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• Bad Bunny surprises fans for Xmas with first album

  24-12-2018 23:44
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Bad Bunny has a very special Christmas present for his fans: his first album with 13 new songs, including his new single “Solo De Mi.”
  The album, released Monday, is titled “X 100PRE.”
  This year Bad Bunny dominated the Latin music charts with hits like “MIA” with Drake, “El Baño” with Enrique Iglesias, “Amorfoda” and“I Like It”, a song recorded with Cardi B and J Balvin that’s nominated
  
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• Congo archbishop urges peace at Christmas Eve midnight mass

  24-12-2018 23:27
  KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An appeal for peace during Congo’s tense, volatile election period was issued at a Christmas Eve midnight mass in Kinshasa.
  The newly appointed Archbishop Fridolin Ambongo called on President Joseph Kabila’s government to hold the elections on Dec. 30, as announced last week.
  Cheers greeted his homily at the Notre Dame Cathedral of Kinshasa.
  “In this critical period in the history of our country, I invite each of you to have a sense of responsibilit
  
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• An icon of Christmas cheer went dark, some parks close

  24-12-2018 23:24
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Christmas with a partial government shutdown is having a limited but noticeable impact.
  In Washington, the site of the national Christmas tree was locked off and the lights went out on the weekend, until they were restored as darkness fell on Christmas Eve. Across the country, some national parks are shut while others remain accessible with limited or no facilities.
  Monday and Tuesday are federal holidays. After that, the effects of the shutdown are bound to be more dee
  
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• Seahawks sign coach Pete Carroll to extension through 2021

  24-12-2018 23:18
  RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is sticking around through the 2021 season after signing a three-year contract extension.
  Carroll was first approached about an extension last week and finished the deal Monday. The contract will take Carroll through his 70th birthday in September 2021.
  Carroll is in his ninth season as Seattle’s coach and clinched his seventh playoff berth with Sunday’s victory over Kansas City. He is 97-59-1 overall in his tenure and le
  
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• Jones-Gustafsson UFC fight moved from Las Vegas to LA area

  24-12-2018 23:18
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A UFC rematch this weekend between Alex Gustafsson and former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones is being moved from Las Vegas to Southern California.
  The UFC said Monday its UFC 232 that had been set for Saturday at T-Mobile Arena will be held at The Forum in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood.
  Nevada fight regulators allowed Jones to withdraw his application for a Nevada fight license after the State Athletic Commission sought to postpone the fight until after a J
  
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• Russian envoy: Bad relations with US unlikely to improve

  24-12-2018 23:14
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s U.N. ambassador says relations between Moscow and Washington are “practically non-existent,” which he says is bad not only for both countries but for the world. And he sees little prospect for improvement anytime soon.
  Vassily Nebenzia said in a recent wide-ranging interview with several journalists that the Trump administration should offer some incentives to North Korea to move forward toward denuclearization, saying the situation “i
  
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• Dog beaten, shot then left in trash in Arkansas

  24-12-2018 22:58
  BAUXITE, Ark. (KARK) – Rescuers are calling it a miracle after a dog was severely beaten then shot and left for dead in a trash bin.
  Trash collectors with Roberts Trash Service found the dog outside a home off Gail Drive Friday. Crews opened the bin before emptying and found the dog alive and buried under bags of trash.
  Rescuers say the young dog had been shot three times.
  “It had a bullet in its head, it’s eye was about to pop out of its socket,” said April Roberts, who
  
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• Dog beaten, shot then left in trash in Arkansa

  24-12-2018 22:58
  BAUXITE, Ark. (KARK) – Rescuers are calling it a miracle after a dog was severely beaten then shot and left for dead in a trash bin.
  Trash collectors with Roberts Trash Service found the dog outside a home off Gail Drive Friday. Crews opened the bin before emptying and found the dog alive and buried under bags of trash.
  Rescuers say the young dog had been shot three times.
  “It had a bullet in its head, it’s eye was about to pop out of its socket,” said April Roberts, who
  
