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• Over 100 people leave Mexican Mormon village after massacre

  12-11-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY/ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) - More than 100 members of a U.S.-Mexican community of Mormon origin have left their homes in northern Mexico after an ambush killed nine of their number, relatives said on Tuesday.Since the massacre last week of three mothers and six children by suspected cartel gunmen, families have been streaming out of La Mora, a remote farming village in the state of Sonora, said Taylor Langford, a relative of the victims.Some of the members were leaving temporarily,
  
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• Erdogan Joins Trump’s Battle Against the Deep State

  12-11-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Before departing for Washington on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered the kind of sound bite sure to make his American counterpart happy.  “We are in agreement with President Trump to solve problems and develop our ties despite the foggy weather in our relations,” Erdogan told reporters. He then added: “We have made significant progress on several issues despite bureaucratic and political sabotage attempts by some remnants
  
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• Report: Loud fight with detective preceded chief's death

  12-11-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A maintenance man checking on a noise complaint at a Florida beachfront hotel Sunday night walked into the room where a small-town Oklahoma police detective killed his boss in a drunken brawl, authorities said.The noises coming from room 527 at the Hilton on Pensacola Beach on Sunday night were so loud that the couple staying next door asked to switch rooms, according to an arrest report released to The Associated Press on Tuesday.Miller was later pronounced dead.
  
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• Most distant world ever explored gets new name: Arrokoth

  12-11-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The most distant world ever explored 4 billion miles away finally has an official name: Arrokoth.NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the snowman-shaped Arrokoth on New Year's Day, 3 ½ years after exploring Pluto.At the time, this small icy world 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto was nicknamed Ultima Thule given its vast distance from us.
  
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• Australians ordered to flee flames as fires rage in east and west

  12-11-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Australian officials on Wednesday ordered residents and tourists to get out of the way of fast-approaching flames as firefighters struggled to contain more than 150 bushfires raging on both the east and west coasts.While cooler weather overnight brought some relief for firefighters in New South Wales (NSW) state, of which Sydney is capital, attention shifted to its northern neighbour, Queensland, where more than 80 fires threatened lives and homes.Authorities issued a "leave immediately" warning
  
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• Trump's former deputy campaign manager says president was briefed about WikiLeaks attempts to sabotage Clinton

  12-11-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump’s former deputy campaign manager testified Monday that Trump was briefed by his longtime political adviser Roger Stone in July 2016 about a WikiLeaks plan to release emails that would be damaging to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, raising new questions about what the president told former special counsel Robert Mueller.
  
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• Clinton says she is being urged by ‘many, many, many people’ to run in 2020

  12-11-2019 23:20 via yahoo.com
  Hillary Clinton on Tuesday declined to rule out launching a future presidential campaign after her two failed bids, saying “many, many, many people” were pressuring her to enter the race. “I, as I say, never, never, never say never,” the former secretary of State said on BBC Radio 5 Live. “But as of this moment, sitting here in this studio talking to you, that is absolutely not in my plans,” Clinton added.
  
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• Is the Boeing 737 Max safe? 2 big reasons the plane is still grounded by FAA after crashes

  12-11-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twice in 40 years had entire plane types been grounded, both to fix mechanical issues. Why it's harder with the Boeing 737 Max
  
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• Woman who spoke at Epstein's bail hearing sues his estate

  12-11-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A woman who confronted Jeffrey Epstein at a July bail hearing to tell a judge he touched her inappropriately when she was 16 sued his estate Tuesday, alleging he had subjected her to sex trafficking as part of his attacks on young women and girls.Lawyers for Annie Farmer filed the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, along with a lawsuit on behalf of her sister, Maria Farmer, and Teresa Helm, an Ohio woman.A lawyer for Epstein's estate did not return a message seeking comment.
  
