Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th September 2019 at 02:15 (about 1 hour ago)
Known for acting on impulse, President Donald Trump has adopted an uncharacteristically go-slow approach over whether to hold Iran responsible for attacks on Saudi oil facilities, showing little enthusiasm for confrontation as he seeks re-election next year. After state-owned Saudi Aramco's plants were struck on Saturday, Trump did not wait long to fire off a tweet that the United States was "locked and loaded" to respond, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran. Instead, he wants to wait and see the results of investigations into what happened and is sending Pompeo to consult counterparts in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates this week. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th September 2019 at 00:45 (about 2 hours ago)
South Korea Wednesday officially dropped Japan from its "white list" of trusted trade partners, the latest move in a bitter row stemming from Tokyo's use of forced labour during World War II. Seoul had already warned Tokyo it would reciprocate following a similar move by Japan in late August to downgrade South Korea's trade status. Local companies shipping strategic goods to Japan would now have to submit more documents and approval would take around 15 days instead of five, Yonhap news agency reported, quoting the South Korean trade ministry. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th September 2019 at 00:45 (about 2 hours ago)
A 411-pound feral hog was spotted near a golf course in San Antonio. One of the men who humanely captured and removed it told Insider how they did it. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th September 2019 at 00:45 (about 2 hours ago)
The sale was by far the federal government's largest offering of geothermal energy leases by acreage in recent years, with 142 parcels on 384,369.6 acres available for auction. According to energy marketplace EnergyNet, which conducted the online sale, 37 parcels representing 102,402.85 acres received bids for a total of $426,900. The sale, overseen by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, was part of the Trump administration's "energy dominance" agenda to open up more federal land to all forms of energy production. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th September 2019 at 00:45 (about 2 hours ago)
Overseas, Joshua Wong has emerged as a prominent face of Hong Kong's months-long protests for full democracy. While not diminishing the importance of that role, other protesters say Wong does not speak for what is purposefully a leaderless movement. "Not that nobody cares about what he says, but it's just that Joshua Wong alone cannot represent the whole of Hong Kong," said Sean Au, a 17-year-old student. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th September 2019 at 00:45 (about 2 hours ago)
But the longtime prime minister said he will still work to form a new government. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th September 2019 at 00:45 (about 2 hours ago)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has sworn in two Republicans who won special elections in North Carolina last week. One is conservative Dan Bishop. As a state legislator, he wrote North Carolina's 2016 law restricting which public bathrooms transgender people may use. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th September 2019 at 00:45 (about 2 hours ago)
The first attack saw a motorcyclist detonate a suicide bomb at a checkpoint leading to a rally where President Ashraf Ghani was addressing supporters in Parwan province, just north of the capital, killing 26 and wounding 42. Just over an hour later, another blast also claimed by the Taliban rocked central Kabul near the US embassy. The explosions came after US President Donald Trump, objecting to a previous deadly Taliban blast, abruptly ended talks with the Islamist extremists earlier this month over a deal that would have allowed the US to begin withdrawing troops from its longest war. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 17th September 2019 at 23:15 (about 4 hours ago)
The storm system soaking the greater Houston area has now officially strengthened to become Tropical Storm Imelda. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 17th September 2019 at 23:15 (about 4 hours ago)
A federal judge on Tuesday refused to free members of a white supremacist group on bond while they appeal their convictions for attacking protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. U.S. District Judge Norman Moon ruled that Rise Above Movement members Benjamin Daley, Michael Miselis and Thomas Gillen haven't adequately shown that releasing them from custody wouldn't pose a danger to others. All three men pleaded guilty to riot conspiracy charges stemming from violence at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. #