| Nooses Hung At Mississippi State Capitol Just Before Runoff Election Posted: 26 Nov 2018 01:04 PM PST  Nooses hanging from trees and hateful signs were found at the Mississippi
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| Camp Fire, California's Deadliest In History, Now 100 Percent Contained Posted: 25 Nov 2018 04:55 PM PST  The devastating Camp fire ― a massive blaze that engulfed more than 153,000
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| Yahoo News Explains: What’s next for Brexit? Posted: 26 Nov 2018 09:03 AM PST  The United Kingdom has taken another step towards securing a Brexit deal with the European Union. "This deal delivers what people voted for and it is in the national interest," U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said.
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| Number of injured in 6.3 magnitude Iran quake rises to 716 Posted: 25 Nov 2018 11:46 PM PST  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian authorities said Monday that the number of injured in the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in western Iran the previous night has risen to 716. No fatalities were reported from the temblor.
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| See Every Angle of the New 2019 Mercedes-Benz A-Class Sedan Posted: 26 Nov 2018 12:04 PM PST |
| GM To Cut 14,700 Jobs And Close Plants In North America Posted: 26 Nov 2018 08:13 AM PST  DETROIT (AP) -- The Latest on General Motors' restructuring plans (all times
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| The Internet Was Happy to Help Reunite These Long-Lost Childhood BFFs Posted: 26 Nov 2018 09:40 AM PST  I'm not crying, you're crying
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| Russian seizure of Ukrainian naval ships off Crimea sparks alarm Posted: 25 Nov 2018 10:06 PM PST  Russia has seized three Ukrainian naval ships in waters near Moscow-annexed Crimea, raising fears of military escalation and prompting an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday. In an unprecedented incident, Russia used weapons against the Ukranian ships which it claims illegally entered its waters before boarding and searching them, the country's FSB security service confirmed. The crisis unfolded on Sunday as two Ukrainian small warships and a tugboat were heading through the Kerch Strait, a narrow waterway that gives access to the Sea of Azov that is used by Ukraine and Russia.
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| On solo Zambia trip, Prince Harry offers help to boost elephant numbers Posted: 26 Nov 2018 10:51 AM PST  Britain's Prince Harry on Monday offered Zambia support with boosting the country's dwindling elephant population, as he began a two-day working visit without his pregnant wife Meghan. The Duke of Sussex, 34, was received at Lusaka airport by dignitaries and colorfully-dressed traditional dancers, later holding a closed-door meeting with Zambian President Edgar Lungu and his ministers. As president of animal conservation charity African Parks, Harry offered to bring elephants from neighboring Botswana.
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| Here Are The Other Mall Shootings That Happened During Black Friday Posted: 24 Nov 2018 06:56 PM PST  In the hours before Black Friday, chaos broke out at a crowded mall in Hoover,
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| Death toll in California fire rises to 87 Posted: 24 Nov 2018 10:16 PM PST  The death toll in northern California's so-called "Camp Fire" rose to 87, officials said late Saturday, adding that the blaze was almost fully under control. Cal Fire, the state fire authority, said in its latest bulletin that the fire - which broke out on November 8 - was 98 percent contained. More than 153,000 acres have been torched, with nearly 14,000 homes and hundreds of other structures destroyed by the powerful blaze, California's deadliest and most destructive fire ever.
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| Nooses Found Outside Mississippi State Capitol On Eve Of Senate Runoff Posted: 26 Nov 2018 01:14 PM PST  Officials are investigating a set of two nooses that were found hanging outside the Mississippi State Capitol on Monday morning, NBC News reported. There were also a number of signs on the Capitol grounds referencing the racially charged Senate runoff race, which will take place tomorrow.
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| Liz Weston: 5 guidelines for holiday tipping Posted: 26 Nov 2018 07:47 AM PST  Holiday tips are a way to thank the people who make your life easier. So why is it so hard to figure out whom to tip and how much?
