| Trump says Kellyanne 'must have done some bad things' to George Conway Posted: 22 Nov 2019 07:00 AM PST  Kellyanne Conway, special counselor to President Trump, is known to berate journalists who speculate about her marriage to George Conway, a prominent Trump critic. In an interview with "Fox & Friends" on Friday, the president did just that.
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| Jerry Sandusky resentenced to 30 to 60 years, same as before Posted: 22 Nov 2019 03:22 AM PST  A judge dashed the hopes of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky for a shorter prison term Friday, resentencing him to the same 30 to 60 years imposed against him in 2012 for sexually abusing children. Judge Maureen Skerda gave Sandusky what prosecutors and his own attorney described as effectively a life term during a hearing ordered this year by an appeals court. Sandusky's 2011 arrest prompted the firing of Hall of Fame head coach Joe Paterno and the university has paid more than $100 million to people who said they had been abused by Sandusky.
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| What's a 'ghost gun'? Untraceable, DIY firearm used in California high school shooting Posted: 22 Nov 2019 01:17 PM PST  An untraceable kit gun was used in the Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, California, officials say.
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| This Is How U.S. Navy SEALs Would Go To War Against Iran Posted: 23 Nov 2019 05:30 AM PST  It would not be an easy fight.
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| Judge orders father of supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid to pull down $100 million Bel Air mega-mansion Posted: 23 Nov 2019 12:37 PM PST  The property tycoon father of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid has been ordered by a judge to demolish his half-built $100 million Bel Air mega-mansion, which has been dubbed the "Starship Enterprise". Mohamed Hadid has been involved in a long legal battle over the palatial 30,000 sq ft residence after neighbours complained about its size. A judge in Los Angeles Superior Court decided it was a "clear and present danger" to other properties in the area. The ruling came after a structural engineer said supporting piles were not driven far enough into the ground underneath the hillside property. The judge said: "If this house came down the hill it would take a portion of the neighbourhood with it." Following the ruling Mr Hadid told TMZ the house "has not moved a millimetre! It has never been an imminent danger to the neighbours." The property developer is the father of supermodel Bella Hadid and her sister Gigi Credit: E-PRESS / BACKGRID UK He also said many city inspectors had monitored the construction process since it began in 2012, and concerns were not raised until years later. The court heard demolition would take six months and cost several million dollars. It was the latest development in a long saga over the project, which was to include an IMAX cinema. Mr Hadid, a property developer, hoped to ultimately sell the mansion for nine figures. In 2017 he told Town & Country Magazine: "Demolish this house? Never! This house will last forever. Bel Air will fall before this house will." The same year, he was sentenced to three years probation and 200 hours of community service after pleading no contest to three charges of violating building regulations. Several neighbours sued Mr Hadid claiming they lived in "constant fear" of the hillside collapsing, and that their "privacy and serenity was invaded by the illegal and unsightly structure looming above them." Mr Hadid responded that he was the victim of "witch hunt" and the neighbours' claims were "total nonsense."
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| Putin hands awards to widows of men killed in mysterious military test Posted: 22 Nov 2019 03:13 AM PST  Russian President Vladimir Putin has handed top state awards to the widows of five scientists killed in an accident while testing what he called an advanced weapons system without equal in the world. The five men died on Aug. 8 in what their employer, state nuclear agency Rosatom, said was an accident during a rocket test on a sea platform off northern Russia, an incident which caused radiation levels in the surrounding area to briefly spike. Thomas DiNanno, a senior U.S. State Department official, said last month that Washington had determined that the explosion was the result of a nuclear reaction which occurred during the recovery of a Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile after a failed test.
