| Trump fumes about Comey, Clinton and the FBI after Flynn guilty plea Posted: 03 Dec 2017 08:26 AM PST  President Trump spent part of his weekend on Twitter fuming over coverage of ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI.
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| The 2017 Supermoon Seen From Around The World Posted: 04 Dec 2017 01:30 AM PST  The first in a series of three supermoons lit up the sky overnight Sunday, appearing so big in some places that it looked close enough to touch.
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| Protestors rally in Utah against Trump's expected Federal-lands reduction Posted: 03 Dec 2017 07:59 AM PST  Thousands descended on the state capitol in Utah this weekend to protest an expected announcement from Pres. Trump tomorrow to dramatically shrink the federally-protected lands of two national monuments.
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| O'Reilly's Plan To Smear His Accusers Appears To Be Backfiring Posted: 04 Dec 2017 01:02 PM PST  In an attempt to defend himself after numerous women accused him of sexual misconduct, Bill O'Reilly tried to paint the women as liars out for fat settlement checks.
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| Former 'Cult Leader' Allegedly Killed Toddler in 1980s: 'We Think There Are More Victims' Posted: 04 Dec 2017 02:17 PM PST  A 75-year-old woman who police allege was the leader of a religious cult in Florida has been charged with murder in Georgia in the death of a toddler more than 25 years ago, PEOPLE confirms.
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| Cathay Pacific Crew Say They Saw North Korean Missile 'Blow Up And Fall Apart' Posted: 04 Dec 2017 03:57 AM PST  Crew members aboard a Hong Kong-bound Cathay Pacific flight from San Francisco saw what they suspected was a North Korean ballistic missile re-entering the Earth's atmosphere last week, the airline has confirmed.
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| Man detained by ICE after speaking with news reporters Posted: 03 Dec 2017 01:37 PM PST ![Man detained by ICE after speaking with news reporters]( "Man detained by ICE after speaking with news reporters") SEATTLE (AP) — A Mexican man who spoke with reporters about his longtime girlfriend's immigration arrest has now been detained himself, and he says agents told him it's because he was in the newspaper.
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| Golden Krust Founder And CEO Lowell Hawthorne Dead at 57 Posted: 04 Dec 2017 09:01 AM PST  Lowell Hawthorne, founder and CEO of Caribbean restaurant chain Golden Krust, was found dead at his Bronx factory on Saturday due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
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| Judge to weigh sentence for South Carolina ex-policeman who killed black man Posted: 04 Dec 2017 10:59 AM PST  U.S. prosecutors said on Monday that a white former South Carolina policeman caught on video shooting an unarmed black man in the back committed murder, while defense lawyers argued their client did not deserve to go to prison for life for his crime. Michael Slager, 36, pleaded guilty in May to a federal civil rights charge of using excessive force when he killed 50-year-old Walter Scott in 2015. Slager, then a North Charleston police officer, fired eight shots at Scott's back after he fled a traffic stop, hitting him five times.
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| Kate Steinle latest: Antifa outnumber neo-Nazis at White House protest over murder trial Posted: 04 Dec 2017 04:46 AM PST  Antifa outnumbered white supremacists during a protest in front of the White House which saw the two rival groups hurl slogans at each other before being escorted away by the police. Neo-Nazis and members of the far right gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue carrying American flags and chanting "build the wall" to show their opposition to the verdict in the Kate Steinle trial. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, was found not guilty of murder last week in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier that sparked a national immigration debate two years ago.
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| Mitch McConnell Walks Back Roy Moore Criticism Posted: 03 Dec 2017 11:38 AM PST  Asked by @GStephanopoulos if he believes Roy Moore should be in the Senate, @SenateMajLdr says, "I'm going to let the people of Alabama make the call."
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| Garrison Keillor's Successor Addresses 'Heartbreaking' Allegations in First Broadcast Since Firing Posted: 03 Dec 2017 03:14 PM PST  "We are in the middle of a national movement, which I believe represents progress"
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| Obama: Elect More Women 'Because Men Seem To Be Having Some Problems These Days' Posted: 03 Dec 2017 11:30 PM PST  Barack Obama said he believes more future leaders should be women.
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| Instagram Now Warns Users Against Wild Animal Selfies Posted: 04 Dec 2017 03:49 PM PST  If you're thinking of posting that pic of you riding an elephant during your vacation in Thailand on social media, you may want to reconsider.
