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• Shout-downs, heckles, profanity: Buttigieg faces testy town hall after fatal, officer-involved shooting

  23-06-2019 23:57 via nbcnews.com
  “I hope people can see what it’s like for a city to face up to the demons that racism has unleashed,” Buttigieg said.
  
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• Migrant detention conditions in Texas 'the worst I've ever seen', admits Republican after reports of lice-infested children sleeping on floors

  23-06-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Conditions in Texas migrant detention centres are the “worst I’ve ever seen”, a Republican from the state has admitted, after reports from lawyers suggested children were enduring lice infestations, flu infections and nights sleeping on cold concrete floors.Representative Michael McCaul added that “at a minimum”, Congress should create a humanitarian aid package for young people being held near the US-Mexico border. He blamed a lack of action by politicians for the
  
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• Istanbul vote signals shift in Erdogan's dominance

  23-06-2019 23:57 via cnn.com
  Change, hope, and a new beginning. That's the promise of Istanbul's newly elected mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
  
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• Buttigieg town hall devolves into shouting amid anger over South Bend police shooting

  23-06-2019 23:57 via foxnews.com
  A town hall featuring South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg devolved into chaos Sunday as the city struggled to respond to a deadly police-involved shooting last week.
  
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• Blow to Turkey's Erdogan as opposition wins big in Istanbul

  23-06-2019 23:39 via nbcnews.com
  The election was seen as a test of Turks' ability to check what many saw as their president's increasingly authoritarian power.
  
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• 'Biggest protest since fall of Communism' demands the resignation of 'Czech Trump'

  23-06-2019 23:37 via cnn.com
  Tens of thousands of Czechs filled Prague's Letna Plain park on Sunday, taking part in what its organizers described as "the biggest protest since the fall of Communism."
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez and Steve King trade jabs over 'concentration camps' reference

  23-06-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  “The last time you went on this trip it was reported that you also met w/ fringe Austrian neo-Nazi groups to talk shop,” she tweeted.
  
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• Ekrem İmamoğlu: who is Istanbul election winner and how did he do it?

  23-06-2019 23:28 via theguardian.com
  Outside pick for opposition party built on voters’ good faith shown in March electionsEkrem İmamoğlu was not a well-known figure in Turkish politics before March’s fateful local elections.But by standing his ground in the fierce battle to become mayor of Istanbul, even after Turkey’s electoral board cancelled his victory, he has become President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s most high profile challenger in years and the unexpected new hope for Turkish democracy. C
  
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• Ekrem İmamoğlu: Turkey’s unexpected new hope in fight for democracy

  23-06-2019 23:28 via theguardian.com
  Outside pick for opposition party built on voters’ good faith shown in March electionsEkrem İmamoğlu was not a well-known figure in Turkish politics before March’s fateful local elections.But by standing his ground in the fierce battle to become mayor of Istanbul, even after Turkey’s electoral board cancelled his victory, he has become President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s most high profile challenger in years and the unexpected new hope for Turkish democracy. C
  
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• Doug MacKinnon: Will you survive the coming blackout?

  23-06-2019 23:21 via foxnews.com
  Make a plan, because you will be on your own.
  
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• One of original Tuskegee Airmen dies

  23-06-2019 23:20 via cnn.com
  Retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Friend, one of the last surviving members of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, has died, his daughter said. He was 99.
  
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• Ekrem İmamoğlu defeats AKP in Istanbul mayoral election

  23-06-2019 23:12 via theguardian.com
  Voters embrace CHP party campaign bridging religious, class and ethnic dividesTurkey’s opposition has won a high-stakes rerun of the Istanbul mayoral election, a serious blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a landmark victory in a country where many feared democracy was failing.Shortly after initial results pointing to a landslide win for the opposition coalition candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu, emerged on Sunday evening, the candidate of the ruling Justice and Development p
  
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• One killed, 10 wounded in South Bend, Indiana, bar shooting

  23-06-2019 23:07 via nbcnews.com
  "The mayor is deeply troubled by last night's incident," said a spokesperson for Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
  
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• Father charged in murder of 2 young sons, their mother after bodies found in Staten Island home

  23-06-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Sources familiar with the investigation said they were discovered face down on a bed and the children may have been drowned.
  