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• Aerial surveys reveal swaths of dead trees in Southwest US

  24-12-2018 22:57
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Forested land in Arizona and New Mexico is showing the effects of drought after an unusually dry winter opened the door to pests like bark beetles, resulting in a die-off on hundreds of thousands of acres in both states.
  Aerial surveys indicate Arizona has experienced the largest uptick in tree mortality since the early 2000s. New Mexico saw a similar pattern.
  The surveys done earlier this year don’t account for an expected loss of pinon trees.
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• Clemson DT Lawrence, 2 others, face ban for failed PED test

  24-12-2018 22:46
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney says star defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence and two other players failed NCAA tests for performance enhancing drugs and might not play in the Cotton Bowl against No. 3 Notre Dame.
  Swinney said at a news conference Monday at AT&T Stadium that the NCAA informed Clemson trace amounts of ostarine were found in samples given by Lawrence, reserve offensive tackle Zach Giella and freshman tight end Braden Galloway. Ostarine, also known as enob
  
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• Taylor Swift concert intruder arrested for San Diego killing

  24-12-2018 22:41
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A man who jumped onstage at a 2015 Taylor Swift concert in California has been arrested on suspicion of beating a man to death in San Diego.
  Police say 29-year-old Christian Ewing was arrested for a parole violation a few days ago and re-arrested Monday on suspicion of murder. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.
  Authorities say Ewing attacked 57-year-old Gregory Freeman on Dec. 5 in the Midway area and beat him with an object. Freeman died three days later.
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• Delta flight makes emergency stopover on Alaska island

  24-12-2018 22:32
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Delta Air Lines flight had to make an emergency landing on a remote island in Alaska’s Aleutians chain and another aircraft was being sent to pick up the passengers.
  Citing a statement by Delta, the Anchorage Daily News reports the flight from Beijing to Seattle with 194 passengers landed Monday at a military base on Shemya Island because of a potential engine issue.
  Delta spokesman Drake Castaneda said in an email that another aircraft was en route from Se
  
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• TUSD, county files $8M lawsuit against state

  24-12-2018 22:24
  TUCSON – Tucson Unified School District and Pima County has filed a lawsuit against the State of Arizona accusing that the Arizona Department of Revenue withheld more than $8 million in state aid to the local district.
  A new law that was passed by the legislature this year reallocates $8 million of TUSD funds from a secondary property tax paid by TUSD homeowners. This funding was previously paid by the state.
  The county and school district said under the current phrasing of the law, t
  
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• Seahawks back in playoffs, Carroll gets contract extension

  24-12-2018 22:24
  RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Doug Baldwin is one of the few still on the Seattle Seahawks roster who has hung around long enough to give an accurate and comprehensive read on coach Pete Carroll — who received a three-year contract extension Monday.
  After being with Carroll for eight of his nine seasons in Seattle, Baldwin said the coaching job done this season may be Carroll’s best, taking a team few expected to be contender and leading them to the postseason for the seventh time in hi
  
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• Buckeyes’ Meyer to teach, be assistant AD after he retires

  24-12-2018 22:24
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State coach Urban Meyer will teach a class in the university’s business school and become an assistant athletic director after he retires following the Rose Bowl.
  Meyer will co-teach “Leadership and Character” during the spring semester and be available to up to 198 students.Meyer’s teaching partner will be Army Lt. Col. Charles Buchanan, a senior lecturer at the business school who spent 15 years serving tours in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kos
  
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• The Latest: Pope: Choose simplicity over Christmas greed

  24-12-2018 22:15
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on Christmas Eve observances at the Vatican (all times local):
  10:05 p.m.
  Pope Francis is urging Christians to forgo the greed, hoarding and materialism of Christmas and to focus instead on its message of simplicity, charity and love.
  Francis celebrated a Christmas Eve Mass on Monday night in St. Peter’s Basilica, opening a busy week for the pope that includes a Christmas Day message and blessing, a Dec. 26 prayer, New Year’s Eve vespers and a Jan
  
