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In a highly unusual move, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday night left his Manhattan residence without notifying the reporters covering him or giving any indication of where he was going.

The maneuver seemed to deliberately limit access to the media.

The only way the press eventually ascertained his whereabouts was after a Bloomberg reporter, who happened to be dining at the 21 Club, tweeted a photo of Trump and some of his transition team in the Midtown steakhouse.

Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks later told NBC News. "He is having dinner with his family."

Wife Melania, daughter Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump were all at the restaurant.

This came after Hicks had told his press pool the day had ended, and the only indication of his departure was an unannounced motorcade. Trump's communications team did not respond to emails from the pooler requesting guidance.

With his Tuesday night actions, the Trump Administration is shaping up to be the least accessible to the public and the press in modern history.

A week after the election, Trump hasn't yet held a press conference, the longest any recent president has waited to speak to the press. That continues a weeks-long drought that's been going on since mid-summer, when Trump last answered questions from the press.

Trump has also refused to travel with the press corps since the election, a continuation of his campaign practice of flying in a separate plane from the media that covered him.

The media covering the president-elect have also not yet been offered briefings on his transition efforts, which was a typical practice for past presidents that allowed the public to keep apprised of the details of the new government.

And until recently, Trump's staff weren't releasing readouts of his calls with foreign leaders, leaving the press - and the public - to receive their guidance from foreign governments.

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In a highly unusual move, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday night left his Manhattan residence without notifying the reporters covering him or giving any indication of where he was going. The maneuver seemed to deliberately limit access to the media.

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Kids who are in religious or ethnic minorities, or are gay or disabled, are more likely to be bullied in school than other kids. Their point of difference can be a point of vulnerability. In the last decade, schools have put more energy into preventing bullying, to the benefit of these kids and others (girls, too, are more frequent targets). And they've often had the authority of the courts, state legislatures and the federal Department of Education behind them.

Now the country has elected a man who threaded racist, xenophobic and misogynistic messages and mockery of disabled people through his campaign. Donald J. Trump 's victory gives others license to do the same. There are already signs that during his presidency, the moral values that schools and parents have been helping to instill in young people - empathy and "upstanding," a term schools use that means looking out for fellow students who are being mistreated - will be in danger of eroding.

Since Mr. Trump's election, the Southern Poverty Law Center has received more than 430 reports of bullying, harassment and racist displays around the country. "We haven't seen this volume in the United States in decades, with the exception of the wave of anti-Muslim incidents that followed 9/11," said Ryan Lenz, a spokesman for the center. Not all of the reports have been verified. But they include real and painful episodes at secondary schools and colleges.

At York County School of Technology in Pennsylvania, white students were filmed walking through the hallway with a Trump sign and yelling, "White power!" Minority students there report being called racial epithets and say some have been staying home from school.

At Maple Grove High School in Minnesota, racist graffiti, mixed with Trump slogans, made black students feel unsafe. "I went in and looked on the bathroom door and honestly was in shock," said Moses Karngbaye, a junior. "That's the first time I honestly felt like crying at school."

At the University of Michigan, a man told a student that if she did not take off her hijab he would set her on fire with a lighter. At the University of Pennsylvania, black freshmen were added to a racist "lynching" thread on the text messaging service GroupMe, reportedly by three people, including a University of Oklahoma student who was suspended for being involved in the chat. "I am petrified and all I want to do is cry," one Penn student tweeted.

Asked on "60 Minutes" about the bile that is leaking out in his name, Mr. Trump said the perpetrators should stop. But he also played down the damage, saying of the slurs and harassment, "I think it's a very small amount."

On Sunday, he announced his choice for chief strategist in the White House: Stephen Bannon, who ran the alt-right website Breitbart News Network before joining the Trump campaign. As lists of bigoted and fear-mongering Breitbart headlines circulated, the site posted a new one about the reports of racism and harassment: " Wave of Fake 'Hate Crimes' Sweeps Anti-Trump Social Media."

