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• Christine Blasey Ford to give donations to charity for trauma survivors

  27-11-2018 23:58 via yahoo.com
  Christine Blasey Ford and her family became the target of death threats after she testified that then-supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh tried to rape her.Dr Christine Blasey Ford, the California psychologist who accused the supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault before his confirmation, emphatically thanked supporters for an “outpouring” of donations in a new post that explained the shutdown of her GoFundMe page after raising nearly $650,000.
  
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• El Chapo's high life: Swiss clinics, mansions and a zoo

  27-11-2018 23:57 via yahoo.com
  Rejuvenation treatments at Swiss clinics, a beachfront mansion in Acapulco and a private zoo of lions: the US trial of drug baron Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was given an extraordinary glimpse Tuesday into his life of excess.At the height of his power as one of the most notorious criminals in the world and most prolific drug traffickers on the planet, Guzman reputedly profited to the max from his ill-gotten gains.In the early 1990s, smuggling Colombian cocaine into the United States -- Guzman's li
  
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• Migrant caravan: Crisis requires 'Marshall Plan' to fix, new Mexican foreign minister says

  27-11-2018 23:50 via yahoo.com
  Mexico’s incoming foreign minister has said that a scheme similar to the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Western Europe after the Second World War will be necessary to handle the migrant crisis stemming from Central America and southern Mexico.Marcelo Ebrard told reporters in Mexico Cory that a major investment of that kind would be necessary to develop the area and to ameliorate conditions that push migrants north from Central America and away from violence and poor economic prospects.
  
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• Fatal Police Shooting Of 21-Year-Old Emantic Bradford In Alabama Sparks Protest

  27-11-2018 23:47 via yahoo.com
  Protesters shut down parts of an Alabama highway on Monday in response to the
  
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• Absolute moo-nit: Look at this really big cow

  27-11-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  Friends, gather round. We'd like you to look at this really big cow (OK,steer) named Knickers, who is six feet, three inches tall and currently dwarfing his peers on a farm in Western Australia. Knickers, a seven-year-old Holstein Friesian, who was originally purchased to lead other cattle around, currently holds the unofficial title of Australia's biggest bovine representative. He weighs 1.4 tonnes, which is about 3,086 pounds. A lot!  See if you can spot him in this video from 7 News in B
  
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• Schumer: If Border-Wall Fight Shuts Down Government, Blame Trump, Republicans

  27-11-2018 23:07 via yahoo.com
  Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that if the government shuts down next month amid a fight over funding for the construction of a wall at the southern border, it will be the fault of President Trump and congressional Republicans.“We are for strong border security.“Left to our own devices, the Senate and House could come to an agreement,” Schumer continued.
  
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• Massive effort needed to deal with migration: incoming Mexico official

  27-11-2018 22:50 via yahoo.com
  Mexico's incoming foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday that to contain migration pressure in Central America and southern Mexico, an effort on the scale of the Marshall Plan that rebuilt war-ravaged Europe would be needed to develop the region.Mexico is battling to curb the flow of migrants from Central America fleeing violence and poverty, and tensions have risen on the U.S.-Mexico border since the arrival in the last few weeks of a caravan of mostly Hondurans seeking U.S. asylum.Mex
  
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• Google, Walmart and MLB demand Cindy Hyde-Smith refund campaign donations after racial remarks

  27-11-2018 22:40 via yahoo.com
  Google has joined a number of major organisations demanding refunds for campaign donations sent to Cindy Hyde-Smith whose controversial racial remarks have drawn backlash just before a crucial run-off election for a Senate seat in Mississippi.As voters flocked to the polls to cast their ballots in the final senatorial election of the 2018 midterms, Google confirmed it had requested a $5,000 refund for a donation the tech giant had previously sent to the senator’s re-election campaign.
  
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• CNN’s Jim Acosta attends first White House briefing since press credential fight

  27-11-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  CNN’S Jim Acosta asks questions at a White House Press Briefing for the first time since his press credentials were revoked, then reinstated under a federal judge’s order.
  
