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LaVar Ball denies being in a feud with President Donald Trump, but repeatedly refused to issue a "thanks" to the President for his involvement in the release of his son from China.

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"Why would I be in war with a guy ... the most powerful man in the world?" Ball said Monday night when asked about his back-and-forth with the President by CNN's Chris Cuomo.

"Did he help the boys get out? I don't know. ... If I was going to thank somebody I'd probably thank President Xi (Jinping)," LaVar Ball said.

His comment came a day after Trump tweeted that he "should have left them in jail," referring to Ball's son and two other UCLA basketball players who were arrested on suspicion of stealing sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store while their team was in China.

"Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal," Trump tweeted. "I should have left them in jail!"

Last week, Trump questioned on Twitter whether he would receive any thanks for his role in the players' release.

"Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

And although the players themselves expressed gratitude to the President at a news conference, LaVar Ball minimized Trump's involvement in the matter.

"Who?" he told ESPN when asked about Trump's role in the situation days after their release. "What was he over there for? Don't tell me nothing. Everybody wants to make it seem like he helped me out."

In an interview with CNN Monday, LaVar Ball defended his son's actions and talked around thanking the President.

"It wasn't like he was in the US and said, 'OK, there's three kids in China. I need to go over and get them.' That wasn't the thought process," he told Cuomo.

"I say thank you when I see something," LaVar Ball later added.

"If you help, you shouldn't have to say anything," he said. "Let him do his political affairs and let me handle my son and let's just stay in our lane."

The interview concluded on a festive note, with LaVar Ball wishing Trump a happy holiday.

"Tell Donald Trump to have a great Thanksgiving," he said.

CNN's Jennifer Hansler and Jasmine Lee contributed to this report.

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Nearly 60,000 Haitians currently living in the United States under a protected immigration status will have 18 months to leave or face deportation. The Trump administration announced that they would be ending the program that lasted 8 years. After a major earthquake in 2010 left Haiti destroyed former President Obama left them come to our country until their's is ready for them to move back.

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Nearly 60,000 Haitians currently living in the United States under a protected immigration status will have 18 months to leave or face deportation after the Trump administration announced the end of a program that allowed thousands of survivors of Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake to reside in the country for nearly eight years.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti with an 18-month delay "to allow for an orderly transition," the agency announced in a press release on Monday.

"The decision to terminate TPS for Haiti was made after a review of the conditions upon which the country's original designation were based and whether those extraordinary but temporary conditions prevented Haiti from adequately handling the return of their nationals," the statement read.

Seventeen-year-old Miami resident Peterson Exais was just a child when he was injured in the country's 2010 earthquake.

"It's very devastating hearing this news," Exais told ABC affiliate WPLG.

Exais, a high school student who lives with his mother, said his family in Haiti is struggling to survive nearly eight years after the deadly quake struck, killing over 300,000 and causing widespread damages.

"They're hungry. They're not receiving food," he told WPLG. "They're not receiving clothing. It's very difficult for them. And I could not imagine myself in that situation again."

Temporary Protected Status is a special immigration status for people from a foreign country where the U.S. determines that conditions in that home country prevent those people from returning safely or where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately.

More than 320,000 people from 10 countries have Temporary Protected Status in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center. The program was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 and gives the White House the power to decide to extend the designation for various countries on a rolling basis. Haiti's status was due to expire in January of next year.

The Trump administration has moved to curtail the program.

Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ended TPS for some 2,500 Nicaraguans living in the country but delayed a decision on the status of 57,000 Hondurans. Similar protections for immigrants from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone were allowed to expire.

ABC News' Geneva Sands and Conor Finnegan contributed to this report.

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The Washington Post 12 hrs ago Irin Carmon, Amy Brittain

Eight women have told The Washington Post that longtime television host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.

The women were employees or aspired to work for Rose at the "Charlie Rose" show from the late 1990s to as recently as 2011. They ranged in age from 21 to 37 at the time of the alleged encounters. Rose, 75, whose show airs on PBS and Bloomberg TV, also co-hosts "CBS This Morning" and is a contributing correspondent for "60 Minutes."

There are striking commonalities in the accounts of the women, each of whom described their interactions with Rose in multiple interviews with The Post. For all of the women, reporters interviewed friends, colleagues or family members who said the women had confided in them about aspects of the incidents. Three of the eight spoke on the record.
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Five of the women spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of Rose's stature in the industry, his power over their careers or what they described as his volatile temper.

"In my 45 years in journalism, I have prided myself on being an advocate for the careers of the women with whom I have worked," Rose said in a statement provided to The Post. "Nevertheless, in the past few days, claims have been made about my behavior toward some former female colleagues.

"It is essential that these women know I hear them and that I deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. I am greatly embarrassed. I have behaved insensitively at times, and I accept responsibility for that, though I do not believe that all of these allegations are accurate. I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though I now realize I was mistaken.

"I have learned a great deal as a result of these events, and I hope others will too. All of us, including me, are coming to a newer and deeper recognition of the pain caused by conduct in the past, and have come to a profound new respect for women and their lives."

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Within hours of the publication of this story, PBS and Bloomberg LP immediately suspended distribution of the "Charlie Rose" show. CBS announced that it was suspending Rose as it looked into the matter.

Most of the women said Rose alternated between fury and flattery in his interactions with them. Five described Rose putting his hand on their legs, sometimes their upper thigh, in what they perceived as a test to gauge their reactions. Two said that while they were working for Rose at his residences or were traveling with him on business, he emerged from the shower and walked naked in front of them. One said he groped her buttocks at a staff party.

Reah Bravo was an intern and then associate producer for Rose's PBS show beginning in 2007. In interviews, she described unwanted sexual advances while working for Rose at his private waterfront estate in Bellport, N.Y., and while traveling with him in cars, in a hotel suite and on a private plane.

"It has taken 10 years and a fierce moment of cultural reckoning for me to understand these moments for what they were," she told The Post. "He was a sexual predator, and I was his victim."

Kyle Godfrey-Ryan, one of Rose's assistants in the mid-2000s, recalled at least a dozen instances where Rose walked nude in front of her while she worked in one of his New York City homes. He also repeatedly called the then-21-year-old late at night or early in the morning to describe his fantasies of her swimming naked in the Bellport pool as he watched from his bedroom, she said.

"It feels branded into me, the details of it," Godfrey-Ryan said.

She said she told Yvette Vega, Rose's longtime executive producer, about the calls.

"I explained how he inappropriately spoke to me during those times," Godfrey-Ryan said. "She would just shrug and just say, 'That's just Charlie being Charlie.' "

In a statement to The Post, Vega said she should have done more to protect the young women on the show.

"I should have stood up for them," said Vega, 52, who has worked with Rose since the show was created in 1991. "I failed. It is crushing. I deeply regret not helping them."

Godfrey-Ryan said that when Rose learned she had confided to a mutual friend about his conduct, he fired her.

Megan Creydt worked as a coordinator on the show from 2005 to 2006, overlapping with Godfrey-Ryan.

"It was quite early in working there that he put his hand on my mid-thigh," said Creydt, who agreed to be interviewed on the record to support other women who were coming forward with what she deemed to be more serious claims concerning Rose.

She said that during the incident, Rose was driving his Mini Cooper in Manhattan while she was sitting in the passenger seat.

"I don't think I said anything," she said. "I tensed up. I didn't move his hand off, but I pulled my legs to the other side of the car. I tried not to get in a car with him ever again. I think he was testing me out."

Her then-boyfriend confirmed to The Post that she told him the story at the time.

In addition to the eight women who say they were harassed, The Post spoke to about two dozen former employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Six said they saw what they considered to be harassment, eight said they were uncomfortable with Rose's treatment of female employees, and 10 said they did not see or hear anything concerning.