President Obama and the first lady held a conference on bullying prevention in 2011 at the White House. The president also taped a message for L.G.B.T. kids as part of the It Gets Better Project. President George W. Bush stood up against bigotry at a crucial moment in his tenure, visiting a mosque to condemn a wave of attacks and threats against Muslims in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. It's possible that Mr. Trump will someday similarly rise to the occasion, but so far the evidence mostly points in the opposite direction.

According to Mr. Bannon's former wife, he didn't want their daughters "going to school with Jews." Breitbart has used anti-Semitic headlines and imagery. Asked to account for this on "Face the Nation" on Sunday, the Trump surrogate Newt Gingrich called the charges against Mr. Bannon a "smear" by the left, asserting that he's not an anti-Semite because he used to work at Goldman Sachs and in Hollywood. In other words, Mr. Gingrich denied the reality of Mr. Bannon's record and then resorted to stereotypes about Jews to defend him.

In the last few years, I've traveled the country to talk about bullying, as the author of a book on the topic. Parents often ask about the impact on kids when they see celebrities or leaders treat other people badly or fail to stand up to bigotry and prejudice. There's no way to measure the precise effect. But kids are attuned to cultural expectations. They absorb shared ideas about what behavior is permitted and what is intolerable. If the president of the United States and his top officials wave away racism and harassment, or traffic in prejudice themselves, kids are at risk of getting the message that this stuff is O.K. after all. That should be obvious to anyone in elected office.

It's also clear that if we can't count on our national leaders to counteract bigotry, then we have to redouble our efforts to do so ourselves. When parents and alumni at Maple Grove High posted pictures of the racist graffiti on social media, the district issued a statement: "The tweet you may have seen of a racist message scrawled in a school bathroom is real and we are horrified by it. It goes against everything we stand for." The school officials promised an investigation, acknowledged the danger to minority students and staff members, and said they would work to heal the impact on the school's culture and "on every member of our school family."

Those words are a start and deeds must follow, in small moments of kindness and larger acts of standing for justice. At this moment, local civil institutions and all of us, in our communities, are being put to a test. We have to show heart and conviction. We have to ensure that our kids learn the values some leaders have forgotten.

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Kids who are in religious or ethnic minorities, or are gay or disabled, are more likely to be bullied in school than other kids. Their point of difference can be a point of vulnerability. In the last decade, schools have put more energy into preventing bullying, to the benefit of these kids and others (girls, too, are more frequent targets).

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The city is on track to approving a groundbreaking new measure that would allow people to use marijuana at designated businesses such as restaurants and bars.

Although the results are not yet finalized, the tally as of Tuesday night showed 53.4% voted in favor and 46.5% opposed. Opponents of the measure conceded Tuesday, CNN affiliate KDVR reported.

The Denver vote appears to mark another victory for the pot legalization movement. Colorado and Washington became the first states to approve recreational marijuana use in 2012. California, Massachusetts and Nevada also joined that club by legalizing recreational marijuana use last week.

The Denver measure, called Initiative 300, would allow marijuana use in private businesses that receive a permit from the city. Business owners could set up an area inside or outside for smoking, but they must also get approval from their neighborhood organization to do so.

While people in Colorado have been able to buy pot, they haven't had many options where they could use it legally. It's not allowed in public such as parks, sidewalks or near places where kids gather.

"We have millions of people visiting the state of Colorado," Emmett Reistroffer, who advocated for the measure, said in a Tuesday press conference. "Many of them are trying cannabis and have nowhere to go. I also think it's important they have somewhere to go where staff is trained because we want to promote responsible use."

Critics of the initiative had argued that the measure would expand public use of marijuana and expose bystanders to secondhand smoke.

Initiative 300 is a pilot program that would expire in 2020 unless the city council passes a new law or Denver voters push another ballot initiative.

CNN's Joshua Berlinger contributed to this report.

