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• Trump: 'Michael Cohen is weak and trying to get a reduced sentence' – video

  29-11-2018 23:58
  The US president, Donald Trump, told reporters that Michael Cohen was 'a weak person and not a very smart person' and claimed, without evidence, that his former legal fixer was lying to secure a reduced punishment for other crimes.Trump said he had decided not to go ahead with the Moscow project, although he did not specify when he decided against pursuing it. The president has sought to distance himself from Cohen despite their long relationshipMichael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to
  
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• DJ Khaled, Floyd Mayweather Jr. charged with cryptocurrency fraud

  29-11-2018 23:57 via cnn.com
  Music producer DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday with promoting investments in initial cryptocurrency coin offerings without revealing that they'd been paid.
  
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• The Latest: Defense says mansion-death suspect had no motive

  29-11-2018 23:54 via yahoo.com
  FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on the murder charges filed in the killing of a New Jersey family of four at their mansion (all times local):
  
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• Republicans Sink Trump Judicial Nominee Hostile To Black Voters' Rights

  29-11-2018 23:49 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― In a shocking defeat for President Donald Trump, Sen. Tim Scott
  
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• Perfect Zodiac Gifts For Astrology Lovers That Any Sign Will Appreciate

  29-11-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  Celebrate your celestial-consumed cousin, star-obsessed sister, or planet-
  
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• Merkel's plane diverted en route to G20

  29-11-2018 23:39 via cnn.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's plane was forced to turn around and make an unscheduled landing due a technical problem, a government spokesman told CNN. Merkel was heading to Argentina for the G-20.
  
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• Tear gas may be gone, but the situation at this Mexican border shelter is getting worse

  29-11-2018 23:38 via cnn.com
  Tents cover most of the dirt on the baseball diamond. Pants are hanging out to dry on top of the bleachers. And the scoreboard at Little Padres Park is blank.
  
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• Oil prices gain as investors eye Fed relief on interest rates

  29-11-2018 23:37 via yahoo.com
  Oil prices gained Thursday after the US benchmark slid below $50 a barrel following reports Russia could join a production cut at next month's OPEC meeting.
  
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• Right-Wing Conspiracist Laura Loomer Handcuffs Herself To Door Of Twitter's Office

  29-11-2018 23:30 via yahoo.com
  Far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to the front
  
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• WATCH: Near catastrophe at Purdue Bell Tower

  29-11-2018 23:23 via abcnews.go.com
  A repair crew narrowly avoids catastrophic disaster while working on the Purdue University Bell Tower, when a clock face dropped, bouncing from the cherry picker, into the tower's wall.
  
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• In abrupt switch, Trump cancels Putin meeting, cites Ukraine crisis

  29-11-2018 23:09 via yahoo.com
  Trump said he pulled out due to tensions over Russian forces opening fire on Ukrainian navy boats and then seizing them and their crew on Sunday near Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about a proposed Trump real estate project in Russia."Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia, I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my
  
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• Southwest Airlines apologises after employee mocks five-year-old's name

  29-11-2018 23:08 via yahoo.com
  Southwest Airlines has issued an apology after a boarding agent mocked the name of a five-year-old girl.Traci Redford told ABC7 that she was travelling with her daughter Abcde (pronounced Ab-city) at John Wayne Airport in California when the Southwest employee at the gate noticed her daughter’s unusual name.According to Redford, she immediately asked that the gate agent stop, saying: “Hey, I can hear you, so if I can hear you, my daughter can, too.
  
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• Report says Syria shot down Israeli war plane but Israel denies it

  29-11-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  Syria's air defense forces shot down an Israeli war plane and four missiles on Thursday, Russia's RIA news agency said citing a Syrian security source, but Israel's military said the report was bogus.The area where the incident is said to have occurred is where Hezbollah, a group backed by Iran, has its communications and logistics hub for southern Syria near the Israeli border, according to two senior regional intelligence sources.Israel is concerned that Iran’s growing presence in Syria
  
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• Carmichael project: Visiting Australia's controversial Adani mine

  29-11-2018 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  The BBC's Vineet Khare visited the controversial Carmichael project by Indian energy giant Adani.
  
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• House Democratic leader threatens to tie Mueller protections to spending bill

  29-11-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that Democrats would try to force protections for U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller into a must-pass spending bill if the House is not allowed to vote on a free-standing bill protecting him from potential political interference.Republicans control the House of Representatives and Senate until January, but they need some Democratic votes on the legislation to keep parts of the U.S. government open beyond Dec. 7."The Congress must immedi
  
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• Ebola outbreak second deadliest ever

  29-11-2018 23:02 via cnn.com
  The current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- with 426 total cases, including 245 deaths -- is now the second largest and second deadliest in history, according to Thursday's report from the nation's Ministry of Health.
  
