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• Trump, Pelosi spark a new power relationship in Washington

  29-11-2018 23:59
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi haven’t spoken in days, not since he called to congratulate her on Democrats’ election night win.
  But they don’t really need to. Trump and Pelosi go way back. Two big-name heirs to big-city honchos, they’ve rubbed elbows on the Manhattan social scene for years. Despite the daily barbs in Washington, he’s always “Mr. President” to her. She’s one prominent politician he has not labeled w
  
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• Rusin, Rockies agree at $1,687,500, avoid salary arbitration

  29-11-2018 23:55
  DENVER (AP) — Left-handed reliever Chris Rusin and the Colorado Rockies have agreed to one-year contract worth $1,687,500, a deal with a $400,000 raise that avoided salary arbitration.
  Under the terms of the deal announced Thursday, Rusin would earn an additional $50,000 should he make the All-Star Game.
  The 32-year-old was 2-3 with a 6.09 ERA in 49 appearances last season. In the postseason, Rusin threw four scoreless innings.
  Rusin had a phenomenal 2017 season when he went 5-1 with a 2.6
  
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• ‘Avengers’ director says Evans’ Cap days may not be over

  29-11-2018 23:53
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the directors of Marvel’s “Avengers” saga is suggesting that while Chris Evans may think his days playing Captain America are done, he shouldn’t shelve the shield just yet.
  Evans tweeted last month that he had wrapped his shooting on the fourth Avengers movie, calling it an “emotional” day and saying playing the role for the last eight years “has been an honor.”
  Joe Russo, who with brother Anthony wrote and directed
  
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• Tentative settlement reached in suit over freeway shootings

  29-11-2018 23:42
  PHOENIX (AP) — The top prosecutor in metro Phoenix has tentatively agreed to settle a false-arrest lawsuit by a landscaper once charged in some of the freeway shootings in the metro area during the summer of 2015.
  A judge says Maricopa County and County Attorney Bill Montgomery agreed to settle the lawsuit by Leslie Merritt Jr.
  Merritt was jailed for seven months on charges stemming from four of the 11 shootings.
  His case was dismissed after the case’s ballistic evidence came under c
  
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• Reed, Cantlay lead as Tiger triples his way to bottom

  29-11-2018 23:23
  NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Tiger Woods’ return to tournament competition didn’t start nearly as well as his last one ended.
  Woods had a chip roll back into the hazard for a triple bogey Thursday, leading to a 1-over 73 that left him eight shots behind world-traveling Patrick Reed and late-entry Patrick Cantlay in the Hero World Challenge.
  Reed didn’t show any sign of fatigue in his travels from Dubai to Hong Kong to the Bahamas in successive weeks. He birdied three of his las
  
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• Dunkin’ Donuts says DD Perks accounts may have been hacked

  29-11-2018 23:23
  Dunkin’ Donuts is warning customers in its DD Perks program of a hack after the company learned that an outside source gained access to some account holders usernames and passwords.
  The restaurant chain issued a statement saying that the hackers may have been able to access private information such as customers’ first and last names, email addresses, their DD Perks account number and DD Perks QR codes.Dunkin’ Donuts said it was made aware of the incident on Oct. 31 by
  
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• New Fee gets added to vehicle registrations

  29-11-2018 23:19
  Tucson -Get ready to pay an extra $32 to register your vehicle in Arizona. Starting this Saturday, Dec. 1, vehicle registration renewals will include a new Public Safety Fee.
  The fee was established by state law in order to support public safety and Highway Patrol operations.
  The fee goes into effect for registrations due in January and will be immediate for newly registered vehicles.
  The fee will be collected during the vehicle registration process administered by the Arizona Department of Tran
  
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• The Latest: 1 charged, 2 more arrested in quadruple killing

  29-11-2018 23:18
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on arrests in a quadruple homicide in Philadelphia (all times local):
  5:15 p.m.
  Police say a third suspect is in custody in a quadruple homicide in Philadelphia that happened after a scheme to sell drugs found during a home renovation turned into a robbery and shooting.
  Police said Thursday afternoon that charges had not been filed against the second or third suspects. Prosecutors say the first suspect, 32-year-old Jahlil Porter, was arrested and charged with
  
