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• Norwegian freed in Moscow spy swap 'deceived' by secret services

  19-11-2019 22:22 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A Norwegian man freed by Moscow from an espionage jail term as part of a spy swap between Lithuania and Russia said on Tuesday he felt "deceived" by his country's intelligence service.Frode Berg, 64, a retired Norwegian border guard, was detained in Moscow in 2017 following a sting operation by Russia's FSB security service and freed on Friday as part of an exchange reminiscent of the Cold War.
  
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• Ukrainians: Trump Just Sent Us ‘a Terrible Signal’

  11-12-2019 22:04 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Ukrainian officials spent last weekend glued to Trump’s Twitter feed. People working closely with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have been in contact with Trump administration officials over the past several weeks discussing the relationship between the two presidents, according to four people with knowledge of the talks. Based on those conversations, Ukrainian officials came to expect that Trump would make a statement of support before Zelensky met with Russian President Vlad
  
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• Kawhi: 'Excited to Get Ring'

  11-12-2019 21:00 via NBA.com - Top Videos
  
  Kawhi Leonard talks about returning to Toronto to get his ring and what type of fan reaction he will receive.
  
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• DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz: My Report Doesn’t ‘Vindicate Anybody’

  11-12-2019 20:42 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  During Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Justice Department inspector general’s report on possible FISA abuses in the Russia probe, top inspector Michael Horowitz pushed back against former FBI Director James Comey’s suggestion that the findings vindicated bureau actions.While Horowitz’s recently released report finds that there was no political bias by FBI leadership and that there was sufficient evidence to launch a counterintelligence probe of Donal
  
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• Here's What's in Elizabeth Warren's Blue New Deal

  11-12-2019 20:21 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The Democratic presidential candidate reveals her next ambitious plan.
  
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• Mexico finds small border tunnel in Nogales, next to AZ

  11-12-2019 19:40 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Mexican authorities have located a small, clandestine border tunnel between the northern state of Sonora and the United States, officials announced Wednesday.A Mexican government statement said the discovery in Nogales, which is across from Nogales, Arizona, was the result of a search of storm drains following the recent find of another tunnel in the city.
  
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• Gay altarpiece of original sin makes waves in Sweden

  11-12-2019 19:02 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Malmö (Sweden) (AFP) - Two Eves on one side of the tree, two Adams on the other, each couple openly flirting: a Swedish diocese said Wednesday it would remove a gay depiction of original sin that hung briefly as an altarpiece.Created by Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, the photo illustration was offered to the Saint Paul Church in Malmo where it was placed to the right of the main altarpiece on the first Sunday of Advent, December 1.On Wednesday the diocese said it would remove it from the altar --
  
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• DOJ Watchdog Confirms Ongoing Probe Into FBI Leaks to Giuliani

  11-12-2019 18:43 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The Justice Department’s watchdog told Congress that he has an ongoing investigation into what appears to be leaks from agents in the New York FBI field office to Rudy Giuliani about the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016.“We were very concerned about that,” Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. “This continues to this day, we are investigating those contacts.”The leak
  
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• FAA predicted Boeing 737 Max, facing more delays, would crash 15 times over its lifetime

  11-12-2019 18:41 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The agency's administrator tells a House committee that it won't be rushed on recertification of the Boeing 737 Max.
  
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• Democratic Senators Running for President Keep Silent on USMCA

  11-12-2019 18:37 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. For now, the five senators running for president are staying on the sidelines of the push to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement, but they’ll have to vote on the new treaty by next year.Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have long argued against President Donald Trump’s proposed revision of Nafta, known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, argui
  
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• Trump to sign executive order on anti-Semitism that critics say attacks free speech

  11-12-2019 18:31 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Critics say the executive order targets criticism of Israel, particularly the "Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel movement" known as BDS.
  
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• Republican lawmaker asks Lindsey Graham to 'rethink' Senate's impeachment strategy

  11-12-2019 18:26 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  “It is urgent we fight fire with fire," said Rep. Jim Banks.
  
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• The best deals you can get today during Amazon's 12 Days of Deals

  11-12-2019 18:24 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  This Wednesday is an amazing time to check a few products off your holiday gift list, and score an amazing deal at the same time.
  
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• 'Total nonsense': Democrats rip McConnell on delaying USMCA vote until after impeachment trial

  11-12-2019 18:15 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  After weeks of blaming Democrats for delaying Trump's renegotiated trade deal with Canada and Mexico, McConnell said he would delay it further.
  
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• I visited the top of the tallest building in the world, and it was a colossal waste of time

  11-12-2019 18:05 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  While the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is a marvel from below, heading to the top is an exhausting, overhyped, and, frankly, boring experience.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani's divorce battle ends, but legal troubles continue for Trump lawyer

  11-12-2019 17:49 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's lawyer, has settled his divorce fight with Judith Nathan. Federal prosecutors continue to investigate him.
  
