• Kendall Jenner walked in the 2018 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
• Her mother, Kris Jenner, sat front row and cheered on her daughter throughout the entire show.
• Viewers on Twitter especially loved how Kris appeared to record Kendall's walk with her phone.
• The moment was heavily compared to Kris' cameo in Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" music video.

After first walking in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2016, Kendall Jenner returned to the runway event this year. And in true momager fashion, Kris Jenner sat in the audience, cheering on her daughter throughout the entire show.

At one point during Kendall's first segment, Kris held up her phone and appeared to be recording her daughter's runway walk.

Twitter users immediately captured the moment, and began sharing how much they loved Kris' show of support.

Kendall thanked her mom for supporting her on Instagram

Because the show was pre-taped in November, Kendall was able to watch the show when it aired on ABC Sunday night. The model recorded her mother's reaction, and posted a video to her Instagram story.

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Viewers on Twitter loved Kris' reaction as much as Kendall did

Some users called Kris and Kendall "goals," while others commented on Kris' relatability to other proud moms.

Many compared Kris' reaction to her cameo as a 'cool mom' in Ariana Grande's music video for 'Thank U, Next'

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Others admired the fact that Kris kept her sunglasses on for the show.

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Hello! Here's everything you need to know on Monday.

1. US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have reached a 90-day ceasefire agreement on new economic tariffs. Trump in a tweet also said China will reduce and remove tariffs from car imports.

2. The US stood alone on climate change at the G20 summit. The other nations came to agreement on the Paris climate accord and other issues including trade and immigration.

3. Paris has been hammered by the worst rioting in 50 years. What started out as a protest against fuel prices has escalated as Parisien took to the streets to vent anger at the policies of President Emmanuel Macron.

4. Asia-Pacific stock markets are on the up. Good news traveled fast as Asian stocks react to positive trade news out of the G20 summit.

5. President Trump says he likes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and wants to fulfill his wishes. That's the message Trump asked South Korean President Moon to pass along after this weekend's summit. 

6. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson posted a statement Saturday addressing sexual misconduct allegations. On Friday, Fox announced that it was placing Tyson under investigation after reports accused documented multiple accusations against him.

7. Russian President Vladimir Putin is refusing to release the Ukrainian soldiers the country is holding. Putin said it was "too early" to return them after they clashed with Russian ships at sea last week. 

8. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly sent at least 11 messages to his adviser who oversaw Jamal Khashoggi's murder. According to a classified CIA report obtained by The Wall Street Journal, the crown prince's messages to aide Saud al-Qahtani suggest he "personally targeted" Khashoggi and "probably ordered his death."

9. One of the Taliban's most senior commanders was killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Manan Akhund, the Taliban's "governor" and military chief for the southern Helmand province, was killed Saturday night, according to local officials. 

10. President Xi Jinping is waging a holy war in China. Authorities are subjecting Muslims to an unprecedented amount of surveillance, shutting down Christian churches, and forcing monks to pledge allegiance to the state.

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• China's state media is putting a positive spin on the very temporary deal struck to delay any trade war intensification between President's Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the weekend's G20 summit. 
• While a 90-day ceasefire on new tariffs to allow for trade negotiations does help take the sting out of the strained relations between the US and China, it also saves face for both leaders, particularly Xi. 
• State media have been able to credit Xi with stepping in to save the day, just as the US-China trade conflict began to look a lot more like a full-blown trade war.

Chinese state media is breathing an official and collective sigh of relief on behalf of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) following the temporary deal struck between President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping over the weekend at the G20 summit in Argentina.

While a 90-day ceasefire on new tariffs to allow for trade negotiations not only takes the sting out of the strained relations between the US and China, it also saves the Chinese leadership from what would have been a potentially intolerable embarrassment to its all-powerful leader on a spotlit world stage.

Instead, state media have been able to credit Xi with stepping in to save the day, just as the US-China trade conflict began to look a lot more like a full-blown trade war.

Dr Kevin Carrico, lecturer in Chinese Studies in Macquarie University, told Business Insider that Xi is staring down pressures that no other Chinese leader has had to face in decades.

"International condemnation of [Xi's] concentration camp system in Xinjiang, growing hints of a potential economic downturn, and even questions within China about the wisdom of his response to the trade war and his leadership as a whole," Carrico said. "To use Trump's language, he is not winning."

"And this is precisely why he needs to portray this as a win," Carrico said of state media's rallying behind its leader.

State media described the meeting between the leaders as "frank and friendly"

Chinese state media were very quick to paint the 90-day window of certainty as a total success, calling it a  "breakthrough,""a new era" and a "win-win."

State-run Xinhua News Agency described the meeting as taking place in "a frank and friendly atmosphere."

According to Xinhua, Xi and Trump exchanged in-depth views and "ultimately reached an important consensus."

"Both sides agreed to expand cooperation on the basis of mutual benefit, manage their differences on the basis of mutual respect, and jointly promote Sino-US relations based on coordination, cooperation and stability," it noted with its familiar tone of reassurance.

China Global Television Network described the meeting as heralding a new era and presenting Xi as setting the tone in negotiations. 

Trump, CGTN noted, expressed enthusiasm at the start of the meeting that they would achieve "something great" on trade for both countries. 

China Daily gushed that international experts applauded President Xi's address at the G20 summit for promoting multilateralism, cooperation and free trade just as the world is facing a "surge in unilateralism and protectionism."

The Global Times, a party-aligned tabloid, wrote in an op-ed that the agreement was of "momentous significance."

In a telling nod to its readers that even Xi can't win every little discussion with a wholly unpredictable negotiating partner, the Global Times said, cautioning that there may be up and downs to come.

"The Chinese public needs to keep in mind that China-US trade negotiations fluctuate." 

