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Jun 27, 2019
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi police department will be outfitted with body cameras in an attempt to become more transparent. News outlets report the Jackson Police Department unveiled the cameras Tuesday and will begin training Thursday. Jackson Police spokesman Sam Brown says officers are required to turn the cameras on once they're alerted of a...
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Jun 27, 2019
Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she loved Spanish-speaking attempts by some of the Democratic presidential candidates Wednesday night, but found their question dodging in the language "humorous." The Bronx Democrat spoke with host Stephen Colbert in an appearance on the "Late Show" soon after the first presidential primary debate in Miami, where Rep. Beto O'Rourke...
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Jun 27, 2019
Post debate expert Eric Soufer worked on presidential campaigns for John Edwards and Barack Obama and was a top adviser to former state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. Now a top political operative at Tusk Strategies, he rated the 10 Democrats who took part in the first 2020 debate Wednesday night....
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Jun 27, 2019
Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 Republican in the House, was ready to play ball for the GOP two years after a shooting at a congressional baseball practice nearly killed him. "It was touch and go if I even would make it," he said on "The Story with Martha MacCallum." "I am moving a lot better … I...
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Jun 27, 2019
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A woman has been convicted of murder after leaving her 3-year-old daughter in an SUV for 9 1/2 hours during a blazing California summer and saying she wanted to remove "lustful demons" from the girl. Angela Phakhin was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder and torture. Authorities say Phakhin and her fiance repeatedly...
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Jun 27, 2019
TORRANCE, Calif. — A shark attack has killed a Southern California woman vacationing in the Bahamas. Royal Bahamas Police Force Deputy Commissioner Paul Rolle says 21-year-old Jordan Lindsay of Torrance was attacked by three sharks on Wednesday near Rose Island while snorkeling with her family. KABC-TV says Lindsay's parents and other family members saw the...
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Jun 27, 2019
The trial of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher took another surprising turn Wednesday when a fellow SEAL got on the stand and defended the decorated combat veteran, saying his alleged killing of a wounded ISIS fighter was justified and that earlier testimony from two snipers — who accused him of shooting unarmed civilians for no reason...
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Jun 27, 2019
MIAMI, Fla. — With long answers in Spanish, repeated interruptions and a dizzying array of pie-in-the-sky progressive proposals, 10 Democratic candidates for the presidency tried desperately on Wednesday to rise above the pack. The first of two Dem debates — the other 10 hopefuls take the stage Thursday — featured nine candidates polling in single...
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Jun 27, 2019
MIAMI, Fla. — Ten of the 20 top contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday staked out their positions on immigration, health care, Iran and the economy — and ripped into President Trump. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren came out swinging on the economy — which is expected to set a new record in July....
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Jun 26, 2019
The record amount of cocaine seized by US Customs in Philadelphia last week totaled nearly 20 tons, the agency said Wednesday. The enormous haul of coke — with a street value of more than $1 billion — was seized from a large ship at the Packer Marine Terminal in Philadelphia on June 18, the US...
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Jun 26, 2019
Someone might want to remind O.J. Simpson that he's a convicted felon. "The Juice" had Twitter talking yet again on Wednesday night after announcing that he'd be watching the Democratic presidential primary debates — even though he can't vote. "Hey Twitter world, it's me — yours truly," said Simpson in a video posted on his...
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Jun 26, 2019
MIAMI, Fla. — Mayor Bill de Blasio brought up a controversial talk he had with his biracial son, Dante, in his answer to a question at the Democratic debate in Miami on Wednesday night — one that once damaged his relationship with the NYPD. De Blasio recalled a conversation about how young black men should...
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Jun 26, 2019
After hot-mic technical difficulties brought the 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate to a shocking pause, President Trump blasted NBC, the network hosting the contest, as "truly unprofessional." Trump made the statement in his second tweet of the night after the 10 candidates on the stage in Miami were unable to hear questions from second-half moderators...
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Jun 26, 2019
MIAMI, Fla. — Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who represented El Paso, and ex-HUD Director Julian Castro, a former mayor of San Antonio got into a Texas-sized tussle on immigration Wednesday night at the first Democratic debate. Castro has said he wants to decriminalize border crossings, explaining to the debate audience that the country shouldn't "criminalize...
