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• Embattled Merkel draws up new measures to tackle migration

  30-06-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has drawn up a raft of measures to tighten controls on the influx of migrants, according to a document submitted to her coalition partners Saturday as she battles for political survival.Two of the countries mentioned -- Hungary and the Czech Republic -- denied that any such deal had been reached.Merkel's move came after the European Union's 28 members hammered out a hard-fought deal Friday to tackle migration and avert a crisis that has threatened the very fabric
  
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• Thieves drain bank account of nation's oldest veteran

  30-06-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  The family of a World War II veteran and oldest-living man in the country says someone stole his money.
  
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• There Was a Families Belong Together Rally at the U.S. Border Patrol Station in Texas

  30-06-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  And another in nearby Brownsville
  
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• Syria regime advances in south as air strikes kill 15

  30-06-2018 21:59 via yahoo.com
  At least eight battered rebel-held towns in southern Syria returned to regime control under Russian-brokered deals on Saturday as air strikes killed at least 15 civilians, a monitor said.Since June 19, backed by its ally Russia, the Damascus regime has carried out a deadly bombing campaign in southern Syria as it pushes to retake the strategic area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.As of Saturday, government forces controlled more than half of Daraa, up from just 30 percent
  
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• Capital Gazette staff 'are like family', says mourning Annapolis community

  30-06-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  Before a mass shooting turned the Capital Gazette into a national news story, it was simply “the paper”.Residents of Annapolis, Maryland, used the phrase as shorthand for the local newspaper when they weren’t referring to it by its nickname, “the Capital”.Prosecutors say 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos – a local man who had a long-standing grudge against the Capital – carried out a “targeted attack” on the paper’s offices, barricading the exit
  
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• Jordan army sends aid to southern Syria displaced

  30-06-2018 21:15 via yahoo.com
  The Jordanian army has sent cross-border deliveries of aid to displaced people in Syria's southern province of Daraa, where Damascus is pressing an offensive to oust rebels, officials said."The Jordanian armed forces have started sending convoys of humanitarian aid to the Syrian brothers... inside Syria," Jordanian government spokeswoman Jumana Ghanimat told AFP.
  
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• Rebel-held Syrian towns accept Assad rule after regime bombardment

  30-06-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
   A string of Syrian rebel-held towns and villages accepted government rule on Saturday as insurgent lines collapsed in parts of the southwest under an intense bombardment that the United Nations says has forced 160,000 people to flee. The southwest was an early hotbed of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad and defeat there would leave rebels with just one remaining stronghold - the area around Idlib province bordering Turkey in the northwest. Rebels met Russian negotiat
  
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• Great white spotted off Spain in decades first: marine group

  30-06-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  A great white shark was spotted in waters off Spain's Balearic Islands this week in what is the first such sighting by scientists in at least 30 years, a marine conservation group said Saturday.The Alnitak group captured footage of the shark, which it said was five metres (16 feet) long, on Thursday in the seas off Cabrera island and followed it for over an hour, it said on its Facebook page, posting a picture."In the past years there have been possible unconfirmed sightings and various rumours,
  
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• 12-Year-Old Black Kid Has Police Called On Him For Mowing A Lawn

  30-06-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  A 12-year-old child who started his own summer lawn-mowing business had the
  
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• Merkel moves to placate coalition partners in crucial migrant meeting

  30-06-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  Angela Merkel will move to end the rebellion in her creaking coalition government on Sunday after announcing bilateral deals with 14 EU member states to accept the return of asylum seekers to the countries where they first arrived. The agreements announced yesterday are aimed at placating her conservative Bavarian CSU coalition partners who have threatened to unilaterally shut Germany’s borders if Mrs Merkel does not adopt a more hardline migration policy. Analysts said
  
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• Donations Help Bail Out Oregon Mom Charged With Manslaughter After 1-Year-Old Dies in Hot Car

  30-06-2018 20:01 via yahoo.com
  She forgot her daughter was in the car, her attorney said.
  
