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• The Latest: 2 airmen died while landing at Oklahoma base

  21-11-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the crash of two Air Force training jets in northwest Oklahoma that killed two airmen.An Air Force base commander says two U.S. airmen were killed in an accident involving two jets during the landing phase of a training exercise in northwestern Oklahoma.Addressing a news conference Thursday afternoon, Vance Air Force Base Col. Corey Simmons declined to identify the two aboard the T-38 Talon who died around 9 a.m.. He says two other airmen aboard an identical jet involved in the cra
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein: newest accuser comes forward, says she was ‘perfect victim’

  21-11-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Teala Davies sues disgraced financier’s estate* About a dozen women have brought accusations of sexual abuseTeala Davis, left, says she was 17 years old when she was sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Associated PressA woman who says she suffered lasting damage from sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 17 years old has sued his estate, joining the growing list of women who have sued the late disgraced financier.Teala Davies filed her lawsuit in Manhattan
  
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• Will Hurd Condemns Trump’s Conduct, but Says He’s Not Convinced It’s Impeachable

  21-11-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Representative Will Hurd (R., Texas), a frequent Republican critic of President Trump, on Thursday condemned the Trump administration's foreign policy in Ukraine but said he has seen no evidence Trump committed bribery or extortion.“An impeachable offense should be compelling,” Hurd said during Thursday's impeachment hearing before the House Intelligence Committee. “It’s not something to be rushed or taken lightly. I have not heard evidence proving the president committed
  
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• Police: ‘At risk’ man charged in fatal California attack

  21-11-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The suspect charged Thursday with fatally stabbing a man who tried to stop a theft on a San Francisco Bay Area commuter train was considered a “missing person at risk” because he walked away from a hospital, but authorities said that label didn’t mean he was considered a threat.Bay Area Rapid Transit interim Police Chief Ed Alvarez said Wednesday that a barefoot Jermaine Brim walked away from San Leandro Hospital, which listed him in its records as a “missing person at ri
  
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• Republican criticizes Trump then gives big hint how he'll vote

  21-11-2019 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) delivers remarks on the fifth day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
  
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• Nearly 100,000 Pounds of Packaged Salads Recalled Due to E. Coli Concerns

  21-11-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Update: On Nov. 22, Consumer Reports advised people to avoid all romaine lettuce, based on announcements from federal officials. Missa Bay has recalled 97,272 pounds of salad kits and bowls shipp...
  
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• 'It's going to blow up': Trump impeachment witnesses describe scheme to use US government for domestic political means

  21-11-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former White House adviser Fiona Hill has testified that the vast majority of the American diplomatic and intelligence community believed a central thrust behind Donald Trump’s demands that Ukraine launch an investigation were based on a “fictional narrative” pushed by Russians intent on casting a dark cloud over the American electoral system, and that the unconventional American effort to pursue it was "going to blow up".The damning remarks undercut a central element of the Re
  
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• Exclusive: Acting Homeland Security chief Chad Wolf makes unannounced visit to privately funded border wall

  21-11-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf made an unpublicized visit Wednesday to the site of a privately constructed border wall during his first official trip to the southern border, Yahoo News has confirmed.
  
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• UPDATE 5-Manila-bound Philippine Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Los Angeles

  21-11-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Philippine Airlines flight bound for Manila suffered an apparent engine failure on Thursday shortly after takeoff from Los Angeles and made an emergency landing, authorities said.All 347 passengers and 18 crew aboard Flight 113, a Boeing Co 777 widebody, are safe, an airline spokeswoman said.Pilots of flight 113 declared an emergency and reported a possible engine failure, Los Angeles International Airport said.
  
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• Lindsey Graham seems to be gearing up for an impeachment trial

  21-11-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans are getting ready to pull the impeachment ball back into their court.Within minutes of Thursday's impeachment hearings closing out two weeks of testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who runs the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a letter. In it, Graham requested a bevvy of documents from the Obama administration, including any that involved Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden, and former Ukrainian Pres
  
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• The U.S. Submarine That Could Bring Nuclear Doomsday With It

  21-11-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One sub to end a country.
  
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• 'A domestic, political errand': Witnesses paint damning picture of Trump

  21-11-2019 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  A former top White House official on Thursday said that the effort to push Ukraine to open investigations into President Donald Trump's political rivals was a "domestic political errand" that came at the expense of US foreign policy.
  
