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Driver Killed in Weather-Related Alpine Crash Identified

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The driver killed in a weather-related crash on Interstate-8 in Alpine on Friday has been identified.

California Highway Patrol said that 22-year-old Alexis Rolchelle Cage of Moreno Valley was driving westbound on Interstate 8 near Japatul Valley Road when her car went off the roadway, struck a sign and rolled down an embankment at around 11 a.m.

Cage was confirmed dead at the scene.

Steady rain generated by a storm out of the Gulf of Alaska drenched San Diego County throughout the day Friday.


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Officials ID Woman Killed in 4S Ranch Crash

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Investigators have identified the San Diego woman killed Saturday in a head-on collision in 4S Ranch.

The fatal crash happened at 11:48 p.m. on Camino Del Norte just east of Camino San Bernardo, California Highway Patrol officers said.

A Toyota Sienna was traveling east on a westbound street when it crashed hear-on into an oncoming Toyota Corolla, officers said. 

The Corolla driver suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. She has been identified as Sarita Shakya, 38, of San Diego.

The Sienna driver, identified by CHP officers as a 34-year-old woman, suffered major injuries.  She was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence causing injury as well as vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. 

No further information was available. 



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2 Struck, 1 Dragged in Hit-and-Run Collision in Midway District

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A San Diego man was in custody, accused of striking two men in the street and dragging one of them hundreds of feet from the site of the collision, San Diego Police said Monday.

Two men were crossing Sports Arena Boulevard at Rosecrans Street outside of the crosswalk at approximately 10 p.m. when they were struck by an oncoming car, SDPD officials said.

One victim, who police described as 24 years old, was dragged 800 feet, investigators said. He suffered broken bones and other major injuries. He and the second victim were taken to UCSD Hospital.

A witness captured the license plate of the vehicle involved in the collision and that led the arrest of the driver hours later in the Morena area of San Diego.

A San Diego Police patrol car attempted to pull over a vehicle traveling without its headlights at approximately 1 a.m. Monday near Lauretta and Colusa streets.

The driver did not stop, police said, and continued into an alley where the car crashed into a parked car and then a power pole.

Yosvaldo Sixco, 21, was taken into custody.

SDPD investigators say they have determined the vehicle was the one involved in the Midway District collision.

Sixco faces charges of driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident.



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Melanoma Rates on the Rise in US

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More Americans than ever are being diagnosed with melanoma, and it's not just because doctors are better at catching it early, researchers told NBC News Wednesday.

Despite warnings to stay out of the sun, use sunscreen and shun tanning beds, rates of the deadliest form of skin cancer have risen steadily since 2009, the team of skin experts said.

"The current lifetime risk of an American developing invasive melanoma is 1 in 54 compared with 1 in 58 when we last reported in 2009," they wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Dermatology.



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Dancing Mom Takes Center Court at Warriors Game

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A Peninsula mother who became a "dance cam" sensation in the stands at Golden State Warriors games this season took center stage Tuesday night to lead a routine at halftime.

Robin Schreiber of Redwood City grabbed the spotlight again at Oracle Arena. But this time she was out of the stands and on center court joining the team's dance squad - and wearing her signature sweater. (Make sure to read the backstory on that!)

She shook. She shimmied. And she did it all with no visible signs of any fear to a funky version of "Let it Snow!" Her backup? The entire Golden State Warriors Dance Team dressed in red Santa dresses and high white boots.

Schreiber's moves obviously worked their magic. The Warriors beat the Utah Jazz, 104-74.



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You Better Not Pout: Pictures with Santa Gone Wrong

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Number of Unsheltered Homeless on the Rise in San Diego

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The number of unsheltered homeless people in San Diego County has jumped to an estimated 5,000 people, according to the latest count - and it appears some are opting out of rooms at local shelters.

According to the Regional Homeless Task Force in 2016 Count, the number of people in shelters in the County went down last year by 18 percent - from 4,586 to 3,752 individuals. At the same time, the number of unsheltered homeless people went up by the same percent from 4,156 to 4,940 individuals.

Thomas Easthope has lived on the streets in downtown San Diego for three years. 

He told NBC7 he is getting support from Social Security for health issues, but says it isn't enough.

“I'd like to be able afford a place to live,” he said.

Many of the small hotels that used to offer single occupant rooms are gone. The park Easthope lives near sits under a large new apartment complex now under construction.

In hopes of easing the homeless problem in the City of San Diego, city officials started a $12.5 million initiative called Housing Our Heroes. The program helps veterans connect with housing.

