Month: December 2019

(ST. PETERSBURG) — In 2019, Florida Banana managed to eclipse Florida Man. From alligator antics to naked people — so many naked people — doing wacky things, Florida did not disappoint in the weird news department this year. Some claim Florida’s weird news surfaces because of the state’s open public records laws, while others chalk…

China has jailed the pastor of a well-known underground Protestant church on charges of inciting subversion of a state power. Wang Yi, who leads the Early Rain Covenant Church, was handed a nine-year sentence. Although China’s constitution guarantees religious freedom, the Communist Party has long-standing tensions with religious groups which it sees as a threat…

BEIJING (AP) — China has sentenced a prominent pastor who operated outside the Communist Party-recognized Protestant organization to nine years in prison for subversion. Wang Yi had led the Early Rain Covenant Church and was arrested a year ago during China’s ongoing crackdown on all unauthorized religious groups in the country. The government requires Protestants…

(Bloomberg) — China’s sprawling bureaucracy is undergoing a regional reshuffle of a rare scale, with new appointments and job swaps offering hints of potential future leaders being groomed by Beijing. At least 32 new mayoral-level officials have been appointed since Dec. 21, with 29 of them being relocated to a new province for the first…

Rep. Joe Kennedy on Sunday defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision not to send, at least not yet, the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate. “I think the speaker is doing everything she can to ensure that there is as fair and open and transparent a process as there can be,…

Elles se battent toutes pour la première place, celle de la plus belle femme de l’univers, mais quels sont leurs signes particuliers ? 86 candidates concourent pour la place de Miss Univers 2017 et la cérémonie aura lieu au Planet Hollywood de Las Vegas le 26 novembre et retransmis en direct sur Paris Première dans…

WASHINGTON — In a six-page invective to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Donald Trump contended he has been more wronged in the impeachment proceedings than even the 17th-century women who were hanged based on dreams, visions and confessions elicited by torture. “More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials,” the president wrote.  His allies have…

North Korea has Washington on edge these days. That feeling was amplified Sunday when North Korean state media announced that Pyongyang’s ruling Workers’ Party launched a major political conference. The meeting comes ahead of a year-end deadline the country set for the United States to offer concessions amid stalled denuclearization negotiations. While the state news…

Domino’s Pizza (DPZ) CEO Richard Allison is delivering a flaming hot message right to the doorsteps of execs at third-party food delivery companies such as GrubHub and Uber Eats. That cautionary message: at some point in the near future, you will have to run businesses that care about profits — or else. “I think we…

Gene J. Puskar/AP A Grubhub deliveryman was arrested on Saturday, with police saying he attacked two employees at a Florida Burger King. According to a police report, the driver became “agitated” when he was informed his order was not ready for pick-up, and he struck a Burger King worker with a three-foot ashtray. Burger King,…