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| 'Heartbreaking' stranding on remote New Zealand beach leaves 145 whales dead Posted: 25 Nov 2018 10:00 PM PST  Up to 145 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding on a remote part of a small New Zealand island, authorities said on Monday. The stranding was discovered by a hiker late on Saturday on Stewart Island, 19 miles off the southern coast of the South Island. Half of the whales were already dead and due to the condition of the remaining whales and the remote, difficult to access location, the decision was made to euthanise the remainder. "Sadly, the likelihood of being able to successfully re-float the remaining whales was extremely low," said Ren Leppens, the Department of Conservation's operations manager on Stewart Island. "The remote location, lack of nearby personnel and the whales' deteriorating condition meant the most humane thing to do was to euthanise. "However, it's always a heart-breaking decision to make." It was one of four strandings discovered on New Zealand shores over the weekend. Whale strandings are relatively common on New Zealand shores, with the conservation department responding to an average 85 incidents a year, mostly of single animals. Around 145 pilot whales died in a mass stranding on a beach on Stewart Island Credit: Reuters On Sunday, 10 pygmy killer whales stranded at 90 Mile Beach at the top of the North Island. Two have since died and attempts will be made Tuesday to re-float the survivors. A sperm whale which beached on nearby Doubtless Bay died overnight on Saturday, while the body of a dead female pygmy sperm whale was found at Ohiwa on the west coast of the North Island. Exactly why whales and dolphins strand is not fully known but factors can include sickness, navigational error, geographical features, a rapidly falling tide, being chased by a predator, or extreme weather.
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| Ukraine Partially Imposes Martial Law After Russia Flare-Up Posted: 26 Nov 2018 02:23 PM PST  President Petro Poroshenko said martial law was needed to ready Ukraine for potential further Russian aggression amid fears Sunday's incident near Crimea would rekindle the simmering four-year-old conflict between the two former allies. While Ukraine's Western partners blamed Russia, calls for harsher sanctions were only heard from smaller nations.
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| Romaine lettuce still causing major e coli outbreaks across US and now spreading to Canada Posted: 26 Nov 2018 10:55 AM PST  Investigators are still working to identify the source of batches of romaine lettuce believed to be linked to multiple outbreaks of E. coli spreading across the United States and Canada. The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has not yet released updates regarding the total number of people taken ill during the major outbreaks since it issued a warning last week that identified at least 32 cases across 11 states. The outbreak now appears to have spread to Canada, with health officials and investigators believing more than 20 cases of E. coli in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick were linked to the spread in the US.
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| 28 Honest Tweets That Explain What Married Life Is Actually Like Posted: 26 Nov 2018 02:40 PM PST  The longer you've been married, the more you realize that many of the weird
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| Activists, Politicians React With Horror At Border Scenes Of Tear-Gassed Children Posted: 25 Nov 2018 08:50 PM PST  Activists, Democratic politicians and others watching the news Sunday reacted
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| High Schools Decide Giving Nazi Salute In Photo Won’t Net Suspension, But Kneeling During National Anthem Will Posted: 25 Nov 2018 12:01 AM PST  High schools in the United States have made a series of controversial decision regarding the free speech of their students — giving a Nazi salute won't lead to a suspension in Wisconsin, but kneeling during the national anthem will lead to one in Louisiana. This week, a Wisconsin high school at the center of a national controversy decided that male students who appeared to give a Nazi salute in a junior prom photo will not be punished for it. As Newsweek reported, the picture showed close to 60 boys from Baraboo High School raising their arm in an apparent Nazi salute.
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| Watchdog mulls sending team to Syria after gas attack Posted: 26 Nov 2018 07:19 AM PST  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog is considering sending inspectors to investigate an alleged poison gas attack by rebels in Syria that wounded dozens, its director-general said Monday.
