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• Flynn could prove to be key asset in Mueller's U.S. campaign probe, sources say

  24-11-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for former national security adviser Michael Flynn have halted communications with U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team, a potentially critical step in the probe into contacts between Trump's election campaign and Russia, sources familiar with the investigation said on Friday.Flynn's lawyer, Robert Kelner, called John Dowd, Trump's private lawyer, on Wednesday to say the matter had reached a point where the two could no longer could discuss it, two peo
  
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• Syrian opposition picks chief negotiator ahead of new Geneva talks

  24-11-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  By Stephen Kalin and Suleiman Al-KhalidiRIYADH/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's main opposition group selected a new chief negotiator on Friday ahead of a new round of U.N.-backed peace negotiations with the Damascus government set to kick off next week.Nasr Hariri said the opposition was going to Geneva on Nov. 28 to hold direct talks and was ready to discuss "everything on the negotiating table".The announcement came at a summit in Riyadh where, a day before, the opposition stuck by its demand that P
  
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• Miami's iconic offshore Stiltsville survived Hurricane Irma

  24-11-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  MIAMI (AP) — Stiltsville, a stubborn relic of Miami's less-glitzy past as a sun-soaked outpost, has survived Hurricane Irma's brutal winds and waves, much to the surprise of the landmark's caretakers and fans.
  
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• Mark Hamill Hints At A Potentially Huge Reveal In 'The Last Jedi'

  24-11-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is scheduled for release Dec. 15 ― and actor Mark Hamill is already trying to keep spoilers from getting out.
  
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• Trump wants to end welfare as Bill Clinton knows it

  24-11-2017 23:10 via yahoo.com
  Overhauling welfare was one of the defining goals of Bill Clinton's presidency, starting with a campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it," continuing with a bitter policy fight and producing change that remains hotly debated 20 years later.
  
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• Turkey: Trump told Erdogan won't give Syria Kurds more arms

  24-11-2017 23:05 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump told Ankara on Friday that the US will no longer supply arms to the Syrian Kurdish militia Washington has used against the Islamic State, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday."Mr Trump said he gave a clear order and that after this, weapons would not be supplied to the YPG, essentially he said this nonsense should have been ended earlier," Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a press conference in Ankara.
  
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• US Needs People Around Trump to Restrain Him

  24-11-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Hillary Clinton talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's weakness to his own emotional impulses and why the best hope for the United States during the Trump administration is that the people around him keep his reactive personality contained.
  
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• Holder: Gerrymandering Threatens US Democracy

  24-11-2017 22:56 via yahoo.com
  Former Attorney General Eric Holder talks with Rachel Maddow about the project he and former President Obama are working on to counter Republican gerrymandering and level the electoral playing field to make elections more about ideas.
  
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• German SPD considers propping up Merkel, but only if members agree

  24-11-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  By Thomas EscrittBERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats agreed on Friday, under intense pressure, to hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on renewing their outgoing coalition government, but pledged that party members would have the final say on any deal.The about-turn by the center-left SPD, which had said it would go into opposition after suffering its worst result in 70 years in September's election, could help avert a disruptive repeat vote in Europe's economic and political power
  
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• US already has 2,000 troops in Syria, Pentagon set to reveal

  24-11-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  The Pentagon is likely to announce in the coming days that there are about 2,000 U troops in Syria, two US officials said on Friday, as the military acknowledges that an accounting system for troops has under-reported the size of forces on the ground.The US military had earlier publicly said it had around 500 troops in Syria, mostly supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces group of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting Islamic State in the north of the country.Two US officials, speaking on the condi
  
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• Wendy's hits McDonald's with sick burn after Black Friday Twitter fail

  24-11-2017 22:43 via yahoo.com
    Black Friday: McDonald’s isn't lovin' it. In fact, they just got served — by another hamburger chain. If you missed the drama on Thursday, the person who runs the McDonald's Twitter account made a very public mistake. SEE ALSO: McDonald's just posted the ultimate Black Friday Twitter failBlack Friday **** Need copy and link**** — McDonald's (@McDonaldsCorp) November 24, 2017The next day, one of the company's rivals decided to go for the jugular. When the tweets are
  
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• Argentina permits new soybean seed as EU debates weed-killer glyphosate

  24-11-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  By Maximiliano RizziBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina authorized on Friday the use of genetically modified soybean seeds resistant to herbicides other than glyphosate, as the European Union (EU) debates whether to extend the license of weed-killers containing the ingredient.The EU debate comes amid concerns the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's popular weed-killer Roundup causes cancer.
  
