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• UFC fighter writes an emotional tribute after stepdaughter is found dead

  28-11-2019 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  Just one day after remains found in woods in Alabama were confirmed to be his missing stepdaughter, UFC fighter Walt Harris posted an emotional tribute to her on Instagram, calling his pain "unbearable."
  
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• The best Black Friday deals already happening at Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile

  28-11-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Why wait for the crowds? You can shop the best early Black Friday deals already happening at Verizon, AT&T;, Sprint, and T-Mobile now.
  
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• Hawaii could have more than 10M annual visitors for 1st time

  28-11-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hawaii is on track to have more than 10 million visitors in one year for the first time in history, although that may not be reflected in dollar amounts, tourism officials said.Hawaii Tourism Authority data showed there have been nearly 8.7 million visitors through October, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Thursday.The figure is a 5.5% increase over the 8.2 million arrivals through the same period last year, when the state’s annual count was 9.9 million visitors.
  
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• America's Chemical Warfare Tour: How Agent Orange Destroyed Vietnam

  28-11-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 10 years of U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam exposed an estimated 2.1 to 4.8 million Vietnamese people to Agent Orange. More than 40 years on, the impact on their health has been staggering.
  
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• Thanksgiving storm blankets Southern California mountains with snow, delays holiday travel

  28-11-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Thanksgiving Day storm brought a near definite end to the fire season in Southern California, as well as disruptive snow to people driving through the region's mountains."Thanksgiving started on a stormy note for many across Southern California as heavy rain and thunderstorms moved across the region. Many areas across the LA Basin picked up a quick 0.50 to 0.75 of an inch of rain this morning," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alyson Hoegg. "Due to the heavy rainfall across Southern California
  
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• 3 children reported missing after remnants of Thanksgiving storm sweep away vehicle

  28-11-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three children were reported missing after flooding swept away the car they were in at the Tonto Basin area of Arizona.Around 4 p.m. PST, a vehicle had attempted to cross Tonto Creek at the Bar X Crossing, the Gila County Sheriff's Office told ABC15. Earlier that morning, the Sheriff's Office had posted on Facebook that the Bar X Crossing across Tonto Creek had been closed along with a few other routes. The closure of the crossings comes after the system that crossed the American Southwest on Th
  
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• Pandora just dropped a Harry Potter collection

  28-11-2019 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  Pandora has been charming customers for almost 40 years, most notably with its ubiquitous bracelets. Now the company is adding a little magic -- of the Hogwarts variety.
  
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• Inside Trump's sneak Thanksgiving trip to Afghanistan

  28-11-2019 23:11 via cnn.com
  
  On Thanksgiving eve, President Donald Trump slipped unnoticed out of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on his way to a bare-bones military plane with just a handful of top aides.
  
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• This Picture Means Trouble: 200,000 North Korean Special Forces

  28-11-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Welcome to hell.
  
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• Iraq crackdown kills nearly 40 after Iran mission torched

  28-11-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iraq's protest-hit cities saw one of their bloodiest days yet on Thursday as a government crackdown killed nearly 40 demonstrators following the dramatic torching of an Iranian consulate.The country's capital and south have been rocked by the worst street unrest since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, with a protest movement venting fury at the government and its backers in neighbouring Iran.The highest toll was in the flashpoint southern city of Nasiriyah, where 25 people we
  
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• Boris Johnson replaced by ice sculpture after dodging election debate on climate crisis

  28-11-2019 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  Boris Johnson was criticized by party leaders and represented by a dripping ice sculpture after refusing to appear in a televised election debate focusing on climate change.
  
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• Boris Johnson replaced by ice sculpture at debate

  28-11-2019 22:47 via cnn.com
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was represented by a dripping ice sculpture after refusing to appear in a televised election debate focusing on the climate crisis.
  