“It is my great honour to be working with President Xi,” is another Trump statement that also found broad support across state media.

Xi brought in an impressive lineup 

A reflection of how seriously the Chinese side took the weekend's summit is the who's who list of top CCP officials flanking president Xi in his talks with Trump, which were ultimately less face-to-face and more a meeting of many minds.

The list included some high-ranking names: Xi's protege and General Secretary of the CCP Ding Xuexiang, Vice Premier and respected economist Liu He, Director of the CCP's Central Foreign Affairs Commission Yang Jiechi, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Chairman of the powerful National Development & Reform Commission He Lifeng.

White House trade adviser and China hawk Peter Navarro was reportedly at the dinner with Xi and his top cadres.

Of course, the US could still go ahead with the 25% tariff increase if both sides fail to come to an agreement within the 90 days.

But it seems more likely that Xi and Trump's teams have put a pin in further escalating an already tense trade stand-off in favour of letting each side search for common ground, including a sought after agreement for Beijing to come back and buy a “substantial” amount of soy beans.

Trump added that if unless China could find a way to tilt the balance of trade power more favorably towards US businesses, hostilities will resume in January.

Still, the White House said the bilateral talks in Buenos Aires on Saturday, were "highly successful".

Trump agreed to hold off on plans to increase in tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, while China agreed to begin negotiations on "forced technology transfer, intellectual property protection, non-tariff barriers, cyber intrusions and cybertheft, services and agriculture,” according to the White House.

Nevertheless, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi hailed the discussions as "profound," remarking the meeting had set a new course in bilateral relations. 

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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.

1. Uber has held talks to buy electric scooter startups Bird and Lime. The Information reported that a multi-billion dollar deal for one of the firms could alleviate Uber's scooter supply concerns. 
2. Google CEO Sundar Pichai is preparing for what could be a defining week. Pichai will testify in front of Congress for the first time on Wednesday, a day before he and other tech bosses hold a meeting at the White House.
3. Facebook is quietly developing "soft robotics"— flexible robots that move and act like living organisms. Soft robotics is an experimental field of robotics that draws inspiration from biology, from lizard tongues to octopuses.
4. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt listed the "3 big failures" he sees in tech startups today. In a speech in London last week, he said tech startups need to be more diverse, less product driven, and more willing to partner early.
5. The "secret sister" gift exchange on Facebook is actually an illegal pyramid scheme. It promises you'll get 36 gifts in return for buying just one, but it's actually an illegal pyramid scheme, and law enforcement is warning about it.
6. Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz's Asana is now worth $1.5 billion. The software startup passed the so-called unicorn valuation of $1 billion. "It's really nice to cross over that concrete mark," Moskovitz said.
7. NASA roasted Elon Musk for smoking weed live on the internet. Administrator Jim Bridenstine told reporters that SpaceX CEO Musk's cannabis smoking on a podcast in September "was not appropriate behavior."
8. Buzzy software company Carta is raising funding at an $800 million valuation. Venture capital firms Meritech Capital and Tribe Capital are leading the funding round, multiple sources told Business Insider.
9. Amazon is building a dozen satellite transmission facilities that it hopes will extend its lucrative cloud model into space. The company plans to build 12 ground stations throughout the world, with two facilities operational on Tuesday.
10. Instagram added a new feature that means you can share Stories with just your closest friends. The Close Friends update allows users to create an exclusive list of people who can see their Stories.

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• Global stock markets rip higher after US and China agreed to 90-day trade truce.
• All major Chinese indexes are higher by 2.5% or more, while European stocks are seeing similar gains.
• In the US, futures are pointing to 2% gains for all three major share indexes.
• "While bulls seem to be well in control for now, investors need to know that what was achieved is only a short-term relief to markets," Hussein Sayed, chief market strategist at FXTM said.

Global markets are ripping higher Monday morning as investors cheer a thawing of trade relations between the US and China over the weekend.

Presidents Trump and Xi came to a tentative truce on trade at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, postponing the next round of tariffs and agreeing to a 90-day window for further discussions.

This means that the US will not raise the 10% tariff rate on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods to 25% on January 1, as originally scheduled, while in return China has committed to buying a "very substantial amount of agricultural, energy, (and) industrial" goods from the US.

While the meeting didn't exactly provide an end to the trade war, the agreement represents a forward step in relations, and has been cheered by investors as a result.

By the close of trading in Asia, all major Chinese indexes were higher by more than 2.5%, with the Shenzhen Composite index climbing furthest, ending the day 3.3% in the green.

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In Europe, where markets have been open for just under 30 minutes, stocks have also surged, with the majority of indexes also higher by more than 2%.

Futures markets are pointing to a strong day in North America, with the Nasdaq index set to open higher by as much as 2.7% later in the day, and both the S&P and the Dow looking likely to gain 2% or more.

Here's are some of the stock market highlights from across the world:

• Shanghai Composite — up 2.6%
• Hong Kong's Hang Seng — up 2.5%
• Japan's Nikkei 225 — up 1%
• Britain's FTSE 100 — up 2.2%
• Germany's DAX — up 2.7%
• US futures point to the Nasdaq gaining 2.7%, with S&P 500 and Dow looking set to open 2% higher.
• Brent Crude Oil — up 4.7% to $62.27 per barrel

Elsewhere in markets, oil prices are ripping higher, helped by news of the deal. Saudi Arabia and Russia extended their agreement to manage the market, while Canada’s largest producing province ordered unprecedented output curbs. OPEC, along with Russia, is expected to announce supply cuts at its meeting on December 6.

Oil markets shrugged off news on Monday morning that Qatar will unilaterally withdraw from OPEC effective January 1, as it reacts to increasing political tensions with its Middle Eastern neighbors.

Analysts urged against overexcitement however, with most noting that this agreement is, at best, a temporary reprieve, and does not remove any of the tariffs that are already in place.