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• Ebola outbreak is now the 2nd deadliest ever

  29-11-2018 23:02 via cnn.com
  The current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- with 426 total cases, including 245 deaths -- is now the second largest and second deadliest in history, according to Thursday's report from the nation's Ministry of Health.
  
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• The G20 summit is a glimpse at the future world order

  29-11-2018 22:59 via cnn.com
  If the G20 were a music festival, you'd be stressing about not being there.
  
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• G20 summit: Angela Merkel's plane 'makes emergency landing' on way to Argentina

  29-11-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has called off expected bilateral talks with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires amid increasing tensions surrounding the Russia-Ukraine crisis and explosive reports the president's former lawyer lied about a Trump Tower project in Moscow.As world leaders began to arrive in Argentina ahead of the start of the summit on Friday, tensions surround Russia's current stand-off with Ukraine over the Kerch Strait in the Sea of Azov, where the Russian navy captured three of its
  
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• Tear gas may be gone - but in this shelter at Mexico border the situation is getting worse

  29-11-2018 22:57 via cnn.com
  Tents cover most of the dirt on the baseball diamond. Pants are hanging out to dry on top of the bleachers. And the scoreboard at Little Padres Park is blank.
  
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• Japan preparing to put US-designed stealth jets on an 'aircraft carrier'

  29-11-2018 22:49 via cnn.com
  Japan is preparing an order for roughly 100 US-designed F-35 stealth fighter jets in a deal that could potentially upend the balance of power in Asia, according to sources familiar with the process.
  
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• President: Ukrainian Orthodox church will get independence

  29-11-2018 22:38 via yahoo.com
  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president announced Thursday that the Constantinople patriarchy has approved a decree granting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church independence from the Russian Orthodox Church, a major boost to the president's approval ratings.
  
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• Syria state TV says air defenses repelled missile attack

  29-11-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's air defenses confronted an aerial "aggression" over the country's south late Thursday, shooting down several targets and preventing them from carrying out their mission in the first such attack since Syria received a Russian air defense system last month, state TV said.
  
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• The Latest: Walking dead march in Buenos Aires before summit

  29-11-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Latest on the Group of 20 summit in Argentina (all times local):
  
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• Suspect arrested in Alabama mall shooting; protests continue

  29-11-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Authorities arrested a suspect in a Thanksgiving shooting that spread panic at Alabama's largest shopping mall Thursday, but protesters said they would continue demonstrations over the police killing of another black man who was initially believed to be the shooter.
  
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• Merkel's plane diverted after technical issue

  29-11-2018 22:20 via cnn.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's plane was forced to turn around and make an unscheduled landing due a technical problem, a government spokesman told CNN. Merkel was heading to Argentina for the G-20.
  
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• Convicted US murderer Samuel Little confesses to killing 90 women

  29-11-2018 22:15 via yahoo.com
  Pearl Nelson, left, in 2015 holds a photo of her mother Audrey, who was killed by Samuel Little.To her right is Mary Louise Frias, whose godmother was one of Little’s victims.A 78-year-old convicted murderer serving a life sentence in a Texas prison has confessed to killing 90 women over nearly four decades – which, if his confessions are confirmed, could make him one of the worst serial killers in American history.
  
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• Fed likely to raise rates in December but concerns mounting: minutes

  29-11-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  US central bankers believe another interest rate hike is due "fairly soon," boosting widespread expectations the Federal Reserve will raise lending costs next month, according to meeting minutes released Thursday.The minutes from the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee's November 7-8 meeting showed a rising level of uncertainty in the central bank about the near future.Stocks had also rallied Wednesday after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said interest rates were already close to estimates of
  
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• New Complaint Targets School That Banned Child With Dreadlocks

  29-11-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  In August, 6-year-old Clinton Stanley Jr. was kicked out of his new school
  
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• Markets Right Now: A late rally fades, leaving stocks lower

  29-11-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• California regulator orders PG&E to implement safety recommendations

  29-11-2018 22:01 via yahoo.com
  The move by the California Public Utilities Commission comes as it investigates the cause of the Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise, in the state's deadliest-ever wildfire.The recommendations, which were made following an investigation on the utility after the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion, include development of a comprehensive safety strategy, resource requirements and budgets."Although there are a few bright spots, PG&E appears not to have a clear vision for safety programs
  
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• Smoke around Russia is choking Trump's presidency

  29-11-2018 21:55 via cnn.com
  NO COLLUSION, Donald Trump will tell you -- or, really, anyone -- if you ask about the ongoing special counsel investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the possibility that members of the Trump orbit colluded with the Russians to help him win.
  
