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Nov 17, 2018
Iran and Iraq could raise their annual bilateral trade to $20 billion from the current level of $12 billion, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday, despite concerns over the economic impact of renewed U.S. sanctions. Rouhani's remarks, made after a meeting with visiting Iraqi President Barham Salih, came about two weeks after the United States restored sanctions targeting Iran's key oil industry as well as its banking and transportation sectors. "... through bilateral efforts, we can raise this figure (for bilateral trade) to $20 billion in the near future," Rouhani said in comments broadcast live on Iranian state television.
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Nov 17, 2018
The Camp Fire, the most deadly and destructive wildfire in California history, has destroyed hundreds of homes, put hundreds of lives at risk and separated pets from their owners.
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Nov 17, 2018
In a speech to her supporters on Friday night, Democrat Stacey Abrams
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Nov 17, 2018
Who could have predicted an Avalon this turnt?
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Nov 17, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May battled Friday to salvage a draft Brexit deal and her own political future. The Conservative leader said she believed with "every fibre of my being" in the Brexit course she had set, 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 their approval, but she dismissed calls to quit, saying: "Am I going to see this through?
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Nov 17, 2018
The search for victims of a catastrophic blaze that reduced a northern California town to ashes intensified on Thursday as authorities posted an expanded list of nearly 300 people reported missing in the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. At least 56 people have been confirmed dead so far in the Camp Fire, which erupted a week ago in the drought-parched Sierra foothills 175 miles (280 km) north of San Francisco and now ranks as one of the most lethal single U.S. wildfires since the turn of the last century. Authorities attributed the high death toll in part to the staggering speed with which the wind-driven flames, fueled by desiccated scrub, raced through the town Paradise, a town of 27,000 residents.
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Nov 17, 2018
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 in the United States, but has been used in a number of local elections across the country in recent election cycles.
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Nov 17, 2018
NEW DELHI (AP) — Facebook says there was a steep rise in data requests from India's government in the first half of this year as compared to the previous two years.
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Nov 17, 2018
The "How do you microwave a turkey?" prank is breaking our mothers' hearts. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, young people are pranking their poor mothers by asking them for advice on one of the greatest sins against the holiday season: microwaved turkey. SEE ALSO: 7 videos of people setting their Thanksgiving turkeys on fire Microwaving a turkey, by the way, is totally possible — Mashable tested it, and made a surprisingly good Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago. But to many mothers, who wield family recipes like a sword, microwaving a turkey is an abomination to tradition. Which is why people are poking fun at their moms by asking. "That's all I ever wished for," one mother lamented over text. "A kid who is famous for cooking a rubbery salmonella-ridden carcass in an idiot microwave." I asked my mom how to cook a turkey in the microwave.. pic.twitter.com/s0XRuzbgmL — Dorothy Scales (@DorothyScales2) November 15, 2018 Another was more blunt: "Don't ever get married." I asked my mom how to microwave a 25 pound turkey & here's her unhelpful response pic.twitter.com/kcVYzlTqg6 — Sarah Bifano (@sarahbifano) November 16, 2018 When one person told their mother that they were assigned the turkey for their neighborhood friendsgiving, their mother did not hold back. "U should be in charge of napkins or something," the mom ranted. "Clearly
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Nov 17, 2018
Key House Democrats have indicated that come January, they will investigate alleged voter suppression in the 2018 midterm elections.
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Nov 17, 2018
A tweet over Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's choice of clothing has sparked a backlash after a journalist suggested she was a woman who "struggles" with money. The tweet from Eddie Scarry of the Washington Times came after it was revealed Ms Ocasio-Cortez could not afford to rent a flat in Washington before her Congressional salary kicks in in January. The picture, taken of Ms Ocasio-Cortez from behind said:: "Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now.
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Nov 17, 2018
Model and actress Kim Porter was found dead Thursday at her L.A. area home.
