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• The New York Times editorial board calls for Trump's impeachment

  14-12-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The New York Times editorial board is the latest to join a growing list of major papers openly calling for the impeachment of President Trump.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth to set out PM Johnson's agenda on Thursday

  14-12-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Queen Elizabeth will set out on Thursday Prime Minister Boris Johnson's legislative agenda following his election victory, including a pledge to bring the EU Withdrawal Agreement bill back to parliament before Christmas, his office said on Saturday.Johnson led his Conservative Party on Thursday to their biggest national election win since Margaret Thatcher's landslide victory of 1987, trouncing his socialist Labour Party opponent Jeremy Corbyn by winning 365 parliamentary seats and securing an o
  
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• A Barnard Student's Stabbing Death Has Rattled NYC and a 13-Year-Old Is in Custody. Here's What to Know

  14-12-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'We need to support each other and remember Tess'
  
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• Greta Thunberg apologizes for comment

  14-12-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has apologized for saying that politicians should be put “against the wall” after critics took it to mean that she was advocating violence.
  
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• Democratic hopefuls pledge more money for schools, teachers

  14-12-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidates pledged to boost funding for public schools, increase teacher salaries and reduce college debt at a Saturday forum that cast a rare spotlight on education, an issue that has received only passing attention in recent debates.The event was billed as an opportunity to press candidates for more detail on their education plans, but it was also a chance for Democrats to vie for endorsements from the nation's two major teachers unions, which were among several groups
  
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• Mexico Disputes Inclusion of U.S. Labor Monitors in Trade Deal

  14-12-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Mexico objected to the congressional proposal to create as many as five U.S. labor attaches to monitor implementation of the free trade deal with the U.S. and Canada.Jesus Seade, Mexico’s top trade deal negotiator, wrote to his U.S. counterpart, Robert Lighthizer, expressing “surprise and concern” over the inclusion of the labor overseers as part of the bill that ratifies the implementation of the free trade agreement, Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said
  
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• Democrat Jeff Van Drew, who opposes impeaching Trump, is reportedly in talks to switch to the Republican Party

  14-12-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who opposes impeaching President Donald Trump, could reportedly switch to the GOP as early as next week.
  
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• A Man Sparked Outrage After Slapping a Reporter's Backside on Live TV. Now He's Charged With Sexual Battery

  14-12-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thomas Callaway later called the interaction 'an awful mistake'
  
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• AP source: NJ Dem lawmaker plans to become a Republican

  14-12-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Top House Republicans have been told that Democratic New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew is going to switch parties and become a Republican.Van Drew is a freshman who has said he plans to vote against impeaching President Donald Trump.Only a small handful of Democrats are expected to oppose Trump's impeachment in a vote expected next week.
  
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• Facing climate emergency, UN summit staggers on

  14-12-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A UN climate summit in Madrid was on life support Saturday after marathon negotiations between countries left them more divided than ever over on how to fight global warming and pay for its ravages.Diplomats from rich nations, emerging giants and the world's poorest countries -- each for their own reasons -- found fault with a draft agreement put forward by host Chile in a botched attempt to strike common ground.Faced with fire-alarm warnings from science, deadly extreme weather made worse by cl
  
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• FBI recovers van it says may be linked to Jersey City attack

  14-12-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal authorities have recovered a van that may be connected to the Jersey City shootings that killed four people and are now being investigated as domestic terrorism, the FBI said Saturday.The white van recovered Saturday morning in Orange, New Jersey, about 11 miles (17 kilometers) northwest of Jersey City, is being examined for any evidence related to the attack, the FBI said in a news release.Police in Ramapo, New York, close to New Jersey's northern border, had earlier said that FBI offic
  
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• Impeachment Vote Crucial Test for Vulnerable House Democrats

  14-12-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The year-old Democratic majority in the U.S. House faces its toughest test now that the chamber has locked in a vote on impeaching President Donald Trump next week.It’s a step that many moderates in the party had hoped to avoid. The Democrats who flipped Republican seats in 2018 to give Speaker Nancy Pelosi her gavel have helped pass more than 400 pieces of legislation in the House this year. But it’s a vote on historic articles of impeachment that could define their 2
  
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• Greta Thunberg apologizes for 'against the wall' comment

  14-12-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has apologized for saying politicians should be put “against the wall” after critics took it to mean that she was advocating violence.Thunberg later said she was making a literal translation from Swedish, in which the expression means to put someone on the spot with tough questions.Thunberg told the crowd in Turin that world leaders were running away from their responsibilities to fight climate change.
  