"While bulls seem to be well in control for now, investors need to know that what was achieved is only a short-term relief to markets," Hussein Sayed, chief market strategist at FXTM said in an email.

"Whether this will be translated into longer-term advances depends on the path of negotiations over the next three months. For now, one obstacle has been removed, but all longer-term risks remain there."

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• The DUP is threatening to abandon Theresa May if MPs vote on whether to get rid of her.
• The Northern Irish party is reportedly prepared to risk a general election and Jeremy Corbyn-led government in order to torpedo the prime minister's Brexit deal with the European Union.
• Labour has vowed to move a no confidence vote against the government if May's deal is defeated next week.
• The prime minister will on Monday make another speech to MPs in an attempt to sell her deal.
• Attorney General Geoffrey Cox will also reveal to MPs highly-anticipated legal advice on the Brexit backstop.
• However, the government is refusing to publish the advice in full, risking a constitutional stand-off with MPs.

LONDON — A snap general election could be on its way after the Democratic Unionist Party, which props up Theresa May's government, threatened to trigger a general election in order to kill her Brexit divorce deal.

Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer told Sky News on Sunday it was "inevitable" that Labour would move a no confidence motion in May's government if MPs vote down her deal on Tuesday, December 11. 

Now the DUP is preparing to withdraw its support for the prime minister in such a vote if, as expected, MPs vote to reject her Brexit deal next week, according to The Times.

In this scenario, May would be without the thin parliamentary advantage she's had since the 2017 general election and at risk of a majority of MPs voting to get rid of her. For the DUP, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour winning a possible subsequent election is more palatable than the deal which May has agreed with the EU, the report suggests.

The DUP loathes the Withdrawal Agreement because under the backstop proposal for avoiding a hard Irish border, Northern Ireland would stick to parts of the single market, creating new border checks with rest of the UK.

The party, that has 10 MPs in Westminster, has already abstained on a number of parliamentary votes in recent weeks in a warning to the prime minister that they are not bluffing about their threats to abandon her.

An increasingly restless DUP is just one thing for May to worry about this week. 

On Tuesday, a five-day debate on her Brexit deal will get underway prior to the meaningful vote next week. MPs from all sides are set to chastise her deal with some estimates suggesting a landslide defeat of over 100 MPs.

Today the prime minister will resume her efforts to sell the deal, telling MPs about her visit to the G20 summit in Argentina over the weekend and the free trade deals the UK will be able to sign around the world after Brexit.

"For the first time in more than 40 years we will have an independent trade policy," she will tell MPs.

Exactly how "independent" the UK's trade policy will be after Brexit is just one of the concerns among pro-Brexit MPs. Under the backstop, the UK will be in a customs union with the EU, meaning its trading ability will be limited.

Attorney General Geoffrey Cox will today reveal to MPs at least some of the legal advice he has given to the government about the controversial backstop policy, including what it would mean for the UK's trade policy.

MPs are particularly concerned about the backstop element of May's deal because it would keep the UK in a customs union with the EU after Brexit indefinitely, with no fixed end date or unilateral right to get out of it.

However, Cox is not set to disclose his legal advice in full, despite the government seemingly agreeing to do so last month. Labour has threatened to join forces with other opposition parties, including the DUP, and write to Commons Speaker John Bercow accusing the government of contempt of Parliament if it doesn't publish the advice in full. 

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• French President Emmanuel Macron has directed his prime minister to begin talks with the heads of the "Jaune gilet"  demonstrators,  the "Yellow Vests" who sacked parts of the French capital over the weekend.
• Macron was taken to the Arc de Triomphe on Sunday, the scene of the worst violence, upon his return from the G20 summit in Argentina.
• French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will be on point for Macron with the protest organisers as part of the Elysee Palace's "constant wish for dialogue," the Elysee said in a statement.
• According to Radio Europe 1, more than 12,000 canisters of tear gas were fired by the Parisien gendarmerie during the clashes.
• The protesters come from a divided France and take issue with Macron's policies, which they feel only benefit the rich.

French President Emmanuel Macron's government will meet with the "Gilets Jaunes"  demonstrators,  or the "Yellow Vests" after reports that security forces fired over 12,000 canisters of tear gas at protestors who sacked parts of the French capital in scenes of violence that shocked Paris over the weekend.

Macron was taken to the Arc de Triomphe on Sunday, the scene of the worst violence, upon his return from the G20 summit in Argentina.

The Prime Minister Edouard Philippe is being sent to meet protest organisers and party leaders as part of a "constant wish for dialogue," the Elysee Palace said.

Environment Minister Francois de Rugy met representatives of the "yellow vests" last week but failed to convince them to end the protests, Agence France Presse reported on Sunday night.

Demonstrators had earlier written in graffiti on the historic paris monument, itself raised in honor of the French revolutionaries who died storming the Bastille: "We have the right to revolt,""Macron resign" and “The yellow vests will triumph!”

According to Radio Europe 1 several dozens of cars were torched, buildings set aflame, and shop windows smashed while riot-gear clad officers set up a perimeter and began firing tear gas and water cannons into the crowds.

The heavy clashes started shortly before 09:00 CET on the Place de l'Etoile, at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe, when groups of people tried to force their way through a police checkpoint Police set up the checkpoint to prevent a planned protest from turning violent like it had the previous week.

The situation escalated from there according to most reports.

Dressed in distinguishing vests and gas masks, the 1,500 protesters or so began tearing at the streets, ripping up ancient cobblestones off the paved road and engaging in running battles with the gendarmerie and the riot squad.

In a statement released by the Elysee, Macron said he has asked his interior minister to prepare security forces for more protests and directed the prime minister to hold talks with political party leaders and representatives of the protesters.

