- PoliticsYahoo NewsWhite House defends Trump’s debunked claim of massive voter fraud, ‘maybe’ will investigate
White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday doubled down on President Trump’s claim that millions of people voted illegally in the recent presidential election, despite widespread evidence to the contrary. “The president does believe that,” Spicer told reporters during a media briefing. Trump, who had previously made the debunked claim, reportedly repeated it again Monday during a White House reception, where he said 3 to 5 million votes were cast by people who illegally immigrated to the U.S. Trump uses this assertion to argue that he won the popular vote against Hillary Clinton, who beat him by nearly 3 million votes overall.
CelebrityYahoo NewsGeorge H.W. and Barbara Bush are inseparable in hospital, have ‘amazing love for each other’: DoctorsThe doctors at Houston Methodist Hospital said former President George H.W. Bush’s remarkable recovery is a testament to his inner strength and character just as much as to their medical team. Physicians Amy Mynderse and Clint Doerr announced Monday morning that Bush will be moved from the intensive care unit to a regular floor and that his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, has been discharged from the hospital — but she’s still by his side. Like I said, she ended up in the hospital trying to be by his bedside all the time,” Mynderse said at a press conference.
- EntertainmentInside EditionAll Kell Breaks Loose: Kellyanne Conway Allegedly Punched Guest at Inaugural Ball
Donald Trump’s combative adviser Kellyanne Conway may have turned one of her boss' inaugural balls into Friday Night Fights when she allegedly punched a man. Read: Soldier Opens Up About Dance With Melania Trump: 'I Don't Think She Was Ready for All of
NewsReutersMichigan man whose sentence was commuted by Obama killed: mediaDemarlon Thomas, 31, was shot and killed on Monday night by a man with an assault-style rifle in Saginaw, Michigan, around 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Detroit, according to local CBS affiliate WNEM. A spokesman for the Michigan State Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters. Two masked men with assault-style rifles entered the facility where around two dozen people were staying, Michigan State Police Lt. David Kaiser told local news website MLive.com.
- NewsAssociated PressGun rights activists sue over Massachusetts firearms laws
Gun rights activists aided by the National Rifle Association are suing Massachusetts over its firearms laws, saying the state's assault weapons ban is preventing law-abiding residents from buying and possessing some of the most popular rifles in the country, as well as most standard-capacity magazines. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court by the Gun Owners' Action League of Massachusetts and other groups, specifically targets the state's 1998 assault weapons ban, which mirrors a federal ban that expired in 2004. Massachusetts has some of the strictest guns laws in the country.
- NewsInternational Business Times2-Year-Old Still Missing After Being 'Swept Away' By Georgia Tornado
Police searched Monday for a 2-year-old child in Albany, Georgia, who was reported missing as a series of deadly tornadoes tore through the southeastern part of the United States during the weekend. Dougherty County Commission Chairman Christopher Cohilas, told local reporters the mother "reported her 2-year-old child had been swept away during the tornado. The tornadoes destroyed neighborhoods in Mississippi, the Florida Panhandle, Alabama, and southern Georgia.
WorldAFPIn-laws in Zimbabwe steal houses from grieving widowsAs Maliyaziwa Malunga mourns her dead husband, she also battles against his relatives who plot to seize her house in a custom that affects thousands of women in Zimbabwe each year. A Human Rights Watch report released on Tuesday details how in-laws in the country routinely expect to take property and money from bereaved widows soon after their husbands die. When Malunga's husband died in 2013, his relatives locked her in her home, forced her to open her cash box, and stole $4,000 and the title documents to her property.
U.S.Yahoo News VideoNewt Gingrich says Madonna should be arrested over Women’s March speech commentFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich told “Fox & Friends” that Madonna “ought to be arrested” for saying, during a speech at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., she has thought about blowing up the White House.
