PoliticsYahoo NewsObama to Trump: ‘Stop whining’ about the electionPresident Barack Obama says Donald Trump needs to “stop whining” about the election. “One of the great things about America’s democracy is that we have a vigorous, sometimes bitter political contest,” Obama said Tuesday during joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House. “And when it’s done, historically, regardless of party, the person who loses the election congratulates the winner, confirms our democracy and we move forward.
- LifestyleThe DriveC'Etait Un Rendezvous: Alex Roy Reviews The 2017 Jaguar F-Type SVR
Like the Russian submarine in The Hunt For Red October, the 2017 Jaguar F-Type SVR is a car built for one purpose. I’m not talking about tunnel sprints, which is how Jaguar launched it earlier this year. I’m talking about the penultimate road test. Have
WorldAFPRetired US general pleads guilty to lying in Iran probeA retired top US general pleaded guilty Monday to making a false statement during an FBI probe into a classified intelligence leak about a cyberattack against Iran's nuclear program in 2010. Marine Corps General James Cartwright, 67, formerly the vice chairman to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was accused of lying to investigators when he said he had not confirmed classified information to New York Times journalist David Sanger. Sanger wrote a book describing a joint US and Israeli operation that deployed a virus called "Stuxnet" that reportedly destroyed or damaged centrifuges being used by Iran to enrich uranium in 2010.
- TechnologyThe DriveThe British Are Crashing Drones Into Planes for Science
With hundreds of thousands of privately-owned drones zipping around the world's airways, it's only a matter of time before a UAV collides with an airplane in flight and causes serious problems. The tests are being paid for by the United Kingdom's Department for Transport, and will be performed by UK-based defense and aerospace technology company Quinetiq. The British Civil Aviation Authority, the agency that regulates drone usage, said the tests will primarily be used to show how drones could damage an airplane's fuselage, The Verge reports.
BusinessReutersTarget, McDonald's react to U.S. creepy clown sightingsBy Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two of America's biggest commercial brands - discount retailer Target and fast-food chain McDonald's - have taken steps to tamp down hysteria stemming from a recent spate of creepy clown sightings in the run-up to Halloween at the end of this month. Target decided last week to winnow down its assortment of clown masks and costumes available for sale in U.S. stores and online "given the current environment," company spokesman Joshua Thomas said on Monday. Although Target received some isolated consumer comments about scary clown accessories, the decision to pull some masks from inventories stemmed from "a conversation internally about how we can respond to the situation at hand," Thomas told Reuters.
WorldAssociated PressSyria First Lady says she refused offer to leave the countryThe wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a television interview broadcast Tuesday that she has declined offers to leave her country earlier in the now six-year-long war in return for safety and financial security for her and her children. Asma Assad, 41, was speaking to Russia 24, a Moscow-based state-run television channel. It was her first interview with international media since the war broke out in Syria in 2011.
- U.S.ABC News VideosPolice Dash Cam Catches High-Speed Collision During Traffic Stop
A truck rear ended the police cruiser at highway speed as an officer assisted a driver near Hudson, Wisconsin. It. For the little letter it. It can't. The world where they predicted. That yeah. Yeah.
- EntertainmentYahoo News Photo StaffPhotos of the day - October 18, 2016
People are reflected in an art installation by Cuban artist Rachel Valdes Camejo titled ‘The Beginning of the End’ in Times Square in New York; a man reacts while clenching onto the coffin of Hezbollah fighter Jalal al-Effie, killed in Syria’s Aleppo,
- BusinessThe DriveDrive Wire for October 17, 2016: Uber Using Drones to Mock Drivers Trapped in Traffic
Today on Drive Wire: Uber is using flying quadcopter drones to advertise its services in Mexico City—by using them to taunt drivers stuck in traffic. The drone-vertising is part of a larger push into Latin America on Uber’s part, as the ride-hailing company attempts to gain a bigger chunk of the up-and-coming market in the wake of its recent departure from China. Uber has recently launched its increasingly popular UberPool service in Mexico City and other Latin American markets, and has also begun allowing drivers to accept cash payments, according to Bloomberg.