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• Fortnite: Rocket Launch Event Left More Questions Than Answers

  30-06-2018 19:54
  The countdown is over and the rocket has launched, ending Fortnite's first one-time event.
  As expected, the rocket launched from the evil lair and headed straight up into the sky. Soon after, a red laser touched down on Tilted Towers and the rocket returned to supposedly destroy the infamous town. Just before impact, the rocket hit what looked liked an invisible shield. The rocket vanished and reappeared a little distance away where it began to move out of control. At the end, the rocket shot ba
  
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• Trump Is Following Arizona's Playbook On Immigration. We Know How To Fight Back.

  30-06-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  The "total chaos" of the Trump administration's handling of immigration on the
  
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• Trump preparing to announce Supreme Court pick

  30-06-2018 19:25 via yahoo.com
  Left's rhetoric heats up as president prepares to reveal nominee to replace Justice Kennedy.
  
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• Mother, 100, meets daughter, 79, for the first time in emotional reunion

  30-06-2018 19:07 via yahoo.com
  A mother and daughter aged 100 and 79 have met for the first time after both had been told decades earlier that the other had died.  Lillian Ciminieri, the mother, spent her life thinking her daughter had died at birth. Joanne Loewenstern, the daughter, was adopted and similarly told her mother had passed while giving birth.  Thanks to the wonders of DNA tracing and the efforts of family members the pair were finally reunited - and found to be living just 100 miles apart on the Florida
  
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• Here Are The Best ‘Families Belong Together’ March Signs

  30-06-2018 18:45 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of people who attended the national 'Families Belong Together'
  
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• Rescue of deaf puppy stuck in hole for 30 hours draws thousands

  30-06-2018 18:30 via yahoo.com
  After 30 hours of effort, volunteers were able to rescue a 7-week-old deaf puppy that fell down a 50-foot crevice behind a house in Alabama.
  
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• Plastic a big part of human life and a major source of pollution

  30-06-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  So many of the items we use are made of plastic, but much of it doesn’t get recycled and pollutes the land and seas. Many cities are moving to ban certain products and some families are trying to live plastic-free.
  
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• Temporary housing program for hurricane survivors ends

  30-06-2018 17:52 via yahoo.com
  The FEMA program that helped Americans impacted by Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey has come to an end. The agency said the program was meant to be a temporary solution, but nearly 2,000 displaced survivors struggle to find permanent housing.
  
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• 12-Year-Old Boy Mowing Lawn Has Police Called on Him: 'Who Does That?'

  30-06-2018 17:50 via yahoo.com
  He accidentally mowed a piece of a neighbor's lawn.
  
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• North Korea is keeping nuclear program alive, officials say

  30-06-2018 17:43 via yahoo.com
  After President Trump’s historic summit with Kim Jong Un, more than a dozen U.S. intelligence officials tell NBC News that North Korea is pushing ahead with its nuclear program.
  
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• Hundreds of ‘Families Belong Together’ rallies held across the country

  30-06-2018 17:39 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of thousands marched in more than 700 ‘Families Belong Together’ events around the country to protest the nearly 2,000 migrant children separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
  
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• Mourners remember 5 people slain at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md.

  30-06-2018 17:34 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of people gathered on Friday evening to remember the five people gunned down at a community newspaper office in Annapolis, Md., one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in U.S. history.
  
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• Ballots and bullets: Mexico's bloody election campaign

  30-06-2018 17:25 via yahoo.com
  It is one of the lasting images of Mexico's election campaign: as a Congressional candidate poses for a selfie with a supporter, a man in a baseball cap calmly approaches and shoots him in the back of the head.Fernando Puron, who was running for Congress in the northern state of Coahuila, is one of 136 politicians murdered since candidate registration for Sunday's elections in Mexico opened in September, according to the consulting firm Etellekt.It is by far the bloodiest Mexican campaign on rec
  
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• Net Neutrality Supporter Threatened to Murder FCC Chairman's Children, DOJ Says

  30-06-2018 16:11 via yahoo.com
  Markara Man, 33, threatened to kill Pai's family in December 2017, officials say
  
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• Deaf Alabama puppy rescued

  30-06-2018 16:00 via yahoo.com
  A deaf puppy that fell into a crevice in Huntsville, Alabama was rescued early Saturday morning, ending a 31-hour ordeal. Diane Hodges reports.
  
