| Kushner named Trump’s border-wall czar — along with practically everything else in government Posted: 26 Nov 2019 02:33 PM PST  President Trump has recently tasked his son-in-law — whose to-do list already includes brokering peace in the Middle East, leading U.S. trade policy, reorganizing the entire U.S. government and reforming the criminal justice system — with overseeing the construction of his border wall ahead of the 2020 election.
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| Utah banning ‘conversion therapy’ with Mormon church backing Posted: 27 Nov 2019 07:58 AM PST  Utah is on its way to becoming the 19th state to ban the discredited practice of conversion therapy in January after state officials formed a proposal that has the support of the influential Church of a Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Republican Gov. Gary Herbert announced Tuesday night that church leaders back a regulatory rule his office helped craft after legislative efforts for a ban on the therapy failed earlier this year. The faith known widely as the Mormon church opposed a previous version of the rule because it wanted assurances that church leaders and members who are therapists would be allowed to provide spiritual counseling for parishioners or families — which were included in the latest conversion therapy ban plan.
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| TSA officers find high-capacity gun magazines hidden in an infant toy at Orlando airport Posted: 27 Nov 2019 11:10 AM PST  TSA revealed officers discovered two high capacity magazines in an infant's toy at the Orlando International Airport.
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| NGO accuses North Korea of institutionalised child sex abuse Posted: 27 Nov 2019 02:50 AM PST ![NGO accuses North Korea of institutionalised child sex abuse]( "NGO accuses North Korea of institutionalised child sex abuse") North Korean children are "constantly in danger" of sexual abuse and resulting social stigma without any chance to seek legal protection, a Seoul-based rights group said on Wednesday. Activists with PSCORE, or People for Successful Corean Reunification, interviewed more than 200 young male and female North Koreans who had fled to settle in the affluent, democratic South for a study on child abuse at home, at school and in state facilities such as prison camps and orphanages. In a 195-page report, "Inescapable Violence: Child Abuse within North Korea", the group described sexual abuse as "institutionalised and widely accepted as a normal part of life".
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| An Air Canada Boeing 787 flying across the Atlantic was forced to turn back after its windshield cracked Posted: 26 Nov 2019 07:27 AM PST  Air Canada Flight 857 was due to fly from London to Toronto but instead landed in Ireland after the crack in the 787-8 windshield was noticed.
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| One False Move By Israel or Iran Will Lead to War Posted: 26 Nov 2019 07:14 AM PST  Over the last two years, Israel has warned about Iran's entrenchment in Syria. But Iran has continued its role in Syria, and it continues to threaten Israel and transfer precision guidance to Hezbollah for converting its rockets.
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| Saudi crown prince visits UAE amid push to end Yemen war Posted: 27 Nov 2019 08:25 AM PST  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited the United Arab Emirates Wednesday, as efforts to end the nearly five-year war in Yemen gain momentum. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are close allies and key members of a military coalition backing the government in Yemen against the Iran-aligned Huthi rebels.
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| 71 Gifts That Give Good Vibes Posted: 26 Nov 2019 09:57 AM PST |
| 'Giuliani is being implicated by the president': Trump claims he never told him to dig up dirt in Ukraine Posted: 27 Nov 2019 11:18 AM PST  A former U.S. prosecutor says that Donald Trump appears to be implicating Rudy Giuliani in a bribery conspiracy, after the president claimed he never told his personal lawyer to go to Ukraine and dig up dirt on his political rivals.
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| 24-Cylinder Monster Truck Big Rig Sells for $12 Million Posted: 26 Nov 2019 03:15 PM PST  "Thor24" brought in big numbers this past weekend.
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| Texas inmate freed while innocence claims investigated Posted: 26 Nov 2019 09:11 AM PST  A Houston man serving a life sentence for a 2010 fatal stabbing was freed on bond Tuesday while authorities reinvestigate his case, including new DNA evidence that his lawyers say exonerates him. Lydell Grant has been in prison for seven years for the killing of 28-year-old Aaron Scheerhoorn outside of a Houston club. Grant was convicted in 2012.
