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• Security forces kill five during gunfight in northern Mexico town

  30-11-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican security forces killed at least five suspected cartel gunmen in a shootout on Saturday in a town near the U.S. border, authorities from the northern state of Coahuila said, during a moment of heightened bilateral tension over violent gangs.The Coahuila attorney general's office said in a statement that state security officials shot dead the five suspects during clashes in the small town of Villa Union, about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the border city of Piedras Negras.Around midday, h
  
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• Catholic diocese denies gay judge communion

  30-11-2019 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  A church in Michigan denied Holy Communion to a state district court judge because she is married to a woman.
  
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• Suit claims Boy Scouts overlooked leader’s alleged abuse

  30-11-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Boy Scouts of America is facing another lawsuit in a wave of litigation over decades-old allegations of sexual abuse.The men claim they were sexually abused on scouting trips in Arkansas in 1979 and 1980, when they were between 9 and 11, by a leader who the Boy Scouts had deemed "ineligible" to volunteer with boys following accusation of sexually abuse in Georgia two years earlier.The suit claims the Boy Scouts did not report the leader to police in either state.
  
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• 'Crucial witness' in Hard Rock Hotel collapse is deported by ICE

  30-11-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A metal worker considered a "crucial witness" in the collapse at the Hard Rock Hotel construction site in New Orleans last month was deported Friday to his native Honduras.Lawyers for Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma said the 38-year-old may have been targeted for deportation because he voiced concerns about the project - a claim immigration officials have denied.
  
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• China's accuses UN rights chief of 'inapppropriate' inteference

  30-11-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China on Saturday accused UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet of "inappropriate" interference in the country's affairs after she called for investigations into alleged excessive use of force by police in Hong Kong.The article contains "inappropriate comments on the situation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ... (and) interferes in China's internal affairs," said the Chinese mission's statement.
  
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• Starbucks worker loses job after police chief said officer was served cups labeled 'PIG'

  30-11-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A social media post claimed a worker served an on-duty Kiefer, Oklahoma officer cups labeled "PIG" instead of the officer's name
  
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• DiCaprio responds to Brazilian leader's Amazon fire accusations

  30-11-2019 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Brazil's President blamed an unusual candidate this week as a cause of the Amazon forest fires: actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio.
  
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• Bolsonaro accuses Leonardo DiCaprio of 'donating money to set the Amazon on fire'

  30-11-2019 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Brazil's President blamed an unusual candidate this week as a cause of the Amazon forest fires: actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio.
  
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• Bolsonaro accuses DiCaprio of 'donating money to set the Amazon on fire'

  30-11-2019 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Brazil's President blamed an unusual candidate this week as a cause of the Amazon forest fires: actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio.
  
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• Mexico warns it will not allow U.S. military operations against cartels

  30-11-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned Friday he would not allow the United States to conduct cross-border armed operations, after President Trump promised to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.
  
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• Leonardo DiCaprio responds after Brazil's President blames him for Amazon fires

  30-11-2019 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  Brazil's President blamed an unusual candidate this week as a cause of the Amazon forest fires: actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio.
  
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• Two children dead, one missing in Arizona floods as winter storm blankets U.S.

  30-11-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two children were found dead and another was missing in Arizona on Saturday after the vehicle they were in became stuck while crossing a storm-swollen forest creek outside Phoenix, part of a post-Thanksgiving winter storm that pummeled wide swathes of the country.The storm system has been slowly moving eastward across the United States, clogging the Midwest with snow and disrupting flights on the busiest travel weekend of the year.The children were reported missing late Friday afternoon after a
  
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• The Jeffrey Epstein scandal nearly affected the latest Israeli election

  30-11-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two lawyers pursuing influential men connected to the late millionaire financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in a jail cell while awaiting federal trial, almost attempted to sway the most recent Israeli elections as part of their endeavors, The New York Times reports.Lawyers David Boies and John Pottinger were approached by a man going by the name Patrick Kessler who claimed to have a vast archive of Epstein's data stored on encrypted servers. The servers allegedly conta
  
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• Biden Campaign’s Field Organizers Join Teamsters Union

