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• How Greenland could become China's Arctic base

  18-12-2018 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  The vast northern expanse of Greenland needs investment, and China is willing to help – for a price.
  
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• Belgium's PM Charles Michel submits resignation amid migration row

  18-12-2018 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Charles Michel's resignation letter comes days after a coalition partner quits over migration.
  
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• Stocks on track for worst December since the Great Depression

  18-12-2018 23:57 via cnn.com
  Few people on Wall Street remember the last time the stock market had this tough of a December. That's because the Dow and S&P 500 are currently on track for their biggest December loss since the Great Depression.
  
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• Ex-Fed chair to investors: 'Run for cover'

  18-12-2018 23:53 via cnn.com
  Alan Greenspan says the party's over on Wall Street.
  
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• White House stands by Michael Flynn despite judge's rebuke

  18-12-2018 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Sarah Sanders offered kind words from the West Wing as President Trump's former national security adviser faces sentencing.
  
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• US Air Force dad surprises daughters as dolphin mascot

  18-12-2018 23:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Sgt Anthony Pasco had not seen his teenage twins in months as he was based away from home.
  
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• Border Enforcement Head Should Resign Over Migrant Child Death, Rep. Castro Says

  18-12-2018 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of Customs and Border Protection, Kevin McAleenan, should lose his
  
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• Man City beat Leicester on penalties to reach semi-final

  18-12-2018 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Holders Manchester City edge through to the Carabao Cup semi-finals by beating Leicester City 3-1 on penalties after a 1-1 draw.
  
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• If Mexico will pay for the wall, then why the big budget fight?

  18-12-2018 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  There's a deal to be made to avoid a pre-Christmas government shutdown: Our view
  
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• Uber gets approval from Pennsylvania to resume self-driving testing

  18-12-2018 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] received approval from Pennsylvania to resume self-driving car testing on public roads this week, state records show, nine months after it suspended the programme following a deadly accident in Arizona.A company spokeswoman said on Tuesday Uber has not yet resumed testing.In November, Uber said it was seeking permission from Pennsylvania to resume testing more than seven months after a deadly self-driving crash in Arizona.
  
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• Trump Ordering His Cabinet To Search For Spare Change To Fund His Wall

  18-12-2018 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- Frustrated that neither Mexico nor Congress will pay for his
  
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• Trump's charity will shut down amid claims of financial misconduct

  18-12-2018 23:09 via cnn.com
  The Donald J. Trump Foundation has agreed to dissolve under judicial supervision amid an ongoing lawsuit concerning its finances, according to a document filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court by the New York state Attorney General's office.
  
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• Carabao Cup: Burton Albion win 1-0 at Middlesbrough to reach semi-finals

  18-12-2018 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Jake Hesketh scores the winner as League One Burton shock Championship Middlesbrough to reach the Carabao Cup semi-finals.
  
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• ‘Do your job Sarah!’: Reporters pursue press secretary over Michael Flynn – video

  18-12-2018 23:04 via theguardian.com
  Sarah Sanders struggles to answer questions about Donald Trump's apparently more favourable view of Michael Flynn compared with his former aide Michael Cohen, when both have cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller. She says Cohen is known to be a liar before saying 'I don't see any reason to go beyond that comment.' Sanders continued to claim the FBI had 'ambushed' Flynn – contrary to Flynn’s own statements. Asked if Trump was concerned about Flynn lying to the
  
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• Who is the no-nonsense judge overseeing Flynn's sentencing?

  18-12-2018 22:52 via cnn.com
  The judge overseeing former national security adviser Michael Flynn's sentencing has earned a no-nonsense reputation during his tenure as a judge -- presiding over cases in DC for more than three decades.
  
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• Here Are The Advertisers Sticking With Tucker Carlson

  18-12-2018 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  While many advertisers are cutting ties with Fox News' Tucker Carlson, others
  
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• Trump willing to look at extraditing Turkish cleric, but noncommittal

  18-12-2018 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  "The only thing he said is that we would take a look at it," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters."Nothing further at this point beyond that ... nothing committal at all in that process."Turkey's foreign minister said on Sunday that Trump told Erdogan that Washington was working on extraditing the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally who has lived in self-imposed U.S. exile for nearly two decades.Asked about the comment on Monday, another White House official said only
  
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• Scottish Premiership top four separated by a point after Aberdeen thrash Dundee

  18-12-2018 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Sam Cosgrove and Andrew Considine both score twice as Aberdeen moved within a point of the Scottish Premiership summit after obliterating Dundee.
  
