Ilhan Omar's Republican opponent was banned from Twitter after suggesting the congresswoman should be tried for treason and hanged

The Republican campaign promoted a wild conspiracy theory that Omar had illegally shared sensitive government information with Qatar and Iran.

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2 victims were killed and police fatally shot a man wearing a hoax explosive vest in a terrorist attack at London Bridge

London Metropolitan Police closed London Bridge and London Bridge Station is also closed. City of London police shot the man, who died at the scene.

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The 10 Best Black Friday Smart Home Deals: Amazon Echo Dot, Fire TV, Google Home Mini, Ring, Nest, Blinq, Roomba, Instant Pot - IGN - IGN

1. The 10 Best Black Friday Smart Home Deals: Amazon Echo Dot, Fire TV, Google Home Mini, Ring, Nest, Blinq, Roomba, Instant Pot - IGN  IGN
2. Battle of the smart screens: Lenovo and Amazon's latest compared  Yahoo News
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Could Barry Odom land at Virginia Tech? - 247Sports

1. Could Barry Odom land at Virginia Tech?  247Sports
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3. Mizzou fires Barry Odom as coach after 4 seasons at alma mater  ESPN
4. BenFred: Sterk puts spotlight on himself by saying Mizzou can do better than Odom  STLtoday.com
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Ilhan Omar GOP challenger banned from Twitter after saying she should be "tried for treason and hanged”

Danielle Stella campaign account also tweeted a picture of a stick figure being hanged with a link to a blog post about her comments.

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Wintry weather bedevils holiday weekend travelers around US

Wintry weather bedeviled Thanksgiving weekend travelers across the United States Saturday as a powerful and dangerous storm moved eastward, dumping heavy snow from parts of California to the northern Midwest and inundating other areas with rain. Authorities found the bodies of two young children, including a 5-year-old boy, and a third child was missing in central Arizona after a vehicle was swept away while attempting to cross a runoff-swollen creek. The National Weather Service said the storm was expected to drop 6 to 12 inches (15-30 centimeters) of snow from the northern Plains states into Minnesota, Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.

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2 victims are dead and a suspect was killed by police in a London terror incident. Here's how the attack unfolded.

Police said they were called to London Bridge just before 2 p.m. local time on Friday afternoon for reports of a stabbing.

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Giraffes among 10 animals killed in 'tragic' Ohio safari wildlife park fire

Officials said ten animals were killed at the African Safari Wildlife Park in Port Clinton, Ohio, in the Thanksgiving Day fire.

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Kamala Harris' campaign manager is under fire, receives blame for decline

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) isn't bouncing back after a precipitous decline in the Democratic presidential race -- and fingers are starting to point at her campaign manager.Juan Rodriguez has drawn the ire of both camapaign staffers and outside observers, The New York Times reports. "This is my third presidential campaign and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly," state operations director Kelly Mehlenbacher wrote in a resignation letter obtained by the Times.Mehlenbacher clarified she still supported Harris as a candidate, but did not have confidence in the campaign's leadership. She specifically cited the campaign's decision to move people from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland, and then "lay them off with no notice" and "without thoughtful consideration of the personal consequences to them."Harris and other senior staff members were reportedly blindsided and angered by the extent of the layoffs, and some aides reportedly found out about them from junior aides and the press rather than Rodriguez himself.One of Harris' congressional supporters, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), said she told the senator she needs to make a change. "The weakness is at the top, and it's clearly Juan," she said. "He needs to take responsibility -- that's where the buck stops."More stories from theweek.com God's gift to America? 5 scathingly funny cartoons about the Trump-ified GOP Democrats are running into Trump's economic buzzsaw

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China due to introduce face scans for mobile users

Beijing wants people to use only real identities online but there is concern over data collection.

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Taliban says it has the 'same stance' on negotiations after Trump talks cease-fire | TheHill - The Hill

1. Taliban says it has the 'same stance' on negotiations after Trump talks cease-fire | TheHill  The Hill
2. Questions arise after Trump says peace negotiations with Taliban to resume  ABC News
3. Inside President Trump's secret trip to Afghanistan  Fox News
4. Talking to the Taliban | Sheneman Opinion  NJ.com
5. POLITICO Playbook: Confusion in Afghanistan  Politico
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Why Jack Dorsey is right about Bitcoin’s future in Africa - Decrypt

1. Why Jack Dorsey is right about Bitcoin’s future in Africa  Decrypt
2. Back to Africa: Twitter Chief Jack Dorsey Plans to Live in Africa in 2020  The Root
3. Twitter's Jack Dorsey plans spending 3-6 months in Africa in 2020  Quartz
4. DuckDuckGo Receives Endorsement From Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey  Search Engine Journal
5. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Plans African Sojourn  Forbes
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WSU Cougars News: The joy and despair of Black Friday - CougCenter

