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• NFL great Brown on meeting Trump: 'I fell in love with him'

  13-12-2016 23:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  NFL legend Jim Brown stopped by Trump Tower Tuesday for a meeting pegged as a discussion about issues facing the African-American community, saying he "fell in love" with President-elect Donald Trump.
  
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• IBM promises to hire Americans ahead of Trump meeting

  13-12-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We have thousands of open positions at any given moment, and we intend to hire about 25,000 professionals in the next four years in the United States," Rometty said in a USA Today editorial published on Tuesday afternoon. IBM spokesman Adam Pratt declined to say how that hiring might be offset by staff reductions or disclose how many people IBM employs in the United States. “We expect to end 2016 with our U.S. workforce about the same size as it was at the beginning of the year.
  
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• U.S. judge to review FBI's Clinton emails search warrant

  13-12-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. judge on Tuesday directed federal prosecutors to show him the search warrant application used to enable the FBI to access emails related to Hillary Clinton's private server that were discovered shortly before the Nov. 8 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan ordered prosecutors by Thursday to turn over the application, which investigators obtained shortly after FBI Director James Comey informed Congress of newly discovered emails on Oct. 28, 11 days before th
  
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• McCain on Tillerson: 'I would never accept an award from Vladimir Putin'

  13-12-2016 23:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican Sen. John McCain said in a radio interview Tuesday that, unlike secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, he wouldn't have accepted an award from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  
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• Celebrity chef challenges Trump to end legal battle and instead donate to vets

  13-12-2016 23:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Celebrity chef Jose Andres has a proposition for President-elect Donald Trump: end their legal battle stemming from Trump's inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants and instead donate money to a veterans organization.
  
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• From Syria to North Korea, Tillerson would inherit a messy global situation

  13-12-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  From Syria's bloody civil war and the slow-burning crisis in eastern Ukraine to perennial diplomatic headaches such as the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs, Rex Tillerson would face a messy, complex world as the chief U.S. diplomat. Below are brief descriptions of some of the problems that will land on his plate if he is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 69th U.S. secretary of state after a career spent at Exxon Mobil Corp, where he rose to be chief executive. SYRIA Tillerson will inh
  
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• Trump offers interior secretary job to Congressman Ryan Zinke: Politico

  13-12-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has offered the job of interior secretary to first-term Republican Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing two transition officials and someone familiar with the offer. Zinke, a former Navy Seal commander, has yet to accept and has given no indication as to which way he is leaning, Politico said. Earlier on Tuesday, Politico reported that Trump was considering Zinke along with fellow U.S. Representatives Raul Labrad
  
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• White males dominate Trump's top cabinet posts

  13-12-2016 22:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  By selecting ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as secretary of state, Donald Trump on Tuesday guaranteed that his four most influential departments will, if confirmed, be led entirely by white males for the first time since George H.W. Bush's first cabinet was approved in 1989.
  
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• In interviews, Trump's EPA pick questioned climate change, said Obama EPA rules would be undone

  13-12-2016 22:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One day after Donald Trump declared victory in the 2016 presidential election, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt took to the airwaves on a local radio show titled "Exploring Energy."
  
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• Gambia's Jammeh digs in as regional leaders fail to reach deal

  13-12-2016 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Edward McAllister BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's ruling party challenged his defeat in a Dec. 1 election at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as West African leaders failed to reach a deal that would see him accept the result and end a deepening political crisis. Soldiers also seized the headquarters of the national elections commission and sealed it off just hours before the mediation delegation representing regional bloc ECOWAS touched down in the tiny riverside nation. ...
  
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• Trump's day: Kanye, NFL stars, Bill Gates

  13-12-2016 21:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The lobby of Trump Tower rolled out the figurative red carpet Tuesday as President-elect Donald Trump welcomed a celebrity guest list for meetings as he prepares to take office.
  