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Jun 26, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard's sister blasted MSNBC during Wednesday night's Democratic debate, claiming the cable network was giving Elizabeth Warren too much speaking time on the stage. "It's clear who MSNBC wants to be president: Elizabeth Warren," read a tweet from Gabbard's account signed "V (Tulsi's sister)." "They're giving her more time than all the other candidates...
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Jun 26, 2019
President Trump sent his first tweet a little more than half an hour into the Democratic presidential primary debate on Wednesday, and made clear what he thought of the proceeding. "BORING!" Trump tweeted at 9:35 p.m. as Democratic hopefuls — including Mayor de Blasio, Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Beto O'Rourke —...
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Jun 26, 2019
President Trump sent his first tweet a little more than half an hour into the Democratic presidential primary debate on Wednesday, and made clear what he thought of the proceeding. "BORING!" Trump tweeted at 9:35 p.m. as Democratic hopefuls — including Mayor Bill de Blasio, Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Beto O'Rourke —...
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Jun 26, 2019
President Trump ditched the opening minutes of the first Democratic debate to greet service members in Alaska while Air Force One was refueling. "I had my choice between you and them. And I chose you," Trump told troops at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage as the 9 p.m. debate began. Trump, who earlier said...
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Jun 26, 2019
Beto O'Rourke kicked off the Democratic presidential debate Wednesday night by busting out his fluent Spanish while responding to his first question. The former Texas Rep. started his answer in English from the debate stage in Miami, but he quickly switched to Spanish to show his familiarity with the Latino audience. "This economy has got...
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Jun 26, 2019
"Let's not lose sight that the unborn baby is the victim here,'' said Pleasant Grove Police Lt. Danny Reid.
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Jun 26, 2019
Mayor Bill de Blasio managed to bungle Wednesday night's debate before it even started. De Blasio's upstart presidential campaign introduced labor leader Stuart Appelbaum as one of his supporters preceding the first Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami Wednesday night — but Appelbaum said he wasn't backing Hizzoner. "I'm not a surrogate for anyone," the labor...
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Jun 26, 2019
Former USC gynecologist George Tyndall — who was accused of sexual abuse and harassment by hundreds of women last year — was finally arrested Wednesday following an 18-month investigation. The LAPD and Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, which handled the probe, announced his charges in a press release and ensuing press conference. "Dr. Tyndall...
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Jun 26, 2019
A UK woman died from suffocation when she strangled herself for an online creep who paid her to perform "dangerous and degrading" webcam sex acts while he watched from home, a coroner ruled Wednesday. Disability worker Hope Barden, 21, was moonlighting as a webcam girl to make extra cash when pervert Jerome Dangar, 45, paid...
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Jun 26, 2019
President Trump on Wednesday issued a memo directing the Pentagon to allow athletes at military academies to play professional sports directly after they graduate from the schools. The memo, which was released by the White House on Wednesday evening, states that the policy will help the military academies to better compete against other colleges, benefiting...
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Jun 26, 2019
A woman in Michigan has filed a class-action lawsuit against J. Alexander's restaurant after alleging she was the victim of racial discrimination at a location just outside of Detroit. On Wednesday afternoon, however, the restaurant responded with a lengthy statement, calling the woman's allegations false and claiming to have surveillance footage that proves the staff...
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Jun 26, 2019
The 2-year-old girl who got hit by a foul ball at a Houston Astros game last month suffered a skull fracture from the incident — and then a seizure after she was hospitalized — and is now on medication as a result, her family says. The youngster's loved ones publicly disclosed her condition on Tuesday,...
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Jun 26, 2019
A Manhattan man who shot and killed his father after the millionaire hedge-funder cut his allowance, lived the good life — and didn't want to have to work for it, prosecutors said Wednesday. "The defendant rejected hard work, instead, preferring an easy life handed to him on a silver platter," Assistant DA Craig Ortner said...
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Jun 26, 2019
The 20 presidential candidates taking the national stage during the two-night Democratic primary debates are ready for their close-ups — thanks to some ace TV-production experts. The Wednesday and Thursday debates will feature a historically diverse field, posing a unique challenge for the crew tasked with lighting the stage, according to TMZ. Because the panel...
