| For Bill Taylor, first impeachment witness, 'everything's easy after Vietnam' Posted: 12 Nov 2019 02:00 AM PST  Most Americans came to know Taylor on Oct. 3, when Democrats released text messages that showed him calling it "crazy to withhold security assistance [to Ukraine] for help with a political campaign."
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| Venezuela ex-intel chief missing in Spain ahead of US extradition: police Posted: 13 Nov 2019 01:46 AM PST  Venezuela's former military intelligence chief has gone missing in Spain just days after a court approved a request for his extradition to the United States on drug trafficking charges, police said Wednesday. "They are currently looking for him," said a spokeswoman for Spain's national police, referring to General Hugo Armando Carvajal. Judicial sources said police had gone to his house in Madrid after Friday's court decision but could not find him.
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| Italian ship attacked by pirates in Mexico, two crew hurt Posted: 12 Nov 2019 03:45 PM PST ![Italian ship attacked by pirates in Mexico, two crew hurt]( "Italian ship attacked by pirates in Mexico, two crew hurt") Pirates attacked an Italy-flagged offshore supply vessel in the southern Gulf of Mexico, injuring two crew members, the Mexican Navy said on Tuesday, in the latest outbreak of robbery and piracy to hit oil platforms and infrastructure in the area. Owned by Italian offshore contractor Micoperi, the boat is a supply vessel for Mexico's oil industry. Micoperi and the Italian embassy in Mexico did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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| Chinese, other students flee Hong Kong as violence worsens Posted: 13 Nov 2019 02:59 AM PST  University students from mainland China and Taiwan are fleeing Hong Kong, while those from three Scandinavian countries have been moved or urged to leave as college campuses become the latest battleground in the city's 5-month-long anti-government unrest. Marine police used a boat Wednesday to help a group of mainland students leave the Chinese University of Hong Kong, which remained barricaded by demonstrators after violent clashes with police on Tuesday.
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| An Air India flight was delayed nearly 12 hours after a stowaway rat was spotted in the cabin Posted: 13 Nov 2019 08:30 AM PST  "The rat was located and trapped. Then the aircraft was fumigated," a representative from Air India said, according to Indian local media.
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| Climate change is damaging the health of the world's children and threatens lifelong impact, report says Posted: 13 Nov 2019 03:31 PM PST  Climate change is already damaging children's health worldwide and could shape the well-being of an entire generation.
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| What North Korea Would Do if Trump Attacked: A Rocket Artillery Strike? Posted: 13 Nov 2019 11:00 AM PST  Would it be the end of the Peninsula?
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| 51 children injured in chemical attack at China kindergarten Posted: 11 Nov 2019 11:54 PM PST  More than 50 people, mostly children, were injured by a man who broke into a kindergarten in southwest China and sprayed them with corrosive liquid, local authorities said Tuesday. The suspect, a 23-year-old surnamed Kong, entered the kindergarten by climbing a wall before spraying victims with sodium hydroxide, said local authorities in Kaiyuan city, Yunnan province. The attack took place on Monday at 3:35 pm (0735 GMT), authorities said on their Twitter-like Weibo account.
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| Over 100 people leave Mexican Mormon village after massacre Posted: 12 Nov 2019 02:59 PM PST  MEXICO CITY/ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) - More than 100 members of a U.S.-Mexican community of Mormon origin have left their homes in northern Mexico after an ambush killed nine of their number, relatives said on Tuesday. Since the massacre last week of three mothers and six children by suspected cartel gunmen, families have been streaming out of La Mora, a remote farming village in the state of Sonora, said Taylor Langford, a relative of the victims. Some of the members were leaving temporarily, others permanently, but almost all would return if security were better, said Langford, 27, who grew up in La Mora and now lives in Utah.
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| Is Nikki Haley auditioning to replace Pence on Trump's 2020 ticket? Posted: 12 Nov 2019 08:34 AM PST  Less than three months ago, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations tried to tamp down speculation that she might replace the vice president on Trump's 2020 ticket. But multiple political observers say her new book tour is doubling as an audition for the role.
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| 'Words matter': Trump accused of fuelling attacks on Hispanics as violent hate crimes hit 16-year high Posted: 12 Nov 2019 05:45 PM PST  Violent hate crimes have climbed to a 16-year year high in the US, with a surge in attacks on Hispanics, according to FBI data.Reports of hate crimes dipped slightly in 2018 from an alarming increase the previous year, but violence rose as attacks increasingly targeting people instead of property.