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• Facebook suspends accounts over Alabama Senate race tactics

  24-12-2018 22:14
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facebook has suspended five accounts for misleading tactics during last year’s U.S. Senate race in Alabama.
  A statement from Facebook says the company “recently removed five accounts run by multiple individuals for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook around the Alabama special election.” Facebook says the investigation is ongoing.
  The Washington Post and New York Times have reported that a social media researcher acknowledged t
  
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• Winter Weather Advisory issued December 24 at 2:11PM MST expiring December 26 at 5:00PM MST by NWS Tucson AZ

  24-12-2018 22:11
  * WHAT…Snow expected. Plan on slippery road conditions. Totalsnow accumulations of 4 to 8 inches, with localized amounts upto 10 inches at highest elevations.
  * WHERE…White Mountains of Graham and Greenlee Counties,Galiuro and Pinaleno Mountains, Chiricahua Mountains, Dragoonand Mule and Huachuca and Santa Rita Mountains and Catalinaand Rincon Mountains.
  * WHEN…5 PM Tuesday to 5 PM Wednesday.
  * ADDITIONAL DETAILS…Look for reduced visibilities at times.A Winter Weather
  
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• Europe Ryder Cup captain fulfils promise of victory tattoo

  24-12-2018 22:06
  LONDON (AP) — Europe captain Thomas Bjorn has lived up to his promise to tattoo their winning Ryder Cup score on his bottom.
  Bjorn made the promise at a news conference before the event in September in France, where Europe was the underdog against the United States.
  Video first posted on the Twitter page of Ryder Cup Europe on Monday showed him going into a tattoo parlor in London and grimacing while Europe’s winning score — 17 1/2 to 10 1/2 separated by the outline of the Ryde
  
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• Titans’ Pro Bowl lineman Jurrell Casey placed on IR

  24-12-2018 22:04
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have placed four-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Jurrell Casey on injured reserve, their second defensive starter lost for the season in as many weeks.
  The Titans made the move Monday.
  They also signed quarterback Austin Davis with Marcus Mariota recovering from his second stinger this season affecting his throwing arm. Davis spent two weeks on the Titans’ active roster earlier this season.
  Casey, who has seven sacks, was on the injury repo
  
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• Heidi Klum gets engaged to musician Tom Kaulitz

  24-12-2018 22:01
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Supermodel Heidi Klum is engaged to her musician boyfriend.
  The 45-year-old German model announced her engagement to Tokio Hotel guitarist Tom Kaulitz in an Instagram post on Monday.
  She has been dating the 29-year-old Kaulitz for nearly a year.
  The post featured a black-and-white photo of the couple, with Klum showing her diamond ring and writing, “I SAID YES.”
  She went public in May about her relationship with Kaulitz.
  Klum, a judge on “America’
  
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• Hundreds of surfers in Santa suits ride waves in Florida

  24-12-2018 22:00
  COCOA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The waves of red in the waters off Florida’s Space Coast weren’t the dreaded red tide algae but rather hundreds of surfers dressed as Jolly Old St. Nick.
  Hundreds of surfers in Santa suits jumped on their boards off the beach in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on Monday in what has become an annual tradition.
  Thousands of spectators cheered them on as part of a fundraiser for the Florida Surf Museum and also a charity for cancer patients.
  Organizers say about $40
  
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• Adoptable Pet: Jaime Needs a Home

  24-12-2018 22:00
  “I am a sweet, mellow 10-year-old girl who is already house and crate trained.”
  -Jamie
  Meet Jamie at HSSA Main Campus at 635 W. Roger Rd., or give an adoptions counselor a call at 520-327-6088, ext.…
  
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• Border volunteer faces Jan. 14 trial in harboring case

