A former CIA case officer who has served as top policy aide to House Republicans is launching an independent campaign for the presidency on Monday with the backing of veteranย GOPย strategists and donors determined to block Donald Trump fromย getting anywhere near the White House. Feeding off mounting discontent within GOP ranks over Trump, Evan McMullin โ who is resigning todayย as chief policy director for the House Republican Conference โ announced his campaign with an open โLetter to Americaโ that took pointed shots at both the GOP nominee and Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Authorities asked for the public's help Tuesday as they struggled to find the killer or killers of a New York City woman whose body was found in woods near her mother's home in central Massachusetts after she went out for a jog and didn't return. Residents of Princeton, a sleepy town of about 3,500 about 40 miles west of Boston, were urged to use caution after Vanessa Marcotte's body was found Sunday. Marcotte, a 27-year-old account manager at Google, was visiting her mother.
The data recorder from the cargo ship El Faro, which sank near the Bahamas during a Caribbean hurricane last October, has been recovered, offering possible answers about why the vessel went down, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday. A U.S. Coast Guard panel in May revealed the ship's captain intended to avoid the brewing storm when he departed, but may have had outdated weather data.
Earlier this summer, Turkey was besieged by an attempted military coup. Government officials believed the so-called Gรผlen Movement (also known as โFETรโ) was behind the insurrection, headed by their enigmatic leader, Fethullah Gรผlen, whoโs been living in self-imposed exile in the United States for more than two decades. It bears mentioning that Fethullah Gรผlen operates approximately 150 privately-run, publicly-funded schools in the U.S. (and numerous others around the world), all of which adhere to statewide standards of education.
Saudi-led coalition warplanes have resumed air strikes on Yemen's capital for the first time in three months, killing 14 people Tuesday and shutting the airport after UN-brokered talks were suspended. The coalition intervened in March last year after Shiite Huthi rebels and allied forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh overran Sanaa the previous September. Hadi is now based in Riyadh, as are members of his internationally recognised government who travel between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's temporary capital Aden in the south.
The 71-year-old woman had visited her daughter, who operates a horse boarding and riding center in King County, Washington, the report said. The report is published in the Aug. 5 issue of the journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Were you hoping Donald Trump was watching? โWho?โ Ibtihaj Muhammad, the American fencer who had just lost to Cecilia Berder, of France, in the round of 16 at the womenโs individual saber event in Rio, coyly replied with a smile. The other members of Team USA nearly voted her to carry the opening ceremonies flag โ she trailed only Michael Phelps.
The mother of a skydiver who plummeted to his death with an instructor in a California vineyard said her teenage son was an adventurous spirit who was willing to try just about anything โ including the jump that was on his bucket list of things to do in life. Tyler Turner, 18, had a mild case of cerebral palsy and walked with a crouched gait. Tyler Turner had graduated from high school with honors and had been bound for the University of California at Merced this month to study biomedical engineering.
Kentucky police are searching for a man who set fire to a business on Sunday.
The blistering, blockbuster letter signed by 50 Republican national security officials condemning Donald Trump as unfit to be president came together last week, with the only significant edit being the addition of language acknowledging widespread โdoubtsโ that Hillary Clinton can do the job, several signers told Yahoo News. โPeople on the letter are in different places on Hillary Clinton,โ said John Bellinger III, who served as legal adviser on the National Security Council and at the State Department under Condoleezza Rice and who drafted the letter.