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• New Jersey woman raises $325,000 for homeless Samaritan

  24-11-2017 22:29 via yahoo.com
  Kate McClure, 27, launched a page on GoFundMe.com that had raised $325,420 for the man, Johnny Bobbitt Jr., as of Friday afternoon.McClure said on the GoFundMe website she was driving on Interstate 95 one night last month when she ran out of gas.Using his last 20 dollars to make sure I could get home safe," McClure said on GoFundMe.com.
  
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• Canadian dog walker survives three days in remote bush - thanks to her three dogs

  24-11-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  A Canadian dog walker has said she was able to survive for more than two days in the wilderness thanks to her pet border collie, boxer and beagle. Annette Poitras, 56, was out walking her dogs on Monday when she fell, injuring herself and losing her phone in remote British Columbia. She was not rescued until Wednesday afternoon, after an extensive search from a rescue team. Her husband Marcel said the three dogs, which did not leave her side during the ordeal, helped to keep her alive. Annette P
  
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• Cordray resigns from U.S. consumer agency, triggers political showdown

  24-11-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  Richard Cordray, the director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, formally resigned on Friday and named a deputy director as his replacement, setting the stage for a political and legal battle over the regulator's leadership.Trump has pushed to ease regulations on businesses, including the financial sector, a stance seemingly at odds with Cordray's more aggressive regulatory approach.
  
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• Charles Manson 'left his entire estate and body to prison pen pal' 

  24-11-2017 22:16 via yahoo.com
  Charles Manson reportedly left his entire estate, including his remains, to a prison pen pal. The murderous cult leader, who died last week aged 83, struck up a friendship with a male correspondent who first wrote to him in the 1990s, TMZ reported. The man reportedly sent 50 unanswered letters to Manson at the California State Prison until he eventually received a reply. Manson then talked to him by telephone and the pen pal started visiting him in jail starting in 2002. According to a yellowing
  
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• Militants kill more than 230 at Sinai mosque in Egypt's deadliest attack

  24-11-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  By Ahmed Tolba and Patrick MarkeyCAIRO (Reuters) - Militants killed more than 230 people at a mosque in North Sinai on Friday, detonating a bomb and gunning down worshippers in the deadliest such attack in Egypt's modern history, state media and witnesses said.No group immediately claimed responsibility, but since 2013 Egyptian security forces have battled an Islamic State affiliate in the mainly desert region, and militants have killed hundreds of police and soldiers.State media showed images o
  
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• Woman Shot Dead by Hunter Who Mistook Her for a Deer

  24-11-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  No charges have been filed in the shooting, but the investigation is continuing. The sheriff’s office determined that the shot was fired after sunset, which is forbidden by local law.
  
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• Virginia Teen Killed Trying To Protect His Mom In Domestic Violence Incident

  24-11-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  Family and friends are mourning a Virginia teen that was killed last weekend while trying to protect his mother during a domestic violence incident, according to news reports.
  
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• US stocks at records; euro gains on hopes of German political deal

  24-11-2017 21:51 via yahoo.com
  New York (AFP) - US stocks climbed to fresh records Friday on optimism about the holiday shopping season, while the euro surged following strong German economic data and on hopes that Europe's biggest economy would soon resolve a political crisis.
  
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• Pentagon likely to acknowledge 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria: U.S. officials

  24-11-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  The Pentagon is likely to announce in the coming days that there are about 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, two U.S. officials said on Friday, as the military acknowledges that an accounting system for troops has under-reported the size of forces on the ground.The U.S. military had earlier publicly said it had around 500 troops in Syria, mostly supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces group of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting Islamic State in the north of the country.Two U.S. officials, speaking on
  
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• Trump Fails to Keep Proper Distance from DoJ

  24-11-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Former Attorney General Eric Holder talks with Rachel Maddow about the necessity of a wall between the Department of Justice and the president and the risk Donald Trump takes by ignoring that particular tenet of American government.
  
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• Main jihadist attacks in Egypt

  24-11-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  The attack on a mosque in Egypt's restive North Sinai Friday was the country's deadliest in recent memory, with the state prosecutor's office saying at least 235 people were killed.- November 1997: 62 people, including 58 tourists, are killed in an attack on Hatshepsut temple in Luxor claimed by Islamist militant group Jamaa Islamiyya.- October 2004: Israeli tourists are among 34 people killed in three bombings in the Sinai resorts of Taba and Nuweiba.
  