  30-11-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Field organizers for Joe Biden’s campaign have unionized, joining the staffs of most major Democratic presidential candidates who have made support for labor a key part of their pitch to voters.The Biden workers joined Iowa-based Teamsters Local 238, which has members from the staffs of the Iowa Democratic Party and two presidential hopefuls. About 120 Biden field staff across the country chose the union through card-check recognition on Friday.“Political campaign work
  
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• Search continues for missing 6-year-old girl after vehicle swept away in creek

  30-11-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The search continues for the third child, a six-year old girl, who remains missing after a military-style vehicle had been swept away while attempting to cross the swollen Tonto Creek on Friday."We want to bring her home safely to her family," Lt. Virgil Dodd of the Gila County Sheriff's Office told The Associated Press. "She needs to come home today, and we're going to do that today."Officials have confirmed that two of the three missing children were found dead on Saturday.Around 4 p.m. PST Fr
  
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• 2 children dead, 1 remains missing after vehicle swept away

  30-11-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officials have confirmed that two of the three missing children were found dead on Saturday after a military-style vehicle was swept down Tonto Creek on Friday.The search continues for the third child, who remains missing.Around 4 p.m. PST Friday, the vehicle had attempted to cross Tonto Creek at the Bar X Crossing, where it had gotten stuck, according to the Gila County Sheriff's Office.One adult and four other children had escaped the car to an island, where they were rescued by Maricopa Count
  
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• Trump administration plan 'would cut food stamps for millions of people'

  30-11-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Millions of poor people could lose access to vital food stamps under proposed rule changes by the Trump administration.New rules proposed by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) would see stricter work requirements for food stamp eligibility, and change the way 40 states enrol families into the programme, officially called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
  
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• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lead Democratic delegation to UN climate conference

  30-11-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It is a privilege to accompany a high-level Congressional delegation to Spain to combat the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis,” Pelosi stated.
  
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• 'Monster' black hole found. Scientists didn't think stellar black holes could be so big

  30-11-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Previous explanations for how stellar black holes form don't explain how LB-1 got to be so massive. This one is 70 times more massive than the sun.
  
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• Israeli troops kill Palestinian in the West Bank: health ministry

  30-11-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank opened fire at a Palestinian who threw a fire-bomb at a car on Saturday, the Israeli military said, and the Palestinian Health Ministry said the man was killed.The military said the troops were carrying out operations in the area to prevent militant attacks when they saw three Palestinians throwing petrol bombs at an Israeli car traveling on a nearby road.Palestinian officials made no immediate comment about the incident which took place near the West B
  
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• Winter weather and holiday travel: JetBlue, American Airlines, Delta waiving flight change fees

  30-11-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  American Airlines, Delta and JetBlue are among the airlines offering waivers to travelers to change their flights ahead of a powerful winter storm
  
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• Euro 2020: World champion France drawn in 'group of death'

  30-11-2019 20:28 via cnn.com
  
  Every tournament needs a "group of death," and the draw for next year's European Championship has produced an eye-watering prospect.
  
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• North Korea blasts Japanese PM as 'idiot,' warns of ballistic missile launch toward Japan

  30-11-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pyongyang warns that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 'may see what a real ballistic missile is in the not distant future.'
  
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• 'Amazing bravery': Stories of London Bridge attack heroes emerge

  30-11-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack near London Bridge that left two dead and injured three others.
  
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• John Bolton could be Democrats' star witness against Trump

  30-11-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats have long loathed former national security adviser John Bolton, but he could become their most dangerous witness against President Trump in Congress' impeachment inquiry.
  
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• Iranian opposition leader compares Supreme Leader to toppled Shah

  30-11-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi has compared Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the Shah, the monarch deposed in a 1979 revolution, following the government's crackdown on protests this month.The unrest began on Nov. 15 after the government of the Islamic Republic, one of OPEC's biggest oil producers, announced gasoline price hikes.Khamenei has described the violence as the work of a "very dangerous conspiracy".
  