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| Otto Warmbier’s Parents Will Work to Have North Korean Assets Seized Posted: 22 Nov 2019 05:48 AM PST  The parents of former U.S. hostage Otto Warmbier, who died in 2017 after being released from North Korea in a coma, have announced they will attempt to seize North Korean business assets around the world to punish the country's government over its human-rights abuses.Otto Warmbier was convicted in a North Korean court after he tried to steal a propaganda poster from his hotel. He was released to the U.S. in a vegetative state a year later.Otto's parents have alleged he was tortured. North Korea has denied the allegations, asserting it was the "biggest victim" in Otto's death and, without evidence, attributing Warmbier's death to botulism."My mission would be to hold North Korea responsible, to recover and discover their assets around the world," Fred Warmbier said at a Friday press conference in Seoul, South Korea, according to the Associated Press. Fred and his wife Cindy had been invited to speak at a forum for a group representing South Korean families whose members were abducted by North Korea over the course of the 1950-53 Korean War."We feel that if you force North Korea to engage the world in a legal standpoint, then they will have to ultimately have a dialogue," he continued. "They are not going to come and have a dialogue with us any other way."The Warmbiers plan to pressure European governments to close hostels run by North Korea. They are already pursuing legal action against a hostel on the grounds of North Korea's embassy in Berlin."We cannot give up, we can't give them a pass. We have to fight with all of our power," Cindy Warmbier said at the conference.President Trump has repeatedly sought to negotiate the removal of nuclear weapons from North Korea, and became the first American president to meet with a North Korean leader during negotiations. Those negotiations are currently stalled.
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| Trump says Ukraine envoy Yovanovitch wouldn't hang his picture. Fact check: There was no official portrait for most of 2017. Posted: 22 Nov 2019 10:46 AM PST  "She is in charge of the embassy," the president said on "Fox & Friends" Friday morning. "She wouldn't hang it. It look a year and a half or two years to get the picture up."
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| Chinese spy defects to Australia with trove of intel: report Posted: 22 Nov 2019 09:18 PM PST  A Chinese spy has defected to Australia with a trove of intelligence on China's political interference operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and elsewhere, according to a media report Saturday. The Nine network newspapers said the defector, named as Wang "William" Liqiang, had given Australia's counter-espionage agency the identities of China's senior military intelligence officers in Hong Kong and provided details of how they funded and conducted operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia.
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| Iran Has A New Missile, Should Israel Be Worried? Posted: 23 Nov 2019 09:00 AM PST  Iran wants to give its regional allies precision-guided missiles.
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| Elizabeth Warren Needs Black Women To Vote For Her. Here's Her Plan to Win Their Support Posted: 22 Nov 2019 01:40 PM PST  Black women are powerful allies and equally powerful adversaries—and no Democratic candidate can win without their support.
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| Cuba acknowledges "vestiges" of racism, launches program to fight it Posted: 22 Nov 2019 04:26 PM PST ![Cuba acknowledges "vestiges" of racism, launches program to fight it]( "Cuba acknowledges \"vestiges\" of racism, launches program to fight it") Cuba's government has launched a program to combat racism, acknowledging that a problem that Fidel Castro tried to eliminate after the 1959 leftist revolution remains unresolved. The program aims to identify steps to fight discrimination, broaden education on Cuba's African legacy and start a public debate on racial issues, Culture Vice Minister Fernando Rojas told a cabinet meeting, according to state-run media on Friday. "Everyone recognizes our revolution has been the social and political process that has possibly done most to eliminate racial discrimination," state-run media quoted President Miguel Diaz-Canel as saying.
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| Many voters say they're OK with a gay president, but America isn't. I don't buy it. Posted: 23 Nov 2019 05:51 AM PST  It's an interesting if puzzling dichotomy: Some voters say they would not penalize Pete Buttigieg for being gay — but are fearful others would.
