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• House Judiciary Democrats Reveal Their Impeachment Plans

  26-11-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chip Somodevilla/GettyAfter months on the sidelines, the House Judiciary Committee will return to the spotlight next week to bring the impeachment process over the finish line. Judiciary Democrats are rested, ready, and determined to keep the proceedings “as dull as possible,” according to one staffer for a committee Democrat. Coming on the heels of dramatic hearings in the House Intelligence Committee, there’s an emerging sense that Judiciary’s own hearings, which b
  
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• House Judiciary Democrats Not Looking for Impeachment Pizzazz

  26-11-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chip Somodevilla/GettyAfter months on the sidelines, the House Judiciary Committee will return to the spotlight next week to bring the impeachment process over the finish line. Judiciary Democrats are rested, ready, and determined to keep the proceedings “as dull as possible,” according to one staffer for a committee Democrat. Coming on the heels of dramatic hearings in the House Intelligence Committee, there’s an emerging sense that Judiciary’s own hearings, which b
  
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• UPDATE 2-FAA says it will be the sole issuer of new 737 MAX airworthiness certificates

  26-11-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it notified Boeing Co that the agency will be the only issuer of airworthiness certificates for all new 737 MAX planes, a role that it had shared with the aircraft maker in the past.The U.S. air regulator also repeated that it has not completed its review of the 737 MAX aircraft design changes and associated pilot training.
  
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• Israeli aircraft hit Hamas site after rocket fire from Gaza

  26-11-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israeli aircraft attacked several sites for Gaza’s Hamas rulers early Wednesday in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave.The Israeli military said the targets of the multiple airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip included a weapons manufacturing facility."If someone in Gaza thinks that he can raise his head after Operation Black Belt, he is sorely mistaken,” Netanyahu said in a statement, referring to two days of intense fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian
  
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• Kushner named Trump’s border-wall czar — along with practically everything else in government

  26-11-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump has recently tasked his son-in-law — whose to-do list already includes brokering peace in the Middle East, leading U.S. trade policy, reorganizing the entire U.S. government and reforming the criminal justice system — with overseeing the construction of his border wall ahead of the 2020 election. 
  
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• Banning large-capacity gun magazines could reduce mass shooting deaths: study

  26-11-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attacks with large-capacity magazines had more than a 60% higher average death toll, researchers write in the American Journal of Public Health."One of the strategies for surviving an active shooting is to 'run, hide, fight.' For those in the line of fire, the opportunity to flee, take cover, or counterattack is expanded if an interruption in the shooting occurs," said Louis Klarevas of Columbia University's Teachers College in New York City, who led the study.In 1994, Congress enacted a federal
  
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• Trump invited to participate in first House committee impeachment hearing 'or he can stop complaining'

  26-11-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has been formally invited to an impeachment hearing at the House Judiciary Committee, scheduled for 4 December, when legal experts will determine whether the president's alleged abuses of power in his handling of Ukraine and its military aid constitute "high crimes and misdemeanours" as established in the US Constitution.In his letter to the White House inviting the president and his attorneys to the hearing, committee chair Jerry Nadler promises a "fair and informative process".
  
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• Police cited 55 people for eating on San Francisco trains. Only nine were white

  26-11-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New data renews concerns about racial profiling, just weeks after viral video showed police detaining a black man who was eating a sandwichPassengers wait for a Bart train to depart the Fruitvale station in Oakland, California. Photograph: Ben Margot/APPolice officers for the San Francisco Bay Area commuter train system disproportionately target black riders with citations for eating and drinking, according to new data that has renewed concerns about racial profiling.The Bay Area Rapid Transit (
  
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• Warren nosedives in new nationwide poll

  26-11-2019 23:11 via politico.com
  
  The latest Quinnipiac poll also shows Buttigieg surging into second.
  