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• The Story Behind the Photo of a Family Running From Tear Gas at the U.S.-Mexico Border

  27-11-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  Kim Kyung-Hoon talks to TIME about photographing a gripping image from the U.S.-Mexico border
  
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• Giuliani Says Trump Doesn't Know If Paul Manafort Met With WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange

  27-11-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump does not know whether his former campaign
  
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• Lawsuit against Disney, Fox hits Malaysian casino operator's shares

  27-11-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  Shares in Malaysian casino operator Genting fell nearly 19 percent Tuesday after it sued the Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox for allegedly abandoning a project to build a theme park in the country.The $1 billion lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Los Angeles, alleges that Disney and Fox failed to honour a 2013 deal to license intellectual property, including from Fox animated films like "Ice Age" and "Planet of the Apes," for the theme park outside Kuala Lumpur.The suit alleges that Fox
  
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• Medicine or vice? Socially screened funds struggle to define cannabis industry

  27-11-2018 22:09
  The $8 trillion U.S. socially responsible investment industry is grappling with that question as more states approve the recreational use of cannabis, pushing consumption closer to "sin" stocks like...
  
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• Ex-Trump campaign head Manafort denies ever meeting with Wikileaks' Assange

  27-11-2018 22:05 via yahoo.com
  "We are considering all legal options against the Guardian, who proceeded with this story even after being notified by my representatives that it was false.”Manafort's statement came one day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office told a federal judge that Manafort had breached his plea agreement by lying repeatedly to the FBI despite pledging to cooperate with the probe.In the same court filing, Manafort denied lying, but both sides agreed the court should move ahead and set a date
  
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• Murdered woman's family sues husband for wrongful death

  27-11-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  DENVER (AP) — The parents of a Colorado woman murdered by her husband are seeking financial damages in a lawsuit filed on the same day he was sentenced to life in prison.
  
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• Indonesia due to release preliminary Lion Air crash report

  27-11-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Indonesian investigators are expected Wednesday to release a preliminary report into the Lion Air plane crash last month that saw all 189 on board killed when the nearly new jet slammed into the sea.The Boeing 737 MAX vanished from radar about 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, crashing into waters off Indonesia's northern coast moments after it had asked to return to the capital.
  
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• Ex-Morgan Stanley adviser gets five years in U.S. prison for fraud

  27-11-2018 22:01
  A former Morgan Stanley adviser was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday after he admitted that he misused client funds to invest in a wind farm project and to cover his own personal...
  
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• In Rare Statement, Christine Blasey Ford Pledges to Donate Funds to Trauma Survivors

  27-11-2018 21:52 via yahoo.com
  Ford said "coming forward was terrifying ... but I am grateful to have had the opportunity to fulfill my civic duty"
  
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• Massive Australian cow nearly as tall as Michael Jordan goes viral

  27-11-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  A cow in Western Australia has gone udderly viral due to its sheer size and
  
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• Trump to have packed schedule of bilateral meetings at G20

  27-11-2018 21:30 via yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump will have a packed schedule of bilateral meetings in Buenos Aires this week on the sidelines of the G20 meeting of world leaders, the White House said on Tuesday.Trump's talks on the sidelines are the main focus for the White House during the multilateral conference.Trump's highest profile meeting will come at the end of the summit, when he has a much-anticipated dinner with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, their first meeting since the two nations imposed tariffs on each o
  
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• Top 5 Holiday Scams To Watch Out For This Year

  27-11-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  The holiday season can be both exciting and stressful. Between parties, gift
  
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• Captured Ukrainian sailors broadcast giving 'confessions' on Russian television

  27-11-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Ukrainian sailors were on Tuesday filmed giving what Kiev said were forced confessions and brought to court after Russia seized their ships off the coast of Crimea in a major escalation of tensions. A court in Crimea ruled on Tuesday that 12 of the 24 captured sailors and security service agents would be kept in confinement for two months, with a decision on the rest expected Wednesday. Moscow has defied Western calls to release the men, who have been accused of violating Russia's borders a
  
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• Yahoo News Explains: How Trump has hindered climate change policies

  27-11-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  The White House just released a harrowing report on the potentially deadly consequences of climate change.Why does President Trump contradict the report?In the past, Trump has frequently called climate change a hoax and in 2017, he pulled the U.S. out of an environmental action accord signed by 195 nations to help stop climate change.
  