1. WSU Cougars News: The joy and despair of Black Friday  CougCenter
2. Mike Leach goes off on reporter after Washington State's 7th straight loss to Washington  Yahoo Sports
3. Huskies down Cougars 31-13 at home in 112th Apple Cup  Pac-12 Networks
4. Washington State rewind: Max Borghi says Cougars hung their heads early on in 31-13 Apple Cup loss  The Spokesman-Review
5. The Apple Cup: 5 keys for the Cougs vs. Dawgs  247Sports
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Hong Kong set for fresh protests as police end university siege

Hong Kong police on Friday said they were ending their siege of a university campus that became a battleground with pro-democracy protesters as activists vowed to hold fresh rallies and strikes in the coming days. Renewed calls to hit the streets came after Beijing and city leader Carrie Lam refused further political concessions despite a landslide victory for pro-democracy parties in local elections last weekend. In China this week, state media has sought to downplay and discredit the weekend ballot while Lam, who boasts record-low approval ratings, has acknowledged public dissatisfaction but ruled out further concessions.

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Peru Opposition Leader Keiko Fujimori Walks Free from Lima Jail

(Bloomberg) -- Opposition leader Keiko Fujimori walked free from a Lima prison Friday night after Peru’s highest court annulled her 18-month preventive jail sentence for obstructing a money-laundering probe.Speaking to reporters outside the jail, Fujimori said the Constitutional Court had corrected a process that was arbitrary and “full of abuses,” and said she’ll keep cooperating with the investigation.“I’m going to take time to reconnect with my family, recuperate, and later on we’ll decide what I’ll do in the second stage of my life,” Fujimori said, according to video broadcast by the Canal N network.The 44-year-old daughter of former autocrat Alberto Fujimori was jailed 13 months ago on allegations she sought to use her party’s congressional majority and contacts in the judiciary to derail a money-laundering probe against her. Prosecutors allege she received $1 million in campaign donations from Brazilian builder Odebrecht SA, though haven’t formally charged her. She denies any wrongdoing.In the court’s Nov. 25 ruling, three justices said prosecutors didn’t provide sufficient evidence directly linking Fujimori to the payments from Odebrecht. A fourth said she no longer posed a threat to the investigation after Congress was dissolved in September.Prosecutors investigating Fujimori and other politicians accused the court of thwarting Peru’s fight against corruption by releasing Fujimori. “The decision is surprising, incongruous and anti-technical, and suspiciously, it has political overtones,” prosecutor Jose Domingo Perez said Friday. He’s asked the judiciary to contest the ruling, La Republica newspaper reported.The Constitutional Court annulled a preventive jail sentence against former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia last year.Voters will elect a new Congress on Jan. 26 and analysts don’t expect any political party to win a majority.To contact the reporter on this story: John Quigley in Lima at jquigley8@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Juan Pablo Spinetto at jspinetto@bloomberg.net, Ros Krasny, Steve GeimannFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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We Aid the Growth of Chinese Tyranny to Our Eternal Shame

We can’t say we didn’t know.Reports of the repression of Muslims living in northwestern China have been leaking out for years in drips and drabs. Satellite photos picked up the construction of massive prison facilities in the Xinjiang province. The BBC was even invited into one of the “thought transformation camps,” from which inmates are released a few hours a week, to see the program of patriotic re-education. Inmates were frank with the Beeb’s reporters that religious activity — including prayer — was banned inside the building.Now, in the last week, a more complete picture of Beijing’s repression campaign has emerged. Leaked memos have revealed some of the details of China’s modernized and tech-supported religious persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang. These are the first Venona cables of our generation. They make certain what sharp observers must have guessed: China uses cutting-edge technology to identify, classify, and detain Muslims for re-education in the old-school argot of totalitarian Communism. President Xi Jinping has instructed the party members and public officials involved in this repression to show “absolutely no mercy” and make ample use of the “organs of dictatorship” to accomplish their mission.The leaked memos include lines that will be cited as exculpatory in the future — they show Xi counseling against proposals to “eradicate” Islam entirely. But the larger picture painted by the documents is one of state apparatus mobilized in the service of repression, aiming to make up for lost time in which Uighurs and Kazaks were allowed to worship, practice, and believe as they pleased. “The weapons of the people’s democratic dictatorship must be wielded without any hesitation or wavering,” Xi is quoted as saying.Distressingly, Xi could occasionally sound like some of the West’s “New Atheists” when talking about his fellow citizens. “People who are captured by religious extremism — male or female, old or young — have their consciences destroyed,” he says. They “lose their humanity and murder without blinking an eye.”There really isn’t any mistaking the strategy here: The ethnic balance of southern Xinjiang is to be transformed through the state-aided resettlement of Han Chinese in the region. While there are token concessions to the idea of allowing Uighurs to retain their religion, the use of Turkic languages has been discouraged. China is attempting to deprive Uighurs of their ethnolinguistic identity, the very rudiments of their nationality. These efforts have unsurprisingly inspired intermittent riots and violence in recent years, which have in turn been used to justify the expansion of the re-education camps.The most chilling aspect of this repression is the use of information technology. An incredible, Orwellian surveillance system is used to monitor the movements of Xinjiang’s people. The cameras are placed prominently throughout cities such as Kashgar and surrounding towns to remind people that they are being watched. Algorithms are deployed to facilitate the classification and selection of Uighurs for the camps.It’s a tyranny that we have helped to enable. China’s prosperity and technological progress, generated in no small part by its ability to trade in such high volume with the United States, have empowered its government to do this. Our desire to keep trading with China obliges the president of the United States to remain silent about this barbarity.In short, the leaked documents make clear that the West desperately needs to recover its ability to privilege political and moral aims over the immediate exigencies of the market, which can tolerate even this kind of repression and in fact may operate more smoothly alongside it. The power of China’s tyranny grows in parallel with our fatalism about it, and our determination to be consoled by its economic upside. But enough is enough.

