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• Democrats release tips for election campaigns to fight online disinformation

  16-12-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The recommendation was part of a slew of tips https://democrats.org/who-we-are/what-we-do/disinfo published by the DNC on how campaigns, state parties, the general public and social media companies can combat disinformation."Campaigns and state parties are not powerless in the fight against online disinformation," the DNC said in the recommendations.
  
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• Brazil police bust 'macabre' dog-fighting ring in Sao Paulo

  16-12-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dozens of people were arrested in Brazil's biggest city for alleged ties to an international dog-fighting ring, after a raid on a dog fight that included a “macabre ritual” of serving barbecued dog meat to spectators, authorities said Monday.Nineteen pit bulls were rescued from the property on the outskirts of Sao Paulo's metropolitan area.Police said it was part of an international dog-fighting circuit held last year in the Dominican Republic.
  
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• Mexico says 2 more anchors may have come from Cortes' ships

  16-12-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two more 16th century anchors have been found at the spot where conquistador Hernán Cortés is believed to have scuttled his ships, experts said Monday.Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said that while the anchors cannot be positively identified as belonging to Cortés' fleet, they appear to match the time period.Another Spanish expedition came to the area just after Cortés, so the anchors could have been from those ships.
  
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• U.S. officials arrest man who wanted to take ship to join Islamic State

  16-12-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Connecticut man was arrested as he tried to reach a ship to travel to the Middle East to fight alongside the Islamic State, federal prosecutors said on Monday.Federal prosecutors in Connecticut said they arrested Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 22, on Sunday on charges of attempting to provide material support to Islamic State, which U.S. authorities have designated a foreign terrorist organization.In court filings, federal agents say Elshazly told others starting in September 2018 that he wanted to tr
  
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• Congress Jams Tax Repeals in $1.4 Trillion Spending Bills

  16-12-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Congress is planning to use a $1.4 trillion package of two must-pass spending bills to repeal Obamacare taxes, raise the age for tobacco purchases to 21 and extend the U.S. Export-Import Bank for seven years, according to legislation released Monday.The negotiations continued up until the last minute on the bills, which needs to pass the House and Senate before current funding expires on Friday. Although the bills have been filed, further changes could be made as amendments.Obamac
  
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• Jaden Smith says people offered him food and asked if he was sick after his parents did a very public health intervention on their talk show

  16-12-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 21-year-old appeared on "Red Table Talk" and recalled the response he got from strangers after talking about his health on a previous episode.
  
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• A Brief History of Tiny Nuclear Reactors

  16-12-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  From America's smallest nuke sub to Russia's floating power plant.
  
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• Congress Finally Agrees to Cover ‘Sonic Attack’ Victims’ Medical Bills

  16-12-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Over 40 U.S. government officials and family members who suffered mysterious brain injuries during their service overseas will finally receive guaranteed, long-term medical care thanks to a deal included in Congress’ year-end spending bill.In 2018, U.S. officials serving at embassies in Cuba and China began to report strange sensations of sound and pressure, causing symptoms consistent with traumatic brain injury. Who or what caused the sickness remains unconfirmed, despite efforts from th
  
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• Immigrants seeking driver's licenses line up across New York

  16-12-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bundled in winter jackets, immigrants lined up at some Department of Motor Vehicle offices throughout New York as the state began issuing driver's licenses Monday that don't require applicants to prove they are in the country legally.Hundreds of New Yorkers waited outside motor vehicle agencies in New York City, while several upstate clerks said they saw few applicants.License applicants without a valid Social Security number can now submit multiple alternative forms of ID that includes valid pa
  
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• Russian state TV airs Giuliani interview after he spreads Ukraine conspiracy theories

  16-12-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian state-run TV has aired Rudy Giuliani’s interview with OAN, a pro-Trump news channel, in which he promoted widely debunked conspiracy theories to undermine the impeachment inquiry into the president.
  
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• AMLO's 'Maya Train' wins in landslide in Mexico

  16-12-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Indigenous communities in southern Mexico voted overwhelmingly to approve President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's pet project to build a regional railroad aimed at boosting tourism and economic development, the government said Monday.The $6.2-billion "Maya Train" is meant to link Caribbean resorts such as Cancun and Playa del Carmen with ancient Mayan archaeological sites such as Palenque and Chichen Itza, passing through the impoverished interior of southeastern Mexico along the way.Lopez Obrad
  
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• 11 striking photos from 2019 show the US military in action around the world

  16-12-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Check out the year's best military images that show US troops jumping from planes, flying jets in close formation, fighting an intense blaze and more.
  