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• Palestinians call for 'revenge' at funeral of boy killed by Israeli fire

  30-06-2018 15:44 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of Palestinians on Saturday attended the funeral of the 11-year-old son of a Hamas military commander killed by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip, with mourners demanding "revenge".Yasser Abu al-Naja, whose father is a member of Hamas's military wing, was shot in the head on Friday in border clashes near the southern city of Khan Yunis.Senior members of Hamas, which rules the blockaded Gaza Strip, and commanders of its Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades attended the funeral.
  
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• Inside the classes where people are learning how to overthrow Trump's family-splitting immigration policy

  30-06-2018 15:43 via yahoo.com
  The attendees are looking for ways to respond directly to what they see as a crisis caused by ICE, or the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.The federal agency has been weighing heavily on the national conversation this past month, particularly following revelations over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has caused widespread outrage at the separation of families at the border.The people here have come to a “non-violent direct actio
  
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• Eight south Syria towns return to regime control under deals: monitor

  30-06-2018 15:10 via yahoo.com
  At least eight battered rebel-held towns in southern Syria on Saturday returned to regime control under Russian-brokered deals after nearly two weeks of bombardment, a Britain-based monitor said.Since June 19, the Damascus regime has pressed a deadly bombardment campaign in southern Syria in a bid to retake the strategic area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.The agreements for the eight towns were reached even as regime air strikes on Saturday pounded other opposition hold
  
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• Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Retirement Puts Key Issues On The Line

  30-06-2018 14:00 via yahoo.com
  The likely replacement of Justice Anthony Kennedy by a hard-right
  
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• Divers progress in search for missing Thai children trapped in cave 

  30-06-2018 13:51 via yahoo.com
  Rescue divers reached several kilometres inside a flooded cave Saturday where 12 boys and their football coach have been trapped for a week, offering a flicker of hope for the harrowing search. There has been no contact with the boys, aged 11 to 16, and their coach since they went into the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand last weekend and were hemmed in by heavy rains that blocked the entrance. The desperate, round-the-clock search for the team has been beset by torrential downpours that sub
  
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• As Thai search enters seventh day, divers cling to hope of finding lost boys

  30-06-2018 12:17 via yahoo.com
  By Panu Wongcha-umCHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) - Having failed to find any sign of 12 boys and their soccer coach during a week-long search of flooded cave complex in northern Thailand, rescuers held out hope on Saturday that the group could have found safety on a rocky mound in one of the chambers.Divers were still some way from the potential safety spot, called "Pattaya Beach" after one of Thailand's best known tourist destinations.Meantime, a police search party has entered the cave from th
  
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• The Latest: College stabbing, police shooting leave 2 dead

  30-06-2018 12:13 via yahoo.com
  POMONA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a stabbing and police shooting at a Southern California college (all times local):
  
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• The supreme court has taken a sledgehammer to the New Deal

  30-06-2018 12:00 via yahoo.com
  Of the three decisions the US supreme court handed down this week, the gay wedding cake case and travel ban cases were the latest battles in the culture wars that Republicans long have waged.The Janus decision declaring that public sector employees cannot be required to pay fees to the unions that represent them went beyond culture to the very meaning of the American government and how Republicans define it.Since the 1930s, when then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised to break the hold
  
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• The War On Women Is Already Here

  30-06-2018 11:45 via yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court has been terrible to women all year ― and that's with
  
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• A landmark climate change ruling could go up in smoke after Justice Kennedy retires

  30-06-2018 11:00 via yahoo.com
  After 30 years on the Supreme Court bench, Justice Anthony Kennedy will leave the nation's highest courthouse at the end of July. With Kennedy's departure comes much uneasiness. One cause for concern is over the paramount climate decisionMassachusetts v. EPA, in which Kennedy proved to be the deciding swing vote, as he often was. The worry is that with him gone, the ruling will be left imperiled.  The case occurred after the EPA decided, in 2003, that it could not regulate heat-trapping gre
  
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• Myanmar transit camps sit empty as Rohingya fear return

  30-06-2018 10:36 via yahoo.com
  The transit camp in Myanmar's Rakhine state stands ready to welcome back 150 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh every day.The result is a stand-off, as Myanmar immigration officials wait in empty offices shuffling papers and arranging biometric equipment but with little to no work to do except greet visiting delegations and journalists.Fewer than 200 Rohingya Muslims have been resettled in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state from the 700,000 who fled a violent army crackdown in August.
  
