{"id":29771,"date":"2016-11-17T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=29771"},"modified":"2016-11-17T08:49:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:49:26","slug":"10-things-to-know-for-today-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=29771","title":{"rendered":"10 Things to Know for Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n<p>Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:<\/p>\n<p>1. WHAT OBAMA IS STRESSING ON FINAL GERMAN VISIT<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. president is emphasizing solidarity to a top trade partner, key NATO ally, and a nation critical to solving Europe&#8217;s migrant crisis and debt woes.<\/p>\n<p>2. TRUMP BATTLES BACK AGAINST CHARGES OF TRANSITION CHAOS<\/p>\n<p>The incoming Republican administration gets an unlikely boost from outgoing Vice President Joe Biden, who says &#8220;no administration is ready on Day One.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. IN PEP TALK, CLINTON URGES BACKERS TO &#8216;NEVER, EVER GIVE UP&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat reflects on her devastating defeat, acknowledging the difficulty of her loss for her supporters and urging them to persevere through the Trump era.<\/p>\n<p>4. TORTURE HAUNTS MEXICO DESPITE LAWS<\/p>\n<p>Mexican government records show that relatively few allegations of torture by security forces lead to punishment &#8211; and there have been thousands of complaints over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>5. RUSSIA SAYS STRIKE IN SYRIA KILLED 30 AL-QAIDA FIGHTERS IN IDLIB<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes amid a new wave of airstrikes in the war-torn country, namely in Aleppo, as 59 people have been killed in the past two days.<\/p>\n<p>6. OFFICER CHARGED IN SHOOTING STREAMED ON FACEBOOK<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say a Minnesota cop was not justified when he fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop in July.<\/p>\n<p>7. SOUTHERN WILDFIRES HAVE COMMUNITIES ON EDGE<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of firefighters are battling blazes, which have spread from northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee into eastern Kentucky and the western Carolinas.<\/p>\n<p>8. EXPANDED REINDEER CULL AROUSES SUSPICION IN SIBERIA<\/p>\n<p>Russian officials plan to kill up to 250,000 of the animals this year, and activists and herders allege the slaughter is designed to make way for energy companies.<\/p>\n<p>9. WHERE THERE&#8217;S A DEARTH OF WHITE STUFF<\/p>\n<p>Autumn snow has been scarce in the Rocky Mountains, forcing some ski areas to push back opening day.<\/p>\n<p>10. WHO WON NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS<\/p>\n<p>Colson Whitehead&#8217;s &#8220;The Underground Railroad&#8221; wins the prize for fiction and Georgia Democratic congressman John Lewis shares the prize for young people&#8217;s literature for a novel about his civil rights activism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASSOCIATED PRESS Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. 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