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Mosul battle: IS hangs bodies of 40 civilians from poles in Iraqi city.

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So-called Islamic State (IS) shot dead 40 civilians on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after accusing them of treason, the United Nations says.

Their bodies were then hung from electricity poles in several districts, the office of the UN Human Rights Commissioner said, citing sources.

A man was also reportedly shot dead in public in central Mosul for ignoring an IS ban on using mobile phones.

Iraqi security forces are continuing their push to take Mosul back from IS.

The killings of the civilians appeared to have been carried out on the orders of self-appointed "courts", according to the UN report.

The 40 civilians were accused of "treason and collaboration" and dressed in orange clothes marked in red with the words "traitors and agents of the ISF" (Iraqi Security Forces).

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The UN says 20 civilians were also shot dead on Wednesday evening at the Ghabat military base in northern Mosul, supposedly for leaking information.

The UN also expressed concern at IS's deployment of teenagers and young boys. Children are apparently seen in an IS video issued on Wednesday shooting dead four people for spying.

IS also announced on 6 November that it had beheaded seven militants for deserting the battlefield in the Kokjali district of eastern Mosul, the UN says.

Among the sources cited for the UN's information was a man who played dead during a mass killing by IS fighters.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein called for the government to "act quickly to restore effective law enforcement in areas retaken from ISIL [IS] to ensure that captured fighters and their perceived supporters are dealt with according to the law".

Large quantities of ammonia and sulphur, for possible use in chemical weapons, is being stockpiled by IS and stored near civilians, the UN said.

Pro-government forces launched an offensive to retake Mosul last month. The city has been occupied by IS since 2014.

The operation, now into its fourth week, involves some 50,000 Iraqi security forces personnel, soldiers, police, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Sunni Arab tribesmen and Shia militiamen.

Troops have reportedly been consolidating gains made in the eastern outskirts of Mosul, which they entered nine days ago amid fierce resistance.

There have also been allegations of atrocities committed by government forces.

Amnesty International reported on Thursday that men dressed in Iraqi federal police uniforms tortured and killed up to six residents of villages south of Mosul for having suspected ties to IS.

The federal police deny involvement.

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So-called Islamic State (IS) shot dead 40 civilians on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after accusing them of treason, the United Nations says. Their bodies were then hung from electricity poles in several districts, the office of the UN Human Rights Commissioner said, citing sources.

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EATON RAPIDS, Mich. ( WXMI) - As Nathan Foote drudged through the waters of the Grand River, picking out pieces of garbage and debris, something caught his eye that turned out to be the find of a lifetime.

It was a liquor bottle, rusted and empty. The bottle wasn't worth money - it wasn't an antique and it wasn't some rare brand. In fact, it wasn't even the bottle itself that made this particular discovery so amazing. It was the message inside.

"I actually thought it was just normal litter," said Foote, speaking on the phone with FOX 17 today. "I looked down and saw that and thought, 'what in the world is that in that old bottle?'"

Turns out the note, rolled and tied with a piece of fishing line, had made its way down the waters of the Grand from Rives Junction, Michigan. Its author was Marcia Polly, who, to Foote's surprise, had penned the note nearly 35 years prior.
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It took all that time for someone to come across it.

"I was just a kid. I was still in school in my last year," said Marcia. "I walked the Grand River almost every day. I had to walk almost a mile to catch my bus."

"I didn't even think it would go anywhere. I thought it would probably get stuck or broken or whatever."

But Foote did find it, and this is what it said:

"To whomever this may concern, I am writing this letter to see how far it will get. Please write me at this address."

Going on to provide her contact information, Marcia screwed the lid on tight, and tossed it optimistically over the edge of a bridge. Over three decades later, she got the response she had forgotten she'd asked for.

"I would have never guessed that 35 years later that I would actually hear from somebody. Because I had forgotten all about it."

Foote used social media to get in touch with Marcia, and the two have plans to meet in person soon. It just goes to show you that with each day, you'll never know what you'll find, and even the most unassuming discoveries can be something amazing.

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But Democrats are embarking on a soul-searching exercise to determine how they ended up in the political wilderness, losing the House, the Senate and the White House at a time when President Barack Obama's approval ratings are at record highs.