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• Trucker in Colorado pileup that killed 4 pleads not guilty

  21-11-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A truck driver accused of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people and seriously injured several others on a Colorado interstate pleaded not guilty Thursday to vehicular homicide and other charges.Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, 24, of Houston, appeared in court in Jefferson County to answer to charges stemming from the April 25 crash on Interstate 70 west of Denver, KDVR-TV reported.Aguilera-Mederos, who is set to go to trial May 1, faces 41 charges, including vehicular homicide, assault a
  
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• Smugglers cut a truck-sized hole to drive 16 through US-Mexico border wall, feds say

  21-11-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sixteen people were arrested Wednesday in what federal officials described as a “brazen” smuggling attempt that involved cutting a section of the border wall in Southern California.
  
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• Immigration raids tied to worse mental health among Hispanic Americans

  21-11-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Researchers examined data on people who identified as Hispanic or Latino in nationally-representative behavioral health surveys administered from 2014 to 2018.During the study period, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made 440,601 arrests, the study team notes in the American Journal of Public Health.
  
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• Fox News Anchor Bret Baier: Rather Than Question ‘Powerful’ Fiona Hill, GOP ‘Just Gave Speeches’

  21-11-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While Fox News’ opinion hosts and commentators push the narrative that this week’s dramatic impeachment hearings and its damning revelations are somehow good news for President Donald Trump, the network’s news division continues to concede to Fox viewers that the testimony has been, in fact, quite damaging.Following the conclusion of Thursday’s hearing featuring diplomat David Holmes and former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill, Fox News anchor Bret Baier said Hill was
  
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• Manila-bound Philippine Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Los Angeles

  21-11-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  All 347 passengers and 18 crew aboard flight 113, a Boeing Co 777 widebody, are safe, an airline spokeswoman said.Pilots of flight 113 declared an emergency and reported a possible engine failure on the 777, Los Angeles International Airport said.The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said the plane returned and landed without incident.
  
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• If John Bolton Keeps Refusing to Testify, Congress Should Arrest Him

  21-11-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congress has the power to coerce obedience “by means of arrest," and they should consider using it on former National Security Advisor if he won't testify in the impeachment inquiry, writes Daniel S. Alter.
  
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• GM Recalls 2019-2020 Pickup Trucks Due to Fire Risk

  21-11-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  General Motors is recalling more than half a million Chevrolet and GMC light- and heavy-duty pickup trucks because of concerns that seat belt pretensioners, when deployed to tighten belts amid a ...
  
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• Dodge Durango and Jeep Grand Cherokee Recalled for Electrical Connection

  21-11-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is recalling an estimated 528,594 Dodge Durango and Jeep Grand Cherokee SUVs because of concerns about an electrical connection. Based on feedback from its dealerships, ...
  
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• Democratic establishment reaches boiling point with Tulsi Gabbard

  21-11-2019 23:07 via politico.com
  
  One Democratic senator suggests she's trying to appeal to "a part of the party that hates the party."
  
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• Key takeaways from latest impeachment witnesses

  21-11-2019 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  House Democrats wrapped up their week of marathon impeachment hearings Thursday, with two more witnesses who further corroborated the allegations that President Donald Trump used his powers to pressure Ukraine's leader for political favors.
  
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• Fiona Hill and David Holmes corroborated allegations that President Trump used his powers to pressure Ukraine's leader for political favors

  21-11-2019 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  House Democrats wrapped up their week of marathon impeachment hearings Thursday, with two more witnesses who further corroborated the allegations that President Donald Trump used his powers to pressure Ukraine's leader for political favors.
  
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• Schiff outlines 'the difference between Nixon and Trump' in fiery impeachment closing statement

  21-11-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) saved his harshest words for last.The committee wrapped its second week of public impeachment hearings after hearing from former top adviser on Russia Fiona Hill and diplomat to Ukraine David Holmes. And while Democrats and Republicans still have more witnesses they'd like to hear from, Schiff delivered what felt like a finale at the end of Thursday's testimonies.Schiff used much of his closing statement to tear down a constant refrain
  
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• Catholic order sent priest to work among kids, knowing he was a pedophile

  21-11-2019 22:57 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • CNN confronts child abuser priest
  • Caritas 'outraged' by child abuse scandal uncovered by CNN
  
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• Trump admin notifies owners it will survey land for border wall

  21-11-2019 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump administration has sent letters to dozens of residences in California, New Mexico and Texas notifying owners that the government is going to survey their land for future border barriers, according to two US defense officials.
  
