1. St. Louis Police Department lawsuit: Gay officer told to "tone down your gayness" awarded $19 million in discrimination lawsuit in county  CBS News
2. Editorial: Time for a top-to-bottom shakeup of the St. Louis County Police Department  STLtoday.com
3. A cop was told to 'tone down your gayness.' Now, he could get nearly $20 million, jury says.  msnNOW
4. A cop was told to ‘tone down your gayness.’ Now, he could get nearly $20 million, jury says.  The Washington Post
5. Cop told to ‘tone down gayness’ for promotion is awarded $20 million  New York Post
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1. Court throws out North Carolina's congressional district maps  NBC News
2. Court freezes North Carolina's gerrymandered map  POLITICO
3. State Court Prohibits Use of North Carolina Congressional Map for 2020 Elections  The Wall Street Journal
4. State Court Bars Using North Carolina House Map in 2020 Elections  The New York Times
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1. Doctor, 67, gives birth after getting 'pregnant naturally'  CNN
2. 67-Year-Old Grandmother, a Retired Doctor, Gives Birth to Baby Girl in East China  PEOPLE Great Ideas
3. Chinese grandparents might be country’s oldest couple to naturally conceive after 67-year-old woman gives birt  New York Daily News
4. Retired doctor, 67, gives birth in China after getting 'pregnant naturally'  CNN
5. 67 year old becomes China's oldest new mother  Al Jazeera English
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New 13.2 Update Bricking Some HomePods  MacRumors

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1. Kirk Franklin Says the Dove Awards Edited the Broadcast of His Speech to Remove Prayers for Victims of Racial Violence  RELEVANT Magazine
2. A black gospel singer's speech was edited to cut remarks on police brutality in America. It wasn't the first time.  CNN
3. Kirk Franklin boycotts Dove Awards after his speech is edited for TV  Tennessean
4. Gospel artist Kirk Franklin says he's boycotting Dove Awards  Yahoo News
5. Kirk Franklin boycotts gospel awards show after comments on black violence edited on TV  Washington Post
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1. These Warriors Look Light-Years Behind  The Ringer
2. NBA Power Rankings: 76ers, Nuggets on top after otherwise unpredictable start; struggling Warriors at bottom  CBS Sports
3. The Warriors Weren't Supposed To Be This Bad  FiveThirtyEight
4. Winners and Losers of the First Almost-Week of the NBA Season  The Ringer
5. Are the Warriors actually this bad?  SB Nation
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1. Steelers vs. Dolphins odds, line: Monday Night Football picks, best predictions from model on 86-60 run  CBS Sports
2. The reason for Miami Dolphins chasing 2020’s first overall draft pick has just imploded  Miami Herald
3. NFL Draft 2020: Could Jets, Falcons, Redskins challenge Dolphins, Bengals for No. 1 pick? Where are Giants, E  NJ.com
4. Today's Top Picks: The three best prop bets for Monday Night Football  CBSSports.com
5. 'He's a very versatile player,' says Miami Dolphins' Brian Flores on Eric Rowe  Miami Herald
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On a wooded lake shore in northern Japan, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to celebrate.

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Rep. Greg Walden, the top Republican on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, will retire at the end of this Congress — the latest sign that Republicans see a struggle to retake the House in 2020. The 62-year-old Walden, who was first elected in 1998, said he was confident he'd win reelection but decided instead to end his congressional career in Jan. 2021.

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Californians were in the dark during a multiday power outage aimed at curbing wildfire risks amid high winds.

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Federal prosecutors say two brothers charged with conspiring to export drone parts and technology from the U.S. to Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon are "dangerous" and should remain in custody while they await trial, according to a court document filed Monday. Usama and Issam Hamade are charged with conspiracy to violate U.S. export laws. Usama Hamade is also charged with smuggling.

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A bad day for the Moon administration.