"He was always professional with me," said Eleonore Marchand Mueller, a former assistant of Rose's who worked for him from 2003 to 2005. "I never witnessed any unprofessional incidents."

The show's small, informal structure, with roughly 15 employees, and the centrality of Rose's authority on a program he owns led to uncertainty over how to respond, said the women who felt victimized. "There wasn't anybody to report this to if you felt uncomfortable," one of them said.

The employees worked for Charlie Rose Inc., and not Bloomberg LP or PBS, which said they did not provide human resources support for the show.

The environment brimmed with the young and potentially vulnerable, hungry for scarce television jobs. "There are so few jobs," said one of the women who said Rose groped her. "You know if you don't behave a certain way, there's someone else behind you."

Rose traveled frequently, jetting off to interview world leaders across the globe and splitting time between two New York City residences and homes in Bellport - on Long Island - and North Carolina. Often at his side was a rotating cast of young assistants and producers.

The young women who were hired by the show were sometimes known as "Charlie's Angels," two former employeessaid. Rose frequently gave unsolicited shoulder rubs to several of them, behavior referred to among employees as "the crusty paw," a former employee said.

Rumors about Rose's behavior have circulated for years. One of the authors of this report, Outlook contributing writerIrin Carmon, first heard and attempted to report on the allegations involving two of the women while she was a journalist at Jezebel in 2010 but was unable to confirm them. In the past several weeks in the wake of accusations against Harvey Weinstein, Carmon and Post investigative reporter Amy Brittain jointly began contacting dozens of men and women who had worked on the "Charlie Rose" show or interviewed for jobs there.

A woman then in her 30s who was at the Bellport home in 2010 to discuss a job opportunity said Rose appeared before her in an untethered bathrobe, naked underneath. She said he subsequently attempted to put his hands down her pants. She said she pushed his hands away and wept throughout the encounter.

A woman who began as an intern in the late 1990s and was later hired full time described a "ritual" of young women at the show being summoned by Rose to his Manhattan apartment to work at a desk there. The woman described a day when Rose went into the bathroom, left the door open and turned on the shower.

She said he began to call her name, insistently. She ignored him, she said, and continued working. Suddenly, he came out of the bathroom and stood over her. She turned her head, briefly saw skin and Rose with a towel and jerked back around to avoid the sight. She said he said, "Didn't you hear me calling you?"

She said she told someone in the office, and word got around. A few days later, she said, a male colleague approached her, laughing, "Oh, you got the shower trick." The woman's sister confirmed that her sibling had told her about the shower incident soon after it occurred.

Another woman said that during her internship in the early 2000s, Rose groped her breasts and stomach as she drove him from Bellport back to Manhattan. Her then-boyfriend, now husband, confirmed that she described the incident to him immediately after it occurred. When Rose invited her to work regularly and stay overnight at Bellport, her boyfriend told her to refuse the offer, and she did, both told The Post.

Prestige and fear

Rose's eponymous show, with its trademark black background and round oak table, has been in production since 1991. What it lacks in mass viewership, the "Charlie Rose" show makes up for in prestige and high-profile bookings of the likes of former president Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Warren Buffett. Rose's show is produced by Charlie Rose Inc., an independent television production company, and distributed by PBS. It is filmed at Bloomberg headquarters in Manhattan.

Rose's stature has only grown in recent years.

CBS tapped him in 2011 to help revamp its ailing morning show, now called "CBS This Morning," expanding his audience. He has also been a contributing correspondent for "60 Minutes" for nearly a decade. His 2013 interview of Syria's president won Emmy and Peabody awards. (None of the women who made accusations against Rose to The Post worked for PBS or CBS.)

Representatives from PBS, CBS and Bloomberg said they have no records of sexual harassment complaints about Charlie Rose.

When Time magazine named Rose one of its 100 most influential people in 2014, billionaire and former New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg described him as "one of the most important and influential people in journalism."

Rose, who was divorced in 1980, has long had a reputation as a ladies man. His "CBS This Morning" co-host, Norah O'Donnell, introduced him at a 2014 fundraiser dinner by joking, "We're all here because with Charlie Rose, one woman is never enough." Rose graciously accepted honors that night by saying that he was lucky to have worked throughout his career with "women who were smarter, more thoughtful and more eloquent than I was."

There was also less flattering coverage. The now-defunct Radar magazine in 2007 called him a "toxic bachelor" and repeated an unnamed woman's claim that Rose had "palmed her buttock like a honeydew." His then-attorney, David Boies, who has recently drawn criticism for his representation of Harvey Weinstein, demanded a retraction. The magazine refused.

The "Charlie Rose" show prides itself on its highbrow intellectual ambition, but his life is glamorous, full of black-tie galas and famous friends. He can be charming and generous, consulting favored employees for their opinions on what to ask heads of state or whisking them off to exotic locations for interviews. But his wrath was swift and often fiercely personal, according to interviews with multiple former employees.

"Everybody is terrified of him," said one of the women who said that Rose groped her when she was an intern. "He creates this environment of constant fear. And then he'll shine a spotlight on you and make you feel amazing."

Multiple women said they had at first been reassured by the presence of Vega, Rose's executive producer, who has worked with him for decades. Two women who spoke to The Post said they repeatedly reported Rose's inappropriate sexual behavior to Vega.

'His poor judgment'

Working for the "Charlie Rose" show was a longtime dream for Reah Bravo, who in 2007 was a 29-year-old graduate student studying international affairs at Columbia University. She struggled to make ends meet during her unpaid internship, accruing credit card debt and eating free cereal in the Bloomberg food court.

One day, several months into the internship, Rose offered her a side gig at his home in Bellport on Long Island.

"Here is the deal: I'll pay you $2,500 for the week plus all expenses for food, movies etc.," he wrote to her on Aug. 9, 2007. "You will be there from Monday August 13-Friday afternoon, August 17. Your primary responsibilities are to organize and catalogue all my books and tapes and files ... It will help me a lot, be fun for you, and you will have a car all the time for whatever you need to do."

Before she left for Bellport, Bravo said Vega told her that personal time with Rose was a key to becoming part of the team.

Bravo said she took the train to Bellport, where she said Rose met her at the Ronkonkoma station and took her to a bank to withdraw money to cover her expenses. She stayed at the Bellport home for about a week, sleeping in a bedroom in the main house. Rose was gone much of the time.

While she was there, Bravo said she received a message from a male producer. If Rose did anything "sketchy," she said he told her, she should not hesitate to call the show's car service to return home.

Late one night, Bravo said, Rose returned home after a night out. She said she tried to hurry out of the library in the guesthouse to return to her bedroom in the main house before Rose came in, but he intercepted her. She said he insisted that they have a glass of wine at the dining room table in the main house.

Then, he suggested they walk out to his dock and look at the moon, Bravo said. Once there, "he came up from behind me and he put his arms around me," she said, remembering that she felt a mix of apprehension and confusion. "It reflected his poor judgment. How could a man of his stature and his power be doing something so inappropriate? . . . It seemed reckless."

Caught off guard, she said she did not know how to respond and endured his embrace.

A day or two later, Bravo said, Rose drove her back to Manhattan. She said he began to tell her that he felt very alone in life, despite his wealth and success. He recalled a brush with death a year earlier during heart surgery in Paris and began to tear up, and she said she patted him on the shoulder to console him.

"I didn't necessarily buy it," she said. "I thought, 'I'll keep my distance and I feel sorry for him.' But I didn't think of him as a predator at that time."

Bravo soon returned to Bellport for a second trip. She was working in the guesthouse and caught a glimpse of Rose rinsing off nude in an unenclosed outdoor shower. She said she quickly averted her eyes and moved away from the window.