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• Aberdeen near Premiership summit after Dundee rout

  18-12-2018 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Sam Cosgrove and Andrew Considine both score twice as Aberdeen moved within a point of the Scottish Premiership summit after obliterating Dundee.
  
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• Nigerian government slams Amnesty

  18-12-2018 22:39 via cnn.com
  The Nigerian government accused human rights group Amnesty International of "damaging the morale" of its soldiers fighting terrorism, as part of an ongoing row with foreign nongovernmental organizations.
  
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• Comey's second testimony transcript is released

  18-12-2018 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Transcripts of former FBI director's closed-door testimony have been released; Catherine Herridge has the latest.
  
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• Ethics complaints against Kavanaugh dismissed

  18-12-2018 22:27
  Panel says complaints filed under law that doesn't apply to SCOTUS justices.
  
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• Trump and his allies seemed convinced Michael Flynn would back away from his guilty plea. Instead he agreed to continue cooperating with the Mueller probe

  18-12-2018 22:25 via cnn.com
  In the run-up to Tuesday's sentencing of Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump and his allies seemed to be convinced that the former national security adviser would stand up in court and renounce the plea deal he had agreed to more than a year ago in which he admitted lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials during the presidential transition in late 2016.
  
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• Yemeni mum granted visa to visit dying son in California

  18-12-2018 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  The mother received a travel waiver to see her son before he is taken off life support, officials say.
  
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• In ‘disgust,’ judge threatens Flynn with prison, but delays sentencing

  18-12-2018 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The sentencing for former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, scheduled for Tuesday morning, was unexpectedly postponed after a federal judge said Flynn’s conduct left him with “disgust,” and indicated he was considering a prison sentence — even though prosecutors had recommended no jail time for the retired three-star general.Flynn’s admitted crime of lying to the FBI while occupying a top post in the Trump
  
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• Fox News' Andrew Napolitano Eviscerates Trump As 'Loser' In Michael Flynn Case

  18-12-2018 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  While Fox News has cemented itself as a cheerleader for President Donald
  
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• Comey defends FBI's Flynn interview, transcript shows

  18-12-2018 22:19 via cnn.com
  The House released Tuesday the second round of former FBI Director James Comey's testimony, one day after he slammed congressional Republicans when he emerged from the closed-door interview on Monday.
  
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• Judge excoriates Trump ex-adviser Flynn, delays Russia probe sentencing

  18-12-2018 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. judge fiercely criticized President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Tuesday for lying to FBI agents in a probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and delayed sentencing him until Flynn has finished helping prosecutors.U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan told Flynn, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, that he had arguably betrayed his country.Sullivan also noted that Flynn had operated a
  
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• Penny Marshall: US TV star and director dies aged 75

  18-12-2018 22:10 via bbc.co.uk
  After starring in TV series Laverne & Shirley, she went on to become a director of hits such as Big.
  
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• Girl signs for deaf dad at rock concert

  18-12-2018 22:09 via cnn.com
  Rocking out at a concert, Kari Carberry didn't miss a beat as she signed the lyrics of the song for her deaf dad in Canada.
  
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• Daughter signs for deaf dad at rock concert

  18-12-2018 22:09 via cnn.com
  Rocking out at a concert, Kari Carberry didn't miss a beat as she signed the lyrics of the song for her deaf dad in Canada.
  
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• US bans 'bump stocks' on semi-automatic weapons

  18-12-2018 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The US government said Tuesday it was banning bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns and that were used in a mass shooting in Las Vegas in October 2017.The devices, which harness the recoil of a semi-automatic rifle's discharge to make the trigger fire faster, effectively turn the weapons into machine guns, which are illegal, the Justice Department said.Bump stocks allow a "shooter of a semi-automatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a
  
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• Qatar World Cup: What will it be like for fans in 2022?

  18-12-2018 22:02 via bbc.co.uk
  It is four years until the 2022 World Cup final takes place in Qatar - Richard Conway finds out what a winter tournament could be like for fans.
  
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• The Latest: NRA 'disappointed' by bump stock ban

  18-12-2018 22:01 via finance.yahoo.com
  The National Rifle Association is "disappointed" with the Trump administration's plan to outlaw bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire continuously.Spokeswoman Jennifer Baker says the Justice Department should provide amnesty for gun owners who already have the devices.The Justice Department says the attachments will be banned beginning in late March under a law that prohibits machine guns.
  
