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- Sayfullo Saipov, the main suspect in the New York City truck rampage, said he began planning the attack a year ago.
- U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his call that the Uzbek immigrant accused in the New York City truck rampage should get the death penalty.
- Sam Clovis, a former Trump campaign national co-chairman and chief policy adviser is linked to the Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, has withdrawn his nomination as the Agriculture Department’s chief scientist.
- Seizing on the deadly New York City truck attack, President Donald Trump demands for stricter U.S. immigration laws, asking Congress to end a visa program that let the suspected terrorist into the country and saying he might send him to Guantanamo Bay.
- Prosecutors in Madrid have asked for 8 sacked members of Catalonia's regional government to be jailed over their role in October's disputed independence referendum.
- A high-level defector has told the US Congress that spreading outside information in North Korea is the best way to deal with the regime. Thae Yong-ho said undermining Kim Jong-un's God-like status among his people could be key to weakening his rule.
- The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton’s campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin, according to a previously unpublished digital hit list.
- Senior U.S. Republican and Democratic lawmakers proposed targeted sanctions and travel restrictions on Myanmar military officials on Thursday over the treatment of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
- North Korea may be planning a new missile test after brisk activity was spotted at its research facilities, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers.
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