| Ilhan Omar shares tweet mocking Rand Paul's attack: 'No wonder he ripped his toupee off' Posted: 30 Jul 2019 06:54 AM PDT  The tweet, which Omar subsequently retweeted, referenced one of Paul's neighbors, Rene Boucher, assaulting the senator while he was mowing his lawn.
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| Chicago shooting deaths: Outcry as anti-gun violence mothers shot dead while campaigning Posted: 30 Jul 2019 04:26 PM PDT  Two women who campaigned against Chicago's infamous gun violence, have themselves been shot and killed on a street corner where activists frequently stood to keep watch.The anti-gun violence group Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK), confirmed Chantell Grant and Andrea Stoudemire were killed after a blue SUV pulled up to the corner, and someone in the vehicle opened fired into the crowd."People are tired of being afraid. We're sick of being afraid. We live in these communities and then we somehow are penalised and punished for living here. If you're poor, you're poor," said MASK founder Tamar Manasseh."But when women are killed, it's not their fault. It's not because they made bad decisions. It's not they're in the wrong place at the wrong time."Police said the two women were killed on Friday night in South Side neighbourhood of Englewood, where members of the group often stood watch.Mr Grant, 26, was mother to three young children. Ms Stoudemire, 35, had two children. They were among a total of 48 people shot in the city over the weekend, eight of them fatally.Chicago has a reputation for some of the deadliest and most persistent gun violence in the country, though it is not evenly distributed.Most occurs in the South Side, which has had a large African American population and which has long suffered from poverty, partly the result of hosing laws that long discriminated against minority communities.MASK was founded in 2015 and works to "interrupt violence and crime, and teach children to grow up as friends rather than enemies".NNC News said there have been more than 1,190 shooting incidents in the city so far this year, and almost 1,530 shooting victims, according to police.Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi called the murders "senseless". He added: "We have no evidence to suggest the women were the intended targets."
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| Canadian police zero in on location in hunt for teen murder suspects Posted: 28 Jul 2019 07:15 PM PDT  Canadian police announced Sunday they had zeroed in on a small community in Manitoba in their hunt for two fugitive teens suspected in three murders. The suspects, identified as Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, have been on the run for more than a week. Authorities say they believe the two are behind the killings of 23-year-old Australian Lucas Fowler and his 24-year-old American girlfriend, Chynna Deese, as well as of Leonard Dyck, a 64-year-old Canadian.
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| Philippines is world's deadliest nation for land rights: campaign group Posted: 29 Jul 2019 05:01 PM PDT ![Philippines is world's deadliest nation for land rights: campaign group]( "Philippines is world's deadliest nation for land rights: campaign group") More than three people were murdered each week last year while protecting their land from encroaching industries, a human rights group said on Tuesday, with a four-fold increase in killings related to conflicts over water. At least 164 farmers and land rights activists were killed worldwide last year, with the Philippines accounting for the most casualties for the first time since Britain-based Global Witness began reporting such deaths in 2012. In 19 countries surveyed, mining was linked to 43 deaths, with fatal attacks also recorded at hydropower projects and in disputes involving agribusiness and logging companies.
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| Restaurant Apologizes After Asking Officer To Leave Because He Had A Gun Posted: 30 Jul 2019 12:05 AM PDT  A restaurant in San Antonio, Texas, has apologized after asking a police officer to leave the premises because he was carrying a gun.The officer was asked to leave Fogo de Chao Brazilian Steakhouse Saturday night because he was carrying a gun, KSAT reported. Texas law states that establishments can't deny service to an officer or special investigator who is carrying a weapon on the premises, as long as they are authorized to carry the weapon.The restaurant apologized to the San Antonio Police Department and the officer who was asked to leave, according to a statement."We sincerely apologize to the San Antonio Police Department and the officer in question for the incident that occurred at our restaurant last night," the statement read according to KSTA. "Unfortunately, a member of our team made the wrong call. We are working hard to address and correct this unfortunate lapse in judgement.""We will address the policy internally and make sure our team members are clear. We support, respect and appreciate everything our law enforcement does to keep each and every one of us safe, day in and day out."
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| Missouri school shooter Drew Grant killed in car crash 21 years after attack Posted: 30 Jul 2019 12:49 PM PDT  A Missouri man, who, along with an accomplice, shot and killed four studentsand a teacher at an Arkansas middle school 21 years ago, died in a car crashlast Saturday, KAIT reports
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| Sony’s making a silent, wearable air conditioner that will launch next year Posted: 29 Jul 2019 08:05 PM PDT  Global temperatures have been rising to new all-time highs this year, a fact that no one who's suffered through the heatwave that's blanketed the US in recent weeks probably needs to be reminded of. Which makes a new product Sony is working on particularly enticing: The consumer electronics giant, no joke, launched a successful crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for what would be an actual wearable air conditioner that slips on the back of a shirt and promises to keep you cool.Sony is calling the device the Reon Pocket, and it's touting the ability for the app-controlled device to lower the temperature on your back from 97F to 73F. The app would be controlled via Bluetooth, and Sony is reportedly pricing this at a very affordable US equivalent to $117.There are, to be sure, a couple of pretty big downsides. One is battery life. The device, which Sony plans to launch first in Japan, would have a battery that lasts less than two hours. Even worse than that -- if you're hoping for relief from the current hot weather, the Reon Pocket won't help you out anytime soon, as it's not coming until 2020.The release date we're hearing right now is March 2020, which will certainly be great if you're planning to, you know, attend the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympics.All that said, this device definitely sounds promising, and we can envision so many people this could benefit. Imagine, for example, having a cooling device on your back that's working to make sure you still look polished on a hot day that helps you avoid sweating like crazy when you're in a suit and headed to a business meeting.As we mentioned above, Sony successfully crowdfunded the product through the company's First Flight program which tries to gin up demand for products to give them a better chance at viability.
