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• Fox News Analyst Says Washington Post 'Has Some Culpability' For Khashoggi's Murder

  23-11-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  At least twice this week, Fox News has aired commentary dismissing the
  
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• France to return African treasures to Benin

  23-11-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday agreed to return 26 cultural artefacts to Benin "without delay", a move that could put pressure on other former colonial powers to return African artworks to their countries of origin.The decision -- which Macron said should not be seen as an isolated or symbolic case -- came as the president received the findings of a study he commissioned on repatriating African treasures held by French museums.Macron agreed to return the 26 works, mainly royal statue
  
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• Guy Fieri helps Camp Fire evacuees, first responders celebrate Thanksgiving

  23-11-2018 23:09 via yahoo.com
  Thousands displaced by the devastating and deadly Camp Fire gathered at locations throughout Butte County to celebrate Thanksgiving.
  
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• This week in video game trailers: Disney's 'Kingdom Hearts III,' 'Star Wars Battlefront II,' 'Dream League Soccer 2019,' more

  23-11-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  An opportunity to see the breadth of Disney characters and locations coming to "Kingdom Hearts III," an unexpectedly spectacular update trailer for "Star Wars Battlefront II" that revisits and revitalizes "Attack of the Clones," and a new season for mobile hit "Dream League Soccer," plus a look at the video game adaptation of children's story "Storm Boy" and a comprehensive introduction to Nintendo's "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate."
  
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• Photos of the week: 11/16 - 11/23

  23-11-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  A gunman opened fire at a Chicago hospital this week before killing himself.
  
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• Meghan cookbook mosque linked to 19 terror suspects including 'Jihadi John' in group's investigation 

  23-11-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Acommunity kitchen supported by the Duchess of Sussex is housed inside a mosque linked by experts to individuals connected to “terrorist acts” and run by an imam who says girls who listen to music risk becoming strippers. Meghan visited the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre on Wednesday after championing a cookbook to raise funds for the “Hubb Community Kitchen” project there to help victims of the fire at nearby Grenfell Tower. In February it emerged the 37-year-
  
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• Top 5 Apps To Make Black Friday & Cyber Monday Shopping Easier

  23-11-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping is about to get a whole lot easier with the top five apps that promise to make sourcing, pricing, and delivery of your goods as easy as pie.Black Friday heralds the start of the Christmas shopping period.According to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation, more than 164 million consumers plan to shop over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, from Thursday, November 22 to Monday, November 26.
  
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• Climate change 'will inflict substantial damages on US lives'

  23-11-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  A home is overshadowed by towering smoke plumes in Paradise, California .Climate change is already harming Americans’ lives with “substantial damages” set to occur as global temperatures threaten to surge beyond internationally agreed limits, a major US government report has warned.The influence of climate change is being felt across the US with increases in disastrous wildfires in the west, flooding on the east coast, soil loss in the midwest and coastal erosion in Alaska, acc
  
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• Climate change could cost US 'hundreds of billions' a year: study

  23-11-2018 22:40 via yahoo.com
  Tampa (AFP) - Climate change is already hurting the global economy and will cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars annually unless drastic action is taken to cut carbon emissions, a major US government report warned on Friday.
  
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• Trump takes bid to restrict transgender troops to Supreme Court

  23-11-2018 22:35 via yahoo.com
  Trump announced in March that he would endorse a plan by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to restrict the military service of transgender people who experience a condition called gender dysphoria.The policy replaced an outright ban on transgender service members that Trump announced last year on Twitter, citing concern over military focus and medical costs.
  
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• The Government's Massive New Climate Change Study Challenges Trump's Policies

  23-11-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  It warns of dire consequences across the U.S.
  
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• Tijuana mayor pleads with Mexican government after nearly 5,000 migrants arrive

  23-11-2018 22:22 via yahoo.com
  "We don't have sufficient and necessary infrastructure to adequately attend to these people, to give them a decent space," Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum said.
  
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• Jerome Corsi: rightwing author pursuing plea deal with Robert Mueller

  23-11-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  Jerome Corsi is an associate of Donald Trump’s ally Roger Stone.The rightwing author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi has confirmed he is in plea negotiations with Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian election interference and links between Moscow and aides to Donald Trump.
  
