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• Muslims skeptical about 'road rage' in Virginia girl's death

  19-06-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  
  FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia on Monday blamed road rage for the killing of a teenage Muslim girl who was allegedly attacked by a driver while walking with friends to her mosque between Ramadan prayers this weekend.
  
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• Otto Warmbier, the American Student Just Released From North Korea, Has Died

  19-06-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Three other U.S. citizens are still held as prisoner in the Hermit Kingdom.
  
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• Former North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier dies

  19-06-2017 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  Otto Warmbier, the American college student who spent 17 months in detention in North Korea, died Monday afternoon in Cincinnati, Ohio, his family said in a statement.
  
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• Carrie Fisher had cocaine, other drugs in her system when she died

  19-06-2017 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  Carrie Fisher had multiple drugs in her system when she went into cardiac arrest on a flight and later died, according to a full autopsy report.
  
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• Otto Warmbier Dies And Family Blames North Korea

  19-06-2017 23:48 via yahoo.com
  
  North Korea claimed that Warmbier contracted a case of botulism and then was given a sleeping pill and never woke up.
  
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• Otto Warmbier dead: Trump attacks 'brutality of North Korea' after imprisoned student's death

  19-06-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has attacked the "brutality of the North Korean regime" following the death of American student Otto Warmbier - who had been imprisoned in the country for 17 months.The US President has offered the family of Mr Warmbier his respects after news broke that the young man had died after being transported back to the United States from North Korea.“Melania and I offer our deepest condolences to the family of Otto Warmbier on his untimely passing,” Mr Trump said in a statement
  
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• Jared Kushner speaks in public. And Washington takes notice.

  19-06-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Jared Kushner spoke in public on Monday. And that alone counted as news.
  
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• France's Macron begins fine-tuning team after parliament sweep

  19-06-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  
  President Emmanuel Macron began fine-tuning his government team on Monday after his centrist party redrew France's political map with a resounding victory in parliamentary elections, dealing him a strong hand to forge ahead with pro-EU, business-friendly reforms.Macron, France's youngest-ever president at 39, asked close ally Richard Ferrand, who is embroiled in a conflict of interest scandal, to leave his cabinet and seek the leadership of the ruling Republic on the Move (REM) party in parliame
  
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• First Core i9 Benchmarks: Here’s How Intel’s Powerhouse Performs

  19-06-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Intel’s new high-end Skylake-X series includes the top-of-the-line Core i9-7900X, which impressively features 10 cores and a turbo boost of up to 4.5 GHz.This new i9 CPU certainly has impressive technical specs, but at an astronomic price of $999, how does it compare to AMD’s latest Ryzen offerings and Intel’s own less expensive models for gaming?Credit: IntelOur sister sites, Tom’s Hardware and Anandtech, put the i9-7900X chip through rigorous tests against such CPUs as
  
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• Car rams police vehicle on famed Paris avenue; attacker dies

  19-06-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — A man on the radar of French authorities for extremism was killed Monday after ramming a car carrying arms and explosives into a police convoy on Paris' famed Champs-Elysees Avenue, setting off a fiery blast and a cloud of orange smoke, officials said. France's anti-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation.
  
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• US student evacuated from N. Korea has died: family

  19-06-2017 23:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Otto Warmbier, the US student released by North Korea in a coma last week after more than a year in detention, has died, his family said Monday.The 22-year-old, who had suffered severe brain damage, was medically evacuated to the United States on June 13."It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home," his family said in a statement.
  
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• Deadly heat waves to become more common

  19-06-2017 23:11 via cnn.com
  
  Deadly heat waves are going to be a much bigger problem in the coming decades, becoming more frequent and occurring over a much greater portion of the planet because of climate change, according to a study published Monday in Nature Climate Change.
  
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• Jon Ossoff making final campaigns stops as special election nears

  19-06-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' MaryAlice Parks speaks to Jon Ossoff and some of his supporters ahead of Georgia's special election.
  
