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Steve Huffman, the chief executive of the online message board Reddit, said he "abused" his position "to give the bullies a hard time," after admitting that he used his administrative powers to secretly edit user comments that were critical of him on a pro-Donald Trump forum.

Maj. Richard Gibson of the Baltimore police performed CPR on a 1-month-old, who later died, at a restaurant where the mother, who had been protesting a police-involved shooting, stopped to feed the infant, who then stopped breathing, according to police.

Joe Corre, the son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, who helped spearhead the punk music movement in the 1970s, set fire to $6.25 million in punk memorabilia on a boat in central London, saying "punk was never, never meant to be nostalgic."

Qamar Javed Bajwa of Pakistan's armed forces was promoted to the rank of four-star general and appointed to the nation's top army post by Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain.

Jason Henry, a lawyer from southwest Missouri who in a 2014 email to a client's wife used a racial slur to refer to Senior U.S. District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. after Gaitan denied a petition Henry had filed for the client, has been suspended indefinitely from practicing law.

Eddie Johnson, Chicago's police superintendent, announced that an officer who fatally shot 19-year-old Kajuan Raye during a foot chase has been stripped of his police powers pending an independent investigation into the shooting.

Richard Spencer, whose speech at a recent "alt-right" conference in Washington drew Nazi-style salutes from audience members, inspired alumni of his 1997 high school graduating class in Dallas to set up, in repudiation, an online fundraiser in his name to raise $25,000 for the International Rescue Committee, which assists foreign refugees and asylum seekers.

Benny Moore, 63, a semi-retired logger in Minden, La., has decided to spend his mornings along U.S. 80 greeting travelers with a smile and a wave to spread cheer as people head to work or school.

Billy Nolin, 5, of Walton County, Fla., got a lesson on 911 calls after he dialed the emergency line to invite law enforcement officials to Thanksgiving dinner, prompting a visit by Deputy Dannon Byrd, who thanked Billy for the invitation but reminded him that 911 is for emergencies.

A Section on 11/27/2016

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