Politics
- Yahoo News Photo Staff
PHOTOS: 4th consecutive Saturday of anti-government protests in Paris
Anti-government protesters faced off with French riot police in Paris on Saturday, hurling projectiles, torching cars and vandalizing shops and restaurants in a fourth weekend of unrest that has shaken President Emmanuel Macron’s authority.
- Alexander Nazaryan
Trump’s losing, lonely fight to save coal
WASHINGTON—At a campaign rally in Charleston, West Virginia, on May 5, 2016, Donald Trump donned a hardhat. As the audience cheered, he flashed two thumbs up, then mimicked the motion of digging coal, an activity that has sustained West Virginia for more than a century.
- Dylan Stableford
Imagining a school shooting through the gunman's eyes: Sandy Hook Promise releases chilling new video
A public service announcement released by the gun violence prevention organization Sandy Hook Promise depicts the moments leading up to a school shooting from the shooter’s perspective.
- David Knowles
'I could see' Trump not replacing Kelly, says former Obama chief of staff
Former Obama chief of staff William Daley thinks Trump could easily end up not filling the role after John Kelly steps down.
- Sharon Weinberger and Jenna McLaughlin
Blackwater Beef anyone? Private security company's founder now sells a different kind of muscle
The venture is an attempt at brand extension by Erik Prince, the well-connected founder of Blackwater, which began supplying private security services to U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan more than a decade ago. The company’s initial success with Defense Department and CIA contracts was followed by a series of scandals, including the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Iraq, in which Blackwater contractors killed more than a dozen civilians. Prince, a former Navy SEAL and the brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, was accused of hiring mercenaries, a term he resents.
- Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
After Huawei executive's arrest, some Chinese companies retaliate against Apple
A growing number of companies across China have announced new policies requiring the exclusive use of Huawei products, and in some cases penalizing employees who purchase iPhones, in what appears to be a growing domestic movement to support the Chinese tech giant after the arrest of one of its top executives in Canada.
- Jenna McLaughlin
U.S. intelligence sounds the alarm on the quantum gap with China
For years, quantum computing, which leverages the difficult and, to many, spooky science of quantum mechanics, has been a subject mostly of interest to the technical elite. Yet as scientists and now policymakers point to the rapid progress that China is making in the field, it’s the intelligence community that appears to be the most alarmed.
- Melissa Rossi
‘Yellow Jacket’ protests paralyze Paris and threaten Macron’s government
The fourth weekend of violent protests in France paralyzed the capital, as demonstrators called for the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron.
- Michael Walsh
Trump on Comey's testimony to Congress: 'All lies!'
President Trump claimed that former FBI director James Comey lied to Congress and questioned why he couldn’t remember details about the Justice Department leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
- Michael Walsh
Marco Rubio: Pardoning Paul Manafort would be a 'terrible mistake'
Sen. Marco Rubio said President Trump would be making a 'terrible mistake' if he decides to pardon Paul Manafort.
- Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman
Trump first wanted his attorney general pick William Barr for another job: Defense lawyer
President Trump initially wanted William Barr to be his defense counsel, sources say, but Trump has tapped Barr for an even more important position: attorney general, a post that, if confirmed, would put him in charge of the Mueller investigation.
- Melissa Rossi
Only Trump can hear Paris mobs chanting his name
Protesters took to the streets here Saturday, calling for the resignation of French President Emmanuel Macron — and, in Trump's imagination at least, wildly cheering the American president.
- Luppe B. Luppen and Hunter Walker
Mueller accuses Paul Manafort of lying about his contact with Trump administration officials
Prosecutors with Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation revealed in a court filing on Friday evening that Paul Manafort lied to them about several contacts he had with senior Trump administration officials while he was under indictment.
- Hunter Walker and Luppe B. Luppen
Court filings reveal Michael Cohen offered limited cooperation, but point to new Russia contacts
Two teams of prosecutors filed memos in federal court Friday describing their recommendations for how President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen should be sentenced after pleading guilty to several felonies.
- Jon Ward
Wisconsin GOP’s power grab is about legitimacy of American political system, Andrew Sullivan says
Wisconsin Republican attempts to reduce Democrats’ power before they take the governorship in January is “a huge issue for a liberal democracy,” columnist Andrew Sullivan said.
- Dylan Stableford
My secretary of state was 'dumb as a rock,' Trump tweets
President Trump took a break from his Twitter tirade against special counsel Robert Mueller Friday to hurl insults at his former secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, describing him as “dumb as a rock” and “lazy as hell.”
- Yahoo News Photo Staff
77th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack
77 years ago today on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a Sunday, Japanese bombers flew across Oahu, Hawaii, and began their assault.
- Caitlin Dickson
Seeking asylum, migrants report being turned back at — or possibly just past — U.S. border
President Trump’s order cracking down on asylum seekers at the southern border has been stayed by a federal judge, but a small group of determined migrants who made it through the border fence discovered that at least some Border Patrol agents appear to be enforcing it anyway. On the afternoon of Dec. 1, about 10 women and children, a small part of one of the caravans that traveled hundreds of miles through Mexico from Honduras, crossed the border fence near its western end on the beach near San Diego.
- Dylan Stableford
On a crucial day in Russia probe, Trump unleashes Twitter fury at the world
President Trump on Friday unleashed his Twitter fury at Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation hours before new memos from the special counsel's office were due to be filed.
- Michael Walsh
Climate change is already here, scientists say, and it's killing us
Although projections for the future capture the most attention, the consequences of climate change are already wreaking havoc on our planet and our health.
- Alexander Nazaryan
Coal booster joins energy regulator, dealing setback to green movement
Bernard L. McNamee, who is now one of the nation’s top energy regulators, took the opportunity last Earth Day to praise oil and coal.
- David Knowles
Lawyer for undocumented Trump Organization workers seeks investigation
Anibal Romero says "many of the abuses" his clients received at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., "constitute crimes."
- Christopher Wilson
Amid fraud charges, North Carolina House race may be headed for a do-over
The state’s Board of Elections voted to not certify the results amid the ongoing investigation, and Nancy Pelosi, the favorite to be House speaker next year, said the House could refuse to seat the uncertified Republican.
- Michael Walsh
Trump EPA moves to kill Obama's clean-air rule to encourage new coal plants
Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler proposed eliminating an Obama-era clean air rule to encourage the creation of more coal power plants.
- Yahoo News Photo Staff
PHOTOS: Texas funeral held for former President George H.W. Bush
Former President George H.W. Bush will be mourned on Thursday at the Houston church where he worshipped for many years, a final public farewell before his remains are taken by train to their resting place at his Texas presidential library.