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Jun 26, 2019
A Reddit forum for self-described supporters of President Trump was "quarantined" on Wednesday over threats against police and public officials in Oregon, the tech giant said. Reddit officials said the moderators on the subreddit "r/The_Donald" — which counts about 750,000 followers — had encouraged or allowed behavior that broke the site's violence policy. "We are...
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Jun 26, 2019
HONG KONG - Thousands of people in Hong Kong joined an evening protest and marched to major foreign consulates on Wednesday, urging leaders gathering for this week's summit of G20 nations to back their demand to scrap a controversial extradition bill. Holding placards with messages such as "Please liberate Hong Kong," the demonstrators, some wearing...
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Jun 26, 2019
The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill authorizing $4.6 billion in emergency spending for humanitarian aid at the southern border, setting up a fight with the House, which approved a version that puts sharp restrictions on the Trump administration. President Trump backs the Senate measure. Senate Republicans were pressing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass...
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Jun 26, 2019
A smoldering cigarette or an electrical malfunction could be what sparked the massive Notre Dame Cathedral fire, Paris prosecutors said on Wednesday. There's no evidence the April 15 blaze that gutted the 850-year-old cathedral was deliberate, prosecutors said, following a two-month preliminary probe where investigators interviewed 100 witnesses and examined more than 1,200 clues. "Several...
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Jun 26, 2019
Gov. Andrew Cuomo took Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to task for making an inappropriate comparison to the Holocaust by calling detention facilities at the southern border "concentration camps". "I think it's a wholly inappropriate comparison. The Holocaust, you're taking about a tragedy of biblical proportion and one of the greatest tragedies in history," Cuomo told reporters...
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Jun 26, 2019
A young father tragically plunged to his death in Ibiza after falling asleep on a hotel balcony and rolling off, an inquest has heard. Carl Shepherd Liverpool, 28, was holidaying with friends in nightlife hotspot Play d'en Bossa when after a big night drinking he passed out outside his hotel room. Southwark Coroner's Court heard...
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Jun 26, 2019
President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court on charges of residential mortgage fraud and other state crimes, officials said. Manafort, who is currently being held in a federal jail in Manhattan, faces a 16-count indictment filed in March, including charges of conspiracy, falsifying business records...
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Jun 26, 2019
A 5-year-old Minnesota boy who was tossed off a third-story Mall of America balcony has endured more than 15 medical procedures or surgeries - and it's unclear when he'll return home from a hospital, a family spokesman said. Landen Hoffman, of Woodbury, is continuing to face "serious complications" stemming from the random April 12 attack...
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Jun 26, 2019
President Trump said Wednesday he hated to see the heart-wrenching photo of the dead Central American man and his young daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande while trying to reach the US — but then quickly blamed Democrats for the tragedy. "I hate it, and it could stop immediately if the Democrats change the...
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Jun 26, 2019
The United States and North Korea? are involved in talks for a third summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un, seeking to jump-start negotiations after a previous meeting in February collapsed without an agreement on nuclear weapons. ?"?Both sides have been engaged in dialogue in regard to a third summit,?"? ?South Korean President Moon...
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Jun 26, 2019
A Norwegian tycoon's wife who was believed to have been kidnapped eight months ago was likely killed, according to police, who said it's possible her abduction was staged to hide her death. Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, who is married to real estate developer Tom Hagen, was reported missing Oct. 31 from the couple's home east of...
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Jun 26, 2019
President Trump on Wednesday urged faith-based groups to get behind his 2020 re-election campaign because he said everything can change "very quickly" if the "wrong person" gets in the White House. "We've done things that are so good and so righteous and also so fragile," the president told the Faith & Freedom Coalition in Washington,...
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Jun 26, 2019
A great-grandma took matters into her own hands when she found a cobra slithering outside her Pennsylvania home — bashing the venomous snake to death with a shovel. Kathy Kehoe, 73, of Falls Township in Bucks County spotted the reptile on her property on Monday after she heard birds squawking outside. "I opened the door....