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• Teen in California high school shooting rampage used 'ghost gun' made from parts

  21-11-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 16-year-old boy who opened fire at his Southern California high school, killing two classmates and wounding three others before shooting himself in the head, used a "ghost gun" built from parts, the local sheriff said on Thursday.Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow pulled the .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol from his backpack on Nov. 14, his birthday, and shot students at Saugus High School in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita seemingly at random before turning the gun on himself.The sheriff tol
  
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• Republican decries Trump's 'misguided foreign policy' on Ukraine

  21-11-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Will Hurd offered the strongest rebuke of the president of any member of his party, but stopped short of supporting impeachment.
  
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• Key takeaways from today's impeachment witnesses

  21-11-2019 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  House Democrats wrapped up their week of marathon impeachment hearings Thursday, with two more witnesses who further corroborated the allegations that President Donald Trump used his powers to pressure Ukraine's leader for political favors.
  
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• Another woman accuses Epstein of abuse, sues his estate

  21-11-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A woman who says she suffered lasting damage from sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 17 years old sued his estate on Thursday, joining other women who are speaking publicly about pain they have long confronted largely alone.Teala Davies, 34, joined the growing list of women who have sued the wealthy financier who died in August after he was found unresponsive in his jail cell in what a medical examiner labeled a suicide.Davies appeared at a news conference with attorney Gloria Allred,
  
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• The Impeachment Hearings Have Been Useless

  21-11-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats on the Intelligence Committee have spent the vast majority of their impeachment hearings trying to persuade voters that bureaucrats believe Donald Trump is impulsive, self-serving, and misguided -- all of which is unsurprising, and completely irrelevant to the matter at hand.Quite often, in fact, the most breathless coverage of these tedious hearings has absolutely nothing to do with the allegedly impeachable offenses of quid pro quo or “bribery” -- or whatever focus group-
  
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• Michigan GOP leader uses expletive to call governor ‘crazy’

  21-11-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Collegian at Hillsdale College quoted Senate Majority Mike Shirkey’s comments to Republican students last week.“I reached out to Governor Whitmer directly and apologized for my comments,” Shirkey said in a written statement.
  
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• Brazil's Bolsonaro unveils bill to protect police and soldiers who kill

  21-11-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday sent a proposal to Congress that seeks to offer greater protection to police and soldiers who kill while on specific operations, known as Guarantee of Law and Order (GLO) missions.The highly divisive bill, which comes amid a sharp rise in killings by police across Brazil, is likely to face stiff opposition from some lawmakers and human rights groups.It would reduce sentences, or even provide full judicial protection to officers who kill in situation
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez Skeptical Warren and Sanders Wealth Tax Could Pass

  21-11-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is skeptical about the viability of Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax to pay for trillions of dollars in government programs and address income inequality.“It’s not something that’s discussed a lot” in Congress, Ocasio-Cortez told Bloomberg News on Thursday. “I think there is a political will for it in the electorate, so it’s a matter of, will the more corporate-friendly wing of the party be down for it?”War
  
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• White House Supports Full Senate Impeachment Trial over Early Dismissal

  21-11-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House said in a meeting with several GOP senators Thursday that it wants a full Senate trial if the House impeaches President Trump, rather than an immediate dismissal of any articles of impeachment.“They want some kind of factual affirmative defense on the merits," one person who attended the meeting said of Trump's Republican supporters.Those in attendance included White House counsel Pat Cipollone, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway and Trump's son-in-law Jared K
  
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• Booker and Harris warn Dems: Electability doesn't just mean appealing to white voters

  21-11-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Electability is the biggest buzzword of the 2020 cycle. It’s what Democrats say they prize above all else: a nominee who can defeat Donald Trump. But it's also a code word. It tends to mask a racialized assumption about which Americans a candidate needs to win over in order to qualify as “electable”: that is, white voters who don’t live in big coastal cities.
  
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• Republican critical of Trump hints about how he'll vote

  21-11-2019 22:12 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) delivers remarks on the fifth day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
  
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• After Sondland bombshell, Democrats look to expand Trump probe to Pompeo, others

  21-11-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Democrats, emboldened after Ambassador Gordon Sondland provided stunning testimony Wednesday, are debating whether to expand the investigation to other Trump administration officials.
  
