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• Booker slams Democratic debate rules as he ends Iowa tour

  08-12-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fighting to be in the next Democratic presidential debate, Cory Booker concluded a nearly 800-mile, 12-county tour of Iowa on Sunday by criticizing the Democratic party for allowing “elites" and “money" to control who gets on stage and urging voters to offer his name when pollsters call.“Iowa never lets elites decide," he told a crowd at his campaign office in Cedar Rapids on Sunday.Just six candidates are qualified for the Dec. 19 debate, and Booker is not one of them.
  
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• Facing new test, Buttigieg pledges openness — with caution

  08-12-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In his rise to the top tier of the Democratic race for president, Pete Buttigieg has impressed voters with his unflappable demeanor.How Buttigieg handles the heat will be another measure of the durability of his improbable run, now that the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is seen as a serious threat to front-running candidates, especially in Iowa.To date, the more intense inspection — much of it invited publicly by rival Elizabeth Warren — doesn't appear to be slowing Buttigieg's progr
  
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• Did Navy Base Shooter Mohammed Alshamrani Have Murder on His Mind in April?

  08-12-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Saudi airman who killed three and wounded eight at Naval Air Station Pensacola began the 15-week process of buying the murder weapon back in April, officials told The Daily Beast.“He’d been thinking about this for a long time it looks like,” one senior law enforcement official said.The FBI said at a press conference Sunday that it is treating Friday’s attack by Mohammed Alshamrani, a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force, as an act of terrorism but have not d
  
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• Booker rakes in over $1 million in campaign donations after calling out lack of diversity

  08-12-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In this edition of 2020 Daily Trail Markers, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker said he recieved more than a million dollars in donations to his presidential campaign after calling out the lack of diversity within the Democratic field. 2020 Campaign reporter Adam Brewster joins CBSN with the latest on Booker's surge and more news from the campaign trail in Iowa.
  
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• An artist sold a banana duct-taped to the wall for $120,000. On Sunday, someone tore the fruit off the wall and ate it.

  08-12-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This week, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan displayed a piece of art titled "Comedian" at a gallery in Miami. Then someone ate it off the wall.
  
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• ‘Bomb cyclone’ triggers 75ft wave off California coast

  08-12-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 75ft wave was recorded off the Californian coast after a ‘bomb cyclone’ pounded the West Coast during Thanksgiving week.Scientists from the University of California said it was the tallest wave they had documented in the last 15 years.
  
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• Female Reporter Calls Out Runner Who Groped Her While She Was on TV

  08-12-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "You violated, objectified and embarrassed me"
  
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• Suspect's mother speaks out after Alabama officer slain

  08-12-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mother of man charged with killing an Alabama police officer spoke said Sunday that she doesn't believe her son is capable of committing murder.LaJeromeny Brown of Tennessee has been jailed on capital murder charges in the shooting of Huntsville police officer Billy Fred Clardy on Friday.Brown's mother, Alma Jean Applebet, told Al.comin a phone interview her son should be presumed innocent until he has a chance to stand trial, though she acknowledged he has a history of arrests in Tennessee.
  
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• Trump warns North Korea's Kim Jong Un not to put their 'special relationship' at risk with 'hostile' acts

  08-12-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Last year, President Donald Trump hailed the site's closing as a symbol of leader Kim Jong Un's purported commitment to denuclearization.
  
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• John Kerry Rallies With Joe Biden, Evoking Some 2004 Parallels

  08-12-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- For some voters, seeing John Kerry and Joe Biden campaign together felt like déjà vu.In 2004, Kerry was the establishment Democrat who struggled in early-state polls but went on to defeat populist rivals for the nomination, propelled by a perception that he was the most “electable” option to face down a Republican incumbent unpopular with the left.Now Biden, having recently won Kerry’s endorsement, is looking to replicate that feat with a similar me
  
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• Father: Navy victim shot standing watch fresh from boot camp

  08-12-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fresh out of boot camp, Cameron Walters proudly told his father in Georgia during their nightly video chat that he had passed the exam qualifying him to stand watch and help secure building entrances at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida.When news broke the next morning of shots being fired on the base, Shane Walters called his son's cellphone repeatedly throughout the day.Shane Walters told The Associated Press on Sunday that his son died standing watch at the classroom building where the s
  
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• Screams and goodbyes as scores die in devastating India factory fire

  08-12-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 43 people were killed Sunday in a devastating fire that ripped through a bag factory in the congested old quarter of the Indian capital New Delhi, with survivors describing the screams of workers trapped inside.The blaze was the worst in Delhi since 59 movie-goers died in a cinema in 1997.The cause of the blaze is not yet known, but the city's poor planning and lax enforcement of building and safety codes have often been blamed for such deadly incidents.
  