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| Russia declares state of emergency as wildfires rage across area size of Belgium Posted: 30 Jul 2019 10:04 AM PDT  Russia on Monday declared a state of emergency in two regions of Siberia as wildfires rage across 12,000 square miles of countryside. Terrified residents in the Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions called on the state to act as flames engulfed an area the size of Belgium. There are few inhabited zones in the path of the inferno but smoke has blanketed major cities in Siberia and the Far East, making it hard to breathe and posing health risks for the population. Over 720,000 people have signed a petition on Change.Org calling for a state of emergency to be declared across the whole of Siberia in order to draw more forces and state funding to battle the wildfires that have erupted in the past month. Residents of the affected areas have been posting photos of burning forests and smog-covered cities and villages. Local authorities have however cited at 2015 decree by the Ministry of Natural Resources that allows them not to extinguish wildfires if they do not pose a direct threat to settlements. Fire-fighting can also be avoided if the cost of the operation is higher than the estimated damage. The governor of Krasnoyarsk, Alexander Uss, defended the government's reluctance to put out the fires by comparing them to winter blizzards. He said that it can be "pointless and sometimes even harmful" to try and extinguish flames in unpopulated areas. More than 11 million hectares have already been affected by wildfires this season, Greenpeace Russia said in a statement on Friday, adding that blazes continue to spread around hundreds of thousands of hectares every day. The environmental group warned that it was no longer a regional problem and more measures should be taken. It is not immediately clear if a state of emergency in some of the affected areas will help contain the wildfires. European scientists earlier raised concerns over unprecedented fires that started sooner than usual in the Arctic this summer season releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The fires have been caused by record high temperatures combined with lightning and strong winds.
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| 79-year-old woman sentenced to jail for feeding stray cats Posted: 30 Jul 2019 08:21 AM PDT  A 79-year-old woman in Ohio has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for feeding stray cats on her back porch.
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| 'A lot of yelling': President Donald Trump had a contentious meeting with airline CEOs, report says Posted: 30 Jul 2019 08:57 AM PDT  President Donald Trump reportedly met with U.S. airline CEOs who were looking for support in their complaints against foreign airlines.
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| ‘Disgruntled’ Employee Kills Two Co-Workers Inside Mississippi Walmart: Police Posted: 30 Jul 2019 12:40 PM PDT  Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA "disgruntled employee" at a Mississippi Walmart killed two co-workers and wounded a police officer in a deadly Tuesday shootout inside the superstore, authorities said.Martez Abram, 39, a recently-terminated employee of the Southaven store, was charged with two counts of murder Tuesday afternoon, DeSoto County District Attorney John Champion said. The deadly incident began around 6:30 a.m., when Southaven police responded to reports of an active shooter at a Walmart near the Tennessee border. Abram "senselessly murdered" two store employees and wounded an officer before he was injured and apprehended, authorities said. The victims have been identified as Anthony Brown, 40, and Brandon Gales, 38, the DeSoto County Coroner's Office confirmed to The Daily Beast. "These people were doing the same thing you and I do everyday, showing up to work in an attempt to provide for their families, then became victims of a senseless violent act," Moore told reporters at a Tuesday press conference. Bernie Sanders Confronts Walmart Over 'Starvation Wages' at Shareholder MeetingSouthaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite told reporters that Abram, who is currently in surgery at Regional Medical Center, was a former "disgruntled employee who had a personal grievance with employer." Champion said Abram was terminated on Monday after showing another employee a knife in his belt. While the prosecutor did confirm that authorities are reviewing video evidence of the incident, he did not provide further details. Authorities said there were 60 employees inside the megastore, which is about 13 miles from Memphis, Tenn., when the gunfire started early Tuesday. When officers arrived, they found Abram in the parking lot and exchanged fire, Moore said."One of our officers was shot at this time. He was saved by his vest," Moore said, adding that the officer was taken to another nearby hospital. "At this point, Abram was engaged by another officer. He was struck twice by gunfire from our officer. He was taken into custody."6-Year-Old Boy Among 3 Killed at Gilroy Garlic Festival Mass ShootingGales' father told local station FOX13 that the father of three was a Walmart employee for almost over 15 years and was recently promoted to department manager. Brown, a father of two and Mississippi native, was the store manager, his family told the local news station. Phil Cox, a 70-year-old Walmart customer, told NBC News he had just left the store when he heard gunshots near him. Turning around, Cox said he saw a man sprinting into the store. "We were within milliseconds of being very close to him, coming right at him, and maybe being in the line of fire," Cox said. "Now that we've had some time to think about it, it's alarming we were that close."Minnesota Father Charged With Murder After Setting House Fire That Killed Daughter: ProsecutorsRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Ukraine seizes Russian tanker over naval clash: prosecutor Posted: 30 Jul 2019 01:52 PM PDT  A Ukrainian court has ordered the seizure of a Russian tanker stopped last week over its alleged involvement in a Ukrainian-Russian naval clash last year, the country's chief military prosecutor said Tuesday. A court, in the southern city of Odessa, ordered the seizure of the tanker Nika Spirit on Monday, according to documents posted by Anatoliy Matios on social media. The Russian owner of the seized tanker, the Altomar Shipping company, told Russian news agency Interfax that its management was "in contact with Ukrainian authorities" to solve a "range of issues related to the vessel".