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• Turkey says Trump told Erdogan won't give Syria Kurds more arms

  24-11-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has informed Ankara that the US will no longer supply weapons to the Syrian Kurdish militia fighting Islamic State, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday.Trump delivered the message during what the Turkish presidency called a "productive" phone call with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday."Mr Trump said he gave a clear order and that after this, weapons would not be supplied to the YPG, essentially he said this nonsense should have been
  
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• Four UN peacekeepers, soldier killed in Mali attacks: UN

  24-11-2017 21:09 via yahoo.com
  Four UN peacekeepers and a Malian soldier were killed in attacks in Mali on Friday, the UN's MINUSMA mission to the country said.Twenty people, including another Malian soldier and several UN peacekeepers were injured in the attacks.The first attack happened in the morning in the northeastern Menaka region and claimed the lives of three peacekeepers and a Malian soldier, MINUSMA said, adding that 16 other UN troops and a civilian were injured.
  
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• Ivanka Trump And Chelsea Clinton Come To Malia Obama's Defense Against The Tabloids

  24-11-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  Former first daughter Malia Obama spent a good part of her adolescence in the national spotlight as her dad, you know, led the free world for eight years.
  
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• Nobel literature academy ensnarled in #MeToo sex scandal wave

  24-11-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize, has been rattled by a sex scandal as a high-profile man with close ties to the institution has been accused of assault against several women.The prestigious Swedish Academy, founded in 1786, was drawn into the sex abuse net on Thursday when it announced that several members as well as members' wives and daughters had allegedly been assaulted by the well-known figure at the centre of the scandal."When an institution which selects Nobel
  
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• Venezuela: PDVSA makes payments on $233 million debt

  24-11-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  Venezuela's state-owned oil firm PDVSA said Friday it has started to repay $233 million in interest on two bonds nearing default, days before the end of the 30-day grace period.PVDSA's bonds represent 30 percent of Venezuela's external debt -- estimated to be around $150 billion.
  
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• Women Lead Political Backlash Against Trump

  24-11-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow looks at how the election of Donald Trump motivated women to action in protest and also in running for office, and replays a portion of her earlier discussion with Hillary Clinton about how America responds to a woman running for office.
  
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• Man on death row will get to argue for new trial

  24-11-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  A man on death row for killing three elderly siblings in Pennsylvania more than three decades ago will get a chance to argue that his latest conviction was based on a flawed hair analysis.
  
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• Syria war has killed more than 340,000: new toll

  24-11-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  Syria's grinding war has killed over 340,000 people since it brokeout in 2011, including more than 100,000 civilians, a monitor said on Friday.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP it has documented 343,511 deaths in Syria between the eruption of an anti-government uprising in mid-March 2011 and the start of this month.Among them are 102,618 civilians, including nearly 19,000 children and 12,000 women.
  
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• Shirtless Woman in the Path of Oncoming Train Rescued by Police in Pulse-Pounding Video

  24-11-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  It remains unclear how the woman wound up on the train tracks in a state of undress.
  
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• North Korea replaces soldiers, South Korea awards medals after defector's border dash

  24-11-2017 20:36 via yahoo.com
  North Korea has reportedly replaced guards and fortified a section of its border with South Korea where a North Korean soldier defected last week, while South Korean and U.S. soldiers have been decorated for their role in the defector's rescue.
  
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• Trump calls for 'Wall' and 'Ban' after Egypt attack

  24-11-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  President Trump reacted to the Sinai Peninsula mosque attack to push two of his domestic security proposals: a travel ban on certain Muslim-majority countries and a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
  
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• Pressure grows on Argentina's navy over missing submarine, as hopes fade for its crew of 44

  24-11-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  Argentina’s Navy faces multiple investigations over the disappearance of the submarine ARA San Juan and the possible dismissal of its entire top brass, amid a swelling controversy over the accident and search efforts. A day after the Navy confirmed an apparent explosion close to the submarine’s last known position, the internal war that has been raging between the force and the government in Buenos Aires spilled out across Argentine media. Oscar Aguad, the defence mini
  
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• Lebanon arrests actor over 'collaboration' with Israel

  24-11-2017 20:24 via yahoo.com
  Lebanese authorities arrested prominent writer and actor Ziad Itani on Friday on charges of "collaborating" with Israel and gathering information on political figures, judicial sources said.Itani was detained "after several months of monitoring, follow-up and investigations within and outside" Lebanon, said the State Security Directorate General, in a statement carried by Lebanon's National News Agency.It said Itani, who is in his 40s, was being questioned "on charges of collaborating and commun
  
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• Russia's military presence in Syria

  24-11-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  The Russian military says it has begun scaling back its deployment to Syria more than two years after Moscow's intervention in the conflict on the side of the Damascus regime.Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia's general staff, said there would be a "extensive" reduction of troops by the end of this year.Here is what you need to know about the Russian army's presence in Syria.
  
