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Trump is 'in the hospitality business,' Mulvaney says, after president reverses plan to host summit at his golf club

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday defended President Trump’s decision to host next year’s G-7 summit at his hotel resort, saying the president "still considers himself to be in the hospitality business.”

Bride who loves chicken nuggets surprised with nugget bouquet at her wedding

Bride who loves chicken nuggets surprised with nugget bouquet at her wedding originally appeared on goodmorningamerica.comThis newly married couple celebrated their wedding day like any other couple. They said their vows, danced all night and even shared some cake.But in the end, it was the flower arrangements that left behind the biggest impression. Yes, this bride’s chicken nugget bouquet is everything you’ve ever wanted in wedding decor. And it all started with a simple email to Tyson brand. ...

3 US Army soldiers killed during training at Fort Stewart in Georgia, officials say

Three U.S. Army soldiers were killed during training at Fort Stewart in Georgia, according to officials. The soldiers, part of the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, were pronounced dead on the scene after the Bradley Fighting Vehicle they were riding in was involved in an accident early Sunday morning, Patrick Husted, division public affairs officer, said in a news release. "Today is a heartbreaking day for the 3rd Infantry Division, and the entire Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield community, as we are all devastated after a training accident this morning on the Fort Stewart Training Area," said Maj. Gen. Tony Aguto, commanding general of the 3rd Infantry Division.

Milan seeks US apology for WWII bomb that killed children

Milan's mayor appealed Sunday to U.S. authorities to apologize for a World War II bombing raid that killed 184 elementary school children. Mayor Giuseppe Sala made the request following a Mass marking the 75th anniversary of the Gorla massacre, named for the quarter in the city that was struck, the news agency ANSA reported. "I think it's necessary that the American government apologizes, knowing that we are here to forgive," Sala said, adding that he would formalize the request with the U.S. consul in Milan this week.

Secretary Mike Pompeo defends deal brokered with Turkey to temporarily halt military operations in Syria

The U.S. and Turkey reached the agreement on Thursday to "pause" Turkey's military operations in northern Syria for five days to allow Kurdish forces to withdraw from a buffer zone. If the withdrawal is complete after that time, Turkey will halt its operation and the U.S. will lift sanctions on Turkish officials.

Drill rapper banned from using drug dealing slang words in music videos posted on social media

A drill rapper has been banned from using specific slang words in music videos in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.  Ervine Kimpalu, who goes by the artist name Rico Racks, was issued with a special five year Criminal Behaviour Order when he appeared at Blackfriars Crown Court on Friday preventing him from referring to several drug-related words in his online rap videos.  The Order bars 20-year-old Racks from saying the words bandoe, trapping, Booj, connect, shotting, whipping and Kitty - all colloquial terms associated with dealing drugs. It also bans him from possessing articles linked to drug dealing and from owning more than one mobile phone. Racks, of Kings Cross, central London, features in several music videos posted on social media in which he is said to glamourise drug dealing. Drill is an increasingly popular form of rap music that has been linked to the UK's rising knife violence Credit: REUTERS He pleaded guilty to two counts of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs and two counts of possession of criminal property in the form of cash and was sentenced to three years in prison. When police executed search warrants at several addresses linked to Racks in Camden, north London in June last year they found £3,000 in cash. Another search of Racks' home address in May this year they found more than £5,000 cash, and a further £3,000 in a safe. Banned drill terms | What do they mean? Several mobile phones believed to be used in drug dealing were also found, as well as Class A drugs with a street value of around £7,000. Detective Constable Arif Sheikh, of the Met Police's Central North Command Unit, said: "This sentence should send out a message to others involved in drug dealing that they will be caught and face the full force of the law." The Order against the drill artist comes after police drafted in a "rap translator" last month to jail a gang leader who had threatened to shoot his rivals in a song. Essex Police hired an expert to prove Roland Douherty, 19, known as Valenti, breached an injunction banning him from "featuring in any audio or video online that is threatening, abusive, insulting, incites, violence, promotes criminal activity, shows weapons or makes reference to gang affiliations and the C17". Douherty had denied that the song "Bro Code" made reference to drug dealing or guns. But officers manage to prove that the song referenced weapons thanks to the help of a translator.

Canada's Conservatives offer bland option to Trudeau's flash

Even members of his own party say Canada's Conservative leader is bland. "Andrew is what I call a severely normal Canadian," said Jason Kenney, Alberta's conservative premier and the godfather of one of Scheer's five kids.