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• Lebanon’s President Orders Week’s Delay in Talks to Pick Premier

  08-12-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Lebanon’s president ordered a weeklong postponement in talks to pick a new premier, just one day before lawmakers were set to name a businessman to head the next cabinet amid a deepening economic and financial crisis.Lebanese businessman Samir al-Khatib on Sunday withdrew his candidacy for prime minister a day before parliament was scheduled to discuss nominations, saying his Sunni Muslim sect wants former premier Saad al-Hariri to head the government. President Michel Aoun
  
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• Former Australian PM, Bob Hawke, pleaded with daughter not to report alleged rape by political ally to police

  08-12-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke pleaded with his daughter not to report being raped by a Labor MP fearing the case could damage his political career, it is claimed in court documents. The allegations against Mr Hawke, who died in May aged 89, have been made by his second daughter Rosslyn Dillon, 59, in a legal claim against her father's estate. Ms Dillon is seeking 4 million Australian dollars (£2 million) from her father's $18 million estate, rather than the $750,000 she was le
  
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• 'Vile and bigoted remarks': Left-leaning Jewish groups accuse Trump of anti-Semitic stereotypes

  08-12-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "You have people that are Jewish people, that are great people – they don’t love Israel enough," Trump said Saturday.
  
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• SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carried up 'mighty mice' and a new robot companion to the International Space Station

  08-12-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Sunday morning, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station to re-supply astronauts living in orbit.
  
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• Consultations to choose new PM in protest-hit Lebanon delayed

  08-12-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president in protest-wracked Lebanon Sunday postponed parliamentary consultations to nominate a new prime minister after Sunni Muslim leaders threw their support behind ex-premier Saad Hariri returning to the post.It said parliamentary consultations to choose a new prime minister were delayed "at the request of most parliamentary blocs" and to "allow for more deliberations".The postponement comes after Sunni Muslim leaders reached a consensus to back Hariri returning to office, a sidelined c
  
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• U.K. Conservatives Widen Lead Over Labour in Latest BMG Poll

  08-12-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson’s Conservatives hold a 9-percentage-point lead over opposition Labour ahead of Thursday’s U.K. general election, a BMG poll for The Independent found.The poll showed the Tories with 41%, up 2 percentage points from the previous BMG poll on Nov. 30. Labour had 32%, down one point.The Liberal Democrats had 14%, up one point, and the Brexit Party was unchanged at 4%. The Greens had 4%, down one point.The poll surveyed 1,542 adults online Dec. 4-6.Robert Stru
  
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• Trump warns Kim Jong-un over denuclearisation after North Korea touts ‘important test’ at rocket launch site

  08-12-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korea has claimed it carried out a “very important test” this weekend at a long-range rocket launch site that was partially dismantled at the start of denuclearisation talks last year.As hopes of new negotiations between North Korea and the US have dimmed, Pyongyang has threatened to seek “a new way” forward if it cannot make progress with talks.
  
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• Why the White House Has Its Eyes Wide Shut on China

  08-12-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The West can excoriate China all it wants on its debt traps, lack of transparency, and pernicious diplomacy. But unless the West comes up with better solutions, that dirt road, for the developing world, is still a dirt road.
  
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• At a pro-Israel conference, Trump told Jewish voters they'd vote for him to avoid a wealth tax

  08-12-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During his speech to the Israeli American Council, Trump also said some Jewish people 'don't love Israel enough.'
  
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• After Pensacola attack, Pentagon to review screening of foreign officers who train at U.S. bases 

  08-12-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Following a suspected terror attack at a Florida Navy base, the Pentagon said it will review the vetting process for foreign officers who train in the U.S.
  
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• Facts will help Democrats win Trump impeachment debate even if Senate doesn't remove him

  08-12-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats may well win the Trump impeachment debate in the court of public opinion. Republicans never managed that when they impeached Bill Clinton.
  
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• Decade will pass without U.S. falling into a recession

  08-12-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In every decade since the period immediately before the Civil War, the U.S. economy has always fallen into recession. The American economy is likely to defy that trend for the first time in nearly 170 years as it enters the 2020s.
  
