| Turkey vows to take on US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria Posted: 12 Dec 2018 02:32 PM PST  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey will launch a new military operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria "within a few days," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, a move likely to further strain ties between NATO allies Turkey and the United States.
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| At least three dead, 11 wounded in terror attack near famed Christmas market in France Posted: 11 Dec 2018 08:25 PM PST ![At least three dead, 11 wounded in terror attack near famed Christmas market in France]( "At least three dead, 11 wounded in terror attack near famed Christmas market in France") Three people have been killed and 11 wounded in a suspected terrorist attack near a world-famous Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg.
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| Love Triangle, Not Alligators, Caused Florida Man's Death, Confessed Killer Testifies Posted: 12 Dec 2018 04:52 PM PST  A Florida man testified this week about fatally shooting his best friend ― who
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| Chinese Arrest and Trump’s Boast Drag Trudeau Into Huawei Feud Posted: 12 Dec 2018 03:11 PM PST  State security officers seized Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat on leave from the foreign service, in Beijing on Monday, in relation to a national security investigation. The arrest comes nine days after Canada's capture of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities. Meng was granted bail Tuesday, and while the timing of Kovrig's arrest has analysts suggesting a possible tit-for-tat motivation, neither China nor Canada has yet linked the two cases.
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| Insurance claims for latest California wildfires top $9 billion Posted: 12 Dec 2018 06:54 PM PST  Insurance claims from the recent spate of California wildfires, including one ranked as the most deadly and destructive in state history, have topped $9 billion and are expected to grow, the state insurance commissioner reported on Wednesday. The claims, so far, fall short of the record $12 billion in wildfire-related insured losses sustained in California in 2017, most of that from more than a dozen blazes that swept a large swath of wine country north of San Francisco Bay, killing 46 people. This year, the Camp Fire that erupted on Nov. 8 has accounted for the bulk of the claims, just over $7 billion of the total.
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| Canada Goose shares slide amid Beijing-Ottawa row over Huawei CFO arrest Posted: 12 Dec 2018 11:29 AM PST  The company's slide in the stock market comes amid reports that former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig has been detained in China. Growing tensions between Beijing and Ottawa over the arrest of a senior Huawei executive have inflicted damage on the luxury clothing retailer Canada Goose, as Chinese consumers call for a boycott of the brand. Shares in the company have plunged nearly 20% since the arrest last week of Huawei's chief financial officers Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver.
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| Cohen takeaways: As Trump's former lawyer heads to prison, political and legal implications grow for White House Posted: 12 Dec 2018 05:05 PM PST ![Cohen takeaways: As Trump's former lawyer heads to prison, political and legal implications grow for White House]( "Cohen takeaways: As Trump's former lawyer heads to prison, political and legal implications grow for White House") Michael Cohen's 3-year prison sentence and the detailed description of his crimes will be difficult for the Trump White House to dismiss.
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| Kosovo tests Serbia with vote to build an army Posted: 12 Dec 2018 07:16 PM PST  Kosovo will vote Friday on whether to create its own army, in a heavily symbolic show of independence from Serbia that has inflamed tensions between the former wartime foes. Since breaking away from Belgrade in a guerilla war in the late 1990s, Kosovo has relied on NATO-led forces to guarantee its security. The measure is widely expected to pass as it draws support from all political parties in ethnic Albanian-majority Kosovo, except for a minority of ethnic Serb MPs who have boycotted the sessions.
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| Beyonce! Hillary! India revels in a very big wedding Posted: 12 Dec 2018 10:34 AM PST  NEW DELHI (AP) — In a season of big Indian weddings, the Wednesday marriage of the scions of two billionaire families might be the biggest of them all.
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| Man quits his job with epic rant over the store's PA Posted: 13 Dec 2018 08:58 AM PST  A disgruntled employee at a Canadian Walmart decided that he wasn't going to
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| Plot Thickens for Carlos Ghosn: Financial Charges Filed in Japan, But Renault Declares He Did Nothing Wrong in France Posted: 13 Dec 2018 08:41 AM PST  In Japan, the former Nissan, Renault, and Mitsubishi chief faces as much as 10 years in prison, while Renault keeps him on as chairman and CEO after finding he did not break French finance laws.
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| Pakistan rejects US rebuke on religious freedoms Posted: 11 Dec 2018 10:22 PM PST  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan on Wednesday condemned a U.S. decision to add it to a list of nations that infringe on religious freedom, calling the move "unilateral and politically motivated."
