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• 5 days until the midterm elections: Where things stand
• Grim New Details About Whitey Bulger's Death Revealed
• Twitter Chokes As President 'Grabby Hands' Vows To Protect Women From Migrant Caravan
• Driver strikes 5 children and 2 adults at Florida bus stop, latest in string of school bus incidents
• Conspiracy theorists try, fail, to smear Robert Mueller with sexual misconduct claim
• Police: No Foul Play Suspected After Saudi Sisters Found Dead In Hudson River
• What It's Worth: What You Can Get With $1M
• Slashed award accepted in Monsanto cancer trial
• Yahoo News Explains: Midterms 2018 Explained
• Jamal Khashoggi's Body Dissolved After Dismemberment, Turkish Official Says
• 3 children, 2 adults hit by car at bus stop in Tampa, Florida: Police
• Texas, beware! The caravan of criminals is coming — in ad backing Ted Cruz
• Doctor Says She Was Racially Profiled By Flight Staff Who Doubted Her Credentials
• October marks worst month for US stocks in 7 years
• Another exec out amid sex harassment tension at Google
• Top US companies stand up to oppose Trump effort to roll back trans rights
• Brooklyn Synagogue Cancels Event After 'Kill All Jews' Graffiti Found Inside
• Here's How to Deal with the Khashoggi Incident
• Man Says Republican Senate Candidate Literally Took His Health Care Away
• In Texas, Beto and Cruz take the fight to the border
• Indonesia struggles with damaged black box from crashed jet, hunts for second
• 16 Warm Gifts For People Who Are Always Cold
• Yahoo News Explains: Who’s going to win the midterms?
• Missing migrants, lost and dead: AP methodology
• Pakistan hardliners vow no let up in paralysing blasphemy protests
• 15 Noncommittal Gifts To Give The Person You Just Started Dating
• Victims of Pittsburgh synagogue attack are laid to rest
• Judge Orders Georgia's Brian Kemp To Give Thousands More People A Shot At Voting
• Trump's target audience for migrant caravan scare tactics: Women
• Google's '#metoo' moment: Workers walk out over women's rights
• SEMA may sue US highways agency over replica car laws
• Watch John Lewis Dance To 'Happy' At Stacey Abrams Campaign Event
• Dramatic whale rescue
• 'War and peace in Liberia' —Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros on the frontline
• Man smiles, says 'Let's rock' before dying in electric chair
• Forget Candy, Mark Sanford Gives Trick-Or-Treaters The Constitution
• Trump slaps 'tough' sanctions on Venezuela, targets gold sector: Bolton
• U.S., Iran policy depends not just on sanctions but on flexibility
• Subaru and Toyota to Recall 165,000 Vehicles for Engine Issues
• Smartphone sales down for fourth straight quarter
• Who is expected to win control of the Senate according to the latest polls?
• Iowa father takes stand, blames mother for baby's death
• Iowa Teacher Who Wore Blackface to Halloween Party Didn't Know It Was Offensive, Lawyer Says

5 days until the midterm elections: Where things stand Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:01 PM PDT Former Clinton administration Secretary Donna Shalala clings to a small lead in Florida, while Iowa Republican Steve King gets some bad news.

Grim New Details About Whitey Bulger's Death Revealed Posted: 01 Nov 2018 09:16 AM PDT New details are emerging about the death of notorious mob boss Whitey Bulger

Twitter Chokes As President 'Grabby Hands' Vows To Protect Women From Migrant Caravan Posted: 01 Nov 2018 11:03 PM PDT What do women want? President Donald Trump thinks he knows.

Driver strikes 5 children and 2 adults at Florida bus stop, latest in string of school bus incidents Posted: 02 Nov 2018 09:35 AM PDT Seven people were rushed to the hospital on Thursday morning after a driver

Conspiracy theorists try, fail, to smear Robert Mueller with sexual misconduct claim Posted: 01 Nov 2018 01:37 PM PDT Two conservative activists revealed at an inauspicious press conference in Northern Virginia what they (but few others) deemed to be credible allegations of rape against special counsel Robert Mueller.

