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• Exit poll suggests a historic loss for Labour

  12-12-2019 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  Boris Johnson appears to be headed for a decisive majority in the UK's general election, exit polls suggest.
  
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• These are the 22 key seats to watch

  12-12-2019 23:57 via cnn.com
  
  Strange things happen on election night in the United Kingdom.
  
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• Rep. Adam Schiff turns over Pence aide's classified letter to Judiciary Committee

  12-12-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has submitted to the Judiciary Committee a classified letter from an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, according to multiple reports on Wednesday.
  
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• Republican congressman publicly identifies purported whistleblower

  12-12-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Wednesday, Rep. Louie Gohmert publicly named a person some Republicans and allies of President Trump claim is the alleged whistleblower who first brought the Trump-Ukraine scandal to light.
  
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• World's first 3D-printed neighborhood being built for families living on $3 a day

  12-12-2019 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  A giant 3D printer built two houses in an impoverished, rural part of Mexico last week, breaking ground on what will be the first 3D-printed neighborhood in the world.
  
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• The pound jumps after exit poll predicts big Johnson win

  12-12-2019 23:33 via cnn.com
  
  The pound shot up after an exit poll by British broadcasters predicted that Prime Minister Boris Johnson would sweep to victory in the UK election.
  
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• Cosmic rarity: New image shows interstellar comet zooming past the sun

  12-12-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Comet 2I/Borisov, only the second interstellar object ever spotted in our solar system, is racing through our celestial neighborhood at the "breathtaking" speed of 110,000 mph.
  
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• Federal judge rules American Samoans are US citizens by birth

  12-12-2019 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge in Utah said Thursday that American Samoans are US citizens and should be issued new passports reflecting that.
  
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• Early projections show Conservatives winning 368 seats

  12-12-2019 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  Boris Johnson seems to have won his Brexit election gamble.
  
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• McDonald’s Wins High-Stakes Labor Battle With Help From White House

  12-12-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- In a television commercial that’s become part of the lore surrounding Donald Trump’s affinity for McDonald’s Corp., he embraced a purple, lumpy denizen of the fast-food chain’s “McDonaldland” and said, “Together, Grimace, we could own this town.”He was talking about New York, not Washington. Yet on Thursday, some 17 years after he appeared in that spot for the “Big ’N’ Tasty” sandwich, President Trump’s
  
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• Boris Johnson's Conservative Party is on course for a majority, according to an exit poll from the UK's three main broadcasters

  12-12-2019 23:18 via cnn.com
  
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• Exit poll suggests huge losses for Labour Party

  12-12-2019 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  An exit poll by British broadcasters projects a clear Conservative majority in the UK General Election. Official results will not be available for several hours.
  
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• Exit poll has Conservatives winning 368 seats

  12-12-2019 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  An exit poll by British broadcasters projects a clear Conservative majority in the UK General Election. Official results will not be available for several hours.
  
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• Lawmakers Spar Over Trump Impeachment Articles Before Vote

  12-12-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The House Judiciary Committee plowed ahead with articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, despite objections and amendments from the panel’s Republican members.The hearing began Thursday with the reading of the two charges against the president -- abuse of power and obstructions of Congress -- and quickly turned to Republican complaints about the impeachment process.There are “absolutely no factual underpinnings” for impeaching the president, Doug Collins, th
  
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• NRA Blocks Los Angeles Law Requiring Contractors to Reveal Ties

  12-12-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The National Rifle Association blocked a Los Angeles law that requires city contractors to disclose any business ties with the gun rights organization, with a judge ruling the ordinance may violate the group’s free speech rights.U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles on Wednesday granted the NRA’s request for a preliminary injunction that prevents the city from enforcing the ordinance until it’s determined at trial whether it’s legal.“The t
  
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• Boris Johnson Secures Historic Blowout Election Win

  12-12-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON—Boris Johnson has won a seismic election victory that will secure him a place in British history alongside the landslides of Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, and Clement Attlee in 1945.By promising to deliver Brexit, the Conservatives succeeded in wiping out Labour strongholds that have stood across Britain since the 1930s, securing as many as 368 seats and giving Johnson a majority in the House of Commons of around 76 seats.Johnson will now lead Britain out of the European Union by t
  
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• FAA boss said concerned Boeing eager for quick return of Max

  12-12-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The head of the Federal Aviation Administration is concerned that Boeing is pushing for an unrealistically quick return of its grounded 737 Max and that there is a perception the company is pressuring the regulator, according to a senior FAA official.The official told Congress of FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson’s concerns on Thursday, shortly before Dickson met with Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg and another Boeing executive.
  
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• Russia Got Its Hands On A U.S. Tomahawk Missile In Syria (And Plans To Counter Them)

  12-12-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sometimes missiles fail to explode.
  
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• Boris Johnson's Conservatives on course for huge win, exit poll projects

  12-12-2019 22:58 via cnn.com
  
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• Navy SEAL running for Congress kicked off his campaign in the wrong district

  12-12-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Floyd McLendon, a retired Navy SEAL, held his campaign kickoff in another district and wore the Navy's dress white uniform.
  
