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Shares on Wall Street plunged on Friday amid fears of a U.S. government shutdown as well

as concerns over ongoing trade negotiations between the U.S. and China.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over 1-point-8 percent to finish the day at 22-thousand-445-point-37.

The S&P500 fell 2-point-1 percent to close at 2-thousand-416-point-58,... while the tech-heavy

Nasdaq Composite shed almost 3 percent to 6-thousand-332-point-99.

In fact, U.S. stocks have suffered one of the worst weekly falls in a decade.

The Dow Jones fell over 6-point-8 percent during the week,... the biggest weekly drop

in percentage terms since 2008.

The S&P 500 shed 7 percent,... while the Nasdaq plunged over 8 percent.

This comes as a U.S. government shutdown appears increasingly inevitable, and as Trump's trade

advisor said that it would be difficult for Washington and Beijing to reach a permanent

economic agreement after a 90 day ceasefire in the trade tensions.

For more infomation >> U.S. shares retreat on threat of government shutdown - Duration: 1:13.

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Temporary shutdown of U.S. government as stalemate continues over funding - Duration: 0:54.

Let's go over to the U.S.,... where a temporary shutdown of the government is almost certain,

as Congress struggles to break a stalemate over money for President Donald Trump's proposed

border wall.

The chamber could not find an agreement on Friday,... and are due back at noon Saturday.

The House of Representatives on Thursday approved President Trump's spending bill through early

next year,... which includes 5-point-7 billion U.S. dollars for the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

The bill was then passed over to the Senate,... but with 49 Democrats against funding the

wall, the bill is at a standstill.

Now, parts of the federal government, including 9 departments and dozens of agencies, will

shutdown from Saturday.

President Trump threatened "a very long shutdown" of the government if the bill isn't passed,

and claimed that is up to the Democrats.

For more infomation >> Temporary shutdown of U.S. government as stalemate continues over funding - Duration: 0:54.

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U.S. government temporarily shuts down over border wall row - Duration: 1:57.

We start with the latest developments coming from the U.S.

The U.S. federal government has begun a partial shutdown of its operations after the Senate

failed to reach a deal over a spending bill,... that includes funding for the U.S.-Mexico

border wall.

Kim Min-ji reports.

The U.S. government has entered a partial shutdown after the Senate failed to break

a budget impasse.

The Senate adjourned late Friday without passing the spending bill to fund the government through

early February.

The sticking point was the 5-point-7 U.S. billion dollars set aside to fund President

Donald Trump's plans to build a wall along the U.S-Mexico border.

With the midnight deadline expiring with no deal -- funding for a quarter of all U.S.

federal agencies expired -- meaning some hundreds of thousands of federal employees will have

to work unpaid or be put on temporary leave.

President Trump said there was nothing he can do about the government shutdown because

he needs cooperation from the Democrats.

Let's get out, let's work together, let's be bipartisan, and let's get in done.

The shutdown hopefully won't last long.

The Democrats have been strongly against the idea -- and are resolute that U.S. taxpayers

should not fund the president's plan.

You will not be getting the wall today, next week, or January 3rd -- when the Democrats

take control of the House.

The House on Thursday approved the spending bill,... but it hit a stumbling block in the

Senate -- where 60 votes are needed to pass the bill.

The Republicans have only 51 seats.

Talks between White House officials and Republican and Democrat leaders are expected to continue

over the weekend.

But the shutdown is expected to limited immediate impact as it falls on an extended holiday

weekend.

The midnight closure is the third shutdown so far this year.

Kim Min-ji, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> U.S. government temporarily shuts down over border wall row - Duration: 1:57.

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United States facing obesity epidemic - Duration: 1:12.

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Why have Democrats done an about face on pulling US troops out of the Middle East? - Duration: 9:58.

For more infomation >> Why have Democrats done an about face on pulling US troops out of the Middle East? - Duration: 9:58.

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Is withdrawing US troops from Syria an impeachable offense? - Duration: 3:57.

For more infomation >> Is withdrawing US troops from Syria an impeachable offense? - Duration: 3:57.