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• Trump rebukes 'unstable' Iran over internet shutdown

  21-11-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Thursday accused Iran of blocking the internet to cover up "death and tragedy" while the powerful Revolutionary Guards suggested that a wave of street protests is now over.Trump's intervention on Twitter further raised the temperature over the turmoil in Iran, which is already reeling from US-led economic and diplomatic pressure."Iran has become so unstable that the regime has shut down their entire Internet System so that the Great Iranian people cannot talk about the
  
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• Death penalty sought for man accused of killing prostitutes

  21-11-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors in Florida announced Thursday that they will seek the death penalty against a man who they say preyed on prostitutes, causing panic in the Daytona Beach area over a series of killings more than a dozen years ago.Prosecutors charged Robert Hayes, 37, with three counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of three women in that area between 2005 and 2006.Laquetta Gunther, 45, was found dead in a gap between an auto parts store and a mostly empty utility building, the day after Christ
  
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• Hill interjects, "Could I actually say something?" to address partisan divisions

  21-11-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee chose not to ask National Security Council expert Fiona Hill any questions, instead using their time to speak at length about their view of the impeachment proceedings. "Could I actually say something?" Hill said after Rep. Brad Wenstrup finished speaking. "I think that what Dr. Wenstrup said was very powerful, about the importance of overcoming hatred and certainly partisan division," she said. "I think all of us that came here unde
  
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• Fiona Hill shatters Republican conspiracy theory

  21-11-2019 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  A former top White House official on Thursday said that the effort to push Ukraine to open investigations into President Donald Trump's political rivals was a "domestic political errand" that came at the expense of US foreign policy.
  
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• Italy's 5-Star rejects leader's call to snub upcoming elections

  21-11-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Member of Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement on Thursday rejected a call from party chief Luigi Di Maio to pull out of upcoming regional elections, in a surprise move that underlines Di Maio's difficulties as leader.5-Star has lost a stream of local elections and slumped in opinion polls since it stormed to power at parliamentary elections in March last year when it won 33% of the vote, doubling its nearest rival.Di Maio has announced a major party overhaul and he suggested the upcoming
  
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• Israeli PM Netanyahu defiant after corruption indictment

  21-11-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday became the country's first prime minister to be indicted in office, on corruption charges, but defiantly condemned the "coup" against him and vowed to hold onto power.The shock announcement compounded the political chaos gripping Israel, which has been without a government for months and faces the prospect of its third election in a year.After months of suspense, Israel's longest-serving premier was charged by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit with bribe
  
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• Ukraine protesters demand no 'capitulation' to Russia

  21-11-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of Ukrainians demonstrated in Kiev on Thursday to demand no "capitulation" to Moscow as President Volodymyr Zelensky prepares for a December summit meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.The pair are due to meet for the first time since Zelensky's election last April at French-hosted December 9 quadripartite talks which French and German leaders Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel will also attend.
  
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• Trump impeachment: Six key moments from Fiona Hill and David Holmes' testimony

  21-11-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The impeachment testimony from Fiona Hill and David Holmes proved to be yet another captivating affair, following just over a week after the first public impeachment hearings began into Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to coerce Ukraine into opening an investigation into a political rival.The witnesses — Dr Hill a former Russia expert for the National Security Council, and Mr Holmes a Ukraine diplomat — largely supported what we’ve heard so far in the hearings on the most i
  
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• Here's who will be onstage for the December Democratic debate co-hosted by PBS NewsHour and Politico, and how to watch

  21-11-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  So far, six candidates have qualified for the next debate, which PBS NewsHour and Politico will co-host on December 19 in Los Angeles.
  
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• The mother of Hunter Biden's secret child is asking him to cover the $11,000 cost of taking up the paternity case

  21-11-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to court documents, the baby's mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts, spent $11,057.80 trying to prove Hunter Biden was the father of her child.
  
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• Obama Warns Technology Has Created a More Splintered World

  21-11-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. President Barack Obama warned that technology is creating a more splintered world, fueling the disparities among wealthy and poorer nations, and people within countries.“The rise of extreme inequality both within nations and between nations that is being turbocharged by globalization and technology” is one of the biggest risks for young people, Obama said Thursday at Salesforce.com Inc.’s annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. “New techn
  
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• The answer that distills what impeachment is about

  21-11-2019 21:27 via cnn.com
  
  • Opinion: Republicans won't be swayed by testimony
  
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