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• Private funeral held for Stan Lee, more memorials in works

  16-11-2018 23:58 via yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small, private funeral has been held to mourn Marvel Comics mogul Stan Lee, and his company is making more plans to memorialize him.
  
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• Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams Says Republican Brian Kemp Will Be Next Governor

  16-11-2018 23:56 via yahoo.com
  Abrams acknowledged that Kemp, the secretary of state until he stepped down two days after the election, will be certified as the winner.Kemp thanked Abrams in an emailed statement.Endorsed by President Donald Trump, Kemp channeled his anti-immigration fervor in appealing to rural Georgians.
  
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• PG&E shares surge 40 percent on report regulator wants to avoid bankruptcy from wildfire

  16-11-2018 23:52 via yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - PG&E Corp shares soared 40 percent in after-hours trade on Thursday following a report that a regulatory official told investors the agency does not want the utility to go into bankruptcy should it be found responsible for this month's deadly wildfire in northern California.Bloomberg reported the comment by a California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) official on a call hosted by Bank of America Corp, citing a person familiar with the matter.A CPUC sp
  
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• Thanksgiving with the Jewish Relief Agency

  16-11-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  The Jewish Relief Agency (JRA) helps over 6,000 individuals in need throughout the greater Philadelphia area. Every month, the organisation hosts a food drive and distribution event to deliver food to the community. This year, we followed JRA as it delivered turkeys and other holiday food items ahead of Thanksgiving day! Learn more on this episode of "Holiday Heroes!"
  
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• Hanging Chads Long Gone, Florida Has Another Election Nightmare

  16-11-2018 23:49 via yahoo.com
  Nearly two decades after the world learned about hanging chads, Florida is
  
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• Trump's attorney general appointment challenged at Supreme Court

  16-11-2018 23:48 via yahoo.com
  Critics have said the Republican president's appointment of Whitaker, who now will oversee Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. election, on Nov. 7 to replace the ousted Jeff Sessions as the chief U.S. law enforcement official violated the Constitution and federal law.Lawyers for Barry Michaels, who filed a lawsuit in Nevada challenging a U.S. law that bars him from buying a firearm due to prior non-violent criminal convictions, decided to make Whita
  
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• Whitaker's Iowa connections boosted his career but raise 'troubling questions' for Democrats

  16-11-2018 23:45 via yahoo.com
  Matt Whitaker, the acting attorney general appointed by President Trump to replace Jeff Sessions, has deep roots in Iowa — and a history there that a leading Democrat says “raises troubling questions” about how he has used his official powers.
  
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• Stacey Abrams Acknowledges Loss In Georgia Governor's Race

  16-11-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  In a speech to her supporters on Friday night, Democrat Stacey Abrams
  
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• Harris under fire for drawing parallels between ICE and KKK

  16-11-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  Potential 2020 hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris is facing backlash after comparing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Ku Klux Klan during a hearing on Capitol Hill; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.
  
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• North Korea tests new 'tactical' weapon, releases U.S. prisoner

  16-11-2018 23:40 via yahoo.com
  Kim Jong Un's visit to the test site of what North Korea's state media called a "tactical weapon" that could protect North Korea like a "steel wall" threatened to sour the diplomatic atmosphere at a time when negotiations between North Korea and the United States appear to have stalled."We remain confident that the promises made by President Trump and Chairman Kim will be fulfilled," a spokesman for theU.S. State Department said.
  
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• The Latest on the California Wildfires: Relief Efforts, Real Estate, and Home Looting

  16-11-2018 23:29 via yahoo.com
  The Camp and Woolsey fires rage on while victims receive both relief and a new round of troubles
  
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• Stacey Abrams Ends Challenge Against Republican Brian Kemp for Georgia Governor

  16-11-2018 23:29 via yahoo.com
  Abrams had hoped to become the first black governor of the Deep South state
  
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• Democratic candidate admits defeat in hard-fought Georgia governor's race