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• More votes than voters in many Detroit precincts: newspaper

  13-12-2016 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Numerous voting machines in heavily Democratic Detroit showed a greater number of ballots than poll workers records said were cast in the Nov. 8 presidential election, the Detroit News reported on Tuesday. About 37 percent of precincts in Wayne County, Michigan, where Detroit is located, showed such discrepancies, the newspaper reported, citing records prepared at its request by the county. Voting irregularities in Detroit have prompted the state to audit the election results in the
  
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• Accused fake-news pizza gunman planned raid for days: affidavit

  13-12-2016 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A North Carolina man carrying multiple weapons spent days planning to shut down what he thought was a child sex ring run out of a Washington pizzeria because "the world is too afraid to act," according to federal court documents filed on Tuesday. The suspect, Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, was charged with a federal gun violation on Tuesday over the Dec. 4 incident at the crowded Comet Ping Pong restaurant, the target of a fake news story. Welch, of Durham, North Carolina, is accused of firing an AR-
  
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• US halts some arms sales to Saudi Arabia over civilian deaths in Yemen

  13-12-2016 21:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Obama administration is suspending certain arms sales to Saudi Arabia and limiting military support for the kingdom's campaign in Yemen over concerns about civilian casualties, two administration sources said Tuesday.
  
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• Gates, Rice pushed Tillerson nomination after firm worked for ExxonMobil

  13-12-2016 20:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates both played a crucial role in convincing President-elect Donald Trump to pick ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his nominee for secretary of state -- and they worked with him at their firm that professionally consulted for Tillerson's company.
  
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• Senate panel plans hearing on Russia hacking in January: spokeswoman

  13-12-2016 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans a closed briefing and a public hearing on the Russia hacking issue as soon as the Senate returns from its year-end recess in the first week of January, a spokeswoman said. "The committee plans to systematically look at this issue and will begin with both a classified briefing and an open hearing in early January when the Senate returns," said Micah Johnson, a spokeswoman for the panel's Republican chairman, Senator Bob Corker.
  
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• Senate fight looms after Trump taps Exxon CEO as top U.S. diplomat

  13-12-2016 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump named the head of Exxon Mobil Corp, Rex Tillerson, as his choice for U.S. secretary of state on Tuesday and won backing from some Republican foreign policy figures ahead of a possible Senate fight over the oilman and his ties to Russia. The Exxon CEO potentially faces difficulties getting confirmed in the Republican-controlled Senate. Some lawmakers worry about his links to Moscow and opposition to U.S. sanctions on Russia, whi
  
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• Bob Corker plans to launch new Russia hacking inquiry

  13-12-2016 20:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The influential chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to launch a new investigation about Russia's hacking of the elections, the latest push by a top Republican to explore allegations of improper meddling by the Kremlin -- despite President-elect Donald Trump's own skepticism of the issue.
  
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• Cheney, Baker back Tillerson's selection

  13-12-2016 20:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's selection of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for secretary of state drew praise from two fixtures of the GOP establishment: former Vice President Dick Cheney and former secretary of state Jim Baker.
  
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• Trump taps Exxon's Tillerson as top U.S. diplomat, lawmakers worried

  13-12-2016 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump named the head of Exxon Mobil Corp, Rex Tillerson, as his choice for U.S. secretary of state on Tuesday and won backing from some Republican foreign policy figures for the oilman despite his ties to Russia. The Exxon CEO potentially faces a tough fight to be confirmed in the Republican-controlled Senate. Some lawmakers worry about his links to Moscow and opposition to U.S. sanctions on Russia, which awarded him a friendship med
  
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• Pentagon: 3 ISIS leaders killed in airstrike

  13-12-2016 20:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Three ISIS leaders were killed last week by a coalition airstrike in ISIS' self-declared capital, Raqqa, Syria, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
  
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• Senators to Trump: Sell your holdings

  13-12-2016 20:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Nearly two dozen Democratic senators are calling on Donald Trump to sell his business holdings to avoid conflicts of interest when he becomes president.
  
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• Racist post about Michelle Obama sparks West Virginia review of nonprofit

  13-12-2016 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A West Virginia nonprofit has reinstated a director who stepped down last month after calling first lady Michelle Obama "an ape in heels," prompting the state government to review its contracts with the group, the governor's office said on Tuesday. Pamela Taylor resigned her position last month as director of social services group Clay County Development Corp, after her comment about the first lady on Facebook went viral online and sparked outrage. "The State of West Virginia vehemently opposes
  
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• Trump weighs two more U.S. lawmakers for top Interior post: POLITICO

  13-12-2016 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is considering U.S. Representatives Raul Labrador of Idaho and Ryan Zinke of Montana for Interior secretary even as fellow Republican lawmaker Cathy McMorris Rodgers remained the top contender, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing sources. Last week, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters that Trump is expected to nominate McMorris Rodgers, the House Republican Conference Chair who hails from Washington state, to run the U.S. Depar
  
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• Kanye West meets Trump, fueling speculation about role for rapper

  13-12-2016 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gina Cherelus NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kanye West met Republican President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Tuesday, sending social media into a frenzy and fueling speculation about a possible performance at Trump's inauguration or an informal administration role for the rapper. Asked about the purpose of the 15-minute meeting, Trump told reporters: "Friends, just friends. Friends for a long time." Trump added that the two had talked about "Life.
  