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• The Latest: Syria says air defenses confront 'enemy targets'

  29-11-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in and related to Syria (all times local):
  
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• Russia does not expect Ukraine crisis to have big impact on grain exports

  29-11-2018 21:52 via yahoo.com
  Tensions between Russia and Ukraine in the Azov Sea should not significantly affect Russia's grain exports because it is low season, TASS news agency quoted the Russian agriculture ministry as saying on Thursday."The Azov route is being actively used for Russian grain exports during the river navigation period, so in the autumn-to-winter time, volumes of shipments via this route go down," TASS quoted the ministry as saying."So the current situation (Russia-Ukraine standoff) is not expected to br
  
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• Mandatory evacuations underway in California due to mudslides

  29-11-2018 21:52 via yahoo.com
  Burn areas face flash flood warnings in the first round of rain.
  
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• NASA chooses nine companies to bid on flying to Moon

  29-11-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  The US space agency on Thursday announced nine private companies, mostly start-ups, that will bid on $2.6 billion in contacts to build spacecraft to carry payloads to the Moon as early as 2019.The move is part of NASA's goal of sending people to the Moon in the next decade, for the first time since the Apollo era of the 1960s and '70s.Of the group, the only well-known name is aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, which has a long track record of success with NASA and built the InSight lander that tou
  
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• Les Abend: Is it safe to fly the 737 MAX 8?

  29-11-2018 21:33 via cnn.com
  The tragedy of Lion Air Flight 610, in which 189 people perished, could have been prevented, writes Les Abend. And now, people who travel by air understandably want to know: is it safe to get on a Boeing 737 Max plane?
  
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• Suspect in Alabama mall shooting where police killed a man arrested in Atlanta

  29-11-2018 21:27 via nbcnews.com
  The shooting made national headlines after police announced they had shot and killed Emantic Bradford Jr., 21, who they incorrectly named as the suspect.
  
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• Contact with the Kremlin and lies to 'be loyal': key points from Cohen's plea deal

  29-11-2018 21:08
  Trump’s former lawyer admitted he had been in contact with a Russian official in 2016 and had lied to stay loyal to TrumpDonald Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer has pleaded guilty to lying to congressional investigations into possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, and admitted that he had been involved in talks to build a Trump Tower in Moscow months into the 2016 US presidential campaign.In Michael Cohen’s explosive testimony in Manhattan federal court on
  
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• This is an alarming visual of our warming world since 1850

  29-11-2018 21:06 via cnn.com
  Another day, another alarming report about how climate change is not a future problem but rather one that is having severe effects all over the planet now.
  
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• The past four years have been the hottest on record, and we are seeing the effects

  29-11-2018 21:06 via cnn.com
  Another day, another alarming report about how climate change is not a future problem but rather one that is having severe effects all over the planet now.
  
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• Suspect Arrested in Alabama Mall Shooting That Led Police to Mistakenly Kill Innocent Man

  29-11-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  Erron Martez Dequan Brown, 20, of Bessemer was charged with attempted murder
  
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• Gay couple accuses Uber driver of 'hate-filled assault'

  29-11-2018 20:59 via nbcnews.com
  After sharing a hug in the back of an Uber ride, a gay couple alleges they were subjected to verbal and physical assault.
  
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• EU plays it cautious over Ukraine-Russia tensions

  29-11-2018 20:47 via yahoo.com
  The European Union is aiming to de-escalate tensions between Kiev and Moscow this week after Russia seized three Ukrainian navy ships and their crew, worrying about putting fuel on the fire, diplomats and analysts say.The bloc is aware of the risk of playing hardball against Russia, which has been locked in a low-level militarised conflict with Ukraine for nearly five years.German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the Bild newspaper she wanted Ukraine to be "sensible" and help lower tensions through
  
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• In sudden switch, Trump cancels Putin meeting, cites Ukraine crisis

  29-11-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  Trump said he pulled out due to tensions over Russian forces opening fire on Ukrainian navy boats and then seizing them and their crew on Sunday near Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about a proposed Trump real estate project in Russia.
  
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• Measles cases spike globally due to poor vaccination rates

  29-11-2018 20:30 via nbcnews.com
  Measles vaccines have saved 21 million lives since 2000, the WHO says.
  
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• Majority of Republicans now recognize reality of climate change: Poll

  29-11-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  Nearly two-thirds of Republicans — 64 percent — acknowledged that the world’s climate is changing, according to a new poll from Monmouth University.
  
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• Vaccination gaps lead to global measles spike

  29-11-2018 20:28 via cnn.com
  Measles cases around the world surged 31% from 2016 to 2017, according to a new report jointly published by the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
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• Trump abruptly cancels planned Putin meeting

  29-11-2018 20:26 via cnn.com
  Analysis: G20 summit is a glimpse at the future world order
  
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• WATCH: Dog greets soldier with unbelievable reaction

  29-11-2018 20:21 via abcnews.go.com
  A soldier reunited with her beloved dog after being deployed in Africa.
  
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