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Pelosi to attend climate summit amid withdrawal from climate deal

The U.S. began the formal withdrawal process from the Paris Climate Agreement earlier this month.

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2 victims were killed and police fatally shot a man wearing a hoax explosive vest in a terrorist attack at London Bridge

London Metropolitan Police closed London Bridge and London Bridge Station is also closed. City of London police shot the man, who died at the scene.

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Tens of thousands rally in Europe, Asia before UN climate summit

Tens of thousands of protesters, primarily in Europe and Asia, hit the streets on Friday to make a fresh call for action against global warming, hoping to raise pressure on world leaders days before a UN climate summit. Carrying signs that read "One planet, one fight" and "The sea is rising, so must we", thousands flocked to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate for the latest "Fridays for Future" protest inspired by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg. In total, about 630,000 people demonstrated across more than 500 cities in Germany, the Fridays for Future movement said.

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Winter weather and holiday travel: JetBlue, American Airlines, Delta waiving flight change fees

American Airlines, Delta and JetBlue are among the airlines offering waivers to travelers to change their flights ahead of a powerful winter storm

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World-famous free solo climber Brad Gobright falls 1,000 feet to his death

World-famous free solo climber Brad Gobright has died after falling 1,000 feet during a climb in Mexico.

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Climate activists turn attention to Black Friday: 'Shoppers cannot ignore the climate emergency'

Young activists worldwide planned to hold hundreds of demonstrations on Black Friday to protest overconsumption and draw attention to climate change.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Note 10 now receiving December security update - Gizchina.com

1. Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Note 10 now receiving December security update  Gizchina.com
2. Just Buy a Galaxy Watch Active 2  Droid Life
3. Samsung ‘Cyber Monday’ 2019: Live Galaxy S10, Galaxy Note 10, 4K HDTV Deals  Forbes
4. Samsung Galaxy Buds are the cheapest they’ve ever been following Black Friday  Digital Trends
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Heavy snow in U.S. West and Midwest could disrupt post-Thanksgiving travel

Over a foot of snow is forecast in mountainous parts of Colorado, Utah and Arizona on Friday before the storm system slips toward the upper Midwest, the National Weather Service said. Freezing rain will likely turn to snowy blizzards in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan beginning on Friday night, with more than 18 inches of snowfall possible in some mountainous areas, the service said. More than 4 million Americans were expected to fly and another 49 million expected to drive at least 50 miles or more this week for Thanksgiving, according to the American Automobile Association.

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Row over Chinese 5G equipment further strains U.S.-German relations

U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell called a German official's remarks this week "an insult to the thousands of American troops who helped ensure Germany's security."

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The Latest: 4 more anti-government Iraqi protesters killed

Iraqi officials say four protesters were killed amid ongoing violence in Baghdad and southern Iraq, hours after Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced his intention to resign. Security and hospital officials say one protester was killed and 18 wounded Friday by security forces who fired live rounds and tear gas to repel them on Baghdad’s historic Rasheed Street, near the strategic Ahrar Bridge. Officials say three protesters were shot dead by security forces in the southern city of Nasiriyah, bringing the total killed there to six on Friday.

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Donald Trump Sees Another Opportunity to Teach Cuba a Lesson

Is Trump using "health attacks" on US diplomats in Havana as an excuse to punish Cuba?

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UPS workers allegedly trafficked 1,000s of pounds of drugs and fake vape pens across the country

"They've been doing it for so long that they were truly comfortable that they were never going to get caught."