Police: No Foul Play Suspected After Saudi Sisters Found Dead In Hudson River Posted: 02 Nov 2018 02:44 PM PDT The two Saudi Arabian sisters who were found dead on the shores of the Hudson

What It's Worth: What You Can Get With $1M Posted: 01 Nov 2018 01:41 PM PDT Whether you're in the biggest city or smallest suburban town, every map dot in

Slashed award accepted in Monsanto cancer trial Posted: 31 Oct 2018 06:08 PM PDT A cancer-stricken groundskeeper has accepted a slashed award in a landmark trial focused on weed-killer Roundup, setting the stage for an appeal by maker Monsanto. Judge Suzanne Bolanos last week denied Monsanto's request for a new trial but cut the $289 million damages award to $78 million to comply with the law regarding how punitive damages awards must be calculated. In her ruling, Bolanos gave Johnson the choice of accepting the lessened damages award or triggering a new trial focused on what Monsanto should pay in the case.

Yahoo News Explains: Midterms 2018 Explained Posted: 02 Nov 2018 11:29 AM PDT The midterm elections look like they're going to be hotly contested. Republicans now control both houses of Congress. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 seats in the Senate are up for grabs, so both parties are putting up the fight of a lifetime.

Jamal Khashoggi's Body Dissolved After Dismemberment, Turkish Official Says Posted: 02 Nov 2018 09:36 AM PDT The body of journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have been dissolved in acid after

3 children, 2 adults hit by car at bus stop in Tampa, Florida: Police Posted: 01 Nov 2018 09:07 AM PDT The injured were taken to a nearby hospital and one of the children was in critical condition.

Texas, beware! The caravan of criminals is coming — in ad backing Ted Cruz Posted: 01 Nov 2018 09:14 AM PDT A super-PAC funded by Sen. Ted Cruz's supporters has released a new attack ad against his opponent, Beto O'Rourke, charging that he is "cheering on" the caravan of Central American migrants heading toward the U.S.

Doctor Says She Was Racially Profiled By Flight Staff Who Doubted Her Credentials Posted: 01 Nov 2018 03:19 PM PDT A black Harvard-educated doctor says she was racially profiled by employees on

October marks worst month for US stocks in 7 years Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:05 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — What a difference a month makes.

Another exec out amid sex harassment tension at Google Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:16 PM PDT Google parent Alphabet on Wednesday confirmed that an executive accused of sexual harassment left the company without an exit package as tension over its handling of such matters heightened. Word that Rich DeVaul, a director at X lab devoted to "moonshots" such as internet service from balloons, was out came with reports that women employees were organizing a walk-out on Thursday to protest lenient handling of sexual misconduct in the workplace. Alphabet declined to give details about DeVaul's departure from the company on Tuesday.

Top US companies stand up to oppose Trump effort to roll back trans rights Posted: 02 Nov 2018 07:28 AM PDT Some of America's largest companies including Apple, Amazon, Bank of America and JP Morgan have published a letter supporting legal protection for transgender people following reports the Trump administration is considering limiting its definition of gender. Fifty companies, which employ 4.8 million people between them, signed the statement after the White House was revealed to be considering narrowing gender definitions to "immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth", according to a department of health memo obtained by the New York Times.

Brooklyn Synagogue Cancels Event After 'Kill All Jews' Graffiti Found Inside Posted: 02 Nov 2018 08:42 AM PDT A Brooklyn synagogue canceled a speaking event Thursday night after "Kill all

Here's How to Deal with the Khashoggi Incident Posted: 01 Nov 2018 12:18 PM PDT Here's a hint: It's not sanctions.

Man Says Republican Senate Candidate Literally Took His Health Care Away Posted: 01 Nov 2018 03:23 PM PDT Democrats have hammered Republican candidates in this political cycle for

In Texas, Beto and Cruz take the fight to the border Posted: 02 Nov 2018 09:26 AM PDT Beto O'Rourke, campaigning along the Texas border as President Trump warned of a migrant invasion, said: "This desire to stir paranoia and fear … is a political ploy five days away from the deciding election of our lifetimes."

