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Walker's 3 caps Loyola (Md.)'s 18-point comeback at Lehigh

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NewsHubAndre Walker had 23 points and scored the game winning 3-pointer with 0.8 seconds to cap Thursday night’s 18-point second-half comeback for Loyola of Maryland over Lehigh 84-83.
The Greyhounds (8-6, 2-1 Patriot League) never led until Walker dribbled to top of the key with about five seconds left, freed himself with a double shot-fake, and drained the 3 with too little time for the Mountain Hawks (7-7, 1-2) to respond.
Jarred Jones led Loyola with 24 points; Andrew Kostecka added 15 points and Cam Gregory scored 13. The Greyhounds won their fourth of the last five.
Lehigh dominated the first half for a 46-34 lead at the break and pushed ahead 60-42 on Brandon Alston’s 3-pointer with 13:52 left. Loyola cut the gap to 62-55 before the 10-minute mark and overcame an 80-70 deficit in the final 2:54.
Austin Price had 23 points, Tim Kempton had 18 points and 11 boards, and Kahron Ross had 15 points and nine assists for Lehigh.

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GOP to Kickstart Mexico Border Wall Under '06 Secure Fence Act

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NewsHubHouse Republicans are considering using a 2006 law signed by former President George W. Bush to make good on President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to build a wall on the U. S. border with Mexico, Politico reported.
According to Politico, the 11-year-old law, the Secure Fence Act, authorized the construction of 700 miles-plus of “physical barrier” on the southern border, but was never fully implemented and did not include a sunset provision.
However, Politico reported another part of Trump’s campaign promise – that Mexico would pay for the border wall – is not part of the plan, and funding through Congress is likely to run into resistance from Democrats, Politico reported.
“There’s already in existing law the authorization for hundreds of miles of build out on the southern border . so, one important step in the right direction will be funding the existing law and beginning the building out of hundreds of miles of wall, or fence, on the southern border,” the House Republican Policy Committee chair, Indiana GOP Rep. Luke Messer, told Politico.
“If tied to the rest of government funding, it’s much harder for the Democrats to stop, and by the way, I think it’s much harder for Democrats to vote against it if what you’re doing is authorizing funding for an existing law,” he added.
The tentative plan would likely be just a piece of a broader, multi-year border security strategy, Politico reported.
The cost of a border wall is estimated anywhere from a few billion dollars to as much as $14 billion; that doesn’t include other costs associated with the building and maintenance, Politico reported.
“I think the sooner Republicans can get it done the better because [Trump] made such an issue out of it,” New York GOP Rep. Peter King, the former chairman of the Homeland Security Committee – who authored the 2006 bill currently being considered – told Politico.
Other wall funding vehicles being considered include the 2018 appropriations bill for the Homeland Security Department and a stand-alone legislative package, Politico reported.

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Opinion: Mr. Trump, we are not the enemy

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NewsHubOn the last day of December, this was Donald Trump’s greeting for America — via Twitter, of course:
“Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!”
My immediate response to this infantile tweet from the future president of the United States was to donate to a diaper charity. See? I do know what to do.
Let’s talk about those diapers for a moment. I first wrote about this issue in 2015, after learning that parents — particularly single mothers — who cannot afford enough diapers for their babies are likelier to struggle with depression. The need is great, so please consider donating to one of the diaper charities in your community. They’re growing in number, including at some food banks.
Now, let’s address this unparalleled dysfunction about to take over the White House. It’s a remarkable thing, really, for our future president to identify as an enemy to anyone who didn’t vote for him or who dares to challenge him now.
Let’s all sit with that for a moment.
Once again, I am reminded of the late Rev. William Sloane Coffin’s definition of true patriotism:
“There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover’s quarrel with their country, a reflection of God’s lover’s quarrel with all the world.”
Mr. Trump, we are not the enemy.
We are the popular majority of voters — Democrats, Republicans and independents — who wanted a leader, someone who understands that there’s no such thing as a whisper when one is president-elect and that airing one’s many insecurities through petty, thin-skinned tweets and hashtags is as dangerous for this country as it is pathetic.
We are not the enemy. We are the people of color who wanted a president not prone to trafficking in racist stereotypes about immigrants and black and Latino Americans, someone who doesn’t relish working supporters into mobs with coded language that goads them into seeing anyone who isn’t white as the “other.”
We are not the enemy. We are the people with disabilities, which makes us different, not discardable. We are also their loved ones. We all saw the video of you mocking a New York Times reporter with a congenital joint condition. After the newspaper defended him, you didn’t apologize. Instead, you said, “He should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a paper that is rapidly going down the tubes.” If you were our child, you would be grounded.
We are not the enemy. We are the media — the real ones, the journalists, not the propagandists and Russian hackers who helped to make you president. We are the reporters and editors demanding accountability. We are the fact-checkers chronicling your disregard for truth. We are the opinion writers you cannot silence.
In recent weeks, your brigade and too many citizens who are worn-out from the presidential campaign insist it’s time to move on. We should accept that you will be our president, they say. We should give you a chance. As one reader told me earlier this week, it is time to give up the grudge.
Calling out a continued pattern and practice of lies and propaganda is not a grudge match. Resentment does not drive our vigilance in continuing to oppose what we rejected in you as a candidate.
We are patriots, in all our forms. We are committed to championing what already made America great, which includes our First Amendment rights to pursue the truth and say what’s on our minds. We will challenge you as president, as true patriots often do.
This is where we land.