Hillary Clinton may very well still win the popular vote, and there are myriad theories about why Democrats fell short when it came to electoral college math: inaccurate polling and modeling, an unprecedented surge of white voters for Trump, Clinton's failure to ignite enough enthusiasm and excitement among women, blacks and Latinos.

But the former secretary of state's stunning losses in the Rust Belt spoke to deeper problems facing a Democratic Party that has become unmoored from its roots. Most stark in the results was the party's disconnect from white working-class voters.

The primary exposed the deep divide between the progressive and centrist wings of the party, which clearly have not healed. And strategists learned the hard way just how difficult it is to replicate the Obama coalition without the President at the top of the ticket.

Baffled Democrats

As they sift through the results, most baffling to some Democrats was how some voters who supported Obama in 2008 and 2012 ended up backing Trump.

As Clinton retreated to private life in Chappaqua, New York, and the President prepares to leave office, it was clear that there was no consensus about who should lead the party, or even lead the discussion about where the party needs to go after Tuesday.

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will play leading roles. But there are broad policy disagreements among them, as well as competing objectives. Schumer, for example, must keep his eye on the 2018 races when he will have slew of Democrats up for re-election in conservative states.

Clinton's unexpected losses in industrial states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania -- as well as the razor-edge race in Michigan, which CNN has not called - underscored the view of Democratic strategists who privately complained throughout 2016 that Clinton hadn't found a message that connected with working-class Americans.

Though polls showed many Latinos and women were repelled by Trump before Election Day, Trump actually slightly outperformed Mitt Romney among Latinos. And Clinton drew a slightly smaller share of women to the polls than Obama did in 2012, according to exit polls.

She won the lowest share of union households of any Democrat since 1980 -- notching 51% of union households to Trump's 43%, according to exit polls. By comparison, Obama won 59% of union households in 2008.

Trump's campaign was vacuous. Many of his policy proposals were unachievable, even in the eyes of his supporters. Yet his populist message struck a chord with voters across the ideological spectrum.

"Clearly what this election demonstrated -- from the primaries through the general election -- was that the centrist, more moderate wing of the (Democratic) party has no standing with working class and middle class voters in this country," said Jeff Weaver, who was campaign manager for Clinton's Democratic rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

"It's time for the progressive wing to reassert themselves and offer a bold agenda to the American people," Weaver said. "The real losers in this campaign were the Democratic and Republican establishments. People clearly wanted change. Trump became the vehicle for that change in the general election. I think many people voted for him in spite of his outrageous positions, as opposed to in favor of them. So we need to demonstrate to people that we stand with them, not with the wealthy and powerful."

Though Clinton was raised in a middle-class household familiar with economic struggles, she never managed to find a message that connected with struggling working class families. That was particularly ironic considering she ran against a billionaire who lives in the penthouse of a gold plated tower.

Long before Trump was viewed as a real contender, Bill Burton, a former adviser to Obama, recalled discussing the message challenges facing Democrats in 2016 as far as two years ago.

Obama coalition

He argued then that no one would be able to recreate the Obama coalition, because Obama was simply a uniquely talented candidate and "special guy." Democrats already knew at that time, he said, that they had a problem with middle-class white voters "that we're not paying attention to." He believed that if the party didn't fix that, they couldn't win.

"And that's what happened," Burton said in an interview Thursday. "We couldn't win a race where we didn't have enough white voters to make up for the gaps in the Obama coalition. There's any number of reasons for that -- from (FBI Director) James Comey to Donald Trump having a message that appealed in middle America."

"There's going to be a lot of soul searching, and there's no one answer for it -- anyone who suggests that there is, is just wrong," he said. "In 2020, we've got to be thinking about a coalition of voters that builds on the Obama coalition to the best that we can, but also reaches out to a big group of voters in the middle of the country who feel like they've been left behind."

The conversation about how to do that will unfold over many months, after operatives and activists have time to digest the data and missteps from this campaign.

One early proxy for the internal struggles of the party will be the election of the party's chair next year.

On Thursday, Sanders said he would back Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee and attributed Tuesday's losses to a lack of enthusiasm.

Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean pointed to what he views as party infrastructure problems Thursday, as he also threw his hat into the ring for party chair.

"The Dems need organization and focus on the young," Dean tweeted. "Need a fifty State strategy and tech rehab. I am in for chairman again."