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• Families in US enclave in north Mexico hold sad Thanksgiving

  28-11-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thanksgiving arrived with a sense of loss, but also a sense of solidarity, in enclaves of U.S. dual-national families in northern Mexico, coming almost four weeks after nine of their relatives were slaughtered by drug cartel gunmen.Extended families gathered Thursday for the traditional meal in Colonia LeBaron in northern Chihuahua state, just across from La Mora, Sonora, where three women and six children were killed in the Nov. 4 ambush.Lenzo Widmar, who lost a cousin and a childhood friend in
  
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• Trump announces resuming peace talks with Taliban during surprise visit to troops in Afghanistan

  28-11-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump announced the restart of peace negotiations with the Taliban during a bilateral meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
  
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• Unhappy Thanksgiving: Explosions at Texas chemical plant keep more than 50,000 out of their homes

  28-11-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 50,000 people in southeast Texas remain under evacuation orders on Thanksgiving after two powerful explosions at a chemical plant.
  
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• North Korea fires two 'unidentified projectiles' on Thanksgiving

  28-11-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korea fired two "unidentified projectiles" on Thursday -- the Thanksgiving holiday in the US -- Seoul said, as nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington remain deadlocked.The projectiles were fired eastwards from South Hamgyong province and came down in the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.It was also one day short of the two-year anniversary of the North's first test of its Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, which an
  
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• Texas chemical fire rages for second day, thousands evacuated

  28-11-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The fiery blast inside a distillation column at the Port Neches, Texas, TPC Group facility on Wednesday injured three workers, blew locked doors off their hinges and spewed a plume of toxic chemicals for miles (kilometers).The plant manufactures petrochemicals used to make rubber and resins, and the volatile organic compounds in the explosion's smoke can lead to eye, nose and throat irritation, shortness of breath, headaches and nausea, the pollution regulator Texas Commission on Environmental Q
  
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• Kim Jong Un Doesn't Want North Korea to Be an 'Economic Powerhouse'

  28-11-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Why North Korean prosperity would be the ruin of its supreme leader.
  
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• Hong Kong to allow airlines to keep airport slots despite cutting capacity

  28-11-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many airlines, including flagship home carrier Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, South African Airways and Malaysia's AirAsia Group Bhd have cut flights to and from Hong Kong temporarily as a result of sometimes violent anti-government protests that have led to a sharp fall in tourist and business travel demand.More than 5,800 people have been arrested since the unrest broke out in June over a proposal to allow extraditions to mainland China, the numbers grew in October and November as violence escala
  
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• Trump impeachment: White House 'can't find any record' of call which president insists exonerates him

  28-11-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House reportedly has no record of a phone call Donald Trump claims exonerates him over a scandal which is threatening to bring down his presidency.The US ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified to congress earlier this month that Mr Trump had made clear to him in the call that there was “no quid pro quo” with Ukraine.
  
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• Democrats have a better choice than impeachment

  28-11-2019 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  The evidence is mounting daily that President Donald Trump may have committed an impeachable offense in withholding aid to Ukraine as he sought an investigation that would aid his reelection campaign. But with our polarized political system and split party control of Congress -- many think impeachment is inevitable in the House, but conviction unattainable in the Senate -- we need an alternative to impeachment. And luckily we have one.
  
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• 18,000-year-old puppy discovered in Siberia could be missing link between dogs and wolves

  28-11-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An 18,000-year-old puppy unearthed in Siberia could prove to be the missing link between dogs and wolves, scientists believe.  The puppy was discovered perfectly preserved by permafrost near Yakutsk, eastern Siberia last summer and carbon dating has revealed it has been frozen for around 18,000 years.   Researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, Sweden announced this week that extensive DNA tests have so far been unable to confirm whether the animal was a dog or a wolf.
  
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• Hikers make an against-the-odds discovery on snowy hike

  28-11-2019 21:42 via cnn.com
  
  Bill Giguere didn't have high hopes when he posted on Facebook about losing his wedding ring on a hiking trail in New Hampshire, but two other hikers came to the rescue.
  
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• Is Kellyanne Conway the 'Anonymous' White House author? No, says George Conway

  28-11-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The question was first raised on Twitter by John Dean, of Watergate fame, who knows a thing or two about White House intrigue.
  