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• Facebook was warned of alleged Russian meddling back in 2014

  27-11-2018 21:21 via yahoo.com
  Facebook acknowledged on Tuesday that its engineers had flagged suspicious Russian activity as early as 2014 -- long before it became public -- but did not confirm evidence of a coordinated campaign.The revelation came as the British Parliament held hearings featuring lawmakers from nine countries into how the social media behemoth was being used to manipulate major election results.Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg refused to attend the meeting and organisers pulled up an empty chair in
  
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• Migrants face unlawful detention and squalid conditions at US-Mexico border, report alleges

  27-11-2018 21:16 via yahoo.com
  A new report paints a harrowing picture of what its like for thousands of migrants arriving to the US-Mexico border, as Donald Trump defends the use of tear gas against women and children in the region.The report, released by Amnesty International UK and titled Americas: Stuck at the door, features interviews with 200 migrants who have travelled in caravans headed towards the border, alleging unlawful US immigration policies that have left thousands of asylum-seekers stranded in Mexico.Amnesty f
  
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• Trump Threatens To Cut 'All GM Subsidies' Following Company Layoffs

  27-11-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said he was looking into cutting subsidies from General
  
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• Cyber Monday was Amazon's biggest shopping day in history -- Here were the top selling items

  27-11-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  Black Friday has been a coveted, day-long bargain extravaganza that has always
  
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• Candidate-backed group challenges Georgia election process

  27-11-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — A political organization backed by Democrat Stacey Abrams filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the way Georgia's elections are run, making good on a promise Abrams made as she ended her bid to become the state's governor.
  
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• The Chevy Volt Is A Dream Car And Now GM Is Killing It

  27-11-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  General Motors just killed the best car you've never owned.
  
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• The 2021 Rivian R1S Is an Electric Seven-Passenger SUV Claiming Supercar Acceleration

  27-11-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  Like the startup's forthcoming R1T pickup, the just-announced R1S SUV is said to offer more than 400 miles of range between charges.
  
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• Top U.S. and Mexican diplomats to meet on border issues next week: White House

  27-11-2018 20:46 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with the incoming foreign minister of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, on Sunday as the two nations work toward a deal to keep asylum seekers in Mexico while their claims are considered, top White House officials said on Tuesday."They will have a full conversation about all the issues in connection with the border," White House national security adviser John Bolton told reporters at the White House about the planned meeting between Pompeo and Ebrard.
  
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• Kosovo Serbs protest Pristina's tariff

  27-11-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  Several thousand Kosovo Serbs protested in northern Kosovo on Tuesday against Pristina's massive customs tariff on Serbian goods, a retaliatory measure announced last week that has spiked tensions and curtailed trade between the neighbours.The crowd gathered in the northern Serb-half of the divided city of Mitrovica with Serbian flags and signs saying "Help us" and "Stop the violence of Pristina".The mayors of four majority-Serb municipalities in Kosovo -- North Mitrovica, Zvecan, Leposavic and
  
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• Trump Administration Will Say Anything To Downplay Dire Climate Report

  27-11-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration appears to have settled on a strategy for dealing
  
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• San Francisco Giants Face Backlash Over Owner's Donation To Cindy Hyde-Smith

  27-11-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  The San Francisco Giants are facing calls for a boycott after a report that
  
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• Missed Cyber Monday? These Cyber Week Sales Are Still Going On

  27-11-2018 20:29 via yahoo.com
  The day after Cyber Monday is typically reserved for two things: travel deal
  
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• White House press conference: Trump interrupts with threat to cut GM subsidies over job layoffs

  27-11-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  US press secretary Sarah Sanders is holding the first White House news briefing this month.The conference comes as the White House is juggling controversies on multiple fronts, including growing tension at the US-Mexico border where agents fired tear gas at travelling migrants – a move staunchly defended by Donald Trump — and recent developments from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election after former Trump campaign chairman Paul Man
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes on Lindsey Graham over 'joke about DNA preferences'

  27-11-2018 19:44 via yahoo.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, but that hasn't stopped her from sparring with Washington’s senior establishment.The 29-year-old congresswoman-elect has taken on Republican Senator Lindsey Graham over controversial comments he made earlier this year, in which he said on Fox News that it would be “like, terrible” if he a DNA test were to indicate he was of Iranian descent.“I heard your ‘joke’ about ethnic DNA prefere
  
