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President Donald Trump pauses Friday during an event on health care prices in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.

Trump says he's 'strongly' considering impeachment testimony

Donald Trump said Monday that he's "strongly considering" testifying in his own impeachment inquiry, complimenting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the idea in a tweet after again insulting her and congressional Democrats for pursuing his removal from office.
In this undated photo provided on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, poses with North Korean air force sharpshooters and soldiers for a photo at an unknown location in North Korea. Kim supervised a parachuting drill of military sharpshooters and vowed to build an 'invincible army,' displaying more defiance even as the United States and South Korea called off their own exercises to create space for nuclear diplomacy. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea says it won't give Trump a summit for free

North Korea has responded to a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump that hinted at another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying it has no interest in giving Trump further meetings to brag about unless it gets something substantial in return
Fresno Police Lt. Bill Dooley speaks to reporters at the scene of a shooting at a backyard party Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, in southeast Fresno, Calif. Multiple people were shot and at least four of them were killed Sunday at a party in Fresno when suspects sneaked into the backyard and fired into the crowd, police said. (Larry Valenzuela/The Fresno Bee via AP)

4 dead, 6 wounded in California football party shooting

Ten people were shot and four of them were killed Sunday at a party in Fresno when suspects sneaked into a backyard filled with people
In this photo taken on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, Paolo Brandolisio stands in his oars flooded laboratory, in Venice, Italy. Venetians are fed up with what they see as an inadequate to the city's mounting problems: record-breaking flooding, damaging cruise ship traffic and over-tourism. They feel largely left to their own devices, and with ever fewer Venetians living in the historic part of the city to defend its interests and keep it from becoming a theme park or museum.(AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Venice's dwindling population faces mounting woes

Venetians are fed up with what they see as an inadequate response to the city's mounting problems: record-breaking flooding, damaging cruise ship traffic and over-tourism
Career Foreign Service officer George Kent and top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor, right, are sworn in to testify during the first public impeachment hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday Nov. 13, 2019, in Washington. (Joshua Roberts/Pool via AP)
What's next: Impeachment hearings enter crucial stretch
What's next in impeachment: Packed schedule as hearings enter crucial stretch
President Donald Trump pauses during an event on healthcare prices in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
Email shows Trump's Doral property not among original G-7 sites
A newly released email shows President Donald Trump's golf resort near Miami was not among the original sites to be considered to host a major international summit next year.
Chicago-area college student arrested for guns in SUV
A judge has denied bond to a Chicago-area college student who was charged after police found more than six guns in his SUV in a campus parking lot
100 guns turned in at St. Sabina buyback program in Chicago
A gun buyback program at St. Sabina Church in Chicago collected at least 100 firearms
Disaster declaration issued for 17 Illinois counties
A federal disaster declaration has been issued for over a dozen Illinois counties affected by historic flooding
Kavanaugh accuser gets award from ACLU for speaking out
In a rare public appearance to pick up an award, the woman who accused U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault says she had a responsibility to come forward, NBC News reports
4 people die in crash after high school football game
Police say four people, including two teenagers, have died in a head-on crash after an Illinois high school football game
FILE - In this May 24, 2016, file photo, a Native American flag hangs far above American Indian advocates as they hold a news conference at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, to contest a Paris auction house's upcoming auction of Native American remains and sacred objects. A ceremonial shield has been returned to New Mexico more than three years after it became central to an international debate over the export of Native American items. U.S. and Acoma Pueblo officials planned Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, to announce the shield's return from Paris, where it had been listed for bidding in 2016 before the EVE auction house took the rare step of halting its sale. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Feds get Native American tribal shield after yearslong push
A ceremonial shield at the center of a yearslong international debate over exporting of sacred Native American objects to foreign markets has returned to New Mexico
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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