Trump chooses Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director and other top stories.

• Trump chooses Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director

  

  President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) as CIA director, a pair of hard-line conservatives who offer early signs of the shape of Trump’s Cabinet. Trump also confirmed the news reported a day earlier that he has selected retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn as his national security adviser, a position that, unlike the other two, does not need to be confirmed by the Senate. “The president-el..

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• Randolph man draws conviction on fraud, perjury

  

  A 51-year-old Randolph man who lied about creating the characters and plot for the hit animated movie “Kung Fu Panda” as part of a scheme to bilk DreamWorks Pictures out of millions of dollars was convicted yesterday of wire fraud and perjury charges, officials say.Some of the faked and backdated “Kung Fu Panda Power” drawings that Jayme Gordon submitted as part of a 2011 copyright infringement lawsuit against DreamWorks were found to have been traced from a 1996 Disney Lion King coloring book. ..

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• Partisan Opposition to Electoral College May Make it Harder to Change

  

  The Electoral College is under fire like never before. But the unprecedented and growing opposition to it, thanks to the partisan leanings of its detractors, may actually make it harder to charge the system. Hillary Clinton won at least 1.4 million more votes than Donald Trump, but still lost the presidential contest because her votes came from the wrong combination of states. That's made her one of just five people in U.S. history to win the popular vote and lose the electoral college. Th..

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• Trump agrees to $25 million settlement in Trump University fraud cases

  

  "My job was to sell, sell sell," says former Trump University instructor James Harris, who explains the inner workings of the company, detailing high pressure sales tactics and the battle for profit. (Dalton Bennett/The Washington Post) President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly bragged that he never settles lawsuits despite a long history of doing so, has agreed to a $25 million settlement to end the fraud cases pending against his defunct real estate seminar program, Trump Univers..

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• At least four dead after airplane crashes into Nevada parking lot

  

  An airplane transporting a heart patient crashed into a Nevada parking lot Friday night, sending flames into the sky and causing multiple explosions that reportedly killed all four people on board, officials said. The plane had allegedly taken off from ...

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• Noose found in bathroom at Michigan middle school

  

  USA Today Network Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press 11:54 p.m. EST November 18, 2016A Michigan School.(Photo: Regina H. Boone, Detroit Free Press)DETROIT — An apparent noose was found in a third-floor boys' bathroom at Royal Oak Middle School on Friday, more than a week after a video of some students at the school chanting "build the wall" went viral.Royal Oak Superintendent Shawn Lewis-Lakin confirmed in an email sent by a public relations firm this afternoon that the apparent noose ..

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• Flynn a frequent critic of Muslim militancy, culture

  

  WASHINGTON — Michael Flynn, the retired Army lieutenant general and intelligence officer who is Donald Trump’s pick to serve as his national security adviser, is a harsh critic of Muslim extremism and the religion itself, calling “radical Islam” an existential threat to the United States. In strident speeches and public comments, including a fiery address at the Republican National Convention, Flynn has aggressively argued that Islamic State militants pose a threat on a global scale and demande..

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• Comics bring John Lewis' civil rights struggles to life

  

  John Lewis's work in the Nashville civil rights movement propelled him to the national stage as a bloodied Freedom Rider, a bettered marcher, a prominent speaker and, for the past quarter-century, a congressman from Georgia. Karen Kraft / The TennesseanJohn Lewis graphic novel trilogy, "March"(Photo: Submitted)NASHVILLE — The comic book, with its grainy mustard-colored cover and drawing of Martin Luther King Jr. on the front, sold for only 10 cents.It spanned just 16 pages cover to cove..

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• US|Mike Pence Saw 'Hamilton.' The Cast Had Something to Say.

  

  Photo Vice President-elect Mike Pence leaving a performance of “Hamilton” in New York City on Friday night. Credit Andres Kudacki/Associated Press “Hamilton,” the hit Broadway musical about colonial rebels shaping the future of an unformed country, took an even more political turn at the end of its performance on Friday night.With Vice President-elect Mike Pence attending the show, the cast used the opportunity to make a statement emphasizing the need for the new admini..

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