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• Feds: Connecticut man wanted to fight for Islamic State

  16-12-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Connecticut man who allegedly expressed interest in fighting for the Islamic State group in Syria was arrested as he prepared to leave the U.S. by boat, federal authorities said Monday.Ahmad Khalil Elshazly, 22, of West Haven, was arrested Sunday in the shoreline town of Stonington, where he expected to board a boat and begin a trip to Turkey, prosecutors said Sunday.Federal authorities including Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham allege Elshazly, a U.S. citizen, began telling other people
  
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• Schiff, Nadler Likely to Be Trial Managers: Impeachment Update

  16-12-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The full House is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to adopt the two articles approved by the Judiciary Committee and make President Donald Trump only the third president in U.S. history to be impeached.Here are the latest developments:Schiff, Nadler Likely to Be Trial Managers (4:45 p.m.)House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff and Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler are likely to be named by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lead the House managers who will present evidence against Trump
  
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• China and Russia Draft UN Measure to Ease North Korea Sanctions

  16-12-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- China and Russia have circulated a draft resolution to the UN Security Council that would ease sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear program, even as Kim Jong Un’s government threatens to take provocative action unless President Donald Trump relaxes the economic penalties by the end of this month.The draft resolution asks the Security Council to adjust sanctions against North Korea “in light” of the country’s compliance with certain United Nations r
  
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• Under fire over climate summit, Chile blames big polluters

  16-12-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTIAGO/LONDON/MADRID (Reuters) - Chile defended itself on Monday against criticism it was too weak in presiding over international climate change negotiations, saying it did all it could but that four big polluting countries got in the way.Chilean President Sebastian Pinera described as "insufficient" the agreements reached on Sunday after marathon talks, but said it was not for the host’s lack of trying and criticism of its role was unfair."You have to convince 195 countries, and so if
  
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• The US military wants to deliver drinking water to troops in the desert by sucking it out of the air

  16-12-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DARPA is trying to figure out how to extract water from the ambient air as a way to provide drinking water to troops on the move in really dry areas.
  
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• At noisy town hall, a vulnerable U.S. Democrat says 'yes' to impeaching Trump

  16-12-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic Representative Elissa Slotkin, co-author of a column that helped launch the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, ended months of uncertainty on Monday by telling voters at a noisy town hall meeting that she will vote for impeachment.The cheers - along with chants of "Impeach Slotkin, keep Trump!" - that greeted her decision underlined the wrenching partisan pressures that vulnerable Democrats in swing districts have faced ahead of this week's planned House vote on impeaching
  
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• Flynn set for Jan. 28 sentencing after judge rejects claims ex-Trump aide was tricked

  16-12-2019 22:27 via politico.com
  
  The former national security adviser pleaded guilty to a felony false statement charge, but has since claimed that he was unfairly targeted.
  
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• Trump impeachment: Democrats push for Bolton to testify in Senate trial

  16-12-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Schumer writes to McConnell seeking terms of trial* The lies have it: how Republicans abandoned the truthDays before a final vote to impeach Donald Trump is expected in the House over accusations that the president “betrayed the nation by abusing his high office”, Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, is warning that a Senate trial without witnesses would amount to a “cover-up” by the White House.The demand that John Bolton, the former national security advise
  
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• The Real Meaning of the Statues on Easter Island

  16-12-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The stone monoliths have stumped scientists for centuries. Not anymore.
  
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• Trump: Giuliani 'does this out of love’

  16-12-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump talks about Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine investigations Downloadable
  
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• Thousands of Gambians demand President Barrow step down

  16-12-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Gambia's capital Banjul on Monday demanding that President Adama Barrow respect his pledge to quit after three years in office.The president, a relative unknown at the time, defeated former autocrat Yahya Jammeh in elections in the tiny West African state in 2016.According to the founding charter of Barrow's ruling coalition, the president was meant to lead a provisional government for three years and then call elections, and not stand.
  
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• California 'Tool-Box Killer' Lawrence Bittaker dies in prison at 79

  16-12-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bittaker, who was sentenced to death in 1981, died at the age of 79 at San Quentin State Prison on Friday, the California Department of Corrections said.Although there are 729 condemned inmates on California's death row, the state has not executed a prisoner since 2006, when a federal judge declared its lethal injection protocol unconstitutional.In March, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order suspending executions, saying he was deeply troubled by the possibility that an innocent perso
  
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• Russia's state television calls Trump its 'agent'

  16-12-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned home from his visit with President Trump in the Oval Office last week, Russian state media was gloating over the spectacle. TV channel Rossiya 1 aired a segment entitled “Puppet Master and ‘Agent’ — How to Understand Lavrov’s Meeting With Trump.”
  
