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• J&J announces $5 billion share buyback after shares extend losses

  17-12-2018 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it plans to buy back up to $5 billion of its stock, after a Reuters report on Friday that the company knew for decades that its Baby Powder contained cancer-causing asbestos wiped about $40 billion from its market value.J&J knew about the presence of small amounts of asbestos in its products as early as 1971, a Reuters examination of company memos, internal reports and other confidential documents showed.The share repurchase was just the latest effort the
  
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• Geoffrey Rush denies claims of improper conduct

  17-12-2018 23:50 via cnn.com
  Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush has denied claims he acted inappropriately toward an actress more than seven years ago.
  
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• Trump to review case of Afghanistan vet

  17-12-2018 23:49 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump said he will review the case of Army Major Matt Golsteyn, a Special Forces soldier and Afghanistan veteran charged with pre-meditated murder. CNN's Jim Sciutto reports.
  
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• Construction company fires workers over CA wildfire destruct

  17-12-2018 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Three construction workers were fired after posting inappropriate pictures surrounded by wildfire aftermath; Claudia Cowan reports from Paradise, California.
  
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• Gilets jaunes: grassroots heroes or tools of the Kremlin?

  17-12-2018 23:39 via theguardian.com
  Russian media have seized on the yellow vest protests – but they don’t seem to have played a role in their genesis
  Russian state television has spent much of the last two weeks playing up the chaos of France’s protests, continuing a trend of coverage that emerged long before troll factories and the modern era of “fake news”.Seven years ago, the Kremlin-backed TV station Russia Today went all in on coverage of a leftist street protest in the west. Did Occupy Wall Str
  
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• Trump travel ban blocks mom from seeing dying 2-year-old son

  17-12-2018 23:30 via cnn.com
  CNN's Dan Simon speaks with a father whose son is on life support and the child's mother is blocked from getting to the U.S. because of Trump's travel ban.
  
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• Girl's death shows communication issues on US-Mexico border

  17-12-2018 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Shortly before a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl died in U.S. custody, her father signed a form stating that his daughter was in good health. But it's unclear how much the man understood on the form, which was written in English and read to him in Spanish by Border Patrol agents.
  
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• Dean Obeidallah: SNL missed how 'wonderful' Trump has made America

  17-12-2018 23:25 via cnn.com
  'Saturday Night Live' has done it again -- offending the thin-skinned President Donald Trump. This time it appears the sketch that caused Trump to take a brief break from complaining about special counsel Robert Mueller was the comedy show's cold open -- a parody of the classic holiday film "It's a Wonderful Life" titled "It's a Wonderful Trump." Instead of a distraught George Bailey (played by Jimmy Stewart) being shown a world without him, SNL looks at an America where Trump was never presiden
  
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• Trump lashes out at Russia probe as new reality sets in

  17-12-2018 23:24 via cnn.com
  A frenzied year in Washington is going out with a roar as the political forces that combined to make the first half of President Donald Trump's mandate so turbulent come to a head in a hugely consequential run-up to the holidays.
  
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• New White House legal team gears up for House investigations

  17-12-2018 23:21 via nbcnews.com
  A team of four deputies will help White House Counsel Pat Cipollone navigate congressional inquiries into the administration.
  
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• Michael Flynn associate charged with illegal lobbying for Turkey

  17-12-2018 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The former national security adviser Michael Flynn is due to be sentenced on Tuesday after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI.A one-time business partner of the former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been arrested and charged with illegally lobbying to have a Turkish exile returned from the US.Bijan Rafiekian, who also goes by the name Bijan Kian, made an initial appearance on Monday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
  
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• MIT invents method to shrink objects to nanoscale

  17-12-2018 23:19 via cnn.com
  Some say bigger is better, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will tell you that when it comes to tech, smaller things are far more impressive.
  
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• Congressional delegation will visit Border Patrol site after death of 7-year-old girl in US custody

  17-12-2018 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A congressional delegation will visit the New Mexico border station where a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl was detained before dying at a nearby hospital – amid calls by her father for a “transparent” investigation into the circumstances that led to her death.The child, Jakelin Caal Maquin, was with her father were in a group of 163 migrants that was detained by US Border Patrol on 6 December in a remote area of the New Mexico desert.Officials say that she began vomiting and stoppe
  
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• Best shampoos for a dry, flaky scalp, according to these dermatologists

  17-12-2018 23:16 via nbcnews.com
  Keep flakes at bay and soothe your scalp with these expert DIY tips and product picks.
  
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• Professor in sex for grades scandal gets prison term

  17-12-2018 23:11 via cnn.com
  Nigerian professor Richard Akindele, accused of demanding sex from a female student, was sentenced to prison on Monday.
  
