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Thursday, November 14, 2019

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer talk Tuesday as they wait to speak at an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, regarding the earlier oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the case of President Trump’s decision to end the Obama-era, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), program.

Pelosi says Trump's Ukraine actions amount to 'bribery'

House Democrats are refining their impeachment case against the president to a simple allegation: Bribery.
A second official U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, center, arrives for an interview with the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Capitol Hill in Washington.

AP source: 2nd US official heard Trump call with Sondland

A second U.S. Embassy staffer in Kyiv overheard a key cellphone call between President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the European Union discussing the need for Ukrainian officials to pursue 'œinvestigations,' The Associated Press has learned.
Top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor testifies Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington during the first public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump’s efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents.

Takeaways from first day of House public impeachment hearings

Wednesday's start of public impeachment hearings in Congress marked the first time that the American public could watch and listen to the witnesses whose testimony is at the core of the Democrats' investigation. In several hours of testimony, punctuated by occasional bickering among lawmakers, some memorable moments emerged.
A lander is lifted during a test of hovering, obstacle avoidance and deceleration capabilities at a facility in Huailai in China's Hebei province, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. China has invited international observers to the test of its Mars lander as it pushes for inclusion in more global space projects. Thursday's test was conducted at a site outside Beijing simulating conditions on the Red Planet, where the pull of gravity is about one-third that of Earth. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China tests Mars lander in international cooperation push

China has invited observers to a test of its Mars lander as it pushes for inclusion in more global space projects
Quilty looking guilty at Friends for Life Animal Rescue and Adoption Organization in Houston.
A rogue cat who 'will not be contained' keeps trying to free his shelter comrades
As it turns out, people love meddlesome cats who refuse to apologize for their devious ways.
Customers enter the Apple store in New York.
An Apple store employee 'helped' a customer by texting himself an intimate photo from her phone
In a statement, Apple said the employee was "no longer associated with our company."
A helicopter drops water near power lines and electrical towers while working at a fire on San Bruno Mountain near Brisbane, California. California’s Pacific Gas & Electric is faced regularly with a no-win choice between risking the start of a deadly wildfire or immiserating millions of paying customers by shutting off the power.
California's wildfire, blackout crisis: Who's to blame?
The utility that serves more than 5 million electrical customers in one of the world's most technologically advanced areas is now faced again and again with a no-win decision: risk starting catastrophic deadly wildfires, or turn off the lights and immiserate millions of paying customers.
Illinois Democrat Rep. Mike Quigley questions top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, William Taylor, and career Foreign Service officer George Kent, at the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday.
Local congressional Democrats go on offensive in impeachment inquiry
Two congressmen representing the suburbs pressed witnesses to clarify the record Wednesday in a fiercely partisan impeachment hearing into whether President Donald Trump withheld funds from Ukraine for political gain.
FILE - In this July 17, 2014. file photo, people walk amongst the debris at the crash site of MH17 passenger plane near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine, that left 298 people killed. An international team of investigators piecing together a criminal case in the July 2014 shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine said Thursday Nov. 14, 2019, that evidence suggests links between Russia and rebels in the region were closer than previously believed.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)
MH17 probe reveals close ties between Russia, Ukraine rebels
International investigators piecing together a criminal case in the July 2014 shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine says that evidence suggests links between Russia and rebels in the region were closer than previously believed
Pope Francis greets cardinals in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican after an audience with students and teachers of the LUMSA Catholic University, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Pope taps fellow Jesuit as Vatican's finance minister
Pope Francis has appointed a fellow Jesuit to be the Vatican's finance minister, filling a crucial position left vacant for more than two years after Cardinal George Pell left Rome to stand trial on sex abuse charges in his native Australia
An man who is identified by Turkish news reports as a U.S. citizen who has been deported by Turkey and is now stuck in the heavily militarized no-man's land between Greece and Turkey, after Greece refused to take him in, near Pazarkule border gate, Edirne, Turkey, Monday Nov. 11, 2019. Ankara began deporting captured foreign IS fighters, and asked to comment on the reports, Erdogan said: "Whether they are stuck there at the border it doesn't concern us. We will continue to send them. Whether they take them or not, it is not our concern." (DHA via AP)
Turkey deports American IS suspect stuck at Greek border
Turkey's state-run news agency says a U.S. national and suspected Islamic State group member, who has spent three days in a no man's land between Turkey and Greece after Ankara tried to deport him, will be repatriated to the United States
FILE - In this July 26, 2017 file photo, Illinois Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, speaks during a news conference in Springfield, Ill. Cullerton plans to retire in January. WLS-TV reports Thursday Nov. 14, 2019, that Cullerton's office confirmed he is stepping down from the seat he's held since 1991, but gave no reason for the decision. Cullerton's 6th district covers Chicago's North and Northwest sides. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that fellow Democrats said Cullerton made the announcement Thursday, to the Senate Democratic caucus. (Justin Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP, File)
State Senate President Cullerton to retire in January
Democratic state Senate President John Cullerton has announced he's stepping down from the Illinois Legislature
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Parents, grandparents and community members who are veterans attended an all-school assembly at Frederick School in Grayslake. The Frederick Band played the Armed Forces Medley, arranged by former Frederick band director and veteran Aaron Mulder. Each serviceman or woman stood while their branch of the military’s anthem was played.
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Leslie Meredith of Arlington Heights reacts after her name is called as the Daily Herald Cook of the Week Challenge Finale winner at the Westin in Itasca on Monday evening. From left are finalists Lulu Chapa of Volo, Lisa Eberhahn of Mount Prospect, Meredith, and Ann Wayne of Barrington.
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Bob Huber of South Elgin and VFW Post 5036 salutes as Taps is played during the Veterans Day service on Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, at the St. Charles Police Department.
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