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Nov 17, 2018
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. "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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Nov 17, 2018
WASHINGTON ? Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) is all but announcing her intention to
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Nov 17, 2018
Melania Trump acknowledged the irony that she is advocating against bullying
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Nov 17, 2018
It's October, and my eighth-grader is late getting home from school. "Where
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Nov 17, 2018
WASHINGTON ? Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insists she's still on track to be the
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Nov 17, 2018
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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Nov 17, 2018
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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Nov 17, 2018
The family of an Indonesian man killed in a Lion Air jet crash is suing Boeing, alleging that the accident may have been caused by a problem with the flight-control system in its newest 737 plane. The father of Rio Nanda Pratama filed the lawsuit Wednesday in the US state of Illinois, where the plane manufacturer is headquartered, over the death of the young doctor who was to have married his high-school sweetheart this week. Pratama's fiance Intan Syari, 26, has made headlines after she posed alone for photos in a wedding gown that she was to have worn at the couple's nuptials in Indonesia.
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Nov 17, 2018
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) appeared to endorse voter suppression during a
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Nov 17, 2018
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) mustered a lukewarm response when asked about
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Nov 17, 2018
The FBI and authorities in Aruba are investigating whether the tragic death of
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Nov 17, 2018
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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Nov 17, 2018
Beijing provided the Trump administration with its document earlier this week, responding to a months-long request from U.S. officials for commitments that would jumpstart trade talks, Reuters reported on Wednesday. It was a good sign that Beijing had put something in writing after months of declining to do so, the official said, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity. The Chinese document included 142 items divided into three categories: issues the Chinese are willing to negotiate for further action, issues they are already working on and issues they consider off limits, the official said.
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Nov 17, 2018
BILLINGS, Montana (AP) — Creating fire buffers between housing and dry brush, burying spark-prone power lines and lighting more controlled burns to keep vegetation in check could give people a better chance of surviving wildfires, according to experts searching for ways to reduce growing death tolls from blazes in California and across the U.S. West.
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Nov 17, 2018
In an effort to muffle criticism of how it handled Russian interference and
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Nov 17, 2018
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday made light of his penchant for daytime dozes after his office said "power naps" had caused the gruff leader to miss a number of key meetings at a Singapore summit. Duterte is attending the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting alongside a string of world leaders including Russia's Vladimir Putin, Japan's Shinzo Abe, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and US Vice-President Mike Pence.
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Nov 17, 2018
The death toll in Northern California's Camp fire rose once again on Thursday
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Nov 17, 2018
Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
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Nov 17, 2018
A search for victims of a catastrophic blaze that reduced a northern California town to ashes intensified on Thursday, as authorities expanded to 630 the number of those reported missing in the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history. At least 63 people have been confirmed dead in the Camp Fire, which erupted a week ago in the drought-parched Sierra foothills 175 miles north of San Francisco and now ranks as one of the most lethal single US wildfires since the turn of the last century. Authorities attributed the high death toll in part to the staggering speed with which the wind-driven flames, fueled by desiccated scrub and trees, raced with little warning through Paradise, a town of 27,000. Nearly 12,000 homes and buildings, including most of the town, were incinerated last Thursday night hours after the blaze erupted, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has said. A property reduced to ashes is seen in Paradise, California Credit: AFP What was left was a ghostly, smoky expanse of empty lots covered in ash and strewn with twisted wreckage and debris. Thousands of additional structures were still threatened by the blaze, and as many as 50,000 people were under evacuation orders at the height of the blaze. An army of firefighters, many from distant states, labored to contain and suppress the flames. The revised official roster of 630 individuals whose whereabouts and fate remained unknown is more than double the
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Nov 17, 2018
The incident happened last June when the two Navy SEALs and two special ops Marines were stationed in Mali. ABC News' Brad Mielke reports.
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Nov 17, 2018
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Nov 17, 2018
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Nov 17, 2018
CINCINNATI (AP) — Two women who are the mothers of two suspects in the massacre of a family, and the grandmothers of the other two, pleaded not guilty Thursday to misleading investigators of the crime, which went without any arrests for more than two years.
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Nov 17, 2018
NEW DELHI (AP) — Facebook says there was a steep rise in data requests from India's government in the first half of this year as compared to the previous two years.
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Nov 16, 2018
The number of names on the missing person's list for Northern California's
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Nov 16, 2018
CHICO, Calif. (AP) -- With the confirmed death toll at 71 and the list of
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Nov 16, 2018
After a brief respite from attacking the migrant caravan traveling to the U.S.
