Bernie Sanders, who is on a tour of college campuses campaigning for his former rival, Hillary Clinton, was in Iowa over the weekend. Kaleb Vanfosson, a sophomore political science major and president of the school’s Students for Bernie club, began his speech talking about student debt. “While the part-time reality star and full-time bigot Donald Trump thinks that hard-working immigrants are what’s wrong with our country, he fails to even talk about this issue,” Vanfosson said.
On Saturday evening in Hilton Head, South Carolina, this 356 Speedster was sold at auction. Nobody in the room could have imagined what price it might bring, and certainly nobody expected the bidding to increase that number to nearly three times as much
The South Carolina kidnapping suspect who allegedly chained a woman in a storage container for two months has reportedly confessed to a 2003 quadruple murder and may have killed three others, according to police. Officials arrested Todd Kohlhepp, 45, for kidnapping on Thursday after finding 30-year-old Kala Brown chained by the neck and ankle in a storage container on his property. Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said Kohlhepp told detectives details of the four murders that only the killer would have known.
Mercedes-Benz calls the G63 AMG 6x6 the “automotive declaration of independence.” Seems about right. The only thing keeping the G63 AMG 6x6 from being perfect is that Mercedes never officially sold it in the United States. See: This 2014 Mercedes-Benz G63 6x6, with all of 3,000 miles on the odometer, just listed on Dupont Registry.
Zahida Fathi sat on a military-issued cot, rocking back and forth and repeating the names of the dead — her husband and six of her children, killed when a car bomb exploded near their home as they were trying to flee clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State fighters in the city of Mosul. As Iraqi forces struggle to secure the gains they made over the past week on Mosul's eastern edge, the fight against IS has quickly morphed into close-quarters urban combat. With it, casualties among Iraq's troops and civilians are spiking.
German prosecutors probing whether Volkswagen executives manipulated the markets in the wake of the "dieselgate" scandal have widened their investigation to include the group's supervisory board chief, the embattled auto giant said Sunday. VW said the probe had now also ensnared board chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch, who was only appointed last year, and would focus on his previous role as the group's chief financial officer. The announcement is a fresh blow to VW's efforts to move on from the worst crisis in its history, which erupted after the group admitted in September 2015 to installing software in 11 million diesel engines worldwide that could dupe emissions tests to make the cars seem less polluting than they were.
McDonald’s has more than 36,000 locations worldwide. More and more, McDonald’s is looking like a towering (if slowly eroding) twentieth-century monolith. McDonald’s plans to roll out the new smartphone pay-and-pickup technology next year, both in the U.S. market and other leading world economies, namely Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and France.
Julian Assange will be interviewed at Ecuador's London embassy on Nov. 14, Swedish prosecutors said on Monday, in a move that could end a long diplomatic deadlock that has seen the WikiLeaks founder holed up in the London residence since 2012. "Ecuador has granted the Swedish request for legal assistance in criminal matters and the interview will be conducted by an Ecuadorian prosecutor," the Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement. The Swedish assistant prosecutor, Chief Prosecutor Ingrid Isgren, and a Swedish police investigator have been allowed to be present at the interview.
The Latest on the Magnitude 5.0 earthquake that struck Oklahoma. Emergency officials in Cushing, Oklahoma, have evacuated an assisted living center catering to the elderly after a magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck the city. Assistant City Manager Jeremy Frazier said that while damage was reported at the Cimarron Tower after Sunday night's quake, no injuries were reported among the home's residents.
FBI Director James Comey informed key lawmakers on Sunday that he still does not believe that Hillary Clinton should face criminal prosecution over her use of private email servers during her time as secretary of state. Comey said his conclusion came after FBI agents reviewed all of the newly discovered messages to or from Clinton found on electronic devices that belonged to her top aide’s estranged husband, disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner. “The FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation,” Comey said in his letter.
Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta says they will focus on getting out the vote in the final 48 hours before Election Day. A million volunteers across the country who are doing that work for us it's usually got a lot of work to do in that state of Michigan the charm campaign pushing very very hard they're right now they're going to Minnesota.
A father killed his two young sons before turning the gun on himself in St. Louis on Saturday night. The man, who police identified as Christopher Cadenbach, had a $100,000 bond issued for his arrest in connection with a previous domestic violence dispute, but on Saturday afternoon when he met with this mom and two sons at the park, he said “he wasn’t going to be taken alive,” according to reports. Police said Cadenbach left the park in his mom’s car with the two boys, 5-year-old Ethan and 4-year-old Owen, and then she called police.
