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Comedian Randy Credico testified in the trial of President Donald Trump's adviser Roger Stone on Thursday where he told jokes, did a Bernie Sanders impression and said he never served as a backchannel between Stone and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Credico is a key witness in the government's case against Stone, who is charged with obstructing justice, witness tampering and lying to the House of Representatives intelligence committee in its investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 election. Читать дальше...

America now needs to concern itself with more than humans.

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. prosecutors charged a New York company and its employees with a 13-year scheme to illegally import and sell Chinese-made surveillance and security equipment to the American government.Aventura Technologies Inc., founder Jack Cabasso and six others are accused of defrauding customers including military agencies by falsely claiming that it manufactured security cameras and other products in the U.S. when they were actually imported from China.Aventura “created a channel by which... Читать дальше...

An Iowa man convicted of murder was rushed from prison to a hospital where his heart was restarted five times. He claims he should be freed.

Hillary Clinton called the wealth taxes proposed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren "unworkable" and said they would be "incredibly disruptive" if enforced.

A New York state judge on Thursday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump to pay $2 million for misusing his namesake charitable foundation, resulting in funds being used to advance his 2016 presidential campaign. Justice Saliann Scarpulla, of the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, directed the payment to eight non-profits, in connection with a lawsuit by the state's attorney general against the president and three of his adult children over the now-dissolved Donald J. Trump Foundation. A spokesman... Читать дальше...

A New York state judge on Thursday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump to pay $2 million for misusing his namesake charitable foundation, resulting in funds being used to advance his 2016 presidential campaign. Justice Saliann Scarpulla, of the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, directed the payment to eight non-profits, in connection with a lawsuit by the state's attorney general against the president and three of his adult children over the now-dissolved Donald J. Trump Foundation. A spokesman... Читать дальше...

(Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. defended its policy of not fact-checking political advertising in the U.K. general election, saying it wasn’t a matter for a private company to police political speech.Asked whether Facebook would have allowed the U.K. Conservative Party to run a recently doctored video of an interview with a senior Labour lawmaker as an advertisement -- a video that was widely criticized for being misleading -- Facebook said yes.“Political parties and political candidates are not... Читать дальше...

Israel's prime minister alleges that a meeting earlier in the day of the U.N. nuclear watchdog "confirms that Iran lied" about its nuclear program. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly last year, Netanyahu had described a "secret atomic warehouse" on the outskirts of Tehran.

U.S. President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, threatened to sue if congressional committees issued a subpoena to compel him to testify in their impeachment probe, a House of Representatives committee said on Thursday. Bolton had been asked to appear for testimony behind closed doors on Thursday, but failed to appear. "His counsel has informed us that unlike three other dedicated public servants who worked for him on the NSC (National Security Council) and have complied with lawful subpoenas, Mr. Читать дальше...

Bill Gates joked on Wednesday that "when you say I should pay $100 billion, OK, then I'm starting to do a little math about what I have left over."

Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton and an aide to Pence were summoned to testify before a House impeachment panel Thursday.

For half a century, Taku had been the one known Alaskan glacier to withstand the effects of climate change – until now.

Brazil voted for the first time with the United States on Thursday against an annual United Nations resolution condemning and calling for an end to Washington's economic embargo on Communist-ruled Cuba, while Colombia and Ukraine abstained. The 193-member General Assembly still overwhelmingly adopted the resolution for the 28th year with 187 votes in favor. U.S. ally Israel also voted no and Moldova did not vote.

As videos of robot-like dogs made by Boston Dynamics go viral on the internet, the humanoids' uncanny abilities have also sparked worries that they could become a threat to humans. Not so, says their creator Marc Raibert in an interview with AFP at the Lisbon Web Summit, claiming that the Spot robots aren't evil and won't be turned into weapons. US engineering and robotics firm Boston Dynamics, founded in 1992, was in 2013 bought by Google, which sold the firm on to Japan's Softbank in 2017.

Ventura wakes up to two earthquakes, registering at 3.4 and 3.2 magnitude. Meanwhile, a few minor quakes shake other areas in Southern California

President Trump is fuming over news, first reported by the Washington Post, that the president wanted Attorney General William Barr to hold a press conference declaring that he had broken no laws during a phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.

An Israeli plan to run a cable car over Jerusalem to the walls of the Old City has angered Palestinians who say it would erase their heritage in areas they seek for a future state. The proposed cable car would shuttle some 3,000 tourists and worshippers per hour from Jerusalem's western part to the eastern Old City in a four-minute ride. The plan moved forward this week when a special committee headed by Israel's finance minister gave it a green light.

Ranking member of the House Oversight Committee Jim Jordan announced Thursday that Republicans plan to subpoena the whistleblower who filed a complaint concerning President Trump's dealings with Ukraine.House Democrats, who control the majority on the committees conducting the resulting impeachment probe, are expected to shut down the subpoena request as they have already rejected the idea of the whistleblower testifying in public, citing concern for the anonymous member of the intelligence community's... Читать дальше...

Texas officer Aaron Dean's review last year shows he was critiqued for having "tunnel vision." Dean is charged with the murder of Atatiana Jefferson

The president is lashing out on Twitter over news first reported by the Washington Post that he wanted the attorney general to hold a press conference declaring he had broken no laws during the July 25 phone call in which he urged Ukraine’s new president to investigate his political rival.

HANOI/LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The 39 people who were found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck after being smuggled into Britain last month all came from Vietnam and have been formally identified. The discovery of the bodies in a container on an industrial estate near London has shone a spotlight on the illicit trade that sends the poor of Asia, Africa and the Middle East on perilous journeys to the West. British police have been working with Vietnamese officials to identify the 31 men and eight women. Читать дальше...

Incumbent Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has refused to concede to Democratic challenger Andy Beshear, who narrowly bested him in Tuesday's gubernatorial race.The unofficial voting tally shows Beshear ahead by just over 5,000 votes. The Associated Press declined to call the election, citing Bevin's protest and Beshear's narrow lead of .4 percentage points."What we know is that there really are a number of irregularities," Bevin told reporters on Wednesday, adding "there’s more than a little bit... Читать дальше...

Bangladesh has banned a radical Islamist group over a threat to the Muslim-majority country's "security and safety", officials said, as the government steps up a crackdown against extremists. The South Asian nation has been ravaged by Islamist extremism since the late 1990s after jihadists who fought in the war in Afghanistan alongside the Mujahideen and Taliban returned home. The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina clamped down on extremist organisations following the killing of 18 foreigners... Читать дальше...

In an era of hyper partisan politics, Sean Fowler is a rarity: an independent voter who once considered the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump a "witch hunt" and now thinks Congress should remove him from office. The small slice of the American electorate that is truly independent can play an outsized role in picking presidents and there is no better example of that than in Maine, a state where more voters are registered to no political party than are Republican or Democratic. Читать дальше...