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Friday, December 13, 2019

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A man looks through newspapers with front pages leading with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the International Court of Justice hearing, near a roadside journal shop Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, in Yangon, Myanmar. Suu Kyi testified to the court that the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to neighboring Bangladesh was the unfortunate result of a battle with insurgents. She denied that the army had killed civilians, raped women and torched houses. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Nobel winner's army defense blasted in Myanmar genocide case

Lawyers seeking to halt what they say is an ongoing genocide in Myanmar have slammed leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi's defense of her country's armed forces before a U.N. court
Diver dressed as an angel and as a Santa Claus dive inside a aquarium to feed fishes during a media event at the Seal Life aquarium in Berlin, Thursday, Germany, Dec. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Ray of festive cheer: Santa feeds the fish in Berlin

Santa has taken a dive in Berlin
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., top center, and Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., the ranking member, right, makes his opening statement during a markup of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. The Democratic members of the panel are on the bottom row. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beyond the hearings: What to watch on Trump impeachment

The impeachment drive against President Donald Trump is moving beyond the hearing room
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Nashville Police Department shows Daniel Everette Hale. A judge has allowed prosecutors to move forward with their case against Hale, a former intelligence analyst charged with leaking classified documents about military campaigns to a reporter, according to court papers unsealed Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Hale of Nashville, Tenn., is charged in federal court in Alexandria, Va., under the World War I-era Espionage Act. (Nashville Police Department via AP, File)

Prosecutors can move forward with leaks case against analyst

A judge is allowing prosecutors to move forward with their case against a former intelligence analyst charged with leaking classified documents about military campaigns to a reporter
FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2019, file photo, people watch a TV showing a file image of an unspecified North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. On Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, North Korea accused the United States of 'hostile provocation' on Thursday for criticizing its ballistic missile tests during a United Nations Security Council meeting and warned that the Trump administration may have blown its chance to salvage nuclear negotiations. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
North Korea berates US for criticizing its missile tests
North Korea has accused the United States of 'hostile provocation' for criticizing its ballistic missile tests during a United Nations Security Council meeting and says the Trump administration may have blown its chance to salvage nuclear negotiations
Rosa Gutierrez Lopez, from el Salvador, who a year ago became the first unauthorized immigrant to get refuge inside a religious institution in the Washington area, poses for a portrait at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church where she has been living in sanctuary for a year due to a deportation order, in Bethesda, Md., Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Salvadoran woman marks 1 year in sanctuary near White House
A Salvadoran woman has spent the last year inside a church in the Washington area to avoid deportation
A Navy helicopter hovers at Whakatane Airport, as the recovery operation to return the victims of the Dec. 9 volcano eruption continues off the coast of Whakatane New Zealand, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. A team of eight New Zealand military specialists landed on White Island early Friday to retrieve the bodies of victims after the Dec. 9 eruption. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
New Zealand recovers 6 bodies from toxic volcanic island
Grieving families sang traditional Maori songs as New Zealand military specialists went to a volcanic island and recovered six bodies of the 16 people who died in an eruption
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, left, speaks with Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., center, and Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., right, after testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Inspector General's report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Russia probe report spurs calls for FBI surveillance changes
Democrats and Republicans say they want changes in the government's surveillance powers after abuses were disclosed in a watchdog's report on the FBI's Russia investigation
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Trial-ready: Pelosi faces choice on impeachment prosecutors
There is no shortage of eager House Democrats jockeying for a spot on the team of managers who will prosecute the abuse and obstruction case against President Donald Trump in the Senate
FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi waits to address judges of the International Court of Justice on the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. There was a time when Suu Kyi was the hero of the human rights set, whose nonviolent struggle against her country's military dictatorship was admired by people around the world and won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Now she is seen by many of her admirers as an apologist for war crimes against its Muslim Rohingya minority. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Myanmar's Suu Kyi's defense of army puzzles former admirers
Many people recall Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi as a brave freedom fighter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for her nonviolent struggle to oust her country's military dictatorship and restore democracy to the Southeast Asian country
Authorities release name of Colfax County crash victim
Authorities have released the name of a driver who died when his pickup truck rammed into an oncoming semitrailer on U.S. Highway 30 in eastern Nebraska's Colfax County
Polling station workers empty a ballot box in a polling station Thursday Dec.12, 2019 in Algiers. Algerians - without a leader since April - voted for a new president or boycotted and held street protests against the elections decried by a massive pro-democracy movement that forced former leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign. (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou)
Former PM Tebboune elected Algeria's new president
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, a former prime minister and loyalist of Algeria's influential army chief, has been elected the country's new president
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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The DuPage County Sheriff’s Office, the DuPage County Fraternal Order of Police and participating agencies held its annual Shop with a Cop event on Saturday, Dec. 7 at the Meijer store in Bloomingdale. Area children were treated to breakfast and visits with Santa at the Glen Ellyn Park District’s Ackerman Sports and Fitness Center before their shopping trip. Each child was paired with an officer and given $125 to spend on family members and themselves.
DuPage County Sheriff's Shop with a Cop event
The Village of Lincolnshire hosted its annual Holiday Tree Lighting on Friday, Dec. 6 at Village Green in Lincolnshire. The chorus from Half Day School performed at the event.
Holiday celebrations in the suburbs
Thousands of Santa’s run in the annual Rotary Santa Run Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019 in Arlington Heights.
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Fremd High School dancers dress in black and silver as they perform at the Bear Invitational high school dance competition at Lake Zurich High School Saturday.
Dance teams compete at Lake Zurich High School
George Dulian of Elk Grove Village dressed as Buddy the Elf waves as hundreds of runners and walkers dressed as everyone’s favorite jolly old elf took to the streets of downtown Arlington Heights on Saturday, Dec. 7, for the seventh annual Rotary Santa Run. The race featured a 5K race through a traffic-free course, as well as a 1-mile walk for those who prefer a slower pace and a four-block “Reindeer Run” for kids 10 and under. The event is hosted by the Rotary Club of Arlington Heights and raises money for its annual Community Grants Program. To date, the club has donated more than $250,000 to worthy causes throughout Arlington Heights and neighboring communities, directly as a result of the Santa Run.
seventh annual Arlington Heights Rotary Santa Run
Chicago Bears’ Allen Robinson (12) celebrates a touchdown reception during the first half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, in Chicago.
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