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• Police Release Dashcam Audio In Fatal Shooting Of Pregnant Mother

  19-06-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Seattle police shot and killed 30-year-old Charleena Lyles Sunday.
  
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• Trump’s Approval Rating Drops Again Following Brag On Twitter

  19-06-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Just one day after boasting about his numbers on Twitter, the president's approval rating fell to 48 percent in the conservative poll.
  
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• Police chief: Heroic officer drew gunman's fire at park

  19-06-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A female police officer with less than 2 years' experience withstood a barrage of gunfire from a gunman who wounded a top House Republican and four other people on a Virginia baseball field last week, giving fellow officers an opportunity to return fire and kill the shooter, her police chief said Monday.
  
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• The Latest: Paris police remove body after attempted attack

  19-06-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on Paris security operation on Champs-Elysees (all times local):
  
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• Ancient Egyptians Were Among First To Have Cats

  19-06-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  When and where did cats become our pets? Researchers have traced the domestic feline’s lineage to one ancient cat species and a few civilizations.
  
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• How the AP-NORC poll on Trump's travel ban was conducted

  19-06-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  
  The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll on President Donald Trump's travel ban was conducted by NORC on June 8-11. It is based on online and telephone interviews of 1,068 adults who are members of NORC's nationally representative AmeriSpeak panel.
  
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• Rich guy Leo DiCaprio surrenders priceless art in wake of embezzlement scandal

  19-06-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Leonardo DiCaprio may have received some very expensive paintings in a super shady way. According toartnet, DiCaprio, a known art collector, is reportedly in the process of surrendering a $3.2 million Pablo Picasso painting and a $9 million Jean-Michel Basquiat collage to U.S. authorities in the wake of a huge embezzlement scandal. Red Granite — the company that produced DiCaprio's movieThe Wolf of Wall Street — was co-founded by Riza Aziz, the stepson of Malaysian pri
  
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• Airline Gives Newborn Baby Free Trips for Life After Being Delivered Mid-Flight

  19-06-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  
  A baby was delivered at about 35,000 feet in the air successfully on a Jet Airways flight to India.
  
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• Otto Warmbier dead: American student imprisoned by North Korea dies after being returned to US in coma

  19-06-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Otto Warmbier, the American student who had been detained in North Korea, has died his family has said.Mr Warmbier was transferred back to the United States after over a year in North Korean captivity."It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home.
  
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• Syria brings new urgency to easing US-Russia tensions

  19-06-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. shoots down a Syrian fighter jet for the first time. Syria attacks America's allies against Islamic State militants. Iran fires missiles into Syria. Russia threatens to target U.S. coalition planes.
  
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• Barron Trump's Fashion Turns Heads as First Family Visits Camp David

  19-06-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  
  The family spent just one night at the historic, government-owned presidential retreat.
  
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• Death of Muslim teen near mosque investigated

  19-06-2017 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  Police are investigating a 17-year-old Muslim girl's death after she went missing near a Sterling, Virginia mosque.
  
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• Suspect named: Man held after van hits worshippers

  19-06-2017 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  A vehicle hit pedestrians in London and there are "a number of casualties being worked on at the scene," according to authorities.
  
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• What is the Brexit timetable and how might it change?

  19-06-2017 22:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Negotiators will be working against the clock. But deal or no deal, the UK will leave the EU on 29 March 2019Almost a year after British voters asked to leave the EU, the official exit talks started on Monday 19 June. David Davis, the Brexit secretary, sat opposite Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, at the European commission headquarters in Brussels. With a handshake for the cameras, the two men began a technically arduous journey that will seal Britain’s fate for decades to
  
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• A frazzled David Davis takes England to a 3-0 defeat in the first round | John Crace

  19-06-2017 22:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Our Brexit secretary looked outclassed by the fancy footwork of the EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel BarnierFirst the handshakes and generous expressions of goodwill. Not forgetting the obligatory exchange of gifts: a mountaineering book from David Davis to Michel Barnier, a hiking pole from Barnier to Davis. When you’re heading over a cliff, you need all the help you can get. Davis couldn’t have been more charming. The EU was a magnificent institution. The best of the best and the
  
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• US police under scrutiny over pregnant woman's shooting

  19-06-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Police in the western US state of Washington were under scrutiny on Monday after a pregnant woman was fatally shot by officers responding to a burglary call.Authorities said the 30-year-old victim, identified as Charleena Lyles, had called to report an attempted burglary at her apartment on Sunday morning and pulled a knife on the two officers, who shot and killed her.Family members said Lyles was three months pregnant and struggled with mental health issues.
  