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• Ilhan Omar's Republican opponent in Twitter ban over 'hanging' posts

  28-11-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Danielle Stella post featured ‘stick figure hanging from gallows’* Republican aiming to unseat Omar charged with felony theftIlhan Omar introduces Bernie Sanders at a rally in Minneapolis earlier this month. Photograph: Evan Frost/APA campaign account for Danielle Stella, a pro-Trump Republican candidate for Congress, was banned from Twitter after it published a violent comment about the Democrat she hopes to unseat next year, Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar.Stella’s camp
  
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• Trump Pledges to Restart Taliban Peace Talks in Surprise Visit to Afghanistan

  28-11-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tom Brenner/REUTERSThree months after dramatically calling off peace negotiations with the Taliban, Donald Trump announced he would restart the talks, during a surprise trip to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Thursday. In a stop at Bagram Air Field with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Trump said leaders of the Taliban “want to make a deal very badly,” and suggested they may be open to a ceasefire. He also reiterated his desire to reduce the number of troops in the countr
  
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• Transgender paedophile sues NHS for refusing her reassignment surgery while she serves prison sentence

  28-11-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A transgender paedophile has sued the NHS for refusing her reassignment surgery after she transitioned from male to female while in prison.  The 60-year-old, known only as KK for legal reasons, is serving an indefinite sentence for public protection for making indecent photographs of children, and also has a previous conviction for sexual activity with a young girl. She has been in prison for over a decade and has been living as a woman for the last eight years, The High Court heard. 
  
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• OK, Mayor: Why 37-Year-Old Pete Buttigieg Is Attracting Boomers

  28-11-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENISON, Iowa -- Pete Buttigieg likes a crisp white button-down -- no fuss, no flash -- and his favorite novel is by a man who died in 1941.He has taken to calling himself "the retirement guy," after introducing a plan this week for long-term care.He recently referenced the "Bull Moose progressive movement," a nod to the politics of Teddy Roosevelt.As Buttigieg, 37, looks to solidify his support in the remaining weeks before the Democratic primary season begins, he has found a wellspring of enth
  
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• Trump announces Taliban talks have restarted on surprise Afghanistan visit

  28-11-2019 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump and the first lady arrived in Afghanistan Thursday to pay a surprise Thanksgiving visit to US troops, his first trip to the country.
  
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• Bolivia urges Mexico embassy to hand over wanted ex-officials

  28-11-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bolivia's foreign minister said Thursday Mexico will face a "very serious problem" if its embassy in La Paz refuses to hand over ex-government officials wanted for arrest, warning they could be there for years.More than 20 former members of ex-president Evo Morales's government have holed up in the Mexican embassy.
  
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• Iraq crackdown kills more than 30 after Iran mission torched

  28-11-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iraq's protest-hit cities saw one of their bloodiest days yet on Thursday as a government crackdown killed more than 30 demonstrators following the dramatic torching of an Iranian consulate.The country's capital and south have been rocked by the worst street unrest since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, with a protest movement venting fury at the government and its backers in neighbouring Iran.The Iraqi Human Rights Commission said more than 30 people had died on Thursday wh
  
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• Trump makes surprise Thanksgiving visit to troops in Afghanistan

  28-11-2019 20:26 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump and the first lady arrived in Afghanistan Thursday to pay a surprise Thanksgiving visit to US troops, his first trip to the country.
  
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• The Latest: Trump, in Afghanistan, says Taliban wants deal

  28-11-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump is returning to the U.S. after an unannounced trip to Afghanistan, his first visit to the site of America’s longest war.Trump took off after midnight from Bagram Air Field after several hours with the troops and a brief meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
  
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• PHOTOS: The 93rd Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

  28-11-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has marked the official start of the holiday season, introducing a cherished march of magic that has dazzled generations of fans. Every year, this family tradition is seen by more than 3.5 million people in New York and about 50 million others around the world.
  
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• Couple surprises Denny's waitress who walked hours to work with a new car

  28-11-2019 20:18 via cnn.com
  
  While it doesn't have much to do with Turkey, a waitress at a Denny's restaurant in Galveston, Texas, has a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.
  
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• Watch what Trump told the troops

  28-11-2019 20:16 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to spend Thanksgiving with US troops.
  