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| Photos of the 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera and 911 Carrera Cabriolet Posted: 29 Jul 2019 03:01 PM PDT ![Photos of the 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera and 911 Carrera Cabriolet]( "Photos of the 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera and 911 Carrera Cabriolet")
The cheapest version of the 992-gen 911 costs $98,750 and has 379 horsepower. From Car and Driver
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| 'India Ashamed': Outrage grows over ruling party lawmaker accused of rape Posted: 30 Jul 2019 03:52 AM PDT  Protesters stepped up demands on Tuesday for India's ruling party to sack a state lawmaker accused by a young woman of raping her, holding several demonstrations just days after the accuser was critically injured in a highway collision. Opposition groups say Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is protecting Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a legislator from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, whom the woman accused of the rape in 2017. "Why do we give people like Kuldeep Sengar the strength and protection of political power and abandon their victims to battle for their lives alone?" Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a leader of the main opposition Congress party, asked on Twitter.
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| Medicare for All: Here's What Unions Think About It Posted: 30 Jul 2019 06:18 AM PDT  History tells us that the support of organized labor is critical to any major health care reform in the United States.Unions represent 1 in 10 U.S. workers, making it one of the largest institutions nationwide. So what does that mean for "Medicare for All," a policy that moves everyone into one public plan with no premiums or deductibles?Everyone agrees universal health care coverage is the goal, but not everyone agrees Medicare for All is the only or best way to get there — an interesting distinction.The largest union for registered nurses, National Nurses United (NNU) — with its more than 150,000 members nationwide — has been leading the campaign for Medicare for All, and praised legislation put forward by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). Going door-to-door, unionized nurses have been selling Medicare for All to the public."There is widespread and unprecedented support from unions for Medicare for All. In fact, unions representing a majority of union workers in the United States — over 9 million workers — have endorsed these bills," a representative from NNU said in a statement to ThinkProgress. "We are at historic levels of labor support for this legislation, a fact of which we are extremely proud."
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| Colorado Teen is Hospitalized After Bison Attack at Theodore Roosevelt National Park Posted: 30 Jul 2019 10:48 AM PDT  A 17-year-old was gouged in his leg when a Bison struck him at a National Park
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| Whither Evangelical Purity Culture? Thoughts on the Legacy of a Lost Pastor Posted: 29 Jul 2019 12:17 PM PDT  If you don't live in Evangelical-world, you probably missed this news. An influential Evangelical author and pastor named Joshua Harris announced on Saturday that he was in the process of "deconstruction." His statement was clear. "By all the measurements I have for defining a Christian," he said, "I am not a Christian." He apologized to the LGBT community for not affirming gay marriage and for the ways that his writing and speaking "contributed to a culture of exclusion and bigotry."For Christians, it's a sad statement, but it's also full of real integrity. Rather than try to jam Christianity into his evolving worldview, he respects orthodoxy by opting out.Harris burst into prominence as a young Christian with every author's dream: a giant, influential first-book bestseller. It was called I Kissed Dating Goodbye, and it sold almost a million copies. If anything, however, the sales numbers understated its influence. It was part of the foundation of Evangelical "purity culture," and it revolutionized parenting and dating for countless Christian parents and families.I remember it well. I was a youth pastor for a few memorable months at the height of the courtship craze. The year was 1998, I was a youth volunteer at a small church in Georgetown, Ky., when our youth pastor left. Until we could find a new youth pastor, I was in charge. I preached the youth service every week, I led the youth Sunday school, and I led the youth prayer groups. I was also a commercial litigator in a big law firm, and suddenly I had two full-time jobs. It was one of the best times of my life.But we also had a problem. The youth ministry had gone all-in on purity culture. The previous youth pastor had even declared "no date '98," placing a moratorium on every kid in the youth group: not even a single date for the entire year. When it came to relationships, it would be "courtship" (tersely defined as parental-supervised visits and outings) or nothing.This wasn't wanton repression or cruelty. Many parents had entered adulthood wounded by past broken relationships. They regretted the mistakes of their youth and desperately wanted their kids to avoid similar heartbreak. Also — and this is crucial for understanding purity culture — they fervently believed in a specific earthly reward for their child's youthful obedience. Courtship represented the best method of ensuring a healthy, sexually vibrant marriage to a faithful spouse.This is what writer Katelyn Beaty called the "sexual prosperity gospel," an "if/then" transactional relationship with God that manufactures a series of promises from scripture and then creates a form of Christian entitlement and expectation. "I did what you asked, Lord, now may I see my reward?"Beaty's critique is well taken, and it's certainly true that purity culture built a series of (often wildly unrealistic) expectations about the marriage relationship that awaited kids who courted. But I think it did something even darker — in its effect (if not its intent), it reversed the gospel message, teaching Christian kids that they risked being defined by their sins, not by Christ.It worked like this — sexual sin stained young persons, even if Christ forgave them. They would walk into marriage diminished in some crucial ways. The white dress, fundamentally, was a lie. And the message wasn't confined to sexuality. Did you drink? Did you smoke a joint? Each one of those things altered a person's self-definition. They were no longer "pure." They could never be "pure" again.All too many times, I saw the despair. A young person would come to me and say, "I screwed up." They would really mean, "I'm ruined." Their storybook dreams were dead. A 17-year-old with (God willing) 70 years of life ahead of him would approach me carrying the awful burden of thinking that he had defined his life forever. He was no longer — and never would be — the person he wanted to be.Sometimes the despair would trigger wild rebellion. If they're "ruined," then why should they care about obedience? There are two states of being — virgin or not, teetotaler or not — and if you're not, then you might as well indulge yourself. Other times the despair would trigger constant, nagging guilt and regret. A girl would walk down the aisle to marry a man who loved God and loved her, and she'd feel a shadow on her soul.In point of fact, the gospel message rests first on bad news, then on indescribably good news. The bad news is simple: You were never "pure." It's not as if sex or drink or drugs represent the demarcation line between righteous and unrighteous. They are not and were never the "special" sins that created particularly acute separation from God. Yes, they could have profound earthly consequences, but they did not create unique spiritual separation.The indescribably good news is that from the moment of the confession of faith, believers are not defined by their sin. They're not defined even by their own meager virtues. They're defined by Christ. Moreover, they find that "for those who love God, all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose." This does not by any stretch mean that past sin wasn't sin — one of my best friends is an eleven-years-sober addict who did dreadful things during his worst days — but it does mean that their past now gives them a unique ability to reach suffering people. Their terrible stories and past pain have been redeemed, transformed into instruments of grace and mercy.One of my first acts as youth pastor was to lift the ban on dating. Ending legalism is not the same thing as sanctioning sin, and I have no idea if there was more or less extramarital sex as a result of the dating ban or the purity rings. But it was incumbent upon me — in the limited time that I had in leadership — to tell the truth, and the truth was that legalism is its own kind of sin. To create burdens where Christ did not is an act of arrogance. It's deeply harmful. And, sadly, it's a way of life in all too many Christian churches.Harris has famously repented of his past legalism, and that makes his departure from the faith particularly poignant. He helped define young people by their sin, and then he left. He separated from his wife, and he rejected Christianity itself. He is like an inadvertent arsonist, who flees the burning house rather than helping fight the fire he helped ignite. I'm sad to see him go. I'm sadder still to see the pain he caused when he was present.