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Jun 26, 2019
Mayor Bill de Blasio can't escape the long arm of the NYPD's biggest union as he continues his quixotic quest for the White House. Nearly two dozen members of the city's Police Benevolent Association plan to protest against Hizzoner before he takes the stage at Wednesday night's first Democratic presidential primary debate in Miami. The...
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Jun 26, 2019
Here's how to watch the top 20 Democratic presidential contenders wage battle during their first debates Thursday and Friday — 10 one night and another 10 the next. The debates will be televised live from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami both nights from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. New York...
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Jun 26, 2019
A Florida man who sparked worldwide outrage after being accused of causing the death of Pinky, a popular dancing flamingo at Busch Gardens, has been fatally struck by a truck two months before he was set to go on trial. Joseph Corrao, 48, was killed June 5 as he crossed a busy road near his...
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Jun 26, 2019
President Trump's feud with US Women's soccer team co-captain Megan Rapinoe featured a social-media gaffe Wednesday, when he accidentally tagged a similarly-named woman in a tweet — sending her anonymous account viral. "Women's soccer player, @mPinoe, just stated that she is ‘not going to the F…ing White House if we win,'" Trump wrote in a...
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Jun 26, 2019
Alyssa Milano arrived in Miami ahead of Wednesday night's first Democratic presidential primary debate - and Sen. Bernie Sanders is aggressively seeking her endorsement, The Post has learned. Sanders has personally phoned Milano several times in recent weeks in a bid win her backing, a source close to "Charmed" actress said. "Of all the Democratic...
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Jun 26, 2019
A Florida man who touted his ability to use a "powerhouse combination of psychology and quantum physics" to treat women who were sexually abused was busted for practicing medicine without a license, police said. Phillip Stutzman, 43, of Lakewood Ranch was arrested Thursday after three women told police in Sarasota that he posed as Dr....
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Jun 26, 2019
A Tennessee monster was arrested for raping a little girl every night for the past three years, according to new reports. William Paul Godwin, 58, of Parsons, violated the little girl from the time she was 5 until she was 8, according to court documents obtained by The Jackson Sun. He was arrested by Parsons...
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Jun 26, 2019
Looks like he blew them all away. Attorney General Bill Barr surprised attendees at the US Attorneys' National Conference Wednesday morning by performing "Scotland the Brave" on the bagpipes. Barr was joined onstage by the NYPD Emerald Society, a pipe and drum band, who were performing before his scheduled remarks at Justice Department headquarters in...
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Jun 26, 2019
President Trump ?lashed out at Megan Rapinoe, the co-captain of the USA women's soccer team, after she said there's no "f—ing" way she'd go to the White House if they win the Women's World Cup. ??"Megan should never disrespect our Country, the White House, or our Flag, especially since so much has been done for...
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Jun 26, 2019
Two more Florida deputies involved in last year's Parkland school massacre have been fired for neglect of duty, the Broward County sheriff announced Wednesday. Deputies Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh were fired Tuesday for their inaction in the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed, Sheriff Gregory...
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Jun 26, 2019
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's president on Wednesday signed death sentences for four people convicted of drug-related offenses in a decision analysts said is aimed at boosting his chances of re-election later this year. Maithripala Sirisena was elected as a reformist in January 2015, but has struggled to fulfill pledges including addressing human rights abuses, eliminating...
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Jun 26, 2019
A Queens man who mowed down a highway cop in Florida with his BMW and then fled was busted in the Big Apple borough nearly a month after the dramatic, caught-on-camera incident, police said. Donnell Reddy, 25, of Jamaica was nabbed on Friday in Queens in connection to the May 25 police hit-and-run in which...
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Jun 26, 2019
An engaged North Carolina woman says she got "deathly sick" on a Dominican Republic vacation after drinking from her resort's poolside bar. "I FaceTimed my daughter and … I was crying, I said, ‘I don't know if I'm going to make it back home,'" Teresa McAbee told news station WYFF. McAbee said she checked into...
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Jun 26, 2019
LONDON - Hackers working for China's Ministry of State Security broke into networks of eight of the world's biggest technology service providers in an effort to steal commercial secrets from their clients, according to sources familiar with the attacks. Reuters today reported extensive new details about the global hacking campaign, known as Cloud Hopper and...