"What happened today in Paris has nothing to do with the peaceful expression of a legitimate anger," Macron said.

However, the 40 year-old president and former investment banker may be regretting his earlier dismissive attitude toward the Gilet Jaunes when he said they were "shaming France," by protesting over the rising price of fuel.

Since then the demonstrators that have expressed such outrage have turned their fury on the broader policies of the Macron administration, and on the president himself. 

Macron toured the devastated Champs-Elysee and the Arch de Triomphe, shattered glass and shop fronts, roads ripped up, the shells of burned out cas and perhaps hardest for the president to see - graffiti on the walls of the Arch de Triomph denouncing the presidency. 

Inside was even worse

The damage inside the monument was even worse.

The statue of the Marianne, a symbol of French freedom and Resistance was reportedly hacked at and vandalized by the gilets jaunes who entered the Arc de Triomphe monument during clashes with police.

According to Europe 1, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux had earlier volunteered that the government could impose a state of emergency on Sunday.

By the time Macron landed in Charles de Gaulle Aeroport, more than 400 people had been taken into custody.

It is thought the cost of the rioting, the worst in Paris since 1968, may already be in the hundreds of millions of euros.

The damage to the French state is almost certainly worse.

Macron has found himself increasingly isolated at home, tied up with world events and negligent, even arrogant in his dismissal of the issues that confront people everyday in France.

In an interview with the Washington Post on Friday, a Yves Rollet from Besancon called Macron "President of the Rich."

Unemployment remains high, most notably among the young who face more than 20% unemployment in many regional areas of France. 

And France is a nation divided. Not just by race, but by class and by generation. Some, like the Gilet Jaune, feel they have nothing much to lose.

Should a state of emergency be declared, it would be the first time since the 2015 terror attacks, according to Euro News.

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• Qatar will quit OPEC on January 1 after 57 years of membership.
• The decision was announced at a press conference Monday just days ahead of a crucial meeting on December 6.
• Oil prices have recovered in recent days on the back of a agreed Russian and Saudi supply cuts. 

Qatar, OPEC's 11th largest oil member by production, shocked market watchers with the announcement it will quit OPEC, adding additional bite to proceedings ahead of a December 6 meeting in Vienna, Austria.

While Qatar has stated the decision, effective January 1, is thanks to its plans to increase natural gas production, it's clear its diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia isn't abating. 

OPEC largest member - Saudi Arabia - has cut trade and transport ties with Qatar for the past 18 months, alongside three other countries, accusing the country of supporting terrorism and their regional rival, Iran. Qatar has said the boycott is damaging for its national sovereignty and has denied the claims. 

After a 30% drop since October, crude prices had a respite with 5% surge on Monday following positive news that Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed to cut production and shored up by news of a 90-day trade war truce between the US and China. Brent crude was trading at $61.62, up 3.6% as of 9.30 a.m in London (4.30 a.m EST) while WTI is up 4.1% at $53.06.

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“For me to put efforts and resources and time in an organization that we are a very small player in and I don’t have a say in what happens ... practically it does not work, so for us it’s better to focus on our big growth potential,” Qatar's Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi told a news conference Monday, as reported by Reuters. 

Qatar was the first country to join OPEC 57 years ago following the group's formation by five original members. It is, through Qatargas, the world's largest liquefied natural gas producer in the world. The tiny gulf state exports over 77 million tonnes of LNG annually, more than Malaysia and Australia combined, with about 30% of global market share.

"Qatar’s decision to exit OPEC over political disagreements with allies could sour some of the bullish sentiment, though Qatar is one of the smaller Gulf oil producers," said Mike van Dulken and Artjom Hatsaturjants of Accendo Markets. 

Al-Kaabi said Qatar Petroleum planned to raise its production capability from 4.8 million barrels oil equivalent per day to 6.5 million barrels in the next decade.

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• Uber has held talks about acquiring electric scooter companies Bird and Lime, The Information and the Financial Times report.
• The FT spoke with sources familiar with all three companies, who said the talks are at an early stage and could still fall apart.
• Uber launched its own scooters through Jump in October. 

Uber has reportedly held talks about a multi-billion dollar acquisition of electric scooter startups Bird and Lime.

The Information originally reported Uber's interest in the buzzy scooter firms, while sources familiar with all three companies told the Financial Times that the talks are still at an early stage.

The Information said a deal for either company could help Uber alleviate scooter supply constraints after launching its Jump brand of two-wheeled vehicles in October.

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Bird and Lime are both unicorns — tech companies valued at over $1 billion — and both have expanded internationally this year.

Uber declined to comment when contacted by the FT, and Lime did not comment directly on the talks. Bird's CEO told the FT in a statement: "Bird is not for sale."

Uber has been exploring multiple acquisitions this year, acquiring e-bike company Jump Bikes in April, and reportedly attempting to acquire British food delivery firm Deliveroo.

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• Michelle Obama said that the "lean in' approach for women in the workplace, advocated for by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, isn't always enough for women.
• She said that the idea that women can have it all at the same time is "a lie."
• "It’s not always enough to lean in, because that s--t doesn’t work all the time," Obama said.
• Sandberg's approach has been criticized for suggesting that individual women have to be the solution to workplace inequality rather than widespread policy changes.

Michelle Obama criticized Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's "lean in" strategy as insufficient for women trying to excel in their careers.

"That whole 'so you can have it all.' Nope, not at the same time," Obama said at an event for her book "Becoming" in New York, New York magazine reported. 

"That’s a lie. And it’s not always enough to lean in, because that s--t doesn’t work all the time."

Sandberg famously advocated for women to take charge in the workplace in her 2013 book "Lean In." It encouraged women to supercharge their own careers by improving their negotiation tactics, striving to fill leadership roles at work, and taking control of their professional life.

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Obama quickly apologized for swearing, New York Magazine reported. "I forgot where I was for a moment!," she said.