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The city is on track to approving a groundbreaking new measure that would allow people to use marijuana at designated businesses such as restaurants and bars. Although the results are not yet finalized, the tally as of Tuesday night showed 53.4% voted in favor and 46.5% opposed.

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"As long as a champion of racial division is a step away from the Oval Office, it would be impossible to take Trump's efforts to heal the nation seriously," said Reid in an impassioned floor speech.

Reid called on Trump to rescind his job offer to the former Breitbart News chief who was the CEO of Trump's insurgent campaign.

"Rise to the dignity of the office of the president of the United States. Instead of hiding behind your Twitter account, and show America that racism, bullying and bigotry have no place in the White House or in America," he said.

Reid argued that Trump's election had triggered a spree of hate crimes in the country by people emboldened by Trump's election.

"We have a responsibility to prevent Trump's bullying and aggressive behavior from becoming normalized in the eyes of America," said Reid, who is retiring at the end of the year. "We have a responsibility to say it is not normal for the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan, to celebrate the election of a president they view as their champion with a victory parade."

The No. 2 Senate Republican fired back at Reid for undermining Trump and Bannon and not giving them a chance.

"He does nothing to contribute to the healing of our country after a very polarizing, hotly contested election by continuing to pile of the President-elect and his team," Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said. "We had an election. The American people voted. The American people chose their next president."

Reid's late-afternoon floor speech came the first day the Senate was back to work for its post-election lame-duck session.

He was one of many Democrats who spoke out against Bannon.

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, led a news conference in the Capitol with four other Democrats next to a sign that read "Fire Bannon."

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, was one of several Democrats issuing statements against the appointment. She warned that many minority communities were fearful of a Trump presidency even before he picked Bannon.

"Hiring Steve Bannon as a senior adviser in the White House will only further inflame these fears," she said. "Virtually everyone who has contacted my office has expressed shock that Bannon, so closely linked to anti-Semitic and misogynistic opinions, will have the ear of the president."

Republicans appeared more supportive.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, said Democrats were being "sour grapes" because they lost the election and he hadn't seen anything about Bannon that was problematic.

"I think there are a lot of sour grapes out there. After people lose the election, they are pointing fingers trying to make him into a caricature. I've met him. I don't think he's a caricature of any of those horrible things the left is trying to bring out about him. I don't believe him to be a racist," Paul told CNN.

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters he has not met Bannon but noted the Republican Jewish Coalition is supporting him, so will wait to make a decision. Graham did say, however, that he is not a fan of the "alt-right."

"I will say this, the website in question was a friendly site to the alt-right. I don't like them and they don't like me, and I'm glad," Graham said.

Democrats can complain about Bannon's new job but there's little they can do about it. For one thing, the position does not require Senate confirmation.

CNN's Tom LoBianco contributed to this report.

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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid led a Democratic assault Tuesday against President-elect Donald Trump's appointment of Steve Bannon as his chief White House adviser, arguing Bannon is linked to white nationalists and has supported anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and anti-women views that should disqualify him.

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Check back this afternoon for live video from the planned protest.

High school students in D.C. plan to ditch class Tuesday afternoon to march along Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the Trump hotel in protest of the election of President-elect Donald Trump. Students at Wilson High School in Northwest - the largest high school in the D.C. Public Schools system - organized the protest, joining other students who have rallied across the country since Trump's surprise victory in the Nov. 8 election.

[High school students in Montgomery county protest Trump's election]

The D.C. students' protest comes a day after hundreds of students at a Maryland high school in Montgomery County walked out of their classes and into the streets to protest Trump. That march originally involved students at Montgomery Blair High School but gained strength as peers from nearby schools joined them throughout the day.

[In election's wake, racist incidents have schools on edge]

D.C. officials have been aware of the planned protest since as early as this past weekend, with students using social media to spread information about the event. Kimberly Martin, Wilson's principal, sent an email to the school community Monday morning emphasizing that the protest is not a sanctioned school event and that students who miss class would receive unexcused absences.

But Martin wrote that school administrators and teachers defend students' rights to peaceful protest and self expression.