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South Korea and U.S. agree to proceed with groundbreaking ceremony for inter-Korean railway project - Duration: 0:57.

South Korea and the U.S. seem to have cleared the possible hurdles to next week's groundbreaking

ceremony for the inter-Korean project to connect railways and roads.

Speaking to reporters right after the 2nd Seoul-Washington working group in Seoul on

Friday, South Korea's nuclear envoy Lee Do-hoon said the two sides discussed how to proceed

with the groundbreaking ceremony as planned next Wednesday.

The actual construction will only begin in line with progress in Pyeongyang's denuclearization

and after waivers are secured on international sanctions,... but confirmation was needed

that the items brought to the North for the ceremony weren't in violation of any sanctions.

The two Koreas' joint recovery of war remains in the DMZ next year, as well as the issue

of providing North Koreans with antiviral medication also seem to have been discussed

and agreed by the two sides.

For more infomation >> South Korea and U.S. agree to proceed with groundbreaking ceremony for inter-Korean railway project - Duration: 0:57.

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US stocks: Will we get a 'Santa Claus rally' next week? - Duration: 1:35.

For more infomation >> US stocks: Will we get a 'Santa Claus rally' next week? - Duration: 1:35.

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US, China trade pact 'difficult' without policy changes, White House adviser says - Duration: 5:50.

For more infomation >> US, China trade pact 'difficult' without policy changes, White House adviser says - Duration: 5:50.

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U.S. experiencing partial government shutdown - Duration: 2:18.

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Many U.S. Commanders Outraged By Syria Withdrawal, Sources Tell NBC News | NBC Nightly News - Duration: 1:51.

For more infomation >> Many U.S. Commanders Outraged By Syria Withdrawal, Sources Tell NBC News | NBC Nightly News - Duration: 1:51.

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Trump pulled out of Syria after Turkey's hardline president told him U.S. allies were 'terrorists' - Duration: 15:41.

President Donald Trump's sudden decision to yank U.S.forces out of Syria came after a private call with the hard-line president of Turkey where the president ditched a script crafted by his aides and was told allies fighting alongside the U

S.were terrorists.The fateful call occurred Friday, according to multiple press accounts, just as Turkey's President Recep Erdogan publicly saber-rattling about a campaign to wipe out U

S.-allied Turkish forces in northeastern Syria.The U.S.has relied on Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria to take out ISIS elements in a multi-year military campaign that Trump cheered on Twitter Friday

Trump's national security aides prepared a script for the call, which the president abandoned during his chat

Rather than pushing Erdogan, a NATO ally, to hold off on military action, the Turkish leader seized control of the phone call and declared the U

S.Syria mission virtually completed, even as he went after the United States' kurdish allies

He told Trump 'that the U.S.must stop aiding terrorists in the region and do this as soon as possible,' reported the pro-government Turkish paper Daily Sabah

According to Turkey's communications directorate, Erdogan was threatening to move military 'at any moment

' 'We talked to Trump.These terrorists have to leave areas east of the Euphrates.If they do not leave, we will dispatch them

Because they are disturbing us,' he said.On the call, Erdogan was able to seize control of the conversation by pointing to U

S.military success, saying the U.S.had already defeated 99 per cent of ISIS.When he asked Trump 'Why are you still there?', it prompted Trump to pass on the query to his own security advisor, John Bolton, who was monitoring the call

Sources on the call said Trump 'quickly capitulated' and yielded to Erdogan's withdrawal demand, the Associated Press reported

Critical to the U.S.-led anti-ISIS campaign have been Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, consisting of arabs and kurds in Syria

The U.S.also backs People's Protection Units, or YPG, which consists mostly of Kurds but who Turkey considers to close to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, as Military Times reported

Adding further intrigue to how the decision came about is the State Department's approval, announced Tuesday, of Turkey's decision to spend $3

5billion purchasing U.S.-made Patriot missile defense systems.It came amid U.S.concerns Turkey might go with the Russian-made S-400 system, which in turn could allow the Russians to spy on NATO activities

