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• Trump presents highest military honor to Green Beret

  30-10-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump presented the nation's highest military honor on Wednesday to a Green Beret who helped save four critically wounded comrades and prevented the lead element of a special operations force from being overrun in Afghanistan.The Medal of Honor was presented to Master Sgt. Matthew O. Williams of Texas, who still serves in the Army.The events leading to the honor occurred in April 2008 during a mountainside firefight that lasted several hours as Williams' team and about 100 Afgha
  
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• California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam

  30-10-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California.Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a "side door" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit.U.S. District Judge
  
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• Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer

  30-10-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday.Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller.The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.
  
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• Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made'

  30-10-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to talk about the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Landrieu says that at first he didn’t think it was warranted after the Mueller report came out, but “when the Ukraine matter raised up its head, I changed.”
  
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• Former national security adviser John Bolton scheduled to testify in impeachment inquiry

  30-10-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Some lawmakers have indicated they would be open to subpoenaing John Bolton to compel his testimony if he does not show up on Nov. 7.
  
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• 3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home

  30-10-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday.Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest.Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.
  
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• Pentagon releases footage of al-Baghdadi raid

  30-10-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  At a press briefing Wednesday, the Pentagon released footage of the raid on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
  
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• Why are California's wildfires different this year?

  30-10-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness.Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed.The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.
  
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• Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash

  30-10-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.
  
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• Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy

  30-10-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  "Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions," Gabbard wrote.
  
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• Records show Closs kidnapper fought New Mexico inmate

  30-10-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The man who kidnapped Wisconsin teen Jayme Closs and killed her parents got into a fight in a New Mexico prison with an inmate who asked about the case, showing how word of his crimes has spread and raising questions about whether moving him to an out-of-state lockup accomplished anything.A Wisconsin judge sentenced Jake Patterson to life in May for shooting James and Denise Closs in their home outside Barron in October 2018 and kidnapping their daughter, Jayme.Patterson forced her to live under
  
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• Ilhan Omar responds to criticism for her 'present' vote on Armenian genocide resolution

  30-10-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said she doesn't disagree with the resolution's contents, to recognize the Armenian genocide, but does disagree with its timing.
  
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• The Latest: Islamic State leader buried at sea, US says

  30-10-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of United States Central Command says Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was buried at sea after a weekend raid on his compound. Gen. Frank McKenzie told reporters Wednesday that al-Baghdadi died after he exploded a suicide vest just before U.S. troops were going to capture him. McKenzie says two children were killed in the explosion set off by the Islamic State leader.
  
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• Goats help save Reagan library from destruction as California wildfire threatens

  30-10-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Flames from the Easy Fire were within a few feet of the Reagan library. Goats, which graze on grass around the property, helped prevent their spread.
  
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• Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'

  30-10-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as "Medicare for all who want it," employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.
  
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• Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony

  30-10-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests w
  
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• The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?)

  30-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Should China be worried?
  
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• Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations

  30-10-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The Chicago Police Department must make significant changes in the way it investigates homicides in a city where more than half of killings go unsolved, a police research group said in a report released Wednesday.The Police Executive Research Forum found problems in the department that included inadequate training; a lack of a detective unit devoted solely to homicide investigations; and a failure to adequately help witnesses or even have a witness protection unit that is critical in persuading
  
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• House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump

  30-10-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.
  
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• Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing

  30-10-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution.The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker.The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.
  
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• White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told

  30-10-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  State department aide makes revelation in testimony, while Russia envoy nominee John Sullivan grilled at confirmation hearingDonald Trump with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Osaka in June this year. Trump voiced concern over the 2018 capture but did not blame Moscow. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/TassThe White House blocked the US state department from issuing a statement condemning Russia for seizing Ukrainian military vessels, according to a state department official, in the latest examp
  
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• Top Trump official regrets immigrant medical relief decision

  30-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A top federal immigration official said Wednesday that he takes responsibility for and regrets how the Trump administration's now rescinded decision to stop considering requests from immigrants seeking to defer deportation for medical treatment and other hardships played out.Acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli told congressional lawmakers he was solely responsible for the widely criticized Aug. 7 policy change."I made this decision alone," Cuccinelli responde
  
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• California fires: new blaze near LA, progress up north

  30-10-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Firefighters in California battled a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare "extreme" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region.The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the Reagan library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,300 acres (526 hectares), officials said."The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushe
  
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• NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine

  30-10-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to "withdraw all their troops".The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky."We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict," Stoltenberg said in th
  
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• More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year

  30-10-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county p
  
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• John Bolton: Former national security adviser 'summoned to testify in Trump impeachment probe'

  30-10-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  House impeachment investigators have invited John Bolton, a former national security adviser to Donald Trump, to testify before Congress next week, according to reports.Mr Bolton was reportedly called on by House investigators to give evidence for their impeachment inquiry into Mr Trump surrounding the president’s dealings with Ukraine.
  
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• Hearing Ends With Victim's Kin Urging CEO to Quit: Boeing Update

  30-10-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. President Dennis Muilenburg testifies before House lawmakers Wednesday, the day after being peppered with tough question in the Senate during his first appearance before lawmakers since a pair of the planemaker’s 737 Max jets crashed, killing 346 people.In both crashes, faulty data from one of two angle-of-attack sensors, which measure the pitch of the plane against the oncoming stream of air, caused a flight control system called MCAS to drive down the jet’
  
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• Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here

  30-10-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Currently, almost the entire House Democratic caucus and one Independent are publicly supporting the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Trump.
  
