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• Gov. Scott Walker On Students Who Gave Nazi Salute: 'They're Idiots.'

  15-11-2018 23:45 via yahoo.com
  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) mustered a lukewarm response when asked about
  
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• North Korea 'tests high-tech new weapon': report

  15-11-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised the testing of a "high-tech" new weapon, Pyongyang's state media reported Friday according to Yonhap news agency."Kim Jong Un inspected the testing of a newly developed high-tech tactical weapon at the Academy of National Defence Science," Yonhap cited the North's state broadcaster as saying.The "high-tech tactical weapon" had been developed over a long period and "builds impregnable defences of our country and strengthens the fighting power of our
  
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• Florida to recount ballots by hand in tight U.S. Senate race

  15-11-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  Under state law, the Florida Department of State must trigger a manual recount if an electronic recount of ballots finds a margin of victory of less than 0.25 percent.The order came after U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee, Florida, cleared the way to include ballots from as many as 5,000 people across the state who submitted ballots by mail that were rejected by election officials.A Georgia federal judge issued a similar ruling as that state worked to resolve a close governor's race
  
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• Florida officials order hand recount of ballots in tight Senate race

  15-11-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida election officials on Thursday ordered a hand recount of ballots in the tight race between Democratic U.S. Senator Bill Nelson and his Republican challenger, Governor Rick Scott.
  
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• Democrats flip another House seat as Jared Giolden wins historic election in Maine

  15-11-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  The Marine Corps veteran and state Representative unseated Republican Representative Bruce Poliquin after starting the day trailing the incumbent by roughly 2,000 votes.After ranked-choice votes for two independents vying for the seat were redistributed, Mr Golden surged ahead with slightly more than 3,000 votes, according to the Portland Press Herald.Ranked-choice voting — which allows voters to choose their first pick on their ballot but rank other choices below that — is uncommon
  
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• McConnell Sees Path to Avoid Shutdown After Meeting With Trump

  15-11-2018 23:08 via yahoo.com
  “We talked about border security and how to resolve all this, and we’re optimistic we have a way forward," McConnell of Kentucky said after he and Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby of Alabama met with the president.Asked what the way forward is, McConnell said, “I’ll tell you when we get it.” He declined to respond to questions about whether Trump would accept fencing as a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi says she has enough votes to continue leading House Democrats

  15-11-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  Democrat Nancy Pelosi has claimed she has enough votes from colleagues to become the Spraker of the House of Representatives - despite a swell of opposition in her own party.The longtime Congresswoman from northern California is set to take the position currently held by Republican Paul Ryan.Ms Pelosi said she was not worried.
  
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• 18 Candles You Should Really Be Giving as Gifts

  15-11-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
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• The Latest: Post urges independent probe in columnist slay

  15-11-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The latest on developments following the Oct. 2 killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul (all times local):
  
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• U.S. imposes sanctions for Khashoggi killing, Saudis seek death penalty

  15-11-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. Treasury Department sanctions were the first concrete response by the Trump administration to Khashoggi's death in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October.Among those sanctioned were Saud al-Qahtani, who has been removed from his position as a top aide to the powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as well as the Saudi Consul General Mohammad al-Otaibi and members of a 15-person team Turkey has identified as being involved in Khashoggi's death.The measure was unusual for Washingto
  
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• Father: Threats to driver won't bring justice for slain kids

  15-11-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  ROCHESTER, Ind. (AP) — The father of one of three Indiana children who were struck and killed by a pickup truck as they crossed a road to board a school bus said Thursday that threats against the driver and her family won't bring justice for his daughter or help those she left behind.
  
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• FDA to ban flavored e-cigarettes at U.S. convenience stores

  15-11-2018 22:15 via yahoo.com
  The much-anticipated announcement will mean that only tobacco, mint and menthol e-cigarette flavors can be sold at most traditional retail outlets such as convenience stores.The FDA also plans to seek a ban on menthol cigarettes, a longtime goal of public health advocates, as well as flavored cigars.FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the moves are meant to prevent young people from continuing to use e-cigarettes, potentially leading to traditional cigarette smoking.
  