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| Slain gangster John Dillinger's body to be exhumed from Crown Hill Cemetery in Indiana Posted: 30 Jul 2019 01:19 PM PDT ![Slain gangster John Dillinger's body to be exhumed from Crown Hill Cemetery in Indiana]( "Slain gangster John Dillinger's body to be exhumed from Crown Hill Cemetery in Indiana") No reason was given for the exhumation. But there have been theories that it was not Dillinger who was killed outside a theater, but rather a double.
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| Democratic debate - LIVE: Bernie Sanders lashes out over healthcare as Elizabeth Warren clashes with candidates over immigration Posted: 30 Jul 2019 04:59 PM PDT  With 10 Democratic contenders set to take the stage in Detroit for the start of the second official round of debates, Donald Trump has insisted he is the "least racist person in the world" as he continues his explosive row with civil rights leaders.The comments came before he travelled to Virginia to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Virginia General Assembly, where he was met with protests and chants denouncing his attacks on prominent women of colour in Congress, and attacks on the city of Baltimore.The first night of the second round of debates will feature Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on the same stage for the first time, alongside Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke, and others with much less name recognition who are hoping for their moment in the spotlight.Follow live updatesPlease allow a moment for the liveblog to load
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| More than 200 reindeer found dead of starvation in the Arctic, scientists say Posted: 30 Jul 2019 11:57 AM PDT  The cause of the reindeer deaths, according to the Norwegian Polar Institute, was starvation induced by altered conditions in the Arctic.
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| Ex-Tehran mayor sentenced to death over wife's murder Posted: 29 Jul 2019 05:03 PM PDT  Former Tehran mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi was sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering his wife, the judiciary said Tuesday, after a high-profile case that received extensive media coverage. A prominent reformist, Najafi was found guilty of shooting dead his second wife Mitra Ostad at their home in the capital on May 28, said Iran's judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili. According to Iranian media reports, her body was found in a bathtub after Najafi, 67, turned himself in and confessed to killing her.
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| Hong Kong protesters clash with police as 44 activists charged with rioting Posted: 30 Jul 2019 05:11 PM PDT  Hundreds of people surrounded a police station in Hong Kong on Tuesday chanting "free the martyrs" after 44 activists were charged with rioting following weekend clashes between protesters and police defending China's representative office. It was the first time the rioting charge has been used during protests which erupted over an extradition bill that would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China for trial. Another man was charged with possession of an offensive weapon. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Sunday as they sought to defend China's main representative office from protesters who set up road blocks and hurled bricks and sticks. What started three months ago as rallies against the extradition bill, has evolved into a wider backlash against the city's government and its political masters in Beijing. The near daily protests have disrupted business, piled pressure on the city's government and stretched its police force, which some have accused of using excessive force. A police officer points a gun towards anti-extradition bill protesters who surrounded a police station where detained protesters are being held during clashes in Hong Kong Credit: Reuters Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Kwai Chung police station where some of the activists were to be freed on bail. Clashes broke out between the protesters and police. One officer brandished a gun to ward off the crowd. Rioting carries a maximum ten year jail term in Hong Kong. Activists say they have done nothing wrong and are only seeking justice. In the driving rain, many chanted "Liberate Hong Kong," and "Revolution of our time". Besides calling for the extradition bill to be scrapped, rather than its suspension so far, protesters have also demanded the resignation of city leader Carrie Lam, an independent inquiry into the police's handling of the crisis and the unconditional release of all those arrested. Some of the activists are due to appear in court on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, protesters blocked train services during the morning rush hour. "We don't know how long we are going to stay here, we don't have a leader, as you can see this is a mass movement now," said Sharon, a 21-year-old masked protester who declined to give her full name. "It's not our intention to inconvenience people, but we have to make the authorities understand why we protest. We will continue with this as long as needed." Activists blocked train doors, playing havoc with services Credit: RITCHIE B TONGO/EPA By mid-morning, commuters were crammed into stations across the city, waiting to board trains that were delayed, with no service on some lines. Hong Kong, which returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997, is embroiled in its worst political crisis for decades as the increasingly violent protests pose one of the gravest populist challenges to Communist Party rulers in Beijing. China on Monday reiterated its support for Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam and its police and urged Hong Kong's people to oppose violence. Lam's popularity has dropped to a record low, according to a survey by the independent Public Opinion Research Institute released on Tuesday. The survey, conducted between July 17 and July 19, showed Lam scored a rating of 30.1, down from 33.4 at the beginning of the month. Her approval rate stands at 21%, while her disapproval rate is 70%. Over the last few years, many people in Hong Kong have become concerned about the whittling away of the city's freedoms, guaranteed under a "one country, two systems" formula established when it returned to China in 1997. China denies interfering and has said the protests are an "undisguised challenge" to the formula under which the city is ruled, and risked damaging its economy.