Donna Brazile is currently serving as the party's interim chair through March 2017 after stepping in replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz in July when Wikileaks released emails showing that Democratic officials tried to help Clinton clinch the nomination, instead of playing the role of neutral arbiter in determining the nominee.

Democratic strategist and CNN commentator Hilary Rosen noted that the margins in battleground states where Clinton lost were relatively close, making the discussion about what to do even more complex.

Many Democrats were stunned by the fact that Clinton and Trump were separated by only about a percentage point in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin-and the race in Michigan still looks even closer than that.

Sanders supporters noted it was hard to imagine him losing states like that in the Industrial Midwest. (Obama won Michigan, which is still too close to call, by 9.5 percentage points in 2012).

"What I don't think even a win would have masked, though it would have masked it more easily, is the divide between center left and left" in the party, said Rosen, a Clinton supporter.

She noted that many Sanders supporters will argue he might have done more to galvanize young voters and the Democratic base, but that could have come at the expense of votes from independents and centrists that Clinton won.

In the annals of history, the election may be remembered as having been decided by Pennsylvania, Wisconsin -- which nudged Trump over 270 electoral votes -- and Michigan, where the vote count continues.

When Trump's advantage in those three states is tallied, it currently amounts to close to 110,000 votes out of tens of millions that were cast (the final turnout figure may not be known for some time).

"By virtue of those 110,000 votes, we're now going to have the conversation in the Democratic Party that we thought the Republicans were going to have in their party," Rosen said.

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Anti-Trump Protests Sweep the Nation for a Second Night, Trump Calls Them 'Unfair'

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Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of several cities nationwide Thursday in a second night of rallies protesting the election of Donald Trump. While the gatherings were mostly peaceful, late-night vandalism and graffiti turned a march in Portland, Oregon, into what police described as a "riot."

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"Due to extensive criminal and dangerous behavior, protest is now considered a riot. Crowd has been advised," tweeted the Portland Police Department, who pointed the finger at "anarchists."

Thousands turned up in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square early in the night for a peaceful protest and march but, as the night wore on, individuals were seen vandalizing businesses and property in the city's Pearl District and throwing objects at police.

Police reported a total of 26 arrests for the night after they deployed rubber bullets and flash grenades to clear the streets.

At one point, a crowd of people stepped in to stop a bat-wielding man from smashing a transformer.

Individuals were also caught on camera smashing car windows with baseball bats.

A driver on the Hawthorne Bridge apparently threw laundry detergent at some of the protesters, who then took her keys and threw them over the overpass, according to ABC Portland affiliate KATU-TV.

Her car was abandoned on the bridge.

The community group Don't Shoot PDX has organized the protests over the past couple nights. A spokesman for the group, Gregory McKelvey, told KATU they do not condone violence or vandalism and plan to lead with an "example of peace."

As protests kicked off across the country Thursday night, Trump took issue with the protests, tweeting, "Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!"

Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016

At about 6:14 a.m., the president-elect followed up with a more upbeat message on the night's unrest.

NEW YORK

Trump Tower, where the president-elect's offices are, was the site of demonstrations again.

Hundreds of angry protesters descended upon the midtown Manhattan skyscraper carrying signs that read "Not My President" and "Divided States of America."

DALLAS

At a protest march in downtown Dallas, at least three people were arrested, according to police.

The Next Generation Action Network organized the rally, which started at AT&T Victory Park Plaza and made its way through the streets of downtown back to the plaza.

"As we wrap our minds around this failed attempt at democracy that we as a country have witnessed in this election, and brace ourselves as Americans for a new Republican commander-in-chief with a majority Republican House and Senate; we are even more strengthened in our resolve to fight," a statement from the Next Generation Action Network read before the protest. "Most everything out of the Trump campaign has been divisive and contrary to those values written in the U.S. Constitution."

Elsewhere in Texas, at least two protesters were arrested, one for shoving an officer, at an Austin protest, according to ABC Austin affiliate KVUE-TV.

About 100 people marched around Houston, with police reporting at least five arrests.

In the nation's capital, protesters gathered outside the newly opened Trump International Hotel around 6:30 p.m. They chanted and held signs that read "Not Our President" and "Trump is a racist."

"People are out here because of the principle of love and the principle of compassion and we are sincerely worried that that is dying," protester Nnamdi Akoli told ABC Washington affiliate WJLA-TV.

