With recounts looming, Trump adds new administration picks MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump pressed forward Friday with two more administration picks, as failed Green Party candidate Jill Stein took new steps to force recounts across key Midwestern battlegrounds that could complicate Trump’s push for national unity. Stein, who […]
Jill Stein requests Wisconsin recount, alleging hackers filed bogus absentee ballots Jill Stein has requested a full recount of the presidential election in Wisconsin, alleging that foreign hackers could have skewed the result by obtaining the state’s voter database and then filing bogus absentee ballots. Stein, the Green party’s candidate […]
As the Aedes aegypti mosquito spreads globally, so does the risk of epidemics Of all the mosquito species that populate the planet, few have proved themselves more resilient or more deadly to humans than the Aedes aegypti. The epidemics fueled by this tiny mosquito stretch across hundreds of years and […]
For second time this month, Lions edge Vikings late DETROIT (AP) Matthew Stafford led another crucial drive late in the fourth quarter, and Matt Prater’s kicking again helped Detroit to a tight victory over Minnesota. For the second time this month, the Lions edged the Vikings. This time, they didn’t […]
MacBook Pro 13-inch with Touch Bar review Have you grown bored of seeing your local Starbucks awash in silver, mid-sized laptops, all sporting that glowing Apple logo? We don’t blame you. Apple has remained committed to the MacBook Pro’s design over the last four years, counting on engineering excellence to […]
Thanksgiving Day Online Shopping Blew Past $1 Billion Online spending by U.S. bargain hunters climbed to above $1 billion by Thanksgiving evening, according to Adobe Digital Index, surging almost 14% from a year ago and reflecting a broader trend away from brick-and-mortar shopping. At the start of the first holiday […]
French Police Hunt Masked Attacker Who Fatally Stabbed Woman PARIS — Some 100 police officers are searching for a gunman suspected of stabbing an elderly woman to death in a retirement home for Catholic missionaries in southern France. A spokesman for the gendarmerie, or military police, said on Friday the […]
Israel fires: Dozen suspects arrested on suspicion of arson Firefighters have brought a blaze under control around the northern city of Haifa, where about 80,000 people were ordered to evacuate. But officials say several smaller fires are still being tackled in different locations. The blazes have been fanned by hot, […]
First U.S. service member killed in Syria fighting the Islamic State A U.S. service member was killed by an improvised explosive device in northern Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon announced in a statement. The service member was killed near Ayn Issa, a town roughly 35 miles northwest of the Islamic […]
Severed heads and 32 bodies found in Mexican cartel mass graves Investigators exhumed the remains of 31 men and one woman from a hillside in Zitlala, where turf wars between rival criminal gangs are common. “The discoveries are terrible” a security spokesperson said, while the search for any additional hidden […]
