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• Tulare County mother accused of killing her 12-year-old child and seriously injuring 7-year-old

  30-06-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Sherri Telnas faces murder charges for killing her 12-year-old child and seriously injuring her 7-year-old.
  
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• 2020 Democratic candidates fight for LGBTQ equality

  30-06-2019 23:27 via cnn.com
  CNN's Kyung Lah takes a look at some of the 2020 Democratic candidates and their history of support for the LGBTQ community.
  
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• US Army veteran comes out at NYC Pride March after returning from Iraq

  30-06-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. Army veteran took advantage of the world's biggest celebration of LGBTQ pride to officially come out on live TV.
  
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• Right whale likely died off Canada after collision with ship: official

  30-06-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A right whale found dead in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence is likely to have died due to a collision with a ship, officials say -- a worrying conclusion as experts fear for the future of the critically endangered species.Preliminary findings from a necropsy on Comet, one of six dead whales found since the start of June, are "highly compatible with death due to blunt trauma, consistent with vessel strike," Fisheries and Oceans Canada said.The same conclusion was drawn about the death of Punctuatio
  
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• Some 2020 Democrats spoke in Spanish during their first debate. Was it 'Hispandering'?

  30-06-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Young Latinos are one of the fastest growing populations in the country, and will likely be key voters in 2020. Trump's stance on immigration issues has thrust Latino voters into the political spotlight.
  
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• This sneaky kitten is a terrible and adorable little stalker

  30-06-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Cats are natural predators. They can't help but hunt and stalk. This one just happens to be exceedingly bad at it.The 8-week-old kitten in question belongs to Twitter user @_TakivaBreanna. Her baby cat has developed a habit of hiding just behind a wall whenever she knows her human is approaching and then leaping out at just the right moment to surprise her much larger prey.That's the apparent intent, anyway. The execution... could be better. See for yourself.> My 8 week old kitten started doi
  
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• Venezuelan Navy captain dies in government custody after allegations of abuse

  30-06-2019 22:43 via cnn.com
  A week before he died, a Venezuelan navy captain was arrested and accused of plotting to remove embattled President Nicolas Maduro from power.
  
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• Contractor says suspect in killing wanted secret room

  30-06-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A construction contractor says the primary suspect in the killing of University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck approached him in April about building a secretive and soundproof room under a front porch. Brian Wolf told the Desert News that the construction request from homeowner Ayoola A. Ajayi made him uneasy and included hooks mounted high on a concrete wall for reasons that didn't make sense. Wolf turned the job down and reported the encounter to Salt Lake City police after seeing news repor
  
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• 40 tons of trash was removed from the Pacific -- and it barely made a dent

  30-06-2019 22:30 via cnn.com
  Environmentalists have removed more than 40 tons of plastic from the Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Two men dead in apparent murder-suicide after argument during double date

  30-06-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Two men are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in northeast Harris County.
  
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• Donald Trump meets Kim Jong Un in DMZ, steps onto North Korean soil

  30-06-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump met briefly with Kim Jong Un and became the first U.S. president to step onto North Korean territory.
  
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• PHOTOS: New York City pride parade

  30-06-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of marchers paraded through New York streets Sunday in a huge LGBTQ pride parade, with many proudly carrying rainbow flags or carrying signs.
  
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• Right-wing protesters, 'antifa' clashes bring chaos to streets of Portland, Oregon

  30-06-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Order was restored to the streets of Portland, Oregon, after protests that clogged streets, crippled public transit and left at least 8 people hurt.
  
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• Trump just made Kim's job a lot easier

  30-06-2019 21:41 via cnn.com
  Making history isn't always a good thing, especially when it involves crossing into an authoritarian regime's territory. And yet, President Donald Trump did just that, taking 20 steps into North Korea on Sunday -- the first sitting American leader to do so.
  
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• Governor Cuomo signs legislation banning 'gay and trans panic' legal defense

  30-06-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The defense had been used to justify violent reaction to finding out the person someone is with is gay or transgender.
  
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• Verstappen wins after 'unfair move' deemed legal

  30-06-2019 21:04 via cnn.com
  Max Verstappen crossed the finish line first at the Austrian Grand Prix but had to wait hours to finally be confirmed as the winner after race stewards decided he did nothing wrong when overtaking Charles Leclerc with two laps remaining.
  