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Suddenly, the Chinese Threat to Australia Seems Very Real

CANBERRA, Australia -- A Chinese defector to Australia who detailed political interference by Beijing. A businessman found dead after telling the authorities about a Chinese plot to install him in Parliament. Suspicious men following critics of Beijing in major Australian cities.For a country that just wants calm commerce with China -- the propellant behind 28 years of steady growth -- the revelations of the past week have delivered a jolt.Fears of Chinese interference once seemed to hover indistinctly over Australia. Now, Beijing's political ambitions, and the espionage operations that further them, suddenly feel local, concrete and ever-present."It's become the inescapable issue," said Hugh White, a former intelligence official who teaches strategic studies at the Australian National University. "We've underestimated how quickly China's power has grown along with its ambition to use that power."U.S. officials often describe Australia as a test case, the ally close enough to Beijing to see what could be coming for others.In public and in private, they've pushed Australia's leaders to confront China more directly -- pressure that may only grow after President Donald Trump signed legislation to impose sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials over human rights abuses in Hong Kong.Even as it confronts the specter of brazen espionage, Australia's government has yet to draw clear boundaries for an autocratic giant that is both an economic partner and a threat to freedom -- a conundrum faced by many countries, but more acutely by Australia.Prime Minister Scott Morrison continues to insist that Australia need not choose between China and the United States. A new foreign interference law has barely been enforced, and secrecy is so ingrained that even lawmakers and experts lack the in-depth information they need.As a result, the country's intelligence agencies have raised alarms about China in ways that most Australian politicians avoid. The agencies have never been flush with expertise on China, including Chinese speakers, yet they are now in charge of disentangling complex claims of nefarious deeds, all vigorously denied by China.In the most troubling recent case, first reported by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, the Australian authorities have confirmed that they are investigating accusations made by Nick Zhao, an Australian businessman who told intelligence officials that he had been the target of a plot to install him in Parliament as a Chinese agent.Zhao, a 32-year-old luxury car dealer, was a member of his local Liberal Party branch. He was a "perfect target for cultivation," according to Andrew Hastie, a federal lawmaker and tough critic of Beijing who was briefed on the case. He told The Age that Zhao was "a bit of a high-roller in Melbourne, living beyond his means."Another businessman with ties to the Chinese government, Zhao said, offered to provide 1 million Australian dollars ($677,000) to finance his election campaign for Parliament. But a few months later, in March, Zhao was found dead in a hotel room. The state's coroner is investigating the cause of death.In a rare statement, Mike Burgess, the head of Australia's domestic spy agency, said Monday that his organization was aware of Zhao's case and was taking it very seriously.The Chinese government, however, called the accusations a sign of Australian hysteria."Stories like 'Chinese espionage' or 'China's infiltration in Australia,' with however bizarre plots and eye-catching details, are nothing but lies," the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, said at a regular news briefing Monday.Beijing has similarly dismissed the case that emerged last week, which involves a young asylum-seeker named Wang Liqiang.Wang presented himself to the Australian authorities as an important intelligence asset -- an assistant to a Hong Kong businessman who Wang says is responsible for spying, propaganda and disinformation campaigns aimed at quashing dissent in Hong Kong and undermining democracy in Taiwan.China asserts that he is simply a convicted swindler. On Thursday, a Communist Party tabloid, The Global Times, released video of what it said was Wang's 2016 trial on fraud charges, where a young man confessed to bilking someone out of $17,000.Xiang Xin, the man Wang identified as his former boss, has denied having anything to do with him, or even knowing him.The challenge of the case is just beginning. While some analysts have raised doubts about Wang's assertions, elements in the detailed 17-page account that he gave to the authorities as part of an asylum application are being taken seriously by law enforcement agencies worldwide.Taiwan's Ministry of Justice detained Xiang and another executive with the company Wang said he worked for, China Innovation Investment Limited. Investigators in Taiwan are looking into assertions that their business acted on behalf of Chinese intelligence agencies.Other details in Wang's account -- about the kidnapping of booksellers in Hong Kong, spying on Hong Kong university students, and the theft of military technology from the United States -- are still being examined by Australian officials."Australia's peak intelligence agencies are being put to the test," said John Fitzgerald, a China specialist at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. "It's a tough call, and they cannot afford to get it wrong."What's clear, though, is that they are helping to push the public away from supporting cozy relations. Polls showed a hardening of Australian attitudes about China even before the past week.Now Hastie, the China hawk and Liberal Party lawmaker who chairs Parliament's joint intelligence committee, says his office has been overwhelmed by people across the country who have emailed, called and even sent handwritten letters expressing outrage and anxiety about China's actions in Australia.Questions of loyalty continue to swirl around another Liberal Party member of Parliament, Gladys Liu, who fumbled responses to questions in September about her membership in various groups linked to the Chinese Communist Party.The espionage cases also follow several months of rising tensions at Australian universities, where protests by students from Hong Kong have been disrupted, sometimes with violence, by opponents from the Chinese mainland.Several student activists have told the authorities that they have been followed or photographed by people who appear to be associated with the Chinese Consulate.It's even happened to at least one high-profile former official, John Garnaut. A longtime journalist who produced a classified report on Chinese interference for former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in 2017, he recently acknowledged publicly that he had been stalked by people who appeared to be Chinese agents -- in some cases when he was with his family.These actions of apparent aggression point to a version of China that Australians hardly know. For decades, Australia has based its relations with Beijing on a simple idea: Let's get rich together. And the mining companies that are especially close to Morrison's conservative government have been the biggest winners.But now more than ever, the country is seeing that for the Communist Party under President Xi Jinping, it's no longer just about wealth and trade."The transactions aren't satisfying them enough; they want more," said John Blaxland, a professor of international security and intelligence studies at the Australian National University. "They want to gain influence over decisions about the further involvement of the United States, about further protestations to Chinese actions in the South China Sea, in the South Pacific, in Taiwan."Blaxland, along with U.S. officials, often points out that Australia's biggest export to China, iron ore, is hard to obtain elsewhere reliably and at the prices Australia's companies charge. That suggests that the country has more leverage than its leaders might think.Hastie, who was recently denied a visa to travel to China as part of a study group that included other members of Parliament, agreed. In an interview, he said the recent revelations were "the first time the Australian public has a concrete example of what we are facing."Now, he added, it's time to adapt.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company

