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• Plane crash before LSU Peach Bowl: Carley McCord among 5 victims identified

  28-12-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A plane crashed Saturday in Lafayette, Louisiana, killing five people. One person on board survived. Passersby pulled person from flaming wreckage.
  
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• Coach seen leaving locker room with tears in his eyes

  28-12-2019 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  WVLA sports director Brian Holland describes how the Louisiana State University football team and staff are affected by the loss of Carley Ann McCord, a WDSU sports reporter and the daughter-in-law of LSU Offensive Coordinator Steve Ensminger. McCord and four others died when a small plane that was headed to Atlanta for the LSU-University of Oklahoma playoff semifinal crashed near Lafayette Regional Airport in Louisiana.
  
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• New York Times Columnist Bret Stephens Cites White Nationalist in ‘Jewish Genius’ Column

  28-12-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Times columnist Bret Stephens is once again stirring outrage—this time with a piece entitled “The Secrets of Jewish Genius” that cites a paper co-authored by an academic labeled an “extremist” eugenicist and celebrated by white supremacists.Stephens’ op-ed on Ashkenazi Jews was denounced all over social media as an example of race science bunk.“How is it that a people who never amounted even to one-third of 1 percent of the world’s populat
  
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• Seven bodies were found on a ghost ship believed to have come from North Korea

  28-12-2019 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  Seven bodies were found on the remnants of a wooden boat which has washed onto the shores of the Japanese island Sado, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported.
  
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• Joe Biden walks back his remarks about defying a congressional subpoena, but adds he is 'not going to pretend' that it isn't a Republican-led stunt

  28-12-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden previously said he "wouldn't" testify as a witness and characterized it as a Republican-led diversion "to take the focus off" of Trump.
  
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• Former President Barack Obama releases list of his favorite books of 2019

  28-12-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The list of 19 books mostly draws from contemporary themes and includes works like Jia Tolentino's "Trick Mirror" and Sally Rooney's "Normal People."
  
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• Hawaii helicopter crash victims: Pilot, 2 passengers identified; 4 more believed dead

  28-12-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two Wisconsin residents, including a 13-year-old girl, were among victims in the crash on Kauai in Hawaii. All seven people on board are believed dead
  
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• Elizabeth Warren's campaign is 30% behind in quarterly fundraising 4 days before deadline

  28-12-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The campaign said it was doing "something different" as it "probably won't" raise as much as last quarter by the December 31 FEC reporting deadline.
  
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• McDonald's workers' quick actions keep woman safe from man who threatened her, police say

  28-12-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in California say McDonald's workers' Christmas Eve actions helped arrest a man who had previously abused and threatened the woman.
  
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• 2 shot dead during filming of music video

  28-12-2019 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  The victims were filming a rap video near Berwyn in Harris County when they were "ambushed" by shooters, according to investigators.
  
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• Plane crash kills 5, including Carley McCord, daughter-in-law of LSU offensive coordinator

  28-12-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A plane crashed Saturday in Lafayette, Louisiana, killing five people. One person on board survived. Passersby pulled person from flaming wreckage.
  
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• Trump supported Michael Moore prediction that the president's 'voracious' supporters would defeat a centrist Democrat in 2020

  28-12-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump later tweeted to tout Moore's prediction, which urged Democrats to avoid putting a "centrist, moderate" up against the president.
  
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• A New York Times column exploring why 'Jews are smart' is prompting heavy criticism and canceled subscriptions

  28-12-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Columnist Bret Stephens relied on a study about IQ tests written in part by a professor who is associated with white supremacist groups.
  
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• At Least 79 Dead in Truck Bomb Attack in Somalia’s Capital

  28-12-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- At least 79 people, many of them university students, died when a truck bomb exploded during rush hour at a busy intersection in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, according to the Associated Press and other news reports.An explosives-laden vehicle hit the taxation office near a junction in Mogadishu, Ahmed Abdi Hussein, a Somali police officer, told Bloomberg News by phone. Another police official said the target was Turkish engineers who were in a vehicle near the intersectio
  
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• LSU coach's daughter-in-law on way to game among 5 killed in plane crash

  28-12-2019 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  Five people died Saturday when a small plane crashed near Lafayette Regional Airport in Louisiana, Lafayette Fire Chief Robert Benoit said.
  
