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• Former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says she left post because 'saying no' wasn't enough

  22-10-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  When asked on whether she regretted signing the memo that resulted in family separations, Nielsen said, "I don't regret enforcing the law because I took an oath to do that..."
  
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• Russia, Turkey seal power in northeast Syria with new accord

  22-10-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia and Turkey reached an agreement Tuesday that would cement their power in Syria, deploying their forces across nearly its entire northeastern border to fill the void left by President Donald Trump's abrupt withdrawal of U.S. forces.The accord caps a dramatic and swift transformation of the Syrian map unleashed by Trump's decision two weeks ago to remove the American soldiers.U.S. troops in Syria fought five years alongside Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria and succeeded in bringing dow
  
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• North Korea's Kim vows to clear 'shabby' South Korea relics from Kumgang resort

  22-10-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said South Korea's "backward" and "shabby" facilities at the North's Mt Kumgang resort must be removed and rebuilt in a modern way, state media reported on Wednesday, in the latest sign of cooling relations between the neighbors.Mt Kumgang was one of two major inter-Korean economic projects, along with the Kaesong industrial zone, and an important token of cooperation between the two Koreas during decades of hostilities following the 1950-53 Korean War.
  
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• North Korea leader Kim vows to clear South Korea relics from Kumgang resort

  22-10-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said South Korean facilities in the North's Mt Kumgang tourist resort must be removed and rebuilt in a modern way, state media reported on Wednesday, underscoring the cooling of relations between the two countries.Mt Kumgang was one of two major inter-Korean economic projects, along with the Kaesong industrial zone, and an important token of cooperation between the two Koreas during decades of hostilities following the Korean War.
  
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• Talks stalled, striking Chicago teachers plan to up the ante

  22-10-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Striking Chicago teachers are preparing for an extended walkout and trying to increase public pressure on Mayor Lori Lightfoot, with a downtown march set for Wednesday around the time the first-term mayor is set to deliver a key speech to the City Council.Chicago Public Schools officials announced that classes would be canceled for a fifth day on Wednesday as negotiators continued talks behind closed doors on Tuesday.Leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union, though, are already looking ahead to
  
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• Kim Jong Un: S.Korean facilities in Mt. Kumgang resort must be removed- KCNA

  22-10-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said South Korean facilities in the Mount Kumgang tourist resort must be removed by agreement with South Korean authorities, and rebuilt in a modern way by North Korean methods, North Korean state news agency KCNA said on Wednesday.Kim, while inspecting the tourist spot on the east coast of North Korea, said it was a "mistaken idea" for Mount Kumgang to be viewed as a symbol of North-South relations, underscoring that it is North Korean soil, and tourism there mus
  
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• Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds? U.S. Allies Will Get Over It, and Soon

  22-10-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/ReutersPresident Donald J. Trump’s decision to redeploy U.S. forces from the Syrian-Turkish border, if not to withdraw the majority of U.S. troops from Syria altogether, constitutes a shameful betrayal of America’s Kurdish partners in the fight against ISIS and a needlessly self-inflicted wound to U.S. interests. Indeed the images of U.S. withdrawal are feeding ISIS, Iranian and Russian propaganda mills.But among the disastrous consequences of Tr
  
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• PG&E is about to cut power for some Californians again. The preemptive outages show how dire the wildfire crisis has gotten.

  22-10-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Two weeks ago, California utility company PG&E; preemptively shut down power lines to avoid a risk of fires. More blackouts will likely happen soon.
  
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• Top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine offers damning testimony

  22-10-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The top U.S. emissary to Ukraine painted a devastating portrait in testimony Tuesday on Capitol Hill of what appeared to be White House-directed efforts to pressure the government in Kiev to investigate a Democratic political rival.
  
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• Seattle Public Schools Want to Teach Social Justice in Math Class. That Hurts Minorities.

  22-10-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Seattle’s public-school district has proposed a new math curriculum that would teach its students all about how math has been “appropriated” -- and how it “continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities.”A draft of the curriculum, which was covered in an article in Education Week, would teach students how to “explain how math and technology and/or science are connected and how technology and/or science have (sic) been and continues to b
  
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• Trump Isn’t Putin’s Puppet. He’s Just Unfit for Office.

