- WorldYahoo NewsChelsea Clinton takes to Twitter to knock the new White House
After decades in the spotlight supporting her parents’ political endeavors, Chelsea Clinton is speaking out on her own. While her parents spend their time under the radar, hiking and seeing Broadway shows, Chelsea has trained her fire on President Trump’s administration, using a method favored by the president himself: frequent, pointed tweets. Barron Trump deserves the chance every child does-to be a kid.
- NewsYahoo NewsMilo Yiannopoulos says he’s going to the White House press briefing
Milo Yiannopoulos, the conservative provocateur and Breitbart News columnist, claims he is going to attend the White House press briefing on Friday. “I’ll be there,” Yiannopoulos said in an email to Yahoo News. Yiannopoulos said he didn’t know whether he would get to ask White House press secretary Sean Spicer a question at the briefing.
- LifestyleInside EditionGirl, 15, Who Skipped School to Have Sex With Friend's Dad Says It Was a Mistake: 'It's Illegal for a Reason'
Calah Waskow, 15, was thought to have been kidnapped after she disappeared from her parents’ Evans home on December 4, authorities said. “I want people who are in or think they can be in an older relationship with somebody and get away with it.
NewsAssociated PressThe Latest: Army Corps to close land where protesters campedThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say it will close federal property where Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters have camped beginning on Feb. 22 because of concerns about flooding. In a statement on Friday, the Corps says there has been a record snowfall and long periods of frigid temperatures at the mouth of the Cannonball River where the protesters have been camped. The Corps said it sent notices to the protesters saying that they risk possible injury or death if they stay.
WorldAFPWife turns out to support 'El Chapo' in New York courtMexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, accused of running one of the world's biggest drug empires, glimpsed his glamorous young wife in court Friday despite being denied marital visits behind bars. The 59-year-old defendant, one of the world's most notorious criminals who escaped twice from prison in Mexico, has been held in solitary confinement in New York since being extradited to the United States on January 19. Emma Coronel, a 27-year-old former beauty queen and mother of Guzman's twins, attended his second court hearing in Brooklyn on Friday, dressed in a black coat with a yellow scarf knotted around her neck.
- U.S.ABC News VideosRescued Boater Nathan Carman on His Childhood, Running Away From Home: Part 3
Nathan Carman ran away from home shortly after his horse died and was found in rural Virginia. Reporter: Hurricane Matthew batters the southeast. Nathan invites us back to Vermont for a second interview.
- PoliticsYahoo NewsEvangelical Christians protest Trump refugee ban outside prayer breakfast
Ann Voskamp has been a successful Christian author for the past decade, with a largely conservative evangelical audience. “I just think we’re called as the church right now to stand up and to be on the right side of history that says, ‘We will risk, we will open the doors for children who are starving,’” Voskamp said, holding a sign and standing outside the Washington Hilton as Trump spoke to religious leaders inside. Voskamp and her friend Vickie Reddy co-founded a group called We Welcome Refugees after a trip to Iraq in 2015.
- TechnologyRoad & TrackThe Dodge Demon Will Be the Perfect Car for Drag Racers with No Friends
From Road & TrackA few weeks ago, Dodge began teasing a new wide-body version of the Challenger Hellcat called the Demon. So far, we don't know whether or not it will get any additional power, but we do know it gets
- WorldPopular MechanicsHere Comes China's First Home-Built Aircraft Carrier
A report in Defense News states China is making steady progress on its second aircraft carrier, the Shandong. Under construction near Shanghai, Shandong is set to be China's first domestically produced aircraft carrier and the first to be combat-ready. Previously known as Type 001A, the carrier's official name was recently announced on Shandong province television and radio.
- PoliticsYahoo NewsStories to watch: The Trump-Ryan frenemy relationship
Donald Trump is in the White House, and Yahoo News is taking a look at the top stories to watch in his first 100 days. From the unusual role family members will play as White House advisers, to his promises to aggressively transform U.S. trade policy, and from investigations into Russian interference in the election to his relationship with Paul Ryan, we’ll be rolling out 15 stories over five days — signposts for the road ahead. President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan are only a pair because of the powerful positions they hold, and because they are both Republicans.
- NewsYahoo NewsConservationists rally and kill bill to sell off federal land
Members of conservation groups gathered on Jan. 30 in Helena, Mont., to protest a plan to transfer public lands to the states or sell them off to private individuals or companies. Following backlash from conservationists across the Western states, Rep. Jason Chaffetz announced that he is pulling a bill that would have sold off more than 3 million acres of federal land. “I’m a proud gun owner, hunter and love our public lands.
- NewsInside Edition80-Year-Old Grandmother of 15 Dies While Pushing Neighbor to Safety in Hit-And-Run
A Florida grandmother died Wednesday while saving one of her neighbors, according to witnesses. 80-year-old Emma Kelsoe was chatting with her neighbor in Davie Wednesday evening when cops say a driver sped toward them. Knowing her 61-year-old neighbor, Vickie McCall, was visually impaired, witnesses say Kelsoe yelled out "car!" before shoving McCall to safety.
NewsAssociated PressMan accused of punching officer at Elizabeth Smart eventAn 80-year-old man is accused of punching a police officer who stopped him from approaching kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart with a knife at a book-signing event in Indiana. Smart — who was 14 in 2002 when she was snatched from her bedroom in Salt Lake City and held for nine months — had been speaking about overcoming adversity at Indiana State University on Wednesday when the incident occurred. Hudson then concealed the knife and started to walk up a line of about 100 people who were waiting to meet Smart and have books signed, Newport said.
