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• Stealth fighters take off seconds apart

  21-11-2018 23:51 via cnn.com
  The US Air Force conducted its first so-called "elephant walk" drill using F-35 fighter jets Monday, launching dozens of aircraft in a condensed period as part of what the service called a "combat power exercise" at Hill Air Force Base in Utah.
  
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• White House gives Mattis expanded powers for U.S. troops on border

  21-11-2018 23:42 via yahoo.com
  Reuters reported on Monday that the White House was likely to give troops authority to protect Customs and Border Protection agents stationed along the U.S. border with Mexico if they come under threat from migrants seeking to cross into the United States.Speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Mattis confirmed that he had been given the additional authority, but would await a request from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) before deciding how to use it.Mattis said, depending on the DHS req
  
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• France urged to return looted art

  21-11-2018 23:37 via cnn.com
  A new report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron will advise him to pull thousands of African artifacts looted during the colonial era out of French museums and return them to the continent.
  
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• France urged to return looted African art

  21-11-2018 23:37 via cnn.com
  A new report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron will advise him to pull thousands of African artifacts looted during the colonial era out of French museums and return them to the continent.
  
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• Trump finds a new Twitter target: Chief Justice Roberts

  21-11-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  The president tells the chief justice to "study the numbers" he says proves his point that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is overly partisan.
  
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• John Roberts chastises Trump for criticism of judge who blocked asylum order

  21-11-2018 23:15
  Chief justice spoke out against president after he called Jon Tigar an ‘Obama judge’John Roberts, chief justice of the US supreme court, has chastised Donald Trump for calling a judge who ruled against his migrant asylum order an “Obama judge”.It is the first time that the leader of the federal judiciary has offered even a hint of criticism of the president, who has previously blasted federal judges who ruled against him. Continue reading...
  
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• US to install observation posts on Syria-Turkey border: Mattis

  21-11-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  The US military will install observation posts along Syria's northern border with Turkey to help minimize tensions between the Turks and Washington's Kurdish allies in the fight against the Islamic State group (IS), defense secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday."We are putting in observation posts in several locations up along the... northern Syrian border," Mattis told reporters.
  
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• 5 Reasons Why Matthew Whitaker Isn't Qualified To Be Acting Attorney General

  21-11-2018 23:07 via yahoo.com
  Matthew Whitaker, President Donald Trump's pick to replace ousted former
  
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• WATCH: Dramatic video shows residents jumping through a window to escape fire

  21-11-2018 23:00
  Dallas area residents, including a baby, escaped a huge apartment fire by jumping out windows onto mattresses neighbors transported to the scene.
  
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• Colts Neck Fire: Brother Charged With Arson, More Details Emerge About Quadruple Homicide

  21-11-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  The brother of the man who was found dead outside his Colts Neck home yesterday has been charged with aggravated arson.Paul J. Caneiro, 51, was arrested and placed into custody at Monmouth County jail for attempting to burn down his own house in Ocean Township, New Jersey.According to USA Today, Paul Caneiro allegedly tried to burn down his Tilton Drive home “using gasoline and igniting the gasoline causing the residence to catch fire while his wife and two daughters were inside.” No
  
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• ‘Email Is The Key To Prosecuting Just About Everyone,’ Ivanka Trump Wrote In Her Book

  21-11-2018 22:58 via yahoo.com
  “My friend Andrew Cuomo, New York’s great attorney general, tells me that email is the key to prosecuting just about everyone these days,” Ivanka Trump wrote in her 2009 self-help book The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life, according to Raw Story. “People can be so incredibly slapdash with their electronic messages, as if they were some modern version of smoke signals that can disappear without a trace.”
  
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• Trump in war of words with US Chief Justice over 'Obama judges'

  21-11-2018 22:37 via cnn.com
  Chief Justice John Roberts made a rare statement on Wednesday pushing back against President Donald Trump after the President again went after federal judges.
  
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• Mattis says he has extra authority to use military on border

  21-11-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday the White House has given him explicit authority to use military troops to protect Customs and Border Protection personnel, with lethal force if necessary, at the southwest border.
  