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• Bloomberg: US would benefit from more, not fewer, immigrants

  26-11-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On his second day campaigning for the Democratic nomination, the former New York City mayor contrasted his views on immigration with President Donald Trump’s restrictive policies and laid out a vision of a multicultural society enriched by immigrants.“We need immigrants to take all the different kinds of jobs that the country needs — improve our culture, our cuisine, our religion, our dialogue and certainly improve our economy,” the billionaire told reporters at a Mexican
  
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• Feuding Korean firms risk disrupting electric car battery supplies

  26-11-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In 2018, South Korea's SK Innovation beat its larger, local rival LG Chem to a multibillion dollar deal to supply German carmaker Volkswagen with electric vehicle batteries in the United States.With great fanfare, SK Innovation (SKI)broke ground in March on a $1.7 billion factory in Commerce, Georgia, about 200 km from VW'sChattanooga plant, which will be the automaker's electric vehicle hub in the United States.LG Chem (LGC)had other ideas.
  
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• Couple convicted of 1980s murders get surprise release from prison before being deported

  26-11-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A couple convicted of a brutal double murder in 1985 have won their release from prison, and will now be handed over to immigration authorities for deportation.
  
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• Women are the biggest supporters of impeachment and want Trump removed by an 18-point margin

  26-11-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The majority of women — 52% — said they either "probably" or "definitely" want the president impeached and removed from office.
  
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• ‘Frogman against frogman’: Case against SEAL sparks debate

  26-11-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The war crimes case against a Navy SEAL not only cost the Navy secretary his job.It dragged an elite military force known for quiet professionalism into a political firestorm and drove a wedge through the special operations community.Regardless of their position on the allegations against Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, most SEALs agree that the force has suffered from the attention surrounding the case that led President Trump to restore Gallagher’s rank.
  
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• Buttigieg claims 2nd, Warren sinks in new US 2020 poll

  26-11-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Political wunderkind Pete Buttigieg rocketed into second place in the Democratic presidential nomination race, polling showed Tuesday, with support for progressive ex-frontrunner Elizabeth Warren sliding as voters sour on her universal health care proposal.Buttigieg, the moderate millennial mayor of South Bend, Indiana, leapfrogged the race's main liberal candidates, Warren and fellow senator Bernie Sanders, to claim second behind the resilient national leader Joe Biden, according to Quinnipiac
  
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• Judge partly vacates convictions of opioid maker Insys' founder, executives

  26-11-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge on Tuesday partially overturned the convictions of Insys Therapeutics Inc's founder and three former executives accused of bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid, but declined to disturb the remainder of the jury's verdict.U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston ruled the evidence prosecutors presented at trial did not support finding that John Kapoor and the others intended for doctors to prescribe the drug, Subsys, to patients who did not need it.The ruling co
  
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• Firefighters battle new blaze in California

  26-11-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of California firefighters on Tuesday battled a wind-driven brushfire that grew out of control overnight near Santa Barbara, threatening thousands of homes and prompting evacuation orders.The so-called "Cave Fire" that started on Monday in Los Padres National Forest, grew to nearly 4,300 acres (1,740 hectares) overnight as it moved toward populated areas in the cities of Santa Barbara, Goleta and nearby communities about a two hours' drive north of Los Angeles.Some 600 firefighters were
  
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• Trump invited to House judiciary committee's first impeachment hearing

  26-11-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New phase of investigation will seek to determine whether Trump’s conduct amounts to ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’Trump with his son Barron and first lady Melania on Tuesday. Republicans in Congress are expected to remain unified in opposition to impeachment. Photograph: Evan Vucci/APThe House judiciary committee on Tuesday will hold its first public impeachment hearing part of a new phase of the investigation that will seek to determine whether the president’s actions a
  
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• Elizabeth Warren tumbles 14 points in Democratic primary poll

  26-11-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest Democratic primary poll released Tuesday by Quinnipiac University did not come bearing good tidings for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).Warren, one of the presidential primary's frontrunners, had been leading the poll for the past several months, surging ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden. But she appeared to be in free fall this time around, dropping 14 points. Biden took back the lead and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg jumped up 6 points into second place.> New Q
  