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| Georgia set to execute man for store clerk's killing in 1994 Posted: 12 Nov 2019 10:29 PM PST  Prison officials in Georgia prepared to execute a man Wednesday evening for the fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk 25 years ago. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection after 7 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. The state says Cromartie also shot and gravely wounded another convenience store clerk days earlier.
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| Trump impeachment hearings confirm 'no quid pro quo' defense is a lie Posted: 13 Nov 2019 04:04 PM PST  As Bill Taylor and George Kent testified, Ukraine needed military aid, and Donald Trump cared less about Ukraine than about the Biden probe: Our view
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| U.S. Supreme Court declines to shield gun maker from Sandy Hook lawsuit Posted: 12 Nov 2019 07:11 AM PST  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a blow to the firearms industry, rejecting Remington Arms Co's bid to escape a lawsuit by families of victims aiming to hold the gun maker liable for its marketing of the assault-style rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre that killed 20 children and six adults. The justices turned away Remington's appeal of a ruling by Connecticut's top court to let the lawsuit proceed despite a federal law that broadly shields firearms manufacturers from liability when their weapons are used in crimes. The lawsuit will move forward at a time of high passions in the United States over the issue of gun control.
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| 2020 Subaru Outback vs. 2019 Honda Passport in Photos Posted: 13 Nov 2019 04:59 AM PST |
| How Did Nazi Germany Crush France During World War II So Easily? Posted: 11 Nov 2019 06:30 PM PST  Though Germany eventually lost World War II and France again ended up on the victorious side, the leadership traits demonstrated before and during the battle in 1940 are textbook examples of what makes for great leadership—and what kind of leadership leads to defeat.
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| The U.S. Navy canceled a routine Black Sea operation after Trump complained that it was hostile to Russia Posted: 13 Nov 2019 11:01 AM PST  Christopher Anderson, an aide to Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine, testified that the White House canceled a Navy freedom-of-navigation operation in the Black Sea after President Trump complained to then-national security adviser John Bolton about a CNN report that framed the operation as a counter to Russia, Politico reported.
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| Korean survivor says Japan's no-show at 'comfort women' case in Seoul lacks honor Posted: 13 Nov 2019 02:47 AM PST  A South Korean woman who had been forced to work in a Japanese wartime military brothel said Japan lacked honor for failing to attend a South Korean court on Wednesday as it began hearing a civil case brought against its government by a group of victims. "I am a living proof of history," said Lee Yong-soo, the 91-year-old survivor, her voice quaking with emotion as she addressed a news conference held near the courthouse, before proceedings began. Reminders of Japan's 1910-45 colonization of the Korean peninsula are inflammatory for both sides.
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| GOP Senator Says Republicans Don’t Have the Votes to Immediately Halt Senate Impeachment Hearing Posted: 13 Nov 2019 12:19 PM PST  Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) told reporters on Wednesday that Senate Republicans lack the votes required to immediately dismiss articles of impeachment, should they be approved by the House.Republicans have floated the possibility of striking down articles of impeachment immediately upon their arrival in the Senate, but Cornyn said that would be difficult to accomplish because a number of Senate Republicans would likely defect and vote to proceed with the hearing."There's some people talking about trying to stop the bill, dismiss charges basically as soon as they get over here," Cornyn said in comments reported by The Hill. "I think that's not going to happen. That would require 51 votes.""I think it would be hard to find 51 votes to cut the case off before the evidence is presented," Cornyn continued.In order to remove President Trump from office, the Senate would need to approve impeachment by 67 votes or a two-thirds majority of those present. Around 20 Republican Senators would need to join Democrats for the impeachment articles to pass, something Cornyn believed was highly unlikely.However, Cornyn said it would be best to let the impeachment process play out in a trial to "let each side have their say.""In the end, we need to have a process that the American people think was fair," Cornyn added.House Democrats held public hearings on Wednesday as part of the impeachment inquiry into whether President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine to pressure the country to investigate corruption allegations against political rival Joe Biden.Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified during the hearings that Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, remarked that Trump "cared more" about the investigations into Biden than wider U.S. policy toward Ukraine.President Trump and Republican allies have slammed the impeachment inquiry, with Trump repeatedly calling the inquiry a "hoax" and a "witch hunt." Trump denies conditioning aid to Ukraine on investigations into Biden.