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• Trump calls Mueller probe a ‘danger’ to US criminal justice - a day after Manafort's 'plea deal violation' revealed

  27-11-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has unleashed one of his most vicious attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, just a day after investigators accused former top Trump official Paul Manafort of violating a plea agreement by lying.In an early morning tweet storm, Mr Trump called the special counsel a “conflicted prosecutor gone rogue” who was doing “TREMENDOUS damage” to the American criminal justice system.Mr
  
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• World’s First Gene-Edited Babies Could Set Genetic Science Backward, Experts Worry

  27-11-2018 19:29 via yahoo.com
  Ethicists and medical experts in the U.S. say that the use of gene editing to
  
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• Melania Trump puts together care packages for U.S. troops

  27-11-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  Melania Trump teams up with Red Cross.
  
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• China's Xi to send special envoy to Mexican presidential inauguration

  27-11-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  Chinese president Xi Jinping will send a special envoy to attend Mexico's presidential inauguration, following the Chinese leader's talks with Donald Trump at the G20 summit.Shen Yueyue, a senior member of the Communist Party, will travel to Mexico City to attend the inauguration of the country's leftist president-elect, Andres Manual Lopez Obrador, on Saturday, the Chinese foreign ministry said Tuesday.Shen's attendance at the inauguration ceremony "shows the high level of importance that China
  
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• 3 US service members killed in Afghanistan

  27-11-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  Three American service members were killed in Ghazni, Afghanistan.
  
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• European politicians call for new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine

  27-11-2018 18:52 via yahoo.com
  A Russian minister said further sanctions would solve nothing and that the incident should not be used to derail theMinsk accord, which aims to end fighting in eastern Ukraine between Kiev's forces and pro-Russian separatist rebels.Russian assets have come under pressure on financial markets amid concerns that possible new sanctions could hurt the economy, though the rouble on Tuesday clawed back some earlier losses as investors bet any sanctions would not be swift.Russia opened fire on the Ukra
  
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• A tiny satellite says goodbye to Mars with gorgeous new photo

  27-11-2018 18:45 via yahoo.com
  Parting is such sweet sorrow.  A farewell photo taken by a tiny satellite shows its final view of Mars as it flew by the red planet on Monday.  The satellite — called a cubesat — that took the photo is named MarCO-B and it performed quite the service for humanity before saying goodbye to Mars.  The small satellite and its twin MarCO-A beamed home data to Earth on Monday as the InSight lander made its successful touchdown on Mars."This image was taken at about 12:10 p.m
  
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• The Crown Prince May Build Himself a Nuclear Kingdom

  27-11-2018 18:38 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration should keep a close eye on Saudi Arabia’s nuclear connections and activities.
  
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• Egypt puts on show of support for Saudi crown prince

  27-11-2018 18:37 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt on Tuesday put on a show of support for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, doing its part as an ally and recipient of Riyadh's largesse to help the young royal weather the international outrage he faces over the killing and dismembering of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
  
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• Paul Manafort denies secret Wikileaks meetings months before hacked Democrat emails released

  27-11-2018 18:19 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman has vehemently denied reports that he held secret meetings with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including one that took place in 2016 just months before a trove of hacked Democratic emails were released on the whistle blowing website.Paul Manafort is said to have met with Mr Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2013, 2015, and the spring of 2016.The third and final meeting is thought to have been around the time he was made a senior figur
  
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• Ukraine Should Not Be a Member of NATO

  27-11-2018 18:17 via yahoo.com
  Washington should stop adding to the Alliance new members who are security liabilities.
  
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• What Facebook Really Doesn’t Want You to Talk About

  27-11-2018 18:14 via yahoo.com
  In Tuesday’s hearing at the ludicrously named International Grand Committee on Disinformation and ‘fake news’ in London, it became clearer than ever what the social network giant is trying to keep out of the public discussion: antitrust.Instead, Richard Allan, Facebook’s European lobbying chief, took questions, and the committee ensured there was an empty seat behind a placard with Zuckerberg’s name on it — a barely disguised effort to generate a photo op
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg Slammed After Failing to Show for Grilling by Global Lawmakers

  27-11-2018 18:14 via yahoo.com
  The Facebook boss was represented by an empty chair
  
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