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• Greta slams 'misleading' climate pledges at chaotic UN summit

  11-12-2019 17:42 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday accused wealthier nations of inventing ways to avoid slashing their greenhouse gas emissions, branding their climate action "misleading" at a summit in Madrid disrupted by clashes between youth activists and security.The UN climate forum tasked with saving the world from runaway global warming has become an "opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition" to act on climate, the 16-year-old told delegates and obser
  
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• Armed suspect arrested at Texas naval air base, no injuries reported

  11-12-2019 17:23 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  An armed person was arrested on Wednesday at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas, after causing the base to be put on lockdown just days after deadly shootings at U.S. Navy bases in Florida and Hawaii.On Friday, a Saudi Air Force lieutenant being trained at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, shot and killed three people and wounded eight on the base in a suspected terrorist attack.The Corpus Christi base said on Wednesday there was no indication the incident there was relate
  
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• Flashback: Trump subpoena stonewall is most dangerous outrage. Why even have a Congress?

  11-12-2019 17:22 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The Founders anticipated our historical moment. They created the House, with 'the people' on its side, to guard against a president like Donald Trump.
  
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• The Aging B-1 Bomber Can No Longer Fly Like It Used To

  11-12-2019 17:13 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The 80s-era bomber may need to cut low-altitude flying due to old age.
  
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• Chicago police halt controversial merit promotion system

  11-12-2019 17:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Chicago’s interim police superintendent is discontinuing a so-called merit promotion system that rank-and-file cops have long complained rewards officers for who they know and not what skills they have to do the job.In a letter to the 13,400-member department obtained by the Chicago Tribune, Interim Superintendent Charlie Beck said Tuesday he’s heard that many officers have been “dissatisfied and discouraged” by the process that allows promotions to the ranks of detective
  
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• Corpus Christi Naval Air Station lockdown lifted; armed suspect in custody

  11-12-2019 17:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Corpus Christi officials issued a lockdown after an armed suspect was reported to be on the base Wednesday morning.
  
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• US hits Iran with new sanctions, hopes for prisoner dialogue

  11-12-2019 16:32 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The Trump administration on Wednesday hit Iran with new sanctions that target several transportation firms as it continues its “maximum pressure campaign" against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.The sanctions target Iran's state shipping line and a China-based company that has been involved in delivering missile parts to Iran."Today's designations put the world on notice that those who engage in illicit transactions with these companies will risk exposu
  
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• The New Jersey shootout that left 6 people dead was a 'targeted' attack on a Jewish-owned grocery store, officials say

  11-12-2019 16:31 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Six people died Tuesday in a shooting in Jersey City, New Jersey, including the two gunmen, a cop, and three civilians.
  
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• Best man punches bride and drags her downstairs at brother's wedding

  11-12-2019 16:31 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A best man punched his brother’s new wife and then dragged her down the stairs on their wedding day, a court in the U.K. heard. Tomos Rhydian Wilson went on a drunken rampage at the reception in Wales on July 27.
  
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• Ukraine Official Denies He Ever Discussed Ukraine Military Aid with Gordon Sondland in Warsaw Meeting

  11-12-2019 16:24 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Andriy Yermak, a top Ukrainian aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky, contradicted U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland’s revised impeachment testimony that the two discussed the holdup of Ukrainian military aid during a September 1 meeting in Warsaw, according to an exclusive interview Yermak gave to Time.Sondland initially testified in October that according to President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the president wanted Ukraine to investigate both the 2016 election
  
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• Danish police carry out nationwide raids over suspected attack preparations

  11-12-2019 15:47 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Police made several raids throughout Denmark on Wednesday and arrested a number of people in connection with suspected preparations for an Islamist militant attack, police said.Police and intelligence services will hold a joint news conference at 1600 GMT to give more details.Denmark has not seen a militant attack since 2015, when two people were killed and six police officers were wounded.
  
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• Hong Kong Protestors Win TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year Reader Poll

  11-12-2019 15:37 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The choice of 30% of visitors to our online survey
  
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• Fishermen overwhelm Mexico's Gulf of California to capture endangered totoaba fish, elusive porpoises

  11-12-2019 15:35 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A conservation group trying to protect the world's most endangered marine mammal said Monday that hundreds of fishermen massed in dozens of boats to fish illegally in Mexico's Gulf of California.
  
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• Biden Suggests He Would Only Serve One Term: Report

  11-12-2019 15:26 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Former vice president Joe Biden has reportedly suggested that he would only serve one term if elected president but has stopped short of publicly pledging not to run again.“If Biden is elected, he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection.” a Biden campaign adviser told Politico, arguing that the former vice president could serve as a "good transition figure" to defeat Trump and usher in the "next generation of leaders."“He
  
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