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Thanksgiving storms dump snow on much of the US – and it isn't over yet

A new storm, already pummeling California, could disrupt Thanksgiving travelers in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states heading home on Sunday.

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What to buy for your new 4K TV - Engadget

1. What to buy for your new 4K TV  Engadget
2. Black Friday 2019: The best streaming device deals for Amazon Fire, Chromecast and Roku  NJ.com
3. Here are 10 cheap 4K TV Black Friday deals that we can recommend  TechRadar
4. The Roku Ultra is $50 cheaper for Black Friday  The Verge
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‘Frozen II’ Adds $15 Million on Thanksgiving, Weekend Estimates at $134 Million - Yahoo Entertainment

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Ozuna mobbed in Times Square over new album — and The Post cover - New York Post

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3. Ozuna's 'Nibiru': 5 Essential Tracks, Plus a Bonus  Billboard
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Marcus Smart, Celtics ready to move on, 'tired of hearing' about ex-teammate Kyrie Irving - ESPN

1. Marcus Smart, Celtics ready to move on, 'tired of hearing' about ex-teammate Kyrie Irving  ESPN
2. CELTICS at NETS | FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | November 29, 2019  NBA
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Why the LDS Church Joined LGBTQ Advocates in Supporting Utah’s Conversion Therapy Ban

When Utah Gov. Gary Herbert proposed a new rule banning licensed therapists from practicing LGBTQ conversion therapy on minors this week, it was supported not only by LGBTQ advocates, but also the Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS).

The support of the LDS church, formerly known as the Mormon church, didn’t come easily. The process of banning conversion therapy has taken months of back-and-forth between church leaders, the LGBTQ community and state policy makers. As recently as a month ago, the church opposed the governor’s rule change.

Troy Williams, the executive director of LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Utah, tells TIME that the ban is significant because Utah is “ground zero” for conversion therapy. The idea that sexuality could be changed has pervaded among LDS members since at least the 1960s, when LDS apostles published Miracle of Forgiveness, which described gay sex as a “crime against nature” and said that sexual orientation could be changed through prayer. Researchers at Brigham Young University, which is owned by the church, allegedly used electric shock therapy to attempt to cure homosexuality in the 1970s.

“We are pleased that the new rule will mirror the legislation that was drafted and introduced earlier this year. We have no doubt the adoption of this rule will send a life-saving message to LGBTQ+ youth across our state,” Williams said in a statement released after the announcement.

When the rule goes into effect, as early as January 2020, Utah will be the 19th state to ban the practice.

While the LDS church has repeatedly affirmed that it does not condone or implement conversion therapy—which GLAAD defines as “any attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression”—LDS teachings are still regarded as largely conservative on LGBTQ issues. The church has described same-sex couples who marry as apostates; until this year, their children could not be baptized without approval from church leadership. Last month, LDS President and Apostle Dallin H. Oaks described gender as “biological sex at birth”—a definition which excludes people who do not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth.

Asked for comment, the LDS church pointed TIME to its statement in support of the governor’s proposed ban.

LGBTQ advocates strongly tied the ban to efforts to address the rising suicide rate in Utah and prominent youth suicides. In the last three years, the church has invested in suicide prevention resources and campaigns.

Bryan Schott, the managing editor of UtahPolicy.com who has spent two decades covering politics in Utah, says that two major factors may have led the church to change its mind. Schott says that there’s growing concern about suicide in Utah, which has the sixth-highest suicide rate in the nation, and the LGBTQ advocates raised compelling evidence that attempts to change sexual orientation harms LGBTQ youth. Additionally, the rule now explicitly leaves room for discussions of morality.

“When they are presented with evidence, they can be very reasonable,” Schott says of the LDS church.