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• Mexican leader admits shortcomings on security at launch of new police force

  30-06-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday his 7-month-old government had yet to make progress in tackling record levels of violence afflicting the country as he launched a new militarized police force tasked with fixing the problem.Formally inaugurating the new National Guard, veteran leftist Lopez Obrador blamed the economic policies of previous administrations for exacerbating the violence and said his government was rooting out corruption and inequality in Mexico."But we st
  
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• Donald Trump's future depends in part on Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un

  30-06-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump's short trip to Asia focused on global goals that will continue throughout the presidential election
  
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• Archie, son of Duke and Duchess of Sussex, to be christened July 6

  30-06-2019 20:53 via cnn.com
  The infant son of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle -- the Duke and Duchess of Sussex -- will be christened Saturday, July 6, a royal source told CNN on Sunday.
  
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• Navy SEAL trial exposes divide in normally secretive force

  30-06-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  It was called the "The Sewing Circle," an unlikely name for a secret subsect of Navy SEALs. Its purpose was even more improbable: A chat forum to discuss alleged war crimes they said their chief, a decorated sniper and medic, committed on a recent tour of duty in Iraq. The WhatsApp group would eventually lead to formal allegations that Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher fatally stabbed a wounded Islamic State captive in his care and shot civilians in Iraq in 2017.
  
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• Booker not sure Biden ‘up to the task’ of reconciling US over racial injustices

  30-06-2019 20:43 via theguardian.com
  Booker, a Democratic presidential candidate, says Biden has ‘an inability to talk candidly about the mistakes he made’The Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said on Sunday that while the US must fix racial injustice, he is not sure Joe Biden is “up to that task”. Related: Julián Castro calls Trump Jr a ‘coward’ over racist attack on Kamala HarrisContinue reading...
  
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• Booker not sure Biden ‘up to the task’ of fixing US racial injustice

  30-06-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  New Jersey senator and 2020 candidate says Biden has ‘an inability to talk candidly about the mistakes he made’Booker at the debate last week. He said: ‘Whoever is that nominee needs to be able to pull this country together because we need to reconcile.’ Photograph: Mike Segar/ReutersThe Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said on Sunday he is not sure Joe Biden is “up to that task” of fixing America’s racial injustice.Booker told NBC’s M
  
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• The new and improved Gay Street sign is all over NYC Pride Twitter

  30-06-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  This year the New York City Pride March marks 50 years since the Stonewall Riot, and the parade is  bigger and more colorful than ever. As the march makes its way to Greenwich Village, one street sign in particular is popping up on social media as a symbol of 2019's much-needed focus on inclusion in the queer community. It's pure coincidence that Gay Street intersects with Christopher Street right near the Stonewall Inn -- the "Gay" of Gay Street is a family name -- but its location on
  
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• New York leads way as Pride marches mark 50 years since Stonewall – live

  30-06-2019 20:30 via theguardian.com
  Rolling coverage of LGBTQ celebrations across the USLove and Resistance: priceless pictures of LGBTQ pioneersA marvelous party: when gay Harlem met queer Britain 7.30pm BST Kamala Harris, California senator and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, greeted another prominent California Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, before the parade this morning.To deafening cheers, ⁦@KamalaHarris⁩ greets ⁦@SpeakerPelosi⁩ at #PRIDE in SF pic.twitter.com/knw8WBRa6r"We need to prosecute the case a
  
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• Mexicans hail Paris designer amid cultural appropriation row

  30-06-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian designer Maurizio Galante gave a lesson Sunday in how to take inspiration from indigenous cultures without being accused of cultural appropriation.With the fashion world shaken this month by the Mexican government threatening legal against New York-based label Carolina Herrera for "ripping off" native designs, Galante gave Mexican artisans top billing in his Paris haute couture show.The courtier worked with Mexico's top fashion institute and makers in 18 parts of the country on a collect
  
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• New York leads Pride parades as LGBTQ activists debate state of movement

  30-06-2019 20:28 via theguardian.com
  Two marches in Manhattan, many more around USLove and Resistance: priceless pictures of LGBTQ pioneersNew York’s massive LGBTQ Pride march kicked off Sunday with jubilant attendees cheering the cast of Pose, the FX show about late-20th century ballroom culture, and a car representing the activists Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson as the procession moved through Manhattan. Related: We've been to a marvelous party: when gay Harlem met queer BritainContinue reading...
  
