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• Suspected Mexican drug gang member linked to slayings of US Consulate worker and her husband is extradited

  14-11-2019 23:56 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A suspected gunman for a Mexican drug gang accused of committing the brazen killings of an American consular employee and her husband in Mexico was extradited to the United States on Wednesday, the Justice Department said. 
  
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• As Supreme Court weighs DACA, Trump pushes fiction about 'hardened criminals'

  14-11-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the Supreme Court considers whether it is legal for the Trump administration to cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, the president and his allies have begun spinning a familiar — and false — narrative about the program’s nearly 700,000 beneficiaries.
  
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• The Internet Thinks These Things Are Aliens. The Truth Is Much More Sinister.

  14-11-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A scientist reveals what makes the creatures so creepy—and incredible.
  
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• Superb Federer beats Djokovic to reach ATP Finals last four & eliminate Serb

  14-11-2019 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Roger Federer moves into the ATP Finals last four at the expense of Novak Djokovic with a scintillating win over his great rival.
  
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• New York forced Trump's charitable scams out into the open. But wait, there's more.

  14-11-2019 23:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  There is a real need for the IRS to make sure Trump, Trump's family and their supposedly charitable giving did not break any further laws.
  
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• Watching impeachment hearing in Trump country

  14-11-2019 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The TV cameras were rolling on the impeachment hearings - how did it go down in the Trump heartlands?
  
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• Federal judge rules U.S.-born 'ISIS bride' is not an American citizen

  14-11-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge ruled Thursday that 25-year-old Hoda Muthana, who lived in Alabama but left the U.S. in 2014 to join ISIS, is not an American citizen and therefore the country is not required to repatriate her.
  
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• Trump takes tax return fight to US Supreme Court

  14-11-2019 23:40 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Thursday to block a Manhattan grand jury subpoena for copies of his financial records and tax returns, teeing up a test of Trump's expansive claims of immunity.
  
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• DOJ investigating GOP Rep. Ross Spano over alleged campaign-finance violations

  14-11-2019 23:33 via politico.com
  
  The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into Florida GOP Rep. Ross Spano over alleged campaign finance violations.Spano has denied any wrongdoing.The revelation came in an announcement by the House Ethics Committee, which has been asked by DOJ to defer its probe into Spano while the criminal investigation unfolds.
  
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• ‘Act like a stiff’: To fight impeachment, Trump tries to look presidential

  14-11-2019 23:32 via politico.com
  
  President Donald Trump typically mocks the idea of acting too presidential — equating it with being boring.It’s a shtick repeated over and over, including recently at a mid-October rally in Dallas just weeks after Democrats formally announced their impeachment inquiry.Acting like a stiff is exactly what Trump appears to be attempting this week during the first public impeachment hearings.
  
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• Impeachment Problems: Why Republicans Prefer to Portray Trump as a Victim

  14-11-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The impeachment clause is one of several powers given to Congress that allow it to oversee the executive and judicial branches.
  
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• Two more rockets fired from Gaza hours after 'cease-fire' declaration; Israel responds by striking Islamic Jihad 'terror' targets: IDF

  14-11-2019 23:28 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Rockets continue to be launched from Gaza into southern Israel, hours after a cease-fire was declared between Israel and Gaza’s militant Islamic Jihad group early Thursday, according to Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which added that the Israeli military is responding by striking "terror" targets.
  
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• Trump Admin. Prepares Court Filings to Seize Private Land in Texas for Border Wall: Report

  14-11-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration is preparing to submit court filings as early as next week as a necessary step toward seizing private land in Texas for its wall on the border with Mexico, NBC reported Thursday. Administration officials still haven't said how much the government will compensate affected landowners."I still think we're on track to get the land we need for 450 miles" of border wall, Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan told reporters on Thursday.The government
  
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• U.S. Senate foreign relations chairman wants to hold off on Turkey sanctions bills

  14-11-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Thursday he did not want lawmakers to pass legislation imposing sanctions on Turkey for now, to lessen friction during talks over Turkey's purchase of a Russian missile defense system."Probably it's best we don't pass a sanctions bill at this moment," Senator Jim Risch said during a meeting with reporters in his office.Risch was among a group of Republican senators President Donald Trump called to the White House on W
  
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• Saugus school shooting in California: What we know now

  14-11-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several people are injured, including the suspect, after a shooting at a high school outside Los Angeles. Here's what we know.
  
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• US-China trade deal hits new snag

  14-11-2019 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump was supposed to sign a partial trade deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, but negotiations over the final text have reached a rough patch, according to people familiar with the matter.
  
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• Police: Video shows 16-year-old school shooter open fire on classmates, killing 2

  14-11-2019 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  At least five people have been injured in a shooting at a high school in the Southern California city of Santa Clarita, and authorities are looking for whoever fired the shots, officials said Thursday morning.
  
