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Cohen is a 'serial liar,' says former Trump aide Lewandowski

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Former Trump presidential campaign manager Corey Lewandowski called Michael Cohen a “serial liar” who had “nothing to do with the campaign,” a description contradicted by multiple sources. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2RtbqMi via Latest News

Manafort Sentencing Set for March 5 After Plea Deal Uproar

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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson set the tentative date Friday after a tumultuous week in which Mueller said Manafort breached a plea agreement through unspecified crimes and lies. The judge gave prosecutors until Dec. 7 to lay out how they say Manafort breached his cooperation agreement since pleading guilty on Sept. 14 in Washington federal court. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2BHPbwK via Latest News

Marriott says Starwood database hacked

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Marriott said on Friday that a guest reservation database of its Starwood Hotel brand was breached, potentially exposing information on 500 million guests. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2AHceWv via Latest News

George HW Bush: WWII pilot, oilman, ambassador and founder of the United States' foremost political dynasty

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George Bush was an American patrician who brought great talents to the presidency and wrought great achievements, but never quite grasped the pitiless frivolity of US politics. Bush was elected to office in 1988 after eight years as vice president to his fellow Republican, Ronald Reagan. Where Reagan’s great achievement, in foreign affairs, was to perceive the weakness of the Soviet Union, to stand up to the Soviet leadership and eventually to reach agreements with the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bush inherited a world in which Communist regimes were already collapsing, in which the United States found itself, somewhat to its own surprise, as the only superpower. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2AI1LKN via Latest News

GM CEO Plans Meeting With Lawmakers on Plant Cutbacks, Sources Say

Among the lawmakers planning to meet with GM’s Mary Barra are Democratic Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Gary Peters of Michigan, according to the aides who asked not to be identified. Another congressional staffer said Barra planned to meet with representatives states affected by the company’s planned cutbacks, which were announced Monday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2P9NICQ via Latest News

US Army Awards Microsoft $480 Million Contract To Use Hololens With Soldiers - Comicbook.com

US Army Awards Microsoft $480 Million Contract To Use Hololens With Soldiers    Comicbook.com Microsoft and the US Army have announced a new contract that will see the latter using the former's mixed-reality smartglasses, Hololens, to train soliders. from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2QxiYjY via Technology

Leaked slides reveal AMD X570 chipset\'s launch at Computex 2019 and hint at new Intel 9th Gen Core \'KF\' variants - Notebookcheck.net

Leaked slides reveal AMD X570 chipset\'s launch at Computex 2019 and hint at new Intel 9th Gen Core \'KF\' variants    Notebookcheck.net A slide from Gigabyte's internal presentation has leaked and it shows that the AMD X570 chipset will be launching at next year's Computex. The X570 chipset ... from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2FQV26N via Technology

Striking images from Alaska after earthquake rocks Anchorage

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A powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday shook buildings, collapsed roads and triggered at least nine aftershocks — producing a lot of dramatic photos and footage. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2U5t4ra via Latest News

Take a number: Migrants, blocked at the border, wait their turn to apply for asylum

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On the ground in Juarez, where migrants seeking asylum are given a number – written on their arms – and sent away to wait. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2U2w7QJ via Latest News

Israel bombs Syria in 'first strike' since air defences were upgraded

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Israel struck several positions south of Damascus in the first strikes since Syrian air defences were upgraded following the accidental downing of a Russian plane in September, a war monitor said Friday. Damascus claimed its air defence systems shot down all "hostile targets" late Thursday. Israel did not confirm carrying out raids but denied any losses. According to the Syria Observatory for Human Rights, the strikes hit two positions in the south of Damascus province, including an area believed to be an Iranian weapons depot near the capital. "Israeli forces bombarded for an hour," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said. Two missiles hit "weapons depots belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah (militant group) as well as Iranian forces" in Kisweh. Another missile hit the area of Harfa, where there is a Syrian military base, the Britain-based monitor said. In Kisweh, "the depots that were targeted are used to temporarily store rockets until they are tak...

20 Car-Themed Apparel Choices for Gifts or Your Own Wardrobe

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Elon Musk will not smoke cannabis on a podcast again, says Nasa boss amid concern over billionaire's behaviour

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Elon Musk will not be smoking cannabis in public again, the boss of Nasa has assured the public, amid concern about the SpaceX boss's behaviour. Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine has said that Mr Musk has promised not to repeat a moment where he smoked a joint and drank whisky on a comedian's podcast. “I will tell you that was not helpful, and that did not inspire confidence, and the leaders of these organisations need to take that as an example of what to do when you lead an organisation that’s going to launch American astronauts,” Mr Bridenstine told reporters at Nasa headquarters, according to a report in The Atlantic. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PaLjb1 via Latest News

California mudslide concerns

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Heavy rains in areas left barren by wildfires cause flashfloods throughout the state. ABC News' Janai Norman reports. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KK1lrL via Latest News

500 Million Marriott Customers Affected in Massive Data Breach

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The attack included some passport numbers and credit card information from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SmZwnf via Latest News

Women Sleep Better With Dogs Than With Human Partners, Study Says

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For the best sleep of your life, tell your partner to hightail it to the couch from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2AErvHV via Latest News

Britain's May urges Saudi accountability for Khashoggi killing

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The G20 summit in Argentina is the first major international event Prince Mohammed has attended since the murder of the Washington Post columnist, a critic of the crown prince, in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October. The killing has strained Saudi Arabia’s ties with the West and battered Prince Mohammed's image abroad. Saudi Arabia has said the prince had no prior knowledge of the murder. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Sni86K via Latest News

Louisiana gets $11M settlement in interest rate manipulation

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is receiving $11 million as its share of a multistate settlement with Deutsche Bank over the manipulation of a key benchmark involving global interest rates. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PfWKhP via Latest News

This unusual 1984 Porsche 911 Turbo is pure '80s cool

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Finished in the rare shade of Rubinrot Metallic, this Porsche 911 Turbo caught our eye in the classifieds. Its 3.3-litre turbocharged engine is good for 300bhp from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Azbse8 via Latest News

Mall shooting suspects agrees on return to Alabama

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ATLANTA (AP) — A man suspected in an Alabama mall shooting that resulted in police killing another black man on Thanksgiving agreed Friday to return home from Georgia to face charges. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KJItJj via Latest News

Alarm sounded, nations urged to act at UN climate talks

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With the direst warnings yet of impending environmental disaster still ringing in their ears, representatives from nearly 200 nations gather Sunday in Poland to firm up their plan to prevent catastrophic climate change. The UN climate summit comes at a crucial juncture in mankind's response to planetary warming. The smaller, poorer nations that will bare its devastating brunt are pushing for richer states to make good on the promises they made in the 2015 Paris agreement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2AGiNZE via Latest News