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• Donald Trump fails to address terror attack on London mosque and murdered Muslim woman

  19-06-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has failed to personally acknowledge the attack on members of a mosque in London, and the murder of a Muslim teenager in Virginia, prompting critics to attack his silence.The White House has commented on the Finsbury Park attack, saying that they have reached out and offered to help in any way possible.Fifteen hours after a man drove a van into a group of Muslims near a London mosque, killing at least one and injuring 10 others, there was still no note of condolences from the Presid
  
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• Residents heartbroken as people take selfies at site of London fire

  19-06-2017 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  Residents who live near Grenfell Tower in London have expressed heartbreak and outrage after spotting visitors taking selfies at the site of last week's deadly fire.
  
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• Cosby alternate juror 'probably' would have voted to convict

  19-06-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — An alternate juror in Bill Cosby's sexual assault case said Monday he "probably" would have voted to convict and was "ridiculously sick" when he found out the main jury couldn't reach a verdict.
  
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• What's next for woman convicted of manslaughter in suicide

  19-06-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The unprecedented manslaughter conviction of a young woman who as a teenager sent text messages encouraging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself seems destined to be appealed after it sparked intense debate over free speech, virtual presence and modern forms of communication.
  
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• Finsbury Park mosque attack: suspect named as Darren Osborne, 47-year-old who lives in Cardiff – latest updates

  19-06-2017 21:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister praises members of public who detained suspect after van strikes pedestrians, killing one, in Seven Sisters RoadFull report: witness says driver shouted, ‘I want to kill all Muslims’What we know so farOne of London’s most diverse neighbourhoodsHave you been affected by the attack?8.55pm BSTA vigil is being held outside the Finsbury Park mosque - around the corner from the scene of last night’s attack.Big crowd now at vigil for #FinsburyParkattack pic.twitte
  
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• Jon Ossoff Responds to Trump's Attacks

  19-06-2017 21:51 via yahoo.com
  
  On the eve of the Georgia 6th District special election, Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff joins Lawrence O'Donnell to react to President Donald Trump's attacks on him and why he is trying to talk about health care as much as possible during the campaign.
  
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• Reliable insider suggests the Galaxy Note 7 will launch sooner than we thought

  19-06-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  
  After a series of reports said that Samsung intends to unveil the Galaxy Note 8 in late August or early September, around the IFA tech event in Berlin, Germany, a new leak says the phone will be out even sooner than that.Chinese leaker of Weibo fame Ice Universe said on Monday that Samsung has already settled on the Galaxy Note 8’s launch date. Apparently, the Galaxy Note 8 will be unveiled in New York City during the third week of August in New York City.
  If accurate, it means the Galaxy
  
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• Seattle woman killed by police while children were home after reporting theft

  19-06-2017 21:42 via theguardian.com
  
  The death of Charleena Lyles, a pregnant mother in Seattle, has sparked outrage over excessive police force against black AmericansSeattle police shot and killed a mother of four inside her apartment in the presence of her young children after she called law enforcement to report a burglary. The death of 30-year-old Charleena Lyles, who police say was carrying a knife, has sparked outrage across the country, with critics decrying the shooting as another example of US law enforcement using excess
  
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• Montreal opens first mobile supervised injection clinic in North America

  19-06-2017 21:42 via theguardian.com
  
  First site will operate beside a two-booth mobile unit will offer a medically supervised space and sterile equipment for people who use drugs intravenouslyMontreal has launched the first mobile supervised injection clinic in North America, as part of a package of services aimed at fighting back against an opioid crisis that has claimed thousands of lives across Canada.Related: Canada eases steps to open supervised drug injection sites amid opioid crisisContinue reading...
  
