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The Latest: Trump accepts invitation to visit South Korea
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The Latest: Trump accepts invitation to visit South Korea
Trump railed against the North Korean government as a reckless and brutal regime as he addresses the media with Moon.He points to the death of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died shortly after being released from North Korean custody.Trump says his goal is peace, stability and prosperity for the region, but warns the United States will always defend itself and its allies.Trump also praises the alliance between the U.S. and South Korea as a cornerstone of peace and security in a very, very dangerous part of the world.
demonstrate not only our friendship but also the intimate bond our peoples have come to foster through thick and thin.
Jae-in (jah-yihn) for their White House meeting.A large contingent of U.S. and South Korean media members
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says that U.S. autos, steel and other companies still face trade barriers in South Korea. a.m.President Donald Trump says the United States is negotiating a new trade deal with South Korea.While welcoming South Korean President Moon Jae-in (MOON JAAH IHN) to the White House on Friday, Trump said: "We want something that will be very good for the American worker."
the era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed.
President Donald Trump's meetings with the South Korean president (all times local):12:30 p.m.The Oval Office
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A fun kitchen project is home-baked soft pretzels
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A fun kitchen project is home-baked soft pretzels
With this recipe for Soft Pretzels, you and your family can get "back-to-school ready" with a fun kitchen project.The recipe from The Culinary Institute of America's book "The Young Chef" calls for a baking soda solution to replace the not-so-kid-friendly lye that we use in our bakeshops. The results won't be as shiny and dark as the professional kind, but it's still pretzel-y.These pretzels are shaped into classic twists, which is so fun but can be hard for those of us lacking in fine motor skills and/or patience. Luckily, a pretzel is a pretzel no matter the shape, so if you prefer, you can roll the dough into logs and then cut little bite-size pretzel nuggets.
Place the logs on the counter, loosely cover all of the pieces with plastic wrap, and let rest for 15 minutes.Roll each piece of dough under your palms until it is 30 inches long and tapered so that the center is slightly thicker than the ends.Hold the two ends of the dough in your hands and cross them over each other, to form an X, with the thicker center of the dough at the bottom. Twist the ends again and then bring the two ends down and press each end into the bottom of the pretzel, leaving about 2 inches in between.
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Sabres acquire Pominville, Scandella in trade with Wild
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Sabres acquire Pominville, Scandella in trade with Wild
The Buffalo Sabres began transforming their underperforming defense by acquiring Marco Scandella in a trade with the Minnesota Wild on Friday. Former Sabres captain Jason Pominville's returning to Buffalo, too. In exchange, the Wild acquired forwards Tyler Ennis and Marcus Foligno in a trade struck a day before the NHL's free-agency signing period opens.
The seventh-year player had four goals and 13 points in 71 games last year, and has averaged more than 18 minutes of ice time per game in each of his past four seasons. Overall, the Wild's 2008 second-round draft pick has 27 goals and 89 points in 373 career games.
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Trump's tariff just opened the door to the next global economic crisis
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Trump's tariff just opened the door to the next global economic crisis
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump looks on as Wilbur Ross departs after their meeting at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., November 20, 2016REUTERS/Mike Segar) While the world was being distracted by a million other dramas coming from the White House, the President has been mulling a trade war. According to Axios, the President Trump and his Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross support a plan for a 20% tariff on steel exports to the US. Most fo Trump's cabinet is against the measure, but the President seems dead set, and believes this is what his base wants.
(i) financial cycle risks for financial stability; (ii) risks to consumption growth from household debt; (iii) risks to investment from weak productivity growth and high corporate debt; and (iv) risks from rising protectionism.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump
As another example, a withdrawal into trade protectionism could spark financial strains and make higher inflation more likely. And the emergence of systemic financial strains yet again, or simply much slower growth, could heighten the protectionist threat beyond critical levels.
could spark financial strains and make higher inflation more likely.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump
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Mattis says NATO must finish the job in Afghanistan
World
Mattis says NATO must finish the job in Afghanistan
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis told NATO allies Thursday they must finish the job in Afghanistan or risk terrorist revenge as the alliance readied a troop increase to counter a resurgent Taliban.Mattis however refused to give a firm number for how many troops US President Donald Trump would commit under a new strategy, just two years after NATO officially ended its post-9/11 combat role in Afghanistan.Recent Taliban gains have shaken confidence in Afghanistan's future and talk of sending NATO troops in has stoked fears the alliance could get sucked back into an unwinnable war just when it faces a host of new threats including Russia, terrorism and cyberattacks."