  22-10-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Leading Democrats have settled on a familiar thread to connect the two scandals currently engulfing the Trump administration: Russia. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump last week: Why do “all roads lead to Vladimir Putin”?Pelosi was referring to president’s chaotic and abrupt decision to pull U.S. forces from the Syrian-Turkish border. But the specter of Russia hangs over the Ukraine scandal, too. Senior White House aides believe t
  
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• Donald Trump Mocks Black Americans by Evoking Emmett Till

  22-10-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Jonathan Ernst/ReutersEvery black person, whether they were born in the 1930s like my grandmother, the 1940s like my parents, the 1960s like me, or the 1990s like my eldest niece knows the story of Emmett Till. Emmett was 14 years old when, in 1955, he was kidnapped, beaten mercilessly, disfigured, lynched, and drown in the Tallahatchie River river in Mississippi after allegedly “wolf”-whistling at a young white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham. In 2008, more than 50 years later, sh
  
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• Canadian Court Rules against Transgender Activist Jessica Yaniv in Fight with Beauticians over Waxing

  22-10-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ruled against Canadian transgender activist Jessica Yaniv in a case stemming from a complaint Yaniv filed against multiple female beauticians who refused to wax Yaniv’s male genitalia.“Self-identification does not erase physiological reality,” said Jay Cameron, a lawyer for the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which represented the beauticians. “Our clients do not offer the service requested. No woman should be com
  
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• UPDATE 3-China plans to replace Hong Kong leader Lam with 'interim' chief executive -FT

  22-10-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  China is drawing up a plan to replace Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam with an "interim" chief executive, the Financial Times reported, citing people briefed on the deliberations, which would bring to a close Lam's rule after months of often-violent pro-democracy protests.Lam has become a lightning rod for protests over fears that Beijing is tightening its grip, limiting the freedoms enjoyed under the "one country, two systems" principle enshrined when colonial ruler Britain handed Hong Kong back to
  
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• A top Marine Corps scout sniper managed to sneak up on his enemy completely naked except for a pair of boots

  22-10-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The nude sniper proved that to truly disappear you don't need clothes, just that you fully embrace the "weirdest thing in the world."
  
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• China plans to replace Hong Kong leader Lam with 'interim' chief executive: FT

  22-10-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Lam has become a lightning rod for protests over fears that Beijing is tightening its grip, limiting the freedoms enjoyed under the "one country, two systems" principle enshrined when colonial ruler Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997.Sources told the FT that officials in China want the situation in Hong Kong to stabilise before making a final decision, as they do not want to be seen to be giving in to violence.The leading candidates to succeed Lam include Norman Chan, the former head
  
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• U.S. defense chief recuses himself from review of $10 billion cloud computing contract

  22-10-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has removed himself from reviewing a disputed $10 billion cloud computing deal because of a possible conflict of interest, a move that could further delay the contract-award process.Esper has delegated decision-making on the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) program to Deputy Secretary David Norquist, the Pentagon said on Tuesday."Although not legally required to, he (Esper) has removed himself from participating in any decision making ... due
  
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• Russia, Turkey reach 'historic' deal on Syria border

  22-10-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia and Turkey agreed on Tuesday to ensure Kurdish forces withdraw from areas close to Syria's border with Turkey and to launch joint patrols, in a deal hailed as "historic" by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.After marathon talks in Russia's southern city of Sochi, Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced the deal just hours ahead of a deadline for Turkey to restart its assault on Syrian Kurdish forces.
  
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• New Zealand PM Ardern says country will host APEC despite fire damage to convention center

  22-10-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday that Auckland would still host a major regional conference in 2021 despite a fire ripping through the complex where the event would have been held.There have been no injuries from the massive fire at the under construction SkyCity Convention Center, which is spewing thick smoke across New Zealand's largest city, forcing road closures and keeping workers away more than 24 hours after it started.The fire had prompted an evacuation of Sk
  
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• The Latest: McConnell calls Trump lynching tweet unfortunate

  22-10-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  In a Tweet Tuesday, Trump had compared the House impeachment inquiry into his dealings with Ukraine to "a lynching," essentially likening the horrors of a deadly and racist chapter in U.S. history to a process laid out in the Constitution.
  
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• Anonymous Trump official who wrote New York Times op-ed to release book

  22-10-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A Warning will expand on the September 2018 article detailing an internal ‘resistance’ effort to thwart the presidentThe official described Trump as making ‘half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions’. Photograph: Rex/ShutterstockAn anonymous senior government official who wrote an excoriating op-ed column describing Donald Trump’s time in office, and detailing an internal “resistance” movement to thwart the president, has written a boo
  
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• Ethiopia's Nobel-winning leader warns Egypt over dam

  22-10-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister warned Tuesday that if there's a need to go to war over a dam project disputed with Egypt his country could muster millions of people, but he said only negotiation can resolve the current deadlock.Egypt's government said it was "shocked" by the remarks.Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke during a parliament question-and-answer session, his most prominent public appearance since winning the Nobel on Oct. 11.
  
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• Should billionaires exist?

  22-10-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Should billionaires, who own more wealth than half the world’s population, exist? Some progressive politicians have proposed plans that could make billionaires a thing of the past.
  