Indonesia struggles with damaged black box from crashed jet, hunts for second Posted: 02 Nov 2018 04:43 AM PDT The Lion Air Boeing Co 737 MAX, which only went into service in August, crashed on Monday into the Java Sea. Air traffic control lost contact with it 13 minutes after it took off from the capital, Jakarta, heading north to the tin-mining town of Pangkal Pinang. Searchers have found one black box and just one passenger has been identified from partial human remains recovered from the shallow waters.

16 Warm Gifts For People Who Are Always Cold Posted: 01 Nov 2018 05:00 AM PDT There's no denying it: Temperatures are dropping and winter is coming, which

Yahoo News Explains: Who’s going to win the midterms? Posted: 02 Nov 2018 11:22 AM PDT The midterm elections look like they're going to be hotly contested. Republicans now control both houses of Congress. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 seats in the Senate are up for grabs, so both parties are putting up the fight of a lifetime. But do Democrats have a chance? Yahoo News explains.

Missing migrants, lost and dead: AP methodology Posted: 01 Nov 2018 02:21 AM PDT The Associated Press set out to count the number of dead and missing migrants worldwide since 2014, the year that Europe's deadly migration crisis prompted the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration to start its Missing Migrants project.

Pakistan hardliners vow no let up in paralysing blasphemy protests Posted: 01 Nov 2018 06:04 AM PDT Islamist hardliners incensed by the acquittal of a Christian woman for blasphemy vowed no let up Thursday to protests paralysing major Pakistani cities a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed to confront them. Demonstrations broke out after the Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a blasphemy conviction for Christian mother Asia Bibi, ending her eight year ordeal on death row but infuriating Muslim conservatives. One key protest leader has called for the assassination of the country's top judges and for mutiny against the army's top brass since the court's decision reignited the touchpaper issue.

15 Noncommittal Gifts To Give The Person You Just Started Dating Posted: 02 Nov 2018 10:51 AM PDT Just started talking? Still haven't defined the relationship? Aren't sure if

Victims of Pittsburgh synagogue attack are laid to rest Posted: 01 Nov 2018 01:11 PM PDT Funerals were planned Thursday for Bernice and Sylvan Simon, husband and wife, and Dr. Richard Gottfried, a dentist who worked part-time at a clinic treating refugees and immigrants. The oldest victim, 97-year-old Rose Mallinger, will be honored at a service Friday. Her daughter was injured in the attack.

Judge Orders Georgia's Brian Kemp To Give Thousands More People A Shot At Voting Posted: 02 Nov 2018 12:04 PM PDT A federal judge in Georgia on Friday ordered state Secretary of State Brian

Trump's target audience for migrant caravan scare tactics: Women Posted: 02 Nov 2018 04:59 PM PDT The president makes the case that the Central American migrant caravan is an issue that will lure female voters to the polls.

Google's '#metoo' moment: Workers walk out over women's rights Posted: 01 Nov 2018 03:55 PM PDT Thousands of Google employees around the world briefly walked off their jobs on Thursday to protest the company's response to sexual harassment and demand that the world's largest search engine address rising concerns about workplace inequality. The protests took place in waves, beginning in Asia and then streaming across Europe and North America, with the final wave occurring at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. The protests, which drew Google contract workers as well as employees, followed a New York Times report last week that Google in 2014 gave a $90 million exit package to a senior vice president, Andy Rubin, after he was accused of sexual harassment.

SEMA may sue US highways agency over replica car laws Posted: 02 Nov 2018 10:20 AM PDT After three years of delays implementing laws that would allow low-volume US car companies to build turnkey classic car replicas, SEMA is considering legal action

Watch John Lewis Dance To 'Happy' At Stacey Abrams Campaign Event Posted: 02 Nov 2018 09:34 AM PDT Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia) knows how to have a good time.

