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Today's Democrats aren't for Michael Bloomberg. He should run as an independent, instead.

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Business mogul Michael Bloomberg doesn't fit today's Democratic Party. But his candidacy as an independent could serve an important purpose. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pmGgNI via Latest News

Italy battered by rain, Venice braces for another 'tough day'

Several Italian cities were on high alert on Sunday after heavy rain overnight, including Venice where residents and tourists were braced for another exceptional high tide. Authorities in Florence and Pisa were also closely monitoring the Arno river, whose water levels rose rapidly in the night due to heavy rain. The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, said on Saturday that the city was preparing for another "tough day". from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qnfuFr via Latest News

Bloomberg Apologizes for N.Y. ‘Stop and Frisk’: Campaign Update

(Bloomberg) -- Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for not moving faster to reduce police stops under a “stop-and-frisk” policy while he was in office that critics said targeted blacks and Hispanics.Bloomberg spoke as he considers a late bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential contest.“Over time, I’ve come to understand something that I long struggled to admit to myself: I got something important wrong. I got something important really wrong,” Bloomberg said in remarks to the congregation at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn on Sunday. “Today, I want you to know that I realize back then I was wrong, and I’m sorry.”Bloomberg said he supported the policy as a way to reduce violence and gun-related deaths, yet came to realize limiting stops didn’t increase crime, and that he didn’t appreciate “the full impact that stops were having on the black and Latino communities.” Critics have cited his support of “stop and frisk” as a potential issue with minority voters who ...

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Amid probes into Apple's "sexist" credit card, questions are being asked of IT-based financial decisions. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2QtFeus via Online Shopping

Trump impeachment narrative gathers steam as diplomats fill in details

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The first week of public testimony in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump shed new light on the administration’s efforts to procure a Ukrainian investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Kr75I4 via Latest News

Trump Ally Loses Bid to Unseat Louisiana Democratic Governor

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(Bloomberg) -- Democrat John Bel Edwards won re-election as governor of Louisiana on Saturday, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump who campaigned aggressively to support challenger Eddie Rispone, a Republican who fashioned his campaign as a referendum on the president.Edwards won with 51% of the votes, according to a results portal on the Louisiana secretary of state’s website, a margin of about 40,000 votes. Turnout was 50.7% against 40.2% in the state’s previous election for governor in 2015. It followed an election day in which the president urged Republicans via Twitter to get out and vote. The Louisiana race provided the latest litmus test of Trump’s popularity before the 2020 election in a heavily Republican state that he carried by 20 points in 2016. It was the first statewide election since the House on Wednesday started the public phase of its impeachment inquiry of the president with nationally-televised hearings.As of mid-afternoon Sunday Trump hadn’t responded to the L...

The Latest: University asks HK protesters to leave campus

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The president of a university in Hong Kong says that police have agreed to suspend their use of force after an all-night effort to flush out protesters occupying the campus. It seems unlikely the protesters would accept the offer given that they would all likely be arrested. Hong Kong police have stormed into a university campus held by protesters after an all-night standoff. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2CS5BCi via Latest News

UPDATE 2-Russia says it will return captured naval ships to Ukraine on Monday

Russia will return three captured naval ships to Ukraine on Monday and is moving them to a handover location agreed with Kiev, Crimea's border guard service was cited as saying by Russian news agencies on Sunday. A Reuters reporter in Crimea, which Russian annexed from Ukraine in 2014, earlier on Sunday saw coastguard boats pulling the three vessels through the Kerch Strait towards the Black Sea where they could potentially be handed over to Ukraine. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Qqlk3y via Latest News

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

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The 16-year-old who fatally shot two students and wounded three others at Saugus High School in California was an unlikely shooter, classmates said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2QhK65X via Latest News

Trump suffers another setback as Louisiana's Democratic governor wins re-election

President Trump suffered another setback in the South on Saturday.Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) defeated his Republican challenger Eddie Rispone, a wealthy businessman who had Trump's backing, to secure another term in Baton Rouge. After polls predicted a close race, Edwards edged Rispone by about 40,000 votes, carrying most of the state's urban centers. Rural areas mostly supported Rispone.Edwards' victory is widely viewed as a loss for Trump and the GOP, especially after Democratic challenger Andy Beshear won a tightly contested race against incumbent Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R). Trump had campaigned heartily for both candidates. "If this campaign has taught us anything, it's that the partisan forces in Washington, D.C., are not enough to break through the bonds that we share as Louisianans," Edwards said during his victory speech.The president decried Edwards as a "radical leftist" in the lead up to the election. The governor is known for e...

The Latest: Iraq official: Protester dies in bridge clashes

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Iraqi security and medical officials say a protester has been killed by a direct hit to the head from a tear gas cannister amid fresh clashes on a strategic Baghdad bridge. The officials said 32 others were wounded Sunday, hours after protesters retook control of half of Ahrar Bridge. Ahrar Bridge leads to the other side of the Tigris River near the heavily fortified Green Zone, the seat of Iraq’s government. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2QvbU6T via Latest News

Indian Muslims to pursue review of Hindu temple site ruling

An Indian Muslim group said on Sunday it would file a petition in the Supreme Court asking for a review of a ruling that awarded a disputed site in Uttar Pradesh to Hindus, allowing them to build a temple there. India's Supreme Court ruled on Nov. 9 that a 2.77 acre (1.1 hectare) plot of land should be awarded to Hindus, who believe it is the birthplace of Lord Ram, a physical incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. "There are apparent errors in the Supreme Court judgment, and we felt that it would be prudent to file a review petition," Syed Qasim Ilyas, a member of the group, told a press briefing. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OnZ87L via Latest News

