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Fallout from the November 24 release of video showing a white Chicago police officer killing a black teenager escalated Tuesday when the Cook County prosecutor’s office contradicted Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s version of how the release played out.

He said: “I’m finding being leader quite hard because you have to make sure everyone is happy and at the same time make sure the camp is running smoothly”.

But the value of merchandise was higher for purchases made on tablets, with the average order hitting $140.70, exceeding desktop purchases averaging $138.30, and smartphone buys of $111.29, according to IBM.

Update 10:09pm CT, Dec. 2: “Based on that snippet of video, it does seem that that person was not posing a direct threat and certainly didn’t have to be shot”, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said in a press conference Wednesday.

It took more than a year from the night a white Chicago police officer fatally shot a black teenager until the city’s top prosecutor announced murder charges against the patrolman – a long wait that has provoked sharp criticism of Cook County State’s Attorney...

According to software maker Adobe’s Digital Index, which tracks sales across 4,500 websites including 80 per cent of all online transactions from the top 100 USA retailers, this was the biggest Cyber Monday yet with $3.07 billion in sales in the U.S. alone.

“They told me, ‘I don’t know if I’m ready to endorse yet”.

Conversion rates, defined by HookLogic as product detail page views resulting in sales, were highest from 9pm – 10pm ET on Cyber Monday, making that hour – the “Gifting Hour” – the biggest hour in online shopping history.

MouseMingle.com launched on Tuesday (Dec. 1), boasting itself as the only internet dating site that actually gets why you’d name your dogs Pluto, Lady and Pongo and wear matching mouse ears with your PJs and wants to help you find your Queen/King of Hearts.

The Macedonian Army has begun erecting a wire fence along the country’s border with Greece to control a wave of migrants trying to cross, local TV channel Telma reported on Saturday.

Police said they believed she ran away but her parents anxious that she was being held against her will. She was last seen on November 8 when she left her Brooklyn, Ohio home to tie up the family dog.

– TR16 (@tomrichards10) December 2, 2015 #ImACeleb Gotta love Lady C – she tells it like it is!

A SWAT vehicle carries police officers near the scene of a shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015.

A National Retail Federation (NRF) survey on Sunday has concluded that more people shopped online than in stores during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The e-commerce software company’s customers increased their total e-commerce same store sales (SSS) by 18 percent year over year on Cyber Monday (Nov. 30, 2015) and 20.9 percent year over year during the five days from Thanksgiving (Nov. 27, 2015) through Cyber Monday...