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| Former Florida congresswoman sentenced to five years for fraud Posted: 04 Dec 2017 01:15 PM PST ![Former Florida congresswoman sentenced to five years for fraud]( "Former Florida congresswoman sentenced to five years for fraud") Former U.S. Representative Corrine Brown of Florida was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for her role in helping raise more than $800,000 for a bogus charity that was used as a slush fund, federal court officials said. Brown, 71, was convicted in May on 18 counts of participating in a conspiracy involving a fraudulent education charity, concealing material facts required on financial disclosure forms and filing false tax returns. Brown, a Democrat from Jacksonville who served 24 years in Congress, lost her re-election bid last year after being indicted.
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| Brazilian Mayor who ran town by WhatsApp is jailed for stealing millions from poorest citizens Posted: 03 Dec 2017 04:49 PM PST  A Brazilian mayor who governed her town via WhatsApp has been jailed for at least 14 years for embezzling millions from its education budget. The 27-year-old directed local officials using WhatsApp while she lived a life of luxury in Sao Luiz, the state capital of Maranhão, around 180 miles away. Following a two-and-a-half year legal battle, Leite was sentenced to 14 years and one month in prison followed by six years of house arrest after she was found guilty of taking R$20m (£4.5m) from an education fund.
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| Trump Withdraws U.S. From UN Migrant And Refugee Compact Posted: 03 Dec 2017 06:09 AM PST  Continuing his "America First" approach to foreign policy, President Donald Trump has pulled the U.S. out of a United Nations compact seeking global cooperation to protect the safety and rights of refugees and migrants.
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| The Rock Broke His Fifth Guinness World Record Using Cereal Posted: 04 Dec 2017 03:34 PM PST  Dwayne Johnson's production company toppled 3,006 cereal boxes like dominos.
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| GOP Senator Implies Those Who Aren't Millionaires Waste Money On 'Booze, Women' Posted: 03 Dec 2017 06:28 PM PST  In an astonishing defense of dropping "death taxes" for individual estates worth more than $5.5 million, GOP Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley implied that people not currently affected by that tax are "spending every darn penny ... on booze or women."
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| Educate Your Relatives This Holiday Season With A 'F*ck Your Racist Grandma' Sweatshirt Posted: 04 Dec 2017 12:34 PM PST  This holiday season, show your relatives you love them by bestowing upon them the gift of activism without even having to say anything.
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| MSNBC Host Joy Reid Sorry For 'Tone Deaf' LGBTQ Posts Posted: 04 Dec 2017 12:41 AM PST  MSNBC host Joy Reid apologized over the weekend for writing blog posts that were slammed as anti-gay.
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| Sign language interpreter delivered gibberish in Florida Posted: 04 Dec 2017 01:21 PM PST ![Sign language interpreter delivered gibberish in Florida]( "Sign language interpreter delivered gibberish in Florida") TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hearing-impaired people tuning in to a news conference about the arrest of a suspected serial killer got a message of gibberish from an American Sign Language interpreter.
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| Turkey's Erdogan says will not succumb to U.S. 'blackmail' over court case Posted: 03 Dec 2017 07:24 AM PST  Turkish President Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey would not succumb to "blackmail" by the United States in the trial of a Turkish bank executive being charged with evading U.S. sanctions on Iran. Already strained ties between NATO allies Ankara and Washington have deteriorated as Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab, who is cooperating with U.S. prosecutors, detailed in court a scheme to evade U.S. sanctions.
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| Big changes for Florida with mass Puerto Rican immigration Posted: 03 Dec 2017 06:21 PM PST  Cristina Sanchez is one of thousands of Puerto Ricans fleeing their hurricane-ravaged island for Florida, a mass migration set to shape the southern US state as much as migrants from communist Cuba in the late 20th century. As her flight departed the capital San Juan, she glanced out the window at what she was leaving behind: a sun-drenched Caribbean island turned into a hellhole by Hurricane Maria. On September 20, powerful Maria tore across Puerto Rico, destroying homes, shattering the island's rickety power grid and phone network, and leaving its 3.4 million residents in the dark and incommunicado.
