| California arson arrest connected to mosque fire: paper Posted: 12 Dec 2015 01:09 PM PST  A 23-year-old man was in jail on Saturday on suspicion of arson and carrying out a hate crime, online jail records showed, an arrest that the Los Angeles Times reported was in connection with a fire at a Southern California mosque. The Times, citing jail records and anonymous law enforcement sources, said the arrest on Friday was tied to a blaze at Islamic Society of the Coachella Valley in Riverside County. It identified the suspect as Carl Dial.
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| Naughty or nice, SantaCon revelers descend on New York Posted: 12 Dec 2015 10:13 AM PST  By Alexander Besant NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of merrymakers dressed like Santa Claus and his elves assembled in a Brooklyn park on Saturday morning to begin the annual pub crawl known as SantaCon, a Yuletide rite with a reputation for inspiring bad behavior among the revelers. Organizers expect thousands of others eventually to join the day-long party, with more than 14,000 people signing up to participate on the SantaCon NYC Facebook page. Terance McNamara, 25, of Hoboken, New Jersey, was one of the early birds who gathered in the New York borough's hip Williamsburg neighborhood dressed in a bright red Santa suit to start a day of bar-hopping.
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| Houston goes to polls to elect new mayor Posted: 12 Dec 2015 06:48 AM PST  Voters in Houston, the fourth most-populous U.S. city, went to the polls on Saturday to elect a mayor with Sylvester Turner, a veteran lawmaker seeking to expand economic opportunities, facing Bill King, a businessman pledging to fix city finances. Polls have shown the race to be a dead heat between Turner, a powerful Democrat in the Republican-dominated state legislature, and King, a Republican lawyer and businessman who calls himself "unapologetically moderate". Turner, supported by public sector unions, has backed the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) that bans discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, protections not guaranteed under Texas law.
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| Saudi women vote for the first time in landmark election Posted: 12 Dec 2015 06:15 AM PST  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Thousands of Saudi women headed to polling stations across the kingdom on Saturday, both as voters and candidates for the first time in a landmark election.
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| Climate deal unveiled in Paris: A 'historic turning point' Posted: 12 Dec 2015 03:51 AM PST  By Richard Valdmanis and Valerie Volcovici PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Saturday, a "historic" measure for transforming the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turn the tide on global warming. "Our responsibility to history is immense," Fabius told thousands of officials, including President Francois Hollande and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in the main hall of the conference venue on the outskirts of Paris. Fabius called it an "ambitious and balanced" agreement that would mark a "historic turning point" for the world.
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| Climate pact draft only about 20 pages, but will be legally binding Posted: 12 Dec 2015 03:35 AM PST  The latest on the U.N. climate conference outside Paris (all times local): 12:25 p.m. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made an impassioned entreaty to world diplomats negotiating a potential accord ...
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| Global climate accord in Paris may be only hours away Posted: 12 Dec 2015 12:39 AM PST  LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Negotiators from around the world appear to be closing in on a landmark accord to slow global warming, with a possible final draft to be presented Saturday for a last round of debate at talks outside Paris.
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| Saudi Prince Alwaleed calls Trump a disgrace, should quit presidential race Posted: 11 Dec 2015 11:03 PM PST  Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has called Donald Trump a disgrace to the United States following his call for a ban on Muslims entering the country, and demanded the Republican front-runner withdraw from the U.S. presidential race. Trump triggered an international uproar when he made his comments in response to last week's deadly shootings in California by two Muslims who authorities said were radicalized. "You are a disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America," Prince Alwaleed, the chairman of Kingdom Holding , said on his Twitter account, addressing Trump and referring to the Republican Party.
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| Colorado ACLU official resigns after suggesting Trump supporters be shot Posted: 11 Dec 2015 10:46 PM PST  (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado said on Friday it had accepted the resignation of a co-chair who came under criticism for a Facebook post that said people who insist on voting for Donald Trump should be told they will be shot. Loring Wirbel, who served as co-chair of the Colorado Springs chapter of the ACLU, also compared Trump, the current Republican presidential frontrunner, to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Wirbel's Facebook comments were reported by the conservative website "The Daily Caller" and caught the ire of Trump supporters and members of the Republican Party in Colorado.
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| Exclusive: Trump lead among Republicans undiminished in first poll after Muslim comments Posted: 11 Dec 2015 09:58 PM PST  By Emily Stephenson and Chris Kahn WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump held onto his commanding lead in the Republican race for the White House after his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States was condemned worldwide, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, the first national survey conducted entirely after the billionaire's remarks. Trump led the pack of candidates seeking the Republican Party's nomination in the 2016 election with 35 percent of support from Republican voters, the opinion poll released on Friday found, the same lead he held before Monday, when he said Muslim immigrants, students and other travelers should be barred from entering the country. Most Republican voters said they were not bothered by his remarks, though many said the comments could still hurt Trump's chances of becoming president.
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| Key U.S. Senate panel chairman opens inquiry into California massacre Posted: 11 Dec 2015 07:19 PM PST  Nine days after 14 people were shot dead in California by a married couple the FBI says were inspired by Islamic extremism, the Republican chairman of a key U.S. Senate panel demanded the Justice Department on Friday turn over much of the evidence collected so far in the case. In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, asked her agency to furnish the evidence requested, along with answers to more than a dozen questions he posed about the investigation.
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| Meaning behind Islamic State's Twitter memes Posted: 11 Dec 2015 05:42 PM PST  The extremist group shows it is fluent in pop culture with references to "The Lion King" and the honey badger.
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| Trump aide's tweet, aimed at Cruz, misses. Badly. Posted: 11 Dec 2015 03:34 PM PST  A senior adviser to Donald Trump's campaign discovered the perils of social media when he accidentally posted a very personal image on Twitter in the wee hours of Friday morning.
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