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| Guatemalan villagers recognize viral photo of mother pleading at U.S. border Posted: 30 Jul 2019 01:08 PM PDT ![Guatemalan villagers recognize viral photo of mother pleading at U.S. border]( "Guatemalan villagers recognize viral photo of mother pleading at U.S. border") Lolinda Amaya cried last week when she saw a viral photograph of a Guatemalan mother imploring Mexico's National Guard to let her enter the United States. It was her niece, Ledy Perez, who had borrowed money weeks earlier and fled her village under cover of night, seeking a better life for her only child. The widely shared photo https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/guatemalan-mother-begs-soldier-to-let-her-enter-us showed her crouched meters away from Mexico's border with the United States, clinging to her young son Anthony Diaz as she looked up at an armed member of the newly formed Mexican military police force.
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| Pakistani army plane crashes into homes, killing 19 Posted: 30 Jul 2019 07:18 AM PDT  A Pakistani military plane crashed into a residential area before dawn on Tuesday, killing at least 19 people, most of them in their homes on the outskirts of the city of Rawalpindi, officials said. Fires, damaged houses and debris were visible in Mora Kalu village near Rawalpindi after daybreak. Victims' relatives were seen wailing and crying as rescuers loaded charred bodies into ambulances.
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| The One Thing That Will Decide the 2020 Election Posted: 30 Jul 2019 12:12 AM PDT  Purple states can swing either way and often end up deciding our elections. So, it's worth asking what people in those states think about the issues dominating politics. Heritage Action for America, the sister organization of The Heritage Foundation, recently carried out a wide survey of Americans in five purple states, asking them about immigration, health care, political correctness, and much more. In this episode, our Editor-in-Chief Kate Trinko sits down with Nate Rogers from Heritage Action to unpack it all.Kate Trinko: Joining us today is Nate Rogers, who is a senior adviser for political affairs at Heritage Action for America. Nate, thanks for joining us.The liberal Left continue to push their radical agenda against American values. The good news is there is a solution. Find out more >>Nate Rogers: Thank you.Trinko: Heritage Action just did a series of polls in the United States, sometimes focusing on purple states, sometimes looking nationally, sometimes looking at people of a certain ideological persuasion. They talked about health care, socialism, capitalism, and much more.Nate, what were some of your biggest takeaways?Rogers: This was a really interesting exercise. We entered it not looking to reach any conclusions that we had going in, we wanted to be very open in the polling process.The purple state poll is actually the fourth poll of a series of four, so it was actually the last poll that we conducted.
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| How to Tell If a Trump Supporter Is Racist Posted: 30 Jul 2019 03:30 AM PDT  Every non-liberal leftist -- that is, nearly every Democrat running for president, New York Times and Washington Post columnist, CNN and MSNBC host, and your left-wing brother-in-law -- labels every Trump supporter and, of course, President Donald Trump, a "racist."And they don't stop there. Leftists don't only label the half of the country that supports the president "racist," they label all whites and America itself "racist." If your son or daughter attends or recently attended an American university, it is close to certain he or she was repeatedly told that America and all whites are racist. According to the Left, whites are divided between those who admit they are racist and those who don't admit it.Every conservative and many liberals know this is a big lie. The great question is: Do leftists believe it? It is impossible to know. But this we do know: If you repeat something often enough, and if your weltanschauung (worldview) and that which gives your life meaning are dependent upon believing something, you will eventually believe it.So here is a way to show it is a lie.Ask any white conservative, including one who supports Trump, the following three questions:1) Do you have more in common with, and are you personally more comfortable in the company of, a white leftist or a black conservative?2) Would you rather have nine white leftists or nine black conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court?3) Would you rather your child marry a black Christian conservative or a white non-Christian liberal?A white racist would prefer the whites in each case.I have asked these questions of thousands of Trump supporters at lectures and on my radio show. Not once has a white Trump-supporting conservative said he or she would be more comfortable in the presence of a white leftist than a black conservative, or would prefer an all-white liberal Supreme Court to an all-black conservative Supreme Court. Not once has a white Christian conservative said he or she would prefer their child marry a white non-Christian liberal to a black Christian conservative.If you're an honest leftist, this should present a powerful challenge to your belief that all white conservatives are racist.But it won't. Leftists have too much at stake to confront the truth about conservatives. Everything the Left has ever believed has depended upon lying about opponents. From the day Stalin labeled Trotsky -- who served as the head of the Red Army and who, along with Lenin, founded the Bolshevik Party -- a "fascist," leftists have lied about their opponents.Some liberals lie, and some conservatives lie, but the truth is both a liberal and conservative value. It has never been a left-wing value. Any leftist who would commit himself to the truth would cease being a leftist. He would either become an anti-Left liberal or an anti-Left conservative."America is racist." "Whites are racist." "Trump supporters are racist." These are all big lies.So, then, given how important it is to leftists to maintain the lie of conservative racism -- along with xenophobia, misogyny, transphobia, and Islamophobia -- how would they rebut conservatives' answers to these questions?Presumably, they would argue that every conservative who responds to these questions as I described is lying.But these questions are important -- no matter how much leftists ignore or dismiss them -- because they perform an important service for conservatives.I know this from Jewish history. There was so much Jew-hatred in the medieval Christian world that Jews sometimes wondered if there was any truth to the attacks on them. When a whole society denigrates a group, members of the denigrated group start wondering whether any of the attacks on them have any truth. But when the charge of blood libel -- that Jews killed Christian children to use their blood to bake matzos for Passover -- arose, it liberated Jews from taking any of the anti-Semites' attacks seriously. Every Jew knew the blood libel was a lie -- Jews never consumed animal blood, let alone human blood.Every conservative knows his responses to these three questions are heartfelt and true, so these questions can help conservatives come to see the Left's charge of conservative racism as medieval Jews came to see the anti-Semites' blood-libel charge: as a lie.© 2019 Creators.com
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| EXCLUSIVE: New look at 3 suspects in violent, daylight attack of 2 seniors in San Francisco's Chinatown Posted: 30 Jul 2019 06:00 PM PDT  RECOGNIZE THESE MEN? ABC7 News has exclusively obtained surveillance photos and video showing three young men who San Francisco police investigators believe violently attacked two senior citizens in broad daylight in Chinatown.