Obama's comments are not the first criticism of Sandberg's approach, which is accused of suggesting that individual women have to be the solution to workplace inequality rather than widespread policy changes.

In a study this year, a group of Duke University psychology professors used 2,000 participants to test the "lean in" approach and how it worked with structural and systemic disadvantages women face in the workplace.

One group of women read excerpts from "Lean In" and listened to portions of Sandberg's TED talks that focused on how women should be more confident in the office.

Researchers found that they ended the trial with the belief that women can end workplace inequality but "were also more likely to believe that women are responsible for the problem — both for causing it, and for fixing it."

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• Amazon is testing out its cashierless technology in bigger stores, The Wall Street Journal reports.
• Amazon's cashierless checkout tech tracks the items that shoppers take from shelves and charges them automatically.
• The Journal reports Amazon could roll the tech out to Whole Foods.

Amazon is testing out its cashierless checkout technology in bigger stores — with one eye on Whole Foods, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Sources told the Journal that Amazon is testing out the futuristic tech — which tracks and charges for the items shoppers take from the shelves — in Seattle, in a space formatted like a large store.

Amazon's cashierless tech is already in use in brick-and-mortar Amazon Go stores in Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco. It is reportedly considering opening 3,000 such stores across America. 

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One source told the Journal that the tech struggles in bigger stores with higher ceilings and more items. Consequently, it could take a while to get it right, the source added.

Those familiar with the matter also speculated that the most likely application for the larger-scale cashierless tech would be in Whole Foods, which Amazon acquired in 2017.

Amazon and Whole Foods declined to comment when contacted by the Journal. Business Insider contacted Amazon and Whole Foods for comment.

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• Most equity strategists at major Wall Street firms expect 2019 to be another positive year for the stock market, but with major setbacks.
• The feverish gains previously seen during this bull market run are not expected to last much longer, and assets that previously underperformed are falling back into favor.
• Business Insider rounded up the forecasts and investing tips for navigating 2019 from strategists at Wall Street's top firms.

"Own stocks, but it ends next year."

That quote, from Savita Subramanian at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, neatly sums up the outlook for next year from most top equity strategists on Wall Street.

After a year that saw the return of volatility, an ever-escalating trade war between the world's two largest economies, a massive dose of fiscal stimulus, and an extension of the near-record bull run, the consensus is gradually turning bearish. 

Given these factors, investors are being advised to carve out positions in assets that have not been stars of the nearly 10-year bull market, such as cash and value stocks. Moreover, these assets will come in handy if volatility remains high and economic growth slows down next year, as is widely expected.

We've rounded up these recommendations and other investing tips for navigating the stock market in 2019 from the chief equity strategists at top Wall Street firms. We've also included each person's year-end S&P 500 and earnings-per-share targets.

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Goldman Sachs

S&P 500 price target: 3,000

EPS target: $173

Forecast:"A higher US equity market, a lower recommended allocation to stocks, and a shift to higher quality companies summarizes our forecast for 2019," David Kostin, the firm's chief US equity strategist, said in a note.

"We forecast S&P 500 will generate a modest single-digit absolute return in 2019. The risk-adjusted return will be less than half the long-term average. Cash will represent a competitive asset class to stocks for the first time in many years."

Investing recommendations:"Increase portfolio defensiveness. Overweight Info Tech, Communication Services, and Utilities. Underweight Cyclicals. Focus on 'high quality' stocks using five metrics: strong balance sheets, stable sales growth, low EBIT deviation, high ROE, and low drawdown experience."

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

S&P 500 price target: 2,900

EPS target: $170

Forecast:"Still-supportive fundamentals, still-tepid equity sentiment and more reasonable valuations keep us positive," Subramanian, the head of US equity and quant strategy, said.

"But in 2019, we see elevated likelihood of a peak in the S&P 500. Our rates team is calling for an inverted yield curve during the year, homebuilders peaked about one year ago and typically lead equities by about two years and our credit team is forecasting rising spreads in 2019.

Assuming the market peaks somewhere at or above 3000, our forecast is for modest downside in 2019."

Investing recommendations:"We are overweight health care, technology, utilities, financials and industrials. Our underweights are consumer discretionary, communication services, and real estate.

For most of this cycle, stocks enjoyed a lack of compelling asset class alternatives (bonds had elevated price risk, cash yields hit rock bottom). But cash is now competitive and will likely grow more so. Cash yields today are higher than dividend yields for 60% of the S&P 500 today, and our Fed call puts short rates close to 3.5% by the end of 2019, well above the S&P 500’s 1.9% dividend yield."

Morgan Stanley

S&P 500 price target: 2,750

EPS target: $171

Forecast:"After a roller coaster ride in 2018 driven by tighter financial conditions and peaking growth, we expect another range-bound year driven by disappointing earnings and a Fed that pauses," Michael Wilson, the chief US equity strategist, said.

"Bottom-up S&P 500 consensus EPS growth for 2019 is likely to come down as economic growth decelerates sharply and cost pressures rise. We think there is a greater than 50% chance we experience a modest earnings recession in 2019 defined as two quarters of negative y/y growth for S&P 500 EPS. This growth disappointment is likely to be offset somewhat by a Fed that pauses its rate hike campaign by June."

Investing recommendations: "We upgrade consumer staples to overweight and REITs to equal-weight while downgrading industrials to equal-weight. We also maintain a modest preference for large over small caps."

• A photo posted of George H.W. Bush's service dog mourning beside the casket of his old master has left social media a little teary-eyed
• The heartfelt photo, posted initially by H.W.'s son and 43rd US president, George, shows the yellow lab slumped by Bush's casket.
• Sully is to make his final journey with his old companion to Washington, DC, on Monday, a report says.
• The 41st US president will lie in state there from Monday to Wednesday.
• Bush died at the age of 94 on Friday. He was president from 1989 to 1993.