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• 2 killed and suspect in grave condition after California school shooting

  14-11-2019 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  At least five people have been injured in a shooting at a high school in the Southern California city of Santa Clarita, and authorities are looking for whoever fired the shots, officials said Thursday morning.
  
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• The Latest: School shooter gets life without parole

  14-11-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A school shooter who was 14 when he killed a first grader on a school playground in South Carolina has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.Judge Lawton McIntosh said Thursday he was worried Jesse Osborne showed little remorse after killing his father in their Anderson County home, then shooting at the playground at Townville Elementary School while a first grade class was celebrating a birthday party.Osborne had attended Townville Elementary.
  
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• Roger Stone jurors reach no verdict after first day of deliberations

  14-11-2019 23:18 via politico.com
  
  Jurors in the Roger Stone trial spent more than five hours Thursday ensconced in the Washington, D.C., federal courthouse without reaching a verdict.The only indication of how the jury was leaning came via two notes passed to the U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, expressing confusion about what appeared to be just one of the charges against the longtime GOP strategist.The 12-person jury, composed of nine women and three men, will return Friday morning for a second day of deliberation
  
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• Iran starts gasoline rationing, hikes prices - state TV

  14-11-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran introduced gasoline rationing and price hikes on Friday with an official saying that the revenue would be used for subsidies for 18 million needy families, state television reported.Iran, which has some of the world’s cheapest fuel prices due to heavy subsidies and the fall of its currency, has been fighting rampant fuel smuggling to neighbouring countries.Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, head of the country's Plan and Budget Organization, told state TV that proceeds from the price hikes woul
  
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• Trump officials penalized State Dept employee over perceived nationality: IG

  14-11-2019 23:02 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Senior State Department officials appointed by President Donald Trump retaliated against a career employee, according to an Office of Inspector General report.
  
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• Eating well with type 2 diabetes: A sensible, carb-conscious eating plan

  14-11-2019 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes? A registered dietitan explains how to create a doable (and delicious) eating plan that works with your lifestyle.
  
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• Trump adviser Stephen Miller faces increasing pressure to resign after reports that he shared white-nationalist links with a Breitbart editor

  14-11-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A trove of recently published emails showed Miller exchanging white-nationalist links and ideas with a former Breitbart editor in 2015.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi Says Finalized USMCA Deal ‘Imminent’

  14-11-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said during a press conference Thursday that the Trump administration’s renegotiated USMCA trade deal with Mexico and Canada will pass the House imminently.“I do believe that if we can get this to the place it needs to be, which is imminent, that this can be a template for future trade agreements. A good template,” Pelosi remarked, saying the key issue for Democrats is “enforcement,” a premier issue for labor unions.“I&r
  
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• Ronaldo hat-trick takes international tally to 98 goals

  14-11-2019 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Cristiano Ronaldo takes his tally to 98 international goals as his hat-trick against Lithuania moves Portugal to within one win of a place at Euro 2020.
  
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• Netflix to change Nazi guard documentary after Polish complaint

  14-11-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Netflix said on Thursday it would make changes to maps in a documentary that showed German Nazi death camps inside the borders of modern Poland, after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pressed the streaming and production company to act.The maps in the documentary series "The Devil Next Door" were criticized by Morawiecki earlier this week for implying that Poland existed at that time as an independent nation within its postwar borders and thus could share responsibility for the atrocitie
  
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• Lebanese media: major parties agree on ex-minister Safadi as PM

  14-11-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three major Lebanese parties have agreed on nominating Mohammad Safadi, a former finance minister, to become prime minister of a new government, the Lebanese broadcasters LBCI and MTV reported on Thursday.The agreement was reached in a meeting on Thursday between outgoing Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, Lebanon's leading Sunni politician, and senior representatives of the Shi'ite groups Amal and Hezbollah.There was no official comment from the parties or Safadi.
  
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• California School Shooting Leaves At Least Two Dead, Suspect in Critical Condition

  14-11-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A student opened fire on classmates at the Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California on Thursday morning, killing at least two students and wounding another three before shooting himself.The student, who has not been identified, is in custody and is being treated at a local hospital where he is in grave condition, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. The suspect turned 16 on Thursday, which means he was ineligible to purchase or possess a hand gun under California law.T
  
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• Venezuela's ex-spy chief disappears on eve of extradition to US

  14-11-2019 22:48 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Venezuela’s former spy chief has disappeared in Spain after a high court agreed to extradite him to the United States where he faces federal drug-trafficking charges.
  
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• U.S. Senate Sets Up Expedited Vote on Hong Kong Democracy Bill

  14-11-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate is preparing for quick passage of legislation to show support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong by placing the city’s special trading status with the U.S. under annual review.The Senate is set to bring the bill to the floor under an expedited process that would allow for quick passage unless there is an objection, according to Republican Senator Marco Rubio, the lead sponsor. The bill could pass as early as next week, according to a Senate aide.&ldquo
  
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• 'Boeing was at my father's funeral and I was not'

  14-11-2019 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Few victims' families were able to attend the covering over of the Ethiopian Airlines crash site.
  