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| Kavanaugh And Gorsuch Confirmations Force Progressives To Rethink The Supreme Court Posted: 25 Nov 2018 08:07 AM PST  The recent confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and
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| View Photos of the Electric 2021 Rivian R1T Posted: 26 Nov 2018 05:00 AM PST |
| Mars InSight mission: What Nasa's trip to Red Planet aims to discover Posted: 26 Nov 2018 12:48 PM PST  Nasa has touched down on Mars for the first time in six years in a mission designed to mine more information about the Red Planet. The US space agency's latest probe, InSight, landed on the planet at 7.55pm (UK time), having travelled for six months and 300 million miles. In an extremely tricky landing, the lander slowed down from 12,300mph to 5mph, the equivalent of human jogging speed, in just seven minutes after hitting Mars's atmosphere. The mission follows in the footsteps of the Curiosity rover, which landed there in 2012, but the $1bn joint US-European mission will break new ground - literally and metaphorically. Here's what you need to know about the landmark mission. What will InSight do? Curiosity has been moving around Mars, scouring different areas. InSight, however, will be staying in one place for its two-year mission. InSight is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. As its lengthy name suggests, its objective is to dig into the planet's interior. On the surface of Mars, its 6-foot (1.8-meter) arm will remove the two main science experiments from the lander's deck and place them directly on the Martian surface. This is already uncharted territory in space exploration. In this May 4, 2018 photo, the mobile service tower is rolled back to reveal the United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket with NASA's InSight spacecraft onboard at Vandenberg Air Force Base Credit: AP One experiment is intended to take Mars' temperature by drilling down 16 feet (5 meters) into the planet, using a self-hammering nail. That would be a new record for such an experiment, breaking the one set nearly a half-century ago by Apollo moonwalkers, who drilled down 8 feet (2 ½meters). And just as those astronauts left behind instruments to measure moonquakes, InSight is bringing the first seismometers to monitor for marsquakes - if they exist. Yet another experiment will calculate Mars' wobble, providing information about the core of the planet as the sun and its moons pull on Mars. This illustration made available by NASA in 2018 shows the InSight lander drilling into the surface of Mars Credit: AP "It's got its own brain," said lead scientist Bruce Banerdt of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's got an arm that can manipulate things around. It can listen with its seismometer. It can feel things with the pressure sensors and the temperature sensors. It pulls its own power out of the sun." With no life detectors on board, its primary objective is not to look for signs of life, past or present. But that's not to say it won't be able to provide such clues. "When InSight drills down into the Martian soil, we'll learn more about how Mars and Earth formed. We'll know more about where we all came from, and why these two rocky worlds are so similar yet so different," Bill Nye, CEO of the nonprofit Planetary Society, said in a statement. "We may learn more about what kinds of planets can harbour life. InSight is more than a Mars mission -- it's a solar system mission." Mars Curiosity Rover | Top six discoveries Mars is much less geologically active than Earth, and so its interior is closer to being in its original state - a tantalizing time capsule. InSight stands to "revolutionise the way we think about the inside of the planet," said Nasa's science mission chief, Thomas Zurbuchen. The landing site InSight landed on a spot called Elysium Planitia, an area that astronomers have described as "the biggest parking lot on Mars". A sizable equatorial plain, Tom Hoffman, InSight's project manager, hoped it would be "like a Walmart parking lot in Kansas." Nasa aimed for as flat an area as possible so the lander does not tip over and thereby kill the mission, and so the robotic arm can set the science instruments down. "If Elysium Planitia were a salad, it would consist of romaine lettuce and kale - no dressing," Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said. "If it were an ice cream, it would be vanilla." In numbers | Mars The lander will stand close to the ground, its top deck barely a metre above the surface. Once its twin circular solar panels are open, it will take up the space of a large car. Mr Hoffman said selecting a suitable good landing site was "a lot like picking a good home". "It's all about location, location, location," he said. "And for the first time ever, the evaluation for a Mars landing site had to consider what lay below the surface of Mars. We needed not just a safe place to land, but also a workspace that's penetrable by our 16-foot-long (5-meter) heat-flow probe." This NASA illustration shows a simulated view of the InSight lander firing retrorockets to slow down as it descends toward the surface of Mars Credit: AFP Communication from the Red Planet Joining InSight for its extra-terrestrial mission are a pair of briefcase-size satellites, called MarCO. These experimental CubeSats, dubbed WALL-E and EVE from the 2008 animated movie, provided near-live updates during the lander's descent. The CubeSats will remain in perpetual orbit around the sun, their technology demonstration complete. Back on earth, people will have to be patient for results from InSight. While the first pictures of the landing site arrived shortly after touchdown, it will be at least 10 weeks before the science instruments are deployed. Then it will be another several weeks for Martian thermometer to dig into Mars. In total, the mission is intended to last two years - or one full Martian year.