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• Huawei to shift research from hostile US to Canada: founder

  08-12-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chinese tech giant Huawei, facing US criminal charges and economic sanctions, is planning to relocate its telecommunications research from the United States to Canada, founder Ren Zhengfei said in an interview published Tuesday.Speaking with the Globe and Mail newspaper at Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, Ren said the company is also considering building new factories in Europe to make fifth-generation or 5G equipment.Canada is reviewing the technology but has not announced a decision.
  
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• 5-Year-Old Carried a Toddler Through Minus 31-Degree Weather After Left Alone in Alaska Home

  08-12-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The children, who were dressed just in socks and light clothing, both received cold-related injuries
  
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• Trump reportedly uses unsecured phone lines. Cybersecurity experts explain why those are 'so easy to hack it's scary.'

  08-12-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Business Insider spoke with cybersecurity experts about how hackers gain access to phone conversations on unsecured devices.
  
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• Brazil Scraps Envoy Trip to Fernandez Ceremony as Spat Worsens

  08-12-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s government scrapped plans to send a delegate to Alberto Fernandez’s inauguration ceremony in Argentina, representing an escalation in tensions between South America’s top economies.President Jair Bolsonaro has opted not to send anyone to the Dec. 10 swearing-in ceremony in Buenos Aires, according to a Brazilian official with direct knowledge of the matter. The move comes after he decided that Citizenship Minister Osmar Terra will no longer represent Braz
  
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• Trilateral Troubles: Is America Ready for China's Latest Geopolitical Tricks?

  08-12-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new trilateral exercise with South Africa may be a sign of coming attractions, but the United States should not overreact.
  
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• Ukraine crowds protest over Russia summit

  08-12-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some 5,000 Ukrainians rallied in Kiev on Sunday warning President Volodymyr Zelensky to resist pressure from Russia's Vladimir Putin when the two men meet on Monday for talks on the conflict in Ukraine's east.Protesters held placards with slogans such as "No to capitulation", "Stay away from Moscow" and "Russian gas is a noose around our necks" during the rally, led by Zelensky's political opponents.The two leaders are due to meet for the first time since Zelensky's election in April at the talk
  
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• Meet the lawyer at the center of the Trump universe

  08-12-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Marc Mukasey has deep, personal connections within President Trump’s orbit, and he has worked on a number of high-profile cases involving the president.
  
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• Pope names Manila Cardinal Tagle to major Vatican post

  08-12-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis has named Manila Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to head the Congregation for the Evangelization of the Peoples.
  
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• FBI Treating Pensacola Navy Shooting as Terrorism

  08-12-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FBI said Sunday that it is treating the mass shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola as an act of terrorism so it can amass more resources to investigate whether the Saudi gunman was spurred by an “ideology.”Special Agent in Charge Rachel Rojas said authorities have not yet pinpointed shooter Mohammed Alshamrani’s motive for Friday’s ambush, which killed three and wounded eight.“I can tell you that we are looking very hard at uncovering his motive and I would as
  
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• Jury would convict Trump 'in 3 minutes flat': Nadler

  08-12-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said Sunday that if the impeachment case against President Trump were put to a jury, there "would be a guilty verdict in three minutes flat."
  
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• Thousands march in Hong Kong as government urges calm

  08-12-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A sea of black as vast crowds of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong's financial district on Sunday (December 8)in the biggest rallies since local elections last month.It was the first time since August that the Civil Human Rights Front - organizer of million-strong marches earlier in the year that paralyzed the Asian finance center - had received authorities' permission for a rally.It estimated turnout of 800,000 But police argued it was much lower, at a mere 183,000.China blames the on
  
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• Rapper Juice WRLD dies after emergency at Chicago airport

  08-12-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chicago-area rapper Juice WRLD, whose real name is Jarad A. Higgins, was pronounced dead Sunday after a "medical emergency" at Chicago's Midway International Airport, according to authorities.
  