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• Microsoft co-founder Gates, Trump discuss innovation

  13-12-2016 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft Corp co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates said he and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump had a good conversation about "the power of innovation" on a variety of issues, including health and education. "We had a good conversation about innovation, how it can help in health, education, impact of foreign aide and energy," Gates, who runs one of the largest private charities in the world, told reporters as he left Trump Tower in New York City after their talk.
  
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• Gambia's ruling party appeals Jammeh's poll defeat in court

  13-12-2016 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DAKAR (Reuters) - Gambia's ruling APRC party on Tuesday filed a petition to the Supreme Court challenging the outcome of Dec. 1 polls which its candidate, incumbent President Yahya Jammeh, narrowly lost, court documents showed. "...The non compliance mentioned in this petition seriously affected the credibility of the result of the said Presidential elections and necessarily render them invalid," the document said. (Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Louise Ireland)
  
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• Dick Cheney, James Baker back Tillerson's selection

  13-12-2016 19:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's selection of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for secretary of state drew praise from two fixtures of the GOP establishment: former Vice President Dick Cheney and former secretary of state Jim Baker.
  
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• 'Pizzagate' shooting suspect facing new federal charges

  13-12-2016 19:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The North Carolina man whom police say fired shots in a Washington pizzeria while investigating an online conspiracy theory known as "Pizzagate" will face new federal charges Tuesday, according to the US Attorney's office.
  
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• Trump picks former Texas Governor Perry as energy secretary

  13-12-2016 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump has chosen former Texas Governor Rick Perry to head the U.S. Department of Energy, a source close to the president-elect said, putting him in charge of an agency he proposed eliminating during his bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. The choice of Perry adds to the list of oil-drilling advocates skeptical about climate change who Trump has picked for senior positions in his Cabinet, worrying environmentalists but cheering an in
  
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• Kanye West-Trump meeting sparks talk of inauguration performance

  13-12-2016 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rapper Kanye West turned up at Trump Tower on Tuesday for a meeting with Republican President-elect Donald Trump, firing up social media and fueling speculation West may have discussed performing at Trump's inauguration. Asked about the purpose of the 15-minute meeting, Trump told reporters: "Friends, just friends. Friends for a long time." Trump added that the two had talked about "Life.
  
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• Trump's Cabinet: Taps oil exec, former Texas governor

  13-12-2016 17:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Trump will have about 4,000 government positions to fill, including some of the most important posts in the US government.
  
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• Factbox: Trump meetings include rapper Kanye West, Microsoft founder Bill Gates

  13-12-2016 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Donald Trump is holding a new round of meetings on Tuesday as he continues to form his administration before taking over from Democratic President Barack Obama on Jan. 20. The Republican president-elect has held more than 90 meetings so far, according to his transition team. Below is a list of scheduled meetings through Wednesday, as announced by his team. TUESDAY, DEC. ...
  
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• Accused 'fake-news' pizzeria gunman faces federal charge

  13-12-2016 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal prosecutors on Tuesday filed a gun charge against a North Carolina man suspected of shooting a rifle inside a Washington pizzeria that fake news stories posted online claimed was a front for a child sex ring. The man, Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, is expected to appear later in the day for an initial hearing in U.S. District Court over the Dec. 4 incident at the Comet Ping Pong restaurant, the U.S. Attorney's office said. It supersedes assault and gun charges brought against the Durham, Nort
  
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• Giuliani on Tillerson: 'I'm okay with the choice'

  13-12-2016 17:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani offered his support for President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate Rex Tillerson as secretary of state.
  
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• Giuliani on Tillerson: 'I'm OK with the choice'

  13-12-2016 17:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rudy Giuliani offered his support for President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate Rex Tillerson as secretary of state.
  
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• Perry is Trump's choice for energy secretary

  13-12-2016 17:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be his nominee for energy secretary, multiple transition sources told CNN Tuesday, which would make him head of an agency he once sought to eliminate.
  
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• Manchin will stay in Senate, not serve in Trump Cabinet

  13-12-2016 17:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Joe Manchin will not serve in Donald Trump's Cabinet, the Democratic West Virginian said in a statement Tuesday.
  