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• Thousands of koalas feared dead in Australia wildfires

  28-12-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of koalas are feared to have died in a wildfire-ravaged area north of Sydney, further diminishing Australia's iconic marsupial, while the fire danger increased in the country’s east on Saturday as temperatures soared. The mid-northern coast of New South Wales was home to up to 28,000 koalas, but wildfires have significantly reduced their population in recent months. Koalas are native to Australia and are one of the country’s most beloved animals, but they've been under thre
  
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• This week more than 150 years ago, dozens of Native Americans were killed in largest mass execution in US history

  28-12-2019 21:48 via cnn.com
  
  On this week more than 150 years ago, dozens of Native American men were killed by the government in the largest mass execution in US history.
  
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• Mikaela Shiffrin moves into second behind Lindsay Vonn with her 63rd World Cup skiing win

  28-12-2019 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  Three-time overall World Cup alpine skiing champion Mikaela Shiffrin on Saturday won the giant slalom in Lienz, Austria, giving her 63 race titles overall, good for No. 2 among female skiers all-time.
  
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• Jim Beam fined after massive bourbon spill killed fish

  28-12-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jim Beam has been fined $600,000 (£458,000) after a warehouse fire sent a nearly 23-mile stream of alcohol into the Kentucky and Ohio rivers, killing fish.The distiller agreed to the fine earlier this month following an order from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, the Courier-Journal reports.
  
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• Hong Kong Protesters Target Shopping Centers, Mainland Chinese

  28-12-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Protesters in Hong Kong continued to target shopping malls in the city, harassing mainland Chinese and clashing with police, who used pepper spray on demonstrators.At least 14 people were detained at a mall in the Sheung Shui district near the Chinese border, government-backed broadcaster RTHK reported. The anti-government protesters singled out mainland Chinese shoppers, who locals blame for shortages after buying up goods to resell in China, driving up prices.Prior to Saturday&r
  
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• Miami Heat forward Chris Silva reunites with his mom after 3 years apart

  28-12-2019 21:31 via cnn.com
  
  It was a Christmas miracle for Miami Heat forward Chris Silva.
  
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• Five killed in Louisiana plane crash

  28-12-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A small plane crashed into the parking lot of a post office in Louisiana shortly after takeoff on Saturday, killing five people and fully engulfing a car on the ground in flames, authorities said. The two-engine Piper Cheyenne crashed about 1 mile from the Lafayette Regional Airport, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Tony Molinaro said. The plane was en route to a college football playoff game in Atlanta between Louisiana State University and Oklahoma, said Steven Ensminger Jr., who told
  
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• Kazakh officials investigating causes of deadly plane crash

  28-12-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Technical failure, pilot error and weather conditions are being considered as possible causes of the plane crash in which 12 people were killed and more than 50 injured, officials in Kazakhstan said Saturday. A Bek Air jet, identified as a 23-year-old Fokker 100, crashed Friday morning, several minutes after departing from the airport of Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city and former capital. Residents of Almaty were continuing to bring flowers and candles to a makeshift memorial near the airport
  
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• Politico: Democratic insiders say Sanders could win nomination

  28-12-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new article in Politico examines Senator Bernie Sanders' chances of winning the democratic presidential nomination. David Siders, one of the authors of that article, joined CBSN to talk about Sanders' path to the nomination.
  
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• Biden Clarifies Position on Impeachment Trial: Campaign Update

  28-12-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Former Vice President Joe Biden clarified his position on a suggestion he wouldn’t comply with a potential subpoena to testify at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate.“I have always complied with a lawful order and in my eight years as VP, my office -- unlike Donald Trump and Mike Pence -- cooperated with legitimate congressional oversight requests,” Biden said in a Facebook post on Saturday, which was also issued as a series of tweets.T
  
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• A Woman Mouthed 'Help Me' in a Calif. McDonald's Drive-Thru Line. Employees Had a Plan

  28-12-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  McDonald's employees quickly came up with a plan to make sure a woman who mouthed "help me" in the drive-thru line was safe
  
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• Biden leaves it unclear if he would honor Senate subpoena

  28-12-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden sought Saturday to clarify his assertion that if the Senate subpoenas him to testify in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, he will defy the order.A day earlier, the Democratic presidential contender told The Des Moines Register he stood by his position that he would defy the Republican-controlled Senate if it ordered him to be a witness in the proceedings.
  