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• Istanbul vote signals shift in Erdogan's dominance in Turkey

  23-06-2019 22:58 via cnn.com
  Change, hope, and a new beginning. That's the promise of Istanbul's newly elected mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
  
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• Bear halts Colorado marathon by crossing the road

  23-06-2019 22:53 via foxnews.com
  A group of runners experienced a stunning sight last weekend as a bear temporarily halted the Leadville Trail Marathon in Colorado Springs.
  
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• University of Utah Student Mackenzie Lueck Missing for Nearly a Week After Taking Lyft

  23-06-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  SLC Police DepartmentMackenzie Lueck, a 23-year-old University of Utah student, texted her parents on June 17 to let them know she had landed safely at the Salt Lake City airport, her father told Fox News. Nobody has heard from her in the week since. According to police, Lueck landed home from a trip around 1 a.m. She then ordered a Lyft to an unfamiliar address in North Salt Lake City, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. According to friends, Lueck’s phone has been off since she went missing,
  
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• Motorcyclists killed in New Hampshire crash identified, including married couple

  23-06-2019 22:44 via foxnews.com
  New Hampshire authorities released the names of seven bikers killed Friday evening when their group collided with a pickup truck towing a flatbed trailer.
  
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• The Latest: Istanbul mayor-elect greets tens of thousands

  23-06-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of people attended an election night celebration after a repeated vote in Istanbul made an opposition candidate mayor-elect of Turkey's largest city.Ekrem Imamoglu spoke late Sunday after unofficial returns showed him more than 777,000 votes ahead of his opponent, who conceded defeat earlier in the night.
  
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• House Oversight Committee to vote on possible Kellyanne Conway subpoena over Hatch Act controversy

  23-06-2019 22:37 via foxnews.com
  The House Oversight Committee plans to vote Wednesday whether or not subpoena White House counselor Kellyanne Conway following a government watchdog’s finding that she violated the Hatch Act.  
  
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• Raptors' Danny Green on visiting Trump at the White House: 'It's a hard no'

  23-06-2019 22:34 via nba.nbcsports.com
  "To put it politely, I think it's a hard no," he said.
  
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• Cruise ship rescues and mishaps: 6 times emergency struck on Royal Caribbean, Carnival, more

  23-06-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's what happens when emergency strikes on the high seas, from norovirus on a Royal Caribbean cruise to Coast Guard airlifts from Carnival Pride.
  
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• House Oversight threatens to subpoena Kellyanne Conway

  23-06-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has cited Conway for multiple violations of the Hatch Act.
  
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• Skydiving plane in Hawaii crash was involved in previous terrifying incident

  23-06-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The skydiving plane that crashed in Hawaii on Friday, killing all 11 aboard, had been involved in a terrifying incident before that.
  
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• Bodies of 7 climbers recovered in Himalayas

  23-06-2019 22:18 via cnn.com
  The bodies of seven climbers who went missing in the Indian Himalayas late last month were recovered by rescue teams on Sunday, according to a tweet from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.
  
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• Netanyahu ready to 'consider' long-awaited US peace plan

  23-06-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he is ready to "consider" a US plan to resolve his country's long-running conflict with the Palestinians."We will consider the American proposal in a fair and open way," he said as he hosted US national security adviser John Bolton.The Palestinian leadership has already rejected the plan, citing US "bias" after the White House recognised bitterly divided Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
  
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• TAKEAWAYS: In South Carolina, a new Democratic landscape

  23-06-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Vice President Joe Biden has had a run of bad headlines that can befall a front-runner with a long record and bent toward free-wheeling ineloquence.A 36-year senator, Biden didn't apologize for recently recalling his dealings with racist "Dixiecrats" when illustrating his argument that Capitol Hill once functioned with comity.Biden said rivals — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who is black, demanded an apology — ignored the full context.
  
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• Indian soldiers recover bodies of 7 missing mountaineers

  23-06-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian paramilitary soldiers have reached the bodies of seven of eight members from a team of international climbers believed killed on a notoriously dangerous Himalayan mountain, an official said Sunday. An administrator of Uttarakhand state, Vijay Jogdande, said the soldiers reached the bodies Sunday, but they had yet to be identified. Veteran British mountaineer Martin Moran led a team of four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian on an expedition on Nanda Devi East.
  
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• Opinion: Is Trump acting out of character?

  23-06-2019 21:42 via cnn.com
  In the last few days, President Donald Trump flip-flopped on his order to launch a military strike on Iran and then suddenly delayed his much-hyped mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.
  