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| Iran says US rejected offer as 'not seeking dialogue' Posted: 29 Jul 2019 04:14 AM PDT  Iran said on Monday the US had rejected an offer from Tehran for more robust nuclear inspections in exchange for lifting sanctions because Washington is "not seeking dialogue". Under the 2015 nuclear deal agreed to by Tehran, Iran must ratify a document, known as the additional protocol, prescribing more intrusive inspections of its nuclear programme eight years after the deal was adopted. "If the US is really seeking an agreement... Iran can make the additional protocol into law (in 2019) and (the US) at the same time bring a plan to the Congress and lift all illegal sanctions," said foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi.
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| Strengthening Tropical Storm Erick forecast to approach Hawaii by week's end Posted: 29 Jul 2019 01:39 PM PDT  Tropical Storm Erick is gaining strength in the eastern Pacific Ocean and is forecast to approach Hawaii by the weekend, forecasters announced Monday.
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| Jeffrey Epstein served with fresh court documents alleging rape of 15-year-old girl Posted: 30 Jul 2019 01:07 PM PDT  Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein found out he was facing further legal peril last week, the day before he was found unconscious in his cell with neck injuries. Epstein, 66, was presented with court documents relating to accusations made by Jennifer Araoz, who claimed he raped her when she was 15. Miss Araoz, now 32, made her accusations on July 10 – shortly after Epstein was arrested by police on charges filed by New York prosecutors. She claimed that, in the autumn of 2002, when she had been visiting his New York home for a year, he raped her after she gave him a massage. Last week, on July 22, Qin Zhang, deputy sheriff, handed Epstein the documents in his cell in the Manhattan Correctional Center, where he is awaiting trial. Jeffrey Epstein awaiting his bail decision on July 15. The judge ultimately denied bail. Miss Araoz's documents sought to depose Epstein, to learn the identity of the young woman who allegedly recruited her outside the Talent Unlimited High School and took part in his "grooming" of her "to be sexually assaulted by Epstein." Miss Araoz has described the woman as a brunette in her 20s. Daniel Kaiser, Miss Araoz's lawyer, said that Epstein or his lawyer will have to appear before a judge on August 27, to fight her wish to have him deposed and produce all evidence. Miss Araoz plans to sue both Epstein and the recruiter, Mr Kaiser said, but has to wait until August 14 under terms of the state Child Victims Act. The law, which Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York state, signed in February, lifted a statute of limitations that barred victims of childhood sexual abuse from suing their attackers more than three years after turning 18. The new law allows for criminal charges against sexual abusers of children to be filed until their victims turn 28 for felony cases. Jeffrey Epstein, 66, is facing up to 45 years in prison on charges of sex trafficking of minors It also allows for civil charges to be brought against their abusers - and institutions that enabled them - until they turn 55. Finally, it enacted a one-year, one-off period of grace, allowing all victims to seek civil action, regardless of how long ago the abuse occurred. That period begins on August 14. The day after the court papers were served, Epstein - who's being held without bail on conspiracy and child sex trafficking charges - was found nearly unconscious on the floor of his cell, law enforcement sources have said. Based on the appearance of the marks on his neck, investigators suspect he was choked by someone else, The New York Post reported, and they questioned his cellmate, a former policeman awaiting a death penalty trial in four drug-related killings.
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| Nicaragua grants citizenship to embattled ex-Salvadoran president Posted: 30 Jul 2019 11:55 AM PDT  Former Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes has been granted Nicaraguan citizenship, according to a decree published on Tuesday in the Nicaraguan government registry, likely hobbling El Salvador's efforts to bring him home to face charges of embezzlement and money laundering. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who began his term in June, vowed to bring Funes back to the country within his first 90 days in office. Funes, who governed El Salvador between 2009 and 2014, is accused of embezzlement and money laundering involving $351 million, Salvadoran prosecutors have said.
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| Joint Chiefs nominee denies assault allegations, enlists key support Posted: 30 Jul 2019 08:18 AM PDT  Sen. Martha McSally — a retired Air Force pilot who revealed this year that she was raped by a superior officer — came out with a staunch defense of Air Force Gen. John Hyten.
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| Malaysia's new king calls for racial unity at coronation Posted: 29 Jul 2019 10:55 PM PDT  Malaysia's sports-loving Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah called for racial unity as he was installed Tuesday as the country's 16th king under a unique rotating monarchy system. It was a double celebration for Sultan Abdullah from central Pahang state, who turned 59 the same day. Nine ethnic Malay state rulers take turns as king for five-year terms under the world's only such system, which has been maintained since Malaysia's independence from Britain in 1957.
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| Deputy accused of killing wife during fight over sex Posted: 30 Jul 2019 02:18 PM PDT  New details say that the deputy, who's also a body builder and actor, was fighting with his wife as she accused him of having an affair.