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• Here’s Where To Score All The Best Black Friday Freebies

  21-11-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  While many households throughout the United States will finally be getting ready to sit down and indulge in the delicious Thanksgiving meal they’ve been slaving over in the kitchen all day, thousands across the country will be burning the calories from their own home-cooked meals off as they feverishly storm malls and department stores looking for the best deals to aid with their holiday shopping. Retailers and restaurants alike, USA Today reports, are offering free goodies and extra coupo
  
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• Border agent not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Mexican boy's death

  21-11-2018 22:33
  Arizona jury find Lonnie Swartz not guilty of the involuntary manslaughter but didn’t decide on voluntary manslaughterAn Arizona jury has acquitted a US border patrol agent of manslaughter in the shooting of a 16-year old Mexican boy José Antonio Elena Rodríguez through a border fence, another loss for federal prosecutors in the second trial over the 2012 killing.Jurors in Tucson found Lonnie Swartz not guilty of the involuntary manslaughter but didn’t come to a decisio
  
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• Yemen peace talks set for December

  21-11-2018 22:26 via cnn.com
  Peace talks to end the conflict in Yemen will take place in Sweden in the next few weeks, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Wednesday, as experts cautioned that there's no guarantee Saudi Arabia will take the steps needed for that to happen.
  
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• ‘Further progress has been made’: Theresa May on Brexit talks – video

  21-11-2018 22:25
  Theresa May is to return to Brussels on Saturday to complete her Brexit negotiations. The prime minister said there had been ‘very good progress’ in her meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, threatened to withdraw from the leaders’ summit unless the deal was finalised before the meeting on Sunday Continue reading...
  
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• How Thanksgiving came to be a holiday

  21-11-2018 22:03 via cnn.com
  What does the author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" have to do with Thanksgiving? Here's a timeline of how Thanksgiving became a holiday in the US.
  
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• Mattis says US-South Korea military exercise will be scaled back

  21-11-2018 21:53 via cnn.com
  The next major joint US-South Korea military exercise will be "reduced in scope" to avoid hurting diplomatic efforts with North Korea, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Wednesday.
  
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• Black Friday Deals Revealed – Thanksgiving & Cyber Monday May Have Better Prices On These Goods

  21-11-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  In fact, Dealnews dug into their data and found conclusive proof that Thanksgiving deals are better than those of Black Friday.Dealnews’ director of content marketing Lindsay Sakraida told CNBC in 2017 that “Black Friday is still very strong, but a lot of the big deals are going to go live on Thanksgiving Day.” She echoed this exact sentiment in 2018 proving that Black Friday’s deals come second to those of Turkey Day.
  
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• Radical experimental plane with no moving parts wows scientists

  21-11-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers on Wednesday described successful flight tests at an indoor campus gymnasium of the unmanned airplane powered not by engines that burn fossils fuels but by ion wind propulsion, also called electro-aerodynamic thrust."This is the first time that an airplane without moving parts has flown," said MIT aerospace engineer Steven Barrett, who drew inspiration from fictional shuttlecraft from "Star Trek."Electrical field strength near an array of thi
  
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• Chief justice responds to Trump's judiciary criticism

  21-11-2018 21:27 via yahoo.com
  John Roberts defends an independent judiciary, The New York Times reports that Trump wanted to prosecute Clinton and Comey, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi cuts a deal in an attempt to become House speaker.
  
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• Barack Obama Helps Out For Thanksgiving

  21-11-2018 21:21 via yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama is taking time during the holiday season to volunteer at a local Chicago food bank.
  
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• U.S. setting up 'observation posts' along Turkey-Syria border

  21-11-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  The United States is setting up "observation posts" along parts of the border between Turkey and Syria to help keep the focus on defeating Islamic State militants in Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday.The observation posts would not require additional U.S. troops being sent to Syria, Mattis told reporters.The Pentagon says it has about 2,000 troops in Syria.
  
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• May plans Brussels dash to finalise Brexit deal on eve of summit

  21-11-2018 21:17
  Move follows pressure from Angela Merkel to agree final form of political declarationTheresa May is to make an emergency dash to Brussels on Saturday to complete the Brexit negotiations after the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, threatened to pull the plug on the Sunday leaders’ summit.As she emerged from talks in Brussels lasting nearly two hours with the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, the British prime minister admitted that there were some major issues to resolve.
  