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| Fiance Of Missing Colorado Mom Is Cooperating With Police, Lawyer Says Posted: 12 Dec 2018 11:41 AM PST  The fiance of a Colorado mother missing since Thanksgiving is praying for her
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| Meng Wanzhou: Trump could intervene in case of Huawei executive to help secure China trade deal Posted: 12 Dec 2018 04:38 AM PST  Donald Trump has vowed to intervene in the case of a Huawei executive facing fraud charges in the US if it would help to secure a trade deal with China. The American president said he would step in "if I think it's good for the country", after Meng Wanzhou's arrest sparked fury in Beijing. Ms Meng, the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecoms giant, was bailed by a Canadian court on Tuesday but could still be extradited to the US on fraud charges.
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| May Survives Confidence Vote to Face Uphill Struggle in Brexit Posted: 12 Dec 2018 01:38 PM PST  Theresa May survived an attempt to oust her as U.K. prime minister on Wednesday, but the size of the rebellion against her weakens her position at a critical time as she tries to steer the U.K. out of the European Union. May won a vote of confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party, with Tory members of Parliament backing her by 200 to 117 in the secret ballot.
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| Woman slams social media firms for baby ads after stillbirth Posted: 13 Dec 2018 12:33 AM PST  A woman whose child was stillborn has slammed the targeted advertising of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram after she returned home from the hospital and kept getting baby-related sales pitches. Gillian Brockell, a journalist with The Washington Post, said that if those social media giants were clever enough to know she was pregnant they should also have figured out she'd lost the baby. "I know you knew I was pregnant," Brockell wrote to the companies in a letter posted Wednesday on The Washington Post and Twitter.
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| AD and LIFEWTR Celebrate the Opening of The Haas Brothers: Ferngully at The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Posted: 13 Dec 2018 01:54 PM PST |
| Israeli woman hurt in Palestinian attack loses baby, gunman killed Posted: 12 Dec 2018 08:25 PM PST ![Israeli woman hurt in Palestinian attack loses baby, gunman killed]( "Israeli woman hurt in Palestinian attack loses baby, gunman killed") A baby who was delivered prematurely to an Israeli woman wounded in a Palestinian drive-by shooting in the occupied West Bank died in hospital on Wednesday, officials said, hours before the gunman was killed by pursuing Israeli forces. Shira Ish-Ran, seven months pregnant, her husband and five others were injured in Sunday's attack at a bus stop outside the Jewish settlement of Ofra in the occupied West Bank. "The security forces are in pursuit of the murderer." After he spoke, Israel's Shin Bet security service said troops operating near the West Bank city of Ramallah tried to arrest Omar al-Barghouthi, a Palestinian who was among suspects in the Ofra attack, but shot him dead when he tried to escape.
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| 401(k): How does the stock market drop affect my retirement savings? Posted: 12 Dec 2018 09:13 AM PST  401(k) retirement plans are taking a hit from the stock market drop. Declines are steeper for all-stock portfolios.
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| The Latest: Insurance claims at $9 billion from fires Posted: 12 Dec 2018 10:39 AM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on California wildfires all times local):
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| GOP chairman: Vote tally sharing would warrant new election Posted: 11 Dec 2018 06:48 PM PST  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Republican Party chairman said Tuesday that the state should order a new election in an unresolved congressional race if an affidavit alleging some early voting totals were improperly shared before Election Day is accurate.
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| Irish police home in on classic car scam with four arrests Posted: 12 Dec 2018 04:20 AM PST  Four men were arrested during a Garda operation that targeted sellers of classic cars in County Limerick, Ireland – after evidence of deception was uncovered
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| Middle School Student Dumps Trump From His Name After Relentless Bullying Posted: 12 Dec 2018 09:58 PM PST  A middle school student in Delaware has been allowed to change his surname
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| Race to broker truce as Yemen talks enter final hours Posted: 12 Dec 2018 01:36 PM PST  With just hours left before the close of negotiations, UN mediators rushed to broker a truce Wednesday between government representatives and rebels in Yemen, a country teetering on the brink of famine. The UN talks opened last week in Sweden, the first meeting in two years between Yemen's Huthi rebels and the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, backed since 2015 by a behemoth military coalition led by Saudi Arabia. Taiz, the southwestern city controlled by the government and surrounded by the rebels, is no longer under discussion at the talks, scheduled to close on Thursday.
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| Three Missing People Have Been Found Alive in an Abandoned West Virginia Coal Mine Posted: 12 Dec 2018 07:59 PM PST  Three people missing since last weekend were found alive Wednesday in an underground coal mine in West Virginia, authorities said.
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| Detained Canadian in China being probed for harming state security Posted: 12 Dec 2018 08:39 AM PST  The state-run Beijing News said on Wednesday that Kovrig, who works for the International Crisis Group (ICG), had become the subject of an investigation by the Beijing State Security Bureau. "Canadian citizen Michael John Kovrig was on Dec. 10 investigated in accordance with the law by the Beijing State Security Bureau on suspicion of engaging in activities that harm China's state security," the newspaper said in a brief report.
