Fmr. Gov. Bill Weld: A 'bunch' of Republicans will endorse Biden

Yahoo Finance Senior Columnist Rick Newman speaks with former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld about the likelihood of some Republicans endorsing Biden over Trump in the 2020 election.

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    It's been little more than a month since Kalashnikov-toting Taliban fighters in their signature heavy beards, hightop sneakers and shalwar kameezes descended on the Afghan capital and cemented their takeover. Now they’re vying for a seat in the club of nations and seeking what no country has given them as they attempt to govern for a second time: international recognition of their rule. The Taliban wrote to the United Nations requesting to address the U.N. General Assembly meeting of leaders that is underway in New York.

  • The Book Report: Recommendations from Washington Post critic Ron Charles (September 26)

    News of upcoming fall fiction and non-fiction titles.

  • Book except: "The Lincoln Highway" by Amor Towles

    The author of the bestseller "A Gentleman in Moscow" returns with a period story of four youngsters who embark on an epic journey from Nebraska to New York City.

  • Book excerpt: "Never" by Ken Follett

    The bestselling author's new thriller finds the first female U.S. president trying to manage crises at home and abroad that could lead to World War III.

  • Book excerpt: "These Precious Days" by Ann Patchett

    The author of the acclaimed novels "The Dutch House" and "Bel Canto" offers a collection of essays that reflect on her life and the writers who have inspired her.

  • In redistricting, big say for big cities in DC power balance

    As political muscle goes, bigger doesn't always mean better. Just ask New York, Los Angeles and Chicago every four years, when those cities become mostly irrelevant blips on the Electoral College map. Robust growth in the liberal strongholds of New York and metropolitan Chicago are poised to give Democrats an edge as their political maps are redrawn to adjust for changes in population over the past decade.

  • Republican: police reform failed because Democrats want to defund police

    Tim Scott of South Carolina is only Black Republican senatorCory Booker and Karen Bass led Democratic negotiators Cory Booker, left, and Tim Scott talk in Washington in July. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP The Republican senator Tim Scott has said talks on law enforcement reform collapsed because Democrats wanted to defund the police. Speaking to CBS’s Face the Nation in an interview to be broadcast in full on Sunday, Scott said: “We said simply this. ‘I’m not going to participate in reducin

  • Haitians returning to a homeland that's far from welcoming

    Deported from the United States, Pierre Charles landed a week ago in Port-au-Prince, a capital more dangerous and dystopian than the one he’d left four years before. Charles was unsure how to make his way to the Carrefour neighborhood through a city shrouded in smoke and dust, often tolling with gunfire from gangs and police. This story is part of a series, Haiti: Business, politics and gangs, produced with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

  • Amtrak crash: At least three killed and multiple others injured after train derails in Montana

    A passenger on the train described the derailment as being like ‘extreme turbulence on a plane’

  • Keir Starmer: It's wrong to say 'only women have a cervix'

    Sir Keir Starmer has criticised a Labour MP's remarks about trans women and called for laws to go further to protect trans rights.

  • Rowdy celebrations across Norway with end of COVID measures

    Police in Norway on Sunday reported dozens of disturbances and violent clashes including mass brawls in the Nordic country’s big cities after streets, bars, restaurants and nightclubs were filled with people celebrating the end of COVID-19 restrictions. The unexpected announcement by Prime Minister Erna Solberg late Friday afternoon to drop coronavirus restrictions the next day took many Norwegians by surprise and led to chaotic scenes in the capital, Oslo, and elsewhere in the country on Saturday. Rowdy celebrations across Norway by hundreds of citizens started Saturday afternoon and lasted until the early hours of Sunday.

  • Taliban urge international airlines to resume Afghan flights

    The Taliban urged international airlines Sunday to resume flights to Kabul, saying all technical issues at the country's main airport have been resolved.

  • Vaccine passports and petrol shortages? The Specials are the protest band we still need, 40 years on

    Toward the end of The Specials’ Saturday night set at a busy Troxy, in East London, co-vocalist Lynval Golding, 70, introduced front man Terry Hall with the words, “He’s my little brother – and the youngest member of the band”. Smiling, or at least grinning, the 62-year-old Hall told the audience that he was, in fact, 27. “The secret,” he said, “is to moisturise”.

  • Myanmar junta blames internet blackouts on anti-coup fighters

    Myanmar's junta has denied suspending the internet in conflict-wracked regions, blaming a recent spate of data blackouts on anti-coup protesters who had destroyed military-owned communications towers.

  • The Midsummer Marriage feels like a Magic Flute, clad in English myth. Bring on the Tippett revival!

    It was both a shrewd and an inspired choice for the London Philharmonic to open its first season under its new principal conductor Edward Gardner with this concert performance of Michael Tippett’s opera The Midsummer Marriage. Tippett’s music has been neglected since his death in 1998, his quirky operas struggling in the repertory against the success of Benjamin Britten’s human dramas. Now is the moment for a revival.

  • Facebook and Ray-Ban’s Stories smart sunglasses solve one problem — but they have serious privacy implications

    Facebook and Ray-Ban's Stories are the first smart glasses that make sense, but they raise other issues.

  • Trump heaps praise on Border Patrol agents who charged Haitian migrants on horseback

    Former president claimed the agents were doing ‘one hell of a job’

  • What's the price of Biden’s plan? Democrats drive for zero

    What will it cost to enact President Joe Biden’s massive expansion of social programs? Congress has authorized spending up to $3.5 trillion over a decade, but Biden is prodding Democrats to fully cover the cost of the legislation — by raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy, negotiating the price of prescription drugs and dialing up other sources of federal revenue such as increased IRS funding. Defending a bill not yet fully drafted, Democrats are determined to avoid a deficit financed spending spree.

  • Jake Sullivan: the Biden insider at the center of the Afghanistan crisis

    Critics say Biden’s national security adviser should have considered the worst case scenario Jake Sullivan listens to Biden speak after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Geneva, 16 June 2021. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP On the afternoon of 30 August, a White House aide brought a note into the Oval Office confirming that the last US military plane had left Afghan airspace, marking the moment America’s longest war had come to an end. Joe Biden was with a team of advisers and on receiving the news

  • China's Xi warns of 'grim' situation with Taiwan

    Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that relations between Beijing and Taipei were "grim" on Sunday, urging the island's main opposition party to help seek "unification of the country."