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• NYC, California sue Postal Service over smuggled cigarettes

  22-10-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  California and New York City sued the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday to stop tens of thousands of cigarette packages from being mailed from foreign countries to U.S. residents, saying the smugglers are engaging in tax evasion while postal workers look the other way. The lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court blames the Postal Service for deliveries from Vietnam, China, Israel and other countries, saying the failure to enforce a federal law aimed at banning cigarette mail deliveries costs California a
  
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• 2 students charged with slur at University of Connecticut

  22-10-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Two University of Connecticut students have been charged with shouting a racial slur outside a campus apartment complex in an episode that was caught on video and has led to protests at the school.Jarred Karal, of Plainville, and Ryan Mucaj, of Granby, both identified by police as 21-year-old white men, were charged Monday with ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race.Phone and email messages were left for the two students, who are due in court Oct. 30.
  
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• Anatomy of a conspiracy theory: The 'server' Trump keeps looking for will never be found, because it doesn't exist

  22-10-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump's insistence that there is a missing DNC server despite all evidence to the contrary could lead to his impeachment.
  
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• Johnson & Johnson CEO testified Baby Powder was safe 13 days before FDA bombshell

  22-10-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facing off against a plaintiff’s lawyer for the first time about Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder, the company’s Chief Executive Alex Gorsky earlier this month insisted that the company’s iconic brand was safe.“We unequivocally believe that our talc and our baby powder does not contain asbestos,” Gorsky testified in an Oct. 3 deposition in a case involving a retired Indiana college professor who alleges his cancer was caused
  
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• Trump Wanted Zelensky to Publicly Announce He Was Investigating Biden

  22-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump wanted his Ukrainian counterpart to declare publicly that he was embarking on an investigation into Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine. That’s according to William Taylor, America’s top diplomat to Ukraine, who also told Congress on Tuesday that Ukraine’s president agreed to make the announcement on CNN.Taylor, according to a copy of his opening statement obtained by The Daily Beast, said that Trump told Gordon Sondland, his ambassador to the Europ
  
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• Charges: Church shooting suspect badly beats public defender

  22-10-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A man charged with attempted murder in a church shooting attacked his public defender during a jailhouse meeting, sending the man to intensive care with severe head injuries and no memory of the beating, according to documents released Tuesday.Dale Holloway, 37, of Manchester, assaulted public defender Michael Davidow on Monday morning at the Valley Street jail in Manchester, New Hampshire, the documents said.In this case, the officer heard a knock and turned to see Holloway standing up and Davi
  
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• Autoworkers from closed plants fight new GM contract

  22-10-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  If they can close our plant, they can close yours, too.About 2,000 employees who once worked at GM transmission plants near Baltimore and Detroit and a small-car assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, will repeat that message this week as 49,000 union members vote on the new four-year deal.
  
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• CORRECTED-Security forces arrest 31 cartel suspects in raid on Mexico City drug labs -authorities

  22-10-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Security forces arrested 31 suspected cartel members on Tuesday in a raid on a warren of clandestine tunnels and alleged drug laboratories in Mexico City, authorities said.Government officials said dozens of police and security force members swooped down on buildings in the central Tepito neighborhood of Mexico City, long known for its contraband activity.Videos on Twitter purportedly of the raid showed soldiers in battle gear brandishing assault rifles alongside armored vehicles and police truc
  
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• Top pension consultant NEPC questions sustainability of Fisher Investments

  22-10-2019 21:45
  Top pension consultant NEPC said it questioned the "sustainability" of Fisher Investments, in a memo sent to NEPC clients and seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
  
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• Classic Car Fraud Lands Missouri Man In Federal Prison

  22-10-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  As the classic car market continues to grow, scams like this are probable going get worse.  A Kansas City, Missouri man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for one count of wire fraud and one count of transporting a stolen vehicle following a classic car scheme. According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Missouri, Travis D. Oberg, 51, was fraudulently selling cars that didn't belong to him, and in the end, he ended up stealing $145,000 fr
  
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• A new round of PG&E power outages could put 500,000 Californians in the dark for days

  22-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  California's largest utility says it could shut off power to 500,000 people this week as wildfires again threaten to bring havoc to 15 counties.
  
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• UPDATE 3-Boeing ousts senior executive as 737 MAX crisis grows

  22-10-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  SEATTLE/WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Boeing Co on Tuesday ousted the top executive of its commercial airplanes division, Kevin McAllister, marking the first high-level departure since two fatal crashes of its 737 MAX jets.The company said it named veteran Boeing executive Stan Deal to succeed McAllister effective immediately as president and chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA).Deal had led Boeing's Global Services division.
  