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• Black Friday Shoppers Report Massive Credit Card System Issues At Macy's (UPDATED)

  24-11-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  As if Black Friday weren’t already stressful enough for shoppers and retail employees, major department store chain Macy’s appears to be experiencing credit and debit card system failures around the United States.
  
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• Transgender Lawmaker Danica Roem: Trump Shows There's 'No Barrier' To Getting Elected

  24-11-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  If Danica Roem was anxious about “barriers to entry” when running for office, the results of the 2016 presidential election threw any uncertainties out the door.
  
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• Donald Trump uses Egypt mosque attack that killed 235 to promote border wall and travel ban

  24-11-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has used the terror attack in Egypt to advocate for his travel ban and proposed border wall with Mexico.At least 235 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in an attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt's North Sinai region on Friday.The US President tweeted his condolences to the people of Egypt, and added: “We have to get TOUGHER AND SMARTER than ever before, and we will.
  
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• Two London Underground stations reopen after terrorist-incident scare

  24-11-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  Two London underground stations on Oxford Street have reopened after an incident that police initially treated as if it might be terrorist-related, the city's transport authority said on Friday.
  
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• Britain has 10-day "absolute deadline" to deliver on key Brexit issues: Tusk

  24-11-2017 19:49 via yahoo.com
  Britain has only 10 days left to deliver on all three areas of its divorce terms with the European Union if London wants to start talks on a transition period after Brexit and a future relationship, the chairman of EU leaders Donald Tusk said."We need to see progress from UK within 10 days on all issues, including on Ireland," Tusk tweeted on Friday after a meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May in Brussels."Sufficient progress in Brexit talks at December council is possible but still a
  
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• Boom! Luxury converted nuclear missile silo lists on Airbnb

  24-11-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  ESKRIDGE, Kan. (AP) — A Cold War-era missile silo in rural northeast Kansas that housed a nuclear warhead 65 years ago and was later converted into an underground mansion is now finding a new lease on life as an Airbnb location.
  
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• Mexico Creates Pacific Marine Sanctuary To Protect Its 'Crown Jewel'

  24-11-2017 19:33 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON — Mexico has joined a growing global effort to safeguard the world’s oceans with the creation of a marine reserve surrounding Revillagigedo Archipelago, a chain of four volcanic islands off the country’s Pacific coast.
  
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• Hundreds killed in Egypt's worst-recorded militant attack

  24-11-2017 19:31 via yahoo.com
  At least 235 have been killed in the deadliest insurgent attack to strike Egypt of modern times, where attackers bombed a Sinai mosque and gunned down fleeing worshipers and ambulance services. Matthew Larotonda reports.
  
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• Tesla Semi Just Got Six Major Companies On Board

  24-11-2017 19:27 via yahoo.com
  Elon Musk has some testers.
  
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• 'We dare not squander the moment:' Zimbabwe's new leader

  24-11-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  Zimbabweans must set aside "poisoned" politics and work together to rebuild the nation and re-engage the world, new President Emmerson Mnangagwa said Friday, delivering an inclusive message to ...
  
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• Woman Raises Over $300,000 For Homeless Man Who Gave Her His Last $20

  24-11-2017 19:21 via yahoo.com
  After her car ran out of gas on a dark New Jersey highway last month, Kate McClure pulled over and tried to walk to the nearest gas station on foot.
  
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• Where To Donate To Help Sexual Assault Survivors This Holiday Weekend

  24-11-2017 19:12 via yahoo.com
  As you’re thinking about the things you’re grateful for and gearing up for some holiday shopping this Thanksgiving weekend, consider setting aside some funds to support a charitable cause.
  
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• Couple crashes car into tree while having sex on highway with baby in back seat

  24-11-2017 19:08 via yahoo.com
  The man was drunk and the woman was sitting on top of him, engaging in sexual activity, while they navigated a local highway, State Trooper Brooke Bova told The Independent.The man failed to negotiate the curves in the road, Ms Bova said, and struck a tree with his car.Ms Bova believes the couple were scrambling to locate their clothes before police arrived.
  
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