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• Lindsey Graham invites Rudy Giuliani to Judiciary panel to discuss recent Ukraine visit

  14-12-2019 21:32 via politico.com
  
  "Rudy, if you want to come and tell us what you found, I'll be glad to talk to you,” Lindsey Graham says.
  
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• Democratic impeachment holdout Jeff Van Drew planning to switch parties

  14-12-2019 21:22 via politico.com
  
  The New Jersey lawmaker is one of two Democrats who didn't back opening an impeachment inquiry into Trump.
  
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• Indigenous boy stabbed to death in Amazon amid wave of rainforest racism

  14-12-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An indigenous 15-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in an Amazonian reserve in Brazil, the latest in a string of murders which have heightened tensions in the region.Erisvan Soares Guajajara’s body was found on Friday in the Amarante do Maranhão city, on the edge of an increasingly deforested indigenous reserve on the fringes of the Amazon rainforest.
  
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• Hourslong clashes between police, protesters engulf Beirut

  14-12-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lebanese security forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas and used water cannons to disperse anti-government protesters from central Beirut in clashes that lasted for hours into early Sunday.The violence around the epicenter of the protest in Beirut was some of the worst since the demonstrations began two months ago.More than 40 protesters were injured, including some beaten repeatedly with batons by security forces.
  
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• Wisconsin judge's ruling could purge 200,000 from voter rolls

  14-12-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Voters must confirm address within 30 days or lose franchise* Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016A Wisconsin judge’s order to boot more than 200,000 people from voter rolls in the battleground state spurred condemnation from Democrats, amid claims of voter suppression.If the decision stands, it could have an impact on the 2020 presidential election. In 2016, Donald Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes. Subsequent contests have also returned tight margins.&ldq
  
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• Trump reportedly has a Democratic congressman thinking about becoming a Republican

  14-12-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Republicans may soon have a new member in their ranks.Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-N.J.), probably the most vocally anti-impeachment Democrat — and one of only two House Democrats to vote against formalizing an impeachment inquiry in October — apparently met with President Trump, who urged him to switch parties. And the congressman is giving it some serious thought, The Washington Post reports. In fact, he's serious enough about it that he's discussed which day he should make an annou
  
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• Body of 6-year-old girl swept away in flood waters has been found after 2-week search

  14-12-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The body of 6-year-old Willa Rawlings, who was swept away in the swollen creek waters two weeks ago along with two other children, has been found.
  
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• Israel welcomes Belgian parade's removal from UNESCO list

  14-12-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israel on Saturday welcomed a decision by the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency to drop a famous Belgian carnival off its heritage list after protests over displays of anti-Semitism.Israel’s rare appreciation of UNESCO came a day after the organization removed the Aalst carnival from its Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
  
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• Here's how legal experts suspect Devin Nunes is paying for so many lawsuits

  14-12-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has a lot of people scratching their heads over how he's managing to pay the legal fees for the numerous defamation lawsuits he's filed against entities ranging from CNN to a social media parody account called Devin Nunes' Cow, McClatchy reports.Nunes' $174,000 congressional salary is reportedly his main source of income, so McClatchy notes it's unlikely he's simply paying out of pocket. He could theoretically rely on a benefactor by setting up a legal defense fund, b
  
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• Security forces fire tear gas, dozens wounded in Beirut protest

  14-12-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at Lebanese protesters in central Beirut on Saturday in clashes that went on into the night and wounded dozens of people.Hundreds of people had been marching in the capital as part of a historic wave of protests that has swept Lebanon since Oct. 17, furious at a ruling elite that steered the country toward its worst economic crisis in decades.Since the protests pushed Saad al-Hariri to resign as prime minister, talks between the main parties have
  
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• ‘I can see you in the bed’: Hacker uses Amazon Ring camera to shout at woman as she went to sleep

  14-12-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A hacker exploited an Amazon-owned home-security device to yell at a woman as she slept – demanding she “wake the f*** up”.The Ring camera was designed to give users peace of mind, and was used by an Atlanta woman who has asked to remain anonymous to keep an eye on her pet dog Beau – according to local broadcaster WSB-TV2.
  
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• Argentina: British tourist killed in mugging attempt

  14-12-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Assailants shot two British tourists while trying to rob them in Argentina's capital Saturday, killing one and seriously injuring the other, authorities said Saturday.The attack occurred as the tourists approached a luxury hotel in the Puerto Madero area of Buenos Aires, the Argentine news agency Telam said.Argentine officials said in a statement that assailants on a motorcycle, apparently supported by accomplices in a car, tried to steal the belongings of the tourists, according to Telam.
  