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• Mom and son dress up as Popeyes chicken sandwich and Annie in epic Halloween costume

  30-10-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Nidra Cummings wanted a costume that reflected her 2-year-old's big personality. She nailed it with the Popeyes chicken sandwich, and her as Annie.
  
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• Mexican soldiers told Chapo's son to call to stop attacks

  30-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican security forces had a son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán outside a house on his knees against a wall before they were forced to back off and let him go as his cartel's gunmen shot up the western city of Culiacan.Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval on Wednesday showed video and presented a timeline of the failed operation to arrest Ovidio Guzmán López on Oct. 17 — an incident that embarrassed the administration of President Andrés Manuel López
  
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• How the USS Scorpion Died (No One Really Knows What Killed This Submarine)

  30-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  And it changed the U.S. Navy forever.
  
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• The Latest: Georgia plans to seek new execution warrant

  30-10-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Ray Jefferson Cromartie was scheduled to die Wednesday evening for the April 1994 slaying of Richard Slysz at a convenience store in Thomasville.The high court said it appeared the execution order was void because a trial court judge filed it while Cromartie still had an appeal pending with the Supreme Court.
  
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• SDF: Spies stole ISIS leader al-Baghdadi's underwear to help confirm his location before the U.S. raid

  30-10-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Kurdish forces were able to confirm ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's location ahead of the US raid by stealing his underwear to test his DNA, an advisor to the group said.
  
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• Congress Considers Delaying Spending Talks Until After Impeachment

  30-10-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Democrats and Republicans in Congress are deliberating whether to push the deadline to fund the government into early February to avoid having a budget fight amid an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that’s set to stretch at least into December.That would mean enacting another stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown when the current short-term funding runs out Nov. 21, assuming the two sides don’t be able to agree on a budget plan by then.Sen
  
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• 2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?

  30-10-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE-How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah

  30-10-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group.The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled.The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources
  
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• NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden

  30-10-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in Augus
  
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• The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it

  30-10-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal "mascots," as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SW
  
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• Reading Scores on National Exam Decline in Half the States

  30-10-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- The average eighth grade reading score on a nationally representative test declined among public school students in more than half of the states, according to data released Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics, the research arm of the Education Department.The dismal results were part of the release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the "nation's report card." The test assesses a sample of fourth and eighth grade students -- more than
  
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• New York City Council votes to ban sale of foie gras

  30-10-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  New York City, often viewed as the fine dining capital of America, on Wednesday became the latest U.S. locality to ban the sale of foie gras, prompting the country's largest producer of foie gras to vow to mount a court battle to overturn it.Foie gras, French for "fatty liver," is a delicacy produced from the enlarged livers of ducks and geese that have been force-fed corn.Farmers who raise birds for foie gras defend their practices as humane.
  
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• Hungary nixes NATO statement on Ukraine due to minority spat

  30-10-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Hungarian officials said Wednesday that the country has vetoed a joint NATO statement about Ukraine because it didn't mention the "deprivation of rights" of the Hungarian minority in the neighboring country.Hungary says that changes to Ukrainian education and language laws curtail minority rights and Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is also at odds with Ukraine because it rejects allowing ethnic Hungarians there to hold dual citizenship.
  
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• Despite Common Core and more testing, reading and math scores haven't budged in a decade

  30-10-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Reading scores stagnated. Math scores jumped compared with the early '90s, but haven't gone up in a decade. What's happening to America's students?
  
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• The Latest: 12 migrants found alive in Belgian truck

  30-10-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Belgian police say they have discovered 12 migrants — 11 Syrians and one Sudanese — hiding among fruit and vegetables in a refrigerated truck.While such discoveries by police are fairly common, the danger to stowaways was highlighted last week by the discovery in Britain of the bodies of 39 people inside a refrigerated haulage container in southeastern England.Ocean Viking arrived in Pozzallo on Wednesday morning, 12 days after it rescued 104 migrants from a rubber dinghy off Libya.
  
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• UPDATE 7-In record deal, U.S. to recover $1 bln from Malaysian fugitive Jho Low

  30-10-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK/KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has struck a deal to recoup $1 billion in funds allegedly looted from a Malaysian state investment fund by fugitive financier Jho Low, in a record capture for a U.S. anti-corruption probe.U.S. authorities say about $4.5 billion was siphoned from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), founded in 2009 by then- Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak.
  
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• Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief

  30-10-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a "white supremacist ideology."The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy."You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country," Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer
  
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• ‘Putin’s Chef' Takes Russian Disinformation Tools to Africa, Report Says

  30-10-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on TwitterRussia’s cybermeddlers have found elections in parts of Africa to be fertile venues for their maturing disinformation tactics on social media, according to a report published Wednesday by the Stanford Internet Observatory in conjunction with Facebook Inc.The tactics include subcontracting the spread of disinformation to local sources, better masking the origin of fake news and propaganda. The groups
  
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• Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields

  30-10-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.
  
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• Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe

  30-10-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefie
  
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• Pelosi and McConnell make push on spending deal — but Trump's wall looms

  30-10-2019 19:03 via politico.com
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want to get all 12 spending bills passed by the end of this year, but a standoff over President Donald Trump’s border wall remains the biggest obstacle in bipartisan talks to avoid another government shutdown.Pelosi and McConnell spoke on the phone Monday and agreed that “the goal” was to finish all appropriations bills by Dec. 31, according to multiple people familiar with the conversation.House Majority Leader St
  
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• How Chief Justice John Roberts would lead the Senate impeachment trial

  30-10-2019 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  As American politics has grown more polarized, Roberts has tried to recede from view rather than become more prominent. But many expect President Trump would try to turn impeachment proceedings into a circus. And it may be then that Roberts would be forced to have a stronger hand, if only to maintain order.
  
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