  16-11-2018 23:27 via yahoo.com
  Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said on Friday that her Republican opponent Brian Kemp would be officially declared the victor in the race, but she said her announcement was not a concession because that would acknowledge "an action as right.""I acknowledge that former (Georgia) Secretary of State Brian Kemp will be certified as the victor," Abrams told supporters in Atlanta."But to watch an elected official who claims to represent the people in this state baldly pin his
  
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• Pfizer to raise U.S. drug prices in January after previously backing down

  16-11-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  The largest U.S. drugmaker said in a statement that the increases would be on around 10 percent of its medicines.Pfizer said it would raise the list price of most of the drugs by 5 percent, while prices for three will rise by 3 percent, and the price of one by 9 percent, all effective Jan. 15.Pfizer said it does not expect the price increases to boost its revenue in the United States next year as it believes that rebates to insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) will offset the
  
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• Trump honors GOP donor, 6 others with presidential award

  16-11-2018 23:24 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday recognized a major Republican Party donor and six other "extraordinary Americans" with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the nation reserves for a civilian.
  
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• N. Korea swiftly expels US citizen amid nuclear talks

  16-11-2018 23:18 via yahoo.com
  North Korea said Friday it had expelled a US citizen who tried to enter illegally, an unusually swift resolution of a case that could have further complicated reconciliation moves between the two countries.The man, identified as Lawrence Bruce Byron, had been in custody after crossing into North Korea from China on October 16, the official Korean Central News Agency said."While being questioned, he said he had illegally entered the country under the command of the US Central Intelligence Agency,
  
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• Social media eases worries for migrants, families back home

  16-11-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — There was cake at little Brithani Lizeth's third birthday party, and also tears.
  
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• Photos of the week: 11/9 - 11/16

  16-11-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Devastating wildfires continued to ravage parts of Northern and Southern
  
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• Britain to push U.N. Security Council to back humanitarian truce in Yemen

  16-11-2018 22:57 via yahoo.com
  British U.N. Ambassador Karen Pierce said she would give the 15-member council a draft resolution on Monday that would enshrine five requests made by U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock, one of which was for a truce around infrastructure and facilities on which the aid operation and commercial importers rely.Pierce said the aim of the resolution would be to put Lowcock's call "into practice." She gave no timeline for when the draft resolution could be put to a vote.The remaining four requests were for p
  
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• Fidelity names tech executive Neff to run asset management

  16-11-2018 22:55
  Fidelity Investments on Friday named technology executive Steve Neff to run its big asset management division, a move that shows the growing importance of data systems for fund companies.
  
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• Migrant caravan faces cold welcome, few options at US-Mexico border

  16-11-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  After spending more than a month traveling the 4,300 kilometers (2,700 miles) to the Mexican border city of Tijuana, walking and hitch-hiking much of the way, thousands of migrants faced the bleak reality that their American dream was about as untouchable as it was when they started.Osman Bueso, a 28-year-old Honduran man who was one of the first to reach the border, said he had no intention of waiting the months or years it could take to seek asylum in the US, and was ready to try to crash the
  
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• Erdogan, Trump agree no 'cover-up' of Khashoggi murder should be allowed

  16-11-2018 22:44 via yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Donald Trump Friday agreed on the need to prevent any cover-up of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder, a Turkish presidential source said after a phone call between the two leaders.Turkish media claimed Ankara has more evidence, including a second audio tape discrediting Saudi Arabia's version of Khashoggi's killing.Erdogan and Trump "agreed to shed light on the Jamal Khashoggi murder in all its aspects and that any cover-up of the in
  
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• Facebook's Top Brass Say They Knew Nothing About Definers. Don't Believe Them.

  16-11-2018 22:41 via yahoo.com
  Sweet, wide-eyed Mark Zuckerberg swears he didn't know anything.
  
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• DeVos proposes overhaul to campus sexual misconduct rules

  16-11-2018 22:41 via yahoo.com
  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday proposed a major overhaul to the way colleges and universities handle sexual misconduct complaints, adding protections for students accused of assault and harassment and narrowing which cases schools would be required to investigate.
  
