Month: November 2019

Welcome to 2020 Vision, the Yahoo News column covering the presidential race with one key takeaway every weekday and a wrap-up each weekend. Reminder: There are 69 days until the Iowa caucuses and 343 days until the 2020 election. It’s been a recurring theme of the overcrowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign. Ask voters how…

The Indiana man charged in the July death of his 18-month-old granddaughter who fell from a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico says he was in “disbelief” and “shock” when he realized what had happened. Speaking to CBS This Morning in his first sit-down interview after being charged with negligent homicide, the grandfather, Salvatore Anello, described holding the little…

A northern Indiana grandfather insisted he had no idea a cruise ship window was open when Chloe Wiegand fell to her death at a port in Puerto Rico. “I didn’t realize there wasn’t any glass until the absolutely that it was too late,” Salvatore Anello told “CBS This Morning” in a story that aired Tuesday.  “When she first fell, I…

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has formally proposed to the United States that the two nuclear superpowers extend their New START arms control treaty by five years, though Moscow would also settle for a shorter extension, a senior Russian official said on Wednesday. The New START accord, which is due to expire in February 2021, is…

A South Korean pop star has become the latest celebrity to spark anger on the Chinese internet after he “liked” a tweet about the divisive issue of pro-democracy unrest in Hong Kong. Choi Siwon, a member of popular K-pop boy band Super Junior, was forced to apologise twice after liking a post on Twitter by…

By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) – The safe-haven yen rose against the dollar after U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, which could complicate efforts to end the U.S.-China trade war. That caused the yuan to fall in offshore trade on mounting worries that months of often violent…

Hong Kong police on Thursday entered a ransacked university campus where authorities faced off for days with barricaded pro-democracy protesters, looking for petrol bombs and other dangerous materials left over from the occupation. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University became the epicentre of the territory’s increasingly violent protest movement when clashes broke out on November 17…

A couple convicted of a brutal double murder in 1985 have won their release from prison, and will now be handed over to immigration authorities for deportation. Jens Soering and Elizabeth Haysom were convicted in the brutal murders of Haysom’s parents, in an attack that rocked Virginia at a time when sensational crime wasn’t the norm for major…

Reuters/Yuri Gripas A federal judge this week threw a wrench into President Donald Trump’s strategy of stonewalling Congress by ordering witnesses not to comply with subpoenas. That strategy is based on a nonexistent legal theory claiming “absolute immunity” from legislative oversight. In ruling that the former White House counsel Don McGahn must comply with a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Bolton’s attorney suggested Tuesday that a court order directing former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before Congress has no bearing on whether his client and another ex-national security official he represents will testify. The statement from attorney Charles Cooper aimed to blunt public speculation that the judge’s order in…