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• Racist, anti-gay student flyers challenge Wyoming district

  30-06-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  In the capital of the state known for the 1998 murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard, school officials have worked to respond to the spring incident."We've got a pretty good plan to try to work on all of that," said Boyd Brown, superintendent of Laramie County School District No. 1.The new approach to student bullying and harassment sounds good, but "only time will tell if it's upheld," said parent Abby Kercher.
  
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• Jeremy Hunt sparks business anger with no-deal Brexit comment

  30-06-2019 20:19 via theguardian.com
  Tory leadership hopeful says he would tell bankrupt firms their sacrifice was worth it
  Business groups have expressed anger after Jeremy Hunt said he would willingly tell people whose companies went bust after a no-deal Brexit that their sacrifice had been necessary.In a notable escalation of his rhetoric on Brexit, the foreign secretary, who is trailing Boris Johnson in the Conservative leadership election, also said he would actively pursue no deal if a new departure plan looked impossible by
  
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• Trump at the DMZ with Kim Kong Un: Just a stunt?

  30-06-2019 20:15 via cnn.com
  President Trump repeatedly complained about press coverage as he visited the DMZ and made a historic step into North Korean territory. Katie Rogers, Frank Bruni and Bianna Golodryga discuss the coverage and Trump's praise for autocrats who oppose press freedom.
  
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• Trump at the DMZ with Kim: Just a stunt?

  30-06-2019 20:15 via cnn.com
  President Trump repeatedly complained about press coverage as he visited the DMZ and made a historic step into North Korean territory. Katie Rogers, Frank Bruni and Bianna Golodryga discuss the coverage and Trump's praise for autocrats who oppose press freedom.
  
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• World's biggest divorce settlement will see Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, pay $38 billion to wife, MacKenzie

  30-06-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the world's richest man, is to pay $38bn (£29bn) to settle the divorce with his wife of nearly 26 years, MacKenzie Bezos. A judge is expected to rubber-stamp the world's most expensive divorce settlement this week, confirming an agreement which will see Ms Bezos, taking a four per cent stake in the online shopping behemoth. The couple, who have four children, married in 1993, before Mr Bezos set up Amazon from his garage in Seattle. Ms Bezos, 49, who w
  
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• Malcolm Turnbull pulled back from Neg legislation after Dutton and Pyne 'went nuts'

  30-06-2019 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Peter Dutton quoted in Niki Savva’s book as saying he and Pyne had national energy guarantee bill killed off to avoid ‘disaster’ Malcolm Turnbull planned to bring on legislation giving effect to the national energy guarantee to stare down opposition from conservative dissidents in the Coalition party room, but pulled back after Peter Dutton and Christopher Pyne “went nuts”.Fresh details about the internal brawl over the fate of Turnbull’s signature energy poli
  
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• Trump's press secretary bruised in 'all out brawl' with N. Koreans

  30-06-2019 19:59 via cnn.com
  The new White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, got into a scuffle with North Korean officials on Sunday during a chaotic scene outside a meeting room where US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talked privately.
  
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• Press secretary bruised in 'all out brawl' with N. Koreans

  30-06-2019 19:59 via cnn.com
  The new White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, got into a scuffle with North Korean officials on Sunday during a chaotic scene outside a meeting room where US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talked privately.
  
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• Theresa May makes veiled attack on Boris Johnson's Brexit policy

  30-06-2019 19:54 via theguardian.com
  PM says Britain must leave EU with ‘a good deal’ in apparent rebuke to ‘do or die’ comment
  Theresa May has made a thinly veiled attack on Boris Johnson’s “do or die” approach to leaving the EU on 31 October, insisting that the right approach for Britain was to leave with a deal.Attending her last EU summit in Brussels as prime minister on Sunday, May took aim at the approach of the Tory leadership frontrunner, who has taken an increasingly hardline appro
  
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• Murder suspect wanted secret soundproof room with hooks on ceiling, contractor says

  30-06-2019 19:52 via cnn.com
  A contractor says the man suspected of killing a University of Utah student who vanished nearly two weeks ago had asked him to build a secret soundproof room in his home.
  
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• Contractor says suspect in killing of college student asked him to build a secret room

  30-06-2019 19:52 via cnn.com
  A contractor says the man suspected of killing a University of Utah student who vanished nearly two weeks ago had asked him to build a secret soundproof room in his home.
  