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• El Salvador court frees woman on trial after bearing rapist's baby

  17-12-2018 23:11 via theguardian.com
  Imelda Cortez, 20, faced an attempted murder charge under draconian abortion laws after being raped by her stepfatherA rape victim who was charged with attempted murder in El Salvador after giving birth to her abuser’s baby has been found not guilty and freed from jail.Imelda Cortez, 20, has been in custody since April 2017 after giving birth in a latrine to a baby girl fathered by her abusive stepfather. Continue reading...
  
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• 'We have to stop being numb' to US President's comments, ex-FBI chief says after closed-door interview on Capitol Hill

  17-12-2018 23:10 via cnn.com
  Former FBI Director James Comey slammed Republicans on Monday for not speaking out against President Donald Trump's attacks on the FBI and strongly defended the agency's conduct, following his second round of questioning at a closed-door congressional interview.
  
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• Comey to House Republicans: 'Stand up and speak the truth'

  17-12-2018 23:09 via nbcnews.com
  The former FBI director lashed out at congressional Republicans after a day of closed-door questioning.
  
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• Mudd: Russians were trying to change America

  17-12-2018 22:57 via cnn.com
  CNN's Phil Mudd reacts to a report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee detailing the breadth of the Russian social media campaign to sow discord in the United States.
  
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• How the jailing of Cohen affects Trump

  17-12-2018 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Does the jailing of his former lawyer Michael Cohen spell trouble for Donald Trump?
  
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• FDA to ask if teens need help quitting e-cigarettes

  17-12-2018 22:53 via nbcnews.com
  Teen vaping has hit record highs.
  
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• The 2020 Mercedes-Benz CLA Debuts Next Month

  17-12-2018 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The second generation of Benz's smaller four-door coupe will be revealed at CES.
  
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• Merriam-Webster delivers 'justice' as its word of the year

  17-12-2018 22:30 via nbcnews.com
  Remember "lodestar?" That word also spiked in search following a New York Times op-ed from an anonymous Trump administration official.
  
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• EU court tells Poland to 'immediately suspend' law forcing judges to retire

  17-12-2018 22:26 via cnn.com
  The European Union's highest court ruled on Monday that Poland must "immediately suspend" a law that forces Supreme Court judges over age 65 to retire.
  
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• To Fund Trump Border Wall, Ally in Congress Floats Selling Bonds

  17-12-2018 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Representative Steven Palazzo of Mississippi is introducing legislation to direct the Treasury Department to issue government savings bonds to pay for a physical barrier between the U.S. and Mexico, one of Trump’s signature issues.“This legislation would allow for the patriots of today’s era to help support American security in the same way as previous generations,” Palazzo said in a statement on the legislation, known as The Border Bonds for America Act.Bonds
  
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• Markets Right Now: Another steep drop pulls Dow down 500

  17-12-2018 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• Global stocks drop, where is 'Santa Claus rally'?

  17-12-2018 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 506.71 points, or 2.1 percent, to 23,593.8, the S&P 500 lost 54.09 points, or 2.08 percent, to 2,545.86 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 156.93 points, or 2.27 percent, to 6,753.73."If Santa Claus doesn't turn up very soon, U.S. stocks may end this year in negative territory", wrote Rabobank analysts as the Nasdaq remained the only benchmark in the black for the year, with the Dow and the S&P 500 down between 2 and 3 percent.Some investors
  
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• US markets sink deeper into the red

  17-12-2018 22:20 via cnn.com
  The US stock market sank deeper into the red following sluggish economic reports on Monday and bad news from a couple of blue chip giants.
  
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• Theresa May accused of leading the UK into a 'national crisis' as she sets date for vote on her Brexit plan

  17-12-2018 22:12 via cnn.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May was accused of leading the UK into a "national crisis" on Monday as she ignored pleas to abandon her widely-criticized Brexit plan.
  
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• May sets date for vote on her Brexit deal

  17-12-2018 22:12 via cnn.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May will condemn the prospect of a second Brexit referendum in an address to Parliament Monday, as pressure for a new vote grows both inside and outside a bitterly divided Westminster.
  
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• Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn slams British PM's 'unacceptable' delay of vote on her Brexit deal

  17-12-2018 22:11 via cnn.com
  British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said Monday that he is introducing a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May for delaying Parliament's vote on her Brexit deal until January.
  
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• May threatened with new no-confidence vote

  17-12-2018 22:11 via cnn.com
  British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said Monday that he is introducing a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May for delaying Parliament's vote on her Brexit deal until January.
  
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• Archdiocese apologizes after Michigan priest condemns teen who killed himself

  17-12-2018 22:07 via nbcnews.com
  The family of Maison Hullibarger said some people at his funeral were so upset that they left the room in tears.
  
