Month: December 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 38 days until the Iowa caucuses and 312 days until the 2020 election. With the Iowa caucuses now just 38 days away, Democratic Party insiders are coming to terms with…

LOS ANGELES — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was campaigning for Bernie Sanders at a jampacked beach-side rally last week when she took a moment to look beyond 2020. “I know, and we all know, that this isn’t just about Bernie Sanders,” she said. “This is about a movement that has been decades in the making.” Since endorsing…

Key point: Due to international sanctions, the North’s mineral and energy resources likely will remain untapped for the foreseeable future, barring an abrupt shift in policy by Pyongyang. With China accounting for an estimated 90 percent of North Korea’s international trade, the sanctions are set to bite on one of the regime’s last major remaining sources…

Isis has released a video that shows its militant fighters executing 11 Christians in Nigeria. The militant group’s west African offshoot posted footage to Telegram on Boxing Day, showing men in uniforms and black masks beheading 10 blindfolded captives and shooting an eleventh prisoner. The so-called Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap), a faction of…

A dehydrated and confused koala approached a passing cyclist in what appeared to be a call for help, as a heatwave and wild fires continued to grip Australia. Anna Heuseler was with a group of cyclists heading towards Adelaide in temperatures of up to 40C when they spotted the animal sitting in the middle of…

  Instagram A group of cyclists found a koala in the middle of the road, looking dehydrated and confused on Friday. In what appeared to be a cry for help in the heat, the koala climbed on to one of the cyclist’s bikes.  The cyclist, identified by The Independent as Anna Heuseler, filmed the koala…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s top financial investigator on Friday reported on the webs of corruption and money laundering that thieves, traffickers and political figures have used to hide their wealth. Santiago Nieto, the head of Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit, said a federal judge took bribes to rule in favor of the violent Jalisco cartel,…

Authorities in Massachusetts investigating the deaths of a mother and her two children outside a parking garage on Christmas Day believe all three died in a double murder-suicide, PEOPLE learns. On Thursday, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins identified the mother as 40-year-old Erin Pascal, a resident of West Roxbury. Investigators suspect Pascal either pushed…

Authorities in Boston have identified a mother and two children who died in a suspected murder-suicide after their bodies were found outside a parking garage on Christmas Day. Erin Pascal, 40, and her two children — Allison, 4, and Andrew, 16 months — were identified in a Thursday news release from Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. “Our investigation is showing the…

A woman and two children are dead following a Christmas Day incident at a Northeastern University parking garage in Boston, CBS Boston reports. Police responded just before 1:30 p.m. to the Renaissance Park Garage, where they found the three unconscious. They were pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. “At this point, this is a death…