The tentative five-year deal announced at a news conference outside Transport Workers Union headquarters is contingent upon ratification by union members and the board of Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. SEPTA said in a statement that service would be phased back on Monday, with full schedules restored by the start of the service day on Tuesday, which is also Election Day. The agency said last week that a continuation of the strike through Tuesday could affect voter turnout.
A 39-year-old woman suffered critical injuries Sunday after a cannon used to launch pumpkins into the air exploded at a large outdoor competition, Delaware State Police said. The incident occurred at the Punkin Chunkin Contest in Bridgeville, which is about 30 miles south of Dover. The competition involves dozens of contestants launching pumpkins from homemade contraptions, many of which are air-powered with long cannons and hauled on the back of trucks.
An Istanbul court on Saturday remanded in custody nine staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in an intensifying crackdown a day after the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish party were also jailed. Nine MPs from the opposition pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), including its co-leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, were also detained pending a trial on terror charges expected to begin Friday. Istanbul police used tear gas, water cannon and plastic bullets to break up a protest by hundreds of people against the arrest of the deputies, AFP correspondents said.
Rain delayed the actual start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup AAA Texas 500 Sunday – they ran some laps under caution before they turned the field loose – and rain ended the race at about 11:10 p.m. ET, with Carl Edwards the lucky driver who was out front when the race ended 40 laps short. Not that Edwards, driver of the number 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota didn’t deserve it, but Penske driver Joey Logano, in a Ford, was on his tail.
A U.S. regulator found software in some Audi vehicles that lowered their carbon dioxide emissions if it detected they were being used under test conditions, Bild am Sonntag reported. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) discovered the software in an automatic transmission Audi last summer, the German weekly newspaper said, without citing any sources. CARB and Audi declined to comment on Sunday's Bild am Sonntag report.
A village that lived for centuries off agriculture and wool, Santo Stefano di Sessanio has just 108 inhabitants, less than a tenth of its pre-World War I population, according to its mayor. Decades later, its untouched architecture caught the attention of Swedish-Italian entrepreneur Daniele Kihlgren, who came across it on a 1999 motorcycle trip. The project has drawn tourists and injected life back into the village, according to locals.
U.S. stocks jumped and the U.S. dollar and the Mexican peso soared early on Monday after the FBI said it stood by its earlier recommendation that no criminal charges were warranted against Democrat Hillary Clinton. Investors had been unnerved by signs of a tightening presidential race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, whose stance on foreign policy, trade and immigration has rippled through financial markets. Clinton is seen as a candidate of the status quo and her policies are viewed as more predictable than her Republican rival, a political novice.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was on track to win a fourth term in office Monday, with his wife Rosario Murillo as his vice president, partial official election results showed. With 66 percent of ballots counted, Ortega's Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) had 72 percent of the vote, the country's Supreme Electoral Council said in a report.
Eritrean world champion Ghirmay Ghebreslassie and Kenyan Mary Keitany powered to dominant victories in the New York City Marathon on Sunday. Keitany became the first woman in three decades to win three consecutive New York marathons with a runaway performance. Ghebreslassie’s victory ended a string of four victories in a row by Kenyan men in the race and denied the African nation a fourth consecutive sweep of New York men’s and women’s titles.
Sam DuBose was pulled over near the University of Cincinnati campus for a missing front license plate. Walter Scott got stopped for a broken taillight in South Carolina. Former university police Officer Ray Tensing, 26, is on trial for murder in Cincinnati in the July 2015 fatal shooting of DuBose, 43.
This frosty phenomenon is connected to ongoing weather events that could bring heavier snowfall in parts of North America and Western Europe this winter. News of the icy beach balls first emerged after residents in the village of Nyda, which sits on the Yamal Peninsula above the Arctic Circle, posted images to social media. As the water retreated, chunks of the ice rolled over in the wet sand, forming orbs the size of tennis balls, bowling balls and basketballs.
US-backed Kurdish-Arab forces launched an offensive Sunday on the Islamic State group's de facto Syrian capital Raqa, upping pressure on the jihadists who are already battling Iraqi troops in Mosul. The start of the assault by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) came as Iraqi forces fought inside Mosul for the third day running amid fierce jihadist resistance. The two cities are the last major urban centres under IS control after the jihadists suffered a string of territorial losses in Iraq and Syria over the past year.
A Pennsylvania father has now been charged after he didn’t call 911 when the mother of his children threatened to kill them and sent him photos of their 17-month-old son’s lifeless body. The mother, 21-year-old Christian Clark, was arrested and charged with homicide and attempted murder after she allegedly smothered their 17-month-old to death and attempted to kill their 2-year-old, all while telling their dad what she was doing through text. The children’s father, Andre Price Jr., was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of child endangerment.