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• How Thieves Just Pulled Off the Largest Treasure Heist Since World War II

  25-11-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• U.S. judge backs House subpoena for ex-White House counsel's testimony

  25-11-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former White House counsel Don McGahn must comply with a congressional subpoena seeking his testimony about President Donald Trump's efforts to impede the now-completed federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, a judge ruled on Monday. In an important case about presidential powers, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in Washington rejected the Trump administration's legal claim that current and former senior White House officials cannot be compelled to tes
  
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• President Trump defends ouster of Navy secretary

  25-11-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump defended the firing of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer on Monday, suggesting the ouster was a long time coming and was part of an effort to “protect” members of the armed forces.
  
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• China Announces Plans to Strengthen Protection of Intellectual-Property Rights

  25-11-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China's government on Sunday issued a directive aimed at tightening protections for Chinese intellectual-property rights, amid accusations from the U.S. that China has stolen American intellectual property.The document, released jointly by the General Offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Chinese State Council, lays out a goal of strengthening intellectual-property-rights protections over the next two years by cracking down on the infringement of such rights."Strength
  
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• 'No quid pro quo': Trump's defenses in the impeachment investigation

  25-11-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has maintained throughout the impeachment inquiry that he did nothing improper in his dealings with Ukraine, even as witnesses have detailed efforts by his White House to get Ukraine to take actions that could help him politically.Trump says he did not ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden, a leading Democratic contender in the 2020 presidential election, for corruption.
  
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• Cannabis tied to severe heart attack risk in younger adults

  25-11-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Researchers examined data from 2010-2014 on 1,694 patients ages 15 to 22 who were hospitalized for heart attacks, plus almost 9.4 million patients this age who were hospitalized for other reasons.Overall, the risk of a heart attack hospitalization was 3.9 times higher for cocaine users, 2.3 times higher for amphetamine users, and 30% higher for cannabis users than for non-users of these drugs.Cannabis is considered by many people to have a low medical risk, "despite growing evidence of significa
  
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• 5 Things to Know About Rep. Elise Stefanik

  25-11-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  She is an unexpected defender of President Trump.
  
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• Supreme Court Keeps Serial’s Adnan Syed in Jail

  25-11-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For the 80 million people who downloarded the Serial podcast, Monday’s Supreme Court news is an outrage: The Court has declined to hear Adnan Syed’s latest appeal, and the (wrongly?) convicted murderer will continue to rot in jail.But don’t blame the Supreme Court for keeping Syed in prison—blame the system that put him there and keeps him there: the system of “tough on crime” prosecutors with their eyes on public opinion rather than the fair dispensation of j
  
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• Google Engineer Who Protested Company's Work With CBP Says She’s Been Fired

  25-11-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Google software engineer who wrote and circulated a petition against the company’s potential bid on a contract with Customs and Border Protection said Monday that she’d been fired.“I was just informed by Google that I am being terminated,” Rebecca Rivers wrote on Twitter. Rivers was placed on leave earlier this month along with another employee, Laurence Berland, who protested against hate speech on YouTube, prompting roughly 200 employees to walk out of the compan
  
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• Trump supporters say God chose him to be president

  25-11-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Energy Secretary Rick Perry and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley see God’s hand in picking Donald Trump as president.
  
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• Teen Killed While 'Subway Surfing' in New York City

  25-11-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Over the weekend a teenager was killed by a subway in New York City while train surfing.
  
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• Everyone's favorite weighted blanket is already on sale for Black Friday

  25-11-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Everyone's obsessed with the Gravity weighted blanket, and now's your chance to try out it for yourself, as it's on sale at Target.
  
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• Stray dog saves abandoned kittens from cold Canada winter

  25-11-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The two-year-old female mongrel, named Serenity by animal rescue officials, was discovered in a ditch on the side of a rural road near Chatham, Ontario a week ago.It was -3 degrees Celsius (26.6 Farenheit) and dark outside, and the dog was covered in a dusting of snow.When the passerby stopped to help the dog, she was surprised to find five tiny black kittens "snuggling with her," Myriam Armstrong, a spokeswoman for the Pet and Wildlife Rescue, told AFP.
  
