games news

• The Latest: Almirola wins Talladega in Stewart-Haas rout

  14-10-2018 23:42 via yahoo.com
  TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on NASCAR's playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway (all times local):
  
  Read more

• Democrat accuses Republican opponent of creating 'miasma of fear' to scare people out of voting for her

  14-10-2018 22:41 via yahoo.com
  The Democrat running to be the governor of Georgia has accused her Republican counterpart of creating a “miasma of fear” to scare people out of voting for her.Stacey Abrams, who would be the first African American woman elected to a governorship if she defeats Brian Kemp next month, accused her opponent of creating a voter identification law – which has put tens of thousands of voter registration applications on hold – to try and scare people.“This is simply a redux
  
  Read more

• German bus crashes on Swiss highway, 1 dead and 14 injured

  14-10-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — A German bus crashed into a metal post on a highway in southern Switzerland Sunday, leaving one woman dead and another 14 people injured, police said.
  
  Read more

• Police probe brawl of rightist, leftist Oregon protesters

  14-10-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon have launched an investigation on assaults that stemmed from a Portland street brawl that erupted this weekend between demonstrators with a right-wing group and left-wing counter-protesters, media outlets reported Sunday.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Buffer zone brings fragile calm to Syria's rebel-held Idlib

  14-10-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — A month after Russia, Turkey and Iran came together in a last-ditch effort to avert a potentially catastrophic Syrian government offensive in Idlib, they appear to have succeeded in creating a buffer zone around the northern rebel-held province, defusing tensions in a major flashpoint area.
  
  Read more

• Merkel's Bavarian allies suffer historic election losses

  14-10-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CSU allies suffered historic losses in Bavaria state elections Sunday, dealing a blow to her fragile three-party coalition government.Merkel's other national governing partner, the over 150-year-old Social Democrats (SPD), halved their ballot box support to 9.6 percent, ceding the position of Bavaria's second biggest political force to the Greens."Debacle for CSU and SPD," ran the online headline of Bild daily, while Der Spiegel called it a "bitter
  
  Read more

• Brooklyn Witches Plan to Put a Hex on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

  14-10-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  They've hexed President Donald Trump three times
  
  Read more

• Idaho Fish And Game Official Under Fire Over African Hunting Trip

  14-10-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  An Idaho Fish and Game commissioner faces calls to resign after sharing photos
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Bavaria election humbles Merkel allies, raising tensions in Berlin

  14-10-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  The Christian Social Union (CSU) won 37.3 percent of the vote, preliminary results showed, losing its absolute majority for only the second time since 1962 - an outcome sure to stoke infighting in the conservative party, already a difficult partner for Merkel in Berlin.The result, which saw the pro-immigration Greens come second and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) enter the state assembly for the first time, means the CSU will need to form a coalition - a humiliation for a party used
  
  Read more

• Trump's Top Economic Aide On Dire UN Climate Change Report: No Need To 'Panic'

  14-10-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's top economic adviser on Sunday brushed off the dire
  
  Read more

• Four shot dead at one-year-old's birthday party in Texas

  14-10-2018 20:08 via yahoo.com
  A 37-year-old man is suspected of shooting five men with a handgun early Saturday evening in the backyard of a home in the small town of Taft, north of Corpus Christi, said Sgt. Nathan Brandley of the Texas Department of Public Safety.Police were searching on Sunday for the suspected gunman, Ronnie Rodriguez Sr., and have also arrested his son, Ronnie Rodriguez Jr., 20, in connection with the shooting, Brandley said.
  
  Read more

• 5 Reasons There Is Nothing Like a Gun Made by Glock

  14-10-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  As in 5 of their best firearms. 
  
  Read more

• Rescue teams in Florida search for survivors in hurricane-devastated Mexico Beach

  14-10-2018 19:51 via yahoo.com
  Carefully, the search and rescue team examines what is left of a house devastated by Hurricane Michael when it blasted through this small waterfront community days earlier.Wearing a hard hat and with a hammer in hand, chief Dobson, one of several hundred people searching for survivors in the ruins of Mexico Beach, gingerly climbs the rickety stairs to Number 2603."Fire rescue, anybody home?" Dobson calls out, before his men follow him up the stairs.
  