- PoliticsYahoo NewsArizona newspaper responds to threats after Clinton endorsement
The Arizona Republic publicly responded to the deluge of threats it received after supporting Hillary Clinton for president, the first Democratic endorsement in its 125-year history. Mi-Ai Parrish, president of the newspaper, penned a Sunday op-ed explaining what went into the Republic’s decision to break from tradition and how the paper’s journalists go about their jobs. The Republic’s editorial board had argued in many pieces for over a year that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s principles were not actually conservative, and that they were bad for the GOP, Arizona and the United States, she noted.
- BusinessThe DriveTesla Says New Model 3 Deliveries Will Arrive “Mid-2018 or Later”
Tesla now says new orders for the Model 3 won’t arrive until mid-2018—at the earliest. The carmaker posted the change as an addendum to its Model 3 page last Sunday, quietly sliding a line in between the $35,000 starting price and the button that invites the reader to reserve one of the midsized electric cars for a refundable deposit of $1,000. While certainly disconcerting to anyone who’s been waffling over whether to bring one of Elon Musk’s future mass-market electric cars into their lives, the news isn’t exactly a surprise.
U.S.AFPMexican judge whose court handled cartel cases is killedA federal judge whose court has handled some cases related to drug cartels has been killed near Mexico City. Vicente Antonio Bermudez Zacarias was murdered in Metepec, a town in the State of Mexico, the Supreme Court said in a statement. President Enrique Pena Nieto condemned the murder and ordered the attorney general's office to take over the investigation.
- BusinessU.S.News & World ReportThe Student Debt Challenge Helps More Student Loan Borrowers
About six months ago, the White House announced a campaign -- the Student Debt Challenge -- to raise awareness of the existence of income-driven repayment options. Recent statistics show that the majority of the fastest growing occupations in the U.S. require higher education. While policymakers and presidential candidates work on ways to make college more affordable, the current and past administrations have put multiple income-driven repayment plans in place to at least help ease the burden of student debt.
BusinessReutersVisa CEO Charles Scharf to resignVisa's shares, which have more than tripled in value under Scharf's watch, were down 1.8 percent at $80.70 in after-market trading. San Francisco-based company named Alfred Kelly, a former president of American Express Co and a current Visa board member, as CEO. Visa said Scharf had informed the board that he decided to resign because he could no longer spend the time in San Francisco necessary to do the job effectively.
- U.S.Associated PressWhite mayor who acknowledged racist posts allowed to resign
The town council on Monday voted to accept the resignation of the Republican mayor after an uproar over racist posts on his Facebook page, including two depicting apes with captions referring to Democratic President Barack Obama and his family. The West York borough council last week voted to censure Mayor Charles Wasko, who's white, but had no power to throw him out of office. Democratic Council President Shawn Mauck will take over as mayor.
- TechnologyThe DriveDrive Wire for October 17, 2016: Apple May Have Canned Its Plans to Build a Car
Today on Drive Wire: A new report suggests Apple has ditched its plans to build its own car for the time being, instead choosing to concentrate on developing technology for self-driving vehicles. According to Bloomberg, the Apple project known as Project Titan has been significantly ramped down, with hundreds of employees connected to the project being reassigned or leaving the company over the last few months. Management and leadership problems were an issue with the project, according to Bloomberg.
BusinessAFPChina new bank loans surge in SeptemberNew loans by Chinese banks in September surged nearly 30 percent from the previous month, official data showed Tuesday, deepening concern about risky credit expansion in the world’s second largest economy. New loans extended by banks jumped to 1.22 trillion yuan ($181.3 billion) last month from 948.7 billion yuan in August, said the People’s Bank of China, the central bank. Beijing has relied on stimulus measures such as loose credit to boost the economy, which faces a tough structural transition and sluggish global demand.
