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USA

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader warns against protests

The protests took a more violent turn Friday when groups supporting Hezbollah pushed into a peaceful demonstration, scuffling with protesters and forcing riot police to intervene.

25/10/2019

USA

How virtual reality is helping seniors breathe new life into old memories

New systems let users reconnect virtually with people, places and events from their youth.

25/10/2019

USA

Watch: Pets in Florida get dressed up for masquerade ball

The annual charity event Fantasy Fest Pet Masquerade drew 40 participants. Highlights included 'the tortoise and the hare' – a tortoise with a toy rabbit strapped to its shell.

25/10/2019

USA

Anonymous Trump official on tell-all book: Voters should know 'the truth'

The author said the book will feature "a great deal" from Trump himself, "for there is no better witness to his character than his own words."

25/10/2019

USA

Police make people trafficking arrests over 39 U.K. truck deaths

A man and woman were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people and on 39 counts of manslaughter

25/10/2019

USA

Russian soldier kills 8 fellow servicemen in Siberia

The Russian Defense Ministry said the incident happened Friday at a military base in the town of Gorny in the Baikal Lake region.

25/10/2019

USA

Do wormholes really exist? Scientists hatch a plan to find out.

New study suggests it may be possible to spot the space-time tunnels by observing nearby stars.

25/10/2019

USA

American politics is about to shift into hyper drive

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

25/10/2019

USA

Euroviews. This unusual idea could finally fix Facebook's political fake news problem ǀ View

The government can step in and force social media companies to set up some basic protocols to guard against the posting of campaign lies. This would be a whole new frontier for the government, and regulation of online speech is tricky to say the least.

25/10/2019

USA

Australia's iconic rock Uluru, sacred to Indigenous population, scaled for final time

The decision to ban climbing the sandstone monolith has divided both indigenous Australians as well as the wider world.

25/10/2019

USA

NYC mayor says Trump would be arrested if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue

"If you shoot someone that's a crime and no one is above the law. He would be arrested, period," de Blasio said.

25/10/2019

USA

In blistering broadside, China accuses Pence of 'lies' and 'arrogance'

"His remarks are full of arrogance, prejudice, critical biases and lies," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said.

25/10/2019

USA

Report into Indonesia jet crash that killed 189 points to Boeing, pilots, maintenance

Plane plunged into the Java Sea just 13 minutes after takeoff on Oct. 29, 2018, killing 189 people.

25/10/2019

USA

E.U. to discuss Brexit delay as Britain squabbles over election

European Union envoys to Brussels will discuss the length of another delay to Brexit at a meeting on Friday.

25/10/2019

USA

Americans split down party lines on Trump impeachment

It's worth keeping an eye on the outliers: 10 percent of Democrats think Trump should not be impeached and 9 percent of Republicans think he should be.

25/10/2019

USA

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, running for president, won't seek re-election to Congress

"I believe that I can best serve the people of Hawaii and our country as your president and commander-in-chief," Gabbard said in a video.

25/10/2019

Bolivia

Bolivia's Morales 'wins outright majority' with 99.9% of votes counted

The result will see Morales lead Bolivia until 2025.

25/10/2019

USA

Justice Department review of Russia probe turns into criminal investigation

Attorney General William Barr's administrative review of what would become the Mueller investigation is now a criminal probe.

25/10/2019

USA

U.S. forces preparing to protect Syrian oil fields

The operation, if approved, would be conducted along with the mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces militia, a U.S. official says.

25/10/2019

USA

Justice Department review into origins of Russia probe turns into criminal investigation

The review had been administrative, but the probe into the origins of the Russia probe is now a criminal investigation.

25/10/2019

USA

Trump says he plans to attend Sunday's World Series game in Washington

But it's possible there won't be a game on Sunday if the Nationals win their next two outings.

25/10/2019

USA

The moment that shocked the room during Taylor's Ukraine testimony

The former acting ambassador described a meeting that connected Trump to the withholding of U.S. aid

24/10/2019

USA

Apple tweaked the iPhone email app — and people are trashing it

Apple's devoted fan base came to expect design perfection after a string of breakthrough products over the years.

24/10/2019

USA

Newly promoted prosecutor acted as go-between for Giuliani in Ukraine

Gyunduz Mamedov was an intermediary in Rudy Giuliani's efforts to press Ukraine to open probes of Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

24/10/2019

USA

Trump wants agencies to axe NYT, Washington Post subscriptions

The White House claimed it "will be a significant cost-saving for taxpayers." Trump has repeatedly bashed both papers as "fake news."

24/10/2019

USA

Biden campaign softens its position on accepting super PAC support

Biden had previously said he wouldn't take support from outside funding groups but the campaign points to an array of resources now aimed at defeating him.

24/10/2019