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• Analysis: How Biden got his groove back

  12-12-2019 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  With less than two months before the first votes of the 2020 presidential race, Joe Biden has re-emerged as the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination.
  
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• Poll shows impeachment hearings had little sway on Wisconsin voters

  12-12-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Public testimony in Congress has done little to sway Wisconsin voters' views on the possible impeachment of President Donald Trump, a new poll from the battleground state showed on Thursday.The Marquette University Law School poll also showed former Vice President Joe Biden was the only Democratic candidate with an advantage in the state in a predictive match-up with Trump in the 2020 presidential election, though just barely.Forty percent of the 800 registered voters in Wisconsin queried by the
  
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• The Taliban launched an intense hours-long attack on a key US base. Aftermath photos show the heavy damage.

  12-12-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the US seeks a negotiated end to the Afghanistan War, the Taliban led an attack on an important US base in the war-torn country.
  
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• A device invented by a 25-year-old is finally catching trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It hauled 60 bags to shore to turn into new products.

  12-12-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U-shaped device is collecting plastic in a trash-filled ocean vortex that's more than twice the size of Texas.
  
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• Octopus had eagle in a death grip, and then ...

  12-12-2019 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  A team of salmon fishermen are feeling pretty proud after they were able to rescue a bald eagle from an octopus off the northwest tip of Canada's Vancouver Island.
  
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• Jersey City shooting: Who are the Black Hebrew Israelites?

  12-12-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The suspects in the Jersey City shooting held anti-Semitic views and had expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelite movement.
  
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• American Airlines just cancelled Boeing 737 Max flights until April, as Boeing's timeline for the jet's return is thrown into further doubt

  12-12-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The airline became the first to pull the jet from its schedule into April, as the FAA says that Boeing's timeline is "not realistic."
  
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• George P. Bush says GOP can't let 'racist' episodes slide

  12-12-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican George P. Bush, the only member of the Bush dynasty still in public office, condemned Thursday recurring episodes of what he described as racist or hateful rhetoric within the Texas GOP, and ripped what he called false accusations fanned by his Hispanic heritage.Bush, Texas' land commissioner, first denounced a white GOP state legislator who suggested “Asian" challengers on the ballot in 2020 were motivated by race.
  
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• American Airlines apologizes after forcing passenger to change 'Hail Satan' shirt

  12-12-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  American Airlines is apologizing after a passenger says she was forced to remove her "Hail Satan" shirt or leave the flight.
  
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• US military releases photos showing Bagram Air Base damage following brazen Taliban assault

  12-12-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A source on the ground detailed to Military Times that a firefight between the Taliban and Afghan and U.S. forces lasted nine to 10 hours.
  
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• The Latest: UK vote a disaster for left-wing Labour Party

  12-12-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Veteran Labour Party left-wing firebrand Dennis Skinner has lost his seat in the British election, one of many Labour lawmakers ousted by a Conservative challenger in Boris Johnson’s landslide victory.The former miner, known for heckling at the State Opening of Parliament and for being ejected from the debating chamber, represented Labour in Parliament for almost 50 years.
  
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• US soldiers and airmen helped clean up Venice after the historic city was hit by the worst flooding in 53 years

  12-12-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fifteen airmen, 14 soldiers, and three military family members and civilians helped Venetians clean up after the flood.
  
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• US tests missile previously banned under arms control treaty with Russia

  12-12-2019 22:10 via cnn.com
  
  The US military tested Thursday a conventional missile that was previously banned by the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty that the Trump administration exited earlier this year, citing Russian violations.
  
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• US calls on China not to interfere in Taiwan election

  12-12-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Thursday urged China not to interfere in elections next month in Taiwan, where President Tsai Ing-wen, a critic of Beijing, is seeking a new term.David Stilwell, the top US diplomat for Asia, said that tensions between Beijing and Taipei have historically risen whenever Taiwan goes to the polls.
  
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• 'Hangover days' for employees criticised by alcohol harm campaigners amid fears it could encourage binge drinking

  12-12-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A business offering its staff "hangover days" for when they are feeling worse for wear has been criticised by alcohol harm charities who have raised concern that the practice could encourage binge drinking.  Digital Marketing firm The Audit Lab lets employees take “hangover days” to try and create a flexible, honest workplace.  Company director and co-founder Lee Frame said he would "rather our employees be honest with us and tell the truth than pretend they&rsquo
  
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• Refinitiv created filter to block Reuters stories amid Hong Kong protests

  12-12-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As anti-government demonstrations engulfed Hong Kong in August, Reuters broke a sensitive story: Beijing had rejected a secret proposal by city leader Carrie Lam to meet several of the protesters’ demands in a bid to defuse the unrest.The story buttressed a main claim of the protesters, that Beijing is intervening deeply in the affairs of the semi-autonomous city.A state-run newspaper denounced the story as “fake” and “shameful.” The article soon became unavailable
  
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• Trump just went on the biggest tweet storm of his presidency

  12-12-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's not a good day to have push notifications for President Trump's Twitter feed turned on.The president's Twitter account has exploded with an absurd amount of activity throughout the day on Thursday, as the House Judiciary Committee debated articles of impeachment against him. As of the mid-afternoon, he had overwhelmed followers with more than 100 tweets or retweets. > Trump is up to 109 tweets and retweets (mostly RTs) from his @realDonaldTrump account today. As far as I know, this is a
  
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• Can the West help end persecution of Chinese Muslims?

