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House Democrats Vow Investigation Into Ivanka Trump’s Personal Email Use
WorldNews.com 20 Nov 2018
In the wake of a report First Daughter Ivanka Trump violated federal law by using a personal email account to conduct government business, the incoming head of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, said the panel would investigate the violation, The Washington Post reported ... Cummings, the report said, was careful to point out....
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Whitaker Paid $1.2 Million By Conservative Nonprofit With Obscure Roots, Secret Donors
WorldNews.com 20 Nov 2018
In the three years after he arrived in Washington in 2014, Matthew G ... For Whitaker, it became a lucrative steppingstone in a swift rise from a modest law practice in Iowa to the nation’s top law enforcement job ... Whitaker did not respond to requests for interviews ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
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Thousands Flee As Guatemala's Fuego Volcano
WorldNews.com 20 Nov 2018
Nearly 4,000 Guatemalans have evacuated their homes after the Volcán de Fuego, or Volcano of Fire, erupted again this week outside the city of Antigua, according to National Public Radio ... On Tuesday, evacuations were still underway after several thousand were cleared from the disaster zone ... ... “At dawn, we said we’d better get out, we were afraid." ....
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Russian-Chinese Proposal To Curb Powers Of Chemical Weapons Watchdog Fails
WorldNews.com 20 Nov 2018
The full membership of the Organization of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons voted to reject a Russian-led attempt to curb the new powers given to the agency to place blame on the use of banned toxic munitions in Syria on Tuesday, according to Reuters ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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Trump Releases Statement Refusing To Condemn Saudi Prince For Khashoggi Murder
WorldNews.com 20 Nov 2018
President Donald Trump continued to stand up for Saudi Arabia on Tuesday by releasing a statement which refused to implicate the powerful crown prince in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi even though the CIA reports concluded he was directly involved in the death, according to CNN ... Jamal Khashoggi ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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DHS Has Paid Undercover Informants In Migrant Caravan
WorldNews.com 20 Nov 2018
Customs and Border Protection shut down all northbound lanes of the crossing from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. as a result. However, the ambush was never attempted.Paying informants, placing officers in the region or monitoring the communications of non-U.S ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
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Trump Announces New Sanctions Meant To Punish Iran And Syria
WorldNews.com 21 Nov 2018photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite
Obama Praises Pelosi Amid House Leadership Battle
WorldNews.com 20 Nov 2018
Former President Barack Obama offered effusive praise of Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday as the Democratic leader faces opposition to her bid for House Speaker, CNN reports."I think Nancy Pelosi, when the history is written, will go down as one of the most effective legislative leaders that this country's ever seen." ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
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North Korea Blows Up Some Guard Posts Along DMZ To Ease Tensions With South
WorldNews.com 21 Nov 2018
They later withdrew weapons and troops from 11 of their guard posts and decided to completely dismantle 10 of them by the end of November.Seoul’s Defense Ministry said it confirmed the dismantling of 10 North Korean guard posts on Tuesday ... North Korea was estimated to have 160 such front-line posts ... ....
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Russian agencies fight over private US satellites
Skynews 20 Nov 2018
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and its cash-strapped space agency Roscosmos are in conflict over a $1bn contract to launch private satellites on behalf of a US company ... ....
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Court Documents Reveal Venezuela's Former Treasurer Took More $1 Billion In Bribes
WorldNews.com 21 Nov 2018
Documents from the Southern District of Florida detailed how Venezuela's former national treasuer received more than $1 billion in bribes during his role within an illicit foreign currency scheme involving a television mogul who was indicted, according to Reuters. U.S ... Andrade agreed to plead guilty in 2017 to one count of violating the U.S....
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Kremlin Charges U.S. Meddling In Choice Of Interpol Head
WorldNews.com 20 Nov 2018
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that public opposition by a group of U.S. senators to a Russian candidate to head the international police organization Interpol amounted to election meddling, Reuters reports.Interpol’s general assembly is due to elect a new head at a meeting on Wednesday. On Monday, four U.S. senators issued a statement urging U.S ... ....
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CDC Warns Consumers Not To Eat Romaine Lettuce After Year's Second E. Coli Outbreak
WorldNews.com 21 Nov 2018
Federal health officials are warning about a fresh outbreak of E.coli linked to romaine lettuce Tuesday and cautioned people not to eat any romaine lettuce, NBC News reports.At least 32 people are sick, and 13 have been hospitalized in the outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ... coli in romaine lettuce this year....
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Saudi king backs son amid furor over Khashoggi murder
The Jakarta Post 20 Nov 2018
Saudi King Salman stood by the crown prince and heaped praise on the judiciary Monday, in his first public remarks since critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder tipped the country into one of its worst crises ... "Effectively, he is daring his international critics to put their rhetoric into action and betting that they won't." ... Topics .. ....
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Van Dijk consoles grieving referee with 'tears in his eyes'
RTE 20 Nov 2018
Holland captain Virgil Van Dijk has revealed why he consoled referee Ovidiu Hategan at the end of Monday's 2-2 draw with Germany in Gelsenkirchen ... The Romanian official appeared to wipe tears from his eyes. And Van Dijk was quoted by Voetbal International as saying....