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• Democrat flips US House seat in Maine ranked balloting

  15-11-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Democrat who trailed a Republican incumbent in a costly U.S. House race came from behind to emerge as the victor Thursday following extra rounds of tabulations under Maine's new voting system that's facing a legal challenge.
  
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• ‘I Don’t Want to Go Anywhere Else but Home.’ How Residents Will Rebuild a Paradise Destroyed by Wildfire

  15-11-2018 22:04 via yahoo.com
  The Camp Fire wiped out 95% of Paradise, Calif., killing at least 49 people
  
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• Prosecutors announce charges against couple and homeless man, say they made up story for GoFundMe scam

  15-11-2018 21:51 via yahoo.com
  Prosecutors in New Jersey announced charges against Mark D’Amico, Kate McClure and Johnny Bobbitt, who they allege made up a story on fundraising site GoFundMe in an effort to keep the money for themselves. Prosecutors say the story that Bobbitt was a homeless man who used his last $20 to pay for McClure’s gas wasn’t true, and was fabricated to earn people’s sympathy so they would contribute to a fundraising campaign whose stated purpose was to help Bobbitt financially.
  
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• Canada welcomes U.S. sanctions on Saudis, weighs similar action

  15-11-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Thursday welcomed U.S. Treasury sanctions on 17 Saudi officials for their role in the killing last month of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and said Canada was weighing similar action."Canada welcomes the U.S. action," Freeland told reporters after touring a factory in Port Colborne, Ontario, adding that Canada will be "actively considering" similar sanctions in coming days.Khashoggi was murdered at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on Oct.
  
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• The Latest: Congressman says election lawsuit will proceed

  15-11-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. House race in Maine (all times local):
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg Responds To Times Facebook Report: 'I Learned About This Yesterday'

  15-11-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  A day after a lengthy New York Times investigation found that Facebook went to
  
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• The 2019 Audi R8 Supercar Won't Get a V-6 Engine

  15-11-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  The Audi R8 will stick with a V-10 engine, the company confirmed to C/D.
  
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• Facebook Faces Uproar on Crisis Response That Attacked Soros

  15-11-2018 21:07 via yahoo.com
  In the wake of a scathing newspaper report on the company’s approach to managing a deepening crisis, Facebook said Thursday that it ended its work with a Republican public affairs firm that had drawn links between enemies of the company and billionaire financier George Soros.The move to cut ties with Definers Public Affairs came after the New York Times detailed the firm’s work amid widespread turmoil at the social media giant as it dealt with the discovery of Russian meddling in the
  
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• British PM fights rebellion over Brexit deal

  15-11-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May battled to salvage a draft Brexit deal and her political future on Thursday, as ministers resigned and members of her own party plotted to oust her.The Conservative leader said she believed with "every fibre of my being" in the Brexit course she had set, hours after facing a hostile parliament and seeing four ministers, including Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, quit the government.Members of parliament on all sides warned her there was no way the plan could win
  
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• Data Protection Firm Cognigo Raises $8.5 Million

  15-11-2018 21:00
  Cognigo, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup focused on data protection and compliance, this week announced that it has completed an $8.5 million Series A round of funding. 
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• Best Bites: Crispy prosciutto cups with goat cheese and figs

  15-11-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
  
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• FBI, Aruba Police Probing Royal Princess Cruise Ship Death

  15-11-2018 20:47 via yahoo.com
  The FBI and authorities in Aruba are investigating whether the tragic death of
  
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• Migrant caravan arrives at U.S.-Mexico border

  15-11-2018 20:46 via yahoo.com
  The bulk of the migrant caravan crossing Mexico began arriving Thursday at the U.S. border, as around 800 Central Americans reached the city of Tijuana aboard 22 buses after more than a month’s trek.
  
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• How Florida’s recount will work

  15-11-2018 20:38 via yahoo.com
  No, Florida isn’t going to go through 8 million ballots one at a time. Here’s how the rest of the recount process will work.
  