Later, he asked if she had seen him showering, she said, andseemed disappointed when she said no. While at Bellport, Bravo said Rose repeatedly insisted that he needed to hear that she was comfortable at Bellport and how much she enjoyed it there.

She emailed him about her work ideas and also mentioned Bellport.

"Have I told you how much I absolutely enjoy it out there?" she wrote him on Sept 1, 2007. "The company, the conversation, the comfort...that said I'm happy to go out there for both the remainder of this weekend AND parts of the next in an effort to finish the books faster."

That fall, she traveled with Rose to Aspen for a conference. On Oct. 1, after the trip, Bravo wrote an email to Vega, alluding to earlier issues with Rose:

"On a personal note, I know working for Charlie requires one to embrace his uniqueness and develop a professional relationship that can account for it. It's taken a couple straight forward conversations between the two of us, but I feel I'm in a better place than previously. And that's not to say that I was previously in a really bad place! It all might sound cryptic, but you seem to play somewhat of a motherly role for staff members and I just wanted you to know that I'm okay : )"

Vega responded the same day:

"I have some concerns for you especially in what you are trying to tell me in this email. Please know the following about me, I have worked with Charlie for 16 years, so there is nothing that I haven't heard or possibly experienced - and that anything you ever reveal to me would be kept in confidence from anyone and from the top down, so that you can feel comfortable in that confidence..."

Toward the end of 2007, Bravo was given more responsibilities and Rose occasionally paid her for helping him prepare for interviews, speeches and conferences. Her new duties required more travel with Rose, and he frequently requested her company for working dinners, she said.

Rose would regularly hire drivers to take them around town. On more than one occasion, she said, he groped her in the back seat. One time, she said, he "grabbed me by my hair, holding a fist of it at the base of my scalp." More than once, "he would grip my head tightly while talking to me. He held it so tightly that I couldn't turn my neck in any direction. I was forced to look at him or to let him talk directly into my ear."

In Indiana for a speaking engagement in March 2008, Rose summoned Bravo to his hotel suite to work on his speech. While she was working at a desk in the room, she said, he emerged naked from the shower and stood before a mirror where she could see him. She said she ignored him and kept working.

Later, flying on a small private plane alone with Rose, she said he requested that they watch a documentary about Algeria on a portable DVD player. Suddenly, she said, Rose got out of his seat and pressed his body onto hers.

"I felt at a loss. I mean, what am I going to do? We were how many feet up in the air?" she said, adding that they remained clothed. "I remember him being on top of me."

Bravo said Rose's advance was bizarre, brief and "animalistic." Then he returned to his seat.

"I felt an immense sense of shame that I had greenlighted his actions because I didn't fight back," she said.

Bravo said she locked eyes with one of the two pilots as she disembarked. She said she interpreted his expression as one of "sympathy or maybe disgust."

Later in 2008, she was hired as anassociate producer but was already looking for another job. The same year, Bravo was offered a job that paid three times as much as the one at the "Charlie Rose" show. In response, Rose took her to the Spotted Pig, a well-known restaurant in Manhattan, and dangled a position as a producer in Washington. She could even live in a Georgetown residence where he sometimes stayed, she said he told her.

She said she declined.

"I was leaving because I was getting away," she said. "I would never want to live someplace where he had keys."

Since then, Bravo has worked as a corporate speechwriter and now lives inEurope with her husband and their young son.

In retrospect, Bravo said she feels shame and embarrassment about her warm correspondence with Rose.

"I read old emails, and I sound so sycophantic, it makes me sick," she said. "But it was what he wanted, it made my work easier, and to an extent, it was the same game most staff members played. Male staffers did it, too. They just weren't feeling as pathetic about it."

Looking back, she is struck by how calculated Rose's approach seemed.

"He most definitely said, on numerous occasions, 'I've never forced you to do something you didn't want to do,' " she said. "He would say this forcefully and wait for my confirmation after he said this. I remember once wondering if I was being recorded."

Blurred lines

Kyle Godfrey-Ryan was in her early 20s and had taken time off from her college studies in the mid-2000s when a friend offered to introduce her to Charlie Rose. She was unfamiliar with his show but was soon hired to be his assistant.

From the beginning, there was a blurring of the boundaries between Rose's professional and private life, she said. On her first day on the job, Rose injured his foot. She tended to him as he recovered.

But soon, Godfrey-Ryan said, he began yelling at her, calling her stupid and incompetent and pathetic.

"He repeatedly attacked her in front of other people," recalled a former producer who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "He once said that because she hadn't gotten a college degree she would never amount to anything better than his secretary."

After the bouts of rage, Godfrey-Ryan said, Rose would often be conciliatory.

"It would usually entail some version of him also touching me," she said. "A hand on the upper thigh. He'd give a hug but touch the side of the breast."

She said she ignored his actions. Then he began calling her as late as midnight and as early as 6 a.m.

"It would be wanting to know details of my sex life," she said. " 'Who's next to you? What do you do? Is he touching you?' And I was like, 'Okay, Charlie, I'll see you tomorrow.' I just acted like it wasn't happening."

She said other calls involved a "very specific, repetitive fantasy" of her disrobing at the Bellport home and swimming "back and forth in the pool in the moonlight" as he watched from his bedroom.

Her boyfriend at the time, now her husband, told The Post that he was often present for these calls but said he did not know what was being discussed. The content of the calls, however, was openly discussed in the office and even joked about, according to Godfrey-Ryan and the producer who worked there at the time.

Godfrey-Ryan also said Rose would repeatedly walk in front of her naked at one of his New York City residences. Her husband confirmed that she complained to him about it at the time.

She said she ignored the nudity. "He was getting more and more frustrated that I wouldn't engage," she said.

Godfrey-Ryan said she reported the touching and the calls to Vega, but nothing happened.

"She just made me feel like I was being a dramatic little girl," Godfrey-Ryan said. She stopped reporting the behavior.

Godfrey-Ryan said she eventually confided to a mutual friend outside the show about Rose, and the friend told Rose.

She said Rose fired her.

"He took me out to lunch and told me how embarrassed he was, how he didn't treat me like that," she said. "It was really about how I got it wrong, and, obviously, I couldn't work there anymore."

She later went back to school at Columbia. She has since launched her own business, Tune.Studio, which uses infrasonic wave technology to treat stress and improve moods, leading to "peace and happiness."

"It makes me a little upset to see him on television," she said. "Everything I experienced with journalism there made me not want to stay."

A job interview, then denial

Another woman gave multiple interviews to The Post about her experience with Rose but requested anonymity out of concern for her privacy.

In 2009, she was in her mid-30s, looking to break into broadcast journalism after studying politics and earning her graduate degree in Europe. While working at a cultural foundation in New York City, her boss offered to put her in touch with Charlie Rose.

Rose responded with interest.

The meetings that followed, she said, were unconventional: a dinner at a restaurant, late at night with Rose's prominent friends, where he drank a lot of wine. A sudden weekend invitation to lunch continued with her tagging along as Rose shopped for furniture. When he drove her home, she said she listened in alarm as he berated a producer over the phone.

Then he turned to the job applicant. "He put his hand on my knee and said, 'Oh, I'm sorry about that,' " she said. "He said, 'I hope you don't mind, I'm from the South, we're touchers.' "

No job offer came, but on June 8, 2010, Rose got back in touch, according to an email the woman provided. She was still unemployed and the job Rose described sounded ideal.

"He talked about this position, which he referred to as being his intellectual partner, that I would be the executive producer for global content," she recalled.

By now, she had been told the unorthodox interview process was standard because of Rose's packed schedule and desire to do the hiring for all positions by himself.