At a press conference in North Park Wednesday, the City announced that more than 700 veterans are in the program. About 450 are in housing now and a couple hundred are in the process of being connected to housing with the assistance of the VA.  

However, the City of San Diego says they are in need of hundreds of landlords to step forward to get involved to place more veterans into housing faster.

Paul, a Marine veteran, said the process has had a big impact on him.

“You know getting off the street is incredible, it's like going from night to day...you have more security than being on the street,” he said.

Veteran homelessness has gone down from 2011 by nearly 30 percent in the County thanks to programs like Housing Our Heroes and President Obama’s Housing First.

But still thousands are left in the cold.

Some estimates say they are approximately 1,000 people living in tents in the County, a number three times higher than two years ago.

Christa Tiegue, a homeless San Diegan, said she bounced from shelter to shelter - but, eventually, she decided to buy a tent and live outside. Her tent is one of many set up in the shadow of San Diego's high rises. Tiegue lives there with her four children, aged four to 14. 

She says she can keep a better eye on them here. There is safety in numbers, Tiegue told NBC7.

To get off the streets she said she needs ”some type of a program that's available to single moms to be able to put the kids in daycare and work.”

The profile of most of the people by the Regional Homeless Task Force shows that about 71 percent of the unsheltered homeless are men between 25 and 54 years old. Sixty percent are white, and many have physical and mental disabilities.

Easthope says he sees lots of people on the streets with those issues.

“There's guys rolling around in a wheelchair, with one leg, you know they definitely need to be indoors,” Easthope said. 

Another statistic is raising another issue: according to the Regional Homeless Task Force, about two-thirds of all of the unsheltered were incarcerated at some time.

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer told NBC 7 San Diego that it has been a far greater challenge to get some of those people into housing than it has been for veteran due to the lack of support programs. 

Two years ago, when the penalty for drug offenses went down, it had an impact on homelessness, he said.  

“There's no doubt we're also seeing the effects of Prop 47 in terms of substance abuse on the streets, and methamphetamine, and other things that's not helping the situation, it's harming the situation, and frankly harming the individual,” Faulconer said. 

The Department of Housing and Urban Renewal awarded San Diego County $18,229,194 for programs to help homeless people and provide a network of continuum of care.

The City of San Diego has added a staff member to address the growing issue and hopes that more resources, like those available for veterans, will help them better solve the issue for people who are calling the streets home for now.



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Woman Berates Hispanic Shoppers in Viral Video

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A Kentucky mall says it plans to permanently ban a shopper who berated two Hispanic women in a racially-charged, expletive-laden tirade captured on video.

The video, posted by Renee Bucker to Facebook and YouTube Tuesday night, shows a white woman chiding the shopper for bringing items to the cashier while a friend was checking out.

"They can't act like the hero, they come here to live and act like everybody else," the woman is heard saying. "Get in the back of the line like everybody else does and be somebody. That's the way I look at it. You're nobodies, just because you come from another country, it don't make you nobody."

The woman tells the two Hispanic shoppers to "go back to wherever the f--- you come from," and "speak English."

"You’re in America. If you don’t know it, learn it,” she continued, and claimed taxpayers probably paid for the woman's items because "she's on welfare."

Buckner's pastor, Pastor Timothy Findley, Jr., of Kingdom Fellowship Christian Life Center in Louisville, tell NBC News that after the video stopped rolling, according to Buckner, the woman continued "to just racially heckle these women, and made specific comments regarding Donald Trump 'fixing' this" and "making America great again."

"We are aware of the video posted online [Tuesday] from inside JCPenney,” a mall spokesperson wrote on its official Facebook page. “Jefferson Mall strives to create a comfortable and convenient experience for all of our guests and we absolutely do not condone this type of behavior. We will work with JCPenney to identify this woman and, once identified, she will be permanently banned from Jefferson Mall, per our Behavioral Code of Conduct.” 

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said he was "sad and disappointed to see conduct like this," and hopes the video prompts family discussions about "basic human values, dignity and respect" during the holidays.

"As a country of immigrants, we must understand that we only move forward through peace, acceptance and embracing those who are different from us," Fischer said in a statement. "These are basic American values protected in our Constitution, values embraced in this welcoming, compassionate community.”

Meanwhile, JCPenney said it is "deeply disturbed" by the incident and is asking for the public's help in identifying the two Hispanic women who were targeted so they could reimburse them for their entire purchase and "offer a sincere apology for their experience."