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• Nigeria protesters demand end to anti-Boko Haram militia

  30-06-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 2,000 people protested Sunday in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, calling for a ban on the anti-Boko Haram CJTF militia they accuse of abuses after the killing of a rickshaw driver.The protesters blocked major roads in the Suleimanti area of the city and set fires, causing chaos despite pleas from police and military officers, an AFP reporter at the scene saw."We want the CJTF to be banned from the city because of the abuses we suffer in their hands," said Suleimanti resident B
  
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• Turkish police disperse banned LGBT march with tear gas

  30-06-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Activists gathered in Istanbul to promote rights for gay and transgender people Sunday before police dispersed the crowd at a pride event that Turkish authorities had banned for the fifth year.The rally on a side street to Istanbul's main pedestrian avenue drew several hundred people, who cheered and waved rainbow flags.Istanbul Pride organizers said the Istanbul governor's office banned the march from central Taksim district as well as a square designated for demonstrations west of the city.
  
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• Why horror movie maestro wanted to make Fox News series

  30-06-2019 19:42 via cnn.com
  CNN's Brian Stelter talks to Alex Metcalf and Jason Blum, executive producers of "The Loudest Voice," about why they wanted to create a Fox News drama series.
  
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• Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong-un – cartoon

  30-06-2019 19:39 via theguardian.com
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• O'Rourke visits Mexico, meets turned away US asylum seekers

  30-06-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke visited Mexico on Sunday and listened to tearful immigrants say they fled Central American violence and turmoil to seek asylum in the U.S., but were turned away at the border.A fluent Spanish speaker, O'Rourke met around a table at a shelter with immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, some of whom wept as they told of being denied entry into the U.S. while their asylum claims are processed."We hope, by sharing these stories, that the
  
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• Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner tie the knot for the second time in France

  30-06-2019 19:28 via cnn.com
  Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner have tied the knot again, this time in the country home to the most romantic city in the world.
  
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• Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner tie the knot for the second time

  30-06-2019 19:28 via cnn.com
  Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner have tied the knot again, this time in the country home to the most romantic city in the world.
  
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• Warning on 'crypto' fecal parasite that can live for days in swimming pools

  30-06-2019 19:25 via cnn.com
  Health officials are asking Americans to take precautions over reports that "crypto," a fecal parasite that can be transmitted via swimming pools, is on the rise.
  
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• Sudan protesters take to streets for first time since army crackdown

  30-06-2019 19:17 via theguardian.com
  One man reported dead as security forces block roads and fire teargas in Khartoum
  Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of cities in Sudan in the first mass demonstrations since a crackdown on a protest camp early in June left at least 128 people dead.In Khartoum, the capital, protesters demanded that the ruling transitional military council (TMC) hand over power to civilians, as security forces fired teargas at them. Continue reading...
  
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• Booker: Biden is 'causing a lot of frustration and even pain with his words'

  30-06-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., criticized 2020 presidential rival Joe Biden on Sunday, saying the former vice president was doing a poor job of healing racial divisions in the country.
  
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• Booker: Biden's words 'causing a lot of frustration and even pain'

  30-06-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The New Jersey senator says Biden is definitely not bringing people together.
  
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• Set the record straight on Lord Longford and Ian Brady | Letters

  30-06-2019 19:05 via theguardian.com
  Peter Stanford of the Longford Trust on a report about the Moors murdererIn reporting how Moors murderer Ian Brady was allowed by prison authorities to mix with “vulnerable borstal boys” on a hospital wing at Wormwood Scrubs prison in the 1970s (Report, 27 June), even after it was alleged he had sexually assaulted one of them, the article added that Brady “received support from Lord Longford”. It did not specify what that support was, but the clear implication was that he
  
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• Hunt for pet-eating python as 9ft snake goes on the loose in Cambridge

  30-06-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Rabbit and chicken owners in Cambridge have been warned to be vigilant following the escape of a nine-foot reticulated python. The non-venomous snake is unlikely to pose a threat to human life but could make small animals like rabbits and chickens its prey. Police in Cambridgeshire received reports that a snake had been spotted near Lovell Road in Cambridge. In the early hours of Sunday morning officers attended the area but failed to spot the animal. The snake's owners have been located an
  
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