  Read more

• Democrats on Track to Take House If They Turn Out, CBS Poll Says

  14-10-2018 19:38 via yahoo.com
  Despite the Democratic Party’s best results since June in the survey of Congressional preferences, they need voters who haven’t typically showed up to vote in great numbers during recent midterms, CBS said in the poll, released Sunday.Separately, a Washington Post-ABC survey on Sunday showed voter enthusiasm up across almost all demographic groups, but greatest among younger adults, minorities, and those who say they favor putting Democrats in control of the House.The CBS Battlegroun
  
  Read more

• Merkel's Bavarian Ally Loses Absolute Majority in State Vote

  14-10-2018 19:35 via yahoo.com
  The ruling Christian Social Union, which has dominated Bavarian politics since World War II, took about 36 percent of the vote on Sunday, its lowest result since 1950, according to projections by broadcaster ZDF.Voters migrated to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, which won its first seats in the state parliament with about 11 percent, while the other winner of the night was the Green party, which more than doubled its support to some 18 percent.Seven months into her fo
  
  Read more

• Donald Trump's tweet to Princess Eugenie leaves Britain scratching its head 

  14-10-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  Even by Donald Trump’s standards it was a puzzling Tweet. More than two days after Princess Eugenie’s wedding to Jack Brooksbank, the US President took to social media to praise the ‘truly beautiful bride’ adding, ‘she has been through so much and has come out a total winner!’ Yet Twitter users were quick to point out that the 9th in line to the throne had so far enjoyed a relatively straightforward and privileged life. British opera singer Melinda Hughes, rep
  
  Read more

• Tom Llamas: 'In a lot of ways' Melania Trump is the 'polar opposite of her husband'

  14-10-2018 19:20 via yahoo.com
  The Powerhouse Roundtable discusses Tom Llamas's exclusive interview with First Lady Melania Trump.
  
  Read more

• Pope canonises murdered Salvadoran Archbishop and Pope who enshrined Church opposition to contraception

  14-10-2018 19:09 via yahoo.com
  Pope Francis has canonised Pope Paul VI and Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero, two of the most contested figures of the Catholic Church in the 20th century, who both had a powerful influence over his papacy.   In a ceremony on Sunday that drew more than 70,000 people to St Peter’s Square, Francis also presided over the canonisation of five other, including the German founder of a religious congregation, the Spanish founder of another order, two Ital
  
  Read more

• Israel clears its F-35s for action after U.S. orders fuelling tests

  14-10-2018 19:03 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has cleared its F-35 stealth fighters to resume full duties, a military statement said on Sunday, after they underwent precautionary tests following the crash of a different model of the plane in the United States. The Sept. 28 crash in South Carolina prompted the Pentagon to say on Thursday that all U.S. and international F-35s made by Lockheed Martin Co had been grounded so their fuel tubes could be inspected. In its statement, the Israeli military said its fleet h
  
  Read more

• Bernie Sanders is not a fan of ‘disruptive and rude’ Democratic protesters

  14-10-2018 18:59 via yahoo.com
  The former presidential candidate said he would much rather see progressives voice their outrage through the ballot box.
  
  Read more

• After heavy storm, large tree crushes 2 cars on Hollywood street

  14-10-2018 18:54 via yahoo.com
  A large tree fell onto and damaged two cars in Hollywood Saturday, and the incident was caught on video.
  
  Read more

• US treasury secretary wavers over Saudi trip after Khashoggi disappearance

  14-10-2018 18:53 via yahoo.com
  The US treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, on Sunday was second-guessing his stated intention to attend an economic conference in Saudi Arabia, following the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.Mnuchin’s wavering, which was reported by the White House economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, was part of an ambivalent response by the Trump administration to claims by Turkish officials that a team of Saudi assassins killed and dismembered Khashoggi.
  
  Read more

• Marco Rubio Urges Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin To Scrap Saudi Arabia Trip

  14-10-2018 18:20 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is calling on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to
  
  Read more

• Saudi Arabia threatens retaliation as criticism mounts over treatment of missing journalist 

  14-10-2018 18:18 via yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia yesterday hinted at economic retaliation over mounting international criticism of the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as its stock exchange suffered its worst losses in years.  Shares plunged as much as 7 per cent as US President Donald Trump promised "severe punishment", and the foreign ministers of the UK, France and Germany issued a joint statement calling for a "credible investigation" into Mr Khashoggi's fate.  Foreign Se
  
  Read more

• The moment a Belgian mechanic accidentally destroys an F-16 fighter jet with cannon

  14-10-2018 17:57 via yahoo.com
  ABelgian mechanic destroyed a multi-million pound fighter jet after he accidentally fired a Vulcan cannon while carrying out repairs at an air force base. The £15m plane quickly caught fired and exploded, according to Belgian broadcaster RTL.  The mechanic was working with a colleague on two F-16s in a hangar near the control tower.  It is understood that the third jet, which they inadvertently destroyed after firing the cannon, was just out of their line of sight.  Bot
  
  Read more

• NYC Democrat joins wave of veterans aiming to flip the House

  14-10-2018 17:31 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — He's an Army veteran who was wounded in Afghanistan, criticizes New York's liberal mayor and doesn't support House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
  
  Read more

• Israel warns Hamas of 'painful' strikes if protests go on

  14-10-2018 17:26 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday threatened "very painful blows" against Gaza's Hamas rulers if they don't halt protests along the perimeter fence that have led to clashes with Israeli troops.
  