Trump's decision to withdraw American troops from Syria was made hastily, without consulting his national security team or allies, and over strong objections from virtually everyone involved in the fight against the Islamic State group, according to U

S.and Turkish officials.The Washington Post reported Thursday that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joseph Dunford, wasn't present at a Tuesday White House meeting where the final decision ultimately got made

'We've been thinking that as the walls close in around Trump, we would have a 'Wag the Dog' scenario where he starts to lash out,' Obama administration Pentagon official Derek Chollet told the New York Times

'But it won't be getting us into wars — it will be the opposite.' Adding to the intrigue, Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted that he has spoken to Trump Monday and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday and had been told of the U

S.plan – indicating that two foreign leaders may have been in the know before senior military and civilian officials did

"In no uncertain terms, reporting throughout this story is not true,' National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis told DailyMail

com, responding to questions about the call and accounts that emerged in AP reporting and Turkish media sources

'In no uncertain terms, reporting throughout this story is not true.It is clear from the context that this false version of events is from sources who lack authority on the subject, possibly from unnamed sources in Turkey,' he added

Trump stunned his Cabinet, lawmakers and much of the world with the move by rejecting the advice of his top aides and agreeing to a withdrawal in a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week, two officials briefed on the matter told The Associated Press

The Dec.14 call, described by officials who were not authorized to discuss the decision-making process publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, provides insight into a consequential Trump decision that prompted the resignation of widely respected Defense Secretary Jim Mattis

It also set off a frantic, four-day scramble to convince the president either to reverse or delay the decision

The White House, State Department and Pentagon all declined to comment on the account of the decision to withdraw the troops, which have been in Syria to fight the Islamic State since 2015

Despite losing the physical caliphate, thousands of IS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, and the group continues to carry out insurgent attacks and could easily move back into territory it once held if American forces withdraw

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arranged the Dec.14 call a day after he had unsuccessfully sought clarity from Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu about Erdogan's threats to launch a military operation against U

S.-backed Kurdish rebels in northeast Syria, where American forces are based.Pompeo, Mattis and other members of the national security team prepared a list of talking points for Trump to tell Erdogan to back off, the officials said

But the officials said Trump, who had previously accepted such advice and convinced the Turkish leader not to attack the Kurds and put U

S.troops at risk, ignored the script.Instead, the president sided with Erdogan.In the following days, Trump remained unmoved by those scrambling to convince him to reverse or at least delay the decision to give the military and Kurdish forces time to prepare for an orderly withdrawal

'The talking points were very firm,' said one of the officials, explaining that Trump was advised to clearly oppose a Turkish incursion into northern Syria and suggest the U

S.and Turkey work together to address security concerns.'Everybody said push back and try to offer (Turkey) something that's a small win, possibly holding territory on the border, something like that

' Erdogan, though, quickly put Trump on the defensive, reminding him that he had repeatedly said the only reason for U

S.troops to be in Syria was to defeat the Islamic State and that the group had been 99 percent defeated

'Why are you still there?' the second official said Erdogan asked Trump, telling him that the Turks could deal with the remaining IS militants

With Erdogan on the line, Trump asked national security adviser John Bolton, who was listening in, why American troops remained in Syria if what the Turkish president was saying was true, according to the officials

Erdogan's point, Bolton was forced to admit, had been backed up by Mattis, Pompeo, U

S.special envoy for Syria Jim Jeffrey andspecial envoy for the anti-ISIS coalition Brett McGurk, who have said that IS retains only 1 percent of its territory, the officials said

Bolton stressed, however, that the entire national security team agreed that victory over IS had to be enduring, which means more than taking away its territory

Trump was not dissuaded, according to the officials, who said the president quickly capitulated by pledging to withdraw, shocking both Bolton and Erdogan

Caught off guard, Erdogan cautioned Trump against a hasty withdrawal, according to one official

While Turkey has made incursions into Syria in the past, it does not have the necessary forces mobilized on the border to move in and hold the large swaths of northeastern Syria where U

