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Trump offers new alternative facts to explain his problems, but …:

President Donald Trump sought the open arms of Twitter and Fox News to creatively explain away inconvenient facts about his legal peril and his promised border wall before GOP senators dragged him back to reality with a rebuke from his own party for ignoring a cold-blooded murder OK’d by a foreign colleague.

In Trump’s universe, Mexico is already paying for the wall. And the crimes for which Michael Cohen is going to jail aren’t crimes after all; they were added to his rap sheet by prosecutors as a dig at Trump.

But alternative facts go only so far, as Trump learned Thursday afternoon when Republican senators lobbed at him a resolution condemning Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Nancy Wilson, award winning singer, dead at 81:

Nancy Wilson, a three-time Grammy winning artist who called herself a “song stylist,” has died, her manager said.

She was 81.

Wilson passed away peacefully Thursday at her home after a long illness, her manager Devra Hall Levy said.

The vocalist from Chillicothe, Ohio, initially focused on R&B music but later excelled at jazz ballads and torch songs.

She made her debut with her 1961’s single “Guess Who I Saw Tod

Teen planned to commit violence at Indiana school, but police say tipster helped them stop him:

A teenager was en route to an Indiana middle school Thursday to commit an act of violence, but police were able to stop him after receiving a tip, state police said.

The 14-year-old exchanged gunfire with police at Dennis Intermediate School in Richmond before killing himself, Indiana State Police Sgt. John Bowling told reporters, citing preliminary results of an investigation.

“Someone knew something, and they said something,” the sergeant said, attributing the fact that no students were hurt to the tipster.

Strasbourg shooting suspect killed by police, Paris authorities say:

The man suspected of killing at least three people and wounding 13 others at Strasbourg’s famed Christmas market has been killed by French police, following a shoot-out not far from the scene of Tuesday’s attack.

Cherif Chekatt, 29, was shot dead on Thursday evening, two days after he first disappeared sparking a massive manhunt involving hundreds of police officers, soldiers and anti-terror specialists from three European countrie

Melania Trump’s poll numbers plummet:

Melania Trump’s favorable rating has fallen by double-digits, according to a new CNN poll. The first lady, whose favorability stood at 54% in October, has slipped to 43% in just two months.

Additionally, 36% of those polled found her unfavorable, a 6-point increase since October.

The 11-point drop-off is notable for Trump, who has for most of 2018 maintained positive polling numbers, staying in the high-40s to high-50s. However, unlike the numbers of her husband, who has steadily maintained a favorable rating of about 40%, public opinion of the first lady has varied.

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