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• Joe Biden Reverses Course on Potential Trump Impeachment Subpoena

  28-12-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “I would obey any subpoena that was sent to me.”
  
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• 'The Issue Is Not What I Did.' Joe Biden Says He Would Not Comply With Subpoena to Testify in Trump Impeachment Trial

  28-12-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The reason I wouldn’t is because it’s all designed to deal with Trump doing what he’s done his whole life: trying to take the focus off him," Joe Biden said.
  
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• Woman charged with hate crime amid NYC anti-Semitic attacks

  28-12-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A woman accused of slapping three people in one of a series of apparently anti-Semitic attacks reported throughout New York during Hanukkah was charged Saturday with attempted assault as a hate crime, court records show.Tiffany Harris, 30, was released without bail after her arraignment on the attempted assault charge and misdemeanorand lower-level charges , according to the records.
  
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• NYC over 300 killings, but not all were in '19

  28-12-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York City’s annual homicide total has surpassed 300 for the first time since 2016, fueled by pockets of gang violence, a pair of quadruple killings and an unusual number of bookkeeping adjustments.It's thesecond straight year of increases after the city achieved a modern-era low of 292 homicides in 2017, but this year’s total is skewed in part by an outsized number of deaths carried over from years past.Through the end of November, the city tallied 272 homicides involving people
  
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• Ivory Coast leader says Soro must face full force of the law

  28-12-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Saturday said former rebel leader and presidential candidate Guillaume Soro was not above the law and would face justice for allegedly seeking to destabilize the country.Soro this week canceled plans to return to Ivory Coast after the authorities issued a warrant for his arrest as part of an investigation into an alleged coup plot that has seen more than 15 people close to him detained.In his first comments on the case, Ouattara said at a news conferenc
  
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• Massive car bomb kills at least 79 in Mogadishu

  28-12-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 16 of those killed were students from the capital's private Banadir University, who had been travelling on a bus when the car bomb detonated at a busy intersection southwest of the Somali capital.Two Turkish nationals were also killed, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Twitter.The attack has not been claimed, however Mogadishu is regularly hit by car bombings and attacks waged by Al-Shabaab Islamist militants allied to Al-Qaeda.
  
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• Thai SEAL dies of blood infection a year after cave rescue

  28-12-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Thai navy SEAL who was part of the dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave has died of a blood infection contracted during the risky operation, the Royal Thai Navy said. Petty Officer 1st Class Bayroot Pakbara was receiving treatment but his condition worsened after the infection spread into his blood, according to an announcement on the Thai navy SEAL’s Facebook page. Lt. Cmdr. Saman Gunan died while resupplying oxygen tanks on July 6, 2018.
  
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• The Air Force Almost Brought Back America's World War II P-51 Mustang

  28-12-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A World War II legend.
  
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• Oregon woman, 20, goes missing on hike, boyfriend arrested on unrelated charges: police

  28-12-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities continue their search for a 20-year-old Oregon woman who went missing after going on a hike with her boyfriend.
  
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• Trump attacks whistleblower in now-removed tweetstorm full of rants and conspiracies

  28-12-2019 19:58 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump retweeted an attack that included an unsubstantiated name of the intelligence community whistleblower at the heart of the Ukraine scandal as part of a series of rants and conspiratorial posts overnight.
  
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• Islamic State group says it beheaded Christian prisoners in Nigeria

  28-12-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Islamic State group released a video purporting to show its militants beheading 10 Christian men in Nigeria, saying it was part of a campaign to avenge the deaths of its former leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and its spokesman.
  
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• South African cyclist sustains serious injury after scuffle with park rangers

  28-12-2019 19:54 via cnn.com
  
  South African National Parks will investigate an incident that left a cyclist injured after a scuffle with rangers.
  