It was not always clear that Utah would ban conversion therapy. A first attempt to ban the practice appeared as a bill in the Utah legislature in winter 2019, but stalled after it was radically limited by social conservatives on the state House Judiciary Committee. With the alterations, the legislation would only place narrow limitations on healthcare practitioners, banning them from promising to change sexual orientation, or administering painful treatments—such as electric shock therapy. Negotiations between the governor’s office, LGBTQ advocates and the LDS church continued until the governor proposed a new solution: He offered to amend the state’s professional licensing rules to bar conversion therapy by licensed counselors, a move that would not require legislators’ approval.

The LDS church had chosen to neither oppose nor support the legislative bill banning the practice earlier this year. However church leaders at first opposed Herbert’s proposed rule change. In October, the church said that it is “ambiguous in key areas and overreaches in others.” It sent a letter to the state Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, which was obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune. The letter argued that the ban’s definition of gender identity change was too broad and that it could curb what it describes as legitimate therapeutic practices.

It became clear that the church had reversed it position on Tuesday when it endorsed the rule change after the governor added language that made clear that patients could continue to discuss “moral or religious beliefs or practices” with a healthcare provider. A press release from the governor’s office announcing the conversion therapy ban included a statement from Marty Stephens, director of government relations for the LDS church. Stephens thanked the governor, his staff and the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing for “finding a good solution which will work for all concerned.”

Williams says that part of the effort to pass the enact the ban in Utah was maintaining an an “active dialogue” with representatives from the LDS church. Williams says that while there are still religious conservatives in Utah who strongly support conversion therapy, he felt encouraged by the outpouring of support he received from LDS families.

“The most powerful protective factor we have to prevent suicide are strong family bonds. And when those family bonds are fractured by these kind of culture wars, then young people are at risk,” says Williams.

When asked if he felt the rule changes went far enough to limit conversion therapy, Williams insists that it went far as legally possible without infringing on individual rights.

“They’re not exceptions, they’re clarifications. That’s the important part,” Williams says of the passage. “And yeah, clergy are exempt. Life coaches are also exempt. Because the state doesn’t regulate churches, the state doesn’t regulate life coaches… right now, the state only regulates state licensed therapists. Right now, a lot of people are coming to me and saying that’s not enough. That’s what’s consistent with the first amendment and the Constitution of the United States.”

Williams says that the inclusion of the provision clarifying that that the rule likely was the reason the LDS church was willing to approve of the ban. However, he says that it does not impact the effectiveness of the ban, noting that LGBTQ rights advocates had worked with the Human Rights Campaign to ensure the language was “consistent with the national LGBTQ movement.”

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Couple attacked on London bus say thugs asked 'how lesbians have sex' - New York Post

1. Couple attacked on London bus say thugs asked 'how lesbians have sex'  New York Post
2. Police release CCTV of homophobic attack on two women on London bus  Guardian News
3. UK teens plead guilty in 'homophobic incident' against women who refused to kiss on London bus  Fox News
4. Moment boy makes 'scissoring' gesture at lesbian couple before launching attack  Metro.co.uk
5. Lesbian attacked on London night bus punched teens after homophobic taunts went too far, court hears  Yahoo News
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Buy Discounted Gift Cards For Yourself This Black Friday and Cyber Monday - Lifehacker

1. Buy Discounted Gift Cards For Yourself This Black Friday and Cyber Monday  Lifehacker
2. Black Friday Deals 2019: 203 Best Sales Updated Live  Android Central
3. The best Amazon Echo Black Friday deals: great prices on the Echo Plus, Echo Studio, Echo Dot and more  Louder
4. The Best Black Friday Deals On Amazon By The Commerce Team  The Zoe Report
5. The 100 Best Amazon Black Friday Deals Worth Shopping This Year — Including Apple iPads for 24% Off  PEOPLE.com
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NFL Week 13 Picks Against the Spread: Browns beat up on Steelers, Chiefs roll Raiders - CBS Sports

1. NFL Week 13 Picks Against the Spread: Browns beat up on Steelers, Chiefs roll Raiders  CBS Sports
2. 2019 NFL playoff picture - AFC, NFC standings, seeds, scenarios and outlook in Week 13  ESPN
3. NFL Week 13 Over/Under picks & predictions  Yahoo Sports
4. NFL Week 13: Key games with playoff implications, stats that stand out and everything to know  CBS Sports
5. NFL playoff picture: See the current playoff seeds, matchups, Wild Card race  For The Win
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3 Young People Stabbed on Busy Hague Street, Setting Off Alarm in Dutch City

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Winter storm watches for parts of N.J.; 4 to 8 inches of snow possible; could wreak havoc on holiday travel - NJ.com