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| Time running out to avert North Korea war, White House warns Posted: 03 Dec 2017 10:55 AM PST  Time is running out to avoid a war with North Korea, the White House national security has warned, after it emerged that the US is scoping out sites for missile interception batteries following the latest ballistic missile tests from Pyongyang. "We're in a race to be able to solve this problem," H.R McMaster told Fox News during a weekend defence forum. "There are ways to address this problem short of armed conflict, but it is a race because he's getting closer and closer and there's not much time left," he said, adding that dictator Kim Jong-un's nuclear ambitions were the "greatest immediate threat" to the US and the world. Despite the US warnings, Pyongyang blasted the US and South Korea as self-destructive "warmongers" ahead of their largest-ever joint air exercise, which begins on Monday. The five-day 'Vigilant Ace' drill will involve 12,000 military personnel and 230 aircraft, including F-22 Raptors and F-35 stealth fighters that will train close to the border with the North. Exercises will focus on enemy infiltration and precision airstrikes. Mr McMaster's comments come just days after North Korea fired its highest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile test, capable of flying 8,080 miles and reaching 1,000 miles higher than during its first ICBM launch in July. Hwasong-15 ICBM - new North Korean missile The US Missile Defence Agency (MDA), tasked with protecting the country from attacks, is now reported to be scouting the West Coast for places to deploy new anti-missile defences, including the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system currently being used by South Korea. The accelerated pace of North Korea's testing programme this year and the likelihood that the rogue regime could target the US mainland with a nuclear strike has raised the pressure on Washington to shore up the country's defences. On Sunday, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham urged the Pentagon to start moving US military dependents, such as spouses and children, out of South Korea, saying conflict with North Korea is growing close. "It's crazy to send spouses and children to South Korea given the provocation of North Korea," he said. Tensions with North Korea have escalated in recent months over Kim's continued development of its nuclear and missile programmes in defiance of United Nations resolutions. North Korea's state-controlled Rodong newspaper on Sunday slammed today's drill as "an open provocation against the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), which may lead to a nuclear war at any moment." The commentary was published a day after Pyongyang's foreign ministry accused the Trump administration of "begging for nuclear war" by staging reckless air drills. "The US and South Korean puppet warmongers would be well advised to bear in mind that their DPRK-targeted military drill will be as foolish as an act precipitating their self-destruction," it said.
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| The Worst Beauty Trends Of 2017 Posted: 04 Dec 2017 06:36 AM PST  This year sure was an interesting one for beauty trends.
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| Why the AK-47 is the World's Most Feared Firearm (75 Million Guns in Nearly 100 Nations) Posted: 04 Dec 2017 07:45 AM PST  The AK first saw widespread military use in Vietnam. American soldiers saw its effectiveness firsthand, as farmers armed with the rifle proved a tenacious foe. Washington would take this experience to heart and go on to design the AR-15 (what would become the M-16) with such lessons in mind.
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| 16 Gingerbread Cookies To Spice Up The Holidays Posted: 04 Dec 2017 11:23 AM PST |
| 16 Tweets That Define What It Means To Be An Introvert Posted: 04 Dec 2017 11:34 AM PST  If you're an introvert, you likely value your alone time.
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| Attorney: Ex-cop who shot black man had no 'racial animus' Posted: 04 Dec 2017 02:43 PM PST  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white former police officer who shot an unarmed black man to death in the back as he fled a traffic stop never had any "racial animus" toward minorities in the community, his attorney said Monday.
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| Lin-Manuel Miranda And Vanessa Nadal Expecting Their Second Child Posted: 03 Dec 2017 10:59 PM PST  Lin-Manuel Miranda confirmed on Sunday that he and his wife Vanessa Nadal were expecting their second child together.
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| Ex-U.S. consumer bureau head Cordray set to run for Ohio governor Posted: 04 Dec 2017 02:59 PM PST  (Reuters) - Richard Cordray, a Democrat whose resignation as head of the U.S. consumer bureau last month triggered a political battle over who should replace him, plans to run for governor of Ohio, an advisor said on Monday. Cordray will make the announcement at an event on Tuesday at a restaurant in his home town of Grove City, Ohio, said the advisor, who asked to remain anonymous. Cordray will later tour Ohio, meeting with Democratic activists, community leaders and voters, the advisor said.