  Read more

• Stacey Abrams: GOP opponent creating 'miasma of fear' over voting in Georgia

  14-10-2018 17:12 via yahoo.com
  Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s Democratic candidate for governor, is trying to reach voters who don’t usually vote in midterm elections in the hopes to drive up turnout in her race against Republican Brian Kemp.As a crisis of potential voter suppression in Georgia deepened, the Democratic candidate for governor accused her opponent of seeking to disenfranchise people of color and women by creating a “miasma of fear” around voting.Stacey Abrams, who if elected would become the f
  
  Read more

• Rubio: U.S. credibility is undermined if we don’t condemn allies that murder

  14-10-2018 17:07 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Marco Rubio said America would need to call out Saudi Arabia if it’s proven that its government was behind the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
  
  Read more

• Trump Unsure If Defense Chief Jim Mattis Will Step Down: 'He's Sort Of A Democrat'

  14-10-2018 17:02 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump suggested to CBS' "60 Minutes" that Secretary of
  
  Read more

• Israel's Netanyahu threatens Hamas with 'very strong blows'

  14-10-2018 16:59 via yahoo.com
  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday threatened to inflict "very strong blows" on Hamas after fresh violence along the border with the Gaza Strip controlled by the Islamist group."Hamas has apparently not understood the message -- if these attacks do not stop, they will be stopped in another way, in the form of very, very strong blows", Netanyahu said during the weekly cabinet meeting.If Hamas is intelligent, it will cease fire and violence now", he added.
  
  Read more

• AP Explains: Harvard bias lawsuit heading to trial

  14-10-2018 16:55 via yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — A lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in Harvard University's admissions process is heading to trial in Boston's federal court.
  
  Read more

• Trump administration most ‘spiteful’ to Iran in 40 years, says President Rouhani

  14-10-2018 16:25 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration’s approach to Iran is the most “spiteful” of any US government in 40 years, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has claimed.Insisting the US wanted regime change in Iran despite Washington’s repeated denials, he said America was using psychological and economic warfare to try and destroy the Islamic Republic.“In the past 40 years there has not been a more spiteful team than the current US government team towards Iran, Iranians and the Islamic R
  
  Read more

• Merkel's Bavarian allies face threat of poll debacle

  14-10-2018 16:12 via yahoo.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's arch-conservative CSU allies were bracing for heavy losses as the southern state of Bavaria went to the polls Sunday.The Christian Social Union (CSU), who have almost single-handedly ruled the wealthy Alpine state since the 1960s, are expected to lose their absolute majority, polls say."We've done all we could, we have fought hard," said CSU state premier Markus Soeder, 51, as he cast his ballot amid high turnout from the 9.5 million eligible voters.
  
  Read more

• Glock vs. Sig Sauer: Glock 17 vs. P226 (Which Gun Is Better?)

  14-10-2018 16:10 via yahoo.com
  We take a look. 
  
  Read more

• Saudi crown prince's carefully managed rise hides dark side

  14-10-2018 16:01 via yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In a kingdom once ruled by an ever-aging rotation of elderly monarchs, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stands out as the youthful face of a youthful nation. But behind the carefully calibrated public-relations campaign pushing images of the smiling prince meeting with the world's top leaders and business executives lurks a darker side.
  
  Read more

• Sen. Sanders: Democrats 'have to end one party rule' by winning in midterms

  14-10-2018 15:55 via yahoo.com
  The Vermont Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate is interviewed on "This Week."
  
  Read more

• Maine faces consumer backlash after Senator Susan Collins backs Kavanaugh

  14-10-2018 15:50 via yahoo.com
  Businesses in Maine are facing a backlash after  Susan Collins, the state’s Republican senator, decided to back the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Two of Maine's biggest industries,  lobster fishing and tourism, are facing a consumer boycott following Ms Collins' key vote in the most hotly contested appointment to the Supreme Court since that of Clarence Thomas in 1991. The state's lobster industry is already reeling because of the punitive tariffs imposed by
  
  Read more

• AP Explains: What's known about Saudi writer's disappearance

  14-10-2018 15:46 via yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Veteran Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared over a week ago while on a visit to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, sparking an international uproar involving the kingdom, Turkey and the United States that remains unresolved.
  
