- PoliticsYahoo News‘American values are at stake’: Barack Obama ‘heartened’ by resistance to Donald Trump
Former President Barack Obama broke his postpresidential silence on Monday, issuing a cautious statement about President Trump’s travel ban and the protests against it. Before leaving the White House, Obama repeatedly emphasized how important the role of citizen is in American democracy. Now, he says he is inspired that so many citizens have heeded his call by protesting drastic measures that Trump took that many have criticized as antithetical to common American values.
- NewsYahoo NewsTrump Cabinet’s ties to Boy Scouts include Rex Tillerson, who once reportedly lobbied group to accept gay youths
The Boy Scouts of America announced Monday night that the organization would start accepting transgender boys for its Cub and Boy Scout programs. Groups like Scouts for Equality and GLAAD celebrated the announcement as another victory in their fight for inclusivity within the long-standing U.S. institution. In 2013, the Boy Scouts had famously lifted a ban on openly gay scouts.
- NewsThe DriveA Streetcar Named Detroit
Horse-drawn streetcars crisscrossed Detroit’s major thoroughfares by the early 1860’s, charging a nickel a ride. After a final procession in 1956 for two dozen sturdy PCC streetcars -- the postwar standard from Brooklyn and Boston to San Francisco and Washington, D.C. – Motown’s cars were sold to Mexico City and replaced by smoke-belching GM diesel buses. A more-hopeful glow is shining on Detroit again, literally in the case of 65,000 LED streetlights that were flipped back on in December.
LifestyleAFPMotive a mystery after 'terror' attack on Quebec mosqueCanadian police sought Monday to piece together the motive for a shooting attack on a Quebec mosque that left six worshippers dead and eight wounded in one of the worst attacks ever to target Muslims in a western country. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned as a "terrorist attack" Sunday night's assault on the Islamic Cultural Center in a busy district of Quebec City, which sent terrified worshippers fleeing barefoot in the snow. Police said one suspect -- reportedly a Canadian student -- was in custody after surrendering to the authorities, while a second person had been questioned as a witness.
- LifestyleInside Edition'Polite' Moose Makes Itself at Home After Falling Into Family's Basement
Julie Emerick, 50, of Hailey, told InsideEdition.com that she was suddenly woken up by the sound of her dog furiously barking at about 2 a.m. Sunday morning. "I opened up the blinds, and right outside the window was this huge moose's head," Emerick said. Luckily, her son was out for the night, Emerick said.
- U.S.Yahoo News Photo StaffWildfires ravage central, south Chile
Fires have been raging in central and southern Chile, fanned by strong winds, hot temperatures and a prolonged drought. Emergency services have battled the flames nonstop for days with thousands of firefighters on the ground and helicopters and airplanes
NewsAssociated PressPeter Thiel became New Zealand citizen in California in 2011Silicon Valley billionaire and President Donald Trump adviser Peter Thiel was able to gain New Zealand citizenship in 2011 despite never having lived in the country, because a top lawmaker decided his entrepreneurial skills and philanthropy were valuable to the nation, documents reveal. Thiel didn't even have to leave California to become a new member of the South Pacific nation. The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs on Wednesday released 145 pages of partially redacted documents detailing how Thiel became a citizen.
- BusinessABC News VideosIn Love and in Limbo: One Couple Is Stuck Between Trump's Executive Order and Iran's Vowed Retaliatiory Ban
"There's hope. That's all we have right now," says Iranian-American Mohammad Mesbahi. His wife, Iranian Homa Esfandiari, was nearing the final stages of approval to come to U.S. just as the executive order suspending immigration was signed. And we were
ScienceReutersYour oldest ancestor was really weird and had a big mouthBy Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Don't take this the wrong way, but your oldest ancestor was not exactly a beauty. Scientists on Monday said a tiny marine creature from China that wriggled in the seabed mud about 540 million years ago may be the earliest-known animal in the lengthy evolutionary path that eventually led to humans. University of Cambridge paleontologist Simon Conway Morris noted that humans, who appeared a relatively recent 200,000 years ago, have a series of "evolutionarily deeper ancestors" than monkeys and apes.
PoliticsYahoo NewsUnder pressure from base, Senate Democrats stall Trump nominationsSenate Democrats delayed three of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominations Tuesday, using parliamentary tactics as fury mounts in their base over the president’s recent immigration order temporarily barring refugees and travelers from seven predominantly-Muslim countries. All 12 Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee boycotted the vote on Health and Human Services Department nominee Rep. Tom Price and Treasury Department nominee Steve Mnuchin. The boycott forced the committee’s chair, Sen. Orrin Hatch, to delay the vote until Wednesday since the committee did not have a quorum.
NewsYahoo NewsWhite House calls outrage over omitting Jews in Trump’s statement on Holocaust ‘pathetic’“He’s aware of what people have been saying, but I think by and large he’s been praised for it,” Spicer told reporters at his daily briefing on Monday. “The president recognized the tremendous loss of life that came from the Holocaust,” Spicer said. Spicer became defensive during the briefing when he was again asked about the backlash.
- NewsInside EditionMan With Dementia Allegedly Abandoned by Family in England: Reports
The family of a Los Angeles man suffering from dementia has been accused of abandoning him in Great Britain, leaving the man to own devices until he was found at a bus stop in November with no ID and no recollection of how he got there. The 76-year-old man was discovered at a bus station parking lot in the western city of Hereford in England on November 7, 2015, according to court documents obtained by the BBC Panorama. "He's a blank canvas, completely blank," Amanda Bow, the manager of Curry’s nursing home in England, told the BBC.