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• Nancy Pelosi leads Democratic delegation to international climate change summit

  30-11-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House may be carving out its own path when it comes to climate change, but Washington will still be involved at an upcoming international climate summit in Madrid.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is leading a Democrat-only congressional delegation consisting of 13 House members and one senator to Madrid's COP25 summit. "One of the goals we have is to make sure that all of those who are in the Paris Accord know that the Democratic majority in the Congress of the American people are
  
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• Ireland set for IS detainee, young daughter to return from Turkey

  30-11-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ireland expects to repatriate an Irish citizen aligned to Islamic State and her two-year-old daughter from Turkey this weekend, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Saturday, as authorities in Ankara continues its deportation of detainees.Turkey says it has captured 287 militants in northeast Syria, where Turkish troops launched an offensive against the Kurdish YPG militia last month, and has hundreds more jihadist suspects in detention.It began deporting foreign citizens linked to Islamic State
  
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• Ilhan Omar GOP challenger banned from Twitter after saying she should be "tried for treason and hanged”

  30-11-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Danielle Stella campaign account also tweeted a picture of a stick figure being hanged with a link to a blog post about her comments.
  
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• US says will 'protect its interests' at climate conference

  30-11-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States will send a diplomatic team but no senior members of Donald Trump's administration to a global climate-change conference starting in Spain on Monday, according to a statement.The US, at Trump's direction, is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, which set a goal of limiting global temperature rises to well within two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial levels.
  
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• Millions could lose access to food stamps under Trump proposal, study finds

  30-11-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Altered rules would also cut monthly benefits and end free or discounted lunches to nearly a million studentsA vendor picks up the yellow chips that people on Snap use to buy food at a San Francisco farmers’ market. Photograph: Talia Herman/The GuardianMillions of Americans face losing access to food assistance under proposed rule changes by the Trump administration, a new analysis has found.The changes, if they had been instituted last year, would have resulted in 3.7 million fewer people
  
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• Kamala Harris' campaign manager is under fire, receives blame for decline

  30-11-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) isn't bouncing back after a precipitous decline in the Democratic presidential race -- and fingers are starting to point at her campaign manager.Juan Rodriguez has drawn the ire of both camapaign staffers and outside observers, The New York Times reports. "This is my third presidential campaign and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly," state operations director Kelly Mehlenbacher wrote in a resignation letter obtained by the Times.Mehlenbache
  
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• Fire extinguisher, whale tusk and an ex-prisoner: How London attacker was subdued

  30-11-2019 18:16 via cnn.com
  
  • London Bridge witness records moment police detain suspect
  
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• Russia and China finish border bridge

  30-11-2019 18:14 via cnn.com
  
  The first road bridge linking Russia and China has been completed, Reuters news agency reported.
  
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• Russia and China complete border crossing bridge

  30-11-2019 18:14 via cnn.com
  
  The first road bridge linking Russia and China has been completed, Reuters news agency reported.
  
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• Democrats have loathed John Bolton for years. Now, he could be their star witness against Trump.

  30-11-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House is said to be terrified of what John Bolton could reveal if he testifies in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
  
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• Chicago police officer suspended for slamming man to ground during arrest

  30-11-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The incident took place on Thursday, the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, when police approached a 29-year-old man drinking alcohol in the afternoon at a bus stop on Chicago's South Side, CBS News reported."While a single video does not depict the entirety of the interactions between the police and the individual, this particular video is very disturbing," Lightfoot wrote in a post on Twitter.The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, a city oversight body, was investigating, she said.
  
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• Million-gallon raw sewage leak shuts down miles of California coastline

  30-11-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A broken pipe leaked more than a million gallons of raw sewage into the sea off the California coast, shutting down miles of Orange County beaches as authorities scrambled to fix it.The spill was first reported on Wednesday afternoon, and the source of the leak was later tracked down to a valve on a 24-inch city sewage main near the Aliso and Woods Canyon Wilderness Park.
  
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• Gabon president's spokesman detained in anti-corruption crackdown

  30-11-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The spokesman for Gabonese President Ali Bongo was transferred to the capital's main prison on Friday, his lawyer said, one of eight people held in custody under a new anti-corruption drive.Bongo has vowed to crack down on graft since returning from months-long medical leave following a stroke in late 2018 that raised questions about his fitness to rule and fueled instability in oil-dependent nation.On Friday, prosecutor Andre Roponat said 16 people had been detained as part of an investigation
  
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• The Latest: Chicago, Denver flights delayed by winter storm

  30-11-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Airlines at Chicago’s two major international airports are reporting average delays of 15 minutes as a winter storm heads toward the Midwest with heavy snow and ice and gusty winds.The companies have canceled 27 flights at O'Hare and two at Midway as people scramble to get home on the year’s busiest travel weekend.There were 100 flights canceled Saturday and another 182 delayed at Denver International Airport because of winds.
  