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Nov 16, 2018
CHICO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on California's wildfires (all times local):
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Nov 16, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 1,000 people are unaccounted for after a deadly Northern California wildfire, but authorities warned Friday that the roster is fluid and contains "raw data," including the names of people who are safe.
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Nov 16, 2018
At least 71 people are confirmed to have died in a catastrophic wildfire in northern California while a further 1,000 are still missing, officials have said. Authorities attributed the high death toll from the so-called Camp Fire, which erupted last Thursday in the drought-parched Sierra foothills 175 miles north of San Francisco, in part to the staggering speed with which the wind-whipped flames raced with little warning through Paradise, a town of 27,000. Nearly 12,000 homes and buildings, including most of the town, were incinerated hours after the blaze erupted, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has said.
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Nov 16, 2018
First lady Melania Trump's hotel bills for a day trip to Toronto last year
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Nov 16, 2018
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it is expelling American Bruce Byron Lowrance after he slipped unlawfully into the police state known for its anti-U.S. fervor.
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Nov 16, 2018
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Volunteers gathered around folding tables Friday to begin a painstaking hand recount in Florida's acrimonious U.S. Senate contest, with a goal of determining the intent of about 93,000 voters whose ballots for Republican Gov. Rick Scott or Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson could not be counted by machine.
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Nov 16, 2018
Schools and tourist attractions across the San Francisco Bay Area were shut Friday and residents were urged to stay indoors as smoke from California's deadliest wildfire -- a three-hour drive away -- produced air quality levels worse than in South Asia's polluted megacities. The closures came as President Donald Trump was set to visit the western state Saturday to survey the damage and meet victims of the giant Camp Fire that has devoured an area roughly the size of Chicago since it broke out last week, killing at least 63 people. In an interview with Fox News ahead of his visit, Trump doubled-down on his earlier claim that mismanagement of Califonia's forests was to blame for the fires.
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Nov 16, 2018
Honda is recalling 64,785 SUVs and minivans because an improper coating on a brake component may lead to reduced braking performance, which raises the risk of a crash, according to the National H...
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Nov 16, 2018
Remains of at least 63 people have been recovered so far in and around the Sierra foothills hamlet of Paradise, which was home to nearly 27,000 residents before the town was largely incinerated by the deadly Camp Fire on the night of Nov. 8. More than a week later, firefighters have managed to carve containment lines around 45 percent of the blaze's perimeter, up from 35 percent a day earlier, even as the burned landscape grew slightly to 142,000 acres (57,000 hectares). More than 11,000 evacuees were being housed in 14 emergency shelters set up in churches, schools and community centers around the region, American Red Cross spokeswoman Greta Gustafson said.
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Nov 16, 2018
Representative Marcia Fudge has not formally announced her candidacy. In a statement to Reuters on Friday, Fudge noted support from people "who look to me as the next speaker of the House." "In this first stage of the process, I am still giving it considerable thought" but have not made a final decision, she said in an email. Democrats are scheduled to meet behind closed doors on Nov. 28 to pick their leaders for the new 2019-20 House after wresting the chamber from the Republicans on Nov. 6.
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Nov 16, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, the Washington Post reported on Friday, a finding that contradicts Saudi government assertions that he was not involved. The Post said U.S. officials have expressed high confidence in the CIA assessment, which is the most definitive to date linking Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler to the killing and complicates President Donald Trump's efforts to preserve U.S. ties with one of the closest American allies in the region. ...
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Nov 16, 2018
Abrams acknowledged that Kemp, the secretary of state until he stepped down two days after the election, will be certified as the winner. Kemp thanked Abrams in an emailed statement. Endorsed by President Donald Trump, Kemp channeled his anti-immigration fervor in appealing to rural Georgians.
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Nov 16, 2018
In a speech to her supporters on Friday night, Democrat Stacey Abrams
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Nov 16, 2018
The Camp and Woolsey fires rage on while victims receive both relief and a new round of troubles
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Nov 16, 2018
North Korea said Friday it had expelled a US citizen who tried to enter illegally, an unusually swift resolution of a case that could have further complicated reconciliation moves between the two countries. The man, identified as Lawrence Bruce Byron, had been in custody after crossing into North Korea from China on October 16, the official Korean Central News Agency said. "While being questioned, he said he had illegally entered the country under the command of the US Central Intelligence Agency," KCNA said.