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• Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani released from jail

  21-11-2018 21:14
  Prominent lawyer was granted conditional release after serving more than seven years Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani has been released from prison after spending more than seven years behind bars, the official IRNA news agency reported.“The authorities agreed yesterday to my client’s conditional parole and he was released today,” Soltani’s lawyer Saeed Dehghan said on Wednesday, according to IRNA. Continue reading...
  
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• Saudi foreign minister says kingdom united around its leadership

  21-11-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Wednesday the kingdom is united around its leadership, dismissing as "ridiculous" reports that members of the Saudi royal family want to see a change in the line of succession.Asked in an interview by CNBC about a Reuters report that members of the royal family are discussing the possibility of changing the line of succession, but not while King Salman is alive, Adel al-Jubeir said:"These are outrageous comments that are being made and are totally unaccept
  
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• Trump's whitewashing of brutal Saudi killing denounced by both parties

  21-11-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  The president puts a price on moral values, and members of Congress aren't happy about it.
  
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• Abortion rates in US reach a decade low

  21-11-2018 21:00 via cnn.com
  Abortion rates in the United States have dropped to their lowest level in 10 years, according to a report released Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
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• CDC says U.S. abortion rate plunged in decade ending 2015

  21-11-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that statistics for 2015, the most recent year for which data is available, show the abortion rate was 11.8 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44.Teens aged 15 to 19 experienced a greater decrease than older women, with the rate falling 54 percent from 2006 to 2015, the CDC said."This decrease in abortion rate was greater than the decreases for women in any older age group," the CDC said in a statement.
  
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• Interpol's flaws exposed in US-Russia fight over presidency

  21-11-2018 20:51 via yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. won, Russia lost and Interpol narrowly escaped disaster — that's the upshot of an unusually high-drama vote for the international police agency's president, dominated by fears that Russia wants to turn Interpol into a tool to hunt down its enemies.
  
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• Abu Dhabi prince targeted by French lawsuits over Yemen war

  21-11-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  Rights activists filed two complaints in France against a visiting Abu Dhabi prince on Wednesday, accusing him of being complicit in torture as well as in war crimes in Yemen.Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who is a close ally of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was in Paris for a meeting with President Emmanuel Macron.The October 2 killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi loomed large over the meeting, with US President Donald Trump admitting Tuesday that t
  
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• US Chief Justice's rare rebuke of Trump: 'We do not have Obama judges'

  21-11-2018 20:46 via cnn.com
  Chief Justice John Roberts made a rare statement on Wednesday pushing back against President Donald Trump after the President again went after federal judges.
  
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• SpaceX's crew rocket set for January test flight

  21-11-2018 20:33 via yahoo.com
  The first flight of a SpaceX rocket tailored to fly astronauts to the International Space Station is set for liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 7, NASA said on Wednesday.The launch test is a crucial milestone in the space agency's Commercial Crew Program, which aims to launch humans to space from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade.The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft - which will shuttle three astronauts to spa
  
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• In bid for top U.S. House job, Pelosi wins converts

  21-11-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  Nancy Pelosi, working to reclaim the top job in the U.S. House of Representatives, won over another supporter on Wednesday as a fellow Democrat reversed course and said he would back her as House speaker next year.Pelosi, a 78-year-old San Francisco liberal and current House Democratic leader, is fighting hard to regain the job of speaker after the Nov. 6 elections in which Democrats gained a majority in the 435-member chamber.Representative Brian Higgins, who had initially signed on to that gro
  
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• In bid for top House job, Pelosi wins converts

  21-11-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  Pelosi, a 78-year-old San Francisco liberal and current House Democratic leader, is fighting hard to regain the job of speaker after the Nov. 6 elections in which Democrats gained a majority in the 435-member chamber.Pelosi previously held the post in 2007-2011, when she made history as the first woman speaker.Representative Brian Higgins, who had initially signed on to that group, said in an interview with The Buffalo News that he dropped his opposition after Pelosi agreed to make infrastructur
  