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| US weather forecast: Powerful storms to bring heavy snow and high winds, causing Thanksgiving travel chaos Posted: 26 Nov 2019 10:36 AM PST  Millions of Americans are bracing for two "powerful" storms expected to dump heavy blankets of snow and force road closures and flight delays as families prepare for a busy week of travel during the Thanksgiving holiday.A snowy weather system could linger through the rest of the week and into the weekend as it moves east, potentially bringing snow to New England and delivering a wintry coast-to-coast blow to the holiday weekend.
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| ‘She slipped': Grandfather speaks on 1-year-old’s fatal fall from Royal Caribbean cruise ship Posted: 26 Nov 2019 06:54 AM PST  "I didn't realize there wasn't any glass until the absolutely that it was too late," Salvatore Anello told CBS news in a story that aired Tuesday.
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| UPDATE 1-Iran says hundreds of banks were torched in "vast" unrest plot Posted: 27 Nov 2019 02:23 AM PST ![UPDATE 1-Iran says hundreds of banks were torched in "vast" unrest plot]( "UPDATE 1-Iran says hundreds of banks were torched in \"vast\" unrest plot") Iran's top leader on Wednesday denounced an outbreak of deadly unrest as a "very dangerous conspiracy" as authorities reported about 731 banks and 140 government sites had been torched in the disturbances. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the protests amounted to a plot that Iranians had defeated, referring to the worst anti-government unrest in Iran since authorities put down demonstrations against election fraud in 2009. "A deep, vast and very dangerous conspiracy that a lot of money had been spent on ... was destroyed by the people," Khamenei said in a meeting with members of the paramilitary Basij force which took part in the crackdown against protests, according to his official website.
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| One of Supreme Court's most important abortion cases has just begun Posted: 26 Nov 2019 12:21 AM PST  A 63-page opening brief was filed late Monday night by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) in the case
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| Police cited 55 people for eating on San Francisco trains. Only nine were white Posted: 26 Nov 2019 02:15 PM PST  New data renews concerns about racial profiling, just weeks after viral video showed police detaining a black man who was eating a sandwichPassengers wait for a Bart train to depart the Fruitvale station in Oakland, California. Photograph: Ben Margot/APPolice officers for the San Francisco Bay Area commuter train system disproportionately target black riders with citations for eating and drinking, according to new data, renewing concerns about racial profiling.The Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) data was released following a viral video showing police handcuffing a 31-year-old black man who was cited for eating a breakfast sandwich on his way to work. The new records show that more than 81% of people stopped for eating and drinking on Bart since 2014 were people of color, and that the vast majority of them were black.Stops for eating and drinking on trains or platforms are infrequent within Bart, the train system that runs between San Francisco, Oakland and surrounding suburbs. Of 55 people cited for this offense over the last five years, 33 were black passengers, representing 60% of the citations. Nine of the stops were white passengers, seven were listed as Hispanic, five were categorized as "other" and one was unknown, according to the data, which was obtained by the San Francisco Examiner.Only 10% of Bart's total riders are black. Ridership data, collected last year, showed that 35% of overall riders are white, 32% are Asian/Pacific Islander and 17% are Latino.Bart spokeswoman Alicia Trost said in an email that the data shows citations are "very rare" and are "handed out at stations across the system".She said: "When an officer witnesses someone eating, they remind the rider that eating is not allowed and if the rider puts the food away no citation is necessary. It is a rare occurrence to need to issue a citation after reminding the rider not to eat."John Burris, a civil rights lawyer representing Steve Foster, the man stopped in the recent video, said Tuesday that the data was not surprising and was evidence of racial profiling. "This is a form of biased policing, and it's very harmful to African Americans. Other people eat sandwiches all the time, and they don't get stopped."The 15-minute video that received national attention showed a white Bart police officer stopping Foster at the station in Pleasant Hill, north-east of Oakland. The footage showed the officer holding on to Foster's backpack and telling him he was not free to go until he identified himself and that he was resisting arrest. Backup officers arrived, and Foster was handcuffed and taken away in front of morning commuters.The citation he received required him to pay a $250 fine or do 48 hours of community service."It was so insulting to him and disturbing," said Burris. "He was humiliated in front of all the people on Bart."The video sparked protests and widespread criticism, and Bart leaders eventually apologized and promised to investigate. Bob Powers, Bart's general manager, said at the time he was "disappointed how the situation unfolded".A citation or arrest for a minor infraction like eating can escalate to a significantly more serious conflict, said Cat Brooks, the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project in Oakland."Eating a sandwich is certainly not a reason to throw yet another black body into the criminal justice system," she said. "We have to hold these cops accountable for racial profiling."Bart police have long faced scrutiny for brutality and racial profiling, in particular following the 2009 killing of Oscar Grant, an unarmed 22-year-old shot dead on the Fruitvale station platform. There have since been a number of other killings and allegations of abuse by Bart police.Bart should not be citing anyone for eating in the first place, Brooks said.Burris said there should be better training to prevent biased policing, and that it was wrong to handcuff riders for eating.Trost, the Bart spokeswoman, said all officers receive training in "fair and impartial policing, bias-based policing … and de-escalation".The Bart controversy comes as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York is facing intense backlash over a number of viral videos of police, including the arrest of a food vendor selling churros, and an incident in which officers pulled guns on a teenager accused of fare evasion. * This article was amended on 27 November 2019 to correct a mathematical error.