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Jun 26, 2019
?Count President Trump among the viewers? who will tune in to the first Democratic presidential debates that begin Wednesday evening in Miami. "It just seems very boring, but I'm going to watch it because I have to," ?Trump said in an interview on Fox Business Network. "This is part of my life." ?He'll be aboard...
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Jun 26, 2019
A 2-year-old boy vanished from his Virginia home after his mom put him to bed early this week — and he's been missing ever since, according to local police. Noah Tomlin was last seen around 1 a.m. Monday, when his mother told police she laid him down for the night at their Hampton mobile home,...
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Jun 26, 2019
An ambitious group of suspected state-backed hackers has been burrowing into telecommunications companies in order to spy on high-profile targets across the world, a US cybersecurity firm said in a report published Tuesday.
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Jun 26, 2019
A Denver dad was so sick he was booted off his return flight from the Dominican Republic, and has spent the past three days there in critical condition — vomiting, alone and screaming in pain in a hospital bed, his relatives said. Khalid Adkins became so ill on the trip with his daughter that he...
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Jun 26, 2019
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman for allegedly failing to file a required financial disclosure report after her 2017 firing. The civil complaint alleges that the former "Apprentice" star "knowingly and willfully" failed to "file the required public financial disclosure report after her employment terminated with...
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Jun 26, 2019
President Trump on Wednesday said he's sticking with Vice President Mike Pence as his 2020 running mate, ruling out dumping him for former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. "I love Nikki. She's endorsed me. She's my friend. She's a part of my campaign. But Mike has been a great vice president. He's a hundred percent," Trump...
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Jun 26, 2019
President Trump on Wednesday said he hopes the US will not go to war with Iran - but that if the two nations end up in military conflict, America's use of force would be overwhelming. "I hope we don't, but we're in a very strong position if something should happen," Trump told Fox Business Network...
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Jun 26, 2019
The Massachusetts motor vehicles chief has resigned amid revelations that the trucker charged in the deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire was able to keep his commercial driver's license despite being busted for DWI in Connecticut last month. Erin Deveney stepped down from her $143,800-a-year job heading the Registry of Motor Vehicles just hours...
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Jun 26, 2019
?President Trump said "it never ends" in reaction to news that special counsel Robert Mueller would appear before two House committees next month to testify about his Russia investigation. "Well, my reaction is that it never ends," Trump said Wednesday on Fox Business. He went on to reiterate that "we had no obstruction, we had...
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Jun 26, 2019
The National Security Agency collected data in calls and text messages in the United States that it wasn't authorized to gather, the second incident since 2015, a report on Wednesday said. The collection of the data - which included numbers and time stamps of a call or text message, but not the conversations - was...
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Jun 26, 2019
The grisly slaying of a Virginia doctor coincided with a week-long bloodbath in Belize that left eight others murdered, according to a report. Gary Paul Swank, 53, a cardiologist at Carilion Clinic, was shot dead Sunday as officials say the tourist destination has become "paralyzed by crime," Belize Live News reported. "We are fed up...
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Jun 26, 2019
A New Jersey couple vanished while on vacation in Barbados after they rented a jet ski and never returned, according to police and family. Oscar Suarez, 32, and Magdalena Devil, 25, of Essex County were last seen on Monday at around 2:30 p.m. when they rented the jet ski from an operator at Holetown Beach...
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Jun 26, 2019
A dangerous and potentially deadly heat wave is sending the mercury soaring as high as 113 degrees in parts of Europe this week. Countries including France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Belgium and Austria will see record-setting temperatures in the 90s and even higher. French meteorologist Guillaume Woznica predicted Nîmes and Carpentras in the southern part...
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Jun 26, 2019
A substitute teacher in Texas was axed after recording pornographic videos of herself inside a classroom - and then uploading the footage to a commercial website, police and school officials said. But the teacher, who worked at El Campo High School in southeast Texas for just three months, won't face criminal charges for the footage...
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Jun 26, 2019
The graves of more than 30 US Marines and sailors killed in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II are believed to have been found on the remote atoll of Tarawa. The discovery was made in March by History Flight, a nonprofit organization that searches for the remains of US servicemen lost in...