WorldAssociated PressHospital: Turkish policeman tries to kill self, causes panicAn armed police officer receiving psychiatric treatment caused panic Wednesday when he barricaded himself into a room at an Istanbul hospital and attempted to commit suicide. Earlier, Turkish media reports said the man had taken doctors and other staff hostage at Istanbul's Cerrahpasa hospital. Police later told The Associated Press that the 30-year-old man, who had been receiving psychiatric treatment at Cerrahpasa for the past two years, was taken to Istanbul's main psychiatric hospital.
WorldAFPIslamists protest after Pakistan holds Mumbai attacks suspectA militant group held protests in Pakistan's major cities Tuesday after its leader, one of the alleged masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was put under house arrest following years of foreign pressure. Firebrand cleric Hafiz Saeed, who heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) group and has a $10 million bounty on his head, was placed under "preventative detention", according to an order from the interior ministry. Police took Saeed away from a mosque in Lahore late Monday and escorted him to his residence, hours after Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar had hinted action against him was imminent.
BusinessAFP'Dieselgate' drags on for VW and Bosch with new payoutsGerman carmaker Volkswagen and auto parts supplier Bosch on Wednesday announced payouts to US buyers of vehicles affected by the "dieselgate" scandal, in a bid to put the American chapter of the tale behind them. Volkswagen admitted in September 2015 to building so-called "defeat devices" designed to hoodwink regulatory emissions tests into around 11 million cars worldwide, including 600,000 in the US, and has been clocking up fines and compensation payments ever since. VW said in a statement it will pay $1.2 billion (1.1 billion euros) to compensate around 78,000 US buyers of 3.0-litre diesel cars as well as buying back or refitting their vehicles.
- NewsInside EditionMan Arrested After Allegedly Punching Bishop in the Face During Church Service
A man has been charged with assault after he allegedly punched an auxiliary bishop during mass at a New Jersey cathedral in an incident that was caught on video. Charles Miller, 42, was caught on camera during a mass honoring baseball legend Roberto Clemente at Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of Sacred Heart on Saturday, police said. James Goodness, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Newark, was saddened by the ordeal.
- BusinessCar and Driver2018 Mercedes-Benz E-class Cabriolet
This trip requires the utmost concentration: We are riding along on one of the final engineering drives for the Mercedes-Benz E-class convertible, a model Daimler calls the cabriolet. One car is a Europe-spec E200, with a 181-hp turbocharged inline-four making even less power than the 241-horsepower four found in the base U.S. sedan, the E300. In the U.S., the convertible will be an E400, like the E-class coupe, powered by a twin-turbo V-6 gasoline engine.
- LifestyleMashableAfter this gruesome murder, you'll never look at chimps the same way again
Chimps aren't exactly the soft and cuddly animals that Curious George would have you believe. Scientists have documented aggression in territorial chimps on numerous occasions, with separate bands of chimps attacking, killing and even cannibalizing one
WorldReutersSome nations affected by U.S. immigration order may stay on list: officialBy Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nationals from the seven Muslim-majority countries temporarily blocked from entering the United States by President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration may be barred indefinitely, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Tuesday. Under the order released Friday, travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen are banned from entering the United States for at least 90 days while Kelly and others determine whether there is enough information available to vet them. White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Tuesday described the seven countries affected by the executive order as places "where frankly we don't get the information that we need for people coming into this country." Confusion mounted over the weekend as U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, rushed to brief airlines, customs agents and others involved in air travel about how to implement Trump's executive order, which was not explicit about how to handle green card holders and other previously admissible populations.
- WorldYahoo News Photo StaffProtests at U.S. airports over travel ban
With 375 travelers affected so far by the travel ban as of Saturday night, according to the Department of Homeland Security — some being sent back to their originating countries from airports across the U.S., and others being prevented from boarding U.S.-bound flights overseas — hundreds of people descended upon airports to express support for those affected by the ban and to express disdain for Trump and the executive order. Additional protests are scheduled for Sunday, as well, at airports across the country.
- PoliticsInternational Business TimesFlorida Congressman Wants To Abolish EPA
A Florida congressman is asking fellow lawmakers to support a bill he’s working on that would abolish the Environmental Protection Agency. Freshman Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., sent a letter to colleagues outlining his plan, which was obtained by Huffington Post Tuesday. The move follows President Donald Trump’s directive Monday requiring agencies to abolish two regulations for each proposed new rule.
NewsAssociated PressThe Latest: Missouri execution appealed to US Supreme CourtAttorneys for a Missouri death row inmate have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution. Mark Christeson is scheduled for lethal injection Tuesday evening. The 37-year-old was convicted in the 1998 killings of Susan Brouk, her 12-year-old daughter and her 9-year-old son in Vichy, Missouri.
TechnologyBGR NewsThe iPhone 8 OLED display won’t come cheap for AppleSeeing as how the iPhone’s industrial design has remained largely unchanged since the iPhone 6, the anticipation for Apple to deliver a groundbreaking new design has been steadily building for quite some time. Not one to disappoint, it’s widely believed that Apple’s 2017 iPhone — which may be called the iPhone 8 — will finally give iPhone owners happy with their current device a compelling reason to upgrade. With the iPhone 8, it’s widely believed that Apple’s flagship iPhone model will incorporate a wraparound OLED display, with some reports adding that there may be specialized sensors on the side of the device.
EntertainmentYahoo Beauty5 Times Kerry Washington Outplayed HollywoodKerry Washington is very careful about keeping her personal life under wraps. Here are the five times she pulled a fast one on Hollywood.
WorldAFPUS says female Al-Qaeda combatants killed in Yemen raidUS special forces who led a rare ground assault against Al-Qaeda in Yemen over the weekend killed women fighting alongside male troops, the Defense Department said Monday. "There were a lot of female combatants" in Sunday's battle, said Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis. The US special forces mounted the raid in the Yakla region of Baida province against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which Washington views as the global terror network's most dangerous branch.