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(Bloomberg) -- John Conyers Jr., a Democrat who was serving his 26th term in the U.S. House when he resigned from Congress after allegations that he sexually harassed employees, has died at age 90.Conyers’ death at his home in Detroit on Oct. 27 was confirmed by a family spokeswoman, the Washington Post reported. No cause of death of given.The representative from Michigan’s 13th district entered the U.S. House in 1965. During his tenure, he introduced legislation on civil liberties, voting rights and violence against women while advancing the causes of black Americans by co-founding the Congressional Black Caucus in 1969.Conyers was the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and the longest-serving member of the House when, in November 2017, several former staff members accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior. Conyers denied any wrongdoing but announced his retirement several weeks later. He acknowledged agreeing to a $27,000 settlement in 2015 with a former aide who said she was fired because she rejected his sexual advances.Complicated Legacy“My legacy can’t be compromised or diminished in any way by what we are going through now,” he said in an interview with a Detroit radio station. “This, too, shall pass. My legacy will continue through my children.”He endorsed his son, John Conyers III, to succeed him. Rashida Tlaib ultimately won the seat, becoming one of the first Muslim-American women in Congress.Tlaib called Conyers “our congressman forever” who “never once wavered in fighting for jobs, justice and peace.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement that the Detroit community and Congress mourn the loss of a civil-rights champion and public servant.“Chairman Conyers’ life was lived in service to achieving true equality in America,” Pelosi said. “His leadership made a difference in the lives of countless Americans.”Conyers, who handily won re-election contests over the decades, initiated the measure that created the national holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and employed civil-rights icon Rosa Parks for 23 years.For more than a decade, he pushed the U.S. National Health Care Act, which would provide taxpayer-funded treatment for all citizens free of charge. His vision for universal health care, similar to that of the U.K.’s National Health Service, went beyond President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which Conyers saw as a platform to build toward a full single-payer health system.‘Never Wavered’The Conyers bill’s supporters, such as Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, said it would save more than $200 billion a year.“I’ve been a champion of justice for the oppressed and the disenfranchised,” Conyers said in a letter to colleagues when he left office in December 2017. “I never wavered in my commitment to justice and democracy.”Conyers was known to snub opponents, refusing to debate them in election campaigns, and criticized his party when he disagreed with policies it advocated.Supporting Jesse Jackson’s presidential candidacy in 1984, he said the Democratic Party had “become stale and lifeless” with an “allegiance to a corporate order that owes little loyalty to national goals.” He called for a protest march on the White House after Obama cut a deal with the Republicans to raise the U.S. debt ceiling in 2011.Nixon’s EnemyConyers was on the “enemies list” that President Richard Nixon’s administration compiled to target political opponents through tax audits and other methods in the early 1970s. The Michigan representative was later on the Judiciary Committee for the 1974 hearings on the Watergate impeachment process. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.Among other issues that Conyers spoke out against included Lyndon Johnson’s escalation of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War; the Republican push to impeach President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal; and the Republican drive to ban abortions in the District of Columbia in 2012.John Conyers Jr. was born May 16, 1929, in Detroit. He was the oldest son of Lucille Simpson and John Conyers, who worked at the Chrysler plant.During the Korean War, he served in the National Guard and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers before attending Wayne State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1957.He then became a legislative assistant to John Dingell, the Michigan representative, for two years. Conyers became a partner in the law firm Conyers, Bell & Townsend and was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to promote racial tolerance in the legal profession.Medicare LegislationAs a congressman, Conyers co-sponsored President Johnson’s Medicare legislation and the 1965 Voting Rights Bill. As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, he oversaw the Justice Department and the federal courts, and dealt with civil-rights and consumer-protection issues. He sponsored the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 and introduced the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to improve the voting system after the presidential election in 2000 needed a recount to determine a winner.Conyers also wrote a 2006 report, “The Constitution in Crisis,” that outlined attempts by George W. Bush’s administration to manipulate intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He recommended censuring Bush.He and his wife, Monica, had two sons: John III and Carl. In 2010, Monica Conyers was sentenced to 37 months in prison for accepting bribes while she was serving on the Detroit City Council.(Updates with comments from Pelosi, Tlaib from seventh paragraph.)\--With assistance from Mark Niquette.To contact the reporter on this story: David Henry in Frankfurt at sgittelson@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Crayton Harrison at tharrison5@bloomberg.net, Jodi Schneider, Ros KrasnyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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A federal judge is allowing a portion of Covington Catholic student Nathan Sandmann's lawsuit against the Washington Post to continue.