1. Winter storm watches for parts of N.J.; 4 to 8 inches of snow possible; could wreak havoc on holiday travel  NJ.com
2. Not again! Powerhouse storm with heavy snow and wind to interfere with Thanksgiving return travel.  The Washington Post
3. 7 maps predicting snowfall in Mass. Sunday to Monday  Boston.com
4. Expect a quiet Thanksgiving holiday, but another storm will impact Wisconsin this weekend  Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3
5. Winter storm could make travel hazardous in Upstate NY  newyorkupstate.com
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Stocks snap four-day win streak on U.S.-China trade worries, but post monthly gains - MarketWatch

Stocks snap four-day win streak on U.S.-China trade worries, but post monthly gains  MarketWatchView full coverage on Google News

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The Nets Win One for Their Culture

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Hong Kong protesters wave Trump-Rocky photos at rally | TheHill - The Hill

1. Hong Kong protesters wave Trump-Rocky photos at rally | TheHill  The Hill
2. Black Friday, Red China…and a Robust America  RealClearPolitics
3. Stocks Fall As U.S. Bill On Hong Kong Derails Recent Trade Deal Progress  Forbes
4. Mainland Students on Hong Kong Protests  Bloomberg
5. Gold Prices Face Worst Month in Years  DailyForex.com
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That frenzied Black Friday crush? Not this year - Reuters

That frenzied Black Friday crush? Not this year  ReutersView full coverage on Google News

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Don't miss these top Amazon deals in every category - From smart TV's to winter coats - AOL

1. Don't miss these top Amazon deals in every category - From smart TV's to winter coats  AOL
2. The Most Exciting Black Friday Deals On Amazon By The Commerce Team  Romper
3. We Found Deals On Smart Home Accessories For Black Friday  HuffPost
4. Buying Top Black Friday Deals On Amazon 2019 - WIN OR FAIL?! | Try The Trend  Parade
5. Amazon Fire TV sticks are at their lowest prices ever this Black Friday  Entertainment Weekly News
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Shmoo Cake, Persians and Spudnuts: Touring Canada’s Regional Cuisine

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Hong Kong police enter ransacked campus after protest siege

Hong Kong police on Thursday entered a ransacked university campus where authorities faced off for days with barricaded pro-democracy protesters, looking for petrol bombs and other dangerous materials left over from the occupation. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University became the epicentre of the territory's increasingly violent protest movement when clashes broke out on November 17 between police and protesters armed with bows and arrows as well as Molotov cocktails. University staff said they were only able to find a single protester on campus and reporters there struggled to see any major presence in the last 48 hours.

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Giuliani Targeted Ukrainian President Zelensky’s Top Aide

Evan Vucci/AP/ShutterstockRudy Giuliani didn’t just push the Ukrainian government to announce investigations that would boost President Donald Trump’s political prospects. The former New York mayor—who is not part of the U.S. government—also raised concerns to Ukrainian officials about a senior aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to American and Ukrainian sources familiar with his comments. That aide, Andriy Bohdan, previously worked for an oligarch who had sparred with Giuliani’s then-allies Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. Giuliani’s comments led Ukrainian officials to believe he was pushing for the aide’s ouster. A Zelensky administration official familiar with the discussions said he was not aware of Giuliani explicitly requesting Bohdan’s removal. Giuliani’s communications with Ukrainian government officials and efforts to influence their decisions are at the heart of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. Giuliani has refused to cooperate with both Democratic and Republican members of Congress seeking more information about his work as Trump’s unofficial Ukraine czar. While he was undertaking that project at Turmp’s behest, Giuliani also had talks with Ukraine’s top prosecutor about representing him, according to The Washington Post. Reached for comment, Giuliani did not dispute this reporting. “[A]lmost everyone me I spoke to about Boldan [sic] including Ambassador Volker described him [as] a very crooked lawyer,” he wrote in an email. “There’s really not much dispute.”Kurt Volker, formerly the U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, declined to comment on Giuliani’s statement. Giuliani says he has not traveled to Ukraine since he began investigating a natural gas company where Hunter Biden was a board member. But he has had communications with people close to Zelensky, including aide Andriy Yermak. State Department officials were also concerned about Bohdan, according to people familiar with their thinking, specifically his longtime association with oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky.  Bohdan represented Kolomoisky in litigation over the future of PrivatBank, a bank he previously controlled and which the government of Ukraine subsequently nationalized. Ukrainian officials have alleged that Kolomoisky stole billions of dollars from the bank. The FBI has also scrutinized the billionaire for possible financial crimes involving the bank, as The Daily Beast and Bloomberg have reported. And Yermak, who was in touch with Giuliani, said any effort to push Zelensky to fire an aide would have failed. “The question itself is incorrect,” he said in a statement. “No one can put pressure on President Zelensky in that way.”A former U.S. official familiar with the matter said American officials discussed concerns about Bohdan privately, and decided not to specifically name him in official talks with Zelensky’s aides. “We were aware of the relationships and assertions about him, but it could also be argued that he could be just what Zelensky needed—someone who knows the system,” the former U.S. official said. “So we decided that we would trust Zelensky and expect him to be true to his pledges on corruption and reform.”Kolomoisky had a run-in with Parnas and Fruman earlier this year, when the pair traveled to Tel Aviv to meet with him.It came before Zelensky’s inauguration. Parnas and Fruman reportedly told the oligarch that they could introduce Vice President Mike Pence and Energy Secretary Rick Perry to Zelensky officials, in exchange for a fee. Kolomoisky has said that after the two men indicated they also wanted to arrange a meeting between Giuliani and Zelensky, he told them to get out.“I say, ‘Did you see a sign on the door that says, ‘Meetings with Zelensky arranged here’?” Kolomoisky told The New York Times earlier this month. “They said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Well then, you’ve ended up in the wrong place.’”Giuliani sent an acrimonious tweet about Kolomoisky after his meeting with Parnas and Fruman. Questions about Zelensky’s relationship with Kolomoisky percolated during his campaign and into his presidency. Zelensky grew prominent while starring in a TV show that aired on a channel Kolomoisky controls. And Kolomoisky returned to Ukraine from self-imposed exile in Israel and Switzerland after Zelensky’s election. Despite the criticism from State Department officials and Giuliani, Bohdan remains Zelensky’s chief of staff. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Woman kept husband’s body in freezer for up to 11 years