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• Trump Says He Was Too Busy 'On Calls' To Honor Soldiers On Veterans Day

  16-11-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump loves to talk about his love of U.S. soldiers, but did
  
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• Trump explains his no-show at Arlington: 'I was extremely busy on calls'

  16-11-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  The president makes a rare public admission on not attending a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate the holiday.
  
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• Russian Soyuz blasts off for ISS in first launch since accident

  16-11-2018 22:34 via yahoo.com
  An unmanned rocket carrying cargo blasted off into space on Friday in the first launch of a Russian-made Soyuz-FG rocket from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome since a dramatic aborted launch in October.The rocket took off with a Progress MS-10 spacecraft at 18:14 GMT (00:14 local time) carrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).The Progress MS-10 is expected to dock at the ISS on Nov. 18, Russia's space agency said.
  
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• Subject of Mueller probe boasts of ties to acting AG Matt Whitaker

  16-11-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  An obscure conservative podcast recorded by a former Trump administration official last Sunday provided a unique window into acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker and the reasons some have found his appointment alarming.
  
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• ‘Green New Deal’ Gains Momentum, But Few Progressive Caucus Democrats Pledge Support

  16-11-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  Just three Democrats in the Congressional Progressive Caucus have pledged this
  
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• A mother's decision to donate son's face: How doctors approach, support families

  16-11-2018 21:50 via yahoo.com
  Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, a renowned reconstructive surgeon at NYU Langone Health who performs face transplant surgeries, shares how 3-D printing of the donor's face is used to help the family cope.
  
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• May's Brexit deal won't get through parliament: former Brexit sec

  16-11-2018 21:48 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's draft European Union divorce deal will not get the approval of the UK parliament, former Brexit Secretary David Davis said on Friday. "What's more likely to happen than a confidence vote (in May) is this deal will be rejected by the House of Commons... There's no way I can see it getting through," Davis told CNBC. "Therefore she'll have to come up with another alternative." Davis resigned as Brexit secretary in July in protest at May's plan
  
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• Hundreds Missing In California Fire

  16-11-2018 21:48 via yahoo.com
  The numbers of people missing and killed in the Northern California Camp Fire continue to rise.
  
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• 'You Were Busy': Trump Marvels At Antonin Scalia's Large Brood At Medal Ceremony

  16-11-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
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• Pelosi meets with her potential rival, Fudge

  16-11-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  Nancy Pelosi met privately Friday with her top potential rival for House speaker, Rep. Marcia Fudge, who said the two had a frank and open discussion, including "the feeling in the caucus of people who are feeling left out and left behind." (Nov. 16)
  
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• Retired Justice Alan Page: The White House 'is the people's house'

  16-11-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Former Minnesota Viking and state Justice Alan Page receives Medal of Freedom.
  
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• Leaked chat logs on hacks may be part of case against Julian Assange

  16-11-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  While transparency advocates and First Amendment activists have consistently worried that Assange’s arrest and conviction would set a bad precedent for the media if Assange is charged with espionage for publishing classified documents, it’s possible the charges will have to do with his solicitation of those materials.
  
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• Elvis Presley awarded US Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump

  16-11-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Rock and roll star Elvis Presley has been posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, by President Donald Trump. Presley's velvety voice filled the White House briefly on Friday when a recording of one his songs was played at a ceremony hosted by the president to honour the king of rock 'n roll. Presley was part of an eclectic group of seven Americans being awarded the Medal of Freedom, including the late baseball legend Babe Ruth and Antonin Scalia, t
  
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• Trump gets Elvis catchphrase wrong and praises Judge Scalia for how much sex he had during Medal of Freedom ceremony tribute

  16-11-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has misquoted one of the most famous phrases in music history during a presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony - claiming "Elvis has left the house".The president was recalling an Elvis Presley performance he had attended as he paid tribute to the rock 'n' roll star while bestowing what is thehighest civilian honour in the US alongside the Congressional Gold Medal.Mr Trump said overexcited fans were “ripping the place apart, screaming" and.
  