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| Gillum sets sights on denying Trump victory in Florida in 2020 Posted: 26 Nov 2019 12:53 PM PST  Andrew Gillum says he knows why President Trump left his lifelong home of New York to take up residence in Florida and doubts his "antics" for reelection will work.
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| Merkel urges Europe to stick together in China dealings Posted: 27 Nov 2019 02:41 AM PST  German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged EU countries to speak as one in their dealings with China, warning it would be "disastrous" to go it alone at a time of tensions with the Asian giant over technology and human rights. "One of the biggest dangers I see... is that everyone in Europe has their own China policy, and that we end up sending completely different signals," Merkel said in a speech to German lawmakers. "That would not be disastrous for China, but it would be disastrous for us in Europe," she added.
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| A Chicago Student Ignored a Man's Late-Night Catcalls. Now He's Charged With Her Murder Posted: 27 Nov 2019 12:04 PM PST  Prosecutors said the man was 'angry that he was being ignored'
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| Dubai court reduces sentence for editor who killed his wife Posted: 27 Nov 2019 12:21 AM PST  A British newspaper editor convicted of killing his wife with a hammer had his sentence reduced by Dubai's Court of Appeal on Wednesday. The court ordered that former Gulf News editor Francis Matthew must serve a seven-year sentence for manslaughter in the 2017 killing of his wife, Jane. Matthew had received as much as a 15-year sentence for the killing.
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| An 'unprecedented' bomb cyclone will bring 100-mph winds to the West Coast Posted: 27 Nov 2019 03:22 AM PST  A rare West Coast "bomb cyclone" is forecast to sweep into southern Oregon and northern California later Tuesday and into Wednesday.
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| U.S. House panel sues Barr, Ross seeking to enforce Census probe subpoenas Posted: 26 Nov 2019 08:18 AM PST  U.S. House of Representatives Democrats filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to enforce subpoenas against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross as part of their investigation into the Trump administration's handling of the U.S. 2020 Census. The House Oversight and Reform Committee in July held Barr and Ross in criminal contempt for defying the panel's subpoenas as lawmakers probe the administration's attempt to add a controversial citizenship question to the government's population count.
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| Why NATO Is Stronger Than Ever Posted: 27 Nov 2019 02:37 AM PST  The twenty-nine countries of the Western military alliance are now responsible for 53 percent of the global GDP. Half of that total is American, but the other half comes from countries like the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.
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| 20 of the World's Most Stunning Public Staircases Posted: 27 Nov 2019 05:00 AM PST |
| Obama's candidate for 2020: None of the above Posted: 26 Nov 2019 12:01 PM PST  What Obama seems to be looking for, and failing to find, is someone like him: new but comforting; more consensus-minded than combative; inspirational but not ideological.
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| Woman kept husband’s body in freezer for up to 11 years Posted: 27 Nov 2019 04:49 AM PST  The body of a man was found in the freezer of a deceased woman's home and may have been kept there for over a decade, police say.The remains of both individuals were found during a welfare check on a 75-year old woman who had not been seen in about two weeks by a building maintenance worker.
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| Buttigieg claims 2nd while Warren sinks in new 2020 poll Posted: 27 Nov 2019 04:18 AM PST  Pete Buttigieg rocketed into second place in the Democratic presidential nomination race, polling showed Tuesday, with support for progressive ex-frontrunner Elizabeth Warren sliding behind.