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• Relic believed to be from Jesus' manger returned to Holy Land

  30-11-2019 17:57 via cnn.com
  
  A fragment of wood believed to be from Jesus' manger is back in the Holy Land just in time for Christmas.
  
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• Lebanese rally against Iraq's crackdown on protesters

  30-11-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dozens of people in protest-swept Lebanon staged a candlelit vigil outside Iraq's embassy on Saturday to denounce the excessive use of force against demonstrators there.Participants at the Beirut observance raised pictures of Iraqi protesters who have been killed in an unprecedented anti-government movement.Some raised the Lebanese flag, while one woman wrapped the Iraqi tricolour around her shoulders.
  
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• 'Nobody should have died': fear and anger in Minneapolis after public housing fire

  30-11-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A blaze that killed five in a 25-storey building with few sprinklers has prompted comparisons to London’s Grenfell fireThe Minneapolis city councilman Abdi Warsame addresses the media outside the building. Photograph: Aaron Lavinsky/APWarsame Omar lives on the 15th floor of Minneapolis’s Cedar High apartments, exactly one floor above where a fire started early on Wednesday morning. He woke to find his room full of thick black smoke. The elderly Somali man ran outside to the stairwell
  
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• The best Black Friday clothing and fashion deals you can still get

  30-11-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The best deals on clothes you can still get from Nordstrom, Rent the Runway, American Eagle, and more.
  
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• South Korea draws up cyberbulling laws after second K-pop suicide

  30-11-2019 17:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Korean legislators are pushing for a new bill to make cyberbullying education compulsory in schools and private businesses after the nation was left reeling by the tragic deaths of two young K-pop stars who faced a flood of vicious online abuse. The law, which is being spearheaded by Kim Su-min from the centrist Bareunmirae party, would be named after Choi Jin-ri, known more widely as ‘Sulli’, 25, who took her own life in October after she spoke of her struggles with constant a
  
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• The Latest: Fiat Chrysler, auto union agree tentative deal

  30-11-2019 17:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Auto Workers union says it has reached a tentative deal with Fiat Chrysler.A person briefed on the matter says the deal includes a $9,000 ratification bonus, a promise not to close any assembly factories for the next four years and a commitment to keep making vehicles at a plant in Belvidere, Illinois.Top union leaders still have to approve the deal, as do factory-level officials who are likely to gather next week to vote on it.
  
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• Tennis Australia to celebrate Margaret Court but oppose her personal views

  30-11-2019 17:04 via cnn.com
  
  Tennis Australia confirmed it will invite former champion Margaret Court to next year's Australian Open to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her grand slam sweep but said it did not agree with her "demeaning" personal views.
  
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• Afghan government, Taliban aren't sure where Trump got the idea a cease-fire is likely

  30-11-2019 17:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump is stirring up some confusion.Neither the Taliban nor the Afghan government indicated the sides were close to a cease-fire agreement, despite Trump's assertion while visiting U.S. troops in Afghanistan for Thanksgiving on Thursday that the Taliban was ready to strike a deal. "They didn't want to do a cease-fire, but now they do want to a do a cease-fire," he said. "It will probably work out that way."Neither side seemed to mind the president's optimism, they just don't consider i
  
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• Northeastern US braces for foot of snow during first days of December

  30-11-2019 17:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The second part of a double-barreled storm is forecast to unload heavy snow and create difficult travel over a large part of the northeastern United States, including some major cities from Sunday to Monday.A winterlike storm from the Midwest will move in this weekend, then hand off to a new coastal storm that strengthens by Monday.Accumulating snow is forecast to occur in Boston; Hartford, Connecticut; New York City and even to some extent around the Trenton, New Jersey, and Philadelphia area f
  
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• The Wrong Response to Gun Violence: Are Lockdown Drills a Bad Idea?

  30-11-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Are we teaching our kids to fear school?
  
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