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| A gun known as the 'cop-killer' used in killing of Ohio detective during drug raid, officials said Posted: 13 Nov 2019 11:44 AM PST  Detective Jorge DelRio was working as part of a DEA task force when he was shot in the face after entering a home. He died days later.
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| The fight for justice over Myanmar's Rohingya 'genocide' Posted: 13 Nov 2019 10:43 AM PST  Myanmar is facing a barrage of legal challenges from all over the world in an attempt to hold it accountable over the alleged genocide against its Rohingya Muslim population. West African nation The Gambia this week launched a case at the UN's top court while rights groups have filed a separate lawsuit in Argentina. Meanwhile investigations at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague continue into the 2017 military crackdown that forced some 740,000 Rohingya to flee into Bangladesh.
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| Poland seizes two for plotting Breivik-style attacks on Muslims Posted: 13 Nov 2019 07:56 AM PST ![Poland seizes two for plotting Breivik-style attacks on Muslims]( "Poland seizes two for plotting Breivik-style attacks on Muslims") Polish agents arrested two people accused of planning attacks against Muslims inspired by Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik and suspected white supremacist Brenton Tarrant in New Zealand, the security service said on Wednesday. The arrests follow a spate of attacks involving white supremacists targeting ethnic and religious minorities across the globe. Far-right groups have grown in strength in Poland, the largest of the European Union's post-communist states.
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| Why China Loves Russia's Su-35 Fighter (And Might Buy Even More of Them) Posted: 12 Nov 2019 04:13 AM PST  But a larger question looms.
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| The US is being hit by a frigid, early cold snap that has killed at least 6 people and could break 100 temperature records Posted: 13 Nov 2019 03:50 AM PST  The National Weather Service said the unseasonal cold air, which spread from Kansas to Minnesota to Kentucky to New York, has brought an early winter.
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| University of Florida students threaten impeachment for Trump Jr.'s visit Posted: 13 Nov 2019 10:46 AM PST  The student body president at the University of Florida is facing an impeachment threat for spending $50,000 in student fees to bring Trump's eldest son and his girlfriend to campus.
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| George Conway Blasts GOP’s ‘Incoherent’ Hearing Performance in MSNBC Debut Posted: 13 Nov 2019 01:16 PM PST  George Conway—conservative lawyer, Trump critic, and husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway—got the first word on MSNBC after Wednesday's impeachment hearing finally wrapped up just after 3:30 p.m. ET. And he did not paint a pretty picture for Republicans. "Yes, that George Conway," Brian Williams said, introducing the new pundit. "I don't think the Republicans made much headway there," Conway said. "You saw some non-partisan professionals basically just tell us the facts. And the facts are quite damning. And the defenses that were put up by the Republicans were fundamentally illogical and incoherent."Conway summed up one of those defense of the president as "Hey, they actually got the money, the Ukrainians got the money, and Zelensky didn't make a statement" regarding Hunter Biden. "But the fact of the matter is, it was the ask that was illegal.""The second point they tried to make was that these witnesses didn't have firsthand communications with the president of the United States," he continued. "Well, the reason why we don't have testimony of firsthand communications with the president of the United States is because the White House has been blocking that! And other than that, there were just a lot of irrelevancies." White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham offered up the latter defense on Twitter during the hearings, leaving out the fact that the Trump administration has specifically prevents those closest to Trump—like John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, and Mike Pompeo—from appearing at the hearings. Conway made his surprise debut as an MSNBC pundit on Wednesday as part of the network's special impeachment hearing coverage, explaining that he is "horrified" and "appalled" that more Republicans have not been willing to speak out against President Trump."This is about the country, people doing the right thing by the country and not by their party," Conway said earlier in the day. "And this is about telling the truth about what really happened and not about party loyalty. This is about putting the country, the law, truth above partisanship."Meghan McCain Explains Why Kellyanne Conway Will Never Betray TrumpRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Atlanta college student Alexis Crawford was choked to death, dumped in park, police say Posted: 13 Nov 2019 06:18 AM PST  Authorities say Alexis Crawford and her roommate Jordyn Jones had a physical altercation and Jones' boyfriend intervened and choked Crawford to death.