the US defence secretary told reporters after meeting his counterparts from the 29-nation alliance.
number for how many troops US President Donald Trump
The United States, which once had more than 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, is preparing a new strategy for a war which has dragged on for 16 years and which even US generals concede is a "stalemate" at best.NATO played the lead role in fighting the Afghan war from 2003 to the end of 2014, when it handed frontline duties to the Afghan military.Mattis said that after talks with the allies about 70 percent of the new plan's requirements were in place and he looked forward to bridging the remaining gap. The long haul' -NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that the alliance would increase troop numbers, with 15 countries having pledged more, but stressed there would be no new combat role."
The bottom line is that NATO has made a commitment to Afghanistan for freedom from fear and terror, and freedom from terror demands that you can't let this be undone.
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Plane crashes in flames on California freeway, 2 injured
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Plane crashes in flames on California freeway, 2 injured
A small twin-engine plane dropped out of the sky and exploded in flames on a busy freeway near a Southern California airport Friday morning, injuring the two people aboard but clipping only one passing vehicle, a fire official said.The Cessna 310 aircraft crashed on Interstate 405, just short of a runway at John Wayne in Costa Mesa around 9:30 a.m. said Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.The pilot declared an emergency shortly after taking off from the airport and was trying to return when the crash occurred, Gregor said.The two people who were aboard the plane, a man and a woman in their 50s and 60, were alive when they were pulled from the fiery wreckage and were taken to a hospital with traumatic injuries, Orange County Fire Capt. Larry Kurtz said.The plane clipped a blue pickup truck as it crashed on the freeway, but the driver suffered only a bruised elbow, Kurtz said.
Hamilton told the television station.Tina Foster had just left nearby John Wayne when she heard a loud boom, which she initially thought was a car crash.
John Wayne in Costa Mesa around 9:30 a.m
AP reporter Alina Hartounian contributed to this report from Phoenix.
The fact that a plane was able to land and only strike a single vehicle is extraordinary.
hospital with traumatic injuries, Orange County Fire Capt. Larry Kurtz
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Bad weather hampers search for two climbers missing on Pakistan 'Killer Mountain'
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Bad weather hampers search for two climbers missing on Pakistan 'Killer Mountain'
The chances of survival for two climbers missing on a treacherous peak in northern Pakistan known as "Killer Mountain" have faded as bad weather hampers search and rescue efforts, police said Friday.The two climbers, Alberto Zerain, a Spanish alpinist, and Mariano Galvan, an Argentinian national, went missing while attempting to summit the 8,125 meter peak, Nanga Parbat." "Helicopters have been trying to fly over the mountain since Wednesday but bad weather and poor visibility mean they haven't found anything," a police official at base camp told AFP."
Bad weather is hampering rescue efforts however the attempts will continue.
Alberto Zerain, a Spanish alpinist, and Mariano Galvan
In 2013, gunmen shot dead 10 foreign climbers and their Pakistani guide at the Nanga Parbat base camp.Northern Pakistan is a magnet for mountaineers and is home to some of the tallest mountains in the world, including K2 — at 8,611 metres, the world's second highest peak, but often deemed a more challenging climb than the highest, Mount Everest.Nestled between the western end of the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush mountains and the Karakoram range, the Gilgit-Baltistan region houses 18 of the world’s 50 highest peaks.It is also home to three of the world’s seven longest glaciers outside the polar regions. Hundreds of its mountains have never been climbed.
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Pakistan PM condemns US-India 'silence' on Kashmir violence
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Pakistan PM condemns US-India 'silence' on Kashmir violence
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday expressed his disappointment over what he termed Washington's "silence" despite human right violations in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, where scores of youths have been killed or wounded in months-long violent clashes with the Indian forces.Sharif made his remarks during a visit to the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, where officials briefed him about the recent Gulf Crisis, the situation in Afghanistan where the Taliban have stepped up attacks against government forces, as well as Pakistan's relations with the United States, China, Russia and other countries.
