President Donald Trump has lashed  out after a jury acquitted a Mexican man in the killing of a  woman on a San Francisco pier, calling the verdict  "disgraceful" and suggesting Democrats will pay a price for  being "weak on Crime."
Trump yesterday launched an aggressive series of tweets  over the 2015 shooting of Kate Steinle, which he often cited  during his presidential campaign to push for a wall on the  Mexican border. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an undocumented  Mexican immigrant, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter  charges yesterday.
The president began by calling it a "disgraceful  verdict." He then wrote that Garcia Zarate "came back and back  over the weakly protected Obama border, always committing  crimes and being violent, and yet this info was not used in  court. His exoneration is a complete travesty of justice.  BUILD THE WALL!"
He added that Democrats are "so weak on Crime that they  will pay a big price in the 2018 and 2020 Elections."
Garcia Zarate had been ...

Trump: Dems will lose voters because they are weak on crime

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The military has identified 100  sailors and Marines killed when the USS Oklahoma capsized  during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 76 years ago.
The milestone comes two years after the Defence POW/MIA  Accounting Agency dug up nearly 400 sets of remains from a  Hawaii cemetery.
Officials exhumed the bodies after determining that  advances in forensic science and genealogical help from  families made it possible to identify the men. The buried  Marines and sailors have been classified as missing since  World War II.
The agency has said it expects to identify about 80  percent of the battleship's missing crew members by 2020.
It has said that it made the most recent identification  last week. Many of those identified have been buried in their  hometowns. Others have been reinterred in Honolulu.

100 killed in Pearl Harbor attack identified after 76 years

A McDonald's manager will get a  USD 110,000 reward for tipping off police about a man accused  of killing four people and terrorizing a Florida neighborhood  for 51 days.
Tampa police chief Brian Dugan said at a news conference  today that Delonda Walker will receive "every penny" of the  reward money. Her tip to police on Tuesday led to the arrest  of 24-year-old Howell Emanuel Donaldson III.
Donaldson is charged with four counts of first-degree  murder. His victims were apparently randomly shot during  October and November.
Donaldson worked at the McDonald's. He left his loaded  gun in the restaurant.
In a statement, Walker said getting a reward never  entered her mind. She said she simply "wanted to do the right  thing.

McDonald's manager gets USD 110,000 for tip on murder suspect

The European Union warned Britain  today that it must outline by next week how it plans to keep  an open Irish border after Brexit or the bloc will refuse to  start negotiating a new trade deal with the UK.
Standing alongside European Council President Donald Tusk  in Dublin, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the UK must  offer "credible, concrete and workable solutions that  guarantee there will no hard border" between Northern Ireland  and the Irish republic after Britain leaves the EU in 2019.
Tusk said British Prime Minister Theresa May had until  Monday to present her "final offer" on divorce terms so that  the 27 other EU leaders can assess it before a crucial  December 14-15 summit in Brussels.
That meeting will decide whether there has been enough  progress to move on to discussing future relations and trade.
Tusk said the whole EU was behind Ireland on the need for  a border plan, dashing British hopes that some member states  might be prepared to compromise.
"Let me say 

EU tells UK: No trade talks without progress on Irish border

Federal prosecutors in Atlanta say a  Russian cybercriminal has been sentenced to serve 14 years in  prison.
The U.S. Attorney's office said in a news release today  that 33-year-old Roman Seleznev was sentenced for his role in  a USD 50 million cyber fraud ring and for defrauding banks of  USD 9 million through a hacking scheme.
Prosecutors say U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones  sentenced Seleznev on a racketeering charge out of Nevada and  a conspiracy to commit bank fraud charge in Georgia. He  pleaded guilty in September. Jones gave him 14 years on each  count. The sentences are to be served at the same time.
They will also be served at the same time as a 27-year  sentence that Seleznev received in Washington state after a  conviction there last year.