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• Ex-Buffalo QB Jim Kelly gives thumbs-up after cancer surgery

  29-11-2018 23:18
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The wife of Buffalo Bills Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly says her husband has undergone what is hoped to be his last cancer-related surgery.
  On Instagram Wednesday, Jill Kelly posted a picture of the former football player giving a thumbs-up sign from a hospital bed in New York City. Her comment said “all went as planned!”
  In an earlier post, Jill Kelly said doctors told the couple it should be the 58-year-old’s last surgery.
  Kelly last underwent
  
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• Acting US attorney general talks opioids on Tennessee visit

  29-11-2018 23:16
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has swung through Tennessee to laud the approach being taken against the opioid epidemic by the Trump administration.
  Whitaker read from prepared remarks alongside Tennessee’s U.S. attorneys Thursday in Nashville. He steered clear of discussing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and Russian ties to Trump’s campaign, a probe Whitaker has
  
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• Flash flooding hits wildfire-scarred area of Northern California; officials deploy rescue teams

  29-11-2018 23:15
  CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Flash flooding hits wildfire-scarred area of Northern California; officials deploy rescue teams.
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• Parkland high school shooting generating change in Florida

  29-11-2018 23:11
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — When 14 students and three staff members were gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Florida quickly raised the age for buying a rifle and formed a high-profile panel to investigate shortcomings in law enforcement and at the school.
  That differs from when a gunman killed 49 people, mostly gay men, at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in 2016. No investigative commission was formed and no laws were changed.
  That panel is creating changes even before it file
  
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• Ex-FBI director Comey challenges House subpoena in court

  29-11-2018 23:11
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI director James Comey has challenged in court a subpoena from the House of Representatives.
  Lawyers for Comey argued in a court filing Thursday that he shouldn’t have to appear for a closed-door interview with lawmakers next week.
  The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Comey earlier this month to answer questions about FBI actions and decisions during the 2016 presidential election.
  Comey said last week that he intended to contest the subp
  
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• Weinstein’s lawyers urge dismissal of sexual assault case

  29-11-2018 23:10
  NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer says his sexual assault case has devolved into a mess of lying witnesses and hidden evidence and should be thrown out.
  In a court filing Thursday, lawyer Benjamin Brafman said defense investigators had turned up evidence raising doubts about Weinstein’s accusers.
  He says the defense spoke to a friend of one accuser who said the alleged victim and Weinstein had been “hooking up” consensually for a long time.
  Brafman says the
  
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• St. Louis officers accused of beating undercover colleague

  29-11-2018 23:07
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal indictment accuses three St. Louis police officers of beating an undercover colleague during 2017 protest and, along with a fourth officer, conspiring to cover up the crime.
  The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced the indictments of Officers Dustin Boone, Randy Hays, Christopher Myers and Bailey Colletta. All four are suspended without pay.
  The indictment follows an FBI investigation requested last year by St. Louis police.
  The September 2017 acquitt
  
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• Jets QBs Darnold, McCown limited again at practice

  29-11-2018 23:06
  FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — New York Jets quarterbacks Sam Darnold and Josh McCown were limited at practice for the second straight day, leaving it uncertain who will start Sunday at Tennessee.
  Coach Todd Bowles says Thursday that Darnold, McCown and Davis Webb all took snaps during drills and the team will continue to monitor them before making a final decision on who will be under center against the Titans.
  Darnold has missed the past two games with a strain in his right foot. He showed pr
  
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• St. Louis police officers indicted for allegedly beating undercover colleague during 2017 protest, trying to cover it up

  29-11-2018 23:04
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police officers indicted for allegedly beating undercover colleague during 2017 protest, trying to cover it up.
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• Police fatally shoot man during gunfire exchange