- WorldForeign Policy MagazineSitRep: New SecDef Reassures NATO; China Angered by WH Statement; Moscow’s Military Cashes in After Sanctions
New Defense Secretary James Mattis made his first calls as secretary on Monday — and notably, all three calls were to NATO allies. Mattis dialed his counterparts in Canada and the U.K. as well as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, where he talked Canada’s contribution to the anti-ISIS coalition in Iraq with Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan, followed by a call to British Defense Minister Michael Fallon, emphasizing the “key role NATO plays in transatlantic security,” the Pentagon’s official readout notes.
- PoliticsYahoo NewsWhite House suggests reporter apologize to Trump over MLK bust correction
At his first official press briefing on Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer criticized the apology of a reporter who had apparently made a mistake reporting that the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office at the direction of President Trump. “We had a tweet go out about Martin Luther King,” Spicer said. On Friday, Time magazine’s Zeke Miller initially reported the bust of King was missing from the Oval Office on Twitter but sent out a correction minutes later, explaining the bust had apparently been obscured by a Secret Service agent.
TechnologyBGR NewsGalaxy S8 announcement set for late MarchSamsung this week revealed what caused the Galaxy Note 7 explosions that eventually led to a global recall, saying that one of the immediate side effects of the battery disaster is the Galaxy S8’s launch delay. The phone was expected to arrive at MWC in Spain for a public debut, but Samsung may only show it behind closed doors to partners attending the show. According to Italian gadget leaker @Ricciolo1, Samsung is planning a multi-city Galaxy S8 event.
- BusinessRoad & TrackHere's Why We Think the 2018 Mustang GT Could Make 455 Horsepower
When we first saw the 2018 Ford Mustang last week, Ford was being coy about exact specifications. Both the GT and the EcoBoost will get horsepower and torque increases Ford said, though the automaker didn't reveal big those increase will be. Autoguide first noticed a tweet from a Ford communications rep, pointing out easter eggs in an image of the 2018 Mustang's new digital gauge cluster.
- WorldYahoo News Photo StaffPhotos of the day — January 23, 2017
Forty-three crosses sit in a vacant lot in the Englewood neighborhood on January 23, 2017 in Chicago, Ill.; a protestor supporting Jallikattu, a traditional bull-taming ritual tries to resist as police remove them from the Marina beach on the Bay of Bengal
- NewsInside EditionMom and 2 Children Vanish Following Alleged Blind Date and House Fire; Father Speaks Out
A father has appealed to the public for help after a Virginia mother and her two children mysteriously vanished after an alleged blind date she had. Monica Lamping, 29, and her two children, 7-year-old Kai and her 9-month-old Oria, were reported missing by family members Sunday at 9:30 a.m., according to police. A fire broke out at Lamping’s home just after 3 a.m. on Sunday, but no one was found inside, according to police.
- WorldAssociated PressAll 6 dead in helicopter crash in central Italy
A helicopter ferrying an injured skier off the slopes slammed into a mountainside in central Italy Tuesday, killing all six people aboard in a new tragedy to hit a region already hobbled by a series of earthquakes, paralyzing snowfall and a deadly avalanche. Visibility at the time was only about 20 meters (yards) "and with the snow conditions visibility was practically nothing," said Marshall Paolo Passalacqua, of the financial police's Alpine division. The helicopter was taking the injured skier from the Campo Felice ski area to L'Aquila, the regional capital about 15 kilometers (10 miles) away.
WorldAFPIn Mozambique, Erdogan asks for action against GulenTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on Mozambican leader Filipe Nyusi to take action against the exiled cleric he blames for last year's failed coup. Erdogan was echoing the call to arms that he made during a stop in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam on Monday as part of his tour of three African countries. "They have a vast sector of schools and associations all around the world, and they have a wide network here in Mozambique as well," Erdogan said.
- NewsReutersGun rights activists sue Massachusetts over assault weapons ban
Gun rights advocates have sued Massachusetts over the state's ban on assault weapons, saying that a crackdown begun last year on "copycat" assault rifles is a vague and unconstitutional violation of gun ownership rights. The group of gun owners, dealers and the state's Gun Owners Action League, who have the backing of the National Rifle Association, said the July decision by Attorney General Maura Healey banned guns that had been purchased legally in the state over the past two decades and infringed on the right to bear arms protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. "Massachusetts prohibits firearms it pejoratively defines as 'assault weapons,' which is a non-technical, entirely fabricated, and political term of uncertain definition and scope," the 33-page lawsuit contends.