Russian cybercriminal sentenced to 14 years in prison

Alaska Airlines said today it's  investigating a claim that flight attendants allowed a  passenger to sexually harass a former Facebook executive on a  flight.
Randi Zuckerberg, who is also Facebook founder Mark  Zuckerberg's sister, took to social media Wednesday to detail  her recent flight between Los Angeles and Mazatlan, Mexico.
In a letter to executives of the Seattle-based airline,  she said she was extremely uncomfortable with a man sitting  near her, explaining he constantly made sexually explicit and  lewd comments to her and others in the first-class section  while being served multiple alcoholic drinks.
Zuckerberg said the man talked about touching himself,  asked if she fantasized about the colleague she was traveling  with, and commented on the bodies of female passengers as they  boarded the plane.
He also mocked "Millennial women" when talking about  recent sexual harassment news reports.
Zuckerberg said she reported the man to flight  attendants, who seemed to make ...

Former Facebook exec says she was harassed on flight

Law enforcement's  response to a violent white nationalist rally in Virginia last  summer failed on multiple fronts, an independent review  released today found.
Former US Attorney Tim Heaphy's monthslong investigation  of the Charlottesville rally found that the city failed by not  adequately communicating or coordinating in advance and by  removing an officer from an area where a car plowed into  counterprotesters and killed a woman.
Heaphy's team interviewed 150 people and pored over half  a million documents for the report, which found a lack of  preparation and coordination between state and city police and  a passive response by officers to the chaos.
The report said the city of Charlottesville had failed to  protect public safety or the protesters' right to express  themselves.
"This represents a failure of one of government's core  functions_the protection of fundamental rights," the report  said.
"Law enforcement also failed to maintain order and  protect citizens from harm, .

Report finds law enforcement failed at Charlottesville rally

U.S. oil refineries that are unable  to sell a dirty fuel waste product at home are exporting vast  quantities of it to India instead.
Petroleum coke, the bottom-of-the-barrel leftover from  refining Canadian tar sands crude and other heavy oils, is  cheaper and burns hotter than coal. But it also contains more  planet-warming carbon and far more heart- and lung-damaging  sulfur -- a key reason few American companies use it.
Refineries instead are sending it around the world,  especially to energy-hungry India, which last year got almost  a fourth of all the fuel-grade "petcoke" the U.S. shipped out,  an Associated Press investigation found.
In 2016, the U.S. sent more than 8 million metric tonnes  of petcoke to India. That's about 20 times more than in 2010,  and enough to fill the Empire State Building eight times.
The petcoke being burned in countless factories and  plants is contributing to dangerously filthy air in India,  which already has many of the world's most polluted ...

US shipping vast amounts of a dirty oil byproduct worldwide

Images taken by a new European  satellite show the levels and distribution of air pollutants  around the world, including ash spewing from a volcano in  Indonesia.
The European Space Agency released images today made by  its Sentinel-5P satellite that show high concentrations of  nitrogen dioxide in parts of Europe on November 22.
Nitrogen dioxide is mainly caused by vehicle emissions  and in industrial processes.
Another image shows high levels of carbon monoxide,  commonly produce by fires, in Asia, Africa and South America.
A series of images also show sulfur dioxide, ash and  smoke from the Mount Agung volcano in Bali last month.
Sentinel-5P, launched October 13, can map levels of  nitrogen dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and other  pollutants that can be hazardous to human health or contribute  to global warming.

Satellite images show extent of air pollution worldwide

The number of children in the US  foster care system has increased for the fourth year in a row,  with substance abuse by parents a major factor, according to  new federal data.
The annual report from the Department of Health and Human  Services, released yesterday, counted 437,500 children in  foster care as of September 30, 2016, up from about 427,400 a  year earlier.
The peak was 524,000 children in foster care in 2002. The  number dropped steadily to about 397,000 in 2012 before rising  again as the opioid epidemic and other forms of drug abuse  began to worsen across the US.
Health and Human Services said substance abuse was a  factor in 34 per cent of the 2016 cases in which a child was  removed from home, up from 32 per cent a year earlier. About  92,000 children were removed from home because at least one  parent had a drug abuse issue.
Among the states with the biggest one-year increases in  their foster care population were Indiana, Georgia and West  Virginia, each grappling 

More US kids in foster care; parental drug abuse a factor

Prince Harry and his fiancee, Meghan  Markle, are taking part in their first official visit  together, choosing to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS with a visit  to a youth project in Nottingham.
The trip to central England is the first official  engagement for Harry and the American actress since they  announced earlier this week that they would wed. They plan to  tour Britain in the next six months to give Markle an  opportunity to learn about the country.
The prince has long championed AIDS charities, following  in the footsteps of his mother, Princess Diana. The couple  will also meet with members of the public today.
Prince Harry's spokesman Jason Knauf says the prince is  looking forward to introducing Markle "to a community that has  become very special to him.