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| New York financier killed in Costa Rica shark attack Posted: 03 Dec 2017 02:35 PM PST  A New York financier has been killed in a shark attack while scuba diving off the coast of Costa Rica, the country's Environment Ministry announced. Rohina Bhandari, 49, a senior director at WL Ross & Co. LL, was identified by friends as the American tourist who was fatally attacked last Thursday. She was dragged from the Pacific Ocean after sustaining severe bites to her legs but could not be saved. Her 26-year-old diving instructor was also badly injured. The male instructor, who was conscious and in relatively stable condition, told officials that the shark attacked when his group was surfacing at the tail end of the dive in pristine waters close to Cocos Island, about 300 miles from the country's mainland. According to the Costa Rican newspaper La Nacion, the guide noticed the shark approaching his group underwater and tried to scare it away. Rohina Bhandari was pulled from the water but could not be saved Credit: Getty But as they surfaced, the shark went for Ms Bhandari, tearing at her legs. Tiger sharks, which have dark stripes on their body when young, are predators often found around Pacific islands. Unlike many other species of shark, they can be aggressive and account for a large proportion of attacks on humans. Authorities said two park rangers and several doctors who were part of the diving tourism group of 18 people on the island trip organised by Undersea Hunter Group, offered first aid in a desperate bid to save her. The group regularly organises tours to the national park reportedly known for its abundance of sharks. Alan Steenstrup, the tour company's sales manager, said they were "in shock" because of the incident and added they were now focusing on working with the victim's family and the authorities. Friends paid tribute to the Manhattan resident on Facebook. "Unbelievably sad and heartbreaking news that Rohina has died," wrote Julie Walker. "She was such a wonderful person who loved life. I will always remember her kindness, friendship and our adventures together." Another unnamed friend wrote: "Your kindness and genuine warmth to those of us lucky enough to call you 'friend' was a blessing to behold." About | Shark attacks The environment ministry stressed the attack was "an isolated incident" and was the most serious one it had seen. The Central American country's economy relies heavily on the tourism industry.
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| Trump's Labor Law Enforcer Freezes Worker-Friendly Reforms Made Under Obama Posted: 03 Dec 2017 11:09 AM PST  During the Barack Obama years, the National Labor Relations Board took a broad view of worker rights, expanding protections for employees who try to join a union or come together to improve their working conditions.
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| Brock Turner: Former Stanford swimmer appeals sexual assault conviction Posted: 03 Dec 2017 05:19 PM PST  A former Stanford University swimmer who was found guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a campus fraternity party, is to appeal his conviction. Brock Turner's case made headlines around the world, when the former Olympic hopeful was sentenced to just six months in prison despite a powerful written statement delivered by his victim in which which she outlined the impact the attack had on her. Judge Aaron Persky said a longer sentence would have a "damaging" effect on his life, even though he was found guilty of three separate counts of sexual assault for the 2015 attack.
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| Republican Leaders Say Helping Dreamers Isn't An Emergency. For Many Dreamers, It Is. Posted: 04 Dec 2017 02:35 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― For Republican leaders in Congress, finding a legislative solution to help young undocumented immigrants who may soon be deported isn't an urgent problem.
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| Rebels kill Yemen's strongman Saleh as alliance collapses Posted: 04 Dec 2017 11:05 AM PST  Yemeni rebels killed their erstwhile ally Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country's former president and strongman, as their forces battled for control of the capital, Sanaa, officials said.
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| CIA director warns Iranian general on Iraq Posted: 02 Dec 2017 11:56 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Saturday that he sent a letter to a top Iranian military official warning him that the United States would hold Tehran accountable for any attacks it conducted on American interests in Iraq.
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| Amazon Has 12 Amazing Days Of Deals That You Don't Want To Miss Posted: 04 Dec 2017 08:03 AM PST  A post shared by Amazon (@amazon) on Sep 9, 2017 at 9:52am PDT As if you needed another excuse to shop, Amazon is back with their 12 Days of Deals promotion that is sure to round out your holiday shopping list.
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| Texas Girl, 13, Found Safe in Mexico After Running Away to Meet Man She Met on Social Media Posted: 04 Dec 2017 06:11 AM PST  Ashlee Hattermann went alone to Mexico apparently to meet a man with whom she had been corresponding for a year.
