Trump reaches $375M deal to sell DC hotel - WSJ

Former President Donald Trump's family hotel company has reached a deal to sell the rights to its Washington, D.C., hotel for $375 million, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. Miami-based investment firm CGI Merchant Group is in contract to acquire the lease, the newspaper said. The Trump International Hotel is in a historic building a few blocks from the White House that the Trump Organization leases from the U.S. government.

Trump says Republicans could have kept the White House if Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy had 'fought harder'

Former President Trump said that McConnell and McCarthy could have "fought harder" for Republicans. "Now they don't have anything," he said in an interview with ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl. While Trump remains in contact with McCarthy, he has shunned McConnell from his orbit.

Man's double life is exposed when his wife meets his fiancée

In 2016 Jessica Devnani was dating Gregory Bender, a successful hedge fund manager, who lived near Orlando, Florida. Devnani had met Bender online in 2009. As their romance developed, Devnani says she noticed Bender had a streak of jealousy in him and sometimes it would escalate to verbal threats.

Japan's former princess leaves for US with commoner husband

A Japanese princess who gave up her royal status to marry her commoner college sweetheart arrived in New York on Sunday, as the couple pursued happiness as newlyweds and left behind a nation that has criticized their romance. The departure of Mako Komuro, the former Princess Mako, and Kei Komuro, both 30, was carried live by major Japanese broadcasters, showing them boarding a plane amid a flurry of camera flashes at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Kei Komuro, a graduate of Fordham University law school, has a job at a New York law firm.

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  Japan's ex-princess Mako and husband begin new life in U.S

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  Former Japanese princess leaves behind her title to marry her college sweetheart and move to the US

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A transgender woman was forced to share a jail cell with 3 men, and one of them beat her up so badly it broke her jaw, lawsuit says

Kristina Frost was placed in a San Diego jail cell with three men against her wishes, a lawsuit said. A transgender woman was forced to share a jail cell with three men, one of whom "viciously" assaulted her when she was asleep, according to a lawsuit against San Diego County and its sheriff's department. When Kristina Frost first arrived at San Diego Central Jail on November 25, 2020, she was placed alone in a holding cell, according to the lawsuit, which was filed last Tuesday and reviewed by Insider.

Rare battle between rhino and buffalo caught on video

A ranger in a South African game reserve has captured “extremely rare” footage showing a white rhinoceros in head-to-head battle with a ferocious buffalo. The tale of the tape favors the rhino – they can weigh nearly 6,000 pounds – but the 1,500-pound Cape buffalo proved a worthy and formidable opponent. “The incredible strength of both species is on display here as well as the obstinate nature of the buffalo!” Kariega Game Reserve wrote on Facebook.

A Texas doctor who defended ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 and criticized vaccine mandates has been suspended

Bowden is the latest doctor to face disciplinary measures after going against COVID-19 guidelines backed by leading health officials. A doctor from Texas who spread COVID-19 misinformation on her personal Twitter account has had her privileges suspended. Dr. Mary Bowden of the Houston Methodist Hospital posted a series of tweets praising the anti-parasitical drug Ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment.

Lost Egyptian sun temple unearthed in one of the most important discoveries of the last 50 years

Archaeologists toiling in the Egyptian desert have made one of the most important discoveries of the last 50 years after unearthing one of the four lost sun temples. It is thought half a dozen sun temples were erected by the pharaohs of the fifth dynasty to complement their pyramids. Sun temples, however, took the deification desire one step further and were intended to make the pharaoh a god while still alive.

Teens charged in arson murder of five Senegalese immigrants targeted wrong Denver home

DENVER (Reuters) - Five Senegalese immigrants killed in a 2020 arson house fire were targeted by one of the teenagers charged in the case because he mistakenly thought someone at the Denver home had stolen his mobile phone, court testimony showed on Friday. The disclosures came during a preliminary hearing for Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour, who have been charged with first-degree murder, arson, assault and related offenses stemming from the August 2020 blaze. Denver District Judge Martin Egelhoff ruled there was sufficient evidence in the case against the pair to proceed with prosecution and ordered the two youths to be held without bail.

Intense storms in Egypt unleashed a massive swarm of scorpions from their nests, stinging 450 people and killing 3

Extreme weather forced snakes and scorpions out of their nests in southern Egypt, per reports. At least 450 people were injured and three people died of scorpion stings, an Egyptian health official said. Extreme weather in Egypt brought out a swarm of scorpions from their nests, resulting in hundreds of people in the southern city of Aswan being stung and three people dying from their injuries, according to multiple reports.