  29-11-2018 23:04
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police say officers responding to a domestic disturbance in Kentucky exchanged gunfire with a man at the scene, killing him.
  Louisville Police Chief Steve Conrad told news outlets that officers “encountered deadly force” Wednesday when they got into a confrontation with the man and “responded to defend themselves.”
  Conrad said Louisville officers are trained to try to de-escalate situations if possible, but he wasn’t sure whether officer
  
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• FBI: Phoenix slayings may be linked to killer in Texas jail

  29-11-2018 23:04
  PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI says Samuel Little, a 78-year-old man being held in a Texas jail, has confessed to killing upward of 90 women, including three in Phoenix, because he wants to be moved from a Los Angeles County prison to a lockup elsewhere.
  The Arizona Republic reports the FBI said Wednesday that one of the Phoenix victims may have been a Hispanic woman in her 40s whom Little may have killed in 1988 or 1996.
  The other possible victim may have been killed in 1997 and is described as a
  
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• Facing Sexual Misconduct Accusations, California Democratic Party Chairman Resigns

  29-11-2018 23:03
  California Democratic Party Chairman Eric Bauman is resigning following sexual misconduct allegations, announcing his decision hours after Governor-elect Gavin Newsom called for him to step aside.
  Bauman released a statement Thursday that does not specifically address the allegations against him. He said he’s come to the realization that resigning is in everyone’s best interest “in order for those to whom I may have caused pain to heal,” for his own health and the good of
  
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• US circulates UN resolution that would condemn Hamas rockets

  29-11-2018 23:00
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States has circulated a proposed U.N. resolution condemning the Palestinian militant group Hamas “for repeatedly firing rockets into Israel and for inciting violence” that puts civilians at risk.
  The text of the draft General Assembly resolution “demands that Hamas and other militant actors including Palestinian Islamic Jihad cease activity, including by using airborne incendiary devices.”
  It was circulated Thursday as the 193-member
  
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• Man found guilty for killing 13-year-old stepdaughter

  29-11-2018 22:56
  TUCSON – A verdict has been reached in the trial of the man accused of murdering his 13-year-old stepdaughter last year.
  Joshua Lelevier was found guilty for all counts, including first-degree murder in connection to the death of Jayden Glomb. According to officials, Glomb’s body was found in the 10100 block of South Steve Street near Mary Ann Cleveland Way between Empire and Cienega high schools, east of Houghton Road.
  Lelevier was originally charged with first-degree murd
  
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• Mexico says off-road race damaged protected desert areas

  29-11-2018 22:51
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s office for environmental protection says it has filed a criminal complaint against the organizers of the Score Baja 1000 off-road race for damaging protected desert areas.
  The office said Thursday that some participants in the Nov. 14-18 race departed from agreed-on routes and damaged cactuses and other desert plants in the Valle de los Cirios protected area. Inspectors found damaged choya, agave and cardon plants.
  Score International spokesman Juan Tintos
  
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• Report: Number of uninsured kids spikes to 3.9M in US

  29-11-2018 22:43
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A new report by Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families says the number of uninsured children in the United States has increased for the first time in nearly a decade.
  In Florida, the uninsured rate went from 288,000 in 2016 to 325,000 in 2017. South Dakota, Utah, Texas and Georgia also saw significant increases.
  Nationally, the number of uninsured children increased by an estimated 276,000 to about 3.9 million in 2017. That compares to a
  
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• Report: Search warrants served at Chicago alderman’s office

  29-11-2018 22:38
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Tribune says federal agents executed search warrants at the City Hall office of a powerful Chicago alderman.
  An unidentified law enforcement source told the Chicago Tribune agents arrive at Ed Burke’s aldermanic office Thursday morning, told staff to leave and pulled brown paper across its glass doors blocking the view. Media photographs showed similar paper across the door of Burke’s Southwest Side ward office. There were no arrests.
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• Bengals put OT Fisher on injury list, bring back Andre Smith