He praised China's recent efforts aimed at defusing tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan, it said.Sharif expressed his disappointment over "the complete silence in the US-India joint statement on the atrocities being committed by the Indian forces against Kashmiris," the statement said. It said Sharif asked the ministry to highlight the Indian human right violations in Kashmir.Sharif's remarks came on the heels of Modi's meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Quintana says needs to be more daring to win Tour de France
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Quintana says needs to be more daring to win Tour de France
Colombian Nairo Quintana says he will be have to be adopt a more "daring" approach if he is to win the Tour de France for the first time this year. Movistar's Quintana came in for some criticism during the Giro d'Italia for not attacking hard enough and with a Tour route that does not necessarily suit his strengths he will have his work cut out to unseat Britain's Chris Froome. But the 27-year-old was upbeat about his chances when he held a news conference in Duesseldorf on Friday ahead of this weekend's Grand Depart in the German city.
"It wouldn't be the first time we have done it. But we need to be daring."
But the sensations are positive, I'm looking forward to coming to this race because it's the main objective for me and for our team.
work cut out to unseat Britain's Chris Froome
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Jay-Z's '4:44': A Track-by-Track Guide
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Jay-Z's '4:44': A Track-by-Track Guide
Veteran MC Jay-Z dropped his 13th album last night via Tidal, the streaming service he owns. On the album, executive produced by No I.D., Jay-Z takes a pro-black stance, addresses intergenerational conflicts in hip-hop and talks about marital troubles after many had interpreted lines for his wife Beyoncé's 2016 album Lemonade as alluding to infidelity. Here's a track-by-track breakdown of 4:44.
You egged Solange on, knowing all along, all you had to say was you was wrong.
Sean Carter
"The Story of O.J." Jay-Z and executive producer No. I.D. establish 4:44's sonic foundations on its second track.
Light nigga, dark nigga, faux nigga, real nigga.
Veteran MC Jay-Z
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Peter Thiel gave $100,000 to the scientists trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth
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Peter Thiel gave $100,000 to the scientists trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth
The project to revive woolly mammoths has been going on for several years, but it gained new attention in February when a team of Harvard scientists said they intend to resurrect the furry creature within a decade. The woolly mammoth went extinct 10,000 years ago, and in reality, the scientists wouldn't actually be bringing it back. Instead, they aim to create a hybrid animal using genetic material from an elephant and a woolly mammoth.
It’s a big gamble to put your climate-change mitigation hopes on a herd of woolly mammoths.
Tori Herridge, a paleobiologist at the Natural History Museum of London
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It is unclear still whether the mammoth steppe disappeared as a result of the loss of the mammoth or whether the mammoth disappeared because its habitat was lost, along with its ice age world.
Tori Herridge, a paleobiologist at the Natural History Museum of London
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Science Says: Pregnant or trying? Don't let Zika guard down
Science
Science Says: Pregnant or trying? Don't let Zika guard down
"It's part of the new reality," said Dr. Martin Cetron of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Those trying to conceive, and their partners, are advised to check with their doctor on how long to wait after visiting a location with active Zika infection.There are lingering questions, too, about Zika's risk beyond pregnancy, enough that U.S. scientists just began studying babies in Guatemala to learn if infection after birth also might damage the brain.The challenge is getting those messages to the people who most need it when Zika is fast receding from the public's radar — even as money may be drying up to track the virus and the babies it injures.UNCERTAINTY AS MOSQUITO SEASON GETS IN FULL SWINGIn the past month, Puerto Rico and Brazil, hard hit by Zika last year, declared their epidemics over.
The U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry counts 1,963 pregnant women in U.S. states who had lab tests showing Zika infection since officials began counting in 2016, and another 4,107 in U.S. territories.Since the beginning of June, 271 pregnant women were added to the registry's Zika count, 80 of them in U.S. states and the rest residents of U.S. territories, although it's not clear when they became infected.What about nonpregnant travelers?
Dr. Anne Schuchat
But if Zika infections remain at low levels, it's likely to take more than one summer of shots to prove if the vaccine really protects.This kind of virus "almost certainly is not going to disappear completely," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently told Congress.Several other vaccine candidates are in earlier stages of testing. Further down the pipeline, the NIH also is researching whether it's possible to create a universal vaccine to protect against multiple "flaviviruses" including Zika, dengue, yellow fever and West Nile.