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• 160-strong classic car collection on sale due to museum closure

  17-12-2018 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  From (a replica of) the first production car in the world through to a 12-mile Dodge Viper, the 160-strong Tupelo collection has some fine pickings
  
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• US accepts Assad staying in Syria -- but won't give aid

  17-12-2018 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  James Jeffrey, the US special representative in Syria, said that Assad needed to compromise as he had not yet won the brutal seven-year civil war, estimating that some 100,000 armed opposition fighters remained in Syria.It's not regime change -- we're not trying to get rid of Assad," Jeffrey said at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank.
  
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• Jesuits release list of 89 US priests accused of sex abuse

  17-12-2018 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Jesuit authorities for 20 US states on Monday released the names of 89 priests with credible allegations of child sexual abuse dating as far back as 1950.The disclosures by the Jesuit provinces of Maryland and USA Midwest are the latest chapter in the ongoing sexual abuse scandal roiling the Catholic Church and come after 153 Jesuits were publicly identified by two other provinces earlier this month."On behalf of the Midwest Jesuits, I apologize to victim-survivors and their families for the har
  
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• The year of Trump, according to Trump

  17-12-2018 22:03 via cnn.com
  It's hard to remember everything that happened this year in politics -- so we assembled these soundbites from President Donald Trump to help you out.
  
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• Could Ken soon have a same-sex partner?

  17-12-2018 22:02 via cnn.com
  An Arizona couple is petitioning Mattel to offer a doll set with two males, to have a more diverse option for children.
  
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• 'Wake-up call': Lawmakers react to reports detailing Russia's influence campaign

  17-12-2018 22:00 via nbcnews.com
  Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris said the attacks will continue "until our federal government starts taking the threat seriously."
  
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• Robert De Niro talks about Trump feud

  17-12-2018 21:58 via cnn.com
  In an interview with CNN's Hala Gorani, actor Robert De Niro opens up about his feud with President Donald Trump.
  
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• Critics decry decision to let Florida police use 'stand your ground'

  17-12-2018 21:56 via nbcnews.com
  Allowing police to invoke the law only "makes it harder for our justice system to deliver justice in these cases," one critic said.
  
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• Could a Grand Jury subpoena be issued for Trump by Mueller?

  17-12-2018 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump lawyer rules out Mueller interview; Judge Napolitano weighs in.
  
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• Trump's latest big immigration bet is looking like a loser

  17-12-2018 21:51 via nbcnews.com
  Analysis: No border wall. No rewrite of immigration policy. No Republican majority in the House. On his top agenda item, the president is getting hammered.
  
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• Polish president signs bill reinstating Supreme Court judges

  17-12-2018 21:51 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Poland's president signed legislation Monday that reinstates Supreme Court judges who were forced into early retirement despite the European Union condemning the removals as a violation of democratic standards.
  
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• Disney Channel fires actor accused of trying to meet minor for sex

  17-12-2018 21:40 via nbcnews.com
  The 48-year-old actor allegedly used an app to ask a user whom he thought was 13 years old to meet for sex and to send pornographic photos.
  
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• Challenge to Hungary's strongman Viktor Orban as 'slave law' protests rock Budapest

  17-12-2018 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Viktor Orban, the populist prime minister of Hungary, is facing a rare challenge to his grip on power as protesters demand an end to controversial labour reforms and and what they call his assault on democracy.    The Hungarian capital has been rocked by nearly daily protests and opposition MPs have called for Mr Orban's overthrow since the country's parliament adopted a bill liberalising overtime rules on Wednesday.   As part of the reform, which critics have dubbed "the sla
  
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• How US is preparing for space arms race

  17-12-2018 21:32 via cnn.com
  The US Air Force Space Command is defending against current space threats from China and Russia while preparing new weapons for the US to use.
  
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• Even Obamacare Haters Think Friday's Court Ruling Is Terrible

  17-12-2018 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Friday's court ruling against the Affordable Care Act is so bonkers that even
  
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• General Dynamics Warns Trudeau Over Exit Penalties in Saudi Deal

  17-12-2018 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  In a television interview Sunday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government was looking for a way to halt the sale of armored vehicles manufactured by a unit of U.S.-based General Dynamics Corp. “We are engaged with the export permits to try and see if there is a way of no longer exporting these vehicles to Saudi Arabia,” Trudeau told CTV, without elaborating.The company’s Canadian unit, in a written statement Monday, warned that doing so could leave the govern
  
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• Just one gay acquaintance can change hearts and minds on LGBTQ rights, study finds

  17-12-2018 21:17 via nbcnews.com
  The study confirms what many have already known anecdotally: “Coming out works as a strategy for changing minds" on LGBTQ rights.
  
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