  29-11-2018 22:37
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Bengals put offensive tackle Jake Fisher on injured reserve with a back injury Thursday and brought back Andre Smith for his third stint in Cincinnati.
  Fisher filled in for injured left tackle Cordy Glenn during a 35-20 loss to the Browns on Sunday and got hurt, leaving the Bengals (5-6) with no depth on the line. Glenn, who also has a back injury, hasn’t practiced this week as Cincinnati gets set to host Denver (5-6).
  Smith was the Bengals’ first-round pi
  
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• Army wants Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets for battlefield

  29-11-2018 22:36
  Virtual- and augmented-reality headsets haven’t had much traction in the consumer market, but they’re finding a place on the battlefield.
  The U.S. Army said Thursday that it has awarded Microsoft a $480 million contract to supply its HoloLens headsets to soldiers.
  The head-mounted displays use augmented reality, which means viewers can see virtual imagery superimposed over the real-world scenery in front of them. Microsoft says the technology will provide troops with better informati
  
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• Viola Davis to star as Shirley Chisholm in Amazon project

  29-11-2018 22:33
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis is gearing up to play groundbreaking politician Shirley Chisholm in a film for Amazon Studios.
  The company said Thursday that Davis has signed on to star in and produce the project about Chisholm, who was the first black woman ever elected to the United States Congress and the first woman to seek the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
  She represented New York’s 12th District in the House of Representatives from 1969
  
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• Drug lord who changed his face testifies against ‘El Chapo’

  29-11-2018 22:09
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former Colombian drug lord known for an extreme plastic-surgery makeover meant to hide his identity testified Thursday at a U.S. trial about his lucrative drug-trafficking alliance with notorious Mexican counterpart Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
  Asked about his distorted facial features, Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia explained that he had undergone at least three surgeries that altered “my jawbone, my cheekbones, my eyes, my mouth, my ears, my nose.”
  Ram
  
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• Colombian drug kingpin testifies against ‘El Chapo’

  29-11-2018 22:09
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former Colombian drug lord known for an extreme plastic-surgery makeover meant to hide his identity testified Thursday at a U.S. trial about his lucrative drug-trafficking alliance with notorious Mexican counterpart Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
  Asked about his distorted facial features, Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia explained that he had undergone at least three surgeries that altered “my jawbone, my cheekbones, my eyes, my mouth, my ears, my nose.”
  Ram
  
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• Rescue group caring for abandoned dog that was attacked

  29-11-2018 21:56
  TUCSON – A local rescue is taking care of a dog that was dumped on the streets and attacked.
  Jo Anne Rolf works with Desert Labrador Retriever Rescue. She is fostering a dog she named Oz.
  “Dogs, like children, are at the mercy of whoever has them,” Rolf said, “and when they find themselves in bad circumstances, it’s not that they were a bad dog, It’s they were let down.”
  Oz has infections, and his ear was nearly ripped off. The rescue has spent about $1
  
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• Ice Melt Slows Slows Global Warming But Speeds Sea Level Rise

  29-11-2018 21:55
  A new University of Arizona-led research team, focused on how the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will affect climate change, found the warming of the atmosphere will be delayed by about a decade, but sea level rise will accelerate. Ben Bronselear, a postdoctoral research associate in UA Geosciences and first author of “Change in future climate due to Antarctic meltwater,” (a report published in the journal Nature) said that current climate models do not include the effect of mel
  
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• Ice Melt Slows Global Warming But Speeds Sea Level Rise

  29-11-2018 21:55
  A new University of Arizona-led research team, focused on how the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will affect climate change, found the warming of the atmosphere will be delayed by about a decade, but sea level rise will accelerate. Ben Bronselear, a postdoctoral research associate in UA Geosciences and first author of “Change in future climate due to Antarctic meltwater,” (a report published in the journal Nature) said that current climate models do not include the effect of mel
  
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• Dennis Krausnick, founding member of Shakespeare & Co., dies