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| Alabama mall shooting: Family of black man killed by police officer on Thanksgiving hires civil rights lawyer Posted: 25 Nov 2018 09:38 AM PST  The family of a 21-year-old black man who was shot by a police officer at shopping centre in Alabama on Thanksgiving has hired a national civil rights lawyer to represent them. Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr was fatally shot on Thursday night by a police officer who was responding to reports of gunfire at Hoover's Riverchase Galleria near the city of Birmingham. Authorities said a Hoover police officer who was working as security at the shopping mall confronted an armed man running away from the scene and fatally shot him.
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| White House Christmas decorations Posted: 26 Nov 2018 01:50 PM PST  First lady Melania Trump decorates the White House for Christmas
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| Contradicting Trump, Incoming Mexico Government Denies Making Deal To Host Asylum-Seekers Posted: 25 Nov 2018 04:33 AM PST  President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that asylum seekers would be
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| Russia seizes Ukrainian ships near annexed Crimea after firing on them Posted: 25 Nov 2018 03:08 PM PST  Russia's FSB security service said early on Monday its border patrol boats had seized the Ukrainian naval vessels in the Black Sea and used weapons to force them to stop, Russian news agencies reported. The FSB said it had been forced to act because the ships -- two small Ukrainian armored artillery vessels and a tug boat. "Weapons were used with the aim of forcibly stopping the Ukrainian warships," the FSB said in a statement circulated to Russian state media.
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| Leading medical supply maker reportedly linked to many breaches Posted: 25 Nov 2018 02:50 PM PST  A world leader in medical technology, the American firm Medtronic, may be linked to as many as 9,300 deaths and 292,000 injuries in the US alone, according to an analysis published Sunday by an international journalists' group. Reports submitted to US regulators last year indicate that one in five medical implants using Medtronic products proved problematic, twice the rate of any competing firm, according to a wide-reaching analysis by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The ICIJ inquiry, titled "Implant Files" and drawing on contributions from reporters in 36 countries, found that authorities in Japan, Norway and Australia had also identified Medtronic products as the source of the largest numbers of complaints over the past five years.
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| Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Is Tainted by Crisis After Crisis Posted: 26 Nov 2018 12:30 AM PST  Some of her staff, who saw the executive as larger than life, now blame her for Facebook's woes. Ever since the 2016 presidential election, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has been criticized for his failure to understand the potential downsides of Facebook's products. Sandberg escaped direct scrutiny until a New York Times report earlier this month linked some of Facebook's current woes to her decisions.
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| Lindsey Graham Accuses Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Of Comparing Refugee Caravan To Holocaust Posted: 26 Nov 2018 03:38 PM PST  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wasn't impressed when Rep.-elect Alexandria
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| The 2019 Fiat 500X Packs New Engine and Standard All-Wheel Drive beneath the Same Old Body Posted: 26 Nov 2018 06:00 AM PST  For its mid-cycle update, less attention was paid to restyling the 500X than re-engineering it.