  24-12-2018 21:42
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A volunteer for a group that tries to prevent immigrants from dying in the Arizona desert is scheduled for a Jan. 14 trial on charges that he illegally harbored people in the United States.
  Scott Daniel Warren was arrested in January after federal agents conducted surveillance on a building in Aja where two immigrants were given food, water, beds and clean clothes.
  He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
  He’s a volunteer with the immigrant assistance group No M
  
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• Phoenix police say 24-year-old motorcyclist killed in crash

  24-12-2018 21:38
  PHOENIX (AP) — Police say a 24-year-old man has been killed in a motorcycle accident.
  Phoenix officers say Keon Weatherspoon was riding his motorcycle northbound on 7th Avenue at Roosevelt Street about 7:30 p.m. Sunday when it collided with a southbound sedan driven by a 62-year-old woman who was turning left into a private driveway.
  Weatherspoon was taken to a hospital, where he died.
  The accident remains under investigation.
  Police on Monday did not release the woman driver’s name
  
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• Small plane crashes on Miami Beach; 4 injured

  24-12-2018 21:28
  MIAMI (AP) — Florida officials say a small plane crashed on Miami Beach, injuring four people.
  The crash happened just after 2 p.m. Monday on Haulover Beach.
  Local 10 News broadcast photos and video of the plane upside down on the sand near a lifeguard stand.
  Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials say the four people aboard suffered minor injuries.
  The crash is under investigation.
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• Maine congressman ends legal challenge to opponent’s victory

  24-12-2018 21:19
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — New England’s last remaining Republican congressman is ending his legal battle against the election of a Democratic opponent under Maine’s new voting system.
  U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin said Monday he still considers the new system “confusing and unfair.”
  Poliquin had claimed he should be the winner because he had the most first-place votes on Election Day. But Democrat Jared Golden won the race once votes from two trailing independents were real
  
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• Judge: Honduran mother can’t be deported without daughter

  24-12-2018 21:05
  HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has ordered the U.S. government not to deport a Honduran woman without her 15-year-old daughter.
  The two have been detained together for six months and fear being attacked if forced to return home.
  U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss issued the order Monday.
  The mother and daughter are detained together in Dilley, Texas. While the teenager has a case for asylum pending, an immigration judge on Friday denied the mother’s request to reopen her immigration case.
  The
  
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• Report: High-ranking Iranian cleric dies at 70

  24-12-2018 20:56
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state TV is reporting that Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, head of the Expediency Council advisory body to the country’s Supreme Leader, has died at the age of 70.
  The Monday report said Shahroudi was long sick and hospitalized in north Tehran. Reportedly, he was suffering from gastrointestinal cancer.
  Shahroudi, a relatively moderate cleric, was appointed as chairman of the Expediency Council in 2017 by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
  The
  
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• Athletics bring back righty starter Fiers on 2-year deal

  24-12-2018 20:49
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Free agent right-hander Mike Fiers has agreed to a two-year contract to stay with the Oakland Athletics, who were determined to find an experienced starter this offseason to help lead a young rotation.
  And Oakland would like to add another starter, too, realizing it must provide depth given all the injuries last season. Ace Sean Manaea is recovering from shoulder surgery and not expected back until at least the All-Star break. The A’s announced Fiers’ dea
  
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• The Latest: 29 killed in attack in Afghanistan’s Kabul

  24-12-2018 20:30
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Latest on the attack in Kabul (all times local):
  11:55 p.m.
  Interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish says a brazen hours-long coordinated assault on a government building in the Afghan Capital of Kabul Monday has killed 29 people, most of them were employees of the department for martyrs and disabled persons. Another 23 people were wounded, including three policemen, he added.
  The assault began with a suicide bomber who blew up his explosives-laden car in fron
  
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• US judge orders North Korea to pay $500M in student’s death