  29-11-2018 21:54
  LENOX, Mass. (AP) — A founding member of the Massachusetts theater company Shakespeare & Co., who in the organization’s 40 years served as an actor, director, writer and teacher, has died. Dennis Krausnick was 76.
  The Lenox-based company says Krausnick died Tuesday at his Stockbridge home after a battle with prostate cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
  Krausnick was married to the company’s founder and longtime artistic director, Tina Packer.
  Packer in a statement says th
  
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• Pentagon IDs 1st of 27 Tuskegee Airmen missing from WWII

  29-11-2018 21:53
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Pentagon says the remains of a New York pilot killed during World War II are the first of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen still listed as missing in action to be identified.
  The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday that remains accounted for earlier this year are those of Lawrence Dickson of Manhattan.
  Dickson was a 24-year-old captain in the 100th Fighter Squadron when his P-51 fighter plane was seen crashing along the Italy-Austria border on Dec. 23, 1944. Sear
  
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• Mystery ballot could sway control of Alaska state government

  29-11-2018 21:51
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A mystery ballot found on a precinct table on Election Day but not counted then could decide a tied Alaska state House race and thwart Republican efforts to control the chamber and all of state government.
  The ballot arrived in Juneau last Friday in a secrecy sleeve in a bin with other ballot materials. It appeared to be marked for Democrat Kathryn Dodge.
  Officials are investigating the origin of the uncounted ballot before deciding whether to tally it.
  A recount in t
  
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• Federal team finds no intrusion on Maryland election systems

  29-11-2018 21:50
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A U.S. Department of Homeland Security team has found no evidence of intrusion on Maryland’s election system.
  A report on the analysis by Hunt and Incident Response Team from the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center was made public Thursday at a Maryland State Board of Elections meeting.
  Maryland officials had asked for an evaluation after learning in July about a transaction between a venture fund with Russian ties and a company involved
  
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• Mexico disputes US heroin production estimates

  29-11-2018 21:49
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico claims its opium poppy production is much lower than U.S. estimates, and says its army eradicated almost the entire crop.
  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration recently estimated Mexico now supplies 91 percent of heroin tested in the United States. Heroin is made by refining opium gum from poppy plants.
  In early November, the DEA estimated the size of Mexican poppy plantations rose 38 percent to 44,100 hectares in 2017.
  Mexico said Thursday there were only 30,6
  
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• Merkel’s plane makes emergency stop, tech issues reported

  29-11-2018 21:44
  BERLIN (AP) — A German news agency says a plane carrying German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Group of 20 meeting in Argentina has been forced to make an unscheduled landing after developing technical problems.
  The German news agency dpa reported Thursday that the government Airbus, which was en route to Buenos Aires, turned around over the Netherlands about an hour into the flight.
  It says the aircraft landed safely in Cologne in western Germany. It says a replacement German air force p
  
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• Former Planet Fitness manager alleges rape, harassment

  29-11-2018 21:43
  BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A former manager at New Hampshire-based Planet Fitness has sued the company, saying she was subjected to a male-dominated, “debaucherous” environment that included sexual harassment and rape.
  Casey Willard said senior management at the Hampton headquarters organized “Fireball Friday” and other drinking activities, making staff drink at work.
  Willard also claims in her lawsuit filed in September that she was drugged and raped on a business trip
  
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• Hunter saves eight-point buck stuck on icy lake

  29-11-2018 21:41
  HAWLEY, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania hunter saved an eight-point buck that had been struggling to stand upright on a frozen lake.
  Rescuer Josh Davis tells WNEP-TV there’s a big difference between hunting an animal humanely and leaving one to suffer and die on the ice.
  It’s not clear how long the buck had been stuck in the middle of Greeley Lake in the Poconos when Davis spotted it Saturday.
  A video of the rescue shows Davis heading across the ice in a small boat, attached to a rop
  
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• German news agency: Plane carrying Chancellor Merkel to G-20 summit in Argentina makes an unscheduled landing

  29-11-2018 21:38
  BERLIN (AP) — German news agency: Plane carrying Chancellor Merkel to G-20 summit in Argentina makes an unscheduled landing.
  The post German news agency: Plane carrying Chancellor Merkel to G-20 summit in Argentina makes an unscheduled landing appeared first on KVOA.com.
  
