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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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• High Court will hear Cardinal Pell's appeal of child sex abuse conviction

  12-11-2019 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  Australia's High Court has agreed to consider an appeal against Cardinal George Pell's conviction on five counts of child sex abuse.
  
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• 2 homeless men in California were injured after getting shot by arrows

  12-11-2019 23:58 via abcnews.go.com
  Two homeless men are in stable condition after the attack in San Francisco.
  
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• Russian official jokes about interfering in 2020 US election

  12-11-2019 23:57 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports.
  
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• US has surveillance video of possible war crime by Turkish-backed forces in Syria

  12-11-2019 23:55 via cnn.com
  
  As President Donald Trump prepares to welcome Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House on Wednesday, two US defense officials tell CNN that the US military is in possession of at least one drone surveillance video which the US believes captured a possible war crime being perpetrated by Turkish-commanded fighters in Syria.
  
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• Mother of missing Florida 5-year-old arrested, hospitalized for apparent overdose

  12-11-2019 23:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hours after police announced human remains were found, Brianna Williams was absentee booked at a hospital where she is in serious condition.
  
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• From 'Anonymous,' key excerpts from inside Trump White House on Putin, Pence, Hillary

  12-11-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Key excerpts from "A Warning," a book by an anonymous senior administration official about President Trump and his administration.
  
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• Teen's lungs scarred so bad from vaping he needed double transplant

  12-11-2019 23:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  The 17-year-old boy "faced certain death if it weren’t for the lung transplant," doctors said.
  
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• 'Miracle' dog has a happy new home

  12-11-2019 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  Miracle the dog, found trapped by debris in the Bahamas weeks after Hurricane Dorian, has a new family in the United States.Watch "Full Circle" weeknights at 5 p.m. ET.
  
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• Dog found in debris finds new home

  12-11-2019 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  Miracle the dog, found trapped by debris in the Bahamas weeks after Hurricane Dorian, has a new family in the United States.Watch "Full Circle" weeknights at 5 p.m. ET.
  
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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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• Trump's ex-aide contradicts Trump in court

  12-11-2019 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  Former deputy campaign chair Rick Gates testified that in mid-2016 then-candidate Trump took a phone call from his longtime associate Roger Stone, where the pair apparently discussed WikiLeaks' planned release of hacked Democratic emails.
  
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• Supreme Court grapples with Trump cancellation of DACA, impact on immigrant families

  12-11-2019 23:28 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with the rationale behind President Trump's decision to end protections for 700,000 young immigrants and subsequent impact.
  
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• Judge bans border activist from mentioning Trump in trial

  12-11-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge banned an Arizona border activist charged with harboring immigrants from mentioning President Donald Trump during his retrial, which began Tuesday.U.S. District Court Judge Raner Collins granted a motion by prosecutors to bar the mention of the president during the second trial of Scott Warren, just before opening statements began.
  
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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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• Meet the rescue dog that is now a Disney star

  12-11-2019 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  Monte, a rescue dog from Phoenix, Arizona is reportedly starring as "Tramp" in Disney's live-action remake of "Lady and the Tramp."
  
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• Clinton says she is being urged by ‘many, many, many people’ to run in 2020

  12-11-2019 23:19 via politico.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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• Kayakers rescue stranded pilot who crashed plane into lake

  12-11-2019 23:16 via cnn.com
  
  Kayakers rescued a pilot who crashed his small plane into a freezing lake near Covington, Washington, officials said. The pilot is recovering at a hospital.
  
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• Judge blocks White House from allowing downloads of 3-D printed gun blueprints

  12-11-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik said the State Department violated federal law by letting Defense Distributed, a Texas-based nonprofit, publish downloadable blueprints for the untraceable, undetectable, mainly plastic firearms, as part of a June 2018 legal settlement.Lasnik cited the State Department's prior view that publishing such instructions could threaten U.S. foreign policy, national security and even world peace by enabling criminals, including terrorists outside the United States, to
  
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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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• Gymnast dies after a fall in training

  12-11-2019 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  Melanie Coleman, a 20-year-old gymnast at Southern Connecticut State University, died Sunday after sustaining an injury while training last Friday.
  
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• Facebook bug accesses iPhone camera

  12-11-2019 22:47 via cnn.com
  
  Facebook says a bug that inadvertently accesses a user's iPhone camera while they're scrolling through the News Feed will be fixed sometime today.
  
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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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• Oklahoma officer found on top of police chief he's accused of killing

  12-11-2019 22:43 via abcnews.go.com
  
  An Oklahoma police chief who was allegedly killed by one of his own officers was found beaten.
  
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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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• 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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• Jimmy Carter recovering in hospital after surgery to relieve pressure on his brain

  12-11-2019 22:20 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Jimmy Carter is recovering at a hospital in Atlanta after undergoing an operation Tuesday morning to relieve pressure on his brain, according to the Carter Center.
  
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• Trump's links to indicted Giuliani associates date to 2014

  12-11-2019 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  • Breaking down Republicans' memo on how to defend Trump
  
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• Trump claims not to know Giuliani's indicted associates. His links to them go back to 2014

  12-11-2019 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has had at least 10 encounters with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani the President has adamantly claimed not to know.
  
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• The US President claims not to know Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two men at the heart of the Ukraine scandal. He's encountered them at least 10 times

  12-11-2019 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has had at least 10 encounters with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani the President has adamantly claimed not to know.
  
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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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• Suspect in Popeyes chicken sandwich stabbing charged with murder

  12-11-2019 22:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ricoh McClain, 30, is facing murder and assault charges for allegedly fatally stabbing 28-year-old Kevin Tyrell Davis at a restaurant in Maryland.
  
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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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• 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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• New poll shows Buttigieg in the lead in Iowa. Can he win it all?

  12-11-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The August poll found Pete Buttigieg at 8 percent — meaning he’s gained 14 points in Iowa over the last three months. And the new poll isn’t the only one showing a Buttigieg surge where it matters most.
  
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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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• Airbnb lists its first royal property

  12-11-2019 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Airbnb has taken its luxury listings to a new level, introducing their first royal property in Jaipur, India.
  
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• 'The View' scores big ratings with Donald Trump Jr., earns highest viewership in 6 months

  12-11-2019 21:57 via foxnews.com
  
  "The View" may have had a nasty on-air battle with Donald Trump Jr., but it walked away with a victory of its own.  
  
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• Report: Loud fight with detective preceded chief's death

  12-11-2019 21:57 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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• 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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• Is there any truth to Trump's barrage of impeachment tweets?

  12-11-2019 21:52 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has lashed out again at Democrats' impeachment push, tweeting a rapid-fire series of arguments in his own defense over three tweets Tuesday morning.
  
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• Fact-checking Trump's barrage of anti-impeachment tweets

  12-11-2019 21:52 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has lashed out again at Democrats' impeachment push, tweeting a rapid-fire series of arguments in his own defense over three tweets Tuesday morning.
  
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