S.troops are positioned, the official said.The call ended with Trump repeating to Erdogan that the U

S.would pull out, but offering no specifics on how it would be done, the officials said

Over the weekend, the national security team raced to come up with a plan that would reverse, delay or somehow limit effects of the withdrawal, the officials said

On Monday, Bolton, Mattis and Pompeo met at the White House to try to plot a middle course

But they were told by outgoing chief of staff John Kelly and his soon-to-be successor Mick Mulvaney that Trump was determined to pull out and was not to be delayed or denied, according to the officials

The trio met again on Tuesday morning to try to salvage things, but were again rebuffed, the officials said

The White House had wanted to announce the decision on Tuesday - and press secretary Sarah Sanders scheduled a rare briefing specifically to announce it

But the Pentagon convinced Trump to hold off because the withdrawal plans weren't complete and allies and Congress had not yet been notified, according to the officials

The first country aside from Turkey to be told of the impending pull-out was Israel, the officials said

Word of the imminent withdrawal began to seep out early Wednesday after U.S.Central Command chief Gen

Joseph Votel started to inform his commanders on the ground and the Kurds of the decision

Following the official announcement the White House emphasized that the U.S.will continue to support the fight against IS and remains ready to 're-engage' when needed

But in a tweet, the president said U.S.troops would no longer be fighting IS on behalf of others

'Time to focus on our Country & bring our youth back home where they belong!'

For more infomation >> Trump pulled out of Syria after Turkey's hardline president told him U.S. allies were 'terrorists' - Duration: 15:41.

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12/21/18 8:55 PM (US-301, Richmond, VA 23224, USA) - Duration: 5:00.

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No evidence of midterm vote tampering, but influence ops persisted: US intelligence - Duration: 5:02.

The intelligence community told the White House Friday that it did not find evidence that votes or vote tallies were tampered with during the 2018 midterm elections, though Russia and others did continue online and social media influence campaigns

"At this time, the Intelligence Community does not have intelligence reporting that indicates any compromise of our nation's election infrastructure that would have prevented voting, changed vote counts, or disrupted the ability to tally votes," Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in a prepared statement

"The activity we did see was consistent with what we shared in the weeks leading up to the election

Russia, and other foreign countries, including China and Iran, conducted influence activities and messaging campaigns targeted at the United States to promote their strategic interests

" Coats' statement indicates the assessment, which has not been made public, largely conforms to an informal analysis made by the Department of Homeland Security days after the November elections

The intelligence community is made up of some 17 government organizations, including several with investigative or espionage capabilities related to foreign threats like the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security

In the run-up to the midterms, Christopher Krebs, a top election security official at Homeland Security, said the U

S. government was on the lookout for the three major methods of interference: a hack-and-leak campaign, like the one that splashed the contents of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's emails across the internet; the probing of election infrastructure systems through cyber activity, as U

S. officials say Russia likely did to systems in all 50 states in the last election; and the online influence campaign in which a Russian troll factory purportedly set up hundreds of fake social media accounts, pretending to be Americans in an effort to stoke political divides and sow chaos online

Krebs said that while Russian trolls -- and some Iranian operators –- appeared to remain active online and social media, the department did not see significant evidence of the first two tactics

When it comes to election infrastructure, a DHS official said on election night that there was extensive scanning of election systems, but nothing that was out of the usual or anything that the government could attribute to any foreign power

A DHS official told ABC News in the days after the election that the assessment still stood

John Cohen, a former senior DHS official and current ABC News consultant, warned Friday that "one doesn't have to hack an election system to impact the results of an election

" "If Russia was able to use misinformation to influence the opinion of voters prior to voting, then they influenced the outcome of the election," he said

Friday's report did not attempt to measure what effect, if any, the influence operations had on the vote

"The U.S. intelligence community is charged with monitoring and assessing the intentions, capabilities and actions of foreign actors; it does not analyze U

S. political processes or U.S. public opinion," Coats said. In the Sept. 12 executive order that mandated regular election assessments, Trump declared a "national emergency" to deal with election interference and mandated that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and others in the intelligence community assess any evidence of interference, as "foreign powers have historically sought to exploit America's free and open political system

" White House National Security Council spokesperson Garrett Marquis said that the Trump administration is currently reviewing the intelligence community's assessment and expects another report on election infrastructure integrity from the Department of Justice and Homeland Security

For more infomation >> No evidence of midterm vote tampering, but influence ops persisted: US intelligence - Duration: 5:02.