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| Retirement in the modern age: 'Why am I still working at 70?' Posted: 04 Dec 2017 02:07 AM PST  "Social media manager" is a job title that didn't exist until a few years ago and you would probably expect anyone in the role, which typically involves promoting a company and its products on Facebook, Twitter and similar services, to be in their 20s or 30s. Angela Laws is the social media manager at a company that puts homeowners in touch with house sitters. She is 70 years old. Mrs Laws wasn't forced to carry on working to make ends meet, although she said she was glad of the extra income. But given the decline of generous company pensions and the rise in the state pension age as longevity improves, many other seventysomethings will find themselves still in the workplace. 'It's a challenge: I grew up with a pen and a telephone' Mrs Laws, who lives in Brighton, originally retired when she moved abroad 25 years ago, but when she and her husband moved back to Britain seven years ago she decided to re-enter the world of work. She said that while her current job at trustedhousesitters.com had some similarities with her previous career in PR and marketing, she had faced a learning curve. "In some ways I am doing similar things to what I did before, but we are living in a digital age now," she said. "That's meant I've managed to learn new skills that I definitely wouldn't have learned if I hadn't come back to work. "It was a challenge because I've grown up with a pen and a telephone. I could use email and was aware of social media on a personal level, but there were definitely things I needed to learn. But I don't think it matters what age you are – if you apply yourself you can learn new skills." Social Media Manager Angela Laws in Brighton, Sussex Credit: Christopher Pledger for the Telegraph She added: "For me it was a lifestyle choice. It wasn't a financial necessity, but of course the financial aspect is advantageous." Her husband, John, 73, a former petroleum engineer, is fully retired. "The thing about retirement is you don't know how long it will go on for and you don't know how long you will be healthy for," Mrs Laws said. "My working is allowing us to be even more flexible with our planning." Why more of us will have to work into our 70s Soaring life expectancy is forcing all of us to view retirement differently. Squeezed savings rates have diminished pension returns, putting additional pressures on our years in work, and highlighting the importance of changing careers and retraining. If it continues to rise at the current rate, babies born this century will have a greater than 50pc chance of living to 105. This means someone wanting to retire in their mid-60s would have to fund a 40-year retirement. However this is done – via an annuity, living off investment income or gradually running down a savings pot – a very large sum of money would be required. Economists have started to argue that the traditional idea of a "three-phase life" – education, work, retirement – will need to change, with retraining and changes of career coming to the fore. Many people already work well beyond the traditional retirement age. Almost 15pc of men and 8pc of women over 65, a record number, are currently in employment. Are older workers discriminated against? Despite the growing popularity of working beyond the state pension age, discrimination based on age in the workplace appears to be rife. According to the charity Age UK, 65pc of older people believe that it is still common at work. Employers also seem to favour their younger workers when it comes to training. Almost 40pc of workers in their late 30s and 40s receive regular job-related training, compared with just 18pc of those aged between 50 and retirement age. But Mrs Laws said older workers should be coveted. "I'm the oldest at my company probably by about 25 years and I have a good relationship with my co-workers," she said. "There are things an older worker can offer, in terms of life experience, that a younger worker can't." She said that when her employer switched to Apple computers recently she was reluctant, having become used to a PC. Then, while in California, she visited an Apple store for a tutorial. "The tutor was a grey-haired gentleman who was older than me," she said. "He was a retired high school head teacher and he was their most popular tutor, because he had that extra experience and could explain things in such an easy way. "I can do something similar for my company. We are a tech firm, but I tell everyone in the office to do the 'granny test': if I don't understand our messaging then I'm going to tell you our members won't either."
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| Commander of Taliban 'special forces' killed in Afghanistan: officials Posted: 03 Dec 2017 02:47 AM PST ![Commander of Taliban 'special forces' killed in Afghanistan: officials]( "Commander of Taliban 'special forces' killed in Afghanistan: officials") The commander of the Taliban's "special forces" branch, known as the "Red Unit," was killed last week in Helmand province by Afghan forces, according to Afghanistan's main intelligence agency. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said Mullah Shah Wali, also known as Mullah Naser, was killed in an air operation in Helmand. The province is a Taliban stronghold in the heartland of Afghanistan's lucrative drug trade.
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| ABC News Suspends Reporter Brian Ross For 'Serious Error' In Flynn Story Posted: 02 Dec 2017 07:11 PM PST  Following an onslaught of criticism, ABC News has suspended chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross for four weeks without pay after his erroneous on-air report about Michael Flynn.
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