A photo of George HW Bush's service dog lying downbeat besides the casket of his old master on Sunday has spread across social media, causing an outpouring of emotion.

Bush's son Jeb, Governor of Florida, retweeted the photo, with the simple words: "Sully has the watch."

Abigail Ogle, KOCO News anchor, tweeted: "Sully, the service dog of President George H.W. Bush, keeping watch over his best friend. Rest In Peace, 41. Good boy, Sully."

X-Men actress Olivia Munn shared the photo, saying: "This is his pup Sully, lying beside him til the very end. Thank you for your service, Mr. President."

Fox News host Bret Baier tweeted: "That is just a great pic of Sully the service dog who served @GeorgeHWBush Wow."

Sully will reportedly make one last journey with the former president, accompanying his casket to Washington, DC, where Bush will lie in state from Monday.

The yellow Labrador Sully started serving as Bush's companion in June— after Bush's wife and passed away in April.

Sully will now make the final journey with Bush's casket to Washington, DC, on Monday afternoon a source told CNN, where the 41st president will lie in state at the US Capitol from 5 p.m. on Monday until 10 a.m. on Wednesday.

Before that his remains will be taken to Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, Houston and Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, ABC said.

His son and 43rd US president George W Bush posted an Instagram photo of Sully lying in front of his old master's casket on Sunday.

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Bush wrote: "As much as our family is going to miss this dog, we're comforted to know he'll bring the same joy to his new home, Walter Reed, that be brought to 41."

Sully is to return to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he will help other people in the future.

The service dog Sully is named after the famous US Airways pilot who safely landed a passenger plane on New York's Hudson River in 2009.  

Bush Senior died at on Friday at the age of 94. He suffered from a form of Parkinson's disease and was hospitalized periodically in recent years for pneumonia.

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• The special counsel Robert Mueller's office has reportedly told defense lawyers it is "tying up loose ends" in the Russia investigation, signaling that the ongoing probe is coming to a close.
• This week, prosecutors are also scheduled to file several new documents in court about some of the most important players in the investigation: former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
• All three men have pleaded guilty and have been cooperating with prosecutors.
• The upcoming court filings will contain intriguing new details about the nature of their cooperation and where the Russia investigation is ultimately headed.

The special counsel Robert Mueller's office has told defense lawyers in recent weeks that it is "tying up loose ends" in the ongoing investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether members of President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow, Yahoo News reported.

The news is not entirely unexpected. Last month, CNN reported that the special counsel had begun drafting his final report in the Russia investigation.

And this week, prosecutors are set to file several court documents that could reveal major new details about three key players in the Russia investigation: former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.

All three men have pleaded guilty and have been cooperating with prosecutors.

Flynn has been working with Mueller's team since last December, after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

In August, Cohen pleaded guilty as part of a separate Manhattan US attorney's office investigation, and he has since given over 70 hours of voluntary interviews to the special counsel. He also pleaded guilty in the Mueller investigation to one count of lying to Congress last week and his lawyers say he expects to cooperate further.

Manafort, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction in September and struck a plea deal with prosecutors to answer any and all questions they had about the Russia investigation and any other federal criminal inquiries.

But prosecutors revealed last month that Manafort had breached his plea deal by allegedly lying to investigators and committing additional crimes since agreeing to cooperate.

Prosecutors were also reportedly furious when they learned that Manafort's team was briefing Trump's lawyers on everything he was being asked about after he agreed to cooperate.

DOJ veterans told INSIDER that they had never heard of a cooperator maintaining contact with the potential target of an investigation after striking a deal with prosecutors, and that such communications could tank a cooperation agreement.

Mueller's team is slated to submit a brief to the court on Friday about its claim that Manafort violated his plea agreement. The special counsel's office told Yahoo News that the Manafort memo "will be public," although some parts of it may be redacted or submitted under seal to protect the investigation.

But for the most part, prosecutors will spell out in detail the matters the former Trump campaign chairman misled them about, and their public disclosures could shed new light on where the Russia investigation stands.

The national-security experts at Lawfare wrote, moreover, that the public may also learn more "in the context of that briefing about the relationship Manafort appears to have maintained, through counsel, with the White House after his plea and cooperation agreement."

Cohen's lawyers, meanwhile, submitted a sentencing memo on his behalf last week that contained a slew of bombshells about Trump and his interactions with Cohen last year and before the 2016 election.

Among other things, his lawyers said that when Cohen was breaking campaign finance laws at Trump's direction before the election, Cohen was also keeping Trump "contemporaneously informed" of his actions.

They also said Cohen was "in close and regular contact" with Trump's lawyers and White House staffers while he was drafting false testimony to give to Congress last year about his involvement in the Trump Organization's effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the election.

Cohen's sentencing is scheduled for December 12, and prosecutors are set to submit their own sentencing memo in his case on Friday. Lawfare said it will be important to "see how they characterize Cohen's cooperation and to what extent they also urge leniency and on what points — if any — they dispute the picture of Cohen's cooperation that Cohen's lawyers have painted."

Flynn's sentencing hearing is scheduled for December 18, and prosecutors are slated to submit a sentencing memo for him on Tuesday.

It's unclear how much of it will be redacted, but because the nature of his cooperation has been shrouded in mystery since last year, it's likely that any new details that come out of the filing will help inform the public about where the Russia investigation is headed.

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• Former race car driver Danica Patrick appeared Monday afternoon at Business Insider's IGNITION conference in conversation with BI's chief tech correspondent Julie Bort.
• Patrick was asked her one piece of advice to being physically fit. 
• She said it takes pushing oneself past one's boundaries. 