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Dancing FBI agent admits accidentally shooting Denver bar patron US news - Duration: 2:32.

Dancing FBI agent admits accidentally shooting Denver bar patron US news

Chase Bishop pleads guilty to third-degree assault for shooting Thomas Reddington after performing dance-floor back flip

Chase Bishop pleads guilty to third-degree assault for shooting Thomas Reddington after performing dance-floor back flip

A former FBI agent who accidentally shot and wounded a Denver bar patron in June after performing a dance-floor back flip has admitted a misdemeanor assault under a plea deal that spares him from serving jail time, prosecutors said.

Chase Bishop, 30, pleaded guilty to third-degree assault in Denver district court on Friday for shooting Thomas Reddington in the leg at the Mile High Spirits and Distillery, prosecutors said in a statement.

"We believe that this agreement strikes an appropriate balance of seeking justice for the victim and ensuring that this type of incident does not happen again," district attorney Beth McCann said.

Bishop, an FBI agent who was off duty at the time, was among the patrons at the nightclub in downtown Denver in the early morning hours of 2 June. Video footage of the incident, captured by another customer and widely circulated online, showed Bishop breakdancing, then performing a backward somersault in the air.

His handgun fell from its holster onto the dance floor and discharged as Bishop picked it up, striking Reddington, 25, in the leg. A muzzle flash can be seen on the video.

The Denver Post reported Bishop told the judge that he "never expected the result of my actions to lead to something like this".

"My whole goal in life is to care, protect and serve people," the newspaper quoted him as saying.

Reddington's lawyer, Bill Marlin, said his client is still recovering from a severed artery in his lower leg. He said Reddington was satisfied with the plea agreement that included no jail time. "His (Reddington's) concern was about Bishop's conduct and his behavior after the shooting," Marlin said.

The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Marlin said a prosecutor told him the agency fired Bishop sometime after the incident.

Bishop was initially charged with second-degree assault, a felony. In exchange for his guilty plea, Bishop will serve two years of unsupervised probation, the district attorney said.

Marlin said Reddington has not committed to filing a lawsuit, but is "exploring civil remedies".

For more infomation >> Dancing FBI agent admits accidentally shooting Denver bar patron US news - Duration: 2:32.

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The US gov't goes into partial shutdown at midnight - Duration: 1:49.

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US Defense Secretary James Mattis Resigns Over Differences With Trump - Duration: 2:43.

For more infomation >> US Defense Secretary James Mattis Resigns Over Differences With Trump - Duration: 2:43.

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U.S. Amb. John Limbert donated items to the U.S. Diplomacy Center - Duration: 2:41.

these were the these were clothes I wore during the 14 months

the fourth of November 1979 I and my colleagues at the

US Embassy were taken prisoner the embassy was overrun and what began as

a 70's style students it in turned into an international melodrama

somebody has compared was this kind of situation to to sailing a sailboat it is

hours of boredom interspersed with moments of Terror.

the three items you here were what I was wearing so these were the pants that I was wearing

this black shirt was what I was wearing this sweater was what I was was

what I was wearing one item I overlooked it was is this pair of flip-flops but at

some point in the in the process the captors decided would that we should

have our shoes taken away but that we needed something on our feet for protection so they gave us these

well let me let me thank the Diplomacy Center

and the museum and the Museum of diplomacy for bringing meaning to what

would otherwise be a collection of old clothes

they're really two ish two issues here one is to keep the events alive that

this is something this is something that happened and it's part of the history of U.S. Diplomacy

Second is diplomacy gets nasty, diplomacy can be difficult

diplomacy can be dangerous and the people who do it do it because they

want to serve their country