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| Twitter Suspends Conspiracy Account After Trump Retweet Posted: 30 Jul 2019 03:06 PM PDT  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyTwitter has suspended a conspiracy-peddling account amplified by President Donald Trump, The Daily Beast has confirmed. Trump retweeted the account, which used the display name "LYNN THOMAS" and the handle @LYNNTHO06607841, on Tuesday afternoon. By early Tuesday evening, the account had been suspended. A source familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast that the account was suspended for violating the Twitter rule that bars users from using multiple accounts to artificially amplify or disrupt conversations. The Tweet that Trump retweeted include a bold graphic saying, "DEMOCRATS ARE THE TRUE ENEMIES OF AMERICA!" Its emoji-laden text read, "DEMOCRATS ARE THE ONLY ONES INTERFERING IN OUR ELECTIONS. WHY DO YOU THINK THEY SO STRONGLY OPPOSE VOTER ID?"TwitterBefore the suspension, the account enthusiastically pushed Qanon conspiracy memes and bizarre theories about prominent Democrats murdering children to harvest their pineal glands. One such meme targeted Bill and Hillary Clinton, claiming they "torture and sacrifice children" to get at "a drug that can only be found inside the human skull." That was posted last Thursday—five days before the current president graced the account with a retweet. Twitter has long wrestled with how to enforce its rules in the Trump era. Trump spent the weekend lambasting Rep. Elijah Cummings, who is African American, and his congressional district, which is 53 percent black. The tweets–including a missive saying "no human being would want to live there"–drew widespread condemnation as racist and horrible. But though Twitter recently announced it will affix warning labels to tweets from public figures that violate its rules, it didn't use that option on Trump's tweets about Cummings. The president has long shown a penchant for retweeting eye-popping material. In December 2017, he retweeted a picture of a blood-spattered CNN logo. Earlier that year, he retweeted a picture of a train killing a person labeled "CNN." He has also increasingly taken to retweeting dozens of accounts, as he did in March and again in May of this year. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Authorities have arrested a woman they call the 'Pink Lady Bandit' in connection with 4 bank robberies across the East Coast in 6 days Posted: 30 Jul 2019 09:01 AM PDT  Authorities have arrested Circe Baez, 35, accusing her of robbing four banks in six days, occasionally while carrying a "distinctive" pink handbag.
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| Mexican president says Mexico could not commit to safe third-country agreement: Bloomberg Posted: 29 Jul 2019 08:04 PM PDT  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday Mexico had not and could not commit to a safe third-country agreement like the one Guatemala signed with the United States to stop a flow of undocumented Central American migrants north. Lopez Obrador told U.S. news agency Bloomberg in an interview posted on his Twitter account that the best way to control the problem was cooperation for economic development, which Mexico has been doing. "We have not accepted the proposal for the so-called third safe country," Lopez Obrador said.
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| Princess Haya, Dubai ruler’s wife, urges UK court to grant a forced marriage protection order Posted: 30 Jul 2019 12:29 PM PDT  Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, the youngest wife of the multi-billionaire ruler of Dubai, has urged a British court to protect one of her children by granting a forced marriage protection order. The Jordanian princess, who fled to Britain in May with her two children "in fear for her life", is fighting an application from her husband, Sheikh Mohammed, for the "summary return" of the youngsters to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Jordanian princess is also seeking a non-molestation order, a process normally used to protect someone who claims they have been subjected to domestic violence. However, the details surrounding the order, including to whom it applies, cannot be reported. The children are living with their mother in her £85 million home in Kensington, west London. The princess has applied successfully for them to be wards of court, and any decisions about their future cannot be made without the approval of the presiding judge, Sir Andrew McFarlane, the president of the Family Courts Division. Princess Haya, 45, attended the first day of the preliminary hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. It is the first time she has been seen in public since she left her family home in the Gulf last month. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Princess Haya bint Al Hussein attend Derby Day at Ascot in 2016 Credit: David M Benett/Getty In what is likely to be one of the most expensive child welfare cases in British family court history that may reveal how women are treated in the Dubai royal household, Princess Haya sat next to her lawyer, Baroness Shackleton, and stared intently, listening to proceedings. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, 70, the founder of the Godolphin horse racing stable and thought to be worth £9 billion, is not in court but is represented by Lady Helen Ward, a family and divorce lawyer. He and his estranged wife are both friends with the Queen, due to their shared love of horses. A court order is in place which means the names, ages and gender of their two children and details of the case cannot be reported. However, according to the Government's website, the "forced marriage protection order" the princess is seeking for one of her children is commonly used to prevent someone "threatened with a forced marriage" leaving the country. The former Olympic equestrian, who became the sheikh's sixth wife in 2004, was said to have flown on a private jet to Germany, before making her way to the UK. While the exact details of why she left are not known, some have said it stemmed from the earlier treatment of two of the sheikh's princess daughters who also tried to flee. Princess Latifa, 33, ran away from Dubai last year to try to seek asylum. Princess Haya bint al-Hussein greeting Queen Elizabeth II in 2016 at Royal Ascot Credit: Jason Dawson However, she was seized off the coast of India by commandos and returned to Dubai. She recorded a video before her capture in which she warned her life was a sham and claimed she had suffered abuse. In December last year, Princess Latifa was pictured alongside Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and friend of Princess Haya, in the Dubai family home in what was largely seen as a publicity stunt. In 2000, Princess Shamsa ran away from her father's estate near Chobham in Surrey. It is believed she was later abducted and returned to Dubai. It has been claimed Princess Haya, the half-sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan, fled Dubai because she learnt "the truth" about Princess Latifa. The sheikh, the vice-president and prime minister of the UAE as well as leader of Dubai, is said to have 23 children by his different wives. A poem recently appeared on his official Instagram page thought to have been written by him which accused an unnamed woman of "treachery and betrayal". The judge on Tuesday allowed the media to report how Princess Haya had applied for wardship of their children, as well as for a forced marriage protection order and a non-molestation order. Rejecting an application by Sheikh Mohammed's lawyers for those details to be subject to reporting restrictions, Sir Andrew ruled that "there is a public interest in the public understanding, in very broad terms, proceedings that are before the court." The hearing continues.
