mardi 15 septembre 2015

Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines

Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines


David Gregory on faith, leaving NBC, and the 2016 race

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 11:20 AM PDT

Katie Couric talks to David GregoryYahoo's Katie Couric talks with the former 'Meet the Press' moderator about his new book and what he expects to see in Wednesday's GOP debate.


Chelsea Clinton can’t understand why Americans find Hillary dishonest: ‘My mom is my hero’

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:47 AM PDT

Chelsea Clinton, center, hugs democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as former President Bill Clinton, right, watches them Saturday, June 13, 2015, on Roosevelt Island in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)In an interview with NBC's "Today" show Tuesday, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton was asked how she felt about recent polls that show a majority of Americans don't find her mother honest and trustworthy.


Ben Carson closing in fast on Donald Trump

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 08:58 AM PDT

Ben Carson closing in fast on Donald TrumpOn the eve of the second Republican debate, a NYT/CBS News poll shows Ben Carson has pulled to within just four points of Donald Trump.


At least one killed, several injured in Houston school bus crash

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 07:10 AM PDT

Four people were transported to local hospitals for treatment, including students and the bus driver, a Houston Fire Department spokesman said. The fatality was a girl and there was no information available on the condition of those injured, the Houston Chronicle reported. The Chronicle's web site showed the yellow school bus, reportedly headed to Furr High School, on its side at the bottom of an embankment.

Hungary locks down EU border, taking crisis into its own hands

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 05:58 AM PDT

Migrants wait to enter Hungary near the village of HorgosBy Krisztina Than and Ivana Sekularac SERBIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER (Reuters) - Hungary's right-wing government shut the main land route for migrants into the EU on Tuesday, taking matters into its own hands to halt Europe's unprecedented influx of refugees while the bloc failed to agree a plan to distribute them. Crowds of migrants built up at Serbia's northern border with Hungary, their passage blocked by a razor wire fence. Under new rules that took effect from midnight, Hungary says anyone seeking asylum at the Serbian border will automatically be turned back.


NKorea warns it has restarted all nuclear bomb fuel plants

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 02:06 AM PDT

A South Korean man watches TV news program showing a file footage of the Unha rocket in North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. North Korea said Monday it is ready to launch satellites aboard long-range rockets to mark a key national anniversary next month, a move expected to rekindle animosities with its rivals South Korea and the United States. (AP Photo/ahn Young-joon)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A day after threatening long-range rocket launches, North Korea declared Tuesday that it has upgraded and restarted all of its atomic fuel plants so it can produce more — and more sophisticated — nuclear weapons.


Police: Suspect in Mississippi college shooting is dead

Posted: 15 Sep 2015 12:41 AM PDT

Delta State University students cross state Highway 8 under police escort to go to their dorms as the Cleveland, Miss., school remains under lockdown following the campus shooting of history professor Ethan Schmidt in his office in Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. The highway runs through the northern part of the campus. Law enforcement continue to search for a another school employee in connection with the killing and the campus remained on lockdown in the afternoon. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)A man sought in the killings of a woman and a professor apparently shot himself to death.


7 dead after flash flooding hits Utah-Arizona border town

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 11:53 PM PDT

Debris and water cover the ground after a flash flood Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, in Hildale, Utah. Authorities say multiple people are dead and others missing after a flash flood ripped through the town on the Utah-Arizona border Monday night. (Mark Lamont via AP) MANDATORY CREDITSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A wall of flood water swept away two vehicles carrying women and children in a Utah-Arizona border town Monday night, killing at least seven people and leaving six others missing, authorities said.


At least seven dead after flash flood hits Utah

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 11:35 PM PDT

The downpour damage to streets around the southern city of Hildale, Utah, and several vehicles were washed downstream, said Hildale assistant fire chief Kevin Barlow. At least 16 people in different vehicles were caught in the flash flooding, a result of fast and heavy rains in the nearby canyons, Barlow said. Two cars were hit by a "large wall of water," Washington County officials said in a Facebook post.

Hundreds of Latinos protest at Trump rally, clash with supporters

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 10:29 PM PDT

Protestor Genoveva Castillos holds a sign outside of a political rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Dallas, TexasBy Emily Flitter DALLAS (Reuters) - A downtown Dallas rally by presidential hopeful Donald Trump produced some of the sharpest scenes of conflict yet in his campaign as hundreds gathered to protest his positions on immigration and confronted supporters as they left the event. Inside the rally at the American Airlines Center sports arena, the biggest cheers from the thousands of attendees erupted when the Republican front-runner said it was time to stop illegal immigration. "It's a massive problem," Trump said as the crowd around him stood roaring and waving Trump campaign signs and American flags.


Police say suspect in Delta State U. shooting is dead

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 10:11 PM PDT

A law enforcement officer stands watch as emergency vehicles clog a road adjacent to Delta State University after an active shooter was reported in Cleveland, Miss., Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. A school official says one person has died following a shooting at Delta State University, and the campus remains on lockdown after reports of an active shooter. (Courtney Warren/The Bolivar Commercial, via AP)CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) — The latest on a shooting at Delta State University that left a professor dead (all times local):


Woman killed, 400 homes destroyed by California wildfire

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 08:11 PM PDT

Leveled homes line Jefferson St. after the Valley Fire raged through MiddletonBy Curtis Skinner LAKEPORT, Calif. (Reuters) - A Northern California wildfire ranked as the most destructive to hit the drought-stricken U.S. West this year has killed a woman and burned some 400 homes to the ground, fire officials said on Monday, and they expect the property toll to climb. An elderly, disabled woman who was unable to flee her home died in the fire as flames consumed the building on Saturday evening, Lake County Sheriff's spokesman Lieutenant Steve Brooks said. Evacuated residents recounted chaotic ordeals of having to flee their homes through gauntlets of flame, and some 9,000 structures remained threatened as darkness fell on Monday evening, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire).


Hillary Clinton pledges to tackle campus sexual assault

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 04:39 PM PDT

Hillary Clinton's support amongst Democrats has fallen below 50% for the first time, according to the new pollHillary Clinton pledged to tackle campus sexual assault during a speech at the University of Northern Iowa on Monday.


Seattle schools closed for fourth day by teachers' strike

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 04:09 PM PDT

Teachers walk the picket line as they strike outside Roosevelt High School in Seattle, WashingtonSeattle's 53,000 public school students were idled for a fourth day on Monday by a citywide teachers' strike after a marathon round of weekend contract talks between the union and school district failed to produce a settlement. Negotiations were set to resume on Monday afternoon, with striking teachers planning to walk picket lines at city high schools before marching to district headquarters for a rally timed to coincide with a district news briefing there, the union said. One of the teachers' chief grievances is that they have received no cost-of-living raise in six years despite surging living expenses in Seattle, particularly for housing, fueled largely by growth in the city's technology sector.


Brock: Clinton hasn’t asked me to stop attacking NYTimes

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 03:02 PM PDT

Conservative hit man turned avid Hillary Clinton supporter David Brock talked to Yahoo News.


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