HealthAFP Relax NewsDevils' milk could fight superbugs: Australia scientistsMother's milk from the marsupials known as Tasmanian devils could help the global fight against increasingly deadly "superbugs" which resist antibiotics, Australian researchers said Tuesday. Superbugs are bacteria which cannot be treated by current antibiotics and other drugs, with a recent British study saying they could kill up to 10 million people globally by 2050. Scientists at the University of Sydney found that peptides in the marsupial's milk killed resistant bacteria, including methicillin-resistant golden staph bacteria and enterococcus that is resistant to the powerful antibiotic vancomycin.
PoliticsYahoo NewsTrump accuses FBI, State Dept. and DOJ of ‘collusion’ on Clinton emailsDonald Trump says newly released documents from the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state show the bureau “colluded” with the State Department and Department of Justice to make his Democratic
- BusinessThe DriveThe LAPD Is Building a Tesla Model S Police Car
Luxury car buyers can’t seem to get enough of the Tesla Model S—and neither, apparently, can the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPD plans to convert a Tesla Model S into a fully-fledged patrol car and set it loose on the mean streets of Los Angeles, as part of a plan that aims to replace traditional cop vehicles with electric police cruisers in the next five years. Back in May, the LAPD announced that it had borrowed a pair of Model S P85 Ds to see how the EVs could handle the demands of life on the beat.
U.S.Associated PressOfficers: Confrontation with California gunman was ambushPolice officers told a dispatcher during a chase that their confrontation with a gunman in body armor at a California Starbucks was an ambush, saying they looked up during their break to see a man pointing an assault rifle at them through the glass front of the shop. The two police officers escaped injury in the Sunday encounter in Vallejo because the attacker's assault rifle jammed, preventing him from firing a shot, police Chief Andrew Bidou has said.
WorldAFPUNESCO adopts controversial resolution on east JerusalemThe UN cultural agency on Tuesday adopted a controversial Arab-sponsored resolution on east Jerusalem which Israel has said ignores Jewish ties to a key holy site. A spokesman for Paris-based UNESCO said the resolution, which has caused Israel to suspend its cooperation with the agency, was adopted without a new vote after being approved at the committee stage last week. The text, which touches on Israel's management of Palestinian religious sites, has infuriated Israel by referring throughout to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem's Old City -- Islam's third holiest site -- only by its Muslim names: Al-Aqsa and Al-Haram al-Sharif.
WorldReutersIran sentences two U.S. citizens to 10 years in prisonBy Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian-American businessman and his elderly father to 10 years in prison on charges of cooperating with the United States, Iranian media reported on Tuesday, the latest sign of an intensifying crackdown against Iranians with ties to the West. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in October 2015 detained Siamak Namazi, a businessman in his mid-40s with dual U.S.-Iranian citizenship, while he was visiting family in Tehran. The IRGC in February arrested his 80-year-old father, Baquer Namazi, a former Iranian provincial governor and former UNICEF official who also has dual citizenship.
U.S.Associated PressBridge defendant: Top officials knew traffic study storyTop officials in New Jersey government and the authority that runs the George Washington Bridge knew about or had a hand in what prosecutors contend was a false narrative that a lane realignment in 2013 was part of a traffic study rather than a scheme to punish a mayor, a defendant in the case testified Monday. In his first public comments about the scandal since his indictment nearly 18 months ago, former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive Bill Baroni also contradicted the prosecution's star witness by offering a third version of when, and how much, Republican Gov. Christie learned about the lane realignment and subsequent gridlock in Fort Lee, the town adjacent to the bridge. Prosecutors say the lane closings created traffic jams intended to punish Mark Sokolich, the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, for not endorsing Christie's re-election.
- PoliticsABC News VideosTrump on Voter Fraud: 'There Is a Lot of Stuff Going On'
ABC News' Tom Llamas spoke with the GOP presidential nominee ahead of a rally in Green Bay, Wis. Neutral you've been seen election's gonna be read what evidence do you have voter fraud look to start off where we have the media which so that it. In this next debate what he thinks there's a lot to be aggressive about she's done a terrible you look at ice is even most looked at Los.