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• Couple Accused of Sexually Abusing Three Children for Years

  23-11-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  According to prosecutors, 29-year-old Jeremy Leisgang and his wife, 36-year-old Andrea Leisgang, are accused of sexually assaulting three children at their Illinois home for more than two years.
  
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• Immigration agents arrest man who left church after a year

  23-11-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An immigrant who sought refuge from deportation in a North Carolina church for 11 months was detained Friday at a scheduled appointment with immigration officials, prompting more than a dozen supporters to block a law enforcement van and wind up under arrest themselves.
  
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• Tijuana mayor declares 'humanitarian crisis' over 5,000 Central American migrants in his border city

  23-11-2018 21:40 via yahoo.com
  "We don't have sufficient and necessary infrastructure to adequately attend to these people, to give them a decent space," Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum said.
  
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• 14 Palestinian protesters wounded by Israeli gunfire: Gaza ministry

  23-11-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  At least 14 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli gunfire Friday during protests along the Gaza border, the enclave's health ministry said, as a lull in deadly violence held after a truce deal last week.Health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said 14 people were injured by Israeli army fire along the border, including "a child shot in the chest east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp" in the central Gaza Strip.
  
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• Judge Rejects Trump's Request To Dismiss Lawsuit Against Trump Foundation

  23-11-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  The New York State Supreme Court has rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit
  
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• Black Friday Extends To Cannabis Dispensaries, Here Are The Best Pot Deals

  23-11-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  Black Friday even extends to cannabis dispensaries! And when you think about it, it’s hardly a surprise.Considering that about two thirds of Americans live in states where cannabis is legal in one form or another, pot shops are getting in on the holiday sales action by offering Black Friday discounts on marijuana products.Call it “Green Friday.” As Politifact reports, about 207 million Americans — roughly two thirds of the population — live in states where you can l
  
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• US man wrote 'God sheltered me' before trip turned deadly

  23-11-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  NEW DELHI (AP) — The young American, paddling his kayak toward a remote Indian island whose people have resisted the outside world for thousands of years, believed God was helping him dodge the authorities.
  
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• Wall Street drops, S&P 500 confirms correction

  23-11-2018 20:08 via yahoo.com
  The three major U.S. indexes all fell well over 3 percent for the week, with the Dow industrials and the Nasdaq posting their biggest weekly percentage declines since March.The S&P 500 ended about 10.2 percent down from its Sept. 20 closing record high, confirming it had entered a correction.The S&P last entered a correction earlier this year after posting a then record high in late January, and falling more than 10 percent by early February.
  
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• Impeach the president? House Democrats saying not so fast

  23-11-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Whatever happened to trying to impeach President Donald Trump?
  
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• Saudi crown prince on 1st trip abroad since Khashoggi killed

  23-11-2018 19:54 via yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, on his first tour abroad since the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul.
  
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• Christmas Tree Farmers In North Carolina Experience Shortage Due To Recession

  23-11-2018 19:54 via yahoo.com
  Greg Schneider with High Country Christmas Trees recently spoke with reporters about the Christmas tree shortage in the foothills of North Carolina.The 2008 recession is to blame for a Christmas tree shortage.Picking out a Christmas tree is a family tradition for many, but with the shortage, it could mean increasing costs for consumers.
  
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• Hulu Has An Insane Deal For Black Friday — $0.99 A Month For 12 Months

  23-11-2018 19:49 via yahoo.com
  Television and movie streaming service Hulu is offering one of the most ridiculous Black Friday deals you will ever see.When not on sale, Hulu normally charges $7.99 for this plan, so over the course of a year, a cord-cutter will save a whopping $84 and they’ll only spend $11.88.Hulu does offer a plan with no commercials for $11.99 a month, but unfortunately, the company hasn’t discounted that plan to go along with Black Friday, so anyone who can’t stand ads will need to spring
  
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• Top 5 Gifts For Your Four-Legged Friends

  23-11-2018 19:45 via yahoo.com
  Giving your beloved pets clean water prevents harmful contaminants from making them sick — and will also increase their lifespan.Amazon has knocked 38 percent off of the price of the PetSafe Drinkwell Original Cat and Dog Water Fountain for a savings of $24.04 below their regularly listed price of $49.99.
  