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• Prosecutor: Messages show teen plotted SC school shooting

  12-11-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors who want a teen to serve a lifelong prison sentence for killing a first-grader on a South Carolina school playground showed a judge cellphone videos and messages Tuesday that they say demonstrate he planned the crime.Jesse Osborne pleaded guilty last year to two counts of murder for killing the boy at Townville Elementary School and shooting his father three times in the head so he could steal a pickup truck to get to his old school in September 2016.The judge in Anderson County is d
  
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• China's No. 1 University Has a Big Debt Problem

  12-11-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- A crown jewel of President Xi Jinping’s Made in China 2025 plan is faltering.Tsinghua Unigroup Co. is the business arm of the prestigious Tsinghua University, Xi’s alma mater. The company has been trying to establish itself as a leader in China’s nascent memory-chip industry since 2015, when it famously tried to acquire stakes in U.S. rivals Micron Technology Inc. and Western Digital Corp. Both advances were rejected amid concerns that U.S. regulator
  
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• Man linked to neo-Nazi group pleads guilty to gun charges

  12-11-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Virginia man who has been linked by the FBI to a violent neo-Nazi group pleaded guilty on Tuesday to gun charges, one of several recent criminal cases against members of the same far-right extremist group.Andrew Thomasberg, 21, of McLean, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison following his guilty plea at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia.An FBI agent has said Thomasberg joined a neo-Nazi group, Atomwaffen Division, shortly after attending the white nationalist rally in Charlottesv
  
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• U.S. Expands Mueller Election-Fraud Case Against 13 Russians

  12-11-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- American prosecutors expanded an election-fraud case against 13 Russians that was first brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, adding details to flesh out how the defendants allegedly defrauded the U.S. by interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential race.The superseding indictment is the latest signal that U.S. prosecutors are aggressively pursuing matters set in motion by Mueller’s investigation of Russian election interference -- even as the Justice Department is also co
  
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• Trump was told about WikiLeaks' attempts to sabotage Clinton, Gates testifies

  12-11-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates testified that he overheard a phone conversation between the president and Roger Stone in which Stone told him of WikiLeaks' plan to release emails damaging to Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Trump wants to fire the intelligence watchdog who told Congress about the whistleblower's complaint

  12-11-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump is reportedly furious with Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community, and believes he's disloyal to the president.
  
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• Birdwatch: will the turtle dove soon exist only in carols?

  12-11-2019 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Mediterranean hunting and industrial farming have brought bird to edge of extinction in UKA sunny day in late April, more than 20 years ago, I was scanning the playing field by my west London patch when I noticed a smaller bird among the pigeon flock. A quick look revealed a tortoiseshell wing-pattern, black neck streaks and a pale grey head: a turtle dove.I was pleased but, at the height of spring migration, hardly surprised. Yet in two decades since, I have never seen a turtle dove on my local
  
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• Morales begins Mexico exile as Bolivia senate moves to end vaccum

  12-11-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Evo Morales vowed on Tuesday to continue "the struggle" after arriving in Mexico where he has been granted political asylum, as Bolivia's senate sought to end civil turmoil and fill the power vacuum left by his abrupt resignation as president.Morales thanked left-wing ally and Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, saying "he saved my life," and vowed to remain in politics despite having left his homeland.In his absence, lawmakers were summoned to ratify Morales's resignation and appoint
  
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• Chinese national pleads guilty in U.S. court to stealing Phillips 66 trade secrets

  12-11-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Chinese national pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stealing trade secrets from U.S. petroleum company Phillips 66 , where he worked on the research and development of next generation battery technologies, the U.S. Justice Department said.Hongjin Tan, 36, stole information regarding the manufacture of a "research and development downstream energy market product" that is worth more than $1 billion, the department said in a statement.The department identified the company where he worked as Phillips 66
  
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• Trump news: President attacks impeachment inquiry witnesses as ‘Never Trumpers’ in baseless smear and stalls new Ukraine transcript release

  12-11-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has attacked House impeachment inquiry witnesses as “Never Trumpers” without basis and delayed the release of a transcript of his first call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, a gesture his supporters had hoped would prove the president’s intentions towards the country were entirely innocent.Kiev was reportedly alarmed by the hold-up of $400m (£312m) in American military aid this summer and reached out to Washington for answers, according to t
  
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• Supreme Court leans toward Trump plan to end DACA program for nearly 700K undocumented immigrants

  12-11-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Supreme Court appeared likely to side with the Trump administration in its effort to end the DACA program for 660,000 undocumented immigrants.
  
