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WASHINGTON -- U.s. President Donald Trump's reelection campaign on Thursday shrugged off the president's expected impeachment less than a year before Election Day, talking up the campaign's data collection efforts and declaring that no one in the Democratic field can compete with the incumbent. Source

OTTAWA -- New polling results suggest many people boarding flights this holiday season don't know about the Liberal government's new regime outlining air passengers' rights. A Canadian Automobile Association-commissioned poll being made public today found that just over half of respondents said they hadn't heard or read anything about the rules aiming to protect flyers caught in travel nightmares. Source

SANTIAGO, CHILE -- Searchers combing Antarctic seas have recovered parts of a military transport plane and human remains belonging to some of the 38 people aboard who vanished en route to the frozen continent, Chilean officials said Thursday. Source

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong’s much-maligned police force has slipped on a banana peel by trying to make light of its liberal use of tear gas during the territory’s protest movement. Mimicking an artist who duct-taped a banana to a wall, the force tweeted a photo of a canister similarly taped, with the words: “Say NO to violence. Source

LONDON -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain’s Parliament -- a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the U.K. Source

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal says authorities believe a shooting in Jersey City was “fueled both by anti-Semitism and anti-law enforcement beliefs.” Grewal told a news conference Thursday that authorities are investigating the attack as an act of domestic terrorism. Source

WHAKATANE, NEW ZEALAND -- As grieving families sang traditional Maori songs, New Zealand military specialists wearing protective gear landed on a small volcanic island Friday morning and recovered six bodies of the 16 people who died in an eruption four days earlier. Source

TORONTO -- A new study of Canadian sexual assault cases shows that raising the age of consent from 14 to 16 has not led to the prosecution of significant numbers of young men for engaging in sexual relationships with younger teenage girlfriends. Source

The family that owns well-known food brands like Krispy Kreme and Panera Bread announced a multi-million dollar charity donation after an investigation revealed that their Nazi ancestors used slave labor during World War II. The Reimann family, which owns a controlling stake in JAB Holdings, announced Thursday it's donating more than $5.5 million to Claims Conference, an organization that provides compensation payments to Holocaust survivors. Source

ANTIOCH, CALIF. -- A San Francisco Bay Area mother suspected of ramming her car into her son's barber following a haircut surrendered to authorities, police said. Ruby Delgadillo, 28, brought an attorney with her when she turned herself in Wednesday and refused to give a statement to detectives, the Antioch Police Department said. Source