The body of a man was found in the freezer of a deceased woman’s home and may have been kept there for over a decade, police say.The remains of both individuals were found during a welfare check on a 75-year old woman who had not been seen in about two weeks by a building maintenance worker.

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Judge Temporarily Blocks Subpoena Compelling McGahn to Testify in Impeachment Probe

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked her own ruling that White House counsel Don McGahn must submit to a subpoena issued by congressional Democrats as part of their ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump.Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, an Obama appointee, granted McGahn's request for a temporary stay of her previous Monday order to comply with the subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee. She must still decide whether to grant him another, longer stay so the former White House lawyer has an opportunity to appeal the order.In her Monday ruling, Jackson rejected the claim by the Justice Department, representing McGahn, that McGahn has “absolute immunity.” She also dismissed the DOJ’s complaint that federal courts should not involve themselves in conflicts between the legislative and executive branches of government.Jackson cautioned that her granting of a temporary stay "should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits" of the DOJ's case.The Judiciary Committee said it would not oppose a temporary stay of the order. The White House plans to appeal the decision requiring McGahn to testify in the impeachment probe.“On an issue of this importance to the nation, it plainly serves the public interest to have the issues raised in this case resolved by an appellate tribunal,” the DOJ wrote in its stay petitions."Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings," Jackson wrote in her strongly-worded 120-page decision.McGahn made headlines earlier this year with his claim, cited in the Mueller report, that President Trump directed him to have the Justice Department fire the special counsel. Democrats believe his testimony could be critical to their investigations of the president.

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Fire rages at Texas chemical plant day after explosions; 50,000 people under evacuation order - Fox News

1. Fire rages at Texas chemical plant day after explosions; 50,000 people under evacuation order  Fox News
2. Massive fire still burning after Texas chemical plant explosions  CBS This Morning
3. Fire continues at Texas plant; 50K under evacuation order  Yahoo News
4. TPC update on fire and follow-up at Port Neches plant  KFDM-TV News
5. Update on TPC plant fire and status of effort to control it  KFDM-TV News
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Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend

Flawed City defence meets hapless Newcastle attack, Leicester can end Silva’s service and only a miracle can save Emery

Steve Bruce said Newcastle were too passive during Monday’s sorry defeat at Aston Villa. One thing he can actively do about that is drop Jonjo Shelvey, who was irrelevant in midfield at Villa Park. With Sean Longstaff available again after suspension, and Matty Longstaff in line for a return to the starting lineup, Shelvey should be parked on the bench. Bruce probably wishes he could also make changes up front to try to exploit City’s defensive flakiness. There is not often a good case for starting Andy Carroll but this time there are two: City’s fragility and Joelinton’s haplessness. At least Allan Saint-Maximin shows signs of menace, even if his finishing so far has been down there with that of the bewildering Miguel Almirón. Mind you, Gabriel Jesus has not been looking sharp recently for City. So even though injury deprives both clubs of their best centre-backs (Jamaal Lascelles and Aymeric Laporte respectively), this match has the potential to end in a ridiculous 0-0 if midfielders do not step up to score. PD

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Snow-clogged highway in California as stormy weather threatens U.S. holiday travel - Reuters

1. Snow-clogged highway in California as stormy weather threatens U.S. holiday travel  Reuters
2. Travel issues continue as winter weather threatens large parts of US into the weekend  CNN
3. Heavy weather snarls holiday travel | News  Santa Fe New Mexican
4. Historic storm hits Northern California week of Thanksgiving  ABC10
5. Winter storm to hamper post-Thanksgiving travel, bring more snow  Reno Gazette Journal
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