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• Wisconsin Assembly votes to recognize National Bible Week

  12-11-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans who control the Wisconsin state Assembly overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to officially recognize National Bible Week later this month, sparking another skirmish in the state over religion's role in government.President Franklin Roosevelt declared the first National Bible Week in 1941.The Assembly approved a resolution 86-9 Tuesday afternoon that recognizes Thanksgiving week as National Bible Week in Wisconsin.
  
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• 'Time to stand up:' Undocumented immigrants who chose careers in the law await Supreme Court's ruling

  12-11-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The legal battle culminating at the Supreme Court has captivated one group of DACA recipients more than others: those making a career in the law.
  
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• McConnell Vows to Work on Bill Supporting Hong Kong Protesters

  12-11-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed to work on legislation supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, as some senators say they’re growing restless with the chamber’s failure to act.In a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, McConnell denounced “Beijing’s insatiable thirst for control” that is undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy and suppressing protests.McConnell said he’d work “toward a strong and procedurally workable so
  
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• Uighur researchers say China running more camps than known

  12-11-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Uighur activists said Tuesday they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by China to detain the ethnic group, alleging that China could be holding far more than the commonly cited figure of one million people.The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a Washington-based group that seeks independence for the mostly Muslim region known to China as Xinjiang, gave the geographic coordinates of 182 suspected "concentration camps" where Uighurs are allegedly pressured to renounce their
  
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• What to watch as impeachment inquiry of Trump goes public

  12-11-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Democrats are giving President Donald Trump a reality show for the ages as they take their case public for his impeachment.With the bang of a gavel, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff will open the impeachment hearings Wednesday into Trump's pressure on Ukraine to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden's family.Big questions loom, including how strongly officials connected what Trump called that "favor" to U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court divided on Mexican cross-border shooting dispute

  12-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Supreme Court justices appeared divided on whether to let foreigners bring civil rights lawsuits in U.S. courts as they considered a bid by a slain Mexican teenager's family to revive a lawsuit against the Border Patrol agent who shot him, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh emerging as a potential pivotal vote.The court heard arguments in the family's appeal of a lower court's ruling dismissing their case against the agent, Jesus Mesa, who had fired across a concrete spillway into Mexico from the Texa
  
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• The Latest: 8 die as Israeli planes hit Gaza

  12-11-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israel has targeted two senior commanders from the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, killing one in the Gaza Strip and missing the second in Syria as it steps up its battle against Iran and its proxies across the region.Bahaa Abu el-Atta and his wife died as they slept in their home in eastern Gaza.Gaza militants fired scores of rockets into Israel throughout the day, some reaching as far as Tel Aviv.
  
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• LA's Gómez elected 1st Hispanic to lead US Catholic bishops

  12-11-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, an immigrant from Mexico, pledged to push for a more welcoming immigration system after winning election Tuesday as the first Hispanic to head the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.The issue of immigration is personal to Gómez, who has relatives and friends on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border."It's an essential cause," he said of overhauling immigration policy.
  
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• Trump decision to end Daca a choice to 'destroy lives', says Sotomayor

  12-11-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Liberal justice defends Daca at supreme court and reflects on human impact of ending program that protects young migrantsA supporter of Daca outside the supreme court. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPAThe Trump administration should have to reckon with its decision to “destroy lives” by ending a program that protects young undocumented migrants, one justice declared as the supreme court deliberated the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or Daca.The legality of Daca, which
  
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• Israel targets Islamic Jihad leader, sending message to Iran

  12-11-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israel on Tuesday targeted two senior commanders from the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, killing one in the Gaza Strip and missing the second in Syria as it stepped up its battle against Iran and its proxies across the region.The death of Bahaa Abu el-Atta and his wife as they slept in their home in eastern Gaza set off the heaviest fighting in months between Israel and Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed militant group that is even more hard-line than Gaza's Hamas rulers.
  