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• EF1 tornado flips over camper, leaves a path of damage, downed power lines

  14-12-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thunderstorms erupted in parts of the southeastern United States, which spawned an EF-1 tornado Saturday morning in Flagler County, Florida.Numerous trees are down and several structures have been damaged, according to WOGX. There are also reports that a tree has gone through a home."A tornado touched down on the south side of Flagler Beach this morning at approximately 5:45 a.m. There have been no reported injuries and a camper was overturned in Gamble Rogers State Park. SRA1A is open and there
  
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• House Republicans once passed a law to hamper Obama. Now it's being used to delay Trump's wall.

  14-12-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hindsight, they say, is 20/20. Some House Republicans might have that cliche on their minds these days.That's because U.S. District Court Judge David Briones has continually ruled against the Trump administration's efforts to fund the president's oft-promised wall at the U.S.'s southern border by pointing to an obscure legislative provision passed by the House GOP back in 2014, Politico reports.The provision, which prohibits the chief executive from doing anything to "eliminate or reduce funding
  
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• America Must Dissuade China's Interest In Nuclear Arms

  14-12-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  These steps should assure America's allies and make real nuclear threat reductions, including useful arms limits, much more likely not just in East Asia, but globally.
  
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• Justin Trudeau moves forward with ban on LGBT+ conversion therapy across Canada

  14-12-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LGBT+ conversion therapy could soon be banned across Canada after Justin Trudeau made this one of the priorities for his new government.In a letter to the country’s justice secretary on Friday, the prime minister stated that banning the controversial practice of attempting to forcibly change people’s gender or sexuality must be a “top priority”.
  
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• Lebanon counter-protesters clash with police in Beirut

  14-12-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Late Saturday afternoon, young counter-protesters from an area of Beirut dominated by the powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah and fellow Shiite movement Amal tried to raid a key anti-government protest camp in Martyrs' Square.The square, in central Beirut, has been at the epicentre of protests which flared in mid-October over perceived official corruption, poor services and economic woes.Both Amal and Hezbollah are partners in Lebanon's cross-sectarian government.
  
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• NYC paying $625K to mom whose baby was ripped away by police

  14-12-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York City will pay $625,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed by a mother whose toddler was yanked from her arms by police in a widely seen online video, the city's Law Department said.Jazmine Headley sued the city in August alleging trauma and humiliation and seeking unspecified damages over the December 2018 incident at a Brooklyn benefits office.On Friday, the Law Department said the city will pay to resolve the lawsuit.
  
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• Supporters of Iran-backed Iraqi group protest US sanctions

  14-12-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of demonstrators supporting a powerful Iran-backed militia group in Iraq poured into a central Baghdad plaza Saturday, some burning American flags to protest recent U.S. sanctions against key leaders.The protest came as Washington pointed fingers at Iranian proxy groups for a recent spate of rocket attacks against its military bases in Iraq.The protesters burned American and Israeli flags, as well as cardboard cutouts of U.S. President Donald Trump in Firdous Square, a central plaza tha
  
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• Democrats rip McConnell after he vowed 'total coordination' with Trump White House on impeachment trial

  14-12-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Over Sen. Mitch McConnell's "total coordination" with the Trump White House, Rep. Val Demings, said the Kentucky Republican "must recuse himself."
  
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• Ford recalls 500,000 vehicles over ‘flammable flooring’

  14-12-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ford Motor Company has recalled over 500,00 pickup trucks after finding that carpet flooring in certain models could start fires with the potential to “spread within the vehicle”, the auto maker said in a statement.The recall included Ford Super Duty pickup truck models between the years of 2017 and 2019 sold in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and followed reports of at least one fire related to this condition in the US.
  
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• UN deadlocked, detached from climate emergency

  14-12-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A UN climate summit in Madrid risked collapsing Saturday after marathon negotiations between countries left them more divided than ever over on how to fight global warming and pay for its ravages.Diplomats from rich nations, emerging giants and the world's poorest countries -- each for their own reasons -- found fault in a draft agreement put forward by host Chile in a botched attempt to strike common ground.Faced with five-alarm warnings from science, deadly extreme weather made worse by climat
  
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• Do star athletes make too much money?

  14-12-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With athletes in America's biggest sports leagues raking in salaries worth $300 million and more, is it time to reign in the big spending or do superstars deserve the big bucks they make?
  
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• No Stealth Jets For You: How Pakistan Is Making Due With The JF-17 Thunder

  14-12-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It should not be underestimated.
  