Dramatic whale rescue Posted: 02 Nov 2018 07:39 AM PDT A fisherman risks his life jumping on the back of a humpback whale tangled in rope to cut it loose. ABC News' Kendis Gibson reports.

'War and peace in Liberia' —Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros on the frontline Posted: 02 Nov 2018 11:35 AM PDT Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros's powerful photographs played an important role in moving the world to action and ultimately bringing the Second Liberian Civil War (1999-2003) to an end. Slideshow and discussion with Michael Kamber, Nov. 10, 2018, at the Bronx Documentary Center. Exhibition on view through Dec. 16, 2018.

Man smiles, says 'Let's rock' before dying in electric chair Posted: 01 Nov 2018 07:56 PM PDT NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee inmate grimaced and waved goodbye before saying "let's rock," moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007, put to death Thursday for shooting two men and slitting their throats during a drug deal decades ago.

Forget Candy, Mark Sanford Gives Trick-Or-Treaters The Constitution Posted: 01 Nov 2018 01:37 AM PDT Trick-or-treaters were in for a surprise when they stopped by Rep. Mark

Trump slaps 'tough' sanctions on Venezuela, targets gold sector: Bolton Posted: 01 Nov 2018 10:29 AM PDT The White House imposed "tough" new sanctions against Venezuela on Thursday, denouncing Caracas as being part of a "troika of tyranny" that also includes Cuba and Nicaragua. "The troika of tyranny in this hemisphere -- Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua -- has finally met its match," he added, according to prepared remarks.

U.S., Iran policy depends not just on sanctions but on flexibility Posted: 01 Nov 2018 01:11 PM PDT Washington will reintroduce sanctions on Monday targeting Iran's most important industry - oil - and U.S. officials have indicated a measure of flexibility is needed to ensure global markets are well supplied to keep prices from surging. In abandoning the international 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Trump and his top aides have touted the re-imposition of economic penalties on Iran as part of a "maximum pressure" campaign to force a change in a wide range of Iranian behavior. What Trump wants from Tehran, though, is seen by former officials as a "maximalist" position that includes ending uranium enrichment, giving U.N. inspectors access to all sites across Iran and ceasing support for Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen and the Hamas Palestinian militant group.

Subaru and Toyota to Recall 165,000 Vehicles for Engine Issues Posted: 02 Nov 2018 11:33 AM PDT Subaru and Toyota say they will recall 400,000 vehicles worldwide for potential engine issues that could lead to a car stalling or losing power. The problem is with four-cylinder engines found in...

Smartphone sales down for fourth straight quarter Posted: 02 Nov 2018 08:38 AM PDT Global smartphone sales fell for a fourth consecutive quarter in the period through September, suggesting a challenging market for device makers awaiting catalysts to spark sales, researchers said. A report by research firm IDC late Thursday showed 355 million handsets delivered in the third quarter, a year-on-year decline of six percent. "The global smartphone market has now declined for four consecutive quarters and is effectively in a recession," said Strategy Analytics director Linda Sui.

Who is expected to win control of the Senate according to the latest polls? Posted: 02 Nov 2018 12:20 PM PDT Four days away from crucial midterm elections, one of the major questions is whether the Republicans will keep control of the Senate or whether the Democrats will gain enough seats to take over. Republicans currently hold the majority of seats in both chambers of Congress. The most recent polling suggests that Democrats have a grand opportunity to take back the House of Representatives.

Iowa father takes stand, blames mother for baby's death Posted: 02 Nov 2018 01:55 PM PDT MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa father on trial for the gruesome death of his infant son blamed the baby's mother from the stand Friday.

Iowa Teacher Who Wore Blackface to Halloween Party Didn't Know It Was Offensive, Lawyer Says Posted: 01 Nov 2018 09:33 AM PDT Megan Luloff, a first-grade teacher at Walcott Elementary School in Iowa, apologized for the costume.

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