WorldAssociated PressIraq premier orders probe into violations by troops in MosulIraq's prime minister on Monday ordered an investigation into violations of human rights and other abuses purportedly committed by government troops and paramilitary forces battling the Islamic State group to retake the city of Mosul. Al-Abadi blamed such incidents on "groups that exploit the good name" of Iraqi soldiers and Shiite and Sunni paramilitaries. Al-Abadi's statement came days after the U.N. demanded a government probe into a video purportedly showing brutal treatment and killing of at least three IS suspects in a newly-taken area in eastern Mosul.
WorldReutersBritain's Brexit plans unlikely to be slowed by Article 50 defeatBy Michael Holden and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to start the process of Britain leaving the European Union by the end of March are unlikely to be hindered or slowed by Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling the government must seek parliamentary approval. In the ruling, judges on Britain's top judicial body upheld an earlier High Court decision that lawmakers had to give their assent before May can invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty which formally starts two-years of divorce talks. "We will not block Article 50," Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the main opposition Labour Party which campaigned against Brexit, said last week.
- BusinessPopular MechanicsThe Sig P320 is the U.S. Army's New Sidearm
After a two-year, $17 million dollar search involving 12 contestants, the U.S. Army has finally picked its first new handgun in 32 years. The Sig Sauer P320 Compact pistol is now the M17 handgun, replacing the M9 Beretta. In 2014, the Army announced a coming competition for a new handgun to replace the M9.
LifestyleAFPModel Hanne Gaby Odiele reveals she is intersexBelgian model Hanne Gaby Odiele is accustomed to the bright lights of high fashion but has stepped into a different sort of spotlight after revealing she is intersex. Odiele has recorded a series of video messages for interACT, an advocacy group for children born with intersex traits.
- NewsInternational Business Times57 Pets Living In 'Inhumane Conditions' Die In Florida House Fire
A couple in central Florida was charged with four counts of animal cruelty Monday after a fire at their home killed 45 cats, five dogs, two raccoons and a macaw. Jacquelyn Traum, 67, and Daniel Brantley, 55, were accused of holding the animals in “inhumane and unsanitary living conditions.” Bond was set at $45,000. Law enforcement officers who responded to the fire at the couple’s Merritt Island, Florida, home on Jan. 11 were able to save the lives of one cat and 14 dogs.
WorldAssociated PressRussia to decriminalize some forms of domestic violenceThe Russian parliament on Wednesday passed the second reading of a controversial bill to decriminalize some forms of domestic violence. The State Duma voted 385-2-1 to eliminate criminal liability for battery on family members that doesn't cause bodily harm. The bill that makes battery on a family member punishable by a fine or a 15-day day arrest has yet to be approved in the third reading.
- PoliticsForeign Policy MagazineAs Promised, Trump Pulls the Plug on the Trans Pacific Partnership
On Monday, President Donald Trump fulfilled one of his big campaign promises, pulling the United States out of the Trans Pacific Partnership, a proposed 12-nation trade pact. Coupled with Trump’s announced intention to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the moves highlight the administration’s intention to reshape long-standing U.S. trade policy away from multilateral deals and back to bilateral deals with individual countries. The formal U.S. departure from TPP — which was already doomed in Congress — will open the door for China to play a bigger role in shaping the future economic environment in Asia, and will likely dismay U.S. allies like Japan.
ScienceAFPUS scientists raise bar for sea level by 2100In the last days of Barack Obama's administration, US government scientists warned even more sea level rise is expected by century's end than previously estimated, due to rapid ice sheet melting at the poles. The report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) set the "extreme" scenario of global average sea level rise by 2100 to 8.2 feet (2.5 meters), up half a meter from the last estimate issued in 2012. "We raised the upper limit of our scenarios," lead author William Sweet told AFP.