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• Texas GOP accidentally emails Democrats their electoral strategy: 'Republicans have fumbled the ball and it's not even 2020'

  26-11-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A document with the Texas Republican Party’s strategy for the 2020 election was emailed to Democrats, showing a plan over the next 12 months to push back on the narrative that the GOP lacks diversity and counteract Donald Trump's potential negative impact on the race.The document, which apparently began appearing in the inboxes of Democrats this week, lays out concerns about the "polarising nature" of Mr Trump's presidency, as well as ways to counteract the "narrative driven by Democrats"
  
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• More than 20 dead as Albania hunts for earthquake survivors

  26-11-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Durrës (Albania) (AFP) - Albanian rescuers searched rubble through the night looking for survivors trapped in buildings that toppled Tuesday in the strongest earthquake to hit the country in decades, with more than 20 dead and hundreds injured.Teams of soldiers, police and emergency workers sifted through the debris of shredded apartment blocks and hotels in towns near Albania's northwest Adriatic coast, close to the epicentre of the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that rattled the country before
  
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• Pompeo refuses to say what he and Giuliani talked about in newly disclosed calls

  26-11-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The State Department released emails Friday showing that Pompeo and Giuliani spoke by phone twice in late March.
  
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• Two rockets fired from Gaza at Israel: army

  26-11-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Militants in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets at Israel on Tuesday, one of which was intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, the army said."Two (rocket) launches were identified from territory in the Gaza Strip towards Israeli territory," the Israeli army said in a statement, adding that one of the projectiles was intercepted.It did not say what happened to the second rocket.
  
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• 'Bomb cyclone' or 'bombogenesis' to drench Bay Area for the first time in at least 15 years

  26-11-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A powerful winter phenomenon meteorologists call a "bomb cyclone" is set to drench the Bay Area Tuesday evening. Mike Nicco explains here:
  
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• Gillum sets sights on denying Trump victory in Florida in 2020

  26-11-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Andrew Gillum says he knows why President Trump left his lifelong home of New York to take up residence in Florida and doubts his “antics” for reelection will work. 
  
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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders insists Trump reads 'more than anyone I know'

  26-11-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump’s former White House press secretary has claimed in an interview with Fox News that the president “reads more than anybody I know” despite claims he does not even read his daily intelligence briefings.Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who left the White House in June after serving for two years as one of the most visible faces of the administration, made the claims during a weekend interview with Fox News.
  
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• Texas woman killed by feral hogs in 'tragic, rare incident'

  26-11-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Christine Marie Rollins, 59, attacked outside a home in Anahuac in ‘one of the worst cases I’ve ever seen’, county sheriff saysThe issue of feral hogs in the US has been bubbling under the surface for some time. Photograph: Rebecca Santana/APA 59-year-old Texan woman has died after being assaulted by feral hogs, in what the county sheriff described as “one of the worst cases I’ve ever seen”.Christine Marie Rollins, 59, a healthcare worker, arrived to look afte
  
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• Bombogenesis: 'Unprecedented' bomb cyclone to blast Northwest

  26-11-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A rare West Coast “bomb cyclone” is forecast to sweep into southern Oregon and northern California later Tuesday and into Wednesday.
  
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• World's best sushi restaurant dropped from Michelin Guide after refusing to serve public

  26-11-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world's best sushi restaurant seats just ten people and is famously housed in a Tokyo metro station.  But despite its cult following, the famously exclusive restaurant has lost its listing in the Michelin Guide, not because the quality of the food has dropped, but because it is no longer open to the general public.  Sukiyabashi Jiro, run by the renowned nonagenarian Japanese chef Jiro Ono, has been recognised with three Michelin stars each year since the culinar
  
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• Trump cracks impeachment jokes at turkey pardoning