  24-12-2018 20:22
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ordered North Korea to pay more than $500 million in a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died shortly after being released from that country.
  U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington ordered the payment on Monday.
  Warmbier was a University of Virginia student who was visiting North Korea with a tour group when he was arrested and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in March 2016 on suspicio
  
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• Madoff’s former secretary seeks early release from prison

  24-12-2018 20:20
  NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for the former secretary for imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff is asking that she be released from prison in March.
  Attorney Roland Riopelle says 70-year-old Annette Bongiorno will have served two thirds of her six-year prison term by March 19 and should be released then.
  He cited a law signed by President Donald Trump last week permitting judges to order some prisoners released to home confinement after serving two-thirds of a sentence.
  He says her advanced age
  
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• Baltimore gun buyback event yields a rocket launcher

  24-12-2018 20:19
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police say a rocket launcher was among the more than 1,000 firearms turned in during recent gun buyback events.
  The rocket launcher was traded for $500, and police have reached out to the military and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to trace its origin. Police spokesman Detective Jeremy Silbert says the unloaded rocket launcher was turned in Monday, Dec. 17.
  News outlets report interim commissioner Gary Tuggle said Friday that the city had
  
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• Swearinger tells DC radio station he’s been released

  24-12-2018 20:09
  Safety D.J. Swearinger told a radio station in Washington D.C. on Monday that the he’s been released by the Redskins with one game remaining in the regular season.
  Swearinger said on 106.7 The Fan that Redskins coach Jay Gruden did not give him an explanation for the move.
  “I don’t regret nothing, because I know I gave 100 percent effort from my heart,” Swearinger said.
  The Redskins have not yet made an official roster move.
  Swearinger has been critical of the team, which
  
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• Swearinger released by Redskins, gets no explanation why

  24-12-2018 20:09
  The Washington Redskins released safety D.J. Swearinger on Monday.
  Swearinger early in the day told a radio station in Washington D.C. he’d been cut with one game remaining in the regular season. He said on 106.7 The Fan that Redskins coach Jay Gruden did not give him an explanation for the move.
  “I don’t regret nothing, because I know I gave 100 percent effort from my heart,” Swearinger said.
  The Redskins later Monday sent out a release with the transaction.
  Swearinger h
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump revisits old fictions about Iran money

  24-12-2018 20:07
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump recycles fictions about Iran deal

  24-12-2018 20:07
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• Wrestler’s attorney suggests haircut due to ref’s tardiness

  24-12-2018 20:05
  BUENA, N.J. (AP) — A lawyer for a high school wrestler whose dreadlocks were cut off minutes before his match after a referee told him to lose the hairstyle or forfeit his bout is suggesting the impromptu hair cut was due in part to the referee’s tardiness.
  Andrew Johnson, who is black, had a cover over his hair, but referee Alan Maloney , who is white, said that wouldn’t do. Johnson won Wednesday’s match but appeared visibly distraught. The Press of Atlantic City reports
  
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• Spacey posts bizarre video as assault charge is announced

  24-12-2018 20:01
  BOSTON (AP) — Kevin Spacey has posted a video online in character as his “House of Cards” role in which he says “I’m not going to pay the price for things I didn’t do.”
  The actor made the bizarre post Monday to YouTube and tweeted it shortly after a Massachusetts prosecutor announced he would face a charge in an alleged sexual assault in 2016.
  It is unclear if Spacey is referring to the charge he faces in the three-minute monologue delivered in the voice
  
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• Kevin Spacey faces charge in sexual assault of teenager

  24-12-2018 20:01
  BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts prosecutor says Kevin Spacey is scheduled to be arraigned next month on a charge of indecent assault and battery on allegations he sexually assaulted the teenage son of a Boston television anchor in a Nantucket restaurant.
  Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe tells The Boston Globe that Spacey is due in Nantucket District Court on Jan. 7.
  O’Keefe says a criminal complaint was issued by a clerk magistrate during a public show-cause hea
  