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| Court rules against warrantless searches of phones, laptops Posted: 12 Nov 2019 08:10 PM PST  A federal court in Boston has ruled that warrantless U.S. government searches of the phones and laptops of international travelers at airports and other U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. Tuesday's ruling in U.S. District Court came in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched without individualized suspicion at U.S. ports of entry. ACLU attorney Esha Bhandari said the ruling strengthens the Fourth Amendment protections of international travelers who enter the United States every year.
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| Clinton says she is being urged by ‘many, many, many people’ to run in 2020 Posted: 12 Nov 2019 02:19 PM PST  Hillary Clinton on Tuesday declined to rule out launching a future presidential campaign after her two failed bids, saying "many, many, many people" were pressuring her to enter the race. "I, as I say, never, never, never say never," the former secretary of State said on BBC Radio 5 Live. "But as of this moment, sitting here in this studio talking to you, that is absolutely not in my plans," Clinton added.
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| Former Bolivia president Evo Morales flees to Mexico as country descends into chaos Posted: 12 Nov 2019 02:28 AM PST  Former Bolivian president Evo Morales has flown to Mexico after fleeing his South American homeland which has descended into chaos following an allegedly rigged election.
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| See Photos of the 2020 Jeep Wrangler EcoDiesel Posted: 11 Nov 2019 09:01 PM PST |
| Twelve killed in Slovakia bus crash Posted: 13 Nov 2019 05:57 AM PST  A lorry carrying gravel collided with a passenger bus, killing 12 people in western Slovakia on Wednesday, the country's deadliest road accident in a decade, police said. The truck was probably overloaded and wobbled, causing it to strike the bus on its side, Interior Minister Denisa Sakova told reporters as she headed to the site of the accident. Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini said in a statement he would end an official visit to Cyprus a day early to return to Slovakia and visit the site of the accident as well as the injured in nearby hospitals.
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| Socialism Stinks: The Unfortunate Lessons of Venezuela's Central Planning Posted: 11 Nov 2019 11:29 PM PST  Socialism doesn't work.
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| German air force rejects delivery of two Airbus planes Posted: 13 Nov 2019 07:08 AM PST  Germany's air force said Wednesday it had refused delivery of two Airbus A400M transport planes over technical faults, saying bolts holding the propellers on some already operational aircraft were loose. Repeated technical problems have dogged the A400M programme, a turboprop transport aircraft developed jointly for Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey.
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| Mysterious Professor at Heart of Russian Investigation Returns for Impeachment Proceedings Posted: 13 Nov 2019 12:51 PM PST  Chip Somodevilla/GettyROME—Joseph Mifsud, the erstwhile professor from Malta whose promise to help then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign aide George Papadopoulos get his hands on Russian "dirt" about Hillary Clinton has reportedly resurfaced. On Wednesday, the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera posted a six-minute audio recording in English it says Mifsud sent from an anonymous email account late Tuesday night. A short time later, the Italian news agency Adnkronos published a clip it received. Whether other publications received the Mifsud missive is not clear, nor is the more important question of whether it's genuine. Last summer Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham traveled to Rome twice to learn what they could from Italian secret service officials about the professor as part of their investigation into the Russian investigation led by Robert Mueller. Mifsud has not been seen for two years and speculation has swirled around the question of whether he is still alive and, if he is, who is supporting him.Barr Went to Rome to Hear a Secret Tape From Joseph Mifsud, the Professor Who Helped Ignite the Russia ProbeThe Corriere clip starts with a brief introduction. "Today is the 11th of November 2019" and continues, "I am Joseph Mifsud speaking, this is my voice." It does sound like other recordings of Mifsud.He goes on to say that he has had "no contact with friends and family for a number of months now." While he doesn't say where he is or where he has been, it is clear that—if this is Mifsud—he hopes that he can come back out from under whatever rock he has been hiding under for the last two years. "It is extremely important finally … that I am given the possibility of coming back to life," the voice says. "It has been very, very difficult for me to live like this, without any human contact, without a human experience, and I believe that I should be given the opportunity to do that. It is extremely important that somebody somewhere decides to let me breathe again."He does not say who is keeping him from resurfacing or why he has chosen to go underground. But he does make a laborious attempt to explain that he is "just a networker" who connects people who might be interested in "similar topics.""It's been almost two years to date that the whole issue—blown up issue—has been