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US officials said Monday that the body of Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was buried at sea as fresh details surfaced about the US special forces operation that led to his death over the weekend. Syrian Kurds claimed to be a key source of the intelligence that led Americans to Baghdadi after years of tracking the brutal jihadist leader behind a five-year reign of terror across much of Iraq and Syria. The US military basked in success Monday after the eliminating the founder and spiritual guide of the Islamic State (IS) group, capping a years-long campaign to crush the Sunni Muslim extremist organization that had at one point created a "caliphate" straddling the Euphrates River that rivaled the size of England.

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After a chaotic week in Washington, even more damning testimony for Trump could lie aheadSteve Scalise and two dozen other Republican lawmakers stormed into the room used by the House impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump at the US Capitol. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPAAs a watershed week full of bombshell testimony and presidential fury at the impeachment inquiry receded, Washington is now looking ahead to another week promising bombshell testimony – and more presidential fury.For sheer spectacle, Republicans will be hard-pressed to top an invasion last week by lawmakers of the secure area where witnesses were being questioned. And for sheer malice, Donald Trump will have to sink far indeed to go lower than his claim to be the victim of a lynching.Republican senators have been scurrying away from reporters trying to ask about testimony last Tuesday that advanced the central charge in the impeachment inquiry, that the Trump administration had withheld military aid for Ukraine in an extortionate effort to manufacture bad news about Joe Biden.What could the senators say? Trump’s defenders have almost universally stopped trying to deny or defend his conduct, resorting instead to complaints about how Democrats, who are going by rules written by Republicans, were running the process.But even more damning testimony for Trump could lie ahead, with the scheduled appearance on Thursday of the national security council senior director, Timothy Morrison.Morrison has emerged as a key witness to conversations between diplomats and Trump himself linking the military aid and the Biden ask. Morrison had a “sinking feeling” about those conversations, he has been quoted as telling one colleague.“I am lowering my expectations for this testimony. Highly partisan guy,” wrote Tom Nichols, a professor at the US Naval War College and notable never-Trumper. “But also, a professional who, one assumes, will tell the truth – because he had a career before Trump and would likely want to have one after Trump.”Behind Morrison lies a potentially bigger witness, Morrison’s former boss John Bolton, who has been quoted as saying he wanted “no part of whatever drug deal” aides to the president were cooking up. Bolton resigned as Trump’s national security adviser under tense circumstances in September.Bolton’s lawyers are working toward an agreement in which he would testify before the congressional committees running the impeachment inquiry, according to multiple reports.“I think there is a high likelihood that the committees will turn their sights to John Bolton precisely because he was not, strangely enough in some ways, an accomplice to this,” Ned Price, a former CIA officer and national security council spokesman, told Renato Mariotti on the On Topic podcast. “He was against this. He in fact played a key role.”With an increasing number of threats arrayed against him, and the weight of evidence piling up, Trump has become ever more reliant on the support of Republican colleagues, especially in the Senate, which has the power to remove Trump from office.But instead of currying favor with fellow Republicans – allowing them, perhaps, to float light criticisms of him in exchange for their promise to protect him with their votes – Trump has resorted to threats and shaming, declaring Republicans who oppose him to be “human scum”.Trump has also continued to make highly controversial moves – abandoning the Kurds in northern Syria, temporarily awarding himself federal contracts to host next year’s G7 summit – that Republicans warned made defending him increasingly difficult.A move by the Republican Lindsey Graham to demonstrate support for Trump in the Senate on Thursday was slow to draw all the Republicans, with three – Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah – declining to sign on to a resolution criticizing the impeachment process now playing out in the House. About 20 Republican senators would probably be required to oust Trump from office.Public approval of the impeachment inquiry, meanwhile, keeps climbing, with 55% approving and 43% disapproving, up from 51% approval one week prior, according to a new Quinnipiac poll backed up by polling averages.Republicans have complained that the impeachment inquiry has not allowed the White House and other agencies to send lawyers along with testifying witnesses, and has no mechanism for Trump to call his own witnesses to mount a defense.But as the head of the executive branch, Trump “has access to all the witnesses/documents he would need, many of which are being withheld from House Democrats”, wrote Nate Jones, a former national security council and justice department official.“His real problem: the facts are indefensible.”Other expert observers agree with that analysis.“President Trump’s substantive defense against the ongoing impeachment inquiry has crumbled entirely – not just eroded or weakened, but been flattened like a sandcastle hit with a large wave,” wrote the Brookings Institution senior fellow Benjamin Wittes in Lawfare. “The only defense that remains to the president is that it does not amount to an impeachment-worthy offense – an argument difficult to square with either the history of impeachment or its purpose in our constitutional system.”