As part of the process, she visited Bloomberg's Manhattan office and also discussed the job with Rose at his apartment.

"My producers come here all the time to work," she said he told her.

She said Rose mentioned a salary of $120,000, described the job as involving frequent international travel and asked for references. Rose soon suggested they see how they traveled together by having her visit his Bellport house, she said.

On June 18, Rose sent her an email inviting her to the house that evening.

"As I mentioned, I'm going to my place on long island tonight to write...and then coming back tomorrow for a dinner. This is to invite to visit...

"You have your own wing of the house, or even a guesthouse, It's on the water, plus Olympic pool, tennis court, plenty of movies and books and sailing and I run on the beach at sunrise and sunset...This has no influence on our dialogue about work projects."

He added near the end of the email: "Bring someone if you like. I'm on deadline, so i will be writing all the time and will not be entertaining except breaks for exercise and meals. Let me know...before noon."

Eager to land the job, the woman agreed to travel with Rose to Bellport, which is about 60 miles from Manhattan.

She gave the following account:

That evening, after stopping for dinner and getting lost, they arrived at the house after midnight. She did not see anyone else there. Rose proposed she choose a DVD of his show that they could watch together. After the show, Rose gave her a tour of the property. The guesthouse, she noticed, was packed with clutter, uninhabitable.

At the pool, Rose dangled his legs in the water andthensaid that he needed to change because his pant legs were wet. He returned wearing a white bathrobe, which was open; he wore nothing underneath.

"I thought, I'm doomed," she said. "I was completely panicked. In retrospect, I thought of a million things I could have done."

She said she was not intoxicated - Rose had drunk his wine and then hers at the restaurant - but said he appeared to be. It was nearly 2 a.m. and she was exhausted, she said. She also said she felt alone and powerless. It was the middle of the night, they were on his secluded property, and she did not know how to drive.

"I started talking in this feeble and compulsive way," she said. "I started talking about power, how the abuse of power can be. He completely lost it. 'What are you talking about? That's certainly not the case.' "

She said he then tried to put a hand down her pants.

"By the time he touched me the first time, he was already very angry," she said. "I was scared, and I was also kind of frozen."

After that, her memory is "hazy," she said. They ended up in his bedroom.

"I really, honestly, I've tried so hard, especially recently, since I've been thinking about this, to try to remember what happened between sitting by the pool and being in his bed," she said."I have no recollection of how we went from here to there. I do remember I was crying the entire time."

He reached down her pants again, she said, and she pushed his hands away. As she wept, she said, Rose asked her, "Baby, oh baby, why are you crying?"

The encounter ended when he appeared to be asleep and she felt she could leave the room, she said.

The next day, she said there was little mention of what had happened. She described the previous night to him "as a bit of a disaster" and he said, "What do you mean?"

A few days later, she followed up about the job.

In retrospect, she said, "Remaining silent allowed me to continue denying what had occurred. It was in that state of denial that I wrote to him asking about the job."

He replied with his regrets.

"The whole thing was really the most humiliating and most degrading experience I've ever had," the woman says now. A friend she confided in at the time described her as having been "distraught" in recounting what happened.

"To have been used in the way she was left her feeling really confused and really distressed," the friend told The Post. The friend encouraged her to write about her experience, and she chose to do so as a short story.

In one of the drafts that she shared with The Post, a tall, drawling television host named "Johnny Pose" brings a young woman to his country home on Long Island to discuss a job opportunity.

The woman said she changed some key details about what happened by the pool. And in the story, unlike in real life, she said, she viewed the host with contempt rather than fear.

She said she submitted the story to several magazine editors in 2010 and 2011. Paris Review editor Lorin Stein declined to publish the story but wrote to her in March 2011, "It has the ring of truth (alas)."

The womantitled the story, "The Hunt."

The double entendre, she said, was intentional.

"I was hunting for a job," she told The Post, "and he was hunting for me."

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Eight women say Charlie Rose sexually harassed them - with nudity, groping and lewd calls

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The Washington Post 12 hrs ago Irin Carmon, Amy Brittain Eight women have told The Washington Post that longtime television host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.

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An upstate New York mother was charged with second-degree murder after she drowned her 10-day-old son in a bathtub on Monday, police said. The boy's mother, 25-year-old Markiya Mitchell, admitted to intentionally drowning her baby.

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An upstate New York mother was charged with second-degree murder after she drowned her 10-day-old son in a bathtub on Monday, police said.

Officers responded to the Rochester home around 2:30 p.m. after receiving a report of an unresponsive newborn and found the baby in a bathtub.

The newborn, named Jeremiah, was taken to Rochester General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

The boy's mother, 25-year-old Markiya Mitchell, admitted to intentionally drowning her baby, according to court documents obtained by FOX Rochester.

Mitchell filled the tub with eight to 10 inches of water, then intentionally left her 10-day-old alone in the tub for one to two hours, the documents said.

She was arraigned on the murder charge early Tuesday. Prosecutors may empanel a grand jury to file additional charges, according to FOX Rochester.

Mitchell also has a 7-year-old child, who is now being taken care of by a family member, according to police.

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New York mom 'intentionally' drowned newborn in bathtub, police say

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An upstate New York mother was charged with second-degree murder after she drowned her 10-day-old son in a bathtub on Monday, police said. Officers responded to the Rochester home around 2:30 p.m. after receiving a report of an unresponsive newborn and found the baby in a bathtub.

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A paranoid schizophrenic woman who smothered her toddler in a Midtown burger joint and claimed "the devil made me do it" will spend nearly two decades in prison.

Latisha Fisher, 38, on Monday was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the killing of 20-month-old Gavriel Ortiz-Fisher in March 2015. She spent 40 minutes in the 5 Boro Burger bathroom smothering him, officials said.

Fisher had rejected a plea offer from Manhattan prosecutors and then pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Wearing beige prison garb with a light pink sweater underneath, she appeared somber as she sat alongside her legal team.

Prosecutor Jessica Troy read two victim impact statements on behalf of little Gavriel's father, Luis Ortiz Jr., and the tot's paternal grandfather, Luis Ortiz Sr.

"The time I found out I was going to be a father, I was happy - and even happier it was going to be a boy," Ortiz Jr.'s statement read.

Ortiz Jr., 36, wept as his statement was read aloud to the court.

He had dreamed of teaching his son how to ride a bike, and how to be a respectful young man.

"On March 20, I lost everything," it read.

"Sometimes I blame myself ... I should have gone there that day, maybe he'd still be here with us."

The grieving father said he had found it in his heart to forgive Fisher but the pain still remained.

"I forgive you but I can never forget," he said.

Prosecutors then read aloud Ortiz Sr.'s statement.

"In time, I will find a way to forgive you. For now, justice is served," part of the 54-year-old's statement read.

Fisher was then given an opportunity to speak.

"I'm sorry," she said through sobs. "I love my son."

Judge Gregory Carro noted Fisher, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, "clearly suffering mental illness (and) has taken responsibility for her actions."

After the sentencing, Ortiz Jr. and Sr. said they finally felt they had some closure.

"Hanging in there, entirely, step by step, day by day," the child's father said.

Ortiz Jr., who also has a 1-year-old son and a 17-year-old daughter, told reporters he still feels immense guilt over the day his son was killed and feels he could have prevented the murder had he taken Fisher up on an invitation to join them that fateful day.

"She asked me to go but I couldn't go because I had school and work," he said sorrowfully. "I could've went."

Ortiz Sr. then interrupted his son and said, "Don't ever think that it's your fault, 'cause it's not. OK?

"She owned up to what she did. That's the only thing I always wanted," Ortiz Sr. added.