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• At least one injured in St. Paul House explosion

  23-11-2018 19:39 via yahoo.com
  Authorities are investigating a house explosion in St. Paul that injured at least one person. (Nov. 23)
  
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• Three Kosovo Serbs arrested over politician's murder

  23-11-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  Three Kosovo Serbs were arrested Friday over the murder of prominent Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic who was shot dead in January, Kosovo authorities said.The early morning arrests were a rare intervention by Kosovo's special police forces into the northern half of Mitrovica, an ethnically divided city with Serbs in the north and Albanians in the south.
  
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• Markets Right Now: US stocks end lower as oil plunges

  23-11-2018 19:26 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• U.S. lawmaker subpoenas ex-FBI chief and former Attorney General

  23-11-2018 19:11 via yahoo.com
  The Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte, has issued subpoenas for former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch to give depositions in a probe of their handling of an investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.A committee statement released on Friday said the two former top law enforcement officials have been repeatedly asked to meet with the Judiciary and Oversight committees "as part of the Committees’ j
  
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• Tijuana mayor declares "humanitarian crisis" over migrants

  23-11-2018 18:59 via yahoo.com
  TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city and said Friday that he has asked the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants who have arrived.
  
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• Retailers look to millennials for holiday shopping cheer

  23-11-2018 18:54 via yahoo.com
  As the US holiday shopping season kicked off Friday, retailers were looking to an unexpected savior to keep the tills humming: millennials.The generation of 22 to 37-year-olds have long been seen as cash-strapped and debt-laden after graduating college into a jobless economy after the 2008 global financial crisis."This holiday season retailers will experience the growing purchasing power of Gen Z and millennials," National Retail Federation president Matthew Shay said.
  
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• Tension and frustration at the U.S.-Mexico border

  23-11-2018 18:52 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of Central American migrants in Mexico massed on Thursday around a tense U.S. border crossing, where security measures held up long lines of Mexicans headed to Thanksgiving gatherings on the other side of the frontier.
  
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• Turkey's Foreign Minister Accuses Trump Of Turning 'Blind Eye' To Khashoggi's Murder

  23-11-2018 18:47 via yahoo.com
  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu criticized President Donald Trump
  
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• Leading Syrian activist who opposed regime and Islamists killed in Idlib

  23-11-2018 18:46 via yahoo.com
  Gunmen in Syria's rebel-held northwestern province shot and killed on Friday a prominent anti-government journalist who was also a sharp critic of Islamist militants. Raed Fares' US-funded Radio Fresh station provides news of the conflict to Syria's northern provinces and is a source for international news outlets which have largely stayed away from the opposition-held areas amid rising lawlessness. Fares' killing was a blow to the few independent voices that have continued to promote nonvi
  
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• Wary of Trump's USA, Central American migrants find only despair in Spain

  23-11-2018 18:33 via yahoo.com
  "Our baby is just two months old and we've run out of money ... we don’t have anywhere to stay right now," said 40-year-old Salvadoran Nelson Delgado as he queued for the third day and night with his wife and baby outside the only migrant center in Madrid.The number of asylum-seekers from Central America and Venezuela has grown notably in the past month after U.S. President Donald Trump denounced U.S.-bound migrant caravans as an "invasion" and sent troops to the border with Mexico to stop
  
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• Amazon Workers In Germany & Spain Go On Strike For Black Friday

  23-11-2018 18:31 via yahoo.com
  Not everyone is excited about the Black Friday madness.About 620 Amazon workers in Germany, as well as others in Spain and the U.K., staged walkouts and strikes on November 23.Better pay and working conditions, Yahoo! Finance reports.
  