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• Iran and US trade barbs ahead of new sanctions

  23-06-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran and the United States, locked in a tense standoff after the US withdrew from a nuclear deal, traded barbs Sunday the day before the US tightens sanctions against the Islamic republic.Both sides say they want to avoid going to war, but tensions have spiralled as a series of incidents, including attacks on tankers and the shooting down of a US drone by Iran in the Gulf, raised fears of an unintended slide towards conflict.On Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said a US-made
  
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• Saudi minister says whatever the Palestinians accept, everyone else will accept

  23-06-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A Saudi minister said on Sunday that improving the Palestinians' situation should be welcomed but that addressing the political process in resolving the conflict with Israel is "extremely important".Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Jubeir was responding to questions from broadcaster France 24 about U.S. proposals for economic development as part of the Middle East peace process.“I think anything that improves the situation of the Palestinian people is something that should be wel
  
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• Cameroon protests and tears as England reach Women's World Cup last eight

  23-06-2019 21:33 via cnn.com
  Distraught Cameroon players staged a series of on-field protests over VAR decisions as England earned a quarterfinal clash with Norway at the Women's World Cup with a 3-0 win in Valenciennes Sunday.
  
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• 'Officer down! Officer down!' Chilling footage reveals deadly shootout in Sacramento

  23-06-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A hearing is Monday for the man accused of killing a rookie Sacramento police officer in a fierce shootout captured on the bodycam of a fellow officer.
  
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• U.S. explores requiring domestic 5G equipment to be made outside China: WSJ

  23-06-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  As part of a 150-day review that started after cybersecurity concerns in the United States, officials are asking telecom equipment makers if they can develop U.S.-bound hardware including cellular-tower electronics as well as routers and switches, and software outside of China, the WSJ reported.In May, the Trump administration took aim at China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, banning the firm from buying vital U.S. technology without special approval and effectively barring its equipment from U.S.
  
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• Georgian protesters slam 'Putinism' as Moscow tensions soar

  23-06-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Several thousand protesters took to the streets of Georgian capital Tbilisi for a fourth day on Sunday as tensions rose between Moscow and its ex-Soviet neighbour.Some protest placards took aim at Bidzina Ivanishvili, the oligarch leader of the ruling party, believed by many to be the power behind the scenes in the Western-backed country of 3.7 million people.Others slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin who in response to the protests has banned Russian airlines from flying to Georgia and Geo
  
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• The new drug highway: Pacific islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boom

  23-06-2019 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Explosion in number of boats carrying cocaine and meth from Latin America to Australia is causing havoc for islands on the way • Cocaine used as washing powder: police struggle with Pacific drug influxIt is the drug route you’ve never heard of: a multibillion-dollar operation involving cocaine and methamphetamines being packed into the hulls of sailing boats in the US and Latin America and transported to Australia via South Pacific islands more often thought of as holiday destinations
  
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• Cocaine used as washing powder: police struggle with Pacific drug influx

  23-06-2019 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Under-resourced but undeterred, Fiji’s officers battle surge in trafficking – with just one boat • The new drug highway: Pacific islands at centre of cocaine trafficking boomSitiveni Qiliho, Fiji’s police commissioner, says he doesn’t watch films any more because, since taking on Fiji police’s top job two years ago, his life has enough drama.Over the past few months he has found himself scuba diving in search of multimillion-dollar stashes of cocaine stored in
  
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• Trump says 'absolutely broken' Iran will face major new sanctions

  23-06-2019 20:59 via theguardian.com
  US president says move will be made on Monday as Iran warns it may step up nuclear activitiesDonald Trump has pledged that Iran’s “absolutely broken” economy will face “major” new sanctions on Monday, as Iran countered it would take further steps to increase its nuclear programme unless Europe does more to shield it from US pressure over the coming fortnight.The US president claimed that Iran wanted to negotiate because of the relentless economic pressure from sanct
  
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• Erdogan's ruling party loses Istanbul election in major blow to Turkish president

  23-06-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The winner of the re-rerun of Istanbul's mayoral elections declared a "new beginning for Turkey" on Sunday after the ruling party's candidate lost the city for the first time in 25 years, in a major blow to president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "It was not a single group or party, but the whole of Istanbul and Turkey that won this election," said Ekrem Imamoglu, the candidate of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), who received 54 per cent of the vote.  President Erdogan 
  
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• Mother playing 'chicken' with her kids fatally strikes son with SUV, officials say

  23-06-2019 20:54 via nbcnews.com
  Lexus Stagg can be seen on surveillance video reversing a white SUV in an apartment complex parking lot as her three small children run toward the vehicle, prosecutors said.
  