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• President Trump and first lady Melania Trump make surprise Thanksgiving visit to troops in Afghanistan

  28-11-2019 20:13 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump and the first lady arrived in Afghanistan Thursday to pay a surprise Thanksgiving visit to US troops, his first trip to the country.
  
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• California snow-bound highway reopens but storm snarls Thanksgiving travel

  28-11-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Interstate 5 through the Grapevine area, a mountain pass, was shut down in both directions early on Thursday morning and the California Highway Patrol said on Twitter it was working to clear stuck vehicles as snow kept falling.The highway, a major artery connecting Southern California to the rest of the state, was reopened later in the day, although more snow and rain were still forecast.The winter storm was expected to bring heavy snow in the mountains and high winds across much of the Western
  
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• Zimbabwe facing 'man-made' starvation, UN expert warns

  28-11-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Zimbabwe is facing "man-made" starvation with 60 percent of the people failing to meet basic food needs, a UN special envoy said Thursday after touring the southern African country.Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, ranked Zimbabwe among the four top countries facing severe food shortages outside nations in conflict zones."The people of Zimbabwe are slowly getting to a point of suffering a man-made starvation," she told a news conference in Harare, adding that eight million pe
  
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• The Trumps and Obamas share family photos and messages of gratitude on Thanksgiving

  28-11-2019 19:57 via cnn.com
  
  Presidents past and present are wishing Americans a happy Thanksgiving.
  
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• Chileans suffering eye trauma from protests march on presidential palace

  28-11-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A group of Chileans who claim to have suffered eye trauma in confrontations with the security forces rallied outside the presidential palace on Thursday to call for President Sebastian Pinera to "take responsibility" for human rights violations during the ongoing protests."We cannot return to the impunity of 1973," she said, referring to the year General Augusto Pinochet led a coup in Chile.
  
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• The Albanian Prime Minister's future daughter-in-law is among dozens killed in earthquake

  28-11-2019 19:27 via cnn.com
  
  The future daughter-in-law of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was among dozens of people killed when an earthquake struck the country Tuesday, Rama's office has confirmed.
  
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• Albanian Prime Minister's future daughter-in-law among dozens killed in earthquake

  28-11-2019 19:27 via cnn.com
  
  The future daughter-in-law of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was among dozens of people killed when an earthquake struck the country Tuesday, Rama's office has confirmed.
  
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• Trump administration to reduce NATO aid days before European summit with allies

  28-11-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump's administration will pay less to NATO under an agreement reached days before the president will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the alliance.
  
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• Saudi laws continue to hold women back from travel despite MBS reforms

  28-11-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scanning the departures board at Riyadh’s international airport, Eman tried to find her gate as she struggled with an oversized suitcase. She had travelled countless times before but always with her father, who had taken care of everything. It was the first time the 26-year-old had flown alone and she was finding it all a bit daunting. “My father didn’t like me going on trips without him or my brother, and I had always respected his wishes,” Eman, who asked that her surna
  
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• The oldest living American has died at 114

  28-11-2019 18:57 via cnn.com
  
  Alelia Murphy, a 114-year-old former seamstress who'd been recognized as the oldest living American, has died.
  
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• Trump signs bipartisan bill aimed at supporting Hong Kong protesters amid trade talks

  28-11-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By signing the bill, the U.S. president ignored warnings from Beijing that the legislation would be met with "countermeasures."
  
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• Bolivia restores relations with Israel

  28-11-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bolivia said Thursday it is restoring diplomatic relations with Israel, which it severed in 2009 under then president Evo Morales over Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.Foreign Minister Karen Longaric made the announcement in a meeting with foreign reporters, without giving a date for the establishment or giving any other details.Morales resigned November 10 and fled to Mexico after a disputed election triggered days of deadly street protests.
  
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• 'Supergirl' star Melissa Benoist praised for opening up about 'abusive relationship'

  28-11-2019 18:48 via cnn.com
  
  "Supergirl" star Melissa Benoist has been hailed a real-life "hero" after opening up about her alleged experience of domestic violence.
  
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• 'You have to make the best of it': How US Navy sailors celebrate Thanksgiving at sea

  28-11-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At remote forward operating bases in Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria, America's military can spend months planning for Thanksgiving meals.
  
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