Fisher's attorney, Bryan Konoski, said had his client decided to proceed to trial on the issue of mental illness, it could have resulted in a life sentence. The resolution of manslaughter gives Fisher an 18-year sentence with credit for time she's already served.

"By pleading guilty and accepting this resolution, she has saved herself the risk of a possible life sentence. One day she will have an opportunity to be released back into society," Konoski said.

"One of the first things that she said when people came and found her with her deceased child was that the devil made her do it," he said.

"I think it's really unquestionable she has a mental illness. The ultimate question was whether she knew or understood that what she did was wrong."

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A paranoid schizophrenic woman who smothered her toddler in a Midtown burger joint and claimed "the devil made me do it" will spend nearly two decades in prison. Latisha Fisher, 38, on Monday was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the killing of 20-month-old Gavriel Ortiz-Fisher in March 2015.

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The Washington Post 10 hrs ago Eli Rosenberg

Delisa Lynch did what just about any mother would do if their son was confronted by a bully: She fought back.

Except in her case, that person was the president, and her son, no playground runt but 31-year-old NFL running back Marshawn Lynch, who Trump had lambasted in a tweet on Monday for not standing during the national anthem during a recent game in Mexico.

Delisa Lynch, who goes by @MommaLynch24 on Twitter, quickly jumped into the fray with a retort of her own.

"What NFL team do Trump own?" she fired off, citing the president's tweet. "Oh yeah they wouldn't let him have one!"
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Lynch appeared to be referring to Trump's long and stormy relationship with the NFL. The president bought a United State Football League team in 1983 for a fraction of the price of an NFL franchise, but never purchased an NFL team, getting outbid in 2014.

The fiery retort, which spread far and wide across the Internet, landed Lynch in a now growing group of people: the family members of people who have been targeted by Trump on Twitter, and instead of folding in resignation, have jumped in to join the fray.

Marshawn Lynch, who plays for the Oakland Raiders, is the latest athlete to draw a rebuke from the President, joining others, like former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry. Coincidentally or not, most have hailed from California, particularly the Bay Area, a reflection perhaps of how deep the state's pockets of opposition to the president run.

Most if not all of the athletes Trump has attacked have been some other race than white, a point not lost on the president's critics.

Perhaps it was just a matter of time before he went after Marshawn Lynch.

The subject of media fascination for years, the running back has earned notoriety as much for what he doesn't say, as what he does. His unwillingness to feign interest in the media hoopla around the NFL has always made him stand out. But he is deeply beloved by fans, particularly in his hometown, Oakland, as well as those in other places he's played, like Seattle.

"I'm just bout that action, boss," he told Deion Sanders, who had found him wearing a hood and sunglasses during the media heavy lead up to the Super Bowl in 2014. "Want something you go get it; ain't no need to talk about it."

Still Lynch has found ways to communicate his feelings about Trump: Earlier this year, he wore a T-shirt that read, "Everybody vs. Trump," to a game at the heights of the president's inflammatory controversy over the national anthem.

But where he might be a sphinx, Delisa Lynch is a font of opinion, with 16,000 followers on Twitter. Long a fixture in the stands with her "Momma Lynch" jersey on, she has weighed in to support her son before. In the wake of the president's tweet Monday, she came alive on Twitter, retweeting thank yous to the troops, pictures of American flags and words of support from fans.

In response to a harshly critical tweet by former Tea Party congressman Joe Walsh, she wrote: "Always the ones with their own issues to throw shade."

Other people in the Raiders orbit fumed after the president's statement as well.

"The bully-in-chief needs to worry about his own approval ratings and stop picking on people," Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said in a video posted by ABC 7. "We are with you Marshawn."

Linda Del Rio, the wife of Raiders Coach Jack Del Rio, said in a tweet that was later removed that she regretted her vote for Trump.

Lynch meanwhile, who gained 65 yards on 11 carries in the Raider's defeat, stayed quiet on Twitter. The charity he co-founded handed out 500 turkeys to families in need in Oakland on Sunday, a spokeswoman said.
Read more: For Trump, fighting with athletes is political sport National anthem protests are becoming more popular. You can thank Donald Trump. Did Trump's tweet make it safer for NFL players to kneel for the anthem?

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A rat got stuck in a New York City subway. A video was taken of the rat scaring everyone. Everyone was putting their feet up and jumping onto the chairs.

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The Justice Department is investigating complaints that Harvard intentionally discriminates against Asian-Americans by limiting the number of Asian students that are admitted. The Lawsuit was filed in 2014 according to documents and was brought by
a non-profit group called Students for Fair Admissions. Students for Fair Admissions says that the practices violate federal civil-rights laws, and asks a federal judge to prohibit Harvard from using race as a factor in future undergraduate admissions. The suit is currently pending.

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The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the use of race in Harvard University's admissions practices and has accused the university of failing to cooperate with the probe, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The Justice Department is investigating complaints that formed the basis of a federal civil lawsuit filed in 2014 in Boston, according to the documents. That suit alleges Harvard intentionally discriminates against Asian-Americans by limiting the number of Asian students who are admitted.

The lawsuit, brought by a nonprofit called Students for Fair Admissions, said the practices violate federal civil-rights law and asks a federal judge to prohibit Harvard from using race as a factor in future undergraduate admissions decisions. The suit is pending.

The Justice Department, whose Civil Rights Division is conducting the investigation into similar allegations, said in a letter to Harvard's lawyers, dated Nov. 17 and reviewed by the Journal, that the school was being investigated under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin for organizations that receive federal funding. The letter also said the school had failed to comply with a Nov. 2 deadline to provide documents related to the university's admissions policies and practices.

The department told Harvard it "may file a lawsuit" to enforce compliance if Harvard doesn't hand over the documents by a new deadline of Dec. 1, according to a separate letter dated Nov. 17 from John M. Gore, the acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division. The department wrote that the materials requested by the Justice Department have already been provided by Harvard to the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

The documents confirm the existence of an investigation that the Justice Department in August indicated it would pursue and suggest that Harvard has challenged the authority of the department's Civil Rights Division to conduct it.

Harvard has previously said its admissions process is consistent with the legal precedents set over the past 40 years by the Supreme Court, which have allowed universities to consider race as a factor in admissions to obtain the benefits of a diverse student body.

Seth Waxman, a partner at WilmerHale, the law firm representing Harvard, said Monday night that Harvard had no comment on the matter.

Justice Department spokesman Devin O'Malley said: "The Department of Justice takes seriously any potential violation of an individual's civil and constitutional rights."
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A bullfighter left the ring in pain with his hand over his scrotum after he was gored in the groin. Luis David Adame had a red cape in one hand and the bull changed directions. Adame was unaware of the changed and gets gored in the groin. He suffered a large cut in the scrotum that tearing skin in 10 centimeters

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A bullfighter was forced to leave the ring in pain with his hands over his bleeding scrotum after he was gored in the groin.

Footage of the incident at a festival in Queretaro, Mexico, shows Luis David Adame getting tossed into the air like a ragdoll before limping away. A throng of workers carry him out the ring as a stream of blood flowed down his pants.

Adame, holding a red cape in one hand, was caught off guard when the bull quickly changed direction and struck him.

A doctor who looked at Adame's injury after the event Saturday said he "suffered a large goring in the scrotum that tears the skin in 10 centimeters."

"See you soon" Adame posted on Twitter Sunday in a message to his fans. He is currently in stable condition, according to several media reports.

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Bullfighter gored in the groin, carried out of ring bleeding and screaming in pain

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A bullfighter was forced to leave the ring in pain with his hands over his bleeding scrotum after he was gored in the groin. Footage of the incident at a festival in Queretaro, Mexico, shows Luis David Adame getting tossed into the air like a ragdoll before limping away.

