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Rescue workers and volunteers help residents make their way out of a flooded Houston neighborhood following Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 29. The catastrophic flooding in Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey was the backdrop for plenty of dramatic boat rescues in August. Both groups used Facebook to organize and coordinate their street-by-street searches. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2zlmK34 via Latest News

A sprawling Southern California wildfire that has been burning through rugged, drought-parched coastal terrain since Dec. 4 has become the largest on record in the state, state fire officials said on Friday. The so-called Thomas fire has blazed through 273,400 acres (110,641 hectares), surpassing the previous record of the 2003 Cedar fire in San Diego County that scorched 273,246 acres and killed 15 people, they said. Incremental increases in burned acreage detected by daily aerial surveys since then have been largely due to controlled-burning operations conducted by firefighters to clear swaths of vegetation between the smoldering edges of the fire zone and populated areas. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BSopjy via Latest News

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Instead of whining about their son’s teachers, Ohio parents Mary and Paul Sommers decided to wine them for Christmas instead. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2DEEp9m via Latest News

Federal agents arrested a former US Marine on Friday for allegedly plotting a Christmas attack in San Francisco inspired by the Islamic State jihadist group, according to court documents. Tow truck driver Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, was planning to target the city's busy Pier 39 tourist spot, according to an affidavit submitted by FBI Special Agent Christopher McKinney. Jameson professed not to need an escape plan as he was "ready to die," according to the document. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BZUSHl via Latest News

Donald Trump in 2017 moved from being a chaos candidate to a chaos president. He shoots for the moon (literally), routinely says things that aren’t true, and often makes pledges that generate enormous attention but very little follow-through. Many of his signature policy efforts have been tied up in or blocked by the courts, his campaign is under investigation by the FBI, and his approval rating is at historic lows for a first-year president. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BAYjEY via Latest News

Cute cats are wishing everyone a meow-y Christmas. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BJrRQH via Latest News

The vice mayor of the southern city of Davao, Paolo Duterte, said the chance of survival for any of the 37 people missing at the NCC Mall was "zero". "Let us pray for them," said Duterte, the eldest son of President Rodrigo Duterte. The fire broke out on Saturday at a furniture store on the mall's third level and quickly engulfed an outsourcing business on the upper floor, said a spokeswoman for the city government, Ma. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BZxZB6 via Latest News

Your brain may see a boost, too from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2D4Mq6z via Latest News

When it comes to “Star Wars” cameos, there is do or do not. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Bm96P2 via Latest News

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Friday an announcement by the International Committee of the Red Cross that cholera cases in the country had reached one million suspected cases was exaggerated. "It is nearly impossible to accurately determine whether the suspected cases are cholera or simple diarrhea," a statement by the spokesperson for the coalition said. Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest countries, is embroiled in a proxy war between the Houthi armed movement, aligned with Iran, and a U.S.-backed military coalition headed by Saudi Arabia. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2kNteDz via Latest News

Poland on Friday launched a multi-million euro investment fund to pay for the restoration of Europe's largest Jewish cemetery located in Warsaw and largely neglected since the Holocaust. Culture Minister Piotr Glinski said that profits generated from the fund valued at 24 million euros ($28 million) would ensure maintenance of the site that bears witness to Warsaw's lost Jewish community. It is is the final resting place for about 250,000 people, mostly Warsaw elites, according to its director Przemyslaw Szpilman. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2pofX9j via Latest News

A year of erratic U.S. rhetoric and steadily escalating diplomatic and economic pressure has failed to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, leaving the frustrated Trump administration to reconsider its options going into 2018 as the world wonders whether it’s on the edge of war. “We’re not committed to a peaceful resolution — we’re committed to a resolution,” President Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, told BBC News this week. “We want the resolution to be peaceful, but as the president said, all options are on the table. And we have to be prepared, if necessary, to compel the denuclearization of North Korea without the cooperation of that regime,” McMaster said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2DynLIE via Latest News

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A powerful explosion damaged a court complex in central Athens early Friday, hours after Parliament voted to crackdown on anti-bailout protesters who gather regularly at the building. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BtpFsu via Latest News

WASHINGTON ― Republicans ran against the rising national debt in the 2010 midterm elections, and it worked. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2C0tQzE via Latest News

One of Australia's oldest naval mysteries has been solved. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2C4Frxx via Latest News

Elon Musk's SpaceX satellite launch created an unsettling display in the sky over California. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2DBm659 via Latest News

unexpected #spacexlaunch sighting A post shared by stephanie clary (@sclary) on Dec 22, 2017 at 5:43pm PST Angelenos thought the end was finally here when they looked up Friday evening to see something that appeared to be an iridescent alien ship exploding across the sky. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2kK6698 via Latest News

(Reuters) - Six seconds before an Amtrak train derailed off a bridge and onto a highway near Seattle, the engineer remarked that the train was speeding, U.S. investigators said on Friday. The engineer then applied the brakes but apparently not the emergency brake, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a statement after retrieving and reviewing data from the data recorder and inward- and outward-facing cameras. Monday's crash south of Seattle killed three people and sent about 100 others to hospitals. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CYdgx4 via Latest News

At least three people were killed and six others were missing after a tropical storm struck the southern Philippines Friday, unleashing floods and landslides across a region of 20 million people, officials said. Tropical Storm Tembin hit the east coast of Mindanao, the archipelago nation's second-largest island, before dawn with gusts of 125 kilometres (80 miles) an hour bringing torrential rain, the state weather office said. "We forced hundreds of people to evacuate some villages, but the water rose swiftly and our rescuers cannot reach other areas," civil defence officer Saripada Pacasum of Lanao del Sur province, one of the hardest-hit areas, told AFP. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BrpU7k via Latest News