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• Wicked weather threatens Thanksgiving travel for millions of Americans

  25-11-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Starting on Monday evening, a storm will begin dumping more than a foot (30 cm) of snow as wind gusts reach 45 mph (72 kph)in an area from southern Wyoming to central Colorado.The same storm will then drop 6 to 12 inches (15.2 to 30.5 cm) of snow as it moves east across Nebraska and Kansas and into Minneapolis on Tuesday before reaching the upper Great Lakes by Wednesday, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.A second strong storm is expected to dump heavy snow on parts of the Pacific Northwes
  
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• Peru Court Orders Release of Opposition Leader Keiko Fujimori

  25-11-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Peru’s constitutional court ordered the immediate release of opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, who is serving an 18-month preventive jail sentence as part of a money laundering probe.The judges voted 4-3 in favor of her release on the grounds her constitutional rights had been violated, court president Ernesto Blume said on Monday at a news conference in Lima, according to video broadcast by Canal N network. The ruling allows Fujimori to face her investigation as a free woma
  
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• Money laundering, conspiracy to defraud U.S. reportedly among charges under consideration in investigation related to Rudy Giuliani

  25-11-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal prosecutors are ramping things up in an investigation related to President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, The Wall Street Journal reports, and there may be a whole bunch of charges awaiting people involved, though it's not clear why Giuliani personally falls under the microscope.Subpoenas have been issued to people with ties to Giuliani and his associates, Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas, as part of an investigation led by the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office and the FBI. Fruman and P
  
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• Despite Fiona Hill warning, Sen. John Kennedy says Ukraine may be behind 2016 DNC hack

  25-11-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. John Kennedy said that despite the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia hacked the DNC in 2016, "it could also be Ukraine."
  
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• Bloomberg Says He’s Running Due to ‘Greater Risk’ of Trump Win

  25-11-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday he changed his mind and decided to make a late entry into the 2020 Democratic presidential race out of fears that the current field of candidates would lose to Donald Trump.“I think that there is a greater risk of having Donald Trump re-elected than there was before, and in the end, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘We just cannot let this happen,’” Bloomberg told reporters in Norfolk, Virginia, in his fir
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. prosecutors seek information on payments to Trump lawyer Giuliani -subpoena

  25-11-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal prosecutors in New York are seeking records of payments to Rudy Giuliani, U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyer, as part of an active criminal investigation, according to a grand jury subpoena seen by Reuters.The subpoena does not indicate that Giuliani is suspected of wrongdoing.The subpoena requests that the recipient provide “all documents, including correspondence, with or related to Rudolph Giuliani, Giuliani Partners or any related person or entity,” referring to h
  
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• Americans now believe the conspiracy theory that sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was murdered — and did not kill himself — by a margin of 3 to 1

  25-11-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The conspiracy theory that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself is now fully mainstream, with 45% of Americans believing he was murdered.
  
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• Former Mattis Speechwriter Won’t Admit or Deny to Fox News That He’s ‘Anonymous’

  25-11-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Pentagon aide Guy Snodgrass cagily refused to deny or admit that he was the infamous Resistance White House figure “Anonymous” during a Fox News interview on Monday, shortly after he was fingered as the most likely candidate.Snodgrass’ name began making the rounds on social media early on Monday when The New Republic’s David Kusnet—who once correctly guessed the anonymous author of Clinton tome Primary Colors—found there was a striking resemblance betwe
  
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• U.S. prosecutors seek information on payments to Trump lawyer Giuliani: subpoena

  25-11-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal prosecutors in New York are seeking records of payments to Rudy Giuliani, U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyer, as part of an active criminal investigation, according to a grand jury subpoena seen by Reuters.The subpoena does not indicate that Giuliani is suspected of wrongdoing.The subpoena requests that the recipient provide “all documents, including correspondence, with or related to Rudolph Giuliani, Giuliani Partners or any related person or entity,” referring to h
  
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• Florida Woman Reported an ‘Unknown’ Body in Her Driveway. Hours Later, She Was Charged With Murder.