"Wilson Social Studies teachers, and many other teachers, empower students to be inquisitive, informed, and engaged citizens who use critical thinking, inquiry and literacy to prepare for college, careers, and civic life," Martin wrote in the email. "However, students will be reminded to follow their regular class schedule, as we cannot ensure the safety of any student that chooses to leave the school before dismissal."

D.C.'s police department also is aware of the protests, and officials said they are working to keep students safe Tuesday.

"The Metropolitan Police Department will ensure all protests are handled in a professional and safe manner," police spokesperson Karimah Bilal said.

[Trump just laid out a pretty radical student debt plan]

The Wilson students plan to leave their high school in D.C.'s Tenleytown neighborhood at about noon Tuesday and plan to take the Metro as a group downtown.

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Check back this afternoon for live video from the planned protest. High school students in D.C. plan to ditch class Tuesday afternoon to march along Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the Trump hotel in protest of the election of President-elect Donald Trump. Students at Wilson High School in Northwest - the largest high school in the D.C.

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Authorities have shut down Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport and have asked passengers already there to shelter in place following a shooting Tuesday afternoon.

"We have confirmed one victim shot at Will Rogers Airport. Please avoid going to the airport at this time," the Oklahoma City Police Department said via Twitter at 2:19 p.m. ET.

Oklahoma City Police Capt. Paco Balderrama told The Associated Press that there have been reports of a second shooting victim, but say authorities have not been able to confirm.

The condition of the one confirmed victim was not known and no other details of the shooting were immediately available.

Streets around the airport have been closed to traffic and citizens have been warned to stay clear, according to local media reports.

Flights at the airport have been suspended "until further notice," the airport said via Twitter at 2:42 p.m. ET.

"There are going to be some delays for flights until we have further information," Will Rogers Airport spokeswoman Karen Carney told AP.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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Authorities have shut down Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport and have asked passengers already there to shelter in place following a shooting Tuesday afternoon. "We have confirmed one victim shot at Will Rogers Airport. Please avoid going to the airport at this time," the Oklahoma City Police Department said via Twitter at 2:19 p.m.

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The 2-year-old boy, Kyrian Knox, was last seen in August 2015 when his mother, Lanisha Knox, left him in the care of a family friend, Kamel Harris, in Rockford, Illinois.

At the time, the baby's mother was moving from Iowa to Chicago and entrusted Harris with Kyrian, police said.

Harris, 41, was taken into police custody on Monday.

Harris reported the boy missing in September 2015, about two weeks after a dismembered body of a boy was found in Garfield Park Lagoon. Authorities suspect Kyrian had been missing about a month before they were informed.

"He made a false report to the Rockford police that the baby had gone missing," Chicago Police Commander Kevin Duffin said in a news conference Tuesday.

Harris has requested legal council and has not given any statement, police said.

Police executed a search warrant and took Harris' vehicle last November.

"The major break in the case was the fact that he had denied that the baby had ever been inside his vehicle," Duffin said. "Once we took the vehicle with the search warrant, [we] tore out the carpeting and recovered the baby's blood in the vehicle."

Dismembered remains

Kyrian's death was discovered when police found a human foot in the lagoon over the Labor Day weekend in 2015. Searchers then recovered the child's head, two hands and another foot. DNA analysis matched that of Kyrian.

It is unclear how many weeks the body parts may have been in the lagoon, police said.

Police have not been able to determine the cause of death, but according to witness statements, Kyrian kept crying all afternoon because he was lactose intolerant and may have ingested some milk. Harris "kind of snapped and couldn't deal with it anymore," police said.

Chicago police arrested Harris at the Winnebago County Jail, where he was being held on unrelated charges.

"We anticipate he'll be charged later tonight or early tomorrow morning with first-degree murder and concealment of a homicidal death," Duffin said.

Harris will be charged in Cook County, police said.

CNN's Calandra Corder contributed to this report.