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• Owner of three million mile Volvo P1800S dies

  16-11-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  Irv Gordon, owner of the Volvo P1800S which holds the Guinness World Record for highest vehicle mileage, has died aged 77
  
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• Khashoggi family receives condolences after Riyadh proffers murder culprits

  16-11-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  Two of Khashoggi's brothers and one of his sons received a few hundred men in the coastal city of Jeddah a day after the Saudi public prosecutor said it would seek the death penalty for five unnamed suspects in the killing inside the country's Istanbul consulate on Oct. 2.Earlier on Friday, tens of thousands of worshippers prayed for the deceased in Mecca and Medina, Khashoggi's hometown, though the imams did not name him.Friends eulogized the 59-year-old royal insider-turned-critic, and politic
  
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• Betsy DeVos proposes new sexual assault reporting rules for US campuses that ‘could help shield rapists’

  16-11-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has proposed a major change in the way American universities deal with campus sexual assault and harassment allegations in a move rights groups say could harm survivors.Ms DeVos has wants to add protections for those accused and limit situations in which schools would be required by law to investigate complaints brought forward by alleged victims, changes she said will treat both sides fairly.The requirements for investigation include only incidents which occurred
  
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• The Definition of a Kilogram Just Changed. That's a Major Milestone in the Grand History of the Metric System

  16-11-2018 21:23 via yahoo.com
  Le kilogramme est mort. Vive le kilogramme!
  
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• Trump Upbeat About Trade Deal After Receiving China Response

  16-11-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  Trump told reporters Friday that the Chinese response was largely complete but was missing four or five big issues, signaling that tough discussions still need to take place between the two sides as they head into the Nov. 30-Dec. 1 meetings at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires.“China wants to make a deal,” Trump said.U.S. stocks erased losses as investors clung to signs the White House will cool trade tensions with the world’s second-largest economy.
  
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• Eaton Vance's Gaffney sees opportunity in emerging market-denominated bonds

  16-11-2018 21:05
  There are untapped opportunities in corporate debt securities denominated in emerging-market currencies, Eaton Vance's director of diversified fixed-income said at the Reuters Global Investment 2019...
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Captions Instagram Stories From D.C. For The Deaf Community

  16-11-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is working to better serve all
  
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• Paradise is reduced to ash, but memories survive the flames

  16-11-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — There's a sweet legend about this town: On a blazing summer day in the 1850s, a lumber mill crew with a wagon and ox took a break under a grove of tall evergreens. The air was cool, the pine needles fragrant.
  
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• U.S. Justice Dept denies exploring extradition of Erdogan foe to appease Turkey

  16-11-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  NBC News reported on Thursday that the Trump administration had been seeking ways to extradite U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is wanted in Turkey over accusations that he was involved in a failed 2016 coup, in order to appease Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.It said the move was designed to persuade Erdogan to ease pressure on Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month.Trump has sought closer ties with Saudi Arabia, c
  
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• Nancy Pelosi allies ready to battle Democrats opposing her bid to become Speaker

  16-11-2018 20:49 via yahoo.com
  Nancy Pelosi’s allies are ready take on the band of Democrat dissidents who do not want her to be Speaker of the US House - with Ms Pelosi facing a fight to win the role.Ms Pelosi said she has the necessary 218 votes to be able to lead the new Democrat-controlled chamber of Congress, but there are at least 17 Democrats opposed.Florida Congresswoman Lois Frankel told The Hill newspaper “Two can play the game.
  
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• Bulgarian Prime Minister Accepts Deputy’s Resignation Over Protest

  16-11-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  Simeonov, deputy premier in charge of economic and demographic policy, personally took the decision to step down on Friday over “his reluctance to cause tension in the government,” the cabinet in Sofia said in an email.Borissov is heading his third cabinet since 2009 in the European Union’s poorest nation, with goals including adopting the euro.
  
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• Russia stages first Soyuz launch since accident

  16-11-2018 20:40 via yahoo.com
  Baikonur (Kazakhstan) (AFP) - A Russian Soyuz rocket with a cargo vessel blasted off Friday in the first launch to the International Space Station (ISS) since a manned accident last month.
  
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