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| German soldier who posed as Syrian refugee to face new terror trial Posted: 23 Nov 2019 07:43 AM PST  A German soldier who lived a double life posing as a Syrian refugee is to face a new trial on charges of planning a far-Right terror attack. Lieutenant Franco Albrecht spent more than a year posing as a Christian refugee from Syria, and was given a place in a German government refugee shelter. Prosecutors allege he was planning to assassinate high-profile figures in a false flag terror attack and pin the blame on the fictitious Syrian. The original terror charges against Lt Albrecht were dismissed for lack of evidence in a court hearing last year, but Germany's highest criminal court this week upheld a prosecution appeal and ordered a new trial. Lt Albrecht's arrest in 2017 stunned Germany and made headlines around the world. As a high-flying cadet officer, he trained at France's prestigious St Cyr Military academy under an exchange programme and was entertained as a guest of the British army at Sandhurst. Lt Albrecht's defence lawyers say he masqueraded as a refugee in order to expose the shortcomings of the German asylum system and its failure properly to identify those entering the country. They deny that he was planning a terror attack Lt Albrecht was a guest at Sandhurst while he was training as part of an exchange programme at France's prestigious St Cyr military academy Credit: Private Germany's federal court of justice ruled this week that there is sufficient evidence to support the charge Lt Albrecht was planning to assassinate public figures and ordered that he must face it in court. But it ruled there was no evidence to support the charge that he was planning to pin the blame for an attack on Syrian refugees. Prosecutors allege that Lt Albrecht procured firearms and ammunition and prepared a list of possible assassinations targets including Heiko Maas, the foreign minister, former President Joachim Gauck and Anetta Kahane, a prominent human rights activist. They allege he scoped out a car park near the activist's office as a possible assassination site. Lawyers for Lt Albrecht deny the allegations and say he obtained weapons as a member of the "prepper" scene. They say the alleged "death list" is a list of people the soldier wished to contact to discuss the political situation, and that he only visited the car park in an attempt to meet Ms Kahane. Lawyers for the soldier have not commented on this week's decision by the appeals court. Lt Albrecht has been suspended from duty but remains an officer in the German army until the case is resolved. A date for a new trial has not yet been set.
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| Giuliani Says Biden Documents to Be Released ‘If I Disappear’ Posted: 23 Nov 2019 02:37 PM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Rudy Giuliani, a focus of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's foreign policy dealings in Ukraine, suggested on Twitter that he has dirt on the Biden family that would be released were he to get into trouble.Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, also described as "sarcastic" a statement he made recently about having "an insurance policy" should he fall out of favor with the president.That followed an interview with Fox News during which he was asked whether Trump might soon conclude that Giuliani is a liability, and throw him "under the bus.""This is ridiculous," Giuliani, 75, said. "We are very good friends. He knows what I did was in order to defend him, not to dig up dirt on Biden."Without offering proof, Giuliani tweeted that he had "files in my safe about the Biden Family's 4 decade monetizing" of the former vice president and senator's office. "If I disappear, it will immediately appear."Giuliani's tweet also referred to his "RICO chart." Mentioning the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the federal law aimed at prosecuting organized crime, may imply Giuliani still has information that's not been released publicly from his days as a U.S. Attorney.Also on Saturday Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, said on Twitter that "the Mafia couldn't kill me so NO, I am not worried about the swamp press."It was a busy day on social media for the former New York City mayor, who's said to be under investigation for possible campaign finance violations and a failure to register as a foreign agent. He said, again without elaborating, that he "plans to bring out a massive pay-for-play scheme under the Obama administration that will devastate the Democrat Party."During two weeks of impeachment hearings Giuliani was mentioned multiple times by State Department officials testifying on whether Trump improperly withheld military aid to Ukraine. Two of Giuliani's associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were charged in October in a campaign finance scheme.To contact the reporter on this story: Ros Krasny in Washington at rkrasny1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Matthew G. Miller at mmiller144@bloomberg.net, Ian Fisher, Virginia Van NattaFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| How the leader of a notorious Chicago street gang evolved into an ISIS supporter Posted: 22 Nov 2019 05:05 PM PST  The gang leader thought he had provided $500 in cash to man fighting for ISIS in Syria. In reality, it was an undercover FBI agent.
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| Internet outage forces Iranians to resort to old ways Posted: 23 Nov 2019 03:48 AM PST  The internet restrictions, for their part, apparently aimed to temper shows of dissent and anger over the move and stop footage of the unrest from being shared. Brigadier General Salar Abnoosh, a deputy head of the Basij volunteer militia, said Friday that the internet outage had helped to "disrupt the complicated" plans by Iran's enemies. On Saturday -- day seven of the internet restrictions and the start of the working week in Iran -- people in Tehran were trying to overcome problems brought on by the outage.
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| These 5 Weapons Show Us How The U.S. Marines Would Fight North Korea Posted: 23 Nov 2019 06:00 AM PST  Let's hope it never has to happen.
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| Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Grand Canyon transforms into winter wonderland Posted: 22 Nov 2019 07:15 AM PST  We may only be approaching Thanksgiving, but it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Grand Canyon.