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• FDA approves new blood cancer treatment from Pfizer

  21-11-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Pfizer Inc's drug to treat a form of blood cancer in newly diagnosed patients as a combination therapy.Pfizer plans to launch the drug, Daurismo, in the United States by early December with a monthly list price of $16,925, a Pfizer spokeswoman told Reuters.Daurismo was approved for use in adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) aged 75 or older or those who have certain health conditions prior to receiving their diagnosis, for whom int
  
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• Honda Odyssey Minivan Recalled Over Problem With Sliding Doors

  21-11-2018 20:18 via yahoo.com
  Honda is recalling 107,000 of its 2018 and 2019 Odyssey minivans because its power sliding doors may not latch properly, raising the possibility that they could open while the vehicle is in motio...
  
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• Robert De Niro splits from wife of 20 years

  21-11-2018 20:14 via cnn.com
  Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower have decided to separate after 20 years of marriage, according a report by People magazine.
  
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• Meet the 5 Best Smith & Wesson Handguns Ever Made

  21-11-2018 20:11 via yahoo.com
  What would you choose? 
  
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• 5 Times Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker Critiqued The Mueller Investigation On CNN

  21-11-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Before Matt Whitaker was tapped to replace his boss, former Attorney General
  
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• Trump authorizes troops at border to use force

  21-11-2018 19:50 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump has approved a memorandum that grants new authority to US troops on the Southwest border to protect Customs and Border Protection personnel from migrants if they engage in violence, according to the Pentagon.
  
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• AP Explains: The hunt for missing, dead in California fire

  21-11-2018 19:47 via yahoo.com
  CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Given the size and scope of the devastation after a deadly wildfire swept Northern California, experts say the search to find the missing and identify victims could take months.
  
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• France urged to change heritage law and return looted art to Africa

  21-11-2018 19:34
  Report commissioned by Macron recommends restitution of artworks taken during colonial eraA report commissioned by Emmanuel Macron will call for thousands of African artworks in French museums taken without consent during the colonial period to be returned to the continent.Unless it could be proven that objects were obtained legitimately, they should be returned to Africa permanently, not on long-term loan, said the authors of the report, the Senegalese writer and economist Felwine Sarr and the
  
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• Matthew Hedges: British academic accused of spying jailed for life in UAE

  21-11-2018 19:27
  Durham University student was detained while on way home from PhD research trip
  A British academic who was accused of spying for the UK government in the United Arab Emirates after travelling to Dubai to conduct research has been sentenced to life in jail.Matthew Hedges, 31, has been in a UAE prison for more than six months. The University of Durham PhD candidate went to the country to research his thesis and was sentenced at an Abu Dhabi court on Wednesday in a hearing that lasted less than fiv
  
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• Amazon hit with major data breach days before Black Friday

  21-11-2018 19:25
  Customers’ names and email addresses posted on website, tech giant confirmsAmazon has suffered a major data breach that caused customer names and email addresses to be disclosed on its website, just two days ahead of Black Friday.The e-commerce giant said it has emailed affected customers but refused to give any more details on how many people were affected or where they are based. Continue reading...
  
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• ​Khloe Kardashian Reveals Her Biggest Struggle With Breastfeeding​

  21-11-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  Khloe Kardashian recently opened up about a problem so many mothers can relate
  
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• Saudi Arabia Allegedly Tortured Women's Rights Activists Before Khashoggi Murder

  21-11-2018 19:23 via yahoo.com
  In the wake of the brutal torture and murder of Saudi journalist Jamal
  
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• Abu Dhabi fund sues Goldman Sachs over 'central role' in 1MDB scam

  21-11-2018 19:19 via cnn.com
  An Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund has sued Goldman Sachs for losses tied to the 1MDB embezzlement scandal. The lawsuit deepens scrutiny of Goldman for its alleged role in the saga.
  
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• This rally-honed Renault R8 Gordini is a long way from home

  21-11-2018 19:04 via yahoo.com
  We don't think the Renault 8 Gordini was designed with Californian coastal highways in mind – but that's exactly where this rally-inspired classic has ended up
  
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