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An off-duty officer shot two armed robbers with his child in one arms. The in store camera shows the officer disappear from the camera while his wife is in the aisle with her hands over her ears. He moves back into the camera frame and hands the child to his mother. He moves outside the frame again before shooting the two robbers. The two robbers were pronounced dead at the scene. He told investigators he shot at the men because he believed they would have opened fire first after he identified himself as a police officer.

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Off-duty police officer shoots armed robbers dead while holding baby in other arm

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An off-duty military police officer shot dead two armed robbers while holding his child in one arm when the pair tried to hold up a pharmacy, CCTV footage shows.

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In Vermont a 9 year old girl was used to smuggle drugs into a prison for an inmate. It doesn't say if it was her mom or not who used her, but someone taught her how to slip drugs enclosed in cellophane wrap during visitation.

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Police: 9-year-old girl used to smuggle drugs into prison

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Argentina is still looking for there missing submarine. It held 44 people and after 2 false alarms the concern grows. They had gotten signals from something they hoped was the submarine but it wasn't. It all started when,
Argentine navy protocol stipulates that in peace time, submarines make contact twice a day with the base. When the submarine failed to call in, the Argentine navy began its search for the vessel. Currently, there have still not been any sightings or communication with the sub.

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Argentina's navy says it will take advantage of improved weather conditions to further step up its search for a submarine that vanished last Wednesday in the Atlantic Ocean.

Strong winds and high waves have hampered the search for the ARA San Juan and its 44 crew in the past days.

On Monday, navy officials said that noises picked up by two search vessels did not come from the sub, dashing relatives' hopes for a speedy rescue.

It was the second false alarm.

A navy spokesman had earlier confirmed that satellite signals picked up on Saturday did not come from the missing boat.

What happened to the sub?

The ARA San Juan was returning from a routine mission to Ushuaia, near the southern-most tip of South America, when it reported an "electrical breakdown".

According to naval commander Gabriel Galeazzi, the submarine surfaced and reported the breakdown, which Capt Galeazzi described as a "short circuit" in the sub's batteries.

The sub was ordered to cut its mission short and return to the naval base in Mar del Plata immediately.

According to navy spokesman Enrique Balbi, the captain of the ARA San Juan contacted the naval base once more after reporting the mechanical problem.

In the message, he reportedly said that the problem had been adequately fixed and that the sub would submerge and proceed towards Mar del Plata naval base.

The last contact was made at 07:30 local time (10:30 GMT) on Wednesday 15 November. It is not known what happened to the sub after that contact.

Read: What happens when a submarine vanishes

How was the alarm raised?

Argentine navy protocol stipulates that in peace time, submarines make contact twice a day with the base.

When the submarine failed to call in, the Argentine navy began its search for the vessel.

Navy commander Carlos Zavalla at that point spoke only of a "failure to communicate" and urged relatives of the crew to remain calm.

There was no mention by navy officials of the vessel having any mechanical problems at the time and rumours of a fire on board were dismissed by the navy's spokesman, Enrique Balbi.

When did news of the breakdown emerge?

On Sunday, relatives of some of the crew said that they had been told in messages sent before contact with the submarine was lost, that there was a problem with the sub's batteries.

On Monday, naval commander Gabriel Galeazzi confirmed the sub's captain had reported a mechanical breakdown on Wednesday describing it as a "short-circuit" in the sub's battery system.

Capt Galeazzi said that mechanical problems were not uncommon and rarely posed a risk. "A warship has a lot of backup systems, to allow it to move from one to another when there is a breakdown," he said.

He also said that the sub had not sent a distress signal to the navy base.

Has there been any sign of the sub?

No, there have been no sightings of the sub and no communication since Wednesday.

News of seven failed satellite calls made to naval bases on Saturday briefly raised hopes that they had come from the submarine.

But the signals were found not to have come from the satellite phone on board the ARA San Juan.

"Noise" picked up by sonar on Monday at sea was also found not to have come from the missing vessel.

The noise was described as "a continuous, constant sound" which did not resemble bangs on the sub's wall in Morse code.

"The sound footprint could not correspond to a sub... it may have been a noise from a living thing," Mr Balbi said.

Who is on board?

There are 44 crew on board the submarine, which is under the command of Pedro Martín Fernández.

Forty-three of the crew are men but there is also one woman, Eliana María Krawczyk. The 35-year-old is the first female officer in Argentina to serve on a submarine.

Nicknamed "the queen of the sea" by her father she comes from Oberá, a city in northern Argentina.

Despite having been born and raised far inland, her relatives say that "she was born to be a submariner", citing her "will of steel" and a passion for her job.

The rest of the crew is made up of submariners of varying ages and experience.

The sub's engineer, Hernán Rodríguez, has been on the ARA San Juan for 11 years, local media reported.

How is the search going?

Submarines are built to be difficult to find and the search has been further hindered by bad weather.

The Argentine Navy tweeted a video showing the rough conditions at sea.

Waves of up to six metres in height (19.6ft) have made it difficult for search vessels and planes to spot anything on the sea's surface.

Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Peru, South Africa, Uruguay and the UK have all sent either ships or planes to help with the search.

The US Navy has deployed two underwater vehicles which use sonar to create images of the sea floor.

A Nasa research aircraft has also flown over the search area but failed to spot anything.

Despite the failure to find any trace of the sub, the father of one of the crew said relatives remained optimistic.

"In general there's a positive outlook, with the hope that there can be some way of finding them," Jorge Villareal said.

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A multinational search intensified on Tuesday for Argentina’s missing submarine with 44 crew members off the country’s coast as the clock may be ticking on the crew’s oxygen supply.

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A multinational search intensified on Tuesday for Argentina's missing submarine with 44 crew members off the country's coast as the clock ticked on the crew's oxygen supply.

The German-built San Juan submarine has been missing since Wednesday when it reported a battery failure and lost contact with the Argentine Navy. Two Argentine navy ships detected signals day ago from about 220 miles off the coast at a depth of 650 feet, but the source of the signals could not be determined, the BBC reported.

"Some sources were saying that this was banging on the hull in Morse code signals," Enrique Balbi, a navy spokesman, said. He said the sources could not be verified.

The submarine reportedly carried enough food, oxygen and fuel for the crew to survive about 90 days on the sea's surface, but only enough oxygen to last seven days underwater, he said.

The submarine was originally scheduled to arrive Sunday in Mar del Plata, a navy base about 250 miles southeast of Buenos Aires.

A U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft assisted in the search efforts by deploying its first aircraft on November 18 and a second ship with special tracking equipment and deep-sea rescue modules on November 20, the US Air Force stated.

Argentine President Mauricio Macri met with family members at the base as they waited for news about their loved ones. Concerned family members have taken to social media to plead for help in the search process.

"Pray so that my husband, Fernando Santilli can return home," Jessica Gopar wrote on Twitter. "He's in the San Juan submarine.

More than a dozen international vessels and aircraft have joined the search for the missing submarine, which has been set back by stormy weather that has caused waves up to 20 feet. Eleven boats and 10 planes from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, South Africa, Uruguay, and the UK were assisting in the search as well, Balbi said.

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A multinational search intensified on Tuesday for Argentina's missing submarine with 44 crew members off the country's coast as the clock ticked on the crew's oxygen supply. The German-built San Juan submarine has been missing since Wednesday when it reported a battery failure and lost contact with the Argentine Navy.

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Syrian President Bashar Assad meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the southern Russian city of Sochi for a "working visit."  Assad was thanking Russia for the efforts of saving their country. "We count on Russia's support to ensure that external actors do not interfere in the political process and that from the outside they only support the process that the Syrians themselves will lead," Assad added. Putin said he planned to follow up the meeting with some telephone calls to Donald Trump and to Middle Eastern leaders including the Emir of Qatar.

