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• Joint chiefs of staff chair says key facts still missing in Niger ambush

  23-10-2017 23:36 via theguardian.com
  Marine Corps Gen Joseph Dunford asked if the US had adequate intelligence, equipment or planning, and why it took so long to recover one fallen soldier.Three weeks after four US soldiers died in an ambush in the African nation of Niger, several key questions remain unanswered, America’s most senior military official said on Monday. Related: US special forces deaths in Niger lift veil on shadow war against Islamists in SahelContinue reading...
  
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• Virginia state trooper hit during DUI stop after another impaired driver slams into patrol vehicle

  13-06-2024 08:08 via foxnews.com
  
  A Virginia state trooper is recovering after an impaired driver hit her patrol vehicle while she was stopped with another motorist for allegedly driving under the influence.Virginia State Police said Trooper C. Aziz responded to a sedan stopped in the northbound lane of Interstate 495 in Fairfax County at around 3 a.m. on Tuesday. The driver of the sedan was still inside the vehicle and refusing to cooperate with the trooper's requests to exit or move the car to safer location, state police
  
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• Trump-backed John Lee wins GOP primary in competitive Nevada House race

  13-06-2024 07:28 via foxnews.com
  
  Former North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee has won the Republican primary for Nevada's 4th Congressional District and will face incumbent Democrat Rep. Steven Horsford in the November general election.Lee, who is backed by former President Donald Trump, was leading his closest competitor, Air Force veteran David Flippo, when the Associated Press called the race.Trump offered his endorsement less than two weeks before the primary, but it appears to have been enough to give Lee the opportunity to flip
  
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• Secret UFO civilization, aliens could be here on Earth already: Harvard scientists

  13-06-2024 06:18 via foxnews.com
  
  Researchers at Harvard University and Montana Technological University speculated that an unidentified, technologically advanced population could be living among humans secretly on Earth.In a new paper, the team hypothesized that sightings of UFOs (or UAP, unidentified anomalous phenomena) "may reflect activities of intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth (e.g., underground), and/or its near environs (e.g., the Moon), and/or even 'walking among us' (e.g., passing as humans)."T
  
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• Chris Dawson loses appeal against conviction for murdering wife more than 40 years ago

  13-06-2024 06:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Dawson’s lawyers had argued in the NSW court of criminal appeal that the 2022 verdict was unreasonableFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastChris Dawson has lost his appeal against his 2022 conviction for murdering his wife more than 40 years ago.A panel of judges in the New South Wales court of criminal appeal delivered their ruling on Thursday after Dawson’s lawyers earlier argued that the guil
  
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• Australia news live: Albanese defends Dutton over charter flight expense saying being opposition leader is ‘a hard job’

  13-06-2024 06:12 via theguardian.com
  Follow the day’s news liveExclusive: Peter Dutton took $23k private jet to News Corp event where he spoke on cost-of-living crisisGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastChalmers asked about findings that jobseekers unable to afford ‘basics of life’The treasurer Jim Chalmers was up on ABC News Breakfast just earlier, asked about new Anglicare data showing Australians on income support are “structurally unable to afford the basics of life&r
  
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• Tory welfare reform cost working-age families thousands while pensioners benefited – report

  13-06-2024 06:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Retirees or those on disability benefit are biggest annual winners, while large families are £4,600 worse off, says Resolution FoundationPensioners and people on disability benefits are the winners from radical changes to the welfare system made by the Tories over the last decade, while working-age families are losing out by thousands of pounds every year, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation.The Conservatives’ 14-year overhaul of social security has shifted spending aw
  
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• Storied Titian painting found at London bus stop after theft goes to auction

  13-06-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Work by 16th century master is expected to fetch between £15m and £25m when it goes on sale at Christie’sA highly coveted painting by the Renaissance master Titian that was stolen in 1809 then again in 1995 – after which it was discovered in a plastic bag at a London bus stop – is being put up for auction in July.The Venetian painter is believed to have created Rest on the Flight into Egypt in 1508 when he was barely 20. Painted on a 2ft wide wooden panel, the paint
  
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• More than half of UK students working long hours in paid jobs

  13-06-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Lack of maintenance support is creating two-tier higher education system, say expertsI once missed four weeks of one module’: the UK students working long hoursMore than half of full-time students are working long hours in jobs to support themselves at university, spending nearly two days a week in paid employment during term time, owing to the cost of living crisis.A survey of 10,000 full-time UK undergraduates by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) found a record 56% had paid em
  
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• Families vow to step up fight for answers on anniversary of Nottingham killings

  13-06-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Relatives of Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates instruct legal team to investigate police and health trust The families of the victims of the Nottingham attacks have vowed to take their fight for accountability “to the next level” on the one-year anniversary of the killings.In a joint statement, the families of Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates, who were killed by Valdo Calocane in the early hours of 13 June last year, said they had inst
  
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• Conservative grassroots campaign in ‘disarray’, say insiders and opponents