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• Kanye West meets with Trump at Trump Tower

  13-12-2016 17:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Kanye West met with President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday, after he was spotted arriving at Trump Tower in New York City, only days after the rapper first came back into the public eye following his hospitalization.
  
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• Nigerian President says Gambia's Jammeh was receptive to mediators

  13-12-2016 16:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BANJUL (Reuters) - Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday that Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh had been very receptive to a delegation of West African leaders who were expected to urge the long-ruling leader to step aside following a poll defeat. Asked if Jammeh had been receptive, he told reporters shortly after the meeting: "Yes, very much so." Earlier on Tuesday, Gambia's security forces entered the building of the Independent Electoral Commission, instructed its chairman to leave and hav
  
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• French candidate Fillon attacked over 'fuzzy' healthcare plan

  13-12-2016 16:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Balmforth PARIS (Reuters) - Francois Fillon, tipped to win France's presidential election next year, sought on Tuesday to dispel fears over his plans to reform public healthcare as opponents accused him of backtracking and sowing confusion. Fillon, 62, has raised concern even within his center-right Les Republicains party with an election manifesto that foresees limiting public health insurance to serious or long-term illnesses, with everything else covered privately. Aiming to counte
  
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• Trump taps Exxon's Tillerson as top U.S. diplomat, lawmakers uneasy

  13-12-2016 16:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump announced Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson as his choice for U.S. secretary of state on Tuesday, despite concerns from lawmakers in both political parties over the oilman's ties to Russia. Tillerson's experience in diplomacy stems from making deals with foreign countries for Exxon, the world's largest energy company, and Trump praised him as a successful international dealmaker who leads a global operation
  
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• Rapper Kanye West meets with Trump

  13-12-2016 16:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rapper Kanye West met with Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday, appearing briefly with the Republican president-elect in the Trump Tower lobby. "Friends, just friends," Trump said, calling West "a good man" he's known for a long time. West declined to answer reporters' questions, saying, "I just want to take a picture right now." West arrived with a small entourage, but his wife, businesswoman Kim Kardashian, was not with him.
  
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• Trump to pick former Texas Governor Perry as Energy Secretary

  13-12-2016 16:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former Texas Governor Rick Perry to head the U.S. Department of Energy, a transition official said, putting him in charge of the agency he proposed eliminating during his bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. The choice, confirmed late on Monday by the official, adds to the list of oil drilling advocates skeptical about climate change who have been picked for senior positions in Trump's Cabinet. Perry's proposal to scrap the Energy Departmen
  
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• Pentagon: Key Libyan town now free of ISIS

  13-12-2016 16:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced Tuesday that Sirte, Libya, is now free of ISIS.
  
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• West African leaders press Gambia's Jammeh to quit

  13-12-2016 15:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Edward McAllister BANJUL (Reuters) - Nobel peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and other African leaders on Tuesday urged Gambia's long-ruling President Yahya Jammeh to respect the will of the people and step down following his defeat in an election. Jammeh, who seized power in a coup in 1994 and has earned a reputation as a repressive leader, has declined to relinquish power despite initially conceding that he had lost to opponent Adama Barrow in the election on Dec.1. Jammeh's change of mi
  
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• Rubio endangers Tillerson nomination by saying he has 'serious concerns'

  13-12-2016 15:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Opposition to Rex Tillerson as the next secretary of state heightened Tuesday as Marco Rubio, a key Republican vote on the panel that oversees his confirmation, said he had "serious concerns about his nomination."
  
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• Gambia military takes over offices of electoral commission

  13-12-2016 15:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's security forces entered the building of the Independent Electoral Commission on Tuesday morning, instructed its chairman to leave and have since barred other employees from entering, the chairman, Alieu Momarr Njai, told Reuters. "The military came to my office and said I am not to touch anything and told me to leave," he said. "I am worried for my safety." West African heads of state began arriving in the country on Tuesday to try to convince long-ruling President Ya
  
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• Trump taps Exxon CEO Tillerson as top U.S. diplomat

  13-12-2016 14:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson as his choice for secretary of state on Tuesday, praising him as a successful international dealmaker who leads a global operation. Tillerson's experience in diplomacy stems from making deals with foreign countries for Exxon, the world's largest energy company, although questions have been raised about his relations with Russia. "He will be a forceful and cle
  
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• Former Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah sentenced to decade in prison

  13-12-2016 14:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah was sentenced to ten years in federal prison Monday after a judge found him guilty on charges of racketeering, fraud and money laundering.
  
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