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Syrian President Bashar Assad met with his Russian President Vladimir Putin in the southern Russian city of Sochi on Monday evening as a part of a "working visit," the Kremlin said in a statement.

Assad reportedly thanked Putin for "the efforts that Russia made to save our country," according to an English translation of the statement.

"Two years ago, when I met with President Putin in Moscow, the fighting was just beginning. During these two years, the successes that have been achieved thanks to the assistance of the Air and Space Forces of the Russian Federation and the Syrian army are evident," Assad said, according to a readout of the meeting. "Now no one can deny these successes in the fight against terrorism. And thanks to your actions, as well as the actions of the Syrian army, our allies, many Syrians were able to return to their homes."

"We count on Russia's support to ensure that external actors do not interfere in the political process and that from the outside they only support the process that the Syrians themselves will lead," he added.

Putin also introduced Assad to senior officials of the country's Defense Ministry and the general staff, people who he said "played a decisive role in saving Syria," according to the Kremlin's statement.

"Much has been done to stabilize the situation in Syria. I hope that in the very near future we will put the final point in the fight against terrorism in Syria, although it is clear that the centers will still exist, they will still emerge," Putin said. "So there are still problems with terrorism in the world, and in the Middle East, and in Syria in particular."

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"But the main task is already close to completion, and it will be possible to say in the very near future that we have solved it," he added.

Putin said he planned to follow up the meeting with telephone calls to President Donald Trump, and to Middle Eastern leaders including the Emir of Qatar.

The two leaders last met on Oct. 20, 2015 in Moscow after Russia launched a military operation against Syrian insurgents and ISIS.

The conflict in Syria began in 2011 after the government cracked down violently on mostly peaceful protests against Assad's rule. The protests developed into an armed uprising and a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions.

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LaVar Ball denies being in a feud with Donald Trump, but repeatedly refused to issue a thanks to the President for his involvement in the release of his son from China

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"Why would I be in war with a guy ... the most powerful man in the world?" Ball said Monday night when asked about his back-and-forth with the President by CNN's Chris Cuomo.

"Did he help the boys get out? I don't know. ... If I was going to thank somebody I'd probably thank President Xi (Jinping)," LaVar Ball said.

His comment came a day after Trump tweeted that he "should have left them in jail," referring to Ball's son and two other UCLA basketball players who were arrested on suspicion of stealing sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store while their team was in China.

"Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal," Trump tweeted. "I should have left them in jail!"

Last week, Trump questioned on Twitter whether he would receive any thanks for his role in the players' release.

"Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

And although the players themselves expressed gratitude to the President at a news conference, LaVar Ball minimized Trump's involvement in the matter.

"Who?" he told ESPN when asked about Trump's role in the situation days after their release. "What was he over there for? Don't tell me nothing. Everybody wants to make it seem like he helped me out."

In an interview with CNN Monday, LaVar Ball defended his son's actions and talked around thanking the President.

"It wasn't like he was in the US and said, 'OK, there's three kids in China. I need to go over and get them.' That wasn't the thought process," he told Cuomo.

"I say thank you when I see something," LaVar Ball later added.

"If you help, you shouldn't have to say anything," he said. "Let him do his political affairs and let me handle my son and let's just stay in our lane."

The interview concluded on a festive note, with LaVar Ball wishing Trump a happy holiday.

"Tell Donald Trump to have a great Thanksgiving," he said.

CNN's Jennifer Hansler and Jasmine Lee contributed to this report.

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Kim Jong Un tightened his leash on North Korean citizens by banning everyone from drinking, singing, and other entertainment. Kim says it's to "strengthen control of outside information".

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un keeps his citizens on a tight leash, according to defectors, but the leader has now constricted his control even further by banning North Koreans from drinking and singing, according to a new report.

Citizens have been banned from participating in "any gatherings related to drinking, singing and other entertainment," Yonhap News Agency reported Monday. The North Korean regime is also "strengthening control of outside information."
NORTH KOREA COULD TEST 'ARRAY OF BALLISTIC MISSILES' BEFORE END OF THE YEAR, SOUTH KOREA SPY AGENCY SAYS
The ban is reportedly an effort to stifle "a possible negative impact" of sanctions against North Korea in response to its recent nuclear tests.

The rogue state has also taken action against its military, by "undertaking an inspection of the military politburo" due to an "impure attitude toward the party leadership," according to Reuters.

Top military officials - including bureau chief Hwang Pyong-so and deputy chief Kim Won-hong - were punished as a result of the investigation, but it's unclear how they were disciplined.

The investigation, the first in 20 years, was completed by Choe Ryong Hae, who led the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army before he was promoted in October to the regime's Central Military Commission.

President Donald Trump on Monday announced plans to designate North Korea a "state sponsor of terrorism" for the first time since 2008, amid reports Pyongyang may fire an "array of ballistic missiles" before the end of the year to deter the U.S. and other countries from trying to shut down its nuclear and missile programs.

North Korea's latest missile launch was in September, sending an ICBM over Japan.

Nicole Darrah covers breaking news for FoxNews.com. Follow her on Twitter @nicoledarrah.

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North Korea bans drinking, singing, punishes officials for 'impure attitude'

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un keeps his citizens on a tight leash, according to defectors, but the leader has now constricted his control even further by banning North Koreans from drinking and singing, according to a new report. Citizens have been banned from participating in "any gatherings related to drinking, singing and other entertainment," Yonhap News Agency reported Monday.

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Lavar Ball, father of Liangelo Ball, is not convinced that Trump got his son out of jail in China. Lavar did thank the Chinese president though for getting Liangelo out of jail and in a hotel.

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Kyrie's 47 points rally C's to 16th straight win

The point guard became the first Celtics player since Larry Bird to score at least 45 points on 70 percent shooting, leading Boston to its third straight come-from-behind victory.

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DALLAS -- The Boston Celtics' winning streak survived. Just barely -- despite facing a team with the NBA's worst record.

The Celtics needed overtime -- and a good look by Dallas Mavericks forward Harrison Barnes rimming out in the final second of regulation -- to extend their streak to 16 victories.

The Celtics have an NBA-leading eight fourth-quarter comebacks in their 16-game win streak, according to ESPN Stats & Information.

Boston, which was plus-36 in 40 clutch minutes entering the night, had to rally from a 13-point deficit in the third quarter to extend the game. The Celtics outscored the Mavs by 10 points in the final five minutes, including scoring the final five points of the fourth quarter.

It was the Celtics' largest fourth-quarter comeback win of the season, and their fifth double-digit comeback win during the 16-game winning streak, according to ESPN Stats & Information. It was also their third straight double-digit comeback win.

The Celtics are the 23rd team in NBA history to win at least 16 straight games within a single season; 12 of the previous 22 teams reached the NBA Finals, and 10 of them won, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving took over in overtime, scoring 10 of his season-high 47 points, proving a point Mavs coach Rick Carlisle made about him before Boston's heart-pounding 110-102 victory Monday night.

Irving is the first Celtics player to score at least 45 points on 70 percent shooting since Larry Bird on November 10, 1989, according to ESPN Stats & Information.

"Kyrie Irving is as tough a cover with the ball as there is in the world," Carlisle said. "When he has the ball and starts putting it on the floor, as long as I've been around this league, there are only two or three guys that are even close to what he can do, as far as just getting by you and doing stuff creatively."

Carlisle didn't mention anything about Irving's defensive ability, but the Mavs coach's game plan made his opinion clear about the perennial All-Star's deficiencies on that end of the floor. That played a major role in the Mavs threatening the Celtics' 15-game winning streak.