"We are deeply disturbed by the incident that took place at our Jefferson Mall store, in which one customer made extremely inappropriate remarks to two other customers while standing in the checkout line," JCPenney spokesman Joey Thomas said. "We regret that innocent bystanders – both other customers and a JCPenney associate – were subjected to such discriminatory remarks. We absolutely do not tolerate this behavior in our stores, and are working with our associates to ensure any future incidents of this nature will be addressed quickly and appropriately."

The video had been viewed more than 6 million times on Facebook, and had been shared more than 161,000 times, before it was taken down from the social media site Wednesday afternoon, according to NBC affiliate WAVE.


Border Patrol's Biggest Seizures

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From rare and dangerous insects, assault weapons, to drug smuggling submersibles, the U.S. Border Patrol has been busy trying to prevent dangerous contraband from entering the country. Follow along in our photo gallery.

Meet Lucy, One of the 78 Dogs Rescued from Hoarding House

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Meet Lucy, one of the 78 dogs rescued from a hoarding house in El Cajon, east of San Diego. The San Diego Humane Society has announced she is accepting applications for adoption.

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Nestor Resident Calling Out Sony Cell Phone Repairs

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An Army Veteran contacted NBC 7 Responds after he said his smartphone keeps breaking down and rather than replace the phone, the company kept asking him to send it in for repairs. 

Nestor resident David Leake really enjoys his Sony Xperia Z3 phone. 

“The pictures it takes are absolutely amazing,” David said. 

In addition to the camera, David loves the fact that the phone is waterproof and how it fits on his motorcycle. 

But David said he’s not so enamored with Sony’s service department. 

Before he left for a business trip, David had called Sony about the problem he was having with his phone and he said a representative asked him to mail it in for repairs. 

“I went to Tokyo, came back and no phone was here. So I called Sony and they said they we’re working on it and gave me all kinds of answers,” David said. 

The first time David sent the phone, it came back still not working right. 

David tried to mail the phone to Sony again but each time it came back, he had a different problem including a bad speaker phone, camera issues and the phone randomly shutting off. 

Fortunately, David had another phone as a backup but he says the constant repairs were getting to him. 

“I really wish I would have kept all the paper that says what they did to it each time but every time I get it back, I’m so happy and I throw it all away and start using it,” David said. 

David first sent the phone in for repairs in May but months later, it still wasn’t working. 

David contacted NBC 7 Responds and after speaking with Sony representatives, David received a call from Sony. 

Sony decided to not only replace David’s Z3 model, they also agreed to replace David’s backup phone at no cost.

Girl Who Pushed Toddler Out of Way Honored as Carnegie Hero

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A 10-year-old girl killed when she pushed a toddler out of the way of a moving car, saving her life, has been honored for her extraordinary heroism by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. 

Kiera Larsen died Feb. 22, 2016 as she was playing outside her home with friends. A Mercedes parked in a yard slid down the hill toward the group of kids, and Kiera, 10, shoved a 2-year-old out of its path, saving her, officers said.

On Tuesday, Larsen was named one of 21 recipients across the U.S. and Canada of the Carnegie Medal this quarter for outstanding civilian heroism. 

"The medal is given to those who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives of others," according to the Fund Commission.

Larsen's family will receive a financial grant as part of the award. 

In 2016, 93 people have been given the award. 

Earlier this year, the California State Assembly recognized the Kiera's heroic actions with a memorial resolution.

White Christmas: Storms Expected to Leave Holiday Snow

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Dreaming of a white Christmas? Be careful what you wish for. 

A "significant storm system" is expected to move through the northern Plains on Christmas Day, bringing whiteout conditions and driving winds that could make travel "very difficult to impossible," the National Weather Service said Wednesday. 

Heavy snow is possible beginning Friday over most of Wyoming before moving east to the Dakotas and northern Minnesota over the weekend, the National Weather Service said.

"It's going to be a pretty significant storm," said Ari Sarsalari, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel.



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Driver Falls Asleep at Wheel, Crashes in National City: PD

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At least four people were transported to the hospital in a multiple-vehicle collision in National City Wednesday.

According to the National City Police Department (NCPD), the driver of one of the vehicles fell asleep at the vehicle.

The collision occurred around 3:18 p.m. on Sweetwater Road just east of the Interstate 805.

Police say there were eight patients in total, four of whom were transported to the hospital. Two patients, a mother and her daughter were in critical condition.

A 16-year old boy was unconscious but expected to be okay, police said. The fourth victim was transported with a minor injury.

