always burned and its always going to burn whether there are people there or not," Sowers said. "We've got a combination of drought that makes it so much worse and high populations of people moving into those foothills creating a perfect storm, it's an awful situation."

Former SS guard testifies he was aware of camp conditions

BERLIN (AP) — A 94-year-old former SS concentration guard on trial on hundreds of counts of accessory to murder painted himself Tuesday as an unwilling participant in the Nazi machinery of death.

Georgia Lawmaker Arrested Amid Protest To Count Every Vote In Governor Race

A Georgia state senator who joined protesters at the state Capitol building in

Toyota Is Making TRD Versions of the Avalon and Camry

Are these mainstream sedans finally getting serious about performance?

Dan Crenshaw Isn't Buying Into 'Outrage Culture,' Urges Nation To Rediscover Civility

Rep.-elect Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) called for a restoration of civility in an

UK's May takes Brexit deal to cabinet as MPs revolt

British Prime Minister Theresa May will seek her cabinet's approval Wednesday for a long-awaited divorce deal with the EU but hardline Brexiteer MPs warned they will seek to block it in parliament. After months of talks, May's office announced late Tuesday that negotiators had finally struck a draft agreement on the terms of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union next March. The pound surged following the news, which came just as Brussels stepped up preparations for a potentially catastrophic "no deal" exit.