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| United Airlines expands in San Francisco with flights to Melbourne, New Delhi, Toronto Posted: 12 Dec 2018 10:04 AM PST  United Airlines on Wednesday announced a major expansion at San Francisco International Airport, adding flights to Melbourne, New Delhi and Toronto.
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| Jailed former Venezuela oil minister dies in state custody Posted: 12 Dec 2018 05:10 PM PST  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nelson Martinez, the jailed former head of Venezuela's state-run oil giant PDVSA who was arrested last year as part of anti-corruption purge, died in state custody Wednesday, authorities said.
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| Modi's Terrible 24 Hours Boosts India Opponents Before 2019 Vote Posted: 11 Dec 2018 07:34 PM PST  First came the abrupt resignation on Monday night of Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel, which sent stock, bond and currency markets tumbling when they reopened on Tuesday. Then Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party faced defeat in three key states that he carried in his 2014 national victory, in what amounts to his biggest political setback since taking office. "The results reveal the declining political stock of Narendra Modi going into the national elections," said Katharine Adeney, director of University of Nottingham's Asia Research Institute.
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| Lawmaker arrested for child cruelty says he spanked daughter Posted: 12 Dec 2018 07:10 PM PST  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker arrested on suspicion of child cruelty said Wednesday the allegation stemmed from spanking his 7-year-old daughter.
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| Google CEO Had To Explain To Congress Why Googling 'Idiot' Shows Donald Trump Posted: 12 Dec 2018 03:32 AM PST  Search for the term "idiot" on Google and several photographs of President
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| Apple unveils plan for $1 bn campus in Texas, US expansion Posted: 13 Dec 2018 12:10 PM PST  Apple unveiled plans Thursday for a $1 billion campus in Texas that will create jobs for the tech giant outside Silicon Valley, a move made without the fanfare of the recent Amazon headquarters bidding war. Currently, Apple employs some 6,200 in the Texas capital, the largest cluster outside its headquarters in Cupertino, California. In January, Apple said it would invest $30 billion in the US over the next five years and create 20,000 new jobs, using some of the overseas profits repatriated at a tax rate lowered under a law passed by Congress last year.
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| Every Angle of the 2019 Toyota Prius Posted: 13 Dec 2018 01:00 PM PST |
| Fueled by Jamal Khashoggi murder, Senate poised to open historic debate on U.S. role in Yemen war Posted: 12 Dec 2018 03:13 AM PST ![Fueled by Jamal Khashoggi murder, Senate poised to open historic debate on U.S. role in Yemen war]( "Fueled by Jamal Khashoggi murder, Senate poised to open historic debate on U.S. role in Yemen war") The Senate will vote Wednesday on a measure to end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, where a civil war has killed thousands
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| Israeli forces kill Palestinian wanted in drive-by shooting Posted: 12 Dec 2018 02:17 PM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces killed a Palestinian suspect wanted in a drive-by shooting at a West Bank bus stop, shooting him Wednesday just hours after an Israeli baby delivered prematurely as a result of the weekend attack died.
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| $525-million wrongful-death lawsuit to be filed in shooting of man at Hollywood Walgreens, attorneys say Posted: 11 Dec 2018 08:46 PM PST  Attorneys for the family of a homeless man who was fatally shot by a Walgreens security guard in Hollywood earlier this month announced a wrongful death lawsuit against the company.
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| 'Pegan' diets and foil pack dinners to trend in 2019: Pinterest Posted: 12 Dec 2018 02:59 AM PST  In 2019, families will be baking their own bread and smearing it with batches of homemade jam. Searches for "homemade jam" rose +829 percent: A search for "homemade jam" on Pinterest yields row after row of mason jars filled with berry, stone fruit jams and jellies. Foil pack dinner +759 percent: Who needs plates anymore when you can cook an entire meal in envelopes of aluminum foil?
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| The Latest: Flynn requests probation, community service Posted: 11 Dec 2018 09:36 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election (all times local):
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| Huawei's Washington Presence Dwindles Amid Legal Brawl With U.S. Posted: 13 Dec 2018 01:00 AM PST  The company now keeps a three-person skeleton staff at its office on 15th Street, a few blocks from the White House, according to a person familiar with its operations. Huawei depleted its ranks in the nation's capital months before facing what could be the legal fight of its life: a U.S. extradition request to Canada, which on Dec. 1 arrested Huawei's finance chief over charges she conspired to evade sanctions against Iran. As the legal brawl risked spilling over into efforts by the U.S. and China to ease their trade tensions, President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday in an interview with Reuters that he'd intervene in the case if he thought it would help him get a trade deal with China.
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