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Nov 16, 2018
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — There was cake at little Brithani Lizeth's third birthday party, and also tears.
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Nov 16, 2018
Devastating wildfires continued to ravage parts of Northern and Southern
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Nov 16, 2018
After spending more than a month traveling the 4,300 kilometers (2,700 miles) to the Mexican border city of Tijuana, walking and hitch-hiking much of the way, thousands of migrants faced the bleak reality that their American dream was about as untouchable as it was when they started. Osman Bueso, a 28-year-old Honduran man who was one of the first to reach the border, said he had no intention of waiting the months or years it could take to seek asylum in the US, and was ready to try to crash the border, as the migrants did when they entered Mexico from Guatemala on October 19.
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Nov 16, 2018
Just three Democrats in the Congressional Progressive Caucus have pledged this
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Nov 16, 2018
Kim Jong Un's visit to the test site of what North Korea's state media called a "tactical weapon" that could protect North Korea like a "steel wall" threatened to sour the diplomatic atmosphere at a time when negotiations between North Korea and the United States appear to have stalled. "We remain confident that the promises made by President Trump and Chairman Kim will be fulfilled," a spokesman for the U.S. State Department said.
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Nov 16, 2018
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's draft European Union divorce deal will not get the approval of the UK parliament, former Brexit Secretary David Davis said on Friday. "What's more likely to happen than a confidence vote (in May) is this deal will be rejected by the House of Commons... There's no way I can see it getting through," Davis told CNBC. "Therefore she'll have to come up with another alternative." Davis resigned as Brexit secretary in July in protest at May's plans for a long-term relationship with the bloc. (Reporting by James Davey; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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Nov 16, 2018
The numbers of people missing and killed in the Northern California Camp Fire continue to rise.
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Nov 16, 2018
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Nov 16, 2018
Rock and roll star Elvis Presley has been posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, by President Donald Trump. Presley's velvety voice filled the White House briefly on Friday when a recording of one his songs was played at a ceremony hosted by the president to honour the king of rock 'n roll. Presley was part of an eclectic group of seven Americans being awarded the Medal of Freedom, including the late baseball legend Babe Ruth and Antonin Scalia, the conservative Supreme Court justice The living recipients included Miriam Adelson, who, like her casino tycoon husband Sheldon Adelson, is a heavyweight Republican party donor. Mr Trump's homage to Presley - who once met with President Richard Nixon at the White House in 1970 - paused for a recording of the gospel song "How great thou art." President Richard Nixon meets with Elvis Presley December 21, 1970 at the White House Credit: National Archives/Getty Images Mr Trump said that playing music was his idea but when the richly toned performance stopped after just a few seconds, the disappointed president complained that staff organising the event "have no promotional ability." Mr Trump also recalled that he had attended an Elvis performance himself decades ago, where overexcited fans were "ripping the place apart, screaming. They were going crazy." The other recipients were retiring Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, one of the longest-serving senators in US history; Alan Page, who was elected to the Minnesota Supreme Court
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Nov 16, 2018
Donald Trump has misquoted one of the most famous phrases in music history during a presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony - claiming "Elvis has left the house". The president was recalling an Elvis Presley performance he had attended as he paid tribute to the rock 'n' roll star while bestowing what is thehighest civilian honour in the US alongside the Congressional Gold Medal. Mr Trump said overexcited fans were "ripping the place apart, screaming" and.
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Nov 16, 2018
Two of Khashoggi's brothers and one of his sons received a few hundred men in the coastal city of Jeddah a day after the Saudi public prosecutor said it would seek the death penalty for five unnamed suspects in the killing inside the country's Istanbul consulate on Oct. 2. Earlier on Friday, tens of thousands of worshippers prayed for the deceased in Mecca and Medina, Khashoggi's hometown, though the imams did not name him. Friends eulogized the 59-year-old royal insider-turned-critic, and politicians who knew him denounced Riyadh's investigation as biased.
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Nov 16, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea on Friday deported an American citizen it says it detained for illegal entry, a U.S. official said, an apparent concession that came even as the reclusive nation announced the test of a newly developed but unspecified "ultramodern" weapon that will be seen as a pressuring tactic by Washington.