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Joe Biden to Trump: 'Grow Up'

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NewsHubVice President Joe Biden ripped Donald Trump Thursday, telling the president-elect to “grow up” and it was “time to be an adult” as his inauguration nears.
“Grow up, Donald,” Biden told “PBS NewsHour” host Judy Woodruff in an interview to be aired Thursday. “Grow up. Time to be an adult.
“You’re president. You’ve got to do something,” he continued. “Show us what you have.
“You’re going to propose legislation. We’re going to get to debate it.
“Let the public decide. Let them vote in Congress. Let’s see what happens. ”
Biden’s comments come after Trump’s tweets on Twitter slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York as the “head clown,” cited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Democratic breaches and further disparaged U. S. intelligence agencies on its claims of Russian hacking.
“It’s going to be much clearer what he’s for and against,” Biden told Woodruff, “and what we’re for and against — now that it’s going to get down to actually discussing in detail these issues that affect people’s lives. “

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Obama Releases Four Guantanamo Detainees To Saudi Arabia

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NewsHubThe Pentagon announced the release of four Guantanamo Bay detainees to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Wednesday, lowering the number of remaining detainees to 55.
Salem Ahmad Hadi Bin Kanad, Muhammed Rajab Sadiq Abu Ghanim, Abdallah Yahya Yusif Shibli, and Muhammad Ali Abdallah Muhammad Bwazir were all former al-Qaida members with a long history of terrorist activity.
Kanad, a native of Yemen, reportedly fought against U. S. forces as a commander in the 55th Arab Brigade, an elite guerrilla unit personally created by Osama bin Laden. While his review in April, 2016 , indicated that he wanted to be released to live a peaceful life with his family in Riyadh, Kanad consistently expressed a desire to engage in jihad prior to his capture.
Ghanim, also a Yemeni citizen, was once a personal bodyguard to Osama bin Laden. He associated with the terrorists responsible for the USS Cole bombing in 1999 and a suspected 9/11 hijacker and may have ties to the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Ghanim has a long criminal history, which includes sabotage, theft and weapons smuggling. He also is suspected of fighting with bin Laden’s 55th Arab Brigade.
Shibli, a Saudi native, fought for al-Qaida during the infamous raid on Osama bin Laden’s Tora Bora compound. He is known to have attended several al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan.
Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bwazir, a Yemeni citizen, is also a former member of the infamous 55th Arab Brigade. He willfully admitted to U. S. military personnel to fighting coalition forces in Afghanistan and continued to display extremist tendencies after his capture and detainment. Military officials at one point warned he would likely seek out terrorist contacts if he were to be released.
President Obama made closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay a key policy objective throughout his presidency. He created the Periodic Review Board, which is comprised of senior officials from various government departments, in order to determine the suitability of release for the detainees. Many of the detainees released under the Obama administration were deemed “high risk” and between 18 and 30 percent have returned to terrorism.
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Trump continues criticism of intelligence community on Twitter

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NewsHubCBS News has learned that U. S. intelligence has intercepts of Russian officials expressing pleasure that their plan to meddle in the American presidential election was successful, and Donald Trump won the White House, according to U. S. officials. The Russian motive was primarily to hurt Hillary Clinton’s candidacy — Mr. Trump’s victory was an added bonus.
The president-elect was critical Thursday night of the fact that at least one media organization had information from the classified report that he is to be briefed on Friday at Trump Tower. One day before the highly-anticipated briefing with the four heads of the major intelligence agencies, Mr. Trump sent a series of tweets that seemed to criticize the intelligence community.
In the first tweet, Mr. Trump wondered how NBC had obtained an intelligence briefing that President Obama received on Thursday — and which Mr. Trump is scheduled to receive on Friday.
How did NBC get “an exclusive look into the top secret report he (Obama) was presented? ” Who gave them this report and why? Politics!
Mr. Trump then cited a recent report in BuzzFeed News that the FBI did not ask the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to see its servers after the alleged hack.
The Democratic National Committee would not allow the FBI to study or see its computer info after it was supposedly hacked by Russia……
Mr. Trump also cast doubt on the hacking allegations, about which he has long expressed skepticism.
So how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers? What is going on?
Additionally, one of the his transition’s teams intelligence advisors, former CIA director James Woolsey, announced he would not longer be working with them. In an interview with CNN , Woolsey said his quitting had nothing to do with Mr. Trump’s comments.
But Mr. Woolsey admitted earlier in the day on CBSN’s “Red & Blue” that Mr. Trump had been “critical” of the agencies. “There’s no doubt about that,” Woolsey said.
Mr. Trump has been skeptical of the intelligence community’s handling of the alleged Russian interference in the U. S. election. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump seemed to agree with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who had said in an interview with Fox News that Russia was not the source of files hacked from Democrats before the election. Mr. Trump later denied on Twitter that it was not the case that he agreed with Assange.
Mr. Trump’s tweets are believed by intelligence officials to be having a negative effect on the intelligence workforce. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested on Thursday at a hearing about the Russian hacking that Mr. Trump’s public criticism was leading to low morale.
Intelligence officials say the tension is palpable as Trump prepares to receive the Russia hacking report from Clapper and the heads of the CIA, NSA and FBI .