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• Children aged 11 and 12 charged with killing boy who was hit by car

  08-12-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities have charged two children with involuntary manslaughter after another child was hit by a car and killed, apparently following an argument.Police said they charged the suspects, an 11-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, after interviewing them at a police station in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  
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• Don't cede too much for peace at Paris talks, Ukrainians tell president

  08-12-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of people gathered in the center of Kiev on Sunday to send a message to Ukraine's president, who meets his Russian counterpart on Monday, that Ukrainians will not accept a peace deal at the cost of the country's independence and sovereignty."We are here because we are not satisfied with the peace at any costs ... the peace at the costs of capitulation," Inna Sovsun, a lawmaker of opposition Golos (Voice) party, told the rally.President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Vladimir Putin are meeting
  
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• Lawmakers seek suspension, review of US training for Saudis

  08-12-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A top Republican ally of President Donald Trump went a step further than the White House on Sunday by calling for Saudi Arabia to be suspended from an American military training program after a student pilot from the kingdom shot and killed three sailors at a U.S. naval base in Florida.Trump had called for the program to be reviewed but Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he wanted more.“We need to suspend the Saudi program until we find out what happened here," he said, adding that he likes
  
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• What we know about the man accused of shooting Sgt. Brewster

  08-12-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Arturo Solis has a lengthy criminal history including a charge of assault causing bodily injury.
  
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• GOP lawmaker says 'out-of-the-box strategy' could give Trump an 'advantage' in impeachment hearings 

  08-12-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, on Sunday said it would play to the “president’s advantage” to have his top administration officials in an “out-of-the-box strategy” testify in the upcoming impeachment hearings. 
  
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• House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler says a jury would convict Trump 'in about 3 minutes flat'

  08-12-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite Trump's orders, Nadler said the committee had seen valuable testimony from those who "came forward and defied the president's orders."
  
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• Catholic Celebrity to Challenge Polish President in 2020 Vote

  08-12-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Szymon Holownia, a TV show host and writer known for his Catholic views, announced plans to run against incumbent Andrzej Duda in next year’s presidential election.The 43-year-old political newcomer focused his announcement on social solidarity, climate protection and higher standards in Polish politics, characterized by what he called “a devouring clinch” between the ruling Law & Justice and the main opposition party Civic Platform.“It’s time for
  
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• Iraqi state forces, militia man checkpoints after bloodshed

  08-12-2019 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi security forces on Sunday set up checkpoints and manned them alongside unarmed members of a militia group, Iraqi police officials said, to protect anti-government protesters in central Baghdad plazas, two days after a deadly attack by unknown gunmen.The militia group, Saraya Salam or Peace Brigades, are linked to influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and have been present in Tahrir Square, the epicenter of Iraq's protest movement, where they have offered protection for hundreds of pea
  
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• Flu season arrives early, driven by an unexpected virus

  08-12-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The winter flu season is off to its earliest start in more than 15 years. An early wave of illness in the South has begun to spread more broadly, and there’s a chance flu season could peak much earlier than normal, health officials say.
  
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• Trump’s health chief ‘asked taxpayers to foot £35,000 bill for stolen jewellery’

  08-12-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A health chief appointed by Donald Trump tried to get taxpayers to reimburse her for stolen jewellery, clothing and other possessions, including a £4,500 Ivanka Trump-brand pendant, it’s been claimed.The items were stolen from Seema Verma’s luggage during a work-related trip, according to documents obtained by website Politico.
  
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• Trump criticised for rush to defend Saudis after pilot kills three at US navy base: 'He’s a spokesman for Saudi Arabia’

  08-12-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has been criticised for “parroting” Saudi Arabia's defence after a Saudi gunman killed three sailors at a Florida navy base.Mohammed Alshamrani, who was training at the base, opened fire on Friday at the Naval Air Station Pensacola, killing three and injuring at least eight other people before he was shot dead.
  
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• Trump impeachment: Vote on charges to remove president could happen this week, committee chairman says

  08-12-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A vote on impeachment charges against Donald Trump could take place this week, according to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.Jerrold Nadler said draft articles were already being prepared based on the evidence heard during the inquiry over the last months.
  
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• 'Last and most extraordinary resort': House Democrats release report on legal basis for impeachment

  08-12-2019 18:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "President Trump abused his power, betrayed our national security, and corrupted our elections, all for personal gain," said Chairman Nadler.
  
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• For Trump, Instinct After Florida Killings Is Simple: Protect Saudis

  08-12-2019 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- When a Saudi Air Force officer opened fire on his classmates at a naval base in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday, he killed three, wounded eight and exposed anew the strange dynamic between President Donald Trump and the Saudi leadership: The president's first instinct was to tamp down on any suggestion that the Saudi government needed to be held to account.Hours later, Trump announced on Twitter that he had received a condolence call from King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who c
  
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