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• Grateful neighbors return home after Concord grass fire prompted evacuations

  30-06-2018 09:06 via yahoo.com
  Fire watch crews will be on scene all night in Concord following a brush fire that threatened hundreds of homes. The fire is now 85 percent contained and residents who were evacuated are now allowed to return home.
  
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• Afghan president orders troops to resume operations against Taliban

  30-06-2018 09:00 via yahoo.com
  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani declared a formal end to his government's ceasefire with the Taliban on Saturday but called on the insurgents to agree to full peace talks following a three-day truce during this month's Eid holiday."It is now the Taliban's decision, whether they want to keep killing or join the peace process," Ghani told a news conference in Kabul where he repeated an appeal for comprehensive peace talks.
  
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• Stunned Community Mourns Capital Gazette Shooting Victims

  30-06-2018 08:34 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of mourners streamed into the streets of Annapolis, Maryland, Friday
  
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• Is Ford Going To Offer A Toothless Fiesta ST?

  30-06-2018 07:45 via yahoo.com
  And it’s less expensive, too.
  
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• Capital Gazette: US mass shooters and their history of violence towards women

  30-06-2018 07:00 via yahoo.com
  This week’s attack on the newspaper, the Capital Gazette, comes at a time when threats against American journalists are rising.The Maryland woman told the Capital Gazette in 2011 that she had answered Ramos’s messages, just “being friendly”, but soon realized the situation was “turning into something that gave me a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach”.“He seems to think there’s some sort of relationship here that does not exist,” she told th
  
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• Maverick entrepreneur's space rocket fails at blast off

  30-06-2018 06:30 via yahoo.com
  A rocket developed by a maverick Japanese entrepreneur and convicted fraudster exploded shortly after liftoff Saturday, in a major blow to his bid to send Japan's first privately backed rocket into space.Interstellar Technologies, founded by popular internet service provider Livedoor's creator Takafumi Horie, launched the unmanned rocket, MOMO-2, at around 5:30 am (2030 GMT Friday) from a test site in Taiki, southern Hokkaido.Interstellar Technologies said it would continue its rocket developmen
  
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• US lawyers: Ruling allows detention of immigrant families

  30-06-2018 06:14 via yahoo.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump administration says a ruling this week by a federal judge in San Diego requiring the government to reunify families separated at the border means authorities can legally keep families detained until their cases are complete.
  
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• Crews work to rescue deaf puppy stuck in hole in Alabama

  30-06-2018 05:31 via yahoo.com
  Rescue crews are feverishly working to save a 7-week-old deaf puppy that fell down a 50-foot (15-meter) crevice behind a house in Alabama.
  
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• Police called suspect in Capital Gazette newsroom shooting no threat in 2013

  30-06-2018 05:27 via yahoo.com
  The man accused of killing five people at a Maryland newspaper was investigated five years ago for a barrage of menacing tweets against staff members, but a detective concluded he was no threat, and the paper didn't want to press charges for fear of inflaming the situation, according to a police report released Friday. The newspaper was afraid of "putting a stick in a beehive." The 2013 police report added to the picture emerging of Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, as the former information-technology emplo
  
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• Two New Russian Stealth Submarines Are Headed to the Pacific. Here Is What They Can Do.

  30-06-2018 04:50 via yahoo.com
  More range + more stealth = trouble.
  
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• The Latest: Hundreds attend vigil for slain paper staffers

  30-06-2018 04:48 via yahoo.com
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Latest on the shootings targeting Maryland's Capital Gazette newspaper (all times local):
  
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• The Last Aircraft Carrier Showdown: Welcome to the Battle of the Philippine Sea

  30-06-2018 04:46 via yahoo.com
  It was a naval fight for the ages.
  
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• California mother, boyfriend charged with murder of her son

  30-06-2018 04:43 via yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California woman and her boyfriend were charged Friday in the death of the woman's 10-year-old son who had previously reported being beaten, locked up and not fed, prosecutors said.
  
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