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• Trump seems ready to share new Ukraine transcript

  14-11-2019 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump appears poised to make good on his vow to release a transcript of his first phone call with the Ukrainian President after a month-and-a-half-long debate among aides over the wisdom of making another conversation public.
  
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• Aides had lengthy debate over wisdom of making another transcript public, this one of Trump's first Ukraine call

  14-11-2019 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump appears poised to make good on his vow to release a transcript of his first phone call with the Ukrainian President after a month-and-a-half-long debate among aides over the wisdom of making another conversation public.
  
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• U.S. Justice Kavanaugh upbeat in first major public speech

  14-11-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A gathering of conservative lawyers gave U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh a rapturous reception on Thursday for an upbeat speech in his first major public appearance since sexual misconduct accusations almost derailed his appointment.Appointed last year to the high court by Republican President Donald Trump, Kavanaugh addressed the annual meeting of the conservative Federalist Society at Washington's Union Station.Kavanaugh thanked friends who stood by him during the contentious confir
  
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• Viral video of teen punching classmate draws attention to anti-gay bullying

  14-11-2019 22:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Nearly 60 percent of LGBTQ youth feel unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation, according to a survey from education advocacy group GLSEN.
  
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• There have been 366 mass shootings in the US so far in 2019 — here's the full list

  14-11-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As of November 14, 2019, there have been more mass shootings in the US than there are days. At least people have died in mass shootings this year.
  
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• Iranian citizen who violated US sanctions by exporting carbon fiber gets prison time

  14-11-2019 22:29 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  An Iranian businessman charged with exporting tons of carbon fiber, a controlled substance with military and nuclear uses, from the U.S. to Iran was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Thursday, the Justice Department announced. 
  
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• 3 things to watch for in Friday's Trump impeachment hearing

  14-11-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, is the next witness in the House impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
  
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• Pelosi argues Trump's actions are 'bribery'

  14-11-2019 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued on Thursday that the President's actions in the Ukraine scandal constitute "bribery" and that President Donald Trump has admitted to it himself, the latest and most high-profile Democrat to use that word when describing Trump's conduct.
  
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• Iran's supreme leader pardons thousands of prisoners

  14-11-2019 22:22 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pardoned more than 3,500 prisoners.
  
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• New federal bill would restrict police use of facial recognition

  14-11-2019 22:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  The bill only applies to federal law enforcement, not state or local police.
  
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• Trump impeachment: President angrily mocks career diplomats who testified against him as 'never-Trumpers' whose 'sinister plans will fail'

  14-11-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has angrily mocked two career diplomats who testified in a public impeachment hearing, falsely describing them as “never-Trumpers” whose “sinister plans will fail”.A day after the diplomats appeared on Capitol Hill to say they believed the president had placed his own political concerns ahead of the US-Ukraine strategic relationship, Mr Trump appeared at a rally in Louisiana where he attacked Democrats as “crazed lunatics” engaged in an impeachmen
  
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• Trump impeachment: President angrily mocks career diplomats over ‘sinister plans’ at rally

  14-11-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has angrily mocked two career diplomats who testified in a public impeachment hearing, falsely describing them as “never-Trumpers” whose “sinister plans will fail”.A day after the diplomats appeared on Capitol Hill to say they believed the president had placed his own political concerns ahead of the US-Ukraine strategic relationship, Mr Trump appeared at a rally in Louisiana where he attacked Democrats as “crazed lunatics” engaged in an impeachmen
  
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• Trump admin preparing to take over private land for border wall

  14-11-2019 22:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Trump administration is preparing court filings to begin taking over private land in Texas to build a border wall as early as this week, say officials.
  
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• To Save Berlin, Nazi Fighters Went Head-To-Head With America's B-17 Bombers

  14-11-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An incredibly costly fight.
  
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• Country slashes highway speed limit to tackle climate change

  14-11-2019 22:10 via cnn.com
  
  Motorists in the Netherlands will soon have to slow down to do their bit to tackle climate change.
  
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• 5 stretches to help relieve wrist pain

  14-11-2019 22:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  Typing, planks and even gardening can lead to achy, painful wrists. These gentle stretches can help ease the pain.
  
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• Trump losing in Georgia to Biden, Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg and Harris, poll finds

  14-11-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A poll from The Atlanta-Journal Constitution finds Trump behind the five leading 2020 Democrats in Georgia, which has not gone blue since 1992.
  
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• NASA warned of safety risks in delayed private crew launches

  14-11-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA auditors warned Thursday the space agency faces “significant safety and technical challenges” that need to be solved before astronauts fly in private capsules.In its report, NASA’s inspector general office noted Boeing and SpaceX are several years late in transporting crews to the International Space Station.The private capsules likely won’t be certified before next summer, according to the report, and NASA should set a realistic timetable to avoid compromising safet
  
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