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The 2-year-old boy, Kyrian Knox, was last seen in August 2015 when his mother, Lanisha Knox, left him in the care of a family friend, Kamel Harris, in Rockford, Illinois. At the time, the baby's mother was moving from Iowa to Chicago and entrusted Harris with Kyrian, police said.

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Harris, 35, was accused of intentionally locking Cooper inside a hot car for seven hours. On that same day, Harris was sexting with six women, including one minor, according to phone records.

In addition to three counts of murder, Harris was found guilty of two counts of cruelty to children for Cooper's death, and guilty of three counts relating to his electronic exchanges of lewd material with two underage girls.

"This is one of those occasions where actions speak louder than words," Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Chuck Boring said after the verdict. "He has malice in his heart, absolutely."

The incident

The trial, which spanned almost five weeks, was moved to the Georgia coastal town of Brunswick from Cobb County, outside Atlanta, after intense pretrial publicity. It was briefly interrupted by Hurricane Matthew.

The Glynn County jury of six men and six womendeliberated for 21 hours over four days. Jurors considered the testimony of 70 witnesses and 1,150 pieces of evidence, including the Hyundai Tucson in which Cooper died in a suburban Atlanta parking lot.

Harris showed little reaction as the verdict was read in court.

Cobb County prosecutors argued that Harris intentionally locked Cooper inside his car on a hot summer 2014 day because he wanted to be free of his family responsibilities. Harris' lawyersclaimed the boy's death was a tragic accident brought about by a lapse in memory.

It was June 18, 2014, when Harris, then 33, strapped his son into a rear-facing car seat and drove from their Marietta, Georgia, home to Chick-fil-A for breakfast, then to The Home Depot corporate headquarters, where he worked. Instead of dropping Cooper off at day care, testimony revealed Harris left him in the car all day while he was at work.

Sometime after 4 p.m. that day, as Harris drove to a nearby theater to see a movie, he noticed his son was still in the car. He pulled into a shopping center parking lot and pulled Cooper's lifeless body from the SUV. Witnesses said he appeared distraught and was screaming.

"'I love my son and all, but we both need escapes.' Those words were uttered 10 minutes before this defendant, with a selfish abandon and malignant heart, did exactly that," said Boring in his closing argument.

The evidence

The prosecution argued that Harris could see his son sitting in his car seat in the SUV.

"If this child was visible in that car that is not a failure in memory systems," Boring argued. "Cooper would have been visible to anyone inside that car. Flat out."

If Cooper was visible, Boring said, "the defendant is guilty of all counts."

After the verdict, jurors told the prosecution that the evidence weighed heavily in their decision, Boring said.

Digital evidence showed that on the day his son died, Harris exchanged sexual messages and photos with six women, including one minor.

State witnesses testified that Harris lived what prosecutors described as a "double life." To his wife, family, friends and co-workers, Harris was seen as a loving father and husband. But unbeknownst to them, Harris engaged in online sexual communication with multiple women, including two underage girls, had extramarital sexual encounters in public places and paid for sex with a prostitute.

Harris' defense maintained that his sexual behavior had nothing to do with Cooper's death.

"The state wants to bury him in this filth and dirt of his own making, so that you will believe he is so immoral, he is so reprehensible that he can do exactly this," said defense attorney H. Maddox Kilgore during his closing argument.

Kilgore argued that Cobb County police investigators focused only on matters that fit the state's theory and ignored all the evidence that pointed to an accident.

"You have been misled throughout this trial," Kilgore told jurors.

The defense lawyer continued to maintain his client's innocence after the verdict. He said he plans to appeal the verdict.

"When an innocent person is convicted there's been some breakdowns in the system and that's what happened here," Kilgore told reporters outside the courthouse.

"From the moment we met Ross Harris we've never, ever once wavered in our absolute belief that he is not guilty of what he's just been convicted of."

The main defense witness: Harris' ex-wife

The defense's key witness was Harris' ex-wife and Cooper's mother, Leanna Taylor.