  12-12-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China has reportedly placed more than 1 million Muslim citizens in camps to force them to align themselves with the national party identity. Are powerful western nations capable of ending the persecution?
  
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• Three teachers suspended over text messages leaked online

  12-12-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Alabama school board voted to discipline three teachers accused of sharing offensive text messages about students that were later leaked online.
  
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• Judge blocks Los Angeles from enforcing NRA disclosure law

  12-12-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a victory for the gun rights group, U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which took effect on April 1.Wilson said the NRA was likely to show that the law, which requires companies seeking city contracts to disclose NRA contracts or sponsorship, violated its constitutional First Amendment right to free speech and would cause irreparable harm.The judge found only a slight relationship between the law and Los Angeles' int
  
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• Lawmaker's personal retort to Gaetz draws laughter

  12-12-2019 21:51 via cnn.com
  
  Rep. Hank Johnson (D) took a not-so-subtle jab at his colleague, Rep. Matt Gaetz, after Gaetz criticized Hunter Biden's past struggles with substance abuse.
  
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• The Damning Inspector General’s Report

  12-12-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It is hard to believe that the run-up to the presidential-election year has plumbed such a depth of farcical degradation. It must be that Trump’s influence has contributed to unserious responses, but he can’t be blamed for the unutterable nonsense of his opponents and the straight men of the political class that has absorbed the shock of the Trump phenomenon. Monday, December 9, had been much anticipated. Congressman Jerry Nadler, who has not been able to utter a sentence in the last
  
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• Rashida Tlaib deletes tweet falsely blaming Jersey City shooting on 'white supremacy'

  12-12-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) deleted a tweet Thursday morning in which she falsely credited Tuesday's deadly shooting at a kosher deli in Jersey City, New Jersey to "white supremacy" when in fact, the suspected shooters were reportedly Black Hebrew Israelites.Tlaib deleted the post just minutes after it went up, but not before close observers were able to nab a screenshot. It didn't take long for the tweet to spread among influential political commentators, especially conservatives, like Dinesh
  
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• US sends first non-Guatemalan migrant families to Guatemala

  12-12-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Guatemala on Thursday received the first families of migrants sent by the United States under an agreement to return non-Guatemalans who passed through that country on their way to the U.S. border.The national migration agency confirmed the arrival of 14 people, seven from Honduras and seven from El Salvador and including children.The Central Americans joined 10 who had been sent to Guatemala under the safe third country agreement between Washington and Guatemala in recent weeks, though the prev
  
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• Tentative US-China 'phase one' trade deal reached

  12-12-2019 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  US and Chinese negotiators have agreed in principle to the "phase one" trade deal, according to a person familiar with the talks.
  
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• Study shows hostility toward journalists by Trump fans

  12-12-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's been true for some time that Republicans are generally more hostile to the news media than Democrats, but a study released Thursday found that's much more the case for supporters of President Donald Trump.The Pew Research Center study looks at viewpoints on theethical standards of journalists and whether they act in the best interests of the public.The studyfound that 17% of Republicans who somewhat approve of Trump's performance said they believe journalists have very low ethical standards
  
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• Catholic dioceses spar over Archbishop Sheen sainthood

  12-12-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In an unusual public spat, the Roman Catholic diocese of Peoria, Illinois, is accusing the Rochester, New York, diocese of trying to “sabotage” the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen.Sheen, who before his death in 1979 was famous for his radio and TV preaching, had been scheduled to be beatified — the last step before sainthood — in a ceremony in Peoria on Dec. 21.
  
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• Canada Conservative leader resigns amid reports he used party funds for private school

  12-12-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Andrew Scheer announced intention to step down shortly before reports he used funds for his children’s eductionThe leader of Canada’s Conservatives has resigned, following mounting frustration over a disappointing performance in October’s general election and reports that he used party funds to help pay for his children’s private school education.Andrew Scheer announced his intention to step down at an emergency caucus meeting on Thursday morning. Shortly after news of hi
  
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• Senate Democrats Urge State Not to Retaliate Against Diplomats

  12-12-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Senate Democrats are introducing a resolution calling on the State Department to honor promises not to retaliate against diplomats who testified in the impeachment inquiry, saying the group “upheld their oaths” to defend the Constitution by coming forward.The resolution, submitted by all 10 Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recognizes by name each of the 10 current and former State Department diplomats, including former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yo
  
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• WRAPUP 1-U.S. reaches 'deal in principle' with China on trade -source

  12-12-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House has reached a "deal in principle" with Beijing to resolve the 17-month U.S.-China trade war, according to a source briefed on the trade talks.The White House was expected to make an announcement later on Thursday, the source said.In an attempt to secure a "phase one" trade deal, U.S. negotiators offered to cut existing tariffs on Chinese goods by as much as 50% and suspend new tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on Sunday, two people familiar with the negotiations said
  
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