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| The Latest: Airports hit in stormy California Posted: 26 Nov 2019 07:38 AM PST  Stormy weather and a power outage have affected two Northern California airports as a storm hits the region. KPIX-TV says the Federal Aviation Administration imposed a ground delay at San Francisco International Airport Tuesday because of the weather, cutting the number of arrivals in half. The airport reported several hundred delayed flights and about two dozen cancellations.
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| PREVIEW-Bronx man, battling own legal woes, brings gun rights case to U.S. Supreme Court Posted: 27 Nov 2019 03:01 AM PST ![PREVIEW-Bronx man, battling own legal woes, brings gun rights case to U.S. Supreme Court]( "PREVIEW-Bronx man, battling own legal woes, brings gun rights case to U.S. Supreme Court") Two weeks before Efrain Alvarez and his attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to a New York City regulation that limited where licensed handgun owners could transport their weapons, police officers showed up at his Bronx apartment and took away all his firearms. From two imposing steel vaults in the back bedroom, they confiscated around 45 firearms, including five handguns.
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| Back to the Future: China is Putting Hypersonic Missiles on a 1950s Bomber Posted: 26 Nov 2019 03:00 PM PST  Chinese H-6Ks—a knockoff of the 1950s Soviet Tu-16 bomber—are getting an upgrade.
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| Lawsuit: Alabama Sheriff 'Big John' Williams shot in parking lot 'without provocation' Posted: 27 Nov 2019 12:12 PM PST  Suspect William Chase Johnson faces murder charges. He is the son of a Montgomery County Sheriff's Office deputy.
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| ‘Anti-Islam’ Europe Is No Place for Azerbaijan, President Says Posted: 27 Nov 2019 03:32 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- President Ilham Aliyev said Azerbaijan won't seek closer integration with Europe, which he accused of discriminating against Muslims and undermining his country's traditional values."Where shall we integrate?" Aliyev said in a rare public criticism of the West in a speech to university students and teachers in the capital, Baku, on Tuesday. "Shall we integrate with those who are saying 'Stop Islam'? Shall we integrate to a place where there's no difference being made between men and women? We definitely shall not."Aliyev's remarks mark a departure from the national security strategy he approved in 2007, which said energy-rich Azerbaijan targets membership in European and Euro-Atlantic alliances. The majority Muslim but secular nation of 10 million people sandwiched between Iran and Russia forged close political and economic ties with the U.S. and the European Union after declaring independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991.The president's speech "was his acknowledgment of the failure of secularism and western values in Azerbaijan," prominent Azeri journalist Khadija Ismayil wrote on Facebook. Ismayil, who's known for investigative reports into Aliyev's undeclared family businesses, was sentenced to prison in 2015 and freed the following year after international criticism of her detention and trial.Energy PartnerThe U.S. helped Azerbaijan build oil and gas pipelines westward bypassing Russia. The EU regards Azerbaijan as a strategic energy partner and began talks in 2017 on a new framework agreement with Baku.While Aliyev and his late father Heydar, who ruled Azerbaijan for 10 years before his death in 2003, refused to join Russian-led military and economic blocs, U.S. and EU criticism of the poor state of democracy and human rights in Azerbaijan have strained relations. Aliyev won a landslide to secure a fourth term and extend his rule for seven years in 2018 elections seen as flawed by Western observers and boycotted by opposition parties.The president is "quite sincere" in his opposition to European integration because "Europe means democracy, free elections, rule of law, universal human rights and social welfare," Altay Goyushov, an opposition politician who heads the Baku Research Institute, a think tank in the city, wrote on Facebook."Aliyev wants to see a medieval monarchy in Azerbaijan," he said.To contact the reporter on this story: Zulfugar Agayev in Baku at zagayev@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Torrey Clark at tclark8@bloomberg.net, Tony HalpinFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| In a huge blow to Trump, DOJ watchdog found no evidence to support the claim that the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign Posted: 27 Nov 2019 12:25 PM PST  Trump has repeatedly baselessly alleged that the FBI spied on his campaign and that President Barack Obama had intelligence officials tap his phones.