At this time, it is unknown if the driver will face any charges.

No other information was available.

Sig Alert Issued for Wrong-Way Crash on Interstate 805

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A Sig alert was issued for a major freeway in San Diego after a wrong-way crash Wednesday night, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) confirmed.

The crash occurred just after 10 p.m. on the Interstate 805 near Governor Drive. 

A driver going the wrong-way crashed near the State Route 52 connector. CHP says the driver was also traveling at a high rate of speed. 

CHP issued a Sig alert, diverting traffic to the SR-52. 

No other information was available.


Cougars Top Wyoming in San Diego

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BYU overcame a shaky outing by its starting quarterback Wednesday and defeated Wyoming in soggy Qualcomm Stadium, 24-21 at the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl.

The game almost turned into a blowout when BYU’s Tanner Mangum threw an ill-advised pass into the end-zone.

The ball caromed off three players before another BYU athlete named Tanner (Balderree) grabbed the pigskin out of the air for an unorthodox 5-yard touchdown. That made it 17-7 BYU.

The former Mountain West foe of Wyoming and San Diego State then turned again to its ground game.

BYU senior Jamaal Williams racked up 210 rushing yards and a touchdown to help the Cougars build a 24-7 lead.

But Wyoming fought back behind another Tanner.

Cowboys quarterback Josh Allen looked for receiver Tanner Gentry throughout the night, and the senior responded with 7 receptions for 113 yards and two touchdowns.

Wyoming was driving with the ball down by only three points with under two minutes to play.

But then one mistake sealed the game for BYU.

Remember the name Kai Nacua. The BYU safety is a ballhawk and helped clinch a Cougars victory when he picked off Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen in the red-zone late in the contest.

“The Cobra” finished the season with six interceptions. Kai even had three picks in a game against Boise State a year ago as a junior.

Makes you wonder if Nacua could wind up in a Chargers uniform as a playmaking safety in the secondary to complement Pro Bowlers Jason Verrett (2015) and Casey Hayward (this year) in 2017.

The Cowboys rolled the dice twice on 4th and 2, and converted both times to extend crucial drives.

But BYU’s ground game and defense wound up being the difference.

Both teams finished with two turnovers.

Washington State and Minnesota will face off at the Q on Tuesday December 27th for the Holiday Bowl.



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Sunday Night Football Preview: Chiefs vs. Broncos

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Alex Smith and the Kansas City Chiefs can clinch a second straight playoff berth and their third in four years when they face the Denver Broncos on Sunday Night Football.

If the Chiefs (10-4) win on Christmas night, they’d make their third trip to the playoffs in four years under coach Andy Reid, and retain an outside chance at beating the Raiders for the AFC West title.

Denver (8-6) needs to win to keep pace in a crowded AFC wild-card race. The division rivals are playing their second game in a month, after a 30-27 overtime road win for Kansas City on Nov. 27th.

The Broncos had a brief disagreement in their locker room following a home loss to New England last week, but say they have moved past it.

The rise of the Raiders this season and the continued success of the Chiefs has crowded out the defending Super Bowl champions. Quarterback Trevor Siemian played well against the Chiefs last month with three touchdown passes and a season-high 368 yards, so the Broncos will like their chances, even on the road following a discouraging loss.

The Chiefs are coming off a puzzling loss to the Tennessee Titans in which they were held scoreless in the second half and beaten on a long field goal as time expired.

Smith has been frustratingly mediocre for the Chiefs this season. It has been two months since he has thrown for more than one TD in a game, but he has mostly limited turnovers enough to keep Kansas City alive. 

Players to watch:

Chiefs WR/returner Tyreek Hill, who was kicked off his college team for choking and hitting his pregnant girlfriend, scored rushing, receiving and return TDs against the Broncos in November.

Chiefs LB Dee Ford has more than a third of Kansas City’s sacks, with 10 to his name alone. 

Broncos WRs Demariyus Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders each have more than 1,000 yards receiving this season and five TDs apiece.

Broncos LB Shane Ray is behind Von Miller’s team-leading 13.5 sacks, but still has seven to his name and is a dangerous presence with two fumbles recovered and a TD as well this season.



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Military Choppers Train to Bring Trump Out of NYC: Sources

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Low-flying military planes and helicopters spotted over midtown Manhattan last week turned out to be part of a training exercise on safely airlifting the next president out of New York City, law enforcement sources say.

