Ten Things of Sore and Loser

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1. President Donald Trump has lambasted Florida's election recount process, calling it an attempt by Democrats to win a US Senate seat with fake votes.
2. CNN has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration after the White House suspended the credentials of one of its senior journalists.
3. A white policewoman who was acquitted of manslaughter after fatally shooting an unarmed black man is now teaching a course on such "critical incidents" in Oklahoma, while a black armed security guard at a bar in suburban Chicago was killed by police as he detained a suspected gunman, according to officials and witnesses.
4. Michelle Obama has revealed the reason she put her arm around the Queen's shoulder during a 2009 reception was over sore feet - although it was described as a breach of royal protocol.
5. A British couple who named their baby after Adolf Hitler have been found guilty of being members of a banned terrorist group.
6. The UK has a "moral obligation" to offer asylum to Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman recently acquitted of blasphemy, an MP says, which carries the death penalty in Pakistan.
7. A rising tide of nationalism in India is driving ordinary citizens to spread fake news, according to BBC research, while rumours of child abductors spread through WhatsApp in a small town in Mexico, and although the rumours were fake, a mob burned two men to death before anyone checked.
8. The adult advent calendar trend began in the beauty sector around the turn of the decade, but it's expanded in the last few years to cover almost every type of product imaginable - prompting criticism of overkill.
9. The taste of a food cannot be protected by copyright, the EU's highest legal authority has ruled in a case involving a Dutch cheese.
10. The hope of scientists who are scrambling to reverse the dramatic declines in bee populations is to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to help save the world's bees.

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