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• Supreme Court refuses to consider cities' efforts to prosecute the homeless for sleeping outside

  16-12-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Supreme Court refused to hear a case on the question of whether the homeless can be prosecuted using laws designed to regulate public camping and sleeping – or whether that constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment."
  
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• China, Russia propose lifting some U.N. sanctions on North Korea, U.S. says not the time

  16-12-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China and Russia on Monday proposed the U.N. Security Council lift a ban on North Korea exporting statues, seafood and textiles, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters, in a move Russia said is aimed at encouraging talks between Washington and Pyongyang.The draft also called for a ban to be lifted on North Koreans working abroad and the termination of a 2017 requirement for all such workers to be repatriated by next week.The draft would also exempt inter-Korean rail and road cooperation
  
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• Woman gets 10 months for Chinese maternity tourism scheme

  16-12-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge on Monday sentenced a woman to 10 months in prison for her role in a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to give birth to children who would automatically receive U.S. citizenship.U.S. District Judge James Selna issued the sentence in Santa Ana, to Dongyuan Li, who wiped away tears with her hand several times during the hearing.Federal prosecutors opposed the sentence and said they believed Li should be sentenced to years in prison to deter others from
  
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• Starbucks Apologizes after Police Deputies Denied Service in California Store

  16-12-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Starbucks has apologized for an incident at one of its California locations in which two police officers were allegedly refused service following allegations that the coffee chain maintained an "anti-police" culture.The two Riverside County sheriff's deputies allegedly waited an unreasonable amount of time to be served and were "laughed at" by employees before leaving and going elsewhere for coffee, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said."They tried to get served, they asked if anyone was goi
  
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• Supreme Court upholds homeless people's right to sleep on public property outdoors

  16-12-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a ruling that said homeless people have a constitutional right to sleep on public property outdoors if no other shelter is available to them.The justices without comment on Monday turned away an appeal by Boise, Idaho, which said the federal appeals court ruling would leave cities “powerless” to address residents’ health and safety concerns.
  
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• Schumer: Having Hunter Biden testify would make impeachment trial a 'circus'

  16-12-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., suggested he doesn’t believe former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter should testify as a witness in a possible impeachment trial in the Senate, saying it would turn the process into a “circus.”
  
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• Why Did Hallmark Have to Be Told That Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry Leveled at the Zola Ad Was Wrong?

  16-12-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It had a happy ending, of course. In the end the Hallmark Channel told the bigots of One Million Moms where to go—but only after first capitulating to their prejudice.On Thursday Hallmark initially did what One Million Moms had asked them to do, which was to terminate the on-screen advertising of Zola.com, a wedding website that—shock, horror—featured a lesbian couple getting married and looking happy.The Gay Kiss in ‘Twinkle all the Way’ Could Herald a Lifetime Chr
  
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• 'Obamacare' sign-up deadline is extended following glitches

  16-12-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People will get more time to sign up for “Obamacare” health insurance, the Trump administration announced Monday, following a spate of computer glitches over the weekend.The new HealthCare.gov deadline is 3 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a statement.It was the second round of problems with online sign-ups for the agency in weeks.
  
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• Judge sets Flynn sentencing, rejects defense arguments

  16-12-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge on Monday scheduled a sentencing hearing for next month for Michael Flynn after rejecting arguments from the former Trump administration national security adviser that prosecutors had withheld evidence favorable to his case.The order from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington pushes the case closer to a resolution following months of challenges and arguments from Flynn's attorneys, who had leveled a series of accusations against the FBI and the Justice Department.
  
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• Kudlow: U.S.-China 'Phase One' deal 'absolutely' done, U.S. exports to China will double

  16-12-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The so-called Phase One trade deal between Washington and Beijing has been "absolutely completed," a top White House adviser said on Monday, adding that U.S. exports to China will double under the agreement.
  
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• Cuba says it is prepared if U.S. chooses to sever diplomatic ties

  16-12-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cuba's Communist government is prepared if the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump decides to sever diplomatic relations although it hopes that does not come to pass, a top Cuban diplomat said on Monday.Relations were re-established five years ago this week under former Democratic President Barack Obama following half a century of hostility, a stance that earned the United States lots of goodwill from Latin America, which has been clamoring for such a detente for years.
  