Disabled Woman’s Boyfriend Told Police He Lured Her to Nevada Desert and Suffocated Her

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Bethel Park PoliceA Maryland man who may have been leading a double life has confessed to kidnapping his disabled girlfriend, luring her into the Nevada desert, tying her to a signpost and suffocating her with duct tape, police said Friday.He allegedly then pretended to be the victim on Facebook, sending her family messages to cover up her disappearance until friends reported her missing earlier this week.Jaime Rae Feden, 33, suffered from a rare congenital condition called VATER syndrome and stood just over 4 feet tall. Authorities said the Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, woman was sweet-natured and trusting.Too trusting.“She was a very loving type of a person and I think she was taken advantage of by someone who was a predator,” Bethel Park Police Chief Timothy O'Connor told reporters.For several years, Feden had a tumultuous relationship with John Chapman, 39, who allegedly asked her to come with him to Las Vegas in September to look at property.Once there, he convinced her to go wit...

Pete Buttigieg leaps 16 points — and into the lead — in latest Iowa poll

There's been another changing of the guard in Iowa.South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg took the lead for the first time in the latest Democratic primary poll out of Iowa. The Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll, released Saturday, showed the mayor surging to the top ahead of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Joe Biden. It doesn't look like a fluke, though there's been some fluctuation in Iowa throughout the primary's early going. Buttigieg took a relatively commanding lead over the field for the time being, receiving support from 25 percent of likely Iowa caucusgoers in the poll, a startling 16 point leap from his September standing. Warren, who was leading the September poll, fell by six points into second place at 16 percent, while Biden and Sanders were right behind her at 15 percent. Biden, the early frontrunner, fell another five percentage points, but Sanders picked up four.> Mayor Pete Buttigieg is th...

Students at the Santa Clarita school where 2 people were killed and 3 were injured in a shooting say their sense of safety 'will forever be ruined'

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Saugus High School sophomore Melissa Santillan and senior Tyler Nilson spoke to Insider about the shooting at their Santa Clarita, California, school. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NLNCDS via Latest News

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Breaking Down the Fallout from Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony

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There were fireworks aplenty, but the most important development during former U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony at Friday’s House impeachment hearing was an undetonated bomb.Or was it just a dud?Ambassador Yovanovitch came across as a compelling witness: heroic in serving the United States in the world’s badlands, dedicated to the cause of advancing American policy under administrations of both parties, and suddenly ousted by President Trump — not just in the absence of a sensible explanation, but as the victim of a whispering campaign that maligned her character and undermined her reputation for nonpartisan service.The president’s camp is the unapologetic source of the whispering campaign. They depict a very different Yovanovitch: a partisan deep-state operator, who abetted and covered up Ukrainian collusion with Democrats in the 2016 campaign.On Friday, that alternative view was the dog that never barked.In the midst of the proceedings, on the rationale that Intelligence...

Impeachment: Trump abuses power by harassing, intimidating witnesses like Yovanovitch

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Trump has a pattern of public witness tampering. Using his presidential platform this way may not be criminal but that is not relevant to impeachment. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33SEHq0 via Latest News

Chinese soldiers leave Hong Kong barracks in rare clean-up cameo

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Soldiers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army briefly left their Hong Kong barracks on Saturday to help the clean-up after a week of disruption caused by pro-democracy protests, a rare and highly symbolic troop movement unsolicited by the city's embattled government. The action saw scores of soldiers from the garrison, which is confined to the barracks under Hong Kong's mini-constitution, with crewcuts and identical gym kits conduct a lightning-quick removal of bricks and debris near their base. Confirming the brief deployment on Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform, the PLA said it acted to open a debris-strewn road outside their Kowloon Tong barracks to traffic, winning "applause from residents" in the process. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/33Oq2Mp via Latest News

Giuliani: House investigation ‘a travesty’

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Giuliani was responding to the opening week of public testimony in the House‘s impeachment inquiry. All spoke of their knowledge of Trump’s interactions with Ukraine, particularly as it pertained to aid that was temporarily withheld as Trump sought an investigation into a political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37nldMm via Latest News

Prince Andrew: I Didn’t Have Sex With Virginia Roberts Giuffre. I Was Eating Pizza.

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Screenshot/BBCNewsnight/TwitterPrince Andrew says he is prepared to give evidence about his friendship with late accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein under oath, and claimed to have no recollection of the notorious photograph of him with his arm around the waist of alleged Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre being taken.Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Creepy Parties With Prince AndrewTo support his latter claim, Andrew told the BBC’s Newsnight program on Saturday that the “traveling clothes” he was wearing in the picture were not clothes he would wear in London. The claim is demonstrably false, as there are images of him leaving London nightclub Chinawhite in July 2000, wearing almost the exact same outfit.Giuffre has accused Prince Andrew of having sex with her on three occasions when she was being trafficked by Epstein, an allegation he has denied. Andrew also insisted he couldn’t have had sex with Roberts on the night she claimed, as he was at a chain pizza restaurant,...

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Apple finally admits iPad Pro won't replace your PC - ZDNet

Apple finally admits iPad Pro won't replace your PC    ZDNet Surface Pro, iPad or Fire: Best tablets for the holidays    CNET View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2qp3SSv via Technology