House Democrat warns Trump could be reelected despite impeachment inquiry

An influential House Democrat warns that, despite the impeachment inquiry, President Trump could still be reelected if her party's eventual nominee doesn't find better ways to address the pressing concerns of working-class voters. “I think, yes, people have dug in and they've made up their minds,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan in an interview on the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast, when asked what voters in her sprawling district west of Detroit think about the president. “But I do think Donald Trump could win reelection right now,” Dingell said, quickly adding, “I don't think it's a given,” since the outcome depends on whom Democrats select as their 2020 nominee.

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  A smear campaign, witness intimidation and a gutted State Dept.: What we learned in Friday’s hearing

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  Yovanovitch holds back tears when asked about family

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Man caught at Houston airport with 35 pounds of liquid cocaine in shampoo bottles

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston caught an airline passenger trying to smuggle 35 pounds of liquid cocaine in shampoo bottles into the country earlier this week, the agency said in a press release. The CBP said officers discovered the bottles containing cocaine valued at more than $400,000 in the checked luggage of a 26-year-old Colombian citizen Monday after observing him at baggage claim and conducting a bag search. “Our officers are the first line of defense at our ports of entry, so they are trained in the various smuggling methods people use to bring illicit goods into the U.S.,” CBP Port Director Shawn Polley said in the press release.

Nicaraguan judge sentences man to 30 years in NY killing

A Nicaraguan judge sentenced a man to 30 years behind bars in the killing of a young nursing student in upstate New York, a district attorney in the state said Friday. The trial of Orlando Tercero in the 2018 killing of Haley Anderson marked an exceedingly rare legal proceeding in which the defendant was prosecuted under Nicaragua's legal system for a slaying that happened on American soil. Tercero is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Nicaragua.

Chile police stopped rescue workers helping dying protester: human rights watchdog

Chile's independent human rights watchdog said on Saturday it would file a formal complaint for murder against police officers who allegedly prevented paramedics from attending a heart attack victim amid a protest Friday. Security forces firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons made it impossible for rescue workers to properly treat the victim, Chile's publicly-funded National Institute for Human Rights said. Twenty-nine year old Abel Acuna died shortly after at a nearby Santiago hospital.

Australia intel chair blocked from China after criticising Beijing

Australia's parliamentary intelligence committee head, who has previously criticised Beijing, said he had been blocked from entering China due to his "frankness about the Chinese Communist Party". Andrew Hastie warned several months ago that the world's approach to containing China's rise resembles the "catastrophic failure" to prevent the advance of Nazi Germany. Hastie, along with fellow government politician James Paterson, had planned to travel to China for a study tour next month but both have been banned from entering the country.

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• Australian MP says he and colleague barred entry to China

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Penultimate C7 Corvette Being Enshrined At National Corvette Museum

The final Corvette – a black Z06 – was auctioned off earlier in the year for $2.6 million to a software company CEO, but the second to last Corvette isn't going far. This car will be delivered at and then donated to the National Corvette Museum, which is right across the street from the Corvette's assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This penultimate C7 was purchased by the NCM's lifetime member and supporter, Ivan Schrodt, who will take delivery of the car on November 20th via Chevy's museum delivery program.

Dodge Makes First Appearance in Top 10 of Consumer Reports Reliability Study

Tesla moved up four spots from last year but also takes home the honor of making the most unreliable vehicle surveyed, the Model X. It isn't often that a lack of change within a model line garners positive reactions, but in the case of Dodge's reliability, it did just that. For the first time, Dodge moved into the top 10 most reliable marques this year on the Consumer Reports ratings of most reliable cars, coming in at eighth place—up 13 spots from last year. The Challenger and Grand Caravan moved the brand up with above-average ratings, despite the Durango remaining worse than average.

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  The Morning After: Consumer Reports recommends the Model 3 again

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  Tesla’s best-selling sedans get reliability nod from Consumer Reports

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After 50 years, it's past time to bring human LGBTQ+ characters to America's Sesame Street

Rumors have followed Bert and Ernie around the world as localized versions of Sesame Street are viewed in over 150 countries. Muppets aren't sexual, and making them so might hurt Sesame Street's standing around the world. But human beings are sexual, and millions of Americans are gay.