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  Three people stung to death as storms in Egypt wash scorpions and snakes into the streets

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  Three killed and 500 stung as storms in Egypt wash scorpions into homes

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Damp Jersey Shore town ponders a fix for 'sunny day' floods

An elite but often-underwater beach town at the Jersey Shore is looking for its own solutions to back bay flooding, deciding it can't wait for state and federal officials to agree on a fix. Bay Head is studying options to prevent, or at least reduce, incidents of so-called “sunny day” flooding caused by tides and rising sea levels, as well as major storm-related floods. New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have proposed a massive $16 billion plan to address back bay flooding along the shore.

She missed two months of school for refusing to wear a mask. Now she’s happy to be back.

Eight-year-old Fiona Lashells walked onto her elementary school campus Monday with a pink backpack and the fanfare of a homecoming war veteran. For two months, the second-grader and her mother had waged an increasingly high-profile standoff against the Palm Beach County public schools over their mask mandate. Refusing to wear a facial covering, Fiona amassed nearly 40 days of suspensions in September and October, requiring her to spend weeks doing her classwork at home.

Trump called Chris Christie when they were both hospitalized with COVID-19 to make sure he wouldn't be blamed for the infection, book says

Chris Christie's book says Trump called when they were both in the hospital with COVID-19, per the NYT. Christie said Trump wanted to ensure he wouldn't be blamed for Christie's infection. "Are you going to say you got it from me?" Trump asked, per the extract.

'Inconceivable' Australia would not join U.S. to defend Taiwan - Australian defence minister

It would be "inconceivable" for Australia not to join the United States should Washington take action to defend Taiwan, Australian Defence Minister Peter Dutton said on Saturday. On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the United States and its allies would take unspecified "action" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-allies-would-take-action-if-taiwan-attacked-blinken-2021-11-10 if China were to use force to alter the status quo over Taiwan. "It would be inconceivable that we wouldn't support the U.S. in an action if the U.S. chose to take that action," Dutton told The Australian newspaper in an interview.

San Diego man dies in the Keys after diving for a football in shallow water

A man from San Diego, California, died in the Florida Keys Saturday afternoon after diving from a boat into shallow water to catch a football, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's office spokesman Adam Linhardt said Daly, 46, was on a commercial pontoon boat when the accident happened around 1 p.m. off Key Haven in the Lower Keys. Witnesses on the boat said Daly took a diving leap from the boat into shallow water to catch the ball and surfaced unresponsive face down.

Invasive Burmese pythons are slithering their way up Florida, expanding their territory in the state and wreaking havoc on native species

Burmese pythons have been taking a toll on natural ecosystems in South Florida for decades. Pythons were recently spotted in a wildlife refuge in Palm Beach County for the first time. Invasive pythons compete with native species and have no natural predators in the region.

Anti-racism activists stage demo against Dutch 'Black Pete'

About 100 anti-racism protesters chanted “Kick Out Black Pete” Saturday at an event where children could meet the Dutch version of Santa Claus and his controversial sidekick. The Black Pete character, often played by adults wearing blackface makeup, has sparked a decade of demonstrations and counter-demonstrations in the Netherlands by protesters who consider him a racist caricature and supporters who insist he is a harmless children's character. Amid the long-running protests, people playing the character increasingly use different color face paint, including daubs of soot.

One of nation's most wanted bank robbers identified after 52 years

The U.S. Marshals Service has identified one of the nation's most wanted fugitives 52 years after the man pulled off one of the biggest bank robberies in Cleveland, Ohio. According to the federal law enforcement agency, Theodore John Conrad, a former bank teller, showed up to work at the Society National Bank on July 11, 1969. The case had remained cold since then until this past week when U.S. Marshals Service investigators from Cleveland travelled to Massachusetts and found out that Conrad had been living in a Boston suburb since 1970 as Thomas Randele.

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  Theodore Conrad, who pulled off one of the biggest bank robberies in Cleveland, identified

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  US bank robber identified after decades-long hunt

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Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn calls for one religion in America

Michael Flynn recently spoke about his Christian faith to refute QAnon claims that he worships Satan. Flynn spoke at the "ReAwaken America" tour, which featured other Trump loyalists and anti-vaxxers. Roger Stone, Mike Lindell, and Lin Wood are all participating as speakers on the tour.

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  Disgraced former Trump aide Michael Flynn sparks outrage by saying US must have only one religion

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  Michael Flynn Demands 'One Religion Under God' At Far-Right Rally

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Italian city defies China, opens exhibit by dissident artist

A provocative exhibit by dissident Chinese artist Badiucao opened Saturday in the industrial northern Italian city of Brescia despite pressure from the Chinese embassy in Rome to cancel it. A letter from the embassy included veiled economic threats, noting Italy's trade with China, in a bid to prevent the first solo exhibit by Badiucao — the pseudonym used by the artist whose work takes aim at China's policies and human rights record. Brescia Mayor Emilio Del Bono “responded with delicacy and firmness,” said Elettra Stamboulis, curator of the exhibit at the city's Museum of Santa Giulia.