  26-11-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump turned the quirky annual White House ritual of pardoning Thanksgiving turkeys into a riff on his impeachment Tuesday, joking that the two birds had been subpoenaed to testify."They've already received subpoenas to appear in Adam Schiff's basement on Thursday," Trump told guests in the Rose Garden, referring to the head of the intelligence committee leading the impeachment probe in the House of Representatives.Trump was presiding over a ceremony where the president symbolic
  
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• A New Wildfire Is Threatening Southern California at Thanksgiving. Here's What to Know

  26-11-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Cave Fire triggered evacuations in Santa Barbara County
  
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• Political crisis brews in Pakistan as Supreme Court blocks extension of powerful army chief and Imran Khan ally

  26-11-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pakistan's top court blocked an extended term for the country's powerful army chief, potentially setting the judiciary on a collision course with the powerful military and a key ally of Imran Khan.  The supreme court suspended a government decision to give Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa a fresh three-year-term in office and ordered a detailed investigation into his extension.  The court's surprise questioning of a decision previously seen as a formality threatened to trigger a confrontation bet
  
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• Thousands rally in support of Israel's Netanyahu after graft indictment

  26-11-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several thousand Israelis rallied on Tuesday in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he faces the gravest threat to his political survival after corruption charges and two failed elections.Held under the banner "Stop the Coup", the protest failed to draw the huge crowds its organizers - members of Netanyahu's Likud party - had hoped to attract and only a handful of the faction's senior lawmakers and cabinet ministers attended.Netanyahu was charged on Thursday with bribery, fraud and b
  
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• Obama’s candidate for 2020: None of the above

  26-11-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What Obama seems to be looking for, and failing to find, is someone like him: new but comforting; more consensus-minded than combative; inspirational but not ideological.
  
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• Obama's candidate for 2020: None of the above

  26-11-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What Obama seems to be looking for, and failing to find, is someone like him: new but comforting; more consensus-minded than combative; inspirational but not ideological.
  
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• Man wanted in Utah 'extreme stalking' arrested in Hawaii

  26-11-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. prosecutors have arrested a Hawaii man they accuse of sending hundreds of unwanted service providers and others to a Utah home, including plumbers and prostitutes.Loren Okamura was arrested Friday in Hawaii following his indictment last month on charges of cyberstalking, interstate threats and transporting people for prostitution, court documents show.Okamura, 44, targeted a father and her adult daughter, sending the woman threatening messages and posting her picture and address online, aut
  
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• Hawaii man arrested in Utah 'extreme stalking' case

  26-11-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. prosecutors have arrested a Hawaii man they accuse of sending hundreds of unwanted service providers to a Utah home, including plumbers and prostitutes.Loren Okamura was arrested Friday in Hawaii following his indictment last month on charges of cyberstalking, interstate threats and transporting people for prostitution, court documents show.Okamura, 44, targeted a father and her adult daughter, sending the woman threatening messages and posting her picture and address online, authorities sa
  
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• China sets up Hong Kong crisis centre on mainland in response to months of protests

  26-11-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tightening control over efforts to manage the upheaval in Hong Kong, the Chinese leadership has set up a crisis command center on the mainland side of the border and is considering replacing its official liaison to the restive semi-autonomous city, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.  As violent protests roil Hong Kong, top Chinese leaders in recent months have been managing their response from a villa on the outskirts of Shenzhen, bypassing the formal bureaucr
  
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• Mayor of South African Capital Put on Leave After Leaked Audio

  26-11-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The Democratic Alliance, South Africa’s biggest opposition party, said it has placed the mayor of the municipality that includes the capital, Pretoria, on leave.Stevens Mokgalapa, the mayor of Tshwane, was the subject of a leaked audio tape in which he allegedly disparaged government officials in a conversation with a mayoral council member and indulged in sex acts. The party said the action had been taken against him in a statement on Tuesday.The Economic Freedom Fighters,
  
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• 17 killed by car bomb in Turkey-controlled region of Syria: Ankara