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• Trump Made Ukraine Aid Contingent on Biden Investigations, U.S. Ambassador Testifies

  22-10-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor, testified on Tuesday that he was told the delivery of military aid to Ukraine was contingent on Ukraine promising to investigate corruption allegations against former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter, according to the Washington Post.Taylor had previously sent a message to Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the EU, on September 9, writing: "As I said on the phone, I think it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with
  
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• More than 100 elephants die in Botswana in suspected anthrax outbreak

  22-10-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 100 elephants have died in Botswana in the past two months partly because of a suspected anthrax outbreak, the government said on Tuesday."Preliminary investigations suggest the elephants are dying from anthrax whilst some died from drought effects," a Department of Wildlife and National Parks statement said."Due to the severe drought, elephants end up ingesting soil while grazing and get exposed to the anthrax bacteria spore," it said.
  
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• Iraqi security forces killed 149 protesters, most by shots to head, chest: Government inquiry

  22-10-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iraqi government committee investigating a wave of unrest found that 149 civilians were killed because security forces used excessive force and live fire to quell protests, according to its report, seen by Reuters.
  
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• Driver, Passenger Deaths Down in 2018, but Car vs. Pedestrian Is Up

  22-10-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  While pedestrian and cyclist deaths increased, U.S. roads are significantly safer now than in 1975.
  
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• Trump compares impeachment inquiry to 'lynching' in explosive rant, as key witness gives 'damning' testimony to Congress

  22-10-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has compared the impeachment inquiry surrounding him to “a lynching” in an apparent bid to inflame controversy and distract from Bill Taylor’s deposition on Capitol Hill, the US charge d’affaires for Ukraine who discussed his alarming text exchanges with Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker during the session.“So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due pro
  
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• McConnell contradicts Trump: We've never spoken about Zelensky call

  22-10-2019 21:12 via politico.com
  “We’ve not had any conversations on that subject,” McConnell told reporters about the transcript of the call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Trump.Democrats are using the call to bolster their impeachment inquiry into Trump, claiming the president abused his power when he pressured Zelensky to investigate political rival Joe Biden.
  
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• PHOTOS: Season of discontent: Protests around the world

  22-10-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Another day, another protest. Citizens across the globe take to the streets to demand change.
  
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• Boris Loses Control as Parliament Rejects Brexit Exit Plan

  22-10-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSLONDON—Boris Johnson’s “do or die” pledge to take Britain out of the European Union by Oct. 31 was quashed by Parliament on Tuesday night, handing the initiative to the EU to effectively trigger a British election.Johnson threatened to call for a general election if British lawmakers refused to allow him to rush through his deal and the EU proposed a new extension of three months or more. Under a law passed in Westminster last month, Johnson is not allowed to negot
  
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• Hillary Clinton would run again in 2020 if she thought she could win: Report

  22-10-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Hillary Clinton has told people privately that she would consider joining the 2020 Democratic primary, but only if she thought she could win. The private conversations were aired publicly in a new report from the New York Times, which spoke with several people involved with Democratic politics, many of whom are concerned that the current crop of candidates is less than ideal.
  
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• Stealth Surprise! Can the F-35 Take on Cruise and Ballistic Missiles?

  22-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon has big plans.
  
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• Top Canadian police intelligence official charged with leaking secret info gets bail

  22-10-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ontario court on Tuesday released on bail a top Canadian police intelligence official charged with leaking secret information last month, the country's public prosecution service said.Cameron Ortis, a director general with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) who had access to highly sensitive domestic and foreign intelligence, faces charges under a little-used 2012 security of information law.
  
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• Fury as Trump compares impeachment inquiry to 'lynching'

  22-10-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  * Outraged response to use of racially charged word in tweet* NAACP puts lynching death toll at 4,743, 3,446 of those blackTrump at a cabinet meeting on Monday. Julián Castro said it was ‘beyond shameful to use the word “lynching” to describe being held accountable for your actions’. Photograph: Pablo Martínez Monsiváis/APDonald Trump referred to impeachment proceedings against him as a “lynching” in a Tuesday morning tweet, sparking conde
  
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• Sen. Lindsey Graham and a Fox News contributor threw a Hail Mary to keep US troops in Syria

  22-10-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The duo attempted to persuade Trump to keep a contingency force in Syria to help defend oil fields from Iranian interests, NBC News reported.
  
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• Turkey and Russia announce deal to withdraw all Kurdish forces from Syrian border

  22-10-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey and Russia announced last night they had reached a deal to avoid a return to fullscale fighting in northeast Syria, just hours before a US-brokered ceasefire between Turkish and Kurdish forces was due to expire.  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin emerged from marathon talks in Sochi with an agreement that would see all Kurdish forces pull back 30km from the Syrian border over the next six days.  Russia and Turkey will then launch joint military patrols in the area to
  
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• US far-right activists get four years in jail for attacking leftists

  22-10-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Two members of a US far-right group were each sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for brawling with anti-fascist demonstrators in New York, prosecutors said.The sentencing comes as tensions between white supremacists and leftists simmer in the United States.Maxwell Hare and John Kinsman, members of the Proud Boys group, were found guilty in August by a state court of several counts of attempted assault and rioting.
  
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