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Nov 16, 2018
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has proposed a major change in the way American universities deal with campus sexual assault and harassment allegations in a move rights groups say could harm survivors. Ms DeVos has wants to add protections for those accused and limit situations in which schools would be required by law to investigate complaints brought forward by alleged victims, changes she said will treat both sides fairly. The requirements for investigation include only incidents which occurred on the universities' campuses or property under the school's authority and in those cases, only if the incident is reported to certain officials.
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Nov 16, 2018
Le kilogramme est mort. Vive le kilogramme!
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Nov 16, 2018
U.S. Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is working to better serve all
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Nov 16, 2018
Democratic Representative Marcia Fudge, without formally announcing a candidacy for speaker, has tantalized Washington with hints over the past few days of her interest. As lawmakers on Friday were leaving for a week-long Thanksgiving recess, Fudge visited with Pelosi for 45 minutes in her offices. In a Twitter posting, Pelosi tersely said, "We had a candid and respectful conversation." NBC News, also on Twitter, quoted Fudge saying after the meeting, "I am going to continue to fight." At stake is who Democrats, fresh off a major victory in the Nov. 6 congressional elections, will choose to lead them as House speaker, arguably the second most powerful position in the U.S. government after President Donald Trump's. Fudge, 66, despite being in the House for a decade, does not have the national profile that Pelosi has basked in during 16 years of leading her party in the chamber.
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Nov 16, 2018
Nancy Pelosi's allies are ready take on the band of Democrat dissidents who do not want her to be Speaker of the US House - with Ms Pelosi facing a fight to win the role. Ms Pelosi said she has the necessary 218 votes to be able to lead the new Democrat-controlled chamber of Congress, but there are at least 17 Democrats opposed. Florida Congresswoman Lois Frankel told The Hill newspaper "Two can play the game.
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Nov 16, 2018
Ford is recalling approximately 38,000 of its 2018 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs because of a faulty second-row seat. The second-row bench seat may be missing a reinforcement bracke...
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Nov 16, 2018
Mexican authorities said Friday more than 2,000 Central Americans from a migrant caravan heading toward the United States have now reached the border city of Tijuana, where they have received a sometimes cold welcome. Waves of migrants from the main caravan -- which numbers around 5,500 people in all -- have been converging on the northern Mexican city since Sunday, undeterred by US President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of troops to the border.
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Nov 16, 2018
While many stores push the limits of Black Friday and offer store hours on
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Nov 16, 2018
It's based on the all-new Corolla sedan.
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Nov 16, 2018
President Trump told the press that he, not his lawyers, wrote the answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Nov 16, 2018
The White House withdrew Acosta's credentials last Wednesday in an escalation of the Republican president's attacks on the news media, which he has called the "enemy of the people." U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who is hearing CNN's lawsuit challenging the revocation, said Acosta's credentials must be restored while the network's case is pending. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement that Acosta's credentials would be temporarily restored. In its lawsuit filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, CNN said the White House violated the First Amendment right to free speech as well as the due process clause of the Constitution providing fair treatment through judicial process.
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Nov 16, 2018
The kilogram will no longer be measured against an actual weight, after scientists voted to start using an electromagnetic current. Since 1889, a kilogram has been defined by a single lump of platinum-iridium which is housed inside three glass bell jars at the headquarters of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) , just outside Paris. But the master copy, known as ‘Le Grand K', has been picking up microparticles of dust, or losing mass in cleaning, causing consternation for scientists using it to measure ever more accurate weights. Now, after a week-long meeting at the Palace of Versailles representatives of 60 nations agreed to redefine the kilogram based on the unchanging value of the ‘Planck constant.' Instead of checking it against an actual weight, scientists can now find an exact kilogram by measuring the amount of electricity needed to lift it, using a special set of scales known as The Kibble balance. Scientists have been trying for decades to define a constant value for the kilogram that is derived from laws of physics, in the same way they have done for other standard units. For example, a metre is not defined as 100 centimetres but "the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second". Scientists Yuning Duan and Gert Rietveld celebrate after the vote on the redefinition of four base units of the International System of Units Credit: Reuters Describing what impact the new kilogram would have, the BIPM
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Nov 16, 2018
Florida's secretary of state ordered counties to tally ballots by hand after a machine recount that ended Thursday showed Republican Rick Scott leading incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson by just 12,603 votes out of 8.2 million cast, well under the 0.25 percentage point threshold to trigger a hand recount. Republicans will continue to hold a majority of Senate seats after last week's midterm election, even though a tight race in Arizona ultimately went to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema.