Prince Harry and fiancee make first official joint tour

The doner kebab, that grilled fast-  food sandwich which is the gastronomic equivalent of an  American hamburger in many European cities, is under fire.
The European Union's legislature is moving to ban the  phosphates used in the processed meat that is the heart of the  popular street snack. Up-in-arms kebab vendors skewer the  idea.
EU lawmakers are citing health concerns based on studies  that linked phosphates to cardiovascular disease. Owners of  takeout restaurants and industry groups say the additives are  needed to keep meat juicy.
Fueling the brouhaha is that some sausages with  phosphates are allowed to be sold in the EU and would not be  affected by the move involving kebab meat.
The disparity has some vendors alleging that "doner  discrimination" was cooked up deliberately to hurt Turkish-  owned businesses.

Street food vendors up in arms over possible EU kebab ban

The Chinese company that is the  world's biggest maker of commercial drones is denying claims  in a US government document circulated online that it might be  giving Beijing information about American law enforcement and  utility companies.
DJI Ltd. denied suggestions in the document, posted on  technology news websites, that it shared information about  U.S. utility companies and other "critical infrastructure"  with the Chinese government. A company statement said it  doesn't look at flight logs, photos or video "unless customers  actively upload and share them with us."
The dispute highlights growing concern among governments  about potential risks associated with the flood of data  generated by smartphones, social media and other technology,  including drones.

Chinese drone maker denies giving data to government

Protesters and police in Honduras  clashed violently as incumbent President Juan Orlando  Hernandez emerged with a growing lead for re-election  following a reported computer glitch that shut down vote  counting for several hours.
Challenger Salvador Nasralla has alleged fraud and said  he won't respect the official results. He's watched an initial  five-point lead diminish in recent days as official results  have trickled out.
Last night, Hernandez was ahead by more than 45,000 votes  with nearly 93 per cent of Sunday's votes processed. He had  42.9 per cent of the vote to Nasralla's 41.4 per cent.
Opposition supporters protested throughout the day and  into the night outside the electoral court's facilities and on  major boulevards, setting up roadblocks and lighting bonfires  in the streets.
Hooded demonstrators threw rocks and pieces of wood at  riot police carrying batons and shields, who responded  forcefully with tear gas and water cannons as calls to  maintain calm were ...

Protests grow as vote count in Honduras drags on

Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu  Kyi was set to meet President Xi Jinping on a visit to  friendly neighbor China starting Friday as international  criticism over her country's persecution of Rohingya Muslims  continues to grow.
China has studiously avoided criticizing the crisis and  Suu Kyi can be expected to receive a warm welcome when she  meets with Xi. China will also likely push for Myanmar to  restart a dam project suspended after overwhelming local  opposition.
Suu Kyi is in Beijing to attend a gathering of delegates  from more than 200 political parties from around the world  hosted by China's ruling Communist Party. It wasn't clear  whether the Nobel Peace Prize laureate would speak at the  gathering or when she would meet with Xi, who was reappointed  last month to a second five-year term as Communist Party  general secretary.
China was a longstanding friend of Myanmar during the  Southeast Asian country's isolation from the West, and has  been helping shield it from ..

Myanmar's Suu Kyi visits China as crackdown criticism grows

South Korea says the most powerful  missile that North Korea tested this week missile is  potentially capable of striking targets as far as 13,000 km,  which would put Washington within reach.
The Defence Ministry says today further reviews are  needed to determine whether the intercontinental ballistic  missile's warhead can survive atmospheric re-entry and  accurately strike the target.
Many questions remain, but there's broad agreement from  government and outside analyses that the huge Hwasong-15 ICBM  represents a significant step forward, putting the North  extremely close to its goal of a viable arsenal of nuclear-  tipped long-range missiles.