- NewsReutersRecords reveal details of South Carolina church gunman's mental health
The white supremacist who murdered nine black parishioners in a racially motivated attack at a South Carolina church suffered from a number of mental disorders, his attorney said ahead of his federal trial, according to newly unsealed court documents. Dylann Roof, 22, was sentenced to death in January after being convicted of hate crimes, obstruction of religion resulting in death and firearms charges for the massacre during a Bible study meeting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015. Roof's mental health records so far remain private.
WorldAFPFuneral held for Quebec City mosque shooting victimsPrime Minister Justin Trudeau joined fellow Canadians Thursday to mourn three of six men killed in a mosque shooting, seeking to pull together a nation shaken by the hate crime. Nearly 5,000 mourners packed into a hockey arena in Montreal's Olympic park for the funeral, while many more across Canada watched it on television. For many in this mostly secular nation, the ceremony was their first glimpse of traditional Muslim funeral rites.
- WorldYahoo News Photo StaffMan shot, wounded after attacking soldiers outside Louvre
A knife-wielding man shouting “Allahu akbar” attacked French soldiers on patrol near the Louvre Museum Friday in what officials described as a suspected terror attack. The soldiers first tried to fight off the attacker and then opened fire, shooting him five times.
- PoliticsYahoo NewsLady Liberty’s flame extinguished on New Yorker cover
The New Yorker’s upcoming issue will feature a troubling illustration of Lady Liberty’s light snuffed out. According to the magazine, under a different political climate, the cover of the issue for Feb. 13 and 20 — which marks the magazine’s 92nd anniversary — would have featured a variation on the iconic image of dandy Eustace Tilley, created by graphic artist Rea Irvin. Instead, the New Yorker decided to comment on the incipient stages of the Trump administration.
BusinessMotorAuthorityFord ships first F-150 Raptors to ChinaFord’s F-150 Raptor has been a hot commodity in China for years though it’s never officially been sold there, so most that have made it over arrived as gray imports. That’s no longer the case as Ford is now selling the Raptor in its Chinese showrooms and this week shipped the first examples over. It marks the first time the automaker has shipped an F-Series pickup built in the United States to China.
- PoliticsUPROXXGregg Popovich Got Brutally Honest About The 'Monstrous Advantage' White People Have
Steve Kerr, Gregg Popovich, and Stan Van Gundy – have become three of the sports world’s leading commenters on race and politics. Ever since the rise of Donald Trump, the trio have decided not to #StickToSports, and instead have spoken poignantly on current events. On Thursday, Popovich was asked about what Black History Month means to him.
- WorldForeign Policy MagazineFormer Norwegian PM Caught in U.S. Travel Dragnet
Plenty of people got stuck in the middle of the new travel and immigration restrictions in the United States, and now even former world leaders are caught in the mix. On Thursday, former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik was pulled aside and questioned for an hour at Washington Dulles airport. Bondevik, returning home from the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, said the move wasn’t a direct cause of Trump’s recent controversial immigration restrictions.
- NewsInside EditionStarved Newborn's Death Ruled a Homicide After Parents Overdose on Fentanyl
Summer Chambers died of dehydration and starvation around December 20, authorities in Johnstown said, some four or five days after her parents overdosed. Toxicology tests confirmed Summer's father, Jason Chambers, 27, and mother, 19-year-old Chelsea Cardaro, had the powerful opiate fentanyl in their systems. Cardaro reportedly had four times the lethal dose of fentanyl in her system when she died.
WorldAssociated PressDiplomats: US envoy targeting UN peacekeeping for reformNikki Haley, in her first week as U.S. ambassador, has made reform of the United Nations' far-flung peacekeeping operations a top priority, diplomats said. The missions cost nearly $8 billion a year and Haley said in her Senate confirmation hearing last month that she wants to look at all 16 to see which are succeeding in maintaining peace and which aren't. Haley singled out the mission in war-ravaged South Sudan, the world's newest nation, calling it "terrible." She said the government isn't cooperating with the U.N. force, which has nearly 13,000 troops and police and a current budget of more than $1 billion.
NewsAssociated PressCalifornia sex offender sentenced to die for killing 4 womenA California sex offender was sentenced to death on Friday for kidnapping and murdering four women during a six-month span in Orange County. Steven Dean Gordon, who was convicted last year of killing the women in 2012 and 2013, was sentenced in Superior Court in Santa Ana, the Orange County Register reported (http://bit.ly/2jHAJgB ). California has hundreds of inmates on the nation's largest death row, but the state hasn't executed anyone since 2006.
- ScienceLiveScience.comChimps Kill, Mutilate and Cannibalize Member of Own Group
A male chimpanzee named Foudouko met a horrific end when members of his former community in the wild in Senegal attacked and killed him, then mutilated and partly cannibalized his body, a new study finds. It's not uncommon for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) to attack and kill chimps in neighboring groups, but it's rare for the primates to kill members of their own community, the researchers said. "It was very difficult and quite gruesome to watch," Jill Pruetz, a professor of anthropology at Iowa State University, said in a statement.
- WorldYahoo News Photo StaffAnimals starve in Mosul's decimated zoo
A bear paces around a filthy cage next to a starving lion, the only two animals left in Mosul’s zoo. Like much of the city, the once-peaceful animal park has been destroyed by months of fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants. When the military advanced into Mosul, Nour Park, which had been home to a range of animals from monkeys to horses, was transformed into an Islamic State staging ground for attacks on Iraqi troops.