  25-11-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Early Saturday morning, 51-year-old Yvonne Serrano called Florida authorities to report a grisly scene in the driveway of her Coral Springs home.“I just walked out and there is a car in my driveway with a dead body,” she told the 911 dispatcher. “There’s blood..she’s been here for a while,” she added. “She’s bleeding everywhere.”During the frantic, five-minute phone call, Serrano insisted she had no idea what a dead body was doing in her driv
  
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• Trump news: President calls disgraced commando a 'great fighter' and says he doesn't know what 'insurance' Giuliani has against him

  25-11-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans are “setting a dangerous precedent that threatens the republic itself” in supporting Donald Trump against efforts to impeach him, the former director of the US Office of Government Ethics has warned.Walter Shaub claims all future presidents will “be able to point to Trump to justify soliciting foreign attacks on elections” and a raft of other accusations levelled at the current commander-in-chief.
  
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• Frenchman, actor kidnapped in Mexico released: officials

  25-11-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A French citizen and a Mexican actor kidnapped in a national park in central Mexico have been released, officials said Monday.The two men, identified as Frederic Michel and Alejandro Sandi, were traveling in all-terrain vehicles in the park around the Nevado de Toluca volcano on Sunday when they were ambushed and abducted, witnesses said.Another source with Mexico's anti-kidnapping unit confirmed the release, also speaking on condition of anonymity.
  
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• How Bloomberg plans to buy the Democratic nomination — and the presidency

  25-11-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After years of unconsummated flirtations and weeks of high-profile preparations, multibillionaire former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced Sunday that he will be running for president in 2020, touting himself as a “new choice for Democrats.”
  
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• Here's what you can do to help people experiencing homelessness this holiday season

  25-11-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This year more than 500,000 people are homeless across America. Here are five ways you can impact lives.
  
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• Sanders Calls Out Major League Baseball: Campaign Update

  25-11-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Bernie Sanders is crying foul over a proposal from owners of Major League Baseball franchises to close 42 Minor League teams in more than three dozen cities, a 25% cut that the Democratic presidential contender says would be “an absolute disaster for baseball fans.”In a letter Monday to Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, Sanders urged a rethinking of the plan that he says would hurt lower-paid players and deprive families in small and mid-sized cities of a
  
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• Warren Slams Bloomberg 2020 Run: Billionaires Shouldn’t ‘Come and Buy Elections’

  25-11-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren took aim at her newest rival over the weekend, slamming former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's presidential bid as an attempt to "buy" the election."Elections should not be for sale. Not to billionaires. Not to corporate executives. We need to build a grassroots movement," the Massachusetts senator said Saturday at a New Hampshire town hall.“We have a country that works great for billionaires. Works great for corporate executives," Warren
  
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• Top anti-impeachment Republican threatens to sue 'corrupt media' over claims he too was secretly trying to dig up dirt on Bidens

  25-11-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Representative Devin Nunes, one of Donald Trump’s most outspoken defenders and the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, is threatening to sue media organisations for reporting that he too may have sought to help the president dig up dirt on the Bidens.Mr Nunes has been part of the congressional panel questioning witnesses in the impeachment hearings, often bringing debunked conspiracy theories into his line of interrogation.
  