Seoul: N Korea's new missile could reach Washington

A police raid on the house of a  suspected drug trafficker in central Mexico resulted in a  two-hour-long shootout that killed six of the suspect's  relatives in what police described as "crossfire."
The security commissioner of the state of Morelos, just  south of Mexico City, said the police officers involved in the  raid are under investigation.
But security commissioner Alberto Capella said police had  been careful in raid conducted today in which a suspected  Jalisco cartel member and four associates were arrested after  they surrendered.
Capella said four women, a young girl and a man were  killed in the house. He said they were presumed relatives of  the trafficker, who had allegedly involved in a previous  shootout with officers.
Two other children were wounded at the scene.

6 killed in central Mexico police raid on trafficker's house

Argentina's navy announced today  that the search for a missing submarine that has been lost for  15 days will continue but the rescue part of the mission is  over, reflecting the faded hopes for finding the 44 crew  members alive.
Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said the rescue mission had  "extended for more than twice what is estimated for a rescue."
Hopes of finding survivors had already dimmed because  experts say the crew only had enough oxygen to last up to 10  days if the sub remained intact under the sea. The navy also  said that an explosion occurred near the time and place where  the ARA San Juan sub went missing on November 15.
More than a dozen countries are still searching for the  submarine which went missing on the South Atlantic on a  patrol.
The navy has said the vessel's captain reported that  water entered the snorkel and caused one of the submarine's  batteries to short circuit. The captain later communicated by  satellite phone that the problem had been contained, ..

Hopes fading, Argentina ends rescue aspect of search for sub

President Donald Trump is  considering recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a  highly charged declaration that risks inflaming tensions  across the Middle East, officials said today.
The announcement would be a way to offset a likely  decision delaying his campaign promise to move the US Embassy  to the holy city from Tel Aviv.
Trump's announcement is expected next week and follows  months of internal deliberations that grew particularly  intense in recent days, according to officials familiar with  the talks.
They described the president as intent on fulfilling his  pledge to move the embassy but also mindful that doing so  could set back his aim of forging a long-elusive peace  agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, who claim part  of Jerusalem as the capital of an eventual state.
The officials, who weren't authorised to publicly discuss  the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the  outlines of Trump's plan emerged from a meeting of his top  national ...

Officials: Trump mulls calling Jerusalem Israel's capital

Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson  Mnangagwa has appointed a new Cabinet that includes ruling  party loyalists as well as figures linked to the military,  whose takeover helped oust former leader Robert Mugabe.
No opposition politicians are included.
The 22-member Cabinet announced late yesterday on state-  run television includes Maj. Gen. Sibusiso Moyo as foreign  minister, Air Marshal Perrance Shiri as agriculture minister  and Chris Mutsvangwa, leader of Zimbabwe's war veterans, as  information minister.
Moyo on November 15 announced the military takeover that  put Mugabe under house arrest and set in motion a national  clamoUr leading to the former president's resignation after 37  years in power.
Mugabe quit on November 21 amid impeachment proceedings.
The ruling ZANU-PF party replaced him with Mnangagwa,  fired by Mugabe weeks ago as vice president.

Zimbabwe's new leader appoints Cabinet; ruling party favoured

President Donald Trump is donating  his third-quarter salary to the Department of Health and Human  Services to help fight the opioid epidemic.
The White House did not immediately announce the amount  of the check that acting Health Secretary Eric Hargan accepted  on Thursday. Trump previously donated salary in the amounts of  USD 78,333 and USD 100,000 to the National Park Service and  the Education Department, respectively.
Hargan says the donation will be put toward the planning  and design of a large-scale public awareness campaign about  the dangers of opioid addiction.
Trump announced the ad campaign in October, the same time  he declared opioid misuse a national public health emergency.  The declaration included no new federal funding to combat the  epidemic.
Hargan says 175 people die every day from drug overdose.

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