"Cooper was the sweetest little boy. He had so much life in him. He was everything to me," Taylor recalled, as she seemed to fight through tears.

For two days, Taylor told jurors private details of her married life with Harris, saying they had intimacy problems and recounting Harris' struggles with pornography.

Marital struggles aside, Taylor described Harris as a "very involved" parent who loved their son. In her mind, she said, the only possible explanation was that Harris "forgot" Cooper and accidentally left him in the car.

Boring said it did not matter that Taylor declined to speak with the prosecutor's office and testified for the defense. "As far as proving the case we did not need her," he told CNN.

Harris is expected to be sentenced December 5. He could face life without parole, though Boring said the prosecution will speak with the family to determine what kind of sentence to ask for.

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Jury finds Justin Ross Harris guilty of murder in son's hot car death

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Harris, 35, was accused of intentionally locking Cooper inside a hot car for seven hours. On that same day, Harris was sexting with six women, including one minor, according to phone records.

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Bashar al-Assad has said in an interview aired that Donald Trump will be a "natural ally" if the US president-elect fulfills his pledge to fight "terrorists".

In his first reaction to Trump's election victory last week, the Syrian president struck a note of caution and said he was unsure the American billionaire would be able to keep his word and step up the fight against jihadists.

"We cannot tell anything about what he's going to do, but if ... he is going to fight the terrorists, of course we are going to be ally, natural ally in that regard with the Russian, with the Iranian, with many other countries," he told Portugal's RTP state television.

Asked about Trump's campaign comments suggesting the US should focus more on fighting the Islamic State group, Assad said he would welcome such a move but was cautious.

"I would say this is promising, but can he deliver?" said Assad, who was speaking in English.

"Can he go in that regard? What about the countervailing forces within the administration, the mainstream media that were against him? How can he deal with it?" he said.

"That's why for us it's still dubious whether he can do or live up to his promises or not.

"That's why we are very cautious in judging him, especially as he wasn't in a political position before," said Assad.

The US leads an international coalition that is conducting airstrikes against Isis jihadists in Syria and neighbouring Iraq, and also backs rebels fighting the Assad regime.

In an interview with the New York Times on 26 March, Trump said he thought "the approach of fighting Assad and Isis simultaneously was madness, and idiocy".

"You can't be fighting two people that are fighting each other, and fighting them together. You have to pick one or the other," said Trump.

During his campaign, Trump also pledged to improve America's ties with Assad's main backer, Russia.

After his election victory, Trump told the Wall Street Journal: "I've had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria".

He also said that if the US attacks Assad "we end up fighting Russia".

In his interview with RTP, Assad accused the US of interfering in the affairs of other countries.

"They think that they are the police of the world. They think they are the judge of the world. They're not," he said.

Asked to give his assessment of the next UN chief, Antonio Guterres of Portugal, Assad insisted the "United Nations is not the secretary-general" even if the role is "important".

"The United Nations is the states within this organisation, and to be frank, most of the people say only the five permanent members" of the UN security council, said Assad.

"This is the United Nations because they have the veto, they can do whatever they want and they can refuse whatever they want.

"If you ask me 'what do you expect from such a new official in that important position,' I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective ... The second one ... is not to turn his office into a part or branch of the state department of the United States.

"That's what we expect now," said Assad.

The Syrian president went on to criticise his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, describing him as a "sick person".

"He's (a) megalomaniac ... He's out of touch with the reality," said Assad.

Turkey has embarked on an ambitious operation inside Syria dubbed "Euphrates Shield" to support Syrian opposition fighters in a bid to remove Isis fighters from its border and stop the advance of Syrian Kurdish militia.

The conflict in Syria has killed more than 300,000 people since it started in March 2011 with anti-regime protests.

Syria's main opposition has urged Trump to protect civilians and help end the bloodshed in the country.

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The airport was closed, and police advised anyone inside the facility to "shelter in place," a tweet on the department's verified account said.

Shots were fired in a parking lot, Capt. Paco Balderrama told reporters.