Italian experts defuse WWII bomb in northern city

Italian authorities evacuated 4,000 people from the center of the northern city of Bolzano on Sunday to defuse a World War II bomb found during construction. An alarm signaled the all-clear to reopen the city center just before noon, as well as a nearby north-south highway and rail line both connecting Italy with Austria and Germany. The online news site Neue Suedtiroler Tageszeitung said after being defused, the bomb was brought to a secure site nearby for a controlled explosion.

Surprised over Doral flap, Trump thinks he's still in hospitality business: Mulvaney

U.S. President Donald Trump was surprised at the resistance to his now-revoked decision to host next year's Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort, his acting chief of staff said on Sunday, adding that Trump still considers himself to be in the hospitality business. Trump on Saturday announced on Twitter that he was abandoning the move to host the meeting at Trump National Doral near Miami in June, citing "Crazed and Irrational Hostility" from Democrats and the news media. "At the end of the day, he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business, and he saw an opportunity to take the biggest leaders from around the world and he wanted to put on the absolute best show, the best visit that he possibly could and he was very confident of doing that at Doral," Mulvaney said.

Elizabeth Warren gets taste of what it really means to be a front-runner

The spotlights at the fourth Democratic debate beamed down on the 12 candidates on stage, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., faced an especially hot glare getting her first taste of what it really means to be a front-runner. Many of the remaining 2020 Democrats accused her of being "evasive" on some of the core points that buttress the narrative of her candidacy and her origin story. "We are accustomed to seeing a particular model of what it looks like to be a candidate for the presidency," Kelly Dittmar, a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Camden and scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, told ABC News.

Burmese fishermen 'faint' after mistaking $20 million of floating crystal meth for natural deodorant

Sacks of crystal meth scooped from the sea by Burmese fishermen who mistook it for a deodorant substance had a street value of $20 million (£15.4m), an official said on Sunday, in a country believed to be the world's largest methamphetamine producer. The accidental drug haul off Burma's coastal Ayeyarwady region occurred when fishermen spotted a total of 23 sacks floating in the Andaman Sea on Wednesday. Each one contained plastic-wrapped bags labelled as Chinese green tea - packaging commonly used by Southeast Asian crime gangs to smuggle crystal meth to far-flung destinations including Japan, South Korea and Australia. Locals were mystified by the crystallised substance in the sacks, Zaw Win, a local official of the National League for Democracy party who assisted the fishermen and police, told AFP. At first, they assumed it was a natural deodorant chemical known as potassium alum, which is widely used in Burma. "So they burned it, and some of them almost fainted," he said. They informed the police, who on Thursday combed a beach and found an additional two sacks of the same substance - bringing the total to 691 kilogrammes (1,500 pounds) which would be worth about $20.2 million (£15.6m), Zaw Win said. "In my entire life and my parents' lifetime, we have never seen drugs floating in the ocean before," he said. The massive haul was sent on Sunday to Pyapon district police, who declined to comment on it. Burma's multi-billion-dollar drug industry is centred in eastern Shan state, whose poppy-covered hills are ideal cover for illicit production labs. Made-in-Burma crystal meth - better known as ice - is smuggled out of the country to more lucrative markets using routes carved out by narco gangs through Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. A study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says that Southeast Asia's crime groups are netting more than $60 billion a year - a conservative estimate, according to experts - thanks to a sophisticated smuggling and money-laundering operation. In March, Burma authorities seized more than 1,700 kilogrammes of crystal meth worth nearly $29 million, which police said at the time was their biggest drug haul this year.

'I never saw that': Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Mulvaney quid pro quo admission

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he never saw the kind of quid pro quo that acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney referred to on Thursday with regard to the decision-making process he was involved in. "The conversation was always around what were the strategic implications," Pompeo said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.

Man missing after falling into sinkhole and getting swept away in drain pipes

Crews from the Phoenix Fire Department have returned from helping local authorities search for a man who fell into a sinkhole and was swept away in a storm drain. The incident happened last Monday when a large sinkhole opened up in Hermosillo, Mexico, and the man was swallowed up by it and carried away by the underground water currents. Phoenix, a sister city to Hermosillo, sent technical advisers from the Phoenix Fire Department to help with the rescue operation on Friday morning, according to ABC Phoenix affiliate station KNXV.

The National Zoo says bye bye to Bei Bei: 4-year-old panda to leave for China on Nov. 19

Bei Bei, one of three giant pandas at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, is scheduled to leave the nation's capital on Tuesday, Nov. 19 to live in China, zoo officials said Friday. The expected move is part of an agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association, which dictates that any giant panda cub born at a U.S. zoo be sent to a breeding program in China after their fourth birthday.