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• 'You've jailed kids and celebrated corruption': AOC hits back at Trump with list of accomplishments after 'Do Nothing Democrats' insult

  25-11-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has hit back at Donald Trump, after the president attempted to deflect attention from the ongoing impeachment probe by branding her and others in her party as “Do Nothing Democrats”.The freshman politician listed a litany of issues she's had success on during her short time in Congress — from pushing to make the anti-HIV drug PrEP generic a year early, to taking on general corruption — in spite of Mr Trump's line of attack, which he has deployed w
  
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• With suction cups and lots of luck, scientists measure blue whale's heart rate

  25-11-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Using a bright orange electrocardiogram machine attached with suction cups to the body of a blue whale, scientists for the first time have measured the heart rate of the world's largest creature and came away with insight about the renowned behemoth's physiology.The blue whale, which can reach up to 100 feet (30 meters) long and weigh 200 tons, lowers its heart rate to as little as two beats per minute as it lunges under the ocean surface for food, researchers said on Monday.The maximum heart ra
  
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• 8 High-Yield Stocks With Growing Dividends

  25-11-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  These dividends are growing each year.
  
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• Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte fires VP Leni Robredo from anti-drug post

  25-11-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has fired Vice President Leni Robredo from a government body against illegal drugs less than three weeks after appointing her to help run it.
  
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• Kevin McCarthy debuts new ad praising Trump's election prowess. It uses Russian stock footage.

  25-11-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia seems to loom over just about everything election-related these days.House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) unveiled a new ad Monday defending President Trump as he remains the subject of an impeachment investigation and the 2020 general election draws ever closer.McCarthy's ad portrays Trump as someone who has shown the ability to get elected and achieve results in office, despite having many people try to upend him.> What if I told you...> ⇒ He won the election.>
  
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• Green Vault Plundered by Thieves Was Treasure Hoard All Princes Envied

  25-11-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Late at night in the spring of 1698, Peter the Great arrived in Dresden, capital of the state of Saxony. Furious over the gawking by the general public (he was 6’8”) he threatened to leave. Despite his anger and despite the time of the night (past midnight) Peter wanted to visit a museum, and a set of rooms within that museum in particular. Prince Fürstenberg, who was his host while Elector August was away, agreed. The rooms Peter was so determined to see were known as the
  
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• Saudi detains nine academics, writers in new crackdown

  25-11-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saudi Arabia has detained at least nine academics, writers and activists, campaigners said Monday, the latest in a series of crackdowns on intellectuals over the past two years.The detention of liberals -- in the midst of a much-hyped liberalisation drive -- underscores what observers call increasing repression and authoritarianism under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's de facto rule as he consolidates his grip on power.In a sweeping crackdown that began on November 16, authorities raided the
  
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• Banks Close Branches in Half of U.S., Loss Worst in Rural Areas

  25-11-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- More than half of U.S. counties lost access to bank branches between 2012 and 2017, with rural counties that have less educated and minority residents especially hurt, the Federal Reserve said in a new report.Nearly 800 rural counties lost 1,533 bank branches, representing 14% of their total branches, the Fed said Monday. While urban counties also lost branches, they lost just 9% of the branches, according to the report. The findings highlight a broader U.S. trend of the widening
  
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• Inside Shaolin Monastery, the home of kung fu and Zen Buddhism, where thousands of boys as young as 5 train to be martial arts masters

  25-11-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shaolin Temple survived warlords and the Cultural Revolution. Now it's filled with boys who dream of becoming warrior monks. Here's what it's like.
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg back at court after hospital stay

  25-11-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was present for work on Monday, a day after being released from a hospital following her admission on Friday with chills and a fever, a spokeswoman said.Ginsburg, 86, will also attend an semiannual musical event at the court, spokeswoman Kathy Arberg added.Ginsburg, the court's oldest justice, has had various health problems in recent months.
  