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• New Jersey couple and homeless man whose feel-good story went viral charged with GoFundMe scam

  15-11-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  Prosecutors say Mark D’Amico, Kate McClure and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. fabricated the tale in an effort to raise money for themselves.
  
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• Judge: Florida election problems make it a 'laughingstock'

  15-11-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge slammed Florida on Thursday for repeatedly failing to anticipate election problems and said the state law on recounts appears to violate the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that decided the presidency in 2000.
  
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• Army sets sights on new sniper camouflage

  15-11-2018 20:01 via yahoo.com
  Defense Specialist Allison Barrie on how 3,000 US military snipers will soon become even more deadly to the enemy, thanks to new ghillie suit camouflage being developed by the U.S. Army.
  
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• Emmanuel Macron On Donald Trump: ‘I Do Not Do Policy Or Diplomacy By Tweets’

  15-11-2018 19:35 via yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a subtle burn toward President
  
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• Florida Recount Deadline Nears, But Judge Could Change That

  15-11-2018 19:20 via yahoo.com
  The state will proceed to a manual recount if the machine recount finds any of the races are separated by 0.25 percentage point or less.In a separate ruling early Thursday, Walker ordered Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner to put an estimated 5,000 rejected ballots back into play.
  
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• Thought you deleted your iPhone photos? Hackers find a way to get them back

  15-11-2018 19:17
  The hacking duo @fluoroacetate demonstrated zero-day exploits against phones from Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi at the recent Pwn2Own contest.
  
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• Raccoons Who Police Assumed Had Rabies Were Actually Just Drunk

  15-11-2018 19:11 via yahoo.com
  If raccoons could talk, these ones would be slurring their words
  
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• Days after cease-fire, Gaza border demonstrations to resume

  15-11-2018 19:08 via yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian organizers of the weekly demonstrations in the Gaza Strip along the Israeli border said they will hold another protest on Friday — in a key test of this week's cease-fire between Israel and Gaza militant groups.
  
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• House Democrats Want To Investigate Alleged Voter Suppression

  15-11-2018 18:56 via yahoo.com
  Key House Democrats have indicated that come January, they will investigate alleged voter suppression in the 2018 midterm elections.
  
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• California authorities take DNA samples to identify fire victims

  15-11-2018 18:54 via yahoo.com
  California authorities were taking DNA samples from relatives on Thursday to help identify victims of the western US state's deadly wildfires and seeking to track down some 300 missing persons.At least 59 deaths have been reported so far from the sprawling blazes in northern and southern California and the toll is expected to rise as body recovery teams with sniffer dogs conduct house-to-house searches.Fifty-six of the deaths and most of those unaccounted for are from the Butte County town of Pa
  
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• More than 1,500 caravan migrants at US-Mexico border: AFP

  15-11-2018 18:53 via yahoo.com
  The bulk of the migrant caravan crossing Mexico began arriving Thursday at the US border, as around 800 Central Americans reached the city of Tijuana aboard 22 buses after more than a month's trek."We've finally reached Tijuana.It's been a never-ending journey, but God brought us here," said Carmen Soto, a Honduran migrant traveling with her two young children.
  
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• Michael Avenatti: Stormy Daniels to ‘seek new lawyer’ if domestic violence allegations prove true

  15-11-2018 18:52 via yahoo.com
  Adult film actress Stormy Daniels says she will be “seeking new representation” if domestic violence allegations against her attorney Michael Avenatti are true.The entertainer, who is suing Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement she signed about an alleged affair before he went on to win the 2016 election, made the comments after it was reported Mr Avenatti had been arrested over suspicion of domestic violence Wednesday afternoon.The lawyer, who is considering a 2020 presidentia
  
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• U.S. sanctions 17 Saudis over killing of journalist Khashoggi

  15-11-2018 18:38 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on 17 Saudi officials on Thursday for their role in the killing last month of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, the first concrete response by the Trump administration to the journalist's death.Among those sanctioned were Saud al-Qahtani, who has been removed from his position as a top aide to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as well as the Saudi Consul General Mohammed Alotaibi and members of a 15-person team Turkey has iden
  
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• Florida midterms: Judge gives voters two more days to correct rejected ballots amid recounts

  15-11-2018 18:37 via yahoo.com
  A judge in Florida has given voters whose mail-in and provisional ballots were disqualified over mismatched signature issues two more days to fix the problem.Roughly 5,000 ballots were initially rejected by county election board officials and they could play a crucial role in the Senate race between Republican Governor Rick Scott and Democrat Bill Nelson.It could also affect the race for governor between Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis.
  