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Jun 26, 2019
A Virginia doctor and his tour guide were murdered during a fly-fishing expedition in Belize, authorities said. Gary Paul Swank, 53, a cardiologist at Carilion Clinic, who was recently promoted to associate professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, was on vacation with his wife and school-aged children when he was killed on...
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Jun 26, 2019
First son Eric Trump accused a female employee at a Chicago cocktail lounge of spitting at him in the face in what he described as a "disgusting act," according to reports. "It was purely a disgusting act by somebody who clearly has emotional problems," President Trump's middle son told the conservative Breitbart News. Trump then...
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Jun 26, 2019
The National Rifle Association will no longer produce new material for NRATV — a move that coincides with the end of their business ties with long-term advertising firm Ackerman McQueen, according to a report. The development, reported by the New York Times, was considered inevitable as the relationship between the NRA and Ackerman — which...
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Jun 26, 2019
A New Mexico woman is accused of running a house of horrors where she tortured and beat some of her 15 children and forced them to watch as she boiled their puppies alive, authorities said Tuesday. One of Martha Crouch's seven daughters told investigators that after one of the family's dogs gave birth, the mother...
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Jun 26, 2019
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Authorities in Southern California say a woman has been arrested after her 12-year-old son accidentally shot and killed his twin brother. San Bernardino police say they responded to a shooting around 7:30 p.m. Monday and found the boy, who died at a hospital. The department says an investigation revealed the siblings...
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Jun 26, 2019
MORGAN HILL, Calif. — A man who had just been fired from a Northern California Ford dealership shot and killed two employees and then killed himself Tuesday evening, police and witnesses said. Police called to the Ford Store Morgan Hill found a man shot dead of an apparently self-inflicted wound on the ground outside some...
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Jun 26, 2019
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. military says two service members have been killed in Afghanistan. It did not offer any details surrounding the circumstances of their deaths. The statement says the killings occurred Wednesday, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a quick visit to the Afghan capital of Kabul where he...
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Jun 26, 2019
A New Jersey mother got "jumped" and beaten unconscious by a 13-year-old boy who had been bullying her son — just one day after she complained about the alleged torment, her lawyer says. The bully was one of three students who had been threatening violence on Beronica Ruiz's son — allegedly telling him "to go...
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Jun 26, 2019
Joan Crawford's daughter says her "Mommie Dearest" should have been tossed in the slammer. Christina Crawford, whose memoir about her abusive Hollywood movie star mom was turned into a 1981 film starring Faye Dunaway, said her nightmarish parent would be rotting behind bars these days, according to a report. In an interview reflecting on life...
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Jun 25, 2019
House Democrats on Tuesday pushed through a $4.5 billion emergency border aid package after a small revolt by the progressive wing of the party threatened to torpedo the legislation. After last-minute changes to the bill to gain support from left-leaning Democrats, the bill passed along party lines by a vote of 230-195. The bill earmarks...
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Jun 25, 2019
The co-captain of the US Women's soccer team balked at the idea of visiting the White House if her team wins the World Cup, saying she wouldn't "f—-g" go. Megan Rapinoe made the declaration during an interview Tuesday with Eight by Eight Magazine. "I'm not going to the f—-g White House," Rapinoe scoffed. "No, I'm...
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Jun 25, 2019
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee in mid-July, officials said Tuesday. Rep. Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, announced on Twitter that Mueller agreed to testify in an open session on July 17 in accordance with a subpoena. "Americans have...
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Jun 25, 2019
Let the battle royale begin! The 20 contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination will spend the next two nights clobbering each other on a Miami stage in what analysts predict will be a pair of knock-down, drag-out debates. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will be center stage Wednesday night, alongside former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, New...
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Jun 25, 2019
Candela Saccone, 15, had been scheduled to return home from Punta Cana on June 19 after traveling there earlier in the week, but she reportedly got sick that morning.
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Jun 25, 2019
The family of a teenager missing for 11 years finally learned what happened to him this month, when they heard of his arrest for allegedly killing the father who kidnapped him, according to reports. Relatives of Anthony Templet searched for him for more than a decade after he was snatched from his Houston, TX., home...