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• Protesters vow hunger strike to push U.S. on climate change

  12-11-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Climate change opponents plan to stage a hunger strike to demand a meeting with U.S. Congressional leader Nancy Pelosi, they said on Tuesday, in the political battle over global warming.The protesters said they want a one-hour on-camera meeting with Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to discuss reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2025.Global warming threatens the planet's food supply with extreme weather, from drought to more dangerous and destructive storms, scien
  
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• Uganda protests police killing of two nationals in Rwanda

  12-11-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Uganda on Tuesday protested to Rwanda over the killing of two of its nationals by Rwandan security personnel and demanded that they be punished in a further sign of fraying relations between the neighboring states.The two Ugandans were shot dead early on Sunday after being intercepted by Rwandan police while smuggling goods over the nearby border with Uganda, a Rwandan police statement said.In a statement, the Ugandan government accused Rwanda's security personnel of reckless behavior.
  
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• Pete Buttigieg shoots to the top of the 2020 field in Iowa poll

  12-11-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg shot to 22% support in a new Monmouth poll in Iowa, up from 8% in August.
  
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• Lebanon's Aoun says found Hariri hesitant about being PM

  12-11-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Tuesday he had found outgoing Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri hesitant about taking the job again and he backed a cabinet mixing technocrats and politicians."I met with Hariri and I found him hesitant between yes and no," Aoun said in a televised interview, adding that he did not know if this was still the case.Aoun said formal consultations with MPs over the nomination of the next prime minister could begin on Thursday or Friday but he was waiting for answer
  
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• Trump public impeachment hearings: Schedule and what to expect

  12-11-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first public hearings in the House Democrats’ ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump begin Wednesday, with Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent scheduled to testify in an open session.
  
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• Turkey police rearrest journalist Ahmet Altan

  12-11-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish police acting on a court order rearrested journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan Tuesday, just a week after his release from prison over alleged links to the failed 2016 coup.Altan and another veteran journalist Nazli Ilicak were released on November 4 despite having been convicted of "helping a terrorist group".The Istanbul court sentenced Altan to more than 10 years in jail, but ruled that he and Ilicak should be released under supervision after time already served -- around three years e
  
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• Bosnian border police sound alarm over migration pressure

  12-11-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The chief of Bosnia's border police warned Tuesday that his guards cannot contain the migratory pressure along the country's eastern border with Serbia and that the situation could easily escalate and put in danger the overall stability of the politically fragile nation."We are in a constant struggle to deter migrants, but they never quit," he said.Since the start of the year, more than 13,000 migrants have arrived in Bosnia, according to Bosnian governm
  
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• Pilot receives $300K in wrongful arrest

  12-11-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An airline pilot who was arrested after being seen naked in his hotel room overlooking Denver International Airport has been awarded a $300,000 wrongful arrest settlement from the city.
  
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• Supreme Court weighs whether Mexican family can sue in US

  12-11-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Supreme Court's left-leaning justices on Tuesday appeared willing to allow a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Mexican teenager shot over the border by an American agent, but their case will depend on whether they can persuade a conservative colleague to join them.The high court heard arguments in a 2010 case where Border Patrol Agent Jesus Mesa Jr. fired into Mexico, striking and killing Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca.Mesa rode up on a bicycle, took Sergio's friend into custody, then fired
  
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• Conservative Party hit by cyber attack ahead of election - two sources

  12-11-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain’s governing Conservative Party was hit by a cyber attack on Tuesday which tried to force its website offline, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.A Conservative Party spokeswoman had no immediate comment and said she was unaware of the attack.One of the sources said the attackers appeared to be different from those responsible for two back-to-back attacks on the main opposition Labour Party on Monday and earlier on Tuesday.
  
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• Songbirds sing species-specific songs

  12-11-2019 20:09
  The generation of species-specific singing in songbirds is associated with species-specific patterns of gene activity in brain regions called song nuclei, according to a new study. According to the authors, the findings could be a promising step toward a better understanding of the contribution of multiple genes to the evolution of behaviors.
  