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  How “Sesame Street” has educated children for 50 years

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  ‘Succession’ Meets ‘Sesame Street’: Watch Brian Cox Pitch a ‘Strategic Relationship’ With Cookie Monster

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Scientists Are Fighting Over One of the Hottest Places on Earth

Two recent studies came to opposite conclusions about the same evidence of life in a caustic pool in Ethiopia. Extreme environments on Earth may model habitats on other planets, like the moon Titan. The evidence of life found in Ethiopia is DNA from archaea, an organism similar to bacteria.

After Roger Stone conviction, star witness against him feels 'horrible'

The conviction of Roger Stone Friday on seven felony counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering represents a capstone to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, establishing that one of President Trump's longtime political advisers did everything he could to conceal the truth from congressional investigators. The conviction takes on added importance because, in the course of a week-and-a-half trial, prosecutors presented fresh evidence that Stone was in repeated contact with senior members of Trump's campaign, who regarded him as an “access point” to WikiLeaks as the website was about to release emails damaging to Hillary Clinton.

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  Jim Carrey Slaps Roger Stone With A Cartoon Warning For The Kids

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  WATCH: From Nixon to WikiLeaks, Roger Stone’s Scandalous Career

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From 'Anonymous,' key excerpts from inside Trump White House on Putin, Hillary

Can we just get rid of the judges? Let's get rid of the f---ing judges,” Trump fumed one morning. There shouldn't be any at all, really.

Real estate heiress who posted $35M bail acquitted of murder

A San Francisco Bay Area real estate heiress who was under house arrest on $35 million bail for more than two years plans to reconnect with her children and visit family in China after a jury acquitted her of killing the father of her kids, her attorney said Friday. After deliberating for 12 days, jurors found Tiffany Li not guilty on charges of murder and conspiring with her boyfriend to kill 27-year-old Keith Green in 2016 over a custody dispute. The case drew global attention when Li's family, who made a fortune in real estate construction in China, posted one of the highest bail amounts on record in the United States.

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  Hillsborough heiress murder trial: Tiffany Li found not guilty in killing of Keith Green, hung jury for Kaveh Bayat

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  Who's Who in Hillsborough Heiress murder case

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Rashida Tlaib referred to House Ethics Committee for a potential violation of federal law

The House Ethics Committee released texts and emails on Thursday that show Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. repeatedly asking her campaign for funds to defray personal costs. The committee's announcement comes after the board of the Office of Congressional Ethics unanimously voted in August to refer Tlaib for a potential violation of federal law.

14 of the Best-Designed Hotel Restaurants in the U.S.

From Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, these hotels have recruited top designers and firms, such as Roman and Williams, Jacques Garcia, and Martyn Lawrence Bullard, to create spaces that are as memorable as the cuisine Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

Two German students arrested for 'unlawful assembly' over Hong Kong protests

Two German students were arrested in Hong Kong for "unlawful assembly" linked to ongoing unrest in the city, police said early Saturday. The students, aged 22 and 23, were arrested on Thursday for suspected participation in an illegal assembly, police said. Police did not release their identities but said the 22-year-old also faces charges of violating Hong Kong's anti-mask regulation.

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  Is China About To Brutally Crackdown on Hong Kong's Protestors?

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  Chinese students head to mainland, fleeing Hong Kong unrest

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Why Russian Fighter Jets Are Threatening NATO In The Baltics

Key point: Russia and NATO's military buildup in the Baltics is creating a tense situation. In the most recent illustration of ongoing Russia-NATO military tensions over Baltic airspace, recently released footage shows a Russian Su-27 fighter making a sharp turn into an American F-15C. It is unclear when the video was filmed, with some speculating that it occured during a prior NATO BAP (Baltic Air Policing) mission. When viewed in that light, this incident seems to fall into the trend of what US officials have previously described as “unsafe” Russian interceptions and “aggressive maneuvers” in high-tension airspace.

