Thursday, November 26, 2015

Last Top Stories: New York's Thanksgiving parade draws huge crowd amid tight security | Reuters

  • New York's Thanksgiving parade draws huge crowd amid tight security | Reuters

    NEW YORKCrowds of spectators watched the marching bands, floats and giant balloons of Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, held without incident under tight security almost two weeks after deadly attacks in Paris.New York officials expected more than 3 million spectators to have lined the route for the city's signature parade in its 89th year. They had urged residents and visitors to carry on with holiday plans, saying there were no credible threats to the United States' most popul..
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  • Trump Denies Mocking New York Times Reporter With Physical Disability | KTLA

    Trump Denies Mocking New York Times Reporter With Physical Disability | KTLA
    The New York Times is angry that Donald Trump appeared to mock one of its reporters who has a physical disability, but the candidate denied Thursday that he was mimicking the reporter.Donald Trump has come under fire again, this time for mocking New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a chronic condition. (Credit: CNN)Trump accused the reporter of “using his disability to grandstand.”Trump waved his arms in an awkward manner at a rally in South Carolina Tuesday night while talk..
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  • Russian-Turkish Tensions Heat Up Over Downed Warplane

    Russian-Turkish Tensions Heat Up Over Downed Warplane
    PhotoPresident Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, right, and President François Hollande of France met in Moscow on Thursday.CreditPool photo by Stephane De SakutinMOSCOW — The downing of a Russian warplane byTurkeythreatened to lead to a wholesale breach in the countries’ relations on Thursday, with the Kremlin preparing to sever economic ties and Turkish officials saying they had no reason to apologize.Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev ofRussiagave government officials two days to draw up a list of ..
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  • Newborn found in Nativity scene at New York church - CNN

    Newborn found in Nativity scene at New York church - CNN
    Jose Moran, a custodian at Holy Child Jesus Church in Richmond Hill in Queens, found a baby boy wrapped in towels in a Nativity scene on Monday afternoon.Moran heard a baby but didn't think anything of it because people go in and out of the church all the time, said Paul Cerni, parish secretary. But once he got closer, Moran saw the newborn."(The custodian) heard some crying, a baby crying, and he looked all around," Bishop Octavio Cisnerostold CNN affiliate WPIX-TV. "Then he realized that the s..
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  • Thanksgiving TV: Plan Your Other Binge

    Thanksgiving TV: Plan Your Other Binge
    PhotoFrom left, Ashley Boettcher, Drew Justice and Sloane Morgan Siegel in “Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street.”CreditAmazon StudiosThanksgiving is a time to be grateful for life’s blessings, which, for many of us, includes plenty of family and a long weekend.Hopefully that’s a combination that makes for abundant warm fellowship and scintillating conversation. But in case it doesn’t, you can at least be thankful that streaming video services and their voluminous offerings can fill hours tha..
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  • A Very Trump Thanksgiving

    A Very Trump ThanksgivingNovember 26, 2015 11:15 amNovember 26, 2015 11:15 amSource.I awakened, long before dawn, to the sound of helicopters patrolling the Upper West Side.Manyhelicopters. I guess they’reprotecting Snoopy. Then, over coffee, I read moreAlan Abramowitzon how The Donald could be the nominee.Indeed. All the rules have changed. Media mockery of Trump has no impact — perhaps because even the candidates considered respectable would have been considered out of bounds not that long ago..
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  • Mother who left baby in New York City church manger will not face charges | Reuters

    Mother who left baby in New York City church manger will not face charges | Reuters
    A mother who left her newborn son in a manger at a New York City church will not face criminal charges for giving him up, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.A custodian on Monday found the crying infant with his umbilical cord still attached wrapped in towels and placed in the indoor nativity scene at the Holy Child Jesus Church in Queens, New York police said.The baby's mother was located by police and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said on Wednesday she would not be prosecuted because she ..
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  • ‘I’m Frightened’: After Attacks in Paris, New York Muslims Cope With a Backlash - The New York Times

    ‘I’m Frightened’: After Attacks in Paris, New York Muslims Cope With a Backlash - The New York Times
    PhotoFerida Osman, 21, a Hunter College senior from Long Island, said a man spat on her and cursed while she was recently at Pennsylvania Station.CreditJoshua Bright for The New York TimesThe safety tips, concise and chilling, have been passed from friend to Muslim friend on social media, by imams to their congregations, by Islamic groups to their members, by parents to their children heading off to school:When in the subway, stand away from the platform edge, preferably with your back against a..
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  • Canada'sNewLeadership Reverses Course on Climate Change

    Canada'sNewLeadership Reverses Course on Climate Change
    PhotoPrime Minister Justin Trudeau with high school students in Ottawa after an information session on climate change.CreditAdrian Wyld/The Canadian Press, via Associated PressOTTAWA — In less than a month,Canadahas executed a complete about-face on globalclimate change.With the defeat of the Conservatives in the October general election, out went nearly a decade of Canada making itself something of a global outcast on the issue. The record of the former prime minister,Stephen Harper, on climate..
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  • College Football Games to Watch on Friday

    College Football Games to Watch on Friday
    PhotoChris Johnson, Baylor's third-string quarterback, will make his first start Friday.CreditTim Heitman/USA Today Sports, via ReutersFriday7 Baylor at 15 Texas Christian7:30 p.m. Eastern, ESPNLast season, these two teams shared the Big 12 title, butboth were left out of the College Football Playoff. As a result, this year’s game was one of the most eagerly awaited of the season, with a conference title and a possible playoff spot expected to be on the line. It has not worked out. Both teams ar..
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