Our concern is that a developing brain in early life can be impacted significantly.
Dr. Flor Munoz of Baylor College of Medicine
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Climate change could greatly widen US inequality: study
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Climate change could greatly widen US inequality: study
If the United States fails to take decisive measures to combat climate change, it will become a poorer country facing more dramatic inequality, according to a study.The poorest third of US counties could see income drops as great as 20 percent if current trends continue, according to the worst-case projection of the study, published in the journal Science. An interdisciplinary team of climatologists and economists based its findings on economic models and 116 projections of the impact of climate change.The study comes just weeks after US President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris accord aimed at combating climate change.
said Robert Kopp, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey, a co-author of the study.
weeks after US President Donald Trump
Cooler and richer counties, along the northern border with Canada and in the Rocky Mountain area, could benefit as the costs of medical care, agricultural products and energy decline.The study team analyzed the potential impact of rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, more intense storms, and continuing sea-level rises on a wide array of fields, including agriculture, criminality, health, energy demand, the labor market and coastal economies.The researchers estimate that for each 0.55 degree Celsius of global warming, the US economy will lose about 0.7 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with each additional degree of warming costing more than the one before.
Its exposure to sea-level rise -- made worse by potentially stronger hurricanes -- poses a major risk to its communities.
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US oil-rig count falls for the first time in 24 weeks, ending record streak
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US oil-rig count falls for the first time in 24 weeks, ending record streak
The count of working oil rigs in the US fell this week for the first time in 24, breaking the record streak of increases. The oil-rig count fell by two to 756, oilfields-services giant Baker Hughes said in its weekly report on Friday. The gas-rig count rose by one to 184.
With miscellaneous rigs down one to zero, the total rig count fell by one to 940. This drop is a blip that even the chart below doesn't show as the supply glut persists.
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Today's charts: Buffett bets big on Bank of America; Nike shares jump; RadioShack files suit against Sprint
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Today's charts: Buffett bets big on Bank of America; Nike shares jump; RadioShack files suit against Sprint
Yahoo Finance is tracking Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway, Nike, Sprint and Micron Technology in intraday trading on Friday. Bank of America (BAC) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) is swapping its preferred shares in Bank of America to buy 700 million common shares once the bank raises its quarterly dividend to 12 cents per share. The move will make the Oracle of Omaha’s company the bank’s largest shareholder.
Nike (NKE) – The athletics apparel maker topped Wall Street expectations after the bell on Thursday, reporting earnings per share of 60 cents on revenue of $8.68 billion. Analysts were calling for EPS of 50 cents and revenue of $8.63 billion.
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Walgreens deal offers no lasting relief to Rite Aid
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Walgreens deal offers no lasting relief to Rite Aid
A slimmed-down Rite Aid Corp could lose much of its bargaining heft with insurers and makers of branded drugs at a time when it is trying to turn around its flagging pharmacy business, analysts said. Rite Aid said on Thursday it would sell nearly half its U.S. stores to larger rival Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc after the drugstore operators agreed to scrap a whole-sale merger. Wall Street showed its displeasure at the new deal, pushing Rite Aid's shares down 30 percent to a near four-year low after the announcement.
Under the new deal, Rite Aid will gain access to Walgreen's centralized sourcing system, allowing it to procure generic drugs at low costs for 10 years and giving its pharmacy margins a much-needed boost. Walgreens, the No.
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New York Yankees rookie Dustin Fowler suffered a serious knee injury in his MLB debut
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New York Yankees rookie Dustin Fowler suffered a serious knee injury in his MLB debut
David Banks/Getty) In one of the most painful moments of the 2017 season, New York Yankees rookie Dustin Fowler was carted off the field after suffering a gruesome injury during his Major League debut against the Chicago White Sox. Fowler, a 22-year-old outfielder who slugged . in Triple-A this year, was called up to the big leagues for the first time in his career a few hours before the game.
Fowler ran hard towards the stands, and by the time he realized he was going to run out of room, it was too late to stop his feet from slamming into the wall. You can watch the heartbreaking scene below:
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