Leonard Cohen’s cause of death released: He fell. Death was ‘sudden, unexpected and peaceful.’; China tells Trump climate change is not a Chinese hoax; Adopted children accuse parents of kicking them out after winning ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’; Man who dissolved in boiling Yellowstone hot spring slipped while checking temperature to take bath; Japanese American internment is ‘precedent’ for national Muslim registry, prominent Trump backer says; The ‘suck it up, buttercup’ bill: Iowa lawmaker targets postelection campus ‘hysteria’; ‘A great purge?’: Twitter suspends Richard Spencer, other prominent alt-right accounts; Tom Hanks to America: ‘We are going to be all right’; ‘It was awful': ‘Straight-A’ student stabs five classmates, himself in Utah high school locker room, police say; ‘I’m going to kill the President Elect’: A now former CEO explains (and regrets) a Facebook post; Behind the scenes of the original ‘Star Wars,’ Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford were doing exactly what you guessed, says Fisher; A ‘Good Samaritan’ saw a deputy being attacked by a Florida man so he fatally shot the assailant; Anti-Trump protester attacked at Ohio State says incident unrelated to politics. Wants charges dropped.;
 
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Ala. man sentenced for murdering daughter’s sexual abuser 13 years after his prison release. Thousands support him.
“My father was protecting me, like a father should do. He is an amazing father — actually the best. He loves us so much.”
Leonard Cohen’s cause of death released: He fell. Death was ‘sudden, unexpected and peaceful.’
"As I write this I’m thinking of my father’s unique blend of self-deprecation and dignity, his approachable elegance, his charisma without audacity, his old-world gentlemanliness and the hand-forged tower of his work," his son Adam wrote.
 
China tells Trump climate change is not a Chinese hoax
The Chinese vice foreign minister said Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush started the global warming conversation in the late 1980s.
 
Adopted children accuse parents of kicking them out after winning ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’
Nearly five years later, two of the North Carolina family's adopted children are accusing their parents of kicking them out after the home makeover.
 
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Man who dissolved in boiling Yellowstone hot spring slipped while checking temperature to take bath
"In a very short order, there was a significant amount of dissolving," a Yellowstone ranger said.
 
Japanese American internment is ‘precedent’ for national Muslim registry, prominent Trump backer says
Carl Higbie, spokesman for a major pro-Trump super PAC, told Fox's Megyn Kelly, “the president needs to protect America first."
 
The ‘suck it up, buttercup’ bill: Iowa lawmaker targets postelection campus ‘hysteria’
The bill would take aim at state universities who use taxpayer dollars to offer election-related sit-ins and grief counseling beyond the resources normally available to students.
 
‘A great purge?’: Twitter suspends Richard Spencer, other prominent alt-right accounts
"I am alive physically, but digitally speaking, there has been execution squads across the alt-right,” Spencer said.
 
Tom Hanks to America: ‘We are going to be all right’
"We who are a week into wondering what the hell just happened will continue to move forward. We have to choose to do so. But we will move forward, because if we do not move forward, what is to be said about us?”
 
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‘It was awful': ‘Straight-A’ student stabs five classmates, himself in Utah high school locker room, police say
The teen's parents penned a letter apologizing for the pain their son had caused.
 
‘I’m going to kill the President Elect’: A now former CEO explains (and regrets) a Facebook post
"Getting a sniper rifle and perching myself where it counts,” Matt Harrigan said in a friends-only Facebook post on election night. He has since apologized, saying he didn't expect it to be taken seriously.
 
Behind the scenes of the original ‘Star Wars,’ Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford were doing exactly what you guessed, says Fisher
“I was so inexperienced, but I trusted something about him. He was kind,” Fisher said of the then married father of two.
 
A ‘Good Samaritan’ saw a deputy being attacked by a Florida man so he fatally shot the assailant
When the attacker refused to stop beating the deputy, the passerby shot him three times, killing him,
 
Anti-Trump protester attacked at Ohio State says incident unrelated to politics. Wants charges dropped.
"You idiot,” the man shouted, then tackled the protester from behind.
 
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