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Officials fears the groups could be using American-made weapons to conduct potential war crimes

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The countryside in the Vietnamese provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh is dotted with billboards for labor export companies advertising jobs or study overseas. Many are feared to be Vietnamese from Nghe An and Ha Tinh, rice-growing areas in the northern-central part of the country. Poor job prospects, encouragement by authorities, smuggling gangs, environmental disaster and government pressure on Catholics are all local factors behind the wave of migrants.

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President Trump announced the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State, or ISIS, group, in a televised address on Sunday morning.

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The southward march of a Northern California wildfire toward the more populated areas above the San Francisco Bay led officials on Sunday to raise the number of residents ordered to leave their homes in the area to 180,000. The increase, from 130,000 earlier on Sunday, came as wind gusts pushed the Kincade Fire down from the rolling hills and wine regions of northern Sonoma County and threatened communities as far south as northern Santa Rosa, officials said. Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick, defending the evacuation orders which he said had been criticized by some as overly cautious, increased the police presence in evacuation zones.

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The United States will send armored vehicles and combat troops into eastern Syria to keep oil fields from potentially falling into the hands of Islamic State militants, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said. It was the latest sign that extracting the military from Syria is more uncertain and complicated than President Donald Trump is making it out to be.

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Israel's prime minister and his main rival opened a new round of unity talks Sunday in the latest effort to break a political stalemate and avoid an unprecedented third parliamentary election in less than a year. Israel has been paralyzed by political deadlock following an inconclusive election last month, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud nor the rival Blue and White party in control of a 61-seat majority in parliament. After nearly a month of efforts, Netanyahu last week said he had failed to cobble together a coalition.

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Early on, Trump was worried about Joe Biden. Privately, he doesn't like his 'look,' or the plastic surgery he thinks Biden has had done.

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Storms with heavy rains doused the drought-parched South on Friday, prompting alerts for floods and tornadoes as Post-Tropical Cyclone Olga headed for the Gulf coast. The National Hurricane Center said Olga, located in the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana, would contribute to rainfall that could total 8 inches (20 centimeters) in spots by Sunday. Neither it nor Tropical Storm Pablo, far out in the Atlantic, was expected to reach hurricane strength.

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1. Did Trump Say to 'Stop Congratulating Obama for Killing Bin Laden'?  Snopes.com
2. Fact check: Trump falsely claims his 2000 book demanded the killing of Osama bin Laden  CNN
3. Trump again claims book foreshadowed 9/11 | TheHill  The Hill
4. Trump: Killing al-Baghdadi is a bigger deal than killing Osama bin Laden  New York Post
5. AP Fact Check: Did Trump really predict bin Laden and 9/11 attacks?  AOL
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Obama White House Photographer Suggests Trump Situation Room Photo of Unfolding al-Baghdadi Raid Was Staged  NewsweekView full coverage on Google News

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