  26-11-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A car bomb killed at least 17 people and wounded 20 others in the Turkish-controlled region of northern Syria on Tuesday, Turkey's defence ministry said.The attack took place in the Tal Halaf village west of the city of Ras al-Ayn, which is now controlled by the Turkish military after its offensive in October, the ministry said on its official Twitter account.It blamed the attack on the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara accuses of being the Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kur
  
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• David Axelrod calls Biden's polling resilience 'the strangest thing I've ever seen in politics'

  26-11-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Everyone's waiting for former Vice President Joe Biden to fall, but it just hasn't happened.Former Obama adviser David Axelrod, who has been critical of Biden's Democratic presidential campaign from time to time, acknowledged he's just not convinced the former vice president will tumble as anticipated."So many scenarios here are dependent on this idea that Biden is going to collapse," he told Politico. "But he continues to have pretty strong appeal to African Americans and to working-class white
  
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• 'Bleak' U.N. Report Finds World Heading to Climate Catastrophes

  26-11-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Four years after countries struck a landmark deal in Paris to rein in greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to avert the worst effects of global warming, humanity is headed toward those very climate catastrophes, according to a U.N. report issued Tuesday, with China and the United States, the two biggest polluters, having expanded their carbon footprints last year."The summary findings are bleak," the report said, because countries have failed to halt the rise of greenhouse gas emissions even af
  
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• 3 Afghan Schools, 165 Accounts of Students Being Raped

  26-11-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan -- The 14-year-old Afghan boy said his teacher had asked him for "a little favor" in return for not failing him on his final exams. Then the man took him to the school library, locked the door and raped him, the boy said.At the same school, a 17-year-old boy reported similar treatment from the school's principal. He said the man had threatened to kill him if he told anyone.But the boys did talk, giving their accounts to a child advocacy group in their province and repeating th
  
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• Washington airspace alert sparks White House lockdown

  26-11-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House and US Congress were locked down for nearly an hour Tuesday over a suspected airspace intrusion over Washington, but hours later officials still had no explanation for what triggered the alert.Major Andrew Hennessy, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, told AFP that "a track of interest" appeared on radars early Tuesday, sparking concern.A US Coast Guard helicopter deployed by NORAD to investigate what appeared to be an unidentified aircraft nearing tight
  
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• After 36 years in prison for murder they did not commit, 3 Baltimore men finally walk free

  26-11-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart spent 36 years in prison for a murder they did not commit. They were finally released Tuesday.
  
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• White House budget officials resigned amid frustration with Ukraine aid freeze

  26-11-2019 20:45 via politico.com
  
  An OMB official testified behind closed doors that one lawyer resigned over concerns that Trump's hold on Ukraine aid violated the law.
  
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• 'Sleepwalking toward climate catastrophe:' World must slash emissions immediately, UN report says

  26-11-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world's nations must make steep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions immediately or risk missing the targets they’ve agreed on, a U.N. report says.
  
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• Airlines are joining in on Black Friday with major flight sales — here's how you can save

  26-11-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Delta, Air France, KLM, Qatar, Aer Lingus, and more have posted Black Friday sales. We expect deals from airlines like United, American, and Qatar.
  
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• Barack Obama reportedly has had serious reservations about Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren

  26-11-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama is keeping quiet about the Democratic presidential primary, but some of his opinions have come to light anyway, thanks to a new report from Politico. And there are at least two frontrunners who he might not want to see snag the nomination.Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) especially doesn't appear to have a big fan in Obama. Per Politico, when Sanders seemed to have a greater chance of winning (though some disagree with the characterization that he's trending downward) Ob
  
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• Baby was born 'pregnant' with her own sibling and needed an emergency C-section

  26-11-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A baby girl named Itzmara was born through a cesarean delivery, and 24 hours later, doctors performed a C-section on her because she had absorbed her twin in the womb, Mamás Latinas reported.
  
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