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| Police chief blasted over handling of aide's alleged racism Posted: 26 Nov 2019 08:06 PM PST  Assistant Chief Justin Newsom retired last month amid allegations he used the n-word to refer to African Americans
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| Freed UK hostage and wife say chained, threatened in Philippines Posted: 26 Nov 2019 02:11 AM PST  A British man and his wife rescued this week from Islamist captors in the Philippines' south say they were chained and threatened with beheading if they didn't deliver a ransom. The couple, shaken but unharmed, told their nearly two-month ordeal to reporters after escaping during a firefight Monday between Philippine troops and the Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf group. The husband, named by British authorities as Alan Hyrons, painted a "very humiliating and degrading" life in captivity, with little to eat in a haze of constant fear.
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| Revealed: Buttigieg 2020 campaign took money from top Kavanaugh lawyers Posted: 27 Nov 2019 05:34 AM PST  Campaign admits mistake in accepting thousands of dollars from Alexandra Walsh and Beth Wilkinson, who represented nomineePete Buttigieg's campaign said it would return the money to the lawyers who represented Brett Kavanaugh. Photograph: Christopher Aluka Berry/ReutersPete Buttigieg's 2020 campaign is returning thousands of dollars in donations from two top Washington lawyers who represented Brett Kavanaugh in his controversial confirmation hearing, saying it will not accept funds from people who helped secure the justice's seat on the supreme court.Buttigieg's campaign received $7,200 from Alexandra Walsh – $3,150 of which had already been returned because it exceeded limits – and attended a fundraiser in July that was co-hosted by the Washington lawyer. Buttigieg also received $2,800 from Beth Wilkinson, Walsh's law partner, who also represented Kavanaugh.When asked by the Guardian about the donations, the campaign said it had overlooked the lawyers' role in the Kavanaugh confirmation and had made a mistake in accepting the donations.It said: "With nearly 700,000 donors, a contribution we would otherwise refuse sometimes gets through. We believe the women who have courageously spoken out about Brett Kavanaugh's assault and misconduct, and we thank the Guardian for bringing this contribution to our attention."A spokesperson added: "[Kavanaugh] should have never been put on the supreme court and this campaign will not accept donations from those who played a role in making that happen. Accordingly, we will be returning this contribution and others from this firm."Walsh and Wilkinson are frequent donors to Democratic causes. During this 2020 election cycle, Wilkinson has donated $1,000 to the California senator Kamala Harris's campaign and $2,800 to the Colorado senator Michael Bennet's campaign. Wilkinson also gave $2,800 to the New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who has since dropped out of the race and has been an outspoken critic of Kavanaugh.The Washington law firm Wilkinson Walsh Eskovitz represented the then nominee for the supreme court after Christine Blasey Ford accused him of sexually assaulting her when both were high school students in suburban Maryland. Walsh and Wilkinson led the charge defending Kavanaugh, even as more accusations of sexual misconduct were unearthed, and painted the judge as the victim of an "outrageous" campaign.In one case, Wilkinson questioned why women who accused Kavanaugh of assault had not immediately gone to the police to report alleged assaults, instead of members of Congress, and insisted that Kavanaugh treated women with dignity and respect.The judge has denied all of the allegations against him.In another case, Walsh sought to downplay comments that were made in Kavanaugh's high school yearbook. When the New York Times reported that Kavanaugh was listed as a member of the "Renate Alumni" – a reference to a classmate from a neighbouring Catholic girls' school that appeared to insinuate sexual conquest – Walsh was quoted in a statement as saying that Kavanaugh had been friends with Renate in high school and had "admired her very much". She also stated that the two had once shared a "brief kiss goodnight".When asked about the reference, Renate Dolphin told the New York Times that the insinuation in Kavanaugh's yearbook was "hurtful and simply untrue". She also denied Walsh's assertion that she and Kavanaugh had ever kissed.Walsh did not respond to a request for comment about the Buttigieg campaign's decision to reject her donations. Wilkinson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The Harris and Bennet campaigns did not return a request for comment on the donations they received from Wilkinson. Gillibrand's office also did not return a request for comment.The Buttigieg campaign has been a vocal critic of Kavanaugh and has said that, if elected, he would choose a supreme court justice similar to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who shared his "progressive values".