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| Italian coast guard rescues 149 migrants from capsized boat Posted: 23 Nov 2019 10:30 AM PST ![Italian coast guard rescues 149 migrants from capsized boat]( "Italian coast guard rescues 149 migrants from capsized boat") A crowded boat filled with migrants capsized in wind-whipped seas near a tiny Mediterranean island Saturday, sending them tumbling into the water, said the Italian coast guard, which pulled 149 of them to safety. The coast guard said the rescue, before sunset, involving four of its motorboats and two of its specialized rescue divers, took place about 1 nautical mile from the beach of Isola di Conigli, an uninhabited islet a few dozen meters (yards) from Lampedusa, an Italian island south of Sicily. It said those rescued, who included three children and 13 women, were brought to the port of Lampedusa, a vacation and fishing island.
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| UPDATE 1-China attacks U.S. at G20 as the world's biggest source of instability Posted: 23 Nov 2019 04:18 AM PST ![UPDATE 1-China attacks U.S. at G20 as the world's biggest source of instability]( "UPDATE 1-China attacks U.S. at G20 as the world's biggest source of instability") The United States is the world's biggest source of instability and its politicians are going around the world baselessly smearing China, the Chinese government's top diplomat said on Saturday in a stinging attack at a G20 meeting in Japan. Relations between the world's two largest economies have nose-dived amid a bitter trade war - which they are trying to resolve - and arguments over human rights, Hong Kong and U.S. support for Chinese-claimed Taiwan. Meeting Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok on the sidelines of a G20 foreign ministers meeting in the Japanese city of Nagoya, Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi did not hold back in his criticism of the United States.
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| U.S. Indicts Chinese National Who Allegedly Stole Farming Software from Employer Posted: 22 Nov 2019 06:25 AM PST  The U.S. has charged a Chinese national with stealing trade secrets for China, the Department of Justice announced Friday.Haitao Xiang, 42, attempted to board a flight to China with proprietary farming software in 2017 before he was stopped by federal officials. Xiang was an employee of Monsanto, an American agricultural biotechnology company based in Missouri, from 2008 to 2017. Monsanto was acquired in 2018 by German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG."The indictment alleges another example of the Chinese government using Talent Plans to encourage employees to steal intellectual property from their U.S. employers," said Assistant Attorney General John Demers in a statement.China inaugurated its "Thousand Talents Plan" in 2008, ostensibly meant to recruit scientific researchers. U.S. officials have termed the Talent Plan a threat to national security due to China's use of the plans to steal intellectual property.Xiang was recruited to the plan later on."Xiang promoted himself to the Chinese government based on his experience at Monsanto," Demers said. "Within a year of being selected as a Talent Plan recruit, he quit his job, bought a one-way ticket to China, and was caught at the airport with a copy of the company's proprietary algorithm before he could spirit it away."Xiang has lived in the U.S. for 17 years and has a wife and daughter in the country.Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang denied that China uses talent plans to engage in theft of intellectual property."We resolutely oppose the U.S. using this single case as a pretext for saying China has groups that organize and plan steal intellectual property from the U.S.," Shuang said at a Friday press conference. "China's technological achievements did not come from theft,"
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| Trump says Hong Kong would be ‘obliterated in 14 minutes’ without him Posted: 22 Nov 2019 09:04 AM PST  President Trump said Friday he had saved Hong Kong from being destroyed by persuading Chinese President Xi Jinping to hold off on sending in troops to crush the pro-democracy movement there.
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| Top Dem says ethics investigation into Devin Nunes likely Posted: 23 Nov 2019 12:08 PM PST ![Top Dem says ethics investigation into Devin Nunes likely]( "Top Dem says ethics investigation into Devin Nunes likely") It follows a report that an associate of Rudy Giuliani has information on meetings the Republican allegedly had with the former Ukrainian prosecutor general.
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| Medicare for All's thorniest issue is how much to pay doctors and hospitals. Any new system could become a convoluted mess if it goes wrong. Posted: 23 Nov 2019 06:45 AM PST  Warren faces challenges in her plan to set payment rates for doctors and hospitals in line with Medicare without creating more losers than winners.