"At this point in time, we located one victim and we're looking for a second reported victim," he said. "We don't have any information to put out on the suspect vehicle or the suspect itself, but gunshots were heard."

Balderrama said there was no word on the confirmed victim's condition.

There is also no information on how many suspects police are looking for.

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Pence Removes Lobbyist from Trumps Transition Team

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Lobbyists are being purged from official roles in President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, sources told Fox News late Tuesday.

The move to get rid of lobbyists in key roles was one of the first decisions made by Vice President-elect Mike Pence in his role overseeing the construction of a Trump administration.

One source said the decision to remove the lobbyists "makes good on [Trump's] vision of how he wants his government constructed."

Tuesday evening, Pence formally signed a memorandum of understanding putting him in charge of the transition team. A similar document had been signed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who spent months running transition operations before his demotion last week.

The switch slowed Trump's ability to coordinate the transfer of power with the Obama administration. White House spokeswoman Brandi Hoffine told the Associated Press the administration was waiting on more documents required by law before agencies could begin sharing information with the transition team.

Pence ignored questions from reporters Tuesday, both as he entered Trump Tower with a thick binder tucked under his arm, and as he left six hours later.

A person familiar with the transition efforts told AP different factions in Trump's team "are fighting for power."

"That organization right now is not designed to work," according to the person close to the efforts, who like others involved in the transition, insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the internal process.

The group organized by Christie had featured a litany of lobbyists, former bureaucrats, academics and corporate lawyers. That caused consternation from Trump, who won cheers on the campaign trail for his repeated promises to "drain the swamp" in Washington.

It had also drawn the attention of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who repeatedly attacked Trump during the campaign on behalf of his opponent, Hillary Clinton. On Tuesday, Warren called on Trump to replace more than 20 members of his transition team with ties to Wall Street firms and other corporations.

"If you refuse," Warren wrote, "I will oppose you, every step of the way, for the next four years. I will champion the millions of Americans you will fail to protect. I will track your every move, and I will remind Americans, every day, of the actions you take that fail them."

Among those who departed Trump's transition team Tuesday was former Rep. Mike Rogers, a Christie recruit and a respected Republican voice on national security issues. The Wall Street Journal reported that Frank Gaffney, a former defense official in the Reagan administration, had been brought in to assist on national security issues, along with Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and former Rep. Pete Hoekstra.

Former GOP national security official Eliot Cohen blasted Trump's team on Twitter, calling them "angry, arrogant." Cohen opposed Trump during the campaign, but in recent days, he said those who feel duty-bound to work in a Trump administration should do so. But he said Tuesday that after an exchange with Trump's team, he had "changed my recommendation."

Trump's transition team was also reviewing secretary of state candidate Rudy Giuliani's paid consulting work for foreign governments, which could delay a nomination or bump Giuliani to a different position, according to a person briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak publicly about it.

Giuliani founded his own firm, Giuliani Partners, in 2001, and helped businesses on behalf of foreign governments, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. He also advised TransCanada, which sought to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, and helped the maker of the painkiller drug OxyContin settle a dispute with the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Businessman Carl Icahn disclosed on Twitter, based on conversations with the president-elect, that Trump was considering Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker, and Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor, to lead the Treasury and Commerce departments.
Fox News' Nick Kalman and the Associated Press contributed to this report. Click for more from The Wall Street Journal.

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Pence removing lobbyists from Trump transition team

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Lobbyists are being purged from official roles in President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, sources told Fox News late Tuesday. The move to get rid of lobbyists in key roles was one of the first decisions made by Vice President-elect Mike Pence in his role overseeing the construction of a Trump administration.

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In a highly unusual move, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday night left his Manhattan residence without notifying the reporters covering him or giving any indication of where he was going.

The maneuver seemed to deliberately limit access to the media.

The only way the press eventually ascertained his whereabouts was after a Bloomberg reporter, who happened to be dining at the 21 Club, tweeted a photo of Trump and some of his transition team in the Midtown steakhouse.

Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks later told NBC News. "He is having dinner with his family."

Wife Melania, daughter Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump were all at the restaurant.

This came after Hicks had told his press pool the day had ended, and the only indication of his departure was an unannounced motorcade. Trump's communications team did not respond to emails from the pooler requesting guidance.

With his Tuesday night actions, the Trump Administration is shaping up to be the least accessible to the public and the press in modern history.

A week after the election, Trump hasn't yet held a press conference, the longest any recent president has waited to speak to the press. That continues a weeks-long drought that's been going on since mid-summer, when Trump last answered questions from the press.

Trump has also refused to travel with the press corps since the election, a continuation of his campaign practice of flying in a separate plane from the media that covered him.

The media covering the president-elect have also not yet been offered briefings on his transition efforts, which was a typical practice for past presidents that allowed the public to keep apprised of the details of the new government.

And until recently, Trump's staff weren't releasing readouts of his calls with foreign leaders, leaving the press - and the public - to receive their guidance from foreign governments.

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Trump leaves press behind for steak dinner, showing lack of transparency

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In a highly unusual move, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday night left his Manhattan residence without notifying the reporters covering him or giving any indication of where he was going. The maneuver seemed to deliberately limit access to the media.

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A Utah high school student stabbed five boys in the school's locker room before stabbing himself Tuesday, authorities said.

Mountain View High School in Orem was placed on lockdown after the incident, and a suspect was in custody, police said in a tweet.

The Alpine School District said in a statement that, shortly before 8 a.m. local time, a 16-year old student stabbed 5 students in the locker room and then stabbed himself. The suspect was apprehended by the school resource officer.

All five victims and the suspect were transported to area hospitals with injuries ranging from critical to fair, though none of the injuries were considered life threatening, the district said.

Counselors and social workers were made available at the school. Police determined that no further threat existed and normal activities resumed later in the day.

Orem, with a population of 90,000, is about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City. Mountain View High is a 4-year school with more than 1,400 students.

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A Utah high school student stabbed five boys in the school's locker room before stabbing himself Tuesday, authorities said. Mountain View High School in Orem was placed on lockdown after the incident, and a suspect was in custody, police said in a tweet. The Alpine School District said in a statement that, shortly before 8 a.m.

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Obama in Berlin: Abschiedsessen mit "Freundin Angela"

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"Eine Freundin", seine "engste internationale Verbündete" hat er sie genannt: US-Präsident Obama und Kanzlerin Merkel verstehen sich gut miteinander. Nun wird der scheidende US-Präsident zu einem Abendessen mit Merkel in Berlin erwartet.

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Vandals in Russia defaced a Soviet star, a highly revered symbol of communism in the country, atop a building in a city center, painting it to look like Patrick, the cartoon starfish from the popular kids show "SpongeBob SquarePants."

The vandalized star in the southeastern town of Voronezh has garnered worldwide attention, "but the townspeople are divided in opinion. Many consider it vandalism, some a manifestation of contemporary art," local photographer Paul Dolgikh said.

Although the World War II era building is not a memorial, it once served as a repository for military supplies and is heavily adorned with Soviet symbols. Local police believe the star was vandalized on October 25. They launched an investigation Friday in search of a culprit with a penchant for heights.

According to Voronezh Department of Internal Affairs representative Natalia Kulikova, it would cost the city 100,000 rubles (about $1,500 US dollars) to restore the Soviet star, but the city wants to identify who pulled the stunt and have them foot the bill. So, authorities plan to wait out the current cold and windy weather before they fix the defacement.

CNN's George Kazarian contributed to this reporting

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Vandals give Soviet star a SpongeBob makeover

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Vandals in Russia defaced a Soviet star, a highly revered symbol of communism in the country, atop a building in a city center, painting it to look like Patrick, the cartoon starfish from the popular kids show "SpongeBob SquarePants." The vandalized star in the southeastern town of Voronezh has garnered worldwide attention, "but the townspeople are divided in opinion.