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| Gabbard Continues to Slam Clinton for Russian ‘Grooming’ Remarks Posted: 27 Nov 2019 05:25 AM PST  Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hawaii) continued to lash out at Hillary Clinton on Tuesday following the former presidential candidate's insinuation that Gabbard's presidential policy platform was based on advancing Russian interests."I think they've got their eye on someone who's currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate," Clinton said on the Campaign HQ podcast in October. According to Clinton, Gabbard was "the favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far."When asked about the comments, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill seemed to confirm that she had been referring to the Russians, when he said, "If the nesting doll fits." But Clinton later backtracked and insisted she was referring to Republicans, not the Russians, as "grooming" Gabbard.Speaking on Tuesday with stand-up comedian Joe Rogan on "The Joe Rogan Experience," Gabbard and the host both criticized Clinton for her comments."When you look at the media establishment pushing a lot of the same narrative and a lot of the same message, then you can see how someone gets away with calling a sitting member of Congress, a candidate for president, a soldier actively serving in the National Guard, veteran of two Middle East deployments, basically a traitor of the country that I love and that I'm willing to lay my life down for," Gabbard told Rogan. "And to get away with it without any evidence or basis whatsoever."When Rogan asked how Clinton was able to make her accusation without any evidence to support it, Gabbard blamed the "power of the Clinton machine" and "the power of the political establishment" for allowing Clinton's accusation to go unchecked.Gabbard is currently polling at below 2 percent of the national Democratic primary vote, according to RealClearPolitics. The congresswoman raised considerable controversy by meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad in 2017.
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| China's H-20 Stealth Bomber Could Be the U.S. Military's Worst Nightmare Posted: 25 Nov 2019 07:30 PM PST  Be on notice.
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| Kremlin pays tribute to late Soviet spy it says may have changed history Posted: 27 Nov 2019 08:01 AM PST  The Kremlin on Wednesday paid tribute to a late Soviet intelligence officer it credits with helping foil a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt, saying her career may have changed the course of history. Goar Vartanyan, who died on Monday at the age of 93, was an undercover field operative for decades and allegedly helped thwart a plan backed by Adolf Hitler to assassinate the allied leaders at their first "Big Three" conference in Tehran in 1943. Born in Armenia in 1926, Vartanyan moved to Iran in the 1930s where, at the age of 16, she joined an anti-fascist group led by her future husband, Soviet spy Gevork Vartanyan, that was tasked with ensuring security for the World War Two conference.
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| Russia says it showed nuclear missile system to U.S. inspectors Posted: 27 Nov 2019 08:43 AM PST  Russia's Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday it had shown the country's new Avangard nuclear missile system to U.S. inspectors for the first time, a development that Moscow said showed a key arms control treaty was still effective.
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| How Devin Nunes lawsuit threat undermines Donald Trump's impeachment defense Posted: 26 Nov 2019 06:31 AM PST ![How Devin Nunes lawsuit threat undermines Donald Trump's impeachment defense]( "How Devin Nunes lawsuit threat undermines Donald Trump's impeachment defense") He's not going to win, and in the long run, he may end up hurting the very man he's trying to protect.
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| The son of a deputy from a neighboring county has been charged with the murder of Alabama Sheriff 'Big John' Williams Posted: 26 Nov 2019 05:25 AM PST  William Chase Johnson, the suspect in the killing of Alabama Sheriff "Big John" Williams, is the son of a sheriff's deputy in a neighboring county.
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| Hong Kong leader offers mea culpa, but no concessions Posted: 26 Nov 2019 01:47 AM PST  Hong Kong's unpopular leader Carrie Lam acknowledged Tuesday that public dissatisfaction with her government fuelled a landslide win by pro-democracy candidates in local elections, but she drew fresh criticism by offering no new concessions to resolve months of violent protests. In China, state media sought to downplay and discredit the weekend ballot that delivered a stinging rebuke to the financial hub's pro-Beijing establishment. In a rout that stunned the semi-autonomous territory, candidates opposing control by China seized an overwhelming majority of 452 elected seats in the city's 18 district councils, bodies historically dominated by a Beijing-aligned establishment.
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| How Climate Change Exacerbates Gender Inequality Across the Globe Posted: 26 Nov 2019 10:39 AM PST  A new study explores how warming temperatures are widening inequities for women
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