  13-06-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tories struggling in some areas from chronic lack of supporters to canvass and deliver leaflets, say sourcesThe Conservative on-the-ground election campaign is descending into “disarray” amid a chronic lack of volunteers and strategy and an increasing sense of panic in formerly ultra-safe seats, insiders and opponents have told the Guardian.Some areas have struggled to muster people to knock on doors and deliver leaflets due to a combination of a shrinking and ageing membership, a ca
  
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• Conflicts drive number of forcibly displaced people to record high

  13-06-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sharp rise, equivalent to population of London, means nearly 120 million have been driven from their homesThe number of people forced out of their homes around the world last year was the equivalent of the population of London, according to the UN’s refugee agency.The latest annual assessment from the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) said a sharp rise in the number of people forcibly displaced during 2023 had brought the total to a record high of more than 117 million.
  
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• Two NSW police officers charged with assaulting 92-year-old man in Sydney

  13-06-2024 05:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Elderly man taken to hospital ‘with a fracture to his right elbow and significant bruising to his head and arms’ after alleged assault in Picton, NSW police sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTwo New South Wales police officers have been charged with assaulting a 92-year-old man who was later admitted to hospital with a fractured elbow and significant bruising to his head and arms.The alleg
  
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• Celtics survive Mavericks' valiant comeback attempt, take commanding 3-0 NBA Finals lead

  13-06-2024 05:14 via foxnews.com
  
  The Boston Celtics survived a 22-2 Dallas Mavericks run in the fourth quarter to win Game 3 of the NBA Finals, 106-99, and take a commanding 3-0 series lead.Jaylen Brown hit a jumper with about one minute left in the game and the Celtics got a few key defensive stops on Kyrie Irving to crush Dallas’ hopes of a magnificent comeback to get back into the series.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMBrown only had six points in the first half and finished the game with 30 points, e
  
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• Kentucky man joins ISIS, planned on shooting planes, martyrdom, DOJ says

  13-06-2024 04:54 via foxnews.com
  
  A Kentucky man, who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) group, discussed jihad, martyrdom and shooting at planes, a federal court revealed.According to a press release from the Department of Justice, 34-year-old Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic left the U.S. for Istanbul in 2014 alongside 2 co-conspirators.The trio quickly abandoned their proposed itineraries and flew into Gaziantep, Turkey – which is near the Turkey-Syrian border.Next, they joined ISIS, a U.S. de
  
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• Judge in Greg Lynn murder trial says jury can’t find him guilty of manslaughter as an alternate verdict

  13-06-2024 04:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Justice Michael Croucher summarises case to jurors after ex-Jetstar pilot pleaded not guilty to murdering campers Russell Hill and Carol ClayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe jury in the trial of a former Jetstar pilot accused of murdering two elderly campers in the Victorian high country will not be able to consider an alternative charge of manslaughter, the state’s supreme court has heard.Gre
  
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• Deer crashes through bus windshield while driver calmly continues his route in Rhode Island

  13-06-2024 04:27 via foxnews.com
  
  Passengers on board a city transit bus in Rhode Island got more than they bargained for and an extra passenger on Monday when a deer crashed through the windshield as the driver calmly continued on the route.The incident, which happened shortly after 3 p.m. on Monday, was captured on video by the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA). It shows the deer leaping from the street straight into the windshield of the bus."On Monday, a deer unexpectedly ran into a RIPTA bus traveling on Warwick
  
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• Watchdog warns Biden admin’s vetting of asylum seekers, illegal immigrants has ‘dangerous’ weaknesses

  13-06-2024 04:15 via foxnews.com
  
  A concerning new report from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General concluded that DHS has not been effectively screening and vetting non-citizens and asylum seekers entering the United States.The report, obtained by Fox News' Bill Melugin, showed that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents can not access all federal data to complete thorough screening and vetting of those seeking entry into the U.S. The report stated that without capabilities to effectively sc
  
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• Country's food police recall various types of instant noodles for being too spicy

  13-06-2024 04:13 via foxnews.com
  
  The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration announced the recall of three types of South Korean spicy instant noodle products because the capsaicin, or chili pepper extract level is so high it could pose a health hazard.Seoul-based Samyang Foods — considered one of the South Korea’s largest companies — makes the noodles which are sold around the world.The Danish authorities have recalled Buldak Samyang 3 X Spicy & Hot Chicken noodles, Buldak Samyang 2 x Spicy & Hot Ch
  
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• Jake Paul discusses his biggest issues with state of country, what 'young people want' out of a president

  13-06-2024 04:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Jake Paul may not be the normal 27-year-old in the United States. In fact, he's made his home in Puerto Rico in recent years.However, born and raised in Cleveland and calling the U.S. home for most of his life, the YouTuber-turned-boxer is still well in tune with what's going on in the United States.Paul recently told The Hollywood Reporter that Donald Trump will more than likely get his vote in November, but on "Jesse Watters Tonight," he said that's not necessarily a political decision.CLICK H
  
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• Fani Willis files 'last ditch effort' to dismiss the appeal to have her disqualified from Trump's Georgia case