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Toyota assures Trump after threat over Mexico plant

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NewsHubNEW YORK, Jan. 5 (UPI) — Toyota Motor Corporation assured President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday that a planned auto factory in Mexico won’t take any jobs from the United States.
The automaker’s response was prompted by a tweet from Trump Thursday that read, “Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U. S. NO WAY! Build plant in U. S. or pay big border tax. ”
In a statement, Toyota clarified that the new plant will be built in Guanajuato, Mexico, not Baja — although the company does have a plant there.
“Toyota has been part of the cultural fabric in the U. S. for nearly 60 years. With more than $21.9 billion direct investment in the U. S., 10 manufacturing facilities, 1,500 dealerships and 136,000 employees, Toyota looks forward to collaborating with the Trump Administration to serve in the best interests of consumers and the automotive industry,” Toyota said .
Keeping and bringing jobs to the United States was a central issue in Trump’s campaign, and the president-elect has already made multiple moves aimed at accomplishing a growing domestic labor market.
In its response, Toyota added that its Mexico operations complement U. S. operations, particularly a truck plant in San Antonio that produced 230,000 Tundras and Tacomas last year. It also said $700 million was invested last year at plants in Kentucky, Alabama, Indiana and West Virginia.
Asian governments and businesses have been wary of Trump’s coming administration, partly because he plans to cancel the Trans Pacific Partnership — a trade deal adopted last year aimed at facilitating business among the United States and several Pacific Rim nations.
Shares of Toyota ( NYSE: TM ) fell on the New York Stock Exchange in Thursday trading after Trump’s tweet, before finishing at $120.44.

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Obama Calls Chicago Torture A ‘Despicable’ Hate Crime [VIDEO]

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NewsHubPresident Obama weighed in on the brutal Facebook video showing four African-Americans torturing a white man in Chicago, calling it a “despicable” act and a hate crime.
Obama commented on the incident during an interview on Thursday, after Chicago police announced that the four suspects involved in the vicious crime have been charged with kidnapping, hate crimes and a slew of other offenses.
Obama denied that racial tensions have increased in the Windy City, his home town. He said that smart phones and the Internet has just made such incidents more visible.
“What we have seen as surfacing, I think, are a lot of the problems that have been there a long time,” he said told CBS Chicago .
“Whether it’s tensions between police and communities, hate crimes of the despicable sort that has just now recently surfaced on Facebook.”
“I take these things very seriously,” Obama continued.
The video, which was released on Wednesday, shows four suspects screaming “fuck white people” and “fuck Donald Trump” while tormenting, assaulting and cutting their 18-year-old white captive.
The suspects kidnapped the victim on Dec. 31. He is said to be mentally impaired.
Earlier on Thursday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said it was “too early to tell” if the suspects committed a hate crime. Though Obama now says that the brutal attack is a hate crime, it is unclear if the administration will pursue federal charges.
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Former CIA Director Leaves Trump Transition Team

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NewsHubFormer CIA Director James Woolsey has left the Trump transition team, a spokesman confirmed in a statement Thursday evening.
“Effective immediately, Ambassador Woolsey is no longer a Senior Advisor to President-Elect Trump or the Transition. He wishes the President-Elect and his Administration great success in their time in office,” spokesman Jonathan Franks said in an email.
Woolsey, who served as CIA director under President Bill Clinton, joined President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign as a senior adviser in September.
Aides to Trump did not immediately return a request for comment.

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Trump Is Not Happy About An NBC Story On Russian Hacking Intelligence

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NewsHubNBC reported Thursday afternoon on the contents of the intelligence report President Barack Obama received earlier in the day on Russia and that President-elect Donald Trump will receive Friday. Trump subsequently tweeted his displeasure that NBC received access to the information in the report.
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The NBC story, citing two top intelligence officials with knowledge of the report, said that Russia also attempted to hack the White House, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of State, and several American companies. Not all of these hacks were successful. The NBC report says that Russian had hacking efforts in the 2008 and 2012 elections, and that the intelligence report does not mention whether the Russian interference shifted the race in Trump’s favor.
Intelligence analysts concluded that Russia led a hacking operation during the 2016 election to undermine American democracy and as “payback” for Obama’s questioning of Vladimir Putin’s legitimacy as Russian president, according to NBC.
Trump tweeted after the report aired, “How did NBC get ‘an exclusive look into the top secret report he (Obama) was presented?’ Who gave them this report and why? Politics!”
It is not clear from the NBC report that they had an “exclusive look” into the intelligence, just that they were told what was in the report President Obama received.

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