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• Peru's top court orders release of jailed opposition leader Keiko Fujimori

  25-11-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Peru's Constitutional Tribunal on Monday ordered the release of opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, jailed last year for alleged money laundering and receiving illegal contributions from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.The members of Peru's top court decided to release Fujimori by a narrow margin of four votes in favor versus three against, the body's president Ernesto Blume said at a press conference.Fujimori has been serving an 18-month pre-trial sentence since October 2018 after prosec
  
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• Teacher Threw Away Students' Black Lives Matter Posters, ACLU Says

  25-11-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A school district near Sacramento, California, said it is investigating an episode in which a teacher threw away student posters related to the Black Lives Matter movement.The district, the San Juan Unified School District in Carmichael, Califorinia, said in a statement that it apologized if any student felt "discomfort" about what happened, the television station KCRA 3 reported.The episode, which took place in September, came to light Thursday after the American Civil Liberties Union Foundatio
  
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• Airlines and Veterans Riled by Conduct Unbecoming a Support Dog

  25-11-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON -- It seemed, in retrospect, a bit of a low point -- a medium-size dog racing through an airplane at 30,000 feet, spraying diarrhea toward passengers throughout the cabin.But according to some transportation officials, it was an increasingly typical scene that has stemmed from the growing use of comfort animals on airplanes -- a situation that some injured veterans say is making life harder on them.The airline industry, which has been working to curb the number of comfort animals onbo
  
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• ❄️ ??????What are your chances of experiencing a white Christmas this year? ❄️ ??????

  25-11-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This map shows the historical probability, based on 30-year averages, of a white Christmas across the U.S. using the National Weather Service's benchmark of an inch of snow on the ground during the morning of Dec. 25. (AccuWeather / NOAA's National Climatic Data Center)With a month to go until Dec. 25, many Americans are beginning to deck the halls, play the Hallmark Channel non-stop and fill their homes with holiday tunes. The sights and sounds of the season often conjure up scen
  
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• A Victory for Democracy in Hong Kong

  25-11-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Hong Kong pro-democracy movement achieved a stunning victory in Sunday’s district-council elections. With turnout exceeding 70 percent, close to 90 percent of the seats went to pro-democracy candidates, who took 17 of the 18 district councils. As the first electoral barometer of public sentiment since protests began in June, the results are a turning point in the conflict that has wracked Hong Kong for the last six months.Though the district councils’ authority is mostly local, t
  
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• Lindsey Graham says 'I love' Joe Biden but still believes his son's business dealings in Ukraine don't 'pass the smell test'

  25-11-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "If a Republican was in the same position, they'd certainly be investigated!" Graham tweeted.
  
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• Graham Defends Probe Into Hunter Biden’s Ukraine Dealings: ‘Somebody Needs to Do It’

  25-11-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) defended on Monday his ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden's business activities in Ukraine.Hunter, son of former vice president Joe Biden, sat on the board of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings from 2014 to 2019, during his father's tenure in the White House. President Trump and allies have alleged Joe Biden may have sought to oust former Ukrainian prosecutor general Victor Shokin in 2016 because Shokin's office had an open probe into Burisma, a
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court allows a prominent climate scientist to pursue a defamation lawsuit

  25-11-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed a prominent climate scientist to pursue a defamation lawsuit against a conservative magazine and a think tank that compared him to a convicted child molester.
  
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• Regime supporters rally as Amnesty says Iran death toll at least 143

  25-11-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 143 demonstrators were killed across Iran, almost all of them shot by security forces, Amnesty said Monday, as government supporters poured into central Tehran to condemn days of "rioting" that the Islamic republic blamed on its foreign foes."According to credible reports... those killed include at least 143 people," Amnesty International said.Amnesty, which last week gave a death toll of more than 100 as security forces stamped out protests that followed fuel price rises on November 15
  
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• Morales’s Bolivia: Autocracy, Corruption, Waste

  25-11-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When President Evo Morales of Bolivia was caught by election observers in an artless attempt to steal an illegal fourth term, the police withdrew their support for the president. Realizing that they were next in the chain of command, the military preemptively warned Morales that they would refuse to fire on innocent protesters, who had turned out in great numbers demanding his resignation, and suggested he resign as a means of ending the crisis. Since then, debate has raged, as Morales claims he
  
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