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| Lighthizer Says Vietnam Must Cut Its Trade Surplus With U.S. Posted: 29 Jul 2019 08:04 PM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. Vietnam must take steps to cut its trade surplus with the U.S., Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in comments released Monday, as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on the Southeast Asian country.The U.S. has a growing trade shortfall with Vietnam, and the government "has been clear with Vietnam that it has to take action to reduce the unsustainable trade deficit," Lighthizer said in written responses to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. Measures Vietnam should take include "expanding its imports of goods from the United States and by resolving market access restrictions related to goods, services, agricultural products, and intellectual property," he said.Vietnam increasingly is being targeted by the Trump administration over a swelling trade surplus with the U.S., one of its biggest trade markets. Vietnam's annual trade surplus with the U.S. has exceeded $20 billion since 2014 and reached $40 billion last year, the highest in records going back to 1990, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. For the first five months of the year, the surplus is already 43% higher than a year ago at $21.6 billion.In May, the U.S. Treasury added Vietnam to a watchlist of countries being monitored for possible currency manipulation. President Donald Trump described Vietnam as "almost the single-worst abuser of everybody" when asked in June if he wanted to impose tariffs on the nation.Lighthizer also criticized Vietnam for a "host of unfair trade barriers" U.S. businesses face in Vietnam.Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Lighthizer, who was answering a question from Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.), testified before the committee June 18. Answers to additional questions from committee members were submitted in writing Monday.Warner asked if Lighthizer agreed with Trump that Vietnam has taken more advantage of the U.S. than China."I'm concerned that the administration is pursuing an ad hoc trade strategy that has the effect of isolating regional partners," Warner said.(Updates with Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 6th paragraph.)\--With assistance from Jenny Leonard.To contact the reporters on this story: John Boudreau in Hanoi at jboudreau3@bloomberg.net;Michelle Jamrisko in Singapore at mjamrisko@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Nasreen Seria at nseria@bloomberg.net, Michael S. ArnoldFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| 'Overpriced s***': California gunman railed against garlic festival hours before mass shooting Posted: 30 Jul 2019 05:27 AM PDT  The 19-year-old California gunman who killed three people and wounded around a dozen others when he opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival had mocked the food event on social media, police said.Santino William Legan cut through a fence at the festival on Sunday evening and seemingly shot people at random with an "AK-47-style" assault rifle, according to Gilroy police chief Scot Smithee.Legan, fatally shot by police within a minute of the attack, appeared to post a photograph from the festival on his Instagram account shortly beforehand, with captions expressing his disdain."Ayyy garlic festival time," he wrote beneath a picture of people walking through the festival grounds. "Come get wasted on overpriced s***."Another photograph posted on Sunday showed a sign warning of a high danger of forest fires. Its caption urged people to read "Might is Right" – a racist and sexist treatise written in the 19th century."Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white tw**s?" the caption said. The term "mestizo" refers to people of mixed race. The account was only a few days old, and was deactivated on Monday.Donald Trump described the gunman as a "wicked murderer" following the mass shooting.Police and FBI agents are still trying to determine a motive for the shooting and investigating unconfirmed reports by witnesses that Legan may have had an accomplice."It could have gone so much worse so fast," Mr Smithee said, noting that the festival, which takes place about 30 miles southeast of Silicon Valley, is attended by thousands of visitors.The police chief said that search warrants had been obtained for a home in Gilroy associated with the suspect and a car that officers believe he drove to the festival.Investigators believe Legan – who was originally from Gilroy – purchased the rifle legally on 9 July in Nevada, where he had recently been living.He was believed to evaded metal detectors and other security measures at the entrance by cutting through the fence, police said.Legan killed two children and a man in his 20s, and at least 11 people were treated for wounds, according to Santa Clara Health System. Early police reports said that one person was in critical condition on Sunday.The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner identified the victims as Stephen Romero, six, and Keyla Salazar, 13, of San Jose, and Trevor Deon Irby, 25, of Romulus, New York.The six-year-old child's grandmother, Maribel Romero, described Stephen as a loving boy who was "always kind, happy and ... playful".His mother and his other grandmother were also shot and were being treated in hospital, Ms Romero told media.Founded in 1979, the Gilroy Garlic Festival is an annual event run by volunteers and held outdoors at Christmas Hill Park. The agricultural community bills itself as the "Garlic Capital of the World".Additional reporting by agencies
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| The president is right about Baltimore. Are Democrats really prepared to defend failure? Posted: 30 Jul 2019 05:13 AM PDT  Baltimore is one of the least livable, most dangerous cities in America. It's not racist to point that out.
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| Deported from Turkey, Syrians return to unfamiliar country Posted: 30 Jul 2019 03:03 AM PDT  Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing (Syria) (AFP) - Still reeling from his sudden deportation from Turkey with just the clothes on his back, Mohammad Hassan stood in the arrivals hall at a border crossing in northern Syria unsure what to do next. "I left Syria seven years ago," said the 22-year-old. During Hassan's years of exile, Syria's landscape changed dramatically.
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| A woman contracted by Amazon stole a Texas couple’s dog while delivering packages Posted: 30 Jul 2019 09:40 AM PDT  Police were able to identify the suspect using a Ring video from a neighbor who also received a package from her.
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| Death penalty sought for woman accused of killing ex-senator Posted: 30 Jul 2019 05:43 PM PDT  Prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to seek the death penalty against a woman charged in the killing of a former Arkansas lawmaker who investigators say was found dead from multiple stab wounds outside her home. An arrest affidavit for Rebecca Lynn O'Donnell released Tuesday said O'Donnell was caught on video removing security cameras from inside the home of former state Sen. Linda Collins the last day Collins was seen alive. O'Donnell has been charged with capital murder in the death of Collins, who went by Collins-Smith in the Legislature.
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