presented to the world's media and on the world's stage, as if I had something to do with issues concerning countries," the man says, without naming which countries or issues those are. He then goes on to deny infiltrating "programs, contacts or any other institutions of the world."The Mifsud voice does not mention that he has been accused of being a Russian asset in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Nor does me mention Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about their interactions. Nor does the man who says he is Mifsud say he has also been accused by deep state conspiracy theorists that he was sent as a lure to trap Trump by then-President Barack Obama. Instead, he calls all accusations that he is anything but an academic absurd. "I try to bring one group in contact with another," he said. "Not, not repeat and underline, nobody in any service, secret service, intelligence service or anybody of this sort." He then goes on to qualify that if he had met any such spooks, he didn't know it. "If I had any contact with this, I have not known that this person or that person had any link with any institution," the man claiming to be Mifsud says. Mifsud's own lawyer, Stephan Roh, has insinuated that his client was forced into hiding by Italian intelligence officials to avoid compromising the investigation into Mueller's investigation. "I think Mifsud is still alive, he was at least until last Spring. I know he was hiding because he feared for his life, I also know that someone forced him to hide," Roh told Italian news agency Adnkronos last year. "Mifsud had to disappear, because he could compromise the whole investigation of Mueller against Trump."Here's How Dumb Bill Barr's Great Mifsud Conspiracy Story Really IsThe person on tape doesn't necessarily seem to agree with that assessment. Instead, he says he was not the bearer of dirt on anyone to anyone. "It was never my intent to try to obtain any information to pass from one side to the other," the voice says. "I have never done so because II was never in possession with any information which would be useful to one side or another."The Adnkronos clip rambles, with the man purporting to be Mifsud seemingly trying to convince whoever is listening that he wants out of hiding. "I have kept out of the limelight. I have tried to keep myself busy—mentally. I'm going to be 60 in April … I need to have contacts with my ailing parents … I've been living a very lonely life."He goes on to say, "I have never been paid by anybody to commit any intrusion into the privacy of another," he says. As noted, there is no independent verification of the recording's validity. One might think a video would be far more convincing.BuzzFeed quotes the investigative journalism website Belingcat's analysis that it is likely Mifsud based on words Mifsud is known to mispronounce, and the site called his former girlfriend who told it she was "certain" it was her former lover. Adnkronos, on the other hand, sent the audio tape to Mfisud's Swiss lawyer Stephan Roh, who says it is not him. If the voice does indeed belong to the mysterious professor, or even if it does not, it begs the question why the name Mifsud would resurface on the eve of the open impeachment hearings into Trump over the Ukraine? His broad denials prove nothing. His adamant insistence that he has "been a networker all my life" proves even less. Still, the timing is suspicious and mysterious. Who benefits? Until we know more, impossible to tell.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Federal prosecutors to charge 2 more St. Louis officers Posted: 13 Nov 2019 09:18 AM PST ![Federal prosecutors to charge 2 more St. Louis officers]( "Federal prosecutors to charge 2 more St. Louis officers") Federal prosecutors will seek additional charges in the 2017 attack of an undercover St. Louis police officer who claimed he was beaten "like Rodney King" by his own colleagues. St. Louis officers Randy Hays, 32, and Bailey Colletta, 26, have pleaded guilty in connection with the attack of undercover Officer Luther Hall. Two others, Dustin Boone, 36, and Christopher Myers, 28, are awaiting trial.
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| Bolivian senator declares herself president in Evo Morales’ absence Posted: 13 Nov 2019 02:27 AM PST  Bolivian opposition senator Jeanine Anez has declared herself interim president after Evo Morales resigned from office before fleeing to Mexico.Bolivia has been plunged into a state of crisis after Morales, who was first elected in 2006, was forced to stand down following weeks of protests and violence over a disputed presidential election result.
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| Kentucky's GOP governor embraces conspiracies as he refuses to concede Posted: 13 Nov 2019 04:20 PM PST  Only hours after he appeared to lose his reelection bid last week, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican, started making baseless claims about supposed irregularities and voter fraud.
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| Mexico's Pemex won't pay ransom after cyberattack: energy minister Posted: 13 Nov 2019 11:28 AM PST  Mexican national oil company Pemex will not pay a ransom demanded by suspected cyberattackers who targeted the firm's computer systems, Energy Minister Rocio Nahle told reporters on Wednesday. Nahle, who also serves as chair of the Pemex board, added that the attack hit the company's administrative headquarters in Mexico City and that its "plants and wells" continued to operate. Hackers have demanded some $5 million in bitcoin from Pemex.