THE BAY AREA (SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND, BERKELEY)

The San Francisco Bay area was also a hotbed of protests Thursday.

Protesters returned to Oakland to protest the president-elect, descending upon City Hall carrying signs that read "Liberation, Not Deportation."

The demonstrators shut down Interstate 580, creating major traffic disruptions. Police reported at least six arrests.

Oakland police reported at least 11 arrests, and one individual who was detained with a cache of Molotov cocktails. The police department said it made arrests and issued citations for crimes including assault on officers, vandalism, failure to disperse, and public intoxication.

Earlier in the day, protests took place at high schools in Berkeley and Oakland, ABC station KGO-TV reported. About 1,500 Berkeley High School students staged a walkout around 8:20 a.m. and marched to the University of California at Berkeley, where a much larger demonstration was taking place. Some school staff members accompanied the students on the march to make sure they were safe. The crowd gathered peacefully at UC Berkeley as police officers looked on.

PHILADELPHIA

About 500 protesters gathered at the Municipal Services Building Thursday night for a vigil organized by GOP Hands Off Me, a multiracial feminist coalition.

"We're actually just creating the space for people to come together and say, 'This isn't our America, this isn't what we thought it was,' " Emma Boorboor of GOP Hands Off Me told ABC Philadelphia station WPVI-TV. "We're going to give ourselves the space to mourn essentially that this is what happened in America."

LOS ANGELES

Hundreds of marchers walked through the city's streets. The crowd started at a modest size of 50 to 75 rallying at Los Angeles City Hall, ABC Los Angeles station KABC-TV reported. They then started marching through the streets of downtown as one group merged with another and the crowd grew to several hundred. At least one demonstrator was arrested during the protest.

BALTIMORE

An estimated 600 protesters marched through the downtown area of the city. While the majority of the demonstrators were peaceful, some people blocked roadways and sat in the streets. Police detained two individuals during the protest. No charges have been filed at this time, according to a statement on the Baltimore Police's Facebook page.

MILWAUKEE

A scuffle broke out between Trump supporters and protesters at Milwaukee's Red Arrow Park, ABC Milwaukee affiliate WISN-TV reported. The scuffle was quickly broken up and there was no immediate word about any injuries. The incident followed a two-hour demonstration with hundreds of protesters that started at the park before moving to the streets.

"As of now, there have been no major incidents or arrests," the Milwaukee Police Department tweeted at about 8:30 p.m. local time.

ABC News' Rex Sakamoto, Julia Jacobo and Jonah Lustig contributed to this report.

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A Facebook video recorded at the Royal Oak Middle School cafeteria in Michigan on Wednesday shows a large contingent of students having lunch, as a loudly yelled "build the wall".

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China: Boy trapped in well found dead after 4 days

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Rescue crews found the boy's body Thursday in a narrow, abandoned well in the province of Hebei, bringing an end to an almost five-day search involving more than 500 responders.

He fell down the well -- just one foot (30 centimeters) wide -- while helping his father harvest vegetables, state news agency Xinhua reported.

Too narrow for adults to climb into, rescuers began digging out the 40-meter deep well.

Aerial shots of the scene showed excavators working on soft sandy soil around the dry well. Xinhua said the earth was prone to collapse and measures had been taken to support the shaft.

CNN's Serenitie Wang and Nanlin Fang in Beijing contributed to this report

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Rescue crews found the boy's body Thursday in a narrow, abandoned well in the province of Hebei, bringing an end to an almost five-day search involving more than 500 responders. He fell down the well -- just one foot (30 centimeters) wide -- while helping his father harvest vegetables, state news agency Xinhua reported.

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Fireworks were tossed into a crowd of mostly black University of Central Missouri students protesting President-elect Donald Trump and the racial climate on the Warrensburg campus.

About 150 protesters were gathered Thursday night on the school's commons when about a dozen all-white students for Trump gathered at the fringe of the crowd, The Daily Journal Star reported.

The protesters included one student, who said she was spit upon and subjected to a racial slur Wednesday. While protesters voiced their concerns about the election, someone threw a firecracker into the edge of the crowd. Later, another louder explosion followed.

University police searched but were unable to find the perpetrator. The Missouri protest is one of several around the country, spanning from New York to California.

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earchers found the body of a missing Houston-area 16-year-old Thursday afternoon not far from the bar where her boyfriend was arrested days earlier.

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