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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pulled off such a dramatic mood swing Friday from https://www.yahoo.com/news/chris-cuomo-don-lemon-mock-044437260.html

  Elon Musk has reached a deal over fraud charges that will see him step down as electric automaker Tesla's chairman of the board and pay a $20 million fine, US securities regulators said Saturday. "The settlements, which are subject to court approval, will result in comprehensive corporate governance and other reforms at Tesla - including Musk's removal as Chairman of the Tesla board - and the payment by Musk and Tesla of financial penalties" of $20 million each, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement Musk - who will remain CEO of Tesla - will be ineligible to serve as chairman of the board for a period of three years and will be replaced by an "independent chairman," while two "independent directors" will also be appointed by Tesla, the SEC said. The SEC had charged Musk with securities fraud, alleging that he misled investors when he tweeted on August 7 that he had "funding secured" to privatize the electric automak...

Israeli soldiers shot dead seven Palestinians, including two boys, who were among people who thronged to the fortified Gaza Strip border. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/palestinians-three-killed-israeli-troops-fire-gaza-protest-164456804.html

Germany had invited Erdogan for the three-day state visit in an attempt to mend ties hit by a crackdown on his opponents following a failed coup in 2016, hoping to secure the release of several of its citizens who remain in detention. Chancellor Angela Merkel said after meeting Erdogan on Friday that "deep divisions" remain. On Saturday in Cologne, the Turkish leader sought to strike a conciliatory note. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/cologne-lockdown-erdogan-wraps-ill-tempered-visit-germany-162416037.html

North Korea needs more trust in the U.S. and their developing relationship before it will get rid of its nuclear weapons. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/syria-north-korea-un-gathering-080130841.html

Moments before, the Republicans issued a statement saying he would vote to confirm Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/sexual-assault-survivors-confront-flake-elevator-support-kavanaugh-144720980.html

After tussling with Economy Minister Giovanni Tria for weeks, the four-month old government on Thursday proposed a 2019 deficit that is, at 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), three times the previous administration's target. The rub is that Italy has the largest debt among big European Union economies, at 131 percent of GDP, and it is under pressure from the EU to rein in spending amid fears it could sow the seeds of a new debt crisis in the euro zone. In a move certain to raise hackles with the European Commission, which monitors and enforces EU fiscal rules, the government sees the deficit remaining at 2.4 percent for the next three years, rather than progressively declining toward zero as the Commission's recipe prescribes. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/italys-budget-proposal-hikes-deficit-defies-eu-sends-080104349--business.html