  Read more

• Larry Kudlow on U.N. climate change report: 'I don't think we should panic'

  14-10-2018 15:38 via yahoo.com
  National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow is interviewed by George Stephanopoulos on "This Week."
  
  Read more

• Pope makes El Salvador's Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI saints

  14-10-2018 15:09 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday praised two towering figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church as prophets who shunned wealth and looked out for the poor as he made saints of Pope Paul VI and martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.
  
  Read more

• Taliban attack Afghan army base, killing 17 soldiers

  14-10-2018 14:58 via yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have attacked an army base in western Afghanistan, killing 17 Afghan soldiers and abducting 11 others, officials said Sunday.
  
  Read more

• Buffer zone brings fragile calm to Syria's rebel-held Idlib

  14-10-2018 14:39 via yahoo.com
  A month after Russia, Turkey and Iran came together in a last-ditch effort to avert a potentially catastrophic Syrian government offensive in Idlib, they appear to have succeeded in creating a buffer zone around the northern rebel-held province, defusing tensions in a major flashpoint region.The deal has for now averted a government offensive on the last major opposition stronghold in Syria, where tens of thousands of militants, including foreign jihadis, live alongside 3 million civilians and o
  
  Read more

• International Space Station crew has enough supplies for at least six months: Russian official

  14-10-2018 14:36 via yahoo.com
  The crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has enough fuel, oxygen, water, and food to last at least six months, Vladimir Solovyov, flight director of the Russian segment of the ISS, was cited as saying by Russian news agencies on Sunday.Russia has temporarily suspended all manned space launches after two astronauts made a dramatic emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Thursday due to the failure of the Soyuz rocket carrying them to the orbital ISS."There are enough reserves on the ISS w
  
  Read more

• Iran's president seeks to downplay US oil sanctions

  14-10-2018 14:32 via yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's president on Sunday tried to downplay U.S. sanctions targeting the country's vital oil and gas sector that are set to be restored next month.
  
  Read more

• British cyclist shot dead by hunter in French Alps

  14-10-2018 14:31 via yahoo.com
  A British mountain biker has been shot dead in the French Alps after he was mistaken for an animal by a local hunter. Marc Sutton, 34, originally from south Wales, died on Saturday evening after being struck by a single bullet while cycling in thick woods near the ski resort of Les Gets. The 22-year-old gunman, who has a firearms licence, was with a group of around 20 other hunters when the tragedy occurred. He had to be admitted to hospital after suffering from deep shock following the incident
  
  Read more

• Trump says U.S. would be 'punishing' itself if it halts Saudi arms sales

  14-10-2018 14:23 via yahoo.com
  Turkey's government believes he was deliberately killed inside the building and his body removed.Trump has forged closer ties with Saudi Arabia and is under international and domestic pressure to help determine what happened to Khashoggi and punish Saudi Arabia if investigations show its government had him killed.Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike have demanded firm action.
  
  Read more

• Th Air Force Plans to Arm Stealth F-22s and F-35s with the Ultimate Weapon

  14-10-2018 14:18 via yahoo.com
  The Air Force and DARPA are now testing new hardware and software configured to enable 4th-Generation aircraft to command drones from the cockpit in the air, bringing new levels of autonomy, more attack options and a host of new reconnaissance advantages to air warfare.
  
  Read more

• Mattis pushes closer ties to Vietnam amid tension with China

  14-10-2018 13:45 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — By making a rare second trip this year to Vietnam, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is signaling how intensively the Trump administration is trying to counter China's military assertiveness by cozying up to smaller nations in the region that share American wariness about Chinese intentions.
  
  Read more

• US is loser by abandoning Iran nuclear deal: Rouhani

  14-10-2018 12:55 via yahoo.com
  Iran's president boasted Sunday that the United States has lost against the Islamic republic's "righteousness and wisdom" by walking out of the landmark nuclear deal."Everyone knows that America has lost legally and politically by giving up on its international obligations and that we have achieved victory," said President Hassan Rouhani in a speech at the University of Tehran to mark the beginning of the school year."There are but a few countries in the world that would call the US withdrawal f
  
  Read more

Follow @Newslockergames on Twitter!