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• Michael Flynn Probably Didn't Commit Treason

  18-12-2018 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  At former national security adviser Michael Flynn's sentencing hearing on
  
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• As a gov't shutdown looms, here's a look at the border wall

  18-12-2018 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic lawmakers are in a standoff over funding the government, and the main sticking point is Trump's demand for $5 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
  
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• Trump retreats on US government shutdown threat over wall

  18-12-2018 21:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The White House says it has found other sources of funding, a claim dismissed by Democrats.
  
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• 'Making a Murderer' officer sues Netflix

  18-12-2018 21:48 via cnn.com
  A retired Wisconsin police officer involved in the investigation of the murder at the center of the popular Netflix documentary series "Making a Murderer" is suing its creators and the streaming service.
  
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• The Latest: Dems shun wall money from other parts of budget

  18-12-2018 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on negotiations over funding President Donald Trump wants for a U.S.-Mexico border wall and the possibility of a partial government shutdown (all times local):
  
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• Hollywood icon Penny Marshall dies at 75

  18-12-2018 21:28 via cnn.com
  Actress Penny Marshall, who found fame in TV's "Laverne & Shirley" before going on to direct such beloved films as "Big" and "A League of Their Own," has died. She was 75.
  
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• Genoa bridge: Renzo Piano to lead new construction

  18-12-2018 21:19 via bbc.co.uk
  The Italian architect agrees to lead a €200m construction after the collapse that killed 43 people.
  
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• Mother wins visa fight to see her dying child in US

  18-12-2018 21:10 via cnn.com
  The US State Department granted a Yemeni mother, whose 2-year-old son is on life support in an Oakland hospital, a waiver Tuesday to travel to the United States, according to officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
  
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• Holly Thomas: What 'Love Actually,' Cardi B and Meghan Markle share in common

  18-12-2018 21:07 via cnn.com
  Romantic Christmas movies have a lot to answer for. They inhabit a world in which a character played by actress and singer Martine McCutcheon is incessantly described derogatorily -- and inaccurately -- as fat ("Love Actually"), schoolboys are advised to hunt girls they fancy through airports, breaking the law in the process ("Love Actually") and bosses instruct subordinates to proposition each other ("Love Actually").
  
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• Flynn’s Risk of Prison Resurfaces

  18-12-2018 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The startling turn of events in a Washington federal court came after the sentencing judge, Emmet Sullivan, pressed prosecutors for more details about Flynn’s illegal deeds and expressed “disgust” and “disdain” for the seriousness of Flynn’s offenses.Flynn pleaded guilty to lying during an early 2017 FBI interview about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.
  
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• Big-Bank Lobby Group Adds Democrat as Power in Congress Shifts

  18-12-2018 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Fabrice Coles will join the Bank Policy Institute in February as vice president of government affairs, the group said Tuesday.Coles, 35, is slated to work on consumer and financial technology issues.“We were looking to bolster our Democratic credentials,” said Anthony Cimino, head of government affairs at the institute.
  
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• 'Laverne & Shirley' star Penny Marshall dead at 75

  18-12-2018 20:56 via cnn.com
  Actress Penny Marshall, who found fame in TV's "Laverne & Shirley" before going on to direct such beloved films as "Big" and "A League of Their Own," has died. She was 75.
  
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• Mnuchin Says Strong Dollar Reflects Confidence in U.S. Economy

  18-12-2018 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  “Part of the reason why the dollar is strengthened is a function of people’s view of the U.S. economy and U.S. economic growth relative to growth around the world,” Mnuchin said in a round-table interview at Bloomberg’s Washington office on Tuesday.
  
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• Loneliness peaks at three key ages, study finds

  18-12-2018 20:52 via cnn.com
  Rising rates of loneliness may not be news, but the three periods when it peaks may come as a surprise: More people reported feeling moderate to severe loneliness during their late 20s, their mid-50s and their late 80s than in other life periods, according to research published Tuesday in the journal International Psychogeriatrics.
  
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• New York diner chomps on an oyster, finds a pearl

  18-12-2018 20:48 via cnn.com
  A surprise discovery in your food is rarely good news, but for one man in New York it turned out to be a real stroke of luck.
  
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• Key players in the Mueller Russia investigation

  18-12-2018 20:44 via cnn.com
  CNN's Marshall Cohen explains what Robert Mueller is investigating and why President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn are at the center of the probe.
  
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