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• UPDATE 4-Yemen's Houthis hit Saudi airport, killing one, wounding 21 - Saudi-led coalition

  23-06-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's Houthi movement launched an attack on Abha civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia on Sunday that killed one person and wounded 21 others, the Saudi-led coalition battling the group in Yemen said.Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV earlier said that the Iran-aligned movement had targeted Abha and Jizan airports in the south of the kingdom with drones attacks."A terrorist attack by the Iran-backed Houthi militia targeted Abha airport, killing a Syrian resident and wounding 21 civilians," the coali
  
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• UPDATE 3-Yemen's Houthis hit Saudi airport, killing one expat, Saudi-led coalition says

  23-06-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's Houthi movement launched an attack on Abha civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia on Sunday that killed one person and wounded seven others, the Saudi-led coalition battling the group in Yemen said.Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV earlier said that the Iran-aligned movement had targeted Abha and Jizan airports in the south of the kingdom with drones attacks."A terrorist attack by the Iran-backed Houthi militia targeted Abha airport, killing a Syrian resident and wounding seven civilians," the
  
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• Syria says sabotage damaged underwater oil pipelines

  23-06-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Five underwater pipelines have been damaged and put out of order after a sabotage attack off the coastal town of Banias, Syria's oil ministry said Sunday.The damage was discovered after divers checked to see what was behind an oil leakage, the ministry said.Banias is home to one of Syria's two oil refineries.
  
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• 1 killed, 10 injured in shooting at bar in South Bend, Indiana

  23-06-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  One man was killed and 10 others were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Bend, Indiana, according to police.
  
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• US economic plan for Mideast peace met by harsh criticism

  23-06-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  When the Trump administration cut hundreds of millions of dollars of aid for Palestinians last year, the Parents Circle, a coexistence group of bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families, lost 30% of its budget overnight.While U.S. allies in the region have been cool to the plan ahead of a launching conference in Bahrain this week, former U.S. diplomats and Mideast experts criticized it for recycling past proposals, making unrealistic projections and ignoring Israel's continued occupation of the
  
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• Trump says 'I don't care about the Europeans' after questions on Iran crisis

  23-06-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has said he “doesn’t care about the Europeans” when it comes to dealing with Iran as the feud between Washington and Tehran escalates.The US president said he had called off an attack against Iran in response to the shooting down of an American drone because he “didn’t think it was proportionate”.Yet Mr Trump also said the US military had identified Iranian targets for air strikes. “I have so many targets you wouldn’t believe …
  
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• Peter Ball, former C of E bishop jailed for sexual abuse, dies at 87

  23-06-2019 20:27 via theguardian.com
  Former friend of Prince Charles served 16 months in prison for offences against 18 young menPeter Ball, the disgraced former Anglican bishop who was sent to prison for sexually abusing vulnerable young men, has died at the age of 87.Ball, who was a friend of the Prince of Wales and other influential members of the establishment, was jailed in 2015 – more than 20 years after allegations were made against him that were largely ignored or downplayed by the church. Continue reading...
  
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• How TV coverage of Iran is influencing Trump

  23-06-2019 20:21 via cnn.com
  Brian Stelter discusses the pro-war and anti-war factions on Fox. Samantha Vinograd urges Trump to turn off the TV. Trump is "wargaming through the media," she says, and "the whole world knows about his indecision and Iran can use this to play the victim card."
  
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• Air Canada launches investigation after woman left 'all alone' in dark and empty plane after falling asleep on flight

  23-06-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Air Canada has launched an investigation after a woman was left alone in a dark and locked plane after falling asleep on a flight.Tiffani Adams described waking up “all alone” on a “cold, dark” aircraft after flying from Quebec to Toronto earlier this month.“I fell asleep probably less than halfway through my short 1.5 hour flight,” she said, in a message posted on Air Canada’s Facebook page.“I wake up around midnight (few hours after flight landed
  
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• ‘Obliteration’ could still come to Iran, Trump warns

  23-06-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Despite calling off a military strike against Iran, the U.S. is still poised to hit Iran hard after weeks of mounting tensions between the two countries, President Trump said on Sunday.
  
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