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• Uganda charges 67 after raid on gay bar

  12-11-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Ugandan court charged 67 people with causing a nuisance on Tuesday after they were arrested in a gay-friendly bar, in a move condemned by activists as the latest "homophobic" attack.The 67 - who were among 127 arrested at Ram Bar, in the capital, Kampala, on Sunday - could face up to one year in jail if found guilty, said Patricia Kimera, a lawyer for the group."This is just a homophobic attack," LGBT+ activist Raymond Karuhanga told the Thomson Reuters Foundation outside the court.
  
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• REFILE -Uganda charges 67 after raid on gay bar

  12-11-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Ugandan court charged 67 people with causing a nuisance on Tuesday after they were arrested in a gay-friendly bar, in a move condemned by activists as the latest "homophobic" attack.The 67 - who were among 127 arrested at Ram Bar, in the capital, Kampala, on Sunday - could face up to one year in jail if found guilty, said Patricia Kimera, a lawyer for the group."This is just a homophobic attack," LGBT+ activist Raymond Karuhanga told the Thomson Reuters Foundation outside the court.
  
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• REFILE KM-Uganda charges 67 after raid on gay bar

  12-11-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Ugandan court charged 67 people with causing a nuisance on Tuesday after they were arrested in a gay-friendly bar, in a move condemned by activists as the latest "homophobic" attack.The 67 - who were among 127 arrested at Ram Bar, in the capital, Kampala, on Sunday - could face up to one year in jail if found guilty, said Patricia Kimera, a lawyer for the group."This is just a homophobic attack," LGBT+ activist Raymond Karuhanga told the Thomson Reuters Foundation outside the court.
  
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• Submarines: These Five Are the Best to Ever Join the 'Silent Service'

  12-11-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Appears Poised to Allow Trump Admin to End DACA

  12-11-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Supreme Court's conservative justices on Tuesday seemed ready to uphold the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.DACA was implemented through executive action in 2012, and allows illegal immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children to apply for a two-year deportation deferral. The deferral, which comes with work eligibility, may be renewed, but does not provide a path to citizenship.The challenge to the Trump administration's decision to
  
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• Mick Mulvaney is reportedly telling associates Trump can't fire him because he 'knows too much'

  12-11-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mick Mulvaney has all the Ukraine beans and nowhere to spill them.That's why the acting White House chief of staff is reportedly convinced that even as Trump seemingly sours on his performance, his job is safe. And, as The New York Times reports, he's going around telling everyone in the White House that he's got a lock on his position as Trump's right-hand man.Mulvaney has been in his "acting" spot for nearly the whole year, and has also run the Office of Management and Budget for all of Trump'
  
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• Buttigieg rises in Iowa to lead Democratic White House pack: poll

  12-11-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pete Buttigieg has pulled to the top of the pack of Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa for the first time after drawing increased support from nearly every demographic group, according to a Monmouth University poll released on Tuesday. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, leapfrogged past former Vice President Joe Biden since Monmouth's Iowa poll in August to lead in the state that will in February host the first nominating contest.
  
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• Morales arrives in Mexico as Bolivia senate seeks to name interim president

  12-11-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Evo Morales vowed on Tuesday to continue "the struggle" after arriving in Mexico where he has been granted political asylum, as Bolivia's senate seeks to end civil turmoil and fill the power vacuum left by his abrupt resignation as president.Morales thanked Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a left-wing ally, saying "he saved my life," and insisted he would remain in politics.Lawmakers in Bolivia, meanwhile, were summoned to ratify Morales's resignation and appoint deputy senate lea
  
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• Vancouver Real Estate Crackdown’s Next Step: A Big Watchdog

  12-11-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- British Columbia plans to create a single real estate regulator to better combat money-laundering in markets like Vancouver, where the government says dirty money has helped drive up housing prices.The provincial government intends to introduce legislation late next year that would establish a joint financial-services and real estate watchdog by the spring of 2021, the Ministry of Finance said Tuesday.The plan would bring real estate regulation -- including licensing -- under the
  
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