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• Amazon just barred third-party sellers from using FedEx Ground for Prime deliveries

  16-12-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The decision "limits the options for those small businesses on some of the highest demand shipping days in history," a FedEx spokesperson said.
  
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• Budget deal puts access to health care above curbing costs

  16-12-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The bipartisan budget deal announced in Congress protects access to health care under the Affordable Care Act but it also ditches one of that law's main cost controls.The deal would repeal a cost-control measure in “Obamacare” known as the Cadillac Tax, an unpopular levy on benefit-rich health insurance plans scheduled to take effect in 2022.“President Obama thought it was very important to have additional access paid for,” said Sebelius.
  
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• Argentina gang behind British tourist murder held welcome signs in airport arrival, say officials

  16-12-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Argentinian crime gang which killed a British businessman held welcome signs in the airport arrivals hall as cover to spot wealthy tourists, officials say, as four men have been arrested in connection with the murder. Property magnate Matthew Gibbard and his family arrived at Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires on Saturday morning, and were identified as targets because of their “high-end watches”, according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice and Security in Arge
  
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• Judge rejects claims by Trump ex-adviser Flynn of FBI misconduct

  16-12-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. judge on Monday flatly rejected a last-ditch bid by President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn to get the criminal charges to which he already pleaded guilty dropped, brushing aside his claims of misconduct by prosecutors and the FBI.U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Flynn to appear for sentencing on Jan. 28, concluding that the retired Army lieutenant general had failed to prove a "single" violation by the prosecution or FBI officials of withholding
  
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• Estonia Apologizes After Official Calls New Finnish PM ‘Cashier’

  16-12-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Estonia apologized to its biggest trading partner after a nationalist official from the Baltic country’s ruling coalition insulted Finland’s new prime minister.President Kersti Kaljulaid called her counterpart in Helsinki following weekend comments by EKRE party head Mart Helme calling Sanna Marin, who recently became the world’s youngest premier, a “cashier” -- a reference to a previous job she held.Helme said “other street activists and uneduc
  
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• Trump news: President lashes out after impeachment report accuses him of bribery, as Republicans urged not to conduct 'cover-up' Senate trial

  16-12-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump unleashed a furious tirade against his opponents and ranted about his personal ratings as a Fox News poll suggested half of Americans want him removed from the White House ahead of a looming vote on his impeachment.The president launched personal attacks on Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff as the House Judiciary Committee published its full 658-page report into the Ukraine scandal, accusing him of bribery and concluding he had “abused his power in soliciting and pressuring a vulne
  
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• Obamacare tax repeal added to spending bill

  16-12-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Retired coal miners and longtime opponents of Obama-era taxes on high-cost health plans are eyeing big wins as top congressional leaders and the Trump White House close in on a deal on a government-wide spending bill that's also carrying lots of overdue Washington business.
  
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• Child sexual abuse substantiated against ex-Oklahoma priest

  16-12-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City said Monday it has substantiated an allegation of child sexual abuse against another priest.The archdiocese said in a news release that Father Papa-Rao Pasala admitted to “inappropriate though not-yet criminal advances” with a 17-year-old in 2001 when he was assigned to a church in Edmond for one month before returning to his native India.The archdiocese said it notified the Diocese of Baker in Oregon, where Pasala was serving as pastor and that the O
  
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• How US Army engineers keep things working at the US's northernmost military base in the world

  16-12-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The location and harsh conditions they face mean Army engineers have to use special techniques to keep everything running properly.
  
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• Need to Impeach hits Trump with new ads ahead of House vote

  16-12-2019 20:33 via politico.com
  
  The outside group is starting a new campaign ahead of a Senate trial for President Donald Trump.
  
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• Mexico backs down from trade deal drama

  16-12-2019 20:20 via politico.com
  
  The House remains scheduled to pass the deal this week.
  
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• Associate of Giuliani says $1M from Russia was loan to wife

  16-12-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who has been indicted on U.S. campaign finance charges, said a $1 million transfer into his wife’s bank account from Russia was the proceeds of a loan, not an attempt to conceal his assets.
  
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• U.S. spending deal would raise tobacco age, deny some Trump border wall money

  16-12-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican and Democratic lawmakers hope to pass the $1.4 trillion spending bill before current government funding runs out on Saturday, to avoid a partial government shutdown and head off the kind of messy budget battle that resulted in a record 35-day interruption of government services late last year and early this year.This drew opposition from bipartisan lawmakers who said it hurt innovation at medical device companies.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas battles to stay out of jail, cites Ukraine 'threats'

  16-12-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's lawyer, should be allowed to remain under home detention, not jail, lawyer argues
  
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