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The UN is meeting today to drum up global support for the Rohingya.

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Myanmar is a mostly-Buddhist country that has persecuted the Rohingya - a Muslim ethnic minority group - for years. This year, the situation went from bad to worse after a Rohingya militant group attacked government forces. Myanmar's military cracked all the way down, burning Rohingya villages, killing, and raping the Rohingya people. And the gov has blocked aid groups from accessing the area. The UN has called the situation a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing." Nearly 600,000 Rohingya have fled. Most have gone north to refugee camps in Bangladesh, which doesn't have the resources to deal with this crisis.

So what's this meeting?

The UN is asking the international community for $434 million to give Rohingya refugees basic shelter and access to things like food and safe water. Many are children, and UNICEF says it will need millions to help treat malnutrition.

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Bill O'Reilly. A new report shows that earlier this year, the then-Fox News host reached a $32 million settlement related to sexual harassment claims. And that Fox News knew about the settlement when it renewed O'Reilly's contract. Fox said it did this because "he was the biggest star in cable TV." The company eventually sent him packing after fallout from a separate report that detailed multiple settlements he made with women who had accused him of sexual harassment over the years. O'Reilly denies all the allegations. Meanwhile, sexual harassment claims in Hollywood keep coming in. Nearly 40 women have come forward accusing director James Toback of sexual harassment going back decades. Toback is known for movies like "The Pick-up Artist" and "Bugsy." He denies all the allegations.

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Get ready. Over the weekend, President Trump said he's signing off on the release of thousands of classified docs having to do with JFK's assassination. Most of the files related to JFK's death have already dropped over the years. This is the final batch. Conspiracy theorists can't wait. Many of these are FBI and CIA docs, and the intelligence community has been lobbying against releasing some of them for national security reasons. But researchers say there won't be many surprises. Meanwhile, over the weekend Sgt. La David Johnson - one of four US soldiers killed in a recent ambush in Niger - was laid to rest. And the controversy over what happened, and how Trump has responded continues. Last week, a Dem congresswoman said Trump offended Johnson's family during a condolence call. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly took the mic to defend his boss and said the congresswoman just wanted attention. He also claimed that Wilson once bragged about winning funding for an FBI field office at its dedication ceremony. This isn't true, as video of her on that day shows. Now, Wilson says Kelly owes America an apology.

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