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• Doctor charged in 25 deaths sues hospital for defamation

  28-12-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Ohio doctor accused of ordering drug overdoses in the deaths of 25 hospital patients has sued his former employer for defamation, arguing that he did nothing wrong and did not deviate from hospital policy on end-of-life care.Dr. William Husel, who is accused of murder, filed the lawsuit Thursday in Franklin County against the Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System and its parent organization, Trinity Health Corp.“It would not be an exaggeration to state that Dr. Husel has suffered per
  
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• Data shows voters who disapprove of Trump are likely to support any Democratic opponent — even if they don't like them either

  28-12-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Democratic Party looks like it might get a boost from voters who disapprove of President Trump, even if they don't love the eventual Democratic nominee either, The Economist's G. Elliot Morris writes.Morris notes that one of the dominant narratives in 2016 was that the election was swung by voters who disliked both Trump and his competitor Hillary Clinton but who wound up begrudgingly siding with Trump when all was said and done. Now, though, it looks like the reverse might happen, regardles
  
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• Egypt says 22 killed in road crash in country's north

  28-12-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Health authorities say about two dozen people, mostly laborers, were killed Saturday when a minibus collided with a truck on a highway in Port Said in northern Egypt.Officials said in a statement that the minibus, a vehicle widely used in Egypt as a communal taxi, was bringing the laborers from a garment factory in Port Said.At least 22 people were killed in the crash, which took place on a highway linking the cities of Port Said and Damietta, the statement said.
  
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• Lebanese protest at new PM's home, demand he quits

  28-12-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Beirut home of Lebanon's new prime minister on Saturday, calling for Hassan Diab's resignation less than 10 days after he was appointed.Lebanon is without a cabinet and in the grips of a deepening economic crisis after a two-month-old protest movement forced Saad Hariri to stand down as prime minister on October 29.Anti-government protests continued after Hariri's resignation, while political parties negotiated for weeks before nominating Diab, a profess
  
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• Man, 60, dies after being beaten during $1 mugging in New York

  28-12-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The men were approached by robbers who demanded their money.When they refused, they were punched and kicked, and the suspects got away with one dollar.
  
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• Mother who injected feces into son with cancer's IV during chemo sentenced to 7 years

  28-12-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tiffany Alberts of Wolcott, Indiana said she did it to get him moved to a different floor at the hospital so he would get better treatment.
  
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• Trump claims homelessness 'so easy' to handle in attack on Democrats

  28-12-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President says governors of New York and California should ‘politely’ ask him for help in latest broadsideDonald Trump has continued to use America’s homelessness crisis to attack his political opponents in California and New York, tweeting on Saturday that homelessness should be “easy” to handle and that the governors of the two liberal states should ask him for help.Workers and activists on the front lines of the crisis have repeatedly said that Trump’s &ldq
  
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• Joe Biden clarifies he'd testify in impeachment trial under lawful circumstances, but says GOP has no legal basis

  28-12-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden made some waves Friday evening when he told The Des Moines Register he wouldn't comply with a congressional subpoena to testify in President Trump's upcoming Senate impeachment trial. But he eased the breaks on that Saturday morning.Biden, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, who is connected to the impeachment saga because of accusations from Trump's allies that he and his son Hunter were involved in corrupt activities in Ukraine, initially said he wouldn
  
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• Trump under fire for retweeting name of Ukraine whistleblower

  28-12-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump is facing criticism for retweeting the name of the alleged whistleblower whose complaint triggered the impeachment investigation into his dealings with Ukraine. The US president, who has 68 million followers on Twitter, escalated his row with the Democrats by sharing a post from one of his supporters purporting to disclose the whistleblower’s identity, including his son Donald. Until now Mr Trump had refrained from tweeting information about the individual, whose name has been
  
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• Scuffles break out in Paris as pensions protesters, 'yellow vests' march

  28-12-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters marching against the French government's planned pension reform clashed with the police in Paris on Saturday as police fired tear gas to disperse some groups of demonstrators.French trade unions have spearheaded nationwide strikes since early December in an outcry over President Emmanuel Macron's pensions overhaul, disrupting schools, railways and roads, while lending support to regular protests.On Saturday "yellow vests" - an anti-government movement that sprung up a year ago as a ba
  
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• Thai Navy SEAL dies from infection he contracted during cave rescue

  28-12-2019 18:04 via cnn.com
  
  A Thai Navy SEAL has died from an infection he contracted during the daring rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand last year.
  
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