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| Inside North Korea: How Kim Jong-un is carefully crafting a personality cult to keep grip on power Posted: 24 Nov 2018 10:00 PM PST  The tiny five-year-olds, dressed in pink tutus and bright, sequined shirts, were angelic as they sang in perfect chorus at the end of a half hour performance at the Changgwang kindergarten in downtown Pyongyang. Singing in harmony and clapping in unison, the smiling infants performed their catchy melody: "Our father is General Kim Il Sung…our home is our party…We envy nothing in the world." Visitors to the modern and well-equipped boarding school leave with an image of idyllic childhood after seeing pupils light up at the chance to show the few foreigners allowed to enter the country their high-tech game machines, sports classes, ballet performances, and immaculate artwork. But the demonstrations also offer an insight into one of the more chilling aspects of North Korean life: a conditioning from infancy to express fawning devotion to the ruling Kim family. Three generations of the dynasty, from current leader Kim Jong-un, to his father Kim Jong-il, and war hero grandfather, Kim Il Sung, are venerated as deities and their personality cults permeate daily life with a suffocating effect. Kim Jong-il greets residents at one of Pyonyang's subway entrances Credit: Eddie Mulholland But while the two elder Kims are omnipresent - their portraits adorning the walls of every household, factory, school, even metro carriages - the young, current leader has so far resisted self-aggrandising monuments. However, in a move seen as an attempt to cement the 35-year-old as life-long ruler and to head off any possible leadership challenge, he is rapidly creating his own generational chapter of family mythology through tales of his own benevolence, superhuman talents and exemplary feats. According to some of the most outlandish claims, he learned to drive at age three and became a competitive sailor at nine. Last year, state-run media reported his ability to change the weather as he ascended the country's sacred Mount Paektu through snow in black, leather shoes. Wedding groups gather at the Korean Revolution Museum to lay flowers at the statues of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il Credit: Eddie Mulholland In drip feed of carefully controlled state-published images of the leader, Kim is frequently photographed imparting his wisdom to officials scribbling in notebooks or to emotionally-overcome workers. On visits around Pyongyang last week the Telegraph learned of his "expert instructions" on the design of the natural history museum and on how to improve football boots. At the maternity hospital, Mun Chang-un, a guide, attributed the introduction of the epidural injection to the leader's sage advice. Portraits of North Korea's former leaders even make their way into the subway carriages Credit: Eddie Mulholland The sculpting of future generations to ensure their unwavering faith in the wisdom of the country's past and current "great leaders" is a top priority for the regime to keep its grip on power. In Changgwang, some 800 children living apart from their working parents, sing of their wish for Kim Jong-un to visit. In a history class, one boy sprang from his seat. "I will uphold highly the great, respected Kim Jong-un," he said to joyful clapping from his classmates. At the school's entrance, a floor to ceiling painting in soft pastels of Kim Il Sung surrounded by children, some sitting on his lap, frames him as a modern-day Jesus. "Let the little children come to me..the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these," says Jesus in the Gospel of St Matthew. "Young people are the successors to the revolution, a shock brigade in building a thriving nation and masters who will shoulder the future of Kim Il Sung's nation," states the red book of Kim Jong Un Aphorisms, volume 1, page 52. North Korea claims to be a non-religious state, but it has simply replaced religion with Kim family worship. Citizens bow deeply to imposing wax sculptures of "Eternal President" Kim Il Sung, while the party faithful proudly wear a red lapel pin depicting him and his son. The absence of Kim Jong-un billboards and portraits is noticeable and unexplained, although he is still officially idolised. Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung look down upon the population across the capital Credit: Eddie Mulholland He could be taking things slowly while moulding his own cult-like image around that of his grandfather, the most popular of the Kims, suggested Robert Kelly, a political science professor at South Korea's Busan university. "He is famously styling himself after Kim Il Sung, with the hair and the weight." He added: "It seems like the propaganda apparatus didn't really miss a beat. Kim Jong-un has been given all the relevant titles, he's been given the same majesty and superstitious exaggeration." Objects Kim once touched are revered – a hospital bed he sat on, a chair he used when addressing textile workers, now encased in a plastic box. Every factory has its own story of his concern to improve workers' lives. At the model Jangchon vegetable farm on the city's periphery, deputy manager Kim Yong-ho, 53, spoke of his joy when the "great Marshall" visited. "I felt really proud to have met such a great man as the leader of our country! He is like the sun to us," he said. Such is the depth of mass indoctrination that even the most innocuous everyday occurrences prompt spontaneous gratitude to the leader. Student Kim Song-gwang won an orange balloon after kissing a dolphin during a Sunday afternoon performance at the aquarium. "I am really impressed by the love and care of our great Marshall Kim Jong-un that we are enjoying ourselves in this wonderful location," he said, when asked about the event. Portraits sit above the sofa at the home of Kim Chun-Son. All portraits must be sanctioned by the state before being hung Credit: Eddie Mulholland But unlike his father and grandfather, Kim faces the challenge of keeping his people isolated from the global internet age to sustain his legendary status. As a result, the flow of outside information is still deeply curtailed. Most citizens may only access the state intranet and its heavily censored content, while calls or emails to foreigners must be officially registered. Foreign news is highly restricted. One educated Pyongyang resident recounted the details of the June Singapore summit between Kim and Donald Trump, the US president, but had not heard of the Thai cave rescue which gripped the world for two weeks. Pornography and Bibles are considered to be "evil methods of infiltration", used to "destabilise society." Individualism is discouraged, dissent is punished. In one of the more bizarre restrictions, men and women may not dye their hair, and should choose from approved styles, including the "butterfly", "seagull" and "coiled bundle." Korea experts question how long Kim can maintain such draconian control? Although popular for improving the economy and securing the North's nuclear weapons, Kim still faced future challenges to his power, said Andrei Lankov, a professor at Seoul's Kookmin university. "In order to keep the country stable they have to keep it isolated. If they open it, it will be suicidal for the elite and even for many common people because if you have revolution in North Korea it's going to be very messy and bloody," he said. Visitors to the Changgwang Kindergarten are presented with an idyllic image of childhood in North Korea Credit: Eddie Mulholland "Basically, you cannot maintain such a level of ideological mobilisation forever. Information is getting in. Kim Jong-un is now taking it very seriously, he is doing what he can to prevent people from learning too much about the outside world. But he cannot fully stop it." In a sign that the secluded society is slowly opening up, Oh Song Chong, 25, the soldier who was shot while made a daring defection across the border last year, told Japan's Sankei Shimbun paper this week that "probably 80% of my generation is indifferent and has no loyalty," to Kim. "I actually think that most North Koreans think the ideology is kind of bunk," said Robert Kelly. "My sense is that it serves two purposes. Firstly, it's a mobilisation tool and the second is that without the Kim cult then North Korea just becomes a poorer version of South Korea." For now, the regime's imperative remains shaping the minds of schoolchildren. At the Mangyongdae schoolchildren's palace, a surreal after-school club that hosts regular performances for tourists, students sang and executed flawless dance routines in praise of the nation's achievements. Ri Jin-hyang, a 12-year-old guide, wearing the red scarf of the Children's Union, a political organisation linked to the ruling Workers' Party, was unsure what to reply when asked what she knew about the UK. But her response on America was immediate and scripted to perfection. "The US is the country that invaded us," she said.
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| Alan Dershowitz says Mueller report 'is going to be devastating' for Trump Posted: 25 Nov 2018 03:30 AM PST  ABC News Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams and Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, a frequent defender of the president, join "This Week" to weigh in on the president's legal challenges.