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• Pelosi’s Quest to Be Speaker Hits ‘Uh-Oh’ Moment

  15-11-2018 18:33 via yahoo.com
  "There’s a logic to saying Nancy is the favorite, but it is a fragile logic," said Representative Gerald Connolly, a Virginia Democrat who is a Pelosi supporter.A push by younger Democratic lawmakers for a generational change in party leadership is making it "very hard" for Pelosi, 78, he said."You’ve got to start counting noses," said Connolly.
  
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• Florida statewide machine recount nears Thursday deadline

  15-11-2018 18:29 via yahoo.com
  Palm Beach county says it may not be able to make Florida's 3 p.m. Thursday deadline for statewide machine recount.
  
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• Ford Model T survives California wildfires almost untouched

  15-11-2018 18:28 via yahoo.com
  Ron Westbrook had to flee his home due to the Californian wildfires, but can find minor comfort in his Ford Model T surviving
  
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• Northern California wildfire latest

  15-11-2018 18:26 via yahoo.com
  ABC News' Eva Pilgrim discusses the latest developments in Northern California, where at least 56 people are dead and more than 100 are missing as the "Camp Fire" continues to rage.
  
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• Kevin McCarthy promises to resist Democrats' agenda as new House minority leader

  15-11-2018 18:23 via yahoo.com
  Newly elected House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says he will resist the Democratic majority's agenda come January. CBS News political correspondent Ed O'Keefe joined CBSN with more.
  
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• Southern California wildfire latest

  15-11-2018 18:21 via yahoo.com
  ABC News' Maggie Rulli discusses the latest developments in Southern California where at least 3 people are dead and hundreds of homes have been destroyed.
  
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• U.S. judge refuses Russian firm's bid to dismiss Mueller indictment

  15-11-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  The ruling by Judge Dabney Friedrich in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia came after lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting LLC argued the indictment brought against it failed to properly allege a crime.Concord is one of three corporate entities, along with 13 Russian individuals, indicted by Mueller’s office in February in an alleged conspiracy to tamper with the U.S. presidential race by adopting false online personas to push divisive messages, traveling to the
  
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• Before and after photos show the devastation of the California wildfires

  15-11-2018 18:00 via yahoo.com
  As wildfires continue to rage across California, a set of before and after photos brings into focus the utter devastation wrought by the blazes, particularly in the northern California town of Paradise Pines which has essentially been incinerated by the fires. As of Thursday morning, the Camp Fire has burned over 140,000 acres and is still raging at only 40 percent contained after sparking to life a week ago. The Before image of Camp FireImage: Satellite image © 2018 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar c
  
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• U.S. troops help fortify southern border as migrant caravan approaches

  15-11-2018 17:56 via yahoo.com
  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis defended the use of active duty troops on the U.S.-Mexican border, saying that in some ways it provides good training for war.The Pentagon chief said that within a week to 10 days the 5,800 troops currently deployed for the border mission will have accomplished all the tasks initially requested by Customs and Border Protection, although additional tasks are now being worked out between the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security.In addition to the 5,800 acti
  
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• Netanyahu faces snap election calls after defense minister quits

  15-11-2018 17:49 via yahoo.com
  Avigdor Lieberman quit on Wednesday over what he described as the government's too-soft policy on cross-border violence with Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.The loss of the five seats of Lieberman's Israel Beitenu faction leaves Netanyahu with control of just 61 of the 120 seats in parliament, raising the prospect that a scheduled November 2019 election would be brought forward.Lieberman's resignation takes effect 48 hours after being handed in, which he did early on Thursday.
  
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