The Federal Aviation Administration initially said that the U.S. military was conducting authorized flights over New York City last Tuesday with coordination of the federal body. The flyover of two Blackhawk helicopters and the military C-130 caused confusion: the city's Office of Emergency Management said it wasn't notified in advance by the FAA, and the NYPD was only given short notice. 

Now law enforcement sources tell NBC 4 New York it was all part of a military training exercise -- an emergency relocation drill to figure out where a chopper could touch down near Trump Tower and move the president-elect and others out toward safety. 

Retired Army Maj. Mike Lyons and a current military analyst says the mission may have also been looking at rooftops in the city that could help as possible evacuation routes.

"Police and law enforcement have got to be creative as terrorists could be in recognizing that during 9/11 they weren't able to evacuate anyone from the rooftop," he said. "The first thing they are likely looking at is a possibility from Trump Tower."


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Report: Russians Who Hacked DNC Helped Kill Ukrainians

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The Russian hackers who targeted the Democratic National Committee was also employed by Russia's military intelligence agency to pinpoint and kill Ukrainian soldiers in 2014, according to a report released Thursday by a cyber security firm, NBC News reported.

The company, Crowdstrike, was hired by the DNC to investigate the hack and issued a report publicly attributing it to Russian intelligence. One of Crowdstrike's senior executives is Shawn Henry, a former senior FBI official who consults for NBC News. The firm employs other veterans of the FBI and the National Security Agency, the government's digital spying arm.

Co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch, who oversaw the research, told NBC News that the report is further evidence that "it wasn't a 400-pound guy in his bed," who hacked the Democrats, but Russian intelligence agencies. President-elect Donald Trump famously raised the possibility that the Democrats were hacked by an overweight man.



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Israeli Leader Urges US to Veto UN Settlement Resolution

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the U.S. on Thursday to veto a draft United Nations resolution demanding a halt to Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank.

The vote, expected Thursday, provides one of the last opportunities for President Barack Obama to take a stand against Israeli settlement building after years of failed peace efforts, but doing so could re-ignite a dispute with a close ally in the waning days of his tenure.

The draft resolution, circulated by Egypt, demands Israel stop settlement activities in the Palestinian territories and declares that all existing settlements "have no legal validity" and are "a flagrant violation" of international law.

In an overnight Tweet, Netanyahu wrote: "The U.S. should veto the anti-Israel resolution at the U.N. Security Council on Thursday."

Israel has expressed concern that Obama, who has had an icy relationship with Netanyahu, will take an audacious step in his last weeks in office to revive the peace process, but U.S. officials have said he has nearly ruled out any major last-ditch effort to pressure Israel.

A Security Council resolution would be more than symbolic since it carries the weight of international law. In the past, Obama has refused to endorse anti-Israel resolutions in the council, saying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be resolved through negotiations.

Still, the U.S. and much of the international community consider Israel's West Bank settlements illegitimate and an obstacle to peace. Netanyahu rejects such claims, blaming the failure of peace efforts on the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel's Jewish identity.

Netanyahu and Obama have repeatedly clashed over Israel's settlement policies. But even if Obama supports Thursday's resolution, it is unclear what impact it will have. President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office in less than a month, has indicated a more sympathetic approach to Israel and appointed an ambassador who has been a supporter of the settler movement.

Nearly 600,000 Jewish settlers now live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, areas the Palestinians want as part of their future state, along with the Gaza Strip. Israel captured those territories in the 1967 Mideast war.

Settlement construction has thrived under Obama's watch, despite his administration's constant condemnations, a sign of the limits of U.S. influence over its close ally. Obama has struggled to revive peace talks, which last collapsed in 2014.

Frustrated by the lack of progress, Obama for more than a year had considered giving a major speech describing his vision for a future peace deal or, in a more aggressive step, supporting a U.N. resolution laying out parameters for such a deal.

Although the goal would be to impart fresh urgency to the moribund peace process, either step would have been perceived as constraining Israel's negotiating hand while strengthening the Palestinians' argument on the world stage.

The U.N. vote presents Obama with an opportunity to display his impatience with Israel, but it's not clear how he will proceed. The draft resolution's language, challenging the legality of the settlements, is likely to be unacceptable to Washington.

A yearlong wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence, which has tapered off in recent months but not halted completely, has further imperiled any peace efforts.

Earlier Thursday, the Israeli military said forces shot and killed a Palestinian who was lobbing an explosive device at troops carrying out an operation in east Jerusalem. The forces were demolishing the home of a Palestinian who carried out an October attack in Jerusalem that killed a police officer and a civilian.



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