Entrepreneur and GoDaddy spokeswoman Danica Patrick recently released a book in 2017 called "Pretty Intense," about a 90-day plan promising to change your life.

So what does it take to be physically fit?

"It's about intensity. It's about pushing yourself. It's about pushing your boundaries," Patrick said Monday afternoon at Business Insider's IGNITION Conference in New York City during a conversation with BI's chief tech correspondent Julie Bort.

"It's really that simple," Patrick continued. "It will be amazing, the effects, when you push yourself physically, that it has on your life otherwise. Whether it's your confidence, your job, you name it."

The former race car driver shared she put 100% of herself into the book, writing the recipes, designing the cover, taking the food photos, and more. Patrick listed off several workouts that are part of a fit test in her book, including 100 sit-ups and 100 knee push-ups back-to-back.

"You say to yourself, 'I can't do that.' And then you do it and you start saying 'I can' so much more often. You build that confidence and that positivity," said Patrick. "It's about pushing yourself. For me, it didn't happen until I started doing crossfit about five or so years ago, and I was like, 'Oh, that's working out!'"

Patrick then asked the audience a question that caught them off guard a bit.

"Has anyone worked out so hard that you feel like you taste blood?" Patrick said to laughter from the crowd. "There's apparently fluid in your lungs. I'm just going to tell you that you can make that happen in about two minutes or less. Anyway, it taught me about intensity."

Bort asked whether or not that was how Patrick got in the shape that she is on the cover of her 2017 book, she said it was that and dieting.

"Abs are made in the kitchen and there's no way around that. I'm sorry, but that's true," she said. "I had finally done a workout program, which was intensity and integral training along with a different diet. I had the best results, which is why I ended up writing the book and wanted to help people to share what I had experienced for myself so this book was my baby."

You can check out Patrick's book here and follow along with the rest of our IGNITION coverage here.

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Hello! Here's everything you need to know on Tuesday.

1.  There is a good deal of confusion in the White House. Trump's big ticket G20 trade agreement with China is getting pretty vague, and the White House scrambled to issue a correction.

2.  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly about to drop some big Russia news.Mueller's office has told defense lawyers in recent weeks that it is "tying up loose ends" in the ongoing investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election

3.  Four people are dead and hundreds have been arrested during riots in Paris. What started out three weeks ago as a protest against fuel prices has escalated as "Yellow Vest" aligned protests spring up all over France.

4.  Beijing may be "testing Tokyo's resolve."The South China Morning Posts says China could be probing  Tokyo for signs of weakness with its latest incursions into the disputed waters.

5. Leaked documents reveal Tesla once had a roaring roll out plan for its Model Y. Internal documents show Tesla planned a production ramp of 7,000 Model SUVs a week at its Gigafactory in Nevada by December  2020, and 5,000 Model Ys a week at its China Gigafactory by February 2021.

6. Sir David Attenborough delivered a stark warning about the future of our planet. The natural historian told a UN climate conference that the world needs to act on climate change or watch civilization collapse.

7.  Nearly one million driverless robotaxis could be on US roads by 2020. The race to commercialize autonomous vehicles is one of the key battlegrounds in big tech.

8.  Uber has a cunning plan to take over the global bike and scooter empire. The giant plans to funnel its own ubiquitous brand into a one-stop global transportation app.

9. Quora says up to 100 million users may have been impacted by a security breach. The knowledge sharing website said on Monday it was hit by a "malicious third party."

10. Billionaire Mark Cuban hinted that he might run for president in 2020. Cuban, an unabashed critic of President Donald Trump, has teased at a 2020 run in the past and polls have shown he could give Trump a run for his money.

And finally ...

One ticket, two days, more than 50 insightful speakers, and over 600 executives: Business Insider's flagship IGNITION conference headliners include Mark Cuban, Janice Min, Sir Martin Sorrell, and Barbara Corcoran. Watch the livestream here. 

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• People with knowledge of the funeral plans for former President George H.W. Bush reportedly say the proceeding will focus on his life, rather than becoming a politically-charged event.
• President Donald Trump is expected to attend the funeral on Wednesday at the Washington National Cathedral.
• People familiar with the funeral plans played down the possibility of a divide between Trump and the Bush family.

Following the death of former President George H.W. Bush on Friday, people with knowledge of the funeral plans say the proceeding will focus on the late president's life, rather than becoming a politically-charged event, according to a Washington Post report published Monday.

Bush's funeral on Wednesday at the Washington National Cathedral, which President Donald Trump is expected to attend, will reportedly contrast with Republican Sen. John McCain's, who died three months ago. The late senator's funeral was extensively planned by McCain prior to his death and was widely viewed as a ceremony with political undertones.

Although Trump and his name were absent during eulogies for McCain in September, the president's presence appeared to resonate through the emotionally charged speeches from many of the late senator's mourners, including McCain's daughter.

"We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness," Meghan McCain said. "The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served."

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Meghan also appeared to rebuke Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" in her eulogy: "The America of John McCain has no need to be great again because America was always great," Meghan said.

Trump was intensely concerned about the political rhetoric during McCain's funeral, three current and former White House officials said to The Post, with one senior official saying Trump's reaction was "almost paralyzing for a week."

People familiar with Bush's funeral plans played down the possibility of a divide between Trump and Bush, according to The Post. Bush, who reportedly invited Trump to his funeral last summer, would not have wanted "anyone there to feel uncomfortable, including the incumbent president," one person said.

"It's interesting, though, that praising the Bushes or McCain risks sounding critical of Trump even when Trump's in no way part of the thinking," the person added to The Post.

One former senior White House official added that "there is no particular animosity at all toward the elder Bush."

Despite the glowing remarks he made in his statements and tweets after Bush's death, Trump has publicly derided the Bush's and their leadership.