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• 1st new concourse opening at LaGuardia Airport

  29-11-2018 21:38
  NEW YORK (AP) — A new concourse with 18 gates is opening this weekend at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, part of a broader plan to modernize the dilapidated and oft-mocked facility.
  The new gates come with additional dining and shopping options for passengers using LaGuardia. They are part of a broader $8 billion overhaul at the dilapidated facility that will add 72 new gates in six concourses, as well as two new arrival and departure halls.
  Other planned improvements include rail
  
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• Group files rights suit over Airbnb’s Israel settlement ban

  29-11-2018 21:34
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A group of Americans has filed a civil rights suit in a U.S. federal court against vacation rental company Airbnb over its decision to ban listings from West Bank settlements.
  The plaintiffs said in a statement Wednesday that Airbnb is discriminating against Jewish West Bank homeowners and doesn’t maintain a similar policy in other disputed territories around the globe.
  Airbnb announced last week it would delist around 200 properties and cease operations in Israeli W
  
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• Trump’s new NAFTA faces skeptics in now- Democrat-led House

  29-11-2018 21:24
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump spent more than a year browbeating the leaders of Canada and Mexico into agreeing to a rewrite of North American trade rules. And on Friday, leaders of those two nations are set to sign the pact at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  Now, Trump faces what could prove a more formidable foe: His own Congress.
  Emboldened by their takeover of the House starting next year, many Democrats say they want the new agreement to strengthen its pr
  
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• Witness contradicts police account of shooting of black teen

  29-11-2018 21:22
  CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man who witnessed the 2014 fatal police shooting of black teen Laquan McDonald gave a version of events that contradicts what three officers wrote in their reports.
  Jose Torres testified Thursday in the three officers’ trial . They’re charged with lying to protect white Officer Jason Van Dyke.
  McDonald was carrying a small knife when police encountered him. The officers wrote in their reports that McDonald lunged at Van Dyke with the knife.
  Torres says
  
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• Detroit Council President Brenda Jones sworn into Congress

  29-11-2018 21:22
  DETROIT (AP) — Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones has been sworn in to fill Michigan’s 13th District House seat, but will only serve in Congress for a few weeks.
  Jones was given the oath of office Thursday after leaders in the House reached a deal on seating her while she keeps her job in Detroit. Jones will not take a city salary or conduct Detroit city business while a member of Congress.
  Jones won a special election in August to finish former Rep. John Conyers’ term
  
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• FBI: Man confessed to 90 killings in effort to move prisons

  29-11-2018 21:21
  DALLAS (AP) — The FBI says a 78-year-old inmate who says he killed more than 90 people as he moved around the country for nearly four decades offered his confessions as a bargaining chip to be moved from a California prison.
  The agency said in a statement Tuesday that Samuel Little offered the deal in exchange for being moved from California State Prison in Los Angeles County, but it didn’t say why he requested the transfer, where he asked to go or whether his offer was accepted.
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• University of Michigan to livestream Auschwitz music concert

  29-11-2018 21:11
  ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan plans to livestream the performance of a musical arrangement not heard in concert since prisoners performed it at Auschwitz during World War II.
  University officials said numerous livestream requests came from around the world after The Associated Press published a story Monday about the discovery of the manuscript for “The Most Beautiful Time of Life.”
  The piece was arranged by three prisoners and discovered by music theory pr
  
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• Man sentenced in 2016 fatal bicycle collision

  29-11-2018 21:08
  TUCSON – A man in connection to a 2016 fatal bicycle incident on the south side that resulted in the death of Scott Koch was sentenced to eight years in prison and 13 years of probation.
  Police say Eric Corral struck and killed Koch while he was riding his bike across a crosswalk on Valencia Road near Nexus.
  Authorities said he had a walk signal. He reportedly was launched in the air by the side, passenger windshield of the vehicle. Koch was pronounced deceased shortly after bein
  
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