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• A slippery trade: oil slump proves bears right

  23-11-2018 18:27 via yahoo.com
  The latest collapse in oil prices has proved some investors right in their lack of confidence in energy stocks this year.   Crude prices surged to a four-year high early in 2018 as tensions with Iran and OPEC supply cuts raised concerns that global oil supply was dwindling.    But the narrative has flipped since October as worries over a global trade war and rising U.S. shale oil production mounted, driving oil to a one-year low on Friday.
  
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• Toddler Home for Thanksgiving After Mysterious Illness Leads to Amputations

  23-11-2018 18:26 via yahoo.com
  Two-year-old Jeremiah Cox was home in time for Thanksgiving after spending weeks recovering from a mysterious illness at Riley Children's Hospital in Indiana. Because of the illness, doctors were forced to partially amputate all four of his limbs.
  
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• Here's How Long You Can Safely Keep Eating Your Thanksgiving Leftovers

  23-11-2018 18:25 via yahoo.com
  And other important food safety tips
  
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• Roger Stone Associate Jerome Corsi In Plea Negotiations With Mueller: Report

  23-11-2018 18:24 via yahoo.com
  Jerome Corsi, a conservative conspiracy theorist associated with Roger Stone,
  
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• May Appeals to Voters as Gibraltar Spat Drags on: Brexit Update

  23-11-2018 18:24 via yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Theresa May is fighting to win domestic backing for her Brexit deal and is appealing directly to voters over the heads of politicians.Theresa May’s government has taken the unusual step of launching a blog to “offer rebuttal to criticisms and inaccurate reporting in the lead up to Parliament’s meaningful vote” on the prime minister’s Brexit deal.The blog so far contains responses to a City A.M. article on “the 10 capitulations of Theresa May&rdq
  
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• US missionary killed by isolated tribe off Indian coast

  23-11-2018 18:18 via yahoo.com
  The 27-year-old was killed on a remote island off the coast of India, where he tried to share the gospel with the most isolated tribe in the world.
  
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• A Thanksgiving Mall Shooting Left 2 Injured, Including a 12-Year-Old Girl

  23-11-2018 18:18 via yahoo.com
  Two people including a 12-year-old girl were injured and the suspected shooter killed after a man opened fire in Alabama‘s largest enclosed mall on Thanksgiving night.
  
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• No 'artificial deadlines' for Syria peace process: Russia

  23-11-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  Russia does not want any "artificial deadlines" for the Syrian peace process, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday, saying those who do want to sabotage Russian-backed peace efforts."I don't believe in artificial deadlines," Lavrov told the MED Dialogues conference in Rome.The next round of talks on Syria's conflict is to held in the Kazakh capital Astana on November 28-29 as part of a peace process set up in early 2017 by Russia and Iran, who support President Bashar al-Assad's regime
  
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• Migrants come within 500 feet of U.S. border

  23-11-2018 17:53 via yahoo.com
  A small group of about 150 migrants broke away from a larger caravan to push within 500 feet of the U.S. border. The mayor of Tijuana declared a "humanitarian crisis," saying they are unequipped to handle a growing number of migrants.
  
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• Kaley Cuoco Spends Thanksgiving Helping Rescue Baby Sea Lion

  23-11-2018 17:49 via yahoo.com
  Kaley Cuoco took some time out of her Thanksgiving celebrations to aid a young
  
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• UTC gets Chinese nod for Rockwell Collins purchase, deal set to close

  23-11-2018 17:48 via yahoo.com
  United Technologies Corp on Friday received Chinese regulatory approval for its $30 billion purchase of aircraft parts maker Rockwell Collins Inc, clearing the final hurdle to complete the largest aerospace deal in history.The conditional approval for the deal between the two American industrial heavyweights comes during a period of escalating trade tensions between China and the United States.The dispute between the world's two largest economies had fanned concerns among UTC shareholders that t
  
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• DH wind-down calls time on Doughty Hanson’s journey

  23-11-2018 17:44
  Hanson, whose co-founder Nigel Doughty died in 2012, decided against committing to a planned new fund
  
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• Grandma And Teen Who Connected By Wrong Text Enjoy Third Thanksgiving Together

  23-11-2018 17:38 via yahoo.com
  One Arizona grandmother's accidental text has turned out to be the gift that
  
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