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Jun 25, 2019
A person on a San Francisco rooftop was caught on camera dumping a bucket of water onto a homeless woman camped out on the sidewalk. Video posted to Twitter shows the person atop a two-story building at 20th and Bryant streets drench the woman and her belongings last Saturday, according to an NBC affiliate. "She...
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Jun 25, 2019
A chemical banned from hand sanitizers — but still lawfully used by Colgate in one of its toothpastes — may double a woman's chances of developing bone disease osteoporosis, a new study claims. Women with high exposure to triclosan were more likely to have bone issues, with Chinese researchers associating the ingredient commonly used in...
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Jun 25, 2019
A home-surveillance system in Florida captured a man on video as he pulled into another person's driveway and defecated on the ground, a report said Tuesday. The suspect pulled into the Wilton Thomas' driveway in North Lauderdale on Saturday, dropped trou and relieved himself, video obtained by a local CNN affiliate shows. He then cleaned...
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Jun 25, 2019
Police released new footage Tuesday of the arsonist who set two gay pride flags ablaze outside of a Harlem bar on the eve of Pride month. The fire was set on May 31 just after midnight outside of Alibi Lounge on West 139th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. The new video show the...
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Jun 25, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco became the first major US city to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes after supervisors gave the measure its second and final vote Tuesday. Backers say they hope the legislation will curb underage use of e-cigarettes, but critics say the ban will make it harder for adults to purchase an...
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Jun 25, 2019
A heartbreaking photo shows the bodies of a 23-month-old El Salvadoran immigrant still clinging to her father on the shore of the Rio Grande River on Monday — after they drowned while desperately trying to cross into the United States. Local media identified the dead as Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his little girl Valeria....
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Jun 25, 2019
WASHINGTON - During an emotional meeting, a group of 9/11 first responders persuaded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday to commit to passing a bill in August to reauthorize the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund. In a moving moment, the advocates handed McConnell the badge of gravely ill, cancer-stricken police detective Luis Alvarez, who testified...
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Jun 25, 2019
Drug smugglers tried to ship a record 333 pounds of cocaine from Panama to Maryland in a container of beach chairs — but the operation folded, according to a report. Authorities seized the blow at the Port of Baltimore earlier this month, in the largest bust ever at the location, US Customs and Border Patrol...
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Jun 25, 2019
ALBANY—Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top lawyer Alphonso David will become president of the nation's largest LGBT civil rights group — Human Rights Campaign. David served Cuomo for more than a decade, first when he was state attorney general as well as during his nine years as governor. "It's been the pleasure of a lifetime to serve...
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Jun 25, 2019
The estranged husband of a missing New Canaan mother Jennifer Dulos crossed state lines into New York on Monday — a possible violation of the conditions of his release, a new report said Tuesday. Fotis was released on a $500,000 bond on June 11 after pleading not guilty to charges of hindering prosecution and tampering...
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Jun 25, 2019
Police are looking at the dating apps of a missing University of Utah sorority sister who disappeared last week shortly after taking a Lyft ride. Salt Lake City Police confirmed Tuesday that 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck's dating life has become part of the investigation after receiving tips that she was interested in older men and casually...
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Jun 25, 2019
Hogg told The Washington Post that "killing him to end the anti-gun movement would be "the stupidest thing they could do to try to" to stop his mission.
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Jun 25, 2019
Police released the emotional video of the moment police in Georgia find a baby struggling inside a plastic grocery bag lying in the woods. The footage from the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office was released with the hopes that someone might come forward and identify the child. A person in the video tells a deputy that...
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Jun 25, 2019
Authorities in the nation's fourth-largest city are searching for a suspect who was seen on video earlier this month beating an elderly man during a violent robbery. The Houston Police Department said the incident happened on June 5 around 3:40 p.m. when the 89-year-old man was returning home from a walk and was approached by...
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Jun 25, 2019
President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor Tuesday to former Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia for his heroic actions as a squad leader in Fallujah, making him the first living Iraq War veteran to receive the recognition. During Operation Phantom Fury in 2004, Bellavia's platoon was pinned down while clearing a block of terrorist-infested houses....
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