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| Trump Slams CNN Again On Twitter, Proposes 'Starting Our Own Worldwide Network' Posted: 26 Nov 2018 12:06 PM PST  President Donald Trump has yet against waged a Twitter attack on CNN,
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| Beto O'Rourke Condemns Use Of Tear Gas On Asylum Seekers At Border Posted: 26 Nov 2018 01:07 PM PST  Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke is speaking out against violence against migrants at
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| Woman From Dallas Dies After Multiple Cosmetic Surgery Procedures In Mexico Posted: 25 Nov 2018 11:31 AM PST  A Texas real estate agent that CBS News reported was on life support after she received multiple plastic surgery procedures in Juarez, Mexico has died. Days earlier, the 35-year-old woman from Dallas had been moved to hospice care by her family, after she was placed into a medically-induced coma. During surgery for both rhinoplasty — commonly referred to as a "nose job" — and breast implant replacement at the Rino Center in late October, Avila reportedly suffered complications from the anesthesia before the surgeries were underway.
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| Ukrainian Assets Tumble as Crimea Tensions Eclipse IMF Progress Posted: 26 Nov 2018 06:18 AM PST  The incident, in which Russia's navy opened fire on a group of Ukrainian military ships near the Crimean peninsula, took yields on some bonds to the highest since they were sold over the last year. With elections looming in March, President Petro Poroshenko sought lawmaker approval to announce martial law at a hearing scheduled for 4 p.m. in Kiev.
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| EU agrees 'best possible' Brexit deal, urges Britons to back May Posted: 25 Nov 2018 08:08 AM PST  "Those who think that, by rejecting the deal, they would get a better deal, will be disappointed," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters after the 27 other EU leaders formally endorsed a treaty setting terms for British withdrawal in March and an outline of a future EU-UK trade pact. Asked whether there was any chance Brussels would reopen the pact if an alliance of pro- and anti-Brexit forces votes it down in the British parliament, Juncker said "this is the best deal possible", although summit chair Donald Tusk sounded more guarded, saying he did not want to consider hypotheticals. May used a post-summit news conference to make a sales pitch for her plan, telling television viewers at home that it was the "only possible deal", offering control of UK borders and budgets while maintaining close alignment with EU regulations that was good for business and the security of Britain and Europe.
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| Russian warplanes strike rebels after alleged gas attack Posted: 25 Nov 2018 09:14 AM PST  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russian warplanes attacked rebel-held areas in northern Syria for the first time in weeks on Sunday, as Syrian officials said more than 100 people were treated at hospitals for a suspected poison gas attack in the northern city of Aleppo that Damascus and Moscow blamed on rebels.
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| Here's a Good Deal on NOCO Jump Starters for Cyber Monday Posted: 26 Nov 2018 04:42 AM PST  Good news: They're 30 percent off today only.
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| Early US data show big jump in online holiday shopping Posted: 26 Nov 2018 10:04 AM PST  Early sales data released Monday and over the weekend suggested a strong start to the US holiday shopping season but analysts said it was too soon to declare victory overall. As of 1500 GMT, US shoppers had already doled out $531 million in online sales on "Cyber Monday," according to Adobe Analytics. Cyber Monday, the retail industry's big e-commerce push that comes just days after "Black Friday" opens the holiday shopping season, was expected to yield a total of $7.8 billion, up 18.3 percent from last year and in line to become the biggest e-commerce day in US history.
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| Former New York Yankee Vernon Wells III Lists His $8.5 Million Texas Mansion—Complete with Batting Cage Posted: 26 Nov 2018 01:20 PM PST  A look inside the luxurious Mediterranean-inspired villa with an entire wing devoted to spa treatments
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| Alan Dershowitz Predicts Mueller Report Will Be 'Politically Very Devastating' For Trump Posted: 25 Nov 2018 11:01 AM PST  Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor and frequent defender of President
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| GM Stock Price Shoots Up On Announcement Of Thousands Of Job Cuts Posted: 26 Nov 2018 01:15 PM PST  The news out of Detroit Monday offered a stark reminder that the fortunes of
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