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Nov 16, 2018
Police are investigating a robbery that happened in an Oklahoma Walmart parking lot, after the victim said the suspect tried to kidnap her.
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Nov 16, 2018
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the political developments in Israel (all times local):
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Nov 16, 2018
A tweet over Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's choice of clothing has sparked a backlash after a journalist suggested she was a woman who "struggles" with money. The tweet from Eddie Scarry of the Washington Times came after it was revealed Ms Ocasio-Cortez could not afford to rent a flat in Washington before her Congressional salary kicks in in January. The picture, taken of Ms Ocasio-Cortez from behind said:: "Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now.
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Nov 16, 2018
Black Friday, Small-Business Saturday, Cyber Monday . . . The beginning of the year-end holiday season seems to be forever tied to a frenetic shopping spree for gifts. But in recent years, attent...
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Nov 16, 2018
More than a week after first igniting in Butte County, California, the news surrounding the most destructive and deadly wildfire in California history remains grim.
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Nov 16, 2018
More than a week after first igniting in Butte County, California, the news surrounding the most destructive and deadly wildfire in California history remains grim.
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Nov 16, 2018
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the Florida recount (all times local):
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Nov 16, 2018
It's good news for people on a tight budget
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Nov 16, 2018
Volunteers in Broward County, a Democratic stronghold in Florida, recounted
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Nov 16, 2018
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday proposed a major overhaul to the way colleges and universities handle sexual misconduct complaints, adding protections for students accused of assault and harassment and narrowing which cases schools would be required to investigate.
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Nov 16, 2018
Speaking at Oxford University, the adult film star answered questions about her attorney, Michael Avenatti, who is facing allegations of domestic violence, and whether or not she would support him in a presidential bid.
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Nov 16, 2018
Beleaguered at home, belittled abroad, Emmanuel Macron of France and Germany's Angela Merkel will use a Berlin meeting on Sunday to bolster their alliance as champions of a united Europe fraught with resurgent nationalism. After weeks of stalemate on issues such as eurozone reforms and how to get internet giants to pay more tax, the French president and German chancellor have recently gone out of their way to demonstrate unity and common purpose. Macron gave Merkel pride of place last weekend during commemorations marking the end of World War I where he spoke out against nationalism -- a message he is likely to hammer home again Sunday when addressing Germany's parliament as part of ceremonies to commemorate victims of war.
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Nov 16, 2018
Deeply discounted small appliances are often advertised as doorbusters on Black Friday to get you in the store. But if you push past the countertop electrics on sale for $20 or less and wander ba...
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Nov 16, 2018
Hamas didn't achieve a military victory. But toppling the defense minister is a kind of victory because it shows that Hamas can shake Jerusalem's politics at the very top.
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Nov 16, 2018
Here's what the science says
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Nov 16, 2018
Saturday morning, as entire California towns were engulfed in flames, the
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Nov 16, 2018
Jamal Khashoggi's murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 caused a global outcry, opened Saudi Arabia to the possibility of sanctions and damaged the image of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Washington believes it has more influence over Riyadh as its ally tries to repair the damage to the kingdom's standing, and wants to use this leverage to end the Yemen war and rebuild Gulf unity against Iran, four sources familiar with the matter said. In an apparent response to U.S. and British pressure for a ceasefire in Yemen by the end of this month, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-aligned Houthi rebels halted an offensive on the main port city of Hodeidah on Thursday.
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Nov 16, 2018
A federal judge on Friday ruled to immediately reinstate CNN reporter Jim
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Nov 16, 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party denied Friday that he had decided to call a snap election, as he battled to keep the government afloat after his defence minister quit over a Gaza ceasefire. Netanyahu's ruling coalition was left with a single seat majority in parliament after the walkout on Wednesday by Avigdor Lieberman and his hawkish Yisrael Beitenu party. Netanyahu held crunch talks on Friday with his other main right-wing rival, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, whose religious nationalist Jewish Home party has threatened also to quit unless he is given Lieberman's job.
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