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• James sorry for posting rapper’s ‘Jewish money’ lyric

  24-12-2018 19:46
  LeBron James is sorry for posting a lyric that referenced “Jewish money.” The Los Angeles Lakers star says he simply got caught up in the music, thought the lyric was a “compliment” and offers “apologies, for sure.”
  The lyric comes from the song “ASMR” by rapper 21 Savage. James shared it over the weekend on his Instagram account, which has nearly 46 million followers.
  The lyric says, “We been getting that Jewish money, Everything is Kosher.&
  
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• All parishioners want for Christmas is reopening of church

  24-12-2018 19:41
  HOUSTON (AP) — After their parish was closed two years ago, members of St. Stephen Catholic Church in Houston worked tirelessly to overturn the decision.
  They took their case to Rome and the Vatican’s highest court, which in April ruled in their favor. Legal experts say such a reversal by the Vatican is rare.
  But the wish of parishioners to reopen their church in time for Christmas celebrations won’t be granted as the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston has said nothing will happe
  
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• Official says brazen hours-long attack on government building in Afghan capital leaves 25 dead and 20 more wounded

  24-12-2018 19:32
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Official says brazen hours-long attack on government building in Afghan capital leaves 25 dead and 20 more wounded.
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• Confusing signals from Washington send markets plunging

  24-12-2018 19:22
  New York (CNN Business) – Alarmed investors sent the Dow plunging more than 650 points in a shortened Christmas Eve trading session on Monday. Markets plunged after the Trump administration sent out confusing signals about markets and the economy.
  The S&P 500 fell 2.7% and the Nasdaq was off 2.2%.
  Stocks initially fell on Monday following a statement from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that he had checked on the health of the country’s largest banks.
  The market recovered late
  
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• Markets Right Now: Stocks close sharply lower on Wall Street

  24-12-2018 19:18
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  1:05 p.m.
  Stocks plunged Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 653 points following President Trump’s tweet attacking the Federal Reserve and its independence.
  The Dow Jones lost 2.9 percent and the benchmark S&P500 lost 2.7 percent after the president’s tweet expressing frustration over the Fed’s decision to raise its key short-term rate.
  The Nasdaq fell 2.2 percent. Bo
  
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• Ex-Disney actor charged with 6 counts in underage sex case

  24-12-2018 19:10
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Disney Channel actor Stoney Westmoreland has been charged with six felony counts after authorities said he tried to have sex with a 13-year-old boy.
  Prosecutors say the 48-year-old Westmoreland was on the dating app Grindr when he found a profile operated by a police detective in Salt Lake City, near the location of the show “Andi Mack.”
  A message left with Westmoreland’s agent, Mitchell Stubbs, was not immediately returned.
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• UConn still No. 1 in AP women’s poll after passing tests

  24-12-2018 19:02
  NEW YORK (AP) — After a week off for exams, UConn faced two stiff tests on the court and passed both of them.
  The top-ranked Huskies rallied to beat Oklahoma and topped No. 14 California to remain unbeaten this season. UConn won both games by fewer than 10 points — the first time in 10 years the team had back-to-back victories by fewer than 10.
  UConn was followed in the AP Top 25 on Monday by Notre Dame, Louisville, Maryland and Oregon. The Ducks knocked off previously undefeated Mis
  
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• AP POLL ALERT: UConn still No. 1 in women’s AP Top 25 after passing tough tests against Oklahoma, Cal

  24-12-2018 19:01
  NEW YORK (AP) — AP POLL ALERT: UConn still No. 1 in women’s AP Top 25 after passing tough tests against Oklahoma, Cal.
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• Another dreadful day: Stocks close sharply lower after Trump again attacks Federal Reserve and its independence

  24-12-2018 19:00
  NEW YORK (AP) — Another dreadful day: Stocks close sharply lower after Trump again attacks Federal Reserve and its independence.
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