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• US condemns London attack, but no word from Trump

  19-06-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  
  The US government and Ivanka Trump on Monday expressed sympathy with worshippers attacked while leaving a London mosque -- while the president himself remained silent.State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert issued an official condemnation of the deadly assault but Donald Trump -- often quick to comment on Twitter after extremist violence -- kept his counsel."The United States strongly condemns last night's attack that appears to have targeted Muslim worshippers in London," Nauert said.
  
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• Preet Bharara explains his embrace of Twitter. He’ll let Trump ‘keep his own wise counsel’ on the same.

  19-06-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Preet Bharara, the high-profile U.S. attorney fired by President Trump, has embraced the commander in chief’s favorite communications platform: Twitter.
  
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• Discussing crisis in Venezuela not 'intervention': OAS

  19-06-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  The crisis talks are the latest in a series of OAS foreign ministers' meetings that caused an irate President Nicolas Maduro to announce Venezuela's withdrawal from the OAS in April -- a process that will take two years.The leftist leader accuses the OAS of "interventionism" for seeking diplomatic solutions to Venezuela's deteriorating political and economic crisis.
  
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• Champs Élysées: attempted attack on French police foiled, says interior minister – video

  19-06-2017 21:32 via theguardian.com
  
  French interior minister, Gérard Collomb, says the driver of a car carrying weapons and explosives that rammed into a police van on Paris’s Champs Elysées on Monday, has died. Collomb says the situation is now under control but has been referred to the French government’s anti-terrorism authorities. A police spokeswoman says nobody else was hurt in the attempted attack.Champs Élysées: driver dead as car carrying firearms rams police van
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• General: US and Moscow in delicate talks on Syria tensions

  19-06-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer said Monday that Washington and Moscow are in delicate discussions to tamp down tensions arising from the U.S. shootdown of a Syrian fighter jet, which the Russians called a violation of a U.S.-Russian understanding on avoiding air incidents.
  
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• Cheap Building Materials May Have Made the London Tower Blaze Even Worse

  19-06-2017 21:23 via yahoo.com
  
  A neglected $6,000 renovation may have cost the lives of 30 or more people.
  
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• Trump feels ‘very good’ about Senate health care bill, whatever it is, White House says

  19-06-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump feels “very good” about the Senate’s progress in drafting its own version of his signature health care bill, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Monday.When asked if the president or members of his legislative team has seen a copy of the bill, however, Spicer said he did not know.
  
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• Tensions rise in Syria as Russia, Iran send US warnings

  19-06-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Russia on Monday threatened aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition in Syrian-controlled airspace and suspended a hotline intended to avoid collisions in retaliation for the U.S. military shooting down a Syrian warplane.
  
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• Trump Makes Matters Worse for Legal Counsel

  19-06-2017 21:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's errant tweets and public statements continually run at odds with his legal counsel, making it nearly impossible for them to be on the same page. Lachlan Markay, Ed Dowd, and David Jolly join Lawrence O'Donnell.
  
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• GOP official apologizes for saying Scalise shooting helps party in Ga. election

  19-06-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  A Georgia GOP official apologized for a remark that last week's baseball shooting would win a special election for Republican candidate Karen Handel.
  
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• Jared Kushner speaks, Twitter reacts

  19-06-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Jared Kushner, senior adviser to President Trump, spoke — for the first time publicly since his father-in-law took office — at a technology summit Monday in Washington, D.C., and Twitter users gave their opinions of hearing his voice for the first time.
  
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• Lawrence: Trump Has the Worst Lawyers of Any President

  19-06-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Robert Mueller has hired a dream team of 13+ experienced lawyers from the DOJ and other government bodies to handle the Russia probe. Lawrence O'Donnell argues that many of Trump's lawyers lack the experience and the abilities to properly defend him.
  
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