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| Asylum-seekers in Greece, Italy face years of limbo: EU audit Posted: 13 Nov 2019 08:07 AM PST  Asylum-seekers crowded into "hotspots" in Greece and Italy face limbo that can drag on for years because of legal bottlenecks and poorly performing EU schemes, a report said Wednesday. The document, by the EU's European Court of Auditors, also found that two agencies meant to assist the two countries with their overflowing camps and caseloads were failing in their missions, partly because of insufficient support from member states. The audit looked at EU projects meant to alleviate the pressure on the so-called hotspots -- camps on Greek islands and in Italy, where migrants' asylum claims were examined and designated refugees were meant to be vetted for relocation to other EU states.
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| Even some Republicans don't think Republicans' questioning of William Taylor is working Posted: 13 Nov 2019 10:54 AM PST ![Even some Republicans don't think Republicans' questioning of William Taylor is working]( "Even some Republicans don't think Republicans' questioning of William Taylor is working") These Republicans aren't sure where House Republicans are going with this thing.On Tuesday, Ambassador William Taylor and top State Department official George Kent appeared before the House Intelligence Committee for a public hearing regarding President Trump's dealings with Ukraine. And when Ranking Member Devin Nunes launched his questioning of Taylor with a string of conspiracy theories, The View co-host Abby Huntsman, daughter of former Republican governor of Utah and longtime diplomat Jon Huntsman, immediately voiced her concerns.> My heart goes out to Bill Taylor. A true patriot, who came back from retirement to serve this country. This is just painful to watch.> > -- Abby Huntsman (@HuntsmanAbby) November 13, 2019An outside counsel then took over questioning for the GOP, and Ari Fleisher, who was former President George W. Bush's press secretary, had a simple condemnation of his strategy.> Whatever the GOP counsel is doing, it's not working. I don't undertand where he's going.> > -- Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) November 13, 2019> Kent says Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine, given his father's role, was a conflict of interest. But the GOP counsel doesn't follow up: > What was the conflict? > Why would that be a concern? > Would it have been better if Hunter was not on Burisma? > > GOP counsel is not making a case.> > -- Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) November 13, 2019And while Republican strategist Ana Navarro-Cardenas did praise both parties' decisions to let outside counsels handle most of the questioning, she didn't love when Nunes got the mic. > Is it just me, or is @DevinNunes particularly insufferable today?> > -- Ana Navarro-Cardenas (@ananavarro) November 13, 2019More stories from theweek.com The coming death of just about every rock legend The president has already confessed to his crimes Why are 2020 Democrats so weird?
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| Officer: Miranda failure for Iowa murder suspect a mistake Posted: 12 Nov 2019 09:01 PM PST  A police officer who obtained a confession from a suspect in the disappearance and death of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts said Wednesday that she made an honest mistake when she failed to read him his complete legal rights. Officer Pamela Romero testified that she tried to read Cristhian Bahena Rivera a Miranda warning during the Aug. 20, 2018, interrogation but didn't realize until later that she left one part out, failing to tell him that his statements could be used against him in court. After several more hours of questioning, Rivera led officers to a cornfield where they discovered Tibbetts' body underneath leaves and stalks.
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| Report: Loud fight with detective preceded chief's death Posted: 12 Nov 2019 02:37 PM PST  A maintenance man checking on a noise complaint at a Florida beachfront hotel Sunday night walked into the room where a small-town Oklahoma police detective killed his boss in a drunken brawl, authorities said. The noises coming from room 527 at the Hilton on Pensacola Beach on Sunday night were so loud that the couple staying next door asked to switch rooms, according to an arrest report released to The Associated Press on Tuesday. Miller was later pronounced dead.
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| Republicans gripe about acting secretaries — and pave the way for another Posted: 13 Nov 2019 02:10 AM PST  The Senate confirmed Chad Wolf Wednesday to become policy undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security so that he can take another job — acting secretary of the entire agency. The strange maneuver comes as the White House still hasn't named a permanent successor to Kirstjen Nielsen to lead DHS since her resignation in April. In a 54-41 vote, the Senate approved Wolf's nomination, with Democratic Sens.
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