Celtics coach Danny Ainge had some fun after the game, praising Kyrie.

Maybe the world is flat💪🏼@KyrieIrving #celticworld

- Danny Ainge (@danielrainge) November 21, 2017

Time and time again, the Mavs ran a high pick-and-roll for the purpose of getting Irving switched onto Harrison Barnes near the elbow, an old staple in Carlisle's playbook that used to be run for Dirk Nowitzki. Barnes feasted, especially in the third quarter, when he scored 12 points of his 31 points. Irving got so frustrated that he was whistled for a technical foul after being called for hacking Barnes on a drive with 4:24 to go in the third.

But an Irving defensive play was critical in the Celtics' comeback. Mavs legend Dirk Nowitzki tried to take advantage of a mismatch by posting up Irving, but Irving stripped Nowitzki as he turned to shoot. Irving immediately pushed the ball in transition, feeding a lob to rookie Jayson Tatum for a layup that tied the score with 1:01 remaining in regulation.

Dallas, which was down by as many as 15 points in the first half, turned a four-point halftime deficit into an eight-point lead entering the fourth quarter and stretched the lead to 13 before the Celtics' rally.

It certainly didn't help matters for the Celtics that their offense went kaput after Irving's early brilliance. After scoring 34 points in the first quarter, Boston scored a grand total of 35 points in the second and third combined.

The Celtics were 3-of-14 from floor in the seven-plus minutes that Irving sat in the second quarter and 3-of-14 from the floor in the third quarter, when Irving played more than eight minutes but managed only one bucket.

Irving's first miss didn't come until the last second of the first quarter, when he tried to kiss a runner off the glass after weaving his way through traffic. He made his first nine shots from the floor, knocking down four 3s in the first half, including pull-up on the possession prior to his lone miss so deep it caused the crowd to gasp.

How hot was Irving in the first quarter? He scored during the commercial break. Actually, a jumper from the corner that was originally ruled a long 2 was changed to a 3 after a review, giving Irving 18 points on 6-of-6 shooting at that point.

Irving, playing with a clear mask to protect the minor facial fractures suffered earlier this month, didn't look like himself for most of the second half.

Irving (16-of-22 from the floor, 5-of-7 from 3-point range, 10-of-11 from the line) reverted back to form in crunch time, swishing a 3 after a spectacular hustle play and save by Marcus Smart and making a sweet back-to-the-basket move to beat Yogi Ferrell for a layup. He shredded Dallas off the dribble in overtime, earning "MVP!" chants in the final minute from the thousands of Celtics fans at the American Airlines Center.

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11:40 PM ET Tim MacMahonESPN Staff Writer Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM DALLAS -- The Boston Celtics' winning streak survived. Just barely -- despite facing a team with the NBA's worst record.

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Former New York Jet LaVar Ball reacted to President Trump's tweet about him allegedly being ungrateful for the president helping get his son out of possible jailtime in China.

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Former New York Jet LaVar Ball reacted to President Trump's tweet about him allegedly being ungrateful for the president helping get his son out of jail in China.

Ball's son, Los Angeles Laker LiAngelo Ball, as well as two other players were facing several years jailtime on a shoplifting charge.

Trump said he negotiated with Chinese President Xi Jinping for their release.

Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2017

The elder ball told CNN that he is not attacking or criticizing the president, but doesn't necessarily feel the need to thank him.

"I don't need to go around saying thank you to everybody. Let me deal with my son and let [Trump] do what he's going to do," LaVar Ball said.

"If I was going to thank somebody I was going to thank President Xi," Ball said.

Ball said he cannot be sure whether Trump was involved but also inferred that he wasn't saying Trump was not involved.

"I dont care and I don't know. If [Trump] said he helped, that's good for his mind," he said. "If you helped, you shouldn't have to say anything."

Chris Cuomo told Ball he didn't know why the athlete would be skeptical about the president helping his son.

Liangelo Ball: "I would also like to thank @POTUS and the United States government for the help that they provided." pic.twitter.com/4SS8bd4VHg

- Fox News (@FoxNews) November 15, 2017

"[Trump] gets involved, the boys are released, they get to come back home -which was never a certainty until he got involved," Cuomo said.

Ball maintained he didn't "take a shot" at the president.

"I consider him a human being and the president of the United States," he said.

Cuomo again pressed that the younger ball could've faced a minimum of three years for shoplifting.

"Tell Donald Trump to have a great Thanksgiving because Big Baller is," the elder Ball later said, to close the interview.
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LaVar Ball on Trump Tweets: 'If You Helped, You Shouldn't Have to Say Anything'

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Brooklyn College Reportedly 'Preferring' That NYPD Use Bathrooms Away From Student Areas Former New York Jet LaVar Ball reacted to President Trump's tweet about him allegedly being ungrateful for the president helping get his son out of jail in China.

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A volcano in Iceland is ready to erupt, it has been showing signs of activity and everyone that is close to there is under a watch on Friday meaning that the volcano will be under close watch

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Geologists in Iceland are warning that Öræfajökull volcano may be getting ready to erupt.

The volcano has been showing increased signs of activity, with a new half-mile caldera forming just last week, according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office. This comes on top of elevated seismic activity in the area in recent months.

The meteorological office issued a yellow alert for aviation on Friday, indicating the volcano should be closely watched.

"There is considerable uncertainty about how the situation will evolve," the Met Office said today.

Öræfajökull, an ice-covered volcano located in Vatnajökull National Park in southeast Iceland, last erupted in 1727 and is the country's largest active volcano. Before that, the volcano erupted in 1362.

ABC News' Kirit Radia contributed to this report.

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Iceland volcano could be getting ready to erupt

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Geologists in Iceland are warning that Öræfajökull volcano may be getting ready to erupt. The volcano has been showing increased signs of activity, with a new half-mile caldera forming just last week, according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office. This comes on top of elevated seismic activity in the area in recent months.

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a computer scientce professer at UC Berkeley help create a video about if nuclere wepons were replaced with killer drones.

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A UC Berkeley computer science professor helped to create a video that imagined a world where nuclear weapons were replaced by swarms of autonomous tiny drones that could kill half a city and are virtually unstoppable.

Stuart Russell, the professor, said these drones are already a reality.

The fictional video takes the viewer to a conference where a speaker showcases a drone roughly the size of a mockingbird. The drone lands in his hand and he throws the drone out into the audience. The drone recalibrates, turns back to the stage and crashes into the forehead of a dummy that was standing off to the left of the stage.

The demonstration was meant to show how a palm-sized drone is capable of penetrating a human's skull and destroying "the contents" inside.

The video was released earlier this month by the Future of Life Institute, which is backed by Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk. It was presented by Russel at a United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva, according to The Mercury News.

"Trained as a team (the drones) can penetrate buildings, cars, trains, all while having the capacity to evade "any countermeasure. They cannot be stopped," the speaker told the audience in the video.

He noted that "a $25 million order" can now buy a swarm of such tiny "slaughterbots" that could kill half a city.

Russel said that although A.I.'s "potential to benefit humanity is enormous, even in defense," allowing the widespread use of machines that "choose to kill humans will be devastating to our security and freedom."

"Thousands of my fellow researchers agree. But the window to act is closing fast," he said.

Lukas Mikelionis is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @LukasMikelionis.

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UC Berkeley professor's 'slaughterbots' video on killer drones goes viral

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A UC Berkeley computer science professor helped to create a video that imagined a world where nuclear weapons were replaced by swarms of autonomous tiny drones that could kill half a city and are virtually unstoppable. Stuart Russell, the professor, said these drones are already a reality.