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Thursday, November 22, 2018

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Inside of a wedding hall in Kabul, Afghanistan, is seen Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, a day after a suicide attack. A suicide bomber was able to sneak into the wedding hall where hundreds of Muslim religious scholars and clerics had gathered to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban deny involvement in Kabul bombing that killed 50

The Taliban have denied involvement in a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital that killed at least 50 people
Appointed U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., and Democrat Mike Espy greet each other before their televised Mississippi U.S. Senate debate in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)

US senator says no ill will, intent behind 'hanging' remark

A white Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi says that she apologizes to people who were offended when she complimented a supporter by saying she would attend a "public hanging" if the supporter invited her
FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2018, file photo, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks with reporters following a photo opportunity on Capitol Hill in Washington, with the freshman class. Ocasio-Cortez seems to be everywhere. She’s cooked soup, live on Instagram. She’s done laundry in public. And she’s clapped back at critics of her clothing and a misstatement. The New York Democrat, who at 29 is the youngest woman to be elected to Congress, says she’s documenting her journey to Capitol Hill to lift some of the mystery of the place and make it, ‘real.’ (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

She's everywhere: Ocasio-Cortez puts trek to Congress online

She's everywhere: Ocasio-Cortez puts road to Congress online, draws criticism, claps back
A man walks past the logo of Nissan Motor Co. at Nissan Motor Co. Global Headquarters in Yokohama near Tokyo Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. France's Renault says it has decided to keep its CEO Carlos Ghosn on despite his arrest in Japan on allegations that he misused assets of partner Nissan Motor Co. and misreported his income. Renault's board of directors announced late Tuesday that the No. 2 at the company, Chief Operating Officer Thierry Bollore, would temporarily fill in for Ghosn. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Report: Nissan's Ghosn to be detained for another 10 days

Report: Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn will be detained for another 10 days, after arrest on suspicion of falsifying income reports by millions of dollars and misusing company assets for personal gain
FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2018, file photo, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams answers a question as he and U.S. Rep. Mia Love participate in a debate in Sandy, Utah, as the two battle for Utah's 4th Congressional District. McAdams declared victory Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, in the tight race, but Love didn’t concede and The Associated Press has not called the race. (Scott G Winterton/Deseret News, via AP, Pool, File)
Once rising GOP star, Utah's Mia Love loses seat to Democrat
Once rising GOP star, Utah's Mia Love loses US House seat to Democrat
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during the budget debate of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Merkel says UN migrants pact is in Germany's interest
Chancellor Angela Merkel says it's in Germany's interest to support a U.N. agreement on migration that countries such as the United States, Hungary and Poland have rejected
Ikea to cut 7,500 jobs as customer behavior changes
Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea says it is cutting 7,500 jobs worldwide, partly as a result of a new strategy to open shops in city centers to complement its larger stores.
A statue of a girl representing thousands of Korean women enslaved for sex by Japan's imperial forces before and during World War II, is seen as participants hold signs reading "Reconciliation and Healing Foundation" during a weekly rally against Japanese government near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. South Korea said Wednesday it will dissolve a foundation funded by Japan to compensate South Korean women who were forced to work in Japan's World War II military brothels. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
AP Explains: Dispute between Seoul, Tokyo over WWII brothels
AP Explains: The intensifying dispute between Seoul and Tokyo over World War II military brothels
In this October 2018 photo, American adventurer John Allen Chau, right, stands for a photograph with Founder of Ubuntu Football Academy Casey Prince, 39, in Cape Town, South Africa, days before he left for in a remote Indian island of North Sentinel Island, where he was killed. Chau, who kayaked to the remote island populated by a tribe known for shooting at outsiders with bows and arrows, has been killed, police said Wednesday, Nov. 21. Officials said they were working with anthropologists to recover the body. (AP Photo/Sarah Prince)
'Explorer at heart': American missionary killed in India
A man killed on a remote Indian island had worked as a wilderness emergency responder and coached soccer for poor children in Iraq and South Africa
Protesters march through downtown in response to a jury finding U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the cross-border shooting death of Mexican teen Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, in Tucson, Ariz. It was his second trial after another jury acquitted him of second-degree murder and deadlocked on the manslaughter charge earlier this year. (Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
Border Patrol agent acquitted in Mexican teen's 2012 death
A jury in Arizona has acquitted a U.S. Border Patrol agent of manslaughter in the cross-border shooting death of a Mexican teen six years ago
Amy Sheppard packs up items outside her tent in a Walmart parking lot in Chico, Calif., that's been a makeshift campground for people displaced by wildfire, Wednesday morning, Nov. 21, 2018. Sheppard lost her home in Magalia to the Camp fire. She was staying in the tent for four days with her sister and 1-year-old niece. They are moving to a motel because of rain that began Wednesday. (AP Photo/Kathleen Ronayne)
Northern California rain hampers life for wildfire survivors
Rain is forcing Amy Sheppard out of a temporary campsite after her family lost their home in a deadly Northern California wildfire
In this October 2018 photo, American adventurer John Allen Chau, right, stands for a photograph with Founder of Ubuntu Football Academy Casey Prince, 39, just days before he left for India where he was killed in a remote island populated by the Sentinelese, a tribe known for shooting at outsiders with bows and arrows, in Cape Town, South Africa. The Sentinelese people are resistant to outsiders and often attack anyone who comes near, and visits to the island are heavily restricted by the government. "He was an explorer at heart," Prince said. "He loved creation and being out in it, I think having probably found and connected with God that way, and deeply so." (AP Photo/Sarah Prince)
'A case of misdirected adventure': Tribesmen kill American
Indian police say isolated island tribe appears to have killed American adventurer who traveled to restricted area
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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