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• UN climate talks face failure

  14-12-2019 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A UN climate summit in Madrid risked failing Saturday after all-night negotiations between countries left them more divided than ever over on how to fight global warming and pay for its ravages.
  
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• Italy’s Sardines Rally in Backlash Against League’s Salvini

  14-12-2019 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s maverick Sardines movement, a silent rebellion against rightist League leader Matteo Salvini, packed a historic square in Rome on Saturday with its first national rally in a backlash against populism.Several tens of thousands of protesters, many waving fish placards, crowded the piazza outside the San Giovanni Basilica in the capital, the latest in a series of demonstrations that squeezes people into historic squares like cans of fish. Organizers estimated more than
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's humiliating defeat a 'canary in the coal mine' for Democrats warns Mike Bloomberg

  14-12-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg has described Jeremy Corbyn’s crushing defeat as a “canary in the coal mine” for the Democrats as the party gears up for 2020 election. With the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary only a couple of months away, Democrat centrists have seized upon the UK election results as evidence of the danger the party faces if it drifts too far to the left. In recent weeks divisions between the centrist and radical wings have been laid bare, particularl
  
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• Runner accused of slapping reporter's butt on live TV now charged with sexual battery

  14-12-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thomas Callaway, accused of inappropriately touching reporter Alex Bozarjian on live TV, has been charged with sexual battery.
  
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• Alyssa Milano’s 'facts are wrong': Andrew Yang refutes activist’s allegations of campaign staffer sexual misconduct

  14-12-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang denied allegations made by actress Alyssa Milano that an unnamed campaign engaged in sexual misconduct, saying the matter had been looked at promptly.
  
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• A woman who works with sexual misconduct survivors says Harvey Weinstein's tentative $25 million settlement isn't surprising because victims are used to settling for 'less than what we deserve'

  14-12-2019 17:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Laura Palumbo, communications director for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, spoke to Insider about Weinstein's tentative $25 million settlement.
  
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• Joe Biden told a protestor at his Texas campaign rally that he's 'just like Donald Trump' for asking about corruption in Ukraine

  14-12-2019 17:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At a campaign event in San Antonio, Joe Biden was interrupted by a protestor. Biden told the crowd not to hurt him, because it wasn't a 'Trump rally.'
  
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• Boris Johnson's victory is 'catastrophic warning' to Democrats: Bloomberg

  14-12-2019 17:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boris Johnson's election victory is a 'catastrophic warning' to Democrats in the United States, presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg has warned.
  
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• White House defends Melania Trump's silence on Greta Thunberg attack

  14-12-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Donald Trump lashed out of Time magazine honour* First lady had objected to public reference to son Barron* Opinion: Why is the president cyberbullying a 16-year-old girl?Melania Trump has been silent over her husband’s attacks on Greta Thunberg after protesting a mention of her own son in an impeachment hearing because Barron Trump “is not an activist who travels the globe giving speeches”, a spokeswoman said on Friday.“He is a 13-year-old who wants and deserves privac
  
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• Joe Biden warns Democrats that UK election shows what happens when candidates 'move so far to the left'

  14-12-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden and other centrist US Democrats have warned against their party moving too far to the left ahead of 2020, following the historic defeat of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the UK general election.The former vice president suggested Mr Corbyn’s liberal platform and having taken the Labour party “so far to the left” ultimately contributed to Boris Johnson’s landslide victory this week.
  
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• Quiet pattern in the Northwest to be disrupted by atmospheric river this week

  14-12-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Overall, a break in disruptive weather is expected during the next several days across the northwestern United States. However, this break will not last long with the stormy pattern returning soon.Other than a spotty snow shower or two, the quiet pattern will started over the weekend.High pressure will settle in the northern Rockies for Monday and Tuesday, continuing to shield most of the Northwest from any wet weather. The only exception would be along the immediate coast of Washington and Oreg
  
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• Quiet pattern in the Northwest to be disrupted by atmospheric river next week

  14-12-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Overall, a break in disruptive weather is expected during the next several days across the northwestern United States. However, this break will not last long with the stormy pattern returning soon.Other than a spotty snow shower or two, the quiet pattern will start over the weekend.High pressure will settle in the northern Rockies for Monday and Tuesday, continuing to shield most of the Northwest from any wet weather. The only exception would be along the immediate coast of Washington and Oregon
  
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• Jesus, Mary and Joseph in a cage: Political nativity scenes are causing a stir across the US

  14-12-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Churches across the country are using Christmas nativity scenes to make political statements about the border crisis, climate change and more.
  
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