American Airlines flight attendants have literally begged not to work on the Boeing 737 Max when it returns, union boss says (BA)

American Airlines flight attendants are "begging" not to have to work on the Boeing 737 Max when it returns to service after its grounding, Lori Bassani, the head of the union representing them, said Thursday. "I hear from flight attendants every day, and they're begging me not to make them go back up in that plane," Bassani said, according to The Dallas Morning News. The 737 Max has been grounded around the world since March, which saw the second of two deadly crashes involving the aircraft.

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  United joins Southwest, American in new 737 MAX delay

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  Exclusive: American Airlines flight attendants union president under fire over 737 Max comments

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I was a reporter during Watergate. Democrats, don't celebrate impeachment hearings yet.

It's the same question that was asked for more than two years during that other impeachment drama that everyone now seems to look to for guidance — Watergate. I had a front row seat to the Senate Watergate hearings during the summer of 1973 as an intern reporter with the Chicago Tribune's Washington Bureau. My job was to cover the Illinois Congressional delegation and the Alaska pipeline legislation — big news for the Midwest during the gas shortage of the early 1970s.

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  Illinois lawmakers question Marie Yovanovitch, fired US ambassador to Ukraine, on 2nd day of impeachment hearings

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  Pres. Donald Trump: Impeachment hearing is a 'disgrace, embarrassment to our nation'

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'He doesn't seem like the kind of kid to do this': Classmates, neighbors surprised by suspected Santa Clarita shooter's identity

The 16-year-old suspected of fatally shooting two students and wounding three others at their high school Thursday was an unlikely gunman, classmates and neighbors said. Following a 16-second burst of gunfire that ended with the suspect shooting himself in the head, the boy was is in critical condition at a local hospital, said Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. Neighbors and classmates described the boy as pleasant but noted that he was changed by the death of his father two years ago.

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  Gunman in US school shooting dies as police hunt motive

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  Makeshift memorial grows near school shooting

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Marine deserter’s mother names him in fatal shooting

The mother of a wanted Marine told investigators that she saw her son kill her boyfriend, according to a federal criminal complaint. The criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Roanoke, Virginia, on Wednesday shows Vanessa Hanson told a U.S. Marshal that she witnessed Michael Alexander Brown, 22, fatally shoot her boyfriend, Rodney Wilfred Brown, last Saturday at a home in Hardy. The vehicle was later found near Clarendon County, South Carolina, about four hours southwest of Camp Lejeune, in North Carolina, where he had been stationed as a U.S. Marine until leaving his post last month.

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  Schools reopen in Virginia amid manhunt for Marine deserter

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  Marine murder suspect who abandoned Camp Lejeune post believed to be in Virginia

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Chicago gang leader accused of attempting to help Islamic State

A purported street gang leader from Chicago who allegedly became radicalized in prison faces federal charges accusing him of seeking to provide money to Islamic State militants in Syria, according to a complaint unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Chicago.

‘We Must Be As Harsh as Them’: Leaked Docs Reveal China’s Mass Incarceration of Muslims: NYT

Hundreds of internal Chinese government documents obtained by The New York Times reveals striking new details about the execution of the country's mass detention of ethnic minorities over the past three years in the Xinjiang region. The rare leak of documents, described in the newspaper's bombshell report as “one of the most significant leaks of government papers from inside China's ruling Communist Party in decades,” details how Chinese authorities have contained as many as one million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other predominately Muslim minorities into internment camps and prisons. The camps, which began in 2016, were described as China's answer to fighting Islamic extremism.

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  Documents Reveal 'No Mercy' Shown In China's Internment Camp Program: Report

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  Leaked China documents reveal 'no mercy' in Xinjiang: NYT

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S. African asylum-seekers held on trespassing charges

South African police detained more than 180 foreign nationals for storming the UN refugee agency in Pretoria, where they had been staging a sit-in protest, police said Saturday. Hundreds of asylum-seekers started camping in front of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on October 8, asking to be relocated to another country after a spate of xenophobic violence in September. Protesters broke into the UNHCR premises on Thursday after they were informed of a court order giving them three days to vacate the site.