"The World Trade Center came down during your brother's reign," Trump said to then-candidate Jeb Bush, Bush's son, during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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Trump also appeared to take a direct swipe at Bush by alluding to a phrase Bush coined during his acceptance speech in 1988 at the Republican National Convention.

"I want a kinder, gentler nation," Bush said at the time. "We are a nation of communities, of thousands, and tens of thousands, of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional, and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary and unique ... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky."

During a campaign rally in Montana in July, Trump referenced his Republican predecessor's speech:

"The thousand points of light, what the hell was that by the way," Trump said. "Thousand points of light, what did that mean, does anyone know? I know one thing, Make America Great Again we understand. Putting America first, we understand. Thousand points of light, I never quite got that one. What the hell is that? Has anyone ever figured that one out? And it was put out by a Republican, wasn't it?"

In a statement on Saturday, Trump again referenced the Bush's "thousand points of light" speech and said the former president "inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service."

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• GoDaddy spokesperson and entrepreneur Danica Patrick spoke about her time as a race car driver, her book, and her clothing company Monday at Business Insider's IGNITION conference. 
• She also gave some advice on what to do if you start your morning off on the wrong foot.
• Don't tell yourself it's going to be a bad day. Stay positive and get through the busy day you have ahead of you.
• Patrick drew upon times when she would need to do "shallow" 5-7 minute media interviews during her racing days and she had someone get her in the right mindset by getting her pumped for the long day with a cheery attitude.

If you've ever rolled out of bed and everything from the moment you woke up has gone wrong, Danica Patrick has some advice. 

Instead of telling yourself it's going to be a bad day, try doing the opposite.

"If you can just fake it, that you're happy, then you really end up there," said Patrick on Monday afternoon at Business Insider's IGNITION Conference in New York City.

"I would encourage you, when you wake up in the morning and you have some little thing go wrong — you stub your toe, your oatmeal overflows, you drop your coffee. Instead of telling yourself that it's going to be a horrible day, which is your human nature, don't let yourself do that," she said.

The 36-year-old former race car driver shared an anecdote about how she used to have someone get her jazzed to do 5-7 minute media interviews she wasn't necessarily excited to do back in the day because the "depth of them was so shallow."

"Don't let yourself do that when you have an overwhelming day come up or meetings all day, things that you might not necessarily be looking forward to," she continued. "Look, you're going to do it and it's going to be over with. It will be here and gone in no time. You have to be positive about it."  

During her conversation with Business Insider's chief technology correspondent, Julie Bort, Patrick also gave advice on getting fit and pushing one's boundaries and spoke at length about how she came to leave racing.

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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.

1. Apple won't release a "5G" iPhone until 2020 or later, according to a Bloomberg report. If you look at the current state of 5G, it's obvious why Apple is sitting this round out: The technology simply isn't ready for it. 
2. Amazon briefly became the world's most valuable publicly traded company. It passed Apple on Monday with a market value of about $865 billion.
3. Jeff Bezos was wrong when he predicted Amazon will be making drone deliveries by 2018. In a "60 Minutes" interview in 2013, Bezos showcased his firm's new "octocopter" delivery drones, and predicted they could be operational in five years' time. They are yet to appear.
4. The head of MI6 raised security concerns about Huawei after warnings from the US. "We need to decide the extent to which we are going to be comfortable with Chinese ownership of these technologies and these platforms in an environment where some of our allies have taken a very definite position," Alex Younger said in a rare speech.
5. Amazon reportedly just took one step closer to automating Whole Foods stores, and it reveals a road map for the future of shopping. Amazon is working on adapting its Amazon Go automated store technology to larger-format stores, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
6. Tumblr announced Monday that it will soon ban the posting of any "adult content." Tumblr defines this as media that depicts "real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples." But people are worried it could be the beginning of the end for the site.
7. It looks like Apple's next-generation AirPods will launch in 2019. AirPods will get an "all-new" design, according to a prediction from the well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
8. As tensions with smaller software companies run high, Amazon is extending an olive branch with a new open-source project. Launching a major open-source project, called Firecracker, is a signal that Amazon could be ready to engage with the open-source community.
9. The founders of a Mark Cuban-backed startup think they can help lawyers do more good for the world. Paladin's service is designed to pair up lawyers looking to fulfil their pro-bono obligations with those who can't afford legal aid.
10. Netflix says "The Christmas Chronicles" is Kurt Russell's biggest movie ever. Netflix's content boss, Ted Sarandos, said Monday that "The Christmas Chronicles" had 20 million views in its first week.

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• The Shenzhen university connected to the scientist He Jiankui, told the South China Morning Post that the scientist is not being held under house arrest.
• He, who stands by his claims to have produced the world’s first gene-edited babies and has not been seen since Wednesday, was previously reported to have been detained.

The university in southern China linked to its DNA-editing former associate professor He Jiankui, has told the South China Morning Post that the scientist has not been put under house arrest, despite reports that he had.

He, who stands by his claims to have produced the world’s first gene-edited babies, was reported by local Hong Kong's Ming Pao (明報) local newspaper to have been brought back to Shenzhen by the university's president and placed under house arrest somewhere on campus.

The reports claimed he was taken there after he made an appearance at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong on Wednesday. He has yet to be seen in public since the summit.

Facing his colleagues at the summit, He defended the experiments that have attracted global condemnation.

In a glowing interview with CCTV in 2017, He was praised for his work in radical gene-sequencing and comes off as gripped by an enthusiasm for the apparent enormity of the experiments.

"Some people said we shook the global gene-sequencing industry. Right. It’s me. He Jiankui. I did it," he told CCTV.

However, last week, Xu Nanping, vice minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, told the Xinhua News Agency that Chinese authorities had ordered the research of anybody involved in "the gene-edited babies incident" to be suspended.

Xu said the experiments were"extremely abominable in nature."

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