  13-06-2024 04:10 via foxnews.com
  
  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal by former President Trump and co-defendants in his case to have her disqualified from litigation over her romantic affair with a subordinate counsel. In the motion filed Wednesday, Wills argued that Fulton Superior Court found there was no sufficient evidence to support their claims that Willis has a conflict of interest, and says that there is "no basis" to appeal Judge Scott McAfee's March ruling all
  
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• Arizona man allegedly sold firearms to undercover FBI agent to ‘incite race war’

  13-06-2024 03:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Indictment says Mark Adams Prieto recruited people at gun show to help carry out mass shooting targeting minoritiesA firearms dealer in Arizona sold weapons to an undercover federal agent he believed would help him carry out his plan for a mass shooting targeting minorities, an attack that he hoped would “incite a race war”, according to a federal grand jury indictment.Mark Adams Prieto was indicted Tuesday by the grand jury in Arizona on charges of firearms trafficking, transferring
  
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• Multiple illegal immigrants wanted for murder arrested in 2-week-span in Houston

  13-06-2024 03:51 via foxnews.com
  
  In just a two-week span, fugitive operations officers from the federal Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations in Houston and the ERO Waco office successfully apprehended five illegal immigrants who are currently wanted for murder or homicide in the United States or abroad. According to a press release from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents were able to arrest a Honduran wanted in Mexico for "multiple murders," a Honduran wanted in Charlotte, NC for homicide, a
  
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• SEAN HANNITY: The world's most dangerous terrorists are coming across Joe Biden's wide-open southern border

  13-06-2024 03:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Fox News host Sean Hannity shreds President Biden’s open border on "Hannity." SEAN HANNITY: As we have been warning you again and again and again, Joe Biden is playing Russian roulette with the safety and the security of you and your family for more than three long years.  NEVADA GOVERNOR TELLS BIDEN HE'S IN DANGER OF LOSING CRITICAL STATE OVER HIGH PRICES: 'JUST DOESN'T GET IT' This program, and others on this channel, have been sounding the alarm. The media mob,
  
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• Macron suspends controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia after deadly unrest

  13-06-2024 03:45 via theguardian.com
  
  French president says suspension will give ‘full strength to dialogue on the ground’ as well as opportunity to ‘return to order’Controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia will be suspended, Emmanuel Macron has announced, after a period of deadly unrest in the French Pacific territory.The reforms, which would have altered voting rights, are contested by the Indigenous Kanak people who say they would be marginalised further should the changes go through. Continue reading
  
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• Australia’s unemployment rate dips to 4% as economy adds 40,000 new jobs

  13-06-2024 03:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Jobless rate eases as employers shrug off rising costs to keep adding to their workforcesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s unemployment rate eased last month as employers shrugged off rising costs including higher interest bills to keep adding to their workforces.The jobless rate was 4% in May, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday. That was in line with economists’
  
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• Man killed after getting electrocuted in seaside resort jacuzzi

  13-06-2024 03:37 via foxnews.com
  
  An El Paso, Texas, man vacationing at a private resort in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, has died after getting electrocuted in a jacuzzi on Tuesday, according to reports.A local NBC station in El Paso reported that the Mexican State of Sonora General Prosecutor’s Office said the man, only identified as 43-year-old Jorge N., and another person, Lizeth, N., were at the Sonoran Sea Resort and in a jacuzzi just after 10 p.m.The prosecutor's office said possible wiring failure may have ca
  
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• Atlanta bus hijacking suspect was interviewed by reporters as witness after food court shooting

  13-06-2024 03:35 via foxnews.com
  
  The man who authorities say hijacked a bus in Atlanta Tuesday and shot a passenger dead was a witness to a shooting at a downtown food court just hours before and was interviewed by reporters where he rambled about his mental health. Joseph Grier, 39, was arrested Tuesday after holding a bus driver at gunpoint and holding the remaining 17 commuters hostage as he led police on a wild chase through multiple jurisdictions.Grier was booked into the Fulton County Jail on more than two dozen char
  
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• Donald Trump confirms appearance on upcoming episode of Logan Paul's podcast

  13-06-2024 03:30 via foxnews.com
  
  YouTube sensation-turned professional wrestler Logan Paul teased a special guest for an upcoming episode of his popular podcast.On Wednesday, former president Donald Trump confirmed he will make an appearance on the June 13 episode of Paul's "Impaulsive" podcast. Trump will celebrate his 78th birthday the day after the podcast airs.In a video posted to TikTok on Wednesday, Trump and Paul appeared to engage in a face off before they both broke out in laughter. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVE
  
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• Congressional Baseball Game descends into chaos after protesters storm field

  13-06-2024 03:16 via foxnews.com
  
  Several arrests were made at the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity Wednesday night after people in attendance who appeared to be protesters of climate change stormed the field at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.The game, which raises money for local charities in the D.C. area, features Democrats and Republicans from the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.Climate change protesters chanted while holding signs that said "Stop playing games with our future," and they wore shirts th
  
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