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| Through the wire -- Palestinians risk all to work in Israel Posted: 22 Nov 2019 04:42 PM PST  It is well before dawn when the first work deprived Palestinians arrive to sneak through a two-metre hole cut in the metal fence that is supposed to keep them out of Israel. The men are among the thousands of Palestinians working in Israel illegally, risking bad working conditions, exploitation and jail for a chance of employment. On the morning AFP visited, Yunis, from Dahariya in the southern West Bank, was one of hundreds running the gauntlet as police patrolled the area.
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| Walmart unveils memorial for El Paso mass shooting victims Posted: 23 Nov 2019 03:22 PM PST  The memorial to the El Paso shooting victims, called the "Grand Candela," was welcomed by the public at the Walmart on Saturday.
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| The Latest: Colombia president opens ‘national conversation’ Posted: 22 Nov 2019 03:25 PM PST  Colombian President Iván Duque says his government will open a "national conversation" aimed at reaching an agreement on reforms following massive demonstrations that have paralyzed much of the capital city. In a televised address Friday, Duque said the dialogue will include all social sectors and take place in cities around the country starting next week. The president also announced that he is boosting police and military patrols in focal points where there is continuing unrest.
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| 4 reasons Democrats have an uphill climb on Donald Trump impeachment and removal Posted: 22 Nov 2019 02:00 AM PST  If the ending of this movie is inevitable, the undecided public may move toward the Republican claim that the whole thing is a waste of time and money.
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| Haunting photos of the 'Forbidden City,' an abandoned military base that hasn't been used in 25 years Posted: 23 Nov 2019 05:51 AM PST  The "Forbidden City" was used as the Nazi command center during World War II and housed 40,000 Soviet soldiers during the Cold War.
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| Syria Kurds say repatriated US child, German and children Posted: 23 Nov 2019 07:25 AM PST  Syria's Kurds have handed over an American toddler and three German children and their mother to their respective governments, a Kurdish official and a Kurdish source said on Saturday. Abdelkarim Omar, a senior official with the Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria, said the handover went ahead on Friday. "An American child and three German children with their mother were handed over to their governments," he said in a statement on Twitter.
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| Colorado man faces new charges for plotting to bomb synagogue Posted: 22 Nov 2019 02:21 PM PST  An avowed white supremacist being held without bond for plotting to bomb a Colorado synagogue this month has been indicted on additional charges of attempted arson and using explosives to commit a felony, federal prosecutors said on Friday. The two additional charges against Richard Holzer, 27, on top of an earlier count of attempting to obstruct religious services by force, could send him to prison for 50 years, U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn said in a statement. Holzer was arrested on Nov. 4 after an undercover sting by FBI agents, who said he plotted to bomb the Temple Emanuel synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado.
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| World War III? In 1956, Russia Almost Fought Britain, France, and Israel With Nuclear Weapons Posted: 22 Nov 2019 05:16 AM PST  The Suez Canal Crisis was a dangerous gambit.
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| Teacher blames misunderstanding after her kidnapping arrest Posted: 22 Nov 2019 08:07 AM PST  A Utah elementary school teacher charged with felony kidnapping after leaving school property with a 6-year-old student said she was trying to help the upset girl get home. Prosecutors filed the case against Amy Martz this week, alleging she was gone with the child for 40 minutes in a neighborhood more than a half-mile from the school. Martz, 49, acknowledged Thursday that she left Fox Hollow Elementary with the girl on Sept. 4, but said it was because the child was "sobbing uncontrollably" and seemed to need help, the Deseret News reported.
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| Trump impeachment news: Watergate prosecutor says evidence to remove president at 'tipping point', as John Bolton posts cryptic attack on White House Posted: 22 Nov 2019 01:51 PM PST  Donald Trump gave a wild, 53-minute long interview with Fox and Friends on Friday morning, attacking the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry and spreading debunked conspiracy theories.A group of Senate Republicans met Thursday with White House officials to discuss how a potential trial on articles of impeachment